The Indiana Kefuffle and the Government & MSM Movement to Destroy Christianity

Usually I let the bullying Left, the Democrats and the rest, that want to throw out the Constitution, not let me get so pissed off. This Indiana thing has lit my rockets! The Left have governors of other states trying to do economic damage to Indiana. The Jurassic Press is doing what they always to, and celebrities (just shut the hell up and sing or act) spout off without having a clue. Jocks too. What the hell does Barkley know about the law? Has he even read the damn thing? Highly doubt it. I haven’t heard him say he has. What the hell? Those Leftist governors whose own states are in a mess should shut the hell up too. Then again, Leftists don’t believe in States’ Rights, only centralized government, so they feel free to join in.

So we have extreme Leftist totalitarians of old, which headed up the Federal Religious Restoration Act over 20 years ago, including anti-Semite, anti-Christian racist Barry Obama that signed the Illinois’ Restoration act; and a bunch of other Leftists that were for it before they were against it. The answer these haters of Christians and the Law have is that the Indiana law has language that is anti-gay. What a giant tank of horse manure. There is no such language. There’s no aggression, only protection of 2,000 plus year old belief systems. Good grief.

What’s really set me off are Christians that buy into this. It’s obvious the homosexualist movement has been running Christian businesses out, destroying lives. None of this would be happening if they went to where they would get the services they wanted, and not try and destroy, like kids breaking toys, when they didn’t get their way. I say homosexualist movement because it’s not about civil rights, it not about discrimination, it’s not about love, it’s not even about who you’re pokin’. It’s about being anti-Christian, anti-Semite, anti-traditional, and anti-business. It’s all about bringing down everything that works, destroying lives, to empower government.

What’s setting me off about Christians thinking like this, is they are putting Government before God, before scripture, and rejecting the teachings of Christ and the Apostle Paul. These “Christians” are entering that arena like American Jews, that don’t even bother to identify themselves as Jews, and put the government first, before Torah and God. Even though it is governments that have slaughtered millions of Jews throughout history, over 70% of American Jews vote Democrat, the Party of Big Government oppression. The anti-Semitism of that Party stuns me, and the virulent anti-Semitism of this president is scarier than just about anything I’ve seen or experienced.  

The other thing about this is the underlying current in all this Indiana kerfuffle, that to believe the Leftist hype is to believe that Christians inherently are anti-gay, hate gays, don’t support gays. If you claim to be a Christian, you had best rethink your position on this, or renounce Christianity, because lies, destruction and an all-powerful central government is what you worship. Not God.

The Federal Government and nineteen states have had this legislation for up to twenty years and not a peep until now. The Restoration laws have never ever been used to discriminate against gays. But Christians are having their lives destroyed, and want some protections. Not exactly working, because many Christians have lost their livelihood and have had lives destroyed in states that do have the Restoration law in place (plus the alleged protection of the Federal Law).

Just lies lies lies lead by anti-Semite, anti-Christian Barry Obama, his political Party, and his sycophant press that writes fiction to protect their secular Savior, the false prophet Obama, instead of Jesus Christ, whom they hate.

Ultimately this is about the government lead anti-Christian movement. Any totalitarian government, knowing history, knows to finally triumph, it must marginalize, if not destroy, Christians and Jews.

    

Christmas and Criticism

One of the things about criticism is one should be or do better, or have something better to offer than what one is criticizing. Every year at this time intolerant, narrow and closed minded anti Christian bigots mouth off. The way they mouth off is rude and aggressive. One would think if attacking Christianity, which strives for love, hope, charity, peace, caring and compassion, the criticizer would show the same and then some.

Unless, I guess, these people are advocating for hate, selfishness, war, personal conflict, and not giving a damn about anyone else.

If these secularists, humanists, atheists and the like think they are superior human beings because the reject God, that they can live better lives, how does the disrespect and rudeness they attack Christians and Christmas every year a reflection of that? How does mockery show superior knowledge and behavior?

There are, and have been through time, billions of us who have felt in our lives the presence of God. The personal influence, the miraculous transformations in our lives, the linkage of everything in the design of the universe, are all so apparent to those billions of people through time. In the lives of those, incredible philosophy, writing, thought, architecture, music, charities, hospitals have been created.  

What have the insulting and mocking secularists, humanists and atheists contributed but more hate, narrow mindedness, intolerance and bigotry? What personage among them has changed thinking and history, even a little bit, as Jesus and the Apostle Paul?

Because they have nothing to offer, they demand crosses be taken down all across the land, Christmas and Easter be taken off the calendar, nativity scenes be removed from the public square (that term implies it belongs to all citizens, not just atheists), no mention of Christ in public, no prayer in public. All as if removing and denying the existence of something that brings love and goodness to billions of people is a good thing, then offering intolerance and hate as a replacement benefits culture and relationships improves people and civilization.

I'm going to be rude in turn here. The people that think that are stupid.

A Chronical of Obama's Anti Religious Beliefs Turned Into Action

1. Acts of hostility toward people of Biblical faith: 

April 2008 Obama speaks disrespectfully of Christians, saying they cling to guns or religion and have an antipathy to people who aren't like them.1

February 2009 Obama announces plans to revoke conscience protection for health workers who refuse to participate in medical activities that go against their beliefs, and fully implements the plan in February 2011.2

April 2009 When speaking at Georgetown University , Obama orders that a monogram symbolizing Jesus' name be covered when he is making his speech. 3

May 2009 Obama declines to host services for the National Prayer Day (a day established by federal law) at the White House. 4

April 2009 In a deliberate act of disrespect, Obama nominated three pro-abortion ambassadors to the Vatican ; of course, the pro-life Vatican rejected all three.5

October 19, 2010 Obama begins deliberately omitting the phrase about the Creator when quoting the Declaration of Independence an omission he has made on no less than seven occasions. 6

November 2010 Obama misquotes the National Motto, substituting E pluribus unum rather than In God We Trust as established by federal law.7

January 2011 After a federal law was passed to transfer a WWI Memorial in the Mojave Desert to private ownership, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled that the cross in the memorial could continue to stand, but the Obama administration refused to allow the land to be transferred as required by law, and refused to allow the cross to be re-erected as ordered by the Court.8

February 2011 Although he filled posts in the State Department, for more than two years Obama did not fill the post of religious freedom ambassador, an official that works against religious persecution across the world; he filled it only after heavy pressure from the public and from Congress. 9

April 2011 For the first time in American history, Obama urges passage of a non-discrimination law that does not contain hiring protections for religious groups, forcing religious organizations to hire according to federal mandates without regard to the dictates of their own faith, thus eliminating conscience protection in hiring. 10

August 2011 The Obama administration releases its new health care rules that override religious conscience protections for medical workers in the areas of abortion and contraception. 11

November 2011 Obama opposes inclusion of President Franklin Roosevelts famous D-Day Prayer in the WWII Memorial. 12

November 2011 Unlike previous presidents, Obama studiously avoids any religious references in his Thanksgiving speech.13

December 2011 The Obama administration denigrates other countries' religious beliefs as an obstacle to radical homosexual rights. 14

January 2012 The Obama administration argues that the First Amendment provides no protection for churches and synagogues in hiring their pastors and rabbis.15

February 2012 The Obama administration forgives student loans in exchange for public service, but announces it will no longer forgive student loans if the public service is related to religion. 16

2. Acts of hostility from the Obama-led military toward people of Biblical faith:

June 2011 The Department of Veterans Affairs forbids references to God and Jesus during burial ceremonies at Houston National Cemetery . 17

August 2011 The Air Force stops teaching the Just War theory to officers in California because the course is taught by chaplains and is based on a philosophy introduced by St. Augustine in the third century AD a theory long taught by civilized nations across the world (except America). 18

September 2011 Air Force Chief of Staff prohibits commanders from notifying airmen of programs and services available to them from chaplains. 19

September 2011 The Army issues guidelines for Walter Reed Medical Center stipulating that No religious items (i.e. Bibles, reading materials and/or facts) are allowed to be given away or used during a visit. 20

November 2011  The Air Force Academy rescinds support for Operation Christmas Child, a program to send holiday gifts to impoverished children across the world, because the program is run by a Christian charity. 21

November 2011  The Air Force Academy pays $80,000 to add a Stonehenge-like worship center for pagans, druids, witches and Wiccans.22

February 2012  The U. S. Military Academy at West Point disinvites three star Army general and decorated war hero Lieutenant General William G. (Jerry) Boykin (retired) from speaking at an event because he is an outspoken Christian.23

February 2012  The Air Force removes God from the patch of Rapid Capabilities Office (the word on the patch was in Latin: Dei).24

February 2012  The Army orders Catholic chaplains not to read a letter to parishioners that their archbishop asked them to read.25

3. Acts of hostility toward Biblical values:

January 2009  Obama lifts restrictions on U.S. government funding for groups that provide abortion services or counseling abroad, forcing taxpayers to

fund pro-abortion groups that either promote or perform abortions in other nations.26

January 2009  President Obamas nominee for deputy secretary of state asserts that American taxpayers are required to pay for abortions and that limits on abortion funding are unconstitutional. 27

March 2009 The Obama administration shut out pro-life groups from attending a White House-sponsored health care summit. 28

March 2009  Obama orders taxpayer funding of embryonic stem cell research. 29

March 2009  Obama gave $50 million for the UNFPA, the UN population agency that promotes abortion and works closely with Chinese population control officials who use forced abortions and involuntary sterilizations.30

May 2009  The White House budget eliminates all funding for abstinence-only education and replaces it with comprehensive sexual education, repeatedly proven to increase teen pregnancies and abortions.31 He continues the deletion in subsequent budgets. 32

May 2009  Obama officials assemble a terrorism dictionary calling pro-life advocates violent and charging that they use racism in their criminal activities. 33

July 2009  The Obama administration illegally extends federal benefits to same-sex partners of Foreign Service and Executive Branch employees, in direction violation of the federal Defense of Marriage Act.34

September 16, 2009  The Obama administration appoints as EEOC Commissioner Chai Feldblum, who asserts that society should not tolerate any private beliefs, including religious beliefs, if they may negatively affect homosexual equality. 35

July 2010  The Obama administration uses federal funds in violation of federal law to get Kenya to change its constitution to include abortion.36

August 2010  The Obama administration Cuts funding for 176 abstinence education programs.37

September 2010  The Obama administration tells researchers to ignore a judges decision striking down federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.38

February 2011  Obama directs the Justice Department to stop defending the federal Defense of Marriage Act.39

March 2011 The Obama administration refuses to investigate videos showing Planned Parenthood helping alleged sex traffickers get abortions for victimized underage girls.40

July 2011  Obama, against advice from senior officers, allows homosexuals to serve openly in the military, reversing a policy originally instituted by George Washington in March 1778.41

September 2011  The Pentagon, against advice from senior officers, directs that military chaplains may perform same-sex marriages at military facilities in violation of the federal Defense of Marriage Act. 42

October 2011 The Obama administration eliminates federal grants to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops for their extensive programs that aid victims of human trafficking because the Catholic Church is anti-abortion.43

4. Acts of preferentialism for Islam:

May 2009 While Obama does not host any National Day of Prayer event at the White House, he does host White House Iftar dinners in honor of Ramadan ( a Islamic Holy Month). 44

April 2010  Christian leader Franklin Graham is disinvited from the Pentagons National Day of Prayer Event because of complaints from the Muslim community. 45

April 2010  The Obama administration requires rewriting of government documents and a change in administration vocabulary to remove terms that are deemed offensive to Muslims, including jihad, jihadists, terrorists, radical Islamic, etc. 46

August 2010 Obama speaks with great praise of Islam and condescendingly of Christianity. 47

August 2010  Obama went to great lengths to speak out on multiple occasions on behalf of building an Islamic mosque at Ground Zero, while at the same time he was silent about a Christian church being denied permission to rebuild at that location. 48

2010  While every White House traditionally issues hundreds of official proclamations and statements on numerous occasions, this White House avoids traditional Biblical holidays and events but regularly recognizes major Muslim holidays, as evidenced by its 2010 statements on Ramadan, Eid-ul-Fitr, Hajj, and Eid-ul-Adha.49

October 2011  Obamas Muslim advisers block Middle EasternChristians access to the White House. 50

February 2012  The Obama administration makes effulgentapologies for Korans being burned by the U. S. military, 51

but when Bibles were burned by the military, numerous reasons were offered why it was the right thing to do.52

Sources for these here.

A Flowerbed Formed Like a Cross Is Offensive? Really Atheists?

So offensive!

Earlier in the week, some bigoted, intolerant Atheists got their wish in Columbus, Georgia, and got a flowerbed in a park that was shaped like a cross removed. That horrible icon of love, sacrifice and salvation is sooooooooooo upsetting to these thin skinned knuckleheads, a fellow secularist, in the form of a judge, had it removed.

Citizens that wanted the cross there went to the city council and told the council to put it back. You know, citizens that politicians are supposed to be serving. The Christian-hating members said no. They citied a law saying a cross or religious symbol can't be on federal land. Problem is, no such law exists, just as there's not separation of church and state in the Constitution. Christian symbols by the way, are on practically every federal building and on currency.

Often these kind of people, government officials and politicians, do support Sharia Law.  Let's see how much they pine for Judeo-Christian law when women are turned into slaves to be beaten and stoned, there are minarets all across he land, and they have to bow to Mecca five times a day. Oh yeah, beheading if you don' convert and obey.

These secularists forget all the values they hold dear, or claim to, are Judeo-Christian. Equality, Justice, caring for one another, freedom of speech, and all the rest come from scripture, God's law, natural law. They're only hoping if the excise Christians from culture and politics, they'll be the ones that rule the roost. Don't count on it. Any State, Communist Soviet Union, Communist China, Communist Cuba, and any other anti-Semitic, anti-Christian government only leads to death, prison and enslavement. They kill their own willingly.

Don't have to be a Christian, but you should respect them, beyond tolerance. The freedoms you have are because of them. The values you claim to have, come from them. 

Leftist Statists Attacks on Religion, Local and National - More

Here are two stories from the Leftist, anti Christian government currently in power; one local and one directly from Obama.

The Hutchinson City Council (Kansas) has proposed an ordinance to force churches renting space to secular groups to also rent to homosexual groups, or LGBT groups. They could not discriminate “against a gay couple who want to rent the building for a party.”

Meryl Dye, spokesperson for the Human Relations Commission: “They would not be able to discriminate against gay and lesbian or transgender individuals.” “That type of protection parallels to what you find in race discrimination. If a church provides lodging or rents a facility they could not discriminate based on race. It’s along that kind of thinking.”

Our own church, First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) of Las Vegas took five years to get all the secular challenges taken care of to get Miracle League on our campus. Miracle League is an organization for disabled kids to play baseball. There was an attempt to get us re-zoned as secular institution because Miracle League is, plus we have many groups providing alcohol, marriage, divorce support that are secular. We would have to then pay taxes, which most likely would end our 60+ year old church.

Non-compliance would be investigations and fines. Churches are not rich, are voluntarily supported by donations and run by volunteers. The Left is forever campaigning for taxation of churches because they know it would cripple most and close down many. As oft repeated on this blog, the Left needs to shut down religion because they need to create a vacuum to replace it with their religion of the State and eliminate opposition. Nazis do, communists do it, fascists do it, and socialists do it. All Leftist movements.   Full article here.

At the national level Obama doubled down on his bigoted intolerant attack on religion in a recent speech on his idea that contraception should be mandated and paid for by the State. Churches must submit to the State on this issue, and as he often does, mocks those that differ from him.

From the speech to Women's Leadership Forum in Washington Friday April 27:

“This contraception fight in particular was illuminating. It was like being in a time machine,” Obama told the crowd, many of whom had purchased tickets that cost $1,000 to attend. “Republicans in Congress were going so far as to say an employer should be able to have a say in the health care decisions of its female employees. You know, for a party that prides itself on being rabidly anti-regulations of almost any kind, for folks who claim to believe in freedom from government interference and meddling, it doesn’t seem to bother them when it comes to a woman’s health.”

Full article here.

Christians must be ever vigilant. The anti Christian bigotry and intolerance and persecution isn’t violent like in other places in the world, but the effect is the same. Christianity is the most prosecuted religionon the planet, and we must support each other and defy the State.

As an aside, in this speech he also said:

 "As long as I’m President, we are going to keep moving forward."…  "You can count on that.  You don’t have to take my word on it – you’ve got my signature on it.  Because something like standing up for the principle of equal pay for equal work isn’t something I’m going to have to 'get back to you on' – it’s the first law I signed."

Thing is, female employees in the White House get paid 18% less than men. Oooops. Plus, study after study shows when days off and hours worked are calculated into the pay equation, women do get equal pay, except I guess, in the White House. Yes of course there are other exceptions, but men work 8-10 hours a week more than women, and take fewer days off.

Our Dear Leader is shameless using lies, bigotry, intolerance and deceit to keep power.  

Religion in the News in Just the Past Week

Michelle Obama recently stated if a Republican wins the White House the first amendment will be shredded and shelved; there would no longer be freedom of religion. This is rich considering more Democrats believe in UFO’s than God, and is the Party that promotes anti-Christian bigotry, secularism, anti-traditionalism, and anti-Semitism. She included that free speech will end; also rich considering they are the propagators of political correctness; which is being only able to say what they approve of.

Jesus said lots of people are going to despise anyone who believed and practiced what he taught. Indeed. "Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name's sake." Christians are being jailed and killed in the tens of thousands worldwide. I'm grateful that's not happening here, yet. If our government (and Europe's) keeps bending to Sharia Law, all bets are off.  Here is some religion news from the past week.

Atheists are ramping up for their anti-Christian Hate Festival, also known as Christmas by many.  Backyard Skeptics, an atheist group in Orange County, put up a billboard with a quote from Thomas Jefferson, “I do not find in Christianity one redeeming feature. It is founded on fables and mythology.” Problem was Jefferson never wrote it, or was quoted saying it. The billboard was taken down. Atheists spend an inordinate amount of time attacking Christians, which is counterintuitive since God doesn’t exist; why bother? It’s odd so much time is spent attacking people that believe in something that doesn’t exist. This same group showed its tolerance and courage about a month ago standing on a pier in Huntington Beach tearing up a Bible. (Last week while the Pope was having Mass, a knucklehead got on a ledge and burned a Bible. They’re everywhere.) Courage is mentioned here because they don’t attack Muslims, also a monotheistic religion. There will be more of the same expressions of hate and intolerance in the next couple months as we get into our celebration of Baby Jesus’ birth. Atheists have nothing positive and uplifting to offer, no love, compassion, charity or care, so they preach a message of hate and intolerance.

Going overseas a bit, there’s a play in Paris, part of which includes the throwing of feces at Jesus Christ’s face. Understandably Christians aren’t happy with this and gathered in protest. The Christians are being branded as “fundamentalists” (the label bigots toss at anyone professing Christianity, excluding false Christians that claim the Faith but put Marxism first). The mayor of Paris is having the city file a lawsuit against the protesters. It’s apparently okay for everyone else to protest against stuff that angers them, just not Christians. I wonder if the coward that wrote the play, “Sur le Concept du Visage du fils de Dieu” (”On the Concept of the Son of God’s Face”), by Italian Romeo Castellucci, would write a play with feces being thrown at the face of Mohammed. The mayor of Paris, by the way, let Muslims rampage through the streets of Paris, striking fear into citizens and destroying $millions of property.  He allows them to block traffic and disrupt business when Muslims do their prayer ritual, as does the anti-Christian London mayor and government.

The Wall Street Occupy protesters in London camped out on the steps of St Paul’s Cathedral. The cathedral closed, one would guess to protect it. The Western Anglican Church has rejected Christianity and embraced Marxism and the rest of the Left’s agenda. The leadership of the Church saw the closing as a threat, being damaging to Christianity, so had it reopened. Actually the threat was damage to the cathedral. Protecting historical property, or any property for that matter, is a wise thing to do; especially if people camped on your steps are anti-Christian and anti-property. Of course London government, like Paris’ government, and the most of the leadership of the Episcopal Church, are more interested in embracing and practicing Leftist ideology that embracing Jesus Christ. The Episcopal Church by the way, is in dire straights, there being a huge split between those that want to adhere to the Word of God and Christian beliefs and those that want to put that second to Leftist secular political and socio-cultural ideology.

The Catholic Church is also playing with Leftist secular political, socio-cultural ideology. The Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace published a document, ”Towards Reforming the International Financial and Monetary Systems in the Context of a Global Public Authority,” advocating for the international redistribution of wealth and an international global authority to control the flow of money, overriding national economic sovereignty. Supposedly this would create a moral and ethical guide to economics. Really and truly? Good grief. International socialism is the answer? Not God? There’s no way international leaders that hate Christianity would be guided by ethics and moral laid out in Judeo-Christian Scripture. Their scripture is the Communist Manifesto.

Coptic Christians in Egypt are fleeing and being murdered. No word from the Islamist supporting President of the United States.

Back to atheists’ antics in this country, there was a brush up in the town of Whiteville, TN. There was a cross on the top of a water tower that upset them. Don’t understand why; it represents something that doesn’t exist. The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) had brought suit, and the town couldn’t afford the legal battle. The mayor was going to move the cross to another location, but instead had one of the arms cut off so it was no longer a cross. Hoot! The citizens liked this so much, hundreds of crosses have popped up all over town on private property and now they’re everywhere. The intolerant bigots of the FFRF have withdrawn their lawsuit. Freedom from religion; who's making them worship, pray, convert, believe? Seems they're already free from religion. 

Bigotry and hated against Christians is on the rise while Islamists are given a pass. Governments support anti-Semitism and anti-Christianity. Reason being governments need to take religion, especially Christianity, out of the equation because we are to render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s and God what is His. Governments want everything rendered unto them and only them. I’m saddened the Episcopal  Church, the Catholic Church and so many of the Protestant Denominations (including the national leadership of my own First Christian Church [Disciples of Christ]) embrace Marxism, Liberation Theology, and the acceptance of cultural and social mores antithetical to Jesus and the Apostle Paul’s teachings.

Atheists Declare Pogrom Against Christians

Al Stefanelli

One can’t help conclude the religion of Atheism is no more than a platform of hate speech and oppression. For a group that doesn’t believe in God, they sure spend an enormous amount of time and energy campaigning against Him. Of course they say they’re campaigning against organized religion, but Christians call the Church, “The Body of Christ”, so they are attacking God. By attacking organized religion they’re attacking the US Constitution too since it protects freedom of religion. Now they're calling for the eradication of Christians.

These intolerant bigots twist the establishment clause to mean “freedom from religion”, but that’s too stupid a statement to even begin to seriously consider. Now they’ve taken their bigotry even farther by calling for the “eradication” of Christians. They designate “fundamentalist” Christians and Islamists, making a comparison of the two. There is a big problem, to be sure, of “fundamentalist” Christian suicide bombers, car bombers, and members of that radical group taking to the streets destroying property, beating people to death, shooting people that don’t believe like them, flying planes in to buildings and all the rest. The similarities are astonishing.

Al Stefanelli, American Atheists’ Georgia State Director, on their blog, states:

“It should come as no surprise that the individuals who abide by fundamentalist Christian and radical Islamic doctrines would be the first to cry out that they are being persecuted when their dangerous, damaging and disingenuous beliefs come under attack. Most of these people lack the maturity and intelligence to act in a socially acceptable manner.  Many of them are sociopaths and quite a good number of them are psychopaths.  All of them are clearly delusional.” Full blog here.

If you link to the blog you’ll see an icon stating, “Notice, Intolerance will not be tolerated”, and this whole blog is full of intolerance, name calling and insults of the most vile sort. This guy even brings up the Westboro Baptist Church, which is not Baptist and is rejected by the Christian community.

Blinded by hatred and intolerance, claiming their beliefs and freedoms, maybe even their very lives are in jeopardy due to Christians, the whole post, like most of what atheists have to say about Christianity are blatant lies. All the freedoms they claim to enjoy are based in Judeo-Christian beliefs and practices. One can focus on some obviously bad things and say that’s what the whole of the religion is about, but that’s so dishonest no thinking person can accept it. They call themselves “free thinkers” yet think alike.

These guys are allowed to spew intolerant hate speech at the same time claiming others are oppressive and intolerant and denying their right to do so. How stupid is that? No one is denying them their right to do anything, yet they want to eradicate Christians. Not that that's oppressive and denying rights or anything. Jeeez. 

We’ll be coming up on Christmas soon, and they’ll be in full throated howl. They’ll offer nothing positive, only attacks, lies, and hate. Atheism, the religion of hate and intolerance. They don’t believe in God, so what’s the deal with all the attacks against something that doesn’t exist? Just love it when people are the very thing they criticize others of being. Think there's a word for it.  

An Atheist Summer Camp For Kids

At the end of his atheist summer camp welcome, the camp director admonishes the kids to keep their cabins tidy and clean, closing with, "Remember, cleanliness is next to godlessness." Cleverness exemplified. The camp, a few miles outside Cincinnati, Ohio, of course says it's all about tolerance of all beliefs, religious as well as non-religious, so even believers can go. A little bit odd, since this is a camp where atheists send their kids to learn how to insult people of faith, while denying they are insulting people of faith. Very doubtful if religious people will send their kids.

The number one rule for "Camp Quest" is "Remember that everybody is here to have a good time. Respect all people, whatever their beliefs, which you encounter while you are here." Of course that doesn't happen. Some of their games include the "Flaming Messiahs" and "Dinosaur Jesus Riders". Running around the camp are two invisible unicorns, and campers are asked if any can prove they don't exist. This sets up a intellectual and philosophical fallacy. One can't prove or disprove the existence of God. If you don't experience God, then say you don't believe. If you experience God, then you know He exists. The burden of proof doesn't rely on anyone.

There are several of these camps in seven states, and may be going international.

Camps are good, and any tolerant, non-violent theme is good. Kids get outside, hang with friends, have a shared experience. I don't have a problem with this theme. I do have a problem with children being taught bigotry and intolerance, at the same time teaching that this behavior is tolerant open-minded and accepting of various beliefs. Atheists constantly charge believers, especially Christians, of hypocrisy whenever they fall short of standards of behavior they set for themselves. Then the "new" atheists incorporate attacking and insulting people that are believers, saying they are being tolerant. I have a major disconnect with this.

I've been to a lot of religious summer camps. Kids do summer camp stuff, worship, sing, and share their experiences of church, God, beliefs, and religion. The subject of atheists or any other group that believes differently doesn't come up. It's all about the shared experience, what we have in common.

A little honesty from the atheists. They should just say this camp is about being disrespectful of people that have a different belief system, and indoctrinating children to be intolerant bigots.

Full article here.

Secularism, Teresa, Tebow

Two religious items have come up in the news this past week, Mother Teresa and Tim Tebow. Secularists and neo-Atheists are protesting the religious expressions of life, love, and compassion.

Mother Teresa is to be placed a postage stamp; Nobel Peace Prize winner (given she wasn't an anti American Statist this is monumental), and the safety net for thousands of the poor. The protest is about her being a religious figure. There's criteria number 9: "Stamps or stationery items shall not be issued to honor religious institutions or individuals whose principal achievements are associated with religious undertakings or beliefs."

Secularists and Atheists say her religious status should keep her off the stamp. It amazing that's the issue, and not an appreciation of one human being's personal sacrifice and organizing brilliance that brought safety, health, love, and compassion to so many. What's important?

The criteria is ridiculous and serves intolerance and bigotry. The argument that it violates separation of church and state is specious since we're constantly told the the Post Office is a private, self supporting company. There's also the problem of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X being on stamps; both were ministers. King's whole approach was from Scripture, which he quoted often. Should they be removed?

Tim Tebow, college football great, is presenting a pro-life message with his mother in a Superbowl commercial. All the Secularists and neo-Atheists are in a fuss about this too. There's been an unwritten rule for Superbowl commercials that political and social advocacy ads not be allowed. CBS has changed this. Like Teresa, the message has a religious foundation, and so must not be allowed in public. Gloria Alred is suing, based upon conjecture and not fact, showing the Statists, Feminists, and neo-Atheists are so upset they are making stuff up to stop this story of courage, love and compassion. Tebow's mother said her doctor advised her to abort her child because of some disease she had, and she said no, and gave birth to Tim.

Though anti-religious bigots do their best to quash the free speech of those that disagree with them, I think both sides are being short sighted. Tebow and his mother along with Focus on the Family are opening the door for Leftist propaganda in this venue in the future. As much as I agree with the pro-life message, Statists in the future will have yet another venue to propagate their lies. Are you ready for commercials bashing America, praising Castro and Chavez, Islamofascists, and other Statist dictators, along with all the other horrible things they support? I'd just as soon keep this one on the side lines, and stick with the unwritten rule of no advocacy ads. I just want football and stupid funny commercials for three hours.

I do wish the National Organization for Women (a really small group of less than 500,000; Concerned Women for America have over 2 million members, which doesn't get coverage in the Jurassic Press because they are Conservative), militant neo-Atheists, groups like the Freedom from Religion Foundation, would just give it a rest. Just quit whining, complaining, and protesting every little thing that doesn't fit their intolerant bigoted belief system.

Minarets-Sign Posts for One Way Streets

Some have lashed out and condemned the Swiss for recently voting to outlaw minarets atop Islamic places of worship in their country. It's undemocratic! It's intolerant! It's a human rights violation! It's obvious that Islam is an imperialistic State religion, and the destruction of western civilization and the imposition of Sharia law on the whole planet is their goal; and they will use force to accomplish this goal.

Where's the other outrage? Orthodox Christians in Turkey can't build seminaries and churches. In fact all Christians in that country have been subjugated and even brutalized for centuries. In the best of times they're second class citizens.

Slaughtered Christians in the Sudan. Just because they aren't Muslim.

Christians in China are made slaves and put in work camps.

Christians in North Korea, murdered just for being Christians.

Islamists go to other nations, riot, murder, and the men beat and murder women, saying Sharia law says it's okay; that Western law does not have to be obeyed.

Can you have a Christian church in Saudi Arabia? There you can't even even wear a necklace with a Cross. You'll be stoned or beaten. Religious freedom in Indonesia, Egypt, Pakistan?

Coptic Christians in Egypt are treated most horribly.

What happens to a Christian that converts to Islam? What happens to a Muslim that converts to Christianity?

What did Muslims do to the Hagia Sophia? Turned it into a mosque. What did the Muslims do to the remains of the Jewish temple in Jerusalem? Built a mosque on top. And they're angry because they can't put up a couple minarets?

This is an one way religion. It's a State religion. It's a 6th Century religion that holds on to and practices 6th Century tribalism and imperialism.

And they're ticked off that the Swiss say, hey, no minarets?

If these guys think Sharia law is so great, that the resultant society is so great, go live in that society. Why'd they leave in the first place if it's so great? If they want to yell "intolerance" and "bigotry" they had better get their own house in order, and make this a two way street.