Why repentance is so important

When the condemned who are raised from death along with the righteous at Judgment Day are handed over to the Devil, it's frightening to think that he might return them as sentient beings to their graves for eternity.

God wouldn't do such a fiendish thing, even to condemned sinners, but the Devil sure would.

Man vs. the mob

Huge voting blocs vitiate the democratic process; they have the effect of
disenfranchising the lone-wolf voter.

"... and the last shall be first"

Northern abolitionists were too stupid to foresee it, but when they set about to abolish slavery they set in motion the abolition of the white race.

Animal idolatry

God doesn't like the lukewarm, and I don't think he likes the squeamish either.
Even the father -- who symbolizes God in the parable of the prodigal son -- didn't ask
for an old cow to be slaughtered in celebration of his son's return.  He called for the fatted calf.

Divine emotions

God might experience anger, but he never experiences fear.

Sheer lunacy

Samaritan's Purse, in bringing Ebola victims into the US, is like the medieval princesses described by Thomas Mann in Magic Mountain.  During the bubonic plague in Europe, some of them would leave the safety of their castles and go into the towns and tend the sores of plague victims, even going so far as to drink the pus.  Empathy run amok.
 

Do I matter?

Commercially, I don't matter at all, but spiritually I do.