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George Soros, who fancies
himself a god and intends to remake the world, is the Lord of Chaos and
pursues a world order that is demonic, not divine.
“I admit that I have always harbored an exaggerated view of
self-importance — to put it bluntly, I fancied myself as some kind of
god.” So confessed George Soros (shown) in his 1987 book The Alchemy of Finance.
George Soros’ use of past-tense verbs in the admission above might
lead some readers to assume his psychological deity complex was a
passing narcissism that the maturing billionaire has conquered in the
three decades since it was written. That would be a false assumption; if
anything, the 86-year-old currency speculator has grown more
megalomaniacal with each passing year.
“It is a sort of disease when you consider yourself some kind of god,
the creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I
began to live it out,” Soros told the British newspaper The Independent in 1993.
Yes, the hedge-fund mogul has been “living out” his delusional
fantasies, sometimes elevating himself from merely “a god,” to actually
being “God.” Naturally, claiming such supernatural attributes entails
more than a bit of madness, something Soros has also publicly discussed
on more than one occasion.
“Next to my fantasies about being God, I also have very strong
fantasies of being mad,” Soros once explained in a British television
interview. “In fact, my grandfather was actually paranoid. I have a lot
of madness in my family. So far I have escaped it.”
Has the delusional billionaire really escaped the madness? He told
his biographer, Michael T. Kaufman, that he views himself as “the
conscience of the world.” And he is spending billions of dollars to
remake the world to fit his fantasies. If a homeless derelict were to
declare himself God and the conscience of the world, he would be
ignored, shunned, or locked up; madmen with wealth and power are praised
and sycophantically courted.
The Roman emperors Nero and Caligula are notorious for their
murderous megalomania. They assigned themselves god status, but ruled as
demented demons. Soros may not possess their dictatorial powers, but
then, they didn’t possess his wealth and global influence. We intend in
this article to examine some of the vast activist networks and political
campaigns that George Soros funds.
Certainly, the super-rich should have as much right as any other
citizens to participate in the political system that governs us all. But
Soros appears to be perfectly comfortable operating both within and outside the law to destroy (he would say “reform”) our political-economic system. In his book Soros on Soros,
the would-be god says: “I do not accept the rules imposed by others.”
After years of operating with impunity, he has become so brazen that he
appears not to worry about doing the illegal, as well as the immoral. It
is our contention that the prima facie evidence of criminal
activity by George Soros and those he funds is sufficient to demand
official investigations — by Congress, the U.S. Department of Justice,
and state attorneys general. Utilizing the subpoena and other
investigatory powers not available to the private citizen, these
officials have the duty to take on powerful interests that are
corrupting and undermining the rule of law in America — and endangering
the freedoms we hold dear. At the very least, the Internal Revenue
Service — which recently denied Tea Party groups non-profit status —
could take away the tax-exempt status of Soros’ huge foundations, or
force them to cease funding radical groups. And if federal authorities
exercise even a fraction of the zeal they expended on prosecuting and
persecuting conservative commentator Dinesh D’Souza, Soros the god-man
could end up in jail.
Organizing Chaos
Over the past several years, American cities have been plunged into
racial and civil turmoil at a level we have not experienced since the
1960s and 1970s. The anti-police riots in Ferguson, Baltimore,
Milwaukee, and elsewhere have morphed into anti-Trump riots across the
country, with many of the same organizations and individuals serving as
instigators: Black Lives Matter, MoveOn.org, International Action
Center, ANSWER Coalition, and other far-left, fake “grassroots” groups.
They reliably perform on cue because they are lavishly funded by the
Soros Open Society Foundations (OSF), the other big tax-exempt
foundations (Rockefeller, Ford, Carnegie, et al.), and activist “pass
through” organizations, such as the Tides Foundation, that bundle and
launder hundreds of millions of dollars in “dark money” to the street
revolutionaries.
Black Lives Matter (BLM), which has become one of the most efficient
riot-making operations, has been especially blessed with largess from
the billionaire elites. As The New American noted in a 2014 article
(“Rioting for a Reason”), BLM was founded by Patrisse Cullors, Alicia
Garza, and Opal Tometi, three black lesbian Marxists “who idolize
communist terrorist revolutionaries Assata Shakur and Angela Davis, as
well as the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Movement.”
Naturally, for Soros, that qualifies BLM for oodles of cash. An
investigation of Soros/OSF financials by the Washington Times
in 2015 found that Soros had showered BLM and its related network of
activist organizations with more than $33 million. Not bad, but that was
only seed money. The Ford Foundation, which has been funding revolution
for decades, announced a few months ago it intends to raise $100
million in pooled donor funds for a newly formed Black-Led Movement
Fund, of which the BLM (and its rioters) will be major beneficiaries.
Following the Trayvon Martin shooting in Florida in 2012, Black Lives
Matter grew from a hashtag slogan to a nationwide phenomenon, thanks
largely to funding from Soros and a huge boost from the major media.
However, BLM’s big break came with the police shooting of Michael Brown
in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014, and the organized “unrest” that
followed. Two of the BLM groups that played a central role in the
“Ferguson unrest” (that included riots, arson, shooting, and looting)
are the Organization for Black Struggle (OBS) and Missourians for Reform
and Empowerment (MORE), both of which are hardcore Marxist-Leninist
organizations run by veteran communists who have been leading riotous
“protests” for decades. A top founder/leader at OBS is Jamala Rogers, a
professional “community organizer” since the 1970s and veteran member of
the Revolutionary Communist League, the Freedom Road Socialist
Organization, and the radical Black Power movement.
MORE is simply the rebranded Missouri chapter of ACORN (Association
of Community Organizations for Reform Now), the former national
organization of paid activists inspired by Marxist strategist Saul
Alinsky and founded by 1960s SDS (Students for a Democratic Society)
radical Wade Rathke. Like ACORN, the white “social justice” leaders at
MORE pay protesters (mostly black or “people of color”) to create street
theater that can be exploited to advance their causes. Some of MORE’s
rent-a-mob activities in Ferguson were exposed in 2015 when black
protesters occupied MORE’s offices and threatened the white radicals
because they hadn’t been paid as promised. To placate the angry
protesters, MORE provided them with documents showing that they had
dispersed the funds appropriately. Where did the money go? The
accounting documents list, among other things, payments for cellphones,
walkie-talkies, banners, T-shirts, art supplies, van rentals, gasoline,
catering, training sessions, organizer salaries, etc. In other words,
virtually everything needed to give a purely AstroTurf production the
appearance of a “grassroots” protest. Where did the funding come from?
The Washington Times investigation found that one line of Soros
funding for “police reform” in 2014 amounted to $5.4 million, with
about half of those funds “earmarked to Ferguson, with the money
primarily going to OBS and MORE.”
Another significant recipient of Soros cash is Colorlines, an online
news site that helped parlay Ferguson into a national road show. “More
than 500 of us have traveled from Boston, Chicago, Columbus, Detroit,
Houston, Los Angeles, Nashville, Portland, Tucson, Washington, D.C.,
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and other cities to support the people of
Ferguson and help turn a local moment into a national movement,” wrote
Akiba Solomon, a writer at Colorlines.
Readying the Rioting
The anti-Trump demonstrations and riots — both before and after the
election — follow a pattern that we have seen over and over again, from
the protests of Occupy Wall Street to Black Lives Matter to Dream
Act/Open Borders. Not only are the tactics the same, but many of the
same groups and individuals keep reappearing in all of these seemingly
spontaneous outbreaks of organized chaos.
Were the “Not My President” rioters that illegally blocked streets
and freeways, set fires, threw Molotov cocktails, injured police
officers, destroyed property, and defaced public buildings with graffiti
day after day following the November 8 election merely Soros
rent-a-mobs? There is good reason to believe so.
Not only were well-known Soros-funded organizations such as Black
Lives Matter and MoveOn.org prominently involved, but Soros-funded
groups such as Washington Community Action Network (Washington CAN) ran
advertisements on Craigslist and in newspapers for “full-time
organizers” to “Fight the Trump Agenda!” at $15/hour, plus paid vacation
and benefits.
Many of the anti-Trump rioters traveled across state lines, which
means they not only violated state laws against rioting and inciting to
riot, but also federal law against the same crimes. Specifically, the
rioters could be (and should be) charged under Title 18 U.S. Code §
2101, which provides that “whoever travels in interstate or foreign
commerce … to incite a riot; or to organize, promote, encourage,
participate in, or carry on a riot; or … to aid or abet any person in
inciting or participating in or carrying on a riot or committing any act
of violence in furtherance of a riot … shall be fined under this title,
or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.”
As to be expected, Soros PR minions deny that their boss has anything
to do with the mayhem caused by those he funds. “George Soros is not
funding these (anti Trump) protests,” Soros spokesperson Michael Vachon
said in an interview with Value Walk. Of course, Soros also
denied funding the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement. But financial
records showed that he had provided millions of dollars to the Tides
Foundation, which then passed through funding to the OWS activists.
This is why official congressional and prosecutorial investigations
are necessary. Soros and the other funders of the riots, subversion, and
anarchy will continue to deny the obvious, as they have been doing for
decades. The undercover videos of James O’Keefe’s Veritas Project have
exposed top Democratic Party operatives boasting of their illegal
activities, such as voter fraud, busing in demonstrators, fomenting
riots, initiating fights, illegal funding, etc. This is happening on a
massive scale and can only be stopped by utilizing the same legal
bulwarks that are used against organized crime. The financial records of
the funders and organizations involved must be subpoenaed, and
individuals placed under oath, where they will face the full penalty of
perjury. As the saying goes, “follow the money,” and prosecute those who
are financing the ongoing demolition of America.
Investigation and prosecution of the rioters — and especially those
who fund and direct them — is important not only for redress of the
crimes already committed and social harm already done, but also to deter
plans for similar future havoc.
Dark Money Campaign Cash
According to a survey of official records by the Center for
Responsive Politics, George Soros gave $19.5 million in political
contributions during the most recent election cycle. That does not
include funds he gave to nonprofits and activist groups that are not officially backing a particular candidate or ballot measure, but are nonetheless actively involved those campaigns.
The Soros hypocrisy meter hits the highest levels when it comes to
“dark money,” which the liberal-left media invariably associate with
those labeled conservative. For the past two decades, Soros has led and
funded the “campaign finance reform” movement. However, at the same time
that he was decrying the “corrupting influence” of money on politics,
he was pioneering the funding of “527 Groups” (so-called due to their
status under Section 527 of the IRS Code) which can raise unlimited
funds for political campaigns. He has organized Democracy Alliance,
bringing together dozens of billionaires and millionaires to provide
rivers of cash to his favored candidates and causes.
Voter Fraud
It is impossible to sustain our system of representative government
if the election process is corrupted. Groups that encourage non-citizens
to vote and that work to make it difficult-to-impossible to enforce
election security and verify voter identity are undermining our
Republic. The Soros network has generously funded many of these “open
border” and “open voting” groups, such as the American Council of La
Raza, America Votes, ACLU, America’s Voice, American Bridge 21st
Century, and Project Vote. Although charges of widespread vote fraud,
particularly involving illegal aliens, have been dismissed by the
establishment media, there is ample reason to believe this fraud is
significant and should be officially and aggressively investigated.
Coopting the U.S. Government
In a 2005 interview, National Public Radio’s Steve Inskeep noted that
Soros has “been described as the only private citizen with his own
foreign policy.” Inskeep remarked to Soros: “Uzbekistan, the Open
Society Institute was actually receiving grants from the US State
Department and spending millions of dollars of US government money on
various programs.” That was under President George W. Bush; it was not
an isolated incident, and got much worse under President Obama and
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. It’s easy to be a “philanthropist”
when you’re spending other people’s money — in this case (and others),
American taxpayers’ money.
Soros has similarly hijacked U.S. government policy (not by force,
but by collusion) in Ukraine, Egypt, Albania, the European Union, and
elsewhere — invariably with disastrous results. He has also been exposed
as one of the major forces behind the calamitous “refugee crisis” that
is swamping Europe with a tsunami of Muslim migrants — and that is
threatening to do the same here, thanks to Soros-Obama-Clinton-Kerry
collusion. A May 2016 internal report of the International Migration
Institute (IMI), an official project of Soros’ Open Society Foundations,
boasted of providing the funding for the “Sutherland Report,” the
blueprint for Europe’s migration catastrophe authored by Goldman Sachs
billionaire Sir Peter Sutherland, now the UN secretary-general’s special
representative on international migration. The same report by top IMI
staffers Anna Crowley and Kate Rosin, entitled “Migration Governance and
Enforcement Portfolio Review,” calls for “accepting the current crisis
as the new normal.” Soros also provides funding for the Columbia Global
Policy Initiative (CGPI) at Columbia University, which hosts the
secretariat for Peter Sutherland’s UN migration office.
The Media “Echo Chamber”
How does George Soros manage to keep getting away with it? Obviously,
his billions have bought a lot of influence. One of the major keys to
his success is the Teflon shield he has been provided by the
establishment corporatist media, which also act as his “echo chamber.”
That’s by design. A September 27, 2007 e-mail from John Podesta to
Soros, Peter Lewis, Steve Bing, and other left-wing billionaires
outlined his plans for parlaying the vast network they had financed into
a media “echo chamber” that would “control the political discourse.” At
the time, Podesta was president of the Soros-funded Center for American
Progress. He went from that post to be Hillary Clinton’s campaign
chairman.
“Now that this enhanced infrastructure is in place — grassroots
organizing; multi-issue advocacy groups; think tanks; youth outreach;
faith communities; micro-targeting outfits; the netroots and blogosphere
— we need to better utilize these networks to drive the content of
politics through a strong ‘echo chamber’ and message delivery system,”
Podesta wrote.
“Non-partisan voter registration can be highly effective in
delivering progressive voters to the polls,” Podesta states in the memo.
“The Sandler family and [Open Society Institute] are already deeply
involved in funding organizations to do this work in communities of
color and with respect to unmarried women.” This further underscores our
point above regarding the ostensibly non-partisan nature of the Soros
focus on voter registration.
Several thousand hacked e-mails released by WikiLeaks and DCLeaks
have provided plenty of damning evidence to justify initiating a whole
series of investigations into the Lord of Chaos. Not surprisingly, the
controlled establishment media has almost completely ignored this
bonanza, prompting an editorial from Investor’s Business Daily this past September 19 entitled “The Bizarre Media Blackout of Hacked George Soros Documents.”
Bizarre indeed. However, it would be worse than bizarre — it would be
serious nonfeasance of office — for our elected and appointed officials
to evade their responsibilities to investigate and prosecute the
“malefactors of great wealth” who undermine our society while posing as
its saviors.
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I
strenuously object to Neil Gorsuch as a supreme court justice nominee.
He is not pro-life. I urge President Trump to nominate:Justice
Charles Canady – number one choice, or:Judge
Jennifer Elrod or Judge Edith Jones
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Mr. Bergoglio, tear down that Vatican wall!
The Pope said these things as Trump was being inaugurated. His point
was unmistakable. He said: “The Germans at that time also wanted to
protect themselves with ‘walls and barbed wire so that others cannot
take away their identity.’”
This is an extraordinarily strained analogy. Hitler after 1940 kept
the Jews from emigrating and put them in concentration camps so he could
kill them. Trump wants to stop immigration from jihad terror hotbeds in
order to keep Islamic jihadists from killing us. For the Pope to liken
the two shows that he is more of a shallow Leftist ideologue than any
kind of spiritual or moral authority.
“Leave them; they are blind guides. And if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.” (Matthew 15:14)
“Pope warns against populism and ‘saviors’ like Hitler,” AFP, January 21, 2017:
…In an hour-long interview with Spanish newspaper El Pais
conducted as Donald Trump was being sworn in as US president, the
pontiff also condemned the idea of using walls and barbed wire to keep
out foreigners.“Of course crises provoke fears and worries,” he said but added that
for him “the example of populism in the European sense of the word is
Germany in 1933.“Germany… was looking for a leader, someone who would give her back
her identity and there was a little man named Adolf Hitler who said ‘I
can do it’.”“Hitler did not steal power,” the pope said. “He was elected by his people and then he destroyed his people.”
The Germans at that time also wanted to protect themselves with
“walls and barbed wire so that others cannot take away their identity,”
he said.“The case of Germany is classic,” he said, adding that Hitler gave them a “deformed identity and we know what it produced.”
Pope Francis however underscored that it was too early to pass judgement on Trump.
“Let’s see. Let’s see what he does and then we will evaluate,” he said.
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Making sure, in one of his last acts, to finance
calls for the destruction of Israel, as well as for
genocide and murder of Israelis.
“US sent $221 million to Palestinians in Obama’s last hours,” by Matthew Lee and Richard Lardner, Associated Press, January 23, 2017:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Officials say the Obama administration
in its waning hours defied Republican opposition and quietly released
$221 million to the Palestinian Authority that GOP members of Congress
had been blocking.
A State Department official and several congressional aides said the
outgoing administration formally notified Congress it would spend the
money Friday morning. The official said former Secretary of State John
Kerry had informed some lawmakers of the move shortly before he left the
State Department for the last time Thursday. The aides said written
notification dated Jan. 20 was sent to Congress just hours before Donald
Trump took the oath of office.
In addition to the $221 million for the Palestinians, the Obama
administration also told Congress on Friday it was going ahead with the
release of another $6 million in foreign affairs spending, including $4
million for climate change programs and $1.25 million for U.N.
organizations, the congressional aides said. The aides and the State
Department official weren’t authorized to speak publicly on the matter
and demanded anonymity….
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After quoting
the Bible in a call for national unity, acknowledging God the Creator,
blasting the establishment, and vowing to put “America First” in his
inaugural address, President Donald Trump is reportedly ready to
unleash a torrent of executive orders and actions. At the top of the
agenda, administration officials say, is reversing some of the damage
inflicted by former President Barack Obama with his infamous “pen and
phone.” Among the first targets are Obama’s illegal “climate” schemes and his radical power grab purporting to regulate virtually all waters
across the United States. Also in the cross-hairs are pseudo-“free
trade” regimes such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the North
American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). ObamaCare is also on the chopping
block. And the border will be brought back under control, the White
House said. How much of Obama’s largely unconstitutional “legacy” will
be undone, and how quickly, remains to be seen.
Immediately following his inauguration, Trump got straight to work on
his first official acts as president. Among other duties, he signed a
law passed by Congress to grant retired General James Mattis a waiver to
legally serve as Trump’s secretary of defense, required by law because
the Marine was still in military service less than seven years ago. He
signed documents making his cabinet picks official, joking that he
assumed Secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson had been confirmed
today. He signed a document proclaiming a new “National Day of
Patriotism.” The document was not yet available on the White House
website by press time.
He also signed an executive order for “minimizing the economic
burden” of ObamaCare. “It is the policy of my Administration to seek the
prompt repeal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
[ObamaCare],” the order states. “In the meantime, pending such repeal,
it is imperative for the executive branch … take all actions consistent
with law to minimize the unwarranted economic and regulatory burdens of
the Act, and prepare to afford the States more flexibility and control
to create a more free and open healthcare market.”
Trump, smiling as he signed away, was
surrounded by family, congressional leaders from both parties, and
others, as attendees joked about who should get which pen that Trump
used in his first official acts.
On the White House website, Obama’s “climate” antics and water
regulations were among the first “harmful and unnecessary policies”
targeted for elimination by Trump. The new administration vowed to immediately eliminate Obama’s illegal “Climate Action Plan,” for
example, which usurped unconstitutional powers in a bid to illegally
regulate emissions of the “gas of life,” also known as carbon dioxide
and human breath. That means the United Nations Paris Agreement on “climate” is as good as dead, too, just as Trump promised. Another unconstitutional regulation, Obama’s “Waters of the United States” rule,
is also toast. “Lifting these restrictions will greatly help American
workers, increasing wages by more than $30 billion over the next 7
years,” explained the new administration’s White House website,
infuriating radical leftists, globalists, and pseudo-environmentalist outfits funded by what Senate investigators described as the “Billionaires’ Club.”
As part of what it touts as an “America First Energy Plan,” the new
White House site also calls for accessing America’s vast energy
resources — especially those on federal lands, with the revenues going
to rebuild U.S. infrastructure. “We must take advantage of the estimated
$50 trillion in untapped shale, oil, and natural gas reserves,
especially those on federal lands that the American people own,”
explains President Trump’s new White House website, saying the plan will
bring prosperity to millions of Americans. “We will use the revenues
from energy production to rebuild our roads, schools, bridges and public
infrastructure.” The pledge also notes that the energy industry has
been held back for too long by “burdensome regulations.” Freeing up
energy production will be a boost to U.S. agriculture, too, the
administration said in a nod to embattled farmers terrorized for years
by the swarms of extremist bureaucrats unleashed under Obama to crush
rural America.
So-called “trade” deals feature prominently on the new site as well, with Trump vowing to target NAFTA, TPP, and other sovereignty- and economy-undermining international agreements right away.
“For too long, Americans have been forced to accept trade deals that
put the interests of insiders and the Washington elite over the
hard-working men and women of this country,” the administration said,
adding that the schemes have crushed American workers and communities.
“This strategy starts by withdrawing from the Trans-Pacific Partnership
and making certain that any new trade deals are in the interests of
American workers.”
As far as specific policies, White House spokesman Sean Spicer laid
out a number of the actions Trump planned to take at a Thursday press
briefing, saying the new president would be acting as soon as possible.
“Part of what he announced in the executive order list around the
Thanksgiving time included the actions on both TPP and NAFTA,” Spicer
told journalists. “They will be done by executive order so I think you
will see those happen very shortly…. He is committed to not just Day
1, but Day 2, Day 3 of enacting an agenda of real change, and I think
that you’re going to see that in the days and weeks to come.”
Spicer told assembled journalists to expect action on January 20,
over the weekend, and into next week, on a wide range of issues that
Trump campaigned on. And indeed, on Trump’s first day, the White House
website announced the plan on NAFTA. “President Trump is committed to
renegotiating NAFTA,” the site says. “If our partners refuse a
renegotiation that gives American workers a fair deal, then the
President will give notice of the United States’ intent to withdraw from
NAFTA.” It was not immediately clear what might be included in the
renegotiation, but so far, senior officials have already expressed
concerns to Canadian authorities about NAFTA “tribunals” and the effect
they have in undermining American national sovereignty.
Among the many executive actions Trump is expected to take is
reversing an extraordinarily unpopular executive action by Obama
purporting to authorize U.S. taxpayer funding of scandal-plagued
abortion giant Planned Parenthood’s international operation. Both
pro-life and pro-abortion sources have reported that Trump plans to
re-instate the so-called “Mexico City Policy,” initially put in place by
President Ronald Reagan in 1984, stopping the flow of American tax
dollars to abortionists and abortion promoters around the world under
the guise of “family planning.” Obama adopted the radical pro-abortion
policy on his first week in office, and Trump is expected to undo it in
his first week.
Eventually, the GOP-controlled Congress and Trump are universally
expected to defund Planned Parenthood and its highly lucrative domestic
schemes, too. Among other activities, the abortion group is involved in
butchering more unborn babies than any other organization in America,
funding pro-abortion Democrats and their political campaigns,
pro-abortion political activism and lobbying, lawsuits to undo
restrictions or regulations on killing the unborn, and more. After
getting exposed trafficking in the body organs of babies, Planned
Parenthood, founded by a racist eugenicist, became a lighting rod for
criticism. And Trump campaigned on cutting off the tax-dollar spigot for
the group.
In addition to the executive orders and policy, Trump is expected to
visit the headquarters of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in
Langley, Virginia, over the weekend. Under the leadership of Obama’s
controversial appointees, the politicized intelligence agencies came
under growing criticism for, among other things, perjury before
Congress, manipulating intelligence, illegal spying, trying to undermine
Trump, and more. Now, Trump reportedly wants peace with the
rank-and-file agents, many of whom were disgusted by the actions of
Obama’s radical appointees.
On the new White House website, the administration vowed to stand up
for law enforcement, too, but fortunately for constitutionalists, did
not advocate any unconstitutional policies suggesting federalization of
police. “Supporting law enforcement means supporting our citizens’
ability to protect themselves,” the administration said, adding that it
would uphold Americans’ gun rights protected in the Second Amendment at
every level of the judicial system. “President Trump is committed to
building a border wall to stop illegal immigration, to stop the gangs
and the violence, and to stop the drugs from pouring into our
communities. He is dedicated to enforcing our border laws, ending
sanctuary cities, and stemming the tide of lawlessness associated with
illegal immigration. Supporting law enforcement also means deporting
illegal aliens with violent criminal records who have remained within
our borders.” The site also says Trump will be a “law and order”
president.
Trump’s team vowed to rebuild and support the military as well. In
his inaugural speech, the president emphasized that he would not be
seeking to impose America’s values on foreigners by force. However,
“peace through strength will be at the center” of Trump’s foreign
policy agenda, the administration said on its section about an “America
First Foreign Policy.” The military plan calls for emphasis on
cyber-warfare, a missile-defense system, defeating ISIS, “coalition
military operations,” and more. Finally, the administration vowed to
ensure the best possible care for veterans.
On jobs and the economy, the Trump administration vowed to achieve
strong economic growth, with a special focus on manufacturing. “Since
the recession of 2008, American workers and businesses have suffered
through the slowest economic recovery since World War II,” the site
says. “The U.S. lost nearly 300,000 manufacturing jobs during this
period, while the share of Americans in the work force plummeted to lows
not seen since the 1970s, the national debt doubled, and middle class
got smaller. To get the economy back on track, President Trump has
outlined a bold plan to create 25 million new American jobs in the next
decade and return to 4 percent annual economic growth.” On his campaign
website, the goal was 3.5 percent growth. Whether that will be
accomplished remains to be seen.
In other excellent news for patriotic Americans concerned about the
burden of a bloated federal workforce, a recent survey showed that more
than one fourth of federal government workers were considering quitting
or retiring under Trump. President Trump’s team has announced that the
president intends to mandate a hiring freeze, which is a good start. But
because dismissing government workers is so difficult, the fact that
many are considering leaving on their own will be viewed as an amazingly
positive development by the huge majority of Americans who think the federal government is totally out of control.
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A day after violent protesters in Washington DC destroyed businesses, attacked police and assaulted innocent people, another group of Donald Trump-hating protesters are at it again, this time claiming they rally for “women’s rights.”
Additional hordes of protesters marched in Washington Saturday under the
banner of “women’s liberation,” but as Infowars’ Kit Daniels explains, the
“Women’s March on Washington” is actually just a convenient excuse to
perpetuate the anti-Trump sentiment.
“It’s a facade intended to frame Trump as a divisive president who
muzzles women, even though it was actually Trump supporters who were
routinely suppressed while visiting DC,” writes Daniels.
On
Friday, while Donald Trump was being sworn in as 45th US president,
violent agitators smashed out windows to downtown DC businesses,
assaulted police with flying objects and injured several Donald Trump
supporters.
— ↶Rᴀɴᴅᴏᴍ↷ (@IntrigueBoredom) January 21, 2017
Here are the graphic images of the assault aftermath before being treated by EMS and taken to the hospital. #Deploraball pic.twitter.com/nSOcNQaVel— James Allsup (@realJamesAllsup) January 20, 2017
“The
planned protest began peacefully Friday afternoon, but the tone of the
event changed when police said protesters began throwing ‘rocks,
bottles, flares and unknown liquids’ at officers who blocked them from
walking onto local bridges,” reports CBS News.
“Some
protesters picked up bricks and concrete from the sidewalk and hurled
them at police lines. Some rolled large, metal trash cans at police.”
In all, 217 protesters were arrested in the District of Columbia on Friday.
Alex
Jones was on the scene and took firsthand accounts from several women
who had sustained injuries from a group of Black Lives Matter
protesters.
Important to note is while leftists attack Trump supporters over free speech, they are left alone to practice their free speech undisturbed.
All this unfolded as remarks from President Donald Trump’s inaugural speech called for unifying Americans of every race, color and creed under the banner of freedom.
“It’s
time to remember that old wisdom our soldiers will never forget, that
whether we are black or brown or white, we all bleed the same red blood
of patriots,” Trump stated.
“We all enjoy the same glorious freedoms and we all salute the same great American flag.”
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NWV Senior Political News Writer, Jim Kouri
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A photograph was taken by an observer of the Women’s March in Washington
D.C. that shows a participant holding a sign that calls for the assassination
of President Donald Trump. The sign reads, “Someone should chop
Trump’s head off & burn it in the ashes of everything he loved.
666”
This is sedition, calling for the assassination of our duly elected President,
but even worse, signing it with the number of the anti-Christ is telling.
And he’s smiling!
In reality, it’s highly doubtful that Obama, who stopped the
prosecutions of and legitimized Hamas-linked Islamic groups in the U.S.,
would have cared.
Related question: how do you think all these silly, narcissistic,
self-pitying women wearing “pussy hats” and marching against Trump would
fare in Hamas-controlled Gaza?
“Women’s March Organizer Recently Met Ex-Hamas Operative, Has Family Ties To Terror Group,” by Chuck Ross, Daily Caller, January 21, 2017:
Linda Sarsour, one of the organizers behind Saturday’s
Women’s March, being held in Washington, D.C., was recently spotted at a
large Muslim convention in Chicago posing for pictures with an accused
financier for Hamas, the terrorist group.
Sarsour, the head of the Arab American Association of New York and an
Obama White House “Champion of Change,” was speaking at last month’s
15th annual convention of the Muslim American Society and Islamic Circle
of North America.
While there, she posed for a picture with Salah Sarsour, a member of
the Islamic Society of Milwaukee and former Hamas operative who was
jailed in Israel in the 1990s because of his alleged work for the
terrorist group.
Salah Sarsour, who is also a board member of American Muslims for
Palestine, served as a bodyguard of sorts at the convention for Sumeyye
Erdogan Bayraktar, the daughter of Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip
Erdogan.
While it is unclear if Salah and Linda are related (though they share
the same surname, she has suggested in the past on social media that
they are not and did not respond to requests for comment), she has other
family ties to alleged Hamas operatives. Though she avoids discussing
it now, Sarsour has acknowledged
in past interviews that she has cousins serving prison time in Israel
because of their work for Hamas.Sarsour has denied having any contact
with the terror group. She told The New York Times in 2012 that she
would not have been appointed an Obama “Champion of Change” if she had.
The activist has risen to national attention recently. She served as a
delegate to the Democratic National Convention, and she is one of four
lead organizers for the Women’s March.
The event is expected to attract 500,000 people and will feature
several high-profile progressive speakers. But it has been heavily
criticized for excluding pro-life women’s groups. Meanwhile, the Council
on American-Islamic Relations, a Muslim civil rights group which
opposes abortions past 20 weeks, was asked to take part in the event.
HLF was found to have funneled money to Hamas, which was designated a terrorist group in the 1990s.
Salah Sarsour has ties to that group.
Sarsour was implicated in Hamas activity in the West Bank in the 1990s, according to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).
ADL cited a Nov. 2001 FBI memo detailing information provided by Sarsour’s brother, Jamil, to Israeli investigators in 1998.
“According to statements given to Israeli investigators by his
brother Jamil, Sarsour was personally involved in fundraising for Hamas.
According to a November 2001 FBI memorandum, Jamil Sarsour was arrested
in 1998 for funding Hamas and told Israeli investigators that Salah
Sarsour was involved in funding Hamas through his fundraising for the
Holy Land Foundation (HLF),” ADL reported….
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SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/01/bernie-sanders-elle-defend-hamas-linked-pro-sharia-womens-march-organizer-linda-sarsour;
EXCERPTS: “The Daily Caller ran an exposé on Women’s March organizer Linda Sarsour’s ties to Hamas, and John Perazzo at FrontPage compiled an extensive report on her agitation in support of the “Palestinian” Jihad and Hamas in particular.
Multiple links to Hamas? Openly in favor of a system that allows women
to be beaten, devalues their testimony and inheritance rights, and
treats them essentially like commodities owned by men? That sounds like
someone the contemporary Left would love! And they do. As this
information has come out about Sarsour, numerous prominent Leftists have
rushed to her defense, including Bernie Sanders.
Sarsour’s defenders even include the fashion magazine Elle, which
apparently has not considered what the fashion industry would be like
were Sharia to prevail in the West. (Or maybe it has; top designers are
designing hijabs these days, so it could be that Elle is simply looking
at the way the wind is blowing.) Without taking even a nanosecond to
investigate whether or not the charges against Sarsour are true, Elle
dismisses them as “Islamophobic attacks.” (Could it be because she is
such a fashion plate?)”
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Last
week I warned on this site and various email newsblasts that it was
going to get ugly and we must get ready to fight for Trump. It’s worse
than that.
I was in DC for the Deploraball and the inauguration
and I can tell you, it was the best of times and it was the worst of
times. The best of America and the worst.
If anyone thought the
left would accept defeat and respect the democratic process, they have
not been paying attention for the past 40 years. The left’s army of
goons is fueled by incendiary rhetoric by the media, academia, Hollywood
airheads was on full display this past weekend at the sore losers
protests in leftwing cities across the country.
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(No, I have not read the cited book. I could barely keep my lunch
down just reading the article about it. So that’s my preemptive
disclaimer.)
On January 13, 2017, the Religion News Service ran an Op-Ed piece: Author: Jesus didn’t believe in ‘original sin’ and neither should we.
The author cited by the article also claims to be a “pastor” and
theologian. And SHE was a founding member of the “emerging church
movement” according to Amazon’s author bio.
She has an MDiv from Princeton Theological. Taken together, these
credentials make the premise of her book much more understandable,
though certainly not more palatable.
Danielle Shroyer, the author, has penned a tome entitled Original Blessing: Putting Sin In Its Rightful Place.
It’s a book which I already know I won’t bother reading, nor would I
recommend, on two counts. First, the premise is doctrinally inane. And
B, because Christ has already put my sin in its rightly undeserved (by
me) place … by His grace … by bearing it for me.
Here are a few snippets from the RNS article. (I’ve added, for
purely personal, cathartic purposes, a brief response to each. Should
you find my spontaneous remarks erroneous, please notify me because, as
it happens, I don’t have an MDiv from Princeton.)
“According to Shroyer, a former pastor and theologian,
Jesus didn’t believe this doctrine and neither did the early church. And
if Jesus didn’t believe it, maybe we shouldn’t either.”
Shroyer blames Augustine for popularizing the notion of original sin,
the notion having been absent in the teaching of Jesus, the apostles,
and the early church. Having read some of Augustine myself, I cannot,
however, find him blaming the Psalmist for inventing it. (See opening Scripture citation above) Pretty sure that didn’t happen. Plus, having read incessantly the teaching of Jesus and the New Testament (“incessantly,” btw, means “never enough”),
I believe I can state with both Divine and Apostolic assurance that
original sin is a notable feature. It wasn’t absent. It drove all of
redemptive history.
“…Augustine and others shifted language to an inborn sin
nature. Once that happened, all the theological focus went toward trying
to fix the problem of sin. The cross was seen differently, and
salvation became primarily about sin management, and human bodies became
suspect, and on and on.”
The cross was seen differently? Salvation was about sin management?
Though she asserts this of the early church, the article doesn’t give
enough space for elaboration. Perhaps the book does, but, like I said,
I’ll not be reading it. However, I’m pretty sure that the Incarnate Son
of God did not suffer crucifixion merely so that I could engage in more
effective, pragmatic sin management. The death of Christ on the cross
wasn’t something to be trivialized as some sort of “Jesus App for Sin
Management.” Salvation actually isn’t about me managing my sin – past,
present, or future – to merit the golden ticket to glory. That’s works
righteousness and I’ve got none of that, regardless of how well the
cross-enabling sin management app might work.
Frankly, if the cross and salvation were merely about sin management,
then the Pharisees might have been on to something. If they could just
obey more rules than they disobeyed, they might stand a fighting chance
to argue their merits before the Almighty on judgment day. But Jesus
summarily thwarted that notion. (See below). Legalistic sin management
doesn’t work. Ask a Pharisee.
But
woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom
of heaven in people’s faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow
those who would enter to go in. Woe
to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea
and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte,
you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves. Matthew 23:13-15 (All the “woes” can be read in Matthew 23:13-24)
Oh, and that “hell” that our Lord mentioned … it ain’t where you
wanna be … it’s best to skip sin management and proceed directly to
“repent and believe.”
“… when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. They
will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the
presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might …” (2 Thessalonians
7-9)
“As a pastor and now a writer, I want to help people grow
into a mature relationship with God. I just don’t think original sin is
helpful in doing that; in fact I think it’s very often harmful.”
Yeah, well, for starters, she’s not a pastor. Just as owning a
stethoscope doesn’t make you a doctor, neither does having a pulpit make
you a pastor. There’s more to it than that, and, well, God decided
chromosomes would play a part. But, nobly intentioned or not, one
certain way to NOT help people “grow into a mature relationship with
God” is to fold, spindle, mutilate, and destroy perspicuous Biblical
truth for them. Doing that is not just “very often harmful”; it can be eternally harmful … and never endorsed in Scripture. (2 Timothy 2:15) Beware the stethoscope-wielding faux physicians, folks.
“Here’s the thing: people know they sin. What they don’t
know is what to do about it. I don’t think the best answer is admitting
you are irrevocably bad. I think it’s realizing your home has been in
God all along, and it’s time you head that direction, because abundant
life is waiting.”
Yeah, well, here’s another thing. Universalism. That’s what I think
I just read. It’s the old God is love and nothing but love forever and
ever line. But that’s not the gospel. The obvious problem is that no
one can just “head that direction” because salvation isn’t an act
possible for the soul dead in trespasses and sin. (Ephesians 2:1)
It requires something more, something divine. The impetus for that is
the real Gospel. This “pastor” needs more Scripture time and much less
pulpit time, methinks.
“Scripture certainly talks about the universal reach of
sin. But no passage or verse in scripture speaks definitively to the
concept of an inborn sin nature. We can take sin seriously without going
there. After all, Jesus didn’t believe in original sin, and the
disciples and the early church didn’t either.”
Umm, yeah. This warrants a foul shot warning buzzer. Jesus affirmed
all that the Old Testament contained, including the pesky notion of
original sin so pithily penned by the Psalmist. (and, since
Scripture is “theopneustos” – God-breathed – Jesus, who was God, also
affirms the other Scriptural references parenthetically provided
immediately below.) Jesus didn’t affirm erroneous doctrine. He
didn’t endorse mistakes in His Word because there are no mistakes in His
Word. This’d prolly get a Pharisee-like “woe to you” from the Lord.
(A list of Scriptural citations to consider … Psalm 51:5 (cited above), Ephesians 2:1-3, Romans 3:23, Genesis 6:5, Genesis 8:21, Ezekiel 18:20, Psalm 58:3 (cited above), Jeremiah 17:9; Matthew 15:18-19, Romans 7:23, Romans 5:12-18.
Those are just a few and no, they’re not talking about occasional moral
“oopsies” that, with Christ’s example, we can more effectively manage
like entries on a sin-management smartphone app. They’re talking about
humanity’s intrinsic sin nature which, apart from Christ, demands God’s
righteous, holy justice.)
“Original sin hinders us from seeing the world as created
for connection—to God, to each other, to all created things. It forces
us instead to begin with the notion that humans are separate from God.”
Humans are separate from God? Yeah. Guess what? We are
“separate from God.” He is holy; we are not. We are not just separate
because He is the creator and we are the creature, we’re also separated
from him by … hold your ears, pastrix … original sin. Original to Adam and inherited by pastrixes everywhere. See Romans 5:12-18.
I don’t care how much redder the roses will be or how bluer the sky
will appear in this pastrix’s idyllic wonderland, I want to see, know,
and commune with God. The wretched state of my intrinsically corrupt
flesh has so defiled my soul that pretty flowers and bluer skies are the
least of my desires. I need to be reconciled with God by becoming a
new creation, sloughing off the corrupt nature I inherited. (2 Corinthians 5:17)
But, GREAT NEWS! Original sin, for all the separating horrors it
causes, was resolved in the most unimaginable way – “Christ died for the
ungodly.” (Romans 5:6) Don’t stop to smell the roses … “repent and believe” … first.
“We are in a relationship with God, and God started it,
and God is sticking with it. While original sin is centered on human
action, original blessing is centered on God’s sovereign choice to love us.”
Yep, we’re in a relationship with God all right. And Jesus said that
those who don’t believe in Him will remain in a rather undesirable
default relationship with God. He phrased it like this … “condemned
already.” (John 3:18) Not the relationship you want. I recommend “repent and believe in the gospel.” (Mark 1:15)
“Original blessing wisely reminds us we are all capable
of both remarkable good and horrifying evil. It reminds us to be wise as
serpents and innocent as doves. You could say it’s a grace-filled view
of humanity, but I wouldn’t call that optimistic. I’d call it the good
news.”
Well that sounds all happy happy happy, but a “grace-filled view of
humanity?” More like a delusional view of humanity. Or a
Scripturally-uninformed view of humanity. Give me grace, for sure. But
it’s the grace of the authentic gospel, not this false “good news,”
that saves. “Amazing grace that saved a wretch like me” – that’s what’s
needed for humanity. The pastrix’s false gospel creates what the church
already has far too many of … false converts.
“I think it’s impossible to explain what happened in
Jesus’ life, death and resurrection with any simple formula. He came to
be God-with-us. He came as the Messiah. He came to embody faithful
humanity. He came to be the Way and to make a way. He came to glorify
God and to empty himself. He came to share in our deepest sufferings,
and to bless us even as we killed him. He came to defeat death, and to
bring abundant life.”
Ehhh, yeah. Okay. How ‘bout this one? A propitiation for our sins. (1 John 2:2)
Leaving that atoning work out of the list of what Christ has done
leaves me dealing with guilt, dealing with sin, and without any
assurance that I’m actually on “the Way” – which, by the way, Jesus
didn’t come to make; He IS the way. (John 14:6)
Christ’s life, death, and resurrection are the pinnacle of human
history, but with a fundamental purpose … to ransom for Himself a people
completely unable to balance the scales of required divine justice in
their favor. Only Christ could do– and did – that. And He had to, else
we’d be left wallowing in the false assurance of self-help gospels like
this one.
More than ever, the world needs the unvarnished Gospel truth about
their Christ-less standing before God. The sobering news of original sin
only serves to magnify His cross, His Gospel, and His glory when one is
saved by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone.
From before the foundation of the world, (Ephesians 1:4) the Gospel has been the original redemptive plan of God …. to deal with original sin.
It’s a shame this “pastor” doesn’t know it.
(Contend for the faith, somebody … take away her pulpit and give her the Gospel.)
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence attended the traditional National Prayer Service at the Washington National Cathedral on Saturday, which featured representatives from various religions, including Islam, Sikhism and Buddhism.
The gathering featured a variety of music and speakers, with prayers
in the name of Jesus and songs such as “How Great Thou Art” by Marlana
VanHoose and “We’ve Come This Far By Faith” by Liberty University Praise
interspersed with prayers and readings from a rabbi, an imam, a Hindu
priest and others.
The event was opened by Mariann Edgar Budde, the female bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington.
“As we mark this moment of political transition, let us all draw
strength and courage from the sacred texts and songs … from the many
traditions of our land,” Budde declared.
A Navajo blessing was presented by Carlyle Begay, followed later by
Todd Christopherson of the Mormon Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, who
read from the Book of Common Prayer, as was done during a prayer service
for George Washington in 1783.
“Fill them with the love and truth of righteousness, and make them
ever mindful of their calling to serve this people, in thy fear through
Jesus Christ our Lord who lives and reigns with Thee, one God, world
without end,” Christopherson recited.
Cantor Mikhail Manevich from Washington Hebrew Congregation recited
the Jewish Sh’ma Yisrael (Hear O Israel) and the Viyahafta (You Shall
Love).
Also in the first half of the service, Narayanachar Digalakota from
the Sri Siva Vishnu Temple in Lanham, Maryland presented an invocation
on behalf of the Hindu religion, speaking in Sanskrit.
Sajid Tarar, the founder of Muslims for Trump, who delivered an Islamic prayer
at the Republican National Convention in July, read from the Koran in
Arabic, and Imam Mohamed Magid, executive director of the All Dulles
Area Muslim Society, presented a reading as well.
“O mankind, indeed we have created you from male and female and made
you peoples and tribes that you may know one another. Indeed, the most
noble of you in the sight of Allah is the most righteous of you,” Magid
recited.
Later in the event, Greg Laurie of Harvest Christian Fellowship and
the Harvest Crusades presented a prayer asking that the Armed Forces
have divine protection, that diplomats would be “ambassadors of hope,”
and that local governments would have the “spirit of wisdom and love,
and justice and compassion.”
He was followed by Jack Graham of Prestonwood Baptist Church in
Plano, Texas, who implored God to protect and give courage to the
nation’s first responders and police officers “that they may serve You
and their neighbor.”
David Jeremiah of Shadow Mountain Community Church also provided a
reading from Romans, and Ronnie Floyd, former president of the Southern
Baptist Convention, read from Psalm 23.
The men were followed by Jesse Singh, founder of American Sikhs for
Trump, who offered a prayer first delivered by Guru Gobind Singh, who is
considered the 10th Sikh master.
The event concluded with a recitation of the Lord’s Prayer, led by Ramiro Pena of Christ the King Baptist Church in Waco, Texas.
Others who spoke at the service included Ian McIlraith of the
Buddhist organization Soka Gakkai International; Alveda King, the niece
of the late Martin Luther King Jr.; Geron Demetrios of the Greek
Orthodox Archdiocese of America; Donald Wuerl, Roman Catholic Archbishop
of Washington, D.C.; and Cissie Graham Lynch, the granddaughter of
Billy Graham.
As previously reported, services at the Washington National Cathedral
following inaugural ceremonies have been a long-held American
tradition, spanning more than 100 years. Barack Obama and Joe Biden likewise attended ceremonies at the cathedral featuring a number of world religions following the 2009 and 2013 inaugurations.
In 2013, the Episcopalian Cathedral announced that it would begin hosting same-sex ceremonies.
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There’s a supplicant from the Navaho Nation. A few from the
now-defunct faith of Judaism. There are Roman Catholics. There’s at
least one Hindu. Mormons are represented, as are Baha’is of the United
States. Islam and Sikh’s will be there. Episcopalians, Greek Orthodox,
Presbyterians, independent charismatics, and Buddhism have a place in
the line-up too. And, because no event of ecumenism could possibly be
complete without them, so too will Southern Baptists be involved.
The Washington National Cathedral is the site for the “interfaith”
prayer service that is to be held the day after the inauguration. Many
high profile evangelicals have been involved in the event during recent
history. In 1985, Billy Graham preached a sermon at Reagan’s inaugural
service. Since then, the likes of Foursquare’s Jack Hayford,
Soujourners’ Jim Wallis, and North Point’s Andy Stanley have all stood
on the dais.
This year will find former Southern Baptist Convention Presidents
Ronnie Floyd and Jack Graham engaged in the prayer service for the newly
inaugurated President. They will be joined by Greg Laurie, David
Jeremiah, and a granddaughter of Billy Graham, along with the many other
interfaith representatives. Jack Graham and Greg Laurie will be
offering a prayer. Jeremiah and Floyd have been picked to read
Scripture.
But, do you see the problem? The problem is not about praying for the new President. Scripture commands us to do that.
The preeminent problem is that those who should know better … Graham,
Floyd, and Jeremiah, for example … are serving – to those who know what
Scripture teaches on such matters – as a clear example of willful
violation of Scriptural commands. To engage in a spiritual enterprise
with non-believers is unequivocally forbidden by our God.
We don’t get to make the rules on this. God does – and has. We are
not to ferret out “exception” clauses from Scripture that allow for
professing believers to join hands with professing unbelievers in an
intentional spiritual endeavor. There are no “exception” clauses.
There’s no “well, it’s America” clause that justifies it. There is no
“it’s an honor for us to be notably featured” clause that permits it.
There is no “we’ll get to speak to Truth” clause that allows it. There
is no “Trump” clause that allows these high-profile evangelical leaders
to “trump” what Scripture teaches and clearly forbids.
As a result of this intentional, willful violation of Scripture, not
only will faithful, onlooking evangelical believers be served up a poor
example of “situational obedience to Scripture,” so too will the
unbelieving world looking on see what the God-less, Gospel-less world
already thinks it sees – that all religion is the same, in just
different garb, with different lingo, and with different words. The
world sees a synthesis of choices that all point to “God.” It
reaffirms the deception to the observant unbeliever that there are many
paths up the mountain.
And this is why God has forbidden it. He is the One True, Living God. Ours is “the faith … once delivered.”
“When Paul then says, “Do not be bound together with
unbelievers,” he is calling for separation…listen carefully…at the
religious level. That’s what he means. At the spiritual level. He’s
talking about in a spiritual enterprise. You can’t…you can’t play with
false religion. You can’t yoke up true teachers and false teachers.
You can’t take true Christianity and link it to a false, damnable
demonic lie. You can’t do that. You have to separate yourself from all
of that. ” John MacArthur (Source)What he is saying is you cannot link up with unbelievers in religious
causes or religious enterprises. You cannot go to their worship and
become a part of it; you can’t make them a part of the kingdom of God.
You can’t engage them in anything that involves ministry, teaching, or
worship. Where there is ministry, teaching, and worship there has to be
absolute separation.” John MacArthur (Source)
When Ronnie Floyd reads from the Bible, he’ll be following behind a
guy who may have just offered a Native American prayer to the spirit god
of the eagle. (Carlyle Begay, the Navajo Nation representative, is also an Arizona state senator, who, according to Wikipedia,
“was raised under the teachings of his ancestry, instilling in him the
importance of remembering the story of his people and carrying it on to
his descendants.”)
When
Jack Graham and Greg Laurie take their respective turns praying, they
will be following a Muslim who will have offered prayer to a false,
dangerous, demonically-conceived deity. The Apostle Paul, inspired by
the Holy Spirit, has forbidden such alliances. We are to be obedient
servants to the Word and faithful stewards of the Gospel. Inserting
that Gospel and that Word as just other options in a spiritual
enterprise where various faiths have an equal voice is not obedient and
is not faithful stewardship of the single most important Truth in the
world.
When Franklin Graham stands to pray at a political event alongside a
charlatan or a rabbi, the distinction of the apostle is not precluding.
An inauguration is not a spiritual enterprise. It is not a prayer event.
It is a secular gathering for a secular purpose. But when a gathering
is intentionally labeled as a prayer service – a purposefully spiritual
endeavor – it is in clear violation to participate unless those joining
in also share the same fundamental faith, “the faith that was once for
all delivered to the saints.” (Jude 3)
Participation in such a show of unity may make for an impressive
addition to one’s ministerial resume. It may enhance one’s Christian
conference tour credentials. It may make access to the Oval Office more
likely and it may make one’s influence in the Congressional halls of
power carry a little more clout.
But what it does not do is serve as a faithful example for Scriptural
obedience to the Sovereign God who commanded that such behavior not
occur. It does nothing to advance the Gospel – in the event that it is
even shared. Indeed, it dilutes the gospel as an also-ran among other,
perhaps culturally palatable, flavors of religion.
Ours is a narrow path. Increasingly the superficial church in
America is more about the sovereignty of Americanism than it is the
sovereignty of God. And, correspondingly, the church has fewer and fewer
leaders who will exemplify obedience to the Word. It’s far easier and
far more popular to exemplify tolerance to the world, to acquiescence to
calls to “co-exist,” and settle into the smorgasbord of religious
ecumenism, grateful to the secular and pagan powers for a seat at the
ecumenical spread.
We must not forget that never has our God needed any person or any
nation to advance His agenda. Instead, by grace, He has chosen to use
individuals to declare His manifest revelation to the world. He has not
needed His people to forge alliances with the false gods of foreign
nations to propel His mission, His Kingdom, or His Truth forth. But He
has chosen us as stewards of His gospel of grace that, by our faithful
proclamation of it to the nations, He might save whom He will.
When the interfaith representatives in this prayer gathering coalesce
in the National Cathedral, while Ronnie Floyd puts his Bible where
moments earlier a koran was placed, or when Jack Graham bows his head to
pray after the spirit of the eagle may just have been summoned, they
aren’t obediently representing Christ or His Church. They aren’t
distinguishing Christ’s Gospel. They aren’t serving as a bold witness
to His Truth, but rather, they are serving as hirelings all too eager to
sing kum-bah-yah with pagans in order to achieve some temporal
influence and exude some affinity for culturally-approved unity.
They will be serving as witnesses to what drives so much of the
evangelical church today, not obedience to the commands of Scripture,
but the illicit ambitions of “American” Christianity. But our God is
not enthroned in Washington, D.C. His Gospel is not a static display in
the National Archives. The faithfulness of our God is not measured in
the number of conservatives in the Congress or by pro-life votes on the
Supreme Court. And His Truth is never to be contaminated by engaging in
spiritual endeavors with pagans and those who follow the doctrines of
demons. (1 Timothy 4:1)
It’s worthwhile to recall God’s displeasure at such associations of His Holiness with pagan idolatry. Consider 1 Samuel 5:1-12
When the Philistines captured the ark of God, they
brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod. Then the Philistines took the ark of
God and brought it into the house of Dagon and set it up beside
Dagon. And when the people of Ashdod rose early the next day, behold,
Dagon had fallen face downward on the ground before the ark of the LORD.
So they took Dagon and put him back in his place. But when they rose
early on the next morning, behold, Dagon had fallen face downward on the
ground before the ark of the LORD, and the head of Dagon and both his
hands were lying cut off on the threshold. Only the trunk of Dagon was
left to him. This is why the priests of Dagon and all who enter the
house of Dagon do not tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod to this
day.The hand of the LORD was heavy against the people of Ashdod, and he
terrified and afflicted them with tumors, both Ashdod and its territory.
1 Samuel 5:1-6The men who did not die were struck with tumors, and the cry of the city went up to heaven. 1 Samuel 5:12
Authentic believers in the God of His Word realize that we must pray for our leaders. (2 Timothy 2:1-2)
We must daily intercede for their salvation, for their wisdom, and for
their pursuit of godly justice. But we must never sacrifice the
preeminence of our God, His Word, or His Gospel by presuming to place it
alongside the Dagons of America in the pursuit of the American dream or
“interfaith” unity.
We have a God who has commanded us against such things, and He has
given us a Gospel that does not unite. He has given us a Gospel which
divides. (Luke 12:51) That is what we are to protect, proclaim, and obey.
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WASHINGTON — A Southwest Airlines flight
transporting a number of men and women to the “Women’s March” on
Washington on Thursday reportedly turned the cabin lights pink to show
support for those attending the event, which was largely pro-abortion
and feminist.
“Southwest turns on the pink lights and a loud cheer erupts.
#WomensMarch” Jennifer Moran, who was aboard the flight, Tweeted,
sharing a photo of the illuminated cabin.
Passenger Krystal Parrish likewise posted a photo to Instagram
writing, “When your Southwest flight crew celebrate a plane full of
[expletive] women and men going to the Women’s March by lighting it
up!!”
Southwest Airlines has since released a statement outlining that the
move wasn’t a company effort, but that individual flights often change
the lighting as a statement of support for passengers.
“While we’re unaware of details surrounding a specific flight, our
flight crews celebrate, commemorate, acknowledge and share in special
moments with our customers all the time,” it said.
“Some of our aircraft are equipped with mood lighting and while this
was not a companywide initiative, at times, our flight crews will adjust
the lighting for a customer or group of customers traveling on their
flight,” the company explained. “For example, in October, one of our
flight crews changed the lighting to honor a breast cancer survivor
onboard their flight.”
According to reports, hundreds of thousands attended the march in
Washington, which included speeches and appearances from secular
celebrities such as Madonna, Cher, Alicia Keyes, Katy Perry, Miley
Cyrus, Jane Fonda, Gloria Steinem, Whoopie Goldberg, Scarlett Johannson,
Natalie Portman, Emma Watson, Drew Barrymore, Lena Dunham, Vanessa
Hudgens, and many others.
Some held signs such as, “We deserve to be sexual and serious, or
whatever we please,” “I stand with Planned Parenthood,” “Our bodies, our
minds, our power” and “I am woman, hear me roar.” Some were too
explicit or profane to repost—using profanity or vulgarity—and some
referred to President Trump as the “predator in chief.”
Cecile Richards, the president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, was one of the speakers at the event.
“For the majority of people in this country, Planned Parenthood is
not the problem, we’re the solution,” she claimed. “My pledge today is:
our doors stay open.”
Former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton Tweeted in
support of the march, writing, “Thanks for standing, speaking &
marching for our values @womensmarch. Important as ever. I truly believe
we’re always stronger together.”
But a number of women who identify as “pro-life feminists” also took
to the streets of Washington to counter the abortion advocacy message,
holding banners and signs such as “Abortion betrays women” and “Real
feminists reject abortion.” The Huffington Post reports that some
attendees cussed at the pro-life women, while others thanked them for
their participation.
In addition to support for abortion, which was characterized as
“reproductive rights,” other platforms for marchers included immigration
rights, environmental justice and “LGBTQIA rights.”
“We firmly declare that LGBTQIA rights are human rights and that it
is our obligation to uplift, expand and protect the rights of our gay,
lesbian, bi, queer, trans or gender non-conforming brothers, sisters and
siblings. We must have the power to control our bodies and be free from
gender norms, expectations and stereotypes,” the website for the event
reads.
Similar marches were stated to have been held in cities across the nation, as well as internationally.
One of the event organizers, Linda Sarsour, is a Muslim and Planned
Parenthood supporter. Sarsour, who serves as the executive director of
the Arab American Association of New York, posted prior to the event,
“God be a fence around the #womensmarch tomorrow. May God protect our
marchers, may He envelope us in His love and mercy.”
Sean Spicer Attacks Media at First Press Conference
And Rips Reporters on False Inaguration Coverage, Tweets and Behavior.
He Blasts media over reports on inauguration size
Statement and False Tweets
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WEBSTER, N.Y. -(Ammoland.com)-
Civil rights attorney Paloma A. Capanna today blasted Governor Cuomo
for discriminating against law-abiding gun owners through excessive
reporting of patients to the FBI.
The statement was made
immediately following the FBI release of the 2016 year-end statistics of
reports voluntarily made by states to the FBI for inclusion in the
“National Instant Criminal Background Check System” (“NICS”), a database
of persons disqualified from firearms ownership, use, or possession in
all 50 states and U.S. territories.
Among
the decisions currently pending are the records, if any, of more than
2,000 individuals who submitted Freedom of Information Requests to the
NYS Police for any records it may be harboring against them from medical
providers.
Capanna previously won the case of Robinson vs. Cuomo
for the release of the numbers of firearms registered under the “assault
weapons ban,” including an award of attorney’s fees and costs against
the state.
Oddly, the ATF annual report also shows that in eight
other disqualifying categories, Governor Cuomo has not reported a single
person to the FBI. The ATF report shows zero (“0”) reported felony
convictions, zero persons under indictment, zero fugitives from justice,
zero illegal aliens, zero who have renounced their U.S. citizenship,
and zero who have committed a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence.
State
reporting of disqualified persons to the FBI is voluntary. Since 2009,
New York has received more than $13 million in federal funding under the
“NICS Act Record Improvement Program,” more than any other
participating state.
Paloma A. Capanna, AttorneyIn
addition, the NYS Police maintain a second, secret database on New
Yorkers under Mental Hygiene Law §9.46. It is estimated that more than
200,000 reports have been made into that database, or, a total of more
than 700,000 records between the two tracks of reporting.
This
would mean that 3.7 percent or 1 out of 27 New Yorkers are housed in the
NYS Police database under “mental health” allegations. The NYS Police
have previously stated that they conduct no investigation into the
veracity of the allegations.
Neither is patient consent
obtained for the transmission of their medical information to law
enforcement, including any diagnosis and provider narrative.
Legislation
called the “Civil Rights Restoration Act” is currently being discussed
with Democratic and Republican Members of the State Legislature,
according to Capanna.