tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2990991178749505824.post344386932878445823..comments2023-03-30T20:07:20.375-04:00Comments on If Not Empire, What? A Survey of the Bible: Targeting RussiaAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12886742015394327859noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2990991178749505824.post-28776444970520510852017-08-07T11:39:47.119-04:002017-08-07T11:39:47.119-04:00The Biblical record is one of lonely prophetic voi...The Biblical record is one of lonely prophetic voices whose power was derived solely from their unmasking truths that most in their societies had hidden from themselves. In our own, so blindly thinking that progress has cast all previous examples on the ash heap of history to which no heed need be paid, there currently seems a particular delight derived from believing the most outrageous lies, shout outs that by their volume drown the prophecy. Have we grown to love the lies so well that there is no listening to the truth and turning back from coming disaster in which guilty and innocent alike will suffer? The one advantage the lonely voice of truth has against the many megaphones of deceit is that there is truth, which no multiplication of deception can change. Will it be enough to soften hardened consciences in power that have veered into severe dysfunction, to avert disaster? Perhaps what now looms like a great defeat by the Adversary is about to be turned back upon him, if only our lonely prophets will persevere.Fran Macadamhttp://anabaptist.exoss.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2990991178749505824.post-71119801902898914492017-08-07T09:23:12.770-04:002017-08-07T09:23:12.770-04:00I think there is no chance of the Russians again a...I think there is no chance of the Russians again accepting US-predominance. The years with Gorbachev and Yeltsin were traumatic and they will do all they can to prevent a return to that kind of subsistence. Furthermore - I would not describe Putin as anti-imperialist. As you say, the ideology is essentialy the same as in the US. But Russia and China are on the other end of a geopolitical struggle and my sympathies are essentially with them.<br />Bill Yoder, Gvardeysk/Russia Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com