FORMER MENNONITES PLUNGE INTO APOSTATE WATERS & RIDE THE WAVE OF GNOSTIC DOMINIONIST CHARISMANIA WITH ZERO DISCERNMENT

UPDATE DECEMBER 29, 2015 TO THIS POST

SEE: http://ratherexposethem.blogspot.com/2015/12/hopewell-mennonite-dove-apostolic.html

1 Timothy 4:1-"Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons"

2 Timothy 4: 3-4-"For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables."

C. PETER WAGNER

http://www.icaleaders.com/

BORN OUT OF REBELLION
TO GOD'S WORD, BUT 
"WHERE THE CHARISMATIC GIFTS ARE ALLOWED TO OPERATE"

END TIMES DECEPTION OF 

GNOSTIC EXPERIENTIAL CHRISTIANITY

FORMER MENNONITES DRINKING FROM 

THE POLLUTED WATERS OF MAINLINE PROTESTANT APOSTASY, CHARISMATIC WORD FAITH DOMINIONISM, 

AND CATHOLIC GNOSTIC CONTEMPLATIVE MYSTICISM

Matthew 7: 26-27-""But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall."

Luke 6: 49-49-"He is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently against that house, and could not shake it, for it was founded on the rock. But he who heard and did nothing is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream beat vehemently; and immediately it fell. And the ruin of that house was great."
2 Chronicles 7:14-"If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."

SEE OUR RECENT POST:

MENNONITES INTRODUCE SUNDAY SCHOOL REPLACEMENT FOR KIDS: 

ANTI-AMERICAN CATHOLIC CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUAL FORMATION

WHAT APPEARS TO BE 

"CHILD FRIENDLY CHRISTIAN CURRICULUM" 

IS A SUBTLE INDOCTRINATION INTO IDOLATROUS 

CATHOLIC CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUAL FORMATION PRACTICES

AND COLLECTIVIST/SOCIALIST IDEOLOGY

http://ratherexposethem.blogspot.com/2014/09/mennonites-introduce-sunday-school.html

We will expand on the above post and show the extent to which some break away Mennonites have left their former affiliations with the Mennonite denomination and sailed off into the deep unchartered waters of apostasy, relying on their "wisdom", while presuming that the Holy Spirit is their guide and compass. Here is an unfortunate example of what happens when anything and everything that purports to be "Christian", and is accepted as such, takes over the undiscerning hearts and minds of otherwise well meaning Christians who feel no responsibility or need to "test the spirits", deferring to the alleged "wisdom" of an unbiblical apostolic priestly class of elders/intercessors passionately pursuing church growth at any cost, using the corrupt methods of the emerging churches and worldly business models. When the proof is in the numbers, why stop the party?

FOR EXAMPLE:

Hopewell Christian Fellowship

FORMERLY HOPEWELL MENNONITE CHURCH,

A BREAK AWAY FROM FRANCONIA MENNONITE CONFERENCE, SOUDERTON, PA,

WHICH HAD ITS OWN FORM OF APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION OF BISHOPS;

LOCATED IN THE ONCE BUCOLIC PARTS OF MONTGOMERY & BUCKS COUNTIES

OUTSIDE PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA;

CONTINUES IN THE APOSTOLIC TRADITION OF THE MOTHER CHURCH,

BUT DELVES INTO PENTECOSTAL/CHARISMATIC SIGNS & WONDERS

IN WILLING IGNORANCE:

TELFORD, BUCKS COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA;

AFFILIATE OF THE

http://www.hopewellnetwork.org/

QUOTE: "Hopewell Network of Churches is a fellowship of churches empowered by the Holy Spirit to advance Christ’s Kingdom by preparing leaders for ministry and mission. The Hopewell Network of Churches had its beginning back in the charismatic outpouring. The first church was built on Hopewell Road in Elverson in the mid 1970’s by a small number of families. Within approximately 10 years, the founding congregation, called Hopewell Mennonite Church, had grown to about 900 people, had undergone numerous additions to the original building, and had planted 10 churches. These daughter churches also began to plant churches and these became the Hopewell Network in 2001."

PUBLIC REVIEW FROM: 

http://www.insiderpages.com/b/3720746596/hopewell-christian-fellowship-telford; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

QUOTE:

    "Worship is superficial. I find this church to be very liberal. They have a different "prophet" (profit) through every other week. These "prophets" "Speak forth" lies into lives of the congregants. The Pastor of this "church," Curt Malizzi, claims to be an apostle so you can see the cult like practices. If you read their by-laws they expect you to sign a "covenant card" relinquishing many Constitutional rights. I believe this church to be a cult. 

    In 2008 Hopewell encouraged the following of the "Lakeland Outpouring" lead by Todd Bentley, a confessed Alcoholic who was having an adulterous affair with a woman he eventually married to the demise of his wife and child. Todd was "commissioned" by Pastor Curt Malizzi's senior, C. Peter Wagner, Presiding apostle of the ICA (International Coalition of Apostles.) 

    Wagner "commissioned" Bentley BEFORE it was discovered that he was an adulterer. Wagner claims to be a prophet also. Any way, Hopewell christian is a false church and very dangerous. DO NOT GO THERE, if you do, you go at your own peril."

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RELATED LINK TO ICA MENTIONED ABOVE: 
http://www.coalitionofapostles.com/about-ical/definition-of-apostle/
CONNECTION TO THUNDER OUTREACH OF SON MARK MALIZZI, INFLUENCED BY THE "LAKELAND OUTPOURING":
http://www.thunderoutreach.com/churches.htm
APPRISING.ORG ARTICLE ABOUT TODD BENTLEY: 

"TODD BENTLEY: DENIED, BANNED, AND CANCELLED":

http://apprising.org/2012/09/12/todd-bentley-denied-banned-and-cancelled/

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QUOTE FROM: 

http://hopewellchristianfellowship.com/about-us/church/

"Hopewell Christian Fellowship was birthed out of what was formerly known as Hopewell Mennonite Church in Elverson, PA and is part of the Hopewell Network of Churches, an apostolic network of 15 churches. As a contemporary Bible teaching church, Hopewell Christian Fellowship was touched by the work of the Holy Spirit and has risen to its calling as a place where the manifest presence of God is welcomed and charismatic gifts are allowed to operate."

CURT & ANITA MALIZZI, "CO-PASTORS/APOSTLES" 

DOMINIONIST/EMERGING CHURCH STYLE:

http://www.coalitionofapostles.com/

SEE: 

"THE OTHER SIDE OF EMERGENT: 

THE NEW APOSTOLIC REFORMATION": 

http://apprising.org/2010/07/08/the-other-side-of-emergent-the-new-apostolic-reformation/;

EXCERPTS:

Characteristic of all of these recent emerging convergences, a MANIFESTO accompanies the agenda being promoted jointly by Sweet and Viola. It is called “A Magna Carta for Restoring the Supremacy of Jesus Christ a.k.a. A Jesus Manifesto for the 21st Century Church.” This Manifesto does not hearken back to the written Word of God in order to follow Jesus or His teachings. Instead it speaks of “implantation and impartation” and “incarnation.” This is based on imaging, imagining, visualization, meditation, and following a “Presence,” even using the term “cosmic Christ.”

It was inevitable that the NAR would eventually openly connect with the Emergent Church. First, they are related historically in many diverse ways, some of which we have previously documented on this blog.[16] Second, and more obviously, the aberrant beliefs of the New Apostolic Reformation are nearly identical to those of the emerging church movement in some of the following ways:

• The same Gnosticism, mysticism and altered states of consciousness. The belief that we are evolving to a higher order body of believers here on earth, and that if we would just jump through various mystical or restructuring hoops, paradise or “culture” would be renewed.
• The belief that we can transform the Earth and restore it to pre-Fall conditions — either via a green environmentalism return to paradise (George Otis, James Rutz,Ralph Winter), or by building the kingdom of God on earth where Christians will reign and rule and finally “get it right” by imposing their kingdom authority on the whole planet (Dominionism).
• The belief that God has assigned certain men with special abilities or supernatural powers to be rulers and kings, Apostles and Prophets (aka “leaders”) now on earth, in this present age.
• The belief that the church should realign into a networking downline marketing “apostolic”/cells/small groups for a more “authentic”or “original” New Testament structure.
• The deconstruction (de-emphasis, denigration or mangling) of solid biblical theology and practice, and the concoction of new theologies augmented with old/new extra-biblical practices.
• The belief that God is giving his church new revelations, new understandings, or “fresh words” for these times, especially by including old manuscripts, mystical writings, supernatural incidents, extra-biblical traditions and sources, etc.
• The idea that we are somehow responsible for bringing back Jesus either literally and physically, or that we are evolving or “incarnating” into little christs and/or one big cosmic Christ.
• The idea that onerous and manipulative psycho-socio and scientific technologies are benevolent tools to bring in the kingdom on earth, including even altering the basic nature of man.

__________________________________________________________________ "LIFE GROUPS":

http://hopewellchristianfellowship.com/2014-life-groups/

HERE ARE THREE THAT POINT IN THE DIRECTION OF GROSS APOSTASY:

1) School of the Holy Spirit: 

We will be studying Bill Johnson’s book “Hosting the Presence”. Meeting on Thursdays at 7:00 p.m. in the Fellow-ship Hall. Begins September 4. If you would like a book, write the word “Book” next to the sign up area on your Connection Card.

BILL JOHNSON, PASTOR OF BETHEL CHURCH, REDDING, CALIFORNIA:

"Hosting the Presence" Book Promo by Bill Johnson:

Published on May 28, 2012: "Let the Spirit live inside you! Are you hungry for an encounter with Jesus? Do you want to make an impact on the world? In this power-packed book, Bill Johnson discusses how you can be a person who hosts the Presence of God. Though all believers obviously have the Spirit of God within them, there is more that enables you to be so full that you overflow His Spirit into your world. Take a journey and meet many great prophets and kings from the Old Testament who were known as people of the Presence—people who, in Johnson's words, "God wanted to be with." In this succinct and powerful book, Johnson encourages you toward a pursuit of the Presence of God above all else."

BILL JOHNSON AND HIS WIFE VISIT THE TORONTO AIRPORT CHURCH WHERE THERE WAS A PENTECOSTAL REVIVAL OF SORTS:

VIDEO: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqSx2dox6M8

SEE OUR & OTHERS' POSTS: 

"RANDY CLARK & BILL JOHNSON" AT:

http://ratherexposethem.blogspot.com/2013/01/randy-clark-bill-johnson.html;

EXCERPT:

Birthpangs has a 4-5 part article on Bill Johnson which is excellent:

http://birthpangs.org/articles/latterrain/bill_johnson1.html.
    Crosswise/Walking in the Truth (Craig) at http://notunlikelee.wordpress.com/, has sections of his website on the Latter Rain Movement, Bill Johnson, Bethel Church (Redding, CA), New Apostolic Reformation (NAR). Beyond Grace blog has similar resources: http://beyondgrace.blogspot.com/, and specifically about Bill Johnson and Bethel here: http://beyondgrace.blogspot.com/p/bill-johnson-bethel-church-redding.html.

AND: http://ratherexposethem.blogspot.com/2013/01/bethel-church-redding-ca-bill-johnsons.html

"BETHEL CHURCH, REDDING, CA-BILL JOHNSON'S "HOUSE OF GENERALS" MUSEUM OF REVIVALISTS"

Bethel Church, Redding, CA, home of Jesus Culture, is building a library/museum of Pentecostal/Word of Faith/etc. revivalists, called the "House of Generals", as he points out in the Vimeo video:
http://vimeo.com/17658114

AND: 

"HERESCOPE: PASSION OF THE PRESENCE & PURPOSE OF THE PASSION~NEW APOSTOLIC REFORMATION & INTERNATIONAL HOUSE OF PRAYER":

http://ratherexposethem.blogspot.com/2014/04/herescope-passion-of-presence-purpose.html

AND ARTICLES ABOUT JOHNSON AT APPRISING.ORG:

AN INVASION OF ERROR: A REVIEW OF BILL JOHNSON—WHEN HEAVEN INVADES EARTH:

http://apprising.org/2011/07/05/an-invasion-of-error-a-review-of-bill-johnson-when-heaven-invades-earth/

SOUND ADVICE FOR BETHEL CHURCH PASTOR BILL JOHNSON:

http://apprising.org/2013/01/12/sound-advice-for-bethel-church-pastor-bill-johnson/

JESUS CULTURE—OF BETHEL CHURCH—AND PRACTICING RAISING THE DEAD:

http://apprising.org/2013/01/03/jesus-culture-of-bethel-church-and-practicing-raising-the-dead/

A SECOND PENTECOST: IS THERE THE HOPE OF AN END-TIME REPEAT OF PENTECOST?!:

http://apprising.org/2014/05/19/a-second-pentecost-is-there-the-hope-of-an-end-time-repeat-of-pentecost/

AND BOB DEWAAY'S ARTICLE AT ECHOZOE.COM: 

http://www.echozoe.com/archives/2509

"Bob DeWaay: Bill Johnson, IHOP, & Ancient Heresy Reborn"
AND THIS EXCELLENT AND THOROUGH OVERVIEW:
"BILL JOHNSON, JESUS CULTURE AND BETHEL CHURCH" AT:
http://redeemingmoments.com/2013/08/22/bill-johnson-jesus-culture-and-bethel-church/

AND: "THE PASSION OF THE PRESENCE & THE PURPOSE OF THE PASSION" (3 PARTS):
http://herescope.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-passion-of-presence.html

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2) Kolb’s Life Group “The Story of Marriage” 

DVD based study by John & Lisa Bevere. Marriage is God’s masterpiece. He created it to express a much bigger story: His relentless, loving commitment to bring out the best in us. 

WHO IS LISA BEVERE?

Lisa Bevere is the author of such books as Lioness Arising: Wake Up and Change Your World, The True Measure Of A Woman: Discover Your Intrinsic Value and See Yourself as God Does, and Kissed the Girls and Made Them Cry: Why Women Lose When We Give In. We learn more about Bevere from this video posted on her own YouTube channel:

Note some of the interesting claims and teachings Bevere espouses:

It’s your time. It’s time for the gift of God in your life to come forth. It’s time for the things that you have in your life to be released. Father, I speak to the gifts. I speak to the talents. I speak to the anointing. I speak to what you have given them to steward. I speak release. I bless these hands, Father, with the power of dominion.

Dominion? What does Lisa Bevere mean when she says this? Perhaps this clip will help us to understand.

Lisa Bevere with Her Definition of 'Dominion':

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sic11y7BWyw

Bevere appears here to mishandle Luke 19:10, wherein Jesus says, “For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.” This verse concludes the story of the conversion of Zacchaeus, and in the broader context, it is evident that Jesus Christ is declaring not only what becomes the theme of Luke’s gospel, but what is the purpose of Christ’s incarnation and ministry: to save lost sinners. Of this verse, Dr. John MacArthur notes:

Verse 10 states THE most blessed truth, no truth more wondrous, more beneficial than this one. This is at the very heart of the existence of the universe. God actually created the universe so that in the universe He could create the Earth so that on the earth He could create the human race so that out of the human race He could seek and save lost sinners…this for His own everlasting joy and glory. This is what it’s all about. What’s going on on Earth is not incidental in the infinity of this universe, it is the focal point of this entire universe. It is true that the vast and infinite heavens declare the glory of God and the rest of the creation shows His handiwork, and that all together collectively it manifests His mighty power and Godhead.

So when you ask the question, “Why is the universe here? And why is the Earth here? And why is the human race here?” The answer is so that God might for His own eternal joy and glory seek and save lost sinners. This again reminds us that God is by nature a saving God.

(Source)

Later in this same sermon, Bevere claims to receive a message directly from the Holy Spirit. Divine, personal prophecy? It seems as though Lisa Bevere’s Bible may not end with Revelation 22:21.

The Holy Spirit Talks to Lisa Bevere:

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rstn4nddY6k

We’ve not heard what Bevere specifically taught this week in Thessaloniki, but according to Christine Caine, the perky speaker spoke “powerful & prophetic words into this region.”
John Bevere - Unbiblical Teachings  SEE: http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/bevere.html __________________________________________________________

3) “Spiritual Equipping for the Prophetic” 

Meeting the 1st Wednesday evening of each month at 7:00 p.m. at Hopewell. Also meeting Wednesday for those enrolled in the Understanding Dreams and Visions Online School, 7 to 8:30. 

JOHN PAUL JACKSON:

SEE: John Paul Jackson's Dream Interpretation Website:

http://www.streamsministries.com/pages/understanding-dreams-visions

All New Dreamipedia Now Online at StreamsMinistries.com:

Streams 101: The Art of Hearing God (Extrabiblically):

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What is a LifeGroup? (WARNING: From an Emerging Communitarian Consensus Building Point of View; Not So Much a Bible Study Than a Fun Time):

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BRUCE LATSHAW OF VINEYARD CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP, LANDENBERG, PENNSYLVANIA 

EXPORTS JOHN WIMBER'S "HEALING ROOMS"

(ORIGIN: JOHN G. LAKE-PENTECOSTAL LEADER) 

TO HOPEWELL CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP:

SEE HOPEWELL'S LISTING AS A HEALING ROOM LOCATION HERE:

http://www.elijahlist.com/healing_rooms/display_room.html?ID=272

SEE OUR POST:

http://ratherexposethem.blogspot.com/2013/01/randy-clark-bill-johnson.html;

EXCERPT:

At Sermondrop, the "healing rooms" training sermons of Clark and Johnson are here for your listening pleasure: http://sermondrop.com/series/1669-Healing-Rooms-Training/sermons.
    What is a "healing room"? Well these videos give only the public face of the ecumenically involved folks who use what they believe are Holy Spirit given gifts in a "deliverance ministry" to cast out demons in those "rooms". 

    John Wimber's Vineyard Church has been a major proponent of "healing rooms" as well as affiliated Vineyard churches and pastors such as Bruce Latshaw of Vineyard Christian Fellowship, Landenberg, PA:

http://www.vcfbarn.com/service/healing-rooms/ and Latshaw (of Jesus People origin) himself: http://www.brucelatshaw.com/index.html, where he is spreading it locally, using the same methods and philosophy of John G. Lake, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_G._Lake, a faith healer who dates back to the Azusa Street pentecostal revival in Los Angeles, California around 1907.
    See also: http://miraclehealingrooms.com/ and John G. Lake Ministries now headed by Curry Blake at: http://www.jglm.org/.

VIDEOS: 

Healing Rooms Ministries explained by Cal Pierce:

Johnson's Bethel Church Healing Rooms YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/user/BethelHealingRooms/videos

Creating a Supernatural Mindset - Bill Johnson:

Bethel Church and the "glory cloud" (Hysteria):

Exposing the False Teaching of Bill Johnson at Bethel Church in Redding, CA.-(THE GOLD DUST "GLORY CLOUD"~THE "SIGNS THAT MAKE YOU WONDER"):

Tony Miano, Street Evangelist: Why I Must Speak Out Against the NAR and Bethel Church; Calls It a Cult Demanding Absolute Submission to Its Leaders:

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WHAT EVERY EMERGING CHURCH DOES: 

THE BUILDING PROGRAM THAT NEVER ENDS

SEE: http://hopewellchristianfellowship.com/about-us/building-for-eternity/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

Our vision is not only to maintain that which God has already given us, but to effectively steward for His increase in preparation for the coming harvest.

Our building is currently filled to capacity in many respects, being utilized for ministry nearly every day of the week all year long. The new ministry center will greatly expand our facility. We will approximately double the size of our current meeting area, add offices, restrooms, children’s ministry classrooms and a new fellowship hall.

We recently added the new parking areas and site improvements necessary for construction. The next building phase will begin as funds are available.

UPDATE – December 16, 2012:

Dear Congregation,

We are excited to be Building for the Harvest!

In August of 2012, the Lord spoke to me during a 4-day personal retreat and said “Prepare for growth!” Just as Noah had to move ahead and prepare for what God was about to do, so we as the leadership of Hopewell Christian Fellowship feel the need and the momentum now to prepare to grow.

To accommodate this vision for growth the Elders and Pastors are delighted to present a new plan for a next phase building expansion (i.e. Phase 1) which would be constructed to the right side of our current building. This will then be followed at some time in the future by our existing plans for a “connector wing” (Phase 2) and finally a very large sanctuary (Phase 3) both to the left side of our current sanctuary. At that point in time the Phase I building would become a youth ministry / community center.

This new proposed Phase 1 addition would provide a new sanctuary area for 500 + seats, 5 offices, 4 nursery/ preschool classrooms, new restroom facilities, and a warm-up kitchen. The current thought is to build a single floor, slab on grade, pre-engineered steel structure for this next phase of growth which would be easier, faster and less cost-ly to build than to the left.

The new building footprint to the right as proposed will maximize the area available and is physically bounded by our well, driveways and the current building. At our congregational meeting on Sunday December 16, 2012 this new concept of a building expansion to the right was approved by 98% of the attending congregation. We are considering the suggestions that are being brought up by our congregation to optimize this building as best as possible. One suggestion was made to consider a basement beneath the proposed building which could accommodate a fellowship area and kitchen. We are asking the architect to evaluate feasibility of that suggestion and give us an estimate of additional construction cost by the 2nd week of January. We will soon form a building committee with expertise in certain areas of construction and facilities to work with the Elders and determine the fine details.

I welcome your prayers for us, as well as helpful thoughts and ideas which you can submit to any of the Pastors or Elders. We will try to evaluate as many suggestions as possible as we receive them. I would also like to plan a second congregational information meeting in January to provide more details of how we would plan to move ahead.

We currently estimate this project to cost about $2,000,000. We have recently received a number of substantial gifts towards the building project, including a gift of $18,000 and then a gift of $300,000. We praise the Lord and are extremely grateful for these gifts! In addition we have received a promise of $700,000 given as a matching grant. As our congregation gives toward the building project, each dollar will be matched up to $700,000.

We can therefore see how $1,700,000 can be raised and even the full $2M rather quickly to begin construction. This is absolutely do-able! I believe all Township/ Pa DEP/ Dept. of Health approvals can be obtained by mid 2013 or at the latest by the end of September 2013 … and therefore as soon as finances are available we can start to build!

So keep praying and we know the Lord is faithful to fulfill what He says. May He guide us with His joy and peace as we follow and trust in Him to “Build for the Harvest”!

In Christ’s love,

Pastor Curt

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                                  VINESONG GROUP FROM THE U.K.:

http://vinesong.com/

WHAT EVERY EMERGING CHURCH ALSO DOES: 

INVITE ECUMENICAL CONTEMPORARY 

"CHRISTIAN" MUSICIANS

WHO WERE AT THE ECUMENICAL APOSTATE 

NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER, AND THE ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT/RELIGION UNITED NATIONS

SEE: http://hopewellchristianfellowship.com/live/

AND: 

https://www.youtube.com/user/VinesongMinistries/videos

Vinesong Promotional Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAQ29ftbUw0
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http://www.hartministries.com/

THE POISONING OF YOUTH BY WILL HART, 

A YOUNG ASSOCIATE OF RANDY CLARK'S 

"GLOBAL AWAKENING" 
http://globalawakening.com/home/speakers/will-hart

DOMINIONIST/PENTECOSTAL, ECUMENICAL 
"HEALING MINISTRY"

SEE: http://hopewellchristianfellowship.com/will-hart/

Randy Clark Endorses Will Hart (& Heidi Baker); Claims Hart Healed Monks in a Monastery:

VIDEO: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l10n0UsTIA

Bill Johnson Endorses Will Hart:

WILL HART: "Holy Spirit Says Hit Kid To Heal Him" (Imitates Todd Bentley's Physical Violence in the Name of Healing):

Published on Apr 29, 2014

Global Awakening with guest Will Hart. The Holy Spirit told him to hit kid to heal him. Just like Todd Bentley was told to hit old lady to heal her. 

SEE:  http://www.4discernment.com/home.html

VIDEO:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti-5iCPp1jo

ONLY SOME OF TODD BENTLEY'S TATTOOS:

SEE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Bentley;

EXCERPTS:

CRIMINAL BACKGROUND:

"Even though the criminal records of juvenile offenders in Canada are normally protected from public disclosure, in 2001, the now-defunct Report News magazine disclosed that at age 15, Bentley was convicted for sexually assaulting a young boy, calling his behavior "heinous." Bentley later said that the Report News magazine article was, in substance, true: "'They were sexual crimes,' Bentley admits. 'I was involved in a sexual assault ring. I turned around and did what happened to me. I was assaulted too.'""

"At 17, Bentley was hospitalized after an overdose of amphetamines and hallucinogenic pills."

"On 9 July 2008 ABC News' Nightline broadcast an investigative report on Bentley focusing on his faith healing claims, finances, and criminal past."

ALLEGED "CHRISTIAN" EXPERIENCES THE DEMONIC (JUST SUBSTITUTE DEMON FOR ANGEL BELOW):

"Bentley's testimony includes an account of visiting Heaven and meeting with Paul the Apostle. He has also preached about an encounter with an angel he called 'Emma' at an Assemblies of God church in 2001. The female angel gave him a vision of gold coins, and Bentley states this was a sign of his future financial stability. In response to criticism about the Biblical inspiration of a female angel, Bentley wrote that it was God's choice, and not his own, that an angel appeared to him in that manner. Bentley explained "You know, I told the Lord, 'Why can’t I just move in healing and forget talking about all that other stuff?' He said, 'Because, Todd, you gotta get the people to believe in the angel.' I said, 'God, why do I want people to believe in the angel, isn’t it about getting the people to believe in Jesus?' He said, 'The people already believe in Jesus, but the church doesn’t believe in the supernatural.' The church has no problem believing in Jesus. But what we don’t believe in is the supernatural." According to Bentley, God didn’t want more preaching about salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ."

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Todd Bentley's Violent "Ministry" (WOTMR) [1of2]:

Todd Bentley's Violent "Ministry" (WOTMR) [2of2]:

Justin Peters, Evangelist/Pastor 

(ON CRUTCHES WITH CEREBRAL PALSY); 

See: http://justinpeters.org/personal-testimony/

Calls out & Challenges Todd Bentley:

Todd Friel & Justin Peters On Todd Bentley's Revival Part 1:

Todd Friel & Justin Peters On Todd Bentley's Revival Part 2:

Todd Bentley Blessed by Apostles:

DOCUMENTARY: Lakeland: The Movie (feature-length film on Todd Bentley & the Florida Outpouring):

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AND: http://globalawakening.com/home/speakers/randy-clark;

EXCERPTS ABOUT RANDY CLARK, ECUMENICAL FAITH HEALER:
After months of prayer and fasting, Randy was touched by the Lord mightily. On January 20, 1994, this unassuming pastor from St. Louis walked into a small storefront church near the Toronto airport. His anointing for healing is strong. Because of his uncanny humility, Randy's ministry crosses denominational lines. From the Westminster Chapel in London, to the St. Thomas the Apostle Roman Catholic Church in Australia, Randy has been welcomed into a plethora of different streams. 
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Randy Clark is a "course developer" at his 

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Randy Clark's Mystical "Shekinah Glory Prophecy":

MENNONITES INTRODUCE SUNDAY SCHOOL REPLACEMENT FOR KIDS: ANTI-AMERICAN CATHOLIC CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUAL FORMATION

WHAT APPEARS TO BE 

"CHILD FRIENDLY CHRISTIAN CURRICULUM" 

IS A SUBTLE INDOCTRINATION INTO IDOLATROUS 

CATHOLIC CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUAL FORMATION PRACTICES

AND COLLECTIVIST/SOCIALIST IDEOLOGY

FROM: https://shinecurriculum.com/about/whoweare/:

Shine: Living in God’s Light is co-published by Brethren Press, publishing ministry of the Church of the Brethren, and  MennoMedia, publishing ministry of Mennonite Church USA and Mennonite Church Canada. Many know us for our longtime commitment to peace, service, and Christian discipleship. We’re the folks who have brought you the acclaimed Gather ‘Round and Jubilee curricula. We also publish Generation Why for youth.

We’re thrilled that a number of Christian denominations have chosen to promote Shine to their members. These partners include the United Church of Christ, the Moravian Church in North America, the Mennonite Brethren, the United Church of Canada, the Disciples of Christ, and the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. In addition, our users include Baptist, Episcopal, Presbyterian, Methodist, Friends (Quakers), Lutheran, Brethren in Christ, Evangelical Covenant, and nondenominational churches.

SEE: https://shinecurriculum.com/about/what-is-shine/;

EXCERPT:

Shine:

• calls children to experience the transforming power of God’s love.
• nurtures trust in God and invites children to follow Jesus.
• encourages imaginative, interactive biblical storytelling.
• explores the meaning of the Bible within the gathered community.
• cultivates the inner life of the Spirit through spiritual practices.
• expresses faith through lives of compassionate peacemaking and service.
• invites all ages to shine God’s light in the world.

FROM YOUTUBE CHANNEL: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx94m66kF1LzXL_wPenFShQ

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vRzVwbS9nM

VIDEO: 

"The Shalom Arc: The Shine Curriculum's Approach to the Bible"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxOo14k75j4

Comment: In this video you will see and hear that this is in no way the true gospel of Jesus Christ; hence it is devoid of the sinfulness of man, his depravity, and the way to salvation through repentance. It is a stripped down story telling version of Christianity offering an anti-American collectivist/socialist worldly viewpoint, maligning individualism, personal power, and accumulation of wealth as if these are intrinsically worldly, evil and anti-Christian. It emphasizes peace and wholeness over justification, regeneration, and sanctification. It mischaracterizes Jesus from an Anabaptist pacifist view. 

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Contemplative Spiritual Formation in Mennonite Sunday School Curriculum

SEE: http://mennolite.wordpress.com/2014/09/04/contemplative-spiritual-formation-in-mennonite-sunday-school-curriculum/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

The September issue of the Mennonite Brethren Herald[1] is promoting a long awaited new curriculum for children from age 3 to grade 8. Shine has been in the works for three years, and is now available and coming to Sunday School classrooms in a Mennonite church near you.

The new Sunday school curriculum Shine: Living in God’s Light for fall quarter 2014 is now available from MennoMedia and Brethren Press, the publishing houses of the Church of the Brethren, Mennonite Church Canada and Mennonite Church USA.

- New Anabaptist curriculum Shines
http://mbherald.com/new-anabaptist-curriculum-shines/

The article explains the importance of one of the aspects of this curriculum – the spiritual formation of children:

Why is spiritual formation for children important, and why do you call it that now instead of “Sunday school”?
Sunday school indicates a school model based on acquiring information. We certainly want children to become biblically literate, but we hope for something much deeper. Spiritual formation happens in vibrant communities of God’s Spirit. One of the things we try to convey is that children’s natural language of prayer is thanksgiving. They need to experience joy and hope. Children also need to know that God walks with us in difficult times. God’s love transforms our lives, so we can show God’s love and call others to follow the Prince of Peace.[2]

To find out what this spiritual formation for children looks like, a link provided to the Shine resource website[3] explains further what will be taught:

Spiritual practices help children to pay attention to God’s activity in their lives, and show them ways that they can shine their light to others.

Engage your children in the language and habits of worship through prayer, ritual, celebration, and silence. Each Shine session has a spiritual practice to teach your group. Student resources will reinforce these practices, helping your children to take these practices with them in their daily lives.

What are some of the spiritual practices that Shine sessions include?

Breath prayer . . . Centering prayer . . . Collage prayer

Examen . . . Giving . . . Grace at meals . . . Hospitality

Intercession . . . Labyrinth . . . Morning and evening prayers

Noticing God in creation . . . Prayer doodling

Reciting scripture . . . Sabbath keeping

Service . . . Silence . . . Solitude . . . Thanksgiving prayers

Walking prayer . . . Whole body prayer . . . Worship

- Spiritual practices with children
https://shinecurriculum.com/for-teachers/spiritual-practices-with-children/

One of the many Shine curriculum resources is a PDF guide for instructors and teachers on how to make a prayer path labyrinth for the children:

Prayer path (labyrinth)
A prayer path (labyrinth) is referred to in Spiritual practices of several teacher’s guides. Prepare one for your congregation or one per classroom.

https://shinecurriculum.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/PrayerPath.pdf

The alarming truth is that many of these spiritual formation practices that children are going to be learning in the Shine Sunday School curriculum at Mennonite churches are rooted in mysticism and contemplative spirituality. For example . . .

Breath prayer

“…the practice of breath prayer involves “picking a single word or short phrase and repeating it in conjunction with the breath. This is classic contemplative mysticism.””
-Breath Prayer—Not Biblical Prayer
http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/breathprayer.htm

Centering prayer

“Centering prayer is an unbiblical and dangerous practice. It can put a person in an altered state of consciousness and open him up to a spiritual connection that is not in harmony with Scripture.
Instead, we are to seek God in prayers that are non-repetitious, with a focus on God’s word and truth, with an active mind seeking to find the true and living God through the revelation of the Scripture and communion with his son Jesus.
In short, avoid centering prayer and avoid whatever church promotes it.”
– Centering Prayer
http://carm.org/centering-prayer

Examen

What is the Ignatian Examen?
Ignatian Examen is an occult visualization technique taught by Ignatius Loyola, who founded the Jesuits in the 16th century. His exercise teaches one to visualize oneself in the presence of Jesus and then interact with Him during his earthly events, e.g., “at the Last Supper and the Garden of Gethsemane, at the foot of the cross, and laying Jesus’ body in the tomb.”6 This has one adding content to Scripture from his imagination and opens a person to demonic manipulation (2 Corinthians 11:4; Galatians 1:8).
-Evangelical Mysticism?
http://www.thebereancall.org/node/6433

Labyrinth

“The labyrinth is just another way to perform contemplative or centering prayer.”
– Ray Yungen, LABYRINTHS, Prayer Paths That Promote the Occult
http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/labyrinth.htm

Silence

“…like putting the mind in neutral. Contemplatives say it is like tuning into another frequency. New Agers call it different things like a thin place, sacred space, ecstasy; whatever it is called, both New Agers and Christian leaders are telling us we must practice silence and stillness if we really want to know God.”
-The Altered State of Silence
http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/thesilence.htm

In conclusion, instead of practicing labyrinth prayer paths and the Ignatius Prayer Examen, perhaps it’s time for Mennonites to examine some very important questions. Where are the watchmen on the walls? How many parents dropping their children off at Sunday School in their Mennonite churches will be aware that the new Shine curriculum will teach them how to practice contemplative spirituality? What will become of each three year old child whose parents faithfully bring them to their trusted church to be trained in a 10 year contemplative curriculum? Is this what Sunday School teachers in Mennonite churches want to be teaching to the children in their care? Who will defend and teach the truth? Who will guard and teach the children?

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Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
Vladimir Lenin

And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.
Mark 9:42

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 22:6
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Endnotes

[1] http://mbherald.com/2014/09/
[2] http://mbherald.com/new-anabaptist-curriculum-shines
[3] https://shinecurriculum.com

RELATED:

Mennonites and St. Ignatius
http://mennolite.wordpress.com/2010/10/26/mennonites-and-st-ignatius/

Mennonites Teaching Contemplative Spirituality to Children
http://mennolite.wordpress.com/2014/05/15/mennonites-teaching-contemplative-spirituality-to-children/

Anabaptists and Jesuits – Lest We Forget
http://mennolite.wordpress.com/2012/07/10/anabaptists-and-jesuits-lest-we-forget/

‘Menno-blight’
http://mennolite.wordpress.com/2011/05/04/menno-blight/

Understanding The Jesuit Agenda and the Evangelical/Protestant Church
http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog/?p=6844

The Labyrinth Journey: Walking the Path to Fulfillment?
http://www.forcingchange.org/the_labyrinth_journey

McLaren’s New Book – A New Kind of Year Long Church Curriculum
http://mennolite.wordpress.com/2014/05/16/mclarens-new-book-a-new-kind-of-year-long-church-curriculum/

Muddy Emerging Convergence in Sunday School Curriculum
http://muddystreams.wordpress.com/2014/05/16/muddy-emerging-convergence-in-sunday-school-curriculum/

POPE FRANCIS & SHIMON PERES PLAN VEHICLE FOR ONE WORLD RELIGION TO END TERRORISM & EXTREMISM~AN INTERFAITH GLOBALISTS' DREAM TO END DENOMINATIONS, DOCTRINES & BORDERS

Pope and Ex-Israeli President Discuss “UN of Religions”

SEE: http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/faith-and-morals/item/19079-pope-and-ex-israeli-president-discuss-un-for-religions

EXCERPTS: During a meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican last week, former Israeli President Shimon Peres urged the Catholic pontiff to help build a United Nations-like organization for different faiths dubbed the “Organization of United Religions.” Peres also referred to his proposed entity for “interfaith dialogue” as a “UN of religions.” While the pope was reportedly open to the idea, his spokesman suggested that no commitment was made to necessarily pursue it. Numerous prophecy watchers and analysts, meanwhile, highlighted news of the proposal as an important development with potentially deep prophetic implications.

According to Peres, who retired recently after a long career in politics that included a leadership role with the radical Socialist International, the reason for creating a global outfit for religions is that so many conflicts are supposedly justified by proponents who cite their alleged faith. 

 “What we need is an unquestionable moral authority who says out loud, ‘No, God does not want this and does not allow it,’” the ex-Israeli president said.

Peres: "Perhaps for the first time in history the Holy Father is a leader who has the respect of many people as well as the most diverse religions and their representatives,”
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NEW BOOKLET TRACT: 
"Is religion to blame?"—

War, Religion, and the Interfaith 
Global Peace Agenda

SEE: http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/newsletters/2014/newsletter20140908.htm; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

Is religion to blame?—War, Religion, and the Interfaith Global Peace Agenda  by Carl Teichrib i is our newest Lighthouse Trails Print Booklet Tract. The Booklet Tract is 14 pages long and sells for $1.95 for single copies. Quantity discounts are as much as 50% off retail. Our Booklet Tracts are designed to give away to others or for your own personal use.  Below is the content of the booklet. To order copies of Is religion to blame?—War, Religion, and the Interfaith Global Peace Agenda by Carl Teichrib, click here.
“Is religion to blame?—War, Religion, and the Interfaith Global Peace Agenda”
By Carl Teichrib

[A]ll modern trends point to the specter of a terrifying, bigger and more pitiless conformity.1—Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

If a global motto exists, it would have to be “Give Peace a Chance.”2 From every corner of the world, from every academy and institution, from every school, public office and even many churches, the cry for global peace is being sounded.
Peace is a noble idea; but since mankind has had a written history, we have never known true peace. The scattered, bleached bones of human history testify to this brutal truth—millions upon millions of times over.
So is mankind incapable of achieving ultimate peace on Earth? In a nutshell, yes. But accepting this reality doesn’t imply that we are to automatically embrace conflict and strife. If anything, it gives us a window into who we are and how we operate. Unfortunately, the view from this window isn’t very pretty.
How do we collectively respond to this sad state of affairs? By perpetuating a lie!
Religious Guilt and the Death Factor
It has been popularly said that religion is responsible for the majority of the world’s conflicts. Posted on a BBC News Talking Point discussion board on the relevance of religion, one commentator boldly asserted, “Just look around the world today. Religion is the cause of all war and hate.”3
Expounding on this line of thinking is an Internet petition seeking “world peace” by the outright banning of “organized religion.” This petition, which needs to be viewed for what it is—an exercise in dissent—makes it very clear that organized religion “in all its factions, is responsible for most of the worlds wars and the entire ‘War on Terrorism.’” A number of petition signers, some showing immense tolerance by resorting to obnoxious and crude language, repeat the mantra “Religion is the cause of all wars.”4
In a more serious fashion than this off-beat online petition, interfaith founder of the metaphysical Integral Institute and a contributor to BeliefNet.com Ken Wilber writes:

Throughout history, religion has been the single greatest source of human-caused wars, suffering, and misery. In the name of God, more suffering has been inflicted than by any other manmade cause . . . for every year of peace in humankind’s history there have been fourteen years of war, 90% of which have been fought either because of, or under the banner of, God by whatever name.5

Has religion really inflicted “more suffering” than any other man-made cause? Is this assumption, one shared by a large segment of society, an accurate notion? Certainly it’s a position that’s well ingrained.6 Demonstrating the imbedded nature of this popular impression, history professor Pat Johnson writes:

I challenge my classes to comment on the following statement: Organized religion has caused more suffering, wars and violence than any other cause. Almost all the students raise their hands in agreement.7

Logically, if religion has been the major cause of the world’s wars and death, then religion should shoulder the burden of responsibility towards making peace. Today, this rationale underscores much of the global interfaith movement, including the 2005 United Nations Conference on Interfaith Cooperation for Peace.8
But can the finger of guilt really point to religion as the primary cause of war and strife?
The Killing Century
In analyzing this hypothesis of religion’s global war guilt, let’s examine the role of religion as the primary killing factor in the bloodiest century of all time—the last one hundred or so years. As Winston Churchill explained during the MIT Mid-Century Convocation:

Little did we guess that what has been called the Century of the Common Man would witness as its outstanding feature more common men killing each other with greater facilities than any other five centuries together in the history of the world.9

So was religion the prime death factor, the “single greatest source” of war and suffering, for this very cruel and brutal century?
In order to understand the answer to this question, let us take a look at  the major wars and human-caused genocides that occurred during this time frame. And in order to do this in the space allotted for this booklet, we need a lower stop-limit number—let’s say 1.5 million as a minimum death total.
Please bear in mind that this list will not be able to separate-out all examples. Some, such as the death figure for World War II, could be broken down into holocaust tabulations, single battle totals, etc.—but we’ll try to keep it simple.
Furthermore, it’s important to note that many historical conflicts and killings lack accurate death tabulations, and in some instances the numbers given in our list may actually be too low.
Other problems arise from the lack of concrete death totals. For example: the Mexican uprisings of 1910-1920 variably run between 750,000 and 2 million dead, likewise the decades-old Rwanda/Burundi conflict falls into this statistically difficult range. Because of the variance in accounting up to the 1.5 million mark, I will leave out these two examples along with many others that display complex numerical discrepancies up to the 1.5 million figure.
However, the following death-inventory will suffice for our brief review.10 Notice how few of these mass-killing events had classical religion as its central cause. And yes, religious factors do come into play in some instances, yet even in these examples there are other causes and motivations that go beyond religion.

Congo Free State (1886-1908): 8 million—with some estimates up to 13 million; control of colonial profit and power base.
Feudal Russia (1900-1917): 3.5 million; political control and consequences of political struggle.
Turkish Purges (1900-1923): 3 to 5 million; political control before and surrounding the Ottoman collapse, Islamic/ethnic factors within political/national expansionism—Pan Turkism.
First World War (1914-1918): 15 million; balance of power.
Russian Civil War (1917-1922): 9 million; political control.
Stalin (1924-1953): 20 million—with some estimates up to 60 million; political control.
China Nationalist Era (1928-1937): 3 million; political control.
Second World War (1939-1945): 55 million; German/Japanese expansionism, balance of power
Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945): 17 to 24 million; Japanese expansionism into China. Note: this number may or may not include the Henan Famine of 1942-43, which started as a drought but was horrifically accelerated by the Chinese government in Chongqing. If the numbers for the Sino-Japanese War do not include the Henan Famine, than add 3 to 4 million more dead. Furthermore, it must be recognized that the Sino-Japanese War blended into the Pacific Theatre of World War II after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Soviet Repatriations—Victims of Yalta (1944-1947): 1.5 to 2.8 million; end-of-war and post-war repatriation of “Soviet citizens” from Western Allied-controlled territory to the Soviet Union.
Post-World War II German Expulsions (1945-1950): 2.2 million—with some estimates at 5 million; post-war retributions and displacement actions of Germans from Eastern Europe, consequences of Allied policies and Soviet “reparations in kind.”
Yugoslavia (1941-1987): 1.5 to 4.8 million; political control, ethnic/religious issues play an important role. Note: The history of conflict, genocide, and democide in the Balkans is complex and the accuracy of the numbers are difficult to ascertain. That said, the numbers given represent WWII and up to the immediate post-Tito era.
Chinese Civil War (1945-1949): 2.5 million; political control.
Mao Zedong (1949-1975): 45 to 70 million; political control and consequences of collectivist policies. Note: Approximately 45 million perished during Mao’s Great Leap Forward alone, due to starvation, collectivized and forced labor, beatings, and executions. The higher number of 70 million would include the death toll of the Great Leap Forward.
North Korea (1948-today): 2 to 3.5 million; political control and consequences of collectivist policies. Note: The numbers may be much higher due to famine/starvation.
Korean War (1950-1953): 3 million; political control.
Second Indochina War (1960-1975): 2 to 4 million; political control. Note: The higher figure represents the expanded capacity of the Second Indochina War beyond Vietnam and into surrounding nations.
Ethiopia (1962-1992): 1.5 to 2 million; political control and the exasperation of famine conditions, ethnic issues come into play.
Nigeria-Biafra War (1967-1971): 1 million but up to 3 million due to starvation; political control, religion and ethnic issues played a role.
Pakistan-Bangladesh Genocide (1971): 1.7 to 3 million; political/economic and social control over East Pakistan, ethnic and religious issues come into play.
Khmer Rouge (1975-1978): 2.5 million; political control and collectivist policies.
Afghanistan (1979-2001): 1.8 million; political control, Soviet expansion, religion (Islam) and tribal/ethnic factors played a role in internal strife.
Second Sudanese War (1983-2005): 2 million; historical ethnic struggles, Islamic issues played a key role, resource control and usage.
Congo (1998-today): 3 to 5.5 million; political control and regional debasement, ethnic strife, resource and territorial control.

The sheer horror and brutality of mankind throughout the twentieth century cannot be properly demonstrated in a simplistic chart. However, it’s more than apparent that the principal causation of the majority of these awful events—especially those with death numbers more than five million high—cannot be laid at the feet of classical religion.
Remember Professor Johnson and his statement, “Organized religion has caused more suffering, wars and violence than any other cause”? Professor Johnson just baited his students, and as the good professor tells us, “Almost all the students raise their hands in agreement.” He adds:

I then demand that they provide dead bodies as evidence. They usually mention the Crusades and one or two other religious wars they might have heard of but in none of their examples can they come up with a million deaths . . . I then point out that most of the people who have died as a result of war, have done so in the 20th century and that most of the killing was done in the name of secular ideologies. I then ask them who is the ‘baddest’ of them all. Most guess Hitler. I then tell them that he is rated #3. Some then guess Stalin, and I inform them that most scholars place him at #2 with 20 million killed. Almost no one gets #1 who, of course, is Mao who starts with an estimated 45 million. I then point out that the top two were Communists, and Hitler was a radical proponent of Social Darwinism. All of these ideologies are based on atheistic systems.11

Matthew White, a librarian who has done a tremendous amount of study in genocide/war issues and is the author of the online Historical Atlas of the Twentieth Century, gives this Q&A response to the question of “religion”:

Q: Is religion responsible for more violent deaths than any other cause?
A: No, of course not—unless you define religion so broadly as to be meaningless. Just take the four deadliest events of the 20th Century—Two World Wars, Red China and the Soviet Union—no religious motivation there, unless you consider every belief system to be a religion.12

Major John P. Conway, studying at the US Army Command & General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, commented in an article “War and Religion: Is Religion to Blame?”:

Most times, it can be argued that religion may play a key and significant role in the conduct of warfare on a psychological and cultural level, but is it the cause of warfare? Do nations, states and kingdoms wage war over religion? Is religion a primary cause of conflict between governments? Many have argued that it is. Another popular statement is, “Religion has been the cause of more wars than any other factor throughout history.” This is commonly accompanied by “people have been killing each other in the name of God for centuries.” Upon closer examination, these statements exude an element of mythology versus fact . . . A fundamental analysis of past wars commonly attributed to “religion,” as the causal factor, may reveal an uninformed and reactionary misjudgment. Throughout the course of history, the cause of warfare between sovereign states, kingdoms, and governments is attributable to many factors, but can rarely be attributed to “religion” as is so often the assertion.13

Major Conway continues:

[I]t becomes apparent that those who make the claim “religion has been the cause of more wars than any other factor in history” may speak from ignorance or have ulterior motives for the assertion. Further, this type of assertion seems rooted in anti-religion posturing . . . Men and nations have a history of warfare and the root of conflict is power and gain . . . Occasionally war is fought over religion, as is perhaps the case during the reformation period in Europe. More often than not however, the cause of war can’t be laid at the door of religion.14

Certainly religion plays a motivational and ruse factor in various conflict scenarios. All kinds of pretexts can be used in inciting and snow-balling hostilities; in 1969, for example, soccer played a key role in exploding tensions between Honduras and El Salvador. But as a whole the main cause of the major genocides and wars of the last one hundred years lie outside of purely religious stimulus. Moreover, even wars that contain a deep religious element often have multiple causation, including economic, political, and territorial grievances.
None of this is to say that religion is innocent when it comes to strife. Historically, we can cite the Catholic Crusades and the resulting Reformation genocides, and the mass slaughters done in the name of Allah—such as during the Wars of Apostasy.15 In modern times, we can see the effects of Catholic-Protestant clashes in the British Isles, Hindu-Islamic hostilities in India, the Islamic-Christian slaughters in Sudan, Buddhist-Hindu warfare in Sri Lanka, Moslem-Christian fighting in Indonesia, and the constant struggle in the Middle East between Israel and her Moslem neighbors. Islam as a religious/cultural/political system does play a dominant role in many regional conflicts and localized tension-points. However, in terms of the largest concentration of outright killing capacity, communism, national socialism, and imperial expansionism—all power struggles based on centralist political methodologies—have been the grandest contributor to war and human-caused mass death. Nothing else comes even remotely close.
Clearly, to exert that “religion is the cause of all war and strife” demonstrates a severe degree of historical naivety or deeply distorted emotional blinders or the outright broadcasting of disinformation for an ulterior motive (see Major Conway’s previous quote).
For the students of Mr. Johnson’s class, naivety is the most probable reason for their belief in this religion-war mythology. But for others, ulterior motives exist.
Wrong Assumptions, Wrong Peace
When wrong suppositions are employed, wrong results are guaranteed.
As already demonstrated, the war/religion assumption is nothing short of faulty. While religions today and historically have been culpable (Islam is a prime example in both modern and ancient contexts16), religion has not been the prime cause in every instance of war and strife, not even in the most extraordinary cases of the 20th century. Embracing this mythology as fact, the quest for world peace already finds itself building on a shaky foundation.
But regardless of the incorrect nature of the above point of view, many religious authors and spiritual leaders hold to this assumption. Then, taking motivational cues from this war theory, a response is formulated around another faulty assumption.
In a nutshell, this line of reasoning goes as follows: As faith communities are to blame for the world’s sorrows, then religions need to unite under a common umbrella to ensure peace and security prevails. Therefore, by uniting faiths in the push toward world peace, the divisions that drive humanity to mass violence will be bridged. Today’s global interfaith movement takes this approach, as do many such as Ken Wilber.
Postulating this idea of religious unity under the assumption of religion’s historical war burden, Wilber states:

If humanity is ever to cease its swarming hostilities and be united in one family, without squashing the significant and important differences among us, then something like an integral approach seems the only way. Until that time, religions will continue to brutally divide humanity, as they have throughout history, and not unite, as they must if they are to be a help, not a hindrance, to tomorrow’s existence.17

So what does it mean to be religiously “united in one family”?
Marcus Braybrooke, president of the World Congress of Faiths, explores this theme in his book, Faith and Interfaith in a Global Age:

My hope—though certainly not the hope of all in the interfaith movement—remains that dialogue will eventually bring convergence or, at least, that theology will become an inter-religious discipline or “global theology.”18

German Catholic theologian Hans Küng describes a similar pan-spiritual unification:

[A]fter intra-Protestant and intra-Christian ecumenism we have irrevocably reached the third ecumenical dimension, ecumenism of the world religions!19

Küng and Braybrooke’s concept of interfaith or interspirituality is shared by a large assortment of spiritual thinkers and even some religions. John Davis and Naomi Rice—both connected with the Coptic Fellowship International—succinctly tell us:

[T]he ultimate objective is a fellowship of religions, and the gradual appearance of a world-faith, which in its broader concept will be able to encompass all humanity.20

Similarly, the Bahá’í International Community, the global representative of the Bahá’í faith, openly asserts, “The key to interfaith harmony and co-operation is to focus on the essential oneness of all religions.”21
To a global public sick of war and bloodshed, the above unification ideology becomes a very appealing venue. Yet this postulation flies in the face of anthropology, sociology, history, and theology. The belief sets of Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Animism, Hinduism, New Age, and so on, are fundamentally and irrevocably disconnected from one another—including who God is (or is not), the constitution of Man, the problem of evil, and the redemption solution to humanities failed state. Furthermore, the concept that all religions are “equally valid” is logically inconsistent when their theologies are in opposition to each other.
If all religions are authenticated as valid, we must then admit each spiritual expression into this new “global religious club” as legitimate forms. Therefore, cults-of-death—such as the Aum Supreme Truth movement, which was accused of delivering nerve gas inside a Tokyo subway train—must be more than just tolerated; they must be embraced as legitimate sources of truth. Satanism too, along with any other anti-social belief system, no matter how disagreeable, must be accepted on par and received into this universal fold. In time, Bible-believing Christians will be singled out as unacceptable ingredients to this global ecumenical soup.
Clearly, this “world faith for world peace” assumption is also lacking in credibility. However, this shouldn’t come as a surprise; after all, this flawed unity concept is designed around the first fabrication—the guilt of war.
It can never be said that a House of Truth is built on lies, yet the perfect dream of world peace is being constructed on that very foundation. Waving the flag of tolerance and solidarity, religion is looking to re-invent itself to a new level of “planetary responsibility”—devoid of truth, logic, and reality.
Indeed, as mankind sacrifices truth in the pursuit of peace, the only peace gained will come at the sacrifice of liberty. Why? Because such a system, misdirected from the onset, can only coerce and enforce. And whenever man imposes a utopian peace design—that is, the “creation of peace” at the expense of reality—it inevitably becomes a “bloody utopian dream.”22
Paradoxically, by its nature, a “world faith,” world peace structure may actually become a type of self-fulfilling prophecy, ultimately raising the terrifying banner; “Peace is the destruction of all opposition.”23

For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. (1 Thessalonians 5:3)
Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division. (Luke 12 :51)
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.—Jesus (John 14:27)

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Endnotes:
1. Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Leftism: From de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Marcuse (Arlington House Publishers, 1974), p.17.
2. The song “Give Peace a Chance” by John Lennon, recorded on May 31, 1969, has become a type of global anthem often sung at peace rallies.
3. BBC News Talking Points, “Is Religious Faith Still Relevant?” (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/1885779.stm, April 9, 2002).
4. Caution: some of the language is very foul and would not be suitable for young readers.
5. Ken Wilber, “Why Do Religions Teach Love and Yet Cause So Much War” (www.beliefnet.com/story/147/story_14762.html BeliefNet column).
6. See Carl Teichrib, “Casting Stones: Christianity and the History of Genocide” ).
7. Professor Pat Johnson, responding to an online Christian apologetics discussion regarding war as an excuse against Christianity (http://net-burst.net/hot/war.htm).
8. The U.N. Conference on Interfaith Cooperation for Peace was held on June 22, 2005, in conference room #4 at the United Nations headquarters in New York City. A reading of the various speeches and documents that surround this event demonstrates the link between religion as a conflict force (and the guilt this implies) versus what religions can now do—unite under the banner of world peace and development.
9. Winston Churchill, MIT Mid-Century Convocation address, March 31, 1949.
10. Sources for this chart include the work of R.J. Rummel, Matthew White, and a host of other encyclopaedic resources.
11. Professor Pat Johnson, op. cit.
12. Matthew White, FAQ section on 20th century history (http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/war-faq.htm).
13. Major John P. Conway, US Army Professional Writing Collection, “War and Religion: Is Religion to Blame?"
14. Ibid.
15. For more information on these historical conflicts and slaughters, see The Encyclopedia of Military History by R Ernest Dupuy and Trevor N. Dupuy, The Age of Faith by Will Durant, The Crusades by Zoe Oldenbourg, Judgement Day: Islam, Israel and the Nations by Dave Hunt, Martyrs Mirror by Thieleman J. van Braght, Foxe’s Book of Martyrs by John Foxe, A History of the Jews by Abram Leon Sachar, and The Arabs in History by Bernard Lewis, etc.
16. See Dave Hunt, Judgement Day: Islam, Israel and the Nations (The Berean Call, 2005) and Dore Gold, Hatred’s Kingdom (Regnery Publishing, 2003).
17. Ken Wilber, “Why Do Religions Teach Love and Yet Cause So Much War,” op. cit.
18. Marcus Braybrooke, Faith and Interfaith in a Global Age (CoNexus, 1998), pp.15-16.
19. Hans Küng, Preface to Willard G. Oxtoby’s, The Meaning of Other Faiths (The Westminster Press, 1983), p.10.
20. John Davis and Naomi Rice, Messiah and the Second Coming (Coptic Press, 1982), p.111.
21. Bahá’í International Community, “At the UN, Governments and Religious NGOs Convene a Peace Conference” (One Country, April-June 2005, p.14, http://www.onecountry.org/story/un-governments-and-religious-ngos-convene-peace-conference).
22. See the “Bloody Utopian Dreams” series by Carl Teichrib: http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/05/teichrib/utopian-dreams-1.htm.
23. http://www.forcingchange.org/under_war’s_bloody_banner.
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RETINAL OBFUSCATION GUN: NEW TOOL THAT BLINDS FOR MILITARIZED POLICE IF STUN GUNS AREN'T ENOUGH?

NEW POLICE “COMPLIANCE WEAPON” BLINDS TARGETS

"Retinal obfuscation" gun a new tool for militarized law enforcement

SEE: 

http://www.infowars.com/new-police-compliance-weapon-blinds-targets/

EXCERPT:

"Shield Defense Systems, LLC, a company based in Reno, Nevada, is currently developing the Z-RO “retinal obfuscation” gun. According to the firm’s website, the weapon, “Obstructs the target’s vision temporarily for up to 10-15 minutes via proprietary technology when deployed on engaged mark.”"

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