The Cross of Christ: Feared, banned, trivialized...yet Triumphant:
"For decades, America has been torn by a mysterious love-hate relationship with the cross. The media mocks it. Liberal bureaucrats and politicians fear it. City and library administrators tend to ban it, and countless schools and teachers have censored it. Yet Christians love it!...
"Trivializing the cross, redefining words, severing Christian symbols from their Biblical meanings.... They all fit the vision of a new kind of world -- one
'freed' from allegiance to God's unchanging truth....
"During the first half of the 20th century, two British brothers helped organize this march toward the new global ethic.
Aldous Huxley showed us parts of it in his 1932 classic, Brave New World. His brother,
Julian Huxley, the first head of UNESCO, brought that vision into the UN agency responsible for reshaping the world through
'education' and 'science.' Its blueprint for global education was designed to change beliefs, values, attitudes and the way we think....
"Four decades later, this UN plan for
'mental health' and 'lifelong learning' had filtered into schools around the world. So when former President
Bush introduced his massive education program in 1991, he was merely giving us the latest version of the global program.
Listen to his message: 'Nations that stick to stale old notions and ideologies will falter and fail. So I'm here today to say, America will move forward....
New schools for a new world..."
Republic of New Afrika leader
now guiding capital city's direction
: "Voters in Jackson, Miss...
have picked a Democrat as their mayor. ...he is a former leader of the
Republic of New Afrika, a group dedicated to creating an independent
black nation out of five southern states. Now leading the city of
about 175,000 is Chokwe Lumumba – who has a long history of radical
activism and whose plans for the largest city in Mississippi could be
called revolutionary.
"A co-founder of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, which promotes black
'self-determination,' Lumumba was sworn in on July 1, after winning
86 percent of the vote in the general election.
"...he calls this area of Mississippi the “Kush District,” and he raised
his fist in a black power salute at the ceremony where he was sworn
in as mayor."
Social
Decay + Illegal Immigration + Poverty = Open War On The Streets
Of America:
"Moral standards have been falling for decades, we have allowed
massive hordes of criminals, gang members and drug dealers to enter
this country illegally, and thanks to our declining economy our
inner cities are being absolutely ravaged by poverty. Was such a
combination really going to produce peace and prosperity? Should
we be so shocked that we now have open war on the streets of America?"
See
From Freedom to Servitude
December
2013
Alien
nation: The new census reveals a Britain that would be unrecognisable
even to our grandparents:
"For the past 60 years or so, we have lived in a nation that was more or
less familiar to anyone who had grown up in the pre-war Britain of 1939....
People behaved, thought, worked, laughed and enjoyed themselves much as they
had done for decades.... A short-distance time-traveler between 1912 and
2012 might be perplexed and astonished."
Debate over 'Father' and
'Son' terms in Arabic Bible translations:
"Controversy is swirling around the Arabic and Turkish translations
of the Bible. The word 'Father' is replaced with 'Allah' (meaning God
in Arabic), while 'Son' becomes 'Messiah.' ...One example of this change
in the text concerns Matthew 28:19, which instead of 'baptizing them
in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit' becomes
'Cleanse them by water in the name of Allah, his Messiah and his Holy
Spirit.'...This translation is 'an all-American idea' with absolutely
no respect for the 'sacredness' of Scripture, or even of the growing
Turkish church," added Turkish church leader Rev. Fikret Böcek."
New Islamist Constitution
Brings Back Slavery to Egypt:
"Egyptian slavery is as old as the pyramids and though it was banned
in the 1870s under British pressure, it has never entirely gone away....
'The first independent Muslim ruler of Egypt relied on black slaves
and at his death is said to have left 24,000 (white) Mamaluks and 45,000
Nubian military slaves. In north Africa the source of black slaves from
Nubia and Sudan were too convenient to ignore.'"
See
Moral and Spiritual Corruption
August 2012
We
ain't got no self-control:
"During the ordering process, their young son realized the restaurant
was out of his favorite food. He proceeded to fling himself onto
the floor in a temper tantrum. It was the classic routine – flailing
arms and legs, wails of frustration.... Now this is not outside
the realms of typical toddler behavior, except this boy wasn’t a
toddler. He was 9 years old.... He was merely spoiled.... The parents
ignored their son until the manager intervened – and then the parents
got mad because, after all, it was the manager’s fault that the
restaurant was out of their son’s favorite dish....
"Compare this to the 1-year-old son of some neighbors. I was visiting
one day when the boy was in a particularly whiney mood. He wanted
his mother to pick him up and cuddle him. She told him she would
only pick him up if he stopped his whining. The boy walked away,
still fussing. Three times he came back to his mother....The fourth
time, he...stopped his whining, and lifted up his arms. Immediately
the mother picked him up and snuggled. Which child do you suppose
will grow up with some measure of self-control?...
"The government cultivates people without self-control..."
See
The Fall and Rise
of Human Violence
The Moderate Paradox:
"The moderate solution is deeply seductive for Republicans, who see
their opposition sliding to the extreme left and believe that they can
sweep up the middle by just moving a little to the left. All they have
to do is moderate their position on X, Y or Z, and they will win over
all the unaffiliated voters who are a natural fit for their common-sense
policies....
"'Moderate' and 'Extremist' are words that
are used with an absolute air, as if what they refer to is clear and
fixed. Actually, the value of each is relative to the other....
The moderate positions of ten years ago are the conservative positions
of today. Not in principle but in practice. When the culture is moving
fast enough leftward, then anyone attempting to adopt a moderate position
is already trying to conserve something, which makes him a reactionary
in the eyes of the left....
"The Democratic Party moves six steps to the
left making it extremist. And our moderate Republican decides that he
has found his chance. If he just moves one step to the left, he will
seize the moderate position and lay claim to the terra incognita of
the middle ground. ... All that the moderate Republican has done is
watered down his message and made himself slightly more palatable to
the middle, but that will change next week....
"The right sacrifices long-term principles to short-term
advantages, while the left sacrifices short-term advantages to long
term-victories. The left will accept being embarrassed. It embraces
the extremism tag. It doesn't care that liberalism has a negative perception
or that people consider its views to be too radical. Those same views
that people consider too radical will be mainstream in a decade or two....
"The same phenomenon has occurred with Islam. Every
time Islamists pull in their direction, the dialogue space is expanded
to define new versions of moderation and extremism. Many Muslim terrorist
groups are now moderate, not because they are moderate in our terms,
but because they are moderate in Islamist terms."
July 2012
The collapse of America
is speeding up as society rots from the inside out:
"For a long time our debt-fueled prosperity has masked much of the social
decay that has been festering underneath the surface, but now it is
becoming increasingly apparent that the thin veneer of civilization
that we all take for granted is beginning to disappear. "
See
Our Murdered Cities and
the Freedom-Eaters
April 2012
The Invincible Dogma:
"A long-standing legal charade was played out again recently, when Federal
Express paid $3 million to settle an employment discrimination case
brought by the U.S. Department of Labor. Federal Express was accused
of both racial discrimination and sex discrimination. FedEx denied it.
Why then did they pay the $3 million? Because it can cost a lot more
than $3 million to fight a discrimination case.
"Years ago, the Sears department store chain spent $20 million fighting
a sex discrimination charge that took 15 years to make its way through
the legal labyrinth. In the end, Sears won -- if spending $20 million....
In the Sears case, there was not even one woman who worked in
any of the company's 900 stores who claimed to have been discriminated
against. It was all a matter of statistics -- and of the
arbitrary dogma that statistical disparities show discrimination....Those
who lag behind... have every incentive to think of themselves as victims
of those who are more successful."
See
The 'New European Soviet'
March 2012
The Cross of Christ: Feared, banned,
trivialized...yet Triumphant:
"Neil Postman, the author of Amusing Ourselves to Death, understood these socialist
strategies. He also saw the power of a cooperative media to dull old convictions
and kindle new cravings. To illustrate today's manipulation...he drew an interesting
contrast between two familiar totalitarian visions: Aldous Huxley's Brave
New World and George Orwell's 1984: 'Orwell feared that the truth would
be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance.
Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become
a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies....
In 1984...
people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled
by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin
us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us.' The spiritual
war against Christ and the cross is being waged on both fronts..."
See
Conforming to the culture, not
to truth
January 2012
Civilization in Reverse:
"...history offers plenty of examples of life becoming far worse than it
had been centuries earlier. The biographer Plutarch, writing 500 years after
the glories of classical Greece, lamented that in his time weeds grew amid
the empty colonnades of the once-impressive Greek city-states. In America,
most would prefer to live in the Detroit of 1941 than the Detroit of 2011....
"...our own rendezvous with reality is rapidly approaching. The costs of
servicing a growing national debt of more than $15 trillion are starting
to squeeze out other budget expenditures. Americans are no longer affluent
enough to borrow hundreds of billions of dollars to import oil, while we
snub our noses at vast new oil and gas finds beneath our own soil and seas.
... Now, as in Greece, the veneer of civilization is proving pretty thin
in California. ...When thieves rip copper wire out of street lights, the
streets stay dark.... Hospital emergency rooms neither have room nor act
as if there's much of an emergency. ....
"In
1960 there were far fewer government officials, far fewer prisons, far fewer
laws and far fewer lawyers -- and yet the state was a far safer place than
it is a half-century later."
See chart on this page:
Bowing to the Dragon?
October 2011
Olive Garden: American Flag
Display Would ‘Disrupt the Dining Experience’:
80-year-old Marti Warren thought she was doing a good thing a little over
a month ago when she booked a local Olive Garden restaurant in Oxford, Alabama,
to host a Kiwanis club awards banquet....[However, the] restaurant staff
refused to allow her to bring an American flag....[Olive Garden's excuse:]
'...we’re very sorry if this decision has caused them any concern.
The Oxford Olive Garden does not have a private dining area. To be
fair to everyone and avoid disrupting the dining experience for all other
guests, they’re unable to accommodate flags or banners of any type in
the dining room.' But Warren says... they told her she’d be in banquet room
three." See
Is this America?
Not Ready for ‘Till Death Do
You Part’? Mexico Considering 2-Year Marriage ‘Contracts’:
"Instead of signing on for a lifetime together, couples could decide the
length of their commitment, with the minimum contract being two years. If
the couple was still happy after their allotted time together, they could
simply renew the license."
November 2009
Smash "Twilight" sequel
enters record books:
"The 'Twilight' sequel scored the third-biggest opening weekend of all
time at the North American box office on Sunday, as millions of young
women swooned over the complex love triangle involving a high school
girl, a vampire and a werewolf.... Exit-polling data in North
America indicated that women accounted for 80 percent of the audience
and half the audience was under 21. ... 'New Moon' revisits the
dangerous romance between high school student Bella Swan... and vampire
Edward Cullen.... Reviews were largely scathing.....
"...the
stars have become sex symbols whose real-life romances with each
other... have long been gossip-column fodder."
Please discourage your
children from seeing it! Read our review:
Twilight Obsession
September 2009
Diversity boss: 'White people'
must 'step down':
"With former Obama green jobs czar Van Jones gone, along with his views
about whites directing poisons to minorities, focus is now shifting
to race-based views of 'diversity czar' Mark Lloyd, who has
suggested 'white people' step down from positions of power to allow
'more people of color, gays' and 'other people' to take those positions.
Lloyd, the Federal Communications Commission chief diversity officer appointed
to the newly created position by President Obama... has talked about issues
such as a 100 percent tax on broadcast outlets to collect money to provide
alternative viewpoints, mandatory diversity in station ownership....
Lloyd was vice president for
strategic initiatives at the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. He was
also a senior fellow at the George Soros-funded Center for American
Progress and has worked as a reporter and producer at NBC and CNN. At a
May 2005 Conference on Media Reform, Lloyd appeared as a speaker in a discussion
on why media policy should be considered from a 'racial angle."
March 2009
Survey: Less Than 1
Percent of Young Adults Hold Biblical Worldview:
“There are a several troubling patterns to take notice. First, although
most Americans consider themselves to be Christian and say they
know the content of the Bible, less than one out of ten Americans
demonstrate such knowledge through their action.”'
See
New Beliefs for a Global Village
January 2009
In arguing for gay marriage, Newsweek
should forget the Bible...:
"The left can never quite decide if it hates religion and wants to destroy it,
or has contempt for religion and wants to exploit it. The French Revolution
murdered priests and closed churches, but set up a Goddess of Reason in a vain
attempt to harness mankind’s spiritual longing to Jacobinism. The Bolsheviks
destroyed the traditional Russian Orthodox Church and made atheism the state’s
official creed, then set up a dummy Orthodox Church composed of its lackeys.
"Hitler
tried to avoid the mistakes of his revolutionary predecessors.... While the
Nazis wanted clergy who would preach the doctrines of National Socialism, they
were initially satisfied with pastors and priests who steered clear of politics....
"The
cover story by Lisa Miller, in the December 15 Newsweek – 'Our Mutual Joy' subtitled
'Opponents of gay marriage often cite Scripture. But ... sneers at and seeks
to subvert Judeo-Christian tradition.'"
See
Why "Hate crime" laws would ban
Biblical Christianity
May 2008
The Adolf Hitler doll
which comes with a change of clothes - and a spare head with a kind
face: "The
decision to market the figure comes at a time of growing extreme
right political sentiment in Ukraine. There are also reports of
increasing xenophobia and racism, and of some extremists supporting
racism similar to that of Nazi Germany under Hitler. Critics believe
a cult of Hitler could spring up among disaffected youths, too young
to remember the ravages Nazism wreaked on the country. ...
Although Ukranian laws prohibit any form of fascism or propaganda,
the dolls are already on sale and will be mass marketed this summer.
One saleswoman said: 'It is like Barbie. Kids can undress fuhrer,
pin on medals...."
See
Loving evil
April 2008
Bible tops America's
10 favorite books of all time:
"For those belonging to the Echo Boomers group (ages 18-31), their
second favorite is the Harry Potter series. Generation X
(ages 32-43) is evenly divided between The Stand and Angels and Demons...."
See
The Power of Suggestion
Third-graders plot revenge:
"'Our children are learning to kill and learning to like it; and then we have
the audacity to say, 'Oh my goodness, what's wrong?'
"'A group of third grade boys and girls have been caught conspiring
to do physical harm, if not kill, their teacher.... The plot was hatched in
retaliation for the scolding of a student for standing on a chair.... The eight
to ten year olds intended to do violence to their teacher, and even delegated
individual responsibilities in a plan to knock her unconscious with a crystal
paperweight, bind her with handcuffs and tape, and then stab her with a knife!"
See
Role-Playing Games & Popular Occultism
Exam cheating goes high tech, but
its causes are nothing new:
"Students today can use an array of high-tech gadgetry, challenging schools
to keep pace. One click of the Internet opens a world of possibilities and temptations,
devious and ingenious.... More recent innovations are button cameras, which
have a wireless connection to a laptop computer that can then capture stolen
test items, and pens capable of scanning a test and sending a video signal to
a remote laptop to save the images."
March 2008
Drunk, Violent, Promiscuous... Today's
[British] Youth: "...Time Magazine [cover] depicts a young man in
a 'hoodie' with mugshots of others across a Union Jack. Its headline reads:
'Unhappy, Unloved and Out of Control - An epidemic of violence, crime and drunkenness
has made Britain scared of its young.' It also pours scorn upon the parenting
abilities of the British..."
But European
laws make it increasingly difficult for parents to discipline their children.
It was bad back in the nineties; now it's far worse.
See
International Courts Mock Sovereignty
The death of shame:
"Hillary 'misspoke' about her dodging of the sniper bullets. Where I
come from we call that lying. But if anyone were to accuse her of 'lying'
the outrage over such blatant 'judgmentalism' of her actions would raise
a hue and cry that would turn her into a sympathetic figure. ...
"...we
laugh it off as 'fatigue, or mixed-memory. (Let’s see, can you remember
confusing the specifics of the last time you had to dodge bullets?)
Such blatant dishonesty should doom her career....
"She’s
running for leader of the free world.... But we’ll brush it off as 'Clintonesque.'
We’ve come to expect it from our leaders. ... Britney, Paris, Lindsay,
all have gotten rich off of despicable behavior. The glorification of
sluts is featured even on mainstream news shows.....
"My Mom...
could wield a mean yardstick. She wasn’t worried about her kids’ self-esteem.
She was worried about our self-respect.... My wife came home from substitute
teaching in our local elementary the other day... “The kids are out
of control,” she lamented. “Discipline is non-existent.... The principals
all look the other way.”
See
False shepherds
January 2008
America appears to be
in conflict:
"Perhaps worse, however, is the home-grown hip-hop movement which
is best known for its coarse musical productions, but at the core
is encouraging political challenge against existing social institutions.
The danger of hip-hop comes from the utter nihilism of its
most popular artists who promote that '...ghetto life is so hopeless
that an explosion of violence is both justified and imminent...'”
See
Conforming to the
culture, not to truth
December 2007
When it's no country
for old men
[by Mark Steyn]: "...M. Trudeau had missed the point: barn-burning
wasn't wrong because it was illegal; it was illegal because it
was wrong.... That's an important distinction.....Once it's
no longer accepted that something is wrong all the laws in the world
will avail you nought. The law functions as formal expression
of a moral code, not as free-standing substitute for it....
And, if a citizen of an advanced Western social democracy no longer
knows it's wrong, the laws are unlikely to prove much restraint.
"
British
society has come to depend on CCTVs — closed-circuit cameras in
every public building, every shopping centre, every street, even
(in some remote rural locales) on the trees.... Britain is said
to be home to a third of all the world's CCTVs; in the course of
an average day, the average Briton is estimated to be filmed approximately
300 times. ...
"....in
the public conveyances of Toronto and London and Paris, young fit
men sprawl across the seats while pregnant women and shopping-laden
spinsters and nonagenarians with two bad legs straphang down the
line.....
"'A society's first
line of defence is not the law but customs, traditions and moral
values,' wrote Walter Williams.... .They include important thou-shalt-nots
such as shalt not murder, shalt not steal, shalt not lie and cheat,
but they also include all those courtesies one might call
ladylike and gentlemanly conduct. Policemen and laws can never replace
these restraints on personal conduct."
November 2007
Is this really
Thanksgiving?
"Take a look at the following
video footage taken in Mesquite, Texas on the 23rd of
November 2007. Oh, and be sure to turn up the speakers on your
computer."
See
comment
August 2007
Infants Watch TV Before They
Walk and Talk: "Even
before their first birthday, 13 percent are allowed to sit in front of the
box. As they grow to the age of four the percentage rises to 96 percent...
Eighty-five percent leave their youngster with the TV while they are doing
housework chores."
See
Television and Mind
Manipulation
June 2007
Spread of AIDS in Africa outpaces
treatment: "Even as billions
of dollars are spent expanding access to antiretroviral drugs, the goal of controlling
AIDS in Africa remains remote.... In places such as the United States and Europe,
where prevention programs were already succeeding against much smaller epidemics,
the arrival of antiretroviral drugs was a turning point in the battle against
AIDS. But in sub-Saharan Africa, prevention programs have mostly failed to
curb the behavior -- especially the habit of maintaining several sexual
partners at a time -- that drives the epidemic, research indicates. So
while antiretroviral drugs have prolonged and improved the lives of hundreds
of thousands of Africans, millions more are being newly infected with a disease
that is still incurable and, for most, terminal."
See
Warren's P.E.A.C.E.
Plan & UN Goals - Part 3
April 2007
One in five young people to rely
on handouts [UK]: "A
'lost generation' of unemployed young people is costing the economy billions
of pounds a year in benefits, youth crime and educational under-achievement....
Roughly one in five young people faces a lifetime on government handouts, under-achieving
in education and runs the risk of falling into crime."
See
The fall and rise of human violence
March 2007
Married
with kids becomes exception:
"...married couples with children now occupy fewer than one in every
four households.... As marriage with children becomes an exception
rather than the norm, social scientists say it is also becoming
the self-selected province of the college-educated and the affluent.
The working class and the poor, meanwhile, increasingly steer away
from marriage, while living together and bearing children out of
wedlock."
See
The Transformation
of America
February 2007
Religion's Generation
Gap: "Sex,
drugs and rock 'n' roll used to be the Big Three of rebellion. Some
families are adding religion to that list. An increasing
number of teens and young adults who were raised in nonreligious
or nominally religious families are getting swept up in religious
fervor. This is creating a complicated and sometimes painful family
dynamic....
"The
parents of 16-year-old Kevin Ellstrand are self-described secular
humanists who shun organized religion.... They get upset, however,
when Kevin explains that he doesn't believe in evolution. 'To me,
this is appalling,' says his mother... [who] was raised a Methodist.
"...a
significant number of young U.S. Muslims are becoming substantially
more devoted to Islam than their parents. In the Jewish community,
a growing number of formerly secular young people are embracing
an Orthodox lifestyle."
(3-2-07)
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