tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36989058613718784432024-03-13T22:09:35.611-05:00Christians Against Leftist HeresyFaultline USAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06691318732494110768noreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3698905861371878443.post-69696206858360201102012-04-05T02:23:00.002-05:002012-04-05T02:23:42.467-05:00NC Marriage Amendment On Ballot In May<h1><span style="font-size: small;">NC Marriage Amendment On Ballot In May<o:p _moz-userdefined=""></o:p></span></h1><h2><span style="font-size: small;">Dems Worried It Will Pass<o:p _moz-userdefined=""></o:p></span></h2><h1><span style="font-size: small;">A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet<o:p _moz-userdefined=""></o:p></span></h1><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">North Carolina has a republican controlled legislature, the first since the War Between the States. And it is driving the democrats wild. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">NC’s current governor, a democrat, is not seeking reelection after having observed the “handwriting on the wall,” and it now seems certain the GOP will take the Governor’s office, as well, in November.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoBodyText3"><span style="font-size: small;">One of the items driving the NC dems mad is the proposed “Marriage Amendment” to the NC state constitution. Basically, it says marriage between one man and one woman is the ONLY kind of marriage to be recognized in North Carolina. <o:p _moz-userdefined=""></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>Understand that same-sex marriage is already banned in North Carolina by law or statute.</i> Problem is, an activist judge can overturn a statute (or law). But <i>a judge cannot overturn a constitutional amendment.</i> <o:p _moz-userdefined=""></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">It will appear on the NC ballot on May 8<sup>th</sup>. The text of the measure reads as follows:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: blue;">“Constitutional amendment to provide that marriage between one man and one woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized in this State.”<o:p _moz-userdefined=""></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">Now. If the measure passes it will add an additional section to Article 14 of the North Carolina State Constitution: Section 6 will read thusly:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoBodyText2"><span style="font-size: small;">“Marriage between one man and one woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized in this State. This section does not prohibit a private party from entering into contracts with another private party; nor does this section prohibit courts from adjudicating the rights of private parties pursuant to such contracts.”</span></div><div class="MsoBodyText2"><br />
</div><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial;">“Supporters of gay rights and same-sex marriage argue that the amendment should not be added to the state constitution. They also argue that the subject - "rights of a minority" - should not be up for a vote. Others argue that the proposed amendment may lead to more bullying of gay youth and invalidate domestic violence protections for unmarried couples.</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial;">Some lawmakers argue that the proposed amendment will hurt employment in the state. Rep. Larry Hall said, "Instead of creating an environment where we can create employment, attract entrepreneurs (and) attract talent, we're going to try to put a sign up to say, 'You are not welcome if you want to contribute to our society.” </span></i> <span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/North_Carolina_Same-Sex_Marriage,_Amendment_1_%28May_2012">(SOURCE).</a><o:p _moz-userdefined=""></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">A handful of the mainline Christian denominations in North Carolina are opposing the amendment. And President Obama has voiced his dislike of the bill. No surprise there.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Now, here’s the problem for democrats in North Carolina May 8<sup>th</sup>. The problem, at first glance, may not register with you, but stay with me.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial;">North Carolina’s black voters are expected to turn out, in droves, to vote for Obama in November. But -- the Democratic Party desperately needs them to turn out for the May primary, as well. If the “get out the vote” drive in the black community is successful, then it could very well result in passage of the Marriage Amendment. </span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Now, here’s where it gets interesting: <b><i>Black voters in North Carolina, by and large, do not support same-sex marriage. </i></b> Blacks attend church in North Carolina, and like many of their white brothers and sisters who also attend church; they believe the teachings of the scriptures from which their pastors preach on Sundays.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">As uncomfortable as it may be for some, the scriptures, both Old and New Testaments, speak out loud and long -- and as clear as crystal -- that homosexuality is a sin. Conservative Christians, both black and white, in North Carolina believe that. It is an integral part of their faith, their religion.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Public Policy Polling, which is based in Raleigh, North Carolina, released the results of a survey on Thursday March 29<sup>th</sup> in which they found there is, indeed, strong support for the proposed amendment to the North Carolina constitution.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">P.P.P. surveyed 1,191 North Carolinians who stated they were likely to vote in the May 8<sup>th</sup> Primary. The Marriage Amendment proposal will be on the primary ballot as a statewide referendum.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">P.P.P. found <b>that 58% of those polled said they would vote in favor of the amendment.</b> <b><i>Only 38% told them they opposed the amendment.</i></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b><i> </i></b> <o:p _moz-userdefined=""></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Breaking the survey down a bit wore <b><i>we find that roughly 76% of Republicans surveyed said they support the amendment while 48% of Democrats (who were surveyed) also support the amendment -- and -- 47% of Democrats, in the same survey, oppose the amendment.</i></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b><i> </i></b> <o:p _moz-userdefined=""></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">But here is the part of the survey that has NC Democrats concerned: <b><i>The survey found that among black voters 61% are in favor of the amendment while only 30% oppose it. <o:p _moz-userdefined=""></o:p></i></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">You can now see how the heavy black voter turnout in May is more than a little worrisome for those who oppose the Marriage Amendment in North Carolina. It is a something of a <i>conundrum</i> for the folks on the political left. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The supporters of same-sex marriage, in order to convince blacks to vote against the measure, have mounted a campaign to convince NC voters that denying same-sex marriages is <i>“discrimination.”</i> They’re claiming it is a <i>civil rights</i> issue. A portion of NC black folk will have none of it. In fact, they resent it. Frankly, it also riles the white folk in Tar Heel country, too. Also, it deeply irritates white Tar Heel voters when those opposing the Marriage Amendment accuse them of hate. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">In my opinion, the measure will be passed and the NC Constitution will be amended – <i>because the people of North Carolina believe it is the right thing to do.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">J.D. Longstreet</span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=1273874&loc=en_US">Subscribe to Christians Against Leftist Heresy by Email</a></div>Longstreethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06712980841544338388noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3698905861371878443.post-4751263832163902052012-01-26T02:18:00.002-06:002012-01-26T02:18:56.509-06:00Democrat Code Words for Socialism<h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Democrat Code Words for Socialism<o:p _moz-userdefined=""></o:p></span></h2><h1><b><i><span style="font-size: small;">Fairness, Fair Share, income inequality, etc</span></i><o:p _moz-userdefined=""></o:p></b></h1><div class="MsoNormal"><b>A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet<o:p _moz-userdefined=""></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">Wouldn’t it be nice if the Democrats would simply drop their façade and admit they have morphed into some sort of American breed of a socialist political party?<o:p _moz-userdefined=""></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoBodyText2"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">In the past few months, even years, my teeth have been set on edge when I have listened to their rhetoric about “fairness,” in this or that, and their use of the words “fair share” to drive a wedge between the American classes, and especially the words, or phrase, “income inequality” which seals the deal. <o:p _moz-userdefined=""></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText2"><br />
</div><div class="MsoBodyText2"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">When a nation seeks <i>income equality</i> it is assuming socialism as its core philosophy. <i>Income inequality is the clarion call for redistribution of a nation’s wealth.</i> It is as simple and as basic as that</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">.<o:p _moz-userdefined=""></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText2"><br />
</div><div class="MsoBodyText2"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In the past two decades I have slowly come to the realization that the <i>dumbing down</i> of Americans is near completion. It has taken approximately 50 years to realize, but the leftist movement in America successfully infiltrated and gained control of America’s public education system. Now we have a full generation and most of a second generation who have no clue what America is about. They don’t have a clue what their freedom cost. They don’t have a clue that <i>the federal government was created by the states to serve the states as an agent.</i> They have been taught -- <i>and they believe</i> -- that the people of the states are subservient to the federal government. They do not understand that the Bill of Rights is a protection for the American people from their federal government. Those ten amendments restrain the federal government in the interest of the people. <o:p _moz-userdefined=""></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText2"><br />
</div><div class="MsoBodyText2"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Most of our young Americans today don’t know the difference between the Declaration of Independence, the US Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. Don’t believe me? Ask ‘em!<o:p _moz-userdefined=""></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText2"><br />
</div><div class="MsoBodyText2"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I have mentioned in previous articles that as a solider in the US military I was trained to meet and combat socialism on the battlefield. It was rightly recognized as an enemy of freedom. It was recognized as a form of government that was destined to fail, but before its demise, it would enslave the people of any nation that was so utterly stupid as to even try it. No nation has yet survived socialism. <o:p _moz-userdefined=""></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText2"><br />
</div><div class="MsoBodyText2"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Europe is teetering on the edge of complete disaster simply because they have run out of other people’s money with which to pacify their populace after decades of coddling and teaching them to depend on their government for their very existence. <o:p _moz-userdefined=""></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText2"><br />
</div><div class="MsoBodyText2"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The USSR is now a footnote in history.<o:p _moz-userdefined=""></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText2"><br />
</div><div class="MsoBodyText2"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Yet, despite the fact that America was nearly crushed under the weight of a mere sampling of socialism, the left persists in their socialist agenda for America.<o:p _moz-userdefined=""></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText2"><br />
</div><div class="MsoBodyText2"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In 2008, they managed to elect a socialist as President of the United States. In 2010 the people of the political right in America successfully blunted the socialist left’s endeavor to shove America deeper into socialism. Conservatives were successful in retaking a majority of the Congress.<o:p _moz-userdefined=""></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText2"><br />
</div><div class="MsoBodyText2"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Now we have a chance to solidify conservative control of the American government by refusing to reelect the socialist in the White House this November. <o:p _moz-userdefined=""></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText2"><br />
</div><div class="MsoBodyText2"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">It was clear after the President’s State of the Union address that their next step is to incite a class war in America. The great-unwashed masses in America must be taught to hate the “patricians” and the “plutocrats” – the very people who financed -- <i>and continue to finance</i> -- America’s success as the greatest nation in the history of mankind. <o:p _moz-userdefined=""></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText2"><br />
</div><div class="MsoBodyText2"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The wealthy Americans must be brought low and their wealth confiscated and redistributed to the – <i>ahem</i> – less fortunate among us. That is what I like to refer to as: <i>BOVINE SCATOLOGY!</i><o:p _moz-userdefined=""></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText2"><br />
</div><div class="MsoBodyText2"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Nevertheless, their efforts to incite class warfare has been more successful than most think. <i>It ought to be</i>. It has been an underground movement for at least nine decades now. With the left’s capture of the Oval Office the socialist were emboldened to rise to the surface and ram their agenda through the national legislature. <o:p _moz-userdefined=""></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText2"><br />
</div><div class="MsoBodyText2"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">But the right stopped them in 2010. That, dear reader, is why we now see the President’s abuse of the power of the Executive Order. Obama is intent on diluting democratic freedom in America by infusing socialism into every agency and administration under the control of the executive branch of the government.<o:p _moz-userdefined=""></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText2"><br />
</div><div class="MsoBodyText2"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Americans must retake control of their government in November and free it from the clutches of the socialist elite who have dipped their fangs into America’s bloodstream and are sucking her dry.<o:p _moz-userdefined=""></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText2"><br />
</div><div class="MsoBodyText2"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">America needs a champion who will lead from the front. A leader who take a stand on the deck of our sinking ship of state, much as the Father of the US Navy, Captain John Paul Jones, when his ship was blown to bits and sinking from enemy fire. When asked if he was prepared to surrender Jones famously replied: <i>“I have not yet BEGUN to fight!” </i>Against all odds,<i> </i>Jones won the battle and took the enemy ship.<i> <o:p _moz-userdefined=""></o:p></i></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText2"><br />
</div><div class="MsoBodyText2"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">THAT</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> is the spirit we need, indeed, <i>the spirit it will take</i> to lead America out of the muck and mire of socialism, put her back on course, trim her sails, and stir for the safe harbor of capitalism and freedom.<o:p _moz-userdefined=""></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText2"><br />
</div><div class="MsoBodyText2"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">It is a life or death decision we Americans will make in November -- the life or death of America. <o:p _moz-userdefined=""></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText2"><br />
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D. Longstreet</span></strong><br /><br />Allow me to say, right up front, that Mr. Glenn Beck does not need me to defend him.<br /><br />I don’t know, for sure, what motivates Mr. Beck. I’d like to think it is love of God and country. But I don’t KNOW that.<br /><br />Those of you who regularly read my blog, “INSIGHT on Freedom,” already know that I am about as “southern” as it is possible to be. My ancestors sailed into Charles Town Harbor, at what is known today as Charleston, South Carolina, in 1789 and were settled in the 98th Precinct of South Carolina. I grew up in the red clay and sand of the northern part of the state, in the piedmont, the foothills of that beautiful state.<br /><br />I grew up at a time when a southern gentleman had a bible in one hand and a firearm in the other. We could pray or fight, at the drop of a hat, whatever the preference of our advisory might be.<br /><br />I spent my youth reading, hunting, and getting an education. It was important that a southern man be well read, able to defend himself and his family, and have as much education as he was able to handle. (Yes, I DO believe there are those among us who are educated beyond their ability!) Not satisfied with the education I was receiving in school, I read an entire set of encyclopedias, front to back, just to broaden my knowledge, and insure that I knew a little bit about a lot of things. I cannot tell you how important that became in the field of endeavor I chose later in life.<br /><br />I was taken to many “tent meetings” as a child. I observed and studied those “traveling preachers.” I listened to their delivery, their gestures, their play on emotions, and, on occasion, their sincerity. A wise person once said that when you can fake sincerity you’ve got it made – or words to that effect. I am satisfied that in those tent meetings, I saw both, real and unreal sincerity. BOTH made and impact on me.<br /><br />I have seen the effect an old fashioned revival can have on a community. I have seen lives changed, for the better, in a moment of introspection keyed by something that raspy-voiced old bible thumping preacher said, or a single line of scripture that burned with the intensity of a laser deep into the heart and soul of a person weighed down by the cares and woes of a life squandered.<br /><br />I have seen, first-hand, those “redeemed” people pick up the pieces of their shattered lives and begin to rebuild it, restore it, and honor it. I have seen this – and it left a life long impression on this scribe.<br /><br />So – what did I learn? I learned an extremely important truth. It does not matter who the messenger is, what matters is – the message. The power is not in the messenger. The power is in the message. And if that message is truth, then, them believe me when I tell you, freedom is close behind.<br /><br />Our nation is in dire straits. In my seventy years of life, I have seen America go from a God-fearing nation to a “fearing” nation. Of all those hell fire and brimstone preachers I was exposed to as a child, not a single one of them wore a bulletproof vest, as I believe Mr. Beck did last Saturday. (A faint outline of the vest was visible through Mr. Beck’s shirt. At least, that is what I took it to be.) That, alone, speaks volumes about the state of our country.<br /><br />Another thing I learned as a youth was this truth: God uses people who are broken, who have failed, who have buckled under the stress of their lives, who are physically imperfect, and who are reluctant to stand out from the crowd, even for a moment, even to work great wonders.<br /><br />Yes, Moses had a speech impediment. He was reluctant to go back to Egypt where he was a wanted man – wanted for murder. He asked that his brother Aaron be sent instead of him. In the end, he went -- and the rest, as they say, is history (at least bible history, anyway.) In the New Testament book of Hebrews chapter 13, verse 31, the writer says the following: “It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.” Consider that Mr. Beck may have fallen into the hands of the living God. Look at the life history of the Apostle Paul. Early in his life he took on the task of destroying the early Christian church. After his experience on the Damascus Road, he became the messenger of the gospel to all the Gentiles of the world including those of us who live today, 2000 years later.<br /><br />I watched the entire telecast of the Restoring Honor Rally, last Saturday, and within ten minutes I exclaimed to my wife that I recognized it as an old-fashioned outdoor revival meeting. Because that is exactly what it was. And, I hasten to add – I don’t see that as a problem.<br /><br />In the Old South, dishonoring a man could cost you your life. The man whose honor was questioned could demand satisfaction and, more often than not, the debate was settled by a duel to the death on the Field of Honor.<br /><br />Honor was, and ought to be, a precious thing. The honor of a nation is a mirror image of the honor of that nation’s people. Our very own leaders have called our honor, as Americans, into question. The people are now demanding satisfaction. As was said at the Restoring Honor Rally, Now is not the time to fundamentally change America, now is the time to RESTORE America.<br /><br />Look, I do not walk in lock step with Mr. Beck, or with any man or woman. Anyone who knows me personally will tell you that of all the birds perched on the power line facing north; I am the lone bird facing south. It is my nature.<br /><br />I would ask only this: Consider the message from Saturday’s rally. Restoring America’s honor is restoring America. The restoration of America is vital, not just to Americans but to the nations of the world. Consider which nation will slip into the leadership position that America gives up. THAT is truly frightening.<br /><br />The restoring Honor Rally, last weekend, sent chills of fear through the ranks of the leftists, progressives, liberals, and the very few real democrats left in our government. They have now seen the evidence of just how far they have distanced themselves from the American people. When half a million people journey to the nation’s seat of government to PERSONALLY register a protest, any reasonable person would have to take notice and reconsider the course they have plotted for America. But they won’t.<br /><br />I submit that half a million gathered on the national mall Saturday was just the vanguard of a nationwide movement retake America from those who are determined to “fundamentally change” her from the constitutional republic The Founders meant her to be into a socialist sewer.<br /><br />They must be stopped. The Mid-Term Election, on November 2nd. That is our new “D” day.<br /><br />You may not care for the messenger – but, for the sake of America, for your sake, heed of the message.<br /></div><br /><div>J. D. Longstreet</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=1273874&loc=en_US">Subscribe to Christians Against Leftist Heresy by Email</a></div>Longstreethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06712980841544338388noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3698905861371878443.post-9063051224792417972010-07-14T11:44:00.001-05:002010-07-14T11:44:24.926-05:00More Presbyterian Sins and The Fall of the Presbyterian Church USA<h4>Now Presbyterians Call on the U.S. government to end aid to Israel. What will they do next?</h4> <p>The fall of the Presbyterian Church (PCUSA) into apostasy can be directly attributed to the long-time infiltration of far left components into the bureaucracy and leadership of all of the mainline Christian denominations. This has been a growing theological cancer for much of the 20<sup>th</sup> century. We are finally at a point in time where these once venerable denominations have become merely Christians in name only. They are, for all intents and purposes, nothing more than the religious arm of leftist politics (see Liberation Theology and Marxist Christianity). The Presbyterian Church (PCUSA) is now captive to and a willing dupe of the far left politically powerful zealots within this denomination. </p> <p>The following is an excerpt from a report by Mark Braverman on the outcome of the 219th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church USA with regard to Israel-Palestine conflict.</p> <p></p> <p><a href="http://www.eurasiareview.com/201007145025/presbyterians-insist-on-breaking-down-the-walls-in-israelpalestine-despite-pressure-from-jewish-community.html">Presbyterians Insist On 'Breaking Down The Walls' In Israel/Palestine Despite Pressure From Jewish Community</a></p> <blockquote> <p>The PC(USA) is at the epicenter of the struggle of the Christian community in the U.S. to come to terms with the challenge of the Israel-Palestine conflict. . .</p> <p>While strongly asserting the church’s commitment to Israel’s security and wellbeing, the Study Committee’s report as presented to the General Assembly clearly presents the narrative of Palestinian dispossession and suffering.  It asserts that Israel’s actions, illegal and in violation of international law, are an “enduring threat to peace in the region.” It receives the <a href="http://www.oikoumene.org/en/resources/documents/other-ecumenical-bodies/kairos-palestine-document.html">Palestinian Kairos document,</a> a courageous and heartfelt call of Palestinian Christians “from the heart of Palestinian suffering” to the churches of the world, and recommends it for study by Presbyterians. It calls on the U.S. government to end aid to Israel unless the country stops settlement expansion in Palestinian territories. . .</p> </blockquote> <h5>Bernice Lipkin, editor of <a href="http://www.think-israel.org/">Think-Israel.org</a>, sent me the following links to two articles concerning the anti-Israel agenda of the PCUSA.</h5> <blockquote> <p><b>THE U.S. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH'S RENEWED ATTACK ON ISRAEL </b> <br /><b><i>by Dexter Van Zile </i></b></p> <p>  In this well-documented yet readable article, Dexter Van Zile reviews the sorry history of the Presbyterian Church's efforts to divest itself and others from investments in Israel, using attacks on Israel, partial withdrawal, and then renewed attacks. The point of view of the activists who control official reports is solidly in sympathy with the Palestinians, who are visualized as the suffering victims of a harsh and illegal occupation by Israel. As VanZile writes, "Leveling chimerical accusations at Israel in the name of peace, these activists seek to enlist their fellow Presbyterians - and the church's bureaucracy - into their efforts to banish the modern state of Israel from the community of civilized nations and portray it as uniquely worthy of criticism and condemnation." With each swing of the pendulum, the Church -- by backing these activists -- makes more obvious a more basic agenda: the delegimization of the State of Israel. How long will it be before crude anti-Jewish statements -- not clothed in pseudo theology or in a view of Middle East history that ignores most of the facts -- will be acceptable? </p> </blockquote> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.think-israel.org/vanzile.presbyterianrenewedattack.html">Continued here</a></p> </blockquote> <blockquote> <p><b>THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH HAS ATTITUDE TOWARDS ISRAEL </b> <br /><b><i>A Q and Q with Will Spotts by Bernice Lipkin </i></b></p> <p>  Anticipatory stories of the 2010 General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church were filled with reports that there were to be motions for divestiture/boycott of Israel that would position the Presbyterian Church more strongly and intemperately in the ranks of the Palestinian sympathizers. I had some specific questions. I asked Will Spotts for clarification. We also include an addendum: Spotts's analysis after the ball was over, the General Assembly ended.</p> <p><a href="http://www.think-israel.org/spotts.interviewapr10.html">Continued here</a></p> </blockquote> <h5>This week Faultline USA contributors have posted four additional articles, due to their timely nature, concerning the sins of mainline Christianity and in particularly, those of the Presbyterian Church USA: </h5> <p><b><a href="http://faultlineusa.blogspot.com/2010/07/liberation-theology-moves-to-border.html">Liberation Theology Moves to the Border</a></b></p> <p>The far left Presbyterian (PCUSA) has <a href="http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20100709/COLUMNISTS22/7100314">joined the Arizona Boycott</a> and refuses "to hold national meetings in Arizona and any states that adopt strict immigration laws such as Arizona's new Senate Bill 1070." . . .</p> <p><a href="http://faultlineusa.blogspot.com/2010/07/liberation-theology-moves-to-border.html">Continued here</a></p> <p><b><a href="http://faultlineusa.blogspot.com/2010/07/demise-of-mainline-religious.html">The Demise of Mainline Religious Denominations in America</a></b></p> <p>. . .Look, churches cannot claim to be representatives of God on this earth, a Christian church, and then teach a congregation a lifestyle that is not Christian and certainly not in keeping with what the scriptures tell us God/Christ taught us -- and demands of us. It is as simple as that.</p> <p><a href="http://faultlineusa.blogspot.com/2010/07/demise-of-mainline-religious.html">Continued here</a></p> <p><b><a href="http://faultlineusa.blogspot.com/2010/07/evils-of-collective-salvation.html">The Evils of Collective Salvation</a></b></p> <p>. . .You may have first heard about “collective salvation” from the infamous “Rev.” Sun Myung Moon in his 1997 address <a href="http://www.tparents.org/Moon-talks/sunmyungmoon97/SM970501.htm">Personal Salvation and Collective Salvation</a>. With the growth of religious pluralism over the last decade, much of Mainline Christianity seems to have blindly joined this chorus rooting for “collective salvation” while blissfully unaware that this is all part of the revolutionary move toward a new global church based upon the old Marxist notion of . . .</p> <p><a href="http://faultlineusa.blogspot.com/2010/07/evils-of-collective-salvation.html">Continued here</a></p> <p><b><a href="http://faultlineusa.blogspot.com/2010/07/paganism-of-pcusa.html">The Paganism of the PCUSA?</a></b></p> <p>. . .An Orthodox Church theologian who was invited to greet the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has criticized <a href="http://www.onenewsnow.com/Church/Default.aspx?id=1082784">its approval of non-celibate homosexual clergy</a>.</p> <p>The Reverend Siarhei Hardun of Belarus said that vote and efforts to approve same-gender "marriage" looked to him like an attempt to "invent a new religion -- a sort of modern paganism." . . .</p> <p><a href="http://faultlineusa.blogspot.com/2010/07/paganism-of-pcusa.html">Continued here</a></p> <div class="wlWriterSmartContent" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:1cab21e9-1845-4c11-8287-c3dbfca1336f" style="padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Key:%20Bernice%20Lipkin" rel="tag">Key: Bernice Lipkin</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Think-Israel.org" rel="tag">Think-Israel.org</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Israel" rel="tag">Israel</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Palestinians" rel="tag">Palestinians</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Presbyterian" rel="tag">Presbyterian</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/church" rel="tag">church</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Christian" rel="tag">Christian</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Christians" rel="tag">Christians</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Bible" rel="tag">Bible</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Jewish" rel="tag">Jewish</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Jews" rel="tag">Jews</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/PCUSA" rel="tag">PCUSA</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/2010%20General%20Assembly" rel="tag">2010 General Assembly</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Dexter%20Van%20Zile" rel="tag">Dexter Van Zile</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Will%20Spotts" rel="tag">Will Spotts</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Mark%20Braverman" rel="tag">Mark Braverman</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Reverend%20Siarhei%20Hardun" rel="tag">Reverend Siarhei Hardun</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Belarus" rel="tag">Belarus</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/left" rel="tag">left</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/leftist" rel="tag">leftist</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/heresy" rel="tag">heresy</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/apostasy" rel="tag">apostasy</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/aid" rel="tag">aid</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Liberation%20Theology" rel="tag">Liberation Theology</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Marxist" rel="tag">Marxist</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Arizona" rel="tag">Arizona</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Border" rel="tag">Border</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/immigration%20laws" rel="tag">immigration laws</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/illegal" rel="tag">illegal</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/mainline" rel="tag">mainline</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/religion" rel="tag">religion</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/collective%20salvation" rel="tag">collective salvation</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/scriptures" rel="tag">scriptures</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/homosexual" rel="tag">homosexual</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/gay" rel="tag">gay</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Lesbian" rel="tag">Lesbian</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/clergy" rel="tag">clergy</a></div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=1273874&loc=en_US">Subscribe to Christians Against Leftist Heresy by Email</a></div>Faultline USAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06691318732494110768noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3698905861371878443.post-67564014804454757622010-07-13T12:58:00.001-05:002010-07-13T12:58:21.929-05:00Liberation Theology Moves to the Border<p>The far left Presbyterian (PCUSA) has <a href="http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20100709/COLUMNISTS22/7100314">joined the Arizona Boycott</a> and refuses "to hold national meetings in Arizona and any states that adopt strict immigration laws such as Arizona's new Senate Bill 1070."</p> <blockquote> <p>Dozens of municipalities and private organizations have announced various types of boycotts or protests over the policy. But no religious groups were included as of Friday on lists assembled by the Arizona Republic newspaper and a private, pro-boycott organization called Arizona Boycott Clearinghouse. . .</p> </blockquote> <blockquote> <p>"Our work will always be to stand with those who are the most marginalized," said Rick Ufford-Chase of New York, a former moderator of the denomination who for years worked with immigrants in Tucson, Ariz.</p> </blockquote> <p>The PCUSA, which is on it's last legs as a viable mainline denomination, has given itself over to the <a href="http://faultlineusa.blogspot.com/2010/07/paganism-of-pcusa.html">open pandering</a> of all so-called "marginalized" groups, and to heretical leftist theology in an attempt to bolster it's sagging membership rolls.</p> <p>Read  <a href="http://faultlineusa.blogspot.com/2010/07/demise-of-mainline-religious.html">The Demise of Mainline Religious Denominations in America</a></p> <p>It would appear that the truly marginalized are the long-suffering legal residents of Arizona and of all the border states, who have had to put up with the continued onslaught of violent and deadly crime brought about by the massive illegal invasion from across the deliberately unsecured border!!!</p> <p>These panderers, who call themselves Christians, have a completely different "progressive" agenda and they are hardly champions of the marginalized, who are ultimately their pawns. </p> <p>Read <a href="http://faultlineusa.blogspot.com/2010/07/evils-of-collective-salvation.html">The Evils of Collective Salvation</a></p> <p><em><strong>The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.</strong></em> (Charles Stanley, <u>How to Listen to God</u>, p.50)</p> <p> <strong>But there is hope!!!</strong></p> <p><strong><a href="http://www.39online.com/news/local/kiah-religious-leaders-immigration-debate-story,0,3400320.story">Houston Religious Leaders Support Arizona with the God Bless Arizona tour.</a></strong></p> <p><strong>1. Secure the borders 1st</strong></p> <p><strong>2. Reform the immigration system</strong></p> <p><strong>3. Deal humanely with those who are here illegally</strong></p> <p>. . . Activists across the country have organized boycotts against the state and some Houstonians have jumped on board. "We wanted to counter the boycotts with our very own boycott," said Craig Winfree, who is part of a Houston group that organized the God Bless Arizona Tour.</p> <p>For three days, the group toured the sunshine state showing their support for Governor Brewer's law. "(She) has been the first to stand up and pass the legislation to secure the border to keep the people of Arizona safe." said Winfree. With so much controversy on both sides, Houston religious leaders said the immigration debate has become a crisis. "We feel like there is a need for a moderating voice," said Steve Riggle, a pastor at Grace Community Church. </p> <p>On Wednesday, the group of pastors announced a declaration calling all political leaders to set aside their differences. "Secure the border first, second reform the immigration system and third deal humanely with those who are here illegally," said Pastor Riggle. So while the state of Arizona and the government prepare to duke it out in court. "I would rather see the feds and the state of Arizona not fighting and go fix this problem, said Riggle. Religious leaders hope their declaration will help bring a peaceful solution.</p> <p>Source: <a title="http://www.39online.com/news/local/kiah-religious-leaders-immigration-debate-story,0,3400320.story" href="http://www.39online.com/news/local/kiah-religious-leaders-immigration-debate-story,0,3400320.story">http://www.39online.com/news/local/kiah-religious-leaders-immigration-debate-story,0,3400320.story</a></p> <p><strong>Glenn Beck Monday on Black Liberation Theology</strong></p> <blockquote> <p>This is the ideology of Barack Obama's church for 20 years, and the theology of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. The Black Panthers believe in Black Liberation Theology. Glenn plays some of the audio from the man who started the Black Liberation Theology movement and explains how it pertains to today. Check it out from radio.( <a href="http://www.dat-e-baseonline.com/front/a.asp?arg=8F7D995F927D7B61676E7981628B73798C6B706A7D7D73">Transcript</a>, Insider <a href="http://www.dat-e-baseonline.com/front/a.asp?arg=8F7D995F927D7B61676E7981628B73798C6B706A7D7D74">Audio</a>)</p> </blockquote> <p>Be sure to watch and record Glenn Beck today, July 13th. 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D. Longstreet</span></strong></div><div><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">*******************</span></strong><br /><br />America is in trouble. BIG TROUBLE! I write not of the financial mess in which we find ourselves embroiled. No. The crisis of which I speak is a crisis of the soul of every individual American. And the blame for this endangerment of the souls of Americans can be laid at the feet of the hierarchy of the mainline religious denominations in America.<br /><br />This nation, whether you choose to believe it -- or not, was founded as much on biblical scripture as it was on common law. America used to be a “God-fearing” nation filled with people who KNEW they relied upon the kindness and the grace of an omnipotent God to guide them through any troubles they/we as individuals, and as a nation, faced. That is no longer the case. The result of of switching America’s fealty from God to man is plain for all to see. We are today – a pitiful nation in decline.<br /><br />America resembles nothing less today than a once powerful, muscular, man whose body is riddled by cancer and has shrunken to a shell of its former being.<br /><br />When America was young and vital the ministers of the mainline denominations took to their pulpits to preach from the Scriptures. They told their parishioners of the story of God’s benevolence, his faithfulness, and they told us of his jealousy. They reminded Americans that God himself said: “I am a jealous God!”<br /><br />Those of us perched in the pews knew there was a price to be paid for willfully disconnecting oneself from the power source that is God. Equally as important, I think, we Americans knew, in those days, that America was no accident. We KNEW that America was to us as the Promised Land had been, and remains, to the Jewish people.<br /><br />The extreme importance the ministers, priests, and rabbis of the churches and synagogues cannot be overestimated. It was they who shepherded the huge flock known as America in the way they should go. And America was so much better for it.<br /><br />The bitter truth is, in my opinion, the church has turned its collective back on the One they purportedly serve and now serve, instead, their own interests, their own, politics, their own politically correct philosophy of what God ought to be, and, in so doing, they have created God in their own image. And what a pitiful god they have created!<br /><br />Moral equivalence has no place in the pulpit. When God, Himself, refers to some action, or inaction of man as a sin, then it is not left to the ministers to equivocate. They are bound to pass God’s pronouncement on to the sheep of their flock. For a pastor to do less cannot be defined as being honest with either man or God.<br /><br />There was a time, not so long ago, when ministers were the pillars of their community, both the religious community and the secular community. They were solid citizens. They could be looked up to, relied upon, and trusted. In many cases they were role models for youngsters who would later join their ranks as pastors, priests, and rabbis. That was then. This is now.<br /><br />Those members left in the congregations of today’s mainline churches are growing older as the rolls continue to shrink. Attendance at services is very low. In some of the denominations there seems to be an on going struggle of wills between the membership and the hierarchy of the churches. Such an atmosphere is not conducive to worship. Sniping? Maybe. Worship? No.<br /><br />So what has happened? It has been my personal observation that the hierarchy of the mainline churches went left and adopted so much of the philosophy of the left that many of their members left. I don’t mean the membership went left, also. I mean they LEFT as in: They went away. In fact, many of them went right. That is just another way of saying they began to associate themselves with churches that still believe, preach, and practice the scriptures. That explains why the evangelical churches in America are growing by leaps and bounds.<br /><br />Look, churches cannot claim to be representatives of God on this earth, a Christian church, and then teach a congregation a lifestyle that is not Christian and certainly not in keeping with what the scriptures tell us God/Christ taught us -- and demands of us. It is as simple as that.<br /><br />Somehow, the mainline denominations have made a turn away from God, away from those age-old lessons He has taught us through the authority of the scriptures, and now they find themselves blindly stumbling down the road to complete oblivion. And the really sad thing -- they don’t understand why.<br /><br />I know this is not the popular explanation for what has befallen those shrinking denominations – I do. But when you clear all the smoke away, get past all the excuses, and really, REALLY, look at how the churches got into this fix, there is only one answer.<br /><br />Look, I am a refugee from one of those churches. I saw this coming. I fought it for about five years, or so. I argued my way up the hierarchical ladder to the top – only to have my national bishop tell me I didn’t know what the dickens I was talking about (in a kindly and gentle fashion, of course). It was then that I decided to cut my losses and hit the door. I did so amidst numerous accusations that I would not stay and fight from within the church. My answer was that I was following the teachings of the scriptures in getting myself “OUT from among them.”<br /><br />I hold that the collapse of the mainline denominations not only will have, but already HAS had, an extremely negative effect on America. All one has to do is consider our society today, our government, our education system, practically every facet of American life which was so carefully influenced by the church in the early days of America. Observe how it has all become so crass, so unkind, and so angry. It is obvious that something is missing. The churches in America once provided that missing thing.<br /><br />There was a time when the church not only set the standards for American society, often times it WAS the standard for our society. They spoke with the authority of the scriptures. When the mainline denominations turned their backs on the scriptures they began losing their authority… and their followers who, naturally, sought green pastures and still waters in the flocks of the evangelicals who still believe that being biblically correct rather than politically correct is the path to righteousness and the guarantee of eternal rest.<br /><br />Why is this so difficult for our mainline denominations to understand?<br /></div><br /><div>J. D. Longstreet </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=1273874&loc=en_US">Subscribe to Christians Against Leftist Heresy by Email</a></div>Longstreethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06712980841544338388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3698905861371878443.post-46209981175828477982010-07-12T14:37:00.001-05:002010-07-12T14:37:21.269-05:00The Evils of Collective Salvation<p>Christians, what you don’t know about so-called “collective” or “communal salvation,” aka “Social Justice,” could pave your road to hell! I won’t pull any punches here. Christians must become grounded in sound Biblical truths so as not to be easily led astray. Today there are literally thousands of “Christian” churches here in the United States, and several denominations, that are Christian in name only and have completely abandoned all sound traditional Christian doctrine.</p> <p>You may have first heard about “collective salvation” from the infamous “Rev.” Sun Myung Moon in his 1997 address <a href="http://www.tparents.org/Moon-talks/sunmyungmoon97/SM970501.htm">Personal Salvation and Collective Salvation</a>. With the growth of religious pluralism over the last decade, much of Mainline Christianity seems to have blindly joined this chorus rooting for “collective salvation” while blissfully unaware that this is all part of the revolutionary move toward a new global church based upon the old Marxist notion of <b>redistribution of wealth</b>.</p> <p><b>Below are excerpts from a variety of articles dealing with various aspects “collective salvation” as an integral part of the left’s assault on Christianity through misguided notions born of religious pluralism.</b></p> <p>Those who teach this grave Theological error are promoting a socialistic community based upon Marxist thought. Read this excerpt from the <a href="http://www.crossroad.to/Quotes/spirituality/lighthousetrails/emergent-manifesto.htm">Emergent Manifesto</a>. Please note that the use of the term “emergent” when attached to Christian = progressive=leftist=Marxist thought. </p> <blockquote> <p>This new collective spirituality leads people into a <a href="http://www.crossroad.to/Quotes/Church/compromise/third-way-socialism.htm">socialistic community</a> where rituals, practices, and social justice become a means of salvation, but not the salvation you think of in a personal sense of being born-again through Jesus Christ. This is a collective salvation [1] that includes whole cultures and communities who follow the way of someone referred to as Jesus.</p> </blockquote> <h4>Here’s an excerpt from <a href="http://faultlineusa.blogspot.com/2007/09/pledging-your-moral-stand-for.html">Pledging Your Moral Stand for Immigrants Rights</a></h4> <blockquote> <p>. . .Most church attendees have no idea of what’s actually going on behind the scenes in their particular denominations. There’s a certain comfort in knowing that you are worshiping in the same faith tradition as your parents and grandparents. Unfortunately, the only intact part of that traditional faith may be the denominational name. Few Christian parishioners have any idea where the money they donate actually ends up. Here’s a clue:</p> <p>The money sent to ministries sponsored by the NCC go to support a variety of Social Justice values – many of which are clearly Marxist/socialistic values: communal salvation (as opposed to individual salvation), open borders, sanctuary for illegal aliens, an immediate end to the war in Iraq, and eradicating America’s Whiteness (<a href="http://faultlineusa.blogspot.com/2007/04/keeping-racism-alive-by-eradicating.html">White Privilege</a>) once and for all. Warfare conducted by a nation (<em>bad</em>) is not viewed in the same light as a revolution (<em>good</em>). Social Justice, born of Marxist Liberation Theology, promotes the view that Jesus was a revolutionary leader and any revolution by an oppressed people against the established order is considered a Christian duty. Need I go on? . . .</p> </blockquote> <p><b>Evangelicals should read “</b><a href="http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/05/peace-un-2.htm"><b>Treason in the Church</b></a><b>”. Here’s an excerpt:</b></p> <blockquote> <p><i>"Various churches and denominations claim to be <b>undergoing '</b></i><b><a href="http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/05/sarah-leslie/transformation.htm"><i>transformation</i></a></b><i>.' This word no longer refers to the humble sanctification of the individual believer. Rather, it now refers to an orchestrated, systemic and revolutionary overhaul of the global church, including the 'transformation' of cities, societies, cultures, marketplaces, and more. . ."</i></p> <p>Meanwhile numerous mainline Protestant denominations and some evangelical churches are actively implementing the NCC’s: <b>For the Peace of the World: A Christian Curriculum on International Relations</b><b></b></p> </blockquote> <h5>For a frightening overview of what is happening in many churches today right beneath our collective noses, please read: <a href="http://faultlineusa.blogspot.com/2007/04/united-nations-entrenched-within-most.html">United Nations Entrenched Within Most Christian Denominations</a></h5> <p><b>Here’s an excerpt from </b><a href="http://faultlineusa.blogspot.com/2007/02/road-to-islamification-is-paved-by.html"><b>The Road to Islamification is Paved by Religious Pluralism</b></a><b></b></p> <blockquote> <p><b>Social Justice</b> (as commonly understood today): <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_justice"><i>Social justice </i></a><i>mostly refers to an ideal of society, where "justice" refers to economic status rather than to the administration of laws. It is based on the idea of a society which gives individuals and groups fair treatment and a just share of the benefits of society, although what is "fair treatment" and a "just share" must remain unclear or subject to interpretation. . .</i> <br /><b></b></p> <p><b>Think: Redistribution of wealth from wealthy (imperialistic) nations of the West to poor 3rd and 4th world nations.</b></p> </blockquote> <p><b>Read this from Glenn Beck - July 9, 2010 Update</b></p> <p><b>Obama: Individual salvation depends on collective salvation</b></p> <blockquote> <p>It's a phrase he's mentioned a few times, but could explain much of why the President is jamming a Marxist agenda down the throats of Americans. He believes in collective salvation, and that's an idea straight out of the Jeremiah Wright playbook. Remember, Obama credits Jeremiah Wright with bringing him to faith. Glenn explains more about this ideology that is directly at odds with traditional Christianity. ( <a href="http://www.dat-e-baseonline.com/front/a.asp?arg=8F7D995F927D7B61676E7981628B73798C6A7973837C78">Transcript</a>, Insider <a href="http://www.dat-e-baseonline.com/front/a.asp?arg=8F7D995F927D7B61676E7981628B73798C6A7973837C79">Audio</a>)</p> <p>GLENN: . . .Collective salvation, excuse me for being a Jesus freak, is from Satan. Collective salvation is from the devil, not God. And we have some audio of the president talking about his collective salvation. His personal salvation will not happen unless there is collective salvation, that is evil. . . .</p> <p>STU: What does that even mean, collective salvation? How did he mean? <br />GLENN: Collective salvation, unless we all are saved, none will be saved, okay? Jesus came to save you, okay? Let me just give you the — real quick, you've got to take it back, you've got to take it back to the war in heaven. War in heaven with the angels and everything else, and they have this war and Lucifer says, "I'm going to save all of them. Just give me the glory." And God says, no, I don't think so. And he selects, he selects the plan of Christ which, I'm going to send a savior down and he will save each individual, okay? That's why he's — that's why God came — that's why, you know, God came down and saved the — saved us all because of individual salvation. You accept the atonement of Jesus Christ and you are saved. Collective salvation is, I can't be saved on my own, I can't be. I have to make sure and ensure everyone else's salvation and then we're all saved together. . . .</p> <p>GLENN: This is the same way, this is the same thing that — this is the root of social justice. Social justice has to happen because we all are in this together. It also is the way that you can excuse killing cracker babies. You can kill millions of people because they don't get it, and if we don't get them out of the way, we can't all be saved. Now, this is the religious context. Now, not everybody who is — you know, most people who are like Stalin, they don't believe in the religious side. But the American social justice progressive, in the way the early 20th century or Jeremiah Wright understand collective salvation, this is it. And it is out and out evil. And I want you to hear what the president has said about his own salvation, how he cannot achieve it without collective salvation. We'll play that for you in about a half an hour. . . .</p> </blockquote> <p><b>And Finally here is an excerpt from </b><a href="http://www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?secid=1501&status=article&id=305420655186700"><b>Michelle's Boot Camps For Radicals</b></a></p> <blockquote> <p>Published 9/4/2008 in INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY</p> <p>The Obamas discourage work in the private sector. "Don't go into corporate America," Michelle has exhorted youth. "Work for the community. Be social workers." Shun the "money culture," . . .</p> <p>Barack added. "Individual salvation depends on collective salvation." . . .</p> </blockquote> <div class="wlWriterSmartContent" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:d5298b93-880c-4aa2-81f0-d46dcc238634" style="padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Christian" rel="tag">Christian</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Christianity" rel="tag">Christianity</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Jesus" rel="tag">Jesus</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/emergent" rel="tag">emergent</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Social%20Justice%20Salvation" rel="tag">Social Justice Salvation</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/individual" rel="tag">individual</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/collective" rel="tag">collective</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/communal" rel="tag">communal</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/community" rel="tag">community</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/pluralism" rel="tag">pluralism</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/socialistic" rel="tag">socialistic</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/leftist" rel="tag">leftist</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/National%20Council%20of%20Churches" rel="tag">National Council of Churches</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/NCC" rel="tag">NCC</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/United%20Nations" rel="tag">United Nations</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Marxist" rel="tag">Marxist</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Liberation%20Theology" rel="tag">Liberation Theology</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/progressive" rel="tag">progressive</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Glenn%20Beck" rel="tag">Glenn Beck</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Barack%20Obama" rel="tag">Barack Obama</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Michelle" rel="tag">Michelle</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Sun%20Myung%20Moon" rel="tag">Sun Myung Moon</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Jeremiah%20Wright" rel="tag">Jeremiah Wright</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/White%20Privilege" rel="tag">White Privilege</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/transformation" rel="tag">transformation</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/sanctification" rel="tag">sanctification</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/economic%20status" rel="tag">economic status</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Redistribution%20of%20wealth" rel="tag">Redistribution of wealth</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/radicals" rel="tag">radicals</a></div> <p><font color="#558866"> </font></p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=1273874&loc=en_US">Subscribe to Christians Against Leftist Heresy by Email</a></div>Faultline USAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06691318732494110768noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3698905861371878443.post-88690413957230775532010-07-12T08:30:00.001-05:002010-07-12T08:30:08.111-05:00The Paganism of the PCUSA?<p> </p> <p>The following is from <a href="http://www.onenewsnow.com/Church/Default.aspx?id=1082990">OneNewsNow.com</a></p> <blockquote> <p>PCUSA's 'gay' measures reflect 'modern paganism' </p> <p>Associated Press - 7/11/2010 4:20:00 AM<a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php"><img height="16" alt="Bookmark and Share" src="http://s9.addthis.com/button1-addthis.gif" width="125" border="0" /></a></p> <p><img title="Associated Press logo small" alt="Associated Press logo small" src="http://www.onenewsnow.com/uploadedImages/Sections/_UNPUBLISHED/03_Wednesday/APlogo.jpg" align="left" border="0" /><img title="PCUSA Presbyterian seal" alt="PCUSA Presbyterian seal" src="http://www.onenewsnow.com/uploadedImages/Media/Images/PCUSAseal.JPG" align="right" border="0" />MINNEAPOLIS - An Orthodox Church theologian who was invited to greet the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has criticized <a href="http://www.onenewsnow.com/Church/Default.aspx?id=1082784">its approval of non-celibate homosexual clergy</a>.</p> <p>The Reverend Siarhei Hardun of Belarus said that vote and efforts to approve same-gender "marriage" looked to him like an attempt to "invent a new religion -- a sort of modern paganism."</p> <p>"Christian morality is as old as Christianity itself. It doesn't need to be invented now," he said of attempts to create what he described as a "new morality."</p> <p>Hardun added, "When people say that they are led and guided by the Holy Spirit to do it, I wonder if it is the same Holy Spirit that inspired the Bible."</p> <p>The Orthodox priest's remarks drew applause from conservative Presbyterians who made similar arguments at the gathering in Minneapolis.</p> </blockquote> <div class="wlWriterSmartContent" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:029fb438-684f-483f-9795-5b0d10a44403" style="padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Christian" rel="tag">Christian</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Christianity" rel="tag">Christianity</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/gay" rel="tag">gay</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/homosexuality" rel="tag">homosexuality</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Presbyterian" rel="tag">Presbyterian</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/PCUSA" rel="tag">PCUSA</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/heresy" rel="tag">heresy</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/pagan" rel="tag">pagan</a></div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=1273874&loc=en_US">Subscribe to Christians Against Leftist Heresy by Email</a></div>Faultline USAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06691318732494110768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3698905861371878443.post-57436902783515854402010-06-02T07:31:00.001-05:002010-06-02T07:31:45.391-05:00Nancy Gets High on The Word<p>Nothing can ever be more profound than listening to a confirmed Progressive expound upon Biblical truths!</p> <p> </p> <p></p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; width: 347px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:888a7d3e-2780-4697-ba5a-5c0dadbc194a" class="wlWriterSmartContent"><div><object width="347" height="279"><param name="movie" value="http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/eyeblast.swf?v=XdqGnzIrSU" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/eyeblast.swf?v=XdqGnzIrSU" allowfullscreen="true" width="347" height="279" /></object></div></div> <p></p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:4dc48921-a5e9-47b5-b347-1f3b65558297" class="wlWriterSmartContent">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Bible" rel="tag">Bible</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Word" rel="tag">Word</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Biblical" rel="tag">Biblical</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Truth" rel="tag">Truth</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Progressive" rel="tag">Progressive</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Liberal" rel="tag">Liberal</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Christianity" rel="tag">Christianity</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Christian" rel="tag">Christian</a></div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=1273874&loc=en_US">Subscribe to Christians Against Leftist Heresy by Email</a></div>Faultline USAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06691318732494110768noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3698905861371878443.post-6259161738758564492010-05-20T01:55:00.004-05:002010-05-20T02:02:52.537-05:00Non-Church Goers Form The Base of Obama’s Support<div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9E1soGWi6d4/S_TdYZuMNOI/AAAAAAAAK8s/DBwzKp2fsXA/s1600/A+B+++Generic+Header+#+1-+A.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473242858453218530" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 169px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9E1soGWi6d4/S_TdYZuMNOI/AAAAAAAAK8s/DBwzKp2fsXA/s400/A+B+++Generic+Header+%23+1-+A.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Non-Church Goers Form The Base of Obama’s Support</span></strong></div><div><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet<br />*********************</span></strong></div></div><div> </div><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9E1soGWi6d4/S_Td3PXcixI/AAAAAAAAK80/NNjFSPkxRNg/s1600/SOCIALISM+vs+CHRISTIANITY++religious-left.jpg"><strong><em><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473243388249410322" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 224px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9E1soGWi6d4/S_Td3PXcixI/AAAAAAAAK80/NNjFSPkxRNg/s320/SOCIALISM+vs+CHRISTIANITY++religious-left.jpg" border="0" /></em></strong></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><em>This should come as no surprise to anyone!<br /><br />According to an article at CNSNEWS.COM entitled: “Americans Who Don’t Attend Church Form Base of Obama’s Support, Gallup Polling Indicates,” Terence P. Jeffrey, Editor-in-Chief writes the following:<br /><br />“Gallup reports the breakouts from its presidential approval survey for three different types of church-goers: people who attend church weekly, people who attend church nearly weekly or monthly, and people who seldom or never attend church. Among these three groups, Obama’s approval rating tops 50 percent only among those who seldom or never attend church. In fact, among this group it was at 56 percent for the week ending May 8.”<br /><br />Jeffrey went on to write: “Obama’s approval rating dropped to a low of 38 percent among weekly church-goers in the week that ended on April 4. By contrast, Obama’s presidential approval rating has never dropped below 50 percent among those who seldom or never go to church. (Read the entire story </em></strong></span><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/65861"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><em>HERE.</em></strong></span></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><em>)<br /><br />Surely you are not surprised by these findings – are you? You should not be. As far back as the presidential campaign, Obama was supported by the less religious among Americans.<br /><br />In an article from the “Christian Post UK,” and posted on “Directions to Orthodoxy” dated July 9th, 2008, it is noted: “Presidential candidate Barack Obama has stronger support among less religious Americans than rival John McCain, a survey revealed.” The article goes on to say: “The survey, conducted by The Gallup Poll and released Tuesday, found 55 percent of Americans who say religion is not important in their life backed Obama, compared to 36 percent for McCain. The reverse was true for Americans who said religion was important in their life, with 50 percent to 40 percent preferring McCain over Obama. WE recommend you visit their site </em></strong></span><a href="http://www.directionstoorthodoxy.org/"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><em>HERE.</em></strong></span></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><em><br /><br />Little has changed, at least for Obama’s support. A little deeper in the Christian Post UK article it is noted: “The finding that religious voters prefer a Republican candidate is not new. Evangelical Christians, who are viewed as highly religious, have traditionally been stalwart voters of the Republican Party…” You may read the entire article </em></strong></span><a href="http://directionstoorthodoxy.org/n/obama_backed_by_less_religious_americans.html&thread_style=flat"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><em>HERE.</em></strong></span></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><em><br /><br />As a conservative Christian I am not surprised by these findings. What troubles me is that ANY Christian could support Obama and the American political left. With every passing day it becomes more and more obvious the American political left has embraced socialism.<br /><br />It is the opinion of this scribe that the Christian faith and socialism cannot co-exist. They are totally incompatible.<br />Simply put -- Christians believe in God and believe that man needs God. Socialism, on the other hand, sees no need for God. The “State” takes over the duties of the “Supreme Being.”<br /><br />“Socialist philosophy assumes that the masses [are] as dumb as children, and they don't need a god to reach their fondest dreams, but a government to hand out the goodies… .“ Thus states Julie Behling in an article titled: “Why I Believe Socialism and Christianity Are Wholly Incompatible.” Ms. Behling goes on to say: “In Christian philosophy, individuals are responsible to care for the needs of the poor, the sick, the widow, and the orphan, but not compelled. Those who rise to the challenge will find themselves on the right hand of God because of their CHOICES, and those who don't -- will not receive the blessings reserved for those who do.<br /><br />In Socialist philosophy, all are compelled to care for the needy whether they want to or not (through taxation), and this care comes through the administration of a notoriously inefficient bureaucracy.”<br />Ms. Behling explains: “Christian philosophy causes men and women to rise up, work for their sustenance depending oftentimes on faith that help will come if and when it is needed. It is hard, it is risky, but the rewards of making the proper use of God-given free will are great. The consequences of poor choices can be brutal.<br /><br />Socialist philosophy seeks to soften the blows of consequences to natural laws, both positive consequences - financial abundance for the thrifty, wise, hard-worker -- and negative consequences - poverty to those who break the natural laws that govern abundance.”<br />As one who subscribes to the Christian faith, I believe Ms. Behling is "spot on" when she says: “Socialism falsely informs men and women there is another way to reach their ultimate dreams besides faith in any god.” (We urge you to read Ms. Behling’s article in its entirety </em></strong></span><a href="http://ezinearticles.com/?Why-I-Believe-Socialism-and-Christianity-Are-Wholly-Incompatible&id=3728927"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><em>HERE.</em></strong></span></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><em>)<br /><br />In summing up Ms. Behling says: “The degree to which taking care of the poor and the needy is instituted and administered by government is the degree to which freedom is abdicated.” (Editor’s note: The italics used here for emphasis are totally mine.)<br /><br />We applaud Ms. Behling’s article and recommend it to you. You will find it </em></strong></span><a href="http://ezinearticles.com/?Why-I-Believe-Socialism-and-Christianity-Are-Wholly-Incompatible&id=3728927"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><em>HERE.</em></strong></span></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><em><br /><br />It may seem that we have moved far a field here, in this commentary, from the original intent. I assure you -- we have not. My intention was to try to explain why the majority of the religious in America, the Christians especially, cannot support Obama en masse. Obama’s socialism flies in the face of the Christian faith. In fact Obama’s socialism is seen, among many Christians, as a religion in, and of, itself. It is a secular religion, without God, but a religion, nonetheless.<br /><br />I suspect my conclusion above will not sit well with Obama followers, but the truth, oftimes, brings pain.<br /><br />Evangelical Christians have only to consider Obama’s stance toward Israel to find reason to renounce his particular brand of socialism.<br /><br />For evangelicals the fate of Israel and the fate of the United States are inextricably interwoven. The promise of God to Abraham that God would bless those who bless Israel and curse those who curse Israel is taken literally. According to their belief, Obama’s rebuke of Israel and his obvious fondness for Israel’s enemies will bring the wrath of God down on America. In fact, many Christians believe that has already begun. They believe that God’s protection of America has been lifted and America’s future holds only crisis after crisis and disaster after disaster until America once again embraces God’s “Chosen People.”<br /><br />Americans have slowly come to realize the leadership they chose in 2006 and 2008 was a huge mistake and has brought nothing but pain and suffering to the American people. Elections have consequences. Decisions have consequences. America is living through the consequences of choosing a socialist government, which is incrementally dismantling our constitutional republic right before our eyes.<br /><br />One of the signs given man as to when to expect the “End of Days’ was when people began living their daily lives as they did in the time of Noah. We have certainly reached that point in the evolution of our American society. And, unfortunately, just as Noah preached over and over again, to the masses, that the rains WERE coming and the ensuing flood would consume every one unless they changed their ways, they refused to listen and even rebuked and made fun of the old man building a huge boat in that dry land. Even the unchurched and the non-religious supporters of Obama know how that story turned out.<br /><br />All the signs are there. Just as Israel paid a terrible price for demanding an earthly king, Saul, just so they could have a king of their own, just like their neighboring countries, America will be required to pay a price, of biblical proportions, for demanding a leader who remake America into the image of the socialist countries with whom we share this globe.<br /><br />To say the end is nigh would be kind – and wrong. Unfortunately, America has much suffering in her future long before anything resembling the end rises above her clouded horizon.<br /><br />J. D. Longstreet</em></strong></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=1273874&loc=en_US">Subscribe to Christians Against Leftist Heresy by Email</a></div>Longstreethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06712980841544338388noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3698905861371878443.post-57293746156851045432010-03-13T11:21:00.001-06:002010-03-13T11:21:24.465-06:00Leftist Christians Go After Glenn Beck<p>Yesterday the Associated Baptist Press published an <a href="http://www.abpnews.com/content/view/4926/53/">article</a> by “Jim Wallis, a politically progressive evangelical,” who is also the CEO and editor in chief at the left-leaning, Sojourners. The article by Wallis demands that his readers and all Christians stop watching the Glenn Beck because “Beck denies the central teachings of Jesus and the Bible!”</p> <p>I earned my Masters in Theology in 1999 and I watch Glenn Beck daily. I’ve never heard Beck deny the central teachings of Jesus and the Bible! It appears that the “progressive” Mr. Wallis is fabricating his charges against Beck out of sheer leftist desperation.</p> <p>Anyone who has ever bothered to honestly research the origins of the concept of “social justice,” as taught within most mainline and some evangelical denominations of the Christian church, understands that that it is closely tied to Marxist Liberation Theology. It is a concept that has little to do with Christian charity or justice and everything to do with radical leftist revolutionary political change.</p> <p>Make no mistake; Glenn Beck is absolutely correct in stating that “social justice” is a code word" for communism and Nazism.</p> <p><b>Three years ago I wrote, <a href="http://faultlineusa.blogspot.com/2007/03/obamas-marxist-liberation-theology.html">Obama’s Marxist Liberation Theology Church</a>.  </b>In that article, which I strongly suggest that you read, I’ve quoted from James H. Cone, one of the primary authors of Black Liberation Theology. Additionally I’ve summarized and provided a link to an excellent overview of the grave dangers of <a href="http://www.christendom-awake.org/pages/ratzinger/liberationtheol.htm">Liberation Theology </a>written in 1984 by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI).</p> <p>Once you’ve read this short article and the provided links you’ll have no doubt as to who is telling the truth.</p> <p>God bless and protect Glenn Beck!</p> <p> </p> <div class="wlWriterSmartContent" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:e1271757-4fd0-4420-a466-7cbbbda28873" style="padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Social%20Justice" rel="tag">Social Justice</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Liberation%20Theology" rel="tag">Liberation Theology</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Associated%20Baptist%20Press" rel="tag">Associated Baptist Press</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Glenn%20Beck" rel="tag">Glenn Beck</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Jim%20Wallis" rel="tag">Jim Wallis</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Sojourners" rel="tag">Sojourners</a></div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=1273874&loc=en_US">Subscribe to Christians Against Leftist Heresy by Email</a></div>Faultline USAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06691318732494110768noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3698905861371878443.post-17788498146609061062010-01-28T08:30:00.003-06:002010-01-28T08:39:36.597-06:00Should God Apologize To Sodom And Gomorrah!<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9E1soGWi6d4/S2GhgUflQ5I/AAAAAAAAJfM/17FfiwMv3cs/s1600-h/Christians+Against+Leftist+Heresy+#+1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431800202214589330" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 151px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9E1soGWi6d4/S2GhgUflQ5I/AAAAAAAAJfM/17FfiwMv3cs/s400/Christians+Against+Leftist+Heresy+%23+1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Should God Apologize To Sodom And Gomorrah!</span></strong></div><div><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet</span></strong></div><div><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">***************</span></strong></div><br /><div>"This year, I will work with Congress and our military to finally repeal the law that denies gay Americans the right to serve the country they love because of who they are. It's the right thing to do." … B. H. Obama President of the United States in his State of the Union Address January 27th, 2010.</div><br /><div></div><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9E1soGWi6d4/S2GYVrFU7NI/AAAAAAAAJe0/zJVeLMbYtG8/s1600-h/I+SAY+NO!.jpg"></a>There is an old expression that says: "If God does not destroy America the He owes an apology to Sodom and Gomorrah!" It seems more applicable today than ever before.</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>Look, having a known homosexual in a military unit disrupts that unit’s cohesiveness. If it happens to be a combat unit, lives are at stake.Homosexuality is even splitting apart mainline religious denominations in America and around the world… and you REALLY think it will not disrupt the US Military? Get REAL, PLEASE!</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>As a subscriber to the Christian faith, I believe homosexuality is an sinful lust forbidden by God. In the scriptures we are told that God, himself, said to His people Israel, "Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination" (<a href="javascript:{}">Leviticus 18:22</a>). "If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them" (<a href="javascript:{}">Leviticus 20:13</a>). In these passages homosexuality is condemned as a sexual perversion. It is considered a “Prime Sin.” As a Christian I cannot change how God views homosexuality and I cannot turn my back on it and say that well, times have changed, and God must change too. THAT is blasphemy.</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>Now, before some of you point out the obvious, that this scripture is from the OLD Testament; I give you Saint Paul’s view of Homosexuality from the NEW Testament. (Paul is the Apostle credited with bringing the Christian faith to the Gentiles of the world.) Paul wrote a letter to the people of the Christian church in Corinth. In that letter Paul said the following: “ Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, 10- nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.”</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>It could not be any clearer. Homosexuality is condemned in the scriptures just as murder, adultery, premarital sex, kidnapping, lying, and idolatry are condemned.</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>Back to the incompatibility of Homosexuality with the military: “Homosexuality is simply incompatible with the principles of military services, which include a focus on the mission, service, discipline, bodily integrity, and control over one's impulses. Homosexuality does not appropriately reflect these principles.” This sentiment was reflected in an article signed by Gen. Carl E. Mundy, Jr., a former commandant of the Marine Corps; Adm. Leighton W. Smith, a former commander of U.S. Naval Forces Europe; Gen. Charles A. Horner, who commanded U.S. aerial forces during the 1990-91 Gulf War; and Adm. Jerome L. Johnson, a former vice chief of Naval Operations. They wrote, succinctly, "Homosexuality is incompatible with military service". Read the article <a href="http://wiki.idebate.org/en/index.php/Argument:_Homosexuality_is_incompatible_with_military_culture_and_service">HERE.</a></div><br /><div></div><br /><div>In 2008, the Republican Party Platform said the following: "To protect our servicemen and women and ensure that America's Armed Forces remain the best in the world, we affirm the timeliness of those values, the benefits of traditional military culture, and the incompatibility of homosexuality with military service." Read the article <a href="http://wiki.idebate.org/en/index.php/Argument:_Homosexuality_is_incompatible_with_military_culture_and_service">HERE.</a></div><br /><div></div><br /><div>Many retired military officers, including several who were top commanders, have urged President Barack Obama and Congress to maintain the law that bars gays from serving openly in the armed forces. They claim openly serving homosexuals would undermine recruiting and retention, impact leadership at all levels, have adverse effects on the willingness of parents who lend their sons and daughters to military service, and eventually break the All-Volunteer Force. They, too, believe that repeal of the current law, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” could jeopardize morale and “unit cohesion.” Read the article <a href="http://www.365gay.com/news/retired-military-officers-keep-dadt/">HERE.</a></div><br /><div></div><br /><div>Back in June of 2006, I wrote the following: “As a veteran, when I served, a homosexual was not allowed in the service, period. If they did manage to get in, as soon as they were found out, they were gone. And it was quick.</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>I remember, in July of 1959, at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, as we stood in formation on Tank Hill, we recruits were instructed to immediately turn in any in our ranks we suspected might be homosexual. We were led to believe that if we knew, and did not turn them in, we were in danger of being kicked out of the service as well.</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>I liked that. It gave me a certain confidence in my fellow soldiers… that they were who they said they were.</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>In my time in the US Army there was no such thing as privacy. You did everything as a unit. You slept in the same room, you showered together, you ate together, and you even relived yourself in full view of all the other soldiers who happened to be in the latrine at the same time. There were no “stalls” with toilets in them. There was a line of toilets, in a row, and it was quit possible for two soldiers to have a conversation, while relieving themselves, sitting on those toilets. Did I mention there was no privacy? I did, didn’t I?</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>It was important that a soldier knew his fellow soldier was the same gender as himself.”</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>My opinion has not changed.</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>There is no effort here to “gay-bash.” I am merely expressing my opinion as a Veteran of the US Military and as one who subscribes to the Christian faith.</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>For the record, I do not care a whit what other country’s militaries do. They can have all homosexual regiments for all I care. But, I DO care what the US military does.</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>Public support of the US military is vital to their morale and their effectiveness as a fighting force. Allowing homosexuals to serve openly in the US military will rob them of the support they now enjoy from the American public. It will destroy the All Volunteer Force we have so painstakingly built up. That means the return of the draft.</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>I do not support the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. I support the old policy of not allowing homosexuals to serve in any branch of the US Military -- at all.</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>J. D. Longstreet </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=1273874&loc=en_US">Subscribe to Christians Against Leftist Heresy by Email</a></div>Longstreethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06712980841544338388noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3698905861371878443.post-71233085502546207742009-12-27T09:31:00.000-06:002009-12-27T09:31:02.598-06:00Christmas in Bethlehem Destroyed by Israel? by Maggie at <a href="http://maggiesnotebook.blogspot.com/2009/12/bethlehem-christmas-story-desroyed-by.html" target="_blank">Maggie's Notebook</a><br />
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I guess I haven't been paying attention the past few years. I didn't know that Israel has destroyed life for Christians in the town of Bethlehem to the point that Christians have left in a "massive flight."<br />
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WorldNetDaily has this story, and I found it via <a href="http://amerisrael.typepad.com/" target="_blank">AmerIsrael</a>. According to WND's Aaron Klein, Reuters, the GuardianUK and others, are in the habit of reporting, each year at this time, the terrible treatment of Christians by Jews in Bethlehem. If you do not have time to read the portions below, or time to go directly to WND <a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=119861">to read the entire piece</a>, read the three paragraphs in bold text below, and you will get the idea. <br />
<blockquote>TEL AVIV – <b>Like clockwork, every year at this time reporters file misleading and, in some cases, outright false reports about the state of Christmas in Bethlehem [blaming Israel for the demise of the Christian population]. </b><br />
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They claim Israeli policies have wreaked havoc on the city's economy and that Israel is responsible for the massive flight of Christians from Bethlehem. Yet the news media completely ignore Muslim intimidation and get their facts wrong on documented history and the true state of affairs in this ancient town.<br />
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A widely circulated <a href="http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/world-news/bethlehem-traders-still-waiting-for-christmas-cheer_428493.html" target="_blank">Reuters article</a>, for example, laments "Christmas cheer hasn't spread to all of Bethlehem's residents," squarely blaming "an Israeli wall" for the town's misfortunes. <a href="http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1535326/?UserKey=#ixzz0aRiwVcIc" target="_blank">Britains' Press and Journal also paints a dismal picture of Bethlehem</a>, claiming the city is "divided by a huge wall" and that the "26ft-high security wall completes the isolation of Bethlehem and prevents it from ever expanding." The piece also wrongly states that about 2 percent of Bethlehem's population is Christian.<br />
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An <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/dec/22/religion-christmas-separation-wall" target="_blank">opinion piece by Austen Ivereigh in the London Guardian</a>, meanwhile, also claims Bethlehem is "shuttered and depressed" by an "Israeli separation wall."<br />
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"I don't just mean the structure itself – 30 feet high, bristling with watchtowers and formed of grey concrete slabs – but where it is built, deep into the town itself, far into the West Bank, severing Bethlehem from Jerusalem and ensuring the relentless expansion eastwards of Jewish-only settlements built on land seized from Palestinian farmers," the Guardian piece claims. Regarding the "wall" that "surrounds" Bethlehem: Israel built a fence in 2002 in the area where northern Bethlehem interfaces with Jerusalem. A tiny segment of the barrier, facing a major Israeli roadway, is a concrete wall that Israel says is meant to prevent gunmen from shooting at Israeli motorists....<br />
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Amazingly, Ivereigh's piece in the Guardian falsely claimed: "Bethlehem is shuttered and depressed not because of Koran-wielding thugs but because the wall has smashed its economy. The town has become a ghetto, severed from lands to the north and west by the wall, and to the south and east by settler-only roads and a forest of checkpoints, leaving it barely able to trade." <br />
</blockquote><blockquote>Simple demographic facts disprove this contention entirely. Israel built the barrier seven years ago. But Bethlehem's Christian population started to drastically decline in 1995, the very year Arafat's Palestinian Authority took over the holy Christian city in line with the U.S.-backed Oslo Accords. <br />
</blockquote><blockquote><b>Bethlehem was more than 80 percent Christian when Israel was founded in 1948. But after Arafat took control, the city's Christian population plummeted to its current 23 percent. And that statistic is considered generous since it includes the satellite towns of Beit Sahour and Beit Jala. Some estimates place Bethlehem's actual Christian population as low as 12 percent, with hundreds of Christians emigrating each year. </b><br />
</blockquote><blockquote>As soon as he took over Bethlehem, Arafat unilaterally fired the city's Christian politicians and replaced them with Muslim cronies. He appointed a Muslim governor, Muhammed Rashad A-Jabar, and deposed of Bethlehem's city council, which had nine Christians and two Muslims, reducing the number of Christians councilors to a 50-50 split. <br />
</blockquote><blockquote>Arafat then converted a Greek Orthodox monastery next to the Church of Nativity, the believed birthplace of Jesus, into his official Bethlehem residence. <br />
Suddenly, after the Palestinians gained the territory, reports of Christian intimidation by Muslims began to surface.<br />
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<b>Christian leaders and residents told this reporter they face an atmosphere of regular hostility. They said Palestinian armed groups stir tension by holding militant demonstrations and marches in the streets. They spokes of instances in which Christian shopkeepers' stores were ransacked and Christian homes attacked. </b><br />
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They said in the past, Palestinian gunmen fired at Israelis from Christian hilltop communities, drawing Israeli anti-terror raids to their towns.<br />
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In 2002, dozens of terrorists holed up inside the Church of the Nativity for 39 days while fleeing a massive Israeli anti-terror operation. Israel surrounded the church area but refused to storm the structure....<br />
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Some Christian leaders said one of the most significant problems facing Christians in Bethlehem is the rampant confiscation of land by Muslim gangs.<br />
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One religious novelty store owner recently told WND that Muslim gangs regularly deface Christian property.<br />
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"We are harassed, but you wouldn't know the truth. No one says anything publicly about the Muslims. This is why Christians are running away." <br />
</blockquote> The City of the birth of Christ, the birth of King David, and the tomb of Rachel is under Palestinian governance, and has a Muslim majority population.<br />
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In 2007 the city had approximately 25,000 residents with Christians making up 20% of the citizenry. With life made difficult for Christians, and the fact that Christians propagate at a much slower rate than Muslims, the Christian presence in Bethlehem is dwindling.<br />
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Read about Christmas observances by Christians in Bethlehem <a href="http://www.sacred-destinations.com/israel/bethlehem-christmas" target="_blank">here</a> and about the Church of the Nativity and the birthplace of Christ <a href="http://www.bibleplaces.com/bethlehem.htm" target="_blank">here</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=1273874&loc=en_US">Subscribe to Christians Against Leftist Heresy by Email</a></div>Maggie Thorntonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01681328690482778919noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3698905861371878443.post-41057636457348351212009-12-05T00:44:00.001-06:002009-12-05T04:50:10.952-06:00The War on Christmas and Christianity Continues in 2009!<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9E1soGWi6d4/Sxo6o_9s3DI/AAAAAAAAItY/eWBmNyjtHmc/s1600-h/Christians+Against+Leftist+Heresy+#+1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411702378278476850" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 151px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9E1soGWi6d4/Sxo6o_9s3DI/AAAAAAAAItY/eWBmNyjtHmc/s400/Christians+Against+Leftist+Heresy+%23+1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">The War on Christmas and Christianity Continues in 2009!</span></strong></div><div><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet</span></strong></div><br /><br /><div><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">*************************<br /></span></strong><br />OK, let me make it as clear as I am able right up front! I am not interested in “multiculturalism” and I am even less interested in “inclusivity.” I am an Isolationist at heart, but a realist… out of practicality.<br /><br />Having cleared the air, I can get on with these few comments.<br /><br />It is time for America to celebrate Christmas. For those of the Christian community it is a grand time of celebrating the birth of the Savior, Jesus Christ, from whose name the word Christmas, or “Christ Mass,” is derived. I am of this community.<br /><br />I care nothing for the celebration of anything else. I care that you have the right to celebrate Hanukkah, or that newly invented secular holiday for Afro-centric African Americans, Kwanzaa. You are guaranteed that right by the Constitution, which was, itself, guaranteed by Christians.<br /><br />I know, I know! I can see the “comments box” filling up even as I write this. That’s OK. Just keep it clean.<br /><br />In the year 2009 one would have to be a disconnected, isolated, idiot to believe that Christmas is not under attack in the western world, especially in the United States.<br /><br />If you are a regular reader of my scribbling then you already know that I believe that Christians founded America as a Christian country. As a Christian country we are tolerant of other religions. That does not mean that individual American citizens must approve of any particular religion or practice thereof. In a Christian country a citizen is not compelled to be a Christian or a subscriber to any religion, for that matter. That right was guaranteed all Americans in that aforementioned Constitution. And that, Dear Reader, in my humble opinion, is where we mis-stepped. That “right” we celebrate, and hold so dear, has come back to bite us on our collective “Christian butts.”<br /><br />Any antagonist, worth his salt, uses his opponent’s weakness against him. The opponents of Christianity, no slackers they, have learned to use our weakness of tolerance for other religions, or no religion, against the Christians of America, indeed, in much of the world.<br /><br />Christian symbols are being relegated to the closets, and basements, of public buildings not to be displayed on the walls of, or grounds of, such public buildings such as, for instance, courthouses.<br /><br />Put up a Crèche scene, in honor of Christmas, in the town square, and you’d better have a Menorah, a Christmas tree, A Santa Claus, a Kwanzaa something or other, and on and on. The idea is simply to dilute Christmas in a mass of other religious, and secular, celebrations and lessen its influence on the average American. The more timid among us are even afraid to utter that time honored “Merry Christmas.”<br /><br />No more Christmas break for our public schools. It’s now the “Winter Break” a phrase reminiscent of the pagans of Western Europe. Gone is the Christmas tree in many of those same schools.<br /><br />Now, I could go on, and on, citing example after example of the battles being waged all across America against Christmas and, collectively, Christians.<br /><br />Currently, we are in a worldwide war with Islam. Oh, you may argue, we are at war with only the fundamentalist Islamic! I beg to differ. Again, in my opinion -- this is a war between Islam and Christianity. The Muslims know this. Only those of us of the Western Christian countries have deluded ourselves into believing we are in a war with some splinter group of Islam. Hopefully, we will awaken to this fact before it is to late to recover from our mistake and take the battle, for our very existence, to the enemies of Christianity.<br /><br />Meanwhile, in America, we have our hands full dealing with our own internal enemies. “The War on Christmas” is just a symptom of the greater war on Christianity. Until we recognize that fact, and begin to fight back, we will continue to lose our Christian symbols, our Christian holidays, and eventually our practice of the Christian faith.<br /><br />I was thinking, as I wrote these words, that there must have been some squinty-eyed old scribe hidden away in a semi-darkened “scriptorium”, somewhere beneath the streets of ancient Rome, scratching out similar words as these while Christians were being gored, and mauled, and torn limb from limb, in the amphitheatres such as The Coliseum above his lowly hovel.<br /><br />Somehow, every attack against Christians has served to strengthen The Christian Church and insure her survival. One doesn’t have to be a believer to acknowledge the work of a Supreme Being in the dissemination of what we Christians call “The Good News” or “The Gospel.” And yet, down through the ages, many Christians, liked this scribe, feel driven to denounce, in our writings, the evil forces at work against the Christian church.<br /><br />As one who has studied the scriptures, I know the church will be whittled down until there will be only a remnant of the followers of Christ left upon his return. We witness the “whittling down” process everyday in reports of attacks upon the Christian faith in the news media of the world. And yet – I feel a force, deep within me, urging me to proclaim to all who read these words that no matter the size of the remaining remnant, the Christian Church WILL survive. No matter the odds, the ultimate force for good in this world will continue to feed the hungry, heal the sick, lift up the fallen, and spread the good news of the birth of a savior in a little Middle Eastern town called Bethlehem, some 2,000 years ago. Since that remarkable night, men and women have been unceasingly spreading the news of His arrival and the message He brought of “Peace, Good Will Toward Men.”<br /><br />Men and women of the Christian faith, in the modern world, may again be relegated to “the catacombs” to practice their Christian faith. But just as their ancient counterparts, they WILL keep the faith. In the face of all odds they will not falter and they will not fail.<br /><br />And so, from my own little scriptorium, as I write in the wee hours of the morning, please allow me to be among the first to wish you, and your family, a MERRY CHRISTMAS!<br /><br />J. D. Longstreet</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=1273874&loc=en_US">Subscribe to Christians Against Leftist Heresy by Email</a></div>Longstreethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06712980841544338388noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3698905861371878443.post-76970947794570639452009-10-19T15:32:00.001-05:002009-10-19T15:32:45.042-05:00Are Evangelical Churches Drifting Left?<p>by Barbara Sowell</p> <p>Did you wake up one Sunday morning and finally realize that you could no longer support or attend a church that has gradually embraced an anti-American – anti-Capitalistic gospel in the name of Christ? Did it suddenly dawn upon you that the ever-present term “social justice” is merely a code word for a Marxist view of redistributive justice wrapped in a thinly disguised Christian veneer? Have you visited church after church after church only to discover that something decidedly unchristian has crept into the gospel teachings replacing, by redefinition, all that has been sacred to Christianity for centuries?</p> <p>We live in the Age of Heresy and what we have to fear is not the old cults that Christians have traditionally warned against for years. What we have to fear today is the steady drift to the political left that has distorted our many venerable institutions and well-known Christian denominations.</p> <p><strong>Today 100,000 local congregations and 45 million Christians are supporting leftist goals yet most of the members are still blissfully unaware. For a quick overview of this un-Christian </strong>indoctrination, <b>please read: <a href="http://faultlineusa.blogspot.com/2007/04/united-nations-entrenched-within-most.html">United Nations Entrenched Within Most Christian Denominations</a></b></p> <p>The following information is from the leftist progressive blog called <a href="http://queeringthechurch.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/religious-left-crumbling-right/">Queering the Church</a> which is proudly proclaiming the Evangelical Christian churches “leftwards drift.” </p> <blockquote> <p>Martha Cook of the <strong>Centre for American Progress</strong> reports that <a href="http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/10/evangelicals_lgbt.html">“Evangelicals Step Up For Marriage Equality”</a></p> <p><em>Brent Childers used to call himself a “Jesse Helms Republican” who justified his homophobic beliefs through biblical interpretation. But last weekend, as he marched in the Equality March in Washington, D.C., he stood alongside his lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender friends in support of their full human rights. . . .</em><em><b></b></em></p> <p><em><b>From </b></em>“<a href="http://go2.wordpress.com/?id=725X1342&site=queeringthechurch.wordpress.com&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.guardian.co.uk%2Fcommentisfree%2Fbelief%2F2009%2Foct%2F16%2Famerican-christians-progressive">The Rise of the Religious Left”</a><em><b></b></em></p> <p><em>As Austen Ivereigh points out, Moore’s anti-capitalist preaching is quite in keeping with Catholic traditions of social activism. What’s less known is that evangelical Christian churches – the supposed mainstay of rightwing politics in the US – are showing a leftwards drift.”</em></p> <p><em>“Nearly every major social justice battle fought in the US has been supported, if not driven, by religious groups – which in statistical terms overwhelmingly means Christians. It’s widely known that the historically black church has been a key player in promoting justice for African Americans – from the abolition of slavery to the civil rights movements – as well as championing initiatives that support marginalised communities, both black and white. Beneath the more notorious rhetoric of Obama’s former pastor, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/mar/14/wrightandwrong">Reverend Jeremiah Wright</a>, who at one point looked likely to irreparably fracture Obama’s presidential bid, we can find him preaching the acceptance of homosexuality and the importance of works as well as faith. Wright’s work at Trinity United Church of Christ, the church Obama was a member of for over 20 years, involves programmes for HIV/Aids sufferers, drug rehabilitation, and housing support for Chicago’s impoverished <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Side_%28Chicago%29">South Side</a> </em><em>communities.” . . .</em></p> </blockquote> <p>For a thorough assessment of Wright’s church, Black Liberation Theology, and what the Catholic Pope also has to say about the dangers of Black Liberation Theology, please read <b><a href="http://faultlineusa.blogspot.com/2007/03/obamas-marxist-liberation-theology.html">Obama’s Marxist Liberation Theology Church</a>.</b></p> <p>From <a href="http://newsrealblog.com/2009/10/15/from-the-pen-of-david-horowitz-october-15-2009/">David Horowitz Newsreal</a> on “queer theory:”</p> <blockquote> <p>. . .For these new radical theorists, the enemy is no longer a ruling class, a hegemonic race or even a dominant gender. Instead it is the sexual order of nature itself. Oppression lies in the very idea of the “normal,” the order that divides humanity into two sexes. Instead of a classless society as the redemptive future, queer theorists envisage a gender free world.</p> <p>A specter is haunting America’s universities, the last refuge of the political left. It is the specter of “queer theory,” the latest of the radical identity politics that have replaced class struggle and the classic proletariat in the schema of Marxist revolution. . .</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Here are some links to other bits of news concerning Christianity this week:</strong></p> <h4><a href="http://newsrealblog.com/2009/10/16/a-reason-for-the-left-to-hate-mlk/">A Reason for the Left to Hate MLK</a> offers an excerpt from the writings of Martin Luther King Jr. as to why he rejected Marxism.</h4> <h4><a href="http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2009/10/19/praise-god-washington-times-covers-story-iranian-christian-girls-maryam-rostampour-27-marzieh-amirizadeh-esmaeilabad-30-jailed-converting-christianity/">Praise God</a> – Washington Times Covers the story of the Iranian Christian Girls (Maryam Rostampour, 27, and Marzieh Amirizadeh Esmaeilabad, 30) Jailed for Converting to Christianity</h4> <blockquote> <p>Members of Iran’s tiny and much-persecuted Christian minority, they were arrested March 5 for “acting against state security” and “taking part in illegal gatherings” and left to rot in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison. Their families have tried to bail them out, to no avail. . . .</p> </blockquote> <p><strong><a href="http://www.wnd.com/petition_iran">PETITION FOR THE RELEASE OF MARYAM RUSTAMPOOR & MARZIEH AMIRIZADEH <br />FROM IRANIAN PRISON</a></strong></p> <p>The following from beliefnet’s Crunch Con</p> <p><a href="http://blog.beliefnet.com/crunchycon/2009/10/politically-correct-white-flig.html">Politically correct white flight</a></p> <blockquote> <p>Aaron M. Renn at the indispensable New Geography site has a fascinating analysis of a curious aspect shared by progressive urban havens like Austin, Portland and suchlike: <a href="http://www.newgeography.com/content/001110-the-white-city">they have relatively few black people in them. </a>Excerpt:</p> <p>This raises troubling questions about these cities. Why is it that progressivism in smaller metros is so often associated with low numbers of African Americans? Can you have a progressive city properly so-called with only a disproportionate handful of African Americans in it? In addition, why has no one called these cities on it? . .</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="http://worshippingchristian.org/blog/?p=9452">Obama ‘Loathes’ and is ‘Disgusted’ by Israel</a></p> <blockquote> <p>JERUSALEM – U.S. officials in recent days expressed to the Palestinian Authority that President Obama’s administration is “disgusted” with Israel, a top aide to PA President Mahmoud Abbas told WND in an interview. . . .</p> <p>Organizing for America — a political action group for President Barack Obama — recently carried an entry on its website from ultra-left-wing professor Richard Falk, who said “Comparing the present-day Israel with Nazi Germany, one discovers that the majority of the Israeli policies are exact copies of the Nazi policies.”</p> </blockquote> <div class="wlWriterSmartContent" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:8e82ce95-ac36-41fc-9cba-d6df7802151e" style="padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/left" rel="tag">left</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/leftist" rel="tag">leftist</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Marxist" rel="tag">Marxist</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Christianity" rel="tag">Christianity</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Christian" rel="tag">Christian</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/church" rel="tag">church</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/churches" rel="tag">churches</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Evangelical" rel="tag">Evangelical</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/social%20justice" rel="tag">social justice</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/United%20Nations" rel="tag">United Nations</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Marriage%20equality" rel="tag">Marriage equality</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/lesbian" rel="tag">lesbian</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/gay" rel="tag">gay</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/bisexual" rel="tag">bisexual</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/transgender" rel="tag">transgender</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/human%20rights" rel="tag">human rights</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/marginalized" rel="tag">marginalized</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/communities" rel="tag">communities</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Pew%20Research%20Center" rel="tag">Pew Research Center</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/biblical" rel="tag">biblical</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/bible" rel="tag">bible</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/scripture" rel="tag">scripture</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Reverend%20Jeremiah%20Wright" rel="tag">Reverend Jeremiah Wright</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Black%20Liberation%20Theology" rel="tag">Black Liberation Theology</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Martin%20Luther%20King%20Jr." rel="tag">Martin Luther King Jr.</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Iranian" rel="tag">Iranian</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Iran" rel="tag">Iran</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Maryam%20Rostampour" rel="tag">Maryam Rostampour</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Marzieh%20Amirizadeh%20Esmaeilabad" rel="tag">Marzieh Amirizadeh Esmaeilabad</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/progressive" rel="tag">progressive</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/white%20flight" rel="tag">white flight</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/African%20Americans" rel="tag">African Americans</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Israel" rel="tag">Israel</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Nazi%20Germany" rel="tag">Nazi Germany</a></div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=1273874&loc=en_US">Subscribe to Christians Against Leftist Heresy by Email</a></div>Faultline USAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06691318732494110768noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3698905861371878443.post-76795247701762380962009-08-20T11:06:00.001-05:002009-08-20T11:06:24.959-05:00Obama Enlists Religious Left to Win Support for Healthcare Reform<p>by Barbara Sowell</p> <p>Yesterday’s teleconference with President Obama, "<a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2009/08/20/obama-accuses-some-healthcare-critics-of-bearing-false-witness/">40 Minutes for Health Reform</a>," was organized by a network of religiously progressive faith-based organizations that support Obama’s plan to change our nation’s health-care system. </p> <p>The 40 minute teleconference was the launch pad for a 40-day push to guilt-trip religiously naive Americans into accepting a public option for health care reform. It is no accident that proponents of Obamacare chose the symbolism of the number 40.</p> <p>Jesus was tempted by the Devil after fasting for 40- days and nights in the desert. Appealing to pride, Satan challenged Christ to prove that He is the Son of God by jumping off the temple so that all can see the angels catch Him.</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.examiner.com/x-16281-Richmond-Bible-Examiner~y2009m7d30-Overcoming-temptation-as-Christ-did">The Lord is tempted</a> when He is in a weakened state, after fasting for over a month. Christ's fasting for 40 days and nights is also akin to the fasting of Moses (Ex. 34:28). God had promised that one would come after Moses who was like Moses (Deut 18:18). It may not be too much of a stretch to see this as pointing to the prophecy. In any case, we can expect that Satan will try His tricks when we are physically weak.</p> </blockquote> <p>Jesus's scriptural response to Satan is a quote from Deuteronomy 6:16, "You shall not put the Lord your God to the test."</p> <p>The nation is in a weakened state. We are tired of well over 40 days and nights of fruitless health care-reform debate. Obama hasn’t fared well as all polls show that the majority of Americans don’t want a public option. Now Obama is going on the offensive. He is again reaching out to the very churches that got him elected. Can the religiously left turn the tide?</p> <p><strong>Here’s their simple strategy:</strong></p> <p>According to the <a href="http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orl-faith-health-webcast-081909,0,5894994.story">Orlando Sentinel</a>, “Obama, who joined the last few minutes of the teleconference, used religious references such as "I am my brother's keeper" and said that misinformation being spread about reform had "a lot of folks bearing false witness." . . .</p> <p>The implication is clear. If you think you are your brother’s keeper and you don’t want to bear false witness, then you will jump into the arms of awaiting health-care reform angels.</p> <p>But, is Obama’s public option going to save our brother or eventually destroy him? Is it bearing false witness to point out that under a public option, health care rationing is a distinct possibility, and that the <a href="http://faultlineusa.blogspot.com/2009/08/you-and-new-advanced-care-planning.html">Democrats have failed to put wording</a> in the current house bill that will insure that we won’t eventually pull the plug on someone’s Grandma???</p> <p>Many of the 30+ organizations that participated in the teleconference are members of Obama’s <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/ObamaAnnouncesWhiteHouseOfficeofFaith-basedandNeighborhoodPartnerships/">White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships</a>, which President Obama established by executive order on February 5, 2009. The above link provides a partial list of members. </p> <p>The <a href="http://faithforhealth.org/join-the-call">following churches sponsored</a> the “40 Minutes For Health Reform” teleconference:</p> <blockquote> <h5><strong>CALL SPONSORS:</strong></h5> <p><strong>AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH (AME)</strong></p> <p><strong>CATHOLICS IN ALLIANCE FOR THE COMMON GOOD</strong></p> <p><strong>CATHOLICS UNITED</strong></p> <p><strong>CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION</strong></p> <p><strong>DISCIPLES CENTER FOR PUBLIC WITNESS</strong></p> <p><strong>DISCIPLES JUSTICE ACTION NETWORK</strong></p> <p><strong>EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN AMERICA</strong></p> <p><strong>FAITHFUL AMERICA</strong></p> <p><strong>FAITHFUL REFORM IN HEALTH CARE</strong></p> <p><strong>FAITH IN PUBLIC LIFE</strong></p> <p><strong>GAMALIEL FOUNDATION</strong></p> <p><strong>ISLAMIC SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA</strong></p> <p><strong>JEWISH COUNCIL FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS</strong></p> <p><strong>JEWISH WOMEN INTERNATIONAL</strong></p> <p><strong>NATIONAL BAPTIST CONVENTION, USA, INC.</strong></p> <p><strong>NATIONAL COUNCIL OF CHURCHES IN CHRIST</strong></p> <p><strong>NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN</strong></p> <p><strong>NETWORK, A NATIONAL CATHOLIC SOCIAL JUSTICE LOBBY</strong></p> <p><strong>PICO NATIONAL NETWORK</strong></p> <p><strong>PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (USA), WASHINGTON OFFICE</strong></p> <p><strong>PROGRESSIVE NATIONAL BAPTIST CONVENTION</strong></p> <p><strong>RELIGIOUS ACTION CENTER OF REFORM JUDAISM</strong></p> <p><strong>SAMUEL DEWITT PROCTOR CONFERENCE</strong></p> <p><strong>SISTERS OF MERCY OF THE AMERICAS</strong></p> <p><strong>SOJOURNERS</strong></p> <p><strong>THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH</strong></p> <p><strong>THE LATINO LEADERSHIP CIRCLE</strong></p> <p><strong>THE NEW EVANGELICALS</strong></p> <p><strong>UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST ASSOCIATION</strong></p> <p><strong>UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST</strong></p> <p><strong>UNITED METHODIST CHURCH GENERAL BOARD OF CHURCH AND SOCIETY</strong></p> <p><strong>WASHINGTON OFFICE OF WOMEN’S DIVISIONS, GENERAL BOARD OF GLOBAL MINISTRIES, UNITED METHODIST CHURCH</strong></p> </blockquote> <div class="wlWriterSmartContent" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:0da81b7e-05fd-40b1-800c-1a4d5bcfd212" style="padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/faith-based%20organizations" rel="tag">faith-based organizations</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Health%20Reform" rel="tag">Health Reform</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/teleconference" rel="tag">teleconference</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Healthcare" rel="tag">Healthcare</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/40-%20days" rel="tag">40- days</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Religious%20Left" rel="tag">Religious Left</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Obama" rel="tag">Obama</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/brother's%20keeper" rel="tag">brother's keeper</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/bearing%20false%20witness" rel="tag">bearing false witness</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/temptation" rel="tag">temptation</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Jesus" rel="tag">Jesus</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Christ" rel="tag">Christ</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/fasting" rel="tag">fasting</a></div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=1273874&loc=en_US">Subscribe to Christians Against Leftist Heresy by Email</a></div>Faultline USAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06691318732494110768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3698905861371878443.post-862746270049547192009-08-04T02:40:00.000-05:002009-08-04T03:00:21.049-05:00Stopping ObamaCare!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9E1soGWi6d4/SnfpUHy9_AI/AAAAAAAAHLM/pQZZX7h1_eQ/s1600-h/Christians+Against+Leftist+Heresy+%23+1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 151px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9E1soGWi6d4/SnfpUHy9_AI/AAAAAAAAHLM/pQZZX7h1_eQ/s400/Christians+Against+Leftist+Heresy+%23+1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366014012934716418" border="0" /></a><br /> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Stopping ObamaCare.</span><o:p></o:p></span><br />A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet</b><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9E1soGWi6d4/SnfqR0xgsxI/AAAAAAAAHLU/-6VJAfFqGOQ/s1600-h/WARNING%21++ObamaCare+Could+be+dangerous+to+your+health+%23+2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 167px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9E1soGWi6d4/SnfqR0xgsxI/AAAAAAAAHLU/-6VJAfFqGOQ/s200/WARNING%21++ObamaCare+Could+be+dangerous+to+your+health+%23+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366015072980218642" border="0" /></a><b><o:p></o:p><br />************************************<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p>We have roughly 30 days to kill socialized medicine in the United States.<span style=""> </span>The ObamaCare enthusiasts are pulling out all the stops, during the month of August to push whatever their healthcare overhaul <i>FINALLY</i> turns out to be.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p>You see, even the Obama Administration and the democrats on Capitol Hill have NO IDEA, at this point, exactly what their “healthcare” bill will include and what it will exclude.<span style=""> </span>They have been jumping around all over the healthcare map, like fleas on a hotplate, trying, <i>desperately</i>, to come up with something, anything; the American people will <i>swallow hard and accept</i>.<span style=""> </span>Problem is… the American people simply don’t want what they are selling!<span style=""> </span>But the democrats are frightened, witless, that their new president is about to get his first “slap-down” by the electorate and the democrat/socialists are desperate to prevent that.<span style=""> </span>If ObamaCare can be stopped,<span style=""> </span>it will be a great victory for Amereicans who want no part of socialized medicine in the United States… plus it would be a tremendous embarrassment for Obama.<span style=""> </span>Even Republican Congressman Jim DeMint, of South Carolina, claims it could be Obama’s Waterloo! Now, <i>that</i> <b><i>IS </i></b>embarrassing! </p> <p class="MsoBodyText"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p>To make matters decidedly more difficult for the ObamaCare crowd, Rasmussen released a story on Monday (08-03-09) that made some folks in DC sit up and take notice. The report (out 08-03-09) says Confidence in the U.S. Health Care System Has Grown in Recent Months.<span style=""><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p>Rasmussen says that forty-eight percent (48%) of U.S. voters now rate the U.S. health care system as good or excellent. <em>The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that just 19% rate it as poor.</em> These figures reflect a significant increase in support for the health care system over the past few months. In May, just 35% of adults nationwide rated the system as good or excellent. A year ago, just 29% of Likely Voters rated the system in such positive terms. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p>And check this: <em>The new polling also shows that 80% of those with insurance rate their own coverage as good or excellent.</em> That’s up from 70% in May. You’ll find the entire eye-opening article <a href="http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/healthcare/august_2009/confidence_in_u_s_health_care_system_has_grown_in_recent_months"><b>HERE.</b></a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p>The democrats absolutely must get something through the Congress the President can lay claim to as the <b>HIS</b> Healthcare plan, even if it bears no resemblance to the glorified “pie-in-the-sky” healthcare, or Government-Run Healthcare, or Universal Healthcare, or Nationalized Healthcare, or Public Option Healthcare, or whatever they are calling it today.<span style=""> </span>For our part- we are still referring to it as ObamaCare, or Socialized Medicine. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p>So, the plain truth is – neither Obama or his henchman on Capitol Hill have any idea what will be in the bill when they finally manage to scrape something together they can get enough votes in both the House of Representatives and the Senate to pass and send to the President for his signature.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--><!--[endif]--> Now, here’s the thing:<span style=""> </span>During the next month, or so, primarily August, they will be back home back-slapping and glad-handing and trying, like crazy, to get you to support a bill the contents of which they haven’t a clue! In other words, the democrats and Obama are now at the point in their Socialized Medicine threat of trying to sell America what we in the Carolinas would refer to as a “Pig-in-a-Poke”. Interpreted that means simply, you can tell something is in the bag, but you have no idea what it is.<span style=""> </span>It could be a pig or a <b><i>polecat</i></b>!<span style=""> </span>And… you don’t get to find out which it is - until after you buy the bag!</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--><!--[endif]--> Get ready for the letters, the phone calls, and the knocks on the door, the TV and radio ads, and the columns and articles in the newspapers and, of course on the Internet boosting ObamaCare during the month of August because they are going to be pouring it on.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p>If we are to kill this socialized medicine, we are going to have to meet them blow for blow.<span style=""> </span>We have to tell our Congresspersons and our senators that if they are so weak as to vote for ObamaCare they can forget about our vote next time they stand for re-election. Help them understand they can expect an early retirement from the nation’s legislature.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">You must remember that, first and foremost, the Obama Administration is going to force you to have health insurance, whether you want it or not.<span style=""> </span>It is called the “Individual Mandate.” Yes, dear reader, this bill will affect EVERY American, healthy or sick, young or old. It will make no difference. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">J. D. Longstreet</p><p class="MsoNormal">**********************</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:";" ><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/%3Cvar%3EConservative+Socialism+Healthcare+Abortion+ObamaCare%3C/var%3E" rel="tag"><em>Conservative</em><var>+Socialism+Healthcare+Abortion+ObamaCare</var></a></span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=1273874&loc=en_US">Subscribe to Christians Against Leftist Heresy by Email</a></div>Longstreethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06712980841544338388noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3698905861371878443.post-88046066954714061892009-07-28T03:12:00.004-05:002009-07-28T03:29:25.751-05:00“Never again will I doom the earth because of man…” By: God<div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9E1soGWi6d4/Sm60NXRM3CI/AAAAAAAAHFE/wYXmYHAeJ64/s1600-h/Christians+Against+Leftist+Heresy+#+1.jpg"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5363422347922299938" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 151px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9E1soGWi6d4/Sm60NXRM3CI/AAAAAAAAHFE/wYXmYHAeJ64/s400/Christians+Against+Leftist+Heresy+%23+1.jpg" border="0" /></span></strong></a><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"> “Never again will I doom the earth because of man…” By: God</span></strong></div><br /><div><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">**************************</span></strong></div><br /><div><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet</span></strong></div><br /><div><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">*****************************</span></strong></div><br /><div>The title above was taken from the first book of the Bible, Genesis, the 8th Chapter the 21st verse.</div><br /><div><br />So here we are, man, taking credit for destroying the earth, which God, Himself has told us he will not allow.<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9E1soGWi6d4/Sm6u1Ygs1AI/AAAAAAAAHEs/n9VK8bNNf2A/s1600-h/BEST+OF+2+NEW+ONE+GENERIC.jpg"></a><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9E1soGWi6d4/Sm6xhox-g8I/AAAAAAAAHE8/r8poOBrHiic/s1600-h/BEST+OF+2+NEW+ONE+GENERIC.jpg"></a>I, along with a host of other “deniers”, have been screaming from the rooftops, Man-Made Global Warming doesn’t exist! It is the absolute height of arrogance for human beings to believe they have to power to destroy something God has made and placed his personal guarantee on. But, we’re doing it.</div><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9E1soGWi6d4/Sm61JRUgxYI/AAAAAAAAHFM/TuerAi1uoJw/s1600-h/BEST+OF+2+NEW+ONE+GENERIC.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5363423377117726082" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 116px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9E1soGWi6d4/Sm61JRUgxYI/AAAAAAAAHFM/TuerAi1uoJw/s320/BEST+OF+2+NEW+ONE+GENERIC.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />I want to refer you to an article titled: “What God Thinks About Anthropogenic Global Warming”. Kevin Roeten wrote it. You’ll find it <a href="http://capitolhillcoffeehouse.com/more.php?id=5880_0_1_0_M" target="_blank">HERE.</a></div><br /><div><br />In his article, Mr. Roeten makes a statement and asks the following question: “Believing one has the power to affect an entire planet’s ecosystem is presumptuous at best and rashly arrogant at worst. God is either laughing at the sheer audacity of such an endeavor, or crying at the outcome of such egotistical actions. Are some of us telling God that man is in charge now?”</div><br /><div><br />As a fellow who counts himself among the religious, I must tell you that much of the claims of the Man-Made Global Warming crowd, and the Climate Change crowd, stun me. I feel as if I should be dodging lighten bolts, hurled from on high, at the arrogant souls making such ludicrous claims. And yet they continue to do it… and worse, they have sold it to many of our mainline Christian churches. That is another reason I have washed my hands of Organized Religion.<br />Man-Made Climate Change not so… er… Man-Made?</div><br /><div><br />Fred Singer an atmospheric and space physicist says it is the sun. Check it out <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=34576" target="_blank">HERE.</a></div><br /><div><br />The “experts” tell us the science is “settled” on global warming. They tell us mankind pumping so much CO-2 into the atmosphere has, and is, causing it. Then they use the guilt trip they have imposed on fellow human beings to shame us into completely altering the way we live. It is the oldest con game in the book. And the peoples of the planet are falling for it.</div><br /><div><br />I have heard the question asked, and even I have asked it, myself: How did Hitler manage to entice an entire nation to follow him into insanity? Actually, it is quite easy. Propaganda. As an old advertising man, I can tell you, it IS possible to sell anything if you package it correctly and if you create a desire in the consumer for it. If you lead the consumer, your target audience, to believe that all his neighbors are using and endorsing whatever it is you are selling, you have a successful sales campaign. Works every time. It worked for Hitler and it is working for the man-made global warming crowd. Except… the global warming hoaxers are much better than Hitler. He only had to con a single nation. They have taken on the world and they have had brilliant success.</div><br /><div><br />So how have they done it? With emotion! Plain and simple. Human emotion. Hoaxsters play on human emotions, especially guilt. They do it because it works! Human emotion will run roughshod over human rationality every time. Think about it. The world is being destroyed and you are the cause of it! Guilt.</div><br /><div><br />Let’s face it. Most of us do not understand the so-called science behind the claims of Man-made Global Warming. Most of us are not scientists. The fact that we don’t understand it brings a degree of shame. (Remember emotion) We drive our nice cars and trucks and live in our nice homes and wear our nice clothes and along comes someone who has a scientific formula, which we do not understand, to tell us that all these things we are enjoying are causing death and destruction to our fellowman… to our home… the earth. We are ashamed and we feel guilty about what, we are told, are our excesses. The guilt we feel drives us to bow to the demands of those pointing their fingers at us and crying “shame, shame”. Next thing you know, in order to feel good about ourselves, we are following the demands of the hoaxsters and have even joined the finger pointing group calling “shame, shame” at the holdouts who HAVE bothered to take a second look, a RATIONAL look, at the claims made by the hoaxsters and found them far short on facts.This entire Man-made Global Warming Hoax can be unveiled and destroyed if the public would only stop and think rationally for a few minutes.</div><br /><div><br />It is up to each of us to look closely at the claims the hoaxsters are making and with a little fundamental research we can debunk it.</div><br /><div><br />If you remember any of your grammar school and high school science you already know that the earth goes through heating and cooling periods. It is the way of nature. It is as natural as sunrise and sunset. And, most important, it happens to be true.</div><br /><div><br />Don’t be afraid to ask questions when you do not understand something about the Man Made Global Warming message. Then check the answers for accuracy. You have the greatest library in history at your fingertips… the Internet.</div><br /><div><br />As a religious man, I believe that God created this planet as a home for us. Man’s most heinous sin has always been his aspiration to be God, or to be LIKE God. This Man-Made Global Warming scheme is simply more evidence that man has not yet learned that he is not BIG enough TO BE God. Not yet. Not ever.</div><br /><div><br />J. D. Longstreet</div><br /><div>*****************</div><br /><div><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Conservative+Global+Warming+Hoax" rel="tag">Conservative+Global+Warming+Hoax</a><br /><br /></span></div><br /><div><br /></div><br /><div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=1273874&loc=en_US">Subscribe to Christians Against Leftist Heresy by Email</a></div>Longstreethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06712980841544338388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3698905861371878443.post-21169302099766948652009-07-20T00:08:00.000-05:002009-07-20T02:33:10.894-05:00Church Makes Itself Irrelevant.<div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9E1soGWi6d4/SmJbvY2mqGI/AAAAAAAAG8U/IiyVT1zFhvo/s1600-h/Christians+Against+Leftist+Heresy+#+1.jpg"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359947376207767650" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; height: 151px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9E1soGWi6d4/SmJbvY2mqGI/AAAAAAAAG8U/IiyVT1zFhvo/s400/Christians+Against+Leftist+Heresy+%23+1.jpg" border="0" /></span></strong></a><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Church Makes Itself Irrelevant.</span></strong></div><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet</span></strong><br /><div><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">*********************************************</span></strong></div><br /><div><span style="font-size:130%;">Episcopal Church officials voted recently to allow bishops the latitude to bless same-sex unions and it is a vote that may further divide the worldwide Anglican community. Read the full article entitled: "Episcopalians authorize bishops to bless same-sex unions" </span><a href="http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2009/07/18/episcopalians_authorize_bishops_to_bless_same_sex_unions/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:130%;">HERE.</span></a></div><br /><div><span style="font-size:130%;"></span> </div><span style="font-size:130%;">In my opinion, it is past time for the Anglican community to toss ECUSA out and be done with it.<br /><br /></span><div><span style="font-size:130%;"></span> </div><span style="font-size:130%;">I am a non-practicing ELCA Lutheran. I became non-practicing when my church adopted left-wing politics in place of the scriptures. It was at that point that it became, in my opinion, apostate, and I left the church because that is what Christians are supposed to do when they find themselves in such surroundings.<br /><br /></span><div><span style="font-size:130%;"></span> </div><span style="font-size:130%;">The Episcopal Church, USA seems bent on becoming a "cult", of some sort, rather than a church or denomination, within the mainline churches of the world. The Anglican Communion, in my opinion, ought to toss them and get on with their Christian work without the distractions left-wing organizations seem always to bring with them into any organization.<br /><br /></span><div><span style="font-size:130%;"></span> </div><span style="font-size:130%;">There is an article at the Charlotte Observer site you will find interesting. It is titled: "A Church Divided" and you will find it </span><a href="http://www.charlotteobserver.com/479/story/839660.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:130%;">HERE.</span></a><br /><br /><div><span style="font-size:130%;"></span> </div><span style="font-size:130%;">As we watch the mainline churches in America fall like dominoes to the evil forces assailing them, one must wonder whatever gave them the idea they could weigh anchor and sail away from safe harbor within the sola scriptura. As one of the (seemingly) very few OLD Lutherans left still kicking, I confess to believing, still, in sola scriptura, meaning: "only from the scriptures," or "the scripture alone," or, finally, "the scriptures (The Bible) as the sole source of authority." What I mean, simply, is that I base my faith on scripture alone, not on politics, not on any secular creed, not on passing fancies, whims, fashions, and, or, fads, but scripture - alone. Back in the day, when protestantism did the same thing, denominations did not split over things like homosexual bishops, blessing homosexual marriages, etc. It was enough that the scriptures condemned homosexuality. The argument, if ever there was one, was over before it began.<br /><br /></span><div><span style="font-size:130%;"></span> </div><span style="font-size:130%;">With the all out attack of left-wing politics on the church, and the Left's "everybody goes to heaven" theology (making the church, itself, irrelevant), denominations not deeply anchored in sola scriptorua folded like cheap suits.</span><br /><div><span style="font-size:130%;"></span> </div><br /><div><span style="font-size:130%;">Sola scriptorium, on the other hand, is a philosophy upon which the original protestant churches were built. The Great Reformer, Martin Luther, gets the credit for inventing it. It dictates, in layman's terms, that the interpretation of the word of God ultimately rests within a person and his or her personal relationship with God. That is, no one else can tell you how to believe in God. See, now, I LIKE that. In fact, I have lived my life that way. I do not now, nor have I ever, believed that it is forbidden for one to interpret the scriptures for oneself. Although, some churches in Christendom do believe it is forbidden for the believer to read and interpret the scriptures for himself or herself.</span></div><br /><div><span style="font-size:130%;"></span> </div><span style="font-size:130%;">As I said above, I must admit to being an adherent to Sola Scriptura, as well. That is - Bible Sufficiency - or the scriptures alone. In other words, I hold a belief in the scriptures as the sole source of authority... not the preacher, not the pastor, not the priest, not the Bishop, not the Pope - the scriptures alone. As a result, I have very few gray areas in matters of faith, to deal with.</span><br /><div><span style="font-size:130%;"></span> </div><br /><div><span style="font-size:130%;">In my last few years as an active church member, I was in a constant state of turmoil. I watched my church become something I knew to be wrong. When I spoke up and warned fellow members the path the church had taken was not biblical, was not true to the faith, and most importantly, was not true to the scriptures, I was looked upon with disdain. As I looked about me I saw, to my horror, that fellow members did not seem to be troubled by the path the church was taking. Mainly, they wanted to be left alone and not disturbed by unpleasant things such as apostasy. </span></div><br /><div><span style="font-size:130%;"></span> </div><span style="font-size:130%;">I stopped taking communion - and finally announced to my bible study class that I was leaving the church because I could not remain a part of an organization that I believed was not true to the scriptures. I was admonished to remain in the church and work from the inside to force the church to return to its scriptural mission. After a few weeks of actually considering that - I decided that would not work because the hierarchy of the church was far too powerful and they had set the course for the church and nothing I could ever do would make the least bit of difference. And so, I left the church.</span><br /><div><span style="font-size:130%;"></span> </div><br /><div><span style="font-size:130%;">My only regret is that I could not do a thing to save my beloved church from self-destruction. My greatest disappointment is with my (former) fellow members of that denomination who could not be bothered to act quickly and decisively to save a great old Christian denomination which had done much good in this world, in God's name, but had now gone over to the opposition.</span></div><br /><div><span style="font-size:130%;"></span> </div><span style="font-size:130%;">Today, as I watch so many of the mainline churches going over to the enemy, I have to ask myself if this is as bad as it appears? The scriptures tell us clearly that only a remnant of God's people will survive "the great shakeout." It seems to me that our great old denominations, like our nation, the USA, have become fat and lazy and are not competent to lead anymore. The churches, tired of setting the standards for society have, instead, adopted society's standards as their own. It is much less work, you see. In doing so they have forsaken their only true mission on this earth and are of no further use in the fulfillment of The Great Commission. Shouldn't we, then, ask ourselves if these churches, these Christian denominations, have become a hindrance to the work of the true church on this earth? I warn you, an honest answer here WILL hurt!</span><br /><div><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">J. D. Longstreet<br /></span><br />******************</div><br /><div><br /></div><br /><div><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Conservative+Christian+Church+Heresy+Homosexuality" rel="tag">Conservative+Christian+Church+Heresy+Homosexuality </a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=1273874&loc=en_US">Subscribe to Christians Against Leftist Heresy by Email</a></div>Longstreethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06712980841544338388noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3698905861371878443.post-66602510708099313142009-07-05T00:02:00.001-05:002009-07-05T10:04:31.261-05:00" ... But There Shall Be No Peace."<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9E1soGWi6d4/Sk_yl02lryI/AAAAAAAAGvM/k6Vlqp73ohM/s1600-h/Christians+Against+Leftist+Heresy+#+1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354765213623496482" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 151px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9E1soGWi6d4/Sk_yl02lryI/AAAAAAAAGvM/k6Vlqp73ohM/s400/Christians+Against+Leftist+Heresy+%23+1.jpg" border="0" /></a> <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">…“Men shall cry: Peace! Peace! But there will be no peace.”</span></strong><br /><div><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet</span></strong><br /></div><div><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">********************************</span></strong><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">It bothers me when I hear politicians, and former politicians, call for a Lasting Peace in the Middle East… especially a Southern politician, a Baptist, at that, and… a former President of the US.<br /><br />I am referring, among others, to former “horrible” President Jimmy Carter of Plains, Georgia.<br /><br />Now, let me see if I can explain this a bit:<br /><br />It is always difficult to “unmix” politics and religion; at least it is for me. I really like to keep them separate, as much as I can… with the knowledge that each will, most certainly, intrude on the other… and there is no way to stop that. Not in a free society, anyway.<br /><br />I was raised Southern Baptist. I left the Baptist church when I was in my mid-twenties and became a Lutheran. I felt the Lutheran church offered me something I could not find in my former denomination. Today that offering has been revoked and I find myself a “non-practicing” Lutheran.<br /><br />Experience in the Baptist church taught me many things. One is that the policy Mr. Carter is suggesting, a “Lasting Peace in the Middle East”, is certainly not what the Baptist church teaches... at least they didn’t when I was a Baptist. In fact, it taught just the opposite… that there would be no peace, whatsoever, in the Middle East, until the return of Christ and the great battle of Armageddon.<br /><br />So, you can imagine how my jaw dropped when I read Carter’s article in the Washington Post. You can find it </span><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/31/AR2006073100923.html"><span style="font-size:130%;">HERE.</span></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br />What’s going on here? Has “Jimma” finally gone round that bend he has been approaching, rather rapidly, of late? Or, has the Baptist church changed its stance on Peace in the Middle East? I simply don’t know. But, knowing the Baptists, as I do, (there are a number of my family, including my brother, who are Baptist ministers) I cannot believe the church has changed its teachings to reflect modern, secular, politics. (I expect I’ll hear from a Baptist, or two, about this! Fine people, those Baptists!! How’s that for “sucking-up”?)<br /><br />The last I heard, (and I have some friends who travel to Georgia, fairly often, and attend church at Carter’s church… and even attend the Sunday School class he teaches, or did teach.) the Baptist Church had not changed it’s teaching on “End Times”, Armageddon, or the Rapture. So, I have to wonder how other Baptists, members of one of the most conservative denominations on the earth, feel about this prominent Baptist misrepresenting their belief.<br /><br />Carter’s association with the Baptists and his obvious break with them concerning Israel, and the Middle East, is a puzzlement. But then, politicians, who wear their religion on their sleeves, have always raised my eyebrows.<br /><br />There is a distinct difference between wearing one’s religion on one’s sleeve, and practicing one’s religion, as that worthy adversary, Democrat Senator Joe Lieberman, does. I do not question his faith. He lives it.<br /><br />Seems to me America would be a much better place if our politicians would LIVE their religion rather than publicly touting it as so many do.<br /><br />Am I guilty of judging others by going against the biblical precept, “Judge not, that ye be not judged”? Of course I am! Christ himself said: “Ye shall know a tree by the fruit it bears.” I’m just examining the fruit! I’m kind of a “fruit inspector”, if you will.<br /><br />I suggest we ALL begin examining the fruit we’re being offered much more closely than we have in the past. All the evidence we need to convince those among us who STILL need convincing has been splattered all over the media lately.</span></div><br /><div><span style="font-size:130%;">J. D. Longstreet </span></div><br /><div><span style="font-size:130%;">*********************</span></div><br /><br /><div><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Conservative+Religion" rel="tag">Conservative+Religion</a></span></div><br /><br /><div><span style="font-size:78%;"></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=1273874&loc=en_US">Subscribe to Christians Against Leftist Heresy by Email</a></div>Longstreethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06712980841544338388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3698905861371878443.post-72124746122330091102009-07-02T00:10:00.001-05:002009-07-02T02:37:51.071-05:00I Miss America! ... J. D. Longstreet<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9E1soGWi6d4/Skv98h8CggI/AAAAAAAAGtw/uMWGcGLQXJU/s1600-h/Christians+Against+Leftist+Heresy+#+1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353651798404137474" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 151px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9E1soGWi6d4/Skv98h8CggI/AAAAAAAAGtw/uMWGcGLQXJU/s400/Christians+Against+Leftist+Heresy+%23+1.jpg" border="0" /></a> <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">I Miss America!<br />J. D. Longstreet</span></strong><br /><br /><div><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">****************</span></strong><br /><br />I have always thought Providence had a plan for this place we call America. No, I did not get that from the “Good Book,” the Bible, as you might think I would claim. Actually, I think it came from my fundamentalist evangelical upbringing. In any event, it is a feeling to which I grasp firmly to this day.<br /><br />America has done a lot of good I this world. We have managed, along the way, to do some harm. At least those who do not look as kindly upon America as I do seem to feel that way and seem to have no problem letting those feelings be known loudly and clearly.<br /><br />There has been a feeling within much of the Christian community in America that Providence has shielded America from much harm by extending His protection about her. I cannot argue for or against that stance. I just don’t know.<br /><br />Recently, however, that is to say - within the past few decades - as America has taken to patterning her society after the European style liberal and socialist societies, the Christian community has taken another look and now a good deal of that community is proclaiming that God has now withdrawn that divine protection and America is now open to whatever evil comes her way. I cannot say, one way or the other. While it is true that God and I have a very personal and close relationship, I am afraid He doesn’t take me into His confidence on such matters. I am eternally grateful for that! Unlike some among us scribes, I take no pleasure in publicly proclaiming I have any sort of inside track with The Almighty in how He deals with the nations.<br /><br />However, I can tell you this - there is a written record of his past dealings with nations that have won his favor and then lost it. If, indeed, America DID have divine protection extended to her, and has, as some believe, lost it, then judging from the record I referred to above, America will have some trying times ahead of her.<br /><br />We know from the scriptures that God “chastens those whom he loves.” Its sort of a “tough love”… divine style.<br /><br />Let me give you an example from that written record we know today as the Bible. When the Chosen People decided they wanted a king like all the nations around them, the prophet told them they did not need a king because God was their sovereign. Not satisfied they demanded a king. Finally, God relented and gave them a king. Problem was, He gave them King Saul. And in doing so, God told them they would rue the day they ever asked for a king! And, boy, DID they! Saul became, quickly, a warrior king and many of God’s chosen people were slaughtered on the field of battle. It seems they were always at war with some other people, or nation, over some problem or other, until the people did come to realize they had made a major mistake in demanding an earthly king. Unfortunately, it was too late. The kingly line had been set and the people then had a royal family and a line of kings that would, march far into the future until captivity and dispersion.<br /><br />Now - if there is a parallel between those ancient people of the bible and the modern US it might be the demand of the American voters for Obama as our “king” or President. Many of us knew, at least two years before the election, that John McCain would never be President of the US. So, when the GOP decided he was to be their candidate the election was sealed in favor of his opponent, and it turned out to be Obama. And today, about six months into Obama’s reign, the American voter is beginning to rue the day they demanded Obama as their king or President. Calls for his early resignation are heard from all corners of the land today.<br /><br />After considering all of this, I must admit it does appear as more than just chance that all the bad that has happened to America in the past half a year leads right back to that election and the people’s demand for “change”. And make no mistake about it, the people of the US DEMANDED Obama. We got him - and look what else we got to boot.<br /><br />And now we are fast approaching the day we celebrate our independence from Great Britain, the Fourth of July. I am sitting here at the keyboard trying to find something to say that is meaningful on this anniversary of our freedom. I find it is difficult, this year, to do that with all the bad we find ourselves nearly swamped in.<br /><br />Each time I pull up to the keyboard, and type those few words, my eyes want to tear up and I get that lump in the throat that I used to associate with singing the national anthem and watching the flag march by, proudly held aloft by a veteran of the US Armed Forces. It is a common trait among those of us who have worn our nation’s uniform.<br /><br />Ah, but this year, this year, the would-be tears are not only for those who have paid the price of our freedom with their body and blood - and sometimes even their sanity, it is for what we, as Americans, have lost in just the first five short months of the new presidential administration’s reign.<br /><br />Near the top of my list of things we Americans have lost is PRIDE. Pride at being an American. Pride that was earned - that was paid for by the men and women who went before us into the jaws of hell and back to free a people in a country the name of which some of them could not even pronounce. It was pride earned because Americans were a people who would lend a hand to their fellow man, far away, who yearned to be free from a brutal dictator.<br /><br />America used to be thought of as a “can-do” nation. It didn’t make a lot of difference what needed doing, America could, and would, do it. It never occurred to us we could fail. I mean, after all, we were AMERICANS! We DON’T FAIL!<br /><br />It was confidence. Self-confidence, if you will. We were a nation of rugged individualists who did not rely on government for a damned thing. As a matter of fact, the less government we had - the better.<br /><br />The nation, itself, was founded largely by the outcasts of other nations. Occasionally, other nations would send their criminals here as punishment. I know that is difficult to believe but it happened! They were people who had nothing to lose, with their backs against the wall they had one way to go and that was straight ahead - and the devil take the hind most! Those were the people who formed the bedrock foundation of the people the world would come to know simply as “AMERICANS.” Unique in the history of the planet - there had never been a nation made of people like those Americans. They were different. They knew it and they loved it.<br /><br />They were a people who wanted their freedom - and so they took it – and they took it from a world superpower, no less. They created an experimental system of government called a representative republic and made it work! Some 80 years later they fell out, over state’s rights, and split into two separate countries and went to war against each other. The War for Southern Independence was unlike anything the world had seen before and since. They went at killing each other with workman like precision. On more than one occasion soldiers would cheer and applaud the other side’s bravery in the midst of the battle! More Americans died in that war than in all the wars America has been involved in added together. Some say the way that war ended has much to do with where America finds herself today. I cannot disagree with that. As a result of that war’s ending we stand today as one nation containing two countries made up of 50 separate and sovereign states. At some point it is bound to unravel.<br /><br />America’s downfall came quickly once it began in the early 1990’s.<br /><br />I have concluded, rightly or wrongly, (But I BELIEVE I am RIGHT) that ignorance is the cause of America’s downfall. We Americans are, as a whole, stupid. We are the least educated, dumbest, society on earth. How else can you account for the people we elected to lead the nation? I mean… just LOOK at that bunch! Now… look at what they have done to the country in less than six months! There is no easy way to say this – the election of Obama was a huge triumph for ignorance in America. If you STILL do not believe me, stick around for oh, a year, maybe eighteen months, or so, and watch what is going to happen and THEN tell me I am wrong.<br /><br />Come on folks! Look at the fare on your TV. Most of it is insulting to anyone with a slightly above average IQ. You must understand the comprehension level of the average adult American today is around that of a third grader, or below. The people who produce the garbage on TV have to dumb it down so the average American can understand it! How else are they going to be able to sell it to the networks as vehicles for their commercials?<br /><br />Our public school system (the government schools, as many now refer to them) is absolutely pathetic. It is a colossal failure. The curriculum has been dumbed down so that we are graduating kids who can barely function in a world that will surely pass them by. We know what is wrong with our schools and we know how to fix them - but we won’t. You must understand that for the government (we now have in America) to continue to control the reins of power they need MORE dumb Americans - not less. Our cookie-cutter schools are turning them out by the millions every year.<br /><br />So, if you say America has passed her zenith, I certainly would not argue with you. Today’s America is but a caricature of the real America. If you choose to believe that God has withdrawn his shield of protection from America, then I certainly cannot argue with that, either. But I CAN tell you this - I really, really, miss America!<br /><br />J. D. Longstreet</div><div>**********************</div><div><strong>Join</strong> <a href="http://christiansagainstleftistheresy.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#3333ff;"><strong>Christians Against Leftist Heresy</strong></span></a> </div><br /><br /><div>****************</div><br /><br /><div><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Conservative+America+Education+government+Dumb" rel="tag">Conservative+America+Education+government+Dumb</a><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=1273874&loc=en_US">Subscribe to Christians Against Leftist Heresy by Email</a></div>Longstreethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06712980841544338388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3698905861371878443.post-1417304188492610872009-06-30T07:55:00.002-05:002009-06-30T08:10:49.067-05:00US Government’s Climate Con-Job<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9E1soGWi6d4/SkoLvmcanbI/AAAAAAAAGs4/ayEtQYAVqm4/s1600-h/Christians+Against+Leftist+Heresy+#+1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353104019484745138" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 151px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9E1soGWi6d4/SkoLvmcanbI/AAAAAAAAGs4/ayEtQYAVqm4/s400/Christians+Against+Leftist+Heresy+%23+1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">US Government’s Climate Con-Job</span></strong></div><br /><div><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">J. D. Longstreet</span></strong></div><br /><div><strong>**************</strong></div><strong></strong><br /><div>America’s Christian community is a bit stunned – and - somewhat overwhelmed with the attack on Nature’s God by those in our own government who vehemently explain that they are attacking Nature’s God in the Name of Nature “herself”(?). If this paragraph leaves you somewhat confused, welcome to the club! </div><br /><div>The largest portion of American Christians is taught, from the cradle up, and from Genesis forward, (in the bible) that God created the Earth for man and man was charged with being a good steward of the planet. Man was given divine permission to use the planet, and use the bounty of the planet, but - to use it wisely. </div><br /><div>For man to use the resources of Earth wisely, man had to wait eons, it seems to understand the earth, and the world around him, until he actually had the knowledge and the wherewithal to manage the earth as that “good steward” God had appointed.</div><br /><div>We have not yet arrived at the optimum period in our stay on this planet when it will be possible to provide for our needs without drawing from the earths storehouses of bounty. So we continue to use the resources provided for us through Nature by Nature’s God. But we are close. The oil and coal is ours to use, as is the bounty of the sea, and game of the forest, and the seeds of the field – all ours - provided for our use by our God. </div><div><br />When the day comes on which we will be able to switch from the use of coal and oil to a man-made synthetic that will do the job just as well, then we will do so - and we will stop withdrawing from Nature’s storehouse of petroleum. It is the common sense way of things. It is the way our survival was insured. </div><div><br />God did not plop man down on a barren planet and allow us to fend for ourselves. He situated us on a planet of plenty and carefully explained that everything we needed to survive was here and we had permission to use it wisely.</div><div><br />For most of our time on this earth, man has used earth’s resources wisely. Well, considering that for the largest part of our sojourn here we did not even know what that meant. But we learned. And we learned to use those resources to better our lives and to create those things we humans require for existence - and then we had the time to create things of beauty in the many and varied forms of art, and so on. </div><div><br />And then, unfortunately, some of us discovered they could control thier fellow man by controlling the use of the earth’s resources. In a manner of speaking –that was when Satan entered the garden! </div><div><br />From that time forth, right up to this day and this hour, we have been in turmoil. Using God’s gifts as weapons tends to do that to those who abuse his generosity.</div><div><br />Today, here in America, formerly the greatest country on earth, those who govern us seek to use God’s gifts to control God’s people, and, ultimately, to enslave God’s people to the yoke of Godless socialism. </div><div><br />Just days ago the US house of Representatives passed a bill that would control the use of all those natural resources in such a manner as to make Americans serfs on their own land. Many of us in the Christian community do not believe that is good stewardship of the bounty of this earth by our government, nor by <em>any </em>government that seeks to gain power for itself at the expense of the people it governs. </div><div><br />The US Senate must now approve the bill before it goes to the President for his signature. Those of us in the Christian community, especially the Christian conservative community, must take advantage of this time window before the Senate brings the bill to the floor for debate and consideration. We must contact our senators and let them know, in no uncertain terms, how we feel about this nation-crushing bill. </div><div><br />Conservatives all over America are gearing up to fight this power grab by our government. Those of us who can are speaking out against this bill. </div><div><br />I received the article below from a fellow conservative a few days ago. He, too, is furious - and - like so many of us who understand what this bill, as law, would do to the America we have known, is a bit frightened by how easy it has been for the Obama Regime to "pull the wool over the eyes" of such a large portion of the American electorate.<br /><br />Paul Driessen is senior policy advisor for the "Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow" and "Congress of Racial Equality", and author of Eco-Imperialism: Green Power, Black Death. He has hit the nail directly on the head in this piece.<br /><br />Please read what Paul has written below. Again, we ask that you contact your Senators and demand that they vote "NO" on this Cap and Trade bill.<br /><br />It is no overstatement to say that if this bill passes, and is signed into law, America, as we have known it, will be gone, quite likely, forever!<br /><br />Thank you!<br /><br />J. D. Longstreet<br /><br />*******************************<br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">US Government’s Climate Con-Job<br /><em>Obama administration “report” on climate change is deceitful, scare-mongering, bogus science</em><br />By: Paul Driessen</span></strong></div><div><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">**********************</span></strong></div><div>Suppose a company doctored data, misrepresented study findings, replaced observations with computer simulations, and hired PR flacks to promote its new “wonder drug.” News stories, congressional hearings, and subpoenas would be in overdrive. Fines and jail sentences would follow. And rightly so.<br /><br />But the standards change when “climate catastrophe” is involved.<br /><br />The White House has made global warming the centerpiece of its revenue-raising and energy policies. A House of Representatives 942-page bill would tax, regulate and penalize all US hydrocarbon energy use, to “save the planet from climate disaster.” The Senate promises an August vote.<br /><br />But average global temperatures peaked in 1998 and since have fallen slightly, even as carbon dioxide levels continue to climb. Thousands of scientists say CO2 has little effect on planetary temperatures, and there is no climate crisis. Few developed countries are ready to commit economic suicide, by agreeing to reduce their CO2 emissions by a fraction of what the House bill demands for the United States.<br /><br />Americans are beginning to realize the legislation would cost millions of jobs and trillions of dollars for a hypothetical 0.1 degree F reduction in global temperatures. Most put global warming dead last in a Pew Research list of 20 concerns.<br /><br />The government’s answer to these inconvenient truths is simple.<br /><br />Issue another report by government scientists carefully selected to exclude any who don’t subscribe to climate Armageddon. Ignore contrary data and analyses. Crank out more bogus computer-generated worst-case scenarios. Hire an activist media firm that specializes in environmental scare campaigns. And spend tens of millions hyping every imaginable climate disaster:Rising sea levels, floods in lower Manhattan, California beaches permanently submerged. Ferocious hurricanes, floods and droughts. Food shortages, epidemic diseases, a quadrupling of heat-wave deaths in Chicago. Aged sewer systems convulsing from massive storm runoff. Wildflowers disappearing from Rocky Mountain slopes and polar bears from the Arctic. Leisure time gone, as people struggle to survive.<br /><br />“Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States” is the “most up-to-date, authoritative, comprehensive” analysis ever done on how human-caused warming affects the United States, deadpans Obama “science” advisor John Holdren.<br /><br />Actually, it’s the most flagrant attempted con-job and propaganda campaign in US history.</div><div> </div><div>If it helps Congress enact cap-and-tax legislation, it will give activists, courts and bureaucrats control over virtually every aspect of our lives. It will enable them to confiscate hard-earned dollars, convert them to payoffs for activists and companies that get on the climate-crisis bandwagon, consign uncooperative companies and scientists to the ash heap of history, and conceal the exorbitant costs of restrictive energy policies – on families, industries, jobs and transportation – until long after the bill becomes law.</div><div> </div><div>The bogus “report” conflates and confuses human activities and emissions with the powerful natural forces that have caused major and minor climate changes and weather anomalies since the dawn of time – from the Carboniferous Period to the Age of Dinosaurs, from the Big Ice Ages and interglacial periods to the Little Ice Age, Roman and Medieval Warm Periods, Dust Bowl and countless others. It relies on conjecture, conformist thinking and conspicuous elimination of contrary, skeptical, realist scientists and studies that do not support climate cataclysm conjecture and ideology.</div><div> </div><div>The authors “largely ignored” critical comments to earlier drafts and made the final version “even more alarmist” than infamous UN “summaries” of global warming “crises,” says Joseph D’Aleo, first director of meteorology at the Weather Channel and former chairman of the American Meteorological Society’s Weather Analysis and Forecasting Committee. The report is simply “wrong on many of its claims” and marks “an embarrassing episode for the authors and NOAA,” D’Aleo concludes.</div><div> </div><div>University of Colorado environmental studies professor Roger Pielke, Jr. says the report “misrepresents” his own work, makes claims that are not supported by citations provided, relies heavily on analyses that were never peer reviewed, ignores peer-reviewed studies that reach opposite conclusions from those proclaimed by the report, and cites analyses that do not support conclusions rendered.“I didn’t notice a single recognized hurricane expert in the list of authors,” says NOAA Hurricane Research Division scientist Stanley Goldenberg. The report relies heavily on surface temperature data from monitoring stations located next to parking lots and air conditioning exhaust ports – falsely skewing temperature records upward – other experts noted. It is lead-heavy on assumptions, assertions and speculation – hydrogen-light on evidence.</div><div> </div><div>But the most egregious miscarriage of science in this agit-prop exercise is its near-total dependence on worst-case scenarios conjured up by computer models. That’s where it gets its litany of “Day After Tomorrow” Hollywood disasters.</div><div> </div><div>These climate models have never been validated by actual observations, notes Professor Robert Carter of the Marine Geophysical Laboratory at Australia’s James Cook University. Indeed, Australia’s own climate modeling agency (CSIRO) stresses that climate change scenarios are based on computer models that “involve simplifications of [real world] processes that are not fully understood. Accordingly, no responsibility will be accepted … for the accuracy of forecasts inferred” from its reports.“Modeling results are interesting – but worthless for setting public policy,” says Carter. But that is exactly how they’re being used.</div><div> </div><div>Sure, it’s conceivable that Antarctica could melt, and cause sea levels to rise 20 feet, as Al Gore and the government con-artists suggest. Greenhouse gases would merely have to increase average annual Antarctic temperatures from their current –50 degrees F to +40 degrees for a century or two, to melt 200,000 cubic miles of South Pole icecaps. A mere 90-degree swing.</div><div> </div><div>That may be as likely as having the planet overrun by raptors and T-rexes cloned from DNA in fossilized mosquitoes. But it’s conceivable. And in the realm of global warming politics, that’s all that matters. As MIT atmospheric physicist Richard Lindzen observes, “global warming has developed so much momentum that it has a life of its own, quite removed from science.”</div><div> </div><div>As one climate activist group put it: “The task … is not to persuade by rational argument.” It is “to work in a more shrewd and contemporary way, using subtle techniques of engagement. The ‘facts’ need to be treated as being so taken-for-granted that they need not be spoken.” The strategy is to treat “climate-friendly activity as a brand that can be sold. This is the route to mass behavior change.”This is the kind of science, transparency, honesty and accountability we have come to expect over “human-caused climate chaos.”</div><div> </div><div>If the congressional, administration and activist conspirators behind this massive deceit were in the private sector – peddling bogus drugs, rather than bogus science – they’d quickly become convicts. Instead of jail time, though, they’ll probably get bonus checks.</div><div>_____________</div><div>Paul Driessen is senior policy advisor for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow and Congress of Racial Equality, and author of Eco-Imperialism: Green Power, Black Death.<br />****************</div><div><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Conservative" rel="tag">Conservative</a><br /></span>*********************</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=1273874&loc=en_US">Subscribe to Christians Against Leftist Heresy by Email</a></div>Longstreethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06712980841544338388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3698905861371878443.post-15477718184032118382009-06-29T00:10:00.000-05:002009-06-29T02:35:31.775-05:00An Open letter to the NC Delegation to the US Senate from a Constituent<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5352543994556748418" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 151px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9E1soGWi6d4/SkgOZ3A0koI/AAAAAAAAGr4/gsPjfjMqpOg/s400/Christians+Against+Leftist+Heresy+%23+1.jpg" border="0" /><br /><div><strong>An Open letter to the NC Delegation to the US Senate from a Constituent<br /></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">It is extremely important for those of us of the Christian faith to become involved in the government of our country. Especially today as our country is under the threat of dominion by socialism which, as Christians know, is anathema to Christianity. We have watched as our government, over the past handful of months gone form a democratic nation based on Judeo-Christian ethics and laws and British Common Law to a European form of socialism. Those of us who have lived thru most of the era of socialism sees it for what it is and recognize the overwhelming dangers to a democratic society socialism poses. But we have the two most recent generations of Americans who are not well versed in the dangers of socialism and the sly way I has of “sucking-in” the un-suspecting , like a form of political quicksand until a nation is so immobile it can no longer defend itself and surrenders to the soul-rotting cancer that the more experienced among us know as the hallmark of socialism. </span><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9E1soGWi6d4/SkgPeey9bLI/AAAAAAAAGsA/46Ro1e5bE60/s1600-h/QUILL+PEN+#+1.jpg"><span style="color:#3333ff;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5352545173467131058" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 178px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9E1soGWi6d4/SkgPeey9bLI/AAAAAAAAGsA/46Ro1e5bE60/s200/QUILL+PEN+%23+1.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><br /><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;">The Cap and Trade Bill (The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009) is the most recent attempt of the Obama Administration and the socialist national legislators in our Congress to so completely capture the United States in their web of deceit and domination that we will be bullied to shut up and accept socialism as inevitable and just allow them to roll over us and have their way.<br /><br />This Christian is NOT so INCLINED!<br /><br />I sent the following letter to the two Senators from North Carolina to, hopefully, strengthen their resolve to stand fast against the socialist onslaught. I encourage you to do the same. If we have any chance of saving our country we Christians must exercise our constitutional right to challenge our government and set their course aright. I have published the letter (on the internet) I sent to my Senators in the hope that it might encourage other Christians to do the same. You will find it below.<br /><br />Please contact your Senators and urge them to vote “NO” on the Cap and Trade bill. I am completely convinced the future of America, as a democratic country, depends on the utter defeat of this heinous bill.<br /><br />JDL</span></strong><br /><br /><br /><div><strong><em>**********************</em></strong><br /><strong>Dear Senator:<br /><br />I respectfully ask that you vote against the “Cap and Trade” bill (The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009) soon to come before the US Senate.<br /><br />I am convinced the bill is one of the worse, if not THE worse bills to come before the Senate in its long history. The result of the bill will be higher taxes, higher prices on nearly everything the public buys, including essentials, high unemployment, and a geo-political shift in the nations of the world that would effectively remove the US from any leadership role for a very long time, if not forever. The bill is so badly disliked it is referred to, out here, as the “Destroy America Bill.”<br /><br />Senator there would never be a “good time” for this bill, but there certainly could not be a worse time in the history of our country to ram this bill through the House and the Senate.<br /><br />I respectfully ask that you vote no on the Cap and Trade Bill when it comes before your legislative body in a few days. I can assure you, Senator; your constituents will be watching how you vote with more than casual interest. We will be watching to determine how we vote when next you stand for election. If you vote in support of the bill, Senator, my vote, and many, many, others here in North Carolina will not be cast for you. Your career as a US Senator may very well come to an abrupt end.<br /><br />This is one of those times when an elected official is expected to act in accordance with the wishes of his constituents. Nothing less is acceptable.<br /><br />I have watched the House, as it dealt with this bill, and it certainly seemed the general electorate was far more aware of the contents of the bill than were the Representatives in the House. The Congresspersons in the US House give all indications of having voted for a bill they had not even read! That speaks volumes about the reliability of those national legislators and it does not reflect well upon their ability to make the right choices under pressure. Many of the members of our NC delegation, in the House of Representatives, have brought shame to their constituents here at home. We will not forget it in 2010 and beyond. I can only hope the Senators from North Carolina are far more familiar with the Cap and Trade bill than the delegation in the House!<br /><br />Senator, we are asking such a small thing. We are asking that you be true to your promises and represent your constituents wishes and desires concerning this Cap and Trade Bill.<br /><br />What the US House has done in passage of this bill is already being referred to as a “Betrayal” of the people of America. The near socialist-like reform brought about by the Democrats in charge of the Congress and government of the US, including the offices of the Obama Administration, have rocked the citizens who make up the grassroots of the electorate in America. There is an undercurrent of distrust and anger toward the current US government the likes of which I have never experienced in my nearly seven decades on this earth as an American. We are no longer becoming Balkanized - we ARE Balkanized!<br /><br />Much has to change, Senator, for the US to be whole again. Those changes must begin in our national government. You can be a part of the healing process, a part of the process of bringing our nation back together again as a single people, by voting no on the Cap and Trade bill. Supporting the bill will only drive the wedge deeper between the two camps and ensure more pain for the American family as a result of higher prices on nearly everything, lost income due to lost jobs as more and more industry moves overseas in search of friendlier climes for business, and, of course, higher prices for petroleum products as we become ever more dependent on off-shore suppliers of fuel to run the engine that drives our nation’s economy. This stress will only feed the flames of distrust and anger seething just below the surface even now.<br /><br />Now is the time, Senator, to represent the folks of your state who love this country and want to keep her intact.<br /><br />Again, I respectfully ask that you vote no on the Cap and Trade bill (The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009) when it comes before the Senate. However you vote, it will be remembered in the primaries and in the November election next year.<br /><br />Respectfully yours,</strong></div><br /><br /><br /><div><br />********************</div><br /><br /><br /><div><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Conservative" rel="tag"></a></span> </div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=1273874&loc=en_US">Subscribe to Christians Against Leftist Heresy by Email</a></div>Longstreethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06712980841544338388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3698905861371878443.post-36000302706789596042009-06-28T01:55:00.000-05:002009-06-28T02:23:11.873-05:00We Must Stop the Destroy America Bill!<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9E1soGWi6d4/SkcYblDN85I/AAAAAAAAGrI/gGdp4kbpbiU/s1600-h/Christians+Against+Leftist+Heresy+#+1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5352273544234267538" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 151px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9E1soGWi6d4/SkcYblDN85I/AAAAAAAAGrI/gGdp4kbpbiU/s400/Christians+Against+Leftist+Heresy+%23+1.jpg" border="0" /></a>
<br /><div><em><strong>America Betrayed! </strong></em></div>
<br /><div><em><strong>J. D. Longstreet</strong></em></div>
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<br /><div><em><strong>"This is the day the Lord has made! Let us rejoice and be glad in it!"</strong></em> But - there is little rejoicing in America today.</div>
<br /><div></div><div>The Cap and Trade Bill, the one piece of legislation to come before the US House, so far this year, that could actually <em><strong>destoy</strong></em> this great country was PASSED by a narrow percentage of votes (219 t0 212) in the House last week and will now go to the US Senate for their approval and passage and then, on to the President for his signing it into law - which he will do with no hesitation.</div>
<br /><div></div><div>It is time for people of faith to stand and be counted.
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<br />It gives me no joy to remind you that we told you this Congress and this President would do this to America. I refer, of course to the betrayal of America by the US House of Representatives when they passed the Cap and Trade Bill last week (June 26th, 2009 - another day that may yet live in infamy!)
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<br />The vote was 219 for and 212 against. Nevertheless, HR 2454 passed and now goes to the Senate for a vote there and then to the President for his signature.
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<br />It was a black day for Republicans because the bill could have been stopped had not the handful of Republicans who voted for the bill not done so. You need to remember their names:
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<br /><a href="http://bono.house.gov/">Mary Bono Mack</a> - California 45th District
<br /><a href="http://www.castle.house.gov/">Mike Castle</a> - Delaware
<br /><a href="http://www.house.gov/kirk/">Mark Kirk</a> - Illinois 10th District
<br /><a href="http://lance.house.gov/index.html">Leonard Lance</a> - New Jersey 7th District
<br /><a href="http://www.house.gov/lobiondo/">Frank LoBiondo</a> - New Jersey 2nd District
<br /><a href="http://mchugh.house.gov/">John McHugh</a> - New York 23rd District
<br /><a href="http://reichert.house.gov/">Dave Reichert</a> - Washington 8th District
<br /><a href="http://chrissmith.house.gov/">Chris Smith</a> - New Jersey 4th District
<br />The primaries are coming up next year, 2010. This is far too important an issue to forget. We must not allow GOP voters to forget those from among their ranks who sold the party, and the nation, out with their support of this “Bill to Destroy America.”
<br />In the meantime, we have to contact our US Senators and let them know, in no uncertain terms, how we feel about what the US House has done and explain, clearly, that we will not stand for them supporting this bill in the Senate. Let them know that you/we are “taking names” and we will not allow the memory of this issue to flag, or be swept under the rug when their name next shows up on our ballots. E-mail, fax, phone, or write (altho only the Good Lord, Himself, knows when a letter will actually reach a US Senator these days!) your Senators immediately, if not sooner. You can bet the democrat’s-in-charge are going to ram this bill through the Senate just as fast as they can to try to get out ahead of our protests. You can access the phone numbers, mailing addresses, and e-mail addresses for every senator in the US Senate <a href="http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm">HERE.</a>
<br />As is his wont, Alan Caruba has written a piece, an important piece, I might add, that all Americans should read. You will find it <a href="http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/2009/06/betrayed-by-congress.html">HERE.</a>
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<br />I have included it in this piece because Mr. Caruba’s insight into this rogue Congress, we currently have in Washington, DC is, in my opinion, without equal and when he decides to share that insight with us, it is worth careful consideration. Please don’t leave this site before you read what he has written below.
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<br />The next meeting of the Tea Parties is set for Independence Day, July Fourth. It is an opportunity to rally Americans, who still care about their country, to a showdown with the US Senate, the Congress as a whole, and our socialist President. If there had been any question in your minds as to the intent of the Socialist/Democrat Congress and President toward destabilizing America, her economy, and her standing among the nations of the world, then the passage of the Cap and Trade bill should erase all doubt. If this bill passes in the Senate - the entire worldwide geo-political alignment of nations will shift almost overnight. America will no longer be considered the world’s leader. She’ll just be another member of the pack.
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<br />Americans who care about their country cannot let this pass. We must rally and defend our country.
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<br />Please read Mr. Caruba’s commentary below.
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<br />J. D. Longstreet</div>
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<br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Betrayed by Congresss
<br />By Alan Caruba
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<br />Mark it on your calendar; June 26, 2009 was the date that the House of Representatives betrayed every American in the name of saving the nation and the Earth from global warming.
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<br />It was the day that 219 Representatives voted for the obscenely misnamed “American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009.” Only eight Republican members of the House voted for it and 44 Democrats voted against it.
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<br />The bill, some 1,200 pages, was not read by those men and women voting on it because they were not permitted the time to do so or have their staffs do it. The co-author of the bill, Rep. Henry Waxman, admitted that even he did not know its full contents.
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<br />The vote was not based on science, on economics, or simple common sense. It was an exercise in raw political power exercised by the Speaker of the House and her minions.
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<br />The bill puts limits on the generation of “greenhouse gases”, primarily carbon dioxide, setting up an elaborate scheme for the sale and trade of so-called carbon credits that will ultimately be the equivalent of the bundled housing mortgage securities that produced the present threat to the nation’s financial system. It is a get-rich scheme that will benefit a few while penalizing every American with higher costs for electricity.
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<br />The limits are justified by the claim that the Earth is dramatically warming due to too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The Earth has been cooling for the last ten years and is predicted to continue cooling for thirty years or more. Carbon dioxide plays no role in the warming or cooling of the Earth.
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<br />The bill is a direct attack on the nation’s coal industry. Fifty percent of all the electricity generated nationwide comes from coal-fired plants. The U.S. has deposits of coal sufficient to meet the nation’s needs for hundreds of years. It is cheap and it is abundant. No new coal-fired plants will be built in America in the foreseeable future. Coal that is not utilized here will be exported to China, a nation that is building new coal-fired plants and opening them on a weekly basis to meet its need for power.
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<br />The bill also allocates billions for the development of the two worst, most inefficient and unpredictable sources of electricity, wind and solar energy. Presently, these represent barely one percent of all the electricity generated in the nation. There is no way, nor should there be, they can replace coal, natural gas, and nuclear energy as a source of electricity. They are also the alleged source of “green” jobs.
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<br />As for “security”, a nation that cannot access its own sources of energy, coal, oil and natural gas, has no security if it must import them from other nations, some of whom are hostile to our values and system of government. The bill puts our fate in the hands of nations that support the goals of Islamic global domination. It puts the nation at the mercy of men like Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez and explains why President Obama made a deep bow to a Saudi prince earlier this year.
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<br />The bill must now go to the Senate where it is hoped that the upper body, though controlled by Democrats, will ensure it does not move on to the desk of the President.
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<br />If it passes in the Senate, the beginning of the actual decline of America as a great economy will be dated June 26, 2009.
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<br />Without abundant power, electricity for our homes, offices and factories; without gasoline for our cars and trucks, America will become a failed nation.
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<br />Alan Caruba
<br />FounderThe National Anxiety Center
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