October 2006
Halloween... what it's all about:
"Each year on October 31st, the Druids celebrated the eve of the Celtic’s New
Year in honor of their pagan god, Samhain....
When Constantine became emperor
of Rome, he made a law declaring Christianity... to be the official state religion.
Having been recently converted [which might be questionable]... Constantine
was zealous in his new-found faith and demanded as emperor that everyone
become a Christian or face the penalty of death. Well... the churches were
flooded with pagans.” See
Deliver us from evil
August 2006
Paganism gaining popularity in prison:
"Asatru has been gaining popularity among inmates, say religious leaders and
prison experts who believe its roots in Viking mythology attract prisoners seeking
power, protection and unity.... Asatru is often referred to as Odinism, although
some followers believe the two are separate religions. It is a polytheistic,
pre-Christian faith native to Scandinavia whose adherents worship gods including
Thor and Odin. It emphasizes a connection with one's ancestors and values honor,
loyalty, generosity and truth. An estimated 10,000 to 20,000 people in the United
States consider themselves Asatruars or Odinists, said Stephen McNallen, director
of the Asatru Folk Assembly, a leading Asatru group." See
Role-Playing Games & Popular Occultism
July 2006
Psychics & Their Free Tarot Readings:
"Psychic Network? You've seen the commercials on TV. These people are supposed
to have special psychic insight allowing them to know what NO ONE could know.
When the psychic gives her comments, the caller is absolutely amazed, right?
Well, now the New York city government has found a new line of work for people
on welfare: put them to work as telephone psychics.... A former employee with
Psychic Hotline... gives us an interesting behind-the-scenes look."
Deliver us from evil
May 2006
The Da Vinci Code: Blasphemy Hits
the Big Screen: "On page
309, Brown writes of his protagonist: 'Langdon's Jewish students always looked
flabbergasted when he first told them that the early Jewish tradition involved
ritualistic sex. In the Temple, no less."
[Yes, God's rebellious people did
perform pagan rituals in His holy temple during the reign of King Manasseh.
They copied the idolatry of their corrupt neighbors. That's one reason why our
sovereign Lord used Babylon's armies to destroy Judah, exile His people, and
tear down both Jerusalem and the desecrated temple.]
"Early
Jews believed that the Holy of Holies in Solomon's Temple housed not only God
but also His powerful female equal, Shekinah."
[This
abomination was part of a mystical form of Jewish occultism: the
Kabbalah. It clashed with everything
God had taught His people through Moses and the prophets.]
See
Idols and
unholy gods
March 2006
Satanic logo not hurting sales of
Swedish jeans: "A punk-rock
style, trendy tight fit and affordable price have made Cheap Monday jeans a
hot commodity among young Swedes, but what has people talking is the brand’s
ungodly logo: a skull with a cross turned upside down on its forehead. The jeans’
makers say it’s more of a joke, but the logo’s designer said there is a deeper
message. 'It is an active statement against Christianity,' Bjorn Atldax told
The Associated Press. 'I’m not a Satanist myself, but I have a great
dislike for organized religion.'”
See
Role-Playing Games and Popular
Occultism
Dialoguing Da Vinci: "...it’s
not really a quest for truth that will draw the mainstream to this movie but
rather the marketing of excitement, adventure, crisis and rebellion, resulting
in a greatly intensified polarity and outrage between Christians and the world,
until a call for peace and unity goes out from the pulpits of America and a
synthesized solution is offered by trained “Christian” facilitators waiting
in the wings to help dispel our divisive differences and unite the “brotherhood
of man.” Their solution? Dialogue.
"What I believe we are witnessing is the beginning of rather a large-scale exercise
in the Hegelian Dialectic, orchestrated by the-powers-that-be to ignite hostilities
between the religious and the secular for purposes of uniting them on the common
ground of a convoluted Christ through Diaprax. Already Sony Pictures has established
a website they call 'The Da Vinci Dialogue."
The next link illustrates this process: It's a call
for an adaptable form of Christianity that will blend Biblical promises with
animist traditions:
Madonna eyes Israel house to await
Messiah: "Madonna wants to buy a house in the Israeli town of Rosh
Pina, where the ancient Jewish Kabbalah tradition expects the Messiah to appear
at the end of the world.... Madonna wants to renovate the building into a centre
of study of mystical Jewish texts pored over by Kabbalah followers. The self-proclaimed
Material Girl, a keen aficionado of the ancient Jewish mystical tradition, last
visited Israel in September 2004. She turned to
Kabbalah in 1997 through the Los
Angeles-based Kabbalah Centre which proclaims to offer a path to spiritual enlightenment
through an eclectic mix of Orthodox Jewish tradition, visualisation and positive
thinking. Two years ago, she took the Hebrew name Esther."
Evidence of Children’s UFO and Extraterrestrial
Encounters to be Presented at a United Nations Affiliated Conference:
"After a decade of research as a professional counselor and clinical hypnotherapist,
Australia’s Mary Rodwell says that there is now enough evidence to conclude
that these 'beings' appear to come from other planets and other dimensions parallel
to our own.... The IIIHS [International Institute of Integral Human Sciences]
is a non-profit organization affiliated with the United Nations Department of
Public Information. It serves over 10,000 general members and students from
many nations towards the convergence of new sciences with spirituality and
universal human values, creating inter-religious and inter-cultural understanding
for world peace."
See
Aliens, Monsters and Creepy Creatures
Confronting the
'Code': "As a conservative evangelical leader, Josh McDowell is one of the
last people you’d expect to urge young Christians to see The Da Vinci Code,
the upcoming movie based on the phenomenally best-selling novel.... But
McDowell... not only urges a trip to the theater, but also advises everybody
to read the novel....
"'I don’t attack the book,' says McDowell, who is on the staff of Orlando-based
Campus Crusade for Christ. 'Let’s see where fact leaves off and imagination
begins. It’s a marvelous opportunity to be positive....
“It’s about engaging with people on their spiritual journey,” says Mark Gauthier,
Crusade’s national director for U.S. campus ministry....'This is the
world we live in. This is what
people are thinking about.'
”Through Grace Hill Media, a Hollywood firm headed by Jonathan Bock... those
who oppose the book’s thesis are being courted, consulted, cajoled and encouraged
to voice their criticism in ways that could blunt their opposition.... 'Bock’s
efforts here are that he is trying to advance a kind of dialogue between the
church and Hollywood generally and more specifically a dialogue about this film.'...
”McDowell can’t wait for May 19. 'I look at the book and the movie as a platform
for evangelism,' he says. 'A little controversy can be a marvelous tool.”
Such dialogue serves to blend
two opposite views into a new "common ground" that undermines any kind of certainty
or unchanging truth. By urging Christians to see a blasphemous film based on
the heretical Gnostic "gospels," McDowell, in effect, exposes them images and
suggestion that will twist the truth. Is McDowell willing to compromise Biblical
guidelines for the sake of unity -- and for publicity for his own book on the
'Code?' See
Movie Magic and
Unconscious Learning
December 2005
Mother says she killed daughter
to protect child from 'spirits': "A Eugene woman has told police
that she killed her 17-month-old daughter to protect the baby from spirits....Young
had practiced both Voodoo and Santeria.... Since moving to Eugene a year
ago, she had explored both Buddhism and Christianity."
See
The
fall and rise of human violence
October 2005
'Satanism flourishing in Russia'
No arrests in vandalism at Murmansk church
: "Satanism
is running rampant throughout Russia, according to a priest at a Murmansk
church defaced by vandals."
The Meaning of Hula:
"We have inherited a rich tradition of hula (dances) and mele oli (chants),
full of stories of gods and goddesses, ceremonies, prayers, protocol, imagery,
wisdom, and intelligence. ...It's a way of remembering and it's a very esoteric
... It was also a very sacred thing to do. So certain hulas were looked
at as being very sacred and you only do it at a certain time, for a certain
deity on certain moons, at certain ceremonies."
Darwinism & the Rise of Gnosticism
:
"...the British Royal Society, the Masonic institution responsible for the
promulgation of Darwinism, rigorously imposed a division between science
and theology upon the halls of scientific inquiry....
"It comes as little
surprise that Darwinism, which is premised upon metaphysical naturalism
and materialism, is so compatible with
Gnosticism.
Both emphasize the primacy of this material plane. Had such a metaphysical
doctrine remained confined to the realm of academic polemics, it may have
been harmless enough. However... the Gnostic myth of Darwinism eventually
migrated from the abstraction of speculative philosophy to other areas of
study. With this migration, Darwinism enjoyed epistemological primacy....
"Inevitably, the Gnostic myth of Darwinism guides its adherents to the same
conclusion… evolution requires man’s assistance.... Freemason and Darwinian
apologist T. H. Huxley wrote: 'Social progress means a checking of the cosmic
process at every step, and the substitution for it of another, which may
be called the ethical process; the end of which is not the survival of those
who happen to be the fittest... but of those who are ethically the best.'
"In actuality, Huxley was reiterating a central mandate of Masonic doctrine:
the alchemical transformation of man into a god. ...
"The Gnostic religions of Scientology and Transhumanism represent links
in an ideational chain, which finds its origins in ancient Mesopotamia.
They are philosophical and religious scions of the Mystery religion."
See
Darwin's Black
Box
and
Trapped in the
Matrix
June 2005
'Child sacrifices in London':
"Sita Kisanga, 35, was convicted at the Old Bailey of torturing an eight-year-old
girl from Angola she accused of being a witch. Kisanga was a member of the
Combat Spirituel church in Dalston. Many such churches, supported mainly
by people from West Africa, sanction aggressive forms of exorcism on those
thought to be possessed. There are believed to be 300 such churches in the
UK, mostly in London.
The report... uncovered allegations of witchcraft spells, child
trafficking and HIV-positive people who believe that by having sex with
a child they will be 'cleansed'. ...The scale of the problem emerged through
the murder inquiry following the discovery of a child's torso in the Thames
in September 2001... his background was traced to Nigeria. It is believed
he died in a ritual sacrifice. ...
"...children are being sold to traffickers on the streets of major
African cities for less than £10 and then smuggled into the UK. ... We undertook
a project aimed at improving our knowledge of issues impacting child abuse
within the African and Asian communities of London."
See
Establishing a Global
Spirituality
Another One Bites the Dust:
"Abortionist accused of cannibalism has license revoked only because of
public pressure.... Photographs obtained by pro-lifers revealed appalling
conditions that included blood-soaked carpeting in procedure rooms and improperly
sterilized surgical instruments, which were stored next to a blood- stained
open toilet where aborted baby parts were allegedly flushed. Clinic employees
told a Kansas City Police Detective that Rajanna had been seen mixing aborted
baby parts into his lunch."
Human Nature
Burning Man - Just One of the
Signs the Occult Is Sweeping the Globe:
"Across the sea in the UK, Brighton proudly wears the title these days of
'Capital of Occulture.' This year's Occulture festivities exhibited bigger
than ever venues - sacred music and dance, clarivoyance, psychic and tarot
readers, chakra, traditional witchcraft, tatooing, piercing, fetish satanism,
shamanism, transcendent techniques, and lectures favoring paganism from
the original Book of Shadows. And then there was the 'Pleasure Dome" where
magicians, sorcerers and witches discussed their trade, including Mogg Morgon,
founder of the Golden Dawn Occult Society, Ralph Harvey, a prominent Wiccan
High Priest, and Emrys, a Shaman of the Cromlech Covenant."
See
The Nature and Tactics of Satan
and
Loving evil more than good
May 2005
A Compelling Answer to Humanity’s
Biggest Question:
"The greatest danger facing the world today is our misunderstanding and
our misuse of God, says... author Neale Donald Walsch in his newest book,
What God Wants.... He addresses hot button issues, believing that change
and fulfillment can only really occur when we truly understand what God
wants from us. When that happens, he says, we will have radically different
ideas about life and other people, nations, and beliefs, and this will change
everything.... We will live in a way which unites us, not divides us, and
we will do away with Separation Theology forever.... We will understand
that God does not want anyone to suffer. Ever."
Walsh's twisted theology may
please human nature, but it turns God's actual truths upside down. Reject
these seductive, mainstream lies! Don't buy the book! Warn others.
See
Unequal Contenders in the Spiritual War,
Indigo Children and Conversations with 'God'
and
Occult: Conversations with a god
Been thinking about the Da Vinci
code? "The
Da Vinci Code is a conspiracy theory that leaves many readers wondering
whether everything they have believed about Christ and the Bible is wrong....
The ancient texts found at Nag Hammadi, however, were not 'lost books of
the Bible,' as Teabing claims. They were the writings of a mystery religion
known as
Gnosticism....
"But even
if The Da Vinci Code doesn't stand up under scrutiny, is it possible that
the Bible has been altered through thousands of years of countless copies
and versions? This is the kind of question that is best answered by those
who have applied the principles of science to manuscript evidence.... On
the basis of such research, scholars assure us that our Bible is a highly
reliable representation of the original manuscripts."
And the evidence is far more
vast and persuasive than this short article can prove. Therefore, read and
delight in it. See
God's eternal, unchanging Word
December 2004
School distributes satanic sex
calendar: "...a school police officer handed out calendars to
students that featured explicit details on satanic and sexual rituals for
every day of the month....
"'September 20th is a
'midnight host' whatever that is," said one unidentified parent reading
from the calendar. 'You should have a blood-type ritual. September 23rd
is the fall equinox – you should have an orgy. Activity group sex, any age,
any sex.'
"The father did not want
to be identified because he feared his daughter would be punished. 'They
shouldn't be teaching the kids, at 12 years of age, a calendar of satanism.
It's just not right,' he said.
"Pearland school officials
say some 25 students at the junior high received the calendars."
After decades
of pagan and occult games and classroom projects under the umbrella of multiculturalism,
occultism seems almost normal to many.
See
Establishing a Global
Spirituality &
Role-Playing Games &
Popular Occultism
November 2004
Charting the paganism of Galen
and Jung: "Jung's 'psychological' theories were 'constructed
deliberately, and somewhat deceptively.... to make his own magical, polytheist,
pagan world view more palatable to a secularized world conditioned to respect
only those ideas that seem to have a scientific flair to them.”
See
Carl Jung, Alchemy and
Neo-Gnosticism
August 2004
South African boy attacked for
body parts:
"A South African boy has died more than a week after assailants hacked off
his hand, ear and penis in a savage attack police suspect may be linked
to the 'muti' trade in body parts for witchcraft. Ten-year-old Sello Chokoe
was searching for stray livestock in hills near his home in the northern
Limpopo province when his attackers struck, hitting him over the head with
a blunt weapon, slashing off parts of his body and leaving him for dead....
"'Muti' murders,
to obtain body parts for supposedly potent traditional cures and spells,
happen on a regular basis in post-apartheid South Africa and often go unreported,
police say. Often killings are carried out to order to obtain specific body
parts required for particular spells."
Historical sorcery & witchcraft
June
2004
Satanic Ritual Blamed for Death
of Italian Teens: "An Italian magistrate warned against the growing
lure of Antichrist cults in Catholic Italy Monday after the discovery of
the bodies of two teenagers killed in a satanic sacrifice. Police announced
at the weekend they had uncovered the bodies of 19-year-old Chiara Marino
and 16-year-old Fabio Tollis, last seen in January 1998 leaving a pizzeria
with other members of their heavy metal rock band 'Beasts of Satan.'
"...witness statements showed Marino and Tollis died during
a cocaine-fueled ritual where Marino, a petite brunette, was killed under
a full moon by knife plunged into her heart. Tollis, the lead singer of
the band, was killed with a hammer blow to the head when he realized the
other band members were going ahead with Marino's murder and tried to stop
it....
"...descriptions of the black candles and goats' skulls decorating
Marino's bedroom and witness statements of sexual violence. ... As many
as 5,000 people are thought to be members of satanic cults in Italy with
17- to 25-year-olds making up three quarters of them."
And what about all those who delight in the occult without joining
specific cults?
See
Popular
Occultism
February
Norwegian
black metal band shocks Poland
(More bad news from my native
land): "Norwegian black
metal band Gorgoroth staged a special concert that made Janet Jackson's
breast-baring look like nursery school antics and left Catholic Poland outraged....
On stage there was blood everywhere. About ten decapitated sheep heads and
naked people, alive, on large crosses. Everyone was painted with 100 liters
of sheep blood. Also there were Satanist symbols everywhere."
See
comment on
Lord of the Rings.
Apparently, "the name Gorgoroth was inspired from a place in Tolkien's
stories."
January
A Dangerous Correlation
: "In the Stanford study,
sixty-two astronomers, or 5 percent, said they’d seen residual UFOs. But
here’s the interesting part: Astronomers with just a few observation hours
per year witnessed UFOs, while those logging more than a thousand hours
per year saw nothing.... Those who are deeply involved in cultic, occultic,
or certain New Age pursuits often see UFOs, whereas astronomers who avoid
those things do not.
"...these UFO encounters
'strike witnesses with intense fear, distress, and anxiety.' Others experience
nightmares, visions, hallucinations, and personality changes.”
See
Aliens, Monsters and Creepy
Creatures
August 2003
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Child cannibal killers of the
Congo: "The 15-year-old
boy bites into a packet of jelly babies as he tells me how he killed. First
there were the mothers, after he'd raped them. Then their babies. Four of
them. The eldest aged three.... Then he wanders off, having thanked me for
the sweets, to play marbles with the other killers....
"
It
is those armed kids who form the front line. They are the weapons of mass
destruction. Anisette Birindwa, the jelly-baby boy, is one among thousands.
In Africa, children kill children in huge numbers and have done so for years.
In return, they are sent forward first, their battles appallingly fierce
and bloody because children do not understand the consequences of their
actions. And they are brainwashed.
"Modern weapons, light, easy to use,
are child's play. Bang, bang - you're dead. Two kids standing little more
than an arm's length from each other, blowing themselves to pieces....
"He says he trained as
a nurse. But no ordinary nurse. He was taught magic remedies... He tells
me: 'One day, we captured two women, the wives of the Interahamwe, and the
commander told me to kill them. Six of us raped them. Then we stabbed them
to death with machetes. It was cheaper than bullets. They begged us to spare
them, but we laughed. We had orders. 'We cut out their hearts to take to
the commander. Their babies were aged three months, a boy; a one-year-old
girl; another boy, two; and the last aged three. We killed them and used
their bodies to make medicine. I BOILED their feet and arms to grind and
put in bottles. The potion has the power to stop bullets. I burned the meat
into ash which you sprinkle on your body to give extra strength. The heads
of the children and their mothers we gave to the commander. We ate the hearts,
kidneys and livers.'
"...Mashuruliko Mgoyi, also 13. She joined the militia when she was 10.
Then she was captured by the RCD, whose commander, Gere Kola, used her as
a wife. 'When he didn't use me, he put me in the front line. The first man
I killed was militia.... I had to cut off his head, make a fire and burn
the body and head separately."
(8/20/03)
That's the world of
the occult without
the softening influence of Christian values. Men become predators and women
are treated as slaves.
See
The fall and rise of human violence
But those moderating values of "Christian" cultures are now fading fast.
What will the world be like when occult thinking become the norm and Biblical
truth is forbidden?
Popular
Occultism
Voodoo embeds in U.S.:
"Voodoo, Santeria and other religions with African roots are drawing followers
in the United States among immigrants and black Americans interested in
their ancestry, their leaders say. But their practice can result in clashes
with neighbors and police over rituals such as animal sacrifices and drumming
— especially since they are conducted mostly at home, in residential neighborhoods....
"When voodoo practitioners held an annual ceremony honoring their ancestral
spirits at midnight, neighbors in a sedate section of Philadelphia called
police as drumming started."
Charts: Five Types of Religious
Expressions
Druid focuses Earth's energy
on road toll: "Druids
have been brought in to reduce the number of accidents on Austria's worst
stretch of autobahn. The Druids have put up huge roadside monoliths to restore
the natural flow of 'earth energy'. ....Gerald Knobloch, who describes himself
as an archdruid, used a divining rod to inspect the 275-metre stretch of
the A9 in Styria and restore 'earth energy lines'."
See
A Twist of Faith
May
2003
Reports of Cannibalism Resurface
in Congo: "... terrified
witnesses on Monday describing the mutilation and eating of the dead during
more than week of bloody tribal fighting.... Lendu tribal fighters killed
civilians and combatants, cutting open their chests and ripping out hearts,
livers and lungs, which they ate while they were still warm....
"'The sight of a corpse with
a missing liver and heart is horrific, especially when you know that those
parts were eaten by fellow human beings and that the same could happen to
you," said Acquitte Kisembo, a 28-year-old medical student....
"The attacks are often fueled by a mix of tribal hatreds and a desire to
spread terror in the region. There is also a belief among some that eating
one's foes is a source of power."
My Savior
Female skeletons dug up in China
to make 'ghost soup': "Women's skeletons
are being excavated from graves in a province in China to make 'ghost soup'....
Locals in the area believe 'ghost soup' - soup stock made from the bones
of women - cures a range of ailments, according to the newspaper."
This sounds strange, but
some of the superstitions that shape lifestyles in animist and shamanic
cultures are now reviving in America as well.
See
Folk Islam
April
2003
repeat
Archbishop in waiting becomes
druid: "The next Archbishop of Canterbury was inducted as an
honorary white druid yesterday at an open-air ceremony in Wales reminiscent
of a scene from a Monty Python sketch. Dr Rowan Williams, dismissing suggestions
that he was dabbling in paganism, joined blue-hooded druids ranked
behind a golden harp to be admitted into the Welsh Gorsedd of Bards. ...
Dr Williams, standing in a circle of stones, wore a long white cloak and
headdress. As he accepted the honour, he clutched the hands of Dr Robyn
Lewyes, the chief druid of Wales....
"Dr Williams... described the award as 'one of the greatest honours
that Wales can bestow on her citizens.' He added: 'The suggestion that the
Gorsedd is even remotely associated with paganism is deeply offensive.'"
Romans 1:22-32
Does
this new liberal head of the Anglican church understand the difference between
Christianity and paganism? See the next link:
repeat
Occult.
The British Druid Order:
"...teaches and practices Druidry as the ancient native spirituality of
Europe, re-kindling its sacred fire for the 21st century."
Voodoo recognised as official
religion in Haiti: "Voodoo
practitioners believe in a supreme God and spirits who link the human with
the divine. The spirits are summoned by offerings that include everything
from rum to chickens. Many books and films have depicted voodoo as black
magic based on animal and human sacrifices to summon zombies and evil spirits."
Chart: Five Types of Religious
Expressions
Folk Islam
?
Many citizens believe Saddam
has mystical powers:
"Saddam, the
story goes, had the stone made shortly after he came to power 24 years ago.
Its powers were first tested inside a chicken. One of his soldiers pulled
out a gun and shot a bullet at point-blank range. The chicken's feathers
fell off, but it lived. So the dictator implanted the stone in his upper
arm....
``Many average people here fear
Saddam,'' said Ayat Jabar, 28, an Iraqi soldier who deserted in the village
of Shuaiba. ``He doesn't even have to be here. They fear his ghost. Even
now people are probably thinking he's watching me while I talk to you.''
"'He has seven spirits. He doesn't die,' said Adnan Mohammad Yousef,
32.... 'It's well-known that Saddam's mother is a magician.'...
"Saad Abdel Rida, 19, has also heard about Saddam's stone.... Spirits from
the underworld talk to Saddam through the fortuneteller, informing him who's
planning to kill him, said Rida, a collge student."
Four Faces of Islam
March 2003
Congo cannibalism claim provides
first challenge: "The first case likely to be heard by the international
criminal court involves allegations of cannibalism. A UN investigation found
evidence that the Movement for the Liberation of Congo (MLC), which controls
much of the north of the country, had massacred and eaten civilians."
Deuteronomy 18:10-12
January
2003
Politician Caught Up in Vampire
Rumors: "...a member
of [Malawi's]
ruling United Democratic Front was the latest victim of a bizarre rumor
that the country's government is colluding with vampires to collect human
blood for international aid agencies."
See
African Witchcraft
and
Deliver us from evil
Astronomer links UFOs to occultism:
"Sightings are very real, but only in spiritual world.... For example, [says
Dr. Hugh Ross], countries with a high degree of occult activity such as
Russia during the Soviet era, France, and certain parts of Brazil also had
high percentages of UFO encounters. During Russia’s Soviet period when every
expression of religion except occult activity had been outlawed, he said,
'Russians were seeing UFOs at five to eight times the rate Americans were.'
....Dr. Ross said that residual UFO encounters are consistently malicious....
'The most common impact is people have very disturbing, recurring nightmares
that can lead to a deep psychosis.' Sometimes, he said, people become injured
in such encounters."
See
Aliens, Monsters and Creepy
Creatures
German Satanists 'ate babies':
"Babies have been killed, sliced up and eaten by a German Satanist group,
according to media reports yesterday, stirring fears that last month’s arrest
of a self-confessed cannibal was not an isolated incident."
Charts: Five Types of Religious
Expressions
December
200
2
Aid agencies' work in Malawi
hit by panic over 'vampires': "Vampire rumours are part of Malawi
superstition. The latest spate spread last week when The Nation newspaper
reported that villagers in southern Thyolo had waylaid three Catholic priests
whom they suspected of hunting for blood.... A 'blood hunter' was reported
to have sucked blood from a woman and hurt her son during an attack on their
home in a district of Blantyre."
See
African Witchcraft
and
Deliver us from evil
S.F. may soon see psychics regulated
-- Pioneering proposal would ban trickery:
"The proposed law... covers fortune-telling by not only crystal
balls, tarot cards and astrology charts, but by 'sticks, dice, tea leaves,
coins, sand and coffee grounds' as well. Fortune-tellers would be required
to post rate cards and a phone number for complaints. Police say requiring
permits would make it easier to keep tabs on swindlers....
"'What a rip-off,' said Dionysia, Goddess of Light and Direction. 'It's
just the city, capitalizing on folks trying to make a living.'"
See
My Will be Done
October
2002
Home parties bring together
clairvoyants, anxious Americans
:
"Ann Albers, a Phoenix psychic, stopped taking new clients 10 months ago
and has a waiting list of about 200 people. 'Things have been so chaotic
that people are seeking a deeper meaning for life,' says Albers, a former
Honeywell engineer. 'They come less for predictions and more for guidance.'"
Deut 18:9-12
*
Killers drank blood from shot
farmer: "Four men charged with the murder of the first white
farmer to die in President Robert Mugabe's violent land seizures took blood
from his corpse, mixed it with alcohol and drank it, a Zimbabwean court
heard yesterday. David Stevens, 48, who shared profits with workers at his
farm 60 miles east of Harare, was attacked by so-called veterans of Zimbabwe's
independence war in April 2000. He sought help from officers at the local
police station, who did nothing to stop him being abducted and dragged into
the bush, where he was tortured and shot."
Call for prayer for Zimbabwe
*
Bangui: the city where even
lawyers believe in sorcery: "Stephanie, 13, an orphan, shakes
at the sight of the sticks and tells the detective that she was tricked
into becoming a 'witch'. A neighbour, she says, gave her a bowl of soup
and after she had eaten it the woman revealed that it contained a human
heart. Stephanie, the woman said, now possessed supernatural powers like
her own...
"Although belief in sorcery is common in sub-Saharan Africa, the Central
African Republic's legal system condemns witchcraft as a crime. Alleged
witches are pursued with vigour, even though
accusations often stem from hearsay, gossip
and score-settling. ... In the cell next to Stephanie's, Ermine Qualigon,
70, admits that she buried a piece of her daughter-in-law's miscarried baby
in the hope of making the woman infertile. 'My son's wife never gave me
any food,' she says...
" At Bangui police station, a team of detectives specialises in sorcery.
To make the investigators immune to the spells of their suspects, they are
routinely injected with 'vaccinations' of herbs by witchdoctors. They say
that this is necessary because the number of those practising witchcraft
is rising. ...Only a few sceptics in Bangui acknowledge that
jealousy and rivalry are at the heart of most accusations of witchcraft."
See
Your friendly community spies
June
2002
Kryon [a spirit guide] at the
United Nations:
"The Enlightenment Society is one of the fifty member clubs of the United
Nations Staff Recreation Council. It was founded in 1975, and its objective
is to provide divine service to United Nations staff, delegates, mission
staff and guests. ... The deepest purpose of the Society matches that of
the United Nations - to bring peace to our planet. Over the years it has
become the place where delegates and guests of delegates may meet and experience the knowledge and energy of what we are calling the New Age.
Authors, channellers, lecturers, musicians and spiritual leaders all have
been called over the years to give their wisdom at these meetings...."
While we don't like to post
links to occult websites, we want to show the ties between UN ideology and
Theosophy.
See also
Heaven is Forever,
which shows
(1) how (occult) channeled
messages bring a common vision of interfaith unity and hatred for our God
and (2)
how Christians can resist their subtle distortions of truth.
Sect leader promised salvation
via sex, teen says: "It began, the girl said, when the man they
all called 'the lamb' told her that submitting to his sexual desires was
her ticket to heaven. She was 12; he was 50 or 51. Nuwaubian leader Dwight
York started summoning her to do cleaning chores in his home on the sect's
farm in Putnam county, she said. ...
"York
and 100 to 200 of his followers came to Georgia in 1993 from Brooklyn, N.Y.,
where they had formed a group called Ansaru Allah Community. In New York,
the group was Muslim-oriented in ideology, costume and religious practices;
while in Georgia, they have adopted practice and garb from ancient Egypt
and have decorated their farm with Egyptian-style pyramids, obelisks and
statues. York is referred to as the 'master teacher' and 'the lamb.'"
Matt 24:24
May
2002
*
Man Kills Boss, Turns Her Into
Pepper Soup: "A Nigerian
man... Salifu Ojo, a 23-year-old farm laborer in southwest Ondo state killed
Christiana Elijah, a 40-year-old mother of four, after a dispute over his
pay. He chopped off her head, hands and legs, then removed her internal
organs which he used as ingredients for his soup, police said. ... 'He severed
her parts, made pepper soup and ate it -- all on the farm.'...
"In Nigeria, Africa's
most populous nation of more than 110 million people, many believe witchcraft
involving the use of human genitals, eyes, tongues and skulls can make them
instant millionaires. Although Ojo did not kill his boss for ritual purposes,
police said they suspected he might have wanted to sell some body parts
to ritualists."
Since Christianity
spread throughout the world during the last two centuries, slavery and cannibalism
have disappeared from ordinary sight and consciousness. In our post-Christian
culture - and with the spreading hatred for Biblical truth -- we see a rapid
return of the human cruelties and depravity that was evidenced by Hitler
and others in bondage to occult forces. But Jesus Christ offers freedom
through the cross.
See
Galatians 5:19-26
and
What it means to be a Christian
March
2002
FBI Arrests Priests, Police
for Internet Child Porn:
"Catholic priests, a police officer, a nurse, a teacher's aide and a school
bus driver were among those charged in a 14-month nationwide crackdown known
as 'Operation Candyman' that targeted child pornography on the Internet....
FBI officials said about 90 people in more than 20 states have been charged
in an undercover investigation of three electronic message groups maintained
by Yahoo! Inc that involved the posting, exchanging and transmitting of
child pornography via e-mail, bulletin boards and file transfers. ...They
said one group... had an estimated 7,000 members, with 2,400 of them overseas.
...The Candyman Web site has been shut down...."
Rom 1:22-32
February
2002
*
Human Sacrifice in London?
"The body discovered
in the Thames River on Sept. 21... belonged to a boy, aged 5 to 7 years
old, of Afro-Caribbean descent, and it was missing its head, arms and legs.
Two weeks later, police found seven half-burned candles wrapped in a white
sheet... Fola Adeoye was inscribed on the candles. The names are Nigerian,
common to the Yoruba people....
"This month, a South African expert
in ritualistic killings performed a second autopsy on the body of the boy,
and pronounced what many people had feared. The discovery of the body, the
nature of the wounds, and the way the boy was killed 'are consistent with
those of a ritual homicide as practiced in Africa'.... 'Muti' is a South
African word that means traditional medicine.... It is always based on the
idea of taking energy from another living thing for your own....
"And children, it is believed, have the most powerful energy... Most of
the body parts taken for medicine correspond directly with the powers desired,
experts said. For example, using eyeballs in a potion would be expected
to increase foresight, brains would be expected to aid wisdom, and a heart
— courage or sympathy... But the most gruesome part of muti is that the
body parts are usually taken while the victim is alive, because death is
believed to reduce the potency of the medicine. In an alleged muti murder
case that took place in South Africa last October, a gang was accused of
removing the facial skin, genitalia, breasts, hands and feet of a young
mother while she was still alive....
"Growing up in Africa, Benjamin Ola Akande said it wasn't uncommon to read
about as many as a dozen muti murders in a year. 'It's such a common practice
the [newspapers] don't write about it anymore,' said Akande."
See
African Witchcraft
Shopper Beaten For Bringing
13 Items To Express Lane:
"...a 51-year-old Lowell woman was beaten and kicked when a customer behind
her in a supermarket checkout line became enraged that she had brought 13
items through a 12-items-or-fewer lane. Karen Morgan, 38, was arrested Sunday
at about 9 a.m. after she allegedly beat the victim on the street outside
the Market Basket."
2 Tim 3:1-14
*
Afghan Girls on Sale for 100kg
of Wheat: "...young
girls in western part of the war-torn Afghanistan were on sale for a 100
kg bag of wheat. ... A senior official of the IFRC said: 'Girls were offered
as brides for as little as 100 kg of wheat flour.'
"The combined effects
of 23 years of war and the last three years of drought have left many people
entirely destitute. ... A team member said: 'We saw children digging in
the fields for roots to eat and use as firewood. Leaves from the trees were
also being eaten.' ... in many of the villages there was no agricultural
activity because of the drought, no seeds were available for planting, and
much of the livestock had either died or been sold off."
Matt 24:7
January
2002
*
Headless boy, five, found in
Thames: "...The torso
of the child, who had been decapitated and dismembered, is thought to have
been in the river for up to 10 days. ... Police are searching for the head
and limbs. Det Supt Adrian Maybanks said the body was that of a black Afro-Caribbean
boy aged about five-and-a-half."
See
African Witchcraft
and
Charts: Five Types of Religious
Expressions.
*
Witch doctor link to boy's ritual
killing: "Police
have turned their attention to sub-Sahara Africa's dark world of human sacrifice
in their search for the killer of a boy whose torso was found in the Thames.
... Scotland Yard says it has evidence that the unidentified child, named
Adam by detectives anxious to give him some dignity, may have died in a
ritualistic killing. If so, 'Adam' could be Britain's first known victim
of a muti killing, practised by witch doctors in South Africa and the Ivory
Coast. This involves human sacrifice to produce medicine or good-luck potions."
[telegraph.co.uk, 26/01/02] See
America's Spiritual Slide
and
Chapter 8 of A Twist of Faith
Missing children being sold
as slaves? "Nigeria
is known as a link in a major West African child trafficking network. More
than 1 100 people remained missing after deadly blasts at a Lagos armoury,
but many children among them may be alive and held for unknown reasons by
security officials.... 172 people, mostly women and children, who
sheltered in a Roman Catholic church on Sunday night had been forcibly removed
by armed soldiers on Monday. ... A social worker, who asked not to
be named said: 'This cannot be good news in a country where child theft
and trafficking are common.'"
Before the spread of Christianity,
slavery was normal and common in many parts of the world.
Romans 1:22-32
*
Witch doctor link to boy's ritual
killing: "Police
have turned their attention to sub-Sahara Africa's dark world of human sacrifice
in their search for the killer of a boy whose torso was found in the Thames.
... Scotland Yard says it has evidence that the unidentified child, named
Adam by detectives anxious to give him some dignity, may have died in a
ritualistic killing. If so, 'Adam' could be Britain's first known victim
of a muti killing, practised by witch doctors in South Africa and the Ivory
Coast. This involves human sacrifice to produce medicine or good-luck potions."
[telegraph.co.uk, 26/01/02] See
America's Spiritual Slide
and
Chapter 8 of A Twist of Faith
*
Kandahar comes out of the closet:
"Now that Taleban rule is over in Mullah Omar’s former southern stronghold,
it is not only televisions, kites and razors which have begun to emerge.
Visible again, too, are men with their ashna, or beloveds: young boys they
have groomed for sex. Kandahar’s
Pashtuns have been notorious for their
homosexuality for centuries, particularly their fondness for naive young
boys. Before the Taleban arrived in 1994, the streets were filled with teenagers
and their sugar daddies, flaunting their relationship. It is called the
homosexual capital of south Asia. Such is the Pashtun obsession with sodomy
— locals tell you that birds fly over the city using only one wing, the
other covering their posterior — that
the rape of young boys by warlords
was one of the key factors in Mullah Omar mobilising the Taleban."
Gal 5:19-26
and
Resisting the
Lure of Sensuality
Infallible haters?
(by Thomas Sowell):
"...What did the Jews ever do to Hitler? The fashionable idiocy that haters
must have justifications is one of those ideas that George Orwell said only
an intellectual could believe -- because no one else could be such a fool.
Unfortunately, we have a large supply of both amateur and professional intellectuals.
They are busy on college campuses across the country, sounding off with
their blame-America-first message. They are also an undercurrent in the
mass media, where they must insinuate what they can say unopposed in academia....
"Hatred and mob violence
against more productive minorities has been the rule, rather than the exception,
for centuries -- whether against the Jews in Eastern Europe, the Ibos in
Nigeria, the Armenians in Turkey, the Germans in Russia, the Lebanese in
West Africa, the Chettiars in Burma, the Japanese in Canada or the Asian
shopkeepers in our own black ghettoes today."
December 2001
*
Child-rape epidemic in South
Africa: A bizarre
belief among many African black men that sex with a virgin -- even a child
or baby -- can cure HIV/AIDS is fueling what is already one of the highest
child sexual exploitation rates in the world. According to the latest report
by South Africa's Police Service, children are the victims of 41 percent
of all rapes and attempted rapes reported in the country. Over 15 percent
of all reported rapes are against children under 11, and another 26 percent
against children 12-17. For the year 2000, some 58 children were raped or
the victims of rape attempts in South Africa every single day. The trend
is worsening. Babies as young as only a few months old are being raped almost
daily."
Rom1:22-32
International community turns on Mugabe (President
of Zimbabwe) - Global leaders lash out at dictator:
"Mugabe –
through both unofficial violence and official government policy – systematically
has driven white farmers off their land, action resulting in a nation-wide
famine. In addition, reports of rampant corruption in his administration
are commonplace."
Romans 1:22-32
November 2001
Child slaves today:
Malians work to free child laborers (Ivory Coast,
Africa)
:
Mombi "was working long hours for no pay, had barely any food and hadn't
seen his parents in nearly a year. His master wasn't there, but Mombi couldn't
escape because he didn't have any money, didn't speak French and didn't
know where he was. To make sure he didn't try to leave, his master had confiscated
his identity card.... On one farm north of Daloa, a farmer was forcing
13 children between the ages of 12 and 16 to work at gunpoint. 'I had never
seen anything like this,' Diarra said. 'The kids were like prisoners. They
were given no food, and beaten by the old man's son.'"
Psalm 12:8
(Zimbabwe).
Mugabe regime likens journalists to terrorists
:
"Correspondents for foreign media who reported indiscriminate beatings
of whites a week ago will be treated as terrorists,
a presidential spokesman warned yesterday. ...Mr. Mugabe's government is
being strongly criticized over alleged human rights abuses and a crackdown
on the opposition that have escalated since ruling party militants began
violent occupations of white-owned farms in March 2000."
Romans 1:22-32
Girls, 12 and 13, Convicted of Trying to
Poison Teacher
: "Two
girls, aged 12 and 13, have been found guilty of trying to poison their
sixth-grade teacher with liquid drain cleaner. The girls, 12 and 13, were
convicted of contamination of a substance for human consumption, a first
degree felony. They were also accused of tampering with evidence and obstruction
of official business....A third girl, 13, who pleaded guilty last month
to contamination of a substance for human consumption, testified for the
prosecution. ...All of the girls were accused of pouring liquid drain cleaner
into teacher Nancy Wyenandt's water bottle."<
Rom 12:2-9
100 Boys Escape From Hutu Rebels
:
"After being kidnapped Friday morning, the boys were forced to carry goods
the rebels looted as they moved through the countryside toward their stronghold
in northern Burundi's forests, said 19-year-old Jean Paul Nduwimana. ...Officials
have said the rebels use kidnapping as a means of forced recruitment. ...Although
a minority, Tutsis have effectively ruled Burundi for all but a few months
since independence from Belgium in 1962. Hundreds of thousands have died
in ethnic violence." A
sobering look at our capricious human nature - untamed by God's grace and
values.
2 Tim
3:1-14
August
2001
Drawn to Burning Man: "The
festival began Monday and reaches its pyrotechnic climax tonight with the
torching of a giant wood-and-neon effigy in the rough outline of a man.
The throngs of techies, nudists, performance artists, hippies, bikers and
plain gawkers will go wild, then start burning everything that hasn't blown
away.... This is about creating a reality unlike what most of our
society knows," said Eveline Darroch, the 29-year-old creative force
behind the Burning Man premiere of "The Living Mandala Man," a ghost-like
modern dance and meditation. ...The theme this year is the Seven Ages, from
the cradle to the mausoleum. People can slide on through a giant birth canal
and become born again, Burning Man-style."
Romans 1:22-32
School Vandalism Beyond Belief:
"New
Hampshire's top-rated elementary school for excellence is in shambles, a
$100,000 disaster zone, thanks to two boys out to "have a little fun."
Romans 1:22-32
July
Is America Becoming a Superpower Sodom? "It shows up
in the pressure on the Boy Scouts of America to accept homosexuality.
The nation is a sinkhole of desire for illegal drugs. It has state-sponsored
lotteries whose revenues never seem to be enough to cover the growing
list of new government programs that clamor for funding...."
See
America's
Spiritual Slide and
The
Armor of God
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