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(Friday Church News Notes, July 5, 2019, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - The following is excerpted from “Tech Insider Blows Whistle,” ProjectVeritas.com, June 11, 2019: “Project Veritas has received and published documents from an insider at Pinterest. The documents, which include product code, Slack messages, and internal policies, reveal terms and websites that Pinterest apparently censors. In an interview, the Pinterest insider who leaked the documents explains how the company censors pro-life and Christian content on the website. Said Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe: ‘The documents we obtained raise questions about whether or not these tech companies really operate like neutral platforms, as opposed to publishers with editorial agendas.’ Pinterest is a publicly-traded social media company headquartered in San Francisco that has nearly 300 million active monthly users. In the past, Project Veritas released undercover footage of Twitter employees discussing ‘shadow-banning,’ and also published leaked documents from Facebook which revealed plans to target and demote conservative commentary. ‘I was pretty surprised,’ said the Pinterest insider in an interview, when s/he discovered that pro-life group LiveAction.org was added to a ‘porn domain block list.’ The insider explained that the ‘block list’ was intended to be a collection of pornographic websites that Pinterest uses in order to ensure that pornography cannot be posted. LiveAction.org is not a pornographic website; it is the web domain of a prominent pro-life advocacy group. The insider explained that websites on a ‘domain block list’ cannot be linked in posts made by users. While investigating, Project Veritas tried to post the LiveAction.org link on Pinterest and failed to do so, receiving an error message that read, ‘Sorry! Your request could not be completed.’ ... Lila Rose, the founder and president of LiveAction claims that her organization has been censored in the past, and believes that pro-life organizations are unfairly targeted by social media companies: ‘Pinterest says that their mission is to “help empower people to discover things that they love,” but despite the fact that millions of people love babies and the pro-life cause, they are secretly censoring our life-affirming messages. Pinterest users deserve to know the truth and our messages deserve to be treated fairly.’ ... Project Veritas reviewed the ‘Sensitive Terms List’ and discovered that Christianity-related terms like ‘christian easter’ and ‘bible verses’ were marked as ‘brand unsafe.’ ... The insider explained to Project Veritas that in addition to removing content it wants to censor, Pinterest also ‘hides’ materials from users on their home screens and search results. The insider added that there is also ‘silent removing,’ which means the content is removed but there is no notice to the account who posted the material that it was removed.”
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The United States immigration system is long past its breaking point amid a crisis driven by the lucrative business of human trafficking, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) warned at a border security hearing on Tuesday.
Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan arrived to testify to the Senate Judiciary Committee on the catastrophic migrant surge on the U.S. southern frontier and to discuss legislation proposed by Sen. Graham titled, “The Secure and Protect Act: a Legislative Fix to the Crisis at the Southwest Border.”
Sen. Graham opened the hearing by presenting charts detailing the fees human traffickers charge migrants depending on their preferred method of entering the U.S., and their respective increases in recent years to match an explosion in demand.
“The word is out in Central America… that if you make it to America, your chances of staying are pretty darn good if you ask for asylum or bring a minor child with you,” Graham said.
“How much does it cost to cross the border? In 2016, it was $3,000 to $8,000, and in 2017, it was $8,000 to $16,000, walking through the mountains. If you take a boat, it’s gone from $10,000 to $20,000. Small plane, $16,000 to $30,000. A vehicle utilizing documents belonging to another person is $20,000 to $25,000. A vehicle utilizing an accomplice immigrant agent is $20,000 to $25,000.”
“The market shows the demand has increased, the prices are going up, and people are walking through hell to get here, dealing with smugglers of every known fashion,” Graham continued.
Later in the hearing, Graham echoed a warning issued by Acting Secretary McAleenan months ago, asserting that the border has effectively collapsed as hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants pour across from Central and South America, Mexico, and even Africa.
Sen. Lindsey Graham: “There has to be a breaking point. We’ve reached the breaking point at the border.” pic.twitter.com/B5T9U90o4f
“There has to be a breaking point,” Graham said. “We’ve reached the breaking point at the border. I cannot imagine what it’s like to go to work every day, where half the people are dedicating their time to dealing with family members, minors, and all that goes into trying to deal with 600,000 people in your custody.”
“The breaking point has long passed at the border. This is not sustainable.”
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UPDATE 6-11-19:
Shock video: Watch illegals from Africa fleeing Ebola-stricken Congo who made it across the Rio Grande river a week ago arrive at a city-owned shelter in San Antonio and then being distributed by bus and van to undisclosed locations across The United States.
Africans from Ebola-ridden Congo are coming through America’s southern border illegally with the help of Soros NGOs.
The Congolese are not being screened by Border Patrol, are given temporary asylum and are being dropped off in major cities in this country.
San Antonio Concerned About Ebola In Migrant Shelters
Normally migrants that come in have host families or destinations, but with the Congolese, this is not the case.
Most have no host families yet, so they are given bus tickets to other cities.
There has been a news blackout on the Ebola threat. Meanwhile, the border is collapsing and there is no telling how many people from Ebola-stricken countries are entering the U.S.
San Antonio City Official Admits They Do Not Check Health Records Of Incoming Migrants
Infowars spoke with residents of and visitors to San Antonio, Texas who were very concerned.
Infowars reporters watched a migrant shelter over a short period of time as Africans literally vanished into America after being sent off in buses.
There will be one more video covering the tour of the shelter in San Antonio and how African migrants did not have host families but were being sent off anyway.
San Antonio Resident Speaks Out About The Illegal Migrant Invasion Reporters Covering Migrant Crisis Attacked
In this new Jamie Glazov Video, I focus on Sadism in a Leftist’s Heart, and I unveil the morbid satisfaction progressives derive from supporting tyranny and terror.
New Jersey, isn’t that an island of the coast of North Korea, run by power crazed madmen and mentally unstable women politicians who say you have no rights, you must obey your politician masters and want to enslave all people and tax the hell out of them?
POLICE STATE NEW JERSEY: ASSEMBLY JUDICIARY COMMITTEE BEGINS NEXT WAVE OF GUN CONTROL
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Fairfax, VA –-(Ammoland.com)- Nobody ever accused New Jersey of lacking gun laws, and yet, lawmakers in Trenton can’t seem to accomplish anything except pass gun bills.
Despite passing a magazine ban and several other bills last year, New Jersey gun banners are back at it again. On Thursday, June 13, the Assembly Judiciary Committee is holding a 10 a.m. hearing with several gun bills on the agenda.
The following bills are included on Thursday’s agenda:
A.1016 by Assemblyman Gordon Johnson requires gun shops to sell smart guns. They are simply trying to force market acceptance of a technologically unviable product. New Jersey’s current statute requires that once smart guns are certified, then only smart guns can be sold. This would ban the future sale of traditional handguns. This is nothing more than a gun ban disguised as a “firearm safety” issue.
A.3696 by Assemblywoman Joann Downey requires mandatory storage of firearms. New Jersey already has a storage requirement. This bill does nothing more than continue to tip the scales in favor of criminals in self-defense situations.
A.5452 by Assemblywoman Verlina Reynolds-Jackson would require Firearms Identification Cards to be renewed every four years and would require training to obtain an FID card. The bill also makes it tougher to will firearms as part of an estate.
A.5453 by Assemblywoman Yvonne Lopez and A.5454 by Assemblyman Louis Greenwald criminalizes the purchase, transfer and possession of firearms and ammunition to disqualified individuals. This legislation is completely unnecessary given that current federal and state law already prohibits straw purchases.
A.5455 by Assemblyman Louis Greenwald regulates the sale of handgun ammunition and develops a system for electronic reporting of firearm information.
New Jersey already has some of the strictest gun control laws in the country. Once again, this package of bills does nothing more than target law-abiding gun owners. It does absolutely nothing to improve public safety. Please contact members of the Assembly Judiciary Committee and respectfully ask them to oppose this package of bills.
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“Iran has introduced 2,000 new morality police units in reaction to what officials call an ‘increasing defiance’ of the compulsory wearing of hijabs. The units, called ‘resistance groups for verbal and practical response to bad-hijabi women'”
All while World Hijab Day is celebrated by avid Western “multiculturalists,” who are stooges of mainstream Muslim pressure groups that manipulate Western “diversity” programs. Multiculty gurus “tolerate” types such as UK Labor Leader Naz Shah, who retweeted that victims of Muslim rape gangs should “shut up for the good of diversity.”
Other “multiculturalists” have also supported initiatives which are denigrating to women and corrosive to democratic rights and freedoms for all. Some recent examples:
Declaring it bullying to ask Muslim nurses in the UK to put hygiene ahead of the hijab.
Following the New Zealand attacks, NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern took her “good intentions” to a new level. She not only ordered a national broadcast of the Islamic call to prayer, but she also donned a hijab.
Sports Illustrated in its swimsuit edition decided to be “inclusive” and feature a hijabi model. Pity that such “inclusion” rubs salt in the wounds of oppressed women across the Islamic world who are forced to wear the hijab or otherwise face jail or worse.
These initiatives are encouraged by Islamic supremacist groups; their goal is to subvert the House of War. Nevertheless, they are embraced without question by Leftists eager to prove that they are “tolerant” and not “racist” — and of course the perks don’t hurt.
On behalf of tortured and oppressed women in Iran and elsewhere, let’s celebrate #NoHijabDayand stand in solidarity with Iranian women for #whitewednesdays.
“Iran introduces 2,000 new morality police units in response to women’s hijab protests,” by Ahmed Vahdat, The Telegraph, June 7, 2019:
Iran has introduced 2,000 new morality police units in reaction to what officials call an “increasing defiance” of the compulsory wearing of hijabs.
The units, called “resistance groups for verbal and practical response to bad-hijabi women”, were launched recently in the northern province of Gilan as part of a pilot scheme.
They are each made up of six women who have the power to arrest and detain those they deem to be flouting the country’s strict veiling laws.
The move comes amid a growing backlash by women in the Islamic Republic, hundreds of whom have been arrested for taking off their head coverings in public in protest at the law.
A campaign by rights activists called “White Wednesday” encouraging women to wear white and discard their hijabs has also gained support, much to the consternation of conservative clerics.
While Iran has had various forms of “morality police” since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the decision to increase their numbers as well as introduce all-female brigades, is a sign that authorities are adopting a tougher approach….
Joe Biden branded President Trump an “existential threat” to the United States in his remarks prepared for delivery in Iowa on Tuesday. Biden has a peculiar understanding of what truly is or is not an existential threat. While serving as Barack Obama’s vice president, he claimed that “terrorism is not an existential threat.” Is Biden for real in saying he thinks that President Trump is an existential threat to America while ISIS never was? Say it ain't so, Joe!
In his Iowa tirade, Biden went after the president by name 76 times. He berated President Trump on a whole range of issues, including for his China tariff policies and stance on climate change. Biden added that President Trump knows less about economics than the "cashiers at Target.”
Let’s start with China. Biden has apparently had an overnight conversion on the competitive challenge posed by China, just as he did in suddenly reversing his many years of support for the Hyde amendment banning federal financing of abortions. It was only last month during a campaign rally when Biden declared that the Chinese are “not competition for us.” On Tuesday in Iowa, he said, “We are in a competition with China.” Which is it, Joe?
The Obama-Biden administration had eight long years to do what Biden is now belatedly telling his campaign audience in Iowa must be done – “to hold China to account for their cheating.” The Obama-Biden administration utterly failed, no matter how many times Biden boasts that he has met with Chinese President Xi Jinping. At least, President Trump is trying to confront the Chinese threat head on rather than sweep it under the rug.
Biden bragged in his Iowa speech how the Obama administration “got the Chinese to agree for the first time to limit their carbon pollution.” Sorry, Joe, but you and your boss were played by the Chinese, the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gasses. China committed merely to “achieve the peaking of carbon dioxide emissions around 2030,” according to its own submission as part of the Paris climate agreement process. Obama had ordered drastic cuts in the use of coal by executive fiat with potentially serious dislocations to the American economy. China, which operates by single party government fiat, is taking things much more slowly to ensure as little adverse impact on its own economy as possible. President Trump does not oppose a sound environmental policy. He just does not want to put the United States behind the eight ball, which would have been the result if President Trump had not decided to withdraw the U.S. from the flawed Paris climate agreement.
Biden was off track on Russia as well. Like his boss Obama, Biden criticized Mitt Romney for stating during the 2012 presidential campaign that Russia was our major strategic adversary. “He acts like he thinks the Cold War is still on, Russia is still our major adversary. I don’t know where he’s been,” Biden said at the time. “They are working closely with us.” During Obama’s second term, Russia showed how much they were “working closely with us” by propping up the Assad regime in Syria, intervening militarily in Ukraine and illegally annexing Crimea, and interfering in the 2016 presidential election.
The fact is that Joe Biden often does not know what he is talking about when it comes to real-world threats. Robert Gates, a former defense secretary during the Obama administration, recently stood by his statement in his memoir that Biden has been “wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades." Biden proved the truth of Mr. Gates' observation when he advised Barack Obama against the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound. Fortunately, even Obama knew enough not to listen to his vice president at least that one time.
Biden declared in his Iowa speech that he would get rid of the Trump tax cuts, which Biden falsely charged President Trump had “passed for the multi-millionaires and billionaires.” He promised “to build an economy that doesn’t just reward wealth.” Biden is relying on the Democrats’ tired ‘soak the rich’ class warfare demagoguery to drown out the fact that the economy under President Trump has soared, benefiting many Americans, with unemployment across the board at near historic lows.
Biden accused President Trump of “childishness” and “crude language.” What did Biden think he was doing when he was caught on an open mic exclaiming "This is a big f**king deal!" in congratulating Obama during the Obamacare signing ceremony? Was Biden the mature adult when he said back in 2016 that, instead of debating candidate Trump, “I wish we were in high school and I could take him behind the gym”? Look in the mirror, Joe.
Finally, Biden accused President Trump of actions that he claimed were an unprecedented “abuse of power.” He tried to draw a contrast with Barack Obama, who, Biden said, was “a President of extraordinary character and decency.” Could Biden have seriously been referring to that same former president who once famously said about Republicans, “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun” and equated an election to a “brawl.”
Biden criticized President Trump for his “attacks on the independence of the Courts.” Yet it was Obama who broke standard protocol at one of his State of the Union addresses when he sharply criticized and mischaracterized a Supreme Court decision, with the Supreme Court justices sitting directly in front of him.
President Trump calls many in the media “the enemy of the people.” But such hot rhetoric is nothing compared to the Obama administration’s spying on journalists, seizing phone records, and labeling a reporter a “criminal co-conspirator” under the Espionage Act of 1917.
Biden accused President Trump of “deliberately and completely ignoring the legitimate authority of the Congress.” Yet it was the Obama administration that stonewalled congressional investigations of the Fast and Furious gun-running scandal and the IRS’s targeting of conservative groups.
Just days ago, Biden posted a photo of a friendship bracelet with the names “Joe” and “Barack” for National Best Friends Day, further tying himself to an administration with a tepid economic record, disastrous foreign policies, and a pattern of abuses of power. They deserve each other. As president, Biden would make things even worse than they were under Obama.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. —Top leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention took to the stage on Monday during the North American Mission Board’s (NAMB) “Send Luncheon,” and donning wigs, hats and electric guitars, sang karaoke to the Lynyrd Skynyrd hit “Sweet Home Alabama” for the thousands of pastors who had gathered for the event. Video footage of the performance, which is a part of the 2019 annual Southern Baptist Convention, has generated concern that the SBC is “sliding into apostasy.”
“Sweet home Alabama, where the skies are so blue,” they sang out, with the lyrics appearing on the screen behind them and the name Lynyrd Skynyrd in large letters.
According to reports, the five Southern Baptist leaders who put on the karaoke performance were:
Kevin Ezell, president of the mission board; Ronnie Floyd, former SBC president and current president of the SBC Executive Committee; Paul Chitwood, president of the International Mission Board; Jamie Dew, president of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary; and Adam Greenway, president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.
The event was held at the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex in Alabama, and is presented in conjunction with the annual Southern Baptist Convention meeting.
This year’s gathering is to include a presentation by the Southern Baptist Sexual Abuse Advisory Study, a commissioned report that seeks to address the problem of sexual abuse within SBC churches and to “illuminate the evil that has occurred within our midst by sharing the stories of survivors of sexual abuse.”
Hundreds of childhood sexual abuse survivors were reportedly interviewed for the study.
In February, concerns were also generated among some as current SBC President J.D. Greear was recorded singing Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” during a youth event.
“I wanna dance with somebody. I wanna feel the heat with somebody,” he sang and danced after being introduced as “Pastor J.D. Greear, a.k.a. Whitney Houston.”
President Greear, the pastor of The Summit Church in Durham, North Carolina and author of books such as “Gaining by Losing: Why the Future Belongs to Churches That Send,” was joined on stage by two others who likewise belted out the tune as they danced together on stage. The audience laughed and cheered.
Greear
“You don’t win people to Christ by being like the world. People are won to Christ by sharing the gospel. Being unlike Christ confuses people who don’t know Him,” one commenter said of the recording. “I’ve heard many pastors say, ‘the evangelistic methodology you win them with is a methodology a church will have to maintain to keep them.'”
Similar remarks were made in regard to Monday’s Send Luncheon, an event that described on the NAMB website as featuring “great stories of how and where God is at work in North America.”
“The SBC has started the slide to apostasy. It grieves me greatly,” one viewer said.
“Trying to become relevant, they became anything but,” another remarked.
“Entertaining the goats,” a third lamented.
“At a time the SBC is seeing almost 1000 churches die a year, when conversions and baptisms are at a 70 year low, this is their plan? Romancing the world? I guess they just don’t have the stomach to be genuine Christ followers (you will be hated for My name’s sake),” another mourned.
Denton
Ryan Denton of Christ in the Wild Ministries, who formerly served as a Southern Baptist pastor in New Mexico, told Christian News Network that he is troubled about the direction of the Convention.
“As a former SBC pastor and graduate of an SBC seminary, I’m very concerned with the direction of the SBC. A lot of people and churches are leaving the SBC because of their laxity when it comes to theological commitment and a desire to be set apart from the world,” he said.
“I think for the most part the SBC has become very cheesy,” Denton opined. “It has gone the route of liberalism in many ways, thinking that in order to fill pews and get people’s favor they need to act like the world and pander to social agendas.”
He said that he perceives that some Southern Baptist leaders are more interested in pandering to the people than pleasing God.
“It’s shameful to see Christian leaders act this way. They’ve replaced God’s way with the world’s way when it comes to growing a church or a denomination. Not trusting in Bible preaching and prayer, they turn to rock music and comedy,” Denton remarked. “Then they turn around and ask for God’s blessing.”
Denton, an open air preacher who conducts gospel outreaches at universities, homeless shelters, abortion facilities and other locations, said that the founders of the Southern Baptist Convention would not have behaved in such a manner.
“Some may say it’s not a big deal, but that’s exactly what’s wrong with the denomination. It’s become lighthearted and silly,” he stated. “It’s a far cry from the mindset of the founders. Those men fasted and were set apart from the world. They didn’t apologize for being serious about the gospel. They didn’t care if the news or the world was upset with them. Their business was gospel preaching and prayer.”
“Now the SBC seems more concerned with what politicians, news anchors, and carnal churchgoers think than they do God Almighty,” Denton lamented. “That’s what’s motivating the decisions to play rock music at their most important convention of the year: Please like us. Please think we’re funny. Please come to our churches. Please attend our seminaries. We’ll have fun. We’ll be really nice. It’s tragic, really. Far cry from the ways of Christ and the apostles.”
James 4:4 reads, “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.”
2 Corinthians 6:17-18 exhorts, “Wherefore come out from among them and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing, and I will receive you. And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.”
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June 11, 2019 (first published November 15, 2007)
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For photos of Mary on God’s throne, Mary the Queen of Peace, Mary hanging on the cross, Mary adored by the apostles, and Mary on the ark of the covenant see the following:www.wayoflife.org/database/maryolatry.html
_____________________In spite of claims of contemporary Catholic propagandists, the Roman Catholic Church worships Mary. They use the term “venerate,” but it is the same thing.
According to Rome, she was immaculately (sinlessly) conceived, participated in Christ’s suffering for mankind, ascended bodily to Heaven, was crowned Queen of the universe, and intercedes for sinners.
During a radio message concluding the Jubilee of the Redemption, April 28, 1935, Pope Pius XI gave the Catholic Mary the title Co-redemptrix. At least five times Pope Paul II referred to her by this title in his papal statements. In his general audience in 1997, he said that Mary “collaborated in obtaining the grace of salvation for all humanity” (Vatican Information Service, April 9, 1997). This pope dedicated himself and the whole world to Mary.
The influential book The Glories of Mary by Alphonsus Mary de Liguori, a Catholic saint, calls Mary our Life, our Help, our Advocate, our Guardian, our Mediatress, our Salvation, and the Hope of Sinners. Chapter 5 says “Mary’s intercession is necessary for our salvation.” This book was tested 20 times by the rules of Pope Urban VIII and Pope Benedict XIV and was said to contain not “one word worthy of censure.” It was pronounced to be without error by Pope Pius VII and by Pope Leo XII. Pope John Paul II acknowledged Liguori’s influence in his own idolatrous affection for Mary. Liguori’s book continues to be published today with the imprimatur [Latin meaning “let it be printed”] of various Catholic authorities.
MARY ON THE CROSS
In the Church of the Mother of God of Polish Martyrs in Warsaw, Poland, Mary is depicted hanging on the cross holding the child Jesus.
Outside of the main Mary basilica in Rome (Santa Maria Maggiore) there is a large crucifix with Jesus hanging on one side and a crowned Mary hanging on the other.
This statue depicts Rome’s dogma that Mary is the co-redemptress with Christ and that she intercedes for men from Heaven and aids in their salvation.
Note the following quotations from the Vatican II Council:
“As St. Irenaeus says, she being obedient, became the cause of salvation for herself and for the whole human race. Hence not a few of the early Fathers gladly assert with him in their preaching ... ‘death through Eve, LIFE THROUGH MARY.’ This UNION OF THE MOTHER WITH THE SON IN THE WORK OF SALVATION is made manifest from the time of Christ’s virginal conception up to his death” (Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, chap. 8, II, 56, pp. 380-381).
“Taken up to heaven she did not lay aside this saving office but BY HER MANIFOLD INTERCESSION CONTINUES TO BRING US THE GIFTS OF ETERNAL SALVATION. By her maternal charity, she cares for the brethren of her Son, who still journey on earth surrounded by dangers and difficulties, until they are led into their blessed home. Therefore the Blessed Virgin is invoked in the Church under the titles of ADVOCATE, HELPER, BENEFACTRESS, and MEDIATRIX” (Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, chap. 8, II, 62, pp. 382-383).
A plaque in the Chapel of the Virgin of the Grace at Saints Vincent and Anastasius Church in Rome says, “Cardinal Benedetto Odescalchi, who became the pope with the name of Innocent XI, initiated THE WORSHIP OF THE IMAGE, placed on the altar in 1677, and wanted his heart to be buried here, not in the main chapel.”
This is only one example of many that could be given of the term “worship” used in regard to Mary in Rome’s churches.
MARY ADORED BY THE APOSTLES
In the Church of the Mother of God of Polish Martyrs in Warsaw, Poland, Mary is also surrounded by the 12 apostles who are adoring her rather than Jesus Christ.
MARY ON THE ARK OF THE COVENANT
The Saint Stanislaus Kostka Catholic church in Chicago features an image of Mary on the very Ark of God. She is sitting above the Ark in the place that was occupied by God’s presence in the Tabernacle, and she is surrounded by adoring cherubim. This blasphemous image occupies the central altar where Mass is performed. The church’s official literature says that the image depicts the Catholic doctrines that Mary was immaculately conceived and sinless, that she participated in Christ’s suffering for mankind, and that she was bodily assumed into glory and crowned Queen of Heaven. The icon depicting Mary as the Ark of Mercy was dedicated in May 2008. Since then the church has been open 24 hours a day as an invitation for “pilgrims from all around the world to immerse themselves in the spring of grace, mercy, and power” that is supposedly flowing from the image.
This is pure blasphemy. The Ark of the Covenant was located in the Holy of Holies in the Old Testament tabernacle and was the place where God’s presence dwelt (Exodus 25:22). Angels do not worship creatures (Acts 14:11-15; Rev. 19:10).
Roman Catholic churches are filled with idols. Mary is reverenced with far greater fervency than Jesus. Every “evangelical” or “Baptist” or “Protestant” who has said positive things about Rome and who has participated in ecumenical relations with Rome or who has failed even to lift his voice against Rome’s gross heresies will answer to God for the refusal to “earnestly contend for the faith once delivered to the saints” (Jude 3) and for keeping silence in the face of evil.
MARY QUEEN OF THE UNIVERSEThe Roman Catholic Basilica of Mary, Queen of the Universe is located in Orlando, Florida, near Disney World. The basilica’s official brochure says it “emphasizes devotion to the Mother of God as one of the God-given gifts enabling us to reach that salvation for which Christ gave us His life on the cross.” Thus, according to this Catholic document Mary plays a role in salvation, which is a blasphemous lie. That Rome’s Mary is worshipped as queen of heaven is clear evidence that she is a Christianized pagan idol, for the only queen of heaven mentioned in the Bible is a goddess that the Jews were worshipping at the time of the destruction of the First Temple (Jeremiah 7:18; 44:17-25). The ancient mother-goddess worship, which began at Babel and spread throughout the world, was baptized by the Roman Catholic Church as the Madonna-Child.________________________
For photos of Mary on God’s throne, Mary the Queen of Peace, Mary hanging on the cross, Mary surrounded by the apostles, and Mary on the ark of the covenant see the following:www.wayoflife.org/database/maryolatry.html
