FEDS & U.N. DUMPING “UNVETTED, DISEASED REFUGEE MEN” ON TAXPAYER

FEDS & U.N. DUMPING “UNVETTED, DISEASED REFUGEE MEN” ON TAXPAYER 
BY ALEX NEWMAN
 
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 

A Missouri woman who has attended official meetings on resettling migrants is blowing the whistle on United Nations and federal schemes that she says
are quietly flying in huge numbers of unvetted, diseased “refugees”
from across Africa and the Middle East — many of whom do not even have a
known name — and immediately handing them passports, Social Security
numbers, and a vast array of tax-funded benefits. Noting that the
overwhelming majority of the migrants she observed were men, she
suggested the schemes were an “intentional device” to “invade the United
States of America.”

Adding insult to injury, said the woman with knowledge of the
program, is the fact that state officials and those involved with
processing the new arrivals are being encouraged at official meetings to
classify as many of the newcomers as possible as being permanently
disabled — especially as having chronic headaches and lower back pain.
The purpose of this, she was told, was so the “refugees” could qualify
for Social Security long-term disability, allowing them to collect
taxpayer money for the rest of their lives despite never having
contributed to the already-strained system on its way to bankruptcy.  


“Much to my shock, they wanted us to try to identify them in such a
way that they would qualify for long-term Social Security disability,”
she explained, adding that the designation was for life and would cost
taxpayers a fortune. “So if they get identified as qualifying for
long-term Social Security disability, they are as good as set up for
life…. It is insanity.” Indeed, one of the first things workers are
supposed to do is sign up the new migrants for Social Security, she
said. They also receive cash upon arrival.

Also sparking concerns is the fact that the migrants are being
shipped in on airplanes under cover of darkness, with the flights
arriving late at night after the airports are cleared out of the general
public. There is apparently no real vetting going on at all, she said,
citing the information she obtained at the official meetings. Senior government officials have also confirmed a lack of serious vetting. In a brief phone interview, the woman explained that the secrecy being pushed by state officials was deliberate and strategic.

“The meetings are technically not secret, but they make it very hard
to find them,” said the activist, who has testified on these issues in
front of Missouri lawmakers. “They said they wanted to, in their words,
´keep all this information on the down low,´ because there would be
people in opposition to the work that they’re doing. So they asked that
we not discuss the information we received outside of the meetings.” But
the activist could not keep silent.

The explosive revelations she offered first received widespread
attention across America during an interview with nationally syndicated
talk-show host Josh Tolley. The Missouri woman, Jill Noble, who last
year began attending UN refugee resettlement program meetings sponsored
by Missouri social services, said she very quickly began realizing that
something was very wrong. And so, she wanted to share some of the
details with the American people. So far, nobody has publicly challenged
her allegations, despite widespread publicity surrounding them, she
told The New American

In the video-taped interview with Tolley, entitled “Diseased Refugees Obtaining SSN and Passport Upon Arrival,”
the activist blows the whistle on a wide range of troubling elements
surrounding the program. While President Trump has reduced the flow of
refugees, she said, the situation is hardly under control, and the
program may be placing all Americans in danger — both from a national
security standpoint, and from a public-health perspective.

“It just struck me as curious how casual they were about the number
of people that they were bringing into the state of Missouri and how
they were being brought in and where they were going and the conditions
under which they were being brought in,” she explains to Tolley in the
video, which has been seen by over 125,000 viewers. Indeed, the
description she provides of what is happening in Missouri — and
presumably across America — would shock the overwhelming majority of
Americans, regardless of political persuasion.

Among other concerns, Noble highlighted the complete lack of vetting.
“Actually they are not vetted and they are not the safest people,” she
says, contradicting statements by some politicians and establishment
media organs. “We’re being told through mainstream media that they are
going from 12 to 18 months worth of vetting, but in the meetings that I
have attended I learned that there was no vetting done at all. They were
literally given plane tickets and put on a plane right away within 24
hours. And, they were put on the plane with the clothes on their back.”
Many of them are being listed on their paperwork as “FUNU,” she said,
which stands for “Full Name Unknown.”

Others have confirmed the lack of vetting. “As a recently retired
25-year veteran of the U.S. Department of State who served almost eight
years as a refugee coordinator throughout the Middle East, Africa,
Russia and Cuba, I have seen first-hand the abuses and fraud that
permeate the refugee program and know about the entrenched interests
that fight every effort to implement much-needed reform,” wrote former
State Department official Mary Doetsch in a February letter published by the Chicago Tribune in support of Trump’s efforts.

“Despite claims of enhanced vetting, the reality is that it is
virtually impossible to vet an individual who has no type of an official
record, particularly in countries compromised by terrorism,” she added.
“U.S. immigration officials simply rely on the person’s often rehearsed
and fabricated testimony. I have personally seen this on hundreds of
occasions.”

Another major concern is the diseases being brought in, many of which
had been rare or virtually non-existent in the United States. “Many of
them come into country diseased,” explained Noble. “They come in with
tuberculosis, leprosy, HIV, giardia, smallpox, polio – communicable
diseases, apart from giardia, which is a parasite. They’re coming in
with communicable diseases — highly contagious diseases.” Tolley echoed
those concerns, citing information received from a doctor in New York
who was similarly alarmed at the importation of pathogens and the
emergence of a “health hazard to the entire country.” 

Noble also said the media was lying about the demographics of those
being brought in. “They’re pulling on the heart strings of the American
people, we’re very compassionate people, and so, knowing that, they pull
on the heart strings of the public,” she explained. While the American
public is being led to believe the “refugees” are primarily women and
children fleeing wars, “the vast majority of the refugees that we’ve
received here in Missouri have been males between the ages of 15 and
upwards to 45-years old.”

Tolley pointed out that a similar phenomenon is being observed in
Europe, with the UN admitting that over two thirds of the “refugees” are
military-aged males — and overwhelmingly Muslim. Noble points out that
there have actually been some women and children, including a recent
flight carrying refugees from the Congo. Noble said that unlike many of
those being brought in, the group of Congolese were clean and
well-clothed. And that group was sponsored by a local church, which
picked them up and provided clothing, transportation, and more. But they
were not the norm, Noble explained. 

Noble and Tolley both make clear that they have no animosity against
genuine refugees who truly need protection from persecution —
particularly if they plan to return home, as most legitimate refugees
fleeing war or natural disaster presumably would once the crisis or
danger has passed in their homeland. But they suggested something very
different seems to be at work with the UN and federal programs shipping
as many migrants as possible into the West, as quickly as possible,
primarily men, with no serious vetting, all at taxpayer expense, under
cover of darkness, and without even minimal public-health precautions.

The response to Tolley’s explosive video has been overwhelmingly
positive, with more than 2,250 up-votes compared with less than 100
down-votes on Youtube. Numerous prominent blogs and websites picked
up the story, too. And so far, despite the interview having gone viral
across the Internet, no official has publicly disputed her allegations.

In addition to her interview with Tolley, Noble has also been giving
public speeches and educating Missouri policymakers and elected
officials on the dangers of the program. Along with her work on the
migration issue, Noble is also an activist who focuses on education. She
has testified on these issues and her observations of the UN and
federal refugee programs at a committee hearing at the state capitol.

Even states that cancel their participation in the federal-UN refugee
schemes are not immune to the massive influx, though. In fact,
according to a lawsuit filed by the Thomas More Law Center on behalf of
the Tennessee General Assembly, the federal government is violating the
Constitution’s spending clause and the Tenth Amendment by force feeding
“refugees” into the state, using taxpayer-funded “ministries” and
“non-profit” organizations to funnel ever-more refugees in, at public
expense, despite the state dropping out of the program in 2008. 

President Trump tried to slow down the massive refugee influx by
lowering the cap on refugee numbers down to 50,000 refugees for the
fiscal year — less than half of what Obama decreed. However, in
overturning Trump’s executive order on the subject, U.S. judge Derrick
Watson in Hawaii and the federal courts re-opened the flood gates. And
so, the State Department is once again shipping in UN-designated
“refugees” at breakneck speed.

“In accordance with the Court Order, and consistent with both our
operational capacity and our capacity under available funding, we have
increased the current pace of refugee arrivals to approximately 900
individuals per week,” a spokesperson for the U.S. State Department told
journalist Leo Hohmann at WND. Hohmann’s latest book, Stealth Invasion: Muslim Conquest Through Immigration And Resettlement Jihad, argues that Islamists are using the “refugee” schemes to invade the West for nefarious purposes. 

As The New American has reported, the real agenda behind the UN’s “refugee” schemes, designed with help from the totalitarian Socialist International alliance, is hardly humanitarian. Instead, the agenda includes, according to critics and architects of the schemes alike, the breaking down of national sovereignty. Top government leaders including Hungarian
Prime Minister Viktor Orban has also blasted what he termed a
“treasonous conspiracy” of “internationalist fanatics” to undermine
Western civilization, Christianity, and the nation-state
on the road toward “world order.” In fact, the
same establishment globalists flooding the West with migrants were
largely responsible for destroying the Middle Eastern countries
many of the refugees are fleeing. Globalism and Big Government are key to understanding the phenomenon.

If the real goal were truly humanitarian, shipping millions of
African and Middle Eastern refugees to Europe and America at taxpayer
expense would be among the most absurd strategies imaginable. Estimates
suggest the cost of importing a single refugee is 50 times higher than
helping the refugees closer to their own countries, meaning for every
one imported to re-settle in the West, 50 more must suffer closer to
their home countries. Plus, if they remain near their homelands, they
can return home to rebuild once the danger has passed.

America’s national security and public health are being recklessly
put at risk by the UN and the federal government, all to advance a
totalitarian agenda. If even some of what Noble has described is true —
and so far there is no reason to doubt the accuracy of her testimony —
something is clearly very wrong. Congress, Trump, and the states must
investigate what is happening. Any programs involving the
dictator-dominated UN should be canceled immediately, along with any
schemes to flood the West with foreigners for subversive purposes.

Americans are perhaps the most charitable people on the planet. So if
they want to help people dealing with war, poverty, and persecution —
and no doubt many millions do — there are thousands of fantastic
charities and ministries to help with that. But the fact remains that
nothing in the U.S. Constitution authorizes any of the schemes described
by Noble or the importation of people from around the world at taxpayer
expense. And so, the schemes must be shut down.


Related articles:

Refugee Crisis: Using Chaos to Build Power

Hungarian PM: Mass Migration a Plot to Destroy Christian West

No Vetting of Syrian “Refugees” in Obama’s “Resettlement” Invasion

UN, Socialist International, Obama Design U.S. Refugee Resettlement

Obama Administration Increases Refugee Resettlement During Final Months

UN “Together” Propaganda Bid Seeks to Flood West With Migrants

U.S. Not Screening Refugees for Extremist Views

Swedes and Germans Told to Integrate Into Their “New Country”

Obama Administration Expands Refugee Program for Central Americans

Social Security Inching Its Way Toward Bankruptcy, Says CBO

Insider: EU-U.S. Must Take More Refugees, Get Rid of Sovereignty

Refugee Crisis Has Europe on the Brink

Obama-UN Refugee Plan: More Chaos, Conflict, Terror

UN Refugee Summit Supports U.S. Plan to Admit More Refugees

Obama-UN Refugee Summit: Huge Push for More Refugees

Americans, Europeans Agree: Trump Is Right on Immigration

Globalists Who Created Refugee Crisis Now Exploiting It

HEAVEN, HILLSONG & HERESY

HEAVEN, HILLSONG & HERESY
BY COSTI HINN
 
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 
The 2017 church conference circuit is in
full swing and with it comes a plethora of unholy alliances. No
surprise, Hillsong and Jesus Culture will headline the apostasy this
year. In keeping with Paul’s exhortation from Romans 16:17-18,
it behooves pastors and Christians to be aware of the sort of tactics
that mainstream movements are using to draw young people to their
blasphemous ministries. Two of the more prominent events to be aware
of will take place this fall, on back-to-back weekends, on two sides of
the country. Each will feature lineups full of known false teachers, and
music by Hillsong and Jesus Culture. These alliances allow powerhouse
music ministries and their teachers to team up and target millennials
with their sensual brand of worship and dangerous theology.
On September 21-23, Los Angeles will
play host to the first conference titled, “Heaven Come”, featuring Bill
Johnson, his Bethel crew, Lou Engle, and Kris Vallaton; along with Carl
Lentz and the Hillsong usuals. It promises to be an epic show. With
ticket sales running around $200-$250 a head, and a Microsoft Theater
capacity of 7,100, the event will certainly make the gang a pretty
penny.
The following week on September 27-30,
Jesus Culture will travel south to Orlando, FL to headline the smaller
but no less heretical, “Jesus Conference”, where Todd White, Kenneth
Copeland, Benny Hinn, and Marilyn Hickey, will join a speaker lineup
akin to the backstreet boys. Both of these conferences are designed to
mix the old school with the new school as a sort of heretical hand off.
It’s as though Satan is casting a net into the population of 80 million
millennials and trying to drag out as many as he can by using the old
guard.
So why are the 2017 heretical hangouts
something you ought to be aware of? Because Christians who are clueless
to enemy strategies are sitting ducks and churches who can’t confidently
explain to their young people why they must avoid these types of
conferences are unable to effectively keep watch over the souls of their
sheep (Hebrews 13:17).
Cowering in fear is not an option. Hoping it will all blow over is not
an option. Not giving answers is not an option. If you aren’t sure what
false doctrines are in play here, study the essential beliefs of
historical Christianity in relation to the Deity of Christ, Salvation,
the Trinity (particularly the work of the Holy Spirit), according to
Scripture. Next, compare that to what “word of faith theology”, “little
god theology”, “prosperity gospel theology”, and the “NAR”, teach and do
in the name of “Jesus Christ.” That will get you all caught up on why
these groups are heretical.
I recently spent time with a friend who
attends a bible teaching church in the LA area and he was sharing with
me some troubling news. His church was losing young people in droves to
Hillsong LA and other more “attractional” music-driven venues. They
couldn’t stop it. Their youth and young adults had found something that
tapped into their emotions, made them feel good, and seemed to be full
of love. Ignorant of the deadly doctrines that Hillsong teaches and
supports, indifference had swept over many of the young people in the
church and they were simply buying in to the cool vibe of the music and
ecumenical vision. I could sense the strain in his voice as he explained
that this was his fear all along. Plenty of churches have spent wasted
time voicing their displeasure over the methods and style of Hillsong,
but few have effectively pinpointed them as outright false teachers.
Perhaps out of fear of taking on the most famous business in the
evangelical world, the body of Christ at large has stayed relatively
divided on what to do about these popular preachers.
Many pastors struggle to find a balance.
Should they bring up these issues publically and risk exposing the
sheep to things they may have never even heard of? How soon is too soon
to start sounding the alarm about certain movements? Do first-time
visitors really want to come back to a church that just harps on false
teachers all the time? Is the best way to deal with a counterfeit to
study and know the real thing? How many well-prepared sermons would be
derailed if we had to spend time going “heretic hunting” on Sunday
mornings?
All of these are valid questions that
pastors and people must face head on. The church needs to consistently
provide answers and must avoid wasting valuable time cowering in fear,
while still being careful of over-emphasizing the latest heretical
gossip without providing solutions (something we can all be guilty of).
As church leaders navigate the
theological chaos that movements like Jesus Culture and Hillsong pump
into the evangelical ecosystem, here are five ways to protect our young
people, and the rest of the church for that matter. Keep in mind, this
list will apply directly to pastors, but can be useful for any Christian
and parent.
  1. PREACH THE WORD AND PRIORITIZE TRUTH
Nothing equips and empowers God’s people
like His word. You don’t learn to identify counterfeit money by
studying the counterfeits. If you study genuine currency and become
highly familiar with the qualities of the real thing, then you’ll be
able to spot a fake from a mile away. In order to best equip the people
of God to contend for the truths of God, they must be faithfully taught
the Scriptures in the fullest sense. A church must place a premium on
its preaching ministry. The pastor can let a missionary share stories
from the mission field, make a few announcements, and grant the odd
request from the nursery leader to ask for more volunteers, but such
things are frivolous when compared to the purpose of the pulpit. He must
be undeterred in his task and the people must be ready to feast on the
word. The elders of the church must ensure nothing takes away from the
preaching ministry of a church. The people need it. They must have it.
As for strategies against false teaching, sermon series’ and seminars on
heretical teaching can be incredibly helpful for people, but are only
as helpful as their application. In other words, if you’re doing any
type of teaching on this issue, you must focus on what the Bible says,
not just how ridiculous a false teacher looks, or how rich they
are – that’s tabloid fare. Make no mistake, preaching the truth and
prioritizing the pulpit ministry is the best way to protect people
against error.
  1. PREPARE FOR APOSTASY WITH CONFIDENCE
One of my college coaches used to yell
in his pre-game speech, “Preparation is confidence!” It was true on the
baseball field and it’s true in shepherding the flock of God. When
dealing with a certain error or heresy that Hillsong or Jesus Culture
teach, know your stuff and be prepared. People can sniff out a phony
from miles away so if pastors are even slightly unclear in their own
understanding of the issues, it will be a fog to their listeners. If a
pastor hasn’t been praying, preparing, and prudent with the
responsibility to rightly divide the word and shepherd God’s people
through times of apostasy, they’re going to react fearfully, not
confidently on game day. It’s a leader’s job to be out front of those
they lead – and it’s advisable that every Christian parent take this
strategy for the sake of their children. When people ask theological
questions about a certain celebrity pastor, a conference, or a certain
book, they need leaders to calmly, lovingly, and biblically state the
answer to their question. This will of course mean that leaders have
studied the issue, studied their bible, and have taken the time to
emotionally process the issue before helping others deal with it. If you
don’t know the answer, know how to find the answer for
someone. Be unwavering and confident because you’re prepared for what
the bible said would happen in the last days (2 Timothy 3:1-17).
  1. PROTECT THE FLOCK WITH RIGHTEOUS PASSION
If a boy pulls up to my house in a
Mustang one day and honks from the curb while my daughter comes down the
stairs in a short skirt saying, “Bye dad, be home around midnight”,
you’re going to see some righteous passion. Beyond that, I’ve likely
failed in my duty prior to that moment. If a false teacher is targeting
our young people with sensual music undergirded by deadly theology about
a false version of Christ, pastors need to have some passion and
proactively guard against this! We’ve seen far too many pastors get more
excited over new state-of-the-art buildings, new children’s ministry
playgrounds, new books, and their elaborate libraries than over
contending for the faith. There is nothing wrong with any of those
things but they are still superficial. Too many pastors shelf
their passion and cower in fear when it comes time to protect the flock
from wolves. Controversy should never deter a pastor from protecting the
sheep. Wolves love a weak shepherd who is content to collect a paycheck
but too lazy to gird his loins for battle. Far too many pastors skirt
around issues, refuse to name a name, or prefer to talk about these sort
of issues in a passive aggressive way. Ignorant sheep are one thing,
slothful pastors are another. There is no place for this in a biblical
church.
  1. PUT OUT BIBLICAL MATERIAL ON RELEVANT ISSUES
As previously stated, the majority of
Sunday sermons cannot just be a heresy hunt. That’s where many
well-meaning churches have gone too extreme these days. In order to help
people get educated about the larger doctrinal issues facing the church
consider the following options:
  • Starting a blog for your church
  • Writing a short booklet or book(s) to help your people navigate apostasy and more
  • Do a weekly or monthly podcast about current events and theology
  • Start a YouTube channel
  • Do a short series on deadly doctrines, film it, and use the DVD as a resource for years
  • Write a distinctive or church document stating your church’s position and distribute
  • Mention divergence in the church when your preaching text does – this is plenty of times.
This is just a short list of ways to put
out helpful material for your people and deal with important issues
without taking two weeks off from your verse-by-verse journey through
John to vent about Steven Furtick’s latest antics. If your schedule or
ability doesn’t allow you to protect the flock through any of these
means, you always have books, seminars, and blogs by faithful
bible-teachers at your disposal. No matter what a pastor decides to do,
he must do something. People need good, biblical preaching from
the pulpit and material that helps them contend for the faith in
today’s culture. Keep the juicy venting to a minimum and stick to high
application in your material. Your people will thank you because they
won’t just know about the latest heretical gossip, they’ll actually know
what to do about it.
  1. PRAY FOR THE FAITH OF THE FLOCK
For all his passionate zeal and
willingness to take on false teachers, Paul was diligent in his prayer
life. It wasn’t just his warnings, just his teaching, or just his
appointment of faithful men to church oversight – it was his prayers
that protected the faith of the church. For the church’s best results,
prayer is the highest priority. Paul wrote,
For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints,  I
do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers,
that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you
the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him, having
the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope
to which He has called you, what are the riches of His glorious
inheritance in the saints, and what is the immeasurable greatness of His
power toward us who believe, according to the working of His great
might that He worked in Christ when He raised him from the dead and
seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule
and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is
named, not only in this age but also in the one to come. And He put all
things under His feet and gave Him as head over all things to the
church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all (Ephesians 1:15-23).
There will be no slowing down of
apostasy in these last days. Our adversary takes no day off. Still, the
church must remain diligent in its task and preachers must be resolute
in trusting the power of prayer, the power of truth, and the power of
God to draw every last one of His sheep into the fold until Christ
returns.
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[Contributed by Costi Hinn]
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SEE ALSO:
http://pulpitandpen.org/2017/02/17/stop-calling-error-anointed/ 

INDIANA SENATE PASSES BILL PROTECTING RELIGIOUS EXPRESSION IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS

INDIANA SENATE PASSES BILL PROTECTING RELIGIOUS EXPRESSION IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS
BY HEATHER CLARK
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — The Indiana Senate has passed a bill meant to protect 
religious expression in public schools.

H.B. 1024 passed 44-5 on Thursday despite opposition from groups like the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

“House Bill 1024 only puts prayer back into schools. It does
not mandate or force students to participate in it,” said sponsor Rep.
John Bartlett, D-Indianapolis. “It is giving Hoosiers the ability to
express their faith without fearing discrimination.”

“It also brings clarification to the First Amendment, which
allows people to practice their faith. However, it restricts you from
forcing your faith on others,” he said.

The bill passed the passed the House 83-12 last month, and went on to clear a Senate Committee 8-2 weeks later.

“Public school students may pray or engage in religious
activities or religious expressions before, during, and after the school
day in the same manner and to the same extent that students may engage
in nonreligious activities or expression,” the legislation reads in
part.

It additionally outlines that students are to be permitted
to wear religious symbols or slogans on their clothes or jewelry, and
must not be discriminated against for including religious themes in
their school assignments.

A section of the bill that called for the creation of a
limited public forum at school events was removed in a Senate committee
earlier this month due to concerns about logistics.

“It requires the schools proactively to develop policies
that control certain kinds of public events,” Sen. Luke Kenley,
R-Noblesville, remarked. “And I think the bill itself is going to be
somewhat of a challenge for schools and school corporations to
implement. But I think it serves a worthy purpose, and I think section
five pushes it just a little too hard in that regard.”

Sen. Mark Stoops, D-Bloomington, proposed to add voucher schools to the bill, but the idea was struck down in committee.

“In fairness, any school that receives public funding should
fall under this bill,” he opined. “And again I think that if it’s good
for public schools and charter schools, it would also be necessary for
private schools that received vouchers.”

While some believe that the legislation is unnecessary,
Bartlett says that the move will help provide guidance for schools that
aren’t sure how to handle expressions of faith on campus.

“A lot of schools are afraid to have prayer in schools or
allow their students to pray because they are afraid of a lawsuit,” he
stated.

Student Mary Zakrajsek testified before the Senate Education
and Career Development Committee that her pro-life poster had been
removed from the walls of Carmel High School while other messages
were allowed to be posted.

“When I walk down the hallway, and I see rainbow pride flags
and Democrat donkeys, I think that’s pretty clear evidence of ideology
that is promoted in public school systems. It became clear that it was
our [pro-life] club in particular that was being discriminated against,”
she testified, according to the Herald Bulletin.

As previously reported, the first textbook used in the American colonies even before the nation’s founding, “The New England Primer,”
was largely focused on the Scriptures, and was stated to be popular in
public and private schools alike until approximately the early 1900’s.
It used mostly the King James Bible as reference, and spoke much about
sin, salvation and proper behavior.

“Save me, O God, from evil all this day long, and let me
love and serve Thee forever, for the sake of Jesus Christ, Thy Son,” it
read.

Many of the Founders’ children learned to read from the primer.

Noah Webster’s famous “Blue Back Speller”
also referenced Christianity, including in reading lessons statements
such as “The preacher is to preach the gospel,” “Blasphemy is
contemptuous treatment of God,” and “We do not like to see our own
sins.” Webster is known as the father of American education.

“JUNK SCIENCE”? BIBLICAL CREATION GROUP INCLUDED ON LIST OF DISREPUTABLE WEBSITES

“JUNK SCIENCE”? BIBLICAL CREATION GROUP INCLUDED ON LIST OF DISREPUTABLE WEBSITES 
BY GARRETT HALEY
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 A prominent Creation science group is pushing back after 
their website was included on a widely-shared list of allegedly 
untrustworthy sources and described as “junk science.”

After “fake news” became a subject of national discussion
during the 2016 presidential election, Melissa Zimdars, an assistant
professor of communication at Merrimack College, compiled an online document that lists disreputable websites and news sources.

Originally created as a resource for her students, Zimdars’s
document lists hundreds of “false, misleading, clickbait-y, and
satirical” websites.

“Obviously, fake news is a major problem,” Zimdars wrote in a
column for The Washington Post. “We need to make sure people have the
tools to detect it, and we need to understand why people may
purposefully share news they know to be fake—maybe they’re being
malicious, they think it’s funny or it aligns with what they want to be
true. And we definitely need to find ways to discourage the production
of non-comedy, non-satire fake news.”

Zimdars’s document has since been widely shared on social
media sites and spotlighted by numerous news outlets. Harvard University
published a link to the list on their library’s “Fake News, Misinformation, and Propaganda” page, along with an infographic warning students not to get “taken in” by fake news.

Although Zimdars noted that not all of the sources in her
list are “inherently problematic,” they do tend to distort headlines,
publish dubious information and mislead readers.

One of the sites included on the professor’s document is
ICR.org, the website of the Institute for Creation Research. Zimdar
tagged the group’s website as “junk science,” which she defines as
“sources that promote pseudoscience, metaphysics, naturalistic
fallacies, and other scientifically dubious claims.”

In a blog post published on Monday, Brian Thomas of ICR contested the “junk science” label and defended the organization’s reputability.

“Junk science describes conclusive-sounding statements with
no support from experiment or observation,” Thomas argued. “Examples of
junk science include flat earth theories, manipulated climate reports,
and a variety of unproven health-related claims. It should also include
areas like astrobiology—meaning ‘space life’—that have zero study
samples.”

Not only does ICR’s team try to expose junk science, Thomas
said, but research on their website has been published by secular
sources.

“ICR.org contains thousands of science articles that
painstakingly reference original technical science sources,” he wrote.
“For example, our report of an enzyme that locates DNA damage sites
using an ingenious electrical current detector was not just junk. The
journal Theoretical Biology & Medical Modeling published those
research results.”

“Our report on a Psittacosaurus fossil from China with
original skin, including its original skin shade patterns, was not just
junk. The source research was published in Current Biology,” Thomas
added.

The ICR team’s belief in the biblical worldview is what sets them apart from other science groups, Thomas noted.

“When we report on the good science behind stunning
ingenuity in DNA repair enzymes, for example, we feel free to credit the
Creator,” he stated. “When we report on the good science behind
preservation of short-lived tissues still persisting in dinosaur and
other fossils, we feel free to include the Bible’s recent Flood as a
reasonable explanation. Today’s anti-Creator, anti-Bible attitudes
clearly clash with this biblical history.”

“Many find it easier to simply label the Bible as ‘junk’
than to actually investigate it. If they peered inside, they would find
that the Bible is painfully true, to the point that it exposes the junk
that inhabits every human heart,” he continued. “We challenge readers to
search for legitimate junk on ICR.org, having confidence that peering
into ICR.org’s nearly half-century worth of content similarly reveals a
long trend of good science—conclusions based on experimental results and
reliable eyewitnesses.”