“No Weapon Formed Against Thee Shall Prosper”

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Esther and the Persian king

One of the hardest lessons for us to learn, in such an evil and confusing age as this, is how to walk by faith and not by sight: because if we walk only by sight, most of what we see is bad. Mark Rushdoony discussed this in his blog post yesterday.

https://chalcedon.edu/blog/no-weapon-that-is-formed-against-thee-shall-prosper

The Book of Esther, in which the name of God does not appear, shows how God governs history, intervening at need. Our God created us with free will and respects it, even when our will is bent to evil: but he will not let evil prosper in the long run. As Isaiah said, “No weapon formed against thee shall prosper” (Is. 54:17).

How many times would God’s people have been wiped off the face of the earth, had He not intervened? As history, the Bible offers many examples of this truth.

And we do well to learn them.

Oops–More Than Just a Little Plagiarism in Hillary Book

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Hillary Clinton’s spiritual adviser (oh, forsooth), a man with the Dickensian name of Rev. Bill Shillady, author of (gulp) Strong for a Moment Like This: The Daily Devotions of Hillary Rodham Clinton, is still claiming that he just made a multitude of honest mistakes… after his publisher, Abingdon Press, has decided to recall all copies of the book because it’s riddled with plagiarism (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/09/05/book-by-hillary-clintons-pastor-will-be-pulled-from-shelves-due-to-extensive-plagiarism/?utm_term=.0d99ab87ac52).

A little while ago it was just one unfortunate oversight, no harm done, it’ll be fixed in subsequent editions, heh-heh… Abingdon says it has “zero tolerance” for plagiarism. Apparently this book is a regular fiesta of copycat writing. Abingdon has vowed to pull all copies from the bookstore shelves and destroy the blasted thing. Most embarassing, when one of the original authors complains and the story winds up on CNN before the poor publisher knows he’s been had.

Well, hey, I guess they forgot they were dealing with a Clinton and a Clinton shill. Normally you don’t read a manuscript suspecting plagiarism on every other page. It might be a good idea, from now on, for every editor in every publishing house to check meticulously for plagiarism every time they see the name “Clinton” on the cover.

Strong for a Moment Like This. If Mr Shillady really and truly finds in Hillary Clinton a reflection of Queen Esther, he’s worse off than I thought.

Hilllary’s ‘Devotions’: Plagiarized

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Lest there be confusion, this is the same Hillary Clinton who was Planned Parenthood’s “Champion” of abortion and who said, last year, that the core beliefs of “religions”–that is, Christianity–“have got to change” to accommodate and “affirm” abortion and public sodomy.

That Hillary is the subject of a recent book, Strong for a Moment Like This: The Devotions of Hillary Rodham Clinton, by a Rev. Shillady–relish the irony of that name–the Clinton family pastor–more irony. With the thinly veiled likening of Hillary to Queen Esther, we go beyond irony into uncharted, murky waters of I don’t know what. What lies beyond irony?

The news turns out to be what we’d expect. Right smack-dab in the middle of the book is a prayer written not by Mr. Shillady–who named this guy? Charles Dickens?–but by someone else who was not given credit for it (http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_HILLARY_CLINTON_PASTOR_PLAGIARISM?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2017-08-15-10-07-55). Usually we call that plagiarism. But as any liberal would, Mr. Shillady says it was only a mistake, nobody could have been as surprised as he was when he found out the prayer had actually been written by another man, and he’ll give the guy due credit in subsequent editions and everything’ll be just hunky-dory.

It’s raining like mad and this is what I’m reading about instead of working on my own book. I have bypassed the truly disastrous news of the day in favor of this wee tidbit of cultural decay.

I suppose we expect our politicians to be hypocrites, especially if their last name happens to be Clinton. But this is a bit thick even for Hillary. I mean, really–plagiarizing a prayer?

And we’re supposed to be sorry that she’s not our president. The nooze media all tell us so.