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

 
DEATH OF FREE SPEECH!-GERMANY APPROVES BILL IMPOSING MASSIVE FINES FOR ONLINE 
“HATE SPEECH” & “FAKE NEWS” 
BY ROBERT SPENCER
 
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“German Justice Minister Heiko Maas said that the companies offering
such online platforms are responsible for removing hateful content. He
said the new bill would not restrict the freedom of expression, but
intervene only when criminal hatred or intentionally false news are
posted.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 
 

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

 
BOEING SIGNS $3 BILLION DEAL WITH IRAN’S ASEMAN AIRLINES FOR THIRTY “737 MAX” AIRPLANES
BY ROBERT SPENCER
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Would Boeing have signed a deal to sell commercial jetliners to Nazi Germany?

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

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

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

________________________________________________________

 Trump administration undertaking “critical review” 
of American airplane sales to Iran
BY ROBERT SPENCER
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 Good. As I asked yesterday, “would Boeing have signed a deal to sell commercial 
jetliners to Nazi Germany?”
 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 
 

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

NEW BOOKLET: PROGRESSION TO DECEPTION; 
HOW NEW AGE INFLUENCE IS DESTROYING 
THE CHURCH, ONE STEP AFTER THE NEXT 
BY GREGORY REID
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By Gregory Reid

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 
CHRISTIAN PARENTS: YOUR KIDS AREN’T EQUIPPED TO BE PUBLIC SCHOOL MISSIONARIES
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http://www.theblaze.com

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

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

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

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

Did you get all that?

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

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

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

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

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

A few responses to this rather confused point of view:

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

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

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

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

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

Not fair. Just not fair.

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

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

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

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

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

 

FEDS & U.N. DUMPING “UNVETTED, DISEASED REFUGEE MEN” ON TAXPAYER

FEDS & U.N. DUMPING “UNVETTED, DISEASED REFUGEE MEN” ON TAXPAYER 
BY ALEX NEWMAN
 
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A Missouri woman who has attended official meetings on resettling migrants is blowing the whistle on United Nations and federal schemes that she says
are quietly flying in huge numbers of unvetted, diseased “refugees”
from across Africa and the Middle East — many of whom do not even have a
known name — and immediately handing them passports, Social Security
numbers, and a vast array of tax-funded benefits. Noting that the
overwhelming majority of the migrants she observed were men, she
suggested the schemes were an “intentional device” to “invade the United
States of America.”

Adding insult to injury, said the woman with knowledge of the
program, is the fact that state officials and those involved with
processing the new arrivals are being encouraged at official meetings to
classify as many of the newcomers as possible as being permanently
disabled — especially as having chronic headaches and lower back pain.
The purpose of this, she was told, was so the “refugees” could qualify
for Social Security long-term disability, allowing them to collect
taxpayer money for the rest of their lives despite never having
contributed to the already-strained system on its way to bankruptcy.  

“Much to my shock, they wanted us to try to identify them in such a
way that they would qualify for long-term Social Security disability,”
she explained, adding that the designation was for life and would cost
taxpayers a fortune. “So if they get identified as qualifying for
long-term Social Security disability, they are as good as set up for
life…. It is insanity.” Indeed, one of the first things workers are
supposed to do is sign up the new migrants for Social Security, she
said. They also receive cash upon arrival.

Also sparking concerns is the fact that the migrants are being
shipped in on airplanes under cover of darkness, with the flights
arriving late at night after the airports are cleared out of the general
public. There is apparently no real vetting going on at all, she said,
citing the information she obtained at the official meetings. Senior government officials have also confirmed a lack of serious vetting. In a brief phone interview, the woman explained that the secrecy being pushed by state officials was deliberate and strategic.

“The meetings are technically not secret, but they make it very hard
to find them,” said the activist, who has testified on these issues in
front of Missouri lawmakers. “They said they wanted to, in their words,
´keep all this information on the down low,´ because there would be
people in opposition to the work that they’re doing. So they asked that
we not discuss the information we received outside of the meetings.” But
the activist could not keep silent.

The explosive revelations she offered first received widespread
attention across America during an interview with nationally syndicated
talk-show host Josh Tolley. The Missouri woman, Jill Noble, who last
year began attending UN refugee resettlement program meetings sponsored
by Missouri social services, said she very quickly began realizing that
something was very wrong. And so, she wanted to share some of the
details with the American people. So far, nobody has publicly challenged
her allegations, despite widespread publicity surrounding them, she
told The New American. 

In the video-taped interview with Tolley, entitled “Diseased Refugees Obtaining SSN and Passport Upon Arrival,”
the activist blows the whistle on a wide range of troubling elements
surrounding the program. While President Trump has reduced the flow of
refugees, she said, the situation is hardly under control, and the
program may be placing all Americans in danger — both from a national
security standpoint, and from a public-health perspective.

“It just struck me as curious how casual they were about the number
of people that they were bringing into the state of Missouri and how
they were being brought in and where they were going and the conditions
under which they were being brought in,” she explains to Tolley in the
video, which has been seen by over 125,000 viewers. Indeed, the
description she provides of what is happening in Missouri — and
presumably across America — would shock the overwhelming majority of
Americans, regardless of political persuasion.

Among other concerns, Noble highlighted the complete lack of vetting.
“Actually they are not vetted and they are not the safest people,” she
says, contradicting statements by some politicians and establishment
media organs. “We’re being told through mainstream media that they are
going from 12 to 18 months worth of vetting, but in the meetings that I
have attended I learned that there was no vetting done at all. They were
literally given plane tickets and put on a plane right away within 24
hours. And, they were put on the plane with the clothes on their back.”
Many of them are being listed on their paperwork as “FUNU,” she said,
which stands for “Full Name Unknown.”

Others have confirmed the lack of vetting. “As a recently retired
25-year veteran of the U.S. Department of State who served almost eight
years as a refugee coordinator throughout the Middle East, Africa,
Russia and Cuba, I have seen first-hand the abuses and fraud that
permeate the refugee program and know about the entrenched interests
that fight every effort to implement much-needed reform,” wrote former
State Department official Mary Doetsch in a February letter published by the Chicago Tribune in support of Trump’s efforts.

“Despite claims of enhanced vetting, the reality is that it is
virtually impossible to vet an individual who has no type of an official
record, particularly in countries compromised by terrorism,” she added.
“U.S. immigration officials simply rely on the person’s often rehearsed
and fabricated testimony. I have personally seen this on hundreds of
occasions.”

Another major concern is the diseases being brought in, many of which
had been rare or virtually non-existent in the United States. “Many of
them come into country diseased,” explained Noble. “They come in with
tuberculosis, leprosy, HIV, giardia, smallpox, polio – communicable
diseases, apart from giardia, which is a parasite. They’re coming in
with communicable diseases — highly contagious diseases.” Tolley echoed
those concerns, citing information received from a doctor in New York
who was similarly alarmed at the importation of pathogens and the
emergence of a “health hazard to the entire country.” 

Noble also said the media was lying about the demographics of those
being brought in. “They’re pulling on the heart strings of the American
people, we’re very compassionate people, and so, knowing that, they pull
on the heart strings of the public,” she explained. While the American
public is being led to believe the “refugees” are primarily women and
children fleeing wars, “the vast majority of the refugees that we’ve
received here in Missouri have been males between the ages of 15 and
upwards to 45-years old.”

Tolley pointed out that a similar phenomenon is being observed in
Europe, with the UN admitting that over two thirds of the “refugees” are
military-aged males — and overwhelmingly Muslim. Noble points out that
there have actually been some women and children, including a recent
flight carrying refugees from the Congo. Noble said that unlike many of
those being brought in, the group of Congolese were clean and
well-clothed. And that group was sponsored by a local church, which
picked them up and provided clothing, transportation, and more. But they
were not the norm, Noble explained. 

Noble and Tolley both make clear that they have no animosity against
genuine refugees who truly need protection from persecution —
particularly if they plan to return home, as most legitimate refugees
fleeing war or natural disaster presumably would once the crisis or
danger has passed in their homeland. But they suggested something very
different seems to be at work with the UN and federal programs shipping
as many migrants as possible into the West, as quickly as possible,
primarily men, with no serious vetting, all at taxpayer expense, under
cover of darkness, and without even minimal public-health precautions.

The response to Tolley’s explosive video has been overwhelmingly
positive, with more than 2,250 up-votes compared with less than 100
down-votes on Youtube. Numerous prominent blogs and websites picked
up the story, too. And so far, despite the interview having gone viral
across the Internet, no official has publicly disputed her allegations.

In addition to her interview with Tolley, Noble has also been giving
public speeches and educating Missouri policymakers and elected
officials on the dangers of the program. Along with her work on the
migration issue, Noble is also an activist who focuses on education. She
has testified on these issues and her observations of the UN and
federal refugee programs at a committee hearing at the state capitol.

Even states that cancel their participation in the federal-UN refugee
schemes are not immune to the massive influx, though. In fact,
according to a lawsuit filed by the Thomas More Law Center on behalf of
the Tennessee General Assembly, the federal government is violating the
Constitution’s spending clause and the Tenth Amendment by force feeding
“refugees” into the state, using taxpayer-funded “ministries” and
“non-profit” organizations to funnel ever-more refugees in, at public
expense, despite the state dropping out of the program in 2008. 

President Trump tried to slow down the massive refugee influx by
lowering the cap on refugee numbers down to 50,000 refugees for the
fiscal year — less than half of what Obama decreed. However, in
overturning Trump’s executive order on the subject, U.S. judge Derrick
Watson in Hawaii and the federal courts re-opened the flood gates. And
so, the State Department is once again shipping in UN-designated
“refugees” at breakneck speed.

“In accordance with the Court Order, and consistent with both our
operational capacity and our capacity under available funding, we have
increased the current pace of refugee arrivals to approximately 900
individuals per week,” a spokesperson for the U.S. State Department told
journalist Leo Hohmann at WND. Hohmann’s latest book, Stealth Invasion: Muslim Conquest Through Immigration And Resettlement Jihad, argues that Islamists are using the “refugee” schemes to invade the West for nefarious purposes. 

As The New American has reported, the real agenda behind the UN’s “refugee” schemes, designed with help from the totalitarian Socialist International alliance, is hardly humanitarian. Instead, the agenda includes, according to critics and architects of the schemes alike, the breaking down of national sovereignty. Top government leaders including Hungarian
Prime Minister Viktor Orban has also blasted what he termed a
“treasonous conspiracy” of “internationalist fanatics” to undermine
Western civilization, Christianity, and the nation-state on the road toward “world order.” In fact, the
same establishment globalists flooding the West with migrants were
largely responsible for destroying the Middle Eastern countries many of the refugees are fleeing. Globalism and Big Government are key to understanding the phenomenon.

If the real goal were truly humanitarian, shipping millions of
African and Middle Eastern refugees to Europe and America at taxpayer
expense would be among the most absurd strategies imaginable. Estimates
suggest the cost of importing a single refugee is 50 times higher than
helping the refugees closer to their own countries, meaning for every
one imported to re-settle in the West, 50 more must suffer closer to
their home countries. Plus, if they remain near their homelands, they
can return home to rebuild once the danger has passed.

America’s national security and public health are being recklessly
put at risk by the UN and the federal government, all to advance a
totalitarian agenda. If even some of what Noble has described is true —
and so far there is no reason to doubt the accuracy of her testimony —
something is clearly very wrong. Congress, Trump, and the states must
investigate what is happening. Any programs involving the
dictator-dominated UN should be canceled immediately, along with any
schemes to flood the West with foreigners for subversive purposes.

Americans are perhaps the most charitable people on the planet. So if
they want to help people dealing with war, poverty, and persecution —
and no doubt many millions do — there are thousands of fantastic
charities and ministries to help with that. But the fact remains that
nothing in the U.S. Constitution authorizes any of the schemes described
by Noble or the importation of people from around the world at taxpayer
expense. And so, the schemes must be shut down.


Related articles:

Refugee Crisis: Using Chaos to Build Power

Hungarian PM: Mass Migration a Plot to Destroy Christian West

No Vetting of Syrian “Refugees” in Obama’s “Resettlement” Invasion

UN, Socialist International, Obama Design U.S. Refugee Resettlement

Obama Administration Increases Refugee Resettlement During Final Months

UN “Together” Propaganda Bid Seeks to Flood West With Migrants

U.S. Not Screening Refugees for Extremist Views

Swedes and Germans Told to Integrate Into Their “New Country”

Obama Administration Expands Refugee Program for Central Americans

Social Security Inching Its Way Toward Bankruptcy, Says CBO

Insider: EU-U.S. Must Take More Refugees, Get Rid of Sovereignty

Refugee Crisis Has Europe on the Brink

Obama-UN Refugee Plan: More Chaos, Conflict, Terror

UN Refugee Summit Supports U.S. Plan to Admit More Refugees

Obama-UN Refugee Summit: Huge Push for More Refugees

Americans, Europeans Agree: Trump Is Right on Immigration

Globalists Who Created Refugee Crisis Now Exploiting It

HEAVEN, HILLSONG & HERESY

HEAVEN, HILLSONG & HERESY
BY COSTI HINN
 
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 
The 2017 church conference circuit is in
full swing and with it comes a plethora of unholy alliances. No
surprise, Hillsong and Jesus Culture will headline the apostasy this
year. In keeping with Paul’s exhortation from Romans 16:17-18,
it behooves pastors and Christians to be aware of the sort of tactics
that mainstream movements are using to draw young people to their
blasphemous ministries. Two of the more prominent events to be aware
of will take place this fall, on back-to-back weekends, on two sides of
the country. Each will feature lineups full of known false teachers, and
music by Hillsong and Jesus Culture. These alliances allow powerhouse
music ministries and their teachers to team up and target millennials
with their sensual brand of worship and dangerous theology.
On September 21-23, Los Angeles will
play host to the first conference titled, “Heaven Come”, featuring Bill
Johnson, his Bethel crew, Lou Engle, and Kris Vallaton; along with Carl
Lentz and the Hillsong usuals. It promises to be an epic show. With
ticket sales running around $200-$250 a head, and a Microsoft Theater
capacity of 7,100, the event will certainly make the gang a pretty
penny.
The following week on September 27-30,
Jesus Culture will travel south to Orlando, FL to headline the smaller
but no less heretical, “Jesus Conference”, where Todd White, Kenneth
Copeland, Benny Hinn, and Marilyn Hickey, will join a speaker lineup
akin to the backstreet boys. Both of these conferences are designed to
mix the old school with the new school as a sort of heretical hand off.
It’s as though Satan is casting a net into the population of 80 million
millennials and trying to drag out as many as he can by using the old
guard.
So why are the 2017 heretical hangouts
something you ought to be aware of? Because Christians who are clueless
to enemy strategies are sitting ducks and churches who can’t confidently
explain to their young people why they must avoid these types of
conferences are unable to effectively keep watch over the souls of their
sheep (Hebrews 13:17).
Cowering in fear is not an option. Hoping it will all blow over is not
an option. Not giving answers is not an option. If you aren’t sure what
false doctrines are in play here, study the essential beliefs of
historical Christianity in relation to the Deity of Christ, Salvation,
the Trinity (particularly the work of the Holy Spirit), according to
Scripture. Next, compare that to what “word of faith theology”, “little
god theology”, “prosperity gospel theology”, and the “NAR”, teach and do
in the name of “Jesus Christ.” That will get you all caught up on why
these groups are heretical.
I recently spent time with a friend who
attends a bible teaching church in the LA area and he was sharing with
me some troubling news. His church was losing young people in droves to
Hillsong LA and other more “attractional” music-driven venues. They
couldn’t stop it. Their youth and young adults had found something that
tapped into their emotions, made them feel good, and seemed to be full
of love. Ignorant of the deadly doctrines that Hillsong teaches and
supports, indifference had swept over many of the young people in the
church and they were simply buying in to the cool vibe of the music and
ecumenical vision. I could sense the strain in his voice as he explained
that this was his fear all along. Plenty of churches have spent wasted
time voicing their displeasure over the methods and style of Hillsong,
but few have effectively pinpointed them as outright false teachers.
Perhaps out of fear of taking on the most famous business in the
evangelical world, the body of Christ at large has stayed relatively
divided on what to do about these popular preachers.
Many pastors struggle to find a balance.
Should they bring up these issues publically and risk exposing the
sheep to things they may have never even heard of? How soon is too soon
to start sounding the alarm about certain movements? Do first-time
visitors really want to come back to a church that just harps on false
teachers all the time? Is the best way to deal with a counterfeit to
study and know the real thing? How many well-prepared sermons would be
derailed if we had to spend time going “heretic hunting” on Sunday
mornings?
All of these are valid questions that
pastors and people must face head on. The church needs to consistently
provide answers and must avoid wasting valuable time cowering in fear,
while still being careful of over-emphasizing the latest heretical
gossip without providing solutions (something we can all be guilty of).
As church leaders navigate the
theological chaos that movements like Jesus Culture and Hillsong pump
into the evangelical ecosystem, here are five ways to protect our young
people, and the rest of the church for that matter. Keep in mind, this
list will apply directly to pastors, but can be useful for any Christian
and parent.
  1. PREACH THE WORD AND PRIORITIZE TRUTH
Nothing equips and empowers God’s people
like His word. You don’t learn to identify counterfeit money by
studying the counterfeits. If you study genuine currency and become
highly familiar with the qualities of the real thing, then you’ll be
able to spot a fake from a mile away. In order to best equip the people
of God to contend for the truths of God, they must be faithfully taught
the Scriptures in the fullest sense. A church must place a premium on
its preaching ministry. The pastor can let a missionary share stories
from the mission field, make a few announcements, and grant the odd
request from the nursery leader to ask for more volunteers, but such
things are frivolous when compared to the purpose of the pulpit. He must
be undeterred in his task and the people must be ready to feast on the
word. The elders of the church must ensure nothing takes away from the
preaching ministry of a church. The people need it. They must have it.
As for strategies against false teaching, sermon series’ and seminars on
heretical teaching can be incredibly helpful for people, but are only
as helpful as their application. In other words, if you’re doing any
type of teaching on this issue, you must focus on what the Bible says,
not just how ridiculous a false teacher looks, or how rich they
are – that’s tabloid fare. Make no mistake, preaching the truth and
prioritizing the pulpit ministry is the best way to protect people
against error.
  1. PREPARE FOR APOSTASY WITH CONFIDENCE
One of my college coaches used to yell
in his pre-game speech, “Preparation is confidence!” It was true on the
baseball field and it’s true in shepherding the flock of God. When
dealing with a certain error or heresy that Hillsong or Jesus Culture
teach, know your stuff and be prepared. People can sniff out a phony
from miles away so if pastors are even slightly unclear in their own
understanding of the issues, it will be a fog to their listeners. If a
pastor hasn’t been praying, preparing, and prudent with the
responsibility to rightly divide the word and shepherd God’s people
through times of apostasy, they’re going to react fearfully, not
confidently on game day. It’s a leader’s job to be out front of those
they lead – and it’s advisable that every Christian parent take this
strategy for the sake of their children. When people ask theological
questions about a certain celebrity pastor, a conference, or a certain
book, they need leaders to calmly, lovingly, and biblically state the
answer to their question. This will of course mean that leaders have
studied the issue, studied their bible, and have taken the time to
emotionally process the issue before helping others deal with it. If you
don’t know the answer, know how to find the answer for
someone. Be unwavering and confident because you’re prepared for what
the bible said would happen in the last days (2 Timothy 3:1-17).
  1. PROTECT THE FLOCK WITH RIGHTEOUS PASSION
If a boy pulls up to my house in a
Mustang one day and honks from the curb while my daughter comes down the
stairs in a short skirt saying, “Bye dad, be home around midnight”,
you’re going to see some righteous passion. Beyond that, I’ve likely
failed in my duty prior to that moment. If a false teacher is targeting
our young people with sensual music undergirded by deadly theology about
a false version of Christ, pastors need to have some passion and
proactively guard against this! We’ve seen far too many pastors get more
excited over new state-of-the-art buildings, new children’s ministry
playgrounds, new books, and their elaborate libraries than over
contending for the faith. There is nothing wrong with any of those
things but they are still superficial. Too many pastors shelf
their passion and cower in fear when it comes time to protect the flock
from wolves. Controversy should never deter a pastor from protecting the
sheep. Wolves love a weak shepherd who is content to collect a paycheck
but too lazy to gird his loins for battle. Far too many pastors skirt
around issues, refuse to name a name, or prefer to talk about these sort
of issues in a passive aggressive way. Ignorant sheep are one thing,
slothful pastors are another. There is no place for this in a biblical
church.
  1. PUT OUT BIBLICAL MATERIAL ON RELEVANT ISSUES
As previously stated, the majority of
Sunday sermons cannot just be a heresy hunt. That’s where many
well-meaning churches have gone too extreme these days. In order to help
people get educated about the larger doctrinal issues facing the church
consider the following options:
  • Starting a blog for your church
  • Writing a short booklet or book(s) to help your people navigate apostasy and more
  • Do a weekly or monthly podcast about current events and theology
  • Start a YouTube channel
  • Do a short series on deadly doctrines, film it, and use the DVD as a resource for years
  • Write a distinctive or church document stating your church’s position and distribute
  • Mention divergence in the church when your preaching text does – this is plenty of times.
This is just a short list of ways to put
out helpful material for your people and deal with important issues
without taking two weeks off from your verse-by-verse journey through
John to vent about Steven Furtick’s latest antics. If your schedule or
ability doesn’t allow you to protect the flock through any of these
means, you always have books, seminars, and blogs by faithful
bible-teachers at your disposal. No matter what a pastor decides to do,
he must do something. People need good, biblical preaching from
the pulpit and material that helps them contend for the faith in
today’s culture. Keep the juicy venting to a minimum and stick to high
application in your material. Your people will thank you because they
won’t just know about the latest heretical gossip, they’ll actually know
what to do about it.
  1. PRAY FOR THE FAITH OF THE FLOCK
For all his passionate zeal and
willingness to take on false teachers, Paul was diligent in his prayer
life. It wasn’t just his warnings, just his teaching, or just his
appointment of faithful men to church oversight – it was his prayers
that protected the faith of the church. For the church’s best results,
prayer is the highest priority. Paul wrote,
For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints,  I
do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers,
that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you
the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him, having
the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope
to which He has called you, what are the riches of His glorious
inheritance in the saints, and what is the immeasurable greatness of His
power toward us who believe, according to the working of His great
might that He worked in Christ when He raised him from the dead and
seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule
and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is
named, not only in this age but also in the one to come. And He put all
things under His feet and gave Him as head over all things to the
church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all (Ephesians 1:15-23).
There will be no slowing down of
apostasy in these last days. Our adversary takes no day off. Still, the
church must remain diligent in its task and preachers must be resolute
in trusting the power of prayer, the power of truth, and the power of
God to draw every last one of His sheep into the fold until Christ
returns.
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[Contributed by Costi Hinn]
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SEE ALSO:
http://pulpitandpen.org/2017/02/17/stop-calling-error-anointed/ 

INDIANA SENATE PASSES BILL PROTECTING RELIGIOUS EXPRESSION IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS

INDIANA SENATE PASSES BILL PROTECTING RELIGIOUS EXPRESSION IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS
BY HEATHER CLARK
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — The Indiana Senate has passed a bill meant to protect 
religious expression in public schools.

H.B. 1024 passed 44-5 on Thursday despite opposition from groups like the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

“House Bill 1024 only puts prayer back into schools. It does
not mandate or force students to participate in it,” said sponsor Rep.
John Bartlett, D-Indianapolis. “It is giving Hoosiers the ability to
express their faith without fearing discrimination.”

“It also brings clarification to the First Amendment, which
allows people to practice their faith. However, it restricts you from
forcing your faith on others,” he said.

The bill passed the passed the House 83-12 last month, and went on to clear a Senate Committee 8-2 weeks later.

“Public school students may pray or engage in religious
activities or religious expressions before, during, and after the school
day in the same manner and to the same extent that students may engage
in nonreligious activities or expression,” the legislation reads in
part.

It additionally outlines that students are to be permitted
to wear religious symbols or slogans on their clothes or jewelry, and
must not be discriminated against for including religious themes in
their school assignments.

A section of the bill that called for the creation of a
limited public forum at school events was removed in a Senate committee
earlier this month due to concerns about logistics.

“It requires the schools proactively to develop policies
that control certain kinds of public events,” Sen. Luke Kenley,
R-Noblesville, remarked. “And I think the bill itself is going to be
somewhat of a challenge for schools and school corporations to
implement. But I think it serves a worthy purpose, and I think section
five pushes it just a little too hard in that regard.”

Sen. Mark Stoops, D-Bloomington, proposed to add voucher schools to the bill, but the idea was struck down in committee.

“In fairness, any school that receives public funding should
fall under this bill,” he opined. “And again I think that if it’s good
for public schools and charter schools, it would also be necessary for
private schools that received vouchers.”

While some believe that the legislation is unnecessary,
Bartlett says that the move will help provide guidance for schools that
aren’t sure how to handle expressions of faith on campus.

“A lot of schools are afraid to have prayer in schools or
allow their students to pray because they are afraid of a lawsuit,” he
stated.

Student Mary Zakrajsek testified before the Senate Education
and Career Development Committee that her pro-life poster had been
removed from the walls of Carmel High School while other messages
were allowed to be posted.

“When I walk down the hallway, and I see rainbow pride flags
and Democrat donkeys, I think that’s pretty clear evidence of ideology
that is promoted in public school systems. It became clear that it was
our [pro-life] club in particular that was being discriminated against,”
she testified, according to the Herald Bulletin.

As previously reported, the first textbook used in the American colonies even before the nation’s founding, “The New England Primer,”
was largely focused on the Scriptures, and was stated to be popular in
public and private schools alike until approximately the early 1900’s.
It used mostly the King James Bible as reference, and spoke much about
sin, salvation and proper behavior.

“Save me, O God, from evil all this day long, and let me
love and serve Thee forever, for the sake of Jesus Christ, Thy Son,” it
read.

Many of the Founders’ children learned to read from the primer.

Noah Webster’s famous “Blue Back Speller”
also referenced Christianity, including in reading lessons statements
such as “The preacher is to preach the gospel,” “Blasphemy is
contemptuous treatment of God,” and “We do not like to see our own
sins.” Webster is known as the father of American education.

“JUNK SCIENCE”? BIBLICAL CREATION GROUP INCLUDED ON LIST OF DISREPUTABLE WEBSITES

“JUNK SCIENCE”? BIBLICAL CREATION GROUP INCLUDED ON LIST OF DISREPUTABLE WEBSITES 
BY GARRETT HALEY
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 A prominent Creation science group is pushing back after 
their website was included on a widely-shared list of allegedly 
untrustworthy sources and described as “junk science.”

After “fake news” became a subject of national discussion
during the 2016 presidential election, Melissa Zimdars, an assistant
professor of communication at Merrimack College, compiled an online document that lists disreputable websites and news sources.

Originally created as a resource for her students, Zimdars’s
document lists hundreds of “false, misleading, clickbait-y, and
satirical” websites.

“Obviously, fake news is a major problem,” Zimdars wrote in a
column for The Washington Post. “We need to make sure people have the
tools to detect it, and we need to understand why people may
purposefully share news they know to be fake—maybe they’re being
malicious, they think it’s funny or it aligns with what they want to be
true. And we definitely need to find ways to discourage the production
of non-comedy, non-satire fake news.”

Zimdars’s document has since been widely shared on social
media sites and spotlighted by numerous news outlets. Harvard University
published a link to the list on their library’s “Fake News, Misinformation, and Propaganda” page, along with an infographic warning students not to get “taken in” by fake news.

Although Zimdars noted that not all of the sources in her
list are “inherently problematic,” they do tend to distort headlines,
publish dubious information and mislead readers.

One of the sites included on the professor’s document is
ICR.org, the website of the Institute for Creation Research. Zimdar
tagged the group’s website as “junk science,” which she defines as
“sources that promote pseudoscience, metaphysics, naturalistic
fallacies, and other scientifically dubious claims.”

In a blog post published on Monday, Brian Thomas of ICR contested the “junk science” label and defended the organization’s reputability.

“Junk science describes conclusive-sounding statements with
no support from experiment or observation,” Thomas argued. “Examples of
junk science include flat earth theories, manipulated climate reports,
and a variety of unproven health-related claims. It should also include
areas like astrobiology—meaning ‘space life’—that have zero study
samples.”

Not only does ICR’s team try to expose junk science, Thomas
said, but research on their website has been published by secular
sources.

“ICR.org contains thousands of science articles that
painstakingly reference original technical science sources,” he wrote.
“For example, our report of an enzyme that locates DNA damage sites
using an ingenious electrical current detector was not just junk. The
journal Theoretical Biology & Medical Modeling published those
research results.”

“Our report on a Psittacosaurus fossil from China with
original skin, including its original skin shade patterns, was not just
junk. The source research was published in Current Biology,” Thomas
added.

The ICR team’s belief in the biblical worldview is what sets them apart from other science groups, Thomas noted.

“When we report on the good science behind stunning
ingenuity in DNA repair enzymes, for example, we feel free to credit the
Creator,” he stated. “When we report on the good science behind
preservation of short-lived tissues still persisting in dinosaur and
other fossils, we feel free to include the Bible’s recent Flood as a
reasonable explanation. Today’s anti-Creator, anti-Bible attitudes
clearly clash with this biblical history.”

“Many find it easier to simply label the Bible as ‘junk’
than to actually investigate it. If they peered inside, they would find
that the Bible is painfully true, to the point that it exposes the junk
that inhabits every human heart,” he continued. “We challenge readers to
search for legitimate junk on ICR.org, having confidence that peering
into ICR.org’s nearly half-century worth of content similarly reveals a
long trend of good science—conclusions based on experimental results and
reliable eyewitnesses.”

CALIFORNIA A.G. WHO CHARGED MAN FOR UNDERCOVER VIDEOS RECEIVED CAMPAIGN DONATIONS FROM PLANNED PARENTHOOD

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CALIFORNIA A.G. WHO CHARGED MAN FOR UNDERCOVER VIDEOS RECEIVED CAMPAIGN DONATIONS FROM PLANNED PARENTHOOD
BY HEATHER CLARK
 
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The California 
attorney general who charged the pro-life investigator behind the 
2014-2015 undercover Planned Parenthood videos with 15 felonies this 
week had previously been praised by the abortion and contraception giant
 and received campaign donations from the organization for many of his 
House re-election bids.

Democratic Congressman Xavier Becerra had been appointed by
Gov. Jerry Brown to replace former Attorney General Kamala Harris after
she was elected in November to serve in the Senate. Following his
appointment, Planned Parenthood released a statement praising Becerra for his abortion advocacy.

“Rep. Becerra is a long-time champion for women’s
reproductive rights and health,” said President Cecile Richards. “As a
former California deputy attorney general, he understands the importance
of a woman’s right to access the full range of health care, including
safe, legal abortion.”
 “At a time when reproductive health is gravely under attack in states
across the country, we need leaders like Rep. Becerra to be responsible
stewards of the law and protect the rights of millions of Americans,
including the 850,000 California women, men and families that Planned
Parenthood serves every year,” she remarked.

Information from the Center for Responsive Politics also
reveals that Planned Parenthood donated to Becerra’s political campaigns
on several occasions, as early as 1998. The organization gave $1,000 in
2014, $2,000 in 2012, $500 in 2004, $1,000 in 2002, and $1,035 in 1998.

The revelations have concerned pro-life groups, who believe Becerra’s recent actions might be biased and corrupt.

“Just as corruption was involved in the last attempt to
falsely charge David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt, I predict that
corruption is at the heart of these California charges as well,” said
Troy Newman, president of Operation Rescue. “It is despicable that the
California attorney general charged innocent whistleblowers with
felonies instead of the career criminals at Planned Parenthood.”

“There is obvious political motivation behind the recent
baseless criminal charges against Sandra Merritt and David Daleiden,”
also opined Mat Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel, who is
representing Merritt.

“With all the investigative media and reality TV shows that
use investigative journalism in California, there has been no effort by
the state to prosecute and for good reason, because the First Amendment
has something to say about this,” he stated. “The attorney general has
engaged in selective prosecution to target pro-life speech. When law
enforcement selectively targets people, everyone should be concerned.”

DaleidenAs previously reported,
Becerra alleges that Daleiden and Merritt wrongfully recorded Planned
Parenthood employees and others without their consent in conducting an
undercover investigation into their abortion practices. He therefore
charged Daleiden on Tuesday with 14 counts of covertly recording confidential conversations—one for each person—and one count of conspiracy to invade privacy.

“The right to privacy is a cornerstone of California’s
Constitution, and a right that is foundational in a free democratic
society,” Becerra said, according to the LA Times. “[We] will not
tolerate the criminal recording of confidential conversations.”

Daleiden quickly pushed back, releasing another video
the following day that shows an Arizona Planned Parenthood abortionist
laughing about how much force it takes to dismember babies when Digoxin
isn’t used, and that she first thought she needed to go to the gym just
to get in shape for the procedure.

The full, unedited footage may be viewed here.

Planned Parenthood had claimed following the release of
Daleiden’s videos, which were first posted online in 2015, that the
footage had been deceptively edited, but Daleiden had also publicly
released the hours-long recordings in their entirety in addition to his
concise video highlights. All the videos may be viewed in their entirety
on the Center for Medical Progress YouTube page.

Planned Parenthood partner DaVinci Biosciences and its sister company DV Biologics were also sued
last October by Orange County, California District Attorney Tony
Rackauckus after he found evidence that the company had profited from
the bodily organs of aborted babies.

“From
2009 to 2015, the defendants obtained aborted fetus donations from
Planned Parenthood and turned those donations into a profit-driven
business,” he declared.
“They did so by selling tissues and cells from the heart, lungs,
kidneys, brain, intestines, skeletal muscle and bones of the aborted
fetus donations.”

Rackauckus outlined that the companies hired a marketing
consultant to create promotional materials, including a catalog, to
boost sales. His office found that profits included up to $674 in profit
for each fetal heart, up to $233 in profit for each liver, up to $221
in in profit for each stomach, and up to $664 in profit for each small
intestine.

The companies are accused of generating $1.5 million in sales, while also marking up shipping and processing costs.

The Congressional Select Panel on Infant Lives also issued numerous criminal referrals last year while investigating Planned Parenthood and its partners, including an allegation that Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast unlawfully sold baby body parts to the University of Texas.

It likewise came to believe from evidence that the University of New Mexico violated of the state’s Anatomical Gift Act, that Stem Express
violated HIPPA to increase the harvesting of body parts for profit, and
that DV Biologics received revenue for the body parts of aborted
babies.

Sen. Chuck Grassley of the Senate Judiciary Committee separately issued his own letter and report calling for the FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice to conduct a federal investigation.

Specifically, the Committee noted in its report
that StemExpress, Advanced Bioscience Resources (ABR) and Novogenics
Laboratories purchased the bodily organs of aborted babies from several
California Planned Parenthood locations, and then resold them at
substantially higher prices. The organizations are also accused of
hiking the prices above costs for “transportation, implantation,
processing, preservation, quality control or storage of” the body parts.

“[I]n June of 2014, an ABR technician obtained a 20-week-old
fetus at a Planned Parenthood clinic, for which it paid $60,” the
report outlines. “From that one fetus, ABR sold its brain to one
customer for $325, both of its eyes for $325 each ($650 total) to a
second customer, a portion of its liver for $325 to a third customer,
its thymus for $325 and another portion of its liver for $325 to a
fourth customer, and its lung for $325 to a fifth customer.”

StemExpress is accused of similar actions, paying Planned
Parenthood $55 for a baby and then selling his or her body parts for
$250 each, making $1000 from just one child.

The Committee also noted that despite Planned Parenthood’s
“constant statements to the media that [its] affiliates had merely been
recovering their costs” in receiving payment from ABR, StemExpress and
other companies, its attorneys told the investigative Congressional
panel that the Planned Parenthood offices only sought to determine their
costs after-the-fact in light of national scrutiny.

“Around that time, Planned Parenthood announced it would no
longer accept any payments in connection with its fetal tissue transfer
programs,” Grassley explained.

 

NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY’S GENDER NEUTRAL TYRANNY: ENFORCING POLITICALLY CORRECT SPEECH THROUGH SHAMING, CENSORSHIP & PUNISHMENTS

 SELF APPOINTED

 

 GENDER NEUTRAL TYRANNY

Student has grade docked for using 

‘mankind’ in English paper

SEE: http://the-trumpet-online.com/student-grade-docked-using-mankind-english-paper/; 

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 
 VIDEO: THE WORD “MANKIND” HOLDS WOMEN DOWN, ACCORDING TO PROFESSOR SCOTT. MICRO-AGGRESSIONS DISALLOWED!

Northern Arizona University professor Anne Scott (pictured) lowered
student Cailin Jeffers’s grade for using the word ‘mankind’ instead of
the gender-neutral ‘humanity’:

 Northern Arizona University professor Anne Scott (pictured) lowered student Cailin Jeffers's grade for using the word 'mankind' instead of the gender-neutral 'humanity' 

A Northern Arizona University student lost credit on an English paper
for using the word “mankind” instead of a gender-neutral alternative.
Cailin Jeffers, an English major at NAU, told Campus Reform
that she received an email from one of her professors, Dr. Anne Scott,
informing her that she had been docked one point out of a possible 50 on
a recent paper for “problems with diction (word choice)” related to her
use of the word “mankind” as a synonym for “humanity.”

“The words we use matter very much, or else teachers would not be making an issue of this at all.”

“I would be negligent, as a professor who is running a class about
the human condition and the assumptions we make about being ‘human,’ if I
did not also raise this issue of gendered language and ask my students
to respect the need for gender-neutral language,” Scott explained. “The
words we use matter very much, or else teachers would not be making an
issue of this at all, and the MLA would not be making recommendations
for gender-neutral language at the national level.”
Scott then offered to let Jeffers revise the paper to earn additional
points in five categories, including diction, but noted that she is
under no obligation to do so.
“I will respect your choice to leave your diction choices ‘as is’ and
to make whatever political and linguistic statement you want to make by
doing so,” the professor wrote. “By the same token, I will still need
to subtract a point because your choice will not be made in the letter
or spirit of this particular class, which is all about having you and
other students looking beneath your assumptions and understanding that
‘mankind’ does not mean ‘all people’ to all people. It positively does
not.”
“After our first essay we were given a list of ‘do’s and don’ts’
based off of errors my professor found in our essays. Most of them make
sense, just things like ‘make sure you’re numbering your pages’ and
‘cite in proper MLA format,’ but she said we had to be sure to use
‘gender-neutral language,’” Jeffers told Campus Reform.
“Included with this rule were several examples of what was and wasn’t
okay to use. In one of these examples she stated that we could not use
the word ‘mankind.’ Instead, we should use ‘humankind.’ I thought this
was absurd, and I wasn’t sure if she was serious.”
Jeffers decided to test the policy on her next paper by including two
instances of the word “mankind,” and when the paper came back with the
requisite points taken off, she requested a meeting with Scott.
“I stated that I agree with everything she said about my paper except
my use of ‘mankind.’ She proceeded to tell me that the NAU English
department, as well as the Modern Language Association, are pushing for
gender-neutral language, and all students must abide by this,” Jeffers
recalled. “She told me that ‘mankind’ does not refer to all people, only
males. I refuted, stating that it DOES refer to all people, [but] she
proceeded to tell me that I was wrong, ‘mankind’ is sexist, and I should
make an effort to look beyond my preset positions and ideologies, as is
the focus of the class.”
Jeffers noted that Scott informed her that she could appeal the grade
to the department chair, but otherwise “refused to correct her original
markdown,” elaborating on her reasoning in the aforementioned email to
Jeffers.
Following the meeting, Scott also sent an email to the entire class
recounting “an important discussion that I had with one of our class
members today about gender-neutral language,” using the incident as an
opportunity to explain why she imposes the requirement.
“In a class such as this, wherein the course goals, discussions,
readings, and assignments are all focused on what makes us ‘human’ and
the assumptions we make about such a concept, it is crucial that we also
understand what our word choices mean a great deal and have
consequences in terms of what we reveal about our assumptions about
ourselves and others, and the world generally,” Scott asserted.
She then listed several examples of rhetorical prejudice found in
reading assignments, such as a father telling his son to find another
woman to procreate with, calling someone “kin of Cain” to imply that
they have an evil nature, and referring to a disfigured person as a
“Moor.”
None of the examples directly touches on the issue of gender-neutral
language, but Scott went on to elaborate that, “in a similar fashion,
the words we choose to refer to humanity, to people in general, also
have a history, a context, and built-in assumptions.”
Scott concluded by vehemently denying that gender-neutral language is
merely a question of “political correctness,” pointing out that both
the Modern Language Association and the American Psychological
Association have put out guidelines promoting gender-neutral language.
“The issue goes beyond ‘political correctness,’ for my colleagues and
I recognize that words help to create our reality, power dynamics, and
relationships among people,” she told the class. “You are welcome to
make a statement about your politics, or conscience, or beliefs by using
gender-specific language in your papers, and in many cases
gender-specific language is called for, when you can discern with
certainty the gender of the characters and author you’re discussing.
However, I’ll still have to subtract a point or two for any kind of
language that refers to all people as ‘mankind’ or readers as ‘him/he’,
for the reasons I’ve outlined carefully above.”
Campus Reform has reached out to Dr. Scott, as well as the
Dean of the College that houses the English Department and the English
Department Chair, but none had responded by press time. This article
will be updated if a response is received.

THE FALSE GOSPEL OF FREEMASONRY: A FORMER MASON EXPLAINS

The False Gospel of Freemasonry: 
Pulpit & Pen Interviews a Former Mason
BY SETH DUNN
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 

Recently, Pulpit & Pen
interviewed theologian and former Freemason William Guilkey. William’s
story provides a sobering reminder of how deeply Freemasonry has
infiltrated the visible church. As a former Masonic insider, William
provides confirmation that Freemasonry’s many Christian detractors have
been wise to sound the alarm about the unbliblical nature of the Craft.
William is clear: Freemasonry is not compatible with Christianity.
Please find the interview below:

How long have you been a Christian?

My eyes were opened to the truths
of the Gospel in the Summer of 2004 (after many years of habitual sin).
While I cannot pinpoint the moment in time when the Gospel began to make
sense to me, I can say that it seemed to start that Summer. I began to
come under heavy conviction of my sin and in time found the hope of the
Gospel. Nearly 13 years later there is much evidence of repentance and
belief in my life, I hate the sins I once embraced, am at war with sin
on a daily basis, continually repent when I fail and I’m continuing in
Christ. There were some really rocky times in the first several years
due to deeply, ingrained patterns of sin but God has faithfully given me
ever increasing victory over them. There is much evidence of a change
in me thanks to the Lord and it all began in the Summer of 2004.

Are you currently an active member of a New Testament Church?

Yes, my wife and I are members of Christ Orthodox Presbyterian Church (OPC) in Janesville, WI.

Do you have any level of formal theological education?

Yes. I grew up in the Assemblies
of God. I was a “false convert” who never truly understood the Gospel as
well as a legalist with an air of works righteousness. I have a B.A. in
Bible from Central Bible College (1989)

How long were you involved in Freemasonry?

Approximately 6 or so years (with varying degrees of activeness).

What was the name of your lodge?

Bee Hive Lodge #393 in Lawson, MO

In what degrees of Masonry were you proficient?

I received the 3 degrees of the
Blue Lodge as well as the degrees in the Scottish Rite (up to degree
#32). Giving one’s proficiency in the degrees (orally) was no longer
required but as a tribute to my grandfather for his 50th year in the Lodge, I orally repeated the 1st degree and was deemed proficient.

Did you hold any leadership positions in Freemasonry?

Yes, I was the Junior Warden one year and the Senior Warden the next year.

Were there any professed Christians in your lodge?

There were several (including at
least one Pastor). Most were from the older, liberal, mainline
denominations (United Methodist, Presbyterian USA and The Disciples of
Christ, which in our small town was merged with the PCUSA Church). There
were also a few Southern Baptists.

Were there any non-Christians in your lodge?

Yes, including some with the veneer of “Christian” and some outright secular men.

In what degrees of Masonry were you proficient?

In Missouri, they no longer require oral proficiency of the degrees but I did an oral proficiency of the 1st degree in honor of my grandfather’s 50th anniversary in the Lodge.

Why did you leave Freemasonry?

I began to be convicted by the
Holy Spirit that Freemasonry was incompatible with Christianity over
time. It promotes a universal “gospel” of “salvation by
works/Freemasonry” and it requires unbiblical oaths to enter.

Do you believe the blood oaths required to enter Blue Lodge Freemasonry are antithetical to Christian practice?

Yes, per Matthew 5:34-35 for example.

What would you say to someone who
said the oaths were merely symbolic and do not violate Christ’s commands
regarding oath-swearing?

While the oaths are almost
certainly symbolic in our day (since violating them comes with the
penalty of death), there is a sense in which they are serious and that
has to do more with the “brotherhood of the Lodge” and the secrets
contained within its walls. What one is giving oath to essentially is
their silence/secrecy and this is expected to be adhered to by the one
making the oaths.

What can you tell us about the story of Hiram Abiff and the ritual related to him?

Hiram Abiff is loosely based on a character in the verse 2 Chronicles 2:13
(which is not really clear). In Freemasonry, he is known as the “Grand
Master Mason” of King Solomon’s Temple, who outlines the work duties for
the other Masons. The candidate for the 3rd
Degree plays the character of Hiram Abiff and is escorted around the
Lodge and put through various scenarios as the character Hiram Abiff.
Hiram Abiff supposedly has the “Master’s word” and the deeper secrets of
Freemasonry. Hiram is confronted by some ruffians (Fellowcrafts) who
are impatient to receive the word and the secrets of the Master Mason
and after refusing to comply with their demands, Hiram is killed with a
mallet to the head (which happens to the candidate who is left in the
temple under some rubble then later carried to Mount Moriah and laid on
the ground as though buried). Later when it is discovered that Hiram
Abiff is missing, a panic ensues. Eventually some other Fellowcrafts
come to King Solomon and admit that they knew of a plot to kill Hiram
(but did not participate). King Solomon orders them to find the ruffians
(three were missing when he had a roll call of the Fellowcrafts) under
penalty of death if they fail to do so. They found the ruffians when
they stopped to rest and one of the searchers grabbed an acacia branch
which easily gave way to him (it marked the shallow grave of Hiram
Abiff). At that point, they heard the three ruffians mourning about
their role in the death and indicting themselves under the penalty of
their obligations. They were seized, taken to Solomon and executed
according to those penalties (outside the city gate). King Solomon and
all of his followers then go to the shallow grave (where Hiram has laid
for 15 days according to the story). He asks both an Entered Apprentice
(1st degree) and a Fellowcraft (2nd
degree) to raise him by their grips but the rotting flesh slips from
their hands. King Solomon then proceeds to raise the body by the strong
grip of the Master Mason (complete with a certain posture and a word).
This works and the candidate is raised to the “sublime degree of Master
Mason” (their description). In my case, my Grandfather was inserted for
King Solomon and performed my “raising” (of which I am now very ashamed
of as I type). There is no question that the Hiram Abiff character is a
blasphemous characterization of the resurrection (at the very least in
symbolism).

Are non-Christian Freemasons led to believe that they can reach Heaven outside of professing faith in Jesus Christ?

Without question. In the long
speech in the second degree, a Fellowcraft is explicitly told that they
will be happy at death if “the setting splendors of a virtuous life gild
his departing moments with the gentle tints of hope.” Often Freemasonry
is described as an organization that exists to “make good men better.”
It presupposes the basic goodness of man (at least of those who pass the
initial screening of their candidacy).

If the Great Architect of the Universe the same God as the God of the Holy Bible?

It cannot be by definition since
Freemasonry only requires a belief in a Supreme Being/God/god and leaves
that up to the candidate to determine who/Who/what that is for them. In
rural Missouri, people were basically “Christian” in their mindset (not
born again mind you but simply meaning that they took their oaths on
the Bible but one could have taken it on any “holy book”). The only
requirement is that you cannot be a professing atheist. That kind of
pluralistic approach cannot be the God of the Holy Bible.

Is there any truth to the notion that Freemasonry teaches belief in Osiris, Hours, or other Egyptian deities?

I do not recall these names in
either the Blue Lodge or the Scottish Rite (however, the Scottish Rite
was a weekend “marathon” in which degrees 4-32 were given and it was
done “theater style” with us watching the proceedings so I have very
little recollection of it)

Is the “All Seeing Eye” a representation of God?

Yes, because we are reminded that
even if our actions evade the eyes of men, that all of them are seen by
the “All-Seeing Eye” who will reward us according to “our merits” (yet
another false doctrine, unless by “reward” they mean “judgment”).

In your degrees of Freemasonry did you ever receive teaching about Jabulon, Lucifer, or any other such spirit being?

I do not recall these names in
either the Blue Lodge or the Scottish Rite (however, the Scottish Rite
was a weekend “marathon” in which degrees 4-32 were given and it was
done “theater style” with us watching the proceedings so I have very
little recollection of it). Having grown up in the church (even if I was
not genuinely converted at the time), I am pretty sure I would have
been disturbed if I heard the name of “Lucifer” in any positive context.

Does Scottish Rite (or any other form of Freemasonry) confer a Melchizedek priesthood on adherents?

I was hardly active in the
Scottish Rite and the weekend “marathon” of degrees only allows them to
confer so many through the ritual. I do not know if this one was acted
out for us or not but I have read that it is in the 19th degree. I did not know this before researching for this question so I am not a good source on this answer.

Does Freemasonry contradict the doctrine of Original Sin?

Yes, by stating that Freemasonry
serves to “make good men better.” One of the things all Masons say in
repeating the ritual is “to improve myself in Freemasonry” and in
another place, they ask for “Further light” (implying that they may have
some light).

Does Freemasonry teach that salvation can be obtained by performing good works?

Yes, in the lecture portion of the 2nd and 3rd degrees (as outlined in previous questions)

Do Freemasons believe that they
possess wisdom or light that cannot be obtained from the Bible or a
relationship with Jesus Christ?

In my small town, they would
always say “it’s all based on the Bible” but when one hears of the
various study clubs and meetings for the more advanced degrees, you hear
implications of “deeper” or “esoteric” knowledge. To me, it all sounded
like pretentious “gobbled-y gook” to be honest. I never really “got”
that part of it all.

How were you treated by other Freemasons after leaving the lodge?

I live in a different state and do
not encounter any of the men for the most part but no one has sought me
out to discuss it etc. When I resigned, I resigned in writing, with a
letter containing the Gospel. They clearly know where I stood and where I
stand on the matter. I am however, always open to talk with any of them
about the Gospel should a door be opened to me.

Is there anything you would like to say to the “Christian” Masons who are reading this interview?

I would say first of all that I
think many, many people go into Freemasonry innocently enough. By that I
mean that there are some appealing features to some of the “perks” (for
example, where I am from, there were certain jobs that were more
attainable for someone who was a member of the Lodge). I know also that
many men put almost no effort into learning or practicing anything
related to Freemasonry and see it as an opportunity to get together with
some guys a few times a month to eat, smoke, drink coffee and tell tall
tales. As far as some of the deeper conspiracies that people allege are
concerned, I never saw any of that in my small town. If we were somehow
trying to overtake the world, we were definitely way behind in our
efforts! Our Lodge did some nice public service things (i.e.
scholarships, Child Identification Programs to help police in the event
of an abduction and chili/ham & bean suppers). That is how most of
the “brothers” approached Freemasonry. That being said, it really is a
“False Gospel,” with a “False, Pluralistic god” and it gives false
assurance to many people. It is the antithesis of the Bible’s teaching
about the true nature of man and his need before the Thrice Holy God.
Because of that, whether done in “innocence” or “ignorance,” it is a
system of idolatry and must be avoided. It violates the First, Second
and Third commandments and that alone is enough to flee from this false,
religious system. I would encourage you to read the Bible for yourself
and to ask the LORD to open your eyes to His holiness and His
requirements. If/when He does this, you will likely begin feeling the
heavy weight of conviction of sin (because you will then see how much
you have offended God). When that happens, cry out to Him for mercy,
turn from your sin (including the sin of aligning with the Masonic
Lodge) and believe that if you come to Him, He will “in no wise cast you
out” (John 6:37) for “Whosoever calleth on the Name of the Lord, shall be saved!” (Romans 10:13)

Please share this with friends and family, especially those with
Masonic connections.  Freemasonry is a very serious gospel issue and a
very present sin in many churches.  The Pulpit & Pen encourages all
Christian former Masons and any pastors who have dealt with the issue of
Freemasonry to contact us with your stories.

*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.

FALSE TEACHERS SPREAD THEIR UNBIBLICAL BUT SENSATIONAL ERRORS TO THE GULLIBLE: SUCCESS & HUMANISM

False Teacher of the Day #1: Tamara Lowe

GREATER WORKS THAN CHRIST?:

 “Tamara Lowe is known
as The Success Strategist to Superstars having built the public images,
brands and businesses of countless celebrities. #1 Amazon and New York
Times bestselling author, she has a global following. As a motivational
speaker Tamara has trained more than 4,000,000 people in 75 nations. She
built a billion dollar company from the ground up and has led over
500,000 businesspeople to faith in Christ.”

ABOVE QUOTE FROM: 

http://www.tamaralowe.com/ 

 http://www.savorthesuccess.com/uploads/images/radio/7bc762edf62d8bc551e091d9545fc917.jpg

SEE: http://pulpitandpen.org/2017/03/28/false-teacher-of-the-day-1-tamara-lowe/; 

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 Many of you may have never heard of Tamara Lowe or know who she is. 
She is a motivational speaker and the founder of a money-making how-to 
course called Kingdom Builders.
 She regularly twists the Scriptures to make egregious claims such that 
God desires for all of us to be wealthy and rich and claims that she 
will teach you from the Scriptures how to do so if you will sign up for 
her academy. Lowe has a podcast on Charisma News

According to CBN, Lowe had a rough childhood which she was ultimately brought out of.

Tamara Lowe grew up on the streets of New Orleans. At age
10, she was taking drugs.  She became a drug dealer at 12 and dropped
out of school in the eighth grade. For the next decade, she went from
one drug-induced high to the next. Then, Tamara had a life-changing
transition – she got motivated.

She claims she has worked face to face with many well-known celebrities and world leaders, including Ronald Reagan, Gerald
Ford, Jimmy Carter, George HW Bush, and Bill Clinton, British Prime
Minister Margaret Thatcher, Canadian Prime Minister Joe Clark, Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Soviet President Mikhail
Gorbachev, Billy Graham, Colin Powell, Joe Montana, George Foreman,
Goldie Hawn, Charlton Heston, Bill Cosby, Christopher Reeve, Rudy
Giuliani, Mary Lou Retton, and Mother Teresa.
Tamara Lowe is a false teacher. She teaches a false gospel–the Word
of Faith and Prosperity Gospels as well as a heresy called Positive
Confession. Positive Confession is the practice of speaking things into
existence or using the power of your words to create and manifest your
desires. Lowe is on the Elijah List, a forum for New Apostolic
Reformation false prophets to proclaim what “God has told them.” Lowe prophesied the following:

GOD HAS GIVEN ME THE POWER TO CREATE
WEALTH! I say that unapologetically. “Wealth” is not a four-letter
word. In fact, at the risk of offending you, I’ll go so far as to say if you’re struggling financially something is very, very wrong!

Her teachings and false prophecy are diametrically opposed to the
Word of God, which states that it is easier for a camel to go through
the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God (Matthew 19:24).
Scripture repeatedly asserts that often times the believer’s temporal
life will be replete with suffering and calamity for the cause of Christ
(Phillippians 1:29, 1 Peter 4:1, Acts 14:22,
etc.). Further, the Scriptures teach us to lay up for ourselves
treasures in Heaven rather than useless treasures in this life–they
won’t last (Matthew 6:19-21).
Lowe has proclaimed several Health and Wealth “prophecies” which are archived on the Elijah List website.
Tamara Lowe is not someone a true believer should have anything to do
with. She is a false teacher who seeks only to promote herself. She
proudly claims that she preaches a “non-religious” gospel, which is
evident by her associations with many other false teachers and her
ecumenical alliances. You can regularly find her on heretical outlets
such as TBN, CBN and Charisma Mag while associating with others of her ilk such as Joyce Meyer, Reinhard Bonnke, and Darlene Zschech.
Regardless of where you find her, she will be surely accompanied by
multiple ads and promotions asking you to sign up for her services while
using the name of God, Scripture, and religious and secular celebrities
to promote her false teachings.
Beware!
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 “BIG MONEY SECRETS” & MAGNETIC MARKETING;
PROSPERITY GOSPEL & POSITIVE CONFESSION
AND MONITORING THE METRICS

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 “Poncho Lowder is passionate about a 
Presence-empowered church.”
(Likely a Demonic Presence, 
Since Jesus is Purposely Avoided)
FALSE HUMANIST GOSPEL
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False Teacher of the Day #2: Poncho Lowder
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 Poncho Lowder is the lead pastor of a church in Austin called 
Planetshakers. Planetshakers, much like Hillsong, is an international 
organization based out of Australia whose focus is on music and 
experience. Planetshakers is a church that  
promotes extrabiblical experiential encounters with the Holy Spirit while minimizing 
the actual content of the gospel.

Poncho Lowder has authored a book called Purse God, a seeker-friendly
book that teaches his readers to “passionately pursue” a relationship
with God daily in order to reap the benefits of that relationship. One
review on Amazon stated, “Pursue God will equip you to give yourself to
Jesus and His cause for your entire life.”
Lowder claims his conversion was based on an encounter with the Holy
Spirit, devoid of any mention of Jesus, his death, burial, or
resurrection. His website states,

Poncho believes that lives are changed through an
authentic encounter with the presence of God. His life was radically
transformed through one moment with Holy Spirit at age 19 while sitting
in the back row of a church. Since that moment Poncho has given his life
to whole-heartedly seeking God and challenging others to live the dream
that God has for them. He carries a calling to contend for the
miraculous and to walk in complete faith in God’s goodness.

Lowder’s
teachings are no different than those of his mother church. He teaches
his followers to contend for miracles while actively seeking the Holy
Spirit. A thorough perusal of his website, the name, Jesus, could
nowhere be found. However, “Holy Spirit,” “God,” and “experience” were
named repeatedly.

  • Worship: Enter into an atmosphere of Presence-driven worship, where the Holy Spirit will move in your life. (source)
  • Kids: Your kids are the future! They’ll have so much fun and
    grow closer to God in our amazing Kids Church experience for all
    children 12 and under! (source)
  • …a place where people just like you can have a life-changing encounter with God that will empower you to reach your world. (source)

His sermons are full of motivational new-age hype designed to
encourage people to go out into the world and enact social justice
change in the name of Christianity. This is the false gospel of Poncho
Lowder and Planet Shakers. If Christ crucified is ever preached in his
church, it has been extremely difficult to find and is most certainly
minimized, at best, while sensual experiences and social change is the
primary focus of this movement.
Poncho Lowder and Planetshakers Church, Austin are to be avoided.
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“PASSIONATE FOR THE WORD”, BUT ALTERED TO ELIMINATE JESUS CHRIST AND THE “OFFENSIVE” DOCTRINES OF THE TRUE CHRISTIAN FAITH

 HUMANIST FALSE GOSPEL WHERE MAN IS GLORIFIED AND JESUS GETS A PASSING MENTION

THE CONNECTION TO BILL JOHNSON OF BETHEL CHURCH, REDDING, CALIFORNIA & HIS NEW APOSTOLIC REFORMATION DOMINIONISM:

 

 
 

BRITISH PATRIOT EXPOSES MUSLIM SHARIA, RAPE, BRUTALITY, HUMILIATION & UK TAKEOVER~DR. PHIL EXPOSES INTERNATIONAL PEDOPHILIA

BRITISH PATRIOT EXPOSES MUSLIM SHARIA, 
RAPE, BRUTALITY, HUMILIATION & UK TAKEOVER~
DR. PHIL EXPOSES INTERNATIONAL PEDOPHILIA
 Muslim Rape Culture Demands England Submit
 British Man Fears For His Childrens’ Lives / 
There Are Two Kinds Of People
 Muslim MP Celebrates Islamic Takeover Of England
 Without Parents’ Consent, Young Children Taken To Mosques / Police Defend Mass Rapes
 Video: Muslims Herd Women With Sticks 
As Europe Collapses
 Video Shows Saudi Man Literally Herding Veiled Muslim Women With a Stick 
Is this the brand of Islam feminists want to import to the west?
BY PAUL JOSEPH WATSON
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 
A disturbing video out of
Saudi Arabia shows a man with a stick literally herding veiled young
Muslim women with a stick as they wait for their male guardians before
being allowed to leave.
The
clip shows a man allowing some students to leave before he orders the
others to return indoors by banging a stick against a metal hand rail.
At the end of the clip he appears to strike one of the women on the head
with the stick.
According to a Saudi feminist
who posted the video on Twitter, it shows a high school guard
fulfilling his duties, which include making sure the students are always
fully covered and ensuring “women are caged until their guardians or
drivers come”.
“Every girl in high school and college
has a man outside ‘protecting’ them. Preventing them from leaving with
unrelated men,” she added. “When I was a rebellious teenager, I use to
take off my veil when I reached my car. This usually pissed off the
guard and he use to report me.”
Meanwhile,
another shocking video out of Algeria shows Muslims – both men and
women – arguing that a man who doesn’t beat his wife isn’t a real man.
“A
real Algerian woman, if her husband doesn’t beat her sometimes, she’ll
feel…it’s not manly, it makes me happy,” says one woman.
“When
she angers me a lot, I beat her,” says another man, while another says
it is acceptable to beat women when they cause annoyance.
60% of Algerian women think a husband has the right to beat his wife, according to a UNICEF study cited in the video.
As
we have repeatedly highlighted, despite Islam representing the complete
opposite of liberalism in that it is a viciously intolerant belief
system that treats women little better than farmyard animals, leftists
are trying to embrace Islamism.
This
has manifested itself in the promotion of the face veil or the hijab as
a symbol of female empowerment, when in reality it is a symbol of
female oppression in Islamic countries all over the world. Three
feminist moms in Pittsburgh have even produced ‘hijab barbies’ to normalize the head covering.
writes,
the hijab is a “symbol of a dangerous purity culture, obsessed with
honor and virginity, that has divided Muslim communities in our own
civil war, or fitna, since the Saudi and Iranian regimes promulgated
puritanical interpretations of Sunni and Shia Islam, after the 1970s
Saudi oil boom and the 1979 Iranian Revolution.”
Nomani
lists numerous recent examples of how the hijab purity culture “covers,
segregates, subordinates, silences, jails and kills women and girls
around the world.”
Recently, in Bareilly, India, a father killed his daughter, 4, smashing her head against the floor when her scarf slipped from her head during dinner. In Ontario, a few years ago, a man strangled
his 16-year-old sister when she defied their father, including by
refusing to cover her hair. In November, a former University of Missouri
instructor dragged a female relative,
14, out of school “by the hair” when he discovered she hadn’t covered
her hair. Today, in Iran, friends of the journalist Masih Alinejad dodge
batons as they shoot photos of themselves, hair bare, in a campaign
Alinejad started, #MyStealthyFreedom, to protest Iran’s mandatory headscarf law.”
Throughout
modern history, actual Muslim feminists have tried to dispense with the
hijab as part of their desperate struggle for liberation, notably Huda
Shaarawi, who founded the Egyptian Feminist Union in 1922, which encouraged Muslim women to discard their veils.
All
this again underscores the blatant fact that leftists would rather
pander to the sacred cows of identity politics by embracing and merging
with the most misogynistic belief system on the planet than actually
maintain and defend classically liberal principles.
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 America Flat-Out Being Invaded
BY FROSTY WOOLDRIDGE
SEE: https://newswithviews.com/america-flat-out-being-invaded/; 
 
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 

Each year, according to Dr. Steven Camarata, researcher at the Center
for Immigration Studies, 500,000 foreigners from all over the world
jump America’s southern border with Mexico. The Mexican government aids
and abets them. (Source: www.cis.org)

Annually,
estimates range from 30 to 40 percent of foreign visitors overstay
their visas and burrow into America’s cities, towns and
countryside—already burdened with 20,000,000 illegal alien enclaves.

Each year, America accepts 1,000,000 legal refugee immigrants from
190 countries who cannot or will not provide for their own citizens. 
That’s been going on since 1965 when US Senator Teddy Kennedy’s
Immigration Reform Act opened the flood gates to from the third world
into America. That single act, never discussed with the American people,
flooded this country with 100,000,000 more people within 40 years. 
That same act, if not rescinded, will flood America with another
100,000,000 people by 2050—a scant 33 years from now.  (Source: US
Census Bureau; US Population Projections by Fogel/Martin; PEW Research
Center)

Annually, 350,000 pregnant women from all over the world including
Mexico, China, India, South America, Africa and dozens more—visit
America to birth their babies. Known as “anchor babies”, each mother
enjoys pre-natal care, birthing and postnatal care paid for by US
taxpayers.  Additionally, once born in the USA, that mother and child
enjoy 18 years of housing, food, medical care and education K-12.  All
of it paid for by your tax dollars.

In 2016, Barack Obama injected over 15,000 Syrian refugees on top of
the normal legal and illegal immigration flow.  He gave illegal alien
children their DACA permits to remain in America in violation of Federal
Laws.  A federal court stopped his mass amnesty attempts.

In the meantime, the third world, where all these people originate,
continues adding 80,000,000 (million) new babies, net gain, annually to
guarantee the immigrant line grows instead of diminishes.

At the same time, Mexico sells Americans endless drugs consisting of
heroin, meth-amphetamines, cocaine, ecstasy, marijuana laced with
chemicals and other drugs. Cost:  $100,000,000,000.00 and as high as
$120,000,000,000.00. (billion) (Source: The Office of
National Drug Control Policy estimates that $100 billion worth of
illegal drugs were sold in the U.S. in 2016.  It estimates 200 U.S.
cities in which Mexican drug cartels maintain drug distribution networks
or supply drugs.)

CDC: “About 570,000 people die annually in the U.S. due to drug use.”

Because of that drug invasion, 13 teen-agers die every hour, 24/7 across America from drug-alcohol overdoses.

Additionally, the State Department estimates that legal and illegal
immigrants send cash transfers back to their countries in the amount of
$120,000,000,000.00 annually.  Thus, bleeding America financially to
death.  Note: we face a $19.5 trillion national debt that could collapse
our society at any time.

Not only that, Congress imports moderate and radical Muslims bent on
destroying and/or displacing the U.S. Constitution with Sharia Law and
their Quran. Their top Muslim-American leaders state that fact daily.

“Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any faith, but to become
dominant. The Qur’an should be the highest authority in America, and
Islam the only accepted religion on Earth.” Omar Ahmed, director of
Council on American Islamic Relations.

Does anyone understand that this country faces an invasion like no
other in the history of the world?  Worse, the average American sits
back watching it happen across all 50 states. Canada, too.  In fact,
both countries invite their own suicide. Along with Europe!

As President Trump promised to build the Wall between Mexico and the
USA to stop the invasion and the drugs, California Governor Jerry Brown
said he would fight that Wall because it reminded him of the Berlin
Wall.  His sanctuary state houses up to 4,000,000 illegal aliens. 
Southern California no longer speaks very much English, but Spanish. San
Francisco looks like a foreign city filled with everyone but
Americans.  California runs broke and overpopulated.  Its freeways
resemble a cement-thick parking lot for 18 hours a day.  Crime, welfare,
crippled schools filled with kids from around the world overwhelm
California.  Americans get run out of their communities—and prisons
burst with illegal aliens—but Jerry Brown invites more illegals into his
state. Illegals enjoy sanctuary cities such as San Diego, Los Angeles,
San Francisco, Bakersfield and dozens more. His state features more
births from non-Americans than Americans.

This figure will shock you: “California grows by 1,654 people daily,
net gain, 24/7.  And, 98 percent of that growth stems from legal and
illegal immigrants.”  (Source: www.CapsWeb.org)

Nationwide, over 340 “sanctuary cities” house up to 20,000,000
(million) and as high as 31,000,000 illegal aliens.  Those border
jumpers enjoy protection from Immigration, Customs Enforcement, (ICE)
and prosecution by outright defiance of the rule of law by our elected
officials such as mayors and governors.  No matter how many rapes,
burglaries, killings, robberies, anchor babies, shoplifting, drunk
drivers and fraudulent IDs—illegal aliens enjoy more protection and
services than our military veterans.  How much?  You pay out
$113,000,000,000.00 (billion) in services for immigrants across 15
federal agencies. (Source: US Government Finances)

This goes on year after year after year, decade after decade after
decade.   It’s an invasion by any definition of the word.  And, Congress
and every governor of every state facilitate it—because they refuse to
enforce the rule of law.

It’s exasperating to watch this country being invaded while its own
elected officials aid and abet all of it.  And, yet, Americans continue
voting back into office the exact same representatives that keep the
invasion going strong.   At some point, it’s all going to break down
into a national disaster on multiple levels, guaranteed.

Call your senators and House rep:  1 202 224 3121 or 1 888 995 2086.
Demand a stop to all immigration and stop to any Syrian immigration.

Definition of slogan:  “Immigration Shutdown Now means the American
people want a total shutdown on all legal and illegal immigration. That
means we want all illegal immigration stopped by arresting, prosecuting
and jailing employers of illegal aliens. We deport all illegal aliens by
taking their jobs away and as we catch them.  We want English mandated
as our national language. We demand a cessation of Muslim immigration in
order to protect our culture, language and way of life. We can’t save
the world but we can save or destroy our civilization.  We demand a
stable population that allows everyone to live, work and thrive into the
21st century. Especially our children.” FHW

(Permission to republish this population graph by Roy Beck, www.NumbersUSA.org )

Muslims cannot in any way become Americans. The Koran forbids it. 
Their entire context of religious-political Sharia Law demands
subjugation to their religion with no allegiance to the U.S.
Constitution. The Koran forbids women’s rights, marital choice, free
speech, gay rights and religious rights.  Our way of life remains
completely out of bounds to Islam. This 4-minute video explains our plight:

That’s why you need to take action. Send this series to everyone in
your network. Educate them.  Urge them to take action by joining these
websites to become faxers of prewritten letters and phone callers.  We
must force Congress into an “Immigration Shutdown Now!”

Share these videos all over America:

In a five minute astoundingly simple yet brilliant video, “Immigration, Poverty, and Gum Balls”, Roy Beck, director of www.numbersusa.ORG, graphically illustrates the impact of overpopulation.  Take five minutes to see for yourself:

“Immigration by the numbers—off the chart” by Roy Beck

This 10 minute demonstration
shows Americans the results of unending mass immigration on the quality
of life and sustainability for future generations: in a few words,
“Mind boggling!”  www.NumbersUSA.org

Take action by joining for free:

America: www.CapsWeb.org ; www.NumbersUSA.org ; www.Fairus.org ; www.CarryingCapacity.org

Canada:www.immigrationwatchcanada.org
 United Kingdom:  www.populationmatters.org 
  Australia: www.population.org.au Sustainable Population Australia
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Dr. Phil Interview Exposes Global Elite Pedophiles 
(But Ignores the Muslim Ones)
BY ALEX NEWMAN
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 

In what may be the most explosive episode of his high-profile television career,
psychologist and TV show host Dr. Phil exposed the little-known
phenomenon of human trafficking of sex slaves among the elite echelons
of society. According to Dr. Phil, the victim, and reliable sources who
corroborated her story, the girl — now a young woman, perhaps in her
mid-20s — was flown around the world on private jets and forced to have
sexual relations and engage in unspeakable acts with wealthy
businessmen, political leaders, and other establishment figures. Much of
what was described on the the Dr. Phil Show sounded satanic, analysts
said.

Experts who have studied the phenomenon, though, say this story is just the tip of a gigantic iceberg
that stretches across the globe and is especially concentrated in power
centers such as Washington, D.C., New York City, and London. With
President Donald Trump vowing to crack down hard on human trafficking
and sex slavery, victims and their advocates hope the scourge can be
brought into the open — and that the perpetrators can be brought to
justice, regardless of their position in society. U.S. Attorney General
Jeff Sessions is reportedly committed to doing everything within his power to bring down high-level pedophiles and human-traffickers.
 The victim who appeared on Dr. Phil’s enormously popular show,
identified only as “Kendall,” said on the program that she was sold to
her “owner” by her parents at birth. “I was born into the world of sex
trafficking,” she said on the program, which aired nationwide on March
21 and was reportedly seen by millions of Americans. “I was forced to
have sex with clients. One of my first memories was to think it was
normal for men to be fondling babies.” In one case, she was even forced
by her “owner” to kill a baby, she said. In other instances, she was
forced to rape children as young as five-years old. 

Her entire existence revolved around the demands of her “owner” and
the clients this criminal would pimp her out to. “My whole life I would
travel all over the world, and would go to some of the biggest events to
meet clients and have sex with them,” the victim explained. “They were
all extremely rich and prominent members of society. Sometimes they
would just want to have sex with me, and sometimes they would make me
have sex with different people.” When her “owner” was not around, she
was supervised by “watchers.”

Among those who raped her, she said, were high-ranking
law-enforcement officials, major sports figures, and even top U.S.
politicians. Oftentimes, she was taken to extravagant mansions where the
“clients” would rape, torture, and abuse her and other captive
children. Many of the “clients” were “pillars of the community,” Kendall
continued, adding that some even owned private islands or large
properties where they could rape and “hunt” their victims with impunity.

Indeed, one well-known pedophile with a private island, Bill
Clinton’s friend and registered sex offender Jeffery Epstein, had a
private plane known as the “Lolita Express” that would fly high-level
politicians and businessmen to his so-called “Orgy Island” or “Sex Slave
Island” in the U.S. Virgin Islands. There, according to reports and
alleged victims, trafficked girls as young as 12 would be forced to have
sexual relations with Epstein and his friends — billionaires,
politicians, royalty, and others. Bill Clinton rode on the Lolita
Express at least 26 times, according to flight logs cited by Fox News, and often ditched his Secret Service protection before hopping onboard.  

Lest Ms. Kendall’s claims be dismissed, Dr. Phil emphasized that her
story had been corroborated prior to putting her on the show. “I can
tell you that a very reliable source has confirmed to us that Kendall
has in fact been trafficked, raped, molested, and severely abused by a
very large, very dangerous organization,” Dr. Phil said. Indeed, as The New American and numerous other media sources have documented,
her story is hardly unique, and there does appear to be a pattern
linking many “elites” to unspeakable crimes perpetrated in the shadows.

Those wealthy and powerful “clients” were responsible for ghastly
crimes against Kendall, stretching back to her early childhood and her
earliest memories. “The clients were often physically abusive,” she
explained, adding that she was often drugged by her captors as well.
“Clients were even allowed to smother me with a pillow or plastic bag
while having sex with me. But they were never allowed to leave marks or
bruises on my face, because I always had to look pretty.”

Kendall’s “owner” told her she was “made for” the abuse, and that her
birth parents had created her for that purpose. “It’s the only life
I’ve ever known,” she says in the interview, adding that she believed
her own three children were also trafficked into slavery and that
children would be raped by adults beginning when they were just infants.
“All of this was completely normal to me, and I never thought seriously
about leaving…. Since I left, it’s been so hard.” Her “owner” had
rich and powerful friends all over the world, she added.

Asked how old she was when she was first raped, Kendall said “it was
before I could talk.” “I was used to it by the time I was 2,” she added,
noting that she does not even know her actual age today because she was
a sex slave from the time of her earliest memories. In the interview,
she explains that she could even tell the difference between children
who were born into the slavery and those who were kidnapped. “The girls
who weren’t born into it, they had a harder time,” Kendall said. “They
were always kept tied up or in cages, and they cried a lot.”    

“The man who owns me constantly manipulated me and did horrible
things to me,” she said. “He would make me be a dog, he made me eat
feces, I was kept in a cage — sometimes he would electrocute me as
punishment.” In fact, the monstrous “owner” would give her commands like
a dog, “like come, or sit, or stay — I would have to obey them or I’d
get in trouble.” Sometimes she would have to “be a dog for days,” she
added.  Her punishment for not “behaving” was that her owner would “have
really rough sex with me, or take a knife and cut me.” He would also
wet her and force her to be in the cold, or pretend to drown her in the
bath tub. 

In perhaps one of the most grotesque elements of the story, Kendall’s
“owner” even brainwashed her into believing her torture and misery were
divinely ordained — suggesting that the false “god” of her abusers may
be what Christians, Jews, and others recognize as demonic. “He said that
all of this was happening because it was god’s will, because god made
me for this,” Kendall recounted. Her abusers and rapists also told her
“this was the best thing for me,” she said, adding that she had believed
them and felt guilty for not appreciating the horrors inflicted on her.

The “owner,” whom Kendall said she witnessed murdering some 20 to 25
people, also threatened her to keep silent, telling her, “if I told
anybody about what was going on, that nobody would believe me,” she
explained. “I 100 percent believed him. I still believe him.” At one
point, the “owner” offered her one chance to leave him in the only way
he said was possible: shooting herself in the head. She tried, but the
gun did not go off, and then she was punished severely, she told Dr.
Phil.     

Of course, the networks of establishment pedophiles and perverts
alluded to throughout Dr. Phil’s explosive program last week has become
increasingly well known in the age of the Internet. A 1990s documentary called Conspiracy of Silence,
available for free online today, also suggests the problem in the
United States has existed for generations and reaches into the highest
levels of government and power. And more than a few members of the political, business, and media elite have already been exposed.

Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert, for example, was busted last year for attempting to cover up his sexual molestation of underage boys.
Unfortunately for the cause of justice, the statute of limitations had
already expired on his sexual crimes. But he did plead guilty to charges
relating to the cover-up. Illustrating his complete lack of morals or
compassion, though, Hastert was recently in the news again for trying to
recover the “hush” money he paid to one of his victims because the
victim had come forward. The judge in the case called him a “serial
child molester.” As The New American reported last year, though, Hastert is just the tip of the iceberg.  

Before Hastert, late BBC celebrity Jimmy Savile was exposed
as a pedophile monster who sexually abused hundreds of children over a
period of decades — sometimes as part of a satanic ring, according
to victims cited in news reports. In 2013, after that scandal exploded,
British police announced that their investigation into child sex abuse
was widening to include members of the British Parliament as well.
However, even the police themselves came under fire for declining on
multiple occasions to file charges against Savile.

More than a few advocates suggested corrupt forces within the police
department were helping to protect the pedophile ring and its
high-ranking, influential members. British Parliamentarian Tom Watson
with the Labor Party also spoke of the evidence file used in the 1990s
to convict pedophile Peter Righton — a former consultant at the National
Children’s Bureau and lecturer for the National Institute for Social
Work in London — and said it should be re-examined. The MP said it
contained “clear intelligence of a widespread pedophile ring” in the
U.K. operating at the highest levels of power.

“One of its members boasts of his links to a senior aide of a former
prime minister,” Watson explained on the floor of Parliament. “The leads
were not followed up, but if the file still exists I want to ensure
that the Metropolitan Police secure the evidence, re-examine it and
investigate clear intelligence suggesting a powerful pedophile network
linked to Parliament and [government headquarters at Downing Street]
Number 10.”

In America, more than a few Clinton associates have also been
ensnared in pedophilia-related scandals. As described above, Clinton
buddy and known pedophile Epstein is infamous for his proclivities.
“Bill Clinton … associated with a man like Jeffrey Epstein, who everyone
in New York, certainly within his inner circles, knew was a pedophile,”
explained Conchita Sarnoff with the non-profit Alliance to Rescue
Victims of Trafficking and the author of a book on Epstein’s case called
TrafficKing. “Why would a former president associate with a man like that?”

The Obama administration was so unfazed by the horrors of pedophilia and child rape that it named a U.S. Navy ship after known pedarastic rapist and homosexual activist Harvey Milk. And as The New American has been documenting for years, the Obama administration continued to boost support to United Nations “peacekeeping” schemes even as UN “peace” troops were exposed all over the world raping and trafficking children.

Meanwhile, e-mails between failed Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and her top aide at the time,
Cheryl Mills, deal with Laura Silsby, who was arrested and charged with
child abduction and child trafficking in Haiti after the 2010 hurricane
there. Silsby and nine others posing as “missionaries” for a phony
orphanage were busted by authorities trying to smuggle a busload of 33
Haitian children off the island. And far from being orphans, once Silsby
was caught, the parents of the children accused her of lying. Thanks to
intervention by Bill and Hillary Clinton, though, Silsby was allowed to
leave Haiti with “time served.” 

As The New American‘s senior editor William F. Jasper reported in a November article
about the scandals and horrors revealed in Clinton’s e-mails, including
tales of bizarre occult rituals, multiple analysts have concluded that
Silsby was kidnapping the Haitian children to be sold to child sex
rings. “The evidence we have seen thus far does not prove that claim,
but neither is it a far-fetched supposition, considering the sordid
sexual swamp that many of the high and mighty are mired in, and
considering the Epstein-Clinton-Podesta revelations that are pouring
out,” Jasper reported. “At the very least, it must be seriously
investigated, in light of the evidence available and the global crisis
in child sex trafficking.”

A recent “Reality Check” news segment by journalist Ben Swann on the
so-called “Pizzagate” scandal, which establishment media outlets have
scrambled to declare “fake news,” also links a number of high-profile
Clinton associates to pedophilia and human trafficking. After a
month-long investigation, Swann — one of the most reputable journalists
with a platform on an establishment media outlet — suggests that there
is extremely troubling evidence that should be properly investigated.
The video report was perhaps the best summary so far of the “Pizzagate”
theories. 

  

In addition to the millions of viewers who watched his show, Dr.
Phil’s program highlighting the horrifying crimes of human trafficking
and sexual slavery made headlines across America in the alternative
media around the world. In the United Kingdom, some of that nation’s
leading newspapers have covered the story. And after the story broke,
the word spread across the Internet like wildfire, with countless blogs,
forums, and alternative media outlets celebrating the breakthrough.

Trump has also taken a hard line. “I want to make clear that my
administration will focus on ending the absolutely horrific practice of
human trafficking,” he said after a recent listening session on
domestic and international human trafficking at the White House. “I am
prepared to bring the full weight our government at the federal level
and the highest levels in order to solve this horrific problem. It’s
getting worse, and it’s happening in the United States, in addition to
the rest of the world…. Solving the human-trafficking epidemic is a
priority for my administration.”

Trump’s hard line has been cited by more than a few commentators as
one of the reasons why the establishment is freaking out so hysterically
over Trump and his administration. Whether more members of the
establishment will be ensnared in the horrifying scandals in the months
and years to come, though, remains to be seen.

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EU Funding of Homosexual Lobby with Pedophile Links Questioned

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Navy Ship to be Named After Pederastic Rapist Harvey Milk

NYPD Source: Weiner Laptop Has Enough Evidence “to Put Hillary … Away for Life”

UNESCO Report: Sex Guidelines for Kids From Birth

JUNCKER, HEIR TO ADOLF HITLER’S EMPIRE, DECLARES WAR ON THE U.S.~SEEKS TO SPLIT UP STATES & CITIES

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JUNCKER, LUXEMBOURG HEIR 
TO ADOLF HITLER’S EMPIRE, 
DECLARES WAR ON THE U.S.
 
 Heir To Nazi Fortune Declares War On America

 WE WILL BREAK UP AMERICA

 EU President Calls For Austin TX To Secede 
Published on Mar 30, 2017

Jean
Claude Juncker, the Luxembourgian President of the European Commission
with a heritage literally making him the son of a Nazi is taking a stand
against all things Brexit and President Donald Trump.

Juncker
named Ohio. Ohio? Ohio had a very small secession movement in 2012. But
that was a reaction to Barack Obama’s reelection. Totally off the mark.
California sure. But Ohio, I don’t think so. And then he names
Texas….but not just Texas…Austin, Texas as the other place he would
support to secede.

Unfortunately as an Austin, Texas resident a
few things come to mind as to why he feels Austin would become like his
dear little country Luxembourg. Austin is a model UN Agenda 21 city. The
politically correct Austin City Council is packed full of left leaning
Antifa supporting miscreants that love spending our tax dollars on white
elephant projects just like Juncker. And a battle is brewing in Austin
between the City Council members, The Austin Mayor, The Texas Governor,
and the Department of Justice over the controversial status of Austin as
a leading Sanctuary City.

 

NEW LAW COULD ELIMINATE INFORMED CONSENT FOR HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION WITH VACCINES & DRUGS

OBAMA’S “LEGACY” SILENTLY PUT INTO EFFECT
DECEMBER 2016, ATTACKS INFORMED CONSENT
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 They’re talking about a bill here, they’re talking about Section 3024 of
 this bill and they’re talking about informed consent, and I will play 
for you what they had to say having to do with vaccines and the 21st 
Century Cures Act. This speaks to informed consent waiver or 
alteration for clinical investigations. There, I have to say, are still a
 lot of discussions going on whether this really will apply to two 
vaccines for the following reason, this the 21st Century Cures would 
amend the Food and Drug Act to add an exception from informed consent 
requirements for those clinical trials that pose no more than minimal 
risk and there are appropriate safeguards protecting the rights, safety,
 and welfare of the exam place. Now, for vaccine trials we always have 
taken the position that these trials do involve more than minimal risks,
 so this may not be applicable but, again, we have our lawyers, 
everybody, engaged to really help guide this along.
 

LAUGHING PLANNED PARENTHOOD ABORTIONIST: IT “TAKES MORE FORCE” TO DISMEMBER SOME BABIES

 
LAUGHING PLANNED PARENTHOOD ABORTIONIST: 
IT “TAKES MORE FORCE” TO DISMEMBER SOME BABIES
BY HEATHER CLARK
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 LOS ANGELES — Newly-released undercover 
footage from the Center for Medical Progress captures a Planned 
Parenthood abortionist laughing about how much force is required to 
dismember babies when chemical agents aren’t used, and joking that she 
first thought she needed to go to the gym just to get in shape to 
perform a dilation and evacuation procedure.

“Research shows that Dig (short for Digoxin) doesn’t make
the procedure easier in someone who is well trained, but I have to tell
you anecdotally my biceps appreciate when the Dig works [to kill the
baby],” DeShawn Taylor of Planned Parenthood Los Angeles stated, flexing
her arm and giggling.

“It does not take me any longer to complete the procedure,
but it takes more force,” she explained. “I remember when I was a fellow
and I was training, I was like, ‘Oh, I have to hit the gym for this. I
need to hit the gym.’”

When asked at what gestation dismemberment abortions become especially difficult, she replied 20 weeks (five months).

The Center for Medical Progress had posed as a fetal organ
procurement company at an abortion services networking event, and had
been introduced to Taylor by Deborah Nucatola, Planned Parenthood
Federation of America’s senior director of medical services.

“[I]n order to get you an intact calvarium, the patient is
going to have to go into labor,” Taylor advised. “Because generally,
especially in a breech presentation, everything’s going to come out and
the head is going to get trapped.”

During the conversation, Taylor also stated that she has to
be careful for her staff’s sake that the baby is crushed enough that he
or she doesn’t look like a person when removed from the womb.

“It’s not a matter of how I feel about it coming out intact,
but I gotta worry about my staff and people’s feelings about it coming
out looking like a baby,” she outlined.

But Taylor also noted that she herself doesn’t like when the aborted infants are referred to as babies.

“We have the people who do our paperwork for the fetal death
certificates, [and] they email us calling them ‘babies.’ Baby this,
baby that, baby so-and-so, and I’m like, that’s creepy!” she exclaimed.

The abortionist likewise outlined during the discussion that
if the baby comes out with any signs of life, they are required by
law to be transported to the hospital. When asked if she has a protocol
for identifying those signs, she replied, “Well, the thing is, I mean
the key is, you need to pay attention to who’s in the room, right?”

The full, unedited footage is posted below.

The video was released just one day after David Daleiden of the Center for Medical Progress was charged with 15 felonies
by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, who alleges that
Daleiden broke the law in recording the undercover conversations without
consent.

“This footage is just a preview of the damning and
incriminating admissions of Planned Parenthood leaders on our further
unreleased tapes, being censored by an unconstitutional gag order from a
federal judge in San Francisco,” Daleiden said in a statement on
Wednesday.

“The only difference between Planned Parenthood’s barbaric
abortion business, and that of the notorious Dr. Kermit Gosnell, is that
Gosnell was not so careful as to ‘pay attention to who’s in the room,’”
he remarked. “Elected officials must stop forcing taxpayers to
subsidize Planned Parenthood’s criminal abortion business, and the
Department of Justice must immediately open a full investigation and
prosecute Planned Parenthood to the fullest extent of the law.”

LONG VERSION
 12 MINUTE VERSION
 SHORT VERSION
 

INDIANA: MUSLIM SCREAMING “ALLAHU AKBAR” ISSUES DEATH THREATS TO SHOPPERS, TRIES TO STRANGLE STORE CLERK, BREAKS COP’S HAND

 

Indiana: Muslim screaming “Allahu akbar” says “I’m going to kill everyone in here,” tries to strangle clerk, breaks cop’s hand

BY ROBERT SPENCER

SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/03/indiana-muslim-screaming-allahu-akbar-says-im-going-to-kill-everyone-in-here-tries-to-strangle-clerk-breaks-cops-hand; 

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

“It is believed that Bilal had beaten a female worker at the store
and grabbed her by the throat prior to officers’ arrival. Bilal
reportedly had become upset while attempting to convert the employee to
Islam.”

Well, if she didn’t immediately see the light of Islam, you can see why he was upset.

“According to reports, Bilal then went on to break an officer’s hand
after an attempt to place Bilal into custody….He faces preliminary
charges of battery on police, resisting law enforcement, disorderly
conduct, battery with injury, intimidation and strangulation.”

Quite an eventful dawah session! And much, much more of this sort of
thing is coming, in Muncie and elsewhere in the land of the free and the
home of the brave.

“Police: Man tased after striking officer, yelling ‘Allah Akbar’ in Goodwill scuffle,” WISH, March 28, 2017 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

MUNCIE, Ind. (WISH) — One man is facing charges after he
struck an officer for attempting to restrain him following a commotion
in Muncie.

It happened just before 2 p.m. Saturday inside a Goodwill store when officers were responding to a call for a fight.

Upon arrival, officials found 24-year-old Khalid Bilal confronting store employees.

According to reports, Bilal then went on to break an officer’s hand after an attempt to place Bilal into custody.

Bilal was later tased after charging another officer that arrived on
scene. After the tasing, the officer was eventually able to corral Bilal
into handcuffs. The suspect then began to kick the officer repeatedly
with both legs, causing authorities to shackle his legs.

Reports stated that Bilal was yelling “Allah Akbar” throughout the ordeal.

One customer told 24-Hour News 8 she was scared for her life. She was
inside the store shopping with her three children when she heard a man
screaming at the front.

“A guy had become very irate and was screaming at one of the
employees and then grabbed him by the collar and start pushing him and
screaming are you scared,” said Chasity Fraley, customer.

“He was just so full of rage and violence I never seen anything like that before,” Fraley added.

Not sure what was going on, Fraley said she began moving her kids.

“We moved to a different aisle… so I could take my kids away from the
situation because they got very scared at that point and then I heard
him say ‘I’m going to kill everyone in here,”’ she said.

That’s when Fraley says a female employee stepped in trying to calm the man down.

“With her, she kinda used a softer tone with him at first, ‘let’s
talk about this, what’s the matter can we take it outside,’” Fraley
recalled.

But out of nowhere, she said the man attacked that employee.

“He violently grabbed her around the neck and just was punching and
whatever he could to her,” she said. “A bunch of employees came out to
keep him away from customers.”

It is believed that Bilal had beaten a female worker at the store and
grabbed her by the throat prior to officers’ arrival. Bilal reportedly
had become upset while attempting to convert the employee to Islam.

Fraley believes employees handled the situation very well.

“They were protecting one another and protecting us they (did) an
excellent job at keeping him in a somewhat secured area,” she said.
“They were telling people to get back trying to protect people in the
store and one another.”

Police said the man was taken to the hospital and continued to attack officers when they tried to restrain him.

Once at the hospital for treatment, Bilal went on to strike an
officer three times when the officer attempted to secure a restraint
that held Bilal to a hospital bed.

He faces preliminary charges of battery on police, resisting law
enforcement, disorderly conduct, battery with injury, intimidation and
strangulation….

SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION GIVES $330,000 TO HAMAS LINKED CAIR & ISLAMIC RELIEF

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BY ROBERT SPENCER
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CAIR is an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case — so named by the Justice Department. CAIR officials have repeatedly refused to denounce Hamas and Hizballah as terrorist groups. Several former CAIR officials have been convicted of various crimes related to jihad terror. CAIR’s cofounder and longtime Board chairman (Omar Ahmad), as well as its chief spokesman (Ibrahim Hooper), have made Islamic supremacist statements about how Islamic law should be imposed in the U.S. (Ahmad denies this, but the original reporter stands by her story.) A California chapter distributed a poster telling Muslims not to talk to the FBI, and a Florida chapter distributed pamphlets with the same message. CAIR has opposed virtually every anti-terror measure that has been proposed or implemented and has been declared a terror organization by the United Arab Emirates. A CAIR operative recently called for the overthrow of the U.S. government.

But all that is fine with the Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
Would they, on the other hand, give a penny to foes of jihad terror? Not
on your life! That would be “Islamophobic”!

“Silicon Valley fund gives $330 thousand to CAIR, Islamic Relief,” by Hillel Fendel, Arutz Sheva, March 28, 2017:

The Middle East Forum research center has revealed that
the Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF) has donated a total of
over $330,000 to two extremist organizations: the Council on
American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and Islamic Relief.

The Philadelphia-based Forum contacted SVCF with evidence of the
extremist links of CAIR and Islamic Relief, but received no response.
The Middle East Forum is now publicly calling for an immediate and
permanent termination of SCVF’s funding of these organizations, and has
started a nationwide campaign to this end.

The SVCF is the country’s wealthiest community foundation, with more
than $8 billion in assets. It has enjoyed positive press coverage during
its 10-year history, but has also come under some criticism. Worst of
all, the MEF states, is its flowing generosity to the Council on
American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and Islamic Relief.

MEF says it privately contacted SVCF last month with evidence of the
extremism of CAIR and Islamic Relief, including the bigotries and
prejudices of its officials and speakers. SVCF officials essentially
“refused to discuss the matter,” MEF reports, but rather “engaged in a
flurry of ad hominem attacks on the Forum.”

It is “unconscionable that such a leading institution as SVCF, which
claims to support ‘understanding and tolerance,’” should help
organizations that rely on ignorance and hatred,” the Forum declares.
“To be precise, CAIR and Islamic Relief have a long history of providing
platforms to speakers who denigrate and threaten women, Jews,
Christians, the LGBTQ community, and Muslims belonging to minority
sects.”

As examples, the Forum cites regular speakers at the two
organizations’ events who have rationalized honor killings or said that
men may beat or rape their wives. “It should not be politically
divisive,” the Forum states, “to state that these ideas are incompatible
with SVCF’s self-proclaimed commitment to diversity and tolerance.”

SVCF did say that CAIR is in “good standing with [U.S.] federal
agencies,” but the MEF counters that the FBI and the Justice Department
have blacklisted CAIR since it was named an unindicted co-conspirator
during a terrorism financing case in 2008. Both CAIR and Islamic Relief
are designated as terrorist groups in the United Arab Emirates, while
the Anti-Defamation League has said that CAIR promotes anti-Jewish
sentiment….

CHARLOTTE, N.C.: CHRISTIANS FLOOD MEETING IN SUPPORT OF PREGNANCY CENTER OUTSIDE ABORTION FACILITY

Charlotte City Forum About No-Parking Outside Of Abortion Clinic

Published on Mar 29, 2017

On
Monday, March 27th, activists from both pro-life and pro-choice groups
showed up to the Charlotte city council to speak their mind about the
new no-parking signs the city wants to install outside of the Latrobe
Abortion Clinic.

More info here – http://charlottestories.com/city-coun…

 Christians Flood Govt. Meeting in Support of Pregnancy Center’s Life-Saving Work Outside Abortion Facility 

BY HEATHER CLARK

SEE: http://christiannews.net/2017/03/28/christians-flood-govt-meeting-in-support-of-pregnancy-centers-life-saving-work-outside-abortion-facility/;

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

 CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Hundreds of Christians flooded the
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Government Center on Monday night to stand
against a request from abortion advocacy groups that would ban a mobile
pro-life pregnancy center from parking outside of an abortion facility.

For more than a decade, both pro-life and pro-abortion residents have
gathered outside of A Preferred Women’s Health Center, with numbers
fluctuating from dozens to thousands. On a regular basis, pro-lifers
offer literature and free assistance, as well as gift bags to mothers
who decide not to go through with their appointment with death.

Because of the volume of traffic at the location, the
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department has now requested that the
Charlotte Department of Transportation study potential changes. The
abortion facility and its advocates have also requested that “no
parking” signs be placed in the immediate area.

They claim that the mobile pregnancy center and the signs displayed by pro-lifers cause traffic visibility hazards.

“This is about patient safety and safety of staff and traffic and
even neighboring businesses that are having issues delivering services
to people as needed due to the influx of people on Latrobe,” facility
administrator Calla Hales told TWC News Charlotte.

But members of the group Cities4Life note that the work of the Monroe
HELP Center, which offers free help to mothers, would be hindered if
the “no parking” signs are installed. They believe that abortion
advocacy groups and the city are just trying to get rid of them.

“We’re there … where and when they most need it,” center volunteer
Vicki Kaseorg testified on Monday. “[It] would not be possible if all
these regulations to limit our ability to do so were enacted.”

Lakilra Flowe, a mother who chose life because of the mobile HELP
Center, stood by Kaseorg’s side, holding her infant child and nodding in
agreement. Flowe now volunteers herself to help save lives outside of
the abortion facility.

As previously reported, Courtney
Parks, a nurse with the ministry, told Christian News Network in 2015
that the RV parks along the street four times a week, and has been a
blessing in the lives of many women.

Flowe holds her baby—saved from abortion—as Kaseorg speaks.“We’ve
had many instances where these ladies think that there is nothing in
their womb but what the liberal media tells them—it’s just a clump of
cells, just a blob of tissue, nothing there—and when I’m able to show
them their eight-week little baby in their womb with a heartbeat, arms
and legs moving around, …. it kind of turns a light bulb on in their
head,” she explained, noting that some mothers have even seen their
babies sucking their thumb.

“I’ve had so many women say, ‘That’s my baby!”” Parks continued.
“People are just so grateful for us standing for the truth and standing
for the babies. … They see you care, they see you want to help them and
it makes them want to choose life for their baby.”

She said that hundreds have been saved from abortion each year
because of those who have been ministering outside of abortion
facilities in the city. A number of the women are gifted with baby
showers and provided with presents to help them in welcoming their
bundle of joy.

On Monday, so many Christians—all donning teal “love life Charlotte”
t-shirts—packed the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Government Center that there
were not enough seats in the chambers or the overflow room to hold them
all. The rest gathered in the lobby exhorting one another, praying for
the unborn and singing songs of praise.

“[Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police] notified CDOT of recent pedestrian
and traffic changes along Latrobe Dr.,” CDOT Director Danny Pleasant
told the Charlotte Observer. “CDOT is in the process of evaluating
operations along the street to check for adequate sight distances at
driveways. So far, CDOT has made no decision to change parking
regulations in the vicinity.”

 

 

CALIFORNIA ATTORNEY GENERAL CHARGES MAN BEHIND PLANNED PARENTHOOD EXPOSE’ VIDEOS WITH 15 FELONIES

 
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BELOW: A.G. XAVIER BECERRA
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CALIFORNIA ATTORNEY GENERAL CHARGES MAN BEHIND PLANNED PARENTHOOD EXPOSE’ VIDEOS WITH 15 FELONIES

BY HEATHER CLARK
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California state prosecutors 
have charged the pro-life investigator behind the 2014-2015 undercover 
Planned Parenthood videos with 15 felonies less than a year after Texas 
officials dropped all charges.

State Attorney General Xavier Becerra alleges that David Daleiden of
the Center for Medical Progress, along with his co-worker Sandra
Merritt, wrongfully recorded Planned Parenthood employees and others
without their consent in capturing the undercover footage.
Daleiden is therefore charged with 14 counts of covertly recording confidential conversations—one for each person—and one count of conspiracy to invade privacy.
“The right to privacy is a cornerstone of California’s Constitution,
and a right that is foundational in a free democratic society,” Becerra
said, according to the LA Times. “[We] will not tolerate the criminal
recording of confidential conversations.”

Daleiden said in a statement that he believes prosecutors are going after the wrong party.
“The public knows the real criminals are Planned Parenthood and their
business partners like StemExpress and DV Biologics—currently being
prosecuted in California—who have harvested and sold aborted baby body
parts for profit for years in direct violation of state and federal
law,” he remarked.
Daleiden advised that additional videos are forthcoming, which he
plans on “showing the entire world … in vindication of the First
Amendment rights of all.”
 As previously reported, Daleiden, 28, had posed as a representative of a fetal tissue
procurement company in order to engage in discussions with Planned
Parenthood officials as a potential buyer of bodily organs. He recorded
the interactions, conducted at various locations across the country, as
part of his “human capital” investigative series that was released
beginning in July 2015.

The first of nearly a dozen videos released
by CMP featured Planned Parenthood Medical Director Deborah Nucatola,
who nonchalantly munched on salad and sipped wine as she talked about
adjusting the child so as not to crush certain organs due to the demand
for the body part.
“I’d say a lot of people want liver. And for that reason, most
providers will do this case under ultrasound guidance, so they’ll know
where they’re putting their forceps,” she explained.
“[Y]ou’re just kind of cognizant where you put your graspers,”
Nucatola outlined. “You try to intentionally go above and below the
thorax, so that—-you know. We’ve been very good at getting the heart,
lung, liver, because we know that, so ‘I’m not gonna crush that part.
I’m gonna basically crush below, I’m gonna crush above, and I’m gonna
see if I can get it all intact.’”
The second video
showed Mary Gatter, the president of Planned Parenthood’s Medical
Directors Council, haggling with the undercover investigators about the
compensation for the fetal organs, laughing, “I want a Lamborghini.”
Other footage showed an actual aborted baby being dissected in a dish,
with an assistant declaring, “Another boy!” and another video showed an abortionist laughing about how harvesting an intact baby head would be “something to strive for.”
Planned Parenthood apologized
for the insensitive “tone” of the first video, but denied that it
profits from its agreements with scientific organizations. It soon
announced that it would stop receiving reimbursement
for “expenses” surrounding the provision of body parts of aborted
babies. The abortion giant argued that the dead babies were beneficial
in research to find cures for diseases.
The organization also contended that the videos were misleading
because they had been edited, but the Center for Medical Progress
also publicly posted the hours-long unedited footage for viewing as
well.
In January of last year, the Harris County district attorney’s office in Texas charged Daleiden
with a felony count of “tampering with a governmental record” for
creating a fake driver’s license in conducting his undercover
investigation, as well as a misdemeanor count related to the purchasing
of aborted babies. All charges, which centered on Daleiden’s undercover
investigations in Texas, were dismissed by the end of July.
However, in the meantime, representatives for Kamala Harris, the attorney general of California at the time, searched Daleiden’s apartment
and seized all of his videos from the undercover investigation.
Daleiden posted a statement afterward, remarking that the investigation
was lopsided as Harris’ office ignored information surrounding the
working relationship between former buyer StemExpress and Planned
Parenthood.
StemExpress discontinued its work with the abortion giant after CMP
released videos revealing its involvement with the organization.
Planned Parenthood partner DaVinci Biosciences and its sister company DV Biologics were then sued
last October by Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckus after
he found evidence that the company had profited from the bodily organs
of aborted babies.
“From 2009 to 2015, the defendants obtained aborted fetus donations
from Planned Parenthood and turned those donations into a profit-driven
business,” he declared.
“They did so by selling tissues and cells from the heart, lungs,
kidneys, brain, intestines, skeletal muscle and bones of the aborted
fetus donations.”
Rackauckus outlined that the companies hired a marketing consultant
to create promotional materials, including a catalog, to boost sales.
His office found that profits included up to $674 in profit for each
fetal heart, up to $233 in profit for each liver, up to $221 in in
profit for each stomach, and up to $664 in profit for each small
intestine.
The companies are accused of generating $1.5 million in sales, while also marking up shipping and processing costs.
The Congressional Select Panel on Infant Lives also issued numerous criminal referrals last year while investigating Planned Parenthood and its partners, including an allegation that Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast unlawfully sold baby body parts to the University of Texas.
It likewise came to believe from evidence that the University of New Mexico violated of the state’s Anatomical Gift Act, that Stem Express
violated HIPPA to increase the harvesting of body parts for profit, and
that DV Biologics received revenue for the body parts of aborted
babies.
Sen. Chuck Grassley of the Senate Judiciary Committee separately issued his own letter and report calling for the FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice to conduct a federal investigation.
Specifically, the Committee noted in its report
that StemExpress, Advanced Bioscience Resources (ABR) and Novogenics
Laboratories purchased the bodily organs of aborted babies from several
California Planned Parenthood locations, and then resold them at
substantially higher prices. The organizations are also accused of
hiking the prices above costs for “transportation, implantation,
processing, preservation, quality control or storage of” the body parts.
“[I]n June of 2014, an ABR technician obtained a 20-week-old fetus at
a Planned Parenthood clinic, for which it paid $60,” the report
outlines. “From that one fetus, ABR sold its brain to one customer for
$325, both of its eyes for $325 each ($650 total) to a second customer, a
portion of its liver for $325 to a third customer, its thymus for $325
and another portion of its liver for $325 to a fourth customer, and its
lung for $325 to a fifth customer.”
StemExpress is accused of similar actions, paying Planned Parenthood
$55 for a baby and then selling his or her body parts for $250 each,
making $1000 from just one child.
The Committee also noted that despite Planned Parenthood’s “constant
statements to the media that [its] affiliates had merely been recovering
their costs” in receiving payment from ABR, StemExpress and other
companies, its attorneys told the investigative Congressional panel that
the Planned Parenthood offices only sought to determine their costs
after-the-fact in light of national scrutiny.
“Around that time, Planned Parenthood announced it would no longer
accept any payments in connection with its fetal tissue transfer
programs,” Grassley explained.

 

APPOINTMENT OF A NEW PRESIDENT AT EASTERN NAZARENE COLLEGE: SYMPTOM OF A MAJOR PROBLEM IN THE CHURCH

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Appointment Of A New
President at ENC: 
Symptom of A Major Problem In The Nazarene Church
BY MANNY SILVA
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 

Dan Boone, president of Trevecca Nazarene University, was recently
selected as the new president of Eastern Nazarene College, which is also
being discussed as a possible merger with Trevecca. He will step in
sometime after Dr. Corlis McGee leaves her current position later in the
summer. The “leaders” of the denomination are cheering, no doubt. They
have always been complicit, or at the very least willfully ignorant,
with everything that has been destroying the Nazarene denomination
spiritually.

I am not surprised at this choice. Dr. Boone and Dr. McGee share some
views that make this selection understandable. To many of us who have
voiced our concerns about the denomination for years, it further
indicates full steam ahead towards a practical marriage between
Nazarenes and Roman Catholics. The only major item that will be missing
soon is to have pope Francis as the keynote speaker at a future General
Assembly. And why not? The prayer stations are already in place, the
Roman Catholic practice of Lent and ashes to the forehead is everywhere,
and the Roman Catholic retreat is scheduled for a pre-Assembly event
this summer.

If you believe in the Bible- truly believe in it, not just parts of
it as Dan Boone does- then I could not warn you any more than I do now.
You are placing your child in danger by sending them to Eastern Nazarene
College, and frankly, there is hardly a Nazarene college now that has a
strong biblical foundation anymore.

So here is why Dr. Boone’s appointment bodes very badly, especially for those who have children of college age.

Ecumenicists Promoting Roman Catholicism

Dr. Boone and Dr. McGee are both ecumenicists. Dr. McGee has
expressed to me in a past meeting with her and the ENC provost that
Roman Catholics are our brothers and sisters in Christ. On the ENC
website, you will find Roman Catholic churches on the list of available
churches to attend in the community. In the ENC bookstore (last time I
visited), you would also find Roman Catholic related books, including a
Roman Catholic bible, along with many books by authors that promote an
ecumenical belief system.

Dr. Boone, as Trevecca president, has long promoted yearly trips for
students to the Gethsemani Monastery in Kentucky, a site that was the
spiritual home of the Roman Catholic mystic, Thomas Merton. Here at this
retreat, students from ENC have the opportunity to “practice the
silence”, which is nothing more than Catholic mysticism that has no
roots in biblical teaching. The “spiritual discipline” of silence is a
doctrine of demons. This retreat is scheduled for this year again: https://www.trevecca.edu/community-life/faith-service/spiritual-formation-retreat

Dr. Boone also has promoted the use of prayer labyrinths, and has had
one there for years at Trevecca. After I exposed this more fully, he
made excuses about it, and later re-named the labyrinth and called it
something else. It is not just Trevecca doing this: https://reformednazarene.wordpress.com/labyrinths-prayer-stations-yoga-in-the-nazarene-church/

An Uneasy Accommodation To The LGBT Community

At Eastern Nazarene College, an LGBT support group was allowed to be
established at Munro Hall. I sent a letter to Dr. McGee wondering how
Bertha Munro would have felt, knowing an LGBT group was meeting in a
building named in her honor. I received a reply their from former
chaplain, with an excuse that the school does not necessarily sponsor
the group, which was a lame excuse because all they had to do was say no
to a group whose basic premise goes against Biblical values. And this
same chaplain spoke in a chapel service several years ago, all but
promoting a relaxation of biblical standards regarding homosexuality.

For Dr. Boone, all those things at ENC fit right in with his track
record. He is known for accommodating the LGBT agenda at Trevecca,
having allowed an extreme LGBT group to come on campus to have “a
dialog.” https://reformednazarene.wordpress.com/2012/03/26/a-response-to-dan-boones-report-on-soulforce/

And lest we forget, at the last General Assembly, Dr. Boone was one
of those most instrumental in arguing for postponing an attempt to
strengthen the Church statement on homosexuality. It will be interesting
to see what the arguments for this will be this year. I working on
evidence that indicates that the denomination is in for a very difficult
time regarding the homosexuality issue, which will lead to further
division in the Church.

Hostility Towards Bible Believers

Dr. Boone has an utter disdain for Bible believing Christians, as
shown in this article I wrote a few years ago. He has compared Bible
Believing Christians to Islamic fundamentalists. He says that our
appetites have been whetted “by religious blood in the water.” (https://reformednazarene.wordpress.com/2012/10/11/dan-boone-goes-after-bible-believers-again/)

Promoting False Teachers

Dr. Boone is certainly no Bible traditionalist. He has very bad
theology, he promotes false teachers, and he does not believe in the
creation as told in Genesis. He was a prominent member of the group,
Nazarenes Exploring Evolution, before it’s website suddenly closed down
for no apparent reason. Until it closed down, folks like Dr. Boone were
heartily endorsing the idea that God used evolution to create us. He was
not alone in that group, and was joined by many well-respected pastors,
professors and national leaders. Very frightening indeed.

In an older profile at Nazarene Theological Seminary, which is no longer posted, he said the following:

“…I am deepening in the mystical forms of prayer.”

Dr. Boone promotes one of the leading teachers of contemplative
mysticism, false teacher Richard Foster. As an example, Foster makes the
amazing claim that non-believers can also practice the Christian
spiritual disciplines: “We need not be well advanced in matters of
theology to practice the Disciplines. Recent converts–for that matter
people who have yet to turn their lives over to Jesus Christ–can and
should practice them” (Celebration of Discipline, 1978, p. 2).

Dr. Boone has called Thomas Merton and Ignatius of Loyola spiritual giants.
Merton was not a spiritual giant- he was a monk who said that he was
“deeply impregnated with Sufism” because he believed that Eastern
mysticism was compatible with and could be incorporated into
Christianity.  He placed Mary high on a level equal to Jesus, he prayed
to many catholic saints.  He was influenced by Aldous Huxley, who found
enlightenment through hallucinogenic drugs.

Ignatius of Loyola was no wiser, and as the founder of the Jesuits he
brutally persecuted Christians and swore complete submission to the
pope.  As most Roman Catholics do, he venerated Mary.  He practiced
extreme asceticism, living in a cave for a year and never bathing.  He
also promoted and taught visualization prayers, breath prayers, and
other unbiblical practices (Source: Way of Life).  Yet, Dan Boone calls him a spiritual giant.

In a Letter to Pastors he wrote in 2009, Dr. Boone not only
erroneously claimed that the Roman Catholic church was the only church
for 1500 years after Christ, but he also exposed more error along with
his ecumenical get along with everyone philosophy.  How is it that we
can “be one” with the Roman Catholic Church?

“While Nazarenes are different from Catholics in very significant
ways, we believe that we will share eternity with them in the presence
of the Christ who prayed that we might be one.”

His philosophy seems to be, anyone who claims the name of Jesus, no
matter their belief otherwise, will spend eternity with Christ. This is
contrary to Jesus’s teaching, and indicates Dr. Boone’s dangerous and
ignorant thinking as he misleads others.

A Symptom Of A Bigger Problem

I am sure Dan Boone is a nice guy. But how long will the denomination
continue to tolerate nice guys who teach bad theology, who do not
believe in the creation account in Scripture, and who promote Roman
Catholic mysticism? Sadly, the appointment of Dan Boone is merely a
symptom of a much bigger problem in the Church of the Nazarene. Dan
Boone is not going anywhere else because I wrote this article. I have no
illusions of that.

It is going to take a huge cataclysmic event of spiritually
challenging proportions to generate any kind of major opposition to the
apostasy in the church. By then it might be too late. Will people only
wake up at the next General Assembly if some earth shattering amendment
is made regarding homosexuality, the next frontier in the Church? Will
same sex relations be blessed in the church? Is it happening already,
and you just don’t know it? Will homosexual “Christians” be a part of
the accepted conversation?

Or perhaps, most of the sheep in the pews will they continue on
pretending that all is well in a holiness denomination that only mouths
the words, but does not live them anymore.

Holiness is becoming heresy right before our eyes.

Additional Documentation:

Dan Boone’s Involvement with Promoting Evolution
https://reformednazarene.wordpress.com/2014/07/13/nazarene-scholars-continue-to-undermine-belief-in-gods-word-with-evolutions-lie/

Dan Boone’s Dislike of Bible Believers
https://reformednazarene.wordpress.com/2012/10/11/dan-boone-goes-after-bible-believers-again/

Dan Boone’s Involvement with SoulForce (LGBT advocates)
https://reformednazarene.wordpress.com/2012/03/26/a-response-to-dan-boones-report-on-soulforce/

My Conversation with Dan Boone:
https://reformednazarene.wordpress.com/2010/02/08/conversation-with-a-university-president/

A Charitable Discourse?
https://reformednazarene.wordpress.com/2011/08/30/a-charitable-discourse-or-compromise/

Labyrinths and Prayer Stations
https://reformednazarene.wordpress.com/emergent-church-what-is-it/trevecca-labyrinth/

https://reformednazarene.wordpress.com/labyrinths-prayer-stations-yoga-in-the-nazarene-church/

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