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Blagojevich: My fate is 'in God's hands'
By Elizabeth Tenety
Many Christians believe that after the die, they will face God's judgment. For former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, an Orthodox Christian and defendant in a federal corruption trial, judgment day is here.
As jurors began deliberation on the corruption charges against the former governor Wednesday, Blagojevich told reporters that he was grateful for the prayers of his supporters, and that his fate now rests "in God's hands."
"[The jurors] are the ones who will decide and make the decision," Blagojevich said. "Patti and I have great confidence and faith in their judgment, their common sense and decency. And ultimately in the final analysis Patti and I always have a deep and abiding faith in God ... and ultimately it's in God's hands."
Blago's eternal fate may be in God's hands, but the jury will decide what to do with him in the meantime.
Where was common sense and decency when the governor told associates that Obama's empty senate seat "Is a f---ing valuable thing, you just don't give it away for nothing"?
Why does it take a crisis for some people to get religion?
Elizabeth Tenety
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Posted by: Nikos_Retsos | July 28, 2010 7:45 PM
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Blago has some serious character issues. He might try asking God to show him how to work on them.
Posted by: Sandydayl | July 28, 2010 11:44 PM
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Yonkers, New York
29 July 2010
Rod Balogojevich is making a very big mistake by placing his fate "in God's hands."
He should have placed his fate completely in the hands of good and successful lawyers.
By placing his fate in the hands of an entity that in reality does not exist, he is engaging in pure delusion. He is ensuring his own downfall--and he will very likely go to prison.
Mariano Patalinjug
Posted by: MPatalinjug | July 29, 2010 5:20 AM
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Looks to me his fate is in the court's hands. As his fate after death he will either be cremated or his corpse will rot, just like all of us.
Posted by: wireman65 | July 29, 2010 7:18 AM
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"Why does it take a crisis for some people to get religion?"
Until someone suffers, it is easy to blind oneself to the inevitable sufferings of human existence and look for a solution.
Posted by: edbyronadams | July 29, 2010 8:03 AM
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The guy has set typical and not a very good example of those who claim to be "Orthodox Christians"
Posted by: areyousaying | July 29, 2010 10:48 AM
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Pandering for sympathy, plain and simple.
Posted by: cadam72 | July 29, 2010 10:56 AM
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A real christian, corrupt & arrogant. No surprise here.
Posted by: Bios | July 29, 2010 11:18 AM
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He joins the ranks of Charles Colson and many others. Colson was the hit man in the Nixon admin, areal SOB who somehow became a nice guy in prison. Yeah right.
Posted by: chopin224 | July 29, 2010 11:29 AM
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Standard repertoire of the Con artist.
Posted by: Vox__Populi | July 29, 2010 12:14 PM
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I believe that is what former Illinois governor George Ryan said at the end of his trial, and just before the jury had started deliberating his faith - in God! He is sitting in a federal prison in Indiana - apparently because God forgot to save him.
I am a Christian Orthodox too, like Blago, and God is supposed to take care of us in after-life, if we had lived a life of virtue, charity, and compassion for our fellow humans. But it is too early for God to pass judgement on Blago while he is still alive, or to spare him of his sins before death and judgement day.
Until then, judgement will come by the jury, as will a ticket to paradise on earth -acquittal, or to hell - a federal prison. And legend has it that non- religious people become religious at their death-bed for a selfish last minute shot at salvation. And I believe that Blago belongs to that class of people, and he apparently became religious just in time that the specter of a prison-bed started to spin on his mind 24/7.
Nikos Retsos, retire professor, Chicago