No More Phantoms
Mrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton reportedly said, "It’s instrumental in life.”
It is The New York Times that ponders on her belief (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/07/us/politics/07clinton.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp&adxnnl=0&adxnnlx=1183781306-8BoUunYU3qe5qybkajh7bg).
First of all, we live in the world of uncertainty. We have not set laws of the nature; we have not created the universe to implement the laws; and we have not known every detail of our evolution and development and expansion of the universe. We are simply allowed to live in the universe as an element of the nature. We are to be born, live, and die in the nature like any other creatures.
Yet, the God loved mankind and gave a higher spirit than that endowed to any other living things. This spirit is accompanied by wisdom that can appreciate the Great Wisdom of the Creator. However, the ability unique to mankind has been mostly used to win competition among mankind themselves. As mankind has not defined this ability, he or she cannot know its ultimate scope and implications. Thus, we live in the human society with inherent uncertainty surrounded by other fellows causing derivative uncertainty.
In that sense, indeed, to have a faith in the God Almighty who is the Creator of the universe as well as human souls and spirits is very instrumental in anybody's life.
Therefore, it is not so flattering to anybody to be informed that Mrs. Clinton said that it was "instrumental in life."
(Richard Nixon prayed to God with Mr. Henry Kissinger in the White House in their testing moment; accordingly, they both have survived, keeping their face in a textbook on the modern world history or diplomatic relations.)
Besides, it is not Americans that really need to hear her words. Citizens in the world can shape their views on Americans based on such words by the potential President of the USA.
Muslims may come to think that Americans are not like godless villains in their community, since the potential President of the USA is talking about her faith in God they know to be identical to Allah.
Indeed, Judaism and Islam are very useful or instrumental teaching for daily lives of pious people.
I hope that Mrs. Clinton's posture to the faith in God will prevent possible terror in the U.S. in the way any of her successors could not.
Her faith will be a key to US security if she becomes President; it is not for fun and games or nonsense like a phantom story.
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A Fuji TV news program in Japan reported on a mission of Japan's Air Self-Defense Force (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Air_Self-Defense_Force). From a base in Okinawa, the most southern island prefecture of Japan, F4 Phantom jet fighters are frequently scrambling mostly to an attempt of mock invasion by Chinese military planes.
Most Americans have never been aware that China really worked well on the Clinton Administration in 1990's to virtually get tacit admission on their expansion and reinforcement of military capacity and capability.
It is a little worrisome problem that Japan still uses F4 Phantom jet fighters for scrambling (though it has 213 F15s); however, more worrisome is a concern as to whether Mrs. Clinton's possible Administration can say "No!" to the Chinese Communist Party for their unspoken request to the U.S. for another tacit admission on their further buildup of armaments. (Does Japan however really need, Madam Minister of Defense, F22s in this context?)
It is because Marxists like Joseph Stalin and Mao Tse-tung never respect Christian faith, no matter if the faith is genuine or rather more instrumental, since they are followers of Marxism.
(Money has value based on social and political arrangement of people. Then, if you can control the arrangement, you will be richer than those who are just trying hard to be rich following the arrangement, which is why Marxism once so much appealed to ambitious persons in troubled states.
Love has value based on God's will. Then, if you directly follow the God's will, you can be blessed more than those who are trying hard to be loved merely relying on human desire.
A wife who likes to talk about the faith is better than a wife who likes to talk about business and politics.
Mankind can manufacture a big plane or a jet fighter but cannot create a living plant from primary materials. Faith in God can be the real thrill and more dazzling than, say, even the best part of business and politics. And the rest is just what is accompanied a holy mission with.)
"...'...Isn't he the carpenter, the son of Mary, and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas, and Simon?'..."