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    Stand for America or Leave D.C.!


    Stand for America or Leave D.C.!
    https://stream.org/stand-for-america/
    By James Robison Published on February 3, 2018

    The Stream’s publisher James Robison responds to Democratic lawmakers’ unwillingness to stand at the State of the Union address, when President Trump was listing our nation’s most encouraging recent progress.

    His remarks draw from Isaiah 3:9, quoted here from the New Living Translation:

    The very look on their faces gives them away. …
    They are doomed!
    They have brought destruction upon themselves


    “We have the right, privilege and responsibility,” he says, “to vote in wise leaders who are not deceiving and manipulating the people and keeping them dependent on a source other than God and their neighbors. … We need to clear Washington of those who can’t stand for what really matters, and support those who will stand firm.”

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    This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity (futility) of their mind, having the understanding darkened...
    (Ephesians 4:17-18)

    Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly...
    (Psalm 1)

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    I didn't realize that James Robinson published The Stream.

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    That was a great word from Rev. Robison. I've supported his water and feeding programs for years. I have much respect for this man of God.
    If you put God First, you have Him at Last.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fuego View Post
    I didn't realize that James Robinson published The Stream.



    About Us
    https://stream.org/us/

    The Stream is a national daily championing freedom, smaller government and human dignity. Offering both original content and the best from across the web, The Stream challenges the worst in the mainstream media while offering a rich and lively source for breaking news, inspiration, analysis and entertainment.

    In an age drowning in misleading content, The Stream provides knowledge and keen editorial discernment.

    In an age when people of faith are isolated in silos and marginalized from the public square, The Stream breaks down the false divides between the sacred and profane, between faith and reason.

    In an age of division, The Stream cultivates the high common ground shared by evangelicals, Catholics and Orthodox Christians, including important ground shared by Jews and Christians.

    In an age bent on quarantining "social conservatism" from "fiscal conservatism," The Stream presses the truth that freedom divorced from virtue cannot long endure.

    In an age of over-specialization, The Stream covers everything from U.S. and global politics to business, technology, economics, religion, family, the arts, health, humor and inspiration.

    In an age of chaos, The Stream provides clarity and coherence.

    The following Ten Principles motivate us, define our mission, guide our thinking and shape our policy preferences:

    1. Every human being has equal value and dignity.
    2. We are inherently and specifically social.
    3. Marriage and the family are the fundamental social institutions.
    4. We can know God and moral truth.
    5. Judeo-Christian religious faith guards our freedom.
    6. We're all sinners.
    7. We need a state strong enough to protect and maintain the rule of law but limited enough
    8. not to violate it.
    9. We are meant to be free and responsible.
    10. When we're free, we can create wealth and value.
    11. Culture comes before politics.


    To read more about our Ten Principles, go here.



    This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity (futility) of their mind, having the understanding darkened...
    (Ephesians 4:17-18)

    Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly...
    (Psalm 1)

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    Quote Originally Posted by GodismyJudge View Post


    ....To read more about our Ten Principles, go here.
    This is actually pretty good....


    Summary of Our Ten Principles

    Beyond the Neutrality Mirage

    We’re said to live in a more knowing and cynical age, and yet our major news media outlets go right on striking a pose of unfiltered neutrality. The reality is that no news venue considers everything, fits everything, only reports and nothing more. Each of them brings a set of governing assumptions to a thousand daily questions: Whose ideas do we engage tomorrow? Which stories do we spotlight today? How do we frame the next big story?

    This doesn’t mean the news business should get a free pass for rampant bias and distortion. The better course is to strive for fairness to the facts and to competing perspectives, and to be up front about your guiding principles. Humans are made to be free, rational, responsible creatures. To mislead them with a pose of unfiltered neutrality is beneath their dignity. So, what follows is a summary of what guides us at The Stream: principles, not partisanship.

    The Principles of The Stream

    Our most basic conviction
    is the Imago Dei, the idea that every human is made in the image of God with inherent dignity and value. The idea is visible in the Declaration of Independence where the American Founders insist “that all men are created equal and are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.”

    Our commitment to this idea means that when we cover some political wrangling over a basic human right, or our responsibility to the poor, we do so guided by the understanding that governments do not grant us our unalienable rights. They merely recognize or ignore them.

    Closely tied to
    the idea of the Imago Dei is the conviction that we can know God and discern moral truth, that we are not mere mouths, but are meant to be free, responsible discerners of truth and creators of value.

    Also, we are and do all of these things as inherently social creatures. The tradition of rugged individualism is a noble one. Its caricature, radical individualism, is misguided, impoverished and dangerous. We need each other.

    Another foundational assumption: We are, all of us, sinners, a condition that cannot be engineered away by political experiments or the march of progress. Part and parcel of this: Government’s core role is to constrain human evil, and yet it must itself be constrained by checks and balances, since every government is run by sinful human beings prone to corruption.

    There is another reason to limit the size and reach of government. Government is a crucial social institution, but not the primary one. Marriage and the family are the basic social institutions, and where a government undermines these by overstepping its bounds, rich and poor, young and old, pay a toll.

    Finally, all of these truths come before politics, and are the foundation of a cultural heritage more basic than any political system, party or platform.

    That heritage, moreover, gave rise to widespread human freedom. It’s true the cause of freedom progressed slowly and imperfectly. It’s true that it regressed in the age of colonialism, most infamously in the horrible abuses of Africans and the native peoples of the Americas. But amidst all the cruelty, corruption and hypocrisy stretching from the Middle Ages to the present, it’s easy to miss a singular fact. Widespread political, economic and religious freedom was born in the Christian West rather than elsewhere.

    The Stream is dedicated to the proposition that freedom sprang from this cultural soil for a reason, and is unsustainable apart from that soil.





    This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity (futility) of their mind, having the understanding darkened...
    (Ephesians 4:17-18)

    Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly...
    (Psalm 1)

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