As I began reading this article I thought to compare the Left's ANTI-Christian acts against any and all things related to Jesus Christ - in particular the recent massive move to remove the poster that Pastor Greg Laurie had to promote the Harvest Ministry gathering in Anaheim CA at Angels Stadium. The bill Board had an enlargement of the poster and on it was a picture of Greg Laurie holding a Bible in his right hand in the air. In the picture it was just a Black book - no words on it or anything to identify it as a Bible but the Anti-Christians KNEW it was a bible and demanded that the billboard come down.... and in the end they won their demands. What is so hilarious though is that in their demands to remove it they brought massive publicity to the poster and the Bible.
The BIBLE is the Word of God in print and the Anti-Christians fight tooth and nail to keep it out of anyones hands or hearts. The Roman church fought hard against the Gutenburg printing press- especially after the Latin version was translated to English for all to read and understand. No longer could the Roman church control what scripture really said. That is a big part of why the Martin Luther nailing of the proclamation on the church door was about.
What is it that Satan fights so hard against??? It is the WORD of GOD. Satan does all he can to *rephrase* God's Word to deceive the people. Go right back to the Garden and how he *questioned* what God had said to Adam and Eve... bringing DOUBT into the mind of Eve and thus we are now born in Sin and until we learn what God's Word is really about we shall die in Sin - spending eternity in the Lake of Fire. It also goes along with the many denominations opening their pulpits to the God called ABOMINATIONS - Sodomite, Lesbians, and the totally Confused. Not to mention those Mega Churches that preach a *prosperity* gospel as if one can BUY their way into Heaven.
The LEFT is always on the side of LIES and DECEPTION - they preach it and they live it and they do all they can to FORCE those lies onto the rest of us. We, if we are Born Again Christians - must rebuke the liars and tell them as Jesus told Satan - IT IS WRITTEN and then quote the Written Word to the unbelievers.
If we don't stand against the liars then we are part of them - there is no fence straddling when it comes to 'WHOSE YOU ARE'.
Jackie Juntti
WGEN idzrus@earthlink.net
BIBLE = Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth --- Greg Laurie
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H/T to Alice for the following item:
In studying communism for around the last 40 plus years, it's obvious, right off the bat, that in all communist systems, it's the state that sits in the place of God. This is why most communist countries, if not all, attack Christianity and basically outlaw it. I really thought this article boiled it down very accurately. In communist systems, it's man's desire to be god, and their refusal to acknowledge that man is sinful. In Christianity, we acknowledge that the heart of man is sinful. From the article, below:
"Judaism and Christianity hold that utopia on Earth is impossible it will only come in God̢۪s good time as a Messianic age or in the afterlife. Leftism holds that utopia is to be created here on Earth and as soon as possible. That is why leftists find America so contemptible. "
"Judaism and Christianity believe God and the Bible are to instruct us on how to live a good life and how the heart is the last place to look for moral guidance. Leftists have contempt for anyone who is guided by the Bible and its God, and substitute the heart and feelings for divine instruction."
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Leftism as a Secular Religion
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"Leftists have contempt for anyone who is guided by the Bible and its God, and substitute the heart and feelings for divine instruction," writes Dennis Prager. (Photo: ~Userc0373230_9/Getty Images)
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Dennis Prager @DennisPrager
Dennis Prager is a columnist for The Daily Signal, nationally syndicated radio host, and creator of PragerU.
One of the most important books of the 20th centuryit remains a best-seller 59 years after it was first publishedis “Man’s Search for Meaning” by Viktor Frankl.
Marx saw man’s primary drive as economic, and Freud saw it as sex. But Frankl believed correctly, in my opinion that the greatest drive of man is meaning.
One can be poor and chaste and still be happy. But one cannot be bereft of meaning and be happy no matter how rich or how sexually fulfilled one may be.
The greatest provider of meaning for the vast majority of human beings has been religion. In the West, Christianity (and on a smaller scale, Judaism) provided nearly all people with the Bible, a divine or divinely inspired text to guide their lives; a religious community; answers to life’s fundamental questions; and, above all, meaning: A good God governs the universe; death does not end everything; and human beings were purposefully created.
In addition, Christianity gave Christians a project: Spread the Good News, and bring the world to Christ. And Judaism gave Jews a project: Live by God’s laws of ethics and holiness and be “a light unto the nations.”
All this has disappeared for most Westerners. The Bible is regarded as myth, silly at best, malicious at worst there is no God, certainly not the morality-giving and judging God of the Bible; there is no afterlife; human beings are a purposeless coincidence with no more intrinsic purpose than anything else in the universe. In short: This is all there is.
So, if the need for meaning is the greatest of all human needs and that which supplied meaning no longer does, what are millions of Westerners supposed to do?
The answer is obvious: Find meaning elsewhere. But where? Church won’t provide it. Nor will marriage and family increasingly, secular individuals in the West eschew marriage, and even more do not have children. It turns out, to the surprise of many, that marriage and children are religious values, not human instincts.
In the West today, love and marriage (and children) go together like a horse and a carriage for faithful Catholics, Orthodox Jews, religious Mormons, and evangelical Protestantsnot for the secular. I know many religious families with more than four children; I do not know one secular family with more than four children (and the odds are you don’t either).
The answer to the great dearth of meaning left by the death of biblical religion in the West is secular religion. The first two great secular substitutes were communism and Nazism. The first provided hundreds of millions of people with meaning; the latter provided most Germans and Austrians with meaning.
In particular, both ideologies provided the intellectual class with meaning. No groups believed in communism and Nazism more than intellectuals. Like everyone else, secular intellectuals need meaning, and when this need was combined with intellectuals’ love of ideas (especially new ideas”new” is almost erotic in the power of its appeal to secular intellectuals), communism and Nazism became potent ideologies.
With the fall of communism and the awareness of the extent of the communist mass murder (about 100 million noncombatants) and mass enslavement (virtually all individuals in communist countries except for Communist Party leaders are essentially enslaved), communism, or at least the word “communism,” fell into disrepute.
So, what were secular intellectuals to do once communism became “the god that failed”?
The answer was to create another left-wing secular religion. And that is what leftism is: a secular meaning-giver to supplant Christianity. Left-wing religious expressions include Marxism, communism, socialism, feminism, and environmentalism.
Leftism’s guiding principles not withstanding the principles of those Christians and Jews who claim to be religious yet hold leftist views are the antitheses of Judaism and Christianity’s guiding principles.
Judaism and Christianity hold that people are not basically good. Leftism holds that people are basically good. Therefore, Judaism and Christianity believe evil comes from human nature, and leftism believes evil comes from capitalism, religion, the nation-state (i.e. nationalism), corporations, the patriarchy, and virtually every other traditional value.
Judaism and Christianity hold that utopia on Earth is impossible it will only come in God’s good time as a Messianic age or in the afterlife. Leftism holds that utopia is to be created here on Earth and as soon as possible. That is why leftists find America so contemptible. They do not compare it to other nations, but to a utopian ideal society with no inequality, no racism, no differences between the sexes (indeed, no sexes), and no greed in which everything important is obtained free.
Judaism and Christianity believe God and the Bible are to instruct us on how to live a good life and how the heart is the last place to look for moral guidance. Leftists have contempt for anyone who is guided by the Bible and its God, and substitute the heart and feelings for divine instruction.
There may be a clash of civilizations between the West and Islam, but the biggest clash of civilizations is between the West and the left.
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