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When
freedom fades,
our security is in Christ:
Psalm
32:7
His
people need not fear the future.
Psalm
2:1-3
October 2007
False
science.
Educating for a
Sustainable Future
[A UNESCO project]:
"Common information and shared understandings,
however, are important not only for mobilizing public support,
but also for carrying out work consultative and participatory
approaches
in all fields.... A public well informed of the need for
sustainable development
will insist that public educational institutions include in
their curricula the scientific and other subject matters
needed to enable people to participate effectively....
Perhaps the
greatest problem that advocates of sustainable development
face is to convince not only those who are opposed to
their ideas, but also those who simply 'don’t want to know'....
"...communication
has to be seen as a long-term interactive process
strategically aimed ... It is not necessary - or even
desirable - for scientists to become propagandists, but it is
essential that studies conducted in the public interest have
adequate means to communicate their findings to the public..."
See
Saving the Earth
An
Atheist-Evangelical Dialogue?
"In order for such a meeting to take place participants would have
to submit to a few ground rules. The atheists, agnostics and anti-theists
must promise to refrain from excessive smirking, snarky asides about
an 'imaginary friend,' and the use of profanities....
The evangelicals, for their part, would have to swear upon a
Bible that they would not...
make any efforts at soul salvation (even perfunctory ones).... As long
as the leaders and polemicists of evangelical and secular America
can agree to these simple and discourse-inducing protocols the possibilities
of an enriching dialog...."
Notice that
the above dialectic process
allows us to share our faith as long as we don't mention the gospel
or the cross. Even in today's churches, the gospel seems too offensive
for the new "diverse" small groups.
See
Spirit-Led
or Purpose-Driven: Unity & Community
May 2007
Europe - Thy name is
Cowardice:
"Appeasement legitimized and stabilized Communism in the Soviet
Union, then East Germany , then all the rest of Eastern Europe,
where for decades, inhuman suppressive, murderous governments were
glorified as the ideologically correct alternative to all other
possibilities....
"
How
is Germany reacting to the escalating violence by Islamic Fundamentalists....
A substantial fraction of our (German) Government, and if the polls
are to be believed, the German people, actually believe that creating
an Official State 'Muslim Holiday' will somehow spare us from the
wrath of the fanatical Islamists. One cannot help but recall Britain
's Neville Chamberlain waving the laughable treaty signed by Adolph
Hitler and declaring European 'Peace in our time.'"
See
The emerging New World Order
December 2006
What Rick Warren wants:
"...what Warren was doing in Syria is what he's been doing all along
here in America and around the world with the dialectic church -
withholding inconvenient truths about sin and the call to repentance
for the sake of Results and Relationships. Going soft on
sinners is his specialty! That's how you 'build bridges,' exponentially
grow churches and dialectically achieve 'unity in diversity' - by
putting absolutes aside and dialoguing differences away until everyone's
conscience is seared and conviction vanishes in the
ambiguity of religious relativism.
"The facilitators of
the church growth movement have always played 'footsie' with reprobates
- given 'cover' to evil - 'lied to the world about the state of
the church' and overlooked 'bellicose threats' against
resisters....
"Like the dialectic church, the
dialectic government would
also see Warren as brilliant, offering him the world stage on which
to present his Global P.E.A.C.E. Plan....
"In March of 2001, The Chicago Daily Herald reported that
a forum was held at Willow Creek for the world's five largest religions
in an article entitled: Forum Unites Diverse Religions.... '...organizers
of the forum preached respect between the faiths' and 'encouraged
the representatives of Hinduism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and
Judaism to revel in their diversity' - not exactly a concept you'd
find in the Old or New Testament."
See
CREATING COMMUNITY
... through a New Way of Thinking
September
Bush administration continues
funding Arab states:
"Just recently, the Bush administration announced plans to sell $4.6 billion
worth of arms to several Arab states including the United Arab Emirates,
Bahrain, Jordan, Oman, and Saudi Arabia.... Even more paradoxical is the
fact that the Bush administration recently offered citizens of Saudi Arabia
scholarships to study aviation in the United States. Can you believe this?
... Some of the 9-11 hijackers are known to have been trained at aviation
schools in the U.S."
July
Obama Asks Evangelicals
To Assimilate: "Sen. Barack Obama, considered a possible
Democratic nominee for president in 2008, told left-leaning religious
leaders at the Call to Renewal’s 'Building a Covenant for a New
America' conference June 28 that in order to sort through some of
the 'bitter arguments' about religion in America today, evangelicals
need to water down their views to fit in better with the rest of
society. 'Democracy demands that the religiously motivated
translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific,
values,' Obama said.... Now this is going to be difficult for
some who believe in the inerrancy of the Bible, as many evangelicals
do,' he added. 'But in a pluralistic
democracy, we have no choice.'”
Not true! We
do have a choice! But those who refuse to trade Biblical truth for
universal values may face pressures and punishments that would have
been unthinkable in our "free" nation some years ago.
See
Re-inventing
the World
and
Justifying Mind Control
June
International
Association of Facilitators - Mission, Values and Vision:
"...to promote, support and advance the art and practice of
professional facilitation through methods exchange, professional
growth, practical research, collegial networking and support
services. This is accomplished through peer-to-peer networking,
professional development and annual conferences....
"Inclusiveness - Including the full spectrum of personal,
professional and cultural diversity in our membership and in the
field of facilitation...
"Global
Scope - Connecting and serving facilitators locally, nationally
and internationally
"Participation
- Advocating participative methodologies that generate ownership
of decisions....
"Celebration
- Celebrating life through spirit filled
[what spirit?]
quality interchange, activities and events...
"Social
Responsibility - Supporting socially responsible change within
private, public and voluntary organizations."
May
Small Group Toolkit:
Diaprax in a Box:
"If you listened to the Crosstalk I recently did with Dean Gotcher
on small group dynamics and how the dialectic is used increasingly
in small groups to create change within churches, you will recognize
the language and ideas in this ad. ...
Note especially the
part about group covenants. These covenants are the
secret to eliminating dissent and moving the group forward
towards the pre-determined goals of the leadership."
The
"Small Group Toolkit":
"What if your small groups could promote intimacy within the group
as people share and learn how to make the Bible come alive in their
own life? Finally, there is a resource that does all that and more....
Now, there's a reliable, tested 'Toolkit' with secret information....
"A
good group agreement will eliminate over 93% of all group conflict.
Misunderstandings. Unmet expectations. Poor communication. These
are the roots of conflict in groups and these are the exact things
that a group covenant will get rid of -- forever."
But the process
is based on manipulation -- and the cost is compromise and conformity
to politically correct social guidelines. Read Dean Gotcher's
explanation:
Dialectic
and Praxis: DIAPRAX and the End of the Ages
:
"There is a major move to change the way Americans think. Some call
it 'the reculturing of America,' others call it 'reinventing government,'
and still others refer to it as 'being competitive in a global economy.'
This scheme that socio-psychologists have designed for American
education, business, and politics consists of the three phases:
1) 'social-class' consciousness; 2) sustainable 'social mobility;'
and 3) perpetual 'equality of opportunity.'...
"The
facilitator controls the agenda—environment—and thereby controls
the direction all questions will be taking. The facilitator’s ability
to control group feelings gives him the ability to shape the definition
each person in the group gives for his or her position. What is
lost in the whole scheme of things is that someone is always influencing
the definitions we give for our position and that apart from God
and His Word, all positions are subject to change."
See
Re-inventing
the World
February 2006
NCC praises ‘disciplined
restraint’ over cartoons and calls for a ‘dialogue of civilizations’:
"The National Council of Churches USA said Monday it stood in
solidarity with North
American Islamic organizations who
'exercised disciplined restraint and advocated diplomacy and education'
over cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad.... The dialogue,
Premawardhana said, would provide 'a common table
at which we can educate each other
about those parts of our faith and life that are most holy and significant.
It will also provide the opportunity for people of different
faiths to come together on
values that unite us. We support the Global Dialogue of Civilizations
initiated at the Parliament of the World’s Religions
in 2004 and the recent call by the
Philippine government to institutionalize interfaith dialogue
at the United Nations."
See
The
Mind-Changing Process
September 2005
Interfaith coalition unveils
public school Bible course:
"An
aimed at teaching public high
school students about the Bible.... To avoid problems, Bible Literacy's
editors accommodated
Jewish sensitivities about the New Testament, attributed reports about
miracles to the source rather than simply calling them historical facts
and generally downplayed scholarly theories... that offend conservatives....
"Educators
know biblical knowledge is valuable -- 60 percent of allusions in one
English Advanced Placement prep course came from the Bible -- and that
polls show teens don't know much about Scripture."
The
fact that most students are Biblically illiterate makes them all the
more vulnerable to a distorted view of both God and His Word.
See
Twisting Truth through
Group Consensus
May
Bush and Putin focus visit on
common global goals:
"Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomed President Bush to his country
home Sunday as the two leaders put aside
their differences to focus on joint efforts to combat terrorism,
stop the spread of nuclear weapons and bring peace to the Middle East. 'There's
a lot we can do together,' Bush told reporters during a brief photo
session at Putin's dacha, about 25 miles west of Moscow."
See
Soviet Education in the 1930s
compared to U.S. Education in 2001
March
Let's stop being
manipulated! The Delphi Technique:
"More and more, we are seeing citizens being invited to
'participate' in various forms of meetings, councils, or boards to
'help determine' public policy in one field or another. They are
supposedly being included to get 'input' from the public to help
officials make final decisions on taxes, education, community growth
or whatever the particular subject matter might be....
"Supposedly
the job of the facilitator is to be a neutral, non-directing helper
to see that the meeting flows smoothly. Actually, he or she is
there... to see that the conclusions reached during the meeting are
in accord with a plan already decided upon.... This Delphi Technique
was developed by the RAND Corporation for the U.S. Department of
Defense back in the 1950s. It was originally intended for use as a
psychological weapon during the cold war. However, it was soon
recognized that the steps of Delphi could be very valuable in
manipulating ANY meeting toward a pre-determined end."
See
Re-inventing the World
Consensus: "A better way
of reflecting the nature of the church":
"'Listen to each and respond to each other in a spirit of open listening,'
[Eden] Grace said. 'We don't just accumulate more messages in favour
than against.
We build a common mind.
It's a much more dialogical
approach than we've had in the past.'"
See
The Mind-Changing
Process
Hillary in Nuke Summit with
Kim Jong-il?
"South Korea's opposition Millennium Democratic Party is trying to arrange
a nuclear summit between North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il and New York
Sen. Hillary Clinton, the Korea Times reported."
January
The Church of Common Ground:
"...searching
for '“common ground' is neither a biblical concept nor a new idea. It
is an old transformational Marxist strategy made popular by men like
Antonio Gramsci and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, designed to 'win
friends and influence people' toward the socialist cause of world order.
... Searching for common ground is one of the favorite shortcuts being
preached and practiced by many in the church today who DO NOT HAVE and
WILL NOT SURRENDER TO the sovereignty and authority of God and His Word.
... So, instead of preaching repentance and risking rejection or worse,
they go about looking for all kinds of creative ways to
widen the gate that leads to eternal
life and make evangelism easier. ...
"If someone
is actually “reached” for Christ it will be because the Holy Spirit
has supernaturally convicted them of sin and brought them into repentance
and faith, not because you or I have somehow managed to manipulate them
into a conversion experience through OUR relationship. Our job as Christians
is not to 'reach' but to preach: 'Christ crucified.' ...
"Dialectic: 'The process in Hegelian and Marxist thought in which two
apparently opposed ideas, the thesis and antithesis, become combined
in a unified whole, the synthesis.' "
See
Creating Community through
a New Way of Thinking
I beg to disagree
(Thomas Sowell): "Too many people today act as if no one can honestly disagree
with them. If you have a difference of opinion with them, you are considered
to be not merely in error but in sin. You are a racist, a homophobe or whatever
the villain of the day happens to be....
"Dictators
often gained total power over a whole nation by their
ability to arouse emotions and evade thought.
Watch old newsreels of Hitler and watch the adoring and enraptured look
on the faces in his audience. Then read what he said and see if it makes
any sense whatever. Yet he convinced others -- and himself -- that he had
a great message and a great mission. The same could be said of Lenin, of
Mao, of Pol Pot, and of countless other despots. ...
"Instead
of trying to propagandize children to hug trees and recycle garbage, our
schools would be put to better use teaching them how to analyze and test
what is said by people who advocate tree-hugging, recycling, and innumerable
other causes across the political spectrum."
Problem
is: our public schools do teach children to analyze what they read -- but
they must test everything through the filter of politically correct standards
which rule out unwanted facts (science, history, etc.) and traditional values.
That's why many children tend to object or "feel" offended when you share
Biblical truth or values with them. Their new humanist or pluralist standards
force them to reject our absolutes -- just as most children did under Communism.
See
A New Way of Thinking,
Saving the Earth
&
The Nazi Model For Outcome-Based
Education.
The outcome (after decades
of such brainwashing) is today's postmodern generations:
December
Muslims join Christians in Christmas festivities: "'Jesus is respected as a prophet same as the Prophet Mohammed,'" says Sheikh Khaled Yamoot, a Muslim cleric.
..."Celebrating Christmas in any form, even as simple as putting up a tree produces a festive mood and leaves a positive feeling in everyone," says Kasm,
director of the Catholic Center of Information. ... Christmas, he says, "is the season to be merry and festive and the more people join in, the stronger and more positive the long term impact."
Text of Bush's Kwanzaa 2004 Message:
"Kwanzaa celebrations provide an opportunity to focus on the importance of family, community, and history, and to reflect on the Nguzo Saba or seven principles of African culture.
These principles emphasize unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity, and faith.... Laura joins me in sending our best wishes for a joyous Kwanzaa."
Black minister: Say 'no'
to Kwanzaa: "Blacks should be outraged by attempts to stamp
out Christianity from Christmas celebrations while accepting Kwanzaa
as mainstream, says a black minister. ... While commonly viewed
as an 'African' holiday, observed from Dec. 26 to Jan. 1, Kwanzaa actually
was created in the U.S. in 1966 by Dr. Maulana 'Ron' Karenga, the head
of a violent black-power group, United Slaves Organization, which was
a rival to the Black Panthers."
November
Evangelical, LDS find bit of
common ground: "...this
is an historic occasion," said Richard Mouw, president of Fuller Theological
Seminary in California, who has been involved for several years in discussions
among Protestant and Mormon theologians.... Mouw confessed that evangelicals
have sinned against Latter-day Saints. 'We've often seriously misrepresented
the beliefs and practices of members of the LDS faith,' he said.... 'I remain
convinced there are serious issues of difference that are of eternal consequence,
but now we can discuss them as friends....
"Zacharias... acknowledged
there are doctrinal differences - including some that are deep -- between
traditional Christianity and the LDS faith.... But his overarching message
-- that Jesus Christ is the answer to the longing in all human hearts -
was one that resonated with both evangelical Christians and Mormons....
[Liz Wilcox said,] 'I loved the focus on the unity. They did a beautiful
job of finding common ground."
Biblical oneness
Coming American Revival?
"It will be difficult to declare that the Church is marching toward
revival when our churches pray less than ever before.... Currently,
pastors pray an average of minutes a day; their people pray a few minutes
less; and the prayer meeting and other serious intercessory efforts
through the local church are, for the most part, dead. ...
"A revival will mean
that biblical truth is taught, and accepted. But churches have stumbled
here as well. Barna shares a few indicators: Half of born-again Christians
(50%) agree that Satan is 'not a living being but is a symbol of evil.'
(2004) About one-third of born-agains (38%) believe that if a person
is good enough they can earn a place in Heaven. (2004)... About one
out of four (26%) born-again Christians believe that it doesn't matter
what faith you follow because they all teach the same lessons; a belief
held by 56 percent of non-Christians. (2000)...
"In an interview
with Charlie Gibson on ABC's Good Morning America
[October 26, 2004],
this is what the President said:... Charles Gibson: 'Do we all worship
the same God, Christian and Muslim?'
President George W. Bush:
'I think we do.'
Charles Gibson: 'Do
Christians and non-Christians and Muslims go to heaven in
your mind?'
President George W. Bush: 'Yes,
they do. We have different routes of getting there.'"
See
Salvation
September
NFL helps launch One
World: "Created
by Scholastic
[Harry Potter's U.S.
publisher]
of with consultation from Facing History and Ourselves, One World
is an interactive, multi-tiered program that is designed for educators
and parents to use with their children to encourage dialogue
about respecting each other, valuing diversity and ethnic differences,
and taking positive actions to build stronger, more inclusive communities.
The program has been made possible through part of a $10 million
fund set up by the NFL and NFL Players Association."
Riding on the wake
of Harry Potter's popularity, Scholastic has published many new
series on witchcraft for students in schools across America. The
next three links show its emphasis on blending beliefs and building
acceptance for occult spirituality:
S
cholastic
- Welcome to One World:
"This dynamic, new education program teaches the importance
of appreciating diversity, understanding others, and building
strong communities."
See
Re-inventing
the World
Shatterglass:
"Tris shook her head. The man had obviously lost control of
his magic working. 'You'd better let it go,' she informed him.
'And what possessed you, that you didn't draw a protective circle?'"
See
A Twist
of Faith - Chapter 2
Spellfall:
"When Natalie finds a strange candy wrapper floating in a parking-lot
puddle, an ominous yellow-eyed man informs her it’s a spell—and
a bewitching tale of his magic powers, she soon realizes she
must put them to use to save Earthhaven."
Deuteronomy
18:10-12
July
Huge Decline In
Book Reading: "The reading of books is on the decline
in America, despite Harry Potter and the best efforts of Oprah
Winfrey.... The likely culprits, according to the report: television,
movies and the Internet. 'I think what we're seeing is an enormous
cultural shift from print media to electronic media, and the
unintended consequences of that shift,' Gioia said....
"'Whenever
I hear about something like this, I think of it as a call to
arms,' said Mitchell Kaplan, president of the American Booksellers
Association. 'As booksellers, we need to look into what kinds
of partnerships we can get into to encourage literacy and the
immediacy of the literary experience.' ...
"'There's a communal
aspect to reading that has collapsed and we need to find ways
to restore it,' Gioia said."
This "communal aspect" is being restored in local libraries
or community centers where public reading of politically correct
books is followed by group dialogue -- just another way of generating
the envisioned consensus.
Reinventing
the World - Part 2: The Mind-Changing Process
March
Marxist education and
the war on terror:
"...while al-Qaeda leaders may be described more as religious zealots
and anarchists than Marxists, men like Osama bin Laden, himself
the product of a wealthy family and a good education, are not so
dumb as to overlook the fact that today’s voters in the 'Westernized'
target countries think with
their emotions instead of their rational minds....
Voters in Spain, like most voters in the United States, were raised
on a diet of 'conflict resolution,' in which
all the players are moral equivalents
who bring to the table only their differing perspective....
"As Baby Boomers worldwide approach their senior years, they have
passed along - inadvertently, in some cases - an irresponsible and
even deadly legacy of non-reason.
They have internalized the psycho-political message of appeasement
passed along to them by UNESCO and its Marxist cohorts."
See
Molding Human Resources
for the Global Workforce
Protest snags school
seminar on violence:
"A workshop on teen dating and sexual assault is under fire from
a community group claiming that it discriminates against white males
and violates family values....
"One
column lists six attributes of people in power: white, rich, middle-age,
able-bodied, male and heterosexual. The other column lists people
without power: nonwhite, poor, young, elderly, disabled, female,
homosexual. WEAVE contends that the list is used to provoke discussion
about how the need for power and control can lead to violence and
that the attributes are merely examples of answers workshop leaders
get when they ask the question: 'Who is in power?"
See
Mine is the Power?
In Pakistan, Muslim and Christian
Students Fast Together:
"At the St. Lawrence Catholic School here, even Muslims fast for Lent --
at least for a day. It is part of a reciprocal program, whereby Christian
youths share a day of fasting and a 'friendship dinner' with Muslim during
the month of Ramadan.... Headmaster Peter Bhatti told Fides: 'It is part
of the specific mission of our school to build relationships of tolerance,
respect, dialogue and esteem among
pupils of different religions.' He said the school will continue to educate
its pupils to be 'heralds of peace and reconciliation in society.'"
Separation
versus
Solidarity
January
Being Real Christians in the
Real South Africa - SACLA II
(Scroll down to title): "SACLA
ll was the most representative gathering of the Church in the history of
South Africa with men and women of all ages, denominations, races and circumstances
present. ....There were a few internationally renowned speakers who addressed
delegates.... They included Mrs Janet Museveni, First Lady of Uganda, who
has been honoured with the Global AIDS Leadership Award; Dr Bruce Wilkinson,
author of ‘The Prayer of Jabez’....
"
Mr
Thabo Mbeki [Socialist
President of S. Africa].... applauded Christian leaders for their dedication
and emphasised the critical role they play in serving the people of South
Africa. He urged the church to maintain an
open line of communication with government and to continue to be
vocal on moral and national matters of importance.... Commenting on the
government’s draft policy on Religion and Education, [the newly drafted
letter] said, 'While we recognise the need to demonstrate Christian tolerance
and respect in handling this matter with both the State and other faiths,
we nevertheless see the current debate on Religious Education policy as
a wonderful opportunity for the Church to demonstrate unity....”
The next link tells more about
the official policy on Religion and Education:
Religious diversity in schools
(South Africa): "Education Minister Kader Asmal... said religion in schools
should be handled respectfully, with integrity and within the framework
of tolerance and human rights.... Pupils will start learning about other
religions than their own from grade 1.... In grade 6 they will be assessed
according to their ability to discuss the dignity of the person in a variety
of religions."
To understand the
goal of this mandatory "religious diversity" program, see the following
quote from a government paper on the same topic. America is headed in the
same direction -- but its focus is on global unity:
"Manifesto
on Values, Education and Democracy.''
"'Religion education'...is a programme
for studying religion, in all its many forms, as an important dimension
of human experience.... Such education can provide opportunities for both
a deeper sense of self-realization and a broader civil toleration of others...
It can teach students about a world of religious diversity, and, at the
same time encourage them to think in terms of a new national unity in South
Africa."
Any program that
would teach children to respect all religions as equally good or valid would
surely undermine faith in our sovereign God. But it would fit the requirements
of
UNESCO's
Declaration on the Role of Religion in a Culture of Peace.
May
Anti-gay, anti-Islam Bardot to be sued:
"It takes a lot for the French to lose patience with their ageing stars, and
Brigitte Bardot... was given a lot of rope. Yesterday the free ride for her
tirades against the decadence of modern society ended after two anti-racist and
human rights movements announced they would take the 68-year-old to court Her
latest outburst...attacks Islam, gays, the unemployed, teachers and illegal
immigrants, and calls for a return of the guillotine."(5-15)
No freedom in France to express a
politically incorrect opinion?
The Mind-Changing Process
April
Rowan Williams apologises to
Freemasons
: "The
Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has been forced to apologise
to Britain's 330,000 Freemasons after he said that their beliefs were incompatible
with Christianity and that he had rejected them from senior posts in his
diocese....
"The quoted statements
about the 'satanic' character of the Masonic ceremonies and other matters
did not come from me and do not represent my judgment. Since my late father
was a member of the Craft for many years, I have had every opportunity of
observing the probity of individual members."
Doesn't sound
like religious freedom, does it?
Rom 12:2-9
Yet consider Dr. Williams liberal
bent:
The Islamification of our law
(UK): "World events... are teaching us that there is a radical distinction
between those for whom law is a way of reconciling differences between people,
and those for whom law is a way to eliminate those differences,
by enforcing conformity....
"...the
emotions that are seeking to immortalise themselves in law have another,
and deeper, source, which is a hatred of those who differ....
But the more our legislators espouse the principle that ‘public morality’
is sufficient grounds for legislation, the closer our legal system will
come to the Islamic one."
See
The UN Plan for Your
Mental Health
Looking down on frowns
-- and disgusted expressions:
"Palo Alto [home of Stanford University] may need to call in the Demeanor Police.
The city council is wrestling with a code of conduct that urges elected officials not to roll their eyes. Or shake their heads. Or frown.
Experts say the council's plan to discourage non-verbal forms of 'disagreement or disgust' is odd, unenforceable and almost an infringement on free speech."
See
Reinventing the
World - Part 2
February
'It Wasn't Hip' to Protest Clinton's Wars:
"Asked by 'Fox News Sunday's' Tony Snow why peace protesters like herself didn't object to Clinton's wars, Garofalo explained:
'I absolutely did. I did not support Operation Desert Fox. It's just that you didn't know me very well back then. Nobody really was interested in listening to me back then.'
Then she added, by way of explaining why the anti-Clinton protests never gelled,
'It wasn't very hip.'" In
our
postmodern
world, feelings count far more than facts.
Police officers will have completed the Anti-Defamation League's anti-bias
training:
"Colorado is the only state offering statewide anti-bias training to its officers as part of a longstanding partnership between the Colorado Peace Officer Standards and Training board (P.O.S.T.) and ADL's Mountain States Regional Office in Denver to increase the number of police officers in the state who receive anti-bias training....The anti-bias training program is designed to address assumptions, perceptions and bias issues encountered in police work."
See
Community Oriented Policing
December
Candidates Take your Marx:
"Karl Marx was an astute student of the political process. He summed it up this
way - first a thesis, then a response with an antithesis, then a synthesis of
the two ideas. Someone makes a proposal (thesis), the opposition parries with an
objection (antithesis) and the result is a combination of the two ideas."
Charts:
Brainwashing & How to Resist It
and the last part of
Three kinds of temptation
November
America is afraid:
"A prime motivator for failing to stand up for what's right in your families, your schools and communities, and in your jobs is fear. It is amazing how powerful and paralyzing fear is, especially when it's not specific....
"An
old propaganda film was on about how Germany was swallowed up by the Third Reich
– how this most enlightened country in Europe, with probably more educated
people per square inch than anywhere else in Europe, was capable of creating and
promoting Nazism. ...I only watched it for about half an hour because I couldn't
bear it. It was so honest. It pointed out that Nazism built slowly."
Romans 12:2-9
and
Reinventing the World, Part 2: The
Mind-Changing Process
February
Professors & Puritans:
"According to educational bureaucrats, the classroom is a forum for Ideas and Learning designed to equip a student to function in today’s marketplace....
What many students have realized... is that this semblance of 'philosophical
neutrality,' propagated through the shared ideas of a classroom forum, is hardly
neutral at all. When a professor informs a student that they should not call
communism 'evil' merely because it is a 'different worldview' than theirs, the
professor does not instruct moderated pluralism, but teaches a decidedly
ideological view of world history.
"Education
cannot function as a purely relativistic process. When students learn about
the Puritans by arguing in class about the pros and cons of repressive
religion, or spend the time mocking buckles and hats, they leave
the classroom with a permanently crippled grasp of history....
"Instead
of analyzing commentaries or studying original documents, we discussed 'our
feelings' about the Puritans in general. Not the real Puritans, mind you –
but the backward witch-trial buckle-heads that exist only in the caricatured
revisionism of modern cultural ignorance.....
"The
Puritans saw learning as a process of growing closer to God — through the
dedicated study of His word. In the hostile climate of England and later the new
world, the Puritans kept their faith and their devout attitude towards their
religious studies."
Brainwashing in America
Mideast clerics meet in secret to determine God's will:
"They [Israeli and Palestinian clerics — Jewish, Muslim and Christian] arrived under the cover of darkness to avoid the criticism they might have faced for having arrived at all.
...
The First Alexandria Declaration of the Religious Leaders of the Holy Land, as it was named when signed Jan. 21, was promoted by Britain's Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey and co-hosted by Egyptian Sheik Mohammed Sayeed Tantawi, one of the most prominent figures in Islam
It was backed by institutions as diverse as three churches in Atlanta and the Egyptian government.
It was also supported by both Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, making it perhaps their only common ground since the fighting began."
Jer 6:5:21
January
Harvard to train 300 Chinese officials:
"Three hundred highly ranked Chinese officials from central and local governments will be
attending training sessions at Harvard University over the next five years, according to
the South China Morning Post on Saturday. Harvard signed an agreement Friday to train 60
Chinese officials a year at its well-known John F. Kennedy School of Government."
Training enemies to Christianity
and freedom to be more efficient and productive? See
Changing China: Communist Strategies Enforce Solidarity
Discarding Truth:
"Hoping
to close two national forests, government scientists planted evidence that the forests
were inhabited by an endangered species of lynx. The scientists' dishonesty undermined a
three-year study and confirmed suspicions that some government scientists fake studies in
order to control environmental policy....
"The
appearance on the scene of scientists and scholars who betray the public's trust in their
integrity in order to advance ideological agendas is frightening. It means that the
enculturation of scientists and scholars is failing in the graduate schools where they are
trained. ... See
Saving the Earth (then click on "politicized
science)
"Education becomes the propaganda of the group that controls the schools.
Indeed, education is already being pried loose from any relation to truth. Marxists denied the existence of any truth by claiming that
'truth' was nothing but the expression of class interests -- a claim that allowed Marxists to ignore facts that undermined their arguments.
Class Marxism has given way to Cultural Marxism, which claims truth is just an expression of race interest, gender interest and sexual orientation. According to these multiculturalists, there is a different
'truth' for men and women, heterosexuals and homosexuals, blacks and whites, able-bodied and disabled.
...
"
Before
our very eyes, history is being transformed into politically correct fantasy. .... Is the
next step to put us in reeducation camps and erase our memories?"
See
The International Agenda
and
Education Buzzwords
July
Sodomizing
Society - It's not funny anymore: "... Not to be outdone by Hollywood
liberals, Fox News, under its banner of "fair and balanced reporting" regularly
provides titillating, tantalizing and tawdry stories for our consideration and consumption
as if to be providing a legitimate public service by doing so. Posturing as respectable
they are able end-run the conscience of their conservative viewers and readers who trust
and accept Fox's self-polling and shrewd programming mix of prudence with perversion ONLY
BECAUSE it has not been officially declared "liberal" by a compromised
collective.
" This is exactly how the Hegelian Dialectic seduces its victims, my
friends...dressing up as one thing while being another, mixing and blending right and
wrong, good and evil, liberal and conservative until the confusion of compromise makes
everyone and everything indistinguishable. That's the consensus process and the wily ways
of The New World Order."
Psalm
12:8
Will Bush Compromise on Faith-Based Initiative Too?
"A report says a group of 19 conservative House
members has sent a letter to Bush, expressing concern that he might make a deal with
Democrats which would force religious organizations to stop excluding homosexuals as
potential employees. Some Democrats have said they will not go along with Bush's plan
unless the groups applying for the federal dollars agree to abide by local and state
non-discrimination policies."
Faith-Based
Compromise
Bush
Decision On Stem Cell Research Funding Saddens Pro-Lifers:
"The Christian Medical Association also felt Bush had crossed a moral line. 'If
it is wrong to destroy human embryos for research purposes, it is wrong to use human
embryos who already have been destroyed for research purposes,' executive director
David Stevens said."
Today's moral decisions are increasingly based on the
consensus process rather than on God's absolute truths.
But
when truth is ignored or compromised, we set aside all firm moral boundaries. As a
result, there will be no limits to corruption, nor any standard that can't be bent
by today's eroding culture and "common ground."
America's
Spiritual Slide
Bush
Broke Stem Cell Pledge, Say Some Pro-Lifers: "The president's
position contradicts the Nuremberg Code, ethical guidelines set down after World War
II, which prohibits experimentation that knowingly causes injury or death to a human
being," said Wendy Wright, director of communications for the Concerned Women
for America.
Choices....
The Real Truth Detector: "Choices...that's really what life is all
about, isn't it? What we choose day in and day out reveals who we are and what we
believe. Regardless of our stated position, the oath we take, the vows we make, the
testimony we give, the truths we hold dear, the laws we enforce, the values we
embrace, the costume we wear, the party we represent, the platform on which we
stand, the faith we profess, the scripture we quote and the God we claim, it is our
choices that reveal the naked truth about ourselves. And it is those choices that
will vindicate or condemn us in the end.
"However, in the 'Age of Illusion', our choices can be easily hidden from
public view. The power of truth has taken a back seat to the power of image and the
skills of marketing it."
The
Principle’s the Thing: "It will
take almost superhuman strength now for the president to hold the new position he
has moved into, having surrendered the strongest ground....
The president himself alluded to it in his speech, in the line about not using human
beings as means for even the noblest of ends.... To use stem cells obtained by
killing living human beings in their embryonic stage is still using them as a means.
For this nation began its embryonic existence by declaring that it held to a
fundamental truth about a right to life endowed in us by our Creator. The whole
world depends on our upholding that principle.
"Human beings very easily reason ourselves into taking positions that end up
having the most tragic of consequences."
Bush
Draws A Stem Cell Line.
"But
what then about research using the stem-cell 'lines' long since taken from embryos?
Bush wanted to know. Isn’t it true that you wouldn’t need many of them to do
groundbreaking research? And wouldn’t funding of such research be morally
acceptable, or, at least, far less objectionable? The bioethicists cautiously
agreed: it probably would be."
Here's a typical
illustration of cultural relativism and the consensus process: seek "common
ground," then appeal to the public by choosing the least offensive alternative.
The cost? Moral compromise and denial of God's absolutes.
Stem
Cell Decision: "On July 9, Bush met with two bioethicists -- Dr.
Leon Kass and his colleague Dr. Daniel Callahanan -- who assured him that the
compromise he already had in mind -- using the existing stem-cell ``lines'' long
since taken from embryos -- would probably be far less objectionable than using
frozen, early-stage embryos. On the day of the speech last week, one of the White
House's first ``heads up'' calls about the stem-cell decision went to Douglas
Johnson of the powerful National Right to Life Committee, who was supportive.
"Assembly
calls Jesus 'unique," but does not affirm Him as Lord alone."
[No link.
The
Presbyterian Layman, 7-2001]:
"The minority report asked the General Assembly to declare that Jesus Christ 'is
the singular saving Lord as understood through Scripture, our confessions and the Book
of Order.' The committee majority skirted the Jesus-alone issue altogether..." Jeff
Mc Donald asked, "If salvation isn't singular through
Jesus Christ, does it meant that it is plural? If it is plural, who are the
others?"
"Former General Assembly Moderator Syngman Rhee suggested a compromise....
"Couldn't there be some way that we also confess our faith... as well as ask our
theological department' for a broader theology of Christ? 'It's about time for us to put
Jesus Christ together?' ... Several quoted John 14:6: "I am
the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father but by me."
"Former General Assembly Moderator Freda Gardner was opposed to the affirmation of
Christ alone. 'Words can become stumbling blocks,'
she said."
Indeed they can. But woe to those who compromise the
gospel and remove Jesus Christ, the main stumbling block, in order to please the
community. See Luke 20:16-18, Matthew 21:44
and Romans 9:32:
"Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and rock of offense, and whoever believes
on Him will not be put to shame."
Are
we listening to the Hip-Hop Generation?
"Without
question, many church going youth contribute to the wealth and popularity of these rap
artists, though some argue that the very life-blood of rap music thrives on negativity.
That is, some say, if you remove the exploitation of women, machismo violence, and
materialist yearnings from rap music, the art will die. Others say, to remove the harsh
lyrics would be an infringement on artist freedom, suggesting that rappers are only
reflecting in rap what they experience in life -- it's their story and they should have
the right to tell it. ...it's important for Christians to engage in these cultural
discussions. When you bring together wealthy youth, media exposure, social, economic,
political power and influence, we all should be paying attention to such an enormous
captivator of youth culture."
No, we
shouldn't. See
Rom
12:2-9
Posted
in May
Boy
Scouts, gay activists reach agreement in Miami-Dade:
"...local Boy Scout officials
and gay activists announced an agreement Tuesday after year-long discussions that both
sides say will lead to better understanding and respect. Without making any concession to
the national policy of excluding gays, the Boy Scouts of America's South Florida Council
said it will work with gay and lesbian organizations to educate Scout leaders on ways to
deal more sensitively with members who identify themselves as homosexuals."
This
is essentially an unofficial surrender via compromise in the name of tolerance. In this
context, to "educate" people really means to EXPOSE PEOPLE -- more specifically
the young -- to the homosexual lifestyle, until all are comfortable with it -- and some
are seduced by it.
Col
2:8
Are
we listening to the Hip-Hop Generation?
"Without
question, many church going youth contribute to the wealth and popularity of these rap
artists, though some argue that the very life-blood of rap music thrives on negativity.
That is, some say, if you remove the exploitation of women, machismo violence, and
materialist yearnings from rap music, the art will die. Others say, to remove the harsh
lyrics would be an infringement on artist freedom, suggesting that rappers are only
reflecting in rap what they experience in life -- it's their story and they should have
the right to tell it. ...it's important for Christians to engage in these cultural
discussions. When you bring together wealthy youth, media exposure, social, economic,
political power and influence, we all should be paying attention to such an enormous
captivator of youth culture."
No, we
shouldn't. See
Rom
12:2-9
Private
donors fund students' Portland trip:
High school
students
from around Vancouver, WA, "will pile onto school buses today and travel
to Portland to see the Dalai Lama.... The students are participating in a
youth summit, part of a three-day festival in Portland called Pathways to
Peace.... The 250 students... are in a contemporary world problems class
that discusses both comparative religions and political systems...."
Buddhism is among the preferred models for the new global spirituality.
Read
about the Dalai Lama in
A
Twist of Faith, chapter 7
Socialist
armbands OK'd after student protest: "Two students were asked to
remove the armbands April 26 because a bus driver complained about the symbols.
Students -- hundreds of whom wore paper stars with the words "Free Speech"
last week to protest that decision -- called Monday's announcement a triumph for
free-speech rights at high schools." But when the
tables are turned and the issue is less politically correct, there is little appreciation
for free speech. See
Student
Sues School Over Ban on "Straight Pride" Sweatshirt.
Proverb
17:15
Posted
in April
News
Briefs from AgapePress: "At the
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, students will examine depictions of Hades
and hell in literature, art and music. And at New York University, a three-week course
will combine technology and theology, and ask students to design their own image of
hell. The newspaper report does not say why the universities felt their was a demand
for such courses." (4-24-01) Whether students know the
Bible or not, they will be tempted to define "hell" based on popular images
and entertainment, then adapt its meaning to contemporary thinking -- an effective
means of inoculating people against the Biblical truth and its sober warnings.
2
Tim 4-3-4.
See also
The
Nature and Tactics of Satan.
...
in the church. Scholars
call for recovery of meaning of 'tolerance': "Tolerance has been given a bad name, according to a panel of scholars
urging Christians to recover the word's original meaning...."
Rom
12:2.
See also
Conforming
the Church to the New Millennium and
Mind
Control
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