No guessin' who *'one' might be referring to here, is there...? No indeed. (Though I'll freely concede Yours Truly has had his own share of 'foot-in-mouth disease' over the years... .) But where does one even begin vis-a-vis the '**greatest president of all time'?!?!?
So the media have now become "the enemy of the people"? Hey, correct me if I'm off-base somewhere, but didn't a former American president ...who as we all well know, was ultimately impeached...use precisely those very words? Just askin'...
But far more serious, and even ***unforgivable (as so many would reasonably suggest)...is having a go at people (i.e. in Paradise, California) undergoing 'God-awful' tragedies, or nations (France) at the very time of the centennial commemorations of the ghastly 'war to end all wars'. Such is not merely without precedent (by a political leader, let alone one 'leading' the world's most powerful nation) it really is quite beyond normal vocabulary (to effectively and appropriately describe)...
But no, Macron - though appearing to possess the sort of real substance, gravitas and statesmanship past leaders of 'the Republic' have had (despite in my view really only being a media showpony) - is completely wrong to suggest the politician in question ought to be able to reveal the type of "common decency people expect" on such occasions...
...for as the beautiful Abigail said of her husband ****Nabal in the long-ago: "...this scoundrel Nabal...as his name is, so is he: Nabal[Fool] is his name, and folly is with him!"
Or as other biblical writers have expressed things at other times and on differing occasions, one prophet asks: "Can a leopard change its spots (or an Ethiopian the colour of his skin)? Then can you who are accustomed to do evil do good... ."
But in this particular instance the particular individual concerned simply cannot bring blood out of a stone. Or as Jesus put things: Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks...an evil man out of the evil treasure of [of his heart] brings forth evil things." For s/he simply cannot do otherwise (whether American President or not).
*As the dear royals love to phrase things (i.e. by freely utilizing that royal 'one')...
**Admitting that 'the Donald' at least has had the modesty to say he's not superior to one Abe Lincoln...
***Though as a Bible-believing Christian and Christ-follower, only 'the sin against the Holy Spirit' is ultimately unable to be forgiven...throughout eternal ages 'to kingdom come'... . Which this lay theologian, at least, takes as being the never-ending hardening of a person's heart (alongside willing closing of that person's mind) to the winsome, winning voice of God through Himself, ie. His Holy Spirit, convicting that person of the reality of sin, righteousness and judgment to come: that sin is real in everyone's experience, that God's very own righteousness through his Son Jesus Christ is alone able to justify us in the sight of God, and that refusing that precious free gift of righteousness (with God's abundance of grace) will lead inevitably to judgment and condemnation for all rejecters thereof...
For God's Only Son Himself experienced the full wages of sin for every man and woman who has ever lived...and so if we fail to realize the awful, God-forsaken death He once for all died on behalf of each of us...and accordingly do not appropriate the merits thereof for our own selves...we will ultimately be left to bear all the shame of our sin ourselves...and the wages of that sin is indeed death...for time and eternity...for the soul that sinneth, it will surely die - forever, and not live on in endless eternal agony as some have so erroneously taught down through the ages...
****Interestingly, preceded some few hundred years earlier by someone with the reverse letters in his Christian name, the patriarch Jacob's employer and father-in-law Laban, himself a fool of a slightly different variety...
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