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When Southern Baptists get together for their annual meeting June 12 in Dallas, J.D. Greear and Ken Hemphill are on the ballot to become the denomination’s next president. But now a third name is being floated—Beth Moore. Dwight McKissic, pastor of Cornerstone Baptist Church in Arlington, Texas, suggested on Saturday that electing a woman to the presidency would send a well-needed message to Southern Baptist women. (SEE: https://churchleaders.com/news/326893-could-beth-moore-heal-the-sbc-as-president.html)

SBC LEADERS FLOAT IDEA OF BETH MOORE AS NEXT DENOMINATION PRESIDENT

SEE: http://pulpitandpen.org/2018/06/05/sbc-leaders-float-idea-of-beth-moore-as-next-denomination-president/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

Beth Moore, who is best known as Lifeway’s Cash Cow of Bashan, the extremely popular women’s teacher whose increasingly wild-eyed prophetic visions have gained prominence in a wide berth of evangelicalism well outside the SBC (especially in charismatic circles, as she coalesces with other egalitarian prophetesses like Anne Voskamp, Joyce Meyer, and Christine Caine), may very well be promoted as the next president of the SBC after the upcoming term of JD Greear.

Beth Moore – Lifeway’s Cashcow of Bashan

Greear, who is seen as the favorite for the 2018 SBC election, holds to a modified Complementarian position that is, for all intents and purposes, Egalitarian. Also a Continuationist and a #woke Social Justice Warrior, the megachurch satellite campus pastor is well departed from Southern Baptist historic orthodoxy on a number of points. This will unlikely stop the young, popular and charismatic mega-pastor for winning the June election handily, as the SBC reels in shock from the firing of perhaps the oldest and most prominent standard-bearer of SBC conservativism, Paige Patterson, in a cultural bleed-over of the #metoo movement into the denomination in what is an increasingly speculative and questionable decision of the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary Executive Board. Greear has presented himself as a fully “woke” and politically savvy public relations specialist, who along with certain other leaders in the SBC (like Russell Moore, Albert Mohler, Danny Akin, Matt Chandler and other New Calvinists), are intent on rebranding the denomination in the name of saving it. One such overture to “saving the denomination” in recent days has been talk of electing a female president, which has received no shortage of support in social media. The name for such a female leader of the country’s largest Protestant denomination that has risen to the top of discussion is none other than the recently woke prophetess, Beth Moore.

Following on the heels of a conference that should have been seen as spitting in the face of the #MeToo Movement, MLK50 – a conference venerating a man who literally trafficked in female prostitutes – many SBC leaders began to vocalize the need for leadership chosen not by the content of their character, but the color of their skin. In true Marxist Intersectionality fashion, these same leaders started to include women in the long list of underrepresented minorities who had to be placed at the top tiers of leadership if the SBC was to survive the impending tide of cultural opinion. JD Greear, on May 25, posted a video in which he called on the SBC to place women at the highest levels of leadership. He stated:

Our failure to listen to and honor women and racial minorities and our failure to include them in proportionate measures at top leadership roles have hindered our ability to see sin and injustice and call it out.

The politically correct virtue signaling of Greear did not go unnoticed. Soon, names began to surface of women who could take the top leadership spot in the SBC. In the last several days, one name, in particular, seemed to echo throughout social media. That name is Beth Moore.

Dwight Marxissic

Dwight McKissic – or Marxissic, as he is known among the discernment community – is the African American race-baiting pastor who supported Hillary Clinton and leftist-progressives, and who most notably designed a resolution at the 2017 SBC meeting to condemn the so-called “alt-right,” simultaneously orchestrating mainstream media outrage at SBC messengers who originally balked at the politically motivated propaganda. SBC leaders, eager to avoid any negative media attention, scrambled to pass an amended form of the resolution, pleading with messengers to consider how it would look in the press. Currently, Marxissic is planning a resolution with Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary President, Danny Akin, which will yet again focus on racial reconciliation. Akin, who founded an Affirmative Action department at SEBTS called “The Department of Kingdom Diversity” and hosted a “Malcolm X Read-In” for seminary students this year, has joined Marxissic to denounce “White racism” and demand social justice, which eerily seems like something out of the 1970s United Methodist playbook or that of any of the mainstream liberal denominations that have experienced severe, anti-Gospel mission drift in the latter 20th Century. It was McKissic himself who similarly floated the idea of nominating Moore as president of the SBC.

McKissic wrote:

If I thought Beth Moore would accept the nomination or be agreeable to being nominated, because of her qualifications and the current context the SBC finds herself in…I would nominate her for SBC President.

Of course, the SBC has never considered a female president of the SBC because it has always fallen to the role of pastor, and eldership is limited to male leaders. The position also requires a good deal of preaching, which has always been seen by the denomination as a job for men, in light of the prohibition against women teaching in the church. With the promotion of so many female preachers by SBC’s retailer, Lifeway, one could have guessed it would only have been a matter of time before the Convention as a whole would see little problem with that gross and profane departure from orthodoxy.

McKissic went on to explain his reasoning:

The SBC is a parachurch organization—not a church. Therefore, there is absolutely not one Bible verse, or SBC constitutional bylaws prohibitions, nor any BF&M 2000 prohibitions against a woman serving as SBC President. Tradition, sexism, fear and other non-biblical factors would probably prevent any woman, including Deborah, Mary the Mother of Jesus, Lydia, Junia or Priscilla, or Lottie Moon from being elected President of the SBC; but, I repeat…there is not one Bible verse or SBC constitutional prohibition.

Therefore, I could vote for a qualified woman with a clear conscience for President of the SBC. The I Timothy 2:12 passage is reference to local church leadership, not parachurch leadership. The statement on gender roles in the BF&M 2000 does not prohibit female leadership in the SBC Convention or entity life. To impose I Timothy 2:12 as a prohibition on a female SBC President would be tantamount to imposing Genesis 9:25-27, as a prohibition for a Black, Asian, or Hispanic SBC President. Neither Scripture is addressing prohibitions in parachurch offices. Historically, though, they have been used or misused to draw such erroneous conclusions.

The problem with Marxissic’s theory, other than his use of Deborah – an Old Testament political judge who served as God’s judgment upon a leadership-weak nation – and New Testament Saints (who were NOT appointed to spiritual ecclesiastical authority, even by the Lord Himself), thus demonstrating massive hermeneutical failure and tragic inability to reason, is that the issue of Complementarianism vs Egalitarianism is one of ecclesiastical authority and not one only of eldership within the local church.

There is another problem with Marxissic’s theory; the SBC, although not a local church, is ecclesiastical. How do we know this? The SBC – officially, legally, and on-the-record – calls itself an ecclesiastical authority.

For example, just this year the SBC’s North American Mission Board (NAMB) argued in court that a lawsuit against it should not proceed because of a “ministerial exemption” due to the “ecclesiastical abstention doctrine” (source link). In other words, the SBC entity claimed to be ecclesiastical. Regarding the lawsuit of Will McRaney, NAMB attorneys argued according to the Baptist Message:

On the matter of the “ecclesiastical abstention doctrine” (which prevents a court from interfering in decidedly church issues such as theology), [the judge] affirmed the U.S. Supreme Court position that churches have the “power to decide for themselves, free from state interference, matters of church government as well as those of faith and doctrine.” However, regarding NAMB’s claim that “adjudicating McRaney’s defamation claim would require the Court to decide matters of internal church governance,” he said he “disagrees.”

Furthermore, all local SBC churches needing proof of tax exemption as a religious institution fall under the “umbrella 501(c)3” of the Southern Baptist Convention, meaning that the only recognition many churches have with the federal government as a house of worship is their legal identity with the SBC, which is recognized as a “church.” Baptist autonomy aside (and the attitude of Greear and McKissic seem to be “to hell with Baptist polity” anyway), like it or not, the SBC is ecclesiastical.

On top of these inconvenient truths, the fact is the presidency of the SBC is, in nature, pastoral. These are men who – like all SBC entity heads – make doctrinal decisions (like IMB President, David Platt, approving tongue-speakers to serve as missionaries or former SBC President, Ronnie Floyd, deciding to partner in prayer with IHOP). The office itself is one of the highest authority, and one prohibited to women. Welcome to complementarianism.

Many of the SBC blogger-class seconded the notion of McKissic that the office should not be limited to men, and that Beth Moore would be a suitable candidate for the position, including bloggers at SBC Voices, Dave Miller, Brent Hobbs, and AlanCross.

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Beth Moore accuses SBC of systemic sexism.

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AMERICAN EVANGELICALISM: IN CRISIS & CONFUSION~”REVOICE” CONFERENCE, THE S.B.C., “GAY CHRISTIANITY” & DRAG QUEENS

AMERICAN EVANGELICALISM:

IN CRISIS & CONFUSION

BY ED DINGESS

SEE: http://pulpitandpen.org/2018/06/07/american-evangelicalism-in-crisis-and-confusion/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

We are witnessing nothing short of a full-on gospel crisis in American Evangelicalism today. Just as the homosexual movement has rapidly deteriorated into the full-blown confusion we see around the psychological disorder and delusion of gender dysphoria; we are witnessing the exponential demise of what was once a clear, focused, gospel-centered movement. When everything in evangelicalism is a gospel issue, nothing is. And this is precisely what is happening in modern evangelical Christianity. A few examples are presented in this post and then a plea for some sanctified common sense follows.
Social justice is all the rage these days. Even within the reformed camp, the balance between social concerns and the gospel is shifting much more quickly than one would have previously imagined. Social justice has, for all intents and purposes, eclipsed the pure gospel of historic Christianity so much so that we no longer know where the gospel story concludes, and its impact on me as a new person in Christ, in my culture, begins. We can see this in a variety of movements that have and are competing for the attention and the money and the time of Christians, week in and week out. Abolish Human Abortion argues that the church isn’t being the church unless it works to feverishly put a stop to the murder of unborn babies. The unborn babies are your neighbor, says AHA, and you are commanded to love your neighbor and protect the defenseless. If you are not picketing abortion clinics and opposing abortion in just the right way, then you are not loving your neighbor. For AHA, ending abortion is a gospel issue. The Gospel Coalition is cranking out one social issue after another and they are all gospel issues. From Tim Keller’s highly controversial and questionable philosophies outlined in his Generous Justice to the most recent pet, outlawing American Football, TGC has turned every social concern into a gospel issue. Many prominent Southern Baptists leaders, a denomination of which I happen to be a part, has its political arm, the Ethics and Religious Liberty Committee, devoted almost exclusively to social issues. From its website we read the following: The ERLC is dedicated to engaging the culture with the gospel of Jesus Christ and speaking to issues in the public square for the protection of religious liberty and human flourishing. And of course, these issues, ranging from social justice to racial reconciliation, from sex trafficking to immigration, are all gospel issues. The ERLC, TGC, and AHA all want your attention, your time, and your money in order to carry out their agenda. But there is more.

Many of these movements, if not all of them, contain varying degrees of components associated with liberation theology and are incredibly confused about the nature of Christianity, personal holiness, and the mission of the church. This is especially the case as it relates to the relationship of the church and the world, not to mention, the content of the gospel. Now, in case you are skeptical of my thesis (and healthy skepticism is encouraged) that what you are witnessing in Evangelicalism is in fact, liberation theology sporting a fresh coat of paint, note this comment from J. Daniel Salinas concerning the book, An Inquiry into the Possibility of an Evangelical-Liberationist theology: Chaves, the Brazilian professor at the Baptist University of the Americas, argues that later developments in both North American evangelicalism (NAE) and Latin American Liberation Theologies (LALT) have drawn them theologically closer than ever before.[1]

The matter of liberation theology is itself indelibly linked to hermeneutics. This can be seen in how groups such as AHA, TGC, the ERLC, and Racial Reconciliation interpret the biblical text. Peruvian theologian Gustavo Gutierrez wrote: “The theology of liberation offers us not so much a new theme for reflection as a new way to do theology. Theology as critical reflection on historical praxis.” As Samuel Escobar points out, “This critical reflection was the result of a new political alignment (praxis) of some Christians in Latin America during the 1960s and their critical way of reading the history of the church in that region.” Liberation then offers up a new way to do theology and along with it, a new hermeneutic, a modified gospel, an alternative mission of the church, and it defines the relationship between the church and the world. The old adage comes to mind: if it is new, it is not true and if it is true, it is not new. Is it too much to suggest that what we see taking place right now in evangelicalism, among the new Calvinists, some in the reformed branch, and especially in the Southern Baptists is a new way to do theology? Social concerns are informing how theology gets done rather than theology informing how the church gets things done. Liberation theology begins with the marginalized, the poor, the oppressed, and their concerns, and it shapes theology by insisting that exegesis submit to those concerns above all others. And this is how you end up with the proverbial tail wagging the dog problem. Don’t forget, Liberation theology fills those words with new meaning so that even the most orthodox of doctrines, such as male leadership in the church, is now viewed as complicit in the oppression and marginalization of women. Critical thinking is indispensable and the church neglects it to its own peril.

Returning to the Southern Baptists political arm, the ERLC, in reading the mission statement of this committee, one has to wonder if it should even exist in the first place: The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission exists to assist the churches by helping them understand the moral demands of the gospel, apply Christian principles to moral and social problems and questions of public policy, and to promote religious liberty in cooperation with the churches and other Southern Baptist entities.

First, it is the local elders’ duty to help their communities understand the moral demands of the gospel. That is accomplished through preaching, teaching, and discipleship. The same is true for applying Christian principles to moral problems. The statement reveals its overtly political agenda when it turns to “social problems,” “questions of public policy,” and “to promote religious liberty.” In order to defend this mission statement, biblically anyway, one has to change the mission of the church so that it includes culture shaping, involvement in politics, and one has to believe that the church must work for religious liberty. But when one reads the New Testament Scriptures, writings that took place in a largely oppressive and intolerant setting, they do not find anything like these objectives there. More about this below when the subject of pure religion is addressed.

One of the most recent and highly visible areas of focus for these leaders is the topic of racial reconciliation. These men are operating on the basic premise that there is a rift between Christians of different racial classes in society. They begin by uncritically accepting melanin as a legitimate way to classify race and from there they carry their message forward with great enthusiasm and passion. Now, because racism is all the rage in the culture, and because no one wants to be called a racist or seen as doing anything whatsoever that any minority group could use to accuse one of racism, these leaders want to appear to be on board fully and completely. So, they are walking the politically correct line. With this in mind, they are working tirelessly to convince the church that they have a problem that needs to be addressed. The solution to this problem includes everything from the SBC repenting for past racism on an annual basis now for several years, to convincing white Christians that they are the bad guy, having been raised in a predominantly white culture and having unwittingly adopted racists attitudes of which they are naively ignorant and incapable of recognizing. Some are even going so far as to advocate for affirmative action in pastoral staffs, and even extend that point of view to the recommendation of books and conference speakers. “There should be people in those positions who look like me,” they argue. The argument is not based on biblical exegesis, but instead, on principles directly coming from black liberation theology. In fact, recently an article appeared over at Core Christianity that was, for all intents and purposes, denying the sufficiency of Scripture on the issue of racism. I don’t measure a man’s ears when I decide to read his book or attend a conference or submit to his leadership as an elder. I am not going to pay attention to his skin tone either. It is that ridiculous and the sooner we start seeing that truth and looking at the issue that way, the better off we will be in my opinion.

Coming back to the article over at Core Christianity, the title of the article was a sure attention-getter: “Good Doctrine isn’t the Answer to Racism.” The racial reconciliation argument continues to lose exegetical debates, making it necessary to retreat and come up with new strategies. The article begins with the claim, “Just because doctrine is right, good, and true does not mean it is healthy.” Andrew Menkis argues that doctrine, in order to healthy, must be lived. Menkis, in his own attempt to jump on board the racial reconciliation train and project just the right appearance and perhaps “make his contribution,” confuses Christian doctrine with Christian praxis. The word doctrine is derived from the Greek didaskalia. It simply means, teaching, instruction, that which is taught. Doctrine is a teaching. For example, the idea that doctrine should be lived out is implied in the teaching itself. When Menkis makes the claim that he makes, that just because the doctrine is right, good, and true does not mean it’s healthy, he is making a false statement on the one hand and a very basic category error on the other. If it is true that doctrine must be lived in order to be healthy doctrine, then Menkis’ doctrine is in the same boat as all other doctrines. That means that Menkis’ own doctrine about doctrine being lived is itself not a healthy doctrine. A question for Menkis might be, “If good, right, and true doctrine isn’t healthy, what is it?” If something is not healthy, then that means, logically speaking, that it is unhealthy. This means that good, right, and true doctrines can be unhealthy. This reasoning is specious. Living doctrine isn’t doctrine. The actual application of doctrine to daily life is not doctrine. Christian doctrine, in many, many cases is meant to be lived but not always. For example, the doctrine that all those in the body of Christ are in fellowship with one another is not a doctrine itself that can be practiced. It is a doctrine that describes our new status in Christ. We call it the doctrine of reconciliation. Jews and Gentiles have been reconciled to God through Christ in one body by the blood of Christ. I cannot live that. I cannot live the doctrine of justification. I cannot live the doctrine of regeneration. Menkis, in his attempt to project the appearance that he is on board and in his ambition to “make a contribution” to the topic, has made himself look rather silly in my opinion. This is the kind of foolishness that you end up with when you abandon sound hermeneutical principles in preference for methods that begin with the core values and principles of pagan society.

Pure religion begins with the gospel of Christ which is itself the power of God to save and regenerate the human heart. To Nicodemus, Jesus said, you must be born afresh, anew, from above, all over again. According to James, religion that is pure, that is undefiled, is religion that includes ministry to widows and orphans and to keep oneself pure from worldly influence. This hearkens back to 1:22 where James says be doers of the word and not hearers only. But my “not doing the word” does not make the word itself unhealthy nor does it mean that the word itself does not have the cure to my problem. The word is always intended to be applied or lived where there is application to be made. The proof that God has invaded my life can be seen in my care for others, especially widows and orphans and in my refusal to pattern my life after worldly principles derived from society. The church must have a vigorous ministry in place to care for widows and orphans. In some cases, this means providing food for care, medical needs where appropriate, etc. The same is true for orphans. It could mean financial support for orphanages, investing time in visiting the children living in these arrangements, or, in some cases, it could mean adoption. God directs the heart. James tells us to look after people in need during their time of affliction. But Paul also reminds us of the practical aspects of this ministry. Paul gives us criteria with qualifications before placing a widow on the list in 1 Timothy 5. That we care for widows and orphans with some qualifications is undeniable. But how we do that will vary from person to person or church to church.

The mission of the church is to preach the gospel, baptize converts, and to make disciples. The gospel is that Christ came and died to save helpless sinners from their hopeless condition. To baptize converts is to practice the public confession that one has indeed bound himself to Christ as Lord and Savior. To make disciples is to make students of the commandments of God. Disciple-making entails teaching men to observe everything that Christ has commanded. This is the mission of the church. Nowhere in Christ’s commandments are we told that we must fight for religious freedom, shape the culture in which we find ourselves, or influence civil government to adopt Christian principles. It is through the use of a hermeneutic of liberation that such nonsense finds its way into the mainstream. The source is not Scripture, but instead, the personal ideologies of men who have gained a platform of influence. They need to be corrected by other godly, strong leaders or removed from that platform.

The relationship of the church with the world is the last component of the three basic elements that make up pure religion. The gospel is first, the mission is second, and the relationship of the church with the world is the third component of pure religion. In Romans 13 and in 1 Peter 2, the church has her instructions for how she is to relate to the civil government. Whatever philosophy you might have on this topic, you would be well-served to make sure it is grounded in these passages of Scripture. What are these instructions? First, every person is to be in subjection to the governing authorities. That is pretty clear. Why? Because every authority is from God. Every civil government is established by God according to Paul. And to that government, we must submit. Whoever resists the authority opposes the ordinance of God. Of course, taken in the context of Scripture as a whole, when the civil law contradicts the divine law, divine law is the greater of the two. Peter’s instructions are identical to Paul’s instructions. Peter says that we must submit ourselves to every human institution for the Lord’s sake. This applies to a king or to someone the king might send. Peter commands us to honor the king. This is not an option. It is a commandment. The word honor, from the Greek timaō means to show high regard for, to revere. Yet, many of the social causes and issues that the church and these leaders specifically find themselves obsessed with are issues that fly in the face of these instructions. This means that Christians should avoid vilifying our government leaders, president and all, publicly. We must submit to, honor, and respect our government leaders. The objection is sure to come that our leaders are godless men who support all sorts of immoral legislation and policy. This is true. But it is not any truer than it was for the government under which Paul and Peter and the rest of the early church operated. In fact, modern American government is morally superior to Rome from a this-world perspective. If you doubt that, then perhaps you should do some reading on the practices of ancient Rome. What is puzzling is that most of the leaders involved in these movements are also involved in completely ignoring the clear NT mandate regarding how the church ought to relate to the secular authority. In fact, their agenda seems to require a certain rebellion against the secular authority. Such insurrection is not the fruit of Christian living we see in the first-century church.

The evangelical church, to include its reformed branch, is in a full-on crisis today. That crisis is due in large part to elements of a hermeneutic of liberation theology finding its way into the community. Men have gained access to the celebrity platform and ascended to a place of influence who do not hold to the historic positions handed down by the reformers. Movements like liberation theology, black liberation theology, the seeker movement, and the emergent church have all worked in varying degrees to weaken the hermeneutic of the conservative Protestant churches. The intensity of the war for truth has increased exponentially just within the last 5 years and more so even within the last year. Christian leaders must do a better job of examining the foundational teachings of men before enabling their influence. It is not evil to examine these claims to make sure they reflect the teachings of Scripture. Nor is it evil, when those claims are lacking in biblical support, are incredibly weak, or outright contrary to Scripture, to correct these men. If we continue to embrace worldly practices, such as obsessing over offending one another, then truth will truly suffer as a result. We should always remember that God is an ever-present witness in what we do and why we do it.

In closing, we should remember some of the very last words of one of the greatest Christian soldiers to have fought in this War, the Apostle Paul:

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith; in the future there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day; and not only to me, but also to all who have loved His appearing. (2 Tim. 4:7-8)

[1] J. Daniel Salinas, “Review of Evangelicals and Liberation Revisited: An Inquiry into the Possibility of an Evangelical-Liberationist Theology by João B. Chaves,” Themelios 39, no. 1 (2014): 142.

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SEE ALSO:

Same-Sex Attraction and the Continued Collapse of American Evangelical Christianity

http://pulpitandpen.org/2018/06/05/same-sex-attraction-and-the-continued-collapse-of-american-evangelical-christianity/

EXCERPTS:

Summary

There is no science to prove that SSA is genetic.
There is no science to support the view that SSA cannot be changed even by the conscious efforts of the individual.
SSA attraction is a perversion of the fall. It is not physical or biological. It is a component of the human person and as such is not morally neutral.
Opposite sex attraction is very good according to Gen. 1:31. It’s opposite is very bad.
Col. 3:5 clearly teaches that there are evil desires as do many other passages in the NT. Desire is not morally neutral.
Romans 1:24-28 describe homosexual desire as a degrading, shameful, disgraceful passion that leads to unnatural sexual activity.
1 Cor. 6:9-11 denies the idea that homosexuals should still identify themselves as homosexuals after conversion. They should see their homosexuality in the past tense and identify themselves as washed, sanctified, and justified.
SSA is difficult to change because people do not desire to change it. The only thing that can change any human desire is for a competing desire to present itself as more desirable.
People only stop being same-sex attracted when another desire that conflicts with it takes over. In this case, a desire to please God, to glorify God is sufficient to kill same-sex attraction.
If your desire to please God is not enough to cause you to hate same-sex attraction, then you either do not desire to please God or the Bible is false, and Christianity is a lie.
If the gospel of Christ, applied by God the Holy Spirit to the human person is not enough to deliver one from the sin of SSA, then again, the Bible is false and Christianity should be abandoned.
My conclusion is that the SSA proponents are American Liberal and Evangelical Christians with a very low view of God, of sin, of the power of the gospel, and a very high view of man.

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Revoice Conference: Connecting the Dots from Russell Moore to Drag Queens, RuPaul

BY CHERIE VANDERMILLEN

SEE: http://pulpitandpen.org/2018/06/04/revoice-conference-connecting-the-dots-from-russell-moore-to-drag-queens-rupaul/;

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

Leave the presence of a fool, for there you do not meet the words of knowledge. –Proverbs 14:7

On July 26, 2018, the Revoice Conference convenes at Memorial Presbyterian Church in St. Louis, Missouri. The loud and clear call of this conference is ‘the Church must change to accommodate the inclusion of the “gay Christian.” On the surface, the intended outcome resides in the conference’s stated purpose:

“Supporting, encouraging, and empowering gay, lesbian, same-sex attracted, and other LGBT Christians so they can flourish while observing the historic, Christian doctrine of marriage and sexuality.”

While in reality, the underlying goal is to repurpose the Church by adapting it for a use exponentially differently than has been orthodox Christianity for 2,000 years.

First of all, some pertinent background information will widen the scope of what’s lurking behind it. Secondly, a closer look at one of the scheduled presenters will shed some light on “who” will be speaking at the conference. And finally, the calamitous connection with Russell Moore.

The Man behind “Revoice” – Dr.Nate Collins

Dr. Nate Collins is the founder of Revoice. He “has served as an instructor of New Testament Interpretation at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary” (where he received his Ph.D.). In September 2017, Collins author the book All But Invisible: Exploring Identity Questions at the Intersection of Faith, Gender, and Sexuality.: (source)

On his blog, allbutinvisible, he addresses the meaning of the phrase “Gay Christian:”

First, the way the word “gay” is most commonly used today is to refer to an orientation identity, and not to a specific pattern of behavior that Christians would think of as sinful. In other words, when most people hear the word “gay”, they don’t think of actual behavior, but instead a pattern of desire. I would say that these desires are inevitably experienced at some point as fallen desires, but that the sanctifying work of Christ can redeem some of them (the nonsexual ones). By analogy, nonstraight orientations are like a disability… in other words, the phrase “gay Christian” is more like the phrase “blind Christian” than “prideful Christian.”

After thirteen years of marriage and three children, Collins’ still self-identifies as “Same-Sex Attracted” (SSA).

Revoice Presenter – Branden Polk

Branden Polk, per his Twitter account, describes himself as a “Reader, writer, musician, lover of Jesus, poet, philosopher, and friend” (do note the order of importance). Additionally, Polk is the CEO and Founder of Arrowhead Advising. Arrowhead Advising Servus include both coaching and counseling to individuals and businesses with strategic means in “making a difference in the world.”

Allow me to introduce you to one of his good friends, Todrick Hall. Todrick Hall is a singer, dancer, director, and…wait for it…DRAG QUEEN. Hall is an activist for LGBTQ rights and inclusivism. Branden Polk has strong emotions and highly regards his friend, Todrick, from the moment he met him, and is a regular visitor to Hall’s “shows.”

Todrick Hall isn’t just your “ordinary” drag queen, he is connected…to RuPaul and his show “RuPaul’s Drag Race.” Hall has appeared on RuPaul’s show as early 2009 and as recent as May 10, 2018.

None of this should surprise anyone that Revoice has included Branden Polk as a presenter at the conference in July. What should surprise us is the relationship Branden Polk has with the President of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC), Russell Moore.

The calamitous connection to Russell Moore

Arrowhead Advising LLC has performed contractual work for the ERLC strategically advising Russel Moore on both the 2017 Christ Centered Parenting Conference and the April 2018 MLK/50 Conference.

Russell Moore continues to be advised by Arrowhead Advising LLC on the ERLC’s Prison Reform Bill promotion.

It would be highly suspicious for Moore to claim that he’s unfamiliar with the facts and that he’s not working hand in hand with sex perverts knowing the background of Revoice and the friendship of Branden Polk and Todrick Hall. Why do Southern Baptists continue to send money to this progressive entity who partners with people like this who have an obvious agenda?

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SEE ALSO:


https://thirtypiecesofsilver.org/2018/05/29/make-the-gospel-great-again-reject-the-false-gospel-of-lgbt-christianity/

https://www.centerforfaith.com/about/leadership/dr-nate-collins

Nate Collins (PhD, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) has served as an instructor of New Testament Interpretation at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and currently is a partner associate at The Sight Ministry, a Christian organization based in Nashville, Tennessee, that provides resources and support for individuals, families, and churches regarding LGBT issues. Nate is also the author of All But Invisible: Exploring Identity Questions at the Intersection of Faith, Gender, and Sexuality (Zondervan, 2017). Speaking from his own unique experience as a married, same-sex-attracted/gay man who is a husband, father, and follower of Christ, he is a vocal proponent of extending and receiving community with LGBT individuals both inside and outside the Church. He has been married to his wife, Sara, for thirteen years, and they have three young sons.

Nate Collins (PhD, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) has served as an instructor of New Testament Interpretation at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and currently is a partner-associate at The Sight Ministry, a Christian organization based in Nashville, Tennessee, that provides resources and support for individuals, families, and churches regarding LGBT issues. Nate is also the author of All But Invisible: Exploring Identity Questions at the Intersection of Faith, Gender, and Sexuality (Zondervan, 2017). Speaking from his own unique experience as a married, same-sex-attracted/gay man who is a husband, father, and follower of Christ, he is a vocal proponent of extending and receiving community with LGBT individuals both inside and outside the Church. He has been married to his wife, Sara, for thirteen years, and they have three young sons.

https://www.centerforfaith.com/about/our-leadership

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A WILLFULLY IGNORANT “FEEL GOOD” ECUMENICAL EVENT?: BAPTIST CHURCH IN TEXAS TO HOST RAMADAN CELEBRATION WHICH DENIES ISLAMIC TERRORISM, SHARIA SUBJUGATION & CONQUEST GOALS

A WILLFULLY IGNORANT “FEEL GOOD” ECUMENICAL EVENT, WHICH DENIES ISLAMIC TERRORISM, SHARIA

SUBJUGATION & CONQUEST GOALS

Wilshire Baptist Church has hosted a number of interfaith dinners and is hosting a Ramadan dinner on Thursday.

SEE: http://www.dallasobserver.com/restaurants/wilshire-baptist-church-to-host-ramadan-dinner-10764642

BAPTIST CHURCH IN TEXAS TO HOST RAMADAN CELEBRATION

SEE: http://pulpitandpen.org/2018/06/08/baptist-church-in-texas-to-host-ramadan-celebration/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

Wilshire Baptist Church in East Dallas will be hosting a Ramadan Feast for their Muslim friends. The idea was sparked by the Dialogue Institute of Dallas, a pro-Muslim group that seeks to proselytize other religions by getting them to engage in religious “dialogues.” Several Jewish synagogues and Mormon churches will also be hosting Ramadan events, with over 20 planned by the Dialogue Institute in the Dallas area alone. This evening, the Wilshire Baptist Church will host the meal commemorating the opening feast of Ramadan.

George Mason, pastor of Wilshire Baptist Church since 1989

George Mason, the pastor of the Baptist Church, cluelessly explained to the congregation the advertised motive of the Dialogue Institute, saying, “The Dialogue Institute of the Southwest is a group of moderate Muslim immigrants, primarily from Turkey, inspired by the work of Fetullah Gülen, who believes in peace through education and understanding.”

Of course, the goal of such Muslim-sponsored events is not “peace” in a nation like the United States where violence between religious groups is almost unheard of and statistically non-existent. The goal is what is known to Islamicists as “Da’wah,” the strategy to convert non-Muslims through dialogue, and it is propaganda and deceptive by nature. Those who host or promote such dialogues, such as Fetullah Gülen – mentioned by Pastor Mason above as the founder of the Dialogue Institute – are known as dā‘ī, and are considered missionaries of the Islamic faith. What is happening at the Wilshire Baptist Church is a missionary enterprise of Islam, hosted by a Baptist church and perpetrated upon Baptists.

Ramadan is a month-long celebration that begins with a meal called an Iftar, and is followed by a month of daytime fasting. The pastor wants the church to practice “food diplomacy,” a trendy term used by ecumenists to describe trying to reach common ground with Islamic refugees by inviting them to dinner and following the dietary and food preparatory guidelines set forth by Islamic tradition. The meal at Wilshire Baptist Church will include only that which is Halal, or approved by Islam.

Mason said, ”If we want to be respected by others, we have to respect others. If we want religious liberty for ourselves, we have to defend religious liberty for others, too,“ sounding as though he were parroting the words of SBC Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission Director, Russell Moore.”

“If we want Muslims not to judge Christianity by its worst, most fringe and extreme role models,” Mason said, “but instead by those who seek to represent the spirit of Jesus in a generous way, then we have to be engaged with them personally. Likewise, they want us to know their faith and to judge it by those who are tolerant and peace-loving.“

According to the church website, “[They are] Christian by conviction, Baptist by tradition and ecumenical in spirit.”

Wilshire Baptist Church affirms the 1963 Southern Baptist Faith and Message. For the definition of “website orthodoxy,” click here.

[Editor’s Note: HT Dallas Observer]

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ROWLAND SPRINGS BAPTIST CHURCH & THE DEMONIC CULT OF FREEMASONRY~PART ONE-SILENCE & CONVICTION

SOUTHERN BAPTIST APOSTASY:

MIXING “CHRISTIANITY” WITH FREEMASONRY

ROWLAND SPRINGS BAPTIST CHURCH & THE DEMONIC CULT OF FREEMASONRY~

PART ONE-SILENCE & CONVICTION

BY SETH DUNN

SEE: http://pulpitandpen.org/2018/06/08/rowland-springs-baptist-church-and-the-demonic-cult-of-freemasonry-part-one-silence-and-conviction/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

The following article is the first of a two part testimony about my experience with the cult of Freemasonry at my former church, Rowland Spring Baptist Church. Rowland Springs Baptist Church is a Southern Baptist Church in Cartersville, Georgia and is a part of the Georgia Baptist Convention and Bartow Baptist Association.

Joe Ringwalt has been pastor of RSBC for over 20 years and is a former Georgia Baptist Convention Committee Member.

Pastor Joe Ringwalt stood up before the congregation of Rowland Springs Baptist Church as Sunday morning services came to a close. My wife and I were standing next to him. “It really says something about our church,” he said, “that people of this caliber are joining.” I was a little embarrassed by Joe’s very public compliment of our “caliber” but I was certainly happy, despite my wife’s reservations, to be joining Rowland Springs. I had been kicking the tires of the church for about six months. The preaching was mostly expository, the music was a mix of (mostly) biblical hymns and contemporary songs, the student minister was a Calvinist from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and the Sunday School class we had been attending was edifying and full of lovely Christian people. It felt like a Baptist Church and not a Baptist Church that was trying to be something else. The very week that I joined Rowland Springs I was assigned to be the temporary teacher of the “What Christians Believe” Sunday School Class. At the next Church Conference, I was elected by the congregation to become the official teacher of the class. The Sunday School class I looked forward to attending every week became the class I looked forward to teaching. As someone who had been in seminary for nearly a decade, I was excited to finally begin teaching God’s word to others in the local church. Things seemed to have fallen into place quite nicely. A few months later, however, I was meeting with the pastor, the youth minister, and two deacons in the church basement. I was quietly and involuntarily removed as a Sunday School teacher. My class dissolved. I was encouraged to leave the church altogether. This meeting took place in the wake of my discovery that several members of Rowland Springs Baptist Church were officers of Cartersville Masonic Lodge No. 63. Unbeknownst to me when I joined, Rowland Springs Baptist Church was a stronghold of the demonic cult of Freemasonry. When I stood for the holiness of Christ’s church and against the cult of Freemasonry, Rowland Springs Baptist Church stood for the Freemasons. Joe Ringwalt advertises Rowland Springs as “a warm and loving church” and a “fellowship that wants to love you, provide a place of service for you, and challenge you to allow Christ to live his life through you.” On the surface, it is. However, when I scratched the surface of Rowland Springs Baptist Church, the surface scratched back.

2014 to 2016: A Failed Expedition

I walked into Expedition Church on a Sunday at about 11:45 AM. I was late, again. Getting to church, anywhere really, on-time with three young children was no easy task. The music was already over and the sermon-time had begun began. Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith was playing on the projector. The congregation watched, during the church service, as Mace Windu and two hapless Jedi Masters fought Darth Sidious to a stalemate.

The stalemate was broken when Anakin Skywalker betrayed the Jedi order and attacked Mace Windu. Darth Vader was born. I was aghast, and it was not because Anakin Skywalker had turned to the Dark Side. My wife and I could have watched Star Wars at home. We came to church. After Mace Windu fell to his death, Pastor Tim Samples began a sermon about power. Darth Vader’s traitorous act served as a sermon illustration of seeking power the wrong way. My wife saw Tim’s increasing use of videos and movie clips as an attempt to fill time. I agreed. It was clear to us both that Tim was phoning in his sermons. Some were basically book reports of whatever he happened to have been reading lately. One was nearly a word-for-word plagiarism of a Ravi Zacharias podcast. Another was an 18-minute YouTube video advertisement for the movie Woodlawn. He set aside one Sunday morning to have a Pentecostal named Ray to come up and talk about the importance of tithing; Ray’s talk included the exact amount he gave each month and a testimony of how God miraculously reactivated his broken computer when he began tithing. The Pentecostal presence at the church was growing. Tim also occasionally filled the pulpit with quasi-missionaries who gave live infomercials for their ministries which were thinly disguised as their testimonies. One of the presenters was a lawyer named Joel Thornton who had a side business selling identify theft insurance. Another was Robert Rogers, a practicing Roman Catholic.

As Tim’s effort into teaching the congregation at Expedition Church waned, my wife and I grew more and more frustrated. As we left each week, my exasperated wife would ask questions like “What was Tim talking about?” I didn’t have a good answer for her. I recognized that there was a big problem but I wanted to stick with Tim. Tim had for years, as we Christians say, “poured into me”. He gave me the privilege of helping teach the youth group at his church on Wednesday nights. He supervised my seminary work in evangelism, leadership, and preaching. He introduced me around the county Baptist association. He opened his pulpit for me to preach when my preaching practicum class required it. He met with me weekly for lunch. He did his best to mentor and disciple me. He pastored me. At Expedition he sought to equip and encourage the whole body for ministry. He rejected the “invest and invite” model of so many Georgia Baptist churches, where church members are charged with giving money to build facilities and inviting their friends and neighbors to hear a professional preacher evangelize them. Tim understood that the church was a body, not a building, a group of people who were tasked with evangelizing their community themselves, with or without an official church program directing them. Having been stung by the “invest and invite” culture myself, I knew Tim was on the right track with what he was trying to do at Expedition Church.

Tim grew up at Roswell Street Baptist Church in Marietta, Georgia under the smooth preaching of Dr. Nelson Price. Price is a venerated man in Southern Baptist culture. In fact, a dormitory at my seminary bears his name. To my knowledge, even in his retirement, Price still bears the title of “Pastor Emeritus” of Roswell Street Baptist Church. Under Price’s preaching, Roswell Street grew and expanded its campus. However, after his retirement, Roswell Street’s properties and attendance levels began to deteriorate. The “invest and invite” model proved not to be a viable long-term solution for Roswell Street. Its large campus became hard to maintain. Tim’s ministry at Expedition is on a much smaller scale. The church property consists of rented office and warehouse space off of Highway 41 in Cartersville. The average attendance is (or, was, at the time I attended) around fifty on a big day. Quite frankly, Tim is no Nelson Price and his preaching wouldn’t fill a big building even if he had one. I used to tell Tim, “You aren’t the best preacher in town, but you’re the best pastor.” Tim was anything but a distant vision caster who didn’t know his flock. He was personally connected to his people. He knew them well. I was once given a personality profile as a part of corporate training. When I told Tim about taking the test he guessed my results almost before I could finish my sentence. I liked having him as a pastor. I liked being a part of the body that was Expedition Church. There were no strangers there and the entire church felt like one, close, multi-generational Sunday School class.

Tim planted Expedition Church himself after being released from the staff of Oak Leaf Church in Cartersville (which is now known as CrossPoint City Church). Tim was the self-described “relationship man” at Oak Leaf. The pastor there claimed not to be a people person and was only interested in preaching from the pulpit, not dealing with people. That became Tim’s role. Unfortunately, one of the people the pastor did deal with was his secretary. After admitting to an affair with her, that pastor left the church in a state of disarray. Tim’s job was a casualty of the reshuffling that followed. Oak Leaf was not the first church in Cartersville at which Tim had been on staff. He had come to Oak Leaf after leaving First Baptist Church where he had served as the youth pastor. In his capacity there, starting in the late nineties, Tim was instructed by church leadership to make inroads with the most popular kids. Doing so, he was told, would make other kids want to come to church. This did not sit right with Tim. Sensing God’s leading, Tim eventually left First Baptist, a bigger more established church, for the upstart Oak Leaf. Tim wasn’t the kind of man who would put the popular kids first, even in the face of steady paycheck from an established church. Tim was a man of integrity.

Unfortunately, there is often a cost to having integrity. Expedition Church was a relatively poor church. As its Senior Pastor, Tim’s salary was not any more than that of his Youth Pastor salary at First Baptist. He had effectively worked for years without a raise. To make matters worse, Expedition’s offering revenue consistently fell behind budget. The point came when Tim had to take a second job as a hospice chaplain to support his family. He became a bi-vocational preacher. I am convinced that, with his people skills and compassion, that there is not a finer hospice chaplain in all of Georgia. I am equally convinced that the demands Tim’s new job placed on his time significantly decreased the time he had to prepare sermons and manage Expedition Church. The pulpit suffered. To make matters worse, the office of deacon was unfilled at the church and the other elders did not seem equipped to take turns filling the pulpit. Tim was running himself ragged trying to take care of things with which others in the church should have been helping. When Tim put a Roman Catholic, Robert Rogers, in the pulpit, I could no longer ignore the growing problems at Expedition. Bad sermons were one thing. Handing the pulpit to a member of another religion is another.

I approached two elders with my concern that something incredibly inappropriate had taken place in our church. Someone from an apostate church, someone who Galatians 1:8 demands be anathematized, had filled our pulpit. One of the elders was a personal friend of Rogers. He rebuked me for bringing up the matter. The other elder didn’t seem to understand why a Roman Catholic should not fill the pulpit of a Baptist church. The remaining elders were Tim’s father-in-law and a Bapticostal music minister who fed the church a steady diet of Hillsong. Tim could provide me no assurances that a Roman Catholic would never fill the pulpit again. I thought about bringing the matter before the church but quickly realized that it would do no good. There was no official membership roll. A church vote could accomplish nothing and, without a membership roll, was not feasible. Even if a vote had been feasible, I had little confidence in the theological maturity of the congregation. Tim intentionally kept his preaching at a sixth-grade level and Baptist distinctive were not a point of emphasis. Could a congregation who had had no objection to movie clips and infomercials during sermon time really understand what the problem was? Additionally, there was the sensitively of causing controversy in such a small church. I did not think Expedition could financially afford even a small number of families leaving. A couple of families had already left for First Baptist. I loved Tim and I didn’t want him to suffer anymore financial hardship. When I finally saw the church sitting contentedly through a lightsaber fight during the church service, it became clear to me that bringing the matter of the Roman Catholic preacher up would be fruitless. A dog that can’t smell birds won’t hunt. After the Star Wars sermon I walked out of Expedition Church and never went back. I had come to the sad conclusion that the elders of Expedition Church simply were not qualified for their offices. (I have since learned that a few other families had become disillusioned and left as well; each of them went to CrossPoint City Church.) I haven’t talked to Tim in years. I miss my friend.

Visiting Churches

Having determined to leave Expedition Church, I set out to find my family a new church home. I grew up in Chattanooga attending Woodland Park Baptist Church and listening to Wayne Barber preach. My parents were married there and had been members since before I was born. My family had gone to Woodland Park my whole life until we moved to Cartersville when I was fifteen. I wanted to provide that kind of long-term stability for my family. I could ill afford to make another bad choice. My girls were getting old enough to understand what was going on at church and to make friends in their various circles. Church certainly isn’t a venue intended for small children, most of whom are lost, to make friends. Still, the sermons I heard Wayne Barber preach at age six stick with me until this day and I still listen to them on his podcast archive. I also didn’t want to move my wife again. Family stability, whether in the nuclear family or the church family, is important. She had not been getting fed from the pulpit at Expedition and had patiently endured my faith in Tim for two years. I wanted our family to be in a place where the Bible was proclaimed verse-by-verse on Sunday Morning. So, I made a spreadsheet of every church in the Bartow Baptist Association and began a category by category analysis.

The first church I visited was Pine Grove Baptist. It is a small church directly across the street from Dellinger Park and in close proximity to our home. Upon sitting down in the pew, I was hopeful. The congregation and choir were singing from hymnals; there were no 7-11 songs and I could tell Pine Grove wasn’t the kind of place that would sing them. There would be no Hillsong-style rock concert there. When the pastor entered the pulpit, I took hold of one of the large KJV pew Bibles to follow along. He then turned in his own Bible to the story of the prodigal son and informed the congregation that “God had given him” five principles from this story. My countenance fell. He then proceeded to turn the story of the Prodigal Son into a systematic treatise on free will and a Semi-Pelagian rejection of predestination. His thinly veiled polemic against predestination included no less than three invitations, each more elaborate than the last. Recognizing that I must have been the only new person in the small congregation, I was tempted to go forward and “get saved” all over again so that we could all go home. I ultimately decided that it would be bad form and resolved to visit somewhere new on the next Sunday. Somewhere new was Rowland Springs Baptist Church.

A church website can be a useful tool for learning about a prospective church. Beyond a simple statement of faith, many church websites include sermon archives, biographical information about the pastoral staff, and a recommended reading list. Knowledgeable Christians can use this data to save themselves from visiting a church they would never want to join in the first place. For example, if a church’s recommended reading list includes books by Andy Stanley or Rick Warren, then there is good reason not to view that church as a viable body. The recommending reading list at Rowland Springs includes books by Voddie Baucham, RC Sproul, John MacArthur, and Charles Spurgeon. To contrast, the recommended reading list at Expedition church included books by Rick Warren, Greg Laurie, Brian McLaren, Jim Cymbala, and Andy Stanley. Sometimes who is not on the list says a lot more than who is. When I perused the Rowland Springs reading list, I did not see any red flag authors. Another indicator of soundness at Rowland Springs was the bio of the Adam Burrell, the Minister of Students and Families. Adam’s website bio indicates that he has an MDiv from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and includes a picture of him in a bow-tie that would make Albert Mohler proud. I know a Calvinist when I see one and, sure enough, that’s what Adam is. Even though I am not a five-point Calvinist myself, that Rowland Springs had hired one to teach youth indicated to me that the kind of rank Charles-Finney-style decisionism which was present at Pine Grove and which runs rampant in some Georgia Baptist churches was not present in Rowland Springs. That the church youth minister was seminary-educated family man indicated to me that the church was serious about teaching its youth doctrine and not merely attracting them with fun activities for the sake of winning their parents. In hindsight, I think it may be the case that the church body is so insensitive to matters of doctrine that neither Calvinism nor Finneyism gives them any degree of concern. That the church body has abided extensive Masonic membership indicates that the church’s standards for right belief and living are severely lacking. Unfortunately, the Masonic membership at Rowland Springs was not something of which I was aware at the time. After listening to the Rowland Springs Baptist sermon archives and exchanging emails with Adam, I decided Rowland Springs was worth a visit.

Prospects

I first visited Rowland Springs on my own. My wife stayed behind that Sunday to take care of a sick child. I arrived well before the Sunday School hour started. Kelly Branton, a woman from the praise team, directed me to the Sunday School class for my age group. I wouldn’t have known where to go had I not found her rehearsing in the sanctuary with the rest of the praise team. I took note that Rowland Springs did not have greeters ready to meet visitors and walk them to the proper classroom. Larger churches tend to have an entire team dedicated to doing this. I actually found it favorable that Rowland Springs didn’t. To me, it indicated that the church wasn’t seeker sensitive or McChurch corporate. Not long after Kelly sat me down in the classroom designated for young marrieds, Adam Burrell walked in and directed me upstairs to a Sunday School class that he thought was more fitting for me. It was a class entitled What Christians Believe. It was taught by a Deacon named Doug Blankenship and it was based upon the Defenders curriculum that William Lane Craig teaches at Johnson Ferry Baptist Church. I enjoyed the class very much. The next week my family attended with me. My wife insisted that we try out the young married class in order to connect with people our age and in our phase of life. That class was team-taught by deacons named Grant McDurmond and Chris McSwain, both of whom are professional school teachers.

The man pictured here in the green shirt is Dale Hibbard, Chris McSwain’s Father-In-Law. Dale and many members of his extended family are members of RSBC. This photo was taken at a Masonic Golf Tournament in 2016 by local Masonic Lodge officer, Tony Ross.

Grant and Chris used LifeWay material to teach their class. It took one week for my wife and I decide to move back to the class upstairs. Doug was a good teacher. He was teaching systematic theology and apologetics; class discussion was meaningful. We both enjoyed the class over the next few weeks. It had been over a year since we were a part of a Sunday School class. We became a regular part of the class and met some really nice people. It wasn’t long after we first started visiting Rowland Springs that my wife experienced serious problems with a pregnancy. I sent Doug an email from the hospital asking for prayer. We got much more than that. The entire class descended upon our house with meals and domestic assistance even though we weren’t church members and had only been visiting for a few weeks. I felt like a part of the group.

Still, I had trepidation about joining a new church after what we had experienced as members of First Baptist Church of Woodstock and Expedition Church. I really wanted to kick the tires at RSBC. The tires seemed pretty sturdy. We had a great Sunday School class with great people. The music was nearly devoid of Hillsong and featured both hymns and contemporary songs. Joe Ringwalt was no Spurgeon but he preached fairly biblical sermons. I noticed that he was far from a “CEO-Vision Caster” pastor. He made his rounds each Sunday and checked on the various Sunday School rooms. It was his church to pastor and he acted like it. Both he and Adam took an interest in talking to me and learning about my background. Adam even took me to lunch one day. It was a good time. There was an even a friendly old man who always found us in the sanctuary to shake hands and talk before the service began. His name was Jim Moore. As nice as he was, there was something about him that made me uneasy. “I wonder if he is a Mason,” I thought to myself when I first met him. There was just something about him that made me think that.

After a couple of months, Joe and Adam began to contact me to ask about coming to my house for a visit. We were “prospects.” They were interested in us joining the church. My wife had reservations about the church in general and Joe specifically and expressed her hesitancy to join the church to me. I considered her reservations but it had been a good few months, especially in Sunday School. One night Joe and Adam finally came over to talk to us about membership. All parties did their due diligence. Adam and Joe asked about our salvation experiences and church backgrounds. I asked, and apologized for having to do so, if Joe would ever let a Roman Catholic fill the pulpit. His answer was a resounding “no.” He was incredulous that Tim Samples had allowed one to preach at Expedition and expressed that Roman Catholics have a “whole different theology”. I also asked about Freemasonry in the church. I was told that none were in leadership. Both Joe and Adam had trouble thinking of any masons outside of a Deacon who was no longer active. Joe expressed his derision for the Masonic craft saying that he didn’t need a “worshipful master.” He was clear that he did not support Freemasonry. I was strongly leaning towards joining Rowland Springs. One thing that held me back was discovering, through perusing the Cartersville Lodge website, that Jim Moore was indeed a Freemason. The website displayed a picture of Jim proudly receiving his fifty year Mason award. I showed Adam the picture and asked him if he knew of anymore Masons. He said he did not. Adam had been at the church for years and was the Minister of Families. I figured he was knowledgeable enough. I wasn’t going to let one Mason stop me from joining what seemed like a very good church. Besides, the pastor had strongly communicated to me that he did not support Freemasonry. Unfortunately, as I came to find out later, Jim was not alone.

The 2018 Officers of the Cartersville Masonic Lodge include Jim Moore, Freddie Gunn, and Frankie James. All are members of RSBC.

A Short Treatise on Southern Baptist Sunday School

Adult Sunday School classes at Southern Baptist Churches almost universally make use of the LifeWay Explore the Bible Sunday School quarterly. Explore the Bible is produced and sold by the Southern Baptist Convention’s publishing arm, LifeWay Christian Resources. One needn’t be particularly conversant in Biblical theology and history to “teach” canned lessons from the LifeWay Sunday School material. Lessons include prefabricated, open-ended questions for the “teacher” to read to his class. In effect many Southern Baptist Sunday School teachers are essentially lesson facilitators who serve in a quasi-pastoral role. Age and marital-status-based Sunday School groups effectively become little churches within a larger church. The Sunday School teacher is expected to lead his “little church” into growing the “big church” through reaching out to his particular demographic. In return for his service, the Sunday School teacher garners influence in the community. Actual learning may or may not occur; some teachers are better than others.

A former Sunday School teacher of mine personifies the quintessential Southern Baptist Sunday School “facilitator.” His name is Matthew Gambill. Matthew “taught” the young marrieds class at Tabernacle Baptist Church in Cartersville when my wife and I were members there many years ago. Matthew was a Methodist Republican politician who married a Baptist Republican politician and ended up teaching Sunday School in a Baptist church. Matthew is a well-educated, service-minded, nice person who seems generally devoid of a systematic understanding of the Scriptures. When I was in his class, he basically read LifeWay at us for half an hour each Sunday morning. If he was asked a question about the material, he struggled to find the answer. He was once unable to explain to a class member what a “heavenly host” was. Worse yet, he seemed completely indifferent about the ordinance of baptism. I remember vividly being a part of a conversation about Baptism with Matthew and another class member at a Sunday School party. The class member was from Europe and had a reformed, paedobaptist background. He was lamenting the fact that he had to “re-baptized” by immersion in order to join Tabernacle with his wife. Matthew sympathized and told him that he had to do the same thing. Instead of explaining the importance of believer’s Baptism to the class member, Matthew merely pointed out the pragmatism of not arguing about the requirement. It dawned upon me that the Methodists in our town tend to be Democrats. Matthew is running for the State Congress this year. I suppose I’ll vote for him.

Rowland Springs: Joining and Teaching

It is very unusual to join a new church and be appointed as a Sunday School teacher the very same week. Yet, this unique occurrence is exactly what happened when I joined Rowland Springs Baptist Church. The What Christians Believe Sunday School class was somewhat unique itself. The What Christians Believe Sunday School class at Rowland Springs was not age-stratified or based on Lifeway material. It was a multi-generational class. Ages ranged from middle-school aged to middle-aged. There were teenagers who came with their parents, women with unchurched husbands (a notoriously difficult to place Sunday School demographic), and married couples. The class curriculum was a survey of Systematic Theology. When I first arrived at RSBC, the class was taught by a deacon named Doug Blankenship. Doug, an accountant by trade, had a formal theological education. Doug was not a local politician or small-business owner. In addition to being a well-educated, service-minded, nice person, Doug was a true teacher who understood the class material. When I first came to Rowland Springs, I had been out of Sunday School for two years. I very much enjoyed being a part of Doug’s class. It was worth waking up to get to it on time. Doug took a job in Texas as I was in the process of joining the church. Even though I was a new member of the church, I was a long-time member of the class. Like Doug, I was formally theologically educated. My fellow class members recommended to the pastor that I be given teaching responsibilities. I was more than happy to accept them. My short time teaching the What Christians Believe was a rewarding one. I loved preparing the lesson every week. I was very happy to be serving in Rowland Springs Baptist Church body. There was just one small matter that nagged at me. There was a church member in a cult and no one, including the pastor, seemed to have a problem with it. This was a grave matter indeed. I struggled with how to approach it. Quite frankly I didn’t want to. I was quite content teaching my little class, an oasis of learning and biblical discussion in a LifeWay world. Saying something to Jim Moore about being a Freemason would no doubt be uncomfortable. I continued to research Freemasonry and even published a few blog articles about it. I knew it was a cult and a scourge but I still didn’t say anything to Jim.

Fred Gunn Jr and the Newspaper

It was December of 2016. I arrived home from work and there, at the end of my driveway, was a newspaper that I hadn’t ordered. The previous resident of my home was an older gentleman and I was still receiving his newspaper subscription. Being a child of the digital age, I don’t usually peruse printed newspapers. When I receive a newspaper at my house, I walk to the recycling bin, slide the paper out of its plastic sleeve, remove the Arby’s coupons, and trash the rest. On this particular day, I broke with my normal habit and decided to flip through the pages of the paper. Within I found the obituary of Fred Gunn, Jr. He had died at age 85. I had never met him before but I had heard his name at church and knew that he had been sick.

In this photo from the Cartersville Masonic Lodge, RSBC church member (since deceased) Fred Gunn Jr (father of Freddie Gunn) receives a 60 Year Mason Award.

Fred’s obituary noted the following:

“He was a veteran of the National Guard, a member of the Cartersville Masonic Lodge #63 F&M for sixty years, and a member of Rowland Springs Baptist Church…Internment will be private. The Bartow County Sheriff’s Department will serve as Honor Guard and the Cartersville Lodge will be in charge of Masonic Rites.”

“Masonic Rites,” I read the words alongside the name of my own church with embarrassment. My own church was burying a member who chose to go into the ground in front of his friends and family with pagan funeral rites. Jim Moore was an old man and a fifty-year Mason. He could very soon meet his Maker, unrepentant of his paganism. To my shame, I had said nothing to him about Freemasonry. Here I was writing blog articles and making Facebook posts about Freemasonry being a cult while not exhibiting the resolve to speak up in my own church. Fred Gunn’s obituary marked the last day I would ignore Freemasonry at Rowland Springs Baptist Church. I knew that as long as there was one Freemason in my church that it was unholy. I had to take action, scripture demanded as much. I threw away the newspaper as Ephesians 5:11burned in my mind. The Holy Spirit was convicting me.

In this photo, RSBC Church member Jim Moore is named “Honorable Past Master”. With him are RSBC members Frankie James and Alton Kay (now a former member). Kay, an ordained deacon of RSBC was the Worshipful Master of the Lodge in 2017.

Part Two of this article is forthcoming…

[Contributed by: Seth Dunn]

*Please note that the preceding is my personal opinion. It is not necessarily the opinion of any entity by which I am employed, any church at which I am a member, any church which I attend, or the educational institution at which I am enrolled. Any copyrighted material displayed or referenced is done under the doctrine of fair use.

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G7 FALLOUT: TRUDEAU STABS TRUMP IN THE BACK~SAYS CANADA “WON’T BE PUSHED AROUND” IN TARIFF FIGHT WITH U.S.

G7 FALLOUT: TRUDEAU STABS TRUMP IN THE BACK

Canada’s leader is triggered that Trump won’t allow America to be taken advantage of

BY JON BOWNE

SEE: https://www.infowars.com/g7-fallout-trudeau-stabs-trump-in-the-back/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

The fallout from Trump’s devastating tariff renegotiations at the G7 summit has come crashing down around the feet of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

TRUDEAU: Canada ‘won’t be pushed around’

in tariff fight with U.S.

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AMAZON CAVES TO MUSLIM EMPLOYEE PROTEST DEMANDING SPECIAL RAMADAN PERKS

AMAZON CAVES TO MUSLIM EMPLOYEE PROTEST DEMANDING SPECIAL

RAMADAN PERKS

BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS

SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/06/amazon-caves-to-muslim-employee-protest-demanding-for-special-ramadan-perks; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

Amazon has given in to demands from Muslim employees who requested various perks and work changes during Ramadan.

These demands for special accommodation of Islamic religious practice are causing upheaval at Amazon in terms of productivity and morale, as Ramadan coincides with Amazon’s biggest sale of the year: Amazon Prime Day. This is a time of extreme pressure:

Amazon warehouse employees have reportedly resorted to urinating in bottles to avoid punishment for taking a restroom break.

The Muslim employees “chanted in Somali” and slapped management with a list of special Ramadan demands. Their behavior has, not surprisingly, created “tension” with other employees.

Amazon.com Inc. employs more than 1,000 East African Muslim immigrants at four warehouses.

Amazon has unwisely chosen to concede to these demands out of fear of being branded “Islamophobic” by supremacist thugs. The company’s management needs to pay attention to the unraveling in Europe as a result of kowtowing to supremacist Muslims before company morale and productivity decline further.

“Amazon Gives In to Muslim Employee Ramadan Demands,” Charlie Nash, Breitbart, June 7, 2018:

Amazon has given in to demands from Muslim employees who requested various perks and work changes during Ramadan, which also coincides with Amazon’s biggest sale of the year.

According to Bloomberg, the fact that Ramadan was at the same time as Amazon Prime Day this year was “creating tension” among employees in “Minnesota’s Twin Cities region, where activists say Amazon.com Inc. employs more than 1,000 East African Muslim immigrants at four warehouses.”

Employees and other activists protested at the Eagan, Minnesota, delivery center, where they chanted in Somali and handed Amazon management a list of demands for Ramadan, which reportedly included a “call to curb their heavy workloads while they’re fasting and to let them take time off without penalty for Eid, the festival that ends Ramadan.”

Amazon announced that they would provide prayer rooms for employees at work and “would ease up on employees’ quotas for the duration of the fast.”…..

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UK: CATHEDRAL HOSTS RAMADAN “GRAND IFTAR SERVICE” ON ANNIVERSARY OF ISLAMIC STATE LONDON BRIDGE JIHAD MASSACRE

UK: CATHEDRAL HOSTS RAMADAN “GRAND IFTAR SERVICE” ON ANNIVERSARY OF ISLAMIC STATE LONDON BRIDGE JIHAD MASSACRE

BY ROBERT SPENCER

SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/06/uk-cathedral-hosts-ramadan-grand-iftar-service-on-anniversary-of-islamic-state-london-bridge-jihad-massacre; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

How wonderfully generous, tolerant, ecumenical, and all that. A few questions: why are Christian services never, ever held in mosques? Why is the “outreach” only one way? Or is it just a matter of the circumstances, so if a Christian screaming “Jesus is Lord” had committed a massacre in London, would a mosque host a Christian service and stress how we are all united as communities?

“UK Cathedral Celebrates Ramadan on Anniversary of ISIS London Bridge Attack,” by Tyler O’Neil, PJ Media, June 3, 2018:

London’s Southwark Cathedral hosted its second annual “Grand Iftar Service” on Sunday evening, marking the anniversary of the London Bridge terror attack last year. In addition to the 11 a.m. Eucharist service, the church also held a 3 p.m. Service of Commemoration for the attack, and an 8 p.m. service to celebrate the Muslim service….

“We stand united as communities, as Londoners, as people that want to celebrate our diversity,” Harun Khan, secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain, said at the Iftar service.

In a statement, the cathedral announced it would “host its second Grand Iftar which, this year, will also mark the anniversary of the London Bridge attacks and will bring all communities together to celebrate Ramadan, to promote resilience and to share the common values of hope, peace and unity and celebrate the diversity of those who live and work in the Bankside area [of London].”

On June 3, 2017, three terrorists inspired by and claimed by the Islamic State (ISIS) drove a van into pedestrians on London Bridge. When the van crashed, the terrorists ran to the nearby Borough Market area and began stabbing people in and around restaurants and bars. These terrorists killed eight people and injured 48 others, including four unarmed police officers….

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OHIO: TEACHER FED UP WITH “STUDENTS” SWEARING, STEALING, & DESTROYING PROPERTY, SPEAKS OUT~OTHER TEACHERS RESIGNING, RETIRING IN DISGUST, FEAR OF ATTACKS, ABUSE

OHIO: TEACHER FED UP WITH “STUDENTS” SWEARING, STEALING, & DESTROYING PROPERTY, SPEAKS OUT

Fed Up Ohio Teacher Unleashes On Commission: Unruly Students Swear At Faculty, Steal Supplies And Destroy Property

WASHINGTON STATE:
OTHER TEACHERS RESIGN,
FEARING FOR THEIR SAFETY

Teacher For 27 Years in Paterson, N.J.

Teacher Describes an American High School: “Chaos”

Lee McNulty is now retired after 27-years as a public school teacher in Paterson, New Jersey. His descriptions of the school in which he worked, a regular district public school, are chilling.

He says, “Gangs of kids will roam the building; they’re looking for a certain person. They’ll walk into the classroom. They’ll find that kid and just start a fight in that class.” He says, “Our school is an indoor street corner. When I walk in that building, I have no idea anymore the concept of what right and wrong is.”

McNulty says the goings on in the school are no secret to the administration — after all, much of it is caught on the security cameras. He says the administration is more interested creating the facade of normalcy than correcting the problems.

He tells the story of students who had sex in the high school stairwell, and the event was “hushed up,” so parents and public would never know.

He also kept data on school attendance, finding that the average student missed class 33 days/year. He also says that final exam dates are set two weeks before the end of the year, designed to guarantee almost no education goes on during the final two weeks.

Teacher begs parents to stop coddling children

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PRESIDENT TRUMP DELIVERS SUMMATION AT END OF G7 MEETING IN CHARLEVOIX, QUEBEC, CANADA ON DEFENSE, ENVIRONMENT & TARIFFS

PRESIDENT TRUMP DELIVERS SUMMATION AT END OF G7 MEETING IN CHARLEVOIX, QUEBEC, CANADA ON DEFENSE, ENVIRONMENT & TARIFFS

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NEW YORK’S GOVERNOR CUOMO EDGES CLOSER TO TOTAL GUN CONFISCATION

NEW YORK’S GOVERNOR CUOMO EDGES CLOSER TO TOTAL GUN CONFISCATION

BY JOHN FARNAM

SEE: https://www.ammoland.com/2018/06/new-yorks-governor-cuomo-edges-closer-to-total-gun-confiscation/#axzz5HwFzCrrr;

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:



Cuomo & Gun Control, Whos Da Man?
Ft Collins, CO –-(Ammoland.com)- “The ‘Few’ keep getting fewer!”

More misery for the few NY residents who still own guns:

NY’s Democrat governor, who (like most Democrats) wants to wholly eliminate the private ownership of guns, is now proposing a new measure designed to get him one step closer:

Governor Cuomo announced that he wants to add teachers, school administrators, and other school personnel to the growing list of individuals who may go to the head of the line in order to petition courts to issue “extreme risk protection orders” for individuals whom they believe “are likely to engage in conduct that would result in serious harm to himself, herself or others.”

“Extreme risk protection order” is polite terminology for abrupt and permanent gun confiscation.

So any teacher, even one who has never even met you, can capriciously decide that you’re “crazy,” and thus should not own guns. On the basis of his unsworn, uncorroborated, unprofessional testimony alone, one’s Second Amendment Rights as a American can be instantly, arbitrarily, and probably permanently annulled, without a hearing, without warning, without ever having been even accused (much less convicted) of any crime, and without any opportunity to defend yourself.


“Due process” does not exist in the minds of these liberal Second-Amendment haters!


Of course, the governor’s heavily-armed security detail will not be affected by any of this!


“Many politicians are, by choice, far-removed from their own electorate and thus continue to make the mistake of ignoring voters’ concerns, because they (politicians) have manufactured their own secure, comfortable, and insulated world, and refuse to ever come out of it, nor even acknowledge other worlds exists!” ~ Kurz




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AUSTRIA TO CLOSE SEVEN MOSQUES, EXPEL IMAMS IN CRACKDOWN ON “POLITICAL ISLAM” & FOREIGN FINANCING OF MOSQUES

AUSTRIA TO CLOSE SEVEN MOSQUES, EXPEL IMAMS IN CRACKDOWN ON “POLITICAL ISLAM” & FOREIGN FINANCING OF MOSQUES

BY ROBERT SPENCER

SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/06/austria-to-close-7-mosques-expel-imams-in-crackdown-on-political-islam-and-foreign-financing-of-mosques; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

Choosing national security over socialist internationalism and politically correct posturing. Bravo.

“Austria to close 7 mosques, expel imams in crackdown,” Associated Press, June 8, 2018:

BERLIN – Austria’s government is closing seven mosques and plans to expel imams in a crackdown on “political Islam” and foreign financing of mosques.

Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said Friday that the government is shutting a hardline Turkish nationalist mosque in Vienna and dissolving a group called the Arab Religious Community that runs six mosques.

The actions by the government were based on a 2015 law that, among other things, prevents religious communities from getting funding from abroad. Interior Minister Herbert Kickl said the residence permits of around 40 imams employed by ATIB, which oversees Turkish mosques in Austria, are being reviewed.

Kickl said that, in two cases, permits have already been revoked. Five more imams were denied first-time permits….

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HOW CAN TRUMP HONOR ABSURD ISLAMIC BELIEFS WITH WHITE HOUSE DINNER; GIVE UNWORTHY CREDIBILITY TO VIOLENT RELIGION?

How Can Trump Honor Absurd Islamic

Beliefs With White House Dinner?

SEE: http://the-trumpet-online.com/can-trump-honor-absurd-islamic-beliefs-

white-house-dinner/;
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

Posted by Don Boys on June 7, 2018

Historic Islam (Koranic Islam) is America’s Trojan Horse full of an enemy that has clearly proclaimed plans to destroy America. If our leaders do not recognize that fact and act accordingly, they are like a man wading waist-deep through the snake and alligator infested Everglades Swamp. They are going to get bit.

President Trump, no doubt because of intense pressure, honored Islam at the White House with a Ramadan dinner to break their daily fast! The guests were “safe” Muslims all being diplomats and ambassadors from Muslim-majority nations. Of course, it was still giving credibility to a dangerous cult that is at war with America and all non-Muslim nations. It would be as reasonable to honor snake handlers from Appalachia! At least they are a domestic cult while Islam is a foreign cult. And snake handlers are only dangerous to themselves and don’t have plans for world dominance.

The Muslim front groups for terrorism were not invited to the White House so they decided not to attend the dinner to which they were not invited! Trump is to be commended for not honoring the most extreme Muslims as he is to be condemned for honoring their hostile religion. Such is politics and most Americans have no ability to discern the subtleties.

The ignorance of Americans toward Islam is shocking. We should at least have basic knowledge about those who plan to conquer or destroy us!

Muslims throughout the world are obligated to obey the Koran and the Hadith, the two primary sources of Islamic theology and laws for daily living. Muslims are obligated to follow the same path of Mohammed. So, the “perfect” Koran is required reading for all Muslims and absolute adherence to its teaching is demanded.

The Hadith is the collected sayings and actions of Mohammed; some Muslims reject the hadiths because they are so absurd and they cannot live with the ridicule that follows. But without the hadiths, much of Islam is lost. For example, the details on how to pray, how to perform the Hajj, and the five pillars of Islam all come from the Hadith, not the Koran.

Some of the outrageous beliefs of Muslims listed below are taken from my first book dealing with Islam: ISLAM: America’s Trojan Horse! (now available as an eBook). I assure you that the PBS Special and other media pieces dealing with Mohammed were mere propaganda pieces that revealed none of the following.

According to most Muslims, Judas died on the cross instead of Christ! “Yet they slew him not, and they crucified him not, but they had only his likeness.” (Koran, 4:157-158.) Obviously, from the beginning, the Koran cannot be trusted and is far from a “perfect” book.

I heard a Muslim cleric say that death does not sever the marital relations between a husband and wife so sex with the dead is permissible! Moroccan Muslim cleric Zamzami Abdelbair declared that necrophilia is religiously acceptable!

Mohammed slept with his dead aunt! Narrated by Ibn Abbas: “I (Muhammad) put on her my shirt that she may wear the clothes of heaven, and I slept with her in her coffin (grave) that I may lessen the pressure of the grave. She was the best of Allah’s creatures to me after Abu Talib.” Mohammed was referring to Fatima, the mother of Ali. Mohammed was trying to give his aunt a ticket to Heaven or make it easier for her after death.

You never heard that from the spokesmen at CAIR or other Islamic public relations groups who have a love affair with terrorists.

Mohammed had sexual relations with every wife every day! “The Prophet used to visit all his wives in a round, during the day and night and they were eleven in number. I asked Anas, ‘Had the Prophet the strength for it?’ Anas replied, ‘We used to say that the Prophet was given the strength of thirty men.’” (Sahih Bukhari (5:268.) Mohammed was not only dishonest; he was delusional! He seems to have had delusions of adequacy!

Islam permits cannibalism according to Al-Shafie, who is considered to be the founder of Islamic jurisprudence. He declared, “We allowed the eating of the flesh of dead humans… under necessary conditions. It [dead human flesh] must not be cooked or grilled to avoid Haram (wrongdoing) …and he can kill a murtadd (apostate) and eat him.” Again, “One may eat the flesh of a human body. It is not allowed to kill a Muslim nor a free non-Muslim under Muslim rule (because he is useful for the society), nor a prisoner because he belongs to other Muslims. But you may kill an enemy fighter or an adulterer and eat his body (716 in volume 1, Al-Kortoby).”

That’s something else CAIR officials never discuss.

Since the Koran in 6:37, 17:59, 28:48 and 29:50-51 states that Mohammed did no miracles, Muslims looked for proof of his prophethood. They point to a huge growth on his back as proof! (That might make the hunchback of Notre Dame a Muslim prophet!) The growth was big as a “pigeon’s egg.” (Sahih Muslim, Book 030, Number 5790 Shaikh ‘Abdu ‘l-Haqq.) Sure, a growth on the back is proof of prophethood; that makes sense–to an uneducated, uncivilized, and unsophisticated seventh-century Bedouin.

Mohammed hated the cross and according to al-Waqidi, “Muhammad had such a repugnance to the form of the cross that he broke everything brought into his house with that figure upon it.” (Dictionary of Islam, p. 63.)

Mohammed didn’t think a woman had much of a mind. In Vol. 3, Book 48, Number 826, “The Prophet said, ‘Isn’t the witness of a woman equal to half of that of a man?’ The women said, ‘Yes,’ He said, ‘This is because of the deficiency of a woman’s mind.” Mohammed said, “I have not seen any one more deficient in intelligence and religion than you women.” (Sahih al-Bukhari, Vol. 1, Book 6, No. 301; Vol. 2, Book 24, No. 541.) I’m still waiting to hear from the screaming feminists about their reactions.

Mohammed said that wives “are as a tilth (property) unto you, so approach your tilth when or how ye will.” (Koran 2:223.) Since women are property, men are free to have sex with them at any time or beat their wives as per the Koran in 4:34. Husbands are told to first admonish the wife, then refuse to sleep with her, then to beat her. Occasionally, Muslim men will take time from beating their wives to lecture others on how sensible, sensitive and sophisticated they are!

Mohammed clearly taught that it was acceptable to beat wives so he had no problem with beating drunks! Narrated Abu Huraira: “A drunk was brought to the Prophet and he ordered him to be beaten (lashed).” (Bukhari Vol. 8, Book 81, Number 772.) Don’t think that practice will put AA out of business even though few people like such meetings.

Mohammed knocked on the door of Hell in trying to speak with the dead. Muslims who overheard him asked, “Are you calling the dead?” and the Prophet answered, “They hear me no less than you do, except that they are unable to answer me.” (Haykal, The Life of Muhammad, Translated by Isma’il Razi A. al-Faruqi, p. 74.) The Bible condemns all witchcraft including speaking with the dead.

It seems Satan urinates in the ears of those who sleep during prayer time! (Hey, don’t look at me like that. I don’t explain them; I only report them. Ask a Muslim to explain it to you.) Narrated Abdullah: “A person was mentioned before the prophet and he was told that he had kept on sleeping till morning and has not gotten up for the (fajr–early morning) prayer. The prophet said, ‘Satan urinated in his ears.’” (Vol. 2, Book 21, No. 245.) Be careful about missing mosque services or slumbering in church!

Mohammed believed that yawning comes from Satan: Narrated Abu Huraira: “The prophet said, ‘Yawning is from Satan and if anyone of you yawns, he should check his yawning as much as possible, for if anyone of you (during the act of yawning) should say: ‘Ha,’ Satan will laugh at him.’” (Vol. 4, Book 54, No. 509 – see also Vol. 8, Book 73, No. 242.)

Muhammad even claimed that Satan actually lives in the upper part of a person’s nose during the night and therefore it needs to be flushed out every morning by snorting water in and out of one’s nose! Narrated Abu Huraira: “The prophet said, ‘if anyone of you rouses from sleep and performs the ablution, he should wash his nose by putting water in it and then blowing it out thrice, because Satan has stayed in the upper part of his nose all the night.’” (Vol. 4, Book 54, No. 516.)

Read again the previous paragraph then call your ear, nose, and eye specialist and inform him.

Fevers come from Hell. Narrated Aisha: “The prophet said, ‘fever is from the heat of the Hell-fire so abate it with water.’” (Vol. 4, Book 54, No. 485 also Vol. 1, Book 10, No. 514.)

Mohammed practiced medicine without a license when he ordered people to drink camel’s milk and urine! Narrated Abu Qilaba: “Anas said, ‘some people of ‘Ukal or ‘Uraina tribe came to Al-Medina and its climate did not suit them. So the prophet ordered them to go to the herd of (milch) camels and to drink their milk and urine (as a medicine) …” (Vol. 1, Book 4, No. 234.)

Mohammed gave explicit instructions on when and how to urinate. He said, “One of the major sins is not to protect oneself [one’s clothes and body] from one’s urine [i.e., from being soiled with it].” (Vol. 1, Book 4, No. 215.)

Mohammed believed that people would be tormented in their graves for soiling their clothes with their urine: Narrated Ibn Abbas: “Once the prophet while passing through one of the Heytan (gardens or graveyards) of Al-Medina or Makka, heard the voices of two persons who were being tortured in their graves. The prophet said, ‘These two persons are being tortured not for a major sin (to avoid).’ He then added, ‘Yes! (There they are being tortured for a major sin). Indeed, one of them never saved himself from being soiled with his urine while the other used to go about with calumnies (to make enmity between friends).’” (Vol. 1, Book 4, No. 215.)

Mohammed took a green branch from a date tree, broke it, and placed a piece on each grave to relieve the pain of those being tortured for careless peeing!

Muslims are taught that soiling their clothes with urine is a major sin yet they don’t blink at killing Muslims who leave Islam–even their own children!

So, how can sane people believe the “holy” books of Islam that are filled with such mistakes, mishmash, and madness? They can’t, yet they are trusting their eternal souls to its teaching!

If it weren’t for terror being the major impetus of this cult, much of its teaching would be slightly gigglesome yet Islam was honored by President Trump in the White House! At least the President did not say, “Muslim Americans have been part of our American family since its founding” as Obama did.

Boys’ new book Muslim Invasion: The Fuse is Burning! was published recently by Barbwire Books; to get your copy, click here. An eBook edition is also available.

Websites Links

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http://the-trumpet-online.com/

http://biblicallawcenter.com/

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LONDON: 20,000 PROTESTORS AT TOMMY ROBINSON RALLY CHASE POLICE AWAY~GEERT WILDERS OF HOLLAND GIVES ROUSING SPEECH~OTHER PROTESTS AT OTHER CITIES & BRITISH EMBASSIES/CONSULATES

LONDON: 20,000 PROTESTORS AT TOMMY ROBINSON RALLY CHASE POLICE AWAY~

GEERT WILDERS OF HOLLAND GIVES ROUSING SPEECH~OTHER PROTESTS AT BRITISH EMBASSIES/CONSULATES

GEERT WILDERS ENCOURAGES

THE SUPPORTERS, DEMANDS RELEASE OF TOMMY ROBINSON, RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH, END TO ISLAMIC JIHADIST TERROR, RAPES OF WOMEN & CHILDREN, UNBRIDLED IMMIGRATION

Tracy Blackwell Powerful Speech!

20,000 LOUDLY PROTEST THERESA MAY’S POLICIES, USE OF POLICE TO SILENCE

TRUTH TELLERS

CROWD CHASES POLICE THROUGH STREETS

MORE:

THE HORSES BROUGHT IN

Huge Crowd Gather in Trafalgar Square!

UGLY SCENES IN TRAFALGAR SQUARE POST EVENT

Police tactics at Robinson demo

Whitehall/Trafalgar Square

Breaking Through the Police Barriers:

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VATICAN CARDINAL TO DELIVER MESSAGE FROM POPE TO BILDERBERG GLOBALISTS CONCERNED ABOUT POPULIST, NATIONALIST MOVEMENT THREATENING EUROPEAN UNION

https://ratherexposethem.org/2018/06/bilderberg-globalists-concerned-about.html

THE ONE WORLD CHURCH

FROM THE ANTI-POPULIST EVIL POPE DOWN, ORDERS ARE GIVEN & OBEYED TO DESTROY SOVEREIGNTY & NATIONALISM

VATICAN CARDINAL TO DELIVER MESSAGE FROM POPE TO BILDERBERG GLOBALISTS

Pietro Cardinal Parolin to address global elite

on behalf of Pope Francis

BY PAUL JOSEPH WATSON

SEE: https://www.infowars.com/vatican-cardinal-to-deliver-message-from-pope-to-bilderberg-globalists/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

The Vatican has sent a top cardinal to the secretive Bilderberg Group meeting in Turin to deliver a message to the global elite from the Pope.

The Bilderberg group is an annual meeting of over 100 of the most powerful people on the planet, including presidents, prime ministers and heads of banking, the corporate world, media and academia. Its clandestine 2018 confab is set to begin today.

This year’s summit will be attended by Pietro Cardinal Parolin, the Vatican’s Secretary of State.

Given Bilderberg’s kingmaker legacy (the group has welcomed politicians before who have gone on to become heads of state), some are wondering if Parolin’s attendance could indicate he is in line to be the next Pope.

“The cardinal is one of the most powerful Curial officials and has been regarded by Vatican watchers as positioned to succeed Francis,” reports LifeSiteNews.

Pope Francis has made numerous statements and backed several causes that are in line with the worldview shared by globalists at Bilderberg.

He has criticised the Brexit vote, compared Donald Trump to Hitler and warned against the rise of populism in Europe. Pope Francis has also repeatedly urged European countries to take in migrants from predominantly Muslim countries.

Catholics have also expressed alarm about his liberal views on abortion, gay marriage and the existence of hell, while also expressing amazement at his comparison of ISIS to Jesus Christ.

The Pope’s activities have stoked concerns amongst many Catholics, who worry that his allegiance lies not with the church but with the global political elite.

Parolin himself has also caused concern amongst many Catholics as a result of his behavior.

“Parolin has asserted that Pope Francis’ teaching in Amoris Laetitia represents “a paradigm shift” for the Church. He has been criticized by Chinese Cardinal Zen for the Vatican’s “suicide” deal with China.

And he was involved along with the Vatican in the hire of a pro-gay law firm that sought to shut down a Catholic website critical of Pope Francis,” writes Dorothy McLean.

“While the Roman Catholic Church is truly a global organization, it is thankfully not a globalist organization,” said Daniel McAdams. “While the inclusion of Cardinal Parolin in this year’s meeting should not necessarily draw our scorn, we should understand that the Bilderbergers and similar groupings of the largely unelected elite more often than not stridently oppose rather than endorse Catholic teaching.”

As we reported on Tuesday, the number one topic of discussion at this year’s secretive Bilderberg confab will be the rise of populism in Europe, following the election of a populist, anti-mass migration, eurosceptic coalition government in Italy.

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Bilderbergers’ Primary Concern Is Destroying

Donald Trump

The world’s elite see their grip slipping, and they are desperate to maintain control.

Bilderberg 2018: You Won’t Believe WHO’s Going And The Agenda They ADMIT To!

Bilderberg Security Closes Major Pedestrian Walkway

To Keep Out The Rabble

SEE OUR PREVIOUS POST:

BILDERBERG GLOBALISTS CONCERNED ABOUT POPULIST UPRISING IN EUROPE~ELITIST CONFAB SET TO MEET IN TURIN, ITALY

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POLICE STATE NEW JERSEY: DEMOCRATS PASS MAGAZINE & GUN BAN DESPITE MASSIVE PROTEST FROM RESIDENTS

POLICE STATE

NEW JERSEY: DEMOCRATS PASS MAGAZINE & GUN BAN DESPITE MASSIVE PROTEST

FROM RESIDENTS

BY SCOTT BACH

SEE: https://www.ammoland.com/2018/06/new-jersey-democrats-pass-magazine-gun-ban-making-felons-out-of-gun-owners/#axzz5Hpv09aSO; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

New Jersey – -(Ammoland.com)- In a fervor to exploit tragedy and advance a longstanding agenda to limit gun rights, a majority of Garden State lawmakers voted today to pass a package of gun bills that target the rights of law-abiding citizens instead of severely punishing criminals and madmen who misuse firearms.

“None of the bills passed today will make anyone safer,” said ANJRPC Executive Director Scot Bach. “Lawmakers have squandered an important opportunity to make our schools safer and prevent those with serious mental health issues from obtaining firearms in the first place.”

“Instead,” continued Bach, “they have enacted a series of measures limiting the ability of citizens to defend themselves, and enabling those hostile to gun rights to abuse legal process to harass gun owners. Law-abiding firearms owners are not the problem, and limiting their rights accomplishes nothing to advance safety.”

Once these bills are signed by the governor, which could come before the weekend, Association of New Jersey Rifle and Pistol Clubs plans on taking the fight to the courts, where we expect unconstitutional laws to be overturned, and lawmakers to be forced to respect the rights of law-abiding citizens.

Association of New Jersey Rifle and Pistol Clubs would like to thank the tens of thousands of gun owners who participated in our grassroots blitz leading up to today’s vote. We received several requests from legislators to “make it stop,” and some gun owners reported that there was an attempt to place a firewall on the legislative server in an effort to block messages in the last 24 hours. Based on the overwhelming volume of calls and emails sent, one thing is certain: lawmakers know with certainty that any effort to limit the gun rights of law-abiding citizens is going to be difficult and painful every step of the way, and they will pick their future battles very carefully.

Association of New Jersey Rifle and Pistol Clubs will be providing detailed analysis of the new laws and their impact on law-abiding gun owners in the coming days and weeks. Regarding the magazine ban, there is a 180-day implementation period within which to comply, so there is time for you to assess the best course of action to take with respect to your property. That time has the potential to be further extended in anticipated litigation.

Please forward this alert to every gun owner you know, and if you don’t already receive alerts from ANJRPC, please subscribe to our free email alerts for the latest Second Amendment breaking news and action alerts.

About Association of New Jersey Rifle & Pistol Clubs:The Association of New Jersey Rifle and Pistol Clubs, Inc. is the official NRA State Association in New Jersey. Our mission is to implement all of the programs and activities at the state level that the NRA does at the national level. This mission includes the following: To support and defend the constitutional rights of the people to keep and bear arms. To take immediate action against any legislation at the local, state and federal level that would infringe upon these rights. Visit: www.anjrpc.org

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MIGRANT CRIME AGAINST GERMANS SOARS 23 PERCENT IN A SINGLE YEAR~ANTIFA FASCISTS CAUSE CANCELLATION OF ANTI-ISLAMIZATION EVENT AT UNIVERSITY OF MAINZ

MIGRANT CRIME AGAINST GERMANS SOARS

23 PERCENT IN A SINGLE YEAR

Fallout from Merkel’s open border policy continues to cause huge problems

BY PAUL JOSEPH WATSON

SEE: https://www.infowars.com/migrant-crime-against-germans-soars-23-per-cent-in-a-single-year/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

Migrant crime targeting German citizens has soared by over 23 percent in a single year as the fallout from Angela Merkel’s open border policy continues to impact the country.

New figures from the German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) show that there were 39,096 German victims of immigrant crime in 2017, a new high. This compares with 31,597 the previous year, a rise of 23.7 percent.

“This means that every single day around 107 German citizens were and will become victims of crimes with at least one migrant as a suspect, and the trend is rising,” reports Voice of Europe.

112 Germans were also victims of attempted murder or murder carried out by migrants in 2017.

The report also draws attention to the increasing threat of Islamic terrorists using the refugee wave as a cover to infiltrate jihadists into Europe.

“Due to the refugee situation, it has become possible for terrorist organizations to smuggle possible assassins or supporters into Germany,” states the report, adding that radicalization of refugees already in Germany is also a massive concern.

As we reported last month, 200 African migrants rioted in the German town of Ellwangen to prevent the deportation of a Congolese man who was subsequently released as police fled the scene in fear.

Violence and abuse in German schools with high migrant populations is also a mounting concern.

A mother in Germany whose daughter was being bullied by Muslim students because she was blonde, Christian and didn’t wear a headscarf was told by the headmaster of a school in Frankfurt to cover her up with a hijab.

Earlier this year, the president of Germany’s Teachers Association warned that schools with over 70% migrant students are spiraling out of control, with attacks on female teachers and Jewish students becoming commonplace.

Heinz-Peter Meidinger told BILD that a story in Berlin about Muslim migrant students circulating ISIS beheading videos was not a lone case and that such propaganda is “spreading like wildfire”.

In a related story, a Jewish teenager was abused by a group of Arab Muslims on a train in Berlin on Saturday for listening to Hebrew-language.

“Berlin is our city now and here we do not listen to dirty Jewish music,” the gang reportedly told the teen.

“If I had a knife, I would have killed you…. if I see you again, you are finished,” one of the Muslims is said to have added.

As we document in the video below (which is banned in Germany), rather than directly address the multitude of problems that importing around 2 million “refugees” has caused the country, German authorities appear more intent on brainwashing and coercing their population into accepting the new reality with passive compliance.

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Germany: Antifa fascists disrupt, force cancellation of university event on Islamization

BY ROBERT SPENCER

SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/06/germany-antifa-fascists-disrupt-force-cancellation-of-university-event-on-islamization;

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

Yet again we see it. In The Coming of the Third Reich, historian Richard J. Evans explains how, in the early days of National Socialist Germany, Stormtroopers (Brownshirts) “organized campaigns against unwanted professors in the local newspapers [and] staged mass disruptions of their lectures.” To express dissent from Nazi positions became a matter of taking one’s life into one’s hands. The idea of people of opposing viewpoints airing their disagreements in a civil and mutually respectful manner was gone. One was a Nazi, or one was silent (and fearful).

Today’s fascists call themselves “anti-fascists.” Just like the Nazis, they are totalitarian: they are determined not to allow their opponents to murmur the slightest whisper of dissent. Forcibly suppressing the speech of someone with whom one disagrees is a quintessentially fascist act.

These fascists will target you for destruction if you oppose jihad mass murder and Sharia oppression of women and others.

“POL-PPMZ: disruption of an event,” translated from “POL-PPMZ: Störung einer Veranstaltung,” Presse Portal, June 5, 2018 (thanks to Searchlight Germany):

Mainz (ots) – The University of Mainz today held an event on “Islamization and anti-racist appeasement.” This planned event was disturbed by a group of about 30 people around 6:10PM, so the police were called to it. The protesters held up banners and loudly expressed their displeasure. The organizer canceled the event due to the incident. The police subsequently monitored the exit of the protesters and those attending the event. In one case, there was a dispute between two people, which was settled. One of the participants refused to have his personal details taken, so he was taken to the police station. While on the way there, he tried to kick the head of the driver of the patrol car, but failed. The man was, after his personal details were taken, was released.

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AMERICA WILL NEVER BE GREAT & FREE AS LONG AS WE KEEP DENYING TRUTH

AMERICA WILL NEVER BE GREAT & FREE AS LONG AS WE KEEP DENYING TRUTH

BY DAVE DAUBENMIRE, NEWS WITH VIEWS

SEE: http://the-trumpet-online.com/america-will-never-great-free-long-keep-denying-truth/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

Stop Denying The Truth

“Ye shall know the Truth and the truth shall make you free.” —Jesus Christ

A lie only is effective if you choose to believe it. The fact that you believe something does not, in itself, make something true. Sadly, in today’s world where knowledge is ever increasing, so much of what the average American believes is not true.

Willful ignorance is a good way of describing it. Much of what we believe is “true” only because we want it to be. Denial of the Truth does not make the Truth go away.

Truth does not have two sides. Truth is not fair and balanced. Truth stands on its own two feet and is never diminished by debate. Opinion is not Truth and Truth is not an opinion. At the core, the battle raging in America is over Truth.

As damaging and discouraging as it might be, only Truth can lead to freedom. Believing you are not sick will not make you well. Thinking you are free does not make it so. Hoping for the best does not cancel consequences.

So much of what we believe simply is not true.

We are told that religion and politics make strange bedfellows but I am not so sure that they do. Much of religion is fraught with half-truths manipulated by the will and desires of sinful men. Politicians are much the same as our religious leaders. They manipulate the truth because the results justify the methods.

If I may toot my own horn for a second, I was a fairly successful high school coach of a variety of sports and one of the reasons I was successful is that I was direct. I refused to lie to myself or to the players about what was required. Most successful coaches have enemies and in most cases the enemies will be those who choose to deny truth.

Truth places blame in the proper lap. Truth limits the ability to parse and point fingers. Truth is the touchstone of cause and effect. That is why it is so freeing. There is no way to find the proper cure if one is not willing to diagnose the proper cause.

Pro-aborts dehumanize the unborn. They have to. How else could they get away with murder? For over four decades they have told us lies about the pre-born. You can rattle them off…it is a fetus…it is not viable…it cannot think…it has no self-awareness…it is a blob of tissue…it is a clump of cells…it is part of the woman’s body. It is the same argument that the Nazi’s used with the gas chambers and that the lynch mobs used with blacks. The dead weren’t totally human so therefore it was ok to exterminate them.

But we knew better. We all did. We knew it when Dred Scott declared that blacks weren’t fully human and when Hitler declared that the Jews were sub-human. We knew better. We know better today. Our ignorance is simply…convenient…willful…selfish. Calling an unborn human being non-human does not make it so.

Take a look at this picture. It is harsh. It is convicting. It is tragic. Yet we know it is real. We know that “thing” growing inside a woman is a baby…what else could it be? Calling it by some other term does not make it any less human. Making it “legal” does not make it right.

You would have to search long and hard throughout history to find anything as massively evil as the willful slaughter of an unborn human being. Yet this action is commonplace in America…legal…in a nation that loves to talk about fairness…diversity…equal rights…and protecting the weak.

Abortion is the ultimate bullying in a nation that claims to decry the powerful picking on the powerless. What could be more helpless than an unborn child totally dependent on the love of another? Yet we legalize it…glorify it actually…grant special rights and financial support to those who engage in the practice of it. Love thy neighbor? Give me a break.

Child sacrifice is all one big lie. We all know the Truth. Our judges know it. Our elected officials know it. Our police officers know it. Planned Parenthood knows it. The Republican Party knows it. The Democrats know it.

But our pastors know it too. And so do the disengaged men and women sitting in the pews. They know blacks are not 3/5 human. They know Jews are not animals, and they know the fetus is a living human being.

Life is the greatest of all gifts that God has given to man. How can we fight so hard for our own life and be so cavalier about the life of another?

Abortion has not made America great. As long as we permit it we will never be.

Christianity is anchored upon the life of a man who identified Himself as Truth. The Church was God’s antidote to the lies. Yet the church has embraced the lies. Darkness and light now are in fellowship in the House of God.

Speaking such Truth today is considered harsh and divisive. Child murder continues because the light has gone out in the church.

Abortion is murder and murder is not lawful. It is not healthcare. No one has the right to choose death for another. Abortion is mean. In our hearts…we all know that.

America will never be great as long as we kill our offspring. Stop the denial. Only the truth can set us free.

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ENGLAND’S TOP FAMILY JUDGE, SIR JAMES MUNBY, APPLAUDS END OF THE TRADITIONAL FAMILY

ENGLAND’S TOP FAMILY JUDGE APPLAUDS END OF THE TRADITIONAL FAMILY

BY DAVID CLOUD
SEE: https://www.wayoflife.org/friday_church_news/19-23.php; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

(Friday Church News Notes, June 8, 2018, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) –
Sir James Munby, President of the Family Division of England’s High Court of Justice, says society should “welcome and applaud” the collapse of the traditional family. At a lecture at the University of Liverpool, Munby said, “In contemporary Britain the family takes an almost infinite variety of forms. Many marry according to the rites of non-Christian faiths. People live together as couples, married or not, and with partners who may not always be of the other sex. Children live in households where their parents may be married or unmarried. They may be brought up by a single parent, by two parents or even by three parents. Their parents may or may not be their natural parents. They may be children of parents with very different religious, ethnic or national backgrounds, [and they] may be the children of polygamous marriages. … This, I stress, is not merely the reality; it is, I believe, a reality which we should welcome and applaud” (“England’s Top Family Judge,” Breitbart.com, Jun. 3, 2018). This reminds us of what the prophet Isaiah said 2,700 years ago: “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!” (Isa 5:20-21).

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PRESIDENT TRUMP HOLDS PRESS CONFERENCE WITH PRIME MINISTER OF JAPAN~POMPEO ALSO SPEAKS~GRIM PICTURE OF RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION IN NORTH KOREA

PRESIDENT TRUMP HOLDS PRESS CONFERENCE WITH PRIME MINISTER OF JAPAN~

POMPEO ALSO SPEAKS

President Trump said Thursday he hopes to normalize relations between the United States and Nk, but noted such a development would happen at the end of the ongoing push to denuclearize the isolated nation. “Normalizing relations is something that I would expect to do, I would hope to do when everything’s complete,” Trump said during a White House press conference with Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. “We would certainly like to see normalization,” he added. Trump added that Nk has “tremendous” potential economically and that Abe, Sk president Moon and China President Xi Jinping have all expressed interest in doing business with Nk.
U.S. officials have indicated they would be willing to lift economic sanctions on Nk if leader Kim agrees to fully abandon his nuclear program. Trump said he’s open to signing an agreement that would end the Korean W but called that “a first step.”
“That’s really the beginning. Sounds a little bit strange, but that’s probably the easy part. The hard part remains after that,” he said.
Trump is slated to meet with Kim next Tuesday at a luxury hotel in Singapore.

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U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT REPORT PAINTS GRIM PICTURE OF RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION

IN NORTH KOREA

BY DAVID CLOUD

SEE: https://www.wayoflife.org/friday_church_news/19-23.php; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

(Friday Church News Notes, June 8, 2018, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) –

The following is excerpted from “Report: ‘Praying, Singing Hymns, and Reading the Bible’ Can Lead to Prison Camp,” CNSNews.com, May 30, 2018:

“Weeks before President Trump is expected to meet with Kim Jong Un, a State Department report issued Tuesday painted a grim picture of religious freedom abuses at the hands of the Stalinist regime–including ‘executions, torture, beatings, and arrests’ of people of faith. The report said that some of the up to 120,000 North Koreans being held in prison camps ‘under horrific conditions’ were incarcerated for religious reasons. It cited North Korean defectors and international non-governmental organizations as reporting that ‘any religious activities conducted outside of those that were state-sanctioned, including praying, singing hymns, and reading the Bible, could lead to severe punishment, including imprisonment in political prison camps.’ A South Korean NGO had recorded 1,304 cases of religious freedom violations carried out by North Korean authorities during the year in review, including 119 killings and 87 disappearances. Detentions accounted for another 770 of the incidents. … ‘An estimated 80,000 to 120,000 political prisoners, some imprisoned for religious reasons, were believed to be held in the political prison camp system in remote areas under horrific conditions.’ It cited a religious freedom advocacy group, Christian Solidarity Worldwide, as saying the regime often applies a policy of ‘guilt by association,’ targeting not just Christians but detaining their relatives as well, irrespective of their own beliefs. The envisaged Trump-Kim summit in Singapore is focused on the crisis over North Korea’s nuclear weapons programs and related security concerns. But rights campaigners are urging the president to put human rights on the agenda too. … State Department ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom Sam Brownback said, ‘The president is right on point on North Korea. He’s very engaged on this, as you know. The Secretary [of State Mike Pompeo] is very engaged on this. And I think they’re raising all of these issues,’ he said. … Brownback recalled that during his days in the Senate–he was a Republican senator from Kansas from 1996-2011 before serving as governor of Kansas–he raised concerns about North Korea, ‘but you couldn’t get anybody to act.’ ‘Well, this president is acting and he’s taking this issue on, even though it’s threatened us for years, if not decades.’”

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ZUCKERBERG LIED: FACEBOOK NOW A PUBLISHER~FUNDING & RIGGING NEWS WITH A GLOBALIST, LIBERAL, SOCIALIST BIAS

ZUCKERBERG LIED

FACEBOOK NOW A PUBLISHER:

FUNDING & RIGGING NEWS

Just 2 months after Facebook CEO Zuckerberg deflected Congressional criticism by saying Facebook isn’t a publisher, they are about to move from censoring the crowd & promoting fake news to aggressively funding establishment media programming.

LIBERAL NEWS PROGRAMMING

INCLUDES CNN’S ANDERSON COOPER

FACEBOOK HIRING

“NEWS CREDIBILITY SPECIALISTS”

The war on “fake news” is about to go to an entirely new level

BY Michael Snyder | End Of The American Dream

SEE: https://www.infowars.com/facebook-is-hiring-news-credibility-specialists-that-will-pass-judgment-on-which-sites-are-credible-and-which-sites-are-not/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

According to media reports, Facebook has been seeking to hire “news credibility specialists” that will be tasked with “evaluating” which news publishers are “credible” and which are not.

If the goal was just to simply filter out the handful of websites that purposely publish fake news stories, that would be fine. But as we have seen so many times in recent years, these types of programs inevitably discriminate against conservative viewpoints. Facebook is highly liberal, and they will be hiring from a California talent pool that is also highly liberal. And liberals invariably consider liberal viewpoints to be more “credible” than conservative viewpoints. Facebook built an empire by giving everyone a voice, and it is simply not fair for them to try to exclude conservative viewpoints now just because they do not like them.

Hopefully, we can get some answers from Facebook about this. On their official job site, the advertisement for these positions indicated that these “news credibility specialists” would be involved in the creation of “a list of credible news organizations”…

Per a report in Business Insider, as of Thursday, Facebook had two contract positions for “news credibility specialists” open on its job site. The jobs are based out of Menlo Park, California, where the site is headquartered, and one of them lists fluent Spanish as a requirement:

“We’re seeking individuals with a passion for journalism, who believe in Facebook’s mission of making the world more connected,” one of the two listings reads. It continues: “As a member of the team, you’ll be tasked with developing a deep expertise in Facebook’s News Credibility Program. You’ll be conducting investigations against predefined policies.”

Facebook would ask the specialists to help create a list of credible news organizations. That list could be used for various features on the site, from the newsfeed to its advertising system.

So what criteria will be used to determine which news organizations are “credible” and which are not?

In the end, it seems almost inevitable that liberal news organizations will receive more favorable treatment.

The job announcement on Facebook’s official job site is now down, but similar job postings also showed up on LinkedIn…

Similarly worded job postings also appear on LinkedIn, posted by a staffing company on behalf of an unnamed Menlo Park company. (The LinkedIn URLs include the phrase “world’s largest social network,” which is kind of a tipoff it’s Facebook.) Those posts mention that “you’ll be tasked with developing a deep expertise in News Credibility Program and evaluating news publishers for policy compliance.”

And of course Facebook is not the first major social media company to do something like this.

In a recent article, I noted that YouTube made a decision to hire “10,000 new moderators” to “flag content” late last year.

The elite have decided that it is way too dangerous to allow “we the people” to control the narratives, because whoever controls the narratives has an enormous amount of power. This is a point that Caitlin Johnstone made extremely well in one of her recent articles…

The good news about all this is that we know exactly where our shackles are. Our shackles are made of narrative, and the oligarchs’ ability to control it. A populist movement to disrupt establishment narratives and wake people up to what’s going on is all it will take to break our rulers’ ability to control the way the citizens of the world think and vote. From there we can make our own narratives and create a world which benefits us all and not just a few ruling elites. Right now there is a mad rush by those same elites to scale back our ability to network and share information via new media, so one of the most revolutionary things we can do at this time is prevent them from doing so and outpace them in that race.

It isn’t the west versus Russia. It isn’t left versus right. At this time the real conflict in our society is a few ruling elites and their cronies versus humanity’s natural impulse to act in a way that is beneficial to humanity. All we need to do is help that impulse flourish, get out of our oligarchy-imposed brain boxes, and build a new world.

This is why the establishment is in such a rush to take control of the Internet.

They know that our future will be determined on the Internet, because that is “the marketplace” of today.

Just consider the following poll results which found that 45 percent of American teens say that they are online “almost constantly”, and another 44 percent said that they are online “several times a day”…

“The results varied by gender. Fifty percent of girls said they were always online compared with 39 percent of boys.

Teens’ internet presence has been enabled by near-universal adoption of smartphones, with 95 percent having access to a smartphone, according to the survey.”

Please note that the percentage of teens that say that they are online “almost constantly” has nearly doubled since the previous survey that was conducted in 2014 and 2015.

The Internet has essentially become a “matrix” that we are all willingly plugging ourselves into on a continual basis. And this is especially true for our young people. If you want to get a young person really, really angry, just cut off phone and Internet access for a while.

Internet addiction and phone addiction are both very real, and developers admit that software is often designed to be as addictive as possible…

According to tech designers, software is deliberately designed to be “sticky” to affect our brains’ neurotransmitters so users spend more time on devices. In 2017, CBS’ 60 Minutes, aired a segment about this called, “Brain Hacking.” It featured an interview with tech designer, Tristin Harris. Other tech folks have also expressed remorse for their contribution to this.

“I Wake Up In Cold Sweats Thinking, What Did We Bring To The World?” – Tony Fadell, Nest Founder and one of the minds behind the iPod and the iPhone

Recently, Good Morning America aired a segment on a 48-hour experiment featuring 4 kids with unlimited screen time. There’s a reason why a documentary film about Digital Addiction was named Electronic Crack.

Today, the world is more “connected” than ever before, but the amount of time that we actually spend with other real people is at an all-time low.

Perhaps this is one of the reasons why suicide rates in the United States have increased by 30 percent since 1999…

Suicide rates are up by 30 percent across the nation since 1999, federal health officials reported Thursday.

And only about half the people who died by suicide had a known mental health condition, even though depression had been thought to be the major cause of suicide, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

Our world is changing at a rate that would have been unthinkable 50 years ago, and the Internet is on the cutting edge of that change.

Will these changes result in a glorious new era of liberty and freedom for humanity, or will they result in a high tech dystopian nightmare?

The battle for the Internet is a battle for our future, and it is a battle that we cannot afford to lose.

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NEW CALIFORNIA LAW MAY PUNISH PASTORS FOR HELPING PEOPLE LEAVE HOMOSEXUALITY