For Adults Only

When you and I see this notice, "For Adults Only" anywhere, we unmistakably bring up an association with sex and nudity, maybe violence, but more likely sex or nudity. Society posts this notice on sexually explicit material suggesting that the material should be kept from children. Is this society's way of exculpating adults, granting them permission to indulge the lusts of the flesh just because they don't allow children to view the material? Why is it harmful to children and not to adults? Shouldn't it be equally harmful to adults if it is harmful to children? The suggestion is, that adults are better able to handle sexually explicit material than children can. The truth is, adults are just more adept at rationalizations for indulging in lust of the eyes and of the flesh. The warning notice is more accurately read as, "For the Adulterous Only."

Abortion and Terrorism Compared.

Abortion and Terrorism have quite a few things in common.

• Terrorism kills the innocent. Abortion also kills the innocent.
• Terrorism ambushes lives at home, where the people think they are safe. Abortion kills life in the womb which heretofore was thought to be inviolable.
• Terrorism has an utter disregard for human life. Abortion treats human life as worthless tissue, a "product of conception", totally disposable.
• Victims of terrorism have no way of defending themselves. Likewise for the unsuspecting baby in the womb.
  
• Terrorists defend their actions with political reasons. Abortionists also defend their actions with political reasons.

Abortion and Terrorism do have their differences.

• Victims of Terrorism are often avenged. Aborted babies have no avenger.
  
• Terrorists kill for religious reasons. Abortionists kill for secular reasons.
  
• Terrorism is against the law. Abortion is legal.

What is legal is not necessarily moral.

"God Censors" at Work in Cupertino

Following is news about a battlefront in the culture war:

Declaration of Independence Banned at Calif School
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A California teacher has been barred by his school from giving students documents from American history that refer to God -- including the Declaration of Independence.

Steven Williams, a fifth-grade teacher at Stevens Creek School in the San Francisco Bay area suburb of Cupertino, sued for discrimination on Monday, claiming he had been singled out for censorship by principal Patricia Vidmar because he is a Christian.

"It's a fact of American history that our founders were religious men, and to hide this fact from young fifth-graders in the name of political correctness is outrageous and shameful," said Williams' attorney, Terry Thompson.

"Williams wants to teach his students the true history of our country," he said. "There is nothing in the Establishment Clause (of the U.S. Constitution) that prohibits a teacher from showing students the Declaration of Independence."

Vidmar could not be reached for comment on the lawsuit, which was filed on Monday in U.S. District Court in San Jose and claims violations of Williams rights to free speech under the First Amendment.

Note that this case happened in the San Francisco area where Mayor Gavin Newsom ignored law and wed homosexuals.

Powerline blog sounds an ominous note on this development.

Did the Global Flood Really Happen?

Dr. John D. Morris, Ph.D. of the Institute for Creation Research wrote the following:

"Acceptance of old-earth ideas, including the Big Bang, progressive creation, theistic evolution, the framework hypothesis, etc., necessarily implies downgrading the Flood of Noah's day from worldwide in scope to merely one of local extent. For example, Dr. Hugh Ross (an aggressive advocate of billions of years for the earth's age) vigorously denies the global flood. He calls it "universal," covering all that Noah could see, but not the entire earth. This insistence does not come from sound Biblical exegesis, but from the incompatibility of a global flood with old-earth thinking, which he accepts. The evidence for great ages is thought to be found in the rock and fossil records of the earth's crust. These are interpreted by the principle of uniformitarianism, that "the present is the key to the past." Since geologic processes happen slowly today, they argue, the extensive rock and fossil records must have taken great lengths of time to form."

In 2002 National Geographic reported that a fossil of a young mummified dinosaur was discovered in Montana. Mummified means that the dinosaur was preserved into fossil, with skeleton, tissue, skin, scales, muscle, beak, foot pads, and even the contents of the dinosaur's digestive tract, its last meal. Dr. Mace Baker, Ph. D. has written about the discovery,

"It is important to remember that Leonardo (the dinosaur's nickname) was alive when it ate the plants, but was drowned and became buried in sediments before it could digest this meal. If this dinosaur had died under normal and/or uniformitarian circumstances...and had been slowly and gradually covered by sands of time, no fossilized material, let alone mummified material, would have been left for us to observe these thousands of years later."

Noah lived in the Middle East. The mummified dinosaur was found in Montana, USA. The evidence of Leonardo speaks to us from ages past of the global, cataclysmic flood recorded in the Book of Genesis.

Thank God for a "Just Right" Universe

Mr. Ray Bohlin, Ph.D. of Probe Ministries, provided the inspiration for today's Thanksgiving theme: We live in a "just right" universe. Consider the following quote from Dr. Ray Bohlin:

• "There are 29 fine-tuned parameters to the Universe such as constants in the equations for gravity, electromagnetism, strong and weak nuclear forces, ratio of proton to electron mass.
  
• There are 51 fine-tuned Parameters to our Galaxy, Solar System, and Planet such as:
  
  
  • distance from the sun
    
  • size, temperature, & type of sun
    
  • size, axial tilt, rotation speed, moon, & composition of earth
    
  • stability of Jupiter and Saturn
  
  
• 10^-53 Probability of all 80 fine-tuned parameters occurring by chance.
  
• 10²² Upper limit for number of stars in the universe. Assume 1 planet per star, therefore 10²² planets in the universe. So how do we determine how many planets may be suitable for life? 10^-53 x 10²² = 10^-31 or 0.0000000000000000000000000000001 planets suitable for life
  
• Jupiter acts as a comet and asteroid magnet shielding earth from catastrophic collisions.
  
• Our sun is located between spiral arms of the Milky Way Galaxy where there are fewer stars (less harmful radiation and disruptive gravity) and less gas and dust (we can see the rest of the galaxy and universe).
  
• Since 1996, over 50 planets outside our solar system have been found. Only 5% of stars have planets. The planets are either too large, too close to their star, or with too erratic an orbit to harbor life.
  
• Have the probabilities changed? There are now 123 parameters with a probability of 1 in 10161. When multiplied with a very generous estimate of 1 planet/star or 1022 planets, the final number of planets in the universe suitable for life is 10^-139 or
  0.00000000000000000000000000000000000
  00000000000000000000000000000000000000
  0000000000000000000000000000000000000
  00000000000000000000000000001 planets!"
  

Thank God Almighty for a "just right" universe! The earth must be a very special place indeed, and man must be a very special being.

Must All Faiths Be Equal?

The battlefronts of the culture war are interrelated. The purging of God from the state government being waged by secular liberalism is resulting in the promotion of religious pluralism bringing increased hostility against the visible reminders of absolute morality, namely, sacred scriptures and the people whose lives are based on sacred scriptures. Thus, secular liberalism ignores the differences between Islam and Christianity, treating them both as morally equivalent, equating the fanaticism of the radical jihadists with the devotional commitment of "fundamentalist" Christians. They are quick to point out the one period in history, namely the Crusades, as the moral equivalent of today's terrorism. The excesses committed during the Crusades were at variance with the teachings of Jesus Christ, while the terrorism exercised by the jihadists is in perfect harmony with the Koran, but this is ignored by the secular liberals. To them, the enemy is absolute truth and morality based on absolute truth, and all faiths must be equal. The truth is, not all faiths are equal. One must be true and the other false.

God Wants the Separation of Church and State

When the nation of Israel was formed out of twelve tribes, God exercised direct rule over them through Moses. This is known as a theocracy. It is recorded in the books of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. Then God established the kingship over Israel with Saul as the first King. He separated the office of King and the office of Prophet and the office of Priest. Thus was born the separation of "church" and state. The king was not to perform the duties of the priesthood. When Saul disobeyed and performed priestly duties, he suffered tragic consequences: he lost his kingship to David. This is recorded in the books of Samuel.

Today, the secular state is performing the office of the "priesthood". In making political issues out of morality, it is going outside its God-ordained boundaries. The state has allowed the surgeon's knife to invade the sacredness of the womb. Instead of being the guardian of life, the state has been playing god guaranteeing happiness and convenience at the expense of the weak. The state is intensifying its role as guarantor of happiness by allowing the destruction of the meaning of sex and marriage and procreation. It is bartering away morality at the altar of politics.

God wants the separation of church and state. The state should stop politicizing morality and keep off the areas of the church.

Liberators or Destroyers?

The TV networks such as CBS, and the Hollywood elite combined have contributed to the recent debasement of culture abetted by a liberal ideology that regards religious morality as an anachronistic obstacle to freedom, particularly sexual freedom. Of course the TV networks and the Hollywood elite never admit that they are debasing the culture.

Driven by the pursuit of higher ratings and economic gain, they are quick to capitalize on and exploit the volatile issues that ignite human passions while claiming to be merely supplying the demands of the viewing public. The liberal elite understand human nature to be enslaved by Victorian morality, believing their mission to be that of using the media to liberate us from the shackles of morality and lead us into sexual utopia.

The liberal elite in control of the TV networks and Hollywood film who are not even motivated by conventional notions of right and wrong on sexuality, but are moved by a crass materialism and a thoroughly secular agenda are enemies of the culture, hostile destroyers, and catalysts for decadence. In vain will the politicians legislate ratings and V-chips against them. The Supreme Court, having been seduced to neutrality in the culture war, will guarantee that licentiousness and pervertion is "protected speech."

We must arm ourselves and our families in every possible way, in spirit, intellect, emotion and environment against the onslaught on our senses and sensibilities by these pushers of pervertion.

Kerry Identifies the Media

Today, the Democratic ex-candidate claimed that the media was unfavorable to him, suggesting that this is one of the reasons he lost the election. When I heard that, I was aghast. How could he say that, after Dan Rather, Michael Moore, and the PSM worked to slander President Bush every way they could? Kerry went on to identify whom he meant by the media. He mentioned Fox News and talk radio. What a compliment!

Robin Hood in Court

Class Envy is not just the politician's tool. It is the trial lawyer's Cornucopia. The rich and powerful are the deep-pockets, manufacturing companies, insurance companies, and medical professionals. Trial lawyers are the modern day Robin Hoods who will fight for anyone who has a grievance against the deep pockets. However, unlike in the the original Sherwood Forest, the Sheriff of Nottingham is Robin Hood's ally because the courts today are in favor of transferring wealth in the form of multi-million dollar awards against the deep pockets. Hopefully, some of it will trickle down to the aggrieved parties while the Robin Hood lawyers get the lion's share.

Meanwhile, because the deep pockets are so scared of the trial lawyers, our health care insurance premiums go up and the quality of health care is drastically reduced. I had to postpone much-needed care for next year because this year's insurance allotment has already been met. I was denied much-needed service because some professional considered me a "high risk" patient. I've lost something here. I should cry out. "I've been robbed!!!" Should I ask for Robin Hood's help?

Consenting Adults

"Consenting Adults" - the great tower of individual freedom sanctioned by the State. In this great tower, you are shielded from judgment by society. The media will not touch you. Society cannot condemn you. Never mind if a whole nation is scandalized by your licentiousness. "Consenting Adults" will shield you. Never mind if your vows are broken and rendered meaningless, or if the children are torn apart at the wreck of your marriage. "Consenting Adults" will rescue you. But your conscience is your own business. The State can do nothing for you there. You may have to silence it, even kill it and run to "Consenting Adults."

Compassion for the Weak

A reader made a comment on a previous post, The New Golden Calf, stating that I

"should approach this issue with compassion for ALL the living, not just the fetus."

Since Roe Vs Wade, 45.4 million unborn babies have been killed. I suppose it's not very compassionate to say that. Perhaps Clickter would rather read "45.4 million fetuses have been terminated." Who will have compassion on the unborn? Furthermore, if we are to have compassion on ALL the living, then the law should not discriminate against the unborn by allowing them to be killed. The trouble is, while Clickter seems to be a Christian and treats the unborn as living, he allows the law to treat the unborn as not living. Do we then show compassion on someone at the expense of the life of another? Mourn for our country!

The Battle over History

The Leftwing Liberals are waging a fierce struggle to rewrite US history, hoping to find an anchor for the secularization of the US constitution and Bill of Rights. They are pursuing their crusade to purge God from the State in the historical records.

Their struggle to rewrite US history consists in:

1) Demonizing Christianity and attributing the evils of society to Christianity, as far back as Christopher Columbus and beyond.

2) Establishing that the founding fathers were secularist in belief so that Christian spirituality had no influence whatsoever on the US Constitution or the Bill of Rights.

In doing this they hope to accomplish the following:

1) Cut off the present and future generations from their spiritual roots.

2) Drive Christians into a privatized faith, and prevent them from holding any public office.

3) Advance the cause of secularism and become free from the influence of Christian morality which they regard as evil;

4) Pursue more ubridled sexual freedom and social experimentation which they regard as the pursuit of happiness.

5) Mold society into their image of a thoroughly secular one sanctioned by activist judge advocates with no moral restraint.

Footprints in the Clay of Time

In the Paluxy river basin in Central Texas near the town of Glen Rose, fossilized tracks of man and dinosaur appear together. Scientists have investigated and documented the site. John D. Morris makes an exhaustive presentation of this find. The evidence debunks the evolutionists' hypothesis of the millions of years it took for dinosaur to evolve to man. The supporters of Darwin would rather "spin" the evidence to support their theory instead of letting the facts speak for themselves.

My Truth, Your Truth, Whose Truth?

"My truth is that I am a gay American," said James E. McGreevey, the married father of two when he resigned as governor of New Jersey. Notice that he didn't say "the truth is..." In the culture war, the Left take every opportunity to undermine absolute truth, denying that there is some standard outside of ourselves. To the Left, truth is relative, a private matter, optional to all. Our experience does not support that assertion. There is an objective reality outside of oneself, which does not depend on one's personal beliefs. You will fall off a 10-storey building if you jump off whether you believe in Newton's Law of Gravity or not. The same is true in the moral universe. The effects may not be as immediate as the Law of Gravity, but there are most certainly adverse personal and social consequences for violating absolute moral laws, whether you believe in those laws or not.

Suppressing God

The only “religion” that the secularist state can tolerate is religious pluralism. Religious pluralism treats all beliefs as equals to each other. It disdains to admit that any one set of beliefs is true. Religious pluralism is not concerned with the truth. Its main concern is that people of different beliefs get along like one big happy family. It calls “divisive” those who claim they have absolute truth about God and targets them for suppression.

Against religious pluralism stands the truth of Divine Revelation, that is, God Himself has spoken and has revealed Himself to mankind. God has not been silent while we humans argue about truth. The problem is not the absence of truth about God. It is the suppression of truth about God, and it is not just the secular state which suppresses it. We human beings suppress it.

The English novelist and essayist Aldous Leonard Huxley, a distinguished literary scholar stated,

“We objected to morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom" (Ends and Means).

Huxley is also known for his experiments with hallucinogenic drugs.

The State Seduced

The issue of the "Separation of Church and State" has become much more than a constitutional issue. The Secularist thinkers and their activist judge advocates have turned the "Separation of Church and State" into an ideological weapon. They have embraced the seductive concept of a State free from God, a State that is autonomous and absolutely free from the influence of any theistic belief. The autonomous State free from God and God's moral law can legislate what it considers moral or immoral based solely upon the judge's personal decree. Thus the State has arrogated unto itself the prerogatives of God. Issues of life and sexuality, for example, moral issues properly settled by reference to God's decrees are now to be decided by judges whose consciences are seared and kept from referring to God's laws under the "separation" watchdog. There is no moral authority above the State. The inescapable conclusion is this: The State has become god.

Class Envy – A Basic Political Tool

We have heard much about "Tax Cuts for the Rich" and the "rich not paying their fare share" of income taxes. This is a basic political tool employed by politicians to manipulate a basic human weakness - envy. If someone is better off than we are, they must have gotten rich unfairly, so the politicians would have us believe. They do it under cover of campaigning for justice. Walter E. Williams’ article shows how much taxes the rich in the USA really pay.

The New Media

The PSM's monopoly on news and opinion has been broken. Thanks to unfettered minds exploiting the vast resources of radio and the internet, the opinion mongers of the liberal press masquerading behind objectivity have been exposed for what they are: Propagandists of the Left. The New Media, found in the various conservative talk radio programs, in the internet web log communities, and in some cable TV and print media reflect the deeply held beliefs of the vast majority of the American people and have became effective rallying centers in the Culture War. Foremost is Rush Limbaugh, the "Doctor of Democracy" and "Crown Jewel of the New Media." Rush's long standing radio program has spawned a variety of other talk shows, among which our favorites are Michael Medved, Bill Bennet, Laura Ingraham, and Shawn Hannity. My own exposure to the weblog community began with the expose of the Dan Rather fiasco. Powerline became an inspiration to start my own web log that you're reading now and Powerline continues to be the one I read most. Then there is some of the New Media in Cable TV with Fox News and their pundits and those of the other cable networks. Some of our favorites are Anne Coulter, Eric Scarborough, and Fred Barnes.

From MSM to PSM

The so-called main stream media (MSM) is no longer main stream. It has become polluted stream media (PSM). I am referring to Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings, The New York Times, and other liberal traditional sources of news, the Hollywood actors- and actresses-turned-politicians, The revisionist historians, and pseudo-political movie producers such as Michael Moore who have ceased to become truthful, and have become partisan opinion mongers. They can no longer be trusted. During the last election Dan Rather raised up false witnesses against the President, then later grudgingly apologized only after his nefarious scheme was exposed as a fraud. The others rushed to prop him up. The New York Times dredged up some old news concerning missing munitions on Iraq trying to pin it on the President. Michael Moore's political fantasy is becoming basic training in liberal ideology and terrorist mastermind Osama Bin Ladin endorsed Moore's point of view. They all failed miserably to bring down the President. I'm glad there is an alternative to the PSM.

Preying on the poor

State governments have become avid promoters of lotteries. The lotteries are a quick and lazy way to increase revenues. However, lotteries have preyed on the poor. The poor have been the most susceptible to the hope of quickly getting rich without much effort.

In a Boston Globe commission to study State Lotteries , a store owner observed that:
"The lottery is no good. It robs from the poor. It robs from my neighbors. People lose a lot
of money. The government has no business being involved."

In the same Boston Globe study:
"Then we learned that when the Social Security and welfare checks arrive, local residents line up outside the store and down the sidewalk hoping to parlay their meager subsistence into instant wealth."

The poor people are now responding eagerly to the false hope being held out by state governments throughout the nation: "Come to me all ye who labor and are heavy-laden and I will sell you lottery tickets. Take this bet upon you and learn of the huge jackpot. For the bet is easy and the burden is light. And it shall be given to some lucky citizen, millions upon millions, good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over it shall be given to that lucky one."

And people everywhere gamble away their hope one Dollar at a time, thanks to the state.

The Pursuit of Pleasure

One of the battlefronts of the culture war is what I describe to be the struggle between futility and meaning. This consists of the abandonment of the longest range purposes or ultimate purposes, or what some may call eternal purposes, and thus Meaning, for something short-range, and less meaningful, i.e., Futility.

Take for example the ultimate purpose of sex. At its very foundation, sexual distinctions between male and female support the long-range purpose of procreation, reproduction, and perpetuation of the human race, with male and female roles being in harmony with the underlying anatomy and physiology particular to each sex. Sexual pleasure is merely a by-product in the fulfillment of the eternal purpose of sex, which is procreation.

The modern mind has elevated pleasure as the ultimate purpose of sex, and has treated procreation and the perpetuation of the race as an incidental purpose. It has even treated reproduction as a nuisance of a consequence in the pursuit of pleasure. The enthronement of pleasure is the triumph of Futility and the defeat of Meaning. Pleasure does not accomplish anything. That is why it is futile. Sex has lost its ultimate meaning. Biological differences between male and female are meaningless. Only the pursuit of pleasure matters, and all the institutions and traditions must now be readjusted to support this new "value".

The New Golden Calf

Abortion-on-Demand is the golden calf to which the Liberals of today bow the knee. It is a tottering idol propped up by an ailing Supreme Court. Its priests are in the Senate and the House paid for with votes by men and women who sacrifice their unborn children to this idol so that they could pursue their own selfish interests and who encourage others to do the same. The idol will crumble and will be ground to dust.

Elections role in the Culture War

Thanks to the U.S. Constitution and the founding fathers of America, the democratic process provides a non-violent and orderly resolution of the culture war which culminates in the election of the leader who represents the winning side for a period of history.

Silencing expression of belief

The Secularists want to remove any expression of belief in God from any public place, public document, or public institution. They want to remove "One nation under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance, ban the public display of the Ten Commandments, ban manger scenes depicting the birth of Christ from public places, remove Christmas as a school holiday and ultimately as a Federal holiday, and ultimately, remove the words "In God We Trust" from U.S. currency. They do this under cover of the principle of the separation of Church and State. The Secularists associate with the Church anything that has to do with God.

They are making a fatal mistake. They are mistaken because God has existed even before the Church was formed. In fact, God has existed even before the State began, and the State exists because God established it. The Secularists are not just for separating the Church from the State, but they are attempting to purge God from the State. This is a laughable position because no one is strong enough to separate God from anything at all.

One cannot silence expression of belief in God anywhere, public or private. If men become silent, then even the stones will cry out.

President Bush wins!

What a tremendous victory!

The Secularist Dilemma

Secularists pretend to abhor religion and exclude it from public debate, yet their very rhetoric is full of moral judgements, such as "Bush lied." They have to borrow their morality from religion or some form of spirituality.

The Constitution Ammended

The Constitution has already been ammended. In the decisions rendered by Judges and Justices, rights have been created where there were none.

Rearranging the Deck Chairs on the Titanic

My pastor admonished us not to be concerned about who would get elected. It is like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, he said. With this reasoning, I should not be concerned about which doctor should check up on my ailing loved one, because she is going to die sooner or later. Never mind that the doctor may have a forged diploma from a Medical school. It should be all right for him to practice medicine on my loved one because he says he is a doctor.