If you read reports from Pew Research at all, you’ll find that there is a trend toward Americans attending churches less each year. Worse, the same thing is happening in Europe. But what differs our situation from Europe’s is what they are doing with their churches. Read the following article to learn how Islam is taking over — fast!
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One has to wonder how we can twist things so badly and still consider ourselves sane?! Political Correctness has gotten totally out of control. I can understand a person who is less educated and/or not well informed making some very bad comparisons and to say some pretty dumb things. But you’d think that someone with a ‘great deal’ of education would get it right … a OFTEN. Apparently not..?
The following article came from The Blaze. Although I am not an Islamic scholar, I can reasonably figure out the ‘message’ in the Koran, and can as well with the bible. The Koran clearly spells out that jihad and violence in general are ‘required’ by those who believe. ALL no ‘believers’ must be converted or killed. And if you look at the violence being perpetrated on this world by Muslims, it should be clear that those people are the ‘true‘ followers of the Koran.
The bible clearly directs in the new testament that those who believe are to ‘love our neighbors as we do ourselves’. There’s no spin on that statement. Now I ask you, how could anyone rationalize that the bible is teaching the same thing as the Koran when it comes to proselytizing..??
Read what the ‘most religious man in the world’ has to say on this subject.
Pope Francis recently addressed fears of Islam and the religion’s “idea of conquest” in an interview with French Catholic newspaper La Croix, proposing that some people might also see the call for conquest as being inherent in Matthew’s gospel.
“Today, I don’t think that there is a fear of Islam as such but of ISIS and its war of conquest, which is partly drawn from Islam,” the pontiff said when asked about fears surrounding Islam. “It is true that the idea of conquest is inherent in the soul of Islam. However, it is also possible to interpret the objective in Matthew’s Gospel, where Jesus sends his disciples to all nations, in terms of the same idea of conquest.”
Jesus said the following to his disciples in Matthew 28:19-20: “Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.”
The Washington Post reported that the pontiff’s words might have been in reference to “jihad,” an Islamic principle that the outlet said is sometimes believed to mean “holy war,” but that it is “more accurately understood as a kind of spiritual struggle.”
The outlet pondered whether Pope Francis was comparing this idea to Christian proselytizing.
He also went on to say that it would be beneficial to question the way in which “an overt Western model of democracy” has been brought to countries such as Iraq and Libya, saying that the former once had a strong government. Taking culture into account, he said, is essential to making advancements.
I get the impression that the pope isn’t too fond of us … being the war mongers that we are..? And this commentary by him isn’t his first unusual statement. Like indicating that Jesus Christ and Allah are the same person..? I guess if Rick Warren is dumb enough to say it, the pope can.
We sure are building up a reputation in this world, huh? Not even our allies trust us any more. A sad state indeed.
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I’ve heard a lot of people talking about how we may be in the ‘end times’. One of the predictions of the bible is that in the end times knowledge will be growing at a very rapid rate. Seen that lately?
As crazy as it may sound, the cure for cancer may be right around the corner — in the ‘big clock’ time. A discovery was made last year showing that a hornet in Brazil has the ability of killing cancer cells! Sounds nuts? Read the scientific report below.
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Anyone who’s paying attention should see that our country is slipping away — and not so slowly. We’re moving further and further left every year — even Christians.
The following report pretty much sums up why getting a republican president into office will be progressively harder year after year for some time to come. The evangelicals are those that the right depends on. But maybe not for much longer..?
Focus on the chart displayed in the report, it says a lot!
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It is disgusting what is said today regarding ‘separation of church and state’. Too often what is quoted is simply fantasy. The following article was in the local newspaper and clarifies the separation clause. That reference means that the ‘state’ shall not define churches as government sanctioned entities.
At the outset we need to get one thing straight. There is no “separation of church and state” language in the Constitution. Neither that phrase, nor any semblance of it, exists anywhere in
the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, or in the Federalist Papers that describe those documents.
The phrase “a wall of separation between church and state” first appeared in 1802, in President Thomas Jefferson’s response to a complaint received from a Baptist Association in Danbury, Connecticut. Historians agree that Jefferson’s letter was not an assertion that public discourse must be free from religious expression. In fact, Jefferson’s actual aim was quite the opposite —
he wanted public religious expression to be free from government restriction or coercion.
Jefferson strongly opposed the state-established churches that existed in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and other states at the time, but he knew that as President he had to respect them. Still, he was deeply committed to religious liberty, as evidenced by the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom that he wrote more than a decade earlier.
The purpose of Jefferson’s response to the Danbury Baptists was to reassure them that the First Amendment created a “wall of separation” to keep the state from interfering with their religious practices, not to somehow imprison or constrain their free exercise of religion.
Modernist liberal justices, atheists, secular humanists and their allies in the Democrat party have ignored the meaning and context of Jefferson’s words. They’ve distorted Jefferson’s intent by injecting a mythical “wall of separation” into American jurisprudence without any Constitutional or legal foundation whatsoever. They preach the phrase as if it were a bedrock principle of American law when it is nothing of the sort. They do so with the impudence of Adam and Eve, elevating man-made laws above the truly foundational “Laws of Nature and Nature’s God,” as Jefferson so eloquently named the latter in the Declaration of Independence.
Sadly, many Christian Democrats and “Progressives” use the mythical “wall of separation between church and state” to avoid confronting the glaring conflict between their professed Christianity and their party politics. In their private lives they claim to be Christian. Yet in their public lives, they endorse and sponsor decidedly un-Christian behaviors like abortion, infanticide, homosexual acts, sexual promiscuity, adultery, and euthanasia — behaviors that clearly conflict with “the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God.” They claim to be Disciples of Christ, but in their public lives they are disciples of deceitful and untrustworthy leaders like Hillary Clinton, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama.
In this respect, many Christian Democrats increasingly exemplify “a house divided against itself.” We know from Jesus’ words in Mark 3:25 that such houses cannot stand.
Like our Founding Fathers before us, true Christians place God’s word above man-made law and party politics in every aspect of their lives. True Christians do not hide behind a mythical “wall of separation between church and state.” True Christians share the Gospel message through both their words and their actions. True Christians heed Jesus’ words of warning in Luke 17:2 and do not defend, support, enable or excuse the sinful behavior of others.
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It’s been awhile since the San Bernardino incident involving the two jihadists. And like 911, I assume that America is slowing going back to sleep..? However, the threat has not subsided, it has grown!
The following article discusses a newly discovered book written for those wishing to strike ‘western’ cities and people. It describes how to disguise yourself so that you can not be discovered easily. When I first read it, I thought I’d verify the veracity of the story. So I Googled ‘Safety and Security Guidelines for Lone Wolf’. (Try it.) I was struck by the number of hits I received and decided the Israelis are probably a good source (below). The following is the original article that caught my attention.
Both are well worth reading. Maybe we should consider this sort of information when thinking about admitting ‘Christians’ in the country? But who knows..?
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We hear the ‘A’ word used a lot in this country and the media leads us to believe that only a few religious crazies want to stop/reduce abortions. Apparently that isn’t true.
The following commentary was written by a friend for the local paper and his source was the Knights of Columbus. That source information is available here. (The charts make for greater visible understanding.)
By Don Volz. — Guest Column published in the New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung, Saturday, January 30, 2016
Believe it or not, there’s a lot of consensus about abortion in America these days. That consensus is growing every year, notwithstanding a media blackout that tries to hide it from the American people.
A new Marist Poll was released Tuesday, January 19, with findings that may surprise you. However, it’s not surprising that you may not have heard about it. The Main Stream Media (MSM) does its best to ignore, play down, and outright distort how the majority of Americans feel about abortion. The Associated Press, Reuters, the New York Times, the Washington Post, USA Today, ABC, BBC, CBS, NBC, and yes, even the Fox News Channel on occasion, are the leading MSM offenders. Most large metropolitan daily newspapers and TV network affiliates are guilty by association.
The MSM persistently peddles the myth that America will be forever split on the abortion issue by focusing on the fact that Americans self-identify as either pro-life or pro-choice in roughly equal numbers. That perpetual focus on pro-life and pro-choice labels is a smokescreen designed to conceal Americans’ widespread support for reasonable abortion restrictions. It illustrates yet again why the MSM has lost its credibility with the American people.
The Marist survey cleared away the smoke, revealing that the great majority of Americans support tougher restrictions on abortion, including this bombshell: more than 6 out of 10 pro-choice individuals favor banning abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, except to save the life of the mother. No wonder the MSM ignored the survey.
Overall, the survey found that an astounding 81 percent of Americans favor significant restrictions on access to abortion, including limiting abortion to the first trimester of pregnancy, cases of incest or rape, or cases where the mother’s life is seriously at risk. That group includes 66 percent of the respondents who self-identified as pro-choice. That last statistic bears repeating – two thirds of pro-choice Americans oppose unrestricted access to abortion.
Opponents of abortion restrictions like to portray tougher abortion laws as evidence of the mythical “war on women.” How can that be true when 82 percent of the women surveyed in the poll say they favor restricting abortion to the first three months of pregnancy? The survey also found that 69 percent of women oppose taxpayer funding for abortion services. These findings suggest that unregulated and tax-subsidized abortion is the real war on women.
The survey showed that 68 percent of Americans oppose the use of public funds for abortion services. Even more telling, 51 percent of those who identify as pro-choice also oppose public funding for abortion. Yet, Planned Parenthood (PP) and other abortion providers continue to receive over $500 million in federal tax dollars every year. It’s little wonder that the MSM tries so hard to ignore, dismiss, and discredit the covert videos produced by the Center for Medical Progress – the often stomach-turning interviews with PP employees that exposed PP’s sordid ”unborn baby parts for sale” line of business.
Finally, there’s the MSM’s “coverage” of the January marches for life in Washington, D.C. and other North American cities every year. Historically, there has been little or no MSM coverage of these events, even though they consistently involve hundreds of thousands of people marching to renew a Culture of Life, often in the teeth of frigid, inhospitable weather. That coverage, when found, consists of deceptive headlines, misleading photos, and vastly understated participant counts, all intended to conceal abortion perspectives like those revealed in the Marist Poll.
MSM coverage of the January 22, 2016, Washington March for Life is a prime example. On the cusp of a historic blizzard, forty thousand or more committed souls of all ages, ethnicities, and genders braved the storm to participate. Yet the New York Times said the march attracted “hundreds” of participants and the Washington Post described the marchers as a “small, faithful crowd.”
The truth is that a large majority of Americans want abortion to be, at the very least, more restricted, more regulated, and far less commonplace than it is today. Planned Parenthood, NARAL, NOW, President Obama, and the Democrat party find that truth unacceptable. And that is why their MSM propagandists work so diligently to hide it.
It’s time to change the dialogue about abortion in America. It’s time we look beyond the deceptions and distortions promulgated by the MSM. It’s time to end the focus on pro-choice and pro-life labels that only serve to divide us. It’s time to concentrate on the abortion views we share, to seize the common ground. It’s time to change an abortion status quo that ‘We the People’ never asked for and never really supported. It’s time to enact the abortion restrictions that the vast majority of Americans support.
The referenced Marist Poll interviewed 1,686 adults across America and has a margin of error of +/- 2.4 percent.
You won’t hear about any of it from the MSM.
