Day: April 6, 2017

CHINA VOWS TO DEFEND ITSELF “AT ALL COSTS” IF U.S. ATTACKS NORTH KOREA

CHINA VOWS TO DEFEND ITSELF “AT ALL COSTS” 
IF U.S. ATTACKS NORTH KOREA
 Beijing warns Trump not to take drastic action
BY PAUL JOSEPH WATSON
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 
China has vowed to defend its territory “at all costs” if the United States launches military action against North Korea.
An editorial in the Global Times,
which is widely regarded as the voice of the Chinese government, warns
the Trump administration that North Korea “trusts nothing but nuclear
weapons” and that the regime in Pyongyang is “unlikely to surrender”.
“China
has a bottom line. It will safeguard the security and stability of its
Northeast area at all costs,” states the editorial.
Tensions have dramatically escalated
in recent days, with a senior White House official warning that “the
clock has now run out” on North Korea’s nuclear program and that “all
options are on the table”.
Trump also recently told the Financial Times, “Well if China is not going to solve North Korea, we will. That is all I am telling you.”
Four-star general Jack Keane has also asserted that bombing North Korea’s nuclear facilities “may be the only option left”.
North
Korea fired off yet another missile this morning which landed in the
Sea of Japan, one of several to have been test-fired in recent months.
As Michael Snyder explains,
any attack on North Korea could set off a wave of drastic measures and
even a direct military confrontation between the U.S. and China.
“After
the initial North Korean barrage, the fourth largest military on the
entire planet would start pouring across the border in a massive
invasion of South Korea. The U.S. military would be forced to respond
with large scale ground forces if South Korea would have any chance of
surviving, and just like in the first Korean War the Chinese may decide
to respond to that move by committing their own troops to the war on the
side of North Korea.”
President
Trump will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping at his Mar-a-Lago
resort in Florida on Thursday and Friday to discuss the escalating
crisis.
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 North Korea launches ballistic missile 
day before US – China summit
 Nuclear War Imminent: US Prepares To Strike 
North Korean Missile Sites
 Published on Apr 5, 2017

Bannon
removed from Security council, And China through North Korea is
rattling sabres at the USA. The world is in crisis and on the brink of
nuclear war.

 Is The United States About To Bomb North Korea? 
The White House Says ‘The Clock Has Now Run Out’
China Using North Korea To Push For Nuclear War
 Published on Apr 5, 2017

China is using North Korea to try and push for a global nuclear war to keep the globalist agenda alive.


TRUMP STOPS FUNDING U.N. AGENCY ACCUSED OF ABETTING FORCED ABORTIONS

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TRUMP STOPS FUNDING U.N. AGENCY ACCUSED OF ABETTING FORCED ABORTIONS 
BY MICHAEL TENNANT
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 

The Trump administration announced Monday that it is cutting off
funding to a UN agency that has been credibly accused of promoting
forced abortion, particularly in Communist China, under the guise of
“family planning.”

The State Department said it was stopping the flow of taxpayer
dollars to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) “based on the fact
that China’s family planning policies still involve the use of coercive
abortion and involuntary sterilization, and UNFPA partners on family
planning activities with the Chinese government agency responsible for
these coercive policies,” reported CNSNews.com.
The administration maintains that continuing to bankroll the UNFPA is
illegal under the 1985 Kemp-Kasten amendment, which prohibits federal
funding for any agency that “supports or participates in the management
of a program of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization.”
This marks President Donald Trump’s second such action to defund
nongovernmental organizations that promote abortion. One of his first
executive orders reinstated the so-called Mexico City policy, which states that U.S. tax dollars cannot be used to perform or promote abortion overseas.
As with the repeated enactment and repeal of the Mexico City policy,
applying Kemp-Kasten to the UNFPA tends to vary with the party of the
man in the White House. Republican presidents Ronald Reagan and George
H.W. Bush both defunded UNFPA. President Bill Clinton, a Democrat,
restored funding, only to see it stanched again under President George
W. Bush, a Republican. Democratic President Barack Obama once more
reinstated it; in fiscal year 2016, the UNFPA got nearly $68 million
from the State Department.

According to the Associated Press,
“The U.N. fund will lose $32.5 million in funding from the 2017 budget,
the State Department said, with funds shifted to similar programs at
the U.S. Agency for International Development. It wasn’t immediately
clear whether the U.N. fund would also lose out on tens of millions of
additional dollars it has typically received from the U.S. in ‘non-core’
funds.”
In a statement,
the UNFPA said it “regrets” the loss of funding, which it averred is
based on an “erroneous claim.” The agency added that it “refutes this
claim, as all of its work promotes the human rights of individuals and
couples to make their own decisions, free of coercion or
discrimination.”
The press release was, however, noticeably short on evidence to
refute the claim, perhaps because the evidence of the agency’s
culpability is irrefutable.
For instance, two successive UNFPA heads are on record as having extolled China’s longstanding one-child policy (now a two-child policy), which frequently results in coerced abortions, noted CNSNews.com:

“China has every reason to feel proud of
and pleased with its remarkable achievements made in its family planning
policy and control of its population growth over the past 10 years,”
UNFPA executive director Nafis Sadik of Pakistan told the Xinhua news
agency in April 1991.
“China made some outstanding achievements
in a very short time and fulfilled its commitment to the world,” she
said. “The UNFPA is going to employ some of these [Chinese demographic]
experts to work in other countries and popularize China’s experiences in
population growth control and family planning.”
Ten years later Sadik’s successor,
Thoraya Obaid of Saudi Arabia, also praised China’s policy, according to
a March 2001 report in China’s People’s Daily.

The admiration, by the way, is mutual. “As recently as December of 2010,” we noted,
“the Vice-Minister of the communist dictatorship’s ‘National Population
and Family Planning Commission’ thanked UNFPA for ‘its constant support
to China’s population and family planning undertakings during the past
thirty years and more.’”
We reported on a 2012 congressional hearing that featured testimony
from Steven Mosher, president of the Population Research Institute,
which opposes federal funding of population-control programs.
“The U.N. Population Fund has been complicit in China’s one-child
policy from the first, not merely turning a blind eye to abuses, but
facilitating them in various ways,” Mosher said, basing his remarks on a
three-year investigation into the matter. “This is nowhere more clearly
demonstrated than in the U.N. Population Fund’s ‘model county program,’
where UNFPA trained officials oversee the enforcement of the one-child
policy, and where abuses are rampant.”
UNFPA is known to have provided computers and other equipment that
helped the Chinese government carry out its policy. In 2002, when the
Bush State Department stopped funding UNFPA, then-Secretary of State
Colin Powell said, “UNFPA’s support of, and involvement in, China’s
population-planning activities allows the Chinese government to
implement more effectively its program of coercive abortion.”
The John Birch Society (JBS), publisher of The New American, applauded the Trump administration’s decision to cease funding the UNFPA.
“Withdrawal of funding for the UN Population Fund is a good start,
and this action helps to reflect the foundation that JBS members have
spent many years building regarding getting the U.S. out of the United
Nations. Never have we been closer to seeing that fulfilled,” said JBS
Vice President for Communications Bill Hahn. “Now is the time to do more
than end funding for one aspect of the UN It’s time to completely
withdraw.”
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SEE ALSO: 
http://christiannews.net/2017/04/05/us-ends-funding-for-un-population-fund-over-complicity-in-chinese-forced-abortions/ 

EU TELLS HUNGARY & POLAND: ACCEPT MASS MIGRATION OR LEAVE

EU TELLS HUNGARY & POLAND: 
ACCEPT MASS MIGRATION OR LEAVE 
BY CHRISTINE WILLIAMS
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 

France and Germany, along with a host of up to 21 other
countries, are set to demand Hungary and Poland either accept migrants
under the quota system or leave the European Union.

The European Union is set to be a fragmented jumble, plagued by crime
and broken economies, and it is all due to the reckless leadership of
corrupt politicians who flung open the doors of their borders to
unvetted Muslim refugees, at the expense of their own citizens. Based on
the stance of the leaders of Hungary and Poland, those countries appear
to be ready to thumb their noses at the EU and leave it.
Hungary has been detaining migrants and sending them back. Hungarian leader Viktor Orban angrily lashed out
at Angela Merkel, warning her that the Muslim migrant crime problem in
Germany would spill over into neighbouring countries, and stating that
Hungary would not pay for Merkel’s error. Hungary also recently opened a military base at its border to stop migrants; Orban has declared 2017 “a year of rebellion”
to “make Hungary great again,” and has rightly stated that “Europe is
not free” because “freedom begins with speaking the truth.”
And in Poland:

Poland’s conservative Law and Justice Party (Prawo i
Sprawiedliwość – PiS) swept to victory in 2015, partly due to voter
anger over the previous government agreeing to take migrants under the
quota system.

Back in January, riots erupted in Poland when Muslim migrants stabbed a local youngster to death after rumors that he had thrown a firecracker inside a Kebab diner.

Just hours after the initial riots took place at the
crime scene, clashes between police and rioters in the neighbouring
Polish town, Lublin, occurred as vandals sprayed anti-Muslim graffiti on
a kebab shop that read: “F*** Islam and f*** ISIS.”


“European Union Tells Hungary and Poland To Accept Mass Migration Or Leave”, by Virginia Hale, Breitbart, April 4, 2017:

France and Germany, along with a host of up to 21 other
countries, are set to demand Hungary and Poland either accept migrants
under the quota system or leave the European Union (EU).
The two nations have ignored Brussels’ insistence that they take
migrants presently residing in great numbers in Italy and Greece. Public
opinion in Hungary and Poland is also strongly against being forced to
accept thousands of migrants from non-European cultures.
Poland’s conservative Law and Justice Party (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość –
PiS) swept to victory in 2015, partly due to voter anger over the
previous government agreeing to take migrants under the quota system.
In Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has been a vocal opponent of
the scheme from its conception, asserting that forcing member countries
to take a compulsory quota of migrants is unlawful and will “spread
terrorism around Europe”.
Later this year, the two countries will be given an ultimatum and
have to decide whether they are willing to maintain an anti-mass
migration stances if it puts their membership of the EU at threat, a
senior diplomatic source from one of the bloc’s six founding member
states told The Times.
The source said: “They will have to make a choice: are they in the
European system or not? You cannot blackmail the EU, unity has a price.”
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) is expected to hold a hearing on
the legality of migrant quotas in the coming weeks, with a judgement —
widely expected to be in favour of the scheme — likely by the end of the
year.
“We are confident that the ECJ will confirm validation,” the source
said. “Then they must abide by the decision. If they don’t then they
will face consequences, both financial and political. No more opt-outs.
There is no more ‘one foot in and one foot out’. We are going to be very
tough on this.”
Hungary challenged the court, insisting that it is culturally and
constitutionally unreasonable to impose asylum seekers on unwilling
member states.
In December, referring to policies of importing large numbers of
people from the third world, Orbán stated that Hungary and other
countries in Central Europe “have had the opportunity to learn from
Western Europe’s mistakes”.
“Hungary is a stable island in the turbulent western world because
the people were consulted on their opinions here, and we defended the
country against illegal immigration.”
In 2015, when European Commission Vice-President Frans Timmermans
demanded Eastern and Central EU nations undergo similar demographic
transitions as in Western Europe, Hungary was singled out for special
mention.
“Any society, anywhere in the world, will be diverse in the future —
that’s the future of the world,” Timmermans said. “So [Central European
countries] will have to get used to that. They need political leaders
who have the courage to explain that to their population instead of
playing into the fears as I’ve seen Mr Orbán doing in the last couple of
months.”
Breitbart London reported that the European Union is to open asylum
processing centres in west Africa and countries on the southern shore of
the Mediterranean because the continent “needs six million migrants…..

NIGEL FARAGE INFLAMES EU PARLIAMENT: “YOU’RE BEHAVING LIKE MAFIA GANGSTERS”

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NIGEL FARAGE INFLAMES EU PARLIAMENT: 
“YOU’RE BEHAVING LIKE MAFIA GANGSTERS” 
 Architect of Brexit rips globalist bullies
BY DAN LYMAN 
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 Nigel Farage left EU parliamentarians whining and clutching 
their pearls after flaming them in a hearing on Wednesday, charging that
 they are “behaving like the mafia” in his response to threats and 
unjust pressure being applied during Brexit negotiations.
 

“You’ve shown yourselves, with these demands, to be vindictive, to be
nasty – all I can say is, thank goodness we are leaving,” Farage said.
“You’re behaving like the mafia.”
“You think we’re a hostage – we’re not, we’re free to go.”
Farage
was immediately booed by the cabal of globalist thugs, and the
President of the EU Parliament, Antonio Tajani, personally interjected
to admonish Farage for his accusation.
“You’re saying this
Parliament is behaving like the mafia, and as far as I’m concerned,
that’s unacceptable,” Tajani threatened, while his colleagues clapped.
“I
do understand, Mr. President, I do understand national sensitivies,”
Farage replied, likely alluding to the fact that Tajani is Italian.
“I’ll change it to ‘gangsters,’” he fired off, as the lion’s den erupted in boos.

“What must be very difficult for you to all get into your minds is
that there is a bigger world out there than the European Union,” Farage
continued. “85% of the global economy is outside of the European Union.”
“We
don’t have to buy German motorcars; we don’t have to drink French wine;
we don’t have to eat Belgian chocolate – there are a lot of other
people who will give that to us.”

Farage delivered his blistering address just feet away from
Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission, who has
demanded of his colleagues that they ensure Britain’s trade status is
lower than that of EU member states after the UK officially disconnects.
“A
third country cannot have the same benefits as a member state,” Juncker
said. “This parliament must and will ensure this reality is fully
upheld over the course of the next two years.”
This latest row in
parliament comes just hours after a Spanish warship entered UK
territorial waters off Gibraltar in a provocative move condemned by former British naval Chief, Admiral Lord West.
“The
danger is when you do this sort of things, something could escalate.
There’s always a danger someone gets killed or something like that,” he
said.
Gibraltar has responded
to the EU’s pettiness by saying the crumbling superstate is behaving
like a “cuckolded husband who is taking it out on the children.”
Dan Lyman: Facebook | Twitter

 

YA WOHL! GERMANY APPROVES BILL IMPOSING MASSIVE FINES FOR ONLINE “HATE SPEECH” & “FAKE NEWS”

 
DEATH OF FREE SPEECH!-GERMANY APPROVES BILL IMPOSING MASSIVE FINES FOR ONLINE 
“HATE SPEECH” & “FAKE NEWS” 
BY ROBERT SPENCER
 
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 

“German Justice Minister Heiko Maas said that the companies offering
such online platforms are responsible for removing hateful content. He
said the new bill would not restrict the freedom of expression, but
intervene only when criminal hatred or intentionally false news are
posted.”

What is “criminal hatred”? Clearly what German authorities mean is
not just incitement to violence, but opposition to their suicidal
policies regarding Muslim migration: “the issue” of this online
censorship “has come to the fore amid the recent influx of migrants to
Germany, which has sparked a backlash among some Germans including a
rise in online vitriol.” German authorities apparently define “vitriol”
as including any opposition to the Muslim migrant influx, no matter how
reasoned, and to their supine attitude regarding jihad terror: Facebook and Twitter have already blocked 90% of their daily referrals from Jihad Watch, and the site is blocked by many Internet service providers in the UK and Europe. The government of Pakistan says that Facebook is doing its bidding and removing content that violates Sharia blasphemy laws.

The concept of “hate speech” is subjective. I don’t think that what I
do constitutes “hate speech,” but Leftist and Muslim groups insist that
it does, and they have all the power. “Hate speech” laws are tools in
the hands of the powerful to silence the powerless and quell their
dissent. But the increasingly authoritarian character of the political
elites is in the final analysis a sign of their desperation. They didn’t
see Brexit or Trump coming. They are rapidly moving to delegitimize and
silence all those who dissent from their globalist internationalist
agenda. But our numbers are growing. This ain’t over. And they will not
succeed in silencing us.

“Germany approves bill curbing online hate crime, fake news,” by Kirsten Grieshaber, Associated Press, April 5, 2017:

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s Cabinet on Wednesday approved a
new bill that punishes social networking sites if they fail to swiftly
remove illegal content such as hate speech or defamatory fake news.

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Cabinet agreed on rules that would impose
fines of up to 50 million euros (53.4 million dollars) on Facebook,
Twitter and other social media platforms.

German Justice Minister Heiko Maas said that the companies offering
such online platforms are responsible for removing hateful content. He
said the new bill would not restrict the freedom of expression, but
intervene only when criminal hatred or intentionally false news are
posted.

Germany poses a particular problem for U.S.-owned social networking
sites accustomed to American standards of free speech. Due to its Nazi
past, Germany bans public Holocaust denial and any overt promotion of
racism. The issue has come to the fore amid the recent influx of
migrants to Germany, which has sparked a backlash among some Germans
including a rise in online vitriol.

Social networks need to ensure that obviously criminal content — as
defined by German law — will be deleted within 24 hours and other
illegal content after seven days.

“Just like on the streets, there is also no room for criminal incitement on social networks,” Maas said.

“The internet affects the culture of debate and the atmosphere in our
society. Verbal radicalization is often a preliminary stage to physical
violence,” he added.

The minister pointed out that social networks don’t delete enough
punishable content, citing research that he said showed Twitter deletes
just 1 percent of illegal content flagged by users, while Facebook
deletes 39 percent.

Maas also said that measures to combat hate speech and so-called fake
news will ultimately have to be taken at the European level to be
effective….

 
 

UNDER TRUMP “CRITICAL REVIEW”: BOEING SIGNS $3 BILLION DEAL WITH IRAN’S ASEMAN AIRLINES FOR THIRTY TO SIXTY “737 MAX” AIRPLANES

 
BOEING SIGNS $3 BILLION DEAL WITH IRAN’S ASEMAN AIRLINES FOR THIRTY “737 MAX” AIRPLANES
BY ROBERT SPENCER
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 

Would Boeing have signed a deal to sell commercial jetliners to Nazi Germany?

Note also that the Islamic Republic of Iran is essentially getting
these jetliners for free, courtesy of Barack Hussein Obama, who showered
billions upon billions on Iran in his last months in office.

“Boeing Co. says it has signed a $3 billion deal with Iran’s Aseman Airlines for 30 737 MAX airplanes,” Associated Press, April 4, 2017:

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – Boeing Co. says it has signed a $3 billion deal with Iran’s Aseman Airlines for 30 737 MAX airplanes.

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 Trump administration undertaking “critical review” 
of American airplane sales to Iran
BY ROBERT SPENCER
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 Good. As I asked yesterday, “would Boeing have signed a deal to sell commercial 
jetliners to Nazi Germany?”
 

“Airplane Sales to Iran Put Under Critical Review By Trump Admin,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, April 5, 2017:

The Trump administration is undertaking a critical review
of Obama administration-era policies permitting the sale of American
airplanes to Iran, which have been used in the past to ferry weapons to
terrorists and conduct other illicit activities, according to U.S.
officials familiar with the situation.

U.S. airline manufacturer Boeing announced
on Tuesday that it had reached a memorandum of understanding with Iran
guaranteeing the sale of up to 60 planes pending review by the Trump
administration.

Sources who spoke to the Washington Free Beacon speculated
the latest announcement, which was announced earlier in the day by Iran,
could be meant to pressure U.S. officials to sign off on the deal.

While the newly installed administration had come under fire earlier this year for seeming to continue Obama-era policies meant to approve these sales, U.S. officials now tell the Free Beacon
that all past and future deals are coming under review by the new
administration as part of a larger assessment of the landmark Iran
nuclear deal.

The review of sales between Boeing and Iran represent a first step to
possibly canceling the deals, which have come under criticism by U.S.
lawmakers and foreign policy experts who maintain the Islamic Republic
will use the American aircraft to boost its air force and illicit
weapons trade, according to multiple sources who spoke to the Free Beacon.

“Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control [OFAC] will be reviewing
aviation licensing as part of the National Security Council’s ongoing
interagency review of the Iran deal,” a Treasury Department official
told the Free Beacon.

The move represents a departure from the Obama administration’s
policy, which promoted the sale of airplanes to Iran across the United
States and Europe….

 
 

UN LGBT CZAR INDOCTRINATING CHILDREN: “THE YOUNGER THE BETTER”

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 Professor Vitit Muntarbhorn, the first-ever UN Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, delivering a keynote speech at the ILGA World Conference opening plenary
“Professor Vitit Muntarbhorn, the first-ever UN
Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, delivering
a keynote speech at the ILGA World Conference opening plenary

The Mandate of  the United Nations
Independent Expert on Protection against Violence and Discrimination
based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity:  Opportunities for The
Human Rights of  All Persons in a World of  Gender Diversity


Vitit Muntarbhorn is Professor Emeritus at the Faculty of  Law,
Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok.  He is currently UN Independent
Expert on Protection against Violence and Discrimination based on Sexual
Orientation and Gender Identity.  This Keynote  speech was for the
International  Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association
(ILGA) World Conference, Bangkok, opening session, 30 November 2016.”

UN LGBT CZAR INDOCTRINATING CHILDREN: 
“THE YOUNGER THE BETTER”
BY ALEX NEWMAN
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 

Pro-family groups hoping the United Nations would quit pushing homosexuality and gender confusion on children under new UN Secretary-General António Guterres
are going to be very disappointed. Not only has the globalist
institution not reined in its activism on behalf of the “Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual, and Transgender” (LGBT) agenda, the UN’s new LGBT czar
is using taxpayer resources to push the indoctrination into schools
worldwide — and especially on young children. Simultaneously, the UN is
helping to wage a global war on religious liberty, much of it under the guise of protecting LGBT activists from “stigma” and “discrimination.” Critics, though, are fighting back.  

Most recently, the newly appointed UN LGBT czar, homosexual activist
Vitit Muntarbhorn (shown) of Thailand, an international “human rights
expert” and professor of law at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok,
visited Argentina to praise its government’s new laws purporting to
create homosexual “marriage” and allowing individuals to officially
“choose” their legal gender without having “gender reassignment surgery”
first. “There is a national policy on sexual diversity and various
State agencies have special units and/or personnel to deal with the
issue, and this is very welcome,” said Muntarbhorn, whose formal title
is UN “Independent Expert on protection against violence and
discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity,” in an official press release from the dictator-dominated UN “Human Rights Council.”

But more must be done to change the culture and the education,
Muntarbhorn said, because homosexuality is still frowned upon by the
public. Especially important is targeting the youth for pro-LGBT
indoctrination, he explained. Speaking about priorities for the
government, he said authorities must “advance in education, activities
in secondary schools, initiatives that integrate sexual diversity inside
the school system.” The term “sexual diversity” in UN-speak refers not
to differences between men and women, but to homosexuality, bisexuality,
fornication, gender confusion, and other perversions of the natural
sexual order that has reigned throughout almost all of the world
throughout almost all of human history. Even bestiality and pedophilia
are slowly being “legitimized” and brought under the “sexual diversity”
banner.

But the younger that children can be targeted, the better, added the
UN LGBT czar. “The laws are very open but in the mentality of people,
I’ve seen large variations with respect to empathy toward the LGBTI
population,” he said in an interview with Argentinian media, with the “I” in LGBTI referring to “Intersex” people. “That is why it is so important to start working with the young people, the younger the better,
with the politics that amplify empathy for vulnerable populations such
as LGBTI people can be.” (Emphasis added.) For perspective, the American
College of Pediatrics has argued
that “conditioning children into believing a lifetime of chemical and
surgical impersonation of the opposite sex is normal and healthful is
child abuse.” 
Of course, homosexual activists have long targeted children for indoctrination on the subject. In fact, earlier this year, The New American exposed the UN’s “education” agency demanding stepped up promotion of homosexuality, gender confusion, and “sexual diversity” in school textbooks
around the world. Still, having the top UN LGBT official charged with
promoting homosexuality and gender confusion openly admit that he wants
to target younger and younger children, the younger the better — albeit
in an interview with Spanish-language Latin American media — represents a
significant development.

In short, the UN, which regularly boasts of having the “collective duty” to change your children’s “attitudes and beliefs,” really is coming for your kids. Indeed, the UN has become so extreme that its recently departed chief, Ban Ki-moon, in
celebrating the U.S. Supreme Court’s illegal homosexual “marriage”
ruling, openly praised a homosexual child rapist for sparking “America’s
gay rights revolution,” even as UN troops around the world were under fire for raping children. The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), currently led by a known communist operative, openly calls for sexualizing children as young as five years old, and even younger,
with extremist “sexual education.” In Sweden, which UNESCO praises for
promoting the LGBT agenda in school textbooks, the number of
“transgender” children is doubling every year, according to government
psychiatrists. And the UN agency and other tentacles of the globalist organization all openly advocate a global “education” regime to inculcate their radical globalist values into future generations.

And the UN LGBT czar will seemingly play a leading role. Before his
mid-March trip to Argentina, Muntarbhorn held a consultation meeting in
New York City bringing together UN agencies and governments supportive
of the LGBT agenda in a bid to promote homosexuality and gender
confusion around the world. Pro-family governments largely stayed away.
But according to a report by
attorney Stefano Gennarini with the Center for Family and Human Rights
(C-Fam), Muntarbhorn explained that UN agencies would be “exponentially
more influential” in pushing the agenda because of their vast
taxpayer-provided resources.

More alarming, perhaps, was Muntarbhorn’s description of health,
education, and religion as “soft entry points” for pushing the
controversial agenda. Among other concerns, the UN czar described
schooling as an “entry point” for children to be “born and bred from a
young age” to hold UN-approved attitudes on homosexuality, gender
confusion, and more. So-called anti-bullying campaigns are good tools
for that, he said, perhaps taking his cue from Obama and his pro-LGBT “Safe Schools” scheme.
On health, Muntarbhorn suggested bringing the medical community in to
condemn any form of therapy or counseling designed to help individuals
cope with or change unwanted homosexual attraction, C-Fam reported.

Changing religious beliefs to conform with UN views — and restricting
the rights to freedom of speech and religion — will be key to the UN’s
agenda, Muntarbhorn made clear. When asked about the conflict between
the LGBT agenda and religious freedom by a representative of a Christian
organization, Muntarbhorn suggested religious freedom and free speech
would have to give way to the LGBT agenda. “There are some absolute
rights,” he said. “But there are some that are not absolute.” Among
those that are not absolute and can be curtailed, he said, are “freedom
of expression and expression of religion.” The UN’s
Universal Declaration of Human Rights takes a similar view of
pseudo-“rights,” which is completely at odds with the concept of
God-given rights enshrined in U.S. Constitution and protected by government.

In a response that was widely viewed as a possible nod to population control,
the UN LGBT czar also suggested that religion needed to be changed to
advance homosexuality and other elements of the UN agenda. “We can agree
or disagree on whether the family should be big or smaller, which is
not totally settled,” Muntarbhorn said, hitting on a common theme at the
meeting regarding expanding the definition of family to include
homosexual relationships. “Whatever the differences, you can’t kill
people, I’m sorry about that.”

Indeed, much of the UN LGBT czar’s work is justified under the guise
of stopping “violence” and “discrimination” against homosexuals and
gender-confused individuals. However, despite the claims of radical
activists, violence against self-identified LGBT people, who often
parade down the streets of big cities in R-rated so-called Pride
parades, is practically unknown in the Western world today. And with the
entire Islamic world, virtually all of Africa, and a huge segment of
the UN’s member governments rejecting the UN czar completely, it is
unlikely he will make any progress trying to change Islamic theology to
be more accepting of homosexuality or the UN’s vision of “sexual
diversity.”

Still, Muntarbhorn was rather frank in his discussion on the alleged
need to change religion and culture to suit the UN’s views. He
reportedly described a desire to engage with the “heart of religion
without the mythology overriding the heart of the religion.” The UN czar
also said he wanted to “open the door to a humane understanding and
interpretation [of religion], conversant and complimentary with” the UN’s totalitarian view on so-called human rights.
Muntarbhorn also claimed there were some traditions that accept
homosexuality and transgenderism, and he denounced anti-sodomy laws as a
“colonial imposition.”

The UN official welcomed an invitation by the UN Population Fund
(UNFPA) to attend events with pro-abortion, pro-LGBT “religious groups.”
Ironically, that UN agency has been exposed
in the U.S. Congress for helping the brutal Communist Chinese
dictatorship perpetrate forced abortions to enforce its draconian
population-control regime. Video of the consultation at UN offices in New York City was removed from YouTube for reasons that remain unclear,
so this writer could not determine whether Muntarbhorn condemned the
savage violations of true human rights perpetrated by the UNFPA and
Beijing.   

There was some hope among pro-family activists that the global
organization under the new UN boss might be less extreme in promoting
LGBT schemes and the killing of babies than it has in recent years.
After all, Guterres, despite being a known socialist and globalist
extremist, claims to be a practicing Catholic, and his church has always
taught that homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered and sinful.
The Bible teaches that God views homosexual acts as an “abomination.”
And virtually all other major religions take a similarly dim view of
homosexuality, with some, such as Islam, the official religion of more
than 50 UN member states, prescribing the death penalty for such
behavior. While Catholics advocate helping homosexuals, Catholic Church
teachings on homosexuality have always been clear: It is not something
to be promoted or normalized, much less pushed on children.

But rather than rein in the LGBT lobbying and bullying, the UN under Guterres has hit the gas. Last month, for example, The New American reported
that the global outfit’s pro-abortion “UN Women” agency was partnering
with a start-up company to push dolls on young boys. “HeForShe, UN
Women’s global solidarity movement for gender equality has teamed up
with start-up company … to launch two special edition action dolls
named Billy and Mason,” the UN said in a press release. “The action
dolls challenges [sic] current prejudice surrounding boys playing with
dolls, and promotes the notion that both boys and girls should have the
same opportunity to bond with a special playmate, and that all children,
regardless of their gender, need to learn nurturing, emotional
intelligence, and empathy.”

However, despite the growing extremism of the UN, some pro-family
organizations, working with a range of governments around the world, did
see some recent success in terms of getting bad language excluded and
good language included in a recent UN outcome document. According to
Family Watch International, a pro-family group, a number of  “historic
gains” were made for the family in the final UN “Commission on the
Status of Women” document that was adopted by governments. Among other
victories, pro-family groups and governments were able to prevent the
abuse of language by the UN to promote killing babies, for example, in a
document that may help set policy worldwide.

Still, the UN remains a massive and growing threat to national
sovereignty, self-government, traditional values, Judeo-Christian
morality, individual rights, true human rights, religious freedom, free
speech, the family, unborn children, liberty, real education, and more.
In fact, the UN’s LGBT czar is now traveling the world openly demanding
the indoctrination of young children — “the younger the better” — into
the radical UN agenda. And in a never-ending deluge of official reports,
documents, resolutions, statements, and more, the UN continues to brazenly promote its totalitarian globalist agenda worldwide.

President Donald Trump’s administration is working to slash UN funding by at least half while reining in what remains of the globalist outfit. But that is not enough, even according to former UN staffers.
The only real and permanent solution to the threat posed by the UN is
for the U.S. government to completely withdraw. Legislation to do that, the American Sovereignty Restoration Act (H.R. 193),
is currently sitting in the House Foreign Affairs Committee. With Trump
in the White House and the UN’s real agenda becoming too obvious to
conceal, there has never been a better time for Americans to demand an “Amexit” from the UN. But it will take a massive outcry from the American people. 
Related articles:

UN Unleashes LGBT Czar to Promote Homosexuality, Transgenderism

UN Boss: U.S. Gay Marriage Ruling a “Great Step for Human Rights”

United Nations Pushes “HeforShe” Dolls for Boys

UN Demands More Globalist Propaganda in School Textbooks

UN Child-abuse Whistleblower Skeptical That Ethics Can Return to UN

Trump Seeks to Slash U.S. Funding for UN by Over Half

UN Adopts “Education” Plan to Indoctrinate Children in Globalism

UN Goals for Humanity Target Children as “Agents of Change”

UN Schools Caught Teaching Arab Children to Wage Jihad on Jews

Bill to Get U.S. Out of UN Introduced in New Congress

#Brexit to #Amexit: Keep the Momentum Going!

U.S. Independence Attacked as Never Before by UN Interdependence

Next on Trump’s List: Rein in the UN Dictators Club

New UN Chief: Globalist, Socialist, Extremist

United Nations Exploits Pseudo-“Human Rights” to Attack U.S.

 
 

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By Gregory Reid

Deception—A Progressive Disease
The church has opened the door to the New Age.
What started out as just a crack has now become a wide open door. In
just a few short decades, the walls of biblical discernment have been so
completely torn down that not only do the majority of church goers seem
completely oblivious to the deception that has entered, many of the
church’s leaders are actually promoting the various avenues through
which the New Age/New Spirituality has come in. This is exactly what
Theosophist leader Alice Bailey predicted would be part of the New Age infiltration into the church:

The Christian church in its many branches can
serve as a St. John the Baptist, as a voice crying in the wilderness,
and as a nucleus through which world illumination [New Age thought] may
be accomplished.1

This paradigm shift has been underway for some
time. It probably began to get a real foothold in our present time with
Norman Vincent Peale’s “Power of Positive Thinking” theology, quickly
adapted by Rev. Robert Schuller who was really the first modern
“megachurch” and “seeker friendly” church pastor. The ideas of these two
men were once considered an aberration from mainstream Christian
doctrine. But here we are decades later, and seeker friendly and power
of positive thinking has become the norm and goes unchallenged. The
crack into Bible-based evangelical churches had begun to open just a
little . . .

Fast forward: In the last three decades, we
have opened our doors to things like the holy laughter movement, barking
like dogs and oinking like pigs (calling it the “anoinking of the
Spirit”), and worse. A number of leaders challenged these things, but
its promoters did not repent.

Eventually came spiritual formation, “be still”
meditation, breathing techniques, “Christian” Yoga, “the sacred
feminine,” labyrinths, and most recently circle making—all an extension
of exotic and pagan religions, eastern mysticism, and Buddhist/Hindu
tools to reach “the divine within.” These began to creep into church
media, books, music, sermons, seminars, and movies. Even Catholic priest
and mystic Thomas Merton came to be revered by many evangelicals though
he was a man who once said he intended “to become as good a Buddhist as
[he] can;”2 and the writings of the late Catholic mystic Henri Nouwen
continue influencing millions of evangelicals, even though his
spirituality led him to deny that Jesus was the only way to the Father
by the end of life.3

The door opened a little wider . . . where were
the watchmen? Where were the shepherds? Even pastors were welcoming
these things. And as these heretical movements crept in, the Word of God
began to become an addendum to our lives, a devotional nicety but not
central in our walk with Jesus, and no longer our final determination of
truth.

Slowly, the poison seeped into our ranks . . .
one book, one DVD, one conference, one movie at a time. Everyone ignored
the subtle twisting of the Word of God in Rob Bell’s Velvet Elvis, hailing it as “groundbreaking.” And indeed, it was, but not in a good way. His next book, The Sex God
raised a few eyebrows, but youth pastors everywhere still adored him,
emulated him, and bought glasses and cool clothes to look just like him
in an attempt to “relate to youth.” Millennial youth pastors began
diluting (or just plain dismissing) the Word of God and preparing little
mini-messages to justify their increasingly party-like youth-group
atmosphere which was strong on entertainment and weak on the Word of
God.

Then Rob Bell wrote Love Wins, denying
Hell and proclaiming universalism—the idea that everyone gets saved.
Today, he is sharing platforms with Oprah Winfrey and with New Age guru
Deepak Chopra at conferences with titles like “The Seduction of
Spirit.”4 Some seducing is going on, that’s for sure!

When Bell was finally exposed as being truly a
non-evangelical false teacher, I heard nothing but cricket sounds from
all those who formerly sang his praises. But by then, everyone was off
chasing the next big thing anyway, the next bestseller, the next
circle-making, ear-tickling, Scripture-diluting fiasco. We had formed a
pattern of going after the latest “it,” or hottest speaker, or
bestselling book, and then when it turned out the thing or person was
exposed as fraudulent, in error, or full of deception, almost no one
took responsibility for originally supporting or promoting them in the
first place—least of all the Christian media and those who peddled their
products.

I could give countless examples where Christian
leaders and pastors promoted someone who was espousing anti-biblical
views, and then later when the wrongness became publicized, these same
Christian leaders and pastors did nothing to rectify the damage they did
in pointing thousands, if not millions, in the wrong direction. No
words of regret, no humility, no warnings to what they should have seen
in the first place—just silence . . . until the next big thing came
along.

Rarely do people say, “we were wrong.” Rarely
do leaders say, “We were in error.” And because of that, unrepentant
error in discernment has led to greater and greater error, because
deception is a progressive disease.

The more error we receive and engage in, the
more the ability to discern goes numb and then finally dies altogether.
The church has stepped through the door of deception, and now one step
at a time, the descent down the stairway to spiritual destruction is
underway.

Few seemed alarmed that Roma Downey had no
sooner graduated from a New Age college when she began work on her and
her husband’s television series The Bible or that she has never
renounced her New Age beliefs.5 And in fact, the highest levels of
leadership in the church gave her a pass on those issues because, they
said, the benefits of how it would reach people outweighed the
theological or doctrinal problems. Downey’s movies have been sprinkled
with gnostic teachings; and, to be honest, by the time these concerns
were raised, certain denominations and groups had invested far too much
money in promoting the movies to retract, recall product, and publicly
repent at that point. In the end, I believe financial concerns were more
important than truth.

The Shack—A Temporary Fix
By the time the book The Shack came
around, we had already been prepped through years of “felt need”
theology, experiential-based faith, and cherry-picking Scriptures we
liked while ignoring the ones we didn’t.

As the Internet grew, I began to understand the
power of the appeal to our emotions. More than once, I had seen almost
an entire five to ten-minute video on some issue and found myself in
tears before I found out at the end that not only was it not a Christian
video and did not have a Christian message, but it was produced by
people who represented a view that was unbiblical, New Age, and worse. I
got emotionally hooked before I learned the truth. Those without a
biblical foundation of truth stay hooked. Basically, they get seduced.
They have become addicted to being seduced and need the next sensually
induced, carnally-inspired fix because that is what has become the
foundation of their “faith,” and they have come to believe they can’t
get by without it.

People loved The Shack because it
replaced the God of the Bible (which deep down they possibly didn’t feel
comfortable with because His ways are beyond our understanding and bad
things happen, and it upsets our sunshine version of Christianity) and
gave them a God who made them feel good, who took the God of the Bible
and said, “That’s not really God, this is what God is like . . .” and
gave them a diluted, false version of Father, Son, Holy Spirit, and a
dose of Sophia, Greek goddess of “wisdom.”

I was sure that anyone with even a modicum of
discernment would throw the book in the trash. I had underestimated how
wide the door of deception had opened. I lost friends that were pastors
who were furious at me for questioning the book. One pastor railed at
me, “I haven’t had a relationship with God for years, but now I have my
‘Papa’ back! You can’t take that from me!”

Nothing jarred me more than seeing grown men of
God just abandoning clear truth because something tugged their heart,
justifying the scriptural butchering by saying, “It’s just fiction; it’s
not the Bible!” I confronted someone on this the other night. “What
about the satanic Necronomicon. Can I read it? It’s just fiction. Can I
read pornography? It’s just fiction.” They thought that a bit extreme.
Of course it was. My point was, what was their criteria, where was their
own event horizon they were not willing to cross because it was just
too obviously wrong? How much
Scripture bending or ignoring would they accept
and justify as OK because it was “just fiction” before they had enough
and said no more?

The genius of The Shack is how
cleverly it has clothed itself in a loose and nebulous garment of
Scriptures—just enough to justify the complete butchering of the true
nature of God and morph Him into a Trinitarian hybrid god that
represents whatever will make you feel better about your horrible
tragedies and “great sadness.”6 The fact is, though, God will not appear
as whatever we want. One person said, “God appeared as a fiery bush,
but I know he’s not a bush!” But He did not appear as a bush. He
appeared in a bush. God will not appear as Shiva, Buddha, or Sarayu,
because He says, “I AM THAT I AM” (Exodus 3:14). We can say God is like a
rock, but we cannot say God is like Baal. It’s not about imagery; it is
about the nature and character of God. And The Shack gives a false representation of both of these.7

Look, I get it. I’ve suffered innumerable
losses my entire life, and every one of us at some point cries out,
“WHY, GOD?” And in those moments, people either reject Him as uncaring,
or call upon His name wherein He brings us into His Kingdom, and we
learn to trust Him in the midst of, sometimes in spite of, tragedies
that seem to have no reason.

We may find ourselves once again crying out in pain, “Why God!?”

He has answered this in His Word. It’s called having faith, trusting Him, and knowing He loves us.

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. (Proverbs 3:5)

As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the Lord is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him. (Psalm 18:30)

Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God. (1 John 3:1)

The Shack is a quick fix to feeling
better, a panacea, a spiritual drug that allows you to embrace a
conception of God that may temporarily take away the pain but leaves you
with an open door to deception because it is not the God of the Word.
It is not the real thing! And the Jesus it presents is not the real
Jesus.

Is The Shack the God portrayed in
Scripture? Is God a woman? Is Jesus a clumsy Jewish kid? Is the Holy
Spirit a Japanese girl named after a Hindu river? Is the judge of our
lives Sophia? Is everyone saved? Is Jesus just the best way to the
Father, as the book suggests, or is He what the Bible says—the only way?

“But they’re just parables! Stories! It’s not
the Bible!” some argue. So is it acceptable to distort the truth in the
guise of fiction just to make a point? How is that ever acceptable? The Shack
presents a God who does not judge, one who can change, and one who
suggests Jesus is simply a better way to God, not the only way. But
feeling has trumped truth, and the book has become a multi-million
bestseller. To simplify the responses I have heard, “Don’t confuse me
with biblical facts. It makes me feel good!”

It did not bother leaders and publishers that Young’s second book, Eve—a
“reimagining” of the Adam and Eve story—was laced with kabbalistic
themes and occultic, gnostic fairy tales. “It’s just a story.” The door
opened wider. . . .

You see, Satan keeps pushing the goalpost
deeper and deeper into the center of the church, and every time he sees
no resistance, he is emboldened and takes it to “the next level.”

In March of 2017, The Shack movie was
released. People seem just as fascinated with the movie as they are with
the book. But I notice one difference—those who support The Shack
appear to be much angrier at those with questions than before. “You’re
so judgmental!” “Who do you think you are?” “You must be looking for a
book deal or something.” “You’ll never lead anyone to Christ, and I
doubt if you ever did before.” I’ve had it all thrown at me with the
release of the movie as I have tried to reason it out with folks. And I
have come to realize that the level of deception has gone so deep that
not only are people willing to embrace a lie and ignore the error, but
worse—they see themselves as loyal Christian believers while at the same
have no problem promoting a story by a man who claims that everyone is
“in Christ” already. And you cannot reason with that level of delusion.
It’s gone beyond the intellectual. It’s now in the realm of “seducing
spirits” (1 Timothy 4:1).

A Church Enamored with New Age Mysticism
Universalism—the “all paths lead to God”
religion—is exactly what is needed to turn millions of proclaiming
Christians into participants of the one-world antichrist mystery
religion that Alice Bailey wrote about and all Luciferian world leaders
are counting on.

We did not accept Rob Bell’s universalism. But
now we are willing to ignore William Paul Young’s. That is the
malignancy of deception unchecked.

The Shack movie comes at a time when
eastern meditation techniques are being welcomed wholeheartedly into the
public educational system under the guise of “mindfulness.”8
Mindfulness is a Buddhist technique of detachment, leading practitioners
to realizing the “divine within,” which eventually supposedly leads to
Nirvana—nonexistence. North American children, as young as pre-school
age, are being taught how to meditate and do Yoga to reach this Nirvana
state.

This eastern meditation paradigm shift is
occurring in the church as well via contemplative prayer and the
“spiritual disciplines.”9 In 2017, several “Christian” books came on the
scene promoting meditation and mindfulness practices under the guise of
“devotional” books and “adult coloring books.” One book on
contemplative meditation is The Wired Soul: Finding Spiritual Balance in a Hyper-connected Age
by Tricia McCary Rhodes. Her book “reintroduces us to the classic
disciplines of Scripture reading, meditation, prayer, and
contemplation.”10 Rick Warren was promoting Rhodes book, The Soul at Rest: A Journey into Contemplative Prayer, as far back as 2003 on his website that stated:

This book is a quiet-time companion for those
who hunger for a greater intimacy with God. It offers fresh insight
into little understood aspects of prayer and introduces a step-by-step
journey of learning contemplative prayer.11

The site referred to Tricia Rhodes as “one of our favorite authors on contemplative prayer.”12 In The Soul at Rest, Rhodes gives instruction on contemplative prayer:

Take deep breaths, concentrating on relaxing
your body. Establish a slow, rhythmic pattern. Breathe in God’s peace,
and breathe out your stresses, distractions, and fears. Breathe in God’s
love, forgiveness, and compassion, and breathe out your sins, failures,
and frustrations. Make every effort to “stop the flow of talking going
on within you—to slow it down until it comes to a halt.”13

Rick Warren’s promotion of her book in 2003
helped to make a solid place for Rhodes in the evangelical church, and
today she, along with so many others like her, is securely wedged in,
all the while presenting a panentheistic (i.e., God in all)
eastern-style meditation belief system to an unsuspecting church that’s
proved itself to have little or no discernment. Does that bother Rick
Warren or any of the others who endorsed her? Do they feel the need to
warn the church about an author they promoted to millions of people? The
answer to that is a resounding no!

So, the church just keeps on going further on
the path to the New Age goal of “east meets west,” where we all become
one under a false one-world religion and we all recognize the “Christ
spirit” or godhood in each other.

Tragically, young Christians are perhaps the
biggest target of Satan. The emerging church got the ball rolling and
convinced millions of church-going young people that their parents way
of seeing Christianity was old fashioned, colonial, and ineffective. And
emerging church leaders had the perfect tool to get a hold of the minds
of the youth—meditation. It started back in the late nineties and is in
full swing today. A 2013 book titled, God in My Everything: How an Ancient Rhythm Helps Busy People Enjoy God
by Canadian pastor Ken Shigematsu, is being used in Christian youth
groups. According to the publisher, Zondervan, the book “draws on both
eastern and western perspectives in writing and speaking.”14 Those are
buzzwords for introducing a mixing of eastern religion thought processes
with Christianity. The book is packed with quotes by and references to
numerous mystics such as Thomas Merton and Basil Pennington. Catholic
priest and panentheist Richard Rohr is a major advocate for mystical
prayer. He said in an interview that his publisher told him his biggest
audience is young evangelical men!15 Are Christian leaders and pastors
shocked that their young people are being taught by mystics,
panentheists, universalists, etc? Apparently not.

All of this is producing Christian minds that
are malleable, soft, undiscerning, half-drugged, feeling good, and
completely open to the power of suggestion from . . . whoever, and
whatever. That is what eastern meditation techniques do. You empty your
mind, “turn off distractions,” enter your “sacred space,” and accept
that whatever comes must be good and right and from God.

The High Price of Having Our Ears Tickled
The church has become an entity seeking to have
her ears tickled. Christians are seeking to feel better about their
painful lives. Seeking to be successful, happy, and prosperous. What is it you seek? Step right up folks . . . we’ve got everything for you right now.

Everything except the whole truth of the Word
of God, the way of the Cross, the power of the blood to save and heal
and forgive, the altar of God where we come to be broken and changed,
healed, and set free. Everything which made the Gospel powerful has and
is being systematically removed by the enemy of our souls—not because it
is not powerful, but because we no longer wish to humble ourselves, bow
to its holiness and its truth. The church has exchanged the truth for a
lie.

We are seeing the “fruit” of nearly thirty
years of dumbing-down and de-prioritizing the Word of God, giving it a
mini-place in our lives while shiny things and baubles and the newest
“move” catch our attention and send us off on a fruitless quest for the
next experience. It’s no wonder young Christians are falling for it so
rapidly—their parents and grandparents have had no discernment and
therefore could hardly lead and warn the younger generation of spiritual
deception. The seed of the Word of God has corporately fallen on stony
ground, without depth, where it grows up quick, shrivels, and dies.

I know I am very passionate about this,
reluctant to even use the word passionate, so overused it is in today’s
“New Spirituality.” However, I have every reason to be this way. I grew
up in the occult—a world of delusions, lies, and darkness. When I tried
to turn to New Age thought to dispel the darkness—turning to Hinduism,
Buddhism, and becoming an avid follower of Paramahansa Yogananda in my
little bedroom devouring his every word as “truth”—I ended up deceived,
wrecked, and in utter darkness, even though some of it temporarily
numbed my pain and made me “feel good.”

I understand many of these Christians who are so emotionally bound to The Shack and Jesus Calling
that they have thrown caution to the wind and ignored the dangerous
reality that in fact promotes unbiblical lies. I was a universalist when
I got saved. I didn’t know what the Word of God said. I still believed
all paths led to God! I was totally brainwashed. Then came this “mean
man,” this “judgmental Christian” Bible study leader who dared to get
out the Word of God and without holding back challenged me about my
beliefs. This “judgmental, mean man” saved my spiritual life. (I thank
God for Dave; may his memory be blessed!) I needed a hard word to break
through the lies.

In all my dealings with everything from Rob Bell to The Shack,
I understand that simple logic and reason isn’t working with people who
are emotionally invested in the teachers or the stories. People need a
wake-up call, and that may not feel good or seem loving. But I cannot
apologize for my approach because I see that in the end, The Shack
is not just a book or a movie but a game-changer that is extinguishing
some of the last lights of discernment out of the hearts of who knows
how many thousands (even millions) of believers. I know how they feel. I
have been there. And I thank God that someone cared enough to hurt me
with the truth. When a house is burning down and people are asleep
inside, one cannot afford to meekly whisper, hoping the people hear. You
have to shout at the top of your lungs, “Get out, quickly!” In dealing
with these new delusions, it may be necessary to jar people awake.

Jesus said in Matthew 24 that all of this would
happen. Paul said, “Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the
latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing
spirits, and doctrines of devils” (1 Timothy 4:1). The great falling
away is at hand. But a remnant will remain faithful. I can only pray
humbly not to be one who falls for the lies in a moment of
vulnerability, or weakness, or pain or giving up, for we are all
vulnerable, and it’s only by the grace of God we can stand. That is
where I understand the motto of the French foreign legion that a friend
shared with me: “If I falter, straighten me out. If I stumble, pick me
up. If I retreat, shoot me.” Blunt, but as a spiritual warrior, it
resonates in my heart. None of us is exempt from having to diligently
guard against the lies of this age, outside and inside the church.

These progressive deceptions over the last few
decades have been just the build-up to the next great delusion, which
could be the final one. God help us to turn away from the slow poisoning
taking place in the church through breath-prayers, eastern meditation,
mindfulness, Yoga, etc. God help us to surrender our soulish ways of
perceiving God based on a book written by a wounded man, William Paul
Young —unhealed from abuse and bitter church hurts—whom those seeking to
make a profit have promoted regardless of his spiritual fragility and
woundedness—a man who rejected the God of the Bible for a god who would
somehow ease his pain—one that eases your pain as it kills your soul. The Shack is the spiritual Jack Kevorkian of our age.

Pray for William Paul Young, that God would
pull him out of this most dangerous and deadly strange fire. Pray for
the multitudes who are believing lies. And may God deal with those
mercenaries and money changers who care more about what sells and profits
them than about the care and protection of the flock of God.

Alice Bailey’s plans are about to come to full fruition. The greatest lie is just around the corner.

Stay strong, saints. “And when these things
begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your
redemption draweth nigh. (Luke 21:28)

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Endnotes:
1. Alice Bailey, The Externalization of the Hierarchy (Lucis Publishing Companies), p. 510.
2. David Steindl-Rast, “Recollection of Thomas Merton’s Last Days in the West” (Monastic Studies, 7:10, 1969).
3.Henri Nouwen, Sabbatical Journey (New York, NY: Crossroad Publishing, 1998), p. 51.
4. http://www.carlsbadlifestylepubs.com/am_event/seduction-of-spirit-i-am-wholeness.
5. See Greg Reid’s booklet/article: Confused by an Angel: The Dilemma of Roma Downey’s New Age Beliefs. Online at http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog/?p=16968 or order from Lighthouse Trails.
6. Chapter four of The Shack is titled “The Great Sadness,” and the term is frequently used throughout The Shack.
7. See The Shack and Its New Age Leaven by Warren B. Smith. Online at http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog/?p=12290 or order from Lighthouse Trails.
8. Kris O’Donnell, “Mindfulness, Meditation
Techniques Being Used in Public School Classrooms Across County on
750,000 Students” (Ivanhoe Newswire, http://www.ksat.com/health/mindfulness-meditation-techniques-being-used-in-classroom).
9. Visit the Lighthouse Trails Research blog for
extensive information on contemplative spirituality and the “spiritual
disciplines”: www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog or request their bi-monthly research journal mailed to homes and offices.
10. Tricia McCary Rhodes, The Wired Soul: Finding Spiritual Balance in a Hyperconnected Age (from the publisher’s description, found on the NavPress website where the book is being sold: https://navresources.ca/product_details.php?item_id=5458).
11. Rick Warren’s Ministry Toolbox, (September 3, 2003, http://web.archive.org/web/20081227031846/http://legacy.pastors.com/RWMT/?ID=118).
12. Rick Warren’s Ministry Toolbox (February 18, 2004, http://web.archive.org/web/20081227044251/http://legacy.pastors.com/RWMT/?ID=142).
13. Tricia Rhodes, The Soul at Rest (Minneapolis, MN: Bethany House Publishers, 1996), p. 28.
14. Ken Shigematsu, God in My Everything: How an Ancient Rhythm Helps Busy People Enjoy God (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2013); from Zondervan’s website: http://www.zondervan.com/god-in-my-everything.
15. “The Cosmic Christ with Richard Rohr” (http://podcast.theliturgists.com/e/episode-35-the-cosmic-christ-with-richard-rohr/).

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CHRISTIAN PARENTS: YOUR KIDS AREN’T EQUIPPED TO BE PUBLIC SCHOOL MISSIONARIES

 
CHRISTIAN PARENTS: YOUR KIDS AREN’T EQUIPPED TO BE PUBLIC SCHOOL MISSIONARIES
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 

http://www.theblaze.com

A concerned parent sent me this.
It’s the school newspaper for Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School in
Falls Church, Virginia. Among the other hard hitting pieces of
journalism targeted at children, ages 11-13, is an article
on “transgender rights.”

The article explains how Obama “improved the lives of transgender
people by fighting the discrimination against them,” but all of that is
now in jeopardy because of President Trump. The next article delves into
the intricacies and wonders of various forms of gender identity,
including “transgenderism,” “non-binary,” “bigender,” “agender,”
“demigender,” “genderfluid,” and “genderflux.” I’m obviously more
innocent and naive than the typical middle schooler these days, so I’d
never even heard of some of these. For anyone else who may be curious,
here’s how the last three types of genders are explained to an audience
of pre-pubscent kids:

Demigender: Demigender refers to people who partially identify as
one gender. Demigender people may also identify as partially a
different gender. Examples include demigirl, or someone who partially
identifies as a girl; demiboy, or someone who partially identifies as a
boy; demiagender, meaning someone who identifies as partially agender;
and more broadly, deminonbinary, or someone who just partially
identifies as nonbinary. 

Genderfluid and Genderflux: Genderfluid refers to someone whose
gender changes between any of the above categories. For example, someone
may feel female one day, male another day, and agender the next day.
Similarly, genderflux refers to someone whose gender changes in
intensity. This typically means that someone’s gender will fluctuate
between agender and a different gender, which could be binary or
nonbinary. For example, someone might sometimes feel completely female,
sometimes demigender, and sometimes agender.

Did you get all that?

Someone can partially not have a gender, while the other part of them
has three genders, and the third part is a futon. These are the notions
being implanted in our kids’ heads in their public schools. The average
7th grader in America may not be able do basic arithmetic without a
calculator or name the Allied Powers during WW2 or understand the
difference between “there” and “their,” but you can bet he’ll be able
to identify 112 different genders and explain them in terms explicit
enough to make a grown man blush.

If we have not yet reached a point where a mass exodus from the
public schools is warranted, when will that point arrive? Are we waiting
until they start bringing in nude hermaphrodites to teach sex ed? I
suppose even that wouldn’t be enough incentive for some of us. “I can’t
shield my kid from what’s going on out there!” “Be in the world, not of
the world!” “Naked she-males are a part of life! I can’t keep him in a
bubble forever! He’s 9 years old, for … sake!”

Look, I know that public school may really be the only option for
some people. There are single parents of little economic means who find
themselves backed into a corner where government education appears to be
the only choice. And if a parent can’t or won’t homeschool, a private
Christian education can be prohibitively expensive. Not only that, but
some Christians schools are as bad as, or worse than, the average public
school. Abandoning the public school system is not an easy thing, and
it presents many hurdles that, right now, may be impossible for some
people to get over. The collapse of the family unit, not to mention our
recent economic woes, have contributed to creating a dependence on
public education. Not everyone can break free all at once, I realize.

But we should certainly all agree, at this point, that public school
is not an option for those of us who have another feasible option. We
should agree that public school is a matter of last resort and
necessity. We should agree that public education is inherently hostile
to true Christian values, and for that reason it is not anywhere close
to the ideal environment for our kids. We should agree on these points.
But we still don’t, incredibly.

I had this discussion on Twitter recently, and it prompted several
emails from Christian parents who appear to believe that kids should
still be sent to public school, even if there are other valid options available. They
suggested that, somehow, the sort of madness outlined above could
present faith-affirming opportunities for our children, and we would
actually be depriving them of something if we did not give them access
to those opportunities. They claimed that public school is a “mission
field” where our kids can be “salt and light” to their friends. They
said that it’s not fair to our kids or our communities if we “shelter”
them. They suggested that somehow it’s our children’s duty to minister
to the pagan hordes. They said that “the system” needs our kids.

A few responses to this rather confused point of view:

First of all, “the system needs our kids” is just a weird and creepy
statement. It reminds me of something someone would say on Black Mirror
or the Twilight Zone. Here’s the truth about “the system”: It’s not my
job to give it what it needs. Even less is it my kid’s job. There’s
nothing in the Bible that says we must dedicate ourselves to maintaining
a government-run education system at any cost. My first responsibility
is to my family, not to the community or the school system or my kid’s
classmates. I will never put the interests of “the system” above that of
my own children. Whether “the system” lives or dies is not my concern.
My family is my concern. I have an obligation to them, not to the local
superintendent.

Second, anyway, if I did put my kids in “the system” for the sake of
“the system,” I’m not the one making the sacrifice. I’m forcing my kids
to make it. At least face what you’re doing. When it comes down to it,
the burden of public schooling is something your child will have to
shoulder, not you.

Third, yes, my kids will eventually be exposed to all kinds of
strange and terrible things. As much as I’d like to keep them shielded
from the evils of the world forever, I know that I can do no such thing.
The question is not whether our kids will be exposed to this or that depravity, but when and how and in what context? Are
you prepared to trust the school’s judgment on when Junior is ready to
learn about concepts like “transgenderism”? Do you trust their judgment
on how he learns about it, and what he’s told about it? If you do, I
suppose you aren’t even reading this post right now because you’ve been
in a vegetative state for the past 30 years.

Fourth, when a kid is sent to public school, he’s expected to
navigate and survive and thrive in a hostile, confusing, amoral
environment, basically untethered from his parents, 6–8 hours a day, 5
days a week, 9 months a year, for 12 years. Is a child ready for that
challenge by the time he’s 5 years old? Is he ready at 8? At 10? No. Our
job as parents is to “train them up in the way they should go,” equip
them with the armor of God, fortify them in the truth, and then
release them into the world. That process has not been completed in
conjunction with them first learning how to tie their shoes. I mean …
most adults can’t even manage to withstand the hostilities and
pressures of our fallen world for that amount of time. And we expect
little kids to do it? That’s not fair to them. It’s too much to ask. Way
too much. They aren’t equipped, they aren’t ready, they aren’t strong
enough, and they will get eaten alive.

Let’s take just this one example of the gender insanity. Our kids, in
public school, will be in a world where concepts like “transgenderism”
and “demigenderism” are normal, healthy, cool, and rational. They’ll be
in a world where even recognizing basic biological realities is
considered bigoted and oppressive. They will be in this environment
literally from their first day in kindergarten. Can a child spend his
entire young life in such an atmosphere and emerge on the other end with
his head still on straight? It’s possible, I suppose, but you’ve
never had to do that. I didn’t have to do that. I went to public
school, but it wasn’t as bad as it is now. So I would be asking my kids
to live up to a spiritual and mental and moral challenge that I myself have never endured, and I’ll be asking them to do it every day for 12 years, starting sometime around their 5th birthday.

Not fair. Just not fair.

Fifth, related to the last point, your child is not ready to be a
missionary. He cannot be a “witness” to others until he himself has been
properly formed in the faith. It’s no surprise that most of the young
“missionaries” we commission and send forth to minister to the lost
souls in public schools quickly become one of the lost souls. We don’t
need to sit around theorizing about whether the missionary approach to
education is wise or effective. We already know that it isn’t. The vast
majority of the parents who think their kids are being “salt and light”
to their peers in school are simply oblivious to the fact that their
little Bible warriors have long since defected and joined the heathens.
You can hardly blame the kids for this. They’re just kids, after all.
They aren’t warriors. Warriors are trained and disciplined.
Children are neither of those things. I imagine this is why St. Paul
didn’t travel to Athens and Corinth recruiting toddlers to help him
carry the Gospel into pagan lands.

Education is supposed to prepare a child to carry the torch of truth.  That is, he’s supposed to be ready to carry it once his education has been completed.
This should not be a “throw them into the deep end to see if they can
swim” strategy. They can’t swim. You and I can barely swim, morally and
spiritually speaking, and we’re adults. Do you expect your child to be
more spiritually mature and morally courageous than you?

Now, I do fully believe, ultimately, that our job is to be lights in
the darkness. I make that very argument in the last chapter of my book:

All I know is that God put us here to be lights in the darkness,
and however dark it gets, our mission does not change. Dostoevsky wrote
that stars grow brighter as the night grows darker. So the good news is
that we have the opportunity to be the brightest stars for Christ
that the world has ever seen, because we may well live through its
darkest night. 

But a flame must first be lit, stoked, and protected before it is the
bright, raging fire that we all must be if we expect to survive in this
culture. Our children’s education is supposed to facilitate that
process, not interfere with it. Our children should be fires for Christ
because of their education, not in spite of it. We can’t
compartmentalize the “spiritual” part of their upbringing, reserve it
for evenings and weekends, and allow the lion’s share of their
educational experience to be dominated by humanism, hedonism, and
godlessness. Education is not supposed to work that way. And it doesn’t
really work at all that way, as we’ve seen. Or, if it does work, it is
only in cases where the child possesses an almost superhuman level of
maturity, intelligence, and moral courage. And maybe some children
really are almost superhuman in that way. But most of them aren’t, yours
probably aren’t, and you probably aren’t. That’s just the reality of
the situation, and we have to deal with it. I find it ironic that so
many parents who expect their children to “face the realities of the
world” have not faced it themselves.