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Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (SEBTS), increasingly one of the most liberal seminaries in the Evangelical Church, recently hired a liberal English professor — who supports ministries that promote woman-to-woman and man-to-man intimate relationships — from Liberty University. Karen Swallow Prior, who served many years on the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) as a research fellow, has been outspoken in her support of “gay Christianity” over the years.
Prior makes no qualms about her unbiblical positions as many have been warning about her for years. It wasn’t until recently, however, that Swallow Prior has completely unveiled herself as a totally “woke” leftist without a conservative bone in her body and people are finally starting to notice.
Recently, Donald Trump’s lawyer, who also represented John MacArthur’s church in a battle against Los Angeles over religious freedom, called out Swallow Prior for defending far-left radical Vice-Presidential candidate, Kamala Harris. While conservative Malachi O’Brien tweeted favorably that Kamala Harris had been “canceled” because of a lack of support in Texas, Swallow Prior jumped in to defend Harris.
Swallow Prior’s defense when Trump’s and MacArthur’s attorney, Jenna Ellis jumped in:
Here is where Ellis’ response was gold.
Karen Swallow Prior is a liberal activist and sadly, she represents a large majority of the Southern Baptist Convention and the Evangelical Church. Increasingly, the divide between the liberals and the conservatives is growing, and thankfully so. Christians cannot in any way support the Democrat party — to do so is to support the things that God hates.
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David Platt has been on a leftist trajectory for several years. Platt, who has at many times been a staunch defender of the faith and a great expositor of the Scriptures, has sadly, as so many have, lost his focus, forgotten his first love, and embraced the gospel of social justice — described in the words of the Apostle Paul as “another gospel.”
Platt, like John Piper, has embraced a grossly unbiblical idea — that Christians have the freedom of conscience to support whatever political candidates they want. This idea embraces the notion that politics, in general, are subjective and the positions held and policies enacted by the different parties are morally neutral and not subject to the law of God.
But this ungodly postmodern idea is contradictory to the nature of God who has set in stone his law and is unchangeable and unwavering. As Christians, we do not have the freedom to “vote our conscience.” We are obligated to seek God’s view and to hold to that and vote accordingly.
Despite this biblical truth, David Platt, the popular Bible teacher who hosts the annual Secret Church simulcast conference that many Southern Baptist churches take part in, has made it clear that if you openly oppose other members in his church who support Democrats, you don’t belong at his church.
Comparing the horrific act of abortion — and the Democrat position to increase and expand it at an indefinite rate — to Donald Trump’s personal immorality, Platt equates the two as morally equivalent. Platt treats Donald Trump’s boasting and personal immorality as equally repugnant as the killing of innocent children. But what Platt, and the rest of the increasingly liberal pastors, fail to understand is that Donald Trump is not legislating his personal immorality into national policy. Unlike Donald Trump, the Democrats, whose political platform is to kill, steal, and destroy, want to push every iota of that down everyone’s throat and make it illegal to oppose them.
And this is what David Platt supports and says if you oppose, you don’t belong in his church. In a recent sermon, Platt calls on Christians to unify under a false unity, one where his church members are not of one sound mind or accord, and instead, just keep it to yourself.
Do not divide the church over political positions, convictions, or calculations that are not clear and direct in God’s word… We will not tell people to vote for this candidate or that party…I fear calling you to do something that I can not show you clearly and directly in God’s word he has called you to do…
I have full confidence calling you to oppose abortion and to defend the lives of children in the womb because God makes his work in the womb clear in Psalm 139. You cannot follow Jesus as a member of this church and advocate for abortion. (Editor’s note. This is more than we can say for JD Greear’s church, who does not abide by this maxim.)
I have full confidence to call you to promote a biblical understanding of sexuality and marriage because God makes his definitions of male and female and marriage clear in Genesis 1 and 2 and throughout the rest of the bible. You cannot follow Jesus as a member of this church and disregard God’s word in these ways.
I have full confidence in calling you to care for the oppressed, the poor, the orphan, the widow, and the sojourner, because God says these things multitudes of times to his people in his word You cannot follow Jesus as a member of this church and be calloused to the oppressed, poor, orphan, the widow, or the sojourner.
And I have full confidence calling you to never affirm or overlook sexual immorality, boastful pride, vulgarity, dishonestly, name-calling, and strife -stirring in your life or others’ lives, because God has said all over his word that all of those things are deadly.
So then how do you vote? For this candidate? For that candidate? For third candidate? For no candidate? And I don’t have a verse that answers that question for you. Different, genuine followers of Jesus will therefore come to different conclusions on the answer to that question. And assuming you are applying God’s word as prayerfully and as wisely and as faithfully as you know how to your political decision, then we will not break fellowship in Christ over that decision.
Now as soon as I saw that, I realize some people think we should break fellowship in Christ over the vote. Some people think, ‘I cannot be in the same church with someone who votes for Biden.’ Other people think, ‘I cannot be in the same church with someone who votes for Trump.’
And if you think either of these things, and I say this as thoughtfully and compassionately as I know how, Mclean Bible Church may not be the right church for you. Because we are not going to divide over the vote here. And if you think we should, if you think I or other pastors in this church should promote a political candidate or party, and you think this is worth dividing the church over, then I’m sincerely sad about that, because I treasure our fellowship together in Jesus, but at the same time I’m truly happy for you to be in another church as long as that church is preaching the gospel.
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The fact that Biden did not refer to jihad violence specifically was significant. On October 15, Biden released a video message to Muslim Advocates, the association of Muslim lawyers that bears the primary responsibility for demanding, back in 2010, that the Obama administration remove all mention of Islam and jihad from counterterror training and refer to an undefined “extremism” rather than to jihad terrorism. Obama, of course, immediately complied, despite the fact that this would hamstring the ability of law enforcement and intelligence agencies to understand, and defeat, jihadists. The Democratic Party in general, and much of the Republican Party, is committed to the idea that there is no Islamic terror threat, that to speak of such a thing is “Islamophobic,” and that counterterror efforts must be directed against a vaguely-defined “extremism.” Meanwhile, Leftist leaders ever more routinely refer to foes of jihad violence and Sharia oppression as “extremists,” and even simply to all those who oppose the Leftist agenda. The implications are obvious, and ominous.
“Biden vows to combat ‘extremist violence’ after ‘horrific’ France attack,” The Hindu, October 30, 2020:
“A Biden-Harris administration will work with our allies and partners to prevent extremist violence in all forms,” he said.
Democratic White House candidate Joe Biden on Thursday vowed to crack down on “extremist violence” if elected, decrying the “horrific” knife attack at a French church that left three dead.
“Jill and I are keeping the French people in our prayers following the horrific terror attack in Nice — which targeted innocents in a house of worship,” he said on Twitter….
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Trump said: “Biden wants to terminate our travel bans and surge refugees from the most dangerous places in the world.”
This is true. Biden has charged that such travel bans are “racist.” Any concern for national security in connection with mass migration is “racist.”
“TERROR FEARS Trump warns ‘horrifying attacks like in France’ will come to US if Biden elected as world shocked by church beheading,” by Kassidy Vavra, The Sun, October 29, 2020 (thanks to Elizabeth):
DONALD Trump warned if Joe Biden is elected then “horrifying attacks” like the beheading in France will come to the US.
Trump’s comments came as he spoke to supporters during a rally in Tampa, Florida, as the world remains shocked by the beheading in Europe.
“Biden wants to terminate our travel bans and surge refugees from the most dangerous places in the world,” Trump claimed of his Democratic rival.
“He will open the floodgate to radical Islamic terrorism – and you saw three days ago what happened the beheading in France, and today it happened again.
Trump then offered his condolences to France’s president, before claiming that similar attacks will happen in the US if Biden wins the election….
“Under the Biden plan, the horrifying attacks in France will come to our cities and our towns – and I don’t want to speak too loudly about this, and I knock on wood,” Trump claimed.
He proceeded to knock on the podium where he stood speaking.
“This is real wood…. but you know look what’s happened,” he said, referencing terror attacks in France.
“Don’t want to say, long time…” he trailed off.
Speaking of Iran, Trump then vowed that if he wins on November 3rd, “they’re going to want to make a deal.
“We want them to be a great country, but they cannot have a nuclear weapon,” Trump said.
Trump’s comments at his Florida rally came hours after he shared a statement on the attacks on social media.
“Our hearts are with the people of France,” Trump tweeted.
“America stands with our oldest Ally in this fight.
“These Radical Islamic terrorist attacks must stop immediately. No country, France or otherwise can long put up with it!”…
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The mullahs had it so good from 2009 to 2017, they’re working hard to restore the status quo ante.
“DHS and FBI warn Iranian hackers are targeting state election websites and pushing disinformation,” by Jerry Dunleavy, Washington Examiner, October 31, 2020:
An Iranian cyber group was responsible for the targeting of U.S. election websites, the voter intimidation emails sent to potential voters, and the dissemination of election-related disinformation on voter fraud through a propaganda video this month, according to the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI.
DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the bureau issued a joint cybersecurity advisory related to an Iranian “advanced persistent threat” hacker organization just a few days before Tuesday’s presidential election, saying the U.S. analysis indicated that the Iranians had also “scanned state websites, to include state election websites” in late September and that it was also observed “attempting to exploit websites to obtain copies of voter registration data” in September and October. CISA and the FBI confirmed that the Iranian hackers “successfully obtained voter registration data in at least one state” and that “a review of the records that were copied and obtained reveals the information was used in the propaganda video.”
An FBI FLASH Alert also noted that Iranian cyber actors “are likely intent on influencing and interfering with the U.S. elections to sow discord among voters and undermine public confidence in the US electoral process” and “are creating fictitious media sites and spoofing legitimate media sites to spread anti-American propaganda and misinformation about voter suppression.” The FBI said that the Iranians “had taken specific actions to influence public opinion relating to the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election” and advised that the Iranian-backed propaganda video that has circulated online “is almost certainly intended to make U.S. voter information and the voting process appear insecure and susceptible to fraud.”
There is no indication that the Iranian hackers have changed any votes or that they have the ability to interfere with any tallies….
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“China has had a very important role in funding left experiments.” – Alex Tom, Former CEO of the Chinese Progressive Association; Founder of Asians 4 Black Lives
An explosive video being heavily censored outlines specific ties between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Marxist Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. The mini-documentary was posted on the video-sharing platform Vimeo on October 26th and removed for non-specific violations despite offering indisputable first hand accounts of these subversive connections.
Communists are masters at implementing their agenda through dizzying layers of shadowy organizations with noble-sounding names, such as Liberation Road, the Chinese Progressive Organization and the Southeast Asian Freedom Network. This latest film, the latest release by Choose Freedom, is valuable because it guides the viewer through the CCP-associated groups that are attempting to exploit black Americans, as communists are apt to do.
Vimeo Message Screenshot Courtesy Trevor Loudon
The film, written by anti-communist author and filmmaker Trevor Loudon, proves that BLM is closely associated with Asians 4 Black Lives, which is “controlled by the San Francisco based Chinese Progressive Association or CPA”. The Chinese Progressive Association is referred to by Choose Freedom as the “Communist Party of China’s main West Coast support group.”
The founder of Asians 4 Black Lives is Alex Tom, who is featured in the film as serving as a bridge between American Marxists and the Chinese Communist Party. Tom has even led a delegation of American Marxists to meet personally with CCP officials. In the film, Tom’s longtime connections to BLM co-founder and self-proclaimed Marxist Alicia Garza are discussed.
Alex Tom helped Alicia Garza and fellow BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors form ties with the Southeast Asian Freedom Network, a “coalition of Laotian, Cambodian, and Vietnamese radicals,” the film reveals.
In 2016 Alex Tom and CPA official Lucia Lin “produced a three hundred page revolutionary manual for Asians 4 Black Lives and BLM activists,” the film explains. A glance at this vile document shows how deeply the CCP and their allies are willing to exploit racial divisions and promote historical lies about America.
“America’s founding fathers created blackness and whiteness to distinguish those who were deserving of freedom and democratic rights from those who were not,” the communist authors write. “The modules in this toolkit are a means for recognizing that slavery and Indigenous genocide were in fact the central means for forming the U.S. nation-state,” the communists proclaim (echoing lies reminiscent of the New York Times’ 1619 Project), “and that race was the cultural folklore needed to justify them.” The CCP allies continue:
That folklore is the outcome of political strategies that have built the cities and towns in which we live, the modern police force, the U.S. military, the Constitution, the stock market, the media, academic institutions – in short, the organization of modern American life,” they write.
Alex Tom, Former CEO of the Chinese Progressive Association; Founder of Asians 4 Black Lives (Screenshot)
RAIR Foundation USA has reported on several other explosive videos released by Choose Freedom (see here and here), which describes itself as:
“an initiative aimed at clarifying the stark differences between the tyranny that is the inevitable result of Marxist revolutions and the liberties guaranteed in the United States’ constitutional Republic.”
Not only does the Black Lives Matter movement have support from the CCP’s allies in America, the CCP plays an active role in his movement’s “positioning” with Chinese Communist Party officials. “And we have a relationship with the Chinese Embassy,” Alex Tom says in the video. “I’ve had various conversations with them about our positioning,” he reveals.
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The militant left-wing group Shut Down DC claims that they will “hit the streets” to “confront” those who they perceive to be supporters of President Trump. The Democrat-tied group plans to target “homes of Trump campaign officials” and Trump’s “donors and supporters.” Shut Down DC and their allies will also attack “media organizations that call the election before the vote count is finished.”
It is clear that Shut Down DC will not allow the election to be “won” until the victor is Joe Biden.
As reported at RAIR Foundation USA, ‘Shut Down DC’ has been actively organizing through social media, their website, and direct email campaigns. They have also been pushing the D.C. city council to ban police use of tear gas before the election, a move that has been successful in Philadelphia.
On Wednesday, the radical group held a planning meeting with rogue federal government employees to force President Trump out of office in the guise of “defending democracy in this election.” As author and commentator Michelle Malkin observes: “The ‘deep state’ Trump-haters are openly gearing up to do everything they can from inside the federal government to assist the resistance.”
On Thursday, Shut Down DC sent maps of specific target locations to their followers titled the “November 4-7 Action Planning Map“. Shut Down DC explains in their email that the following “plans for actions” will be finalized this week for: November 4 (Shut Down the Attack on the Election), November 5 (Shut Down the White House), and November 6 (Shut Down DC).
From the Map:
November 4 (Shut Down the Attack on the Election):
The day after the election, we’re going to hit the streets to confront the institutions and organizations that have been leading attacks on democracy throughout the 2020 election cycle. We’ll march (as a big group or as a bunch of small marches) to
Homes of Trump campaign officials who have been plotting to systematically disenfranchise and intimidate millions of voters
The donors and supporters that have funded his attack on democracy
Media organizations that call the election before the vote count is finished
Other ideas you come up with you affinity group
After we visit the institutions and organizations leading the attack on democracy we’ll return to Black Lives Matter Plaza at 5pm for a Protect the Results rally.
November 5 (Shut Down the White House):
We’ll develop the time, tactics and scale of the action based on the status of the vote count and our ongoing organizing capacity.
Some possibilities include:
Car or bike caravan circling the White House
Symbolic blockades at each entrance
Sit-ins at White House entrances
Dance parties at each entrance
Blockades of all entrances
Blockade several block perimeter surrounding the White House
November 6 (Shut Down DC):
On November 6th we’ll deploy early in the morning to shut down business as usual in the nation’s capitol. Affinity groups will blockade different areas of the district and specific tactics will depend on the status of the vote count and our organizing capacity.
In order to reach their goal of having an empty suit in the White House who will do the bidding of the radical left, Shut Down DC is planning, among other things, to confront prominent Trump campaign workers and supporters at home, attack media outlets who dare to report election results they don’t like and shut down “government buildings”, “bridges and highways”.
Shut Down DC and their allies constitute a comparatively small number of the same Democrat-aligned agitators who targeted innocent citizens after the Republican National Convention. Will their planned blockades and confrontations of citizens at their homes be allowed? Does the GOP have a plan to counter these illegal actions?
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