Editorial: These writings are purely the opinions of the author and not of any religious organization.
In my humble opinion...If you are to make any sense of what is happening in the world today, you must have some background information. Homeland security demands that we have a good idea who the enemy is and not waste time arresting little Irish nuns with toenail clippers while a Muslim youth gets past security as the nun is being questioned. On a recent plane trip, the security checked the bottoms of my shoes. My name is western European, not middle eastern. Israelis look for terrorists boarding their planes and have never had an incident. We look for weapons and waste billions of dollars. Of course we also have to keep an eye out for weapons, but we waste a lot of time and money looking where there is obviously no threat.
Two thousand years ago, God sent His only son Jesus to die for our sins, so that we would not perish but have everlasting life. He told the world to love God and oneanother. For how can a man love God and not his brother? It is impossible! If "Christians" have done any differently, they have done it on their own and against their master's command. But there is a religion that preaches hatred of Jews and their friends that has nothing to do with retaliation and everything to do with pure hate. The author of hate is Satan. Their religion of war against the Jews has manifested itself in many recent wars, all of which were won by the Jews. So whose God is stronger? Whose truth is stronger? A god that allows forcing people to accept their false religion, is not a god but a devil. In the United States, speaking antisemitic speech is against the law, but if it is part of your religion, I suppose it's OK. Christians have nothing against these people. We are supposed to love everyone.
Can you refute this logic: "Violence, retaliation or otherwise is false according to my master; anyone whose religion has any passage that encourages followers to lay a hand against another human being, is necessarily a false religion." To illustrate how different the Christian teachings are - "vengence is mine sayeth the Lord" and Jesus said "turn the other cheek." Nowhere in Islam is there anything equivalent. To believe that God does not want love and peace is unthinkable. I have seen even presidents excuse 911 because it must have been retaliation against something terrible. The implication is that it couldn't possibly have anything to do with this "peaceful" religion. But when I see a false religion causing so much pain to everyone, these people should be told the truth. We can believe anything we want. Yes we can fool ourselves or allow others to fool us, there is no law against that, but the truth never changes. It our desire that every Muslim looks closely at their religion and if they find teachings that require them to harm their brother, look into the teachings of Jesus Christ and see if you agree with His teachings.
Destroying the Family Swedish Style
They want us to believe that these Marxists are not greedy, they just want to share. Well, they have nothing to share because they sit around in beer parlors philosophizing about why they are poor, (someone else's fault) planning how they are going to take away all the shops and farms, and the fruits of others' hard work and redistributing what actually then becomes scarce goods. That is being more greedy than a person who is willing to work hard to have something and employing others. Now, taking over production is difficult these days, so they take over control of the results of production instead.
The Christians did not ask what was in it for them, they just gave from their hearts, to the needy children. So it is baffling why Christianity is thought of as bad, unless their real motive is to have everyone controlled by the state, and Christians (forces for freedom) are hindering state control of children. While it is true that Christians can be bad like anyone else, it doesn't mean it is Christ's fault, or that the religion must be stomped out. He told people how to behave, and still does with laws that never change. He did his best to change humanity towards love, which He thought was the most important characteristic in mankind we should be cultivating. He did not, like Muslims, (anti-freedom forces) tell people it is OK to lie, or kill unbelievers, although the Roman power hungry Catholic Church did just that. The government has decided to attack the Christian foundations of Canadian and American society by increasing Muslim immigration (anti-freedom forces) to justify their new secular education. (anti-freedom forces) This happened at the very same time that Christianity was removed from schools, c. 1961, promoted by Senator T. Kennedy.
The Attack on the Family
A British journalist returning from Sweden said "I have seen the future and it doesn't work." Communism today has gone underground. It has taken on very subtle disguises, where it is difficult for anyone to recognize it as such. So one of the biggest forces for evil today is based on this lie: we can create a utopia if we could change human nature, as Lenin stated. Sweden has attempted to create such a society using "middle of the road" form of socialism. But anyone who takes a closer look at Sweden's socialism will discover that being in the "middle of the road" is unsafe at any speed.
The left has abandoned its attempts to control the means of production. They discovered that the best way to bring about a collectivized, socialized system, is by a frontal attack on the family and by controlling the free enterprise system. So instead of expropriating the means of production, they made sure they had control of the results of production.
Read this story by Eric Brodin.
United States "one nation under God" was to become secularized by teaching kids that they were not created by God, they evolved from Apes. The excuse is: "separation of church and state." I don't understand, you mean the founding fathers actually wanted this - what we have now? If they did, why did they not implement it back then? No, they did not want this situation we have today - that is not what they meant. They only meant that no Christian religion should be favored over others, ie. there should be no state religion as in Russia or Iran. They did not mean take God out of government run buildings and out of children's daily lives at school, obviously. This is what happened in Russia, and they saw it didn't work so why do we do the same? So if we behaved like animals, it was OK, because that is really what we are, imply the teachers. The Lord's Prayer, which had been read daily since the founding of this great nation, was removed from the classroom because it glorifies God, not man.
When the United States' and Canadian school systems decided to remove this "offensive" Lord's Prayer from their schools, it initiated a process that is still going today. Then they tried to stop free speech. Students were now to be more "tolerant" of all religions, so we could not have any of them in class or even the school - and paradoxically took away the basic freedom of religion from the students. Many teachers are trying to also prevent students from exercising their rights of free worship on school property. The courts have had no choice but to uphold the US Constitution in these matters, stopping such action and allowing free speech. The schools now proudly say that the children have "freedom" to learn whatever others such as teacher's unions, not parents, (Go Ask Alice at Columbia University) want them to learn.
You are probably familiar with the attempts by the school system to teach "values" to kids - new values - to replace the old "bad" values such as Bible reading and prayer. No more "thou shalt not kill" or "thou shalt not steal." One such situational ethics lesson comes to mind. The kids are asked to decide which person in a lifeboat should be thrown overboard. From this lesson the children learn that there really is no right or wrong, we can each decide for ourselves, and there will not be punishment in this life or the next. If the kids could decide such things, then perhaps they can also decide which fellow students they should "dispose of." All kinds of wierd ideas were now taught, but absolutely not the Ten Commandments, that's dangerous! Teaching grade one kids that h_m_sexuality is ok, against the wishes and protests of parents - no problem. Quoting that pervert Kinsey has become more popular than quoting the Bible, and now our schools and universities are beginning to promote perversions of the worst kind. People have a right to a little sanity and common sense in their lives.
Parents must not give up their primary role, that of nurturing kids to adulthood. Don't trust anyone else with this important responsibility. Once certain attitudes are formed, you can never change them. Governments, through schools, hijacked the moral education of kids, which therefore must be returned to the parents. Schools should stick to reading, writing and arithmetic, areas they have been slipping in instead of trying to teach their own morality, which should be the parent's responsibility, or under parental controls in the schools. Meanwhile the kids are getting more and more screwed up by these pedagogues who have changed from traditional values to new ones that have been thought up by "experts" in child psychology. For example those who take kids away from parents or foster parents based on their "professional" opinions. I have studied with many of these psychologists and many of them are more screwed up than the kids they are working with. It is obvious these psychologies, such as the situational ethics lesson previously mentioned, are not working, because most of them are based on poor science and opinion. Take this communist Ben Spock, (destroying our kids) for example, who figured he knew more than the Bible, and after whose teachings a generation of kids has been raised. Let me repeat: the children of America (and Canada - Canadians follow everything the Americans do.) have been getting the communist's version of raising kids. We all know what happened in Russia don't we. A generation of kids was basically destroyed.
They all try to instill moral values, but without a set moral code to go by, just opinion, which changes depending on which model is being taught in the Universities. The fact is, nothing (not even teaching the kids to call teachers "sir" and ma'am" which is being tried now) can replace the Christian values that were removed from schools, nor the mother at home, (which, I realize, is not a very popular idea nowadays, especially since in many cases, the woman "has to" - not a need but a want in most cases - work and stay home mothers are made to feel worthless). If a woman only gave 15 minutes a day to a marriage, how long would it last? Yet mothers are told that they should not worry about it, 15 minutes before bedtime is enough. It is child neglect, promoted by the state. We inflict psychological and spiritual pain on our generation of children and what we are seeing today is increased stress in children and their anger coming back at us, our society.
It is fashionable today to say that schools are not the place to teach Christian values. They come just short of saying they no longer believe in them, which is true in most cases. But these same people wish to put into the kids their own substitutes in moral education such as Go Ask Alice, which most parents do not agree with. For years they have said they don't want Christian values poured down their throats, but now that there is a vacuum there they don't mind pouring their garbage into our kids. Are you going to let children decide for themselves? (a popular opinion) Will you also let them decide whether they should eat their vegetables, brush their teeth or to have sex at 12? Can you see the fallacy of this way of thinking? Putting prayer back in schools and babies with their mothers (oh, heaven forbid, we can't have that) could be the salvation of our children and would go a long way to fix what's wrong with society: government's intrusion in our lives. If prayer in school was good for kids until 1962, why not now? In 1962, kids knew better than bringing guns to school. After all they were taught every day: "Father... forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us." Now kids are taught that it is better to get even.
Banning prayer in schools - quotes
Some, such has Humanists and Marxists, may say that belief in God is the result of fear, guilt and superstition, that Christianity stands for oppression of freedom. This freedom they talk about was tried in the largest sociological laboratory in history: the Soviet Union. Their kind of freedom has lead to not freedom, but slavery and finally total breakdown of society. Today's Western "newly found freedom" is helping to make society fly apart from the centrifical force caused by all the directions this new freedom seeks. Christ is a force which tries to pull inward all the parts, toward the center, Himself, to prevent them from flying apart. Denial of this positive force by accepting that Christianity is dangerous, like the Communists, may lead to first the moral destruction of the children, then total collapse of this system, like the Soviet system.
We wanted to be more "tolerant" so we removed prayer from school. No more "thou shalt not kill" or "thou shalt not steal" - we were told by socialist politicians that children should not have these things "shoved down their throats." Now the children have no conscience, stealing from and killing their classmates, and the parents are asking: why? Tolerance can be reflected in the laws of a country, it does not have to be flaunted in the face of the people, especially children on a daily basis. Children should be made aware of the laws, and leave it at that. Canada and the United States are Christian countries that tolerate other religions, but this tolerance should not mean removing the Christian component in our culture and its institutions. But now the government does not wish to take a religious position at all, and by so doing it sends a message to the children: there is no right or wrong set of beliefs, and no right or wrong, no hope. In fact, Senator Kennedy has been promoting for decades, reduction of Christian immigration completely, and increasing Muslim and other religions, for the purpose of watering down, destroying the Christian basis of society. After 911, this was intensified. (SWRC) People often refuse to believe this because they think Kennedy is a good Catholic.
The War Against the Family
Radical feminists want us to believe that, except for a few minor anatomical differences, men and women are the same. (equality illusion) But every field of science declares that biology is destiny. First feminists say men and women are the same, then they claim that men are more violent because they have too much testosterone, and make a big joke about it like men are a bunch of violent buffoons - and therefore women should rule over men. Are feminists scientists? Where is their data? They have none, just their socialist, collectivist ideology. They have also succeeded in convincing women that men unfairly occupy positions of dominance because of stereotypical socialization (victim illusion: boys and girls are raised differently, owing to an exploitive patriarchal society); and traditional sex and family roles must be abandoned (the individualism illusion: life is personal and autonomous, not social). Finally, they want a complete transformation of society to bring the egalitarian utopia into existence (the rationalism illusion: the idea that sufficiently prolonged social engineering will end human ignorance and will perfect faulty institutions). These were tried in Soviet society. The results were disastrous.
So, feminists constantly contradict themselves; first they say they are the same, then different, and finally men are just bad - too much testosterone, poor creatures. But, they will show the world how to make a perfect society - put women in top jobs, and their kids in day care. That is their solution to the world's problems. Meanwhile, the abandoned, stressed out kids are being destroyed. Brainwashing by feminists is always wrong, but maternal instincts are almost always correct. Day care can never take the place of the mother. Children need their real mothers for more than a token fifteen minutes before bed time. The collective raising of kids has been proven false in the Soviet Union - don't follow the same path to your own destruction of your children.
The reason that all the special interest groups such as radical feminists
have been successful in taking away rights from the traditional family
is because the traditional guardians of family values such as the church
have allowed it to happen. The Christian leaders did not fight hard enough.
Political Correctness and Religions
Probably the most politically incorrect religion is Christianity. That is why politically correct secular media stay away from trying to make Christianity look good. They prefer to lump it in with all the other religions and say "they are all the same, mostly bad."
Christianity versus Islam, the old clash of ideologies - fiction/violence and truth/love. Koran states "...and Muhammad is his prophet." So how do you define prophet? In the Bible, a prophet is one who foretells the future, not just one who receives messages from God. Future events then confirm that the prophet was actually prophesying. The Bible tells us not to listen to "false prophets" or whose prophecies don't come true. Does Satan have the power to appear as an angel? Why not? Muhammad claimed that he got the Koran from Angel Gabriel. The Bible is full of prophecies, which came true, such as those in the Old Testament. If you doubt the Bible, you must check out the issue of fulfilled prophecies; there are a whole bunch of them that happened exactly as written. It also foretells what will happen in the end times, which is good to know. What did Muhammad prophecy? He merely took the old pagan practices and declared them to have come down from the only God, Allah, the Moon God which was worshipped by the Arab pagans, which was one of the Meccan 360 or so Gods. He abolished all the others and kept only one, which he declared to be the "only" one, the greatest (of the 360 gods). Allah is the greatest, he declared. The Koran or Qur'an is therefore a collection of fairy tales handed down by tradition, that Muhammad declared came straight from God. Most of the traditions had already existed before Islam, which he wanted to keep forever. They claim Muhammad did not force anyone to join his new religion. No, he didn't but what they don't reveal is that he gave them a choice: convert or die, no force was used. Muhammad rode into Mecca on horseback with the sword, chop, chop, anyone who did not convert, and the blood flowed. Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey preaching love. But you say Christian religion is full of bloodshed. Yes, by violent men, but not the teachings of Jesus. Jesus commanded Peter to put away his sword. The early church in Rome disobeyed Jesus' teachings.
According to Dr. R. Morey, who has successfully debated Islamic scholars, history reveals that Muslim traditions existed already before Muhammad was born. He told his followers such nonsense as Satin resided in the nose during the night, he cut the moon in half with his sword, you can beat your wife if she doesn't obey, you can lie, Allah was the greatest liar of them all because he can do anything he wants to further his cause. There is no assurance of going to heaven unless you kill someone for Islam, for which there is a large reward. The peaceful quotes used to "prove" Islam is peaceful originate from the early writings but as Mohammad's military conquests and victories increased, so did his hostility towards Christians. By the way, an infidel is someone who believes Christ is the Messiah. And most Muslims know what is supposed to be done with them. That they refuse is admirable, but some obey. These are the roots of terrorism. Muhammad got his revelations while possessed by demons, he was epileptic - the "sheeted one" - because they threw a sheet over him during his attacks. Asked how they know Muhammad was a prophet, Muslims say he had a big hairy mole on his shoulder. That is proof! (he needed medical attention for his epilepsy and the mole) He told his followers that Jesus is not the son of God, and the Christian trinity is God who had sex with Mary and they had a son, Jesus. This is a lie, of course. What a terrible situation to be in! When Muslims are asked about these things, they deny them, Islam means peace. Anyone who uses violence and force is said to not be following the tenets of Islam. Is that true? How can it be, if there is so much violence associated with it? Here is an example of "peaceful" Islam: Forced conversions to Islam including circumcisions.
But are all religions the same? What about us in the West, we who think our society and values are better than those in India, Arabia, Iraq, or Russia, for example. Is our society, which has developed out of Judeo-Christian values, better? Certainly freedom has a price, we are also free to do bad things. But is the answer Islam that grips its people in an iron grip, where just about everything is bad and you do as you're told or else? We are all but told by the government not to say Christ is the only way. Soon we won't even be able to say Christmas. There is a larger plot in the works than just denying children God in schools. Do educators, when discussing religions of the world, have any reason to tell children that Christianity is better than say, Islam?
Would you agree with the Bible saying: "you shall know them by their fruits?" In other words, if you want to evaluate something, look at the fruits. I am sure you will answer in the affirmative if you are a practical person with common sense. Well then, which religion treats women the best: Christians, Muslims, Budhists, Hindus, Sikhs...or any other religion? Women in all but the first are treated badly. Bound feet, playthings of the rich businessmen, genital mutilation in Africa, etc. Women in Christian countries are the freest. Sure, Muslim leaders state that Islam holds both sexes on an equal level. But there is a gap between rhetoric and action over there in those countries as well as America. After beating his wife, the man claimed he was doing what his religion told him to. So, they can't have it both ways, say Islam is peaceful to women, and the minute our backs are turned, they act opposite. In factWhoever follows Christ has been set free, as He promised. Christ's teachings elevate women to where they ought to be. In most other religions, and countries, women are dirt under the feet of men. And which country respects all religions: the Arab countries, China, African countries? No, again, it is the Christian countries. So, I beg anyone's pardon who says that Christ's teachings do not lead to the best way of living known to man. "It is the generous (in character) who is good to women, and it is the wicked who insults them." "The most perfect believers are the best in conduct and best of you are those who are best to their wives." "Treat your women well and be kind to them for they are your partners and committed helpers."
America was founded by Christian reformers, followers of Jesus Christ, not Muhammad. There would be no free America if the foundation of North America were Islam. I shudder to think what it would be like Iran, or perhaps Arabia where women have no rights. America (and Canada) was also known as the "land of the free." So it was not political correctness that was responsible for the freedom of women in America, or Western Europe, which is mostly Protestant. While in Eastern Europe, under Orthodoxy, women's position still continues to be much lower than in the West. Can we objectively state therefore, that all religions are the same? Think about it. Freedom versus slavery to a repressive religion, or no religion at all - no hope - which will we teach our kids is best? Consider Finland and Russia. Why are the women freer in Finland than in Russia? Russia did not have a Martin Luther to lead people to the teachings of Jesus. But you might say, doesn't the Orthodox religion do that too? The answer is no. Russians persecute other people especially Christians and Jews while Finns do not. The roots are in their religion. Finns are followers of Christ. The Orthodox religion, which is similar to Catholicism that persecuted and killed millions of people, is an unbiblical (often evil) combination of Church and State that mixes lies, truth and paganism, and does not follow Christ's teachings. Therefore countries with Catholic style religions persecute and kill others because of political viewpoint. (E.g. Central America, Philipines) This does not happen in Finland, founded upon Christ's teachings, not some unbiblical traditions. Any religion can be bad, violent, warlike, abusive, but the worst ones do not obey Christ. Christ did not come to establish a religion, but to reinstate our relationship with God with the truth that sets us free. The Catholics made a religion out of it, and Islam was set up specifically as a religion.
If you don't like religion, I don't blame you. You and I have something in common. But can you truthfully say that what Jesus taught is bad for our society? If you don't know, check it out and I am sure you and I will agree that the answer is "no" we need more of it. Thank you for your interest.
Radical Islam
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- Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland
- What the Bible says about money and love of money.
- Focus on The Family - Dr. Dobson
- Canadian Radio About the relatively few Canadian Christian radio stations. There are no Christian radio stations in Vancouver BC, but there are at least four stations broadcasting in Punjabi and Mandarin/Cantonese. Problem: CRTC.
- Gay Rights Gone Wrong In Canada saying or even implying you don't agree with the gay life-style means you could be charged with assault. The Bible? They call it a biggoted book, which should be banned.
- Child Pornography - Soon it may be illegal to say anything bad about child pornography too. Only in Canada, the land of the free.
- Who are the terrorists? (SWRC)
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- Why Would Mohammad...- Questions about Mohammad's knowledge.
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