Moral Decline

Newt Gingrich: Liberal

noreply@blogger.com (Shattered Paradigm) — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 23:37:00 +0000

Is Newt Gingrich liberal? You better believe it. In fact, he has a long record of standing for just about everything that the Tea Party is supposed to be against. Newt Gingrich has long supported an individual mandate for health care, he supported the Wall Street bailouts, he supported the funding of Planned Parenthood, he did a global warming commercial with Nancy Pelosi and he has made tens of millions of dollars lobbying for liberal causes. In addition, he has a personal life which will make him unelectable when put up against Barack Obama in a general election. So what in the world are Republicans thinking? This is not the guy to hitch our wagon to. Are Republicans really going to nominate a guy who co-sponsored 418 bills with Nancy Pelosi? Newt Gingrich is so liberal that someone needs to tell him that he is in the wrong political party. Newt Gingrich is not just a RINO ("Republican In Name Only"). He is a progressive socialist and a consummate Washington insider. He represents everything that the Tea Party is supposed to be fighting to get out of Washington.

If you plan on voting for Newt Gingrich, please read the rest of the information below first.

The following are 10 reasons why Newt Gingrich is liberal....

#1 Newt Gingrich was promoting the principles of Obamacare before Obamacare was even invented. Republicans are supposed to be against Obamacare, and yet a huge percentage of them are supporting a candidate that was pushing an individual mandate way before Obamacare was ever even invented.
In June 2007, Gingrich made the following statement....

“Personal responsibility extends to the purchase of health insurance. Citizens should not be able to cheat their neighbors by not buying insurance, particularly when they can afford it, and expect others to pay for their care when they need it.”

That doesn't sound very conservative.

Gingrich says that he will repeal Obamacare, but back in 2008 Gingrich wrote a book entitled "Real Change" in which he endorsed an individual health care mandate.

So should we believe what Gingrich is saying now or should we believe what he has been saying for nearly 20 years?

#2 Before he was running for president, he was running around the country with Al Sharpton promoting the socialist education policies of the Obama administration.

#3 Back in 2008 Gingrich actually did a television commercial with Nancy Pelosi in which he declared that "our country must take action to address climate change".

#4 Not only that, Gingrich also has promoted the idea of a "cap and trade" carbon trading scheme. Back in 2007, Gingrich said the following....

“I think if you have mandatory carbon caps combined with a trading system, much like we did with sulfur, and if you have a tax-incentive program for investing in the solutions, that there’s a package there that’s very, very good. And frankly, it’s something I would strongly support.”

#5 While he was in Congress, Newt Gingrich co-sponsored 418 bills with Nancy Pelosi.

#6 As we have seen during the recent debates, Gingrich openly supports amnesty for millions of illegal aliens.

#7 In 2008 Newt Gingrich declared that he would have voted for the TARP bailout if he was still a member of Congress.

#8 While Newt Gingrich was the Speaker of the House the amount of taxes collected by the U.S. government soared from $1.001 trillion to $1.511 trillion.

#9 Newt Gingrich is a big time Washington insider that is often paid huge sums of money for doing next to nothing. Gingrich has said that he was paid $300,000 for "work" that he did for Freddie Mac, but according to Bloomberg he actually earned somewhere between $1.6 million and $1.8 million between 1999 and 2008.

So what did he do for Freddie Mac? Gingrich claims that he warned Freddie Mac about the housing bubble, but the report by Bloomberg disputes this....

None of the former Freddie Mac officials who spoke on condition of anonymity said Gingrich raised the issue of the housing bubble or was critical of Freddie Mac’s business model.

It turns out that much of the "work" that Gingrich was expected to do never actually got done....

Former Freddie Mac officials familiar with his work in 2006 say Gingrich was asked to build bridges to Capitol Hill Republicans and develop an argument on behalf of the company’s public-private structure that would resonate with conservatives seeking to dismantle it.

He was expected to provide written material that could be circulated among free-market conservatives in Congress and in outside organizations, said two former company executives familiar with Gingrich’s role at the firm. He didn’t produce a white paper or any other document the firm could use on its behalf, they said.

#10 The Republican Party is supposed to be the party of "moral values", but they are getting ready to send someone to the White House that has a track record that would make Bill Clinton blush.

The following is how a recent Business Insider article described the "skeletons in the closet" from his personal life....

Newt's personal baggage is either weird or scary. He married his high-school geometry teacher. He cheated on her and divorced her while she had cancer. So he married Marianne Ginther six months later. But that wasn't to last.

Gingrich conducted a tawdry affair behind her back with one of his staffers while making political hay out of Clinton's affair with a White House intern. He then divorced Marianne and married the staffer.

How in the world can Republicans be supporting this guy?

For more on the personal life of Newt Gingrich, please check out this video.

We desperately need to educate Republicans about this guy while there is still time.

The following is from a recent opinion piece authored by U.S. Senator Rand Paul for The Des Moines Register....

Both Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich supported the outrageous $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, bailouts — “one of the most unpopular government programs in American history,” even according to President Obama’s own Treasury Department.

Both Romney and Gingrich have been outspoken and unapologetic supporters of the individual mandate. This is the heart and soul of ObamaCare.

Since the tea party started as a reaction to Republicans who voted for TARP, and was strengthened into a national political force during the fight over ObamaCare, I believe this disqualifies both Romney and Gingrich from tea party support.

But Paul was not finished there. He went on to list many more reasons why Gingrich is not qualified to lead the Republican Party....

Gingrich began his career as a Rockefeller Republican from the liberal wing of the party. And though he has often spoken and occasionally acted like he left that wing, it is clear from his flip-flops and multiple “apologies” that his heart is still there.

His record features “highlights” such as global warming commercials with Nancy Pelosi, support for cap-and-trade, funding Planned Parenthood, and, recently, announcing that life does not begin at conception.

Not only that, but Gingrich took money as a Freddie Mac lobbyist — one of the well-known government-backed agencies that served as a root cause of the financial meltdown of 2008.

While one candidate in the race, my father, Rep. Ron Paul, was publicly warning about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the crisis they were helping to create, Gingrich was earning millions to not only endorse but also promote the status quo.

One group of Gingrich’s also took in nearly $40 million promoting big-government ideas, such as the individual mandate.

His lobbying and promotion of the housing crisis and the health care mandate have helped to make him a wealthy man, but they have also put him outside the conservative mainstream on most issues.

In conclusion, Paul claimed that Gingrich is not even a conservative....

So I will conclude by saying two things: Gingrich is not from the tea party. He is not even a conservative.

He is part of the Washington establishment I was sent to fight. He has been wrong on many of the major issues of the day, and he has taken money from those who helped cause the housing crisis and create millions of foreclosures.

Rand Paul is right - the reality is that Newt Gingrich is a rabid liberal and no Republican should ever cast a single vote for him.

For much more on why you should not vote for Newt Gingrich, please watch the short video posted below....

The Truth About Romans 13 And Submission To The Government

noreply@blogger.com (Shattered Paradigm) — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 03:32:00 +0000

Recently, I paid a visit to a local church to which I was invited by a co-worker. That co-worker, who has children in public schools, had had a number of discussions about public schools with me. One of those discussions led to my having written a letter which exposes a tiny sliver of the facts and information which, formerly taught in U. S. schools, are no longer taught in many of our “dumbed-down” “skools.” While speaking to one of the leaders of the church, I mentioned that parents and students should work to de-fuse some of the nonsense and harmful teachings in public schools. The leader swiftly rebuked me, cited Romans 13, and said that students in public schools need to learn to submit to school officials. (One of the pastors of the church has a son who is now the principal at the school to which I wrote the above-mentioned letter.)

Implied in this oft-pushed notion about Romans 13 is that the word, submit, involves, or connotes, staying quiet, and refraining from giving opinions about what the government does for, or with, or to, us.

I admit that I am still struggling with where Romans 13 draws the lines. I hope that my attempt to put my muses and research into words will help you who also struggle. Please bear with the “rabbit trails.”

Here is Roman 13:1, from the English Majority Text Version (EMTV) of the Bible. (Other Bible quotes herein are from the Authorized Version, unless otherwise noted.)

Let every soul submit to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except by God, and the authorities that exist are instituted by God.

The Apostle Paul wrote Romans 13. Was Paul silent about how government dealt with him? Or is someone, somewhere, twisting the connotation of the verb, to submit, from the way that Paul saw its connotation? If someone is, indeed, twisting Romans 13 from its original intention, what is the motivation of that person, or that entity?

Paul was born a citizen of Rome. Being a citizen, Paul was not one of the conquered masses, with whom Rome dealt as it pleased (beating, torture, murder). According to Roman law, Paul had rights. Roman officials could not grab Paul off the street and beat him, unless he had been “condemned” (Acts 16:37; 22:25), or found guilty of a crime. [Peter was not a Roman citizen. Under Roman law, Peter could be beaten at the whim of the Jewish leaders (Acts 5:40), who were puppets of Rome.]

Paul was obligated to submit (or, to be subject—Rom. 13:1) to Rome. His own writings bound him to do so. But did Paul include silence about what Rome did to him as part of his obligation to be submissive to Rome, as the above-mentioned church leader seems to do, regarding public “school” students, in students' dealings with public “schools?”

In Acts 22, Paul delivered a speech which angered many Jews. The resulting commotion resulted in Paul having been dragged into custody by Roman officials. They decided to have Paul beaten, so that he would tell what he had said to stir up the crowd (verse 24). As Roman officials were preparing to beat Paul, Paul asked them, “Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned?” (v. 25). Uh, oh…Paul didn’t “submit” to whatever the Romans wished to do with him. He dared to question them, as I urged, to that church leader, that students and parents should begin to do, regarding policies in place at public “schools.” Why didn’t Paul simply “submit,” and allow himself to be beaten?

Roman officials did beat Paul on another occasion (Acts 16:22, 23). The text does not reveal whether Paul was so quickly rushed to be beaten that he didn't have time to react, or whether he had a reason for having allowed Roman officials to beat him on that occasion.

Paul did not remain silent about the beating in Acts 16. Paul made certain that he did what he could to get those Roman officials to admit, in fashion, that, in having beaten Paul, they had made a mistake (vv. 37-39), and “they (those Roman officials) feared” (v. 38), because of the actions which Paul insisted that they take.

After another incident, a result of which Jews strove to stop Paul permanently, a Roman ruler, Festus, asked Paul whether Paul was willing, in defense of his actions, to stand before Jews in Jerusalem. Paul replied that he was standing before Caesar's judgement seat, and, as a result, he appealed to Caesar (Acts 25:11). Paul did not say to himself, “I need to submit to the Jewish rulers. They're doing God's bidding.” Paul could smell a kangaroo court from a million miles away. From what I can see, Paul’s connotation of the verb, to submit, did not always involve remaining silent and passive.

Can you imagine students, following Paul's example, respectfully standing up to “school” officials, and asking those officials why things which their grandparents were taught are no longer taught in schools? Didn't Paul give such students a “green light?” What is the alternative—for our children to remain ignorant into their adult years? Doesn't God lament ignorance in people? “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge” (Hosea 4:6). By extension, do not our dumbed-down schools, in breaking the spirit, or intended purpose, of Hosea 4:6, break the law of God? What do you prefer? Do you choose “submission” to government-paid, government-sponsored “school” leaders, while breaking the law of God by keeping students (YOUR CHILDREN) in ignorance? Or, do you prefer keeping the law of God, and, in the name of wishing to increase dissemination of knowledge, respectfully challenging these people? If you discover that, indeed, there is a plan to “dumb-down” children in the U.S., would you formulate your own plan to remove your children from public schools?

As long as we send our children to public schools, we “enable” those whose fruits are substandard (planned or not). We keep public school employees comfortable with their disappointing results. And everyone (including churches) being quiet and “submissive” about this tragedy puts fuel on the fire burning our children out.

In advising students to “submit” to (or, to be quiet about) dumbing down procedures in schools, this particular church breaks a portion, or aspect, of the law of God. Are other churches such transgressors? If so, why do churches, in failure to observe the 1^st Commandment, put the State ahead of the Creator?

I can't help comparing a failure to feed knowledge to our youth to a failure to feed food to them.

In addition to looking at some of Paul's examples, I wish to explore other Biblical examples of how those who have followed their Creator have dealt with governments which are in opposition to the Creator's ways, or in opposition to that government’s own written laws.

I strongly suggest that the reader look up a quote made by one Dr. Durell Tuberville, who is part of what are called “Clergy Response Teams” in the U.S. Regarding unconstitutional “emergency” actions by government operatives (such as the gun-grabbing in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina), Dr. Tuberville stated, “...the primary thing that we say to anybody is 'Let's go out there and get this thing over with, and then we'll settle the differences once the crisis is over'...because the government's established by the Lord...and that's what we believe in the Christian faith. It's what stated in the Scripture.”

If you were to ask some of these members of the Clergy Response Teams about the family, most of them would reply that the institution of the family is established by the Lord. If you were to ask them about the clergy, they would tell you that an organized clergy is established by the Lord.

So they admit that family, clergy, and government are all “established by 'the Lord.'”

Paul wrote about how to approach questioning an action of an “elder” of a church. He wrote, “Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father” (I Timothy 5:1). Paul gave a green light to intreating, or questioning respectfully, a father.

In the book of Malachi, especially in second chapter, members of clergy (priests) are openly rebuked. In effect, Malachi told us that we can question clergy. Further, Luke, in the book of Acts, wrote that the Bereans were “more noble,” because “they...searched the scriptures daily, whether those things (which Paul taught) were so” (Acts 17:11). The Bereans were open to Paul's teachings, but they didn't swallow Paul's teachings without question. They did research.

Would these people in Clergy Response Teams say that parents should never be questioned, or that ministers should never be questioned? If so, they would teach against Scripture. In like manner, for Clergy Response Teams to help the government to do its dirt on a smooth, paved, unquestioning road of “submissive” citizens is not Scriptural. Why is it not Scriptural? Just as no human individual is perfect, so no nation—no collection of humans—is perfect. Any nation is thus subject to humble correction in love.

“Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him” (Leviticus 19:17). For Clergy Response Teams to fail to publish errors made by the government in Washington amounts to hatred of Washington by the Clergy Response Teams, no matter how “cozy” the relationship between Clergy Response Teams and Washington seems to be. It further demonstrates hatred against citizens governed by Washington.

“Open rebuke is better than secret love” (Prov. 27:5).

“Faithful are the wounds of a friend” (v. 6).

In order to give myself a reason to think more highly of these Clergy Response Teams, I want to find an example of rebuke made, by Clergy Response Teams, against Washington. Sadly, from what I have found, Clergy Response Teams seem to be secretive. Here's an example. When a member of the Worldwide Church of God asked how many ministers in that church are part of the Clergy Response Teams (i.e., getting do-re-me from F.E.M.A.), that minister's response was, “Sorry, that is privileged information.” Why wasn't that church willing to admit (or deny) association with the Clergy Response Teams? Do we see members of Clergy Response Teams making themselves known at any other time, other than to help citizens to find acceptable yet another unconstitutional act by Washington? Why do they seemingly spend most of their time under rocks?

We need to call a spade a spade. The U.S. Constitution is the foundation of the law of the U.S. Any action done in contradiction to the U.S. Constitution is unlawful. If a “common” citizen goes against the Constitution (as in the act of treason), that citizen breaks the law. If a President goes against the Constitution, that President breaks the law. They break federal law, and not mere civil law. The gun-grabbing done in New Orleans broke the supreme federal law of the land. A preacher attempting to make unconstitutional actions seem holy or palatable or make them feel good neither makes those actions any less unconstitutional, nor does he make those actions lawful.

How, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, were “differences” between gun-grabbing government officials and citizens who hoped to be able to defend themselves settled, as Dr. Tuberville spoke of settling differences? That was easy. Government officials sent the National “Guard” in, and, at gunpoint, the National Guard, against the edicts of the U.S. Constitution, confiscated weapons. Did those citizens who had their guns stolen ever get those guns back? Who cares? The case was settled. (I hope that it hasn’t been settled.)

In an aside, isn't it easy to wonder whether uniformed people who break the precepts of the U.S. Constitution are working for another government, and are, as a result, treasonous? They don't follow the U.S. Constitution. What, or whom, do they follow? Are they part of YOUR government?

Dr. Tuberville makes no mention of Paul's having brought grievances to the government…why not? Why didn't Paul take that the beating which the government “established by the Lord” wished to inflict? Why didn't Paul get in contact with the Clergy Response Teams of his day? Why didn't Paul consult the Pharisee and Sadducee Clergy Response Team lackeys, who, in order to seize the scraps of power doled out by the Roman government, worked as a glove over the hand of Rome, as Rome's snitches? If Paul didn't consult the Clergy Response Teams of his day, should we take the advice of our Clergy Response Teams, today? Should they even exist, as they are?

We need to do research about the origins of Clergy Response Teams. They need exposure. They’re your tax dollars at work against you. We need to discover how much money has been diverted into the pockets of the members of the Clergy Response Teams.

Did other Biblical characters challenge the status quo?

Numbers 27 has the story of five women who, according to inheritance laws as they were, with property going from father to son, were not to receive any inheritance. (These women had no brothers.) Did those daughters say to themselves, “Romans 13 says we better shut up about any inheritance, because it's a man's world?” They went to Moses, who took the case of the women to the Creator of all. “And YAHWEH spake unto Moses, saying, The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: thou shalt surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father's brethren; and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father to pass unto them” (Num. 27:6, 7).

Let's have a look at the story of the birth of Moses, and the degree of submissiveness exhibited by some of the players having to do with Moses' birth.

In Exodus 1 is the account of the Egyptian pharaoh having become concerned, because the Hebrew slaves had multiplied in number. At first, in order to contain their population, the pharaoh had the Hebrews forced to work as slaves. But the Hebrew slaves continued to increase their numbers. Finally (v. 16), the Hebrew midwives were told to allow female children to live, but to kill male babies.

The Hebrew midwives could have said, “We better submit, because whatever Pharaoh says is the will of God. The Clergy Response Teams say that we can settle the differences later, after those babies are killed.” Verse 17 tells the course of action of the midwives. “But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.”

Had the edict of that pharaoh been fully obeyed, Moses would not have been born. Hebrew midwives “feared God,” and, in doing so, disobeyed the pharaoh.

Residents of New Orleans faced armed government forces who broke the law of the land. Can't you extrapolate from trends that, in time, you, personally, will have your “The Creator vs. Pharaoh” moment? You will probably soon encounter man's orders which, if kept, would go against the will of the Creator, and not merely against man's law of the land. (Are we already facing that fork in the road, with increasing pressure to ban home-schooling, and to force private schools to become state-certified or accredited, and, in effect, forcing parents to keep their children ignorant?) Which would you do? Would you keep man's law in spite of going against the desire of the Creator, or would you “fear God,” as did the Hebrew midwives, and go against man's edicts? Would you, for instance, keep your child in a public school, though you know that you child could learn much more in a real school, though that school may be declared “illegal?” The Clergy Response Team's Dr. Tuberville does not mention the possibility that the U.S. government could go against the wishes of the Creator. Regardless of Dr. Tuberville's opinion, what will you do, when you encounter a law of man which, to observe it, would go against the Creator's way? What will you do, when you are offered a “mark” (Revelation 13:16, 17) which would pave the way for you being able to buy and sell under government approval, when acceptance of that mark also mandates that you worship a “beast” (v. 15)? I submit that, if you accept, in silence, having your children “educated” (brainwashed, and kept in ignorance) in a public “skool,” you soften yourself for any other government onslaught. “He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much” (Luke 16:10—words of the Messiah). If you are unfaithful, in allowing, without challenge, public “education” to flourish, you may also cave in, when someone comes with a mark, to help you be able to buy and sell.

Regarding schools, I'll tell what I'd like to do. I'd like to find an “underground” school whose directors have no regard for state-sponsored teacher certification, and I'd like to be a teacher in such a school. I'd view such a school in a state in which such schools are deemed “illegal” similarly to how I view the actions of the Hebrew midwives. I'd seriously consider teaching in such an “illegal” school. Just as I am against killing newborn babies, I am also in extreme disfavor of intellectually starving children and youth. If blind government goons came to arrest me, I'd submit to their arrest. I would hope that my actions would speak loudly.

Jesus' parents did not “submit,” as Clergy Response Teams view submission. When Joseph and Mary learned that Herod wished to kill male babies two years old and under, they didn't say, “Romans 13 says that it's the will of God that we turn Jesus over to have him killed.” They got outta Dodge.

Are you beginning to wonder whether the word, submit, in Romans 13, carries a connotation of “be quiet, and do what you're told?” I hope so. Now, you need to discover what connotation the word, submit, in Romans 13, does carry. In addition to my ideas given below, I strongly suggest that you give a good, long, serious look at what Dr. Chuck Baldwin has to say about Romans 13. Dr. Baldwin has spent much more time with this subject than I have. Further, I suggest that you obtain or otherwise gain access to watching one of Pastor John Weaver’s sermons on the subject of Romans 13. (Pastor Weaver has also written a book along this line.) I may not agree with every last word of either Dr. Baldwin or Pastor Weaver, but I'm much farther down either of their roads than I am down Washington's road, and, at the very least, I believe that both Dr. Baldwin and Pastor Weaver make very good points to ponder. They are much closer to the “America” which was the land of the free; home of the brave, than is Washington, which is creating the land of the flea; home of the slave.

To understand Paul’s idea of submission, or of being “subject” to “higher powers,” we should look at the example of Paul’s Master—Yahshua HaMashiach—Jesus the Messiah.

When Judas led the group of scribes and elders to Jesus, in order to hand Jesus over to Roman authorities, the disciple Peter got in a good lick, by cutting off the ear of a servant (Malchus—John 18:10) of the high priest. Perhaps, with a couple more good licks, and with it having been in the dark of night, Jesus could have escaped. However, Jesus made himself subject, or submissive, to authorities (Isaiah 53:7). He said, “Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword. Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?” (Matthew 26:52, 53). Jesus could have rounded up a sure escape from his predicament on the Mount of Olives. But he submitted. To Pilate, Jesus said, “My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence” (John 18:36).

Though Paul challenged policies of Roman authorities, ultimately, when Paul had run out of appeals, he did not fight the death sentence pronounced by Rome. I'm certain that Paul warned all involved in his execution that they would pay a price for their error. But he didn't try to round up an army to defend himself or to escape.

Unquestionably, Jesus had caustic words regarding the practices of the Pharisees and the scribes (Matthew 23). But, ultimately, submissively, when the “hour had come” (John 17:1)—when the Creator deemed time—Jesus relied on the Father's view of the Big Picture, and did not resist the group of Jewish leaders who had followed Judas to Jesus, and who witnessed Judas' kiss of betrayal.

In similar fashion, Daniel did not fight the death sentence handed down by Darius, who was tricked into paving the way for that sentence. Daniel went into the lions’ den, but was Protected from the lions (Dan. 6:4-22).

I believe that, in the creation, we can observe the submissive attitude, or the attitude of being subject (Romans 13:1). I once saw some documentary which showed the capture of wild geese, in order to “tag,” or “band” them. Explosive charges were placed to propel one edge of a large net over a flock of geese on the ground at the start of a day. (Of course, the opposite edge of the net was anchored.) As biologists ran over to grab geese, each goose tried to escape. However, curiously, once the geese were in the arms of workers, each goose settled down, and was very still and calm. That tendency of calming down when capture is certain must be “built in” (instinctive). I tried that, once, with one of a number of geese at a municipal park. One of the geese was close enough to me that I grabbed it. I dreaded a beating, and a lot of bites from that large bill. However, once the goose “knew” that it was captured, it calmed down, so that my daughter could stroke its feathers. Another example: a cat with a songbird in its mouth once approached me. I suppose that the cat was “bragging” about its ability to catch a bird. The bird seemed to have been killed, but, when the cat attempted to “meow,” the bird sensed that it had a chance to escape, and it quickly flew from the cat's mouth. The cat then gave out a very sad-sounding “meow,” and appeared startled and saddened. The complete submission of the songbird lulled the cat into overconfidence and lack of vigilance. The cat may also have assumed that the bird was dead.

When officials tried to beat Paul, he tried to escape, as did the geese, when the net trapped them. However, when it became evident to Paul that his time had come (as he grew to realize—II Timothy 4:6-8), he calmed down, as did the bird in the cat's mouth. According to tradition, Apostle John was immersed into a vat of boiling oil, possibly by the Roman Emperor Domitian. Apparently, John did not resist, but submitted. However, as Daniel escaped alive from the lions' den, John was unharmed by the oil. Had John tried to mount some kind of resistance, he may not have fared so well. John submitted, as did the bird in the cat’s mouth, and John fared at least as well as did that bird.

Even some tyrants find it more difficult to put a submissive, unarmed preacher of truth to death, than to rout and kill a small group of armed people with a vocal leader. Even tyrants are aware of image. For a tyrant to put to death an unarmed, vocal person to death could give the tyrant a bad image. So I believe that having a submissive attitude is not merely a show to others of being humble, but is also an intelligent approach. After all, the government does have superior “carnal” weaponry (II Corinthians 10:4). In the short run, they can win.

You who say or believe that a failure, on the part of followers of the Creator, to use weaponry against tyrants will result in the extinction of those followers of the Creator do not take into consideration the Creator’s vengeance used to topple a government, or a society, whose iniquity is “full.” You also do not take the resurrection into account (I Cor. 15). Those who do not take into account the resurrection are, of all people, most miserable (I Cor. 15:19).

Below, the Everliving One is speaking to Abraham about the timetable concerning when Abraham's descendants would take the “Promised Land.”

“And thou (Abraham) shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. But in the fourth generation they (Abraham's descendants) shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full (Genesis 15:15, 16).

All societies have iniquity, because “all (individuals) have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23). But some societies (notably those with wealth, which results in “pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness”—Ezekiel 16:49) become engulfed by iniquity to a point that, according to the Creator, that iniquity in that society becomes “full,” as described in Genesis 15:16. When the iniquity of the Amorites became full, that government, and that society, was brought to an end (Numbers 21:21-31), and the Israelites under Moses took the land which the Amorites had occupied.

I don’t know how much more “full” it is that the iniquity in Washington can become. I do know that, if I embrace Washington’s iniquity, I will suffer Washington’s consequences. If I speak out against Washington’s iniquity, and do so with the right attitude (Ezekiel 9:4), I can’t lose. Either Washington listens and changes, as did Nineveh (Jonah 3:10), or Washington continues filling itself (and this land) with iniquity, and, when that iniquity is full, Washington and those who embrace it are toppled. In the meantime, Washington may come after me, and falsely brand me a “terrorist,” or an “enemy combatant.” If times become extremely hellish, I may be put to death. Paul said, “For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain” (Philippians 1:21). If Washington were to kill me, and if I'm under grace, I gain, and overseers in Washington heap more future woes on themselves. As Washington persecutes more and more saints, they hasten their ruin more and more. If Washington turns around, their collective sins can be put behind them (Ezekiel 18:21, 22).

The more saints any government persecutes and puts to death, the more quickly it is that that government has vengeance exacted, and is removed, in favor of a better one. And the way is cleared for better times.

Though leaders in Washington may not realize this, I do them a much greater service in warning them about their errors than I would if I enlisted in one of the branches of the armed forces, especially since I'm much too old to serve, anyway. In writing this article, I do more of a favor to my country than any “perfectly obedient” member of the Clergy Response Teams does, because “perfectly obedient” members of the Clergy Response Teams, as “yes men,” offer no opportunity for spiritual growth to our country, because they offer no rebuke or correction.

Here is something to ponder. King Sihon—the king of the Amorites—gathered his subjects together, so that they could keep the Israelites out of the land of the Amorites. (Note: Moses had sent envoys to the Amorites. The Israelite envoys had requested permission merely to pass through the land of the Amorites—vv. 21, 22. Not only did King Sihon refuse the courtesy which the Israelites had requested, but he also set out to do battle against the Israelites. The Israelites had no intention of harming anything to do with the Amorites.) As mentioned, according to Gen. 15:16, there would come a time when the iniquity of the Amorites would be full. When the Amorites attacked, “Israel smote (the Amorites) with the edge of the sword, and possessed (King Sihon's) land from Arnon unto Jabbok, even unto the children of Ammon...” (Numbers 21:24). Did King Sihon suffer alone? No, anyone who fought with him also suffered, because those who fought with King Sihon were attempting to be “enablers” to a wicked king full of iniquity, and whose fall was imminent. And King Sihon—full of iniquity—reigned because the rest of the land was also full of iniquity. King Sihon and his subjects enabled each other to become full of iniquity.

Did King Sihon have his form of “Clergy Response Teams?” Did he get priests of the majority religion to help to find people to go to fight for the glory of Homeland Security? If so, they all fell, together.

If a country is full of iniquity, what will happen to a poor, deceived civilian who volunteers to be ready to fight in defense of that land full of iniquity?

Anyone who ponders joining any armed force should give careful thought to such a move.

Back in the late '90s, a U.S. soldier, Michael New, made headlines, because he refused to wear the U.N. armband on his sleeve. Mr. New said that he had signed the dotted line to defend the U.S.; not interests of other governments represented by the U.N. That courageous soldier was drummed out of the U.S. Armed Forces.

Rahab lived in Jericho. But she didn't support the defense of Jericho (Joshua 6). Did that make Rahab unpatriotic? Or did she hold citizenship of another country (Hebrews 11:16, 31, 40)?

For those who do not believe that Christians should vote, because Christians hold citizenship in heaven (Philippians 3:20; Hebrews 11:10, 14, 16), that we shouldn't mix with the world (II Cor. 6:17), and this is Satan's world (II Cor. 4:4), and his kingdoms, and that, for those reasons, we should roll over, and let the government do as it will, I can relate to you. I won’t tell you that, if you refrain from voting, you get what you deserve. However, I will tell you that Paul didn’t vote. The women who petitioned Moses about inheritance (Num. 27) didn’t vote. Esther didn’t vote her husband into office. However, they all petitioned their governments, in order to try to see that justice was done. Because petitioning the king of Persia was a life-endangering experience (Esther 4:11), Esther risked her life—twice (Esther 5:2; 8:4) in order to help to save her people. Even if you don’t believe that voting is part of what you need to do, you still are obligated to strive to see that justice is done. You have seen the examples of Paul and the daughters of Zelophehad.

Three groups of armed forces (50 men in each group) were sent, successively, from the Israelite King Ahaziah to arrest Elijah (II Kings 1:9), who was on top of a hill. When the first group arrived, the captain shouted to Elijah, “Thou man of God, the king hath said, Come down.”

Did Elijah say to himself, “Romans 13...I gotta do what the king says, because whatever he says is the Lord's will?” Elijah replied, “If I be a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty” (v. 10). Fire devoured the captain and his 50 men.

The captain of the second group summoned Elijah to come down, in a tone very similar to that of the first captain. That captain and his 50 men were also incinerated.

The captain of the third group rode the learning curve. When he approached Elijah, he begged, “O man of God, I pray thee, let my life, and the life of these fifty thy servants, be precious in thy sight. Behold, there came fire down from heaven, and burnt up the two captains of the former fifties with their fifties: therefore let my life now be precious in thy sight” (vv. 13, 14).

Why didn't the third captain simply submit to the order of the king, do what he was told, and nab Elijah?

An angel told Elijah to go with (submit to the wishes of) the third captain and his armed force (v. 15). Elijah submitted, possibly because the captain was submissive to a Force infinitely greater than the force which can be mustered by a human king.

If you are already committed to serving an armed force, or a police department, which serves iniquity, you may be able to escape the fate of the majority of people in your force, or department, or society, as the above-mentioned captain escaped. That captain's wisdom also allowed his men to escape death. That captain may have put “right vs. wrong” in a higher position than the necessity to obey orders of men.

“We ought to obey God rather than men” (Acts 5:29). Or, as the Bible in Basic English has it, “We have to do the orders of God, not of man.”

I doubt that pure fear was the sole driving force steering that captain. Though “the fearful” are destined for a lake of fire (Revelation 21:8), that captain escaped fire. Had pure fear driven that captain, I doubt that he would have been spared.

Had that captain been part of, or been listening to, a “Clergy Response Team” “because,” as Dr. Tuberville stated, “the government's established by the Lord...and that's what we believe in the Christian faith. It's what stated in the Scripture,” he'd have become toast, with no butter.

Read the story of the prophet Micaiah (I Kings 22). Contrast how Micaiah carried on with his government with how Clergy Response Teams interact “in bed” with Washington, today.

Rulers of Jerusalem during the time of Jeremiah accused Jeremiah of being unpatriotic; “Thou (Jeremiah) fallest away to the Chaldeans” (Jer. 37:13). Why Jeremiah was accused of having fallen away to the Chaldeans contains seeds for another article. Jeremiah would have washed out of today's Clergy Response Teams.

According to Jewish tradition (possibly the subject of Hebrews 11:37), the Jewish king Manasseh had the prophet Isaiah—another Clergy Response Team reject—sawed in half.

Please dig into this subject more deeply than does this article. The answers to how we should deal with government can be found between the pages of your Bible.

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The preceding was a guest post for Moral Decline by author Jimmie Parr.

18 Signs Of Moral Relativism In 2011

noreply@blogger.com (Shattered Paradigm) — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 20:47:00 +0000

In the United States today, moral relativism rules. Long ago, the nation as a whole rejected God's laws, and now everyone pretty much does what is right in his or her own eyes. People mostly make us the rules as they go along. In fact, this whole country is just kind of making up the rules as we go along at this point. What is "right" and what is "wrong" has become completely clouded. Our young people have no moral compass. But this is what happens when a nation rejects God.

The following are 18 very disturbing signs of moral relativism in America in 2011....

*In Glenn Beck's most recent book, "The 7: Seven Wonders That Will Change Your Life", he not only promotes hardcore Mormonism, but he also promotes Universalism and New Age religion.

*Today, 41% of all New York City pregnancies end in abortion.

*Approximately 52 percent of all African-American pregnancies now end in abortion.

*It is estimated that approximately 50 million babies have been aborted in the United States since 1973.

*Planned Parenthood received $363.2 million in government grants and contracts during its 2008-2009 fiscal year, according to the organization's annual report. That was up from $349.6 million in fiscal year 2007-08.

*The board of the American Conservative Union has approved a homosexual Republican group for a planning role in the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), a major annual event in Washington, D.C., that draws conservatives from across the country.

*Fresh off of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” victory, Vice President Joe Biden said in a morning show interview that legislation approving gay marriage is inevitable.

*The executive director of the Missouri Baptist Convention resigned recently "due to immoral behavior with a woman," the organization announced.

*The Obama administration has declared that the field of synthetic biology poses only "limited risks" and should not be restricted.

*By unanimous consent in the Senate, Chai Feldblum, a lesbian law professor and the primary author of the pro-homosexual Employment Non-Discrimination Act, was recently confirmed as a member of the powerful Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which wields enormous power over the nation's employers.

*Nickelodeon’s new Illuminati-themed show House of Anubis, already airing in Belgium and Netherlands is due to air in the United States for the first time in January 2011.

*The Navy has opened an investigation into how a series of raunchy videos were produced and shown to the crew of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise while on deployment supporting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

*A Michigan man faces up to 5 years in prison for reading his wife's e-mail to find out if she was having an affair.

*CNN is reporting that an investigation has revealed that up to 5200 Pentagon employees may have been purchasing child pornography online.

*Victims of clerical sex abuse have reacted furiously to Pope Benedict’s claim yesterday that pedophilia wasn’t considered an “absolute evil” as recently as the 1970s.

*Planned Parenthood's website has announced that the group is preparing to launch a nationwide “social change initiative” to end the “stigma and shame about sex” in American culture.

*A new survey has found that 54 percent of "evangelical Protestants" believe that people from religions other than Christianity can get into heaven.

*According to a new Gallup poll, seven in 10 Americans say religion as a whole is losing its influence on American life. This is a near-record high percentage since Gallup began asking the question more than 50 years ago.

What in the world is happening to America.

How long will it be before God starts pouring out his judgment upon this nation?

To prepare yourself and your family for the hard times that are coming, we encourage you to get a copy of David Jeremiah's new book entitled The Coming Economic Armageddon: What Bible Prophecy Warns about the New Global Economy.

In addition, we hope that you will visit some of our other websites that keep up with what is happening to America in these last days....

#1) Last Days

#2) The End Of The World

#3) The Debt

#4) The Truth

#5) Mysteries Of The World

What Is Happening To America?

noreply@blogger.com (Shattered Paradigm) — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 19:13:00 +0000

Have you ever stopped for a moment and really wondered what is happening to this country? We are in such an advanced state of moral decline that it hard to even describe. It is as if a large percentage of the population has gone crazy. If you have not seen the video posted below, please take 4 minutes out and watch it. It is entitled "The Madness Of A Lost Society" and it is extraordinary. In it you will view footage of what happened at stores from coast to coast this past Black Friday. Americans were actually trampling on top of one another to get their hands on the best deals on cheap foreign-made plastic crap.

What American is becoming is hard to believe. Just check it out....

So exactly what is happening to America?

Why are people behaving this way?

It is because we have turned our backs on God.

God has instructed us how to live, but we think that we know better.

We have pushed Him out of our government, out of our schools, out of our workplaces, out of the news, out of our entertainment and even out of most of our churches.

Today, most Americans do not want anything to do with the God of the Bible. Instead, they just want to keep indulging in sin after sin.

But what should we expect?

The apostle Paul told us that things would be like this in the last days in 2 Timothy chapter 3....

But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.

The truth is that people are only going to be getting worse.

By the end, most people are going to be acting no better than animals.

Don't let that happen to you.

Now is the time to get radical for Yeshua (Jesus Christ). We would encourage you to read up about the great Christians of the past who have not denied Yeshua even though it cost them their lives. A great book that has hundreds of amazing stories is Extreme Devotion: The Voice of the Martyrs

We also encourage you to check out some of our other sites about the news and events of these last days....

*The Debt

*The Truth

*Last Days

*The End Of The World

Enhanced Pat-Downs

noreply@blogger.com (Shattered Paradigm) — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 19:38:00 +0000

The new "enhanced pat-downs" being conducted by TSA officials at airports all across the United States are provoking a massive backlash by outraged citizens. Why? Well, because the truth is that these new enhanced pat-downs are little more than legalized groping. TSA officials are now required to feel air passengers up wit the fronts of their hands. During enhanced pat-downs the new guidelines instruct them to actually feel the outlines of the male and female genitalia. In addition, in many instances it is being reported that TSA officials are actually reaching down the pants of men and up the skirts of women during these enhanced pat-downs. Some TSA officials are performing enhanced pat-downs hundreds of times a day, and they do not put on clean gloves each time they perform an "examination".

Yes, this is really happening in the United States of America in 2010.

Things have gotten so bad that incoming chief deputy DA of San Mateo County, Steve Wagstaffe, has announced that he is sending deputies into San Francisco International Airport to investigate felony groping by TSA officials.

Prominent blogger Erin Chase is a regular air traveler, and she recently made headlines across the country when she described the groping that she experienced during one of these enhanced pat-downs....

She patted my left arm, my right arm, my upper back and my lower back. She then said, “I need to reach in and feel along the inside of your waistband.”

She felt along my waistline, moved behind me, then proceeded to feel both of my buttocks. She reached from behind in the middle of my buttocks towards my vagina area.

She did not tell me that she was going to touch my buttocks, or reach forward to my vagina area.

She then moved in front of my and touched the top and underneath portions of both of my breasts.

She did not tell me that she was going to touch my breasts.

She then felt around my waist. She then moved to the bottoms of my legs.

She then felt my inner thighs and my vagina area, touching both of my labia.

She did not tell me that she was going to touch my vagina area or my labia.

So how did Erin feel after receiving an enhanced pat-down? She was horrified beyond belief...

I stood there, an American citizen, a mom traveling with a baby with special needs formula, sexually assaulted by a government official. I began shaking and felt completely violated, abused and assaulted by the TSA agent. I shook for several hours, and woke up the next day shaking.

Here is why I was sexually assaulted. She never told me the new body search policy. She never told me that she was going to touch my private parts. She never told me when or where she was going to touch me. She did not inform me that a private screening was available. She did not inform me of my rights that were a part of these new enhanced patdown procedures.

Is this what America has come to?

This is yet another sign of how far our moral decline and our moral collapse has advanced.

Now countless Americans will be publicly groped and fondled every day at airports across the United States.

Of course you know who is going to run out and apply for these jobs, right? It is going to be pedophiles, perverts and sickos.

If you have any doubt that the TSA is totally out of control, just check out the following video....

So how much more of this will the American people put up with?

We are rapidly being turned into an anti-American Big Brother police state.

For much more on this, we encourage you to check out the new book by Grant Jeffrey entitled Shadow Government: How the Secret Global Elite Is Using Surveillance Against You.

In addition, please feel free to check out some of our other websites that chronicle what is happening to America....

The Debt

Truth

Last Days

Foreclosure Help

The End Of The World

Social Engineering In Public School Textbooks

noreply@blogger.com (Shattered Paradigm) — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 19:09:00 +0000

In recent years, political correctness has taken over the public school classrooms in the United States and Canada. It is coming out that publishers are actually giving textbook writers social engineering guidelines that they are to follow. For example, one educational consultant in Canada has recently come forward and has admitted that he purposely featured girls in a positive light and boys in a negative light in textbooks due to the direction he was receiving from the publishers. The following quotes from that consultant recently appeared in a mainstream newspaper article up in Canada....

"If you had a picture of a person doing something positive, winning a race, performing an experiment successfully, etc., [you had to] make sure it was of a girl."

"If you had to have a picture of someone doing a bad thing - bullying, making a mistake, being unsure which course of action to take, etc. - the image was invariably of a boy."

"The side effect was to show the boys that they are rarely winners and we expect less of them."

"The unstated assumption was that boys did not need the same degree of encouragement."

Well, those are just words, right?

What kind of harm can they really do?

A lot, actually.

Today, boys rank far behind girls in nearly every measure of scholastic achievement in the United States and Canada.

Today, boys are much more likely to have behavior problems, much more likely to repeat a grade and much more likely to drop out of school altogether.

Today, women make up approximately 60 percent of the students at colleges and universities across the United States and Canada.

We have a huge problem.

Our boys are falling behind and they are not becoming men.

This yet another sign of the moral decline and the moral collapse that is going on in the United States and Canada.

For much more on what is happening with our young males, we recommend the following resources....

#1 Bringing Up Boys

#2 Wild Things: The Art of Nurturing Boys

#3 That's My Son: How Moms Can Influence Boys to Become Men of Character

In addition, we very much encourage you to visit our new website entitled "The Debt" along with some of our other websites that we have been working on for a while....

*Kids Room Decor

*Antique Toys

*Addiction Recovery

*Truth

*What Does The Bible Say?

Religious Decline: The Number Of Mosques In The United States Has Increased By More Than 50 Percent Over The Past Ten Years

noreply@blogger.com (Shattered Paradigm) — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 05:04:00 +0000

America is headed downhill fast and there are no signs that things are going to turn around any time soon. The following are some of the latest signs of moral decline and moral collapse in the United States and around the world....

The number of mosques in the United States has increased by more than 50% during the last ten years.

Islamic expert Tawfik Hamid says that many Muslims will view the construction of a mosque near ground zero as symbolizing a "triumph over America".

Barack Obama recently hosted an iftar — the special evening meal observed during Ramadan — on a Friday night in the White House dining room.

Why does Barack Obama keep saying so many good things about Islam, and yet he has had so many bad things to say about Christianity?

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is now considering a "crackdown" on farm dust.

The city of Cleveland plans to sort through curbside trash to make sure residents are recycling - and fine them $100 if they don't.

A new survey claims that 27 percent of public school students aged 12 to 17 attend schools that are both gang and drug-infected.

Are Lady Gaga and other female performers poisoning the minds of our young girls?

There is a new version of the video game entitled Medal of Honor coming out that lets you control the Taliban in Afghanistan and shoot American and allied forces.

A Saudi couple recently tortured their Sri Lankan maid by hammering 24 hot nails into her after she complained of her heavy workload.

A military grade, high-tech ray gun that fires an invisible heat beam that causes unbearable pain may be tested on inmates in the sheriff's detention facility in Castaic, California officials said recently.

Rwandan and Congolese rebels gang-raped nearly 200 women over four days within miles of a U.N. peacekeeper base in an eastern Congo mining district.

Are Christian churches losing their identity by trying to be cool?

A federal judge has blocked Barack Obama's embryonic stem cell research policy, concluding that it violates a ban on federal funds being used in the destruction of human embryos.

Yet another writing has surfaced authored by current science czar John P. Holdren detailing his enduring vision of a depopulated planet and the global efforts that should be made to accomplish it.

On BBC Radio, the merits of requiring "the mentally and morally unfit" to be sterilized is actually being openly debated.

Atheist and agnostic doctors are almost twice as willing to make decisions that they think will hasten the end of a very sick patient's life as doctors who are deeply religious, suggests research published online in the Journal of Medical Ethics.

A 32 year old man was recently beaten black and blue by two Denver Police officers for no apparent reason at all.

According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, more than 60,000 prisoners – or one in 20 adult inmates – were sexually assaulted during the previous year.

Conservative author Ann Coulter has been dropped as a keynote speaker for WND's "Taking America Back National Conference" next month because of her plan to address an event entitled "HOMOCON" sponsored by the homosexual Republican group GOProud that promotes same-sex marriage and military service for open homosexuals.

An Augusta State University counseling student recently filed a lawsuit against her university claiming it violated her First Amendment rights when she was allegedly told to change her traditional Christian views on homosexuality or leave.

According to a recent poll, 49 percent of all U.S. voters describe themselves as pro-choice and 43 percent say they are pro-life.

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a controversial new form of "emergency contraception" that can end a pregnancy as many as five days after sex.

In a sign of just how far the United States has fallen, "naked vacations" are becoming increasingly popular with Americans.

In the U.K., a 21 year old man with "learning disabilities" has been granted taxpayer money to fly to Amsterdam and have sex with a prostitute.

Lastly, memorial crosses erected along Utah public roads to honor fallen state highway troopers have been found unconstitutional by a federal appeals court.

WHO WILL CRY FOR YOU, AMERICA?

noreply@blogger.com (Shattered Paradigm) — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:58:00 +0000

The following is a poem submitted by a reader of one of our other blogs named Rita. In many ways it does a great job of capturing the anguish that many of us feel over the moral decline of America. We think that you are really going to enjoy this....

I, will cry you a river

And much much more

My dear dear America,

Once so beautiful!

You sold your soul

To a bunch of mercenaries

Which entered your sheep-fold

As wolves and goats

You sold your skin

To the highest bidder

You resemble a harlot

The new Babylon

Eating and drinking

With the rich of this world

Prostituting yourself

For money and power

And became a den

Of thieves and murderers

You forgot all about

The One Who blessed

You so abundantly

Biting the Hand of the Blesser

Embarrassed to mention His Name!

Did He not teach you

To be wise as a serpent

And harmless as a dove

Why then do you behave

As a silly goose??

He invited you to His dinner Table

He so diligently prepared

But, you made light of it

And went your worldly, haughty ways

One to his farm,

Another to his business.

But as the Father of Fathers

He waits for your return

The return of His prodigal daughter

WAKE UP, AMERICA!!!

Humble your pride

And follow the Way, the Life and the Truth!!!

Or, I SHALL cry you a river

A river of bloody tears

And much much more!!!

15 More Examples Of Moral Collapse And Moral Decline

noreply@blogger.com (Shattered Paradigm) — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 02:12:00 +0000

The following are 15 more examples of moral collapse and moral decline in America....

1) A California couple recently attempted to sell their 6-month-old baby for $25 outside a Walmart.

2) Police in Oklahoma recently tasered an 86-year-old disabled grandma in her bed and stepped on her oxygen hose until she couldn't breathe because she was a "threat".

3) In a bizarre statement to police, an Oregon woman who claims that Al Gore fondled and groped her during a massage session described the former Vice President as a giggling "crazed sex poodle" who gave a "come hither" look before pouncing on her in a Portland hotel suite.

4) Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick says that he objects to a new policy in Provincetown allowing even elementary school students to receive free condoms, and to do so without telling their parents.

5) The U.S. Labor Department has announced a new order that would extend federally guaranteed family and medical benefits to gay couples who work for private as well as federal employers.

6) A 10-year-old boy has been named grand marshal for a gay-pride parade in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

7) Seniors at a New Haven, Conn., high school will not be graduating "in the year of our Lord" this year – or any future years, according to the superintendent of schools. The school district has removed the traditional phrase from high school diplomas after someone complained.

8) The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation continues to throw its support behind risky genetically modified seeds as a means for feeding hungry Africans.

9) The Obama administration has announced its appointment of 13 White House fellows – and the first person featured on its short list is a Muslim attorney who specializes in Shariah law-compliant transactions.

10) This video is not from America, but it is incredibly shocking and it demonstrates what is rapidly happening to much of the western world.

11) According to a new national poll, nearly half of all American adults see the government today as a threat to individual rights rather than a protector of those rights.

12) Will the Gulf of Mexico oil spill + a hurricane = an "oilcane" that will devastate the Gulf coast for years to come? Is there a reason why so many bad things are happening to America right now?

13) Even many atheist scientists are now admitting that life is so improbable, and the physical characteristics of the universe are so finely tuned to accommodate it, that in some sense the universe "knew we were coming" - and yet they will not admit that God exists.

14) Researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute have combined microfabrication techniques from the computer industry with modern tissue engineering techniques, human cells and a plain old vacuum pump to create a living, breathing human lung-on-a-chip.

15) Lastly, after one team of researchers took a close look at the religious beliefs held by American teenagers, they found that the faith held and described by most U.S. adolescents came down to something the researchers identified as "Moralistic Therapeutic Deism".

Fooled By The Bushes

noreply@blogger.com (Shattered Paradigm) — Sun, 16 May 2010 22:03:00 +0000

One of the biggest con jobs in U.S. political history was pulled on American conservatives over the past decade, and most of them still don't even realize it. For two elections, and for over 8 years, George and Laura Bush portrayed themselves as true conservatives who were willing to fight for Christian values. Well, it turns out that the Bushes were never "conservative" at all. In fact, in public statement after public statement they have denied the very basics of the Christian faith. For example, during a recent interview with Larry King, former first lady Laura Bush revealed that she is actually in favor of legalized gay marriage and a woman's "right" to abortion.

This is a woman that conservative women all over the country have looked up to and have endlessly praised.

So what are they supposed to think now?

The truth is that Christians and conservatives collectively spent millions of hours working to get the Bushs into the White House under the assumption that they were conservative Christians.

But Laura Bush sounded very much like Hillary Clinton during this interview with Larry King....

What is that quote that George W. Bush gets criticized for so much? Something about not getting fooled again?....

There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again.

Well, it turns out that the Bushs fooled us over and over and over and over.

But sadly, the truth is that the signs were there all along, but conservatives and Christians did not want to see them....

*George W. Bush was a member of the Satanic Skull & Bones Society:

http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1314.cfm

*George W. Bush's gay/lesbian policies were identical to Bill Clinton's:

http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1652.cfm

*George W. Bush openly worshipped in Islamic mosques and Buddist temples:

http://chuckbaldwinlive.com/bushshintoshrine.html

*George W. Bush publicly said that the Muslim God and the Christian God are the same thing:

http://www.cuttingedge.org/news_updates/nz1528.htm

*George W. Bush actually INCREASED funding for the Planned Parenthood abortion mills:

http://www.covenantnews.com/lefemine050208.htm

Are you starting to get the picture?

The reality is that in his interviews with the press, George W. Bush was very open about the fact that he does not believe what Christians believe.

In one absolutely stunning interview near the end of his second term, George W. Bush actually said that the Bible is "probably not" literally true, that he prays to the same God that other major religions such as Islam do and that he believes in the scientific evidence for Darwinism.

This is his exact quote when he was asked if he believed that the Bible was literally true....

"Probably not. No, I'm not a literalist, but I think you can learn a lot from it."

The cold, hard reality is that George W. Bush has never embraced evangelical Christianity.

For example, George W. Bush publicly said many times that Christians, Muslims and all other religions pray to the exact same God. In fact, Bush says that he prays to the God of Islam, that non-Christians and Muslims will go to heaven and that he has "nothing but praise" for Islam.

You don't believe this?

Check this out.

The following a portion of a transcript of an interview during which Charles Gibson of ABC asked George W. Bush his thoughts about religion.....

CHARLES GIBSON: Do we all worship the same God, Christian and Muslim?

PRESIDENT BUSH: I think we do.

CHARLES GIBSON: Does ...

PRESIDENT BUSH: We have different routes of getting to the Almighty.

(Later in the interview.....)

CHARLES GIBSON: Do Christians and non-Christians and Muslims go to heaven in your mind?

PRESIDENT BUSH: Yes, they do. We have different routes of getting there.

But it wasn't just during the Charles Gibson interview that George W. Bush declared himself to be a universalist.....

In a shocking interview with Al Arabiya television, Bush said the following....

"I believe in an almighty God, and I believe that all the world, whether they be Muslim, Christian, or any other religion, prays to the same God."

During that same interview Bush also said this....

"I believe there is a universal God. I believe the God that the Muslim prays to is the same God that I pray to. After all, we all came from Abraham. I believe in that universality."

During one trip to Iraq, Bush is reported to have made this statement....

"I want you to convey this message to Mr. Sistani. Tell him that I pray to the same god he prays to... Tell Sistani I have nothing but praise for your religion."

Now does any of that sound "Christian" to you?

According to George W. Bush, Jesus must have been mistaken in John 14:6 when He said this.....

"I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."

How in the world can anyone continue to claim that the Bushs are conservatives or that they are evangelical Christians?

The truth is that they never have been.

It is time for conservatives to face up to the truth....

We got fooled by the Bushes.

Modern Day Slavery In Florida

noreply@blogger.com (Shattered Paradigm) — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 18:06:00 +0000

Does slavery exist in the United States today?

If you ask most Americans, they will tell you that slavery was abolished back in the 19th century.

But that is a lie.

Today you can find slavery all over the United States. Not only is "human trafficking" a major problem (and an issue that we have touched on in other posts), but migrant workers all over the agricultural areas of the United States are being horribly exploited.

Because they are not legally here to work, employers feel free to pay them far below minimum wage. By paying them barely enough to survive, these employers have created a modern day form of slavery.

The following video about modern day slavery in Florida is by Paul Franz, a graduate student at the University of Miami School of Communication and the Knight Center for International Media.

The video follows the story of Joseph Dieune, a Haitian migrant worker who visited the United States to make money for his family back home. He works at a small agricultural center located just south of the city of Miami, and his life is far from easy.

As you watch this video, ask yourself if this is the right thing for American employers to do....

The truth is that this is yet another sign of the moral decline of America.

How in the world can we allow this type of thing to go on in the 21st century?

Unfortunately, this type of exploitation is only going to get worse.

Modern day slavery is going on all over the world, and as the moral collapse of the world continues, slavery is going to thrive even more.

It's disgusting and it needs to stop.

But it's not going to.

16 Examples From Just This Past Week That Show How The Moral Collapse Of America Is Accelerating

noreply@blogger.com (Shattered Paradigm) — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:24:00 +0000

Is the moral decline of America accelerating? Recently we have seen an avalanche of headlines that show how bad the moral collapse of America is getting. Washington D.C. has become an absolute cesspool of corruption, but the rest of the nation is headed straight into the moral toilet as well. But we should not be surprised. This is what happens when a nation rejects God. Everyone is doing what is right in their own eyes, and it is rapidly leading to moral chaos. Let us pray for our fellow Americans and let us show lots of love in the midst of this mess. As evil grows stronger and hearts grow cold, those who let the love of Christ show will shine out like brilliant stars on a very dark night.

The following are 16 examples from just this past week that show how the moral collapse of America is accelerating....

#1) It turns out that the Democrats are engaging in really dirty politics in a final attempt to get the health care "reform" bill passed.

#2) The opening prayer at the opening session of the Virginia General Assembly was delivered by a radical imam.

#3) The World Association of Girl Scouts and Girl Guides hosted a "no-adults-welcome" panel at the United Nations this past week where Planned Parenthood workers were allowed to distribute a brochure entitled "Healthy, Happy and Hot."

#4) A 500 member Baptist church in Dallas, Texas recently changed its website to reflect the church's affirmation of gay and lesbian lifestyles.

#5) Two members of Congress have introduced new legislation that is designed to dramatically expand President Barack Obama's decision to force taxpayers to fund embryonic stem cell research.

#6) A 10 year effort by a University of Rhode Island scientist to develop genetically modified rainbow trout with enhanced muscle growth has yielded huge fish with what have been described as six-pack abs and "muscular" shoulders.

#7) U.S. health officials announced on Tuesday that approximately 16 percent of all Americans between the ages of 14 and 49 are infected with genital herpes.

#8) The U.S. government budget deficit for the month of February was over 220 billion dollars - which set a new all-time record for one month.

#9) Eric Massa told Fox News during one interview that "you can literally be bought and sold legally" as a member of the U.S. Congress.

#10) But apparently Eric Massa was involved in some questionable activities as well. Startling new allegations regarding ex-Congressman Massa are starting to come out.

#11) Will the coming 21% cut in Medicare payments force many doctors to start boycotting Medicare patients?

#12) Will a new bill being pushed by John McCain and Joe Lieberman allow large numbers of Americans to be rounded up and detained indefinitely without a trial?

#13) After a student at one community college in California gave a speech in class about his Christian beliefs and values, the instructor refused to give him a grade and instead wrote on his evaluation form, "Ask God what your grade is."

#14) It turns out that millions of Americans who are overwhelmed by debt are now turning to the Bible for help.

#15) Are some of the most popular cartoon series for children on television actually bombarding them with occult symbolism?

#16) A Mississippi county school board announced on Wednesday that it would cancel its upcoming prom after a gay student petitioned to bring a same-sex date to the event.

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The U.S. Military Seeks To Become More Welcoming For Gays And Pagans

noreply@blogger.com (Shattered Paradigm) — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:38:00 +0000

Even as the U.S. military continues to put restrictions on using the name of Jesus and on members of the military sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ, they have launched two new initiatives to make the U.S. military more welcoming for gays and for pagans.

For example, the U.S. Defense Department starts the clock next week on what is expected to be a several-year process in lifting its ban on gays serving openly in the military. Now that Barack Obama openly called for the end of the ban on gays in the military during his State of the Union speech, it looks like it is only a matter of time before this is going to become a reality.

In addition, the U.S. Air Force Academy is officially adding a worship area for pagans which will be dedicated during a ceremony scheduled for March 10th. A stone circle located on a hill overlooking the Cadet Chapel will join Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, Muslim and Buddhist sacred spaces at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs.

So what do all of you think of these changes to the U.S. military? Feel free to leave a comment with your thoughts....

20 Signs That The Moral Decline Of America Is Spinning Wildly Out Of Control

noreply@blogger.com (Shattered Paradigm) — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 04:19:00 +0000

Each week it just seems as though the U.S. plunges even farther into the moral toilet. The following are 20 signs that the moral decline of America is spinning wildly out of control....

#1) 37 years after Roe v. Wade, 50 million babies have been killed and yet the United States is still continuing to abort babies with no end in sight.

#2) Cindy McCain, the wife of Republican Senator John McCain, and their daughter Meghan have both posed for photos endorsing pro-gay marriage forces in California.

#3) According to one new report, Barack Obama is planning to issue a letter in the next couple weeks that will guarantee U.S. government support for a plan to give much of the West Bank and eastern sections of Jerusalem to the Palestinians within two years.

#4) As if going through airport security was not enough of a hassle, now TSA employees are playing cruel pranks on passengers.

#5) Goldman Sachs has officially confessed to "improper behavior" during the housing crash - but they aren't about to give all that money back.

#6) The World Health Organization is pushing for a new global tax which would be used to fund their operations.

#7) A bill now before the California legislature would essentially treat marijuana the same way that alcohol is treated under the law and would allow adults over 21 to possess, smoke and grow marijuana.

#8) Things have gotten so bad south of the border that some mainstream media outlets are finally acknowledging the obvious - the economy of Mexico runs on drug money.

#9) Most Republicans do not realize this, but the chief of staff for California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is actually a gay Democrat.

#10) A stunning new poll has revealed that only 39 percent of the members of the largest Presbyterian denomination in the United States believe that Jesus Christ is the only way to salvation.

#11) A new study has shown that eating genetically modified corn causes organ failure in rats. Yet Americans continue to ram it down their throats every single day.

#12) Scott Ritter, the former top United Nations weapons inspector, has been caught in an online sex sting.

#13) Bishops are warning that the new "Equality Bill" being considered by the U.K. government will force Christianity underground while defending the beliefs of minority groups such as homosexuals.

#14) What has happened to America? A new poll has found that 51 percent of Americans agree with this statement: "it is necessary to give up some civil liberties in order to make the country safe from terrorism."
#15) In a 2008 paper, Barack Obama's appointee to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs advocated "cognitive infiltration" of groups that advocate "conspiracy theories".

#16) The unbelievable amount of plastic that Americans dump into the Pacific Ocean is having catastrophic effects.

#17) Even more evidence has emerged that shows that Americans are drugged out of their minds.

#18) While our troops are off overseas hunting down people in caves, the U.S. government is allowing full-blown Islamic terror training camps to operate freely inside the United States.

#19) The infidelity of Tiger Woods has made headlines around the world, but the truth is that most American men should clean the skeletons out of their own closets before they throw rocks at Tiger.

#20) Lastly, a Christian preacher was arrested some time ago when his toe inadvertently brushed the grass of a public school lawn.

Another Sign Of The Moral Decline Of America: A New Video Game That Contains A Gay Sex Scene

noreply@blogger.com (Shattered Paradigm) — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 03:01:00 +0000

Here is yet another sign of the rapid moral decline of America. One of the hottest new video games of the year has a gay sex scene in it. A video of this scene is posted below, but please do not let anyone under 18 watch it.....

Church In Seattle Has People Get Tatoos On Stage During The Service

noreply@blogger.com (Shattered Paradigm) — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:32:00 +0000

One "cutting edge" evangelical church in the Seattle area just held a meeting during which people got tatoos in front of the church during the service.

That's right - people getting tatoos up on stage while the service was going on.

Reportedly the church teaches that tatoos are "amoral" - neither right nor wrong.

This is what is going to happen in the last days. People are not going to read the Scriptures and corrupt preachers are going to lead people down paths that they should not go.

The Scriptures are very clear about how God feels about tatoos. In Leviticus 19:28, God told His people exactly how He feels about them:

Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the LORD.

So has God changed his mind now that we live in "New Testament" times?

No.

God does not change. In fact, God is very clear about his unchanging nature in Malachi 3:6:

For I am the LORD, I do not change

So what they are doing in that Seattle church is in direct contradiction to God's commandments.

But that is what happens when people surround themselves with teachers who tell them what they want to hear.

To read more about what the Bible has to say about tatoos, we encourage you to check out the recent article we posted about this topic on our new website.....

What Does The Bible Say About Tatoos?

Former American Idol Contestant Adam Lambert Shocks The American Music Awards Audience

noreply@blogger.com (Shattered Paradigm) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:11:00 +0000

The latest signs of moral decline in America and around the world.....

*Former American Idol contestant Adam Lambert completely shocked the American Music Awards audience by shoving the faces of members of his dance team into his crotch, leading others around on dog leashes and delivering a passionate on-stage kiss to his male keyboard player.

*The United Nations Population Fund has released its annual State of the World Population Report which declares that the population growth of the world must be reduced in order to combat climate change.

*In the U.K., the study of Darwinian evolution will now become a compulsory subject in all state primary schools.

*Atheist student groups are exploding in size on U.S. college campuses.

*A Russian priest that had been highly critical of Islam has been assassinated inside his own church.

*Two masked members of the al-Shabaab Muslim militia shot and killed a Christian pastor in Somalia as he drove home from a worship service.

*Hundreds of Muslim villagers in southern Egypt recently burned and looted scores of Christian-owned shops.

*The U.K. government is being forced by the European Commission to eliminate exemptions that allow churches to refuse to employ homosexual staff.

*Deep in the heartland of the United States, authorities are encountering a rising trend of human trafficking - often involving women and children who are forced to work as prostitutes or as unpaid labor.

*Is Al Gore now actually encouraging "civil disobedience" against "fossil-fuel polluters"?

*A very sick police officer in Arkansas used a Taser stun gun to subdue a 10 year old girl in her own home because she refused to take a shower.

*A play depicting Jesus as a gay man was performed in front of a packed house in a California church while a handful of protesters outside called it blasphemous.

*Finally, it is being reported that one father in Minnesota spoke only Klingon (a fictional language from Star Trek) to his son for the first three years of his child's life.

Barack Obama Calls Islam A Great Religion

noreply@blogger.com (Shattered Paradigm) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:26:00 +0000

In the video posted below, you will see Barack Obama call Islam a "great religion" during an Islamic religious ceremony inside the White House. What in the world is becoming of the United States? But Barack Obama is not the first president to promote this kind of insanity. In the video by Jesse Woodrow below, it is also pointed out that George W. Bush also hosted Islamic religious ceremonies inside the White House and also praised the Islamic religion. Why aren't more Christians speaking out against this blatant push towards a one world religion?.....

At One High School In Chicago 115 Girls Are Either Pregnant Or Already Have A Baby

noreply@blogger.com (Shattered Paradigm) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:36:00 +0000

In a sign of just how bad the moral decline in America has gotten, 115 girls at one high school in Chicago either already have a baby or are pregnant. Yes, you read that correctly. 115 high school girls at one Chicago high school are pregnant right now or have already had a baby. As jaded as I have become from reading about America's moral collapse, I have to admit that even I was totally stunned by that news story.

How in the world do 115 girls at one high school get pregnant?

I remember the days when one or two pregnant girls at a high school would be a major scandal.

Not that the majority of the blame should be focused on these poor young girls or even the young boys who impregnated them.

Rather, a lot of the blame needs to go to those of us who are older.

We are getting what we deserve as a society.

When we teach our kids that they evolved from animals it is only a matter of time before they start acting like them.

When we quit teaching our kids the morality found in the Bible and instead tell them that morality is "wearing a condom" we should not be shocked when there is an explosion in teen pregnancy.

When we force kids to sit through "sex education" without giving them any moral instruction why should we be surprised when things like this happen?

The truth is that this is what the United States has become. A land where sin of almost every variety that you could possibly name is absolutely exploding.

There is only one solution - we must turn back to God. But Americans are becoming increasingly angry when you try to tell them that simple bit of truth.

In the meanwhile, American society is literally collapsing all around us as the moral decline accelerates.

Swine Flu Vaccine Has Been Made Mandatory For Millions Of Americans

noreply@blogger.com (Shattered Paradigm) — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:45:00 +0000

Although Barack Obama has come out and announced that the U.S. government is not going to make the swine flu vaccine mandatory for all citizens (at least not yet), the truth is that schools, employers and the military are making swine flu vaccinations mandatory for millions of Americans, and a lot of people are getting really mad about being forced to take an untested, potentially unsafe vaccine against their will.

You see, instead of imposing the swine flu vaccine on everyone from the national level (which would spark mass outrage and protests), the U.S. government and world health authorities are putting pressure on employers and schools to make it mandatory on a local level. The following are just a few examples of this phenomenon.....

*If you are in the U.S. military you already probably know this, but it will be mandatory for all active duty members of the U.S. military to take the H1N1 swine flu vaccine. According to the DoD's own press release, the mandatory swine flu vaccination program will start around early October, and the swine flu vaccine will also be made available to all military family members who desire to get it, but fortunately it will not be made mandatory for them at this point.

*A new regulation took effect on August 13th that will require every single hospital and health care facility in the state of New York to provide evidence that all of their workers have taken the swine flu vaccine. Penalties for institutions that violate this new regulation include fines of up to two thousand dollars for the first offense and fines of up to five thousand dollars for subsequent offenses.

*The Hospital Corporation of America, also known as HCA, has announced that it is requiring approximately 120,000 employees in 163 hospitals, 112 outpatient clinics and other facilities in 20 states to take the seasonal flu vaccine, and is postponing a decision about whether or not to require the H1N1 swine flu vaccine until they receive more information about its availability.

*The chief of the Parkersburg, West Virginia fire department is very clear about plans to have all firefighters there required to take the H1N1 swine flu vaccine: "I'm looking into ways I can make it mandatory for them to receive the H1N1 vaccine."

*Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center has announced that they will require all faculty, staff, students, post-doctoral trainees and volunteers at the hospital to take the H1N1 swine flu vaccine.

There are also a large number of people out there saying that their employers or schools are considering making the swine flu vaccine mandatory, but they have not made an official decision yet.

If you do have such a report, please let us know. We would like to publicize these serious violations of our rights as much as possible.

If you are being forced to take a swine flu vaccine to keep your job, now is the time to contact a lawyer. Normally we are not an advocate of being litigious, but the swine flu vaccine is a life and death matter, and so if you have been backed into a corner, now is the time to use an attorney.

If you just buckle under and take the swine flu vaccine and you end up seriously ill or permanently disabled (or worse), nobody is going to help you then and nobody is going to pay for it. It will be your responsibility alone.

Do not make your decision about the swine flu vaccine lightly. Do some research and listen to all sides and decide for yourself what you should do. The health of your family may depend on it.

Another Sign Of America's Serious Moral Decline: A Man Gets Charged With Improperly Abusing A Horse - Again

noreply@blogger.com (Shattered Paradigm) — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 15:00:00 +0000

We have posted the video below as just another sign that the morality of America is completely collapsing.

The reality is that just about any sin that you could possibly name is exploding around the nation?

Why?

Because we have rejected God and we have rejected His commandments.

So this is what happens - we get men who feel a compulsion to have relations with animals.....

If you are caught in this or another type of serious sin, then we would encourage you to visit our new site called "Why God?" that will explain to you why God really exists and how you can know Him in a personal way and get delivered from your sin.

Is America Cursed?

noreply@blogger.com (Shattered Paradigm) — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:31:00 +0000

Is America cursed? Over the past few years, America has seen record setting fires, floods, tornadoes and earthquakes. But 2009 has seen things go to an entirely new level, with plagues, infestations, droughts, natural disasters and economic problems hitting the U.S. all at once.

Just consider the following examples.....

*Is America cursed? According to shocking new estimates from the CDC, hundreds of thousands of Americans could die from the H1N1 flu over the next two years.

*Is America cursed? The state of California is in such a financial mess that they are actually considering releasing tens of thousands of convicted criminals back on to the streets just to save money.

*Is America cursed? The emerald ash borer from China and the mountain pine beetle are eating America's forests at a rate that is absolutely mind blowing.

*Is America cursed? Organic Health has posted an article describing how the FDA specifically allows rat excrement, maggots and insect heads to be put into our food.

*Is America cursed? According to one new report, the U.S. government's maximum financial exposure for the Wall Street bailout could total nearly 24 trillion dollars.

*Is America cursed? The Truth has posted an article about how the U.S. government is spending 2.6 million dollars to train China's prostitutes how to drink responsibly.

*Is America cursed? Record breaking heat and drought continues to plague the state of Texas.

*Is America cursed? The Last Days has posted a story that points out that all of the newest poll numbers reveal that Christianity is in a state of massive decline in America.

*Is America cursed? The Emergency Food Supply is reporting that a disease known as "late blight" is absolutely devastating tomato and potato plants in the eastern half of the United States.

*Is America cursed? The very weak wheat harvest this year is disappointing farmers across the state of Illinois.

So is America cursed?

You tell me.

10 Signs That America Is In Trouble

noreply@blogger.com (Shattered Paradigm) — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:27:00 +0000

With each passing day, it becomes more apparent than ever that the America of our fathers and our grandfathers is gone forever. Dramatic signs of moral decline leap from the headlines on a daily basis now, and all of these signs lead to one inescapable conclusion: America is in trouble.

The following are 11 signs that America is falling apart right in front of our eyes.

1) The Holocaust Museum shooting is just the latest in a series of hate-inspired violent crimes that have made national news lately. It has now come out that Holocaust Museum shooter James Von Brunn admired Charles Darwin and hated Christians and the Bible. The truth is that hatred for Jews and Christians is reaching dangerous levels, and it is getting to the point where churches and synagogues are almost forced to start hiring security guards.

2) Speaking of intense hate, the Huffington Post has published a deeply disturbing article that calls evangelical Christianity the number one source of domestic terrorism in the United States and that calls on the Secret Service and the FBI to investigate and "infiltrate" pro-life and evangelical Christian groups.

3) But the Huffington Post is not alone. A CBS News writer is actually asking this question: "Isn't it time we started rounding up promoters of hate before they kill?" Does that sound creepy or what? I don't know about you, but when CBS News journalists talk about "rounding up" certain groups, it makes me look over my shoulder to see if the Nazi "brown shirts" are on the way.

4) In a huge defeat for pro-life forces, the U.S. House of Representatives has voted to create a new "Office for Global Women's Issues" which many believe will be used to promote abortion around the globe. Apparently killing millions of babies in the United States is not enough for the U.S. government. Now they feel the need to export our murderous ways to the rest of the world.

5) Speaking of government agencies, NASA is making a special effort to celebrate Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender "Pride" Month. They can't seem to get back to the Moon, but at least they can be politically correct.

6) Does all of these moral issues have anything to do with the fact that our cities are falling apart? Literally dozens of cities across the U.S. may have entire neighbourhoods bulldozed as part of a new "shrink to survive" proposal being considered by the Obama administration. But don't worry - America is not in decline.....

7) Perhaps if the corporations were not so greedy, working people would have enough money to get by. Did you ever wonder how much it costs those big drug companies for the active ingredient in prescription medications? After reading this, you might get really, really, really angry.

8) So is there hope that the next generation will turn things around? Things don't look optimistic. They seem to be determined to copy our depravity. A "prom" held recently at Boston City Hall that was open to children apparently as young as twelve years old was described as a "prom from sexual hell". It reportedly featured crossdressers, homosexual heavy petting, suspected drug use and a leather-clad doorman who teaches sexual bondage classes.

9) But at least those who promote morality can spread their message, right? Wrong. One U.S. Appeals Court is forcing yet another courthouse to take down the Ten Commandments. Apparently the U.S. "justice system" feels that the Ten Commandments are bad and that we have to protect our people from seeing them. When are people going to understand that the Covenant is the solution and not the problem?

10) Lastly, even when the government tries to do something right these days they end up looking incredibly stupid. You know things are getting really bizarre out there when someone has to start asking this question: Is taxing cow flatulence the right way to prevent global warming?

American Evil

noreply@blogger.com (Shattered Paradigm) — Sun, 17 May 2009 19:25:00 +0000

Most Americans like to believe that the United States is "the good guy" and that America is a good and moral nation. But is that the truth? Or is America plagued by an evil and wickedness that is so deep and so pervasive that most of us would rather live in denial rather than face the true horror?

The following is a list of 16 reasons why the United States of America is unspeakably evil.....

#1) America is completely addicted to pornography:

The United States is the world's biggest producer of pornography, and Americans are more addicted to it than ever before.

Did you know that....

*89% of all porn is created in the United States?

*$2.84 billion in revenue was generated from U.S. porn sites in 2006?

*89 dollars is spent on porn every single second of the day?

*260 new porn sites go online every single day?

*Porn revenue is larger than all of the combined revenues of all professional football, baseball and basketball franchises?

*25% of total search engine requests are porn related?

*More than 70% of men from 18 to 34 visit a pornographic site in a typical month?

In fact, a recent survey revealed that Americans are so enslaved to pornography that 25 percent of American employees who have Internet access visit porn websites while they are at work.

#2) America has slaughtered over 40 million babies through abortion:

Since 1973, well over 40 MILLION innocent babies have been chopped up and slaughtered in American abortion mills.

American "doctors" have dissected them, burned them alive, sucked their brains out and yet the American people seem to care less about this issue than ever.

How far down the toilet has America gone as a society when America kills about a million babies a year, and nobody even gets upset about it anymore?

#3) Scientists are now creating abominations of nature including fluorescent cats, spider goats and human/pig hybrids:

Thanks to advances in genetic modification, bizarre cross-species beasts are not just found in science fiction novels any longer. Now fluorescent cats, spider goats, human/pig hybrids and other incredibly weird creatures have actually been created by our scientists.....

http://thefinalhour.blogspot.com/2009/03/fluorescent-cats-spider-goats-and.html

#4) America is now tolerating gay marriage:

Maine has become the 5th state to legalize gay marriage. Several other states are also now considering making it legal.

Recent polls have revealed a rising trend of support for gay marriage in America. Now almost half of all Americans are in favor of gay marriage, and among young adults recent polls indicate that there is overwhelming support for gay marriage.

It now seems that those who speak out for morality are those that will be persecuted in America:

-A Methodist retreat center recently refused to allow two lesbian couples to use a campground pavilion for a civil union ceremony. The state of New Jersey punished the Methodists by revoking the center's tax-exempt status—a vindictive attack on the Methodists' religious liberty.

-In Massachusetts, where judges imposed gay marriage a few years ago, Catholic Charities was ordered to accept homosexual couples as candidates for adoption. Rather than comply with an order that would be harmful to children, Catholic Charities closed down its adoption program.

-California public schools have been told they must become "gay friendly". That includes a curriculum that teaches children that homosexuality is a valid lifestyle.

-Even speaking out against homosexuality can get you fired. Crystal Dixon, an associate vice president at the University of Toledo, was fired after writing an opinion piece in the Toledo Free Press in support of traditional marriage.....fired for exercising her First Amendment rights!

#5) America has totally accepted the theory of Darwinian "evolution" even though the actual science clearly shows that there was a Creator:

America is supposedly "one nation under God", but the truth is that the United States has done everything that they can to push God out of the classrooms. This is especially true in the science classrooms of America, where Darwinism is taught as absolute truth without any room for debate no matter what science might actually say.

The truth is that the science tells a whole different story than what our children are learning in the classroom, but the government of the United States has made it certain that they will never hear the truth in any public school.

To learn more about the shocking truth about this issue, check this out.....

http://whygodreallyexists.com/archives/the-creationevolution-debate

#6) America brutally tortures the helpless prisoners it captures:

The torture techniques that "good" America uses on prisoners include hooding, stripping detainees naked, subjecting them to extreme heat, cold, noise and light, and depriving them of sleep for up to 11 days.

This torture by American authorities often expands into more vicious forms of extreme torture such as vicious beatings, sexual degradation, sodomy, near drowning, and near asphyxiation.

Both Republicans and Democrats, Christians and non-Christians approve of this sadistic torture of helpless prisoners.....

http://signsofthelastdays.com/archives/american-christians-approve-of-torture

#7) America is fighting wars with immoral depleted uranium weapons:

Did you know that America is using nuclear waste to fight all of these wars?

This is what happens to babies whose mothers are exposed to depleted uranium.....

http://shatteredparadigm.blogspot.com/2008/07/when-we-use-nuclear-waste-du-weapons-to.html

If you don't know about the horrors of depleted uranium, than you need to find out about how the U.S. is using immoral weapons that are not only turning Iraq and Afghanistan into uninhabitable hellholes forever, but are also slowly nuking and killing our own troops.....

http://futurestorm.blogspot.com/2008/12/will-obama-stop-du-environmental-hell.html

#8) America's national debt is now over 10 TRILLION dollars:

Once upon a time, the United States was the biggest creditor in the world. But those days are long gone. Now America is the biggest debtor nation to ever exist on the earth.

America was once the richest nation in the world, but that was not nearly enough. Americans always had to have a bigger car, a bigger house and an endless supply of "stuff". So the government piled up debt, America's companies gorged on debt, and Americans made using credit cards into a national pastime.

Spending our own money wasn't even enough. We spent the money of our children, and of our grandchildren, and of their children, and now the national debt is well over 10 TRILLION dollars.....an amount that we will never be able to repay. And if you include the future liabilities that our government has committed us to such as future Social Security and Medicare payments, then the total is over 60 TRILLION dollars.

Now that many of our jobs have gone overseas, the price of gasoline is shooting through the roof, and people are losing their homes, do we find that Americans are learning their lesson?

No.

Instead we are squeezing everything we can out of our plastic. Total credit card debt in America has reached almost a trillion dollars, and it is increasing at a rate which is four times faster than earlier this decade.

Instead of showing restraint, Americans have jammed the accelerator to the floor.

Prices are increasing dramatically while wages are remaining flat or even decreasing. Jobs are being outsourced and factories are being closed at a staggering pace. Our largest banks and financial institutions are teetering on the brink of failure. Homes are being foreclosed at record rates. Personal bankruptcies recently hit an all-time high. And so what is the answer the politicians give us? Wasting even more money and getting us into even more debt.

The truth is that the United States is headed for a financial collapse of unprecedented magnitude.....

http://thetruthwins.com/archives/financial-collapse

#9) Child abuse, especially child sexual abuse, has become a national epidemic in America:

*It is estimated that there are over 60 million survivors of childhood sexual abuse in America today.

*Approximately 95% of all teenage prostitutes have been sexually abused.

*Of all American prisoners convicted of rape or sexual assault, two-thirds victimized children.

*Reported cases of child sexual abuse increased 322 percent from 1980 to 1990.

The truth is that tourists from the United States and Europe are a big part of the reason why human trafficking and child sex slavery is exploding around the world.....

http://futurestorm.blogspot.com/2009/05/human-trafficking-gone-mad-over-1.html

#10) Divorce is at record levels, and it is as common in the church as it is in the broader society:

*The percentage of the population that is divorced: 10% (up from 8% in 1990, and 6% in 1980).

*Only 63% of American children grow up with both biological parents - the lowest figure in the Western world.

*The percentage of married people who reach their 50th anniversaries in America: 5%

If we are so "advanced", then why can't we stay married?

#11) The greed of the United States of America is absolutely stunning:

*1 billion people in the world go to bed without food every night.

*Every 3.6 seconds someone starves to death and 3/4 are children under the age of 5.

*More than 2.8 billion people, close to half the world's population, live on less than the equivalent of $2 a day.

*More than 1.2 billion people, or about 20 per cent of the world population, live on less than the equivalent of $1 a day.

*More than 1 billion people do not have access to safe water.

*About one-third of all children under the age of five suffer from malnutrition.

*The top fifth (20 per cent) of the world's people who live in the highest income countries have access to 86 percent of world gross domestic product. The bottom fifth, in the poorest countries, has about one percent.

*The assets of the world's three richest men exceed the combined gross domestic products of the world's 48 poorest countries.

The truth is that the greed of the "advanced" nations is leading us to a food crisis of horrific proportions.....

http://disasterandemergencysurvival.com/archives/food-crisis

#12) Adultery and fornication are practically the national sports of America, and that has resulted in an explosion of STDs:

1 out of every four teen girls now has an STD and more than 25 percent of the residents of New York City now have herpes.....

http://themoralcollapseofamerica.blogspot.com/2008/07/1-out-of-every-4-teen-girls-have-std.html

#13) Murder is so common in the United States that it is a joke to the rest of the world:

The murder rate in the United States is among the highest of all developed countries, with rates in larger cities sometimes over 40 per 100,000 residents.

#14) False religions are exploding in America at a rate that is mind blowing:

False religion is spreading across America like a plague.

One big example of this is Oprah Winfrey's obsession with religion.

Imagine a religion where Jesus did not come to die on the cross, where there is no heaven, no hell, no sin, no salvation, no doctrine, where all spiritual paths in the world are equally valid and where "god" is in you and in everything else you see.

That is the religion of Oprah Winfrey.....

http://thefinalhour.blogspot.com/2009/01/oprah-winfrey-preparing-way-for-one.html

#15) The United States of America is leading the destruction of the environment of the world:

Most people do not realize that our reckless polluting has turned the Pacific Ocean into "the Great Pacific Garbage Patch" which is a "plastic soup" of trash, plastic, garbage and human waste an area about twice the size of the continental United States that stretches from Hawaii to Japan.....

http://futurestorm.blogspot.com/2009/01/pacific-ocean-is-now-great-pacific.html

#16) Meanwhile, more Americans than ever before have rejected Christianity, and even those who still practice Christianity don't even understand the basics of the Christian faith anymore:

A series of stunning new surveys has revealed that Americans are rapidly leaving the churches of America and are rejecting Christianity. These same surveys also show that even those who still call themselves "Christian" are rejecting traditional Christian beliefs.....

http://thefinalhour.blogspot.com/2009/05/is-evangelical-christianity-failing.html

So is there anything that can be done about all of this wickedness?

Well, sometimes when things get the darkest it allows light to shine the brightest.

Prophet Tom Deckard is warning that the judgment of God IS coming to America, but also that God will be working powerfully in the middle of that.

Prophet Tom Deckard is the controversial prophet who has been stunning the Christian community in the United States with the truly amazing miracles that he has been performing, and he has a prophetic track record that is 100 percent accurate that stretches back over 30 years.

Prophet Deckard has prophesied to presidents, prime ministers, and leaders all over the globe.

These are just a few of the major events that Prophet Deckard has prophesied that have come to pass.....

*He prophesied 9/11 two years in advance.

*He prophesied the end of the Cold War a year before it happened.

*He prophesied the coming of the AIDS epidemic two years before it hit.

*He prophesied both Iraq Wars two years before the first one even began.

*He prophesied the fall of the Berlin Wall in advance.

*He prophesied the Indonesian Tsunami and told the people living there to move from the coast while they could.

*He prophesied the economic collapse of the United States many years in advance and most people laughed and said that it could never happen. They aren't laughing anymore.

Not only that, but God confirms the message that Prophet Deckard speaks by the signs, wonders and miracles that God works through him.

The Lord God heals the blind, the deaf, the lame and those with terminal cancer through Tom Deckard. Children with autism are completely healed and restored to full health. In one crusade in Africa alone, hundreds of people were healed from AIDS and went back to the doctor and were medically certified as having been healed. He has even seen three people raised from the dead during the course of his ministry.

Come and see.

Prophet Deckard will be in Raleigh, North Carolina on June 6th and 7th. You can get full details here:

http://www.jewishprophet.com/Itinerary.htm

Come and be a part of the greatest move of God of this generation.

God is getting ready to do something so big that it will shock the world.

God has commissioned Prophet Deckard to gather the ten lost tribes of Israel (Ephraim) and to take them home to the land of Israel.

After the reign of King Solomon, the land of Israel was divided into two kingdoms - the northern kingdom (also known in the Scriptures as Ephraim) and the southern kingdom (also known in the Scriptures as Judah). Those two kingdoms existed side by side for several hundred years.

However, the northern kingdom (Ephraim) turned away from the Lord God and he allowed them to be invaded. Over 700 years before Jesus was born, the Assyrian empire invaded the northern kingdom and carried away the people into exile.

The northern kingdom has not been heard from since.

The southern kingdom (Judah) was later invaded by Babylon and also taken into exile, but later they were allowed to return to their land. The Jews (Judah) lived in the land of Israel until 70 A.D. when the Romans destroyed the Temple and scattered the Jews to the four winds.

There was no nation of Israel from 70 A.D. until 1948 when the modern nation of Israel was established and millions of Jews (Judah) starting returning to the land of their ancestors.

But what about the northern kingdom?

What ever happened to the ten lost tribes of Israel?

Did you know that the Scriptures very clearly teach that in the last days the southern kingdom (Judah) and the northern kingdom (Ephraim) will be reunited in the land of Israel once again?

Ezekiel 37:15-23

The word of the LORD came to me: "Son of man, take a stick of wood and write on it, 'Belonging to Judah and the Israelites associated with him.' Then take another stick of wood, and write on it, 'Ephraim's stick, belonging to Joseph and all the house of Israel associated with him.' Join them together into one stick so that they will become one in your hand. "When your countrymen ask you, 'Won't you tell us what you mean by this?' say to them, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am going to take the stick of Joseph—which is in Ephraim's hand—and of the Israelite tribes associated with him, and join it to Judah's stick, making them a single stick of wood, and they will become one in my hand.' Hold before their eyes the sticks you have written on and say to them, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will take the Israelites out of the nations where they have gone. I will gather them from all around and bring them back into their own land. I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. There will be one king over all of them and they will never again be two nations or be divided into two kingdoms. They will no longer defile themselves with their idols and vile images or with any of their offenses, for I will save them from all their sinful backsliding, and I will cleanse them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.

So has this happened yet?

Of course not.

So that means that this prophecy is still yet to be fulfilled.

Either it will happen or God is a liar - and we know that God is not a liar.

Ephraim and Judah will be reunited once again.

Could it be possible that God is calling you to be part of this movement?

Could it be possible that you are part of the ten lost tribes of Israel?

Watch the following video with an open heart. If you get a hold of this it will radically change your life.....

You always knew there was more, didn't you?

You always knew that the power of God was still real today, didn't you?

Come and see.

Drive, fly, take a train, run, catch a ride with a friend.....do whatever you have to do to get there to Raleigh on June 6th and 7th. If God is tugging on your heart as you read this, then make sure that you get there. It's a free conference. God is moving and you don't want to miss this.....

http://www.jewishprophet.com/Itinerary.htm

Do you want to see the real power of God?

Do you want to hear about what is going to happen to America from a proven prophet with a 100 percent track record?

Do you want to hear about how the Lord God is actually gathering the ten lost tribes of Israel?

Come and see my friend.

Come and see.

Moral Government?

noreply@blogger.com (Shattered Paradigm) — Sun, 10 May 2009 21:23:00 +0000

Those of us who live in western countries have traditionally preferred to think that our governments are the most moral in the world.

After all, our governments are supposed to be "the good guys", right?

But do we really have moral governments?

Before you answer, you might want to consider a few of these recent stories.....

An MP who was involved in last month's G20 protests in London claims that he has evidence that the police used undercover agent provocateurs to throw bottles at the police and that these undercover policemen were encouraging others to do the same. Apparently the goal was to spark a riot so that the police could have an excuse to physically attack the protesters. This tactic is now used by authorities almost whenever there is a large protest at any major political event.

The Los Angeles Times is reporting that more than 25 terror suspects held by the CIA were subjected to sleep deprivation for as long as 11 days at a time during the Bush administration. Imagine if you had to go through that.

The new U.S. hate crimes law leaves Christian ministers open to prosecution should their teachings be linked in any way to any subsequent offense, by anyone, against someone who is gay.

A newly revealed secret report reveals that the Nazis planned a "fourth Reich" which would be an "economic empire" instead of a military one. Many ex-Nazis in fact were instrumental in the rebuilding of West Germany and in the creation of the European Economic Community which eventually become the European Union.

A lesbian "minister" was invited to guest lecture for math and science classes at a California school where she shared her views on homosexuality, including a discussion of her lesbian wedding.

The California State Senate Education Committee has passed a bill mandating that the state's public school children will take one day every year to celebrate the "achievements" of homosexual activist Harvey Milk.

In a stunning waste of money, the U.S. government is spending $400,000 to study gay sexual behavior in Argentina bars.

The U.S. government has brutally tortured terror suspects for years and years, but everyone involved is going to get away with it, and the majority of American Christians approve of it.

So, after reading those stories, can you still say that the governments of the western world are morally superior?

Perhaps we need to clean up our own house before we throw stones at others.