Word: birthrights
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...book so full of grace, the Bible is remarkably tough on sons, especially the firstborn. There is Isaac, son of Abraham and Sarah, who barely escaped becoming the bloody covenant of his father's faith. Esau, who traded away his birthright for a mess of pottage. And the firstborn of the Egyptians, who paid horribly for their country's bondage of the Israelites...
Franklin Graham, lost once but now found, talks about his birthright with some humor, a jokiness that belies the fact that there have been times when the divine plan for him was hard to divine. "If I had understood the messages people were sending me on the day I was born," he says, "I might just have crawled right back in where I'd come from and taken a rain check...
...American birthright to freely purchase and own handguns and large-caliber assault rifles. Why, I remember how proud I was the day my pop brought home my first fully automatic rifle and a box of teflon-sheathed "cop killer" bullets. It was my ninth birthday. I said "now if those jack-booted thugs come after me I'll be ready for them right pop?" My parents beamed with pride. They still tell that story to all our relatives...
Forbes' vaunted optimism, like F.D.R.'s, springs from the security and confidence that seem his birthright. Yet F.D.R.'s smile told Americans that we could face adversity, and triumph. Forbes' smile comes without the challenge. Leona Helmsley once ran hotel ads telling customers not to put up with anything she wouldn't. 'I've never had to make a hard choice," Forbes seems to say, similarly. "Why should...
...Israel people know better: violent, hate-filled Jewish groups have been part of the political landscape there since Israel seized the Sinai, West Bank and Gaza Strip during the Six-Day War in 1967. They have insisted that these lands must be retained as part of Israel's biblical birthright--by violence if necessary. And they consider any Jew who opposes them a traitor to the race...