THE CHURCH MILITANT
Ephesians 5:11-"And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them". This Christian News Blog maintains a one stop resource of current news and reports of its own related to church, moral, spiritual, and related political issues, plus articles, and postings from other online discernment ministries, and media which share the aims to obey the biblical commands to shed light on and refute error, heresy, apostasy, cults, and spiritual abuse.
YouTube
will implement a new policy where content can be hidden &
demonetized even if it isn’t in violation of their rules but merely
flagged. And what are the standards? Violence, depiction of terrorism or
extremist? No. Merely “controversial religious” or “supremacist”
content as judged by organizations with a political bias. “Controversial
religious” will likely include content that supports traditional
marriage. Should YouTube and Facebook be regulated as a public utility
to prevent their political censorship since they have a defacto
monopoly?
YouTube Attempting To Suppress & Destroy Liberty Based Channels
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Amidst all the hoopla surrounding the Trump Administration, a new
legal proposal put forth by two senators (and supported by the
administration) is a potential turning point in U.S. immigration
history.
It’s called the RAISE Act, which besides meaning “raise” is an
acronym for “Reforming American Immigration for Strong Employment”.
It is sponsored by Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas and Senator David
Perdue of Georgia. This bill, if it were eventually to become law,
would revolutionize our legal immigration system.
Currently, our legal immigration system awards over 1 million green
cards a year. One million. Think about that figure, and compare it to
your own state’s population.
Do we really need a million immigrants annually?
And how are they chosen? Given that the United States is the number
one destination of immigrants worldwide, shouldn’t we have a rigid
selection system, selecting the immigrants most likely to add economic
value to our nation and to assimilate?
That’s not how our current system works. Our current system gives
preference to unskilled workers. That of course provides more
competition for our own lower skilled workers.
Not only that, but we allow chain migration. It’s really a form of
nepotism. In chain migration, once a person gets a green card, he can
bring in more relatives, and pretty soon the whole village can be living
here.
And today’s legal immigrants use a lot of welfare. About half of them are on welfare.
Furthermore, many don’t learn English well, and the English test for naturalization has become something of a joke.
Plus, many immigrants retain the citizenship of their home country,
despite the fact that that’s a violation of the naturalization oath.
Now there are many dual citizens. Mexico , for example, encourages its
citizens to become U.S. citizens in order to manipulate our political
system.
Politically, immigration helps the Democratic party, as most
immigrants, when naturalized (and some even who are not naturalized)
vote for the Democrats. Most immigrants nowadays want Big Government
so that’s what they vote for.
So, bottom line, our legal immigration system is a mess, and it’s not
in our country’s interests. We really don’t need any more
immigrants. Automation is eliminating jobs, and in future decades we
will be hard-pressed to have enough jobs for our own people.
The RAISE Act has been introduced in the Senate, and is supported by
President Trump. Although it’s not perfect, it’s a great improvement on
our present system and a great big step in the right direction.
The RAISE Act would end chain migration, allowing only spouses and minor children to enter with the green card recipient.
Also, the issuance of green cards would depend upon a point
system. This would be modeled after the immigration systems of Canada
and Australia in which different characteristics would earn points to
qualify one to be a green card recipient.
Here’s how it was described by Trump’s Senior Policy Advisor Stephen Miller in a press conference on August 2nd:
“Additionally, we’re establishing a new entry system that’s
points-based. Australia has a points-based system, Canada has a
points-based system. And what will this system look at? It will look
at: Does the applicant speak English? Can they support themselves and
their families financially? Do they have a skill that will add to the
U.S. economy? Are they being paid a high wage?”
Isn’t that something? And why not? After all, the U.S.A. is the number one destination for immigrants. Why not be selective?
As far as the numbers go, once the system kicks in, it will begin to
reduce the quantity of immigrants. If things go as planned, during the
following decade, the quantity of green card recipients will be halved,
from over a million to half a million.
It would be good to reduce it even more, down to about 200,000 or
less. But, at least the RAISE Act is heading in the right direction.
If you haven’t already, I recommend you watch a video of Stephen
Miller’s masterful explanation of the RAISE Act, even facing
opposition. You can watch the video here, and here is the written text. And click here for an article about the RAISE Act on the invaluable Numbers USA website.
If you agree with the RAISE Act, then you need to start educating
people you know and you need to start hounding your senators and
representatives. They may need a lot of pressure. You can contact
them here.
Published on Aug 2, 2017
President
Donald Trump announces legislation representing the most significant
reform to the U.S. immigration system in half a century.
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A worldwide coalition of Reformed churches representing approximately
80 million Christians has signed onto an ecumenical statement with the
Roman Catholic Church to "overcome divisions" from the time of the
Protestant Reformation. The World Communion of Reformed Churches signed a "Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification" with Catholic, Lutheran, and Methodist leaders last week at a church in Wittenberg, Germany. According to a WCRC press release,
"The declaration stated that mutual condemnations pronounced by the two
sides during the Reformation do not apply to their current teaching on
justification."
According to the agreement, which was originally signed by the Catholic
Church and the Lutheran World Federation on October 31, 1999, Catholics
and Protestants "are now able to articulate a common understanding of
our justification by God's grace through faith in Christ."
"It does not cover all that either church teaches about
justification; it does encompass a consensus on basic truths of the
doctrine of justification and shows that the remaining differences in
its explication are no longer the occasion for doctrinal condemnations,"
states the Joint Declaration in part.
The
declaration defines justification as "the forgiveness of sins, ...
liberation from the dominating power of sin and death (Rom 5:12-21) and
from the curse of the law (Gal 3:10-14). It is acceptance into communion
with God: already now, but then fully in God's coming kingdom (Rom
5:1f). It unites with Christ and with his death and resurrection (Rom
6:5). It occurs in the reception of the Holy Spirit in baptism and
incorporation into the one body ... All this is from God alone, for
Christ's sake, by grace, through faith in "the gospel of God's Son" (Rom
1:1-3)."
It also states that since the justified "fall into sin
... they must constantly hear God's promises anew, confess their sins (1
Jn 1:9), participate in Christ's body and blood, and be exhorted to
live righteously in accord with the will of God."
"That is why the
Apostle says to the justified: 'Work out your own salvation with fear
and trembling; for it is God who is at work in you, enabling you both to
will and to work for his good pleasure' ... But the good news remains:
'there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus' (Rom
8:1), and in whom Christ lives (Gal 2:20). Christ's 'act of
righteousness leads to justification and life for all' (Rom 5:18)."
According
to the WCRC, "The congregation at Wittenberg's Stadtkirche (Town
Church), broke into spontaneous applause as WCRC General Secretary Chris
Ferguson and Catholic, Lutheran and Methodist representatives signed a
statement confirming the WCRC's association with the joint declaration."
WCRC President Jerry Pillay said in a statement that
the signing of the ecumenical agreement was "a historic day,"
describing it as "significant and symbolic of the road we are to
travel."
The WCRC was founded in 2010 in Grand Rapids, Michigan,
with the merger of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches and the
Reformed Ecumenical Council.
Catholic Bishop Brian Farrell,
secretary of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, was
part of the delegation sent to Wittenberg for last week's ceremony. Bishop Farrell told Vatican Radio that
the Catholic Church and the Protestant denominations had reached a
mutual understanding on the Doctrine of Justification that "we are saved
by grace, but that that requires that we show our changed relationship
to God in good works."
"Catholics and most of the historical
Protestant Churches now agree on the essence of justification, so we
have a much stronger basis on which to build our spiritual and ecclesial
relationship," added Farrell.
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The Descendants 2 movie calls evil good and good evil.
As Hollywood continues to push Satanic rebellion into the hearts and minds of children, the Disney’s Descendants
movie series has taken the indoctrination to an entirely new level. The
series has been a massive success for the Disney franchise as millions
of children and pre-teens have tuned in. The movie series – a spinoff of
prior Disney stories and the movie Maleficent – casts evil
villains as heroes and celebrates wickedness, sinful rebellion and the
occult. All the while it subtly and deceptively reinvents the story of
the fall of Lucifer and his fallen angels.
Descendants Villains: Truly Rotten To The Core
The temptation of the forbidden fruit is constantly promoted in the Descendants films.
The Descendants film is about the children of some of the
more famous Disney villains (Maleficent, the Evil Snow Queen, Cruella
De Vil, Captain Hook, etc.), who along with their parents have been
banished to the “Isle of the Lost.” They are given a chance to
infiltrate a peaceful kingdom and bring their wicked ways there. The
film makes no secret in its symbolism of a bitten apple logo with a
serpent-like vine wrapped around it. It is a not-so-subtle allusion to
Adam and Eve eating the forbidden fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of
Good and Evil in the Bible:
“Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the
field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath
God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But
of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath
said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
“For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes
shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. And
when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was
pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she
took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband
with her; and he did eat.” – Genesis 3:1-6.
Satan deceived Eve by distorting God’s words (The Lord did not forbid
“every tree.” Only one), calling God a liar (telling her she would not
die if she ate the forbidden fruit) and slandering God (telling her that
the fruit would make her god-like, implying that God wanted to keep
this knowledge and ability from her).
And just like that, what was once evil and dangerous to Eve became exciting and alluring. This is the precise deception of Descendants as it repeatedly portrays sinful rebellion, wickedness and witchcraft as fun and cool.
Continuing the theme of eating the forbidden apple, the original Descendants movie opens up with the song “Rotten To the Core”:
The first image of the video is Mal (the daughter of Maleficent from
Sleeping Beauty), spray painting “Long Live Evil” on a wall.
The main character Mal spray paints the film’s mantra: Long Live Evil.
While of course the basic message is her rebellion and vandalism, her
writing of “Evil” with the letters backwards is a part of the Occult
Law of Reversal. This concept, strongly endorsed by satanist Aleister
Crowley, teaches that occult powers can be enhanced when words or
writings are done backwards:
“Those who want fame, power, spell-casting
abilities, demons at their beck and call, and to recognize the godhead
within, as well as to know the past, present, and future, he extolled to
his apt students, must consistently, with intensity, practicetalking (reverse speech), walking, thinking, and playing phonograph records, backwards.This is a form of divination, and we are warned against this in the Holy Bible.” (source).
Reverse writing is found all over the video.
Just seconds later in the video another villain jumps off a rooftop and notice the image in the background:
The film very subtly reveals its satanic symbolism.
Spray-painted on the image of a dragon are the words: “The Dragon Shall Rise Again.” The Bible identifies Satan as the Dragon:
“And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a
great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns
upon his heads. And his tail drew the third
part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the
dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to
devour her child as soon as it was born. And
she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod
of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.” – Revelation 12:3-5.
“And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And
the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and
Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth,
and his angels were cast out with him.” – Revelation 12:7-9.
Just as Satan was subtle in the Garden of Eden, the image of the dragon only appears on screen for a few brief seconds.
Here the reversed “evil” is written on the back of the genie from
Aladdin. Genies are just another term for what the Bible calls demons.
While the kids do their impressive dance moves, subliminal messages abound.
The remainder of the video celebrates the Descendants harassing
people and causing mischief. And these are the heroes of the movie. To
understand the popularity of this series, consider that this video has
been viewed over 250 million times.
In 1 Timothy 4 the Apostle Paul prophesied:
“Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter
times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits,
and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;” – 1 Timothy 4:1-2.
Kids and their parents alike have been fully seduced by the spirit of
rebellion in Disney films to that extent that movies that openly
celebrates evil are welcome into millions of homes all over America and
the world.
The Descendants also promotes the doctrines of devils – as its heroes
use witchcraft and demonic worship to achieve their wicked goals. How
can parents allow this? This is the result of so many families moving
away from true faith in Jesus Christ and the Bible. When God is rejected
in someone’s heart or in a family or a nation, soon the last vestiges
of His Spirit – the human conscience, will become “seared with a hot
iron” – meaning people will be so indifferent to sin that even blatant
satanic entertainment will seem normal and acceptable.
Maleficent – Sympathy For The Devil
The Maleficent character was based on Satan.
Disney very cleverly set the stage for the Descendants series after the 2014 release of Maleficent, starring Angelina Jolie in the role of the evil witch villain from Sleeping Beauty. In the original Sleeping Beauty,
Maleficent was a thinly veiled replica of Satan. Her outfit had horns
and was shaped to look as if she had wings. Because of a minor offense,
she chose to curse Sleeping Beauty to die on her 16th birthday. She
expressed hatred for those around her calling them “idiots” and
“imbeciles.” Her pet raven was named Diablo (Spanish for Devil).
In her final confrontation with the prince who would save Sleeping
Beauty, Maleficent’s castle glows with fire. She also turns into a
dragon (yet another allusion to Satan) and tells the prince: “Now shall you deal with me, O Prince, and all the powers of hell!” The prince ends up killing her and saving the day.
Since when do “good fairies” look like this?
In the modern Maleficent movie, Maleficent is now the hero.
Rather than being an utterly evil being like the Devil, she is merely a
misunderstood fairy. After a greedy human king tries to steal from the
spirit realm where the fairies live, Maleficent defeats him, stoking his
desire for revenge. At the same time Maleficent falls in love with a
human man, whom the king pays to attack Maleficent and cut off her
wings. She can no longer fly to the Heavens and thus she is a fallen
spirit. The Bible details the fall of Satan, once a good angel, in the
Book of Isaiah:
“How art
thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut
down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For
thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt
my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the
congregation, in the sides of the north:I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.” – Isaiah 14:12-14.
The film seems to repeatedly indicate that it is an allusion to the fall of Lucifer.
Given that the original Sleeping Beauty film had such overt references to Satan, Maleficent
takes it in a different direction – Satan as victim. It was because her
wings were maliciously cut off, that she casts the spell on Aurora, the
Sleeping Beauty. In order to keep the humans from tracking her down,
Maleficent builds a wall of thorns around their kingdom. After Satan
deceived Adam and Eve God punished Adam by announcing that when he tried
to grow crops, the ground would produce thorns:
“And unto Adam
he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and
hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt
not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou
eat of it all the days of thy life; Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;” – Genesis 3:17-18.
Shortly after putting her hex on Aurora, Maleficent wants to help
Sleeping Beauty and seeks to undo the curse, serving as a distant
caretaker of Aurora as she grows up in the spirit realm. By the time
Aurora is 15, she is so moved by Maleficent’s compassion, she thinks
that she is her fairy godmother.
Only the kiss from Maleficent could save Aurora in the end.
At the end of the film, the Prince attempts to kiss and revive
Sleeping Beauty but his effort is futile. It takes someone with “true
love”, and lo and behold, it takes a kiss from Maleficent to revive the
princess. Thus morality and sexuality are both confused for the child
audience. Maleficent looks like Satan or Baphomet (Angelina Jolie stated
that her look for the movie was inspired by Lady Gaga who is also known for dressing up like Baphomet and using blasphemous satanic imagery in her videos).
Yet despite Maleficent’s satanic appearance, she is good and loving.
She casts deadly spells on infants but is the only character in the film
who has “true love” in her heart.
In the final scenes, Maleficent, the clear hero of the film, not only
saves the Princess but is able to unite the spirit and human realm,
giving her power over all. She then makes Sleeping Beauty queen.
In the Book of Revelation, Satan in similar fashion uses the Antichrist to promote worship of him:
“And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death;
and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the
beast. And they worshipped the dragon which
gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who
is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him? And
there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies;
and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.” – Revelation 13:3-6.
Maleficent has been a hit with young children.
Right along with satanic worship, the Antichrist will denigrate the
true God of the Bible and anyone who believes in Jesus Christ. Already
society is being groomed for such a day as Maleficent made over
$750M at the global box office. The Maleficent movie ends with the
demonic fairy regaining her wings and soaring to the Heavens. Thus the
fallen angel has been redeemed and elevated.
Descendants 2: More Sinful Rebellion
Mal, the daughter of Maleficent and a practicing witch, is the cool hero of the movie.
“For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft” – 1 Samuel 15:23.
With all the prior success, it’s no surprise that millions of kids,
teens and adults were eagerly awaiting Descendants 2 which premiered in
July 2017. It’s biggest hit song was Ways To Be Wicked. Here is the video:
The video opens with the Descendants casting a spell around a witch’s
cauldron. Mal, the main character and daughter of Maleficent, recites
an incantation from her book of spells: “Wicked ways beneath the skin.
Let all who taste it now join in.” As found in the Bible, the
Descendants movie correctly identifies sinful desire with the flesh:
“This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For
the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh:
and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the
things that ye would. But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
“Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the
which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they
which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.” – Galatians 5:16-23.
If we let our flesh or “wicked ways” lead us to fornication, hatred,
witchcraft and the other sins listed, we will not “inherit the kingdom
of God.” This is the punishment for a life of open rebellion against The
Lord Jesus Christ. But what the Bible teaches is that when a person
becomes a born again believer in Jesus Christ the “fruit” they bear is
of the Holy Spirit – and it seeks love, joy, peace and many other noble
feelings.
The opening shot of “Ways to be wicked” shows the kids casting a spell.
But of course in Descendants 2, the villains use their
enchanted apples to corrupt the good prep school students and their
faculty into being wicked. Here are the lyrics of the song (which in 2
1/2 months has 70 million views on YouTube): “We got all the ways to be W.I.C.K.E.D We got all the ways to be W.I.C.K.E.D C’mon… Crashing the party, guess they lost my invitation Friendly reminder, got my own kind of persuasion Looks like this place could use a bit of misbehavior Happily ever after with a little flavor Bad to the bone with even worse intentions We’re gonna steal the show and leave ’em all defenseless A fairy tale life can be oh so overrated So raise your voices and let’s get it activated! Long live, havin’ some fun We take what we want There’s so many ways to be wicked With us evil lives on The right side of wrong There’s so many ways to be wicked Apple apple Dip dip Wanna try it? Tick tick Take a bite C’mon be bold Change the way the story’s told This time the dark is finally getting your attention We’re wicked by the book and class is back in session You like it, steal it, gotta beat ’em to the treasure A rite of passage, bad just doesn’t get much better Long live, havin’ some fun We take what we want There’s so many ways to be wicked With us evil lives on The right side of wrong There’s so many ways to be wicked” (source).
The movie is a celebration of evil and rebellion.
After getting all the students and faculty to eat their enchanted
apples, inciting chaos in the school, the villains then erect a statue
of the Beast from Beauty and The Beast in the front of the school building:
Evie helps erect an image of the Beast for the students to dance around.
In Revelation chapter 13 the False Prophet, the religious cohort of
the Antichrist, deceives the world into constructing “the Image of the
Beast” a type of statue of the Antichrist that all people in the end
times will be required to worship:
“And
deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles
which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that
dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which
had the wound by a sword, and did live. “And
he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image
of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not
worship the image of the beast should be killed.” – Revelation 13:14-15.
What spirit inspired these lyrics and this video? A godly spirit?
The repeated references to forbidden fruit, “liberation” via sin and
the occult all form a very dangerous spiritual message. Do not be
deceived.
Hollywood’s Corruption of Children
The Descendants franchise has been a merchandising success for Disney.
“At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, And
said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as
little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me. But
whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it
were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and
that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.” – Matthew 18:1-6.
Whether it’s Victoria’s Secret marketing itself to little girls, the Pink Ouija board or Disney, Beginning And End has detailed in many articles the constant effort by Hollywood to promote sin and fornication to little children. In the Descendants 2 song Kiss The Girl, the villains sing: “Yes, you want her Look at her, you know you do Possible she want you too There is one way to ask her It don’t take a word Not a single word Go on and kiss the girl (kiss the girl, girl)
Sha-la-la-la-la-la My, oh, my! Look like the boy’s too shy He ain’t gonna kiss the girl… Now’s your moment Floating in the blue lagoon Boy, you better do it soon No time will be better She don’t say a word And she won’t say a word Until ya kiss the girl…”
Turn Off Descendants
Children can purchase Mal’s spell book which contains her journal notes and dozens of incantations.
Pray for the millions of families who have embraced what is no doubt a
mega-financial success for Disney. The Descendants 2 series is a sad
sign of how far society has removed itself from God and the utter lack
of any spiritual discernment. The book of James says:
“Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. Ye
adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the
world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the
world is the enemy of God.
“Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will
flee from you. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse
your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.- James 4:3-4; 6-8.
The message of the world being promoted to our children is “long live
evil” and the fun of being wicked sinners. That is certainly a path to
being God’s enemy and eternal damnation in Hell. Pray for parents to
resist Satan’s temptation and rather than rushing to throw the next Descendant’s party, they get on their knees and repent for their sinful influence over their children. That will only happen with acknowledging their sin before God and seeking Jesus with a heavy heart.
The beauty of children is that their hearts are open to faith. This
is why Jesus said His believers must be “as children.” It is time to
recognize the war for their hearts and minds. The Bible says: “Woe unto
them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light,
and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for
bitter!” (Isaiah 5:20). Hollywood has found many ways to boldly proclaim
that evil is good. It is long overdue for more parents to counter that
message by seeking God’s free forgiveness of sin and promoting the Gospel, not ways to be wicked.
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A
New Jersey township that was sued by Muslims for refusing to approve a
massive mosque project is returning to court because of a settlement
agreement that restricts speech regarding Islam.
The
settlement required the township to hold a public meeting about the
mosque project, but it forbade anyone from commenting on “Islam” or
“Muslims.”
A
key tenet of Shariah, the Muslim law that governs both personal and
political life, bans any negative comments about Islam or Muslims.
According to the Thomas More Law Center, which
sued the township on behalf of two residents whose home is within 200
feet of the proposed mega-mosque, the settlement with Bernards Township
“reads more like an instrument of surrender.”
The Islamic
Society of Basking Ridge sued and won a decision in federal court after
its mosque proposal was rejected based on traffic and other concerns.
The Township agreed on a $3.5 million payment and a “public hearing to approve the settlement.”
Residents
Christopher and Loretta Quick challenged the agreement in court,
arguing it restricts speech and violates the Establishment Clause by
preferring Islam over other religions.
“The
Quicks reside within 200 feet of the proposed mosque construction in a
zoned residential area,” Thomas More explained. “Yet, the settlement
agreement prohibits them from describing the many unique features of
Islamic worship which will impact design of the building, traffic
density, water and sewage, traffic control problems, road construction,
and parking arrangements. According to the settlement agreement, ISBR is
permitted to make statements concerning Christians and Jews and their
places of worship, but in contrast, the agreement prohibits commentary
relating to Islam or Muslims. In fact, ISBR has previously discussed the
Christian and Jewish religions and their places of worship.”
Richard
Thompson, chief counsel for Thomas More, said the Islamic center “has
taken the extraordinary step of concealing significant links on their
website to a radical group named by the federal government as an
unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terrorism financing trial in
America history, the Islamic Society of North America (‘ISNA’).”
“ISNA
is claimed by the Muslim Brotherhood as one of ‘our organizations.’
According to internal documents seized by the FBI, the Muslim
Brotherhood’s strategy is to engage in a ‘grand jihad in eliminating and
destroying Western civilization from within,’” said Thompson.
He
said that while “claiming that the township had a religious animus
against Muslims, ISBR hid from the public view its animus toward
Christians and Jews, by not only hiding anti-Christian and anti-Semitic
verses published on its website, but also hiding its significant ties to
ISNA.”
“Instead
of standing up to defend its citizens against ISBR’s hate-filled
anti-Semitic and anti-Christian bias, the township colluded with ISBR’s
‘Civilization Jihad’ by capitulating to payment of millions of dollars
to ISBR, allowing the construction of the new mosque and Islamic center
in violation of zoning codes, and now even suppressing speech concerning
Islam or Muslims at a public meeting,” Thompson said.
IslamThreat.com
estimates there were nearly 3,200 mosques in the United States as of
2015, with a massive surge following the 9/11 terror attack by Muslims.
The website lists 525 mosques in California, 507 in New York, 302 in Texas, 200 in Illinois and 186 in Florida.
The
Islamic center sued the township when officials refused to permit a
huge project on a lot critics contend is far too small. Later, U.S.
Department of Justice, then under Barack Obama, also sued the township.
The new complaint arguesthe First Amendment provides no open door for governments to issue blanket censorship orders on speech.
“Defendants
… have put in place a prior restraint on speech that bans citizens from
engaging in free speech at a public hearing on political matters
because of the content,” the complaint asserts.
“The settlement agreement further allows defendants to forbid speech with which they or others disagree.”
Further,
the fact that the agreement doesn’t provide the same protections to
Christians, Jews and others means that “defendants have shown preference
for Islam and Muslims over other religions.”
The
complaint seeks a declaration that the residents’ constitutional rights
are being violated, preliminary and permanent injunctions against the
agreement, and damages.
WND reported earlier this yearcitizens fought back after the personal communications of critics of the Basking Ridge project were subpoenaed in the case.
Neighborhood
residents, including Lori Caratzola, were named by ISBR in its lawsuit
as a fervent opponent of the mosque. Caratzola faced demands for all of
her personal communications that mention Muslims, Islam, mosques, the
Quran, imams, burkas, hijabs, Shariah, jihad and other features of
Islam.
“ISBR
is setting a dangerous unconstitutional precedent by abusing a court
process to chill and trample on the First Amendment rights of private
citizens whose only involvement was to speak out against the mosque at
public hearings,” Thompson said at the time.
He
asked for the subpoenas to be thrown out “because the U.S. Supreme
Court has held that speech at a public place on a matter of public
concern is entitled to special protection.”
Caratzola
charged the Muslims’ intent with her was “to embarrass, strike fear,
silence and cause financial harm to any citizen who dared oppose his
nonconforming project.”
So, vaccines do boost the immune system, at least one branch of it
versus another, depending on what kind of a vaccine. I don’t paint all
vaccines with the same brush because live vaccines are different than
killed vaccines, and there are different kinds of both. So, if you were
to inject a baby with a DTaP vaccine, that baby’s immune system wouldn’t
do very much, so they have to put aluminum into the vaccine for that
baby to respond. And that’s why aluminum was put into the vaccines,
because when it comes to these sub-unit or killed vaccines the infant
immune system just won’t respond to it.
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Khaula Hadeed of Hamas-linked CAIR said it was “un-American” to say Islam was a “false religion.” So apparently now you have to believe that Islam is true in order to be an American.
Certainly there are plenty of Americans who seem to assume that — witness the cancellation of atheist Richard Dawkins last week for criticizing Islam.
“Roy Moore ‘un-American’ for calling Islam a ‘false religion,’ Alabama Muslims say,” by Howard Koplowitz, Al.com, July 25, 2017:
Roy Moore’s remarks last night calling Islam a “false
religion” was “un-American” speech, the Alabama chapter of a Muslim
civil liberties organization said Tuesday.
The Alabama chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations also
extended an invitation to the former Alabama Supreme Court chief
justice and U.S. Senate candidate to visit a mosque following his
comments.
Moore made the statement in response to a question at the North
Jefferson County Republican Club about concerns that Sharia law could be
implemented in the United States. “False religions like Islam, who teach that ‘you must worship this
way,’ are completely opposite with what our First Amendment stands for,”
Moore said during a the club’s meeting Monday night at Jim ‘N Nick’s
BBQ in Gardendale.
Khaula Hadeed, executive director of CAIR-Alabama, released a
statement Tuesday afternoon inviting Moore to visit a mosque during his
Senate campaign. She cited a verse from the Quran that she said called
on the religion’s followers to respond to hurtful acts with kindness.
“Statements that espouse Islamophobia and cast out fellow Alabamians,
implying that they do not have the same rights under the law, are
unAmerican,” said CAIR-Alabama Executive Director Khaula Hadeed in a
statement. “We invite Judge Roy Moore to visit a mosque, meet with
Alabamian Muslims, and learn about their Islamic faith and about the
Muslim constituents he intends to serve as a representative. As a
candidate for Senate, this is perhaps the best time for him to do so.”…
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Sounding rather testy that the Senate didn’t give him what he wanted on Thursday, President Trump tweeted on Saturday morning
that he would not only punish senators and their staffs but cut off the
government funding of subsidies — estimated to be $8 billion — to
hungry insurance companies. He tweeted: “After seven years of ‘talking’
Repeal & Replace, the people of our great country are still being
forced to live with imploding ObamaCare!” He then tweeted the
not-so-subtle threat:
If a new HealthCare bill is not approved
quickly, BAILOUTS for Insurance Companies and BAILOUTS for Members of
Congress will end very soon!
He added verbal insult to the potential financial injury:
Unless the Republican Senators are total
quitters, Repeal & Replace is not dead. Demand another vote before
voting on any other bill!
The president has threatened to cut off those federal subsidies
before, but paid them in June and July. Now, however, with the August
payment in jeopardy, health insurance companies are estimating that they
will be forced to raise premiums immediately by at least 20 percent. In
addition, Trump wants to abrogate the agreement wrought in 2010,
putting congressional staffs under ObamaCare, just like everyone else.
If he holds true to his tweet, Trump will turn off both spigots unless
the Senate bends to his will and votes on R&R next week before
taking their August recess.
This sounds very much like the commissar of a slave labor camp who,
tired of complaints, issues the threat: “Beatings will continue until
morale improves.”
Democrats were quick to respond, defending territory that their
president won over the protests of a large majority of Americans back in
2009 who loudly and repeatedly declared that they didn’t want
government-financed healthcare. Said their chief Senate spokesman,
Senator Charles Schumer of New York, on Saturday:
If the president refuses to make the
cost-sharing reduction payments, every expert agrees that premiums will
go up and health care will be more expensive for millions of Americans.
The president ought to stop playing politics with people’s lives and
health care, start leading and finally begin acting presidential.
The “skinny” repeal of the odious, expensive, and unconstitutional
ObamaCare program failed when three so-called Republicans — one of them
getting out of his hospital bed to do so — voted against it. Leading the
pack of RINOs was Senator John McCain from Arizona along with Senators
Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska.
Their voting records reflect a near-total lack of concern over
keeping their oaths of office to protect and defend the Constitution.
The Freedom Index (FI), which rates votes by members of Congress on
their adherence to the Constitution, for them is 63 percent, 40 percent,
and 48 percent, respectively.
But they don’t share the blame alone. Masters of political statecraft
and closed-door maneuvering who spelled doom to Trump's hopes include
House Speaker Paul Ryan (FI: 58 percent) and Senator Majority Leader
Mitch McConnell (FI: 60 percent).
Another person to blame is Supreme Court Justice John Roberts, who
voted to uphold the individual mandate out of conviction that his court
must not be responsible for ending the healthcare takeover. Still others
are those in the Republican Party who voted more than half-a-dozen
times to repeal ObamaCare when it was safe to do so, for political
points, but were totally unwilling to keep that promise when Trump
unexpectedly won the White House in November. They “badly
underestimated,” wrote Jonathan Tobin of National Review, “how
hard it would be to do something that no party has ever been able to
accomplish: roll back an entitlement.” Once addicted to the new program,
resistance began to fade as those newcomers were now covered with
healthcare at the expense of their neighbors. Current polls are showing
only 29 percent interested in repeal, with the vast majority wanting
Congress to move on to other things."
According to Tobin, most of the blame can be placed on President Trump. He explains in his recent National Review
article that Obama “had little respect for Congress or interest in the
normal forms of friendly persuasion that involve entertaining and
back-scratching. But he proved that a president could have neither the
charm of Ronald Reagan nor the penchant for raw political thuggery of
Lyndon Johnson and still have the ability to force dysfunctional
congressional majorities to give him what he wanted.”
Translation: Obama knew exactly what he wanted. Either a full-on
single-payer health care system that would put the remainder of what was
left of the country's quasi-free market system under total government
control, or a program that was designed to fail that would lead to the
same end. In other words, Obama was an ideologue — a socialist/Marxist
ideologue — and knew exactly what he wanted and wouldn’t quit until he
(with the assistance of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi) got it.
Trump, on the other hand, is about as far from being an ideologue as
one can imagine. He’s a deal-maker, willing to give up certain chips in
order to gain others. There is no “right” or “wrong” over ObamaCare,
just a “right” versus “left” that currently is getting in his way. He
and his staff need to reduce the impact of ObamaCare in order to
generate enough savings to offset the massive deficits in his proposed
budget. That is his target, and getting something done over healthcare
was merely a steppingstone to it.
Lost in all the shuffle is a surprising piece of proposed legislation
that has generated almost no attention: a bill that would have, in two
simple sentences, utterly and completely repealed ObamaCare once and for
all. No footnotes, no addendas, no “revisions” or “replacements" — just
straight repeal. From Representative Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) came this back
in March:
This Act may be cited as the “ObamaCare Repeal Act.”
Effective as of Dec. 31, 2017 the Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Act is repealed, and the provisions of
law amended or repealed by such Act are restored or revived as if such
Act had not been enacted.
Neat and tidy. Simple. Effective. And all but totally ignored by
Republicans more enamored with their popularity going into the next
election than with doing the right thing. Brooks couldn’t even generate
enough support for his bill to get it out of committee. He touched on
the real problem about repealing ObamaCare: Neither the people nor their
representatives want to touch it. “If the American people want to
repeal ObamaCare," said Brooks, "this is their last, best chance during
the 115th Congress. Those Congressmen who are sincere about repealing
ObamaCare may prove it by signing the discharge petition.”
The silence following his plea was deafening.
President Donald Trump on Saturday let everyone, especially
purported members of his own party, know he’s not happy with the recent
failed healthcare repeal vote.
In a lengthy tweet screed, the president lashed out against “foolish”
Republican leadership for failing to pass a “skinny” repeal bill, and
urged the passage of a simple 51 majority vote rule.
Republican
Senate must get rid of 60 vote NOW! It is killing the R Party, allows 8
Dems to control country. 200 Bills sit in Senate. A JOKE!
“Republican
Senate must get rid of 60 vote NOW! It is killing the R Party, allows 8
Dems to control country. 200 Bills sit in Senate. A JOKE!”
“The
very outdated filibuster rule must go. Budget reconciliation is killing
R’s in Senate. Mitch M, go to 51 Votes NOW and WIN. IT’S TIME!”
“Republicans
in the Senate will NEVER win if they don’t go to a 51 vote majority
NOW. They look like fools and are just wasting time……”
“….8 Dems
totally control the U.S. Senate. Many great Republican bills will never
pass, like Kate’s Law and complete Healthcare. Get smart!”
“If the
Senate Democrats ever got the chance, they would switch to a 51
majority vote in first minute. They are laughing at R’s. MAKE CHANGE!”
“After
seven years of “talking” Repeal & Replace, the people of our great
country are still being forced to live with imploding ObamaCare!”
The
president also threatened congress members’ healthcare options if a
successful repeal could not be agreed upon, and later questioned whether
Republicans were “total quitters” for refusing to pursue the effort.
“If
a new HealthCare Bill is not approved quickly, BAILOUTS for Insurance
Companies and BAILOUTS for Members of Congress will end very soon!”
“Unless
the Republican Senators are total quitters, Repeal & Replace is not
dead! Demand another vote before voting on any other bill!”
If
a new HealthCare Bill is not approved quickly, BAILOUTS for Insurance
Companies and BAILOUTS for Members of Congress will end very soon!
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HENDERSON COUNTY, Tenn. – After receiving a
complaint letter from a prominent atheist group, the mayor of a
Tennessee county says he has no plans to remove a Bible verse
inscription from his county’s courthouse and hopes instead to add an
additional verse to the building’s walls.
On June 30, attorney Rebecca Markert with the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) mailed a letter
to Dan Hughes, mayor of Henderson County in Tennessee. She said that a
“concerned local resident” told FFRF about a biblical inscription on the
cornerstone of the county courthouse.
“We understand that a Bible verse is etched on the wall of the
Henderson County Courthouse in Lexington, Tennessee,” Markert wrote.
“The verse reads, ‘Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy
throne: Mercy and truth shall go before thy face. Psalms 89:14.’”
Arguing that the scriptural inscription violates the U.S.
Constitution’s Establishment Clause, Markert said the verse on the
courthouse is “inappropriate” because “it conveys government support for
religion.”
“The context of the religious message is particularly problematic,”
she added. “The verse alludes to the throne of a Judeo-Christian god,
and it is embedded into the walls of the courthouse, the seat of
government. This perpetuates the myth that our law is based on biblical
principles, and it sends the message to private citizens with business
at the courthouse that the justice they seek will be decided based on
religion.”
Markert concluded the letter by urging Hughes to remove the verse from the courthouse wall “as soon as possible.”
However, Hughes said he was surprised that anyone would take issue
with the Bible verse and advised that he has no plans to remove the
inscription, which has reportedly been on the courthouse cornerstone for
more than 50 years.
“I wasn’t expecting anything and had not been contacted about the
verse or really believed half the people in county even know the verse
is on that side of the cornerstone,” Hughes told WBBJ.
In his reply to FFRF, Hughes noted that most residents of Henderson County believe in God.
“Our community is based on the belief of a true and living God,” he wrote.
Hughes told WBBJ that he has received nothing but positive feedback
regarding his decision. Furthemore, he said he hopes to add an
additional verse to the courthouse: Psalm 33:12. That verse says,
“Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD: and the people whom he
hath chosen for his own inheritance.”
Local residents interviewed by WBBJ said they were glad their mayor didn’t capitulate to the atheist group’s demands.
“It ought to stay right there,” said Henderson County resident John
Huffman. “If somebody else wants something different, they’ll chisel it
on there. There’s plenty of squares.”
“It’s a big Bible Belt around here, and you know, if they don’t like
it, they don’t have to read it,” Henderson County resident Adam Pinte
opined.
“Well, it’s on the back of your dollar bill too, but nobody complains when they spend their money,” Pinte added.
FFRF released a statement
on Wednesday saying they were “alarmed” by the mayor’s decision to
retain the biblical engraving and “shocked by such an explicit
endorsement of Christianity.” FFRF co-presidents Annie Laurie Gaylor and
Dan Barker mailed a response letter to Hughes, urging him to reconsider his decision.
However, Danny Sorrell, pastor of Campbell Street Church of Christ in
Jackson, Tennessee, said biblical principles played an important role
in the founding of the U.S., so biblical inscriptions on government
buildings are constitutional.
“Our country was founded on a Christian heritage, and there’s so much
that we can gain from and learn from our past and learn from God’s
word,” Sorrell told WBBJ.
“Having a Bible verse on the courthouse, that’s not imposing anyone’s
religion on anyone else,” he added. “It’s just part of the history of
our country.”
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A Christian organization — the European Coalition for Israel —
“blasted international Christian institutions for blaming Israel for the
recent Temple Mount tensions.” In a statement issued by the World
Council of Churches:
Secretary-General Olav Fykse Tveit called upon the
Israeli government to immediately remove the metal detectors, thereby
putting the blame for the latest wave of violence on Israeli security
measures and not on the Palestinian incitement to violence.
A Jewish human rights group — the Simon Wiesenthal Center — condemned the WCC, stating (as Hugh Fitzgerald details here) that the installation of metal detectors is routine at religious sites globally:
In 2015, Saudi Arabia introduced a range of new
restrictions, including electronic bracelets, for Muslims performing the
Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca after capturing a suicide bomber who planned
to attack the Grand Mosque in Islam’s holiest city. Major Christian
sites, most obviously at the Vatican in Rome, have also implemented
enhanced measures amid a continuing wave of Islamist terror attacks in
Europe and the Middle East.
The World Council of Churches has a reputation for condemning Israel
and enabling the Palestinian jihad. A few years ago, the WCC demanded
that Israel release jihad terrorists, and has dedicated events to ending the so-called “illegal occupation.”
“EUROPEAN COALITION FOR ISRAEL: CHRISTIAN GROUPS BIASED AGAINST ISRAEL”, by Benjamin Glatt, Jerusalem Post, July 25, 2017:
A Christian organization promoting Israeli-European
cooperation blasted international Christian institutions for blaming
Israel for the recent Temple Mount tensions.
“It is simply wrong to blame the Israeli government for wanting to
protect those entering the Temple Mount after the recent killings,”
European Coalition for Israel Founding Director Tomas Sandell said
Monday night. “Metal detectors are today a part of standard security
procedures at holy sites in the world, from the Vatican to Mecca. These
measures are put in place simply in order to protect people and are not
meant to deny anyone access.”
Sandell’s remarks came in wake of various statements from Christian
institutions around the world, including the Vatican and the World
Council of Churches in Geneva, pleading for calm and asking Israel to
stop inciting to violence.
In a statement from WCC on Friday, Secretary-General Olav Fykse Tveit
called upon the Israeli government to immediately remove the metal
detectors, thereby putting the blame for the latest wave of violence on
Israeli security measures and not on the Palestinian incitement to
violence.
The Geneva-based organization, which is said to represent millions of
Protestant Christians, has a long history of anti-Israel bias.
Recently, WCC published on its website a statement from its member
churches in the Palestinian territories in which the Balfour Declaration
of 1917 was described as “unlawful” and “marking 100 years of
oppression,” thus rejecting any rights for the Jewish people to live in
their own state in their ancestral homeland. These rights, Sandell said,
were clearly established under international law in San Remo already in
1920. The Palestinian churches further urged WCC to step up efforts to
boycott Israel, which it calls “a colonial apartheid state.”
The European Coalition for Israel also noted that event though WCC
has been very outspoken about the Israeli-Arab conflict in the past, the
organization hasn’t issued any statements on the recent UNESCO
resolutions that denied any Jewish or Christian history in the Holy Land
by declaring heritage sites, such as the Tomb of the Patriarchs, the
Temple Mount and the Western Wall, as exclusively Muslim holy sites.
