Two lines seem to be converging. One represents the various “Christian” groups. As these lose their Biblical distinctives and evolve to sort of a Unitarian universalism, they veer to the left. The other line represents the great ethnic religions: Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, etc. As these purge themselves of their more objectionably carnal aspects and emerge clothed in a philosophical monism or universalism, they veer to the right. Eventually the two will meet in a glorified religious group.
― Dr. Francis Steel
Tuesday, January 19, 2016
converging
Friday, January 15, 2016
Concerning Trump: Caveat emptor
On illegal immigration, Trump was for it before he was against it, as recently as 2013.
While Cruz and Jeff Sessions were fighting the push for open borders, Trump was supporting the Dream Act, telling a group of illegal aliens, “You have convinced me.”
Even after declaring for the presidency, Trump spoke what amounts to gibberish on the issue. He said (emphasis mine),
We’re going to do something. I’ve been giving it so much thought, you know you have a — on a humanitarian basis, you have a lot of deep thought going into this, believe me. I actually have a big heart.…I mean, a lot of people don’t understand that, but the DREAMers, it’s a tough situation, we’re going to do something, and one of the things we’re going to do is expedite — when somebody’s terrific, we want them back here, but they have to be legally.
Trump’s overall plan is to deport everybody, but then immediately bring them back in and make them legal in the process. That’s what we call amnesty. Lawbreakers will be rewarded by instantly being granted legal status after enduring the inconvenience of a bus ride to the border.
Trump’s plan makes almost no sense. He wants us to go the trouble to round up all 12-20 million illegals who are here, deport them all from the country, and then immediately bring back all the non-criminal deportees and make them fully legal. If that’s the approach, it makes much more sense to just deport criminal illegal aliens and then legalize the rest, which is a Marco-Rubio-“Gang of Eight” type approach but hardly a conservative one.
In August of 2013, after the Gang of Eight bill had been voted on, Trump said, “[I]t’s too early to say” what parts of the bill he liked.
He was for Syrian refugees before he was against them. In September, with regard to the Syrians, he said, “On a humanitarian basis of what’s happening you have to.” A day later he started to reverse course. “We should be very careful.” Then he abruptly began calling for an all-out ban on Muslim immigration (which I personally support, and have since 2009). We know where he stands today, but who knows what tomorrow holds?
Trump has nothing but admiration for Mitch McConnell. While conservatives were trying to replace him in the GOP primary with red-to-the-bone conservative Matt Bevin, Trump was propping McConnell up. “It would be a shame if he didn’t win.”
Trump seems to have little appreciation for the danger to American liberty, especially to religious liberty, posed by a hyperactivist federal judiciary. While Rowan County clerk Kim Davis was languishing in a jail cell for being a Christian, Trump said, “We had a ruling from the Supreme Court and we are a country of laws and you have to do what the Supreme Court ultimately, whether you like the decision or not, and it was a 5-4 decision, whether you like the decision or not, you have to go along with the Supreme Court. That’s the way it is.”
He seems to have no appreciation for the constitutional fact that the Supreme Court cannot in fact make law, since according to Article I, Section 1 “all legislative powers” are vested in Congress, leaving absolutely none for the Supreme Court. It couldn’t make something “the law of the land” even if it wanted to, at least according to the Constitution given us by the Founders. Shouldn’t we at least insist that a Republican president taking an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution have some idea of what’s in it?
Trump also criticized Antonin Scalia for Scalia’s opposition to affirmative action. Trump accused Scalia of being “very tough” on the black community. Affirmative action is nothing but thinly disguised racism, granting special favors and privileges to some solely on account of the color of their skin. That’s what Martin Luther King, Jr. fought against all of his life.
On abortion, he thinks his radical leftist sister, who now sits on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, would make a “phenomenal” Supreme Court justice, even though she is a judicial defender of the practice of partially delivering a baby, sticking a fork in the back of its head, sucking out its brains, and crushing its skull before yanking the rest of its lifeless body out of the birth canal.
On guns, he has been a past supporter of a ban on assault weapons, even putting that position in his book, The America We Deserve. “I support the ban on assault weapons,” he said. An “assault weapon,” of course, is just an ordinary rifle gussied up to look more menacing that it actually is. Does he still want to ban rifles? We need to know.
On healthcare, he has been an ardent supporter of a single payer plan, a la Bernie Sanders, and to my knowledge has yet to repudiate the idea.
On homosexuality, he is dangerously indifferent. While he claims to be for “traditional marriage,” he told Thomas Roberts of MSNBC last November that his position is “evolving.”
He’s changed party affiliation four times, and was a Democrat as recently as 2009. Most of the money he has donated over his public life has gone to card-carrying liberals. He openly admits he used his money in the past to buy influence with politicians. This is what the Bible quaintly calls bribery.
Outside of his current position on a border security wall and temporarily suspending Muslim immigration, it’s hard to find a single position which would make one think Donald Trump is a conservative.
http://afa.net/the-stand/election/2016/01/donald-trump-is-not-a-conservative/
Trump cheated on his first wife, fathered a child out of wedlock, divorced his wife to marry the woman he was cheating with. Then he divorced that woman before his pre-nuptial would increase her divorce settlement from $1M to $5M.
He has since insisted that he has done nothing wrong even saying that he has never had to ask God for forgiveness for anything.
If a man cannot be loyal to his wife and family, how can he be trusted with the Presidency?
http://dailycaller.com/2015/07/18/trump-ive-never-asked-god-for-forgiveness-for-anything-video/
While Cruz and Jeff Sessions were fighting the push for open borders, Trump was supporting the Dream Act, telling a group of illegal aliens, “You have convinced me.”
Even after declaring for the presidency, Trump spoke what amounts to gibberish on the issue. He said (emphasis mine),
We’re going to do something. I’ve been giving it so much thought, you know you have a — on a humanitarian basis, you have a lot of deep thought going into this, believe me. I actually have a big heart.…I mean, a lot of people don’t understand that, but the DREAMers, it’s a tough situation, we’re going to do something, and one of the things we’re going to do is expedite — when somebody’s terrific, we want them back here, but they have to be legally.
Trump’s overall plan is to deport everybody, but then immediately bring them back in and make them legal in the process. That’s what we call amnesty. Lawbreakers will be rewarded by instantly being granted legal status after enduring the inconvenience of a bus ride to the border.
Trump’s plan makes almost no sense. He wants us to go the trouble to round up all 12-20 million illegals who are here, deport them all from the country, and then immediately bring back all the non-criminal deportees and make them fully legal. If that’s the approach, it makes much more sense to just deport criminal illegal aliens and then legalize the rest, which is a Marco-Rubio-“Gang of Eight” type approach but hardly a conservative one.
In August of 2013, after the Gang of Eight bill had been voted on, Trump said, “[I]t’s too early to say” what parts of the bill he liked.
He was for Syrian refugees before he was against them. In September, with regard to the Syrians, he said, “On a humanitarian basis of what’s happening you have to.” A day later he started to reverse course. “We should be very careful.” Then he abruptly began calling for an all-out ban on Muslim immigration (which I personally support, and have since 2009). We know where he stands today, but who knows what tomorrow holds?
Trump has nothing but admiration for Mitch McConnell. While conservatives were trying to replace him in the GOP primary with red-to-the-bone conservative Matt Bevin, Trump was propping McConnell up. “It would be a shame if he didn’t win.”
Trump seems to have little appreciation for the danger to American liberty, especially to religious liberty, posed by a hyperactivist federal judiciary. While Rowan County clerk Kim Davis was languishing in a jail cell for being a Christian, Trump said, “We had a ruling from the Supreme Court and we are a country of laws and you have to do what the Supreme Court ultimately, whether you like the decision or not, and it was a 5-4 decision, whether you like the decision or not, you have to go along with the Supreme Court. That’s the way it is.”
He seems to have no appreciation for the constitutional fact that the Supreme Court cannot in fact make law, since according to Article I, Section 1 “all legislative powers” are vested in Congress, leaving absolutely none for the Supreme Court. It couldn’t make something “the law of the land” even if it wanted to, at least according to the Constitution given us by the Founders. Shouldn’t we at least insist that a Republican president taking an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution have some idea of what’s in it?
Trump also criticized Antonin Scalia for Scalia’s opposition to affirmative action. Trump accused Scalia of being “very tough” on the black community. Affirmative action is nothing but thinly disguised racism, granting special favors and privileges to some solely on account of the color of their skin. That’s what Martin Luther King, Jr. fought against all of his life.
On abortion, he thinks his radical leftist sister, who now sits on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, would make a “phenomenal” Supreme Court justice, even though she is a judicial defender of the practice of partially delivering a baby, sticking a fork in the back of its head, sucking out its brains, and crushing its skull before yanking the rest of its lifeless body out of the birth canal.
On guns, he has been a past supporter of a ban on assault weapons, even putting that position in his book, The America We Deserve. “I support the ban on assault weapons,” he said. An “assault weapon,” of course, is just an ordinary rifle gussied up to look more menacing that it actually is. Does he still want to ban rifles? We need to know.
On healthcare, he has been an ardent supporter of a single payer plan, a la Bernie Sanders, and to my knowledge has yet to repudiate the idea.
On homosexuality, he is dangerously indifferent. While he claims to be for “traditional marriage,” he told Thomas Roberts of MSNBC last November that his position is “evolving.”
He’s changed party affiliation four times, and was a Democrat as recently as 2009. Most of the money he has donated over his public life has gone to card-carrying liberals. He openly admits he used his money in the past to buy influence with politicians. This is what the Bible quaintly calls bribery.
Outside of his current position on a border security wall and temporarily suspending Muslim immigration, it’s hard to find a single position which would make one think Donald Trump is a conservative.
http://afa.net/the-stand/election/2016/01/donald-trump-is-not-a-conservative/
Trump cheated on his first wife, fathered a child out of wedlock, divorced his wife to marry the woman he was cheating with. Then he divorced that woman before his pre-nuptial would increase her divorce settlement from $1M to $5M.
He has since insisted that he has done nothing wrong even saying that he has never had to ask God for forgiveness for anything.
If a man cannot be loyal to his wife and family, how can he be trusted with the Presidency?
http://dailycaller.com/2015/07/18/trump-ive-never-asked-god-for-forgiveness-for-anything-video/
Tuesday, January 12, 2016
Pope Francis Says All Major Religions Are Paths To Same God
A new video has just been released in which Pope Francis very clearly expresses his belief that all of the major religions are different paths to the same God. He says that while people from various global faiths may be "seeking God or meeting God in different ways" that it is important to keep in mind that "we are all children of God". This is the most recent example that shows that the Pope has completely abandoned any notion that a relationship with God is available only through Jesus Christ.
Pope is right for once, all religions lead to the same false god. Only following Jesus leads to the One True Living God
Sunday, January 10, 2016
Morning star
Revelation 22:16 KJB
I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.
Jesus is the Morning Star
Isaiah 14:12 KJB
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
Lucifer fell from heaven in KJB
Revelation 22:16 NIV
“I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star.”
NIV agrees that Jesus is Morning Star
Isaiah 14:12 NIV
How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations!
According to NIV, Jesus fell from heaven
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