Day: January 15, 2020
EXPOSED: BETHEL CHURCH, NEW APOSTOLIC REFORMATION, HEIDI BAKER, POLYTHEISM, DEMONIC IMPARTATION, SPIRITUAL DRUNKENNESS, FALSE TEACHING
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•The Toronto “Blessing”/Heidi’s encounter at the Toronto Blessing
•Is Heidi Baker imparting demons to people at conferences and churches worldwide?
• Heidi Bakers husband, Rolland Baker. (Who may be even more dangerously disturbing than Heidi.)
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DUPING AMERICANS ON SHARIA~A REVIEW OF JOHN ESPOSITO’S BOOK ATTEMPTING TO EXONERATE SHARIA WITH A FALSE NARRATIVE
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Raymond Ibrahim is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center.Does Islam itself promote hostility for and violence against non-Muslims, or are all the difficulties between the West and Islam based on secondary factors—from “radical” interpretations of Islam, to economics and grievances?This is the fundamental question.Obviously, if “anti-infidel” hostility is inherent to Islam itself, then the conflict becomes existential—a true clash of civilizations, with no easy fixes and lots of ugly implications along the horizon.Because of this truism, those whose job it is to whitewash Islam’s image in the West insist on the opposite—that all difficulties are temporal and not rooted to innate Islamic teachings.Enter Shariah: What Everyone Needs to Know, co-authored by John Esposito and Natana J. Delong-Bas. The authors’ goal is to exonerate Shariah, which they portray as enshrining “the common good (maslahah), human dignity, social justice, and the centrality of the community” from Western criticism or fear, which they say is based solely on “myth” and “sensationalism.”In their introductory chapters they define Shariah as being built upon the words of the Koran and the Sunna (or example) of the Muslim prophet Muhammad as contained in sahih (canonical) hadiths. They add: “Shariah and Islamic law are not the same thing. The distinction between divine law (Shariah) and its human interpretation, application, and development (Islamic law) is important to keep in mind throughout this book…. Whereas Shariah is immutable and infallible, Islamic law (fiqh) is fallible and changeable.”Next the authors highlight how important Shariah is to a majority of Muslims. They cite a 2013 Pew Poll which found that 69% of Muslims in the Middle East and North Africa, 73% in South Asia, and 55% in Central Asia believe that “Shariah is God’s [Allah’s] divine revelation.”Even larger numbers “favored the establishment of Shariah as official law”: 99% in Afghanistan, 84% in South Asia, 74% in the Middle East and North Africa, and 64% in sub-Saharan Africa.So far so good. The authors’ introductory claims (that Shariah is fundamental to Islam) and statistics (that hundreds of millions of Muslims revere and wish to see it implemented) are correct.But they also beg the aforementioned question: is Shariah itself behind the intolerance, misogyny, violence, and terrorism committed in the name of Islam?Here, the hitherto objective authors shift gears and take on the mantle of apologists. Their thesis is simple: Any and all negative activities Muslims engage in are to be pinned on anything and everything—so long as it’s not Shariah.In order to support this otherwise unsupportable position, and as might be expected, the remainder of the book consists of obfuscation, dissembling, and lots and lots of contextual omissions and historical distortions.A small sampling follows:Shariah on WomenThe authors quote and discuss at length many Koran verses about women that seem positive (Koran 30:21, 3:195, and 2:187), without alluding to counter verses that permit husbands to beat their wives (4:34) and treat them as “fields” to be “plowed however you wish” (2:223). Nor do they deal with Muhammad’s assertions that women are “lacking in intelligence” and will form the bulk of hell’s denizens, as recounted in a canonical hadith.They partially quote Koran 4:3: “…marry those that please you of other women, two or three or four. But if you fear that you will not be just, then marry only one.” This suits the authors’ purpose, which is to present the Koran as implicitly recommending only one wife, since it acknowledges the near impossibility for a man to treat all wives equally. Yet the authors deliberately cut off the continuation of that verse—which permits Muslim men to copulate with an unlimited amount of sex slaves (ma malakat aymanukum) even if they are married.They also dissemble about child marriage, saying “classical Islamic law” permits it, but only when “the child reaches a mature age.” Yet they make no mention that, based on Muhammad’s marriage to Aisha—that is, based on his Sunna, which is immutable and part of Shariah—nine is considered a “mature age.”Freedom of Religion and Non-MuslimsThe authors claim that “There are more than 100 Quranic verses that … affirm freedom of religion and conscience.” They quote many at length and assert that “The guiding Shariah principle … underscored by Quran 3:28, 29:46, and 60:89, is that believers should treat unbelievers decently and equitably as long as the unbelievers do not behave aggressively.”Yet they fail to mention or sideline the many contradictory verses that call for relentless war on non-Muslims—who are further likened to dumb cattle in Koran 25:44 —until they surrender, one way or another, to Islam (e.g., 8:39, 9:5, 9:29).They fail to quote the verses that form the highly divisive doctrine of al-wala’ w’al bara’ (“Loyalty and Enmity”), including Koran 5:51, which forbids Muslims from befriending Jews and Christians, and Koran 60:4, which commands Muslims to harbor only “hate” for non-Muslims, until they “believe in Allah alone.”Needless to say, they ignore Koran 3:28, which permits Muslims to feign friendship for non-Muslims, whenever the former are under the latter’s authority (such is the doctrine of taqiyya; see here, here, here, here, and here for examples).It is, incidentally, because of all these divisive Koran verses—because of Shariah—that the Islamic State forthrightly explained, “We hate you, first and foremost, because you are disbelievers.”The closest the authors get to address these issues is in a section titled, “Can Muslims in the West be Loyal Citizens.” They respond with a yes—but the evidence they cite are polls (based on wishful interpretations), which of course tells the reader little about the topic they purport to “de-mythologize”: Shariah.JihadAs might be expected, when the authors reach the topic of jihad, their dissembling reaches a new level. They repeatedly insist that jihad, as enshrined in Shariah, is simply the Muslim counterpart of Western Just War theory, which teaches that war and aggression are permissible, but only in defense or to recover one’s territory from occupiers: “The lesser or outer jihad involves defending Islam and the Muslim community.” As usual, they spend much time quoting and elaborating on Koran verses that comport with this position, while ignoring or sidelining the many contradictory verses. In reality, mainstream Islam holds that the Koran’s “Sword Verses” (especially 9:5 and 9:29) have abrogated all the peaceful ones, thereby making warfare on non-Muslims—for no less a reason than that they are non-Muslims—obligatory.Consider Koran 9:29: “Fight those who do not believe in Allah nor the Last Day, nor forbid what Allah and his Messenger have forbidden, nor embrace the religion of truth [Islam] from the People of the Book [Jews and Christians], until they pay the jizya with willing submission and feel themselves subdued.”What, exactly, is “defensive” about this verse?Similarly, they claim that dar al-harb, or “abode of war”—Islam’s designation for all those non-Muslim territories (such as Europe) that Muslims were historically in a permanent state of war with—“applied to other parties with whom Muslims were in conflict.” Again, they fail to mention that the primary reason Muslims were “in conflict” with them was because they were non-Muslim, and that all non-Muslim territories were by default part of the “abode of war,” except when treaties advantageous to Islam were drawn.Instead, the authors say, “The territories classified as the abode of war were those that refused to provide such protection to Muslims and their clients”—thereby implying Muslims were hostile to, say, Europe, because Europe was first hostile to Muslims. (Reality, as chronicled in Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West, was the exact opposite.)Miscellaneous SubterfugeOne can go on and on; the authors engage in other forms of subterfuge to exonerate Shariah. They frequently project a Western veneer to Islamic terms and concepts, saying for example that Shariah is ultimately about “promoting good and preventing evil”—which sounds admirable—without pointing out that, based on the Koran and Sunna (that is, Shariah), conquering non-Muslim territories is about “promoting good” and keeping women under wraps and indoors, beating them as required, is about “preventing vice.”While admitting that Christians and other non-Muslim minorities are currently being persecuted, not only do the authors insist that this has nothing to do with Shariah, but they invoke relativistic thinking: “Just as Muslims living in non-Muslim countries are often concerned with their rights and civil liberties as minorities,” they say, “so some consider the rights and status of non-Muslim minorities living in Muslim countries to be a parallel issue.” In other words, because some Americans view Muslims in their midst with suspicion, the ongoing enslavement and slaughter of Christians—more than 6,000 in Nigeria alone since January 2018—and ban on or destruction of churches is a sort of tit for tat, a “parallel issue” that can only be solved when the West becomes less critical about Islam.Relativism is also invoked during the authors’ brief treatment of apostasy in Islam: “Historically, apostasy was sometimes punishable by death in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.” They claim that apostasy is still a major issue in Islam due to “radical” interpretations or politics—bolstering their position by again quoting the same Koran verses that seem to support freedom of religion—without mentioning, say, the canonical hadith (meaning part of Shariah) where Muhammad said, “Whoever leaves his religion [Islam], kill him.”Such is how Islam’s skilled apologists dupe the West: they admit to some of the more controversial aspects that many other apologists shy away from—namely that Shariah is indeed foundational to Islam and that hundreds of millions of Muslims revere and wish to see it implemented—but then, having established trust with the reader, they slip back into the “game,” portraying all the intolerance, misogyny, violence, and terrorism daily committed in the name of Islam as products of anything and everything—fallible Muslim interpretations, self-serving clerics and terrorists, socio-economic pressures, Western criticism or encroachments—never Shariah itself.Contrary to its subtitle, then, John Esposito’s and Natana J. Delong-Bas’s Shariah is not “what everyone needs to know”; rather, it is what non-Muslims need to believe in order to give Shariah—which is fundamentally hostile to all persons and things un-Islamic—a free pass.
ENAMORED EVANGELICAL PASTOR & AUTHOR MAX LUCADO ENDORSES PRO-GAY JEN HATMAKER
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Hatmaker first came out of the closet of homosexual affirmation during an interview with Jonathan Merritt, son of former Southern Baptist president, James Merritt. Subsequently, the SBC book store Lifeway pulled her materials from their shelves.Since then, Hatmaker has made campaigning for the normalization of sexual immorality her primary mission in life and has a massive following of lost people who endorse her. To make matters worse, she also partners with pro-abortion political groups to advocate for “women’s rights” — read, abortion rights. Bottom line; Jen Hatmaker is nothing more than a voice for Satan himself disguised as an angel of light.But this didn’t stop Max Lucado from singing her praises and giving her a glowing endorsement. Max Lucado is a best-selling Christian author and pastor at Oak Hills Church in San Antonio, Texas and is a friend of Southern Baptists like Matt Chandler and Beth Moore, partnering with them to advocate for amnesty. He’s also been praised by the SBC’s news outlet, the Baptist Press.Lucado recently joined Hatmaker in a podcast where he gave her glowing accolades saying, "I think so highly of you. You energize me, to listen to your podcast. The other day I caught myself needing to get out of the car, but I was listening to your podcast and I just sat, and I just sat, and I just sat. You make it so easy and delightful, and yet profound at the same time."He went on, praising her and affirming her and her followers as believers. “And your heart . . . And you know what else I like, Jen?” Lucado told Hatmaker, “You bring me in touch with a circle of believers that I might not typically have contact with, you know?”"You expand my circle, and that’s good for me. I don’t really like my preconceptions to be tested … But it’s good for me, and sometimes when I listen to your podcast, I feel stretched tighter than a trampoline skin. But it’s good, it’s good. And I really need that and I appreciate it."Lucado’s endorsement of Hatmaker is damaging to the gospel. Lucado, who is fairly orthodox though not without problems, lends credibility to a movement that is patently and biblically false — the “gay Christian” movement. To tell someone like Hatmaker — who clearly denies the gospel and the clear teachings of Scripture — that she and her followers are “believers” is to deny the inerrancy of Scripture and authority of God himself. One can only hope that Lucado will repent of this serious heresy.__________________________________________________________Max Lucado's "Potato & Milk Eucharist"
[another] Jesus saves him -
Yokes w/ sin-affirming Jen Hatmaker
Jen Hatmaker is a NAR Bethel 'NEW AGE- Church' of Hyper Signs and Wonders, Liberal, Pro- sin, Universalist Fake Christian Media delight, BROUGHT IN from a secular program on home design, & pushed as "Christian". She is a leader now. MASONIC SEEDING at play! She spreads error and smears the true remnant church globally. She actually denies the true Lord and gospel; she lacks any fear of the LORD at all. She represents one within the ranks of Laodicea, and the Promotion of an Anti- Bride ( Babylon Whore Church Fake). *This acquiescence of leadership is on purpose and meant to fuel a rebellion* , in the 'name of the church'. This is Satan trying to slap God in the face, and slip in an impostor.She has yoked with the "Unity at all costs", heretical , false gospel as a "popular leader", showing forth the true colors of ecumenical, friend & false Pastor Author Max Lucado. These leaders are capitulating on the basis of creating a larger false Christianity to fit with an ecumenical, co exist, one world group salvation kingdom of the Antichrist . They are the heretical sneaky "preachers" who are deceived and deceiving others, that Jude and 2 Peter warned would come.They support evil- together: Lucado and Hatmaker.https://time.com/3668781/inside-the-e...Lucado also tells of a Roman Catholic *Eucharist* in the kitchen of potato and milk, that brought [ Another] Jesus, who 'saved him'. ....... Been a Pastor of a church in Texas spreading 'religion' mixed with a universal gospel of 1 Cor 15:1-4. This popular book author and speaker can make a lot of money tickling the ears of more consumers of false religions, then staying pure to the Bible and her small audience of true born agains. No other gospel or your accursed; Gal 1: 8
PROJECT VERITAS UNDERCOVER: BERNIE SANDERS ORGANIZER WARNS CONSERVATIVES WILL GO TO SOVIET-STYLE GULAGS FOR RE-EDUCATION~”CITIES WILL BURN” IF TRUMP WINS SECOND TERM HE SAYS
PROJECT VERITAS UNDERCOVER:
BERNIE SANDERS ORGANIZER WARNS CONSERVATIVES WILL GO TO SOVIET-STYLE GULAGS FOR RE-EDUCATION~”CITIES WILL BURN” IF TRUMP WINS SECOND TERM HE SAYS
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The latest undercover Project Veritas exposé shows Bernie Sanders Field Organizer Kyle Jurek saying that Trump supporters and billionaires will be sent to Soviet-style gulags for re-education if Bernie wins the presidency.The video starts with the PV journalist asking Jurek, a paid staffer, if “MAGA people” need to be re-educated should Sanders become president.“We gotta try,” Jurek replies. “In Nazi Germany, after the fall of the Nazi Party, there was a shit-ton of the populace that was f---ing Nazified.”“Germany had to spend billions of dollars re-educating their f---ing people to not be Nazis,” he continues. “We’re probably going to have to do the same f---ing thing here.”“That’s kind of what all Bernie’s whole f---ing like, ‘hey, free education for everybody’ because we’re going to have to teach you to not be a f---ing Nazi,” he added.Later in the video, Jurek explains that prisoners in Soviet gulags under Stalin were paid a “living wage.”“People were actually paid a living wage in the gulags, they conjugal visits in gulags, gulags were meant for re-education,” Jurek claims.He then says that billionaires can only learn of their privilege by performing slave labor for 12 hours a day.“[The] greatest way to break a f---ing billionaire of their privilege and their idea that their superior, go and break rocks for 12 hours a day. You’re now a working class person and you’re going to f---ing learn what the means, right?”Jurek also says that if Bernie doesn’t win the nomination at the Democratic National Convention, then Milwaukee will “burn to the ground” akin to the 1968 DNC Chicago riots.“If Bernie doesn’t get the nomination or it goes to a second round at the DNC convention, f---ing Milwaukee will burn,” says Jurek. “It’ll start in Milwaukee and then when the police push back on that, other sites will f---ing [explode].”“Be ready to be in Milwaukee for the DNC convention. We’re going to make [1968] look like a f---ing girl’s scout f---ing cookout,” warns the Sanders field organizer. “The cops are going to be the ones f---ing beaten in Milwaukee.”Notably, Jurek was arrested in Polk County, Iowa, last week for operating a vehicle while intoxicated, drug paraphernalia, and failure to provide proof of insurance.The bombshell Project Veritas report comes just hours before the last Democrat debate in Des Moines ahead of the Iowa caucuses next month. Will Bernie disavow Jurek and accept the results of the primaries and 2020 election?Twitter: Follow @WhiteIsTheFury____________________________________________________________________
Sanders Campaign Aide Threatens Gulags and Violence
When socialism spawns its inevitable terror
BY JOSEPH KLEIN
SEE: https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/01/sanders-campaign
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A paid Bernie Sanders campaign field organizer has been caught on video declaring “F***ing cities burn” if President Trump is re-elected. He also threatened violence if Sanders does not become the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee. Project Veritas captured the staffer, Kyle Jurek, on camera touting Sanders’ “free education” policies because it would “teach you how to not be a f**king nazi.” He also expressed admiration for Stalin-style gulags, which, Jurek said, “were actually meant for, like, reeducation."Those people who don’t accept the revolution should be shot, Jurek warned. “You want to fight against the revolution, you’re going to die for it, motherf*cker,” he proclaimed. “Reign of Terror” appears to be one of his slogans of choice.Whatever the Sanders campaign ultimately decides to do with this fanatic is beside the point. Sanders attracts dangerous radicals with his repeated calls for political revolution. Some of Sanders’ followers do not draw any line between hyperbolic rhetoric and violence. That should not be surprising since Bernie Sanders himself has a history of supporting violent left-wing Latin American political movements.Sanders has praised Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. Sanders remarked that people "forgot that [Castro] educated their kids, gave their kids healthcare, totally transformed the society.” Sanders forgot to mention the innocent lives lost as the cost of totally transforming society. Kyle Jurek’s praised what the Cuban revolutionaries did “to reactionaries.” He said cavalierly, “they shot them on the beach.”Sanders also admired Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega. Sanders witnessed the celebration of the "Seventh Anniversary of the Revolution" at Ortega’s invitation, where the crowd chanted, “Here, there, everywhere, the Yankee will die.” After he returned from Nicaragua, Sanders said that he was "impressed" with the "intelligence and sincerity" of the Sandinista leaders. He remarked that the Sandinistas had "very deep convictions." They surely did. The Sandinista government leaders' deep convictions led them to align closely with Communist Cuba and other Soviet-bloc countries.Also consider the radical left leanings of Sander’s top campaign officials. David Sirota was hired last year as a senior adviser and speechwriter for the Sanders campaign. Back in 2013, Sirorta wrote glowingly about the late Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez’s socialist policies, which Sirota credited with fueling Venezuela’s spurt of economic growth. “When a country goes socialist and it craters, it is laughed off as a harmless and forgettable cautionary tale about the perils of command economics,” Sirota wrote back then. “When, by contrast, a country goes socialist and its economy does what Venezuela's did, it is not perceived to be a laughing matter - and it is not so easy to write off or to ignore.”Venezuela’s economy has since cratered under the weight of the socialist policies pursued by Chavez’s successor, Nicholas Maduro. Venezuela’s economy today could be a foretaste of what may lie ahead for the United States under a socialist Bernie Sanders presidency with senior advisers like Sirora by Sanders' side.Sanders’ campaign manager is the radical progressive Faiz Shakir. Radical Linda Sarsour was beside herself with joy.Shakir, along with Sanders’ foreign policy adviser Matt Duss, are Israel bashers. "In a climate of escalating Jew-hate, particularly coming from self-described progressives,” said Josh Block, a Democratic strategist and head of the Israel Project, “it is especially alarming that Bernie Sanders would put in charge of his presidential campaign and foreign policy portfolio two people so deeply at the heart of an anti-Semitism scandal and cancer that had to be cut-out from the Center for American Progress for engaging in vile Jew-baiting, including attacking pro-Israel Democratic members of Congress as ‘Likudniks' and American Jews as ‘Israel Firsters.'"Endorsements of Bernie Sanders by Squad members Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, and Ilhan Omar demonstrate Sanders' appeal to the extreme left of the Democratic Party. Sanders after all backed Omar when she was criticized for making anti-Semitic remarks. “We will stand by our Muslim brothers and sisters,” Sanders said at the time.Far left progressive groups such as the Center for Popular Democracy Action, the Socialist Alternative Party, Democratic Socialists of America, Dream Defenders and Sunrise Movement have also endorsed the Sanders presidential campaign.Bernie Sanders proudly wears the mantle of socialism. He has at times tried to make case that there are good socialists and bad socialists. But in the worldview of Sanders and his supporters, it comes down in the end to whether you are on the side of the “oppressor” or the “oppressed.” Jacobin Magazine, which has written glowing articles about Sanders’ candidacy, co-authored a book back in 2016 entitled “The ABCs of Socialism.” According to the authors, “In a world filled with exploitation and oppression, one has to differentiate between the violence of those fighting to maintain injustice, and those fighting against injustice.” The authors added, “we think there’s a difference between the violence of the oppressed and that of the oppressors.”This is the same message that the Sanders campaign aide Kyle Jurek so crudely delivered in the video captured by Project Veritas. Bernie Sanders has surrounded himself with radicals willing to entertain violence in pursuit of his strident calls for revolution.
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Bernie Sanders Field Organizer: "There's a Reason Joseph Stalin Had Gulags"BY DANIEL GREENFIELDSEE: https://cms.frontpagemag.com/point/2020/01/bernie-sanders-field-organizer-theres-reason-daniel-greenfield; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:Bernie Sanders: A Bernie Sanders administration isn't going to talk about sending political dissidents to GULAGS. It's ACTUALLY going to do it. Bernie Sanders will fight to Gulag everyone opposed to his policies. Bernie Sanders will Gulag Wall Street. Bernie Sanders will Gulag the Wall Street Journal. Bill Sanders will Gulag you, if you don't vote for him. Anderson Cooper: Do you really think that sending everyone to Gulags is an electable platform? Bernie Sanders: HELL YES. We just need millions of people coming together to Gulag everyone who doesn't want to give them free college, free pot and free Gulags. RIGHT NOW there are 100,000 community organizers at centers around the country drawing up lists of who to Gulag. Anderson Cooper: Do you see any obstacles to this plan to put 50 percent of the country in arctic prison camps? Bernie Sanders: Global Warming. If the ice melts, how are we going to keep them in the Gulags?A Bernie Sanders field organizer in 2020 exposed by Project Veritas.Stay tuned: https://t.co/BFGnoCeJE7#Expose2020 pic.twitter.com/Koh6UTibbeBREAKING: @BernieSanders “free education” policies to “teach you how to not be a f**king nazi.”; 'There is a reason Stalin had Gulags'; 'Expect violent reaction' for speech. If Bernie doesn't get nomination "Milwaukee will burn"
— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) January 14, 2020Here's the perfect embodiment of Homo Sandericus, an angry socialist hipster who threatens to burn down Milwaukee and defends Stalin's gulags, while suggesting that free college could be a useful means for reeducating Republicans who are all Nazis.Life truly outdoes satire.
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BERNIE STAFFERS LOCK THEIR SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS FOLLOWING DEVASTATING PROJECT VERITAS BOMBSHELLS
Staffers hiding their tweets ahead of Iowa caucus in two weeks
EXCERPTS:Numerous Iowa Bernie Sanders staffers are locking their Twitter accounts in response to the disturbing videos released by Project Veritas showing a Bernie field organizer calling for conservatives to be re-educated in Soviet-style gulags and calling for violent revolution.“Iowa Bernie Sanders State Directors ALL LOCKING THEIR ACCOUNTS,” Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe tweeted Wednesday.The names include Iowa Political Director Oliver Hidalgo-Wollheben, Rural Political Coordinator Chris Neubert, Iowa Political Coordinator Victoria Moon, Iowa Political Coordinator Abshir Omar, Iowa Regional Field Director Derek Menges, Regional Field Director Spencer Reed, Regional Field Director Vicente Cortez, Regional Field Director Jessica L. Burbank, and Communications Director Roger Ouellette.
BAPTIST PRESS LIES TO SOUTHERN BAPTISTS ABOUT SOROS INVOLVEMENT
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[Reformation Charlotte] The Baptist Press is the Southern Baptist
Convention’s propaganda outlet that typically reports on absolutely
nothing newsworthy in the way of Southern Baptist life, culture, or
doctrine. The outlet is primarily used to promote the circle of elites that
micromanage the denomination and sway public opinion when the
arrogance of those in charge becomes too much and ignoring criticism
from Southern Baptists is no longer an option.
That’s exactly what the Baptist Press recently did. Publishing an article today — dubbed an “explainer” — the outlet sought to turn down the heat of public opinion from conservatives who are growing increasingly concerned with the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission head, Russell Moore’s ties to leftist billionaire, George Soros. The article, titled ERLC, George Soros and Evangelical Immigration Table, claims that there are no ties and that those blogs who perpetuate this are not being truthful.Unfortunately for them, facts are facts.Firstly, the article cites a Breitbart.com report — but doesn’t link the article so that people can see for themselves — stating that the article at Breitbart, "recently highlighted the Evangelical Immigration Table (EIT), an organization credited with persuading multiple governors to allow refugees to resettle in their states. The article also suggested the group has ties to the progressive billionaire George Soros."The Breitbart article they didn’t link to can be seen at this link. The Baptist Press article also said that, "A number of blogs have circulated these rumors, charging the group and those affiliated with it as advancing an “open borders” mass immigration agenda. These claims have proved to be false."Who do they cite to prove that these claims are false? Snopes. The liberal, progressive “fact-checking” site, Snopes that needs to be fact-checked itself.The Baptist Press writes,"The fact-checking website Snopes.com published a piece in December 2019 debunking this same Soros charge aimed at another evangelical organization. The article describes the Soros accusation as consisting of “convoluted connections,” claims the charges, “stretch and distort the existing facts,” are “factually insupportable,” and “simply false.”"Right, well. Here’s the truth. The Evangelical Immigration Table (EIT) is a front group for the National Immigration Forum (NIF). The EIT is not an entity that even legally exists in the corporate structure. It is nothing more than a group of leaders who, at the behest of the NIF, carry out the agenda of the NIF into Evangelical circles. It’s that simple.In 2013, Ali Noorani — the executive director of the National Immigration Forum and a man who Russell Moore works with regularly — stated that the NIF received about 10 percent of its funding from Soros’ Open Society Foundation. This was reported at TheBlaze. The Baptist Press article said that Soros’ funding only represented 2 percent. This is demonstrably false as all you need to do is dig through the 990 filings dating as far back as 2006 and even earlier to see that Soros’ Open Society Foundation has granted hundreds of thousands of dollars to the NIF over the years.And it’s not just that the NIF is funded directly by the Open Society Foundation either. But the NIF is also supported by MALDEF (Latino Legal Voice for Civil Rights in America), the ACLU, the National Immigration Law Center, La-Raza, and the AFL-CIO which are all funded by George Soros. If you really want to dig into the facts of the National Immigration Forum’s funding and George Soros’ involvement, here’s an actual trustworthy fact-checking site that lays out the actual facts.So, how does the NIF control the EIT? The EIT told Breitbart in an email that they selected the National Immigration Table to “facilitate its work.” The email reads, "The Evangelical Immigration Table functions as a coalition of partners and does not exist as its own non-profit.The principal organizations that serve as the coalition’s leadership are listed on our website and include Bread for the World, the Christian Community Development Association, CLUE Orange County, Esperanza, the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, the National Association of Evangelicals, the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, the National Latino Evangelical Coalition, Sojourners, World Relief and World Vision."The organizations that make up the leadership of the Table are predominantly 501(c)3’s but some have affiliated 501(c)4’s.Funding for our work comes from a variety of sources including the organizations that make up the leadership of the Table as well as other individuals and institutions that believe in our message.Early in the formation of the Table’s work, the leadership sought a neutral third-party institution, the National Immigration Forum, to help facilitate our work."So, the email from the EIT told Breitbart that they do not exist as their own legal entity, the Southern Baptist Convention’s ERLC (Russell Moore) is a leader, and that the National Immigration Forum — which receives 10 percent of its funding according to their own executive director — is who facilitates the work of the EIT and that the NIF is “neutral.”Right.To make matters worse, Jim Wallis of the highly liberal Sojourners who is also a leader of the Evangelical Immigration Table admitted to receiving funding from Soros after initially denying it. In an article now deleted from Christianity Today but still available on archive.org, Wallis stated, "I should have declined to comment until I was able to review the blog post in question and consulted with our staff on the details of our funding over the past several years. Instead, I answered in the spirit of the accusation and did not recall the details of our funding over the decade in question."Interestingly, it sounds a lot like what’s going on at the Baptist Press right now. While the Baptist Press is refusing to address the actual and factual allegations made against the entity head’s cooperation with an obviously George Soros-funded organization, the National Immigration Forum, through its front group with no actual legal status, the Evangelical Immigration Table, they are citing leftist propaganda websites that have no interest in actually fact-checking and reporting accurately, but only advancing a liberal agenda.If you think that George Soros — a front man for Satan himself — isn’t using every possible avenue he can to corrupt and destroy the Church, even through historically conservative channels, you are beyond naive. Wake up Southern Baptists.