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Those people told their followers they was Jesus. That is about as anti-christian as saying there is no Christ.   What is really striking since you mentioned Jonestown is that all those folks ,like liberals like yourself, are all about building an utopia on earth. Might want to check your religious beliefs and make sure you are not drinking the kool-aid.

Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions---Thomas Jefferson

If you agree then why do you try to undercut so many comments that come from a Christian worldview? It would be best to study up on this   Colossians 2:8 J.B. Phillips New Testament (PHILLIPS) 8 Be careful that nobody spoils your faith through intellectualism or high-sounding nonsense. Such stuff is at best founded on men’s ideas of the nature of the world and disregards Christ! To make sure you do not hear this   Matthew 7:23 J.B. Phillips New Testament (PHILLIPS) 22-23 â€œIn ‘that day’ many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we preach in your name, didn’t we cast out devils in your name, and do many great things in your name?’ Then I shall tell them plainly, ‘I have never known you. Go away from me, you have worked on the side of evil!’”  

Actually PC is another way to introduce Marxism into our culture. 

When you take from one to help another you are not as good as you think you are. When you do not have any skin in the game your self righteousness really shines through.  

Liberalism leads to socialism which leads to communism 

Do not use your religion to base moral judgments.

Can a Muslim force others to follow Sharia Law?  Homo-Sexuality goes agianst the Laws of Nature, just like murder, rape, pedophile, and abortion do also. BTW the reason why these things violate the Laws of Nature is because of Romans 1:19   since what can be known about God is evident among them, because God has shown it to them. 20 For His invisible attributes, that is, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen since the creation of the world, being understood through what He has made. As a result, people are without excuse

So the law on not murdering can not legally be banned then either. 

So you are cool with the media having a low standard ,in a free country, on telling the news?  Is it right for a Christian to biased? Is it right for the news to be biased?  Is it right for a Muslim to lie? Is it right for the news media to lie? Is it right for a secular non-for profit to cook the books? Is it right for the media to cook the books?  So we should expect all peoples to have a high standard

[Hidden Content]    MSNBC & The Great Liberal Narrative: The Truth About The Tyranny of Political Correctness" An episode of Bill Whittle's PJTV show 'Afterburner' with a discussion of the insidious political narrative of left-wing politics, mainstream media and the education system, from the mid twentieth century to today. A brief analysis of political correctness, it's origins and it's objectives.

 Documents prove attack on conservative groups was an agency-wide effort, not the act of a few rogue agents...WASHINGTON—The Washington-based watchdog group Judicial Watch is on a roll. Two weeks afterobtaining emails that show the White House crafted discredited talking points on Benghazi, Judicial Watch this week dropped another bombshell announcement: New documents show the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups originated in Washington, D.C.   A May 2013 inspector general’s report showed the IRS singled out groups with conservative-sounding names for extra scrutiny beginning in March 2010. President Barack Obama, Lois Lerner, the former head of the agency’s tax-exempt division, and other administration officials blamed the targeting on rogue agents in the IRS office in Cincinnati, but emails obtained by Judicial Watch tell a different story.  A July 6, 2010, email from Washington IRS official Holly Paz asks IRS lawyer Steven Grodnitzky to tell two Cincinnati employees “how we have been handling tea party applications in the last few months.” Grodnitzky responds by saying his office “is working the tea party applications in coordination with Cincy. We are developing a few applications here in DC and providing copies of our development letters with the agent to use as examples in the development of their cases.” Tom Fitton, the president of Judicial Watch, said the documents “show that officials in the IRS headquarters were responsible for the illegal delays of tea party applications.” He called it “disturbing” to see Lerner trying to “mislead the IRS’ internal investigators” into thinking otherwise.  Lerner denies wrongdoing but has twice invoked her Fifth Amendment right not to testify before Congress on grounds that it might incriminate her. Last week, House Republicans voted to hold her in contempt of Congress for not cooperating with its investigation. The IRS documents also show Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs’ permanent subcommittee on investigations, actively pressured high-ranking IRS officials to continue targeting conservative groups. In a July 27, 2012, letter, Levin personally singles out a dozen groups he wants investigated for what he calls “political activity.” The list included only one left-leaning organization, Priorities USA, and 11 conservative ones, including Club for Growth, Americans for Tax Reform, and the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List.  Marjorie Dannenfelser, Susan B. Anthony List president, said on Thursday the revelation is “another example of government attempts to stoke fear in the hearts of those who disagree with them. Fear of engaging in the public square is antithetical to the ideals on which our country was built.” Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, renewed his call for a special prosecutor to investigate the IRS targeting, noting in a statement the administration’s explanations have proved false. “This administration has lost all credibility to investigate this partisan scandal, especially given that they have entrusted the investigation to be led by a major Democratic donor.” Barbara Bosserman, the lead Department of Justice investigator, made $6,750 in donations to Obama’s re-election campaign and the Democratic National Committee. House Republicans invited her to testify at a February hearing, but she did not attend. Democrats say there is no evidence to suggest she is conducting a biased investigation.  In March, John Koskinen, the new IRS commissioner, told lawmakers his agency was doing all it could to turn over documents to Congress in a timely manner. But as with the Benghazi investigation, Judicial Watch had to file a lawsuit to get the administration to hand over the latest round of documents. The organization filed a Freedom of Information Act request in May 2013 and sued in October. [Hidden Content]     J.C. Derrick J.C. is a reporter in WORLD's Washington Bureau. He spent 10 years covering sports, higher education, and politics for the Longview News-Journal and other newspapers in Texas before joining WORLD in 2012. Follow J.C. on Twitter @jcderrick1.

So do mixed race couples (or people) have to agree with this line of thought or are they allowed to make their own decisions that go against "group think"?   

[Hidden Content]   ~Is the petrodollar monopoly about to be shattered?  When U.S. politicians started slapping economic sanctions on Russia, they probably never even imagined that there might be serious consequences for the United States.  But now the Russian media is reporting that the Russian Ministry of Finance is getting ready to pull the trigger on a "de-dollarization" plan. .......

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Liberals, ruining America since Woodrow Wilson.

‘The days of acceptable Christianity are over’ MARRIAGE By J.C. DERRICK Posted May 13, 2014, 03:52 p.m.   WASHINGTON—Robert P. George, chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, on Tuesday delivered a somber message to Christians: “The days of acceptable Christianity are over.”  George, the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, made the remarks at the 10th annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C. George, a converted Catholic, headlined the event with Cardinal Seán Patrick O’Malley, the top Catholic in the United States.  George said society calls Christian beliefs bigoted and hateful, and “they despise us if we refuse to call good evil and evil good.” He argued that American Christians no longer have the option to avoid the culture wars, saying “a price must be paid” for holding to traditional church teachings on life, marriage, and sexual ethics.  Former Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich and axed reality show hosts David and Jason Benham are some of the latest to pay that price for their belief in traditional marriage. George said what American Christians are facing is the 21st century version of the question, “Am I ashamed of the gospel?”  “Marriage is inseparable from the gospel,” he said. “These teachings are not the whole gospel, but they are integral to the gospel. They are not optional truths.”  George’s staunch defense of life and marriage came days after a judge made Arkansas the latest state to overturn its ban on gay marriage. Judge Chris Piazza did not issue a stay on his decision, leading some county clerks to begin issuing marriage licenses to homosexual couples on Monday.   George said even if the current cultural trend is unstoppable, Christians should not stop teaching what the Bible says about human sexuality. “If we deny these truths, we really are like Peter [saying] ‘I do not know the man,’” he said. “If we keep silent, we are like the other disciples, who ran.” George noted how societal pressures have helped unite Catholics and evangelicals, who he called “our brothers and sisters in Christ.” Joseph Cella, founder of the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast, said George’s comments were “some of the most profound remarks we’ve heard here.” Past speakers include former Sen. Rick Santorum, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, and President George W. Bush, who attended each of his last four years in office.    J.C. Derrick J.C. is a reporter in WORLD's Washington Bureau. He spent 10 years covering sports, higher education, and politics for the Longview News-Journal and other newspapers in Texas before joining WORLD in 2012. Follow J.C. on Twitter @jcderrick1. Read more from this writer   

The dad might just sue over this.

How the Bible just became more relevant FAITH & INSPIRATION By ANDRÉE SEU PETERSON Posted May 6, 2014, 10:42 a.m.   I read 2 Thessalonians this morning and was astonished at how much the apostle Paul had learned about my life lately. I say this tongue in cheek, of course, in the spirit in which Mark Twain allegedly quipped, “When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.” It used to be that my eyes glazed over at the Pauline passages about persecution, like this one: “… we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions that you are enduring. This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering—since indeed God considers it just to repay with affliction those who afflict you, and to grant relief to you who are afflicted … when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven …” (2 Thessalonians 1:4-7). All this talk about suffering and being afflicted at the hands of some faceless people! All this talk about needing to endure it and wait for Christ! I could not relate. I had to admit that the meanderings of Paul (and Jesus) did not describe me. I had no experience of being harassed or hated for my faith, or of knowing anyone who had. It made those sections of Scripture—and therefore the whole of Scripture, to some extent—a bit alien and abstract for me. But praise the Lord, see how much the Scriptures have “learned” about our lives in the last few years! Increasingly, our American experience has come to resemble conditions in first century Thessalonica, so that we can finally feel a part of the cloud of witnesses and the suffering saints. A sampler: The fast-food chain Chick-fil-A is banned in Boston. (When I was a kid, if a movie or a book was “banned in Boston” it was because it was morally filthy, but nowadays a company that is not pro-same-sex marriage is unwelcome in Beantown.) Last week, CNN host Rachel Nichols, latching onto the feeding frenzy of the Donald Sterling affair, dropped the hint that the Orlando Magic’s Rich DeVos should be the next NBA owner to go, for his pro-family views. An acquaintance recently told me that I should check out a website called â€œRight Wing Watch,” subtitled “A project of People for the American Way dedicated to monitoring and exposing the activities of the right wing movement.” She said my name is mentioned on it. I hardly believed the woman, but I looked and it was true.  

www.livingwaters.com In Lakewood, California, a man who sent four golf balls into the lake at the local golf club decided that he wasn’t a gifted golfer. He was so upset at his effort that he threw his golf bag into the lake and stormed off to his car. Onlookers thought that he had had a change of heart when he went back down to the lake and waded out into the water. He then grabbed the bag, searched the pockets until he found his car keys, returned to his car bag-less, and drove away. When this sinful world tosses Christianity away because they are offended by it they make the mistake of rejecting the One who said, “I am he that lives, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of Hell and of death” (Revelation 1:18).  

Baylor professor Rodney Stark’s The Triumph of Christianity was WORLD’s 2012 book of the year. His latest, How the West Won: The Neglected Story of the Triumph of Modernity (ISI, 2014), is equally worth reading for all the myths Stark busts. He consistently shows how decentralization and competition, rather than government domination, form the base for progress.  Stark was a journalist before entering the academic world, and his clear writing shows it. He skewers classicists who mourn ancient Rome’s downfall, and calls the fall of Rome “the most beneficial event in the rise of Western civilization, precisely because it unleashed so many substantial and progressive changes. … Disunity enabled extensive, small-scale social experimentation and unleashed creative competition among hundreds of independent political units.” In a chapter entitled “The blessings of disunity,” Stark goes on to show that the Dark Ages weren’t dark, the Vikings and the Crusades have gotten a bad rap, the medieval church fought slavery, the Middle Ages witnessed global warming and then global cooling, and the Black Death contributed to the end of serfdom. And more debunking: Native Americans did not have a reverence for the earth, the European settlement of the Americas was not a brutal act of genocide, Spain following the Age of Exploration never declined because it never truly rose, Islam never had a golden age and was not tolerant, Christianity was not hostile to science, and European nations did not profit from colonialism. Francis Spufford’s Unapologetic (HarperOne, 2013) shows a British writer’s recognition that belief in Christ makes the greatest emotional sense not for the “young, buff, and available” but for the aging woman with a demented husband, or the boy in the wheelchair with “spasming corkscrew limbs,” or the drug-addicted woman with “a rat’s nest of dreadlocks” who will soon be losing her child. Spufford sees Christianity as the religion that acknowledges the hard things and finds grounds for hope in spite of them. He acknowledges that coming to Christ is not primarily an intellectual assent to propositions but a matter of feelings: “I assent to the ideas because I have the feelings; I don’t have the feelings because I’ve assented to the ideas.” Spufford also stresses, as did Walker Percy, the way we often distract ourselves with stuff, until at a certain point “you’re lying in the bath and you noticed that you’re 39 and the way you’re living bears scarcely any resemblance to what you think you’ve always wanted; yet you got here by choice, by a long series of choices for things which, at any one moment, temporarily outbid the things you say you wanted most.” The churches he looks for are those that tell the truth, “the authentic bad news about myself, [but] in a perspective which is so different from the tight focus of my desperation that it is good news in itself; I have been shown that though I may see myself in the grim optics of sorrow and self-dislike, I am being seen all the while, if I can bring myself to believe it, with a generosity wider than oceans.” Amen. [Hidden Content]

 [Hidden Content]     The “Special Courts” set up by the Nazis made claims against pastors who spoke out against Hitler’s policies. Niemoeller was not the only one singled out by the Gestapo. “Some 807 other pastors and leading laymen of the ‘Confessional Church’ were arrested in 1937, and hundreds more in the next couple of years.” A group of Confessional Churches in Germany, founded by Pastor Niemoeller and other Protestant ministers, drew up a proclamation to confront the political changes taking place in Germany that threatened the people “with a deadly danger. The danger lies in a new religion,” the proclamation declared. “The church has by order of its Master to see to it that in our people Christ is given the honor that is proper to the Judge of the world. . . . The First Commandment says ‘Thou shalt have no other gods before me.’ The new religion is a rejection of the First Commandment.” Five hundred pastors who read the proclamation from their pulpits were arrested. Read more at [Hidden Content]#HGkEvpy2XUPMVBG3.99.....Christians were told that the church’s sole concern was the spiritual life of the believer. “The Erlangen church historian Hermann Jorda declared in 1917 that the state, the natural order of God, followed its own autonomous laws while the kingdom of God was concerned with the soul and operated separately on the basis of the morality of the gospel.” This view is very much like what Christians are being taught today. It has neutralized Christians in the name of the Bible. How many times have Christians heard, there’s a separation between church and state, Jesus didn’t get mixed up in politics, our citizenship is in heaven, do not judge, you can’t impose your morality on other people, God’s kingdom is not of this world, render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, etc.  

I know you did not ask me, but hopefully this can cut off any trouble.   The KJV Bible is a good translation, and as pioneers headed west it was the KJV Bible they took with them. The KJV Bible was  written on a 11th/12th grade reading level (so shame on us for being lazy stupid if that is why one dislikes the KJV) The KJV was written along time ago and while people do not evolve words do so other translations are ok. Me personally I like the "Thus saith the Lord" but that is a personal thing not a theological thing. There are good translations out there and the KJV, ESV NKVJ,Holman, NASB is some of them, and there are some bad translations out there  (RSV,Message Bible, the 2011 NIV). One of the better translations out there might be the Danial Webster Bible ever heard of it? But when it comes down to it the best Bible is one that is read.

Bullets be  careful you are starting to think. Who knows after this you may be able to see that the gender gap is nothing more then class warfare and not only baseless but debased also.

Going with the flow RELIGION | Bible Study Fellowship joins controversy by adopting the 2011 NIV Bible By DAVE SWAVELY Issue: "Coat of many dollars," May 3, 2014 Posted April 18, 2014, 01:00 a.m.   When Kitty Oman heard that Bible Study Fellowship had decided to switch to the 2011 redo of the New International Version in its teaching materials, she was concerned. She had heard of the controversy surrounding that translation, so she did some research about the issue on her own. What she found out eventually led her to write a letter of resignation from her position as a BSF small group leader. In it she said, “BSF has been an amazing tool in my life to grow in Christ and be blessed with godly relationships that are precious to me,” but added “with sadness” that she thinks the decision to use the new NIV has “opened the door” for distortions of truth in the ministry. Others are also leaving BSF over this issue. For readers who may not be aware of the controversy surrounding the 2011 NIV, it began in 1996 with publication of the NIV Inclusive Language Edition (now discontinued) and continued in the early 2000s with release of Today’s New International Version (TNIV). Critics such as Wayne Grudem decried many of the changes made to the widely used 1984 NIV, particularly the use of “gender neutral” language that led to plural pronouns such as “they” replacing single masculine ones like “he.”  Critics also disputed the translation of some important verses about gender issues. For example, 1 Timothy 2:12 changed from saying women should not “have authority” over men, to women should not “assume authority”: That understanding could allow women to be pastors and elders as long as their church duly appoints them. ‘It’s one thing to translate God’s Word in terms the culture will understand; it’s another to do so in terms the culture will accept.’ â€”Harry Reeder The Committee on Bible Translation (CBT), which is responsible for the NIV, took the criticisms into account when it produced the 2011 update, but the changes it made were not sufficient for most of the critics, since many of the plural pronouns and the 1 Timothy 2:12 wording remained. The critics are complementarians—they say men and women have some roles that are different but complementary—but the CBT includes egalitarians who downplay differences. Critics worry that the CBT is compromising the integrity of Scripture. For example, Birmingham pastor Harry Reeder says the 2011 NIV is “more committed to being affirmed by the culture than communicating God’s Word to the culture. It’s one thing to translate God’s Word in terms the culture will understand; it’s another to do so in terms the culture will accept.” But CBT member Craig Blomberg, a Denver Seminary professor who describes himself as a “mild complementarian,” says the CBT sought to apply research findings on English language usage and to produce what he calls an “optimally equivalent” translation. Regarding the specific example of 1 Timothy 2:12, Blomberg says “assume authority” is a neutral translation that the CBT thought did not tilt the exegesis one way or the other.  BSF Executive Director Susan Rowan told me BSF “believes and teaches the full inerrancy of the original text of Scripture,” and “the BSF leadership conducted thorough research and consulted with several scholars to assure that the NIV 2011 continued its tradition of accuracy to the original manuscripts.” —Dave Swavely is a Pennsylvania pastor and author