Rights and freedoms under attack

In the last few years we have heard a lot of talk from the political left and the proponents of "political correctness" about how the political right and the Christian right want to take away our hard earned rights and freedoms. At the same time The ACLU has gone out of its way to and doubled its efforts to remove "God" and all mention of "God" and creationism from everywhere publicly seen or heard. These two groups have also fought bitterly for control of the High Courts. Are the two campaigns of public opinion and policy connected and why?
I believe that these groups are closely related and that their leaders have a single minded agenda. Consider that the foundation of this great country is the "Declaration of Independence" and the subsequent "Constitution" and "Bill of Rights". All of these documents were written by mostly the same founding fathers with the goal of creating a new nation of free people. All of the freedoms and rights of United States citizenship spring from these documents. What was their basis for thinking that we should and could have such freedoms?


"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." —

There it is, those certain unalienable rights were endowed upon men by their "CREATOR"! If the creator can be eliminated then the rights are not unalienable. Further more the intire basis of the constitution and our government crumble into nonexistance. The enemies of freedoms and rights are not the religious right or "Constructionist" judges, it is the left and ACLU. Under the guise of fighting for one persons right to not hear or see any opinion or belief contrary to their own they are chopping away at the supports of all freedom.
It is interesting how they fought against "one nation under God" in the pledge of alliegence. If it is nation is not under God, then it is divided. No matter what our political disagreements have been in the past, when attacked from outside we have always united and stood together under God and fought for what the Judeo/Christian ethic has taught was civil and humane. With this in mind the left has even removed "so help us God" from Roosevelt's "Day of Infamy" speech as inscribed on its Washington Memorial. A historical revision to rival anything the old Soviet Union ever published to be sure! The next battle on their list is "In God We trust" on our money.
What could their motive be except to tumble the government by the total corruption of the Constitution. And what kind of government would they establish? To save time I am copying a newsletter from "Constitutionally Speaking" by Devvy Kidd, published in WorldNet Daily.com:

'The ACLU was founded in the 1920s by Roger Baldwin and Crystal Eastman, described as a "progressive" and "the perfect feminist."
Earl Browder was general secretary of the Communist Party of the United States from 1930 through its dissolution in 1944. When the party was reconstituted as the Communist Political Association later that year, Browder was chosen as its president. Browder proudly proclaimed that the ACLU functioned as "a transmission belt" for the party. To deny the ACLU's founding was attached at the hip to communist organizations is to deny what can easily be proven as truth.
For the past few decades, the ACLU has been on a major crusade to destroy Christianity in America, promote filth under "freedom of speech and expression," and of course, vigorously defend the homosexual culture of death. On Jan. 10, 1963, Congressman Albert S. Herlong Jr., D-Fla., read a list of 45 communist goals into the Congressional Record. Below are the communist goals being implemented by the ACLU in their quest to destroy America's culture and traditions:

Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions, by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all form of artistic expression. An American communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings," substituting shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.
Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio and television.
Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural and healthy."
Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a "religious crutch."
Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the grounds that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of "the big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the communists took over. Obliterating the American past, with its antecedents in principles of freedom, liberty and private ownership is a major goal of the communists then and now.
Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture – education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.'
Devy Kidd

Does anyone remember the various Communist revolutions and the bloodbaths that followed. Was there any "Freedom" that resulted or upgrade in the standards of living. Does anyone remeber what happened to ideas of faith and God under the various socialist governments.
Rights and freedoms are only maintained where God is held high. Furthermore the rights, freedoms and respect for women is only held high in Christian nations.
Christians get out of the political left!!

Put Christ Back in Christmas

Put CHRIST back in CHRISTmas

Santa lives at the North Pole ...JESUS is everywhere.
Santa rides in a sleigh ...JESUS rides on the wind and walks on the water.
Santa comes but once a year...JESUS is an ever present help.
Santa fills your stockings with goodies...JESUS supplies all your needs.
Santa comes down your chimney uninvited...JESUS stands at your door and knocks, and then enters your heart when invited.
You have to wait in line to see Santa...JESUS is as close as the mention of His name.
Santa lets you sit on his lap...JESUS lets you rest in His arms.
Santa doesn’t know your name, all he can say is “Hi little boy or girl, what’s your name?”...JESUS knew our name before we did.Not only does He know our name,He knows our address too.He knows our history and future andHe even knows how many hairs are on our heads.
Santa has a belly like a bowl full of jelly...JESUS has a heart full of love.
All Santa can offer is HO HO HO...JESUS offers health, help and hope.
Santa says “You better not cry”...JESUS says “Cast all your cares on me for I care for you.”
Santa’s little helpers make toys...JESUS makes! new life, mends wounded hearts, repairs broken homes and builds mansions.
Santa may make you chuckle but...JESUS gives you joy that is your strength.
While Santa puts gifts under your tree...JESUS became our gift and died on a tree.
Yes, Jesus is better, he is even better than Santa Claus.
It’s obvious there is really no comparison. We need to remember WHO Christmas is all about. We need to put Christ back in CHRISTmas, Jesus is still the reason for the season.!!!!

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Talking to others about Christ

I heard Ravi Zacharias say that there are 4 basic questions that everyone must answer for him/herself. It occurred to me that this is how we lead others to Jesus. It is always down one of those four thought paths.
It depends on who I'm talking to and what their present situation and education is. I always pray for opportunities and entrys. In this e-mail I'm only going to deal with the "Why do I or should I need Jesus".
Consider that everyone of is made in the image and likeness of God. Like God has three parts (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) , so we have three parts also (body, soul, and spirit). The Spirit is constantly interjecting, speaking, into our soul, thoughts.It is our thoughts that control our bodies.
Each and everyone of us hears from our spirit on 4 topics and I am thinking of adding a 5th. We all need to settle in our soul (mind) questions of Origin, Purpose, Morality, and Destiny. (The 5Th that I am currently meditating on is Love.) I don't think that we get off this Earth without settling those four and maybe five questions. Some people fight death to the very end because they have not yet made their conclusions. All the business and noise we put into your lives, often to our own peril, is hiding from God and refusing to deal with these subjects.
Consider Adam after partaking of the forbidden fruit. Here he was knowing that God was his origin. Glorifying God by tending the Garden and having dominion over all living creatures (including Eve and the Serpant) was his purpose. Not eating of the fruit was his mandated morality. And eternal life was his destiny, unless he ate of the fruit; then destiny was death. He allowed the serpant to question God's word and place death causing ego and doubt into Eve' s soul. He allows her to think it, reach out and take it and eat it, then he also eats of it. Now he doesn't want to deal with the other four big issues. Conviction becomes guilt. He tries to cover his guilt with fig leaves and hides from God. Now God comes walking in the Garden. Adam hears the footsteps and still doesn't want to deal with the conviction issues: Origin (God) Purpose(his dominutive responsiblity) Morality( the one forbidden sin) and Destiny (his impending death). Instead of crawling out of the bushes to confront his orgin, admitting he failed in his purpose, asking for fogiviness for his lapse of morality, and trying to re-establish of recieve his destiny, he hides. Then when God says, "Where are you" Adam says, "
We were afraid and naked before you" And dishes the blame out on Eve. She in turn not wanting to own the guilt passes the buck to the serpent. Nobody want to own guilt.We all point the finger which proves our sin. God shed the blood of an animal to make clothes (a covering for their sin) and promises to provide a sacrifice which will remove their sins and reestablish them in a destiny of life. Now when talking to someone about the need for Jesus, and his payment for our sin, each of the big four issues is an entry point. By talking to someone about these issues forces them to deal with them. When you talk about Origin of mankind by ready to debunk or cast some doubt on evolution (read a book on it). The simplest way is to take it back to the big bang. "Where did the matter at the beginning of the big bang come from" The evolutionist can only go back to "in the beginning Dirt"! We go to Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created the dirt"! Not one human on Earth has looked up at the stars and not wondered where we came from and how we got here. "Fearfully and wonderfully made in our mother's womb", "We were on his mind before Earth's frame was laid". "In the beginning was the word (Jesus) and the word was...and we have seen him...and known him and he is Jesus. Purpose is general and specific to each of us. Our general purpose is to glorify our creator. Our specific purpose is the use of our special gifts and talents that bring glory to him. We need Jesus and his forgiviness to bring glory to God. And we need Jesus to begin a relationship with God that will eventually lead to learning our special purpose for which we were individaully created and called into the body of Christ. It is in this relation ship and obediance where happiness is and internal peace is found.
Morality is a special subject to attack. An arguement that cannot be countered goes like this. Moral Absolutes exist and God exsists or no moral absolutes exist and God does not exist. A Moral Absolute is a truth placed in the conscience of all humans irreguardless of upbringing or association that we all know to be true. Example: Grotusque mutilation and murder of a newborn innocent child preformed in the helpless view of the parents. Anyone who denys that that would be wrong is lying to themselves and you. We all know it because it has been place in all of us by that unseen force known as "God of Love". We sense that which is detestable to him without ever being told. A child will often do something in secret hiding some small sin without ever having been told it was wrong. Now since God loves us he has given us his written word which reveals not only his commands but also his character which is the Christian's basis for morality. We must all decide what our basis for morality is and where it comes from. There is one big plus to Christian morality though and that is Jesus. Without Jesus it is impossible to be and live a moral life. We must have his forgiveness. Since "...all have sinned..." we all must deal with that guilt and impending destiny of death. We read into the word "guilt" the words "punishment is death" and the Spirit of the unsaved person testifys guilt and death to their soul. This is met with much uncontrolled emotional energy depression , anger, etc. and we don't want to hear it in our souls. The Spirit is heard the loudest when we are bored. Bordem is actually the edge of meditation. When we are bored our bodies and minds are not being externally stimulated. In this state our Spirit is able to get through. The Bible says, "Be still and know that I am God"! What the unrepentant do is jump up and go look for some excitement to drownd out the voice of God. In other words they HIDE. Where do they find this excitment? In more Sin! Sin is exciting. The problem is that more sin leads to more guilt, which testifys death which clashes with their self image as immortal self proclaimed gods. They are forced and compelled to escalate their particular chosen drug/sin to sooth the pain of their conscience. Paul said, " all the members of my body are at war with that which I know I ought not to do" (parphrased) and "Who will save me from this body of death. Thanks be to Jesus Christ our Lord" You see repentance and acceptance of Christ breaks the cycle of sin, guilt, pride ego (repeat).
Everone argues that they have to give up this and that to be a Christian. They cannot see how or why they would want to do that. They don't understand that liberty is in Christ. They see it the other way around because they don't see or know how they are in fact the slaves; slaves to destructive sin. Show them their slavery and the way Christ liberates and lifts off the wieght of guilt that noone wants to own.
The last issue is Destiny. Everybody wants to know what is on the other side of life. Jesus answered that when he rose from the dead. And offers it to us free of charge. The destiny of the Christian is to pass from life to Life. "to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord". Most important only with Chirstianity is there an absolute promise of eternal life in paradise with him. Every religion in the world is based on earning (working) their way into heaven. With Christ it is a gift. Religion is man trying to make himself good enough for God. Christanity is God making Man good enough for himself. Everyone on Earth is counting on either themselves or Christ for their eternity. Make them see "All their righteousness is like filthy rags". And also Hebrew's says, "It is appointed unto man, Once to die and then the judgement"Once means no reincarnation, we get one chance.
Mark

More to come

Hi everyone,
I've been wanting to get this thing started for some time now. This will be a Christian blog. I have several topics already in mind and will begin as soon as is possible. Next weeks vacation should act as a launching pad. 11/03/05.
Mark