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Redstate
The
Rich Man and Lazarus’s Big Gulp
By
Erick Erickson
April
15th, 2014
It is
always sad when you realize someone is on the road to hell. There is
a sense of foreboding in it. For Christians, we should be fearfully
in prayer for others — even our enemies as the Lord tells us. There
is no better time than Holy Week to be reminded of that.
A
great case in point is Mayor Mike Bloomberg. He is in need of a lot
of prayer — prayer that he not wind up in that awful place. We have
all known that for a while. With all his billions, Bloomberg not only
has his priorities mixed up, he’s convinced that the regulation of
his fellow man will get him past the pearly gates.
The
final paragraph in this New York Times article about Bloomberg’s
new anti-gun effort is most revealing.
But
if he senses that he may not have as much time left as he would like,
he has little doubt about what would await him at a Judgment Day.
Pointing to his work on gun safety, obesity and smoking cessation, he
said with a grin: “I am telling you if there is a God, when I get
to heaven I’m not stopping to be interviewed. I am heading straight
in. I have earned my place in heaven. It’s not even close.”
It is
always, with the totalitarians, a desire to use power to curb the
behavior of man. While people of faith in a higher power believe it
is only that power that can truly shift the hearts and minds of men,
the totalitarian believes the state can do it. Bloomberg believes the
state can rid the world of the deadly sins. Bloomberg, in other
words, thinks he is God, or at least plays him in the New York Times.
God
will not be mocked. God cannot be bought off. Saving lives is not
saving souls. And Bloomberg will get no pass. Much like the folks who
spend extra to get to the head of the line at King’s Dominion or
Six Flags, Bloomberg seems to think he can spend his way past St.
Peter...
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the rest of the article at Redstate
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