Justice Sotomayor? - More for Some, Less for Others?

j_andres2 »

Thu May 28, 2009 4:30 pm Agree: 1   Disagree: 2

As a Christian, I want to agree with you as much as possible. But their a few criteria that need to be considered about Judge Sotomayor. First, she is one of the most qualified judges for the Supreme Court, regardless of how her decisions run contrary to Christian values. This should lift our arguments abouve the trite allegations that minorities, implicitly all the "colored" ones, have no equal academic or other kind of footing as whites. Second, we need to consider the reality of history. The history of Supreme Court judges and their decisions, who were primarily white males, have favored their own culture, and they became law. As Christians, I believe we need to understand how culture can play both a positive and negative role in judicial decisions. And this is not the point. The "bottom line" about Judge Sotomayor's potential nomination is WHAT she believes, not where she comes from, and how those beliefs will correspond to Biblical morals and values. This is "blind" analysis.

Taliban Militants Kill Second Male Korean Hostage

j_andres2 »

Mon Jul 30, 2007 9:09 pm Agree: 8   Disagree: 0

Martyrs.
Something great will happen in S. Korea.

Korean Evangelical Churches Under Cyber-Attack Amid Hostage Crisis

j_andres2 »

Mon Jul 30, 2007 8:23 pm Agree: 0   Disagree: 2

The first organized humanitarian aid in western history started with the medieval church and in the Protestant churches, relief aid and social services were predominately the service of local Christian churches and charity groups.

Since when has helping others been solely the realm of non-religious groups and what makes them think they have a higher moral ground to determine who can or cannot do charity?

There is always risk involved with doing relief work: disease, violence, psychological trauma due to witnessing horrible things. What makes this different from other cases maybe that the missionaries are not westerners than that they are Christians. When westerners have been captured by muslim extremists, Christian or not, there is a lot of media attention. But I never hear the media saying, non-religious people should stop helping people because they are forcing their non-religious views implicitly by being there.