Quote# 109289

At a World Congress of Families regional event in Belgrade in April, the group’s communications director, Don Feder, declared that a worldwide effort is needed to overthrow the “sexual revolution,” including the widespread acceptance of contraception, which he said leads to “death” by “preventing life from happening" and will ultimately lead to the "extinction" of humanity.

WCF, which will hold its annual conference in Salt Lake City this year, has from its inception pushed fears of a “demographic winter” caused by low fertility rates, a message that has been especially effective in European and Slavic countries where where right-wing movements encourage panic about immigration. Last year’s conference in Moscow, which WCF withdrew its official sponsorship of in resonse to the conflict in Ukraine but maintained an organizing role in, was organized under the theme “Large Families and the Future of Mankind.”

Feder told the gathering in Belgrade that the world is at risk from widespread contraception use “financed by governments, corporations or international agencies.”

“Many species have become extinct,” he said. “Our species may be the first to finance its own extinction.”

“We won’t find our way out of the forest of demographic winter until the sexual revolution is overthrown,” he continued, “its premises rejected, its prophets exposed, its dogma debunked. Ladies and gentlemen, ultimately the sexual revolution is about death: death through abortion, death through contraception (preventing life from happening), death through sexually transmitted diseases, death through pornography, death through promiscuity, all of this in place of monogamous marriage and childbearing.”

Also attending the Belgrade event were WCF’s Russian representative Alexey Komov and its French representative, far-right politician Fabrice Sorlin. Another speaker was Archipriest Dmitri Smirnov, a top official for “family” issues with the Russian Orthodox Church who has worked closely with WCF in the past.

The event was organized by representatives of the Serbian far-right Dveri movement, which worked with WCF to get a Belgrade gay pride parade canceled in 2013.

Don Feder, Right Wing Watch 19 Comments [6/5/2015 3:22:47 AM]
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Quote# 109288


[<--- that is what a banana looked like before humans]

This shows how gullible people are. This is a photo of a banana. 5,000 years ago they didn't have cameras. Perhaps you didn't know that. smile emoticon. Banana haven't changed shape. The whole story was bogus.


Ray Comfort, Facebook 57 Comments [6/5/2015 3:20:38 AM]
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Quote# 109286

Have We Lost the Cultural War? HELL NO!!! There are out there about 90 million citizens of voting age that don’t vote, 40 million of them being Evangelicals who don’t participate in politics in the belief that --with they doing nothing on their own-- God will fix it for them. The vast majority of those 90M are non-leftists, as the entire leftist population has been voting consistently, and DemocRAT, in the general elections since 2008. It was then when their messiah, their “perfect storm” appeared in scene: 1- Obama the consummate Leninist adherent and operative; 2- Obama, the Islamist sympathizer; and, 3- Obama, the anti-white hyper-racist black with a mega-chip on his shoulder and an obsessively messianic thirst of revenge on “white-America”.

Those 90M are spread all over the country, with some of them in your personal circle: relatives, coworkers, friends, neighbors, church fellows, sports and hobby pals, etc.

Thus, instead of just whining and moaning that we lost this or that war, do your part and go and get them...and tell others to do the same!!!

Maria-Erlinda Martinez, Accuracy in Media 21 Comments [6/5/2015 3:20:12 AM]
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Quote# 109285

People confuse Christian liberties and rights with merely the the ability to worship in their own home or house of worship, but have NO problem with expressing EVERY secular thought (secularism is a religion to itself,so is Atheism), at all times, with NO restraint at all. They give NO thought about pushing THEIR religion down everyone else's throats, but since they are NOT Christian, no one freaks out about it.

Religion-1)something one BELIEVES in and follows devotedly;
2)a point or matter of ethics or conscience:

secularism - the BELIEF that religion and religious bodies
should have no part in political or civic affairs or in running public
institutions, especially schools

Athiesm, A BELIEF that there is no God. Some say that the proper term is LACK of BELIEF in God, but either way, it is a BELIEF or LACK OF BELIEF, still makes it a belief system. It is semantics, really..they mean the same
thing. I hear some retort with if Atheism is a religion, then bald is a hair color.....but bald is the scalp itself that you couldn't see, when it was covered with HAIR, Then if the hair is lost or cut off (or hasn't grown in, yet), THEN the person is bald. The color is irrelevant.......that is just BAD reasoning skills!

THe culture war has been going on for DECADES. Whether its acclimating people to homosexual "normalcy" on television with a few "nonthreatening" characters in the 70's and 80's and and introducing more and more through Hollywood as people accept ideas through the movies and their tv's, no matter how ridiculous.

Jeanine Schaefer, Accuracy In Media 25 Comments [6/5/2015 3:18:56 AM]
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Quote# 109284

Males invade, harm, and use women's bodies on a BIOLOGICAL and CELLULAR level.

For example, did you know that male genes effectively SILENCE female genes, and that sperm carries genetic information designed to override a woman's genetic information and force fetuses to grow larger than they normally would? And that they also inject genetic information designed to prevent the female body from evolving to be able to reproduce asexually?

notcisjustwoman, Not Cis, Just Woman 32 Comments [6/5/2015 3:18:12 AM]
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Quote# 109283

North Carolina Pastor Scott Carpenter says he "had to" tell Kings Mountain High School graduating seniors that if they are gay they are going to hell. Carpenter was invited to speak at the school's on-campus annual baccalaureate service, an evening event to celebrate and honor seniors' accomplishments but one which students are not required to attend.

"Nobody got bashed or anything. All I did was simply speak biblical truth," Carpenter, an interim pastor at Temple Baptist Church told WBTV. "The number one audience that I have to please is God."

Carpenter says he has no regrets, and stressed that parents and students merely "reacted" to his message.

"Do I hate anybody? Absolutely not. I just love them too much not to tell them the truth," Carpenter said. "Was I trying to be mean spirited? Absolutely not. Was I trying to hurt somebody's feelings? Absolutely not. I was simply had to do what I had to do as a Christian minister."

Rev. Scott Carpenter, The New Civil Rights Movement 19 Comments [6/5/2015 3:17:49 AM]
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Submitted By: Doubting Thomas

Quote# 109281

poster: So if jellyfish and worms are not alive, what are they?

juvenissen: Good question.They are things do not bear any meaning of life. From this point of view, grass, or bacteria, or rock can be classified in the same category. Unfortunately, they are called life by scientist according to some specific criteria (debatable). If so, I can also "claim" that rock is alive by some good reasons.

poster: By the scientific definition rocks are not alive. How would rocks be categorized as alive?

juvenissen: A rock fits the majority, if not all, of the criteria used to define a life.

poster: Please outline what the criteria used to define life is, and how a rock fits the majority of them (usually it would have to fit all of them).

juvenissen: Sorry, I do not give essay as a reply here. I can answer question based on a common understanding. In this issue, for example, I can say that a rock does breath, and it can breath in air, in water and underground.

poster: A rock breathes? With lungs?

juvenissen: No. With skin.

poster: Do rocks have skin? Why does a rock need to breathe?

juvenissen:The surface. Through breathing, the surface becomes more mature. It does not need, it does. The "need" is not in the definition.

poster: You recognize the difference between breathing (respiration) and the wind blowing on something, yes?

juvenissen: Of course. Rock can breath in the ground, where there is no wind.

poster:So in conclusion: Rocks breathe through their skin, even underground. How do rocks "mature"? Did you realize that the definition of breathe is to take air into the lungs (except for the wind in a literary context). That being said, do rocks in space breathe? If so, what do they breathe?

juvenissen: Yes, every rock has a maturing process and stages. No. Breathing does not need a lung, even a rock does have space inside the rock where gas can be stored. For life lives in the air, in and out of air, by whatever mechanism, would satisfy the criterion. No. a rock does not breath in vacuum. It may breath one way (out). But that does not fit. Are you a scientist? If not, we may stop. All these talks could be very strange to you.

poster: What is this maturing process and stages? How does it breathe out?

juvenissen: Rock matured just like human. It keep changing according to the environment and it will eventually die. Material (gas, for example) leaks out of the rock. That is breathing out. I am a rock scientist. Rock is not alive (why not?). But I can try to make it fit the current definition of life. So, by the definition of life as you know it, a rock should be alive.

poster: So a rock feeds, respires, grows, reproduces, and then dies? How does it breathe in? Not by any definition I know. What definition are you using?

juvenissen: Rock does not reproduce in the normal case. But rock reincarnates. Rock breath in by absorb surrounding media on its surface.

juvinessen, ChristianForums 37 Comments [6/5/2015 3:17:22 AM]
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Quote# 109278

I am off to work soon so i will answer to all your points fast.
The brain is not a car of course but nevertheless is a vehicle.
A vehicle that carry a passenger.
The atheistic idea that the consciousness mind is a product of the brain will
have sooner or later be smashed in pieces.
The human being build up the vehicle not the other way around.
The brain is made of matter and the matter can not possibly build up the consciousness mind.
The two as far as the body is alive are connected to each other as the driver and the car would
allow the vehicle to move so so far one can not do anything without the other.
Does this means that when the vehicle rot down also the driver rot down?
What would you do when your car fail?
Would you fail and die with your car?
You never thought about it guys, did you?
All you will do is leave your rotting car and buy a new car in order to carry on toward the goal.
This has already been experiences by thousand of NDEs beside be part of billion of people who believe in reincarnation.
I am afraid that as soon as physical science will work together with intuitional science and will find out that the brain is a
product of the consciousness mind all atheistic ideas will be shredded in pieces.

Little Rik, AtheistForums.org 16 Comments [6/5/2015 3:15:01 AM]
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Submitted By: Stimbo

Quote# 109277

There are two groups of people who should not be shocked to discover that a member of the Duggar family is a sinner: Christians and non-Christians. Surprisingly, both camps seemed to be surprised by this revelation.

That is what makes the Josh Duggar story a disaster.

Christian surprise

The subject line from an email sent by a popular Christian website stated: “Christian world rocked.” Really?

Based on his own admission, Josh sinned, repented and got saved. Why in the world would Christians be appalled to discover an unregenerate 14-year-old boy acted wickedly?

According to Josh himself, “I sought forgiveness from those I had wronged and asked Christ to forgive me and come into my life.” Sounds like a pretty typical conversion story to me.

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.

Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God (I Cor.6:9-11).

Have we forgotten that the Apostle Paul was a murderer before God saved him?

It is a trustworthy statement, deserving full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, among whom I am foremost of all. Yet for this reason I found mercy, so that in me as the foremost, Jesus Christ might demonstrate His perfect patience as an example for those who would believe in Him for eternal life (I Tim.1:15-16).

Josh is no worse than the Apostle Paul. Josh should not be shunned by Christians; he should be comforted by Christians who are just as wicked and just as forgiven as he is. Josh is nothing more, and nothing less, than a story of God’s amazing grace.

Non-Christian Surprise

Here is the headline from the magazine that decided to go rooting though Josh’s closet: “Bombshell Duggar Police Report.”

This might be the bigger tragedy of the Josh Duggar story: unbelievers consider it a bombshell when it is discovered that a Christian has a shameful past. This ought not to be.

If we Christians were doing our job proclaiming that the Gospel is for sinners, of whom we are the foremost, the world would yawn when it discovered that Josh was a hound dog.

If Christians were as loud about the Gospel as we are about being the moral majority, I suspect there would be five results:

1. Unbelievers would not see Josh Duggar as a hypocrite; they would see him as a typical born-again believer who is forgiven by an amazingly gracious God.

2. Unbelievers would not see Christians as a mere special interest group that seeks to impose values on other people.

3. The Gospel would be shining brightly.

4. Somebody might get saved.

5. Josh Duggar and his family would be going about their business today as a typical Christian family saved by grace alone.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem that any of those things are happening. I don’t blame the world; I blame us.

Is it possible we have become so obsessed with imposing our values on unbelievers that the world sees us as self-righteous Pharisees and not as blood-washed sinners?

Have we been so consumed by the culture wars that we have failed to engage in the spiritual battle for souls?

A Gospel Opportunity

Josh tendered his resignation to the Family Research Council and they accepted it. While none of us know all of the details, if Josh were in my employ, I would not have accepted his resignation.

I would have shouted from the rooftops, “If you think Josh is wicked, you should meet the rest of us! That is why we are Christians! We need forgiveness for being wretched, vile, wicked rebels. If you are a rebel too, Jesus died for you! Run to Jesus! Join the wretched club.”

Let’s not squander this opportunity to share the great good news that Jesus died for perverts, liars, thieves, drunkards, abortionists, Wall Street fat cats, skid row bums, suburban housewives, blue collar workers and every sinner who will come to Him in repentance and faith.

Josh Duggar’s story is more than a Gospel tragedy; it is a Gospel opportunity. Don’t waste it.

Todd Friel, Wretched 26 Comments [6/5/2015 3:13:49 AM]
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Submitted By: Chris

Quote# 109275

The bombastic, big-mouth Obama has announced to the whole world that he will be the world’s fiercest advocate for the filthy, feces-eating fags. He brags about how he will use the bully pulpit of the White House – the single greatest bully pulpit in the earth – to preach the virtues of the abomination of desolation. By Obama’s advocacy, the prophecy of Daniel – reiterated and expanded on by Jesus Christ himself – will be fulfilled, to wit:

[...]

As Commander in Chief, Antichrist Obama will not simply lift the “don’t ask, don’t tell” ban (the myth that it is), he will quickly fill all ranks of all military branches with ravenous fags – arming them to the teeth! Fags will be his malicious minions when the time comes to exercise all his world power to come up against the Saints and vainly try to break their bands asunder and cast away their cords from this wicked, doomed world (see Psalm 2 for more words on that folly).

When you see this filth-mongerer dancing with the super-dyke Ellen Degenerate, you see him snuggling up to his most precious of all support bases. It must be this way, my Bible-illiterate inquisitor. Obama will be the chief fag enabler in this Doomed america … as he follows the lead of the ancient tribe of Benjamin – who put all their military might behind the cause of violent, freakish fags. Check into that drama and see how it worked out for those fag enablers at Judges chapter 19 and 20. Here’s a hint: All of the fag enabling bastards were slaughtered – except a tiny remnant that went and hid in the mountains.

So likewise will the Beast Obama bring all of the fag-warriors he’s collected together and come up against the people of God. Read how that goes for them – since it will shortly come to pass:

Revelation 19:17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;
18 That ye may eat the flesh of [fag] kings, and the flesh of [fag] captains, and the flesh of [fag] mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them [fags] that sit on them, and the flesh of all [fag] men, both free and bond, both small and great [like the fags that surrounded Lot’s house in old Sodom in Genesis chapter 19].
19 And I saw the beast [Obama], and the [fag] kings of the earth, and their [fag] armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.
20 And the beast [Obama] was taken, and with him the false prophet [Pedophile Enabler Pope] that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast [Obama], and them that worshipped his [Obama’s] image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
21 And the remnant [of fags] were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their [fag] flesh.

Westboro Baptist Church, The Beast Obama 21 Comments [6/5/2015 3:13:32 AM]
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Submitted By: TimeToTurn

Quote# 109274

What Josh did is inexcusable. NOT UNFORGIVABLE.
Proverbs 28:13
Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.

He confessed his sins and asked for forgiveness. His victims as well as the Lord have forgiven him and he has changed and become a better person because of it. I look at this as his testimony of how he came to truly know Christs forgiveness, grace, and love. A testimony to how they grew as a family and grew closer to God. A testimony of how God can forgive even the most inexcusable sins.

[...]

God doesn't just forgive sins like anger, lying, and stealing... He forgives murder, adultery, and rape. This is a testament to how only CHRIST can change a persons heart through his total love and grace towards that person. Parents may do everything they can to raise up Godly children (and I believe we should) but at the end of the day God has to be the one to change the heart.

Ephesians 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God.

We are all born into sin. We are all born DEAD to sin and it is not until we become born again that we even have the power of the Holy Spirit to flee it. Josh has shown that after God changed his heart, he became a new person.

2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

He has changed since this time. All because of Christ.

God can change anyone. I'm thankful he changed me and my wretched heart. I'm thankful he forgave and still forgives me of my sins. This doesn't mean that my sins were ok. It's quite opposite. They were inexcusable. Like Josh's. But only a God as big as king Jesus can take the inexcusable and transform him or her into a new creature -- all for His glory. What a testimony of Gods power to restore love in such a hard situation. I look at this and rather than seeing hate and wanting to judge. I SEE CHRIST. I SEE HIS POWER. HIS GLORY. HIS PRESENCE. HIS GRACE. I support the Duggars and I will be a vessel of encouragement to my brothers and sisters in Christ in their time of pain. We are called to love the sinner not the sin and that is what I will do. After all, my family loves me even when I mess up. I don't know what I would do without that love and support. So I will pass it on. The Duggars have never claimed to be perfect or to have all the answers or to be better than anyone -- and they aren't. They are human. We all are. We all make mistakes in our lives. We either learn from them and change our ways (by Gods grace) or we continue in them and play victim. I see that Josh Duggar has learned from his mistake and that he is a child of God. He changed his life and that's an awesome testimony. If we didn't have sin why would we need a savior? We all have sin and are all in DESPERATE need of a savior. And when you experience that saviors unfailing love and forgiveness.... It changes you!

Kylie Bisutti, I'm No Angel 9 Comments [6/5/2015 3:11:22 AM]
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Submitted By: Chris

Quote# 109270

[In my humble opinion, the men on the “traditionalist” thirstitionalist side of this terrible website who prattle on about how women need to be submissive at all costs are so weak in character that they fear they won’t have any power unless they force women to be a certain way through societal pressure.

And I find that pathetic.]

Woman is by nature’s design submissive. This facet has been reinforced into her character by strong, honorable and courageous men who cared for her enough to let her be as nature would have her.

Submission as a form of weakness however is a modern invention. There will always be women who have a strong will and a great sense of independence about them but that is well and good as she goes about her daily life.

Such women bring a smile to my face but having spent nearly two decades conversing and spending time with those in the dominant/submissive lifestyle I can tell you that submissiveness is far from a weakness.

This harmony with her design demands much and that she discipline her self to do what is needed for her, her family and the demands entrusted to her outside of the desires she may have that are fleeting.

By contrast a man who is honorable, sees to her needs and those of his children first before his own desires is the complimentary aspect that this garden of who she is needs to grow healthy and strong.

Women who seek to dominate others or prolong procreation to her 30s or later is working contrary to her design and has bred two generations of women who are embittered and hold an emptiness in their life they can not quite define that traditional couples have known for centuries.

If one has been mistreated by lesser men or for the men who have been emotionally abused by lesser women.. this does not negate the reality I refer. These experiences form the exceptions to the rule. They do not define the rule itself.

It has been a supreme honor for me to come to know many women here who are the very epitome of grace, femininity and submissiveness to those deserving and will make the best of wives.

The laws that require a man to be her compliment have not changed. Though feminists, communists and social deviants seek to change reality they will always fall short. Societal rebels exist in each age. Their existence does not change what is nor will it ever.

Wotan1488, Tumblr 13 Comments [6/5/2015 3:10:11 AM]
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Submitted By: Ivurm

Quote# 109269

There is nothing like a funeral to remind the world about the fact that they have an appointment they have to keep.

I’ve done many fake funerals over the years, and it always gets a crowd.

Be bold. Do it.



Ray Comfort, Ray Comfort's Facebook page 26 Comments [6/5/2015 3:09:23 AM]
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Submitted By: Chris

Quote# 109267

(After being directed to evolution.berkeley.edu as a starting point for proof of evolution)

That's it? One link to a website? This is your irrefutable "evidence"?
Oh my. How disappointing. The old, "let SOMEBODY ELSE explain it", eh! "PLEASE God, let it be ANYBODY ELSE! JUST NOT ME!! I've got NOTHIN!"
And here I thought ONE of you believers in magic might FINALLY rise to the occasion to provide your "proof". But, alas, a simple link to opinions, conjecture, vague generalities and complete guesswork. Religious "beliefs" no less!
But then, we BOTH knew that that's all you had to work with now didn't we?
Sorry I had to shame you so publically like that. Happens a lot to "believers" in evolution. As soon as somebody asks for specifics, things get awfully quiet. On account of lack of any evidence whatsoever and all.
Hope you learned a great lesson in all of this. You know, how absolutely incapable and unprepared you are to defend your "beliefs". (What , with that glaring lack of evidence problem!) Embarrassing, huh?
No worries. This is the way it ALWAYS goes with magic lovers. And the way it ALWAYS will. I'll understand if this public humiliation you're experiencing doesn't make it's way to FSTDT dot com. Not your finest moment. :(

The Last Trump, Christian News Network 23 Comments [6/5/2015 3:03:15 AM]
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Quote# 109264

God created all humans with eyes with which they can see. God has given humans this very important asset.
Our eyes serve very important functions. They perform critical processes of which we are completely unaware, and only after which we can see around.

Let us briefly examine how we see:

Every object in the world reflects and emits light on to its surroundings. For instance, while you are looking at the computer screen, the light reflected and emitted from the screen is going to the back of your eye through your pupil.

This light, after going through a series of processes at the back of your eye, turns into an electrical signal. This electrical signal goes to your brain. At the back of your brain is the centre of vision that makes it possible for you to see. The centre of vision is a small area. This is the tiny area where the electrical signals form the image of the screen and that is when you see this site.

Even trying to explain these processes as briefly as possible takes such a long time, whereas the process is instantaneous. These processes happen so fast that when you look at the computer screen, at that instant you are able to see it.

Isn't it such a perfect system? If you remember, we had mentioned evolutionists earlier in the site. We also mentioned that these people believe that earth, the universe, the stars and all living things are a result of chance. Those who say this say the same about our eyes. They say, "The eyes occurred by themselves and through coincidence." Can such a complex and wonderful system form by itself? Let us give an example to clarify how ridiculous this opinion is:

Engineers have manufactured the photographic and video cameras by copying the human eye. However, none of this equipment gives as clear a view as your eyes do. Now lift your head from the computer screen and look around you. Isn't your vision clear? There is no blur, snowy dots or missing lines in your vision. Now look at your television set. Quite often, you see snowy dots or skipped lines in the image. Even when these don't happen and even with all the new technology, televisions still do not produce the perfect images that your eyes do.

Now, let's think for a moment. This means that our eyes are a lot more advanced and are of better quality than any video or photographic camera or television. What would you do if someone came up to you and said something like the following?


"There was a storm that caused some electrical cables, screws, hammers, screwdrivers to fly out the door and windows, to fly out of the house, and then all of them got together in the backyard. Then there was some rain and thunder and these things were mixed with the soil. Some time passed and I saw a television set emerge. I picked it up and brought it home."

You would probably think that that person is either insane or lying, because as we all know, television sets are made in huge factories where there are hundreds of engineers, designers and specialised personnel. It is impossible for a television set to form on its own.

Could it be that our eyes, which are of much better quality than television, have occurred by themselves? Of course not! Just as a television doesn't come about on its own, but someone does manufacture it, our eyes are also not a result of coincidence. God is the One Who created our eyes in such a way that they see in three-dimensions and with coloured images so clearly. This is why we have to thank God for everything beautiful that we are able to see.


OUR EARS THAT HEAR WITHOUT ANY CRACKLE
God has created our ears perfectly just like our eyes. Imagine a stereo, for instance. Even if you turn on the best of stereos, you hear some crackling and hissing sounds. Radio channels often become mixed up. Right now, don't talk but just listen! Do you hear any hissing? Your ears never produce any. You hear the sounds marvellously clearly. Well don't you think that your ears could also have produced crackling just like stereos? God has created our ears perfectly and we are able to hear the sounds around us without experiencing any distortion.

God has created our ears in such a way that we are unable to hear certain sounds that would disturb us. The blood in our body, for instance, flows very fast and it makes a lot of noise during its circulation. However, our ears do not hear the noise that it makes. Our planet also produces quite a strong noise while it spins. Nevertheless, God has created our ears so ideally that we don't hear this noise. God is very caring towards us. This is the reason why, throughout our lives, He doesn't let us hear noises that will disturb us.

This is why we have to thank God for His benevolence. God has stated the following in a verse in the Qur'an:

"God brought you out of your mothers' wombs knowing nothing at all, and gave you hearing, sight and hearts so that perhaps you would show thanks." (Surat an-Nahl, 78)


OUR HEART THAT NEVER TIRES
For us, our heart is an essential organ. It beats about seventy-two times per minute and about forty million times per year. To understand what a tiring activity this is, just make a fist with your hand and then relax it, and continue making a fist and relaxing it. How many minutes do you think you will be able to keep this up? Your heart, which is about the size of your fist, continues this action throughout your life without becoming tired or even stopping once. Our hearts don't stop even while we are asleep. If we become excited, our heart beats faster, and it beats slower while we rest. Our heart makes all these adjustments automatically while we are totally unaware.

Every time our heart beats, it pumps blood around our bodies. What we need to survive is in this blood. Every one of our cells receives the necessary oxygen and food they need from the blood. Our heart pumps about 43,000 litres (approx. 11,000 gallons) of blood per day. Do you know just how much blood this means? This is about enough to fill 150 bathtubs. Wouldn't you become tired if you tried to empty a single bathtub full of water with just a cup? Now imagine having to empty 150 bathtubs of water with just a single cup. Probably you wouldn't have been able to accomplish such a difficult task. However, our heart does such a task and has done so since the day we were born and will continue to do so until the day we die. Moreover, it never takes a break. You, for example, would take a break while doing a difficult chore. You would probably need to lie down, or take a rest, but our hearts don't become tired, because they are essential for our survival. It is small but its task is enormous. This is why God has created it in such a way that it never tires.


It is unimaginable for a country to be without a network of roads, railways or seaways. A unique network in your body allows it to function faultlessly. These are the blood vessels of our circulatory system. Inside these vessels, the blood flows that the heart continuously pumps. The blood carries countless materials from one part of the body to another. It distributes food continuously to each part of the body and collects waste materials.



DO YOU KNOW THAT THERE IS AN ARMY IN THE BODY THAT PROTECTS US AGAINST GERMS?

The places where we sit, the air we breathe, the things we hold are full of germs and viruses, but we are unable to see them. Germs and viruses are small organisms that cause diseases in human beings. We cannot see them with our eyes but they can cause us to become sick and to lose strength.

There are other organisms we are unable to see. These make up the army that lives inside us and protects us against our germ and virus enemies. This army is called the "Immune System".

Our immune system exists within our blood. The cells that make up our immune system are called the white blood cells.

When an enemy enters our body, our blood works just like a laboratory. It immediately produces very special substances to fight the enemy and reproduces more cells matching the enemy's strength. A ferocious battle begins. Sometimes the army in our body wins the battle without us feeling it and the germs and viruses die.

The importance and benefits of vaccination: Dangerous germs are given to the body after being made ineffective. In this way, the immune cells recognise them and take measures to protect you against them.



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ometimes we do feel this battle. You say how? When we have a fever! Of course, you must have had a fever at least a couple of times by now. That was when your enemy was fighting the army inside your body. During the battle, your body uses up all its energy and needs some more. If you go out to run, while your body is engaged in a battle, you would be using up all the energy that your body needs to fight. In this case, your army would lose the battle and you would fall sick. However, when you get a fever, you naturally lie down to rest, and your army uses all your available energy. In doing so, the army could be victorious. When our temperature rises, our body gives us the message "rest!"
Do you know what would have happened, if we did not have an immune system? Shortly after we were born, the first germ that entered our body would have killed us. Because God is very merciful and caring towards all humans, He has created each human being with an immune system. As we have realised from the beginning of this site, we owe God each minute of our lives for our being able to see beautiful things and being able to eat delicious food. That is why we have to think about God in everything we see and say "O God, I am grateful to You for giving me all these blessings".

Harun Yahya, Kids! This Site is all yours! 19 Comments [6/5/2015 3:00:09 AM]
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Submitted By: Pokefrazer

Quote# 109263

Demons presence is everywhere and poised to pounce like a lion hidden and waiting on its prey. Give them opportunity and they will take control of your self-will. They are spirit beings and they need a portal in which to enter and set up residence in a human body. Portals are easy to open but demons can't just come in, they must first be invited. Christians must be on guard so that no unintentional invitation is given. We have the protection of the Holy Spirit and cannot be possessed, but if we willingly open a door and invite a demon into our life we can be oppressed.

Drug use is one way to open your mind and body to demons. [...] The word "witchcraft" comes from the Greek word "pharmakeia" which, among other things, means "the use or administering of drugs". Though drugs have been an issue since the beginning of time, the 1960's ushered in a generation who used mind-altering drugs to "tune in, turn on, and drop out". In doing so they opened the way for demons to enter. Marijuana, LSD, cocaine, heroin, and so on will alter your thinking and invite demons into your life.

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Another invitation to demons is yoga. This satanic practice is even promoted by misguided Christian congregations who allow this satanic practice into their hallowed halls. Anyone who practices this Eastern Mysticism opens their minds to demons. [...] THis is satanic and Christians need to run from this evil practice. The yoga positions are designed to activate a "Kundalini" in the base of your spine. When released it supposedly rushes up your spinal cord to your brain. What is Kundalini? It is a "fiery serpent". Scripture refers to Satan many times as a serpent or a dragon. Do you see how evil this practice is? Totally demonic.

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Today we see that evil is growing stronger. Remember the man in Florida who ate another man's face? He growled at the police as they tried to stop the attack before shooting him. At first the authorities thought he was on drugs, but the autopsy didn't support that. This was demonic and it isn't an isolated incident. Lately we hear of many mas shootings. The killer murders and injures many people then turns the gun on himself. This is satanic. [...] By accepting activities such as yoga, "recreational drugs", or horoscopes we are going against God and are allowing portals to be opened and demons to enter. Demons are real.

Ronald and Nathele Graham, Rapture Forums 33 Comments [6/4/2015 3:25:30 AM]
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Quote# 109260

For over a decade I argued statewide in Maine that the addition of "sexual orientation" to the Maine Human Rights Act would have far-reaching consequences. I predicted that Maine would quickly destroy marriage by making sodomy an acceptable precondition for state-recognized marriages.

The government went further than I imagined possible.

In addition to "sexual orientation" they included the category of gender, "trans"gender to be more specific. This is more accurately described as cross dressing on steroids, just as "sexual orientation" is more accurately imagined as sexual perversion.

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And now public school teachers are forcing all Maine children to begin thinking about the virtues of sodomy at 7 years of age.

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[W]e find that the virus is spreading rapidly. It won't be enough to pervert the whole world with this evil anti-family worldview. Since the developed governments of the world aspire to colonizing planets we have to prepare for the export of sodomy to other worlds - to the entire universe!

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It's like satan, a rabid dog, sunk his fangs deep into the donkey flesh of our nation's government. And now the deranged ass is infecting other nations.

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Humans die from rabies unless they are given the vaccine before the symptoms appear. Paul the apostle points out in his letter to Roman Christians that you can tell when a nation has become a walking corpse when it has endorsed perverted sex.

Is it too late for America to take the vaccine?

Are the symptoms of judgment evident?

Rev. Michael S. Heath, Barb Wire 29 Comments [6/4/2015 3:22:52 AM]
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Quote# 109259

I have watched America's decline and approach the dark realms of apostasy and reprobation for these last 40 years, but nothing has caused more concern in my heart than the approaching battle to retain marriage between one man and one woman.

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After more than 40 years of the fruit of Roe v Wade and the resulting 55 million deaths of unborn humans we are now on the precipice of another action that will put the cap on our full national reprobation.

We have allowed the gay agenda to flourish in the American psyche and promoted it with a grand lack of perspicaciousness and common sense. We have introduced it to our children in education, and the weak minded, who get all life's cues from pop-culture influences like TV, films and media.

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Our protection of Israel is weaker than it has ever been, we have 55 million ghosts of the unborn calling for justice and now we may think that it is time to flaunt our attack on marriage and family under the banner of judicial rulings.

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I can say without reservation, that if marriage is perverted in this way, you have only one thing left to do - count time, for there is very little left to promise and guarantee the survival of our nation.

Michael Bresciani, Rapture Forums 31 Comments [6/4/2015 3:22:39 AM]
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Quote# 109257

While legislatures in a small number of states have legalized same-sex marriage in their jurisdictions, only 4.5% of the American people live instates where the people themselves, at the ballot box, have endorsed marriages based on the infamous crime against nature.

The rest of the 36 states where homosexuals can now get married have had same-sex marriages imposed on them by activist judges who have callously disenfranchised the 48 million people who voted for natural marriage at the ballot box.

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[T]he issue now will be decided by one black-robed activist, Anthony Kennedy, who has written the most rabidly pro-homosexual opinions in the Court's history.

What is particularly terrible about all this is that Kennedy doesn't have to answer to anybody for his decision. This is absolutely and tragically un-American.

This is a constitutional and democratic travesty. This is not how the republic created by the Founders was designed to settle important matters of public policy. The first words in the Constitution, after all, are not "We the Unelected, Unaccountable, Tyrannical Judges."

The Constitution is utterly silent on the subject of marriage. This means, according to the Constitution the Founders crafted, the issue is reserved by the 9th and 10th Amendments exclusively and entirely to the States.

There's no use appealing to the 14th Amendment, because it doesn't say anything about marriage either. The 14th Amendment cannot possibly be used to justify homosexual marriage since homosexual conduct was a crime in every state in the Union at the time it was passed.

It is impossible to overestimate the damage that will be done to our constitutional republic if Justice Kennedy imposes homosexual marriage on the entire nation in blatant defiance of the people.

Bryan Fischer, Barb Wire 24 Comments [6/4/2015 3:20:57 AM]
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Quote# 109247

Igno,
Spend some more time with YT on the Illuminati (Luceriferian) connections and you will see the myth of conspiracy theory.
Unlike how the theory of evolution became fact by constant mantra repetition, this one was a fact first.
The elete have made repeated statements for their planned "New world order" for decades, and now it is in your face.

Their messages are everywhere in plain sight, like the Superbowl car commercial where the little girl says, something like-"we wait until everyone is sleeping- then we STRIKE". What does that have to do with a car?
It is a sublime message of intent by the elete.

Here is another one from the Superbowl- this time a Lincoln commercial.
Guy is driving down a desert highway with nothing around.
He comes to a stop when a bull is in the road in front of him, then he says, it's Ol Sirus, that he better go back.
Clue- Osiris was an Egyptian god (Satan by another name) and the word sounds just like a slur of Ol Sirus.

Now, if you were driving down a wide desert road, would you go around the animal?
Or would you stop in front of it and say what the actor did?
Only a moron would stop and sit there- unless it was a message.
The message is simple- Osiris is coming and he is too big to mess with.

professor, AtheistForums.org 22 Comments [6/4/2015 3:15:06 AM]
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Submitted By: Kinnell

Quote# 109234

The pro-choice movement coined the term "reproductive health" to promote contraception and ever-more-questionable methods to end pre-born lives worldwide. Far from empowering women, abortion has created a multifaceted marketplace that profits from killing the defenseless and using a woman's body during pregnancy.

Globally, the health and safety of women is being threatened by a corrupt industry that exploits them and devalues human life. Detailed research reveals five emerging issues that pose immediate risks to women during maternity.


1. Telemed abortions and off-label drug use leave women hospitalized

As many surgical abortion facilities close, the abortion-inducing drug RU-486 has increased the number of telemedicine abortions—known as telemed or webcam abortions.

This procedure induces a chemical abortion in an expectant mother when there is no doctor physically present. A physician consults with the mother via webcam; after explaining the abortion procedure, the drug is provided by the physician using a remotely activated drawer that opens. There is no physical examination of the mother by the physician, and drugs are administered by staff who may or may not be licensed.

The Iowa Board of Medicine banned chemical abortions without a doctor present due to the increased health risks to the mother. This ban is being challenged by Planned Parenthood of the Heartland in a recent Iowa Supreme Court case.

Abortion-inducing drugs pose numerous health risks for women, including death. These risks are increased by misuse, such as in telemed abortions. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the drug manufacturer of RU-486 have acknowledged the risks involved, and the FDA has a specific protocol for "safe" use of the drug. Many abortion centers are ignoring this protocol and the health risks to women in order to reduce costs.

In an interview with Bound4LIFE, Stanford University Ph.D. Michael New summarized a recent study on webcam abortion health risks. "This study of more than 50,000 abortion patients confirms the finding that telemed abortions are a lot more risky than surgical abortions," said New.

"Their data shows the number of follow-up visits and emergency room visits are much higher for women having telemed abortions—the procedure has four times more risk of complications."


2. "Abortion pill smoothie" increases potential for coerced abortions

In March, a Norwegian man was sentenced to six years in prison for mixing abortion-inducing pills into a smoothie in order to terminate his girlfriend's pregnancy without her knowledge. According to news reports, the woman testified at the hearing that, "He tried several times to convince me to have an abortion, but it was not an option for me."

The man bought the abortifacients online and first gave them to her as painkillers; when the first attempt "failed" he bought a new batch of pills and mixed them into a smoothie. Her doctor confirmed that abortion-inducing drugs caused the miscarriage.

With the increased use of abortifacients in the United States, a woman's health is at risk both in accidental or coerced situations. A recent report by the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute estimated that, while the abortion rate decreased by 13 percent overall, there has been an increase in chemical abortions. Chemical abortions now make up 22.6 percent of the total number of abortions.

"The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that states have an interest in protecting maternal health from the outset of pregnancy," write two Americans United for Life scholars. "[This] provides strong support for regulations requiring abortion providers to abide by the protocol approved by the FDA."

The Norwegian "abortion smoothie" criminal case warns women's health advocates worldwide of an emerging threat to the lives of both mothers and children.


3. Surrogacy: a new form of human trafficking

The inability to conceive a child is painful to deal with for those suffering from infertility. According to the CDC, about 12 percent of American women ages 15-44 suffer from infertility. Often it leads a couple to alternative conception measures such as in vitro fertilization (IVF) and surrogacy—the latter alternative to grow a family particularly controversial.

"Surrogacy is rife with controversy," writes adoption expert Mirah Riben. "PBS, BBC, and Newsweek are among some of the many venues that have exposed concerns about international surrogacy in particular." In the complex surrogacy process, achieved through a variety of arrangements, a surrogacy contract results in a woman carrying another couple's pre-born baby.

As an alternative to infertility struggles, how much do we understand about surrogacy as it relates to the health and well-being of women?

France has made surrogacy—or "womb prostitution" as it is referred to—illegal based on it being a form of "exploitation of poor and vulnerable women." France's Demonstration for All group is defending marriage in their country based upon the right of every child to deserve a mother and father. "One of their strongest arguments against ending marriage is it will lead to more of this womb prostitution," reports Family Research Council.

If traditional marriage is ruled against in the U.S. Supreme Court, how will this affect women? Will "womb prostitution" further devalue the beautiful, vital role of a mother? Surrogacy has massive repercussions for women. Not only does surrogacy exploit poor and vulnerable women, it degrades a woman's body as nothing more than a "host" or commodity.

The need for children outside the norms of traditional marriage has the potential to create an unregulated market and a whole new form of human trafficking. Infertility will no longer be the only reason for the surrogacy option.


4. Harvesting embryos for organs assaults the sanctity of the womb

When some scientists hail "research breakthroughs," a closer look reveals a dark underworld: An abortion industry that murders babies and sells their body parts to the highest bidder.

As reported previously by Bound4LIFE, the biotech company Ganogen Inc. in Redwood City, California, is harvesting kidneys from aborted babies. The company transplants fetal organs into lab rats where they can grow to a larger size—to be transplanted into a human patient. The process known as Xenotransplantation seeks "to grow human organs in animals, to end the human donor shortage."

Those profiting from the killing of babies are an industry of death, devaluing women and their God-given ability to grow a life inside of them. Much like surrogacy, this emerging field of embryo harvesting is treating the womb as a profit hub under the guise of medical research. The possible threats to a woman carrying a healthy, viable baby are endless when economic gain becomes involved with harvesting human body parts.

The womb is a sacred life sanctuary; a woman suffering from infertility realizes this innately. The ability to grow a life is a remarkable blessing. An ethical society cannot allow women's bodies to be used to manufacture organs for "medical research." It not only crosses moral boundaries but defies fundamental women's rights.


5. Permanent sterilization funding spurs on population control movement

According to recent reports, "The Gates Foundation gave an Oregon gynecologist $5 million in grant money last October to develop nonsurgical 'permanent contraception.'"

Dr. Jeffrey Jensen plans to use the $5 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to halt "unplanned, unwanted" pregnancies. In a report from the Portland Business Journal, Jensen said, "My goal is very simple: to make every pregnancy planned and highly desired."

Bill and Melinda Gates have been strong supporters of population control; millions of their Foundation funds have gone to promote contraception and abortion worldwide. Gates is even developing a "remote-control contraceptive device that would be injected into women and release contraceptive and abortifacient chemicals into her system for as long as 16 years."

Aside from concerns that population control strategies repeat the tragic eugenics history of Margaret Sanger, these permanent sterilization methods risk women's health and safety (along with ending the lives of their children) driven by the myth of overpopulation. Yet the Gates Foundation has found an ally even in Christian singer Amy Grant.

The Gates Foundation uses baseless claims that millions of women in developing countries would like to delay or stop unwanted pregnancies but don't have access to contraception. Why is the answer to this problem permanent sterilization instead of education and better health care?

Stephan Phelan of Human Life International responds to this human rights abuse: "There is no justice in manufacturing a supposed demand for poor women to be sterilized, when what these women always say they want most when asked is better basic health care, education, opportunity, and just governance."

Julie Klose, Charisma News 17 Comments [6/4/2015 3:00:19 AM]
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Submitted By: AJ Williams

Quote# 109231

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee joked earlier in the year he wished he could have pretended to be transgender in high school “when it came time to take showers in PE.”

Huckabee made the comments at the 2015 National Religious Broadcasters Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, earlier this year but the comments were uploaded to YouTube over the weekend by World Net Daily.

“For those who do not think that we are under threat, simply recognize that the fact that we are now in city after city watching ordinances say that your seven-year-old daughter, if she goes into the restroom cannot be offended and you can’t be offended if she’s greeted there by a 42-year-old man who feels more like a woman than he does a man.”

Huckabee continued saying saying he wished someone told him in high school he “could have felt like a woman” and shower with the girls.

“Now I wish that someone told me that when I was in high school that I could have felt like a woman when it came time to take showers in PE,” said Huckabee. “I’m pretty sure that I would have found my feminine side and said, ‘Coach, I think I’d rather shower with the girls today.’ You’re laughing because it sounds so ridiculous doesn’t it?”

Huckabee said there was “something inherently wrong about forcing little children to be a part of this social experiment.”

“And yet today we are the ones who are ridiculed and scorned because we point out the obvious,” he said.

“That there is something inherently wrong about forcing little children to be a part of this social experiment. I’m not against anybody. I’d just like for somebody to bring their brain to work some day and not leave it on the bedstand when they show up to govern.”

Mike Huckabee, Buzzfeed 30 Comments [6/4/2015 2:54:18 AM]
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Submitted By: Kevin Klawitter

Quote# 109230

Dependency and submission go hand in hand. When God refuses to give us what we want, we are forced to recognize our dependency on Him. Whatever that thing is, we’re unable to get it on our own. Chronic infertility is a classic example of this. We desperately want children, yet nothing we do resolves our inability to procreate. When all logical options are exhausted and everyone around us is giving birth to their third and fourth child, we’re forced to face the fact that new life comes from God and until He’s willing to give it to us, there is no way we can force it from His hand. To find peace in this situation we must embrace our dependency on Him and then try to submit to His will for our lives. It isn’t easy. It’s gut-wrenching. You don’t have the core of your being overhauled without some degree of pain. But is it worth it? ABSOLUTELY. The more we acknowledge that we can do NOTHING apart from God, and the more we submit to HIS choices for us, the freer and more joyful we become. 

Anna Diehl, The Pursuit of God 15 Comments [6/4/2015 2:54:12 AM]
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Quote# 109228

Women Wearing Jeans Are Reason Behind Earthquakes: JUI-F Chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman

During a press conference at a local hotel in Islamabad, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islami Fazl (JUI-F) Chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman asked the Pakistani armed forces to launch a military operation against women wearing jeans all over Pakistan.

According to him, the immodesty of women is the cause behind earthquakes, inflation and other kinds of disasters.

Fazlur Rehman went on to say that a woman who is not covered like a 'sack of flour' is a mobile weapon of mass destruction for her state and that Pakistan has multitude of such nuclear missiles in all its major cities.

Rehman then blamed 'immodest women' for the Baluchistan crisis, lack of energy supply and the deteriorating security situation in Pakistan.

Fazlur Rehman was suggesting that, if these women are wrapped in sacks and kept inside homes and if the Shariah law was in place, then the Taliban brothers would not be attacking Pakistan.

Fazlur Rehman also talked about the demerits of the operation against the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). Justifying his angst, Fazlur Rehman said that Taliban were not Pakistan’s enemy and the forces needed to target the real enemies of Pakistan.

Providing a solution he continued saying that once Allah stops delivering his wrath via the Taliban, the economy would automatically improve through foreign investment leading to improvement in the energy situation.

Rehman then openly requested the army chief and the prime minister to openly declare war against Pakistani women and launch a military operation.


Maulana Fazlur Rehman, Indian Express 26 Comments [6/4/2015 2:54:03 AM]
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Submitted By: DFM

Quote# 109225

Atheists don’t want Christians teaching kids about God—they want to teach your kids there is no God! They really are out to get your kids, and they are using the public schools, secular media, museums, and other outlets to do this. The public schools (despite a minority of Christian teachers who are trying to be missionaries in the system) have by and large become churches of secular humanism.

Yes, the atheists, like Hitler and Stalin, know that if they can capture the next generation (through the education system, media, etc.), they will have the culture.

Christians need to take heed of God’s Word and ensure they are capturing the next generation for the Lord—passing that spiritual legacy along to the children, so they will not be captured by the world!

Yes, it takes only one generation to lose a culture. And America is on the brink of such a change right now! God’s people need to wake up and understand a battle for their kids is raging around them—a battle that is being won, at the present time, by those who seek to destroy the next generation spiritually!
A Call for Radical Change

In view of such relentless indoctrination that bombards our young people every day, giving a couple of thirty-minute lessons at church or home isn’t enough. While many parents have already opted to put their kids in Christian schools, weekly church programs, and homeschools, few appear to be doing a very good job filling in the gaps. More is needed.

Teaching young people how God’s Word—rather than the atheistic worldview—makes sense of our world requires intense study, commitment, and fervent prayer on our parts. The church and parents must reevaluate their old assumptions about the way we should be teaching our kids in a hostile culture, and work together to build the next generation by following the directives from God’s Word.

Imagine what would happen if God’s people raised up generations of kids who knew what they believed concerning the Christian faith, why they believe, and how to defend that faith against the secular attacks of the day. They could then proclaim the gospel with authority because they believed the authority upon which it stands. We would change the world!
Connecting Answers to the Gospel

America has long resisted the trend among Western nations to slide into secularism and unbelief, but that is changing. A 2012 survey found that the fastest-growing “religious” group in America has no religion at all. One in five Americans claims no affiliation with religion, and this category is even higher among young adults (one in three).

This downward spiral has impacted churches and Christian homes, as well. Two-thirds of children will leave the church after they leave home. So what’s missing in their lives? And what can we do to stop the exodus?
Answers

“Faith in Christ” isn’t blind. True faith must be built upon a knowledge of the truth, as revealed in God’s Word (2 Timothy 3:15–17). To be saved and walk with God, every believer first must know what he should believe and why. That’s our job . . . telling young people answers from the Bible. We’ve got to address the hard questions that are uppermost in their minds, including the origin of sin and death in this world.
Biblical Authority

The next link in the chain, once young people learn the truth, is for them to submit to the authority of God’s Word (John 14:21; James 1:22). They need to understand why we know the Bible is true: the authority of the One who gave it to us (Hebrews 4:12). They also need to see that, once they accept the Bible’s authority, it will make sense of the world around them.
The Gospel

Most Christians realize they need to proclaim the gospel if they want to see anyone saved (Romans 10:14). The definition of the gospel by which we are saved is quite clear: Christ died, was buried, and rose again “according to the Scriptures” (1 Corinthians 15:3–4). But the power of the gospel rests on the authority of God’s Word (Romans 1:16).
Salvation

A young person’s salvation is ultimately a work of God’s grace. Yet that does not excuse us from responsibility. We have the duty to plant and water the truth (1 Corinthians 3:6–7) and pray to God in faith. But God is the one who “gives the increase” and we should give Him the glory. God has designed this plan for conveying His grace, and we need to make sure we’re doing our part. We are the ones appointed to instruct children with clear answers, to show them the Bible’s ultimate authority, and to share the gracious promises of the gospel!


Ken Ham, Answers in Genesis 37 Comments [6/4/2015 2:52:08 AM]
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Submitted By: Nemo