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VIDEO: Christine Blasey Ford gets her request for coffee personally delivered to her by @CoryBooker while she sat at the witness table in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Brett Kavanaugh Opening Statement: This is a ‘National Disgrace’ 9/27/18
The Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on whether to advance the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme (9-28-18).
Democratic Senators Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) walked out of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing room Friday after the committee set a 1:30 p.m. vote on sending Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination to the full Senate.
Republican Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, called for a vote that would set up a later vote on Kavanaugh’s nomination by the committee. Democrats tried to make points of order as the roll was called over their protests. Each of the 11 Republicans approved setting the vote.
When the roll for Sen. Cory Booker, D-New Jersey, and Harris was called, both were silent. They were shaking their heads, but didn’t make a sound.
I observed Brett Kavanaugh drink excessively at many of these parties and engage in abusive and physical aggressive behavior toward girls, including pressing girls against him without their consent, “grinding” against girls, and attempting to remove or shift girls’ clothing to expose private body parts. I likewise observed him be verbally abusive toward girls by making crude sexual comments to them that were designed to demean, humiliate, and embarrass them.
Avenatti is a third rate lawyer who is good at making false accusations, like he did on me and like he is now doing on Judge Brett Kavanaugh. He is just looking for attention and doesn’t want people to look at his past record and relationships – a total low-life!
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Twitter, the company that perma-banned Alex Jones for being rude to a CNN reporter, has refused to suspend an account that openly engaged in doxxing, threats and targeted harassment.The ‘Smash Racism DC’ group, which was founded by an Antifa-supporting professor who has encouraged his Twitter followers to “assassinate Mike Pence” as well as to kill cops and local politicians, was responsible for the harassment of Senator Ted Cruz and his wife in a DC restaurant on Monday night.Following the confrontation, which was at least equal in its malice to Alex Jones’ confrontation of CNN’s Oliver Darcy, the Smash Racism DC account openly doxxed political commentator Gavin McInnes, posting his phone number which resulted in McInnes receiving death threats.In a separate tweet, the group declared, “You are not safe. We will find you. We will expose you. We will take from you the peace you have taken from so many others,” which is clearly a violation of Twitter’s rules on targeted harassment, which state, “You may not engage in the targeted harassment of someone, or incite other people to do so.”The Smash Racism DC’s banner image features an Antifa flag, a group that has been designateda domestic terror organization by the DHS and the FBI.Despite multiple clear violations of Twitter’s rules, the Smash Racism DC account is still online, as is the account of the group’s founder, Mike Isaacson, despite Isaacson tweeting multiple violent threats against politicians and police officers.The tweets above were deleted, but the account itself remains active.Compare this to Alex Jones, who was permanently banned by Twitter for being rude to a CNN reporter during an exchange outside a Congressional hearing in DC.Compare Twitter’s response to that metered out to actor James Woods, who remains locked out of his account because he posted a satirical meme.Apparently, satirical memes and coarse language are bannable offenses, but open threats of violence, targeted harassment and doxxing won’t get you suspended or banned by Twitter (so long as you have the right politics).This once again completely debunks the notion, trotted out yet again by the mainstream media after Trump’s recent executive order targeting Big Tech was announced, that there is no social media bias against conservatives.Yes, there clearly is. It happens on a daily basis and this is yet another example.Infowars is the most censored broadcast in the west. Please support us by downloading the Infowars app before its banned!
TEch Crunch reported on former Google research scientist Jack Poulson who rose a red flag concerning Google’s Project Dragonfly. Poulson stated “As has been widely understood, by human rights organizations, investigative reporters, Google employees, and the public, Project Dragonfly directly contradicts the AI Principles’ commitment to not ‘design or deploy’ any technology whose purpose ‘contravenes widely accepted principles of […] human rights.’ ”
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The progressive Open Society Foundations, run by Hungarian-American billionaire
George Soros, announced Monday it was taking the Hungarian government to court
over its laws that seek to stop illegal mass migration on grounds that they deny civil
society groups their ‘human rights’.
Globalists do not consider every human to be deserving of human rights, regardless of race and religion. The astronomical number of human rights abuses that believers in Islamic doctrine commit against infidels, apostates, gays and women should be a matter of concern for genuine proponents of human rights.Mass migration has permitted people who do not believe in human rights, democratic rule, pluralism, and equality of rights before the law to enter Europe in large numbers. Hungary is right to resist.“Soros Takes Hungary to Court over Anti-Mass Migration Laws for Breach of ‘Human Rights,’” by Victoria Friedman, Breitbart, September 24, 2018:The progressive Open Society Foundations, run by Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros, announced Monday it was taking the Hungarian government to court over its laws that seek to stop illegal mass migration on grounds that they deny civil society groups their ‘human rights’.The OSF called on the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, to “defend Hungarian democracy” in a statement published Monday.The pro-open borders civil society group alleges that “Hungary’s ‘Stop Soros’ legislation violates its rights to freedom of expression, association, and assembly that are guaranteed by Articles 10 and 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights” and demands the laws are repealed.The Stop Soros legislation, which came into effect on July 1st, makes it illegal to assist illegal migration, with penalties including a potential prison sentence. The laws also introduced a 25 percent tax on non-governmental organisations that support illegal migration, directly affecting the work of the OSF and its refugee rights group the Hungarian Helsinki Committee.In response, a government spokesman told Reuters: “The government stands by the Stop Soros package of laws…. as the legislation serves the will of the Hungarian people, and the security of Hungary and Europe.”“The Soros organisation attacks the Stop Soros package with all possible means as the legislation stands in the way of illegal immigration. The aim of George Soros and organisations supported by him is to flood Europe with migrants,” he added.The lawsuit is the latest in a series of attacks against the conservative Fidesz-led government, which since the height of the European migrant crisis has worked to reduce illegal mass migration, protect the continent’s external borders, and assert its rights to put the needs of Hungarians first, above the demands of the European Union to accept third world migrants….
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Federal officials are being urged to drop Obama administration policies that give special treatment to Muslim students in violation of the Constitution.The request comes from the Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund, which is opposing in court several school districts over practices favoring Muslims.The group’s letter is addressed to John Gore, the acting assistant attorney general in the civil rights division of the Justice Department, and Kenneth Marcus, the assistant secretary for civil rights in the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights.The organization is asking the government to rescind policies in which schools “single out a religious sect for preferential treatment or otherwise classify on the basis of religion” and allow “sectarian organizations like CAIR to advance their political or religious agenda in schools.”It also should define “bullying” and “harassment,” and focus “on an alleged bully’s objectively offensive conduct rather than his motive or intent.”The letter explains: “To be clear, school districts do have a wide range of constitutionally sound measures to address violence, threats, and abuses. But schools should ensure an equally safe and welcoming educational environment for all students, regardless of religion.”The letter points out that the current practices, implemented under Obama, include a “Fact Sheet” on how to combat discrimination “against Muslim students.”There’s also a guidance called “Twenty Plus Things Schools Can Do to Respond to or Prevent Hate Incidents Against Arab-Americans, Muslims, and Sikhs,” which tells schools to identify special concerns of students with those religions and create “cultural awareness learning opportunities” about them.“In addition, the DOJ has ‘sponsored a series of webinars,’ including ‘Strategies for Educators, Counselors, and Community Members to Bulid Protective Factors for America’s Muslim Youth.”However, the letter argues, the Free Exercise Clause and the Establishment Clause “prohibit the government from officially preferring one religious group to another.”‘To that end, the government ‘may not adopt programs or practices which aid or oppose any religion.’”If fact, the FCDF explained, the government does “not have any similar policies directing school districts to protect Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, or atheist students from bullying.”“The government should not be encouraging schools to divide students along religious lines,” said Daniel Piedra, FCDF’s executive director. “No doubt educators have a grave responsibility to protect students from bullying, including Muslim students, but the Constitution prohibits school districts from adopting any program that favors or disfavors a particular religion.”The letter notes the issue is at the center of one of FCDF’s current cases.Five families and two advocacy groups sued San Diego’s public school district in 2017 because of its “anti-Islamophobia initiative.” The district claimed there was wide-spread bullying of Muslim students.“In doing so, the district school board relied on surveys provided by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, an Islamic advocacy organization. CAIR claimed that after President Donald Trump’s election, a ‘plague’ of Muslim bullying had swept through district schools.”But the truth was that in 2015 and 2016 there were only two reported incidents of bullying related to Muslim students, the letter says.“On the other hand, the district reported 11 incidents of anti-Semitic bullying.”….
See the full report:
https://www.projectveritas.com/2018/0…Officials at the IRS in Austin and DC spill the beans about the 2013 IRS Lois Lerner scandal, targeting conservative non-profits, celebrating potentially illegal activity, and admit “mistakes were made.”
Newsletter:
https://www.projectveritas.com/sign-u…SHEEHY: “John Koskinen. He got a lot of flak for giving increased scrutiny to these Tea Party groups. Conservatives got really mad at him, he was so cool though because he deleted all the emails, so they could not hold any evidence against him.”
SHEEHY: “Yeah, I don’t give a s**t if that is a crime for doing that because… you should give increased scrutiny to those groups because a lot of them are just f***ing fronts for the Koch brothers or whatever.”
SEMASEK: “… you know what, for what it’s worth, on the record, I know people in Tax Exempt Government Entities. All that stuff we saw in the news, yeah mistakes were made”
SEMASEK: “… The law requires that an organization can’t be political, it can’t be partisan to be tax exempt… Those employees in Cincinnati Ohio started to separate them and put them in a pile. And it turns out that they were like the Tea Party group of people. And I think they did, like Lois Lerner and maybe some of her employees were more liberal leaning or Democrats so I don’t know if they disallowed them, but they required them to produce more documentation to try to prove that they weren’t partisan.”
SEMASEK: “… and that was bad. I think, from what people tell me, that really know about, there were mistakes made, but the problem with what happened… And again, there were mistakes made, and I think probably some people that were advised against conservative groups did make some mistakes.”
SHEEHY: “I will say, I just really like the benefits. I get a lot of paid time off and sick days. So, like, for DSA stuff, I can just honestly… I will just stay late for a period. So, I will just call in for the next day.”SHEEHY: “I mean, as long as like the manager doesn’t find out and you don’t explicitly say “hey I’m calling in sick to do Democratic Socialist of America work” then I mean like yeah. You know, you just gotta, you just gotta like sort of manage, you know, when and where you’re like doing, like, the work you do.”
SHEEHY: “My friend Chris, like he does a lot of like tech stuff. He even runs the f**kin’, I was looking over his shoulder once at the electoral forum and I noticed that he actually is on the national social media working group. So, he helps run the national twitter account. He also runs our local twitter account. He also is one that does all the bylaws and stuff…. he also works for the IRS.”
SHEEHY: “Unfortunately, I am not allowed by the bylaws of my union to go against the constitution.”JOURNALIST: “Would you?”SHEEHY: “Yeah.”
“As our deep state investigation continues to unfold, four government agencies have responded resulting in the removal of two federal employees from their job duties. Stay tuned to see which Government Agency we unmask next.“
The reaction didn’t stop Trump from zeroing in on his Administration’s aggressive stance towards the Iranian regime’s threat to peace.
To Lighthouse Trails:
Walk to Emmaus logo from the Upper Room website (used in accordance with the US Fair Use Act for the purpose of critique, review, and education)I’m grateful to God for helping me come across your site tonight! I found out the Walk to Emmaus was demonic when I went on the walk this last weekend. It was the most horrible thing I’ve been through in my life. I believe God was protecting me while I was there. I thought I was going on a restful retreat. That’s what my church convinced me of anyway. I was in total hurt and shock by the end of the first day! I begin to agonize to leave the place. Too much to list here what went on while I was there.
Anyway, my church has segregated themselves from me because I refused to give my “happy testimony” about the walk. They think I’m a problem now. Much more to the story. I came home Sat. night feeling like I had just come home from the pits of hell. Everyone else that went said they had a great experience . . . weird. I don’t get it, and they seem different than the people I knew and cherished before the walk. I’m saddened by all this . . . my eyes have definitely been opened to the huge scale deception that’s taking our churches by storm! I didn’t even know any of this about this gigantic scheme until I went on the walk! I knew it was the last days. I knew about NWO [new-world order]. But I didn’t know about this particular infiltration.
Thank you for your work! My prayers are with you!!
Kayla
LTRP Comment: The following is a short article Lighthouse Trails previously wrote about Upper Room’s Walk to Emmaus with a mention of Tres Dias.
“The Walk to Emmaus is an adaptation of the Roman Catholic Cursillo Movement, which originated in Spain in 1949.”- from the Walk to Emmaus website
Walk to Emmaus is widely spread. It is estimated that over half a million persons have experienced a Walk to Emmaus weekend and today the Movement counts more than 300 communities distributed all over the United States as well as all over the world.1
Mantra Meditation is promoted at Upper Room Ministries also:
“Mantra — The word comes from Sanskrit. Its two-syllabus mean: man or mind and tra or deliverance. A mantra is sound vibration that is intended to deliver the mind from distractions and a focus on the material world. A mantra is repeated like a chant and has a spiritual effect associated with the physical vibration. A mantra can be as simple as one syllable ‘OM’ or as more complicated such as, ‘OM SRI RAM JAI RAM JAI JAI RAM’.” From the Upper Room website (link now removed)
Tres Dias is an offshoot of the Cursillo Movement and should be avoided as well.
List of places that do Walk to Emmaus
The Walk to Emmaus (The Upper Room) website
Chrysalis Walk to Emmaus
Book Alert: Soul Feast by Marjorie Thompson
Please Contemplate This by T.A. McMahon (Berean Call)
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The acceptance of contemplative prayer has hit an all-time high in the church. And is it any wonder? Christian media, Christian publishers, pastors, mission societies, Bible societies, authors, radio hosts, youth leaders, women’s group leaders, and Christian ministry leaders are all promoting it more than ever. The video below that was posted on Charisma Magazine’s website on September 10th is yet another example of how Christian media (Charisma being one of the most popular Christian magazines today) is doing their part to get masses of Christians involved with contemplative prayer (remember our recent article on YWAM’s goal to get all YWAMer’s doing contemplative prayer).
The Charisma article titled “The Ancient Spiritual Prayer Today’s Church Fails to Practice” states: “[Pastor] Shigematsu offers an easy step-by-step guide on how to do contemplative prayer in this video.”
The pastor who is featured on this video is Pastor Ken Shigematsu. Shigematsu is the author of God in My Everything: How an Ancient Rhythm Helps Busy People Enjoy God (2013) and Survival Guide for the Soul (2018, foreword by Ann Voskamp). In what he calls a “spiritual ecosystem,” Shigematsu provides a who’s who of New Age sympathizers and Catholic mystics in God in My Everything, that includes Thomas Merton, Evelyn Underhill, Kathleen Norris, Marva Dawn, Basil Pennington, Richard Rohr, Gerald May, Dorothy Bass, Parker Palmer, Joan Chittister and many of the usual evangelical/Protestant suspects such as Dallas Willard, Eugene Peterson, Richard Foster, Ruth Haley Barton, and Gary Thomas. In that book, Shigematsu makes no apologies for encouraging Christians to practice various meditation exercises to help calm the mind.
Survival Guide for the Soul is a continuing saga of his earlier book God in My Everything with gleanings from many of the same sources but also added to the mix is contribution from mystics such as David-Steindl Rast, Henry Nouwen, Walter Brueggemann, Thomas Keating, Anne Lamott, John Ortberg, and Dorothy Day.* In Survival Guide, Shigematsu boasts that “The spiritual direction movement is growing, and there are now more than six thousand spiritual directors under the banner of Spiritual Directors International, most of whom serve in North America” (ch. 9, endnote #15). The spiritual direction movement is one of the outgrowths of the contemplative prayer/Spiritual Formation movement (i.e., every contemplative Christian needs a spiritual director to guide and direct his or her esoteric experiences to help avoid any dangerous altercations with devils and demons, which Richard Foster says can occur when practicing contemplative prayer).
If you are someone who is aware of the dangers and the true panentheistic, interspiritual nature of contemplative prayer, you have probably noticed that contemplative spirituality has moved from its infancy stage in the church to what appears to becoming the norm. Because the “big” guys in Christianity (e.g., Rick Warren, Christianity Today, YWAM, Charisma, Focus on the Family) are pushing fast forward to get the church through this mystical paradigm shift and the “little guys (e.g., Lighthouse Trails, The Berean Call) are written off as negative, divisive, and only worthy of being ignored and seen as being out of sync, contemplative spirituality (which encompasses all things emergent) will become the “new” Christianity, and all one has to do to get there is . . . breath in . . . and breath out.
To see the video on the Charisma site, click here.
*Most of the names mentioned in this article can be found on the Lighthouse Trails Research Project blog and in many of our published resources. Just use the blog’s search engine to look up the names.
Related Article:
The Christian of the Future-by Ray Yungen
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LTRP Note: Recently, a father called us very concerned about the growing popularity of “Pub Theology.” He asked if we had any information about it. The late Larry DeBruyn wrote the following article in 2009 and gave permission for Lighthouse Trails to post it. Since 2009, Pub Theology has indeed increased greatly in popularity, especially among evangelical millennials. Type “Pub Theology” (in quotes which narrows the results) into Google, and it comes up over 43,000 times! DeBruyn’s article offers some valid (and Scriptural) advice and insight on Pub Theology.
“EMERGENT INEBRIATES: Some Thoughts on Pub Theology”
By Larry DeBruyn
As he begins to rip into “a screaming guitar solo,” a band member sarcastically yells out at the audience, “Let’s go to church boys!”[1] Welcome to Pub Theology. As the reporter describes it, Pub Theology is “a Sunday night show that’s one part church and one part party.” Among other posters on the barroom walls, one alludes to the final verse of the biblical chapter on love. It reads, “Faith, Hope, Love and Beer” (The biblical text reads, “But now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love” 1 Corinthians 13:13, NASB).
Being “shaggy-haired, body-pierced and colored with assorted body art,” members of the Sunday evening pub rock group double as members of a mega-church’s “worship team” on Sunday mornings. Confessing to love both Jesus and rock ‘n’ roll, band members will burn through a pack of cigarettes and exhort the audience to visit the bar and buy beer during Sunday night “church.” Initially skeptical about hosting Pub Theology on Sunday nights, the bar owner now admits the band has turned an otherwise dead night into a profitable evening.
Regarding this new outreach–the mega-church’s ministerial staff approve of doing Pub Theology–one of the band’s members says: “We want to be sincere and authentic and be who we really are, whether that is wearing jeans and a T-shirt or having a beer. I think that is real” he continues, “and I don’t think it is wrong or that God is unhappy about that.” Relates another band member: “I can drink a beer and smoke a cigarette and play some of my favorite songs and hang out with my friends and maybe meet someone and tell them about Jesus.”
Interestingly, most of the band members were raised in religious homes. In fact, two of its members are former PKS (That’s an acronym for “preacher’s kids.”). Having been a former pastor, their father has now become the band’s “roadie” (That’s a term which refers to the managers and technicians traveling with the band.). The members account for the band’s existence and approach to ministry for reason of their holier-than-thou Wesleyan upbringing–you know, “I don’t drink, I don’t smoke, I don’t go to R-rated movies, I don’t dance.”
On this point, and as a rebellious child of the 60s who too was raised in the legalistic environment of Western Michigan, let me say that I understand and somewhat sympathize with the band members’ rejection of legalism. But all rebels ought to be cautioned that, “rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry” (1 Samuel 15:23). Yet God doesn’t make Christians from the outside in, but rather from the inside out. Though one’s Christianity is defined by inner faith not outer works, Paul did write that Christians are God’s “workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them” (Ephesians 2:10). So we must not assume the opposite attitude from legalism, that of antinomianism (i.e., that God’s grace cancels out any need to obey His moral and spiritual law). For as Paul asked: “What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?” (Romans 6:1-2). Contradicting antinomianism the writer of Hebrews orders us to, “Follow . . . holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled” (Hebrews 12:14-15).
Nevertheless, the casual and alcoholically lubricated atmosphere of Pub Theology raises an important issue, for as the reporter asks, “Does Pub Theology produce any lasting effects, or is it just a casual encounter with church in a bar—a spiritual one-night stand?” All the band’s claims of “doing ministry” notwithstanding—they do field questions about Christianity from the audience and callers-in, give inebriated individuals rides home, and have even seen one rescued drunk baptized a few days later in their church—Pub Theology shows every symptom of being a carnal “one-night-stand.” (Note: I do not use the word spiritual.)
First, Pub Theology is not church. If it is, then where’s the reading of Scripture, the apostles’ teaching, prayer and observance of the Lord’s Table? (Acts 2:42) But on this point, we can be certain that the band will avoid any impression of being too “churchly or preachy.” But beer steins are no substitute for communion cups. In fact, to the true church, the apostle Peter announced that, “the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries” (1 Peter 4:3).
Second, Pub Theology is not theology. Reportedly, the band’s opening song was Joan Osborne’s one-hit wonder, “What if God was one of us?” The lyrics add, “Just a slob like one of us.”[2] Imagine . . . God being a slob like the rest of the inebriated crowd at the bar. Given such a humanizing of God, what we’re dealing with is not Pub Theology, but pub idolatry. “And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things” (Romans 1:23). Do you think Joan Osborne’s lyrical questions in any way resemble or affirm the great Christological passages of the New Testament? (John 1:1 ff.; Colossians 1:15-17; Philippians 2:5-11). By the way, these cited passages are comprised of theological statements extracted from early Christian hymns. Would the pub theology band sing them? I’d think they’d estimate that the lyrics of these biblical hymns are far too dogmatic, stodgy, and preachy for the “boys” at the bar!
Third, Pub Theology is not Christian outreach. To attain a “spiritual” end, it employs carnal, fleshly, and worldly means. But the apostle Paul wrote to the Ephesians, “And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord” (Ephesians 5:18-19). If the song “What if God was one of us?” gives any indication, probably none of the other music the band plays includes “psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs.”
The apostle Paul would not have employed carnal means to attain spiritual ends. You can’t fight fire with fire. He wrote:
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God. (2 Corinthians 10:3-5; compare Galatians 5:21 where Paul labels “drunkenness” a work of the flesh).
So we conclude: Given the atmosphere surrounding Pub Theology, the description of love as it exists on a poster at “Sunday-night-church-in-a-bar” might be parodied to read: Now abide these four, “faith, hope, love, and beer,” but the greatest of these is beer!
Pastor Larry DeBruyn
Used with permission from Larry DeBruyn in 2009. Larry DeBruyn passed away in 2017.
Original posting – October 5, 2009
ENDNOTES
[1] Unless otherwise noted, all quotations are taken from Robert King, “Faith, Hope, Love, Beer,” The Indianapolis Star, September 27, 2009, A1, A14. Article may be viewed online. See Faith & Values, Robert King, “Pub Theology conveys Christian message in Broad Ripple,” IndyStar.com, September 27, 2009, http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009909270384.
[2] Lyrics online at: http://www.lyricsondemand.com/onehitwonders/ifgodwasoneofuslyrics.html.
Photo from bigstockphoto.com; used with permission.
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The following two lists are from Mary Danielsen’s booklet,The Dangerous Truth About the Social-Justice “Gospel” (see article below). It’s good to be aware of both the names and the language. (see video clip at bottom of these lists)
Bill Hybels
Bono
Diane Butler Bass
Greg Boyd
Henri Nouwen
Ian Morgan Cron
Jim Wallis
Joan Chittister
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
Leonard Sweet
Lynne Hybels
N.T. Wright
Phyllis Tickle
Richard Foster
Richard Niebuhr
Richard Rohr
Rick Warren
Ron Sider
Shane Claiborne
St. Thomas Acquinas
Thomas Merton
Tony Blair
Tony Campolo
Tony Jones
Walter Rauschenbusch
Activist
Awakening
Biphobia
Christian Palestinianism
Colonialism/Imperialism
Common Ground
Conflict Resolution
Consumerism
Cultural Relevance
Dialogue
Distribution of wealth
Diversity
Environmental Stewardship
Ethnocentrism
Faith-based initiative programs
Feminism
Gay
Gender identity
Homophobia
Islamophobia
Justice
Missional
Multiplicity
Politics of Jesus
Progressive Christians
Progressive politics
Reconciliation
Red Letter Christians
Revolution
Social gospel
Social justice
Solidarity
Stewardship renewal
Tolerance
*Most of these names can be found on our site. Just type a name into our search engine on either the blog or the research site.
Below is a 10-minute video clip of one of Roger Oakland’s “Emerging Church lecture series.”
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PayPal finally joined other Big Tech giants in attacking Alex Jones and his Infowars empire, dumping the conservative conspiracy theorist from its site.The leftist Internet purchasing platform, which handles buying and selling goods online, targeted Jones because he retails “hate speech.” This, we are told, violates PayPal’s policies.The money-changing giant joined Apple, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter in waging war against Jones. The generalissimo in charge of the campaign was CNN’s senior media writer, Oliver Darcy.No Policy Violation PayPal’s notice gave Jones 10 days to find a new vendor to handle payments, The New York Times reported. “PayPal handles all transactions, including credit cards, for the Infowars online store.”Yet Paypal admitted Jones did nothing wrong. “PayPal said it had made its decision not because of any policy violation but because Infowars’ ‘promotion of hate and discrimination runs counter to our core value of inclusion.’”Said PayPal, “Our values are the foundation for the decision we made this week.”PayPal, it seems, has joined the other tech giants in a war to destroy Jones.As The New American reported in multiple articles, Facebook and YouTube banned Jones, followed by Twitter, which had suspended him for only seven days after his tussle with leftist Darcy and Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) on Capitol Hill. That dust-up provoked Apple into dropping Jones’s Infowars app from its store. Before, Apple had stopped Jones from hawking his wares on iTunes.Leading this charge was Darcy, an owlish fellow terrified into speechlessness when Jones confronted him on Capitol Hill. Darcy had harassed Facebook officials about Jones, repeatedly demanding answers to questions he had no business asking.Questionable Groups Still On PayPal With Jones gone, PayPal can now concentrate on other organizations that use its platforms to raise money to peddle hatred, violence and murder.Black Lives Matter chapters across the country raise money on PayPal. Yet BLM activists have waged an ideological war against police. A police officer in Baton Rouge sued BLM after someone at a BLM rally hit him in the head with a rock. A judge dismissed the suit on a technicality, but BLM was, ultimately, the organizer of the rally where the policeman was injured.Another “charity” for which PayPal handles donations is Planned Parenthood, the federally-subsidized baby-killing operation. The organization retails extremist rhetoric to vilify those who oppose the mass murder of the unborn. PP performs some 321,000 “terminations” annually.As well, PP sold fetal remains to two companies that pled guilty to retailing the macabre goods on the international market, and the House Select Panel on Infant Lives found that PP ran a major wholesale operation to profit on the fetal remains.PP repeatedly lied to deny the truth. And its leftist allies helped.PayPal Helps Fund SPLC Hate Another of PayPal’s beneficiaries is the Southern Poverty Law Center, the discredited leftist hate group that recently settled a defamation claim because it had falsely accused a Muslim of being an “extremist.” The settlement included a confession of wrongdoing and retraction.SPLC’s record of smearing what it terms “extremists” is a long one. Two of its recent victims, as The New American reported, were Robert Spencer, who runs the Jihad Watch website, and David Horowitz.Beyond them, however, SPLC’s smear of the Family Research Council (FRC) led to violence.Relying on the SPLC’s designation of FRC as an anti-gay “extremist" organization, a terrorist walked into FRC's headquarters in Washington, D.C., and opened fire. The shooter told authorities that he relied on SPLC’s designation to choose FRC, and that he planned other attacks against conservatives.Beyond that, SPLC has stashed nearly $100 million in offshore tax-free bank accounts.A visit to the SPLC’s donation page shows that PayPal still handles the hate group’s donations, despite its long record of hate speech and smearing of conservatives, and ultimately, a “report” that encouraged a terrorist to attack a mainstream Christian group.Perhaps PayPal should ban BLM, PP, and SPLC given that their “promotion of hate and discrimination runs counter to [their] core value of inclusion.”
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