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Monday, January 21, 2019

ED STETZER STICKS UP FOR PRO-CHOICE STUDENTS, CALLS PRO-LIFE SPEAKER TOO "PROVOCATIVE"

ED STETZER STICKS UP FOR PRO-CHOICE STUDENTS, CALLS PRO-LIFE SPEAKER TOO "PROVOCATIVE"
SEE: https://pulpitandpen.org/2019/01/16/ed-stetzer-sticks-up-for-pro-choice-students-calls-pro-life-speaker-too-provocative/;  republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
Wheaton College is so theologically messed up that it has handed over the Billy Graham Center to Ed Stetzer, who has subsequently trotted in the Mystichicks (Moore, Voskamp, Caine) to disciple and teach the students. Ed Stetzer has been on the wrong side (and the money-making side) of every evangelical controversy in the last fifteen years. And most recently, Stetzer is defending pro-choice Wheaton students who melted like snowflakes over a pro-life speaker giving them the facts on abortion.
In an article at Christianity Astray, Stetzer begins by clarifying that Wheaton’s official position is pro-life. This is called being website orthodox, referring people to a statement, confession, or hyperlink, that supposedly proves your orthodoxy. This is Stetzer’s way of defending pro-choice students and their pro-choice point of view while saying to anyone questioning the decision, “We are all pro-life here, so there’s nothing to see, Citizen…move along.”
Of course, Stetzer’s proposition that Wheaton faculty are all pro-life because they abide by a document on Wheaton’s website somewhere is spurious. Remember the hijab-wearing Muslim professor who claimed that Muslims and Christians worshipped the same God? Yeah, that was at Wheaton. So I think it’s safe to assume that their “our college officially believes this, so that’s all there is to it,” stops at hijab-wearing Muslim professors. You’ll have to forgive us for being incredulous.
For those who don’t know, Ryan Bomberger was recently asked to speak at Wheaton on the topic of abortion and race at the request of the College Republicans. His talk was entitled, Black Lives Matter In and Out of the Womb.” It’s here that you can cue the outrage, and as you can imagine among Generation Snowflake, it went over like a lead balloon.
The weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth could be heard all the way from Stetzer’s Beth Moore lined office.. The Student Government Association, with the help of two staff members (Peter Hansen and Crystal Cartwright) of the Office of Student Activities, sent out an email denouncing Bombgarner. It was signed by students, Lauren Rowley (Student Body President), Tyler Waaler (Student Body Vice President) and Sammie Shields (EVP of Community Diversity), and the letter claimed that his comments “made many students, staff and faculty of color feel unheard, underrepresented and unsafe on our campus.”
Bomberger, by the way, is black. So then, the news media picked up the story because it’s pretty hilarious that someone considerably more “black” than Kyle J. Howard would make students of color feel “underrepresented.” To which all God’s people said under their breath, idiots.
Who comes to the rescue but Ed Stetzer?
Rushing in on his gallant white surfboard upon which he rides all the major waves of culture, Stetzer claimed that Bomberger’s message wasn’t the problem but something (he doesn’t know what) that he said afterward must have been the problem and that he must have been “provocative.”
But Stetzer is not defending the pro-choice position. No, sir. He’s pro-life because that’s the official position of Wheaton College. He’s only defending the snowflake students swooning on the fainting couches in their safe spaces because the pro-life speaker gave them emotional boo-boos.
Of the pro-life speaker, Stetzer wrote…
If disagreement is unsafe, then Wheaton is unsafe. If you don’t like people challenging your ideas when you are intentionally provocative, this is not the place to come and speak.
What a Judas Priest, that guy.
He continued…
You see, we debate ideas here at Wheaton, and our students felt that some of Bomberger’s comments after the talk were unhelpful and dismissive, not about abortion, but about other issues of concern to them.
Honestly, I would not have used the charged word “safe” that the students used in that email, but it does convey the kind of place we want Wheaton to be—a safe place to debate ideas and a safe place for people of color.
It doesn’t really sound like ideas are debated at Wheaton. It sounds like they’re raising a generation of fragile crybabies, whose professors stick binkies in their mouths instead of making them grow up and deal with facts like black babies being slaughtered at enormously disproportionate rates.

CHINESE REWRITE BIBLE TO MAKE IT MORE COMMUNIST

CHINESE REWRITE BIBLE TO MAKE IT MORE COMMUNIST
SEE: https://pulpitandpen.org/2019/01/18/chinese-rewrite-bible-to-make-it-more-communist/;  republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
[Lifesite News] BEIJING, January 18, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – As it arrests Christian pastors, vandalizes or destroys Christians churches, and demands control over Christian leaders, the Chinese government is also altering Christian scriptures to suit its tastes.
In 2018, the Communist Chinese government embarked on a five-year plan to make Christianity more compatible to what it sees as authentic Chinese and socialist values. Stephen Mosher, author of Bully of Asia: Why China’s Dream Is the New Threat to World Order, told LifeSiteNews that altering the Bible is part of this plan.
“It is part of a larger effort in China to sinicize all religions, at the same time bringing them into line with Communist ideology,” Mosher said by email.
“So far, it is (1) no longer possible to buy a copy of the Bible online [in China], (2) existing copies of the Bible are being confiscated whenever the authorities come across them, and (3) there are new versions of all sacred texts – Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, etc. – that reinforce Communist ideology in the making,” he continued.
Bob Fu, a Chinese Evangelical pastor, testified at the U.S. House of Representatives last year that one of the ways China hopes to make Christianity more “Chinese” is to retranslate the Old Testament and write new commentaries on the New Testament.
“The plan made it clear that ‘Sinicization of Christianity’ means to change ‘Christianity in China’ into ‘Chinese Christianity,'” Fu told members of the House Foreign Affairs’ Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations last September.
The scheme emphasizes that “the heart and soul of Christianity’s Sinicization is to Sincize the Christian theology” and wants even to “re-translate the Bible or re-write biblical commentaries.”
Fu said a retranslation would involve a summary of the Old Testament with Buddhist scripture and Confucian teachings.
The pastor told The Christian Post that there are official guidelines “that the new Bible should not look westernized and [should look] Chinese and reflect Chinese ethics of Confucianism and socialism.”
“The Old Testament will be messed up. The New Testament will have new commentaries to interpret it.”
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[Editor’s Note: This article was written by Dorothy Cummings McLean and first published at LifeSiteNews. This HT is not an endorsement of LifeSiteNews]
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CHRISTIANITY TO BE MIXED WITH BUDDHISM TO MAKE IT "CHINESE CHRISTIANITY", AGREEABLE TO THE COMMUNIST STATE
EXCERPT: "The plan, finalized at a meeting this March, proposes “cultivating and implementing the socialist core values” and will be supervised by the national religious affairs bureau. “Every province, autonomous region and municipality’s TSPM and CCC seminaries and churches will cooperate with it,” according to Fu."

AND: https://bitterwinter.org/you-shall-have-no-god-before-marx/
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China Rewrites Bible


Propaganda materials
Propaganda materials declaring the Communist Party members cannot believe in religion, issued by a school in northeastern China.

A public institution demands its Party members sign their names after watching a “Party micro-lecture,” to make sure that all have been acquainted with the atheist propaganda.
Communist Party members must be unyielding Marxist atheists
Propaganda material distributed to teachers in a school of northeastern China quotes Xi Jinping’s call for party members “to be unyielding Marxist atheists, strictly abide by regulations of the Party Constitution, strengthen their conviction and ideals, keep the Party’s goal firmly in mind, and not seek for values and beliefs from religions.”

DR. DON BOYS: "WHAT DOES THE LGBTQ CROWD REALLY WANT?"

WHAT DOES THE LGBTQ CROWD REALLY WANT?
BY DR. DON BOYS
SEE: http://the-trumpet-online.com/lgbtq-crowd-really-want/republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
Well, the zealots of the LGBTQ crowd have demanded that Karen Pence, wife of Vice President Pence, resign from her job as art teacher at a Virginia Christian school. It seems the school has a policy of not accepting students or hiring teachers unless they adhere to the biblical position that homosexuality is evil. (Gasp! how dare they!) If the Pence family caves to the bullies on the disgusting left, then they will have demonstrated that they are weak, wobbly, and wimpy Christians.
What do the homosexuals want? They want compliance with their irrational, irresponsible, and immoral demands: Everyone must march to their tune even if the music and the march are obnoxious.
Pastor Justin Hoke, spiritual leader of Trinity Bible Presbyterian Church in Weed, California, is standing in the unemployment line after he declared on his church sign on December 3, “Bruce Jenner is still a man. Homosexuality is still a sin. The culture may change. The Bible does not.” The sign said it all. It could not be more factual and the fact that it is true does not mean it is hateful. Truth is not hate, maybe uncomfortable but not hateful. But the LGBTQ activists came down hard on the pastor and even some of his church leaders refused to stand with him.
All radical leftists talk about tolerance, fairness, equal rights, freedom of expression, freedom of religion but that is only applicable if everyone drinks the purple Kool Aid by accepting their radical agenda. Are all radical leftists hypocrites or are all hypocrites radical leftists?
What in the world do homosexuals really want? They want acceptance even respectability and no criticism. It seems they want special treatment, not equal rights; and their death rate indicates they will receive “rites,” not rights if they continue on a dead-end street. 
More than 60% of America’s AIDS cases and over 50% of syphilis cases (and other STDs) come from the homosexual crowd. Moreover, the stats indicate that they live twenty-four years fewer than normal people because of some of the dumb, dangerous, and deadly things they do.
Homosexuality is wrong today, was wrong yesterday and will be wrong tomorrow no matter what any court or authority might decide. However, stating that fact can be dangerous for its advocate.
Author George Orwell wrote, “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” And it seems that is where we are today. The exertions of academia, media, Hollywood, Congress, and the courts have accomplished a remarkable feat: incredibly, they have transformed our nation in twenty-five years by being disingenuous, deceptive, and dishonest. The permissive crowd has convinced most people to believe right is now wrong and wrong is now right. Decent living is now considered unnecessary and perversion is no longer repugnant, reprehensible, and repulsive, but is thought (by non-thinkers) to be courageous, even commendable.
It seems “we have come a long way baby,” in recent few years but we’ve gone in the wrong direction. Many stalwart Americans are standing athwart the gasping, heaving body of American culture saying, “You are wrong. Perversion is immoral and it will destroy those who practice it and it will destroy this nation.” Our lives should be directed by good judgment, common sense, and God’s commandments.
Same-sex “marriage” zealots tell us that such “marriages” are a matter of fairness but it is a matter of right and wrong. Same-sex “marriages” are also an oxymoron. They talk of “marriage” but two people of the same gender yoking is not marriage and saying so does not make it so. If every court in America and every politician says same-sex “marriage” is normal and desirable, it is still not so. A falsehood is still a falsehood if everyone affirms it and the truth is still the truth if everyone rejects it!
The cousin of Chief Justice Roberts who is an admitted lesbian declared that homosexuality should be legal because “society is becoming more accepting of the humanity of same-sex couples and the simple truth that we deserve to be treated with dignity, respect and equality under the law.” Must I lecture Chief Justice Roberts’ cousin that right and wrong are not decided by society’s constantly changing values—or by any court? It should be remembered that some cultures slaughtered children while others ate their enemies. In other ancient cultures, children were sacrificed to pagan gods. My comparison is not accidental. Homosexuality has always been considered an unspeakable crime against nature and against a holy God!
It is inconceivable that homosexuals, with a straight face, demand respect and recognition and reception of their lifestyle! Informed people are mindful that they do extremely disgusting, dangerous, and deadly things. And they demand respect. What chutzpah! Or as the British say, “What cheek.” But, it seems homosexuals are without shame.
I introduced a bill in the Indiana House of Representatives in 1977 to restore sodomy as a felony as it had been since Indiana became a state. My opposition came out of the arts, universities, and closets to protest my bill. A professor from Indiana University irrationally characterized the biblical characters David and Jonathan as lovers and stated that homosexuals only want to be left alone. He ranted that the new law would be tyrannical and repressive; however, what it would have done is restrict homosexuals from cruising in the parks and having abnormal sex with strangers in public bathrooms, among other things. It would also have made some university professors unlawful, uncomfortable, and unemployed.
I informed him and my fellow committee members that homosexuals did not just want to be left alone but they wanted the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval on their immoral actions. I said, “They want the public to accept and respect their lifestyle but that will not happen as long as sincere, dedicated, and informed Christians are still alive.”
I also abhor the tidal wave of fornication that has deluged America but at least fornication is not aberrant or abnormal. Homosexual activists have hijacked our culture. I was wrong in my prediction. Many Christian leaders have caved to the LGBTQ under the cover of “love.” It’s really palpable cowardice.
All principled people have always realized that truth always trumps love.
Many Evangelicals have raised the white flag in this battle as they refuse to stand on biblical truth and they use reason to commit treason against Christ. The cowards, compromisers, and charlatans speak of “love” while they strangle unpleasant truth. And even if we in opposition are filled with hate, it is better to have truth in hate than error in love.
Besides, unpleasant, uncomfortable, and unpopular truth is not always hate speech.
Boys’ book, Muslim Invasion: The Fuse is Burning! is available; to get your copy. An eBook edition is also available.
Websites Links
http://biblicallawcenter.com/
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Double Standard Revealed in Media Attack 

on Karen Pence's Christianity

The media sunk to a new low when they attacked second lady Karen Pence this week for her decision to teach art at a Christian school in Virginia. CNN's chief national correspondent John King even questioned whether or not Pence should receive taxpayer-funded security protection or government housing because she is working for a Christian school.

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