The Culture Warrior

Introducing Evil Into the World

2009-08-29T09:29:00.004-04:00

God's work in creation was perfect. He designed the universe so that all the physical and chemical conditions necessary for life on earth would be present according to His design. He created man and gave him work, gave him provisions, and gave him a companion. God gave man authority to rule over all the earth, under God. However, man's status was conditional, not permanent. If he obeyed, then he could eat of the Tree of Life and live forever, untainted by sin. If he disobeyed by breaking the one command, the result would be death and all that it implied. Genesis Chapter 3 reveals how it all unfolded.

The serpent of Genesis Chapter 3 is the devil or Satan (Revelation 12:9). He deceives the woman with cunning, attacking God's word and impugning God's character suggesting to Eve that God was holding out on them. Satan's temptation was laced with the truth. They would know good and evil. It was also a brazen lie in telling them that they would not die.

The introduction of evil had the following immediate and permanent consequences:

1. A disruption of the perfect unity between man and wife, between male and female - a feeling of shame at being naked. Woman and man would try to rule over each other.
2. A disruption of the perfect unity between man and God. - a feeling of unworthiness to be in God's presence.
3. A disruption of the perfect provision of God.- Thorns and thistles instead of abundance; pain in childbearing and childbirth. Labor and sweat at maintaining health and life.
4. A disruption of man's authority. - Man would experience death. There would be a godly line and there would be those who are the seed of the serpent. A promise that the godly line would ultimately defeat the serpent.

Prose and Poetry of Creation

2009-08-11T18:57:00.006-04:00

When something is important, we often repeat reading it or saying it to make sure that it is understood. The Bible repeats the creation of man and woman in Genesis chapter two because of its supreme importance to our understanding of who we are and where we came from. The following are my insights from reading Genesis Chapters one and two. Genesis chapter two is prose and poetry while Genesis chapter one is more didactic and like a textbook. Chapters one and two cannot contradict each other because there is one Author and the Bible is inerrant and infallible.

1. Not all plants sprang up on the third day. They must have been created in seed form and were awaiting moisture in order to germinate and grow. Some small plants and bushes were in this category.

2. Rain did not come from clouds in the original creation. The earth was more like a greenhouse, where moisture from the land and the seas would rise like mist and condense as moisture to water the whole earth. Therefore, some plants may not have germinated until after the fourth day when the sun was created and its heat caused evaporation of moisture and condensation to water the earth. It must have started "raining" by the fifth day.

3. The Garden of Eden was planted by God. Its trees and plants grew after the fourth day, and on into the sixth day and beyond. "Rain" occurred after the fourth day, and with underground springs of water, caused rivers to flow, adding to the geographical features of the earth, defining Eden. There were two trees which were one-of-a-kind in their species. One was called the Tree of Life, and the other, the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

4. Just as He did with the plants and animals, God assembled man's physical body from the earth. The DNA, molecules and cells, all came from the same elements that make up plants and animals. Only when God breathed into man did he become a living creature. On the sixth day, He created man full grown, with language and intelligence, and accountable to God. After creating man, God placed him in the garden and gave him one command.

5. Woman was also created on the sixth day. Eve must have learned of the command from Adam. It is also possible that God spoke the command again so that both of them could hear it.

6. Genesis chapter one defines man's purpose and authority on the earth. Genesis chapter two defines man's responsibilities to God and his family. God gave man work. God gave man provisions. God gave man companionship.

Everything Was Very Good

2009-08-08T13:46:00.008-04:00

And God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds — livestock and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds." And it was so. And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that creeps on the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.

And God blessed them. And God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth."

And God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food. And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food." And it was so.

And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

(Genesis 1:24-31)

God had formed the earth and the plant kingdom, and the universe for the earth, and had created the creatures of the sea and the birds of the air. With the same power, he created the animals that live on the earth. The staggering diversity of animals is such that the estimate of the known number of species is from 3 to 30 million, with 97% of them invertebrates, and 3% vertebrates.

The pinnacle of creation is man, whom the Creator made in His image, after His likeness. The pre-existent Christ who was there at creation as the second person of the Trinity became the pattern for man. Man as male and female, with their attributes of relationship, community, and intimacy is a reflection of the relationship and unity within the Godhead. Maleness and femaleness is mentioned first with reference to man, and not to the rest of the animal or plant kingdoms. With man, sex is not primarily biological as it is with the rest of creation, where the sex of plants and animals is not even mentioned.

Man and animals were to feed on fruit and vegetation. God gave dominion to man over all the earth, as another component of the image of God in man. Everything was very good.

God Fills the Seas and the Air With His Creatures

2009-08-07T16:51:00.005-04:00

And God said, "Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the heavens." So God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind.

And God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth." And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.

(Genesis 1:20-23)

The creation of the sun, moon and the stars came after the creation of the plants and trees. The process of photosynthesis now began in the living plants.

Next God created the birds and sea creatures after their kinds. "Birds, as a group, have been extensively studied. Scientists believe that the estimated number of bird species alive today (between 9,000 to 10,000) is a relatively good approximation of the actual number", writes Laura Klappenbach. Some of the best estimates of the number of species of fish puts it at 32,500. Since the Bible uses the term "great sea creatures," the whales and aquatic and marine mammals were also created then, including sea-dwelling dinosaurs and avian dinosaurs

Each species of fish and bird, marine and aquatic mammal, avian dinosaur, and aquatic dinosaur was created on day 5. The Creator programmed each species to be fruitful and to multiply.

The Creator Lights Up Space

2009-08-06T20:48:00.006-04:00

And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years, and let them be lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth." And it was so.

And God made the two great lights — the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night — and the stars. And God set them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth, to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day.

(Genesis 1:14-19)

On the second day, God created space. He carved out the earth and fashioned it on the third day. In carving out the earth, there was plenty of "waters" left outside the firmament (space). This is the same "waters" out of which the earth was made. God now turns His attention back to those waters, and turns them into the sun, the moon, the planets, and the stars.

The sun and the moon are to implement His definition of time periods which He established on the first day. The orbit of the planets, the distance of the earth from the sun, and of the moon from the earth, and the placement of the earth in the Milky Way galaxy, the rotation of the earth on its axis, everything, is fine-tuned to make the earth just right for life, and implement His design and purpose. In God's grand scheme, the earth is the "center" of the universe.

All this took place on the fourth day.

The Creator Fashions The Earth

2009-08-05T21:04:00.009-04:00

And God said, "Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear." And it was so. God called the dry land Earth, and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas. And God saw that it was good.

And God said, "Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the earth." And it was so. The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.

(Genesis 1:9-13)

God created space. He now focuses on the earth. "let the dry land appear" implies that the land was already there, and that water covered them. When did that happen?

Before Day 1 there was only matter. It was "void", i.e, it had no energy.

Then on Day 1 God created light. Light is a form of energy and God imparted it into matter. Matter and energy were combined to form the elements, the atomic structure of matter was defined. The periodic table of the elements was defined. Time was defined.

On Day 2 God created space. He created three dimensional space. On a macro scale, the elements combined into molecules, crystals, suspensions, and various solid, liquid, and gaseous forms. The earth took on a spherical shape. The earth is no longer "formless" and "void."

On Day 3 the Creator caused the waters that cover the earth to recede. All this rapid action of water, happening in less than a day, to be stored in the labyrinths of the earth leave the various stratification of rocks and hills and mountains that we see today. The dry land appears. The shape of the land and the seas, caused by the action of water happened by design.

The Designer was not finished yet. He made the dry land appear. He then caused the right atoms to combine into molecules to form amino acids, protein, and plant DNA. He then embedded these DNA into the complex cells and structures that make up a plant. We know of over 300,000 species of plants today but God only knows how many species He made. More species are being discovered everyday. God formed them out of the elements in the earth after he separated the land from the seas. All of these happened on Day 3.

God Creates Outer Space

2009-08-03T18:36:00.013-04:00

And God said, "Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters." And God made the expanse and separated the waters that were under the expanse from the waters that were above the expanse. And it was so. And God called the expanse Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.

(Genesis 1:6-8)

In the language of Genesis formless matter is described as "waters." God first created matter without energy. Then, He created light which energized matter and did so at an atomic level, forming the elements. The mass of the material universe is finite, as implied by the description "face of the waters" or "face of the deep." The energy imparted to matter is also finite. In creating light, God also defined time. The basic unit of time is to be the 24-hour cycle of day and night.

In Genesis 1:6-8, God forms the earth. He does so by creating space. He "carves out" the earth by placing an expanse around it, separating it from the rest of the "waters." The name given to outer space is "heaven." This is not the same "heavens" mentioned in Genesis 1:1. (In the New Testament, Paul speaks of the "third heaven" (2 Corinthians 12:2)).

The special "waters" for which space was created would become the earth. We can understand that the "waters" beyond in space is the same material as the "waters" that would comprise the earth. Those "waters" outside the expanse would later become the sun, moon, and planets, and stars.

With the creation of space, God also created the three dimensions, length, width, and height. We can also understand, that the earth took on its spherical shape, surrounded by space. It was no longer "formless" and "void."

It wasn't until the end of the second day that the most important physical quantities were present in the creation: mass, energy, time, and space.

God Starts The Clock

2009-08-02T17:12:00.010-04:00

And God said,"Let there be light," and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.

(Genesis 1:3-5)

The second thing that God created was energy in the form of light. God created light/energy and imparted it into the material universe. The atomic structure of matter, with its delicate balance between mass and energy, electrons, photons, and sub-atomic particles began to take shape. Matter combined with energy and formed the elements. We cannot begin to imagine the amount of light/energy that God packed into matter. Nuclear reactions can produce catastrophic amounts of energy.

In creating light/energy, there is to be a cycle, alternating light and darkness. The universe is full of cyclical events. The behavior of mass and energy would follow the basic cycles established by the Creator of mass and energy. It would not be random and unpredictable. There would be order in the universe, and patterns discernible to the intelligent, among the most basic, being the alternating pattern of day and night. With the creation of light/energy, God started the clock. He defined the durations of day and night, from which we derive all other units of time.

Today, the international standard for time, the second, is kept by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The NIST developed a clock which is based on the natural resonance frequency of the cesium atom, (9,192,631,770 Hz) which is used in the definition of 1 second. The cesium clock is so accurate and the uncertainty is so small that it would neither gain nor lose a second in more than 60 million years!

On the first day, the first cesium atoms resonated the equivalent of 86,400 seconds before God spoke again.

The Beginning of the World

2009-08-01T21:25:00.006-04:00

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

(Genesis 1:1-2)

The first thing that God created was the universe. The scripture does not say how God did it. He may have spoken it into existence, but the Scriptures show that the first created thing that God spoke into existence was light. (Genesis 1:3). There was no time. It is futile to speculate how long the universe existed before the creation of light because God had not defined time. Time did not exist. We just know that it was a beginning. The universe did not come into being by itself. God, the self-existent Being created it.

The first distinction we notice is the distinction between earth and heaven. They are both created, but they are distinct. The earth is the material world. Heavens is the spiritual world. Heavens is plural. The earth is singular. I believe that heavens includes the angels, and that the angels were created at this "time."

The earth was formless and void. It was undifferentiated matter - matter without energy. There was no solid or liquid or gas, no space, no dimensions. The physical laws did not yet come into being. There were no Laws of Thermodynamics because there was only matter without energy. The formless earth is described as "waters". This does not necessarily imply the "water" (hydrogen and oxygen) we are familiar with. The atomic structure of matter was not formed yet. Light had not been created. There was no energy. The material world was "void" and "dark" without energy.

The material world had a limit. It had a "surface" or "face of the deep," or "face of the waters" as the English Standard Version renders it. That boundary was where the Spirit of God was. This is the second distinction we notice, the distinction between the creation and God. God is transcendent. The earth was not, and is not God, nor is the earth a part of God. God is totally separate from His creation.

Happy Fourth

2009-07-03T13:13:00.001-04:00

Three Killers All In A Row

2009-06-04T20:23:00.021-04:00

On Monday June 1, Carlos Bledsoe drove to a military recruiting center in Little Rock, Arkansas and fired at two soldiers in uniform. Bledsoe, a U.S. citizen from Memphis is a convert to Islam and changed his name to Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad. He trained in Yemen to be a jihadist. William Long, 23, died, and Quinton Ezeagwula, 18, was wounded and in stable condition. Both were standing outside the recruiting center when Bledsoe shot them.

The day before, on Sunday May 31, Scott Roeder drove to the Reformation Lutheran Church in Wichita, Kansas and shot in the head one of the ushers who was serving at the morning worship services, killing him. The murdered man was Dr. George Tiller (see below). Roeder is a 51-year old anti-abortion activist from Kansas City.

George Tiller is one of the few providers of a medical procedure known as late-term abortion. He studied at the University of Kansas School of Medicine. He took over his father's medical practice which included abortions. In his practice, he typically guides a long needle through a pregnant woman's abdomen into the baby's heart, injecting a drug lethal to the baby. He then induces labor so the woman can deliver the dead baby. He has been performing this procedure since 1980.

What do these killings have in common?

1. They ambushed the defenseless. William Long was just doing his job, serving the military. George Tiller was serving his church on a Sunday morning. A baby is peacefully at rest in his or her mother's womb. All the victims had no way to defend themselves.

2. No place is safe. William Long was killed at a United States military recruiting center. George Tiller was killed at a house of worship. A baby is killed inside another human being, its mother.

3. Human life is subordinated to other values. Jihadists teach that infidels are inferior and rewards await those who kill them. Scott Roeder placed no value on Tiller. Tiller's life was valuable regardless of what he did. Pro-Choice advocates including Tiller treat the unborn human life as worthless tissue, a "product of conception", totally disposable, subordinate to the political rights of women.

4. All the killers thought they were doing the right thing. The Muslim terrorist was doing the will of Allah. Scott Roeder believed he killed Tiller in defense of the unborn. Tiller believed he was helping women implement a political right granted by the state.

How are these killings different?

Perpetrators of terrorism are often punished. Their killings are murders. Carlos Bledsoe will most likely get the death penalty. Scott Roeder will probably get life imprisonment, although I believe he should pay with his life. Aborted babies have no avenger. Terrorism is against the law but abortion is legal and not regarded as murder. That is the only difference. Abortion is the legalized killing of the unborn. Abortion and terrorism both rob their victims of the right to life. Abortion is legalized terrorism against the unborn.

Trying Too Hard to Please

2009-06-03T22:10:00.009-04:00

Barack Hussein Obama, president of the United States, said in an interview in France that the U.S. is one of the biggest Muslim nations in the world.

Considering that there are only 1.8 Muslims in America, according to some estimates, either the President just betrayed his ignorance of the U.S. population, or he counts himself and American Muslims more than the ordinary Muslims of other countries.

I guess if you don't really believe that all men are created equal, then Obama is right. He probably counts himself worth several million more than an ordinary Muslim. Liberal elitists tend to think of themselves more highly than they ought to think.

At any rate, such revising of America to make it conform to his image and to please Europe and appease Muslims is in keeping with Obama foreign policy.

Osama Bin Ladin issued a statement warning the U.S. to stay out of Pakistan if the U.S. wants to keep from being attacked again. Let's see how compliant the U.S. under Obama's leadership will be.

Dressing Up Darwinism

2009-05-30T14:21:00.023-04:00

This year evolutionists and secular fundamentalists the world over are celebrating the 200th birth anniversary of Charles Darwin. In 1859, Darwin published "The Origin of Species," which is the foundation of the modern theory of evolution.

The theory of evolution is imposing. It dominates the intellectual and scientific landscape. No aspiring scientist or university professor may hope to get any serious audience unless he or she demonstrates an allegiance to the theory of evolution. The movie "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed" documents the numerous cases where any academic questioning the assumptions of Darwinism, and entertaining the concept of intelligent design is soon expelled from his field by Darwinists who control the upper echelons of universities and hold a monopoly over the sources of scientific information for the media. "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed" was the #1 Documentary movie for 2008.

The theory of evolution remains a theory. It is an unproven theory. Its assumptions are full of holes, and do not stand up to scientific methods of inquiry. Evolution has never been observed in action and has no irrefutable supporting evidence. Its fossil evidences have been discredited because either they were outright fraudulent such as The Piltdown Man, or Lucy, or they are discredited because evolution is not the only possible explanation for the fossils. A recent example is Darwinius massilae, nicknamed Ida. Brian Thomas and Frank Sherwin of ICR.org write that,

"anatomically modern lemurs have been found in rock strata below Ida. Likewise, monkeys have been found in lower layers, which evolutionists believe represent eons of time before Ida's appearance. Thus, Ida is too completely formed and was found in a layer, according to evolutionary timescales, that is too young for her to be the link connecting the earliest primates to descendants that supposedly led to humans."

Scholars, even those sympathetic to Darwin, recognize that the theory of evolution is in crisis.

The theory of evolution is much like a condemned building that is an eyesore and could endanger society. Adolf Hitler used the theory of evolution to justify the superiority of the Arian race and the proposed mass extermination of the Jews. Worldnetdaily reports further:

Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger believed in removing what she called the "dead weight of human waste," the program says.

"Eugenics is applied Darwinism," said Coulter.

The culmination of that belief system appears to have been the Columbine massacre. There, students Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris killed 12 other students, a teacher and themselves, after setting out on a plan to kill 500.

"Harris wrote on his website, 'YOU KNOW WHAT I LOVE??? Natural SELECTION! It’s the best thing that ever happened to the Earth. Getting rid of all the stupid and weak organisms,'" the report says.

Reports show that on the day of the attack, Harris wore a T-shirt with the words, "Natural Selection."

All this happened, said Kennedy, because of a set of theories based on "a crumbling scientific foundation."

Adolf Hitler, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris believed that they were "the fittest" according to Darwinian theory, and deserved to survive more than other humans.

The Darwinists try to dress up the theory and maintain the illusion of it being established fact and science. They are relying more and more on media hype, pop culture, and political crutches to maintain the theory's exalted status in society, but the emperor has no clothes on. Darwinism is a crumbling superstructure that is an impediment and a dead weight to human scientific progress. One hundred fifty years of evolutionary intellectual bullying are more than enough. The theory of evolution has not proven true and it is time for better scientific hypotheses.

Obama's Policy of Revisionism, Appeasement and Recrimination

2009-05-25T10:24:00.018-04:00

The Obama Administration's foreign policy is one of revisionism, which in the long term, tries to rewrite history, and in the short term, tries to undo the security measures implemented by George W. Bush in the aftermath of the 9/11 Jihadist attacks. It is also a policy of appeasement, which tries to placate the American Left and their European counterparts, both of which have ideological ties with Al Qaeda.

The premise of this foreign policy is that America's own actions of selfishness and arrogance brought about the hostility of the world against her, and that America's actions to defend herself and wage war against radical Islam only serve to increase terrorist attacks and spur radical extremists to commit more violence. If America only knew how to be nice and to get along with her neighbors, then there would be peace on earth. Radical Islam is a product of global poverty brought about by American economic dominance in the world. As long as we satisfy the American Left and their European counterparts, we appease Al Qaeda and America won't get attacked. So goes the political philosophy of the Obama administration.

Thus, President Obama went about Europe apologizing for America. He kowtowed to the Saudis, and downplayed the religious history of America, insisting that America is now a secularized country. To placate Spain and other Left-leaning governments of the world, he sacrificed the national security of the U. S. by authorizing the investigation and possible prosecution of those involved in interrogating terror suspects under the Bush administration. Classified documents were released exposing government secrets to Al Qaeda and other potential enemies, all to the delight of the ACLU and the American Left and their European counterparts. The Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, a leading Democrat, called the CIA liars.

Under the Obama Administration, the cultural whitewashing of radical Islam is in full force. The 9/11 attacks were just criminal actions, and not ideologically driven, and possibly perpetuated by a vast right-wing conspiracy in America (This was the theme of this season's episode of "24".) There is no more "war on terror," the Obama administration prohibiting the use of this term. There is nothing to fear from Islam, and this religion is morally equivalent to Christianity. (Even Jack Bauer on his death bed called for an Imam.)

Meanwhile, the U.S. Congress is bickering over what Nancy Pelosi said, the CIA is distracted and defensive due to Pelosi's slanderous statements, and the Obama administration is preoccupied with its campaign of recrimination against George W. Bush. While the nation paused to remember her fallen soldiers, North Korea launched a test missile that could reach Guam, and exploded a test nuclear device underground, catching the U.S,, the media, and the world by surprise. Pyongyang promises more tests to follow, while Iran strengthens its resolve to develop nuclear weapons.

The world has overnight become a much more dangerous place.

They Gave So That Others May Live

2009-05-25T10:07:00.004-04:00

Master at Arms Second Class Michael Anthony Monsoor (April 5, 1981 – September 29, 2006) was a U.S. Navy SEAL killed during the Iraq War and posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. Monsoor used his body to prevent a grenade blast from killing three other SEALs in a sniper hide in the Mulaab district of Ramadi, Iraq.

He and thousands like him have given their lives so that others may live. May their sacrifice not be in vain.

An Evolutionist's Prayer to Charles Darwin on the 200th Anniversary of His Birth

2009-05-21T19:34:00.007-04:00

Our father, evolved from rattlesnakes,
Hallowed be your theories.

Thy world view dominate.
The earth conform to your wisdom, which reaches back billions of years.

Give us this day the missing links.
And forgive us our failure to find them, for whatever we find are discredited.

And let us not stray from the path of evolution.
But deliver us from theism.

For there is no supernatural.
And matter is all there was and all there is and ever will be.
Forever and ever. AMEN.

Press Release on Frankfurt Fossils Drives Media Frenzy

2009-05-20T12:24:00.009-04:00

Scientists, University professors, and the secular media are in a frenzy surrounding the recent press release that some fossil remains found in Frankfurt in 1983 constitute the missing link between humans and animals. The University of Oslo has been studying them in secret for years. At a carefully orchestrated publicity campaign at the American Museum of Natural History, John Hurum, the lead scientist said, “It is the scientific equivalent of the Holy Grail. This fossil will probably be the one that will be pictured in all textbooks for the next 100 years." The media rushed to claim that this confirms Darwin’s evolutionary theory. The fossil is classified with the name Darwinius massilae.

What precious solitary evidence there have been of the so-called missing link or transitional forms have been discredited in the past. Ever since the publication of Darwin’s “Origin of Species” in 1859, newspapers have eagerly published any news that “The Missing Link Has Been Found!!” and “Man’s Ape Ancestry Proven!” Perhaps by overwhelming the public with such publicity, they hope to erase any reasonable doubt about the evidence, and make it easier to ostracize anyone who questions the scientific elite’s conclusions. Also, by rushing to publish pictures of the so-called missing link in textbooks, children will become indoctrinated into evolutionary theory faster before the evidence can be discredited. Some discredited evidences of evolution remain in textbooks today.

One spectacular example of the fevered frenzy to find the missing link is the discovery of the Piltdown Man. In December, 1912, Charles Dawson, an amateur archeologist, presented to the Geological Society of London a human skull with an ape-like jaw assembled from fragments which workmen found while digging a trench in the Kent and Sussex areas. The skull was named “Eoanthropus dawsoni,” and was proclaimed the dawn of man in his evolution. It wasn’t until 1953 that fluorine tests revealed that the skull and the jaw were of different ages, and that Piltdown man was a fraud. That fraudulent evidence helped keep Darwinism afloat for decades.

Because humans did not evolve from animals, there are no evidence for transitional forms nor will there ever be. The Darwinian scientific elite has to come up with manufactured evidence from time to time in order to “rally the troops” and prop up the tottering superstructure of the theory of evolution a few decades more.

This latest find of a fossil lemur-like animal they are calling Ida and claiming it to be the missing link is just another example of the atheistic scientists’ wishful thinking and interpretation of evidence according to evolutionary misconceptions. John Hurum is hoping that Ida will keep Darwinism afloat a hundred years more, and the secular media is willing to be the unthinking parrot of the Darwinian scientific elite.

The State Politicizing Morality

2009-05-16T20:08:00.004-04:00

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 helpless. The state is intensifying its role as guarantor of happiness by allowing the destruction of the original meaning of sex and marriage just because it issues a piece of paper (marriage license). In proposing hate crimes legislation it is attempting to police the thoughts of its citizens, something even the church does not do.

The separation of church and state is biblical, but the state is too much into areas of the Church, politicizing morality and establishing itself as the arbiter of sin and virtue, establishing its own standards of political correctness over the original Ten Commandments of God Almighty.

DNA, Rocks, and Scientific Naturalism

2009-05-10T18:47:00.011-04:00

Ask an archeologist about the origin of this seemingly nondescript rock fragment, and he would tell you that this is probably of human origin and that it was used as a toy. He can deduce that it was a toy hedgehog.

Ask the same archeologist about the origin of a strand of DNA, where it takes a supercomputer to decode the gene sequences and unravel its complexity, and he would most likely tell you that it is a product of chance and necessity, and not of any intelligent design.

The problem with modern scientific naturalism is its refusal to entertain any notion that could remotely threaten the hallowed assumptions of Darwin.

Secularists Proclaim Victory Against Christianity

2009-04-26T13:41:00.016-04:00

For decades, the movement to uproot Christianity from America has been the life work of secular fundamentalists as represented by groups such as The American Civil Liberties Union, People For the American Way, Freedom From Religion Foundation, American Humanist Association, and many others. They are now proclaiming victory. They have succeeded not just in their avowed purpose of separating Church from State, but more effectively, in divorcing the state from God, and arrogating unto the state some prerogatives of God. They have stirred up hostility against the Church, and are in a position to inflict greater restrictions on the the practice of faith in America.

Barack Obama himself added his presidential voice to the atheistic cacophony against Christianity when he said in Turkey, on April 6, 2009, "We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation; we consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values." Those are the three major theistic religions of the world. Obama effectively proclaimed victory for secular humanism in America.

Dr. Jonathan Schaeffer, pastor of Grace CMA church writes an excellent commentary, "Christianity in America," (reprinted with permission):

Maybe you saw last week's issue of Newsweek, in which Editor Jon Meacham writes (somewhat cheerfully, it appears) the cover story: "The Decline and Fall of Christian America." The title has a doomsday feel, and is overly pessimistic. And, it's an unfortunate title as well. I would prefer to speak of the influence of Christianity in America rather than "Christian America" since our nation was not founded as a religious institution (though there are many underlying principles that are undeniably rooted in a Judeo-Christian heritage).

If you're in conversation with a friend or colleague on this subject of how Christianity has influenced America, it might be helpful to consider what a number of scholarly sociologists are saying.

Without any collusion, Rodney Stark from the University of Washington and Samuel P. Huntington from Harvard have both found that the animating features that have made the West great-modern science, medicine, democracy and its attending freedoms-were the products of irreducibly Christian thinking derived from central biblical traditions (see Kairos Journal, April 2009).

In his 2004 book, Who Are We?, Huntington, arguably the most respected political scientist of our time, writes that it is the Anglo-Protestant culture that arose from scriptural foundations that made the United States great. Attempts to undermine this tradition, he argues, are a misguided and dangerous social experiment which could unhinge the entire project.

In a similar manner, sociologist Rodney Stark tackles the secularist's argument that serious Christianity inhibits progress. Stark argues that this is pure myth, demonstrating with compelling historical detail that "science could only arise in a culture dominated by belief in a conscious, rational, all-powerful Creator" (see Stark's book, For the Glory of God). He states that only people who believed "slavery was an abomination in the eyes of God" were poised to defy the evil. "It was that conclusion," writes Stark, "and only that conclusion, that enabled the West to abolish slavery." The fear of God, in other words, means freedom for people.

You can read statistics in very different ways, and whatever the truth is about the state of Christianity in America, we can still rest assured that the unchanging promise of Jesus in Matthew 16:18 is true: "I will build my church, and the gates of hell will not overcome it."

Secular humanism is a loosing and parasitic ideology. It tries to live off the fruits of Christianity but denies it owes its values to its roots. By cutting itself off from its Christian roots, Secular humanism in America is doomed to a bankrupt future. The signs of decay are already obvious.

Obama Gives Nod to Prosecute Jack Bauer

2009-04-22T12:17:00.018-04:00

Jack Bauer is the fictional character hero of the television series "24". The series "24" has been quite accurate in its depiction of the great political, military, and cultural conflict of our time, the War against Terrorism. This season, Jack is hounded by a Congressional Investigation into his methods of interrogation. Jack will use any means possible to get information from terror suspects. To him, the safety of the country and the lives of individual citizens always get top priority, but the government does not agree, and so they hold a congressional investigation while the country is sabotaged right under the administrations' noses. Jack is often hampered by the government's inept beaureaucracy, but he gets the job done at great personal sacrifice, misunderstood and unappreciated.

This week President Obama agreed to let his attorney-general prepare charges against those in the Bush administration who might have used questionable interrogation methods in the aftermath of 9/11. They are after the Jack Bauers' who kept our country safe during the Bush presidency.

In "24" the plot changes from week to week. Does fiction imitate life or does life imitate fiction?

Last week Spain made noises about levelling charges against Bush administration officials for their handling of terror suspects. Then, inexplicably, Spain announced that it was withdrawing its threat. At the same time, Obama flip-flopped overnight from not prosecuting to prosecuting the Jack Bauers' of the Bush administration.

I sense that there is a Spanish connection somewhere in this sorry controversy.

In March 11, 2004 Spain suffered an Al-Qaeda inspired attack consisting of a series of coordinated bombings in the commuter train system of Madrid three days before Spains' general elections, in which 191 people were killed and 1,800 were wounded. It was Spains' 9/11. Spain's then incumbent administration which had supported the Iraq war lost the elections. Since then, Spain's ascendant government has been militantly anti-Bush to the point of vindictiveness. Spain has been at the forefront of the Leftist movement to prosecute George Bush. You would think that Al-Qaeda was in office in Spain.

When Spain continued its anti-Bush rhetoric this week, Bill O'Reilly of FoxNews hinted that he might initiate a boycott Spain movement because of Spain's state-sponsored anti-American propaganda. It appears that the media-hog Obama administration found a way to silence Spain by sacrificing the Jack Bauers rather than have O'Reilly steal the spotlight with his anti-Spain boycott, especially since the nationwide Tea Party anti-Tax protests have just been successfully held.

Thus, the flip-flop.

Here is the FoxNews timeline of Obama's statements on torture probe: Timeline

Here is the link to Spain retracting its threat: Spain retracts

Here is the O'reilly Video where he mentioned a boycott of Spain: Spain Boycott

Jack, get ready!

Miss California Stands Up To Political Correctness

2009-04-21T21:50:00.009-04:00

How do you stand up to the politically correct establishment? Carrie Prejean, Miss California, shows how.

She was asked by one of the judges in the Miss USA peagent, wether she believed that every state should follow Vermont's lead in legalizing same sex marriage. She answered that according to her faith and her upbringing, she believed that marriage should be between a man and a woman. Perez Hilton, the gay PC police who asked the question gave her a score of zero. Furthermore, Hilton, called her a "b**ch" in his celebrity blog. Carrie finished first runner up.

Carrie said she had no regrets about her reply. In an interview with Fox News Channel, Carrie said that she was, "Honestly happy. This happened for a reason. By having to answer that question in front of a national audience, God was testing my character and faith. I'm glad I stayed true to myself."

Bravo for Carrie. What a beauty! She makes me want to visit California again.

Proyas' "Better Place" is not Heaven

2009-04-19T13:13:00.007-04:00

In the movie production "Knowing" by Alex Proyas, the main character is John Koestler, a college instructor and scientist who discovers a strange phenomenon involving his son and a neighbor's daughter. The children have been chosen by aliens to be saved from the destruction about to come on the whole earth. The aliens deposit the two chosen members of the human race into a strange planet and they are to be the new Adam and Eve to start the human race all over again and to prepare a "better place." Koestler apprehends that this "much better place" is where those who die end up, but the scientist comes to this conclusion, not by scientific investigation, or evidence. He does so only by faith and mythology.

This was the belief of a UFO cult called Heaven's Gate, which was based in San Diego, California. The cult members believed that planet Earth was about to be recycled, and that the only chance to survive was to leave it immediately, and believed that a "higher level" of existence was being offered to them when the comet Hale-Bopp appeared in 1997. The group committed mass suicide in their misguided belief that it was the way to go to meet the UFOs' which they believed were waiting for them beyond the comet Hale-Bopp. It appears that Alex Proyas has taken up the mantle of Marshall Applewhite, the cult's deceased leader, in preaching the UFO gospel. Proyas' "better place" is not Heaven.

Heaven is a real place, not myth. This belief is based on the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. As the first man to be resurrected, Jesus Christ is the prototype of the future resurrection. His disciples recognized Jesus, and He carried the scars of the crucifixion in His resurrected body, suggesting that there is a continuity of personality into the resurrection. The resurrected body will not be a disembodied spirit, but a physical, reconstituted body which will not be subject to decomposition or to decay. Heaven will be a place on earth but it will be a new earth, reconstituted so that it will function as the original creation was, unmarred by human sin.

Just as a single mistake in a complex computer program can cause the entire program to fail, so human sin caused a perfect creation to decay. Not so in the new earth. This is why Jesus Christ had to die, so that God's purpose in the original creation may be fulfilled, and so that human sin may not be allowed to cause destruction in the new earth. For a brillant and enlightening discussion of Heaven, read the blog and books by Randy Alcorn.

Self Made Man

2009-04-10T18:52:00.003-04:00

This beautiful bronze sculpture is called “Self-Made Man” by Bobbie Carlyle. The original sculpture is in stone.

In medium and message, "Self-Made Man" is an enigma. Marvelous as it is, this sculpture depicting a man sculpting himself into existence has absolutely no awareness or recognition of its creator, Bobbie. Do you think we humans are totally different from this piece of bronze, with all the awareness, senses and intelligence we have?

In as much as secular man with his atheistic philosophy imagines and thinks that he owes his origins to no one but himself and his tools, he is a living, walking enigma, a creature in flesh and blood but no better than a bronze or stone sculpture!

Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth;
for the LORD has spoken:

"Children have I reared and brought up,
but they have rebelled against me.
The ox knows its owner,
and the donkey its master’s crib,
but Israel does not know,
my people do not understand."

Ah, sinful nation,
a people laden with iniquity,
offspring of evildoers,
children who deal corruptly!
They have forsaken the LORD,
they have despised the Holy One of Israel,
they are utterly estranged.

(Isaiah 1:2-4)

King of the Jews, The Lord of Glory

2009-04-08T21:20:00.008-04:00

Someone had to pay.
You couldn't. None of us could.
He owed nothing but He paid.
For you. For me.
It is finished!
Change your world view,
Receive Him, and
Live for God.

"But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory. None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory."

(1 Corinthians 2:7-8)

Richard Dawkins Converts to Christianity

2009-04-01T20:07:00.004-04:00

April Fool's joke.

But the real fools are the atheists, not only on April 1 but as long as they deny that God exists. But most of them, including Richard Dawkins, would rather join Heaven's Gate Cult than convert to Christianity.

But if we believe in God but live as though He didn't exist, then we are no better fools than the atheists.

The fool says in his heart, "There is no God."
They are corrupt, doing abominable iniquity;
there is none who does good.
God looks down from heaven
on the children of man
to see if there are any who understand,
who seek after God.

They have all fallen away;
together they have become corrupt;
there is none who does good,
not even one.

(Psalm 53:1-3)

How "Knowing" Ripped Christian Theology

2009-03-29T18:09:00.020-04:00

The movie production "Knowing" directed by Australian Alex Proyas does to Christian theology what many audio enthusiasts often do to copyrighted material. Just as music CD's are often ripped from their original formats and stored in various other file formats, Proyas has ripped from the Old Testament and the New Testament, the Christian doctrines of Predestination, the Inspiration of Scripture, Biblical Prophecy, the doctrine of God's providential care through Angels, the Rapture, and the Apocalyptic doctrines of the Judgment on the earth and the doctrine of a New Earth, and Proyas cast them into a natural scientific mold, to make some money at the horendous cost of distorting the Christian message.

For Ezekiel's vision of the throne of God in heaven with archangels surrounding the throne, Proyas recasts the original majestic Biblical vision into his script of a prophecy of the sun throwing a solar flare of catastrophic proportions. In place of the angels who do God's bidding and care for human beings, he substitutes benevolent alien creatures of light who appear in human form whose mission is to select a new Adam and a new Eve from among human generations. In place of Biblical Prophecy and the Doctrine of Inspiration, Proyas has his alien beings dictating number sequences to gifted humans in order to predict dates, disasters, and their locations which occur over several decades on the earth, culminating in the cryptic "EE" which stand for "everyone else"'s destruction.

Proyas borrows from the Christian doctrine of Predestination to have his Aliens only allow "those who are chosen" to be saved from the destruction of the earth. For the rapture of the Church, Proyas uses a levitation scene sequence that lifts the "chosen ones" into an alien craft to escape the earth's destruction. For the New Testament prophecy of the judgment of the earth, Proyas calls for a solar flare that destroys everything by intense heat (2 Peter 3:11-13), and for the Doctrine of a new Adam, and of a new Earth, Proyas has his aliens depositing the chosen human couple in a new planet with the Tree of Life (Revelation 22:1-3) in the middle of it.

Having ripped what he needs from Christian Doctrine, Proyas leaves God out of the movie. He cannot include Creation, or Sin or Judgment of Wickedness. There is no Cross, no Atonement for sin as the basis of salvation. These are alien to the natural scientific world view. As atheists do, Proyas, speaking through his movie character John Koestler the college professor, played by Nicholas Cage, would rather believe in mythological alien beings and determinism instead of the existence of an all-wise Creator-God who cares for His creation but judges wickedness. In the movie, John Koestler's pastor-father knows what his scientist son does about the earth's impending catastrophe, but he knows it only in the language of traditional Christianity, and is impotent to do anything about it. A van bearing the name of Jesus is shown lost among the chaos of destruction engulfing the earth. Proyas wants to portray that the Aliens are the savior of mankind, not Jesus.

To be consistent with his naturalistic mindset, John Koestler should have declared, "All is lost! We are not chosen. We will all perish!" Instead, he declares that those who have died "are in a much better place." Much better place where? Atheism and scientific naturalism have no such place. The Aliens must have revealed to him such a better place, and this is confirmed by one of the "chosen" who says "I know". John Koestler didn't really believe in traditional Christianity and had to lie to his family about his kid being chosen by the Aliens. John Koestler knew something but Proyas gave him no time to tell about it. Proyas would have us trust those who are "in the know." It is blind faith that Proyas advocates! Faith in the myth of alien beings. You have to join a cult like Heaven's Gate whose members committed mass suicide to join the aliens and their UFO's to find out about Proyas' "better place" which is certainly not heaven.

If the gospel were copyrighted, Alex Proyas would be in serious trouble. But one, day, the Lord Jesus Christ will enforce the gospel, which includes a judgment on those who know the truth but refuse to act on it, and even distort or suppress it.

"The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.

"For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles."

(Romans 1:18-23)

Passing Laws Against Greed

2009-03-22T14:56:00.004-04:00

For months, we have heard the speeches blaming the current economic mess on the greed of Wall Street and the lack of government oversight. During the fall presidential campaign, Senator John McCain vowed that, if elected, that he would "put an end to the reckless conduct, corruption, and unbridled greed that have caused a crisis on Wall Street." More recently, President Barack Obama said, "We learned this week that even as they petitioned for taxpayer assistance, Wall Street firms shamefully paid out nearly USD 20 billion in bonuses for 2008," Obama said in his radio address. "While I'm committed to doing what it takes to maintain the flow of credit, the American people will not excuse or tolerate such arrogance and greed. The road to recovery demands that we all act responsibly, from Main Street to Washington to Wall Street," he said.

Having identified the root cause of economic troubles, the government now proposes its strategy to put an end to the problem of greed and corruption in Wall Street. The government's strategy is to pass more legislation and punitively tax those who have been greedy. Congress has passed a law to tax AIG executives who received bonuses from bail out money up to 90%. This should send a warning to Wall Street executives to curb their avarice.

Will it work? Will the fear of taxation finally bring about a transformation of the human heart, and promote an altruistic society with its citizens concerned for the common good? Will new laws regulating companies and with brilliant overseers who themselves found ways to circumvent tax laws, finally put an end to cheating on our taxes? (It takes a cheat to catch a cheat.) Will the president lead the way towards ending class warfare and not only eradicate greed but also envy? Will the people look to the government more and more to fulfill their egalitarian visions?

Greed and envy are deeply rooted in the human heart. Nothing less than a radical transformation, a new heart, is needed, and it must happen one individual at a time. The government is impotent to change the human heart. Law can never transform the human heart, and all the government can do is pass laws. The gospel of salvation in Jesus Christ is the only transforming power that can give an individual a new heart and eradicate greed and envy, and the Church is the bearer of this message.

However, the government promotes hostility towards the Church by advocating values in opposition to the gospel, such as when it advocates abortion and the destruction of embryos over the sanctity of human life. It promotes hostility to the Church by prohibiting the teaching of alternative views to Darwin's evolutionary theory, by promoting same sex marriage, and by arrogating unto itself messianic roles. Even now, the government is contemplating more hostility and punitive taxation even against the Church by possibly eliminating the Charitable Income Tax Deduction.

The government is not friendly to the gospel of Jesus Christ, man's only real hope against greed and envy.

And he said to them, "Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions." And he told them a parable, saying, "The land of a rich man produced plentifully, and he thought to himself, 'What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?' And he said, 'I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.' But God said to him, 'Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?'"

(Luke 12:15-20)

Spiritual Warfare

2009-03-04T21:15:00.004-05:00

"Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm. Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and, as shoes for your feet, having put on the readiness given by the gospel of peace. In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one; and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints, and also for me, that words may be given to me in opening my mouth boldly to proclaim the mystery of the gospel, for which I am an ambassador in chains, that I may declare it boldly, as I ought to speak."

(Ephesians 6:10-20)

The Ultimate Bailout

2009-03-01T14:46:00.004-05:00

The inspiration for this post comes from my wife who pointed out the ultimate bailout.

In these times, the U.S. government is trying its best to bailout with money those banks that are in over their heads in insolvent investments. The Federal government is also attempting to bailout the automobile industry in order to prevent a vicious spiral that could lead to accelerating unemployment and ever deepening recession. Furthermore, the Obama administration believes it can stimulate growth in the economy by providing individuals with tax credits and various economic incentives while nationalizing health care and increasing welfare programs at the same time. All of these attempts come at a steep price. Other segments of the U.S. population will be taxed at a higher rate. There will be inflation, and more borrowing from foreign governments such as China. The U.S. government will spend more than its income, as it has been doing. This is known as deficit spending, and is several times greater under Obama than previous administrations. "His budget plan projects a federal deficit of $1.75 trillion for 2009, or 12.3% of the gross domestic product, a level not seen since 1942 as the U.S. plunged into World War II..," reports the Wall Street Journal. The government itself is in over its head.

All of mankind is in over its head. No matter what our race or nationality, or age or sex, we are morally and spiritually bankrupt in God's standards. Some of us don't even acknowledge that God exists, even though we continue to enjoy life and the fruits of the earth which God created. We have lived our lives in competition with others, striving to fulfill man's expectations, or political ambition, or cultural mandates, while keeping from violating government laws and regulations, never caring if we are pleasing God, the giver of our life and our liberties. We are totally unable to repay God for our errors and omissions because we have nothing with which to pay Him with that He doesn't already own. Yet God has provided the ultimate bailout for our sin.

God provided the bailout at a steep price, and it wasn't at the cost of others. He provided the payment that His own justice demanded at His own cost. He sacrficed His own Son Jesus Christ who never sinned, so that the death that Christ died served as payment for the sin of man. This is the ultimate bailout. We have been redeemed from our sins so that we may have a new relationship with God through Jesus Christ.

"For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God."

(2 Corinthians 5:21)

Who Defines Sin? - Part Two

2009-01-13T20:36:00.006-05:00

Last year, Chris Satullo of the New York Times tried to pour cold water on the patriotic celebration of the Fourth of July because according to him, the nation had "sinned" in not protesting the keeping of political prisoners at Guantanamo, prisoners who were suspected of terrorism and were being detained as enemy combatants. He was elevating a controversial political issue into a spiritual category in order to lend it some validity.

Recently, congressman Barney Frank of Massachusetts objected to Barack Obama's invitation of Pastor Rick Warren to give the invocation at Obama's Presidential inauguration because Rick Warren had compared homosexuality with incest. The gay Congressman believes that homosexuality is not as despicable as incest, and should therefore not be on the same category. Homosexuality is now "respectable" while incest is not.

Who has the right to define sin? Is it those who have political power? In a few decades, pedophiles may gain political power and support from the justice system, and their behavior may no longer be regarded as sexual abuse of children, but may become "respectable" just as homosexuality is today. The same goes with incest. Divorce was once rare. Now adultery and divorce are status symbols, especially in Hollywood.

All of us strive for a measure of "respectability" which is often based on a comparison with other people. However, before God, nobody is righteous; nobody is "respectable". It is difficult for us to accept that not a single iota of personal righteousness or "respectability" will make us acceptable before God. The "straight" is not more acceptable to God than the "gay" on the basis of sexual preference, nor is the "gay" more acceptable to God than the incestuous on the same basis. The single person or the one who has never been divorced does not have an advantage before God over the one who has been divorced.

If anyone has the right to define sin, it is God because he is the author and creator of man and woman, just as an author has the copyright to his literary work and no one may infringe that right. God has delegated His authority to His Son, Jesus Christ, the sinless man, the GodMan. Jesus Christ extends forgiveness to all who would submit to God's authority to define sin, who admit that all have sinned, and who would accept the total and complete forgiveness offered by Christ, a forgiveness paid for on the cross.

It is not political power that defines or redefines sin. Sin is sin because it is a violation of God's rights over His creation. Jesus Christ is God's judgment on sin. Jesus Christ is also God's salvation from sin. It is Jesus Christ who led convicted serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer to salvation. Yes, there is no sin beyond the reach of God's love in Jesus Christ. And we need the humility to admit that before God, we who have never been convicted of any crime are as much in need of forgiveness in Christ as Jeffrey Dahmer, no matter how "respectable" our personal sins may be.

When Everyday Will Be Like Christmas

2008-12-24T16:11:00.003-05:00

Christ gives us joy - a joy that nothing and nobody can take away. He gave us the perfect gift - that of Himself, so that we may be perfectly reconciled with God. He makes it possible for us to enjoy this season, and the rest of life, regardless of circumstance. With joy, we immerse ourselves in the celebration of Christmas, in the music and concerts, the closeness of family, the symbols and legends, the feasts, and the goodwill.

The celebration of Christmas is just a few days of the year. We know it will end, then the routine of daily existence takes over. However, Christmas creates a universal longing for its permanence, as expressed in the song by Elvis Presley:

I hear the bells
Saying Christmas is near
They ring out to tell the world
That this is the season of cheer.

I hear a choir
Singing sweetly somewhere,
And a glow fills my heart;
I'm at peace with the world
As the sound of their singing fills the air.

Oh, why can't every day be like Christmas!
Why can't that feeling go on endlessly!
For if everyday could be just like Christmas,
What a wonderful world this would be.

I hear a child
Telling Santa what to bring.
And the smile upon his tiny face
Is worth more to me than anything.

Oh, why can't every day be like Christmas!
Why can't that feeling go on endlessly!
For if everyday could be just like Christmas,
What a wonderful world this would be!

This longing gives us a picture of the role of Christmas as a pointer to the time when Christ establishes a new heaven and a new earth, and comes to establish His dwelling among men permanently, a time when everyday will be like Christmas.

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and there is no longer any sea. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband.

And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, "Behold, the tabernacle of God is among men, and He will dwell among them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself will be among them, and He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be any death; there will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away."

And He who sits on the throne said, "Behold, I am making all things new " And He said, "Write, for these words are faithful and true."

(Revelation 21:1-5)

Obama Starts Balancing Act

2008-12-22T20:50:00.007-05:00

Barack Obama, the president-elect, has selected Pastor Rick Warren of the Saddleback Church to say the invocation at his inauguration. This upset homosexuals, whose foremost spokesman is Barney Frank, a Massachusetts congressman. The gay supporters of Barack Obama have no objections to a pro-gay rights pastor, Rev. Joseph Lowery, whom Obama invited to give the benediction. Lowery is the one who shamelessly made political statements at a funeral ceremony. Lowery directed attacks at president Bush who was then present with him at the funeral of Coretta Scott King in 2006.

The gay activists are upset that Obama invited Warren to the inauguration because Warren has made comparisons between homosexuality and incest. Barney Frank and the gay activists call Warren a bigot. If Warren is a bigot because of his views on homosexual behavior, then God must be the biggest bigot of all, for he instructed his people not to practice homosexuality or incest, but condemned both those behaviors.

"If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination;..." (Leviticus 20:13)

"If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, ... they have committed perversion;" (Leviticus 20:11-13)

"'Cursed be anyone who lies with his sister, whether the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother.' (Deuteronomy 27:22)

The Power of the Name of Christ

2008-12-22T20:05:00.002-05:00

Christmas is a time when we can appreciate the power of the name of Christ. More than two thousand years have passed since His birth, but the celebration of His birth cannot be extinguished. Secular fundamentalists try their best to remove the significance of Christmas, or dilute its meaning, to no avail. Under the cover of the "separation of Church and State" they try to remove depictions of Christ's birth from public places, take to court individuals and school officials who allow Christ's birth to be depicted in public schools, ban the Salvation Army from doing good at storefronts, rewrite the history of the U.S. to obscure its religious roots, and so on.

Christians should never be defensive about Christmas. It is a time for celebration, a time when the whole world is compelled to acknowledge the Name. We should embrace Christmas with all our heart and not get distracted by Bary Lynn and the People for the American Way or the American Civil Liberties Union who cannot extinguish the truth behind Christmas no matter how many lawsuits they bring. They will even try sometime in the future to remove Christmas from being a Federal holiday.

Soon, Christ the Lord will give them what they long for. He will rapture the church, and there will be no one left on earth who will genuinely celebrate the true meaning of Christmas.

"O LORD, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory above the heavens.
Out of the mouth of babies and infants,
you have established strength because of your foes,
to still the enemy and the avenger."
(Psalm 8:1-2)

"The name of the LORD is a strong tower;
the righteous man runs into it and is safe."
(Proverbs 18:10)

Wildebeest Stampede At Wal-Mart Store

2008-12-03T19:47:00.006-05:00

Wildebeests in Kenya stampede during migration. Nothing can stop them. They will trample down anything and anyone who stands in the way, even their own kind, in their drive for food.

This stampede was recreated this Thanksgiving weekend at a Wal-Mart store in Long Island, New York, where two thousand shoppers couldn't wait for the store clerks to open the doors. They broke down the doors trampling on the hapless clerks, killing one of them in their mad rush for the sales.

A wise man once said that in death, men are like the beasts since the same fate awaits both man and beast. The Wal-Mart stampede reminds us of that truth and shows that the similarity does not stop there.

"I said in my heart with regard to the children of man that God is testing them that they may see that they themselves are but beasts. For what happens to the children of man and what happens to the beasts is the same; as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath, and man has no advantage over the beasts, for all is vanity. All go to one place. All are from the dust, and to dust all return. Who knows whether the spirit of man goes upward and the spirit of the beast goes down into the earth? So I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his work, for that is his lot. Who can bring him to see what will be after him?"

Ecclesiastes 3:18-22

Faith and Reason, Science and Religion

2008-11-16T16:08:00.006-05:00

Faith and Reason are not separate. They are just different, just like the body and soul are different, and you can no more operate fully on one without the other. The philosophies which drive today’s universities establish a false dichotomy between faith and reason. Reason, they say belongs to science, while faith is the realm of religion. This conclusion is the result of a prior dismissal of anything that cannot be seen or touched or subjected to experiment and investigation. All phenomena can be explained by material and physical laws, according to the modernistic philosophies. There is no room for miracles and the supernatural. This viewpoint is known as naturalism. Some say it is “scientific naturalism,” but I can’t see how this viewpoint can be truly scientific if it chooses to ignore outright whole bodies of evidence and phenomena just because they can’t be seen or subjected to repeatable experiments. Thus, “scientific naturalism” is inherently atheistic, since no one can summon God to the laboratory so that He may be probed and examined to satisfy the scientists’ standards and methods of knowing.

In contrast, we believe that Christian faith is reasonable. The laws of logic and the rules of evidence are not violated when applied to the way we come to knowledge about God. We do not practice a “blind faith” or “take a blind leap of faith.” Our faith is based on evidence that any careful and unbiased searcher for truth will find. We have to look, and not dismiss the sources of evidence outright just because somebody said those sources are “unscientific.” The world and the universe contain some knowledge about God, but not everything we need to know about God. The existence of the world itself, the order and design inherent in it, the grandeur of man and animal and nature, point to some intelligent design, and a Designer. This is known in Theology as General Revelation. To learn more about the Designer, we need to turn to Christ and the Scriptures. This is known as Special Revelation.

Furthermore, Scientific Naturalism and its adherents are not so devoid themselves of Faith in their thinking. Notice how they are quick to ascribe the origin of the Universe to the "Big Bang." The "Big Bang" just happened! Out of nothing, there came the Universe! Now that sure takes a lot of Faith! Or take their assertion that there is no God! Has anyone of them ever searched the entire universe to see and prove that God doesn't exist or has never existed? Has any one of them been there in the beginning of time to tell us that he has never seen God ever?! Or take their assertion that there are alien intelligences other than human in the Universe. Or take Darwin's evolutionary theory, that it is accepted as fact despite the absence of evidence for transitional forms! There sure is a lot of faith being exercised in the scientific community!

Obama, Ayers, Wright and Liberation Theology

2008-10-26T16:16:00.007-04:00

The New Testament mandates the Church with preaching the gospel and caring for the poor. Thus, some of the greatest institutions for charitable work such as The Salvation Army, World Vision, orphanages, and hospitals, are fruits of obedience to the gospel of Jesus Christ. State government’s role is to “bear the sword” and execute justice. The separate roles of church and state are recognized in the Constitution of the United States. However, the trend towards federal government taking over more and more the traditional roles of the Church is evident.

When Rick Warren of the Saddleback Church asked candidate Barack Obama what he thought the greatest moral failure of America was, Obama cited Scripture and replied that he thought the neglect of the poor was America’s greatest failure. When Bill O’Reiley confronted Obama with the unfairness of taxing the rich to distribute to “the poor”, Obama replied that this was necessary to help those less privileged. Then, when Joe the Plumber asked Obama in Toledo, OH why he should pay higher taxes under Obama’s plan, Obama candidly replied that it was necessary to “spread the wealth.”

Behind this compulsion of Obama to assign to the federal government the task of giving an advantage to the poor is the “liberation theology” which he absorbed from years of membership in the church of Jeremiah Wright. “Liberation theology” is a set of beliefs that takes Christ and the gospels and combines it with Marxist economic-political theories to form a “social gospel” that relies on political means to achieve economic emancipation for the poor and the oppressed. It sees poverty as the root of all evil and the establishment of an earthly utopia as salvation. Obama, Jeremiah Wright, William Ayers, all share the same goal of social emancipation of the oppressed masses through political means, and they are quite open about it. William Ayers justifies violent struggle against the government, and Jeremiah Wright openly condemns America from the pulpit, invoking damnation on her.

Thus, under an Obama presidency, we would expect to see more of the implications of “liberation theology.” The government will push the true Christian church further and further into the sidelines in its bid to become the savior of mankind. The government will favor more the “oppressed minorities" of all kinds, such as the poor, racial minorities, homosexuals, women denied of their “reproductive freedoms” (who’s keeping them from having sex?), and any minority interest group, against the people who, according to Obama, "cling to their guns and religion" in times of hardship. Any dissent will be stifled and labeled as racist and considered “hate speech.” The government will attempt to pass the "fairness doctrine" to silence talk radio, which has been dominated by conservative political commentators.

As the Church is marginalized and silenced by the government into conformity, we long for the coming of the righteous King, who will rule the nations with a rod of iron. We already have a taste of the fury of the Left against conservative values when they unremittingly slander Sarah Palin, John McCain’s running mate. How the Left despises her and what she stands for! They might succeed now in defeating John McCain and Sarah Palin in the elections, but what will they do when true Righteousness comes to rule?

"Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned! As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let him be eternally condemned!"

Galatians 1:7-9

Democrat Politics Wins Over Sound Economics

2008-10-12T16:07:00.008-04:00

The stock market plunged around 3,000 points from September 8 to October 10. The entire U.S. economy suffered as a result of trouble in the financial sector. Big investment companies and insurance companies could no longer hide the fact that they had become insolvent as a result of bad investments when they purchased so-called Mortgage-backed securities promoted by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Fannie and Freddie, supported by Democrat senators and congressmen and an egalitarian vision of providing housing for all, ignored borrowers' ability to pay and pushed mortgages like commodities, counting on ever-increasing home values to cover up the lowered lending standards. These mortgages came to be known as sub-prime mortgages.

The investment bankers, intoxicated by the promise of "safe" investments with double-digit gains and insured by companies like AIG, snapped up the Securities backed up by sub-prime mortgages "betting the farm" on them. When property values would no longer increase, the demand for homes started to drop, and so did home prices and home equities. Many borrowers now owed more than their homes were worth, and started defaulting on their loans. Billions of dollars worth of Mortgage-backed securities, like a ticking time bomb embedded deep in the net worth of Merryl Lynch and Lehman Brothers, for example, "exploded," becoming illiquid as their value became suspect. This has set up a chain reaction throughout the world economy. The stock market plummeted, taking people's retirement accounts and hopes with it. The crisis has aroused anger, and the present administration wrongly became the target of people's ire.

It looks like the Democrat politics of promoting egalitarianism in housing, implemented through radical organizations like Acorn which forced banks to provide housing to low income people regardless of their ability to pay, has yielded political dividends to the Democrat Party beyond its wildest dreams. Not only has it caused the Democrats and Acorn to win more political power with low income people, but it has incited more hatred for the incumbent administration. The economic crisis has dragged down John McCain who was leading in the polls before the sub-prime mortgage mess metastasized, and has placed Barack Obama in a favorable position to win the presidency and implement more Democrat politics.

"Do not pervert justice; do not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the great, but judge your neighbor fairly."

Leviticus 19:15

Michael Moore, An Ally of Islamic Terrorists?

2008-10-12T16:04:00.003-04:00

Michael Moore, the producer and director of Fahreneit 9/11, a film released in 2004 which became a focal point for the opposition to the war in Iraq, became the "hero" of a satirical film, "An American Carol" which was released two weeks ago. Although "An American Carol" is funny in its satire, it has a deadly serious message: Islamic terrorists find in the American Left an ideological ally in their hatred of traditional American values, and the American Left may one day find itself a witting or unwitting accomplice of Islamic radicals involved in mass murder on U.S. soil.

Obama, Biden, A Wheelchair and E-mail

2008-09-13T19:53:00.007-04:00

It appears that the Democrat Party's candidates for President and Vice-President share a certain insensitivity, despite their much vaunted oratory.

While campaigning in Columbia, Mo, Joe Biden, acknowledged State Senator Chuck Graham by saying,

“Chuck, stand up, let the people see you.”

Chuck Graham is confined to a wheelchair. Biden quickly realized his gaffe and he told the crowd to stand up for Chuck instead.

Barack Obama's latest campaign attack on John McCain is that McCain "can't send an e-mail" attempting to portray John McCain as anachronistic.

It is true that John McCain doesn't personally send e-mail, but "the reason he doesn't send email is that he can't use a keyboard because of the relentless beatings he received from the Viet Cong." (Thanks to PowerLineBlog.com for bringing this to our attention.) For McCain's pioneering use of the WWW in his campaign, please see this link.

Somehow all that oratory now seems like a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Sarah Palin "Not The Right Kind of Woman"

2008-09-09T22:10:00.021-04:00

The nomination of Sarah Palin, the governor of Alaska, for vice president of the United States has intensified the Culture War.

She is an intelligent, outspoken woman, expressive of her faith in God, young, popular, articulate, a graduate of the University of Idaho, a political conservative, a reformer, an experienced mayor and governor, and unashamedly pro-life. She and Todd Palin have been married twenty years and have five children, one of whom is afflicted with Down Syndrome.

The liberal elite media and the "progressive" left have began to cast aspersions on her because she is not the "right kind of woman", i.e., she does not fit the liberal mold of a career woman who is fiercely independent, slightly man-hating, anti-war, protective of abortion rights, liberal feminist, a graduate of an ivy league university, a committed adherent of Darwinism, and a yes-man to environmentalism.

She has been accused of not being a good mother, of not being the true mother of Trig, her "Down Syndrome" baby, and of having an adulterous relationship with her husband's best friend. The Obama campaign also compares her to Pontius Pilate who sentenced Jesus to the cross, while Obama himself is compared to Jesus Christ. She has also been accused of banning books from the Wasilla Public Library and of animal cruelty.
UPDATE:
Local and foreign comedians have made fun of her and her family, and have made lecherous jokes about her, and liberal women have belittled her public service. Hollywood actors have defamed her. A liberal talk show host has smeared her, implying pedophilia.

The Ninth Commandment is, "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor." (Exodus 20:16)

The politically correct ninth commandment is, "Lying, defamation, and slander of those who oppose political correctness shall be justified. You shall destroy anyone, especially in politics, who does not adhere to political correctness."

Thus the angry Left is merely practicing the ninth (PC) commandment against Sarah Palin.

For I have heard the slander of many,
Terror is on every side;
While they took counsel together against me,
They schemed to take away my life.
But as for me, I trust in You, O LORD,
I say, "You are my God."
My times are in Your hand;

Deliver me from the hand of my enemies and from those who persecute me.
Make Your face to shine upon Your servant;
Save me in Your lovingkindness.
Let me not be put to shame, O LORD, for I call upon You;
Let the wicked be put to shame, let them be silent in Sheol.
Let the lying lips be mute,
Which speak arrogantly against the righteous
With pride and contempt.

How great is Your goodness,
Which You have stored up for those who fear You,
Which You have wrought for those who take refuge in You,
Before the sons of men!
You hide them in the secret place of Your presence from the conspiracies of man;
You keep them secretly in a shelter from the strife of tongues.
Blessed be the LORD,
For He has made marvelous His lovingkindness to me in a besieged city.

Psalm 31:13-21

Barack Obama and Governor Palin in T-Shirt

2008-09-08T21:43:00.002-04:00

In response to Republican criticism of Obama's experience, that as a community organizer, such experience is inadequate for the presidency of the United States, and also in response to John McCain's choice of the governor of Alaska as vice-presidential candidate, the Obama campaign is distributing T-shirts with the slogan: "Jesus was a community organizer. Pilate was a governor."

Why take a parallelism from Jesus and the gospels? It seems like there is a cult like character to the Obama campaign. The inanity of this comparison should be obvious.

The Warrior Prays

2008-08-25T20:38:00.005-04:00

For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.

Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.

Ephesians 3:14-21

Moral Failure According To Obama and McCain

2008-08-21T18:05:00.006-04:00

At the Saddleback Church Civil Forum on the Presidency, Pastor Rick Warren asked the same questions of Barack Obama and John McCain. One of those questions was, "What is the greatest moral failure of America?"

Obama's response:

"I think America's greatest moral failure in my lifetime has been that we ... still don't abide by that ... basic precept in Matthew that whatever you do for the least of my brothers, you do for me...I mean, there's a pervasive sense, I think, that this country, as wealthy and powerful as we are, still don't spend enough time thinking about the least of these."

McCain's response:

"I think America’s greatest moral failure has been, throughout our existence, perhaps we have not devoted ourselves to causes greater than our self-interest;..."

<----A U.S. soldier cradles an Iraqui child after a suicide bombing. Senators Obama and McCain are wrong.

This is America's greatest moral failure!------------>

Righteousness exalts a nation,
But sin is a disgrace to any people.

Proverbs 14:34

Rick Warren Interviews Obama and McCain, A Great Service to Society

2008-08-17T16:27:00.007-04:00

Yesterday, August 16, Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California, interviewed candidates Barack Obama and John McCain separately in its "civil forum," a Church ministry. The civil forum had a national audience as radio and television aired the two hours of the interview, the first hour with Obama, and the second hour with McCain. Both candidates were asked identical questions. A coin toss determined who would go first on the interview while the other was sequestered in a room so that he couldn't hear the questions.

Warren's interview format surpasses that of previous adversarial debates. It was enlightening to see the vastly different responses the candidates gave to the questions. It gave good insights into each candidate's ideology, passion or lack of it, character, and priorities. The Saddleback Church's civil forum has done the nation a great service.

"You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt has become tasteless, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled under foot by men. You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden; nor does anyone light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house."

Matthew 5:13-15

Russia Invades the Republic of Georgia. Which Country Is Next?

2008-08-15T11:40:00.006-04:00

It's happening again. While the world is focused on Beijing, watching the Olympics, Russia has invaded the Republic of Georgia. This unfolds Russia's plan of reviving the fallen Soviet empire. Best-selling author Joel Rosenberg has the following illuminating insights:

"Some sobering lessons have been learned this week from the Georgia disaster. Among them:

"1. Putin is a new Russian Czar who wants to rebuild the Russian empire and will use force to get his way.

"2. Neither the U.S. nor NATO are willing to be firm in Europe in defending a key ally against violent aggression. No one wants a war with Russia. But we have to do better than this. Such impotence in the face of Russian imperialism bodes ill for Ukraine, Poland, Armenia, Azerbaijan and other Western allies increasingly being intimidated by the Kremlin.

"3. Based on events this week, Israel should be wary about accepting American or European security guarantees in any future peace deal with her neighbors.

"4. A Russian attack on a democratic ally can happen fast, and almost without warning. This has prophetic implications, when you think about the prophecies of Ezekiel 38-39 and a "last days" war by Russia, Iran and a Mideast alliance against Israel.

"5. Russia and Iran want to control the production and flow oil and natural gas in the Caucases. Both want to dominate energy supplies in Turkey."

Lamont and Wright "Theology" Applied to Abortion

2008-08-14T20:37:00.001-04:00

Dr. Marc Lamont Hill, an Assistant Professor of Urban Education and American Studies at Temple University, is a supporter of Barack Obama. He was interviewed last night, August 13, by Bill O'Reiley at the Fox News Channel. During the interview, Hill made the audacious assertion that Jesus would be O.K. with abortion. To make matters worse, Hill added that Jesus's position on abortion would be even "more radical" than Barack Obama's!

The supposedly learned excuse for such a brazen but mistaken assertion, is that it comes from a certain "theological understanding." Hill stated in the interview that, "There are different schools of theological understanding, many of which believe that the Bible is not something that should be read fundamentally..."

This "school of theological understanding" must be one with that of Jeremiah Wright, Obama's pastor who "introduced Obama to Christ" and who called down curses on America based on his "theology of liberation." Jeremiah Wright, Lamont Hill, and others of this school are supposedly the Doctors and Theologians who have a certain understanding of the Bible contrary to centuries of Christian tradition. They call themselves "progressive."

Wright and Lamont should write "The Politically Correct Bible."

"For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. No wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. Therefore it is not surprising if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their deeds."

2 Cor. 11:13-15

More Valuable than Rocks

2008-08-06T12:10:00.005-04:00

Darwin's evolutionary hypotheses suggests that all life spontaneously generated from a pre-biotic "soup" of basic chemicals. It rained on rocks for millions and millions of years and basic elements in the rocks leached into the water. Chance lighting strikes caused the chemicals to combine at random to form the first organic molecules from which the complex cell evolved by natural selection and random mutation.

Scientific discoveries have shown that the cell, the building block of all life, is so irreducibly complex, requiring several processes to be active all at once in order to be viable at all, not even mentioning the extremely complex arrangement of proteins in the cell's DNA. Darwin's theory of origins is woefully inadequate to account for the extreme complexity of the cell. It borders on ridiculous, considering that the chances of the complex combination of chemicals coming together by chance, no matter how much time you allow, is practically zero.

Nevertheless, the Darwinian theory holds sway over the creative energies and imagination of scientists the world over. Does the notion that human ancestry ultimately traces back to rocks bother them? Why should we be so concerned about human dignity if we are no more than a complex combination of chemicals which came from rocks by chance? Perhaps some of Darwin's adherents are concerned. ICR reports that in Germany, scientists have prepared a research that suggests that diamonds in the pre-biotic "soup" may have sparked the first living cell. Perhaps we should take comfort in the thought that humans are more valuable than rocks after all. We can trace human origins to diamonds, pure carbon! Pure bull!

"As the thief is shamed when he is discovered,
So the house of Israel is shamed;
They, their kings, their princes
And their priests and their prophets,
Who say to a tree, 'You are my father,'
And to a stone, 'You gave me birth.'

Jeremiah 2:26-27

Did Batman Flip-Flop? An Apparent Inconsistency in The Dark Knight

2008-07-30T21:45:00.013-04:00

Apparently, Batman’s acrobatic ability is not limited to the physical. He displayed what seemed to be a major philosophical flip flop in the latest movie, The Dark Knight that would make a politician yell “encore!”

The Joker has rigged two commuter ferryboats with explosives. As the two ferryboats leave the docks, the passengers in both soon find detonators. The Joker’s mocking voice comes over each boat’s public address speakers, announcing his terms. He is not after ransom. The detonator found in each boat triggers the explosives in the other ferryboat. They have half an hour to decide whether to live or to die. To live, they would have to trigger the detonator, killing all passengers of the other boat. If both boats are still intact after half an hour, The Joker announces that he has a third detonator that he would use to explode both ferries. He is after chaos and anarchy. The passengers in both ferries naturally go into panic, each clamoring for survival. To add to the moral quandary, one of the two ferryboats is transporting condemned criminals among the passengers. It appears that the Joker will get his wish.

Batman decides to go after the Joker, and he succeeds in doing so using extremely sophisticated technology. Flawlessly, Batman eliminates each hurdle until he is face-to-face with the Joker. The Joker taunts Batman that he cannot save the passengers, that one of the two ferries will soon go up in flames. Batman confidently declares that that will not happen. I expected that Batman had another sophisticated gadget like a frequency jamming device to keep the detonators from working. There was none. As for the Joker’s detonator, Batman succeeds in hand-to-hand combat to disable it.

At the ferries, the passengers get over their panic and decide to vote for or against using their corresponding detonators. They cast their votes calmly as if CSPAN-1 and CSPAN-2 were on each ferryboat (do I detect a symbolism for the Congress?) The passengers vote to not murder the other ferry's passengers, Batman has disarmed the Joker, and the democratic process wins the day. There was no technological gizmo to block the detonators’ signals. In an attempt to promote anti death penalty, the movie ironically has one of the convicts lecture a citizen on the immorality of murder, that they should not even have voted on it.

Why was Batman so confident that the ferries wouldn’t blow up? Was he acting on faith? Did he have great confidence that the passengers on the ferries would do the right thing and not murder others for their own self-preservation? (Too bad he isn’t as articulate as the Joker is about his philosophy – must come from trying to disguise his voice too much.) So, if Batman had so much faith in the people, why couldn’t he trust them to absorb the news that Harvey Dent was guilty of murder? Instead, Batman conspires with Commissioner Gordon to preserve an illusion. He believed that the people would succumb to anarchy without a white knight like Harvey Dent. What a flip flop! What a glaring inconsistency, faith in the people in one scene, liberal elitist in the next!

We need heroes. We need Camelot. We need that "photo-op". Appearance is more important than substance, and finally, convicted criminals are morally superior to innocent citizens - All according to The Dark Knight.

But the LORD said to Samuel, "Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for God sees not as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart."

1 Samuel 16:6-8

Eichmann, The Joker, and The Banality of Evil

2008-07-28T22:24:00.007-04:00

Adolf Eichmann was a member of the Nazi regime who is considered one of the chief architects and executioner of Hitler’s “final solution” for the “Jewish Problem.” Israeli agents captured Eichmann as he was hiding out in Argentina after the collapse of the Third Reich and brought him to Jerusalem to stand trial for genocide. At his trial, Eichmann was found to be just a diligent, conscientious bureaucrat faithfully going about his job, but he was found complicit nonetheless in mass murder. Hannah Arendt, a German political philosopher, published in 1963 a book, “Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil.” The phrase, “banality of evil” is used to describe the fact that great atrocities and crimes do not necessarily stem from extraordinarily diabolical minds, but that evil resides in ordinary and commonplace persons and events. It doesn’t mean that evil is boring or trite or hackneyed. “Banality of evil” means that great wickedness can reside in innocuous form.

I first heard of “the banality of evil” from Dr. Ravi Zacharias. If you want to see an illustration of the banality of evil today, go see a movie. My wife and I went to see The Dark Knight last weekend. I found the Joker a fascinating character. When he was a kid, his dad thought he looked too serious so that his dad decided to permanently carve a “smile” into his face using a knife. Thus, the Joker wears a clown make-up to cover his scars. His “smiling” face is a mask for a murderous and vengeful heart. The Joker will not kill Batman because being Batman’s arch enemy is just “too much fun.” Such dialog is quite commonplace in the movies. Commonplace but grotesque witticisms accompany the most heinous of crimes, desensitizing us to the depth of the evil being depicted and may even elicit some admiration for the evildoer.

On Sunday, the weekend we watched The Dark Knight, a gunman walked into a Church service in Knoxville, TN carrying a 12-gauge shotgun in a guitar case. During the childrens' performance, he took out the shotgun and fired into the congregation, killing an elderly man and an elderly woman. According to Foxnews, “Neighbors described the gunman as a friendly man who often worked in his motorcycle outside, and would go on long weekend rides.” The gunman is now in custody for hate crimes. This was no movie. This is the banality of evil.

Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Genesis 6:5

The Dark Knight, A Sacrifice for Law and Order

2008-07-27T18:51:00.002-04:00

I followed the Batman comic books when I was a kid and have seen the Batman movies. I am impressed by The Dark Knight, the latest release in the series of Batman movies, as it seems to go beyond the usual cat-and-mouse, catch-me-if-you-can theme of the comic books and the other Batman movies and tackles the theme of personal and mass terrorism and murder that we have seen more and more of in today's news.

Gotham City is enamored with a young, zealous, and aggressive prosecutor, Harvey Dent, who is determined to put an end to organized crime using all available legal resources at his disposal. Meanwhile, Batman contemplates "retirement" as vigilante copycats try to emulate Batman but only succeed in giving Batman a bad name by their bungling idiotic crime fighting exploits. Batman's arch-enemy, "The Joker," appears on the scene, seizes control of the mob and murders the Batman copycats to implement a personal agenda of unprecedented evil in the history of Gotham city.

The Joker is not the power-driven criminal of gangster genre. The Joker is a fanatical ideologue, uninterested in money, whose personal agenda is the seduction of individuals, institutions, and society into evil, anarchy and chaos. He is the serial killer, genocidal maniac, and vengeful terrorist all rolled into one. The movie ascribes to The Joker incredible power and cunning as he effortlessly and flamboyantly executes a series of crises which places Batman, the police, and Gotham's citizens in ethical and moral quandaries that force them to choose between two evils either of which result in death, destruction, mass murder, and escalating anarchy and chaos.

Batman and the authorities try to stay on top of the situation but The Joker always seems to have the edge. Right up to the end Batman plays catch-up. The Joker unfolds one evil scheme after another appearing to succeed in his goal of destroying law and order on a personal and social scale. Batman fails to save his girlfriend Rachel Dawes while the Joker succeeds in seducing Harvey Dent to commit murder. Batman succeeds in tracking down the Joker using technology and a willingness to operate outside privacy laws. The Joker fails in his scheme of mass destruction and anarchy as the people vote on the Joker's terms, extolling the triumph of the democratic process. Batman has the Joker in his grasp but doesn't kill him, but Harvey Dent commits murder and gets himself killed in the process. To preserve Harvey Dent's reputation, Batman convinces Commissioner Gordon to lay Harvey Dent's crimes on Batman to preserve the people's faith in law and order and Batman becomes a hunted man. Harvey Dent is remembered as the white knight crusader for law and order.

Not bad for a comic book character.

Some analysis to follow.

Obama and Marx

2008-07-21T12:18:00.003-04:00

When Barak Obama was campaigning in April in San Francisco, he characterized MidWest voters who were suffering the effects of an economic downturn thus:

"They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

This remark by Obama sounds very much like Karl Marx when he said that "religion is the opium of the people." The quote originates from Marx's "Contribution to Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right"

In whose footsteps is Obama walking?

Who Defines Sin?

2008-07-14T14:34:00.004-04:00

It seems that as political correctness strives to elevate its values to
that of moral imperatives, it is defining sin as that which contradicts
its own political priorities. See for, example, the article by Chris
Satullo of the Philadelphia Inquirer on July 1, 2008, "A Not So Glorious
Fourth" where he calls a "national sin" the alleged torture of political
prisoners.

This is what happens when one excludes God from public debate. To fill the vacuum (although it's not really a vacuum) you substitute your own personal politics for God's laws.

However, every one of us to some extent, has this tendency to define what is sinful based on our own personal standards. This is exacerbated by the common but erroneous belief that there are no absolute values, that morality is personal and private. But there are absolutes. As Creator of the universe, God has the right to express His sovereignty and rule over all. He does this through natural laws and through moral laws, written in the consciences of men and women, and also objectively written in His divine revelation in Scriptures.

There is indeed a great reason to pray,

Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.

A Politically Correct Prophet

2008-07-09T12:45:00.008-04:00

In a recent issue of The Philadelphia Inquirer, (July 1, 2008), columnist Chris Satullo wrote an article, "A Not So Glorious Fourth, U.S. Atrocities are Unworthy of our Heritage." In his article, Satullo cites, "Abu Ghraib. Guantanamo. CIA secret prisons. 'Rendition' of prisoners to foreign torture chambers." as "sins" not only of the U.S. but of the American people who have tolerated such torture, according to Satullo. Satullo intends to dump guilt on the American people and shame them into grieving, instead of celebrating, Independence Day. "So put out no flags. Sing no patriotic hymns. We deserve no Fourth this year. Let us atone, in quiet and humility," Satullo writes.

Satullo is a self-proclaimed prophet of political correctness. He elevates what is, at best, a controversial political issue into the status of a national sin. What moral superiority does Satullo think political correctness have to try and condemn the nation like a biblical prophet over such a partisan issue as terrorist torture?

I would like to see if Satullo is equally as condemnatory of the killing of the innocent unborn, for example, or the gradual rendering of marriage into a meaningless institution, or the pollution of the culture with pornography in the name of free speech, or the abandonment of the faith of our fathers by censoring God from public discourse, ("Let us spend the day truly studying the example of our Founders," writes Satullo, referring to politics, not faith.)

What a lame and pathetic call Satullo makes! Political Correctness has nothing to offer! Satullo is borrowing from the theism that they are trying to supress in order to buttress the flaccid ideology of liberalism.

Lord, please send us a true prophet like Elijah.

An Easy Way to Check the Stock Market

2008-07-08T13:04:00.005-04:00

These days, it is no longer necessary to check the financial media to see how the stock market is doing. As you drive to work, simply check the price of gas. If the price of gas has increased, the stock market must have gone down.

In the day of prosperity be happy, but in the day of adversity consider--God has made the one as well as the other So that man will not discover anything that will be after him.

Ecclesiastes 7:13-15

Another Word for Double Speak

2008-07-07T09:21:00.004-04:00

Politicians are said to “solidify the base” and then “move to the center” in their effort to win the nomination or the elected position. This is accomplished by giving speeches and taking positions near and dear to the “base”, which could be the conservative rightist base or the liberal leftist base. “Moving to the center” involves the candidate taking positions sometimes contrary to the former positions he or she took before when he or she was “solidifying the base”. Such Machiavellian maneuvers are taken as a necessity in today’s political climate. Being a man or woman of principle, constant in his or her views, is just a pretense. Politicians pay lip service to truth and principle, yet are thoroughly pragmatic in their thinking, and political posturing is second nature to them. This is the essence of “political correctness”, taking positions which are perceived to please the most number of people in order to win their votes, regardless of truth or principle. “Solidifying the base” and “moving to the center” are just euphemisims for lying and demagoguery.

Hierarchies and Egalitarianism

2008-06-25T11:13:00.003-04:00

Technology has often made a serious impact, first on the activities wherein it is applied, then like ripples from a stone thrown into a pond, it affects the culture in many ways. The World Wide Web with its capabilities for interaction among widely diverse groups of people has made a radical impact on the flow and use of information, and its ripple effects in the culture have led some to predict the demise of organizational hierarchies and the advent of egalitarianism in the culture, in ways yet unforeseen.

While the technology of the world wide web and its development does inspire egalitarian visions, I doubt very much if hierarchies will become obsolete. Hierarchies are built into the world, even the universe itself. Astronomers rank stars according to their magnitude. Biologists observe dominance and submission among apes. Human enterprises, including developers of the World Wide Web, need to form some kind of organization to accomplish anything. Even so-called “open source” communities eventually organize themselves into something formal, distinguishing themselves from those who are not members of the community. A computer program needs a “main” and other program segments to be called by the “main” as needed. The most basic social unit, the family, needs structure. Finally, there is the hierarchy between the spiritual and the material.

Hierarchies will always be with us. The promise of egalitarianism to be brought about by the WWW is merely a dream. The WWW may be considered as a contributor to the loss of absolute truth and the rise in moral relativism as participants increasingly disdain authority and defer to the power of the crowd or the collective as facilitated by the WWW.

The Old and the New

2008-06-24T07:30:00.004-04:00

In the Old Testament, God showed His acceptance of the sacrifice of bulls and goats by sending fire from heaven to consume the slain animals.

In the New Testament God showed His acceptance of the sacrifice of the slain Lamb of God, Jesus Christ, by raising Him from the dead.

See, what a morning, gloriously bright,
With the dawning of hope in Jerusalem;
Folded the grave-clothes, tomb filled with light,
As the angels announce, "Christ is risen!"
See God's salvation plan,
Wrought in love, borne in pain, paid in sacrifice,
Fulfilled in Christ, the Man,
For He lives: Christ is risen from the dead!

See Mary weeping, "Where is He laid?"
As in sorrow she turns from the empty tomb;
Hears a voice speaking, calling her name;
It's the Master, the Lord raised to life again!
The voice that spans the years,
Speaking life, stirring hope, bringing peace to us,
Will sound till He appears,
For He lives: Christ is risen from the dead!

One with the Father, Ancient of Days,
Through the Spirit who clothes faith with certainty.
Honor and blessing, glory and praise
To the King crowned with pow'r and authority!
And we are raised with Him,
Death is dead, love has won, Christ has conquered;
And we shall reign with Him,
For He lives: Christ is risen from the dead!

(lyrics by Keith Getty)

A Matter of Truth

2006-09-11T12:35:00.000-04:00

An anonymous person responded to my ealier post on the DaVinci Code, "Bashing Christ In Fact and Fiction." Among the many questions raised in his response was the following:

"So what (if) the DaVinci Code is a book of fiction, what makes you so sure that the bible is not a book of fiction?"

Dan Brown himself claims that his book is fiction. The Bible never makes a claim to being a work of fiction. There are thousands of manuscripts of the Bible, more than any ancient book. The apostles and prophets who wrote the scriptures are eyewitnesses to the truths written in Scripture. Finally, Jesus Christ himself testifies to the veracity and accuracy of Scripture, up to its punctuation marks.

Dan Brown claims his work is fiction and you grant him a status of "Truthful". The Bible claims to be truthful and you reduce its status to that of "Fiction". You are being thoroughly dishonest, and I doubt that you are really seeking the truth.

Furthermore, the burden of proof lies with you to prove that the Bible is fiction. I don't have to prove that the Bible is not fiction just because you think that The DaVinci Code is somewhow equivalent to the Bible.

Photos of Laotian 'Living Fossil' - Another Nail in Coffin of Darwinism

2006-06-15T12:32:00.000-04:00

First Photos of Laotian 'Living Fossil' Released
FOX News

This puts another nail in the coffin of evolutionary theory

See this URL for the rest of this story.

Bashing Christ in Fact and Fiction

2006-05-14T13:23:00.000-04:00

Dan Brown is another comrade-in-arms in the long list of Christ-bashers throughout the centuries. His modern peers include The Jesus Seminar, a group of American scholars bent on stripping the New Testament of all supernatural accounts, Martin Scorsese who produced “The Last Temptation of Christ”, and the late Peter Jennings, who featured The Jesus Seminar in his “Search for the Historical Jesus” on ABC. In his novel and forthcoming movie, “The DaVinci Code,” Dan Brown unleashes a dangerous two-pronged assault upon historical Christianity and the Church.

Dan Brown states that,

"The DaVinci Code is a novel and therefore a work of fiction. While the book’s characters and their actions are obviously not real, the artwork, architecture, documents, and secret rituals depicted in this novel all exist."

Thus, Dan Brown utilizes people, places, and events such as Leonardo DaVinci, an association called The Priory of Sion, Constantine the Great, the Council of Nicea, the Qumran caves, The Gnostic gospels, etc. and weaves together these people, places, and events into a story which is the “fiction” part of his work. His novel consists of a sinister conspiracy involving the Christian church. According to Dan Brown’s fiction, Christianity is one great hoax perpetuated by the church, that the church covered up Jesus’ marriage to Mary Magdalene, that Jesus did not really claim to be God but that he was simply “voted” to be divine by the Council of Nicea, and that this Council suppressed other ancient writings in the process of the cover up. His two-pronged assault on Christianity consists of distortions of historical facts and a fictional story based on those distortions. He attempts to give credence to the fiction through those distortions, and in turn validate those distortions through the fiction. Those distortions are blatant and are easily exposed, as a number of scholars have done, but Dan Brown shamelessly says in interviews that if he were to write The DaVinci Code as non-fiction that he would not change a thing!

Just how far can one go with artistic license? Apparently, there is no limit. The DaVinci Code has sold over forty million copies and has been translated into several languages. The movie which features Tom Hanks will put flesh and blood to the fiction and will be acted out before millions of viewers enhancing the illusion (or should I say delusion?) of Dan Brown, and bring him hundreds of millions of dollars. This is historical revisionism under the cover of art and the First Amendment. Truth is the casualty. The DaVinci Code will cause serious damage to the cause of Christianity but it won’t be a death-blow.

The DaVinci Code has thrived in a culture which cannot distinguish fact from fiction, where “reality” has to be portrayed using an inherently unreal medium such as television, where surveys have demonstrated the population to be ignorant even of current events, a culture whose high school students, in large numbers, cannot even name the Vice President of the United States, or even a single Justice of the Supreme Court, whose knowledge of geography and world events is woefully inadequate, and where absolute truth is confused with religious belief and thus discarded.

Into this culture strides Dan Brown commandeering history and dropping ancient names and places woven with a tale about the largest visible group of people in the world, the Christian church, and how it has been deceived throughout the ages by a secret society. This is just what the culture with its “victim mentality” and growing distrust of the church (due to clerical abuses) wants to hear. Dan Brown is hailed as a hero for exposing the conspiracy concocted by his imagination, and the culture, believing Dan Brown has done it a favor, pulls farther away from the Truth which it so desperately needs.

Such distortions of Christianity as Dan Brown has propagated through The DaVinci Code will only escalate, as the culture continues to abandon its historical roots. For the entertainment value of a novel or a movie, people are willing to cast off any notion of true Christianity they might have and embrace the lies and distortions against the person of Christ. People are always looking for an excuse not to accept the claims of Christ. For a time it may be, “The church is full of hypocrites.” Now they may have found another reason which is, “Christianity is just a gigantic hoax.”

Those who are true believers will strengthen their faith as they use every opportunity, every challenge, to understand the basis of their faith, to know the true history of the church, and to understand Scripture, whose trustworthiness and accuracy have withstood time, and only grow more reliably through the centuries.

It will become harder for those who reject Christ to find truth as the day of Christ’s return draws nearer, and as more and more Jesus Seminars, Martin Scorseses, Searches for Historical Jesus, and Dan Browns manifest themselves.

The Atheist and The Bear

2006-04-11T12:23:00.000-04:00

An atheist was walking along the woods. "What majestic trees"! "What powerful rivers"! "What beautiful animals"! He said to himself.

As he was walking alongside the river, he heard a rustling in the bushes behind him. He turned to look. He saw a seven-foot grizzly charging towards him. He ran as fast as he could up the path. He looked over his shoulder and saw the bear closing in on him.

He looked over his shoulder again, and the bear kept coming closer. Then, he tripped and fell. He rolled over to pick himself up but the bear was right on top of him, reaching for him with its left paw and raising its right paw to strike him.

At that instant, the atheist cried out, "Oh, my God"!

Time stopped! The bear froze! The forest became silent! A bright light shone upon the atheist and a voice thundered from the sky. "You deny my existence and teach others your godless philosophy. You credit creation to a cosmic accident. Do you expect me to help you now? Would you believe in God now?

The atheist looked directly into the light, "It would be hypocritical of me to suddenly believe in God now under these circumstances, but can you make the bear a Christian?" said the atheist hoping to save his skin but keep his unbelief.

"Very well!" said the Voice.

The bright light disappeared. The sounds of the forest returned, and the grizzly dropped its paws and brought them together, bowed its head, and spoke, "Lord, bless this food which I am about to receive from thy bounty through Christ, our Lord. Amen."

April First is Atheists' Great Holiday

2006-03-20T19:54:00.000-05:00

The great holiday of atheists is coming up. Secular fundamentalists, scientific naturalists, Darwinists, and athesistic humanists the world over are commemorated and remembered on April 1.

("The fool has said in his heart, 'There is no God.'...Psalm 14:1)

The Weapons of Our Warfare

2005-12-21T20:05:00.000-05:00

The most powerful weapon in the culture war is not the media, not the blogosphere, or talk radio.

It is prayer.

Thanksgiving is Not Just for Good Times

2005-11-26T19:06:00.000-05:00

God is sovereign but He is not the author of evil. God is good.

He is sovereign in the events of my life, both the good and the bad.

I thank God for good times and in bad times, I thank Him as well.

May His will be done in my life.

Evolutionary Theory Contributes Little to Science

2005-11-06T19:45:00.000-05:00

In a previous post, I said that "Darwinian Evolution does not result in superior science. Scientists pay lip service to Darwin but it contributes little to the advancement of science." This is the opinion of Philip S. Skell, Emeritus Professor at Penn State and a member of the National Academy of Sciences in his article, "Why Do We Invoke Darwin?"

Eisenhower's Questionable Legacy

2005-10-31T20:27:00.000-05:00

In 1957, the Soviet Union became the first country to launch a space satellite. The Eisenhower administration made the appalling conclusion that godless communism was superior to theistic philosophy resulting in the Soviet's superior science and technology. The Eisenhower administration, ordered massive spending on the rewriting of textbooks to promote Darwinian evolution in schools. The poisonous world view of Darwin wreaked havoc on the culture, and the effects are with us today.

First the Soviets did not have superior science. They were just better spies who stole research from the U.S.

Second, Darwinian Evolution does not result in superior science. Scientists pay lip service to Darwin but it contributes little to the advancement of science.

Third, the greatest discoveries in science were made by men and women who were believers in God, such as Nicholas Copernicus, Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei, Rene Descartes, Sir Isaac Newton, Robert Boyle, Michael Faraday, Gregor Mendel, William Thomson Kelvin, Max Planc, Albert Einstein.

Eisenhower traded God for Darwin. Driven by envy and rivalry, he sacrificed the education of the children of the United States to Darwin in order to win the space race.

Today the space program is driven by the same godless philosophy. The goal of the space program is to find that superior alien intelligence in other planets that would explain the origins of the universe, and of this special place we call earth.

Martin Luther, Blogger

2005-10-30T20:52:00.000-05:00

The last Sunday in October is designated Reformation Sunday by Christian Churches. Today, we commemorate a historical event in the Reformation, when Martin Luther posted the 95 Theses on the door of the Church at Wittenberg for all the community to read.

If the Internet were invented in 1517, the 95 would have been Martin Luther's first web log. Martin Luther would have been a most effective Blogger. Weblogs are having an impact on society today in a similar way that the door of the Wittenberg Cathedral served as a forum for the dissemination of opinion against established power structures.

The Culture Warrior is just a miniscule drop in the vast world of the Blogosphere. It was October 31, a year ago when I first posted on this weblog. It is a small beginning, but anyone who has eyes to read are welcome.

Thank you for those who have read this weblog and have posted comments. Unfortunately, due to SPAM comments, I have to shut off commenting on my posts.

The Culture Warrior will continue, with God's help.

PETA is Darwin's Child

2005-10-07T22:00:00.000-04:00

PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) recently launched an exhibit comparing the brutality against slaves in America to the slaughter of animals for human consumption.

This is another bitter fruit of the Darwinian Theory of Evolution. To PETA there is a moral equivalence between pigs and humans. We are all animals in PETA's eyes and in Darwin's Theory as well.

Not only is Darwinian Theory wrong. It is dangerous.

A Most Destructive Theory

2005-10-04T19:28:00.000-04:00

Charles Darwin, through his theory of evolution, gave the world a destructive legacy. The theory of Evolution contributed to the rise of racism, socialism, and decadence. In Australia, aborigines were slaughtered because their skulls were believed to be examples of earlier stages of evolution. The Smithsonian Institute keeps thousands of these skulls to preserve Darwin's legacy. Adolf Hitler believed that the Arian race was on top of the evolutionary ladder and justified the murder of Jews and other races on the basis of Darwin's legacy. Not only is the Theory of Evolution wrong, it is also dangerous.

Being Neutral About God

2005-10-02T21:18:00.000-04:00

Is it possible to be neutral about God?

Either God exists or He doesn't. There is no middle ground.

This is the fundamental law of logic, the law of non-contradiction. The Supreme Court of the United States is in denial about God. It mistakenly assumes it can hold a middle ground, arbitrating between atheists and citizens who believe in God.

In as much as it believes it can hold this ground, the Supreme Court has become a small god, having set itself up against all rational thought in becoming "neutral" about God.

Its foundation has been severely weakened, and is crumbling. It is living on borrowed time.

Divine Revelation and Individual Interpretation

2005-10-01T11:27:00.000-04:00

There has been an essential unity of belief about the person and work of Jesus Christ. The historical meaning of the person and work of Jesus Christ is recorded in the New Testament, in the so-called cannon of scripture.

Scripture, therefore, interprets history. It is not men who interpret history, particularly the events surrounding the life and work of Jesus Christ. In vain do scholars such as those who belong to The Jesus Seminar try to "get behind" the events recorded in scripture in order to derive their own interpretation of events. In vain do theologians try to "demythologize" the new Testament in an attempt to make it acceptable to the modern naturalistic mindset, stripped of all allusions to the supernatural.

Men who read scripture with an open heart and an open mind will have the meaning of the historical events confirmed in their hearts and minds through the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is needed for the truth to be confirmed because the events in scripture have to do with spiritual truths, supernatural reality which cannot be derived by unaided human intellect.

The person who wants to learn of the truths about God must come to God, believing that He exists and that He will reward those who diligently seek Him.

This is how divine revelation is applied individually, not through some magical apparition or weeping statues or the like. It is through the Word of God in scripture that God's truth becomes apparent to the human heart when it is combined with faith.

9/11 And Katrina Call Nation to Repentance

2005-09-15T21:54:00.000-04:00

In Luke 13:1-9, Jesus comments on two spectacular incidents which involved the death of innocent people. The first incident was the barbaric murder of some Galileans whose blood Pilate mingled with their temple sacrifices and the second incident was the collapse of a tower which resulted in the death of eighteen people. Jesus concluded His comments with the parable of the fruitless fig tree.

The first was a political act, instigated by an oppressive ruler. The second was a natural catastrophe which caused the collapse of a man-made structure. The parable of the fruitless fig tree is not unrelated to the first two incidents. The fig tree is a symbol of a city or a nation. The fruit which the master longed for is the fruit of repentance, and the master is the Lord. The caretaker are the intercessors who preach the Word of God and call the nation to repentance and righteous living.

Jesus interprets these seemingly unrelated disasters, one political, the other natural, and reveals those incidents as calls to repentance. He further illustrates through the parable of the fruitless fig tree how God longs that men and nations should repent, and that if repentance is not forthcoming, then the fig tree is to be cut down. The city of Jerusalem is a historical analogy of this parable. It was destroyed in 70 A.D. Jesus lamented over Jerusalem and warned of its impending destruction.

The parable of the fruitless fig tree illustrates the manner of God’s dealing with men and nations. He longs for men and nations to repent and He listens to intercessors and postpones judgment. After a period of time, if men and nations refuse to repent, then they are cut down.

The execution of Jesus was a natural outcome of the envy and political ambition of the religious leaders of that time. The brutality of Pilate in Luke 13 was the natural outcome of the sinfulness of man. The collapse of the tower in Luke 13 was the indirect result of a rebellious cosmic environment, hostile to man. God is not the author of those evil and harmful acts and destruction. In His wisdom He used those incidents to execute His own redemptive plan for mankind. This plan includes repentance.

The United States of America has had two great catastrophes recently. One was political, and the other was natural within four years of each other. The 9/11 attack hit innocent people and was instigated by a brutal political enemy, as Pilate was to the Galileans in Luke 13. Katrina was a Category 5 hurricane which caused a levy to break and flood New Orleans, and wreaked havoc and destruction, just as a natural disaster caused the tower of Siloam to cause death in Luke 13. The scale is much bigger today as many more innocent people were killed, and thousands were hurt and rendered homeless by both 9/11 and Katrina. Is it appropriate to apply Jesus’ world view and interpretation of events to these incidents?

We ignore the parallelism and historical analogy at our own risk. The United States has been the recipient of God’s greatest blessings on earth. This nation is a fig tree planted by God, and could not have sprouted and prospered if not by God’s design and providential care. Recently, the need for repentance has been great, as America has stupidly abandoned absolute truth, bowing to moral relativism and political correctness, and imagining that it owes nothing to God for its greatness. The intercessors throughout the nation have been working hard to call the nation to repentance and righteousness, praying for the nation, praying in behalf of America, reminding the nation of its spiritual roots and the God of their fathers. At least I hope that we have been doing that, and if not, we should be doing it.

In the parable, the Master was willing to postpone cutting down the fig tree for a period of time until He saw the fruits of repentance. The caretaker asked for a reprieve of two years. We don’t know how much time we have. We know that the need for repentance is great. Only time will tell if we are successful in our intercession for America.

The Gulf Coast Prays

2005-09-03T22:33:00.003-04:00

God is our refuge and strength,
an ever-present help in trouble.
Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way
and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea,
though its waters roar and foam
and the mountains quake with their surging.

Psalm 46:1-3

Supporting the Troops But Aiding the Enemy

2005-08-25T19:01:00.000-04:00

Those who say that they support the troops but are against the war are blowing nothing but hot air. What they really mean is they support the troops but not the Commander-in-Chief, George W. Bush. You might as well cut off the head from the body. How then can you support the body of the troops by cutting off its head? Can a fighting force stand when it is divided?

Furthermore, when they speak against the war, they do so in a way that gives aid and comfort to the terrorists. Witness, for example the rhetoric of Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois and his Democratic lackeys. The enemy was cheering at his comments comparing Guantanamo to the Murderous Pol Pot regime in Cambodia. They promote division among the troops.

Those who talk hot air like this, and give aid and comfort to the enemy by their rhetoric deserve the kind of treatment which General George Patton gave to one of his troops. He slapped him in the head for cowardice.

Eminent Domain Israeli Style

2005-08-17T14:35:00.000-04:00

The Jewish settlers in Gaza are being asked by the Israeli state to leave
the homes they have worked hard to build and the land they have sweated to
cultivate because of the political policy of appeasement. The Israeli
government hopes to trade land for the promise of peace from the
Palestinian authority. This is a brutal reminder of the extent to which
the state can exercise its coercive power over the citizens it is supposed
to protect. In a recent decision, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the right
of city governments to forcibly buy the land and property of private
individuals for the sake of "community development." The Jewish settlers
are tasting the brutal exercise of eminent domain for the sake of political
expediency.

Commoditized Equities

2005-08-10T15:06:00.000-04:00

The almost direct correlation of the U.S. Stock market with the price of
oil is unhealthy. It has turned U.S. equities into a commodity. It is no
wonder that the real estate market has become a better choice for
investment than stocks.

Politics in the Raw

2005-08-05T21:35:00.000-04:00

Last Friday, July 29, Senator Bill Frist offered support for legislation, already passed by the House, that earmarks federal funding for embryonic stem cell experimentation.

The Senator's support for this legislation is contrary to the President's position in support of life in any stage.

The Senator has no good reason to violate his pro-life position with this "defection," except politics in the raw. The President is not up for re-election. The Senators are.

Jefferey Ventrella discusses this issue.

Prime Time Irreverence

2005-08-05T21:03:00.000-04:00

Bill O'Reilly of Foxnews was interviewing the Reverend Franklin Graham on his TV show last week. The Reverend Graham candidly answered questions. One of the questions that O'Reilly asked Graham was that if Jesus was coming back. Graham answered yes. "I hope that when He does, He appears on The Factor," O'Reilly remarked.

I knew that the media is arrogant. That night, I saw a prime example of media arrogance and media irreverence.

O'Reilly, Jesus isn't coming to your puny TV show, but you will appear before the judgement seat of Christ to give an account of every word you have spoken.

The False Dichotomy Between Faith and Science

2005-08-04T17:57:00.000-04:00

Those who oppose the concept of Intelligent Design do so by describing it as being based on faith and not on science. Implied in this is the judgement that faith is inferior to science. Furthermore, there is the hidden implication that faith is equivalent to religion.

This is nothing but an evasion of the issue, a suppression of evidence.

No less than the revered Charles Krautheimer of Foxnews put down Intelligent Design in this manner. Normally astute on political issues, Krautheimer became a sorry apologist for Darwin last night.

The Enigma of Atheism

2005-07-28T20:38:00.003-04:00

Anti-War Bureaucrat Campaigns at Funerals

2005-07-25T12:19:00.000-04:00

Catherine Baker Knoll, Lt. Governor of Pennsylvania, took the liberal
anti-war cause to shameful extremes when she showed up uninvited at the
funeral of Staff Sgt. Joseph Goodrich, a marine who served in Iraq and was
slain by a mortar blast. Knoll handed out her business card and then said
"our government" is against this war. Presumably she meant Pennsylvania
Governor Ed Rendell's administration is against the war. The family of the
slain marine was deeply offended. This was reported by the Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette on Saturday. (Brought to our attention by Michelle Malkin).

UPDATE: Knoll apologized and the Goodrich family accepted her apology

Terror Strikes Egypt

2005-07-22T21:39:00.000-04:00

The Associated Press reports that seven explosions have rocked a resort city in Egypt, levelling a hotel. Hundreds are feared dead.

Update: "Who will be the First To Blame Bush or Blair?"

Deluded State Governments

2005-07-20T19:43:00.000-04:00

Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, and Canada : Four states thus far that have imposed legal homosexual marriage laws on their populations.

The plague spreads like AIDS. It first breaks down resistance by attempting to disable the antibodies so that the body is powerless against it. The body begins to accept it as normal. Then the virus takes over. The organism dies.

Homosexuality is not new. It was first suggested in the Scriptures when Noah cursed Canaan, his grandson, from whom descended the founders and inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrha. No culture since the beginning of time has ever survived the institutionalization of homosexuality.

From Judge to Justice

2005-07-19T22:17:00.000-04:00

President Bush has nominated Judge John Roberts to the U.S. Supreme Court. The President has made a choice, and his decision deserves respect. President Bush was reelected with overwhelming majority for a second term for such a time as this.

The Democrat Senator of Guantanamo fame, Dick Durbin, has already promised and guaranteed a controversy over the President's choice. Durbin serves the special interest groups such as Planned Parenthood. Durbin did not hesitate to make the unconscionable statement slandering the U.S. operations in Guantanamo by comparing them to Hitler's holocaust and Cambodia's murderous Polpot regime. He was later proved to be wrong by other senators who visited Guantanamo and who concluded that the prisoners were being treated fairly and humanely. Durbin, and his Democrat lackeys will not fail to make just as egregious a slander on John Roberts. Can a zebra change its stripes?

I think it won't be such a fierce confirmation battle as the media is expecting. Rather, I believe Judge Roberts will shortly be Justice Roberts.

ICR: Stem Cell Research—Doing Evil to Do Good

2005-07-16T12:12:00.000-04:00

The Institute of Creation Research (icr.org) helps present some basic information on stem cells. Among them:

"What Are Stem Cells?

Stem cells are young and unspecialized cells. Under the right conditions, they can be chemically encouraged to form any cell in the body. Because there are just a few in adults, researchers find they are more readily acquired from the egg cell prior to its implantation in the mother’s uterus (Ganong 2003, 518)."

ICR has an enlightening article called, "Stem Cell Research—Doing Evil to Do Good" at this link,

The Burden of Proof

2005-07-14T20:25:00.000-04:00

The normal mode of the universe is order and design. The fact that there are catastrophes, diseases and death does not at all detract from the fundamental evidence in the universe for intelligent design. It is plain to see. One would have to suppress or distort the evidence in order to deny the basic fact that the universe is governed by laws, by order, and by design. The universe has a Designer.

The burden of proof lies with the atheists to prove that there is no God. Because they believe only in what they can see, they have to go everywhere in the universe, throughout time and see for themselves that God doesn't exist. Until they can do this, their assertion that there is no God is merely an expression based on faith just like a religious belief.

Atheism is a religious belief and the Supreme Court has established it in its many decisions in favor of the ACLU against God.

Sunni and Shiite

2005-07-13T21:31:00.000-04:00

When Mohammed died, the religion he founded split into two branches: the Sunni and the Shiite branches. The division runs deep. Rit Nosotro at Hyperhistory.net explains:

"In Iraq, the Shiite population is about fifty-five percent, the Sunni population forty percent, and non-Muslims make up five percent... In Iran, almost any Muslim (actually ninety-three percent) is a Shiite. Despite being the minority, Sunnis dominated Iraqi politics while Hussein was in power which is what partly led to the decade long war between the two countries begining in the eighties. Millions were killed on both sides. Although the war has ended, Sunnis and Shiites are still fighting for power and pride today."

In Iraq, the Americans are not the only target of terrorists. The population is deeply divided along religious lines, and decades of animosity between Shiite and Sunni still work murder and destruction among the people.

Establishment of Religion

2005-07-12T20:04:00.000-04:00

The Supreme Court relies almost exclusively on an organized body of secularists in order to make decisions against religion, particularly Christianity. This organized body is the ACLU, and their religion is Pluralism/Atheism. The ACLU's high priestess is Ruth Ginzberg, one of the justices of the Supreme Court. Justice Anthony Kennedy also serves this secular religion. Other Justices pay homage to secularism as well.

The ACLU is the organized body of secular religion established by the Supreme Court in violation of the Constitution.

Proving That There Is No God

2005-07-11T19:53:00.000-04:00

Since Atheism relies* on empirical knowledge for what can be known, its adherents* will have to search the whole universe exhaustively in order to conclude that there is no God. That is, they would have to claim omniscience* to include all the facts for their claim to be valid.

The fact is: Atheism relies* on suppression of evidence to support its assertion that there is no God.

The Atheist, because of something called human limitation, cannot go to the far reaches of the universe, nor travel to the past to say for sure that there is no God. It is merely by faith that he holds that there is no God, a faith that the U.S. Supreme Court has established as a secular religion.*

*edited 7-14-05

The Context of "Separation of Church and State"

2005-07-09T14:16:00.001-04:00

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church and State…

--Thomas Jefferson

An excellent discussion of The Separation Illusion by Gregory Koukl at Stand to Reason is at this site.

Atheism is not the opposite of religion. It is as much based on faith, and has a set of beliefs as any other religion. Atheism relies on the active suppression of the truth about God. In any honest intellectual discussion, the truth about God is irresistible, but atheists and secular fundamentalists dismiss or explain away large areas of human experience related to spiritual and supernatural phenomena. In fact, one of the fundamental beliefs of atheism is that there is no supernatural. "In the beginning, there was only the cosmos" is a fundamental belief of atheism, sustained only by faith.

Yet, the Supreme Court has maintained the illusion that it did not establish religion when it favored atheism in associating everything having to do with God as religion. Atheism has elements of religious faith. The position of the Supreme Court is logically in error.

It takes faith to believe that the cosmos is all there is, to suppress the truth, and believe that there is no God.

Great Britain's Prayer

2005-07-07T19:37:00.001-04:00

Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint;
Preserve my life from dread of the enemy.
Hide me from the secret counsel of evildoers,
From the tumult of those who do iniquity,
Who have sharpened their tongue like a sword
They aimed bitter speech as their arrow,
To shoot from concealment at the blameless;
Suddenly they shoot at him, and do not fear.
They hold fast to themselves an evil purpose;
They talk of laying snares secretly;
They say, "Who can see them?"
They devise injustices, saying,
"We are ready with a well-conceived plot";
For the inward thought and the heart of a man are deep.
But God will shoot at them with an arrow;
Suddenly they will be wounded.
So they will make him stumble;
Their own tongue is against them;
All who see them will shake the head.
Then all men will fear,
And they will declare the work of God,
And will consider what He has done.
The righteous man will be glad in the LORD and will take refuge in Him;
And all the upright in heart will glory.

Psalm 64

London Hit By Jihadists

2005-07-07T08:12:00.000-04:00

A series of explosions hit London this morning. At least six explosions
occurred throughout the subway system of the city. Last year, a
similar style of attack hit Madrid, Spain. Scores are dead.

A Jihadist group called it "blessed."

The "religion of peace" strikes again.

Happy Birthday, America!

2005-07-04T09:31:00.001-04:00

O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain!
America! America! God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!

O beautiful for pilgrim feet, Whose stern impassioned stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat Across the wilderness!
America! America! God mend thine every flaw
Confirm thy soul in self control, Thy liberty in law!

O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife,
Who more than self their country loved, And mercy more than life!
America! America! May God thy gold refine.
Till All success be nobleness And every gain divine!

O beautiful for patriot dream That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam, Undimmed by human tears!
America! America! God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood Form sea to shining sea!

Words: Katharine Lee Bates
Music: Samuel Augustus Ward
Flag (c)The Culture Warrior 2005

Supreme Court Justice Resigns

2005-07-01T15:28:00.000-04:00

Fox News reports that Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has
submitted a letter of resignation to the President. Following is the text
of her letter:

"Dear President Bush,

This is to inform you of my decision to retire from my position as an
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States,
effective upon the nomination and confirmation of my successor.

It has been a great privilege indeed to have served as a member of the
Court for 24 Terms.

I will leave it with enormous respect for the integrity of the Court and
its role under our constitutional structure.

Sincerely,

Sandra Day O'Connor"

Now, the battle for a new Supreme Court Justice begins.

Politically Correct Ten Commandments

2005-06-29T10:13:00.008-04:00

1. The state is supreme. The state determines what is moral. There is no absolute truth. Truth is what Holywood and the media portray.

2. The state guarantees your livelihood and happiness. It is the redeemer of your past and the savior of your present from any and all calamities. You shall not rely on other gods but the state.

3. You shall keep the name of God, even God, out of the state. State officials shall not say His name, nor shall you print His name on any public document, or mention His name on any property belonging to the state.

4. There is no supernatural. The material world is the only reality. You shall teach Darwin's evolutionary theory forever and ever. Whosoever challenges Darwin is a blasphemer.

5. God and religion are the source of all evil in society. You shall not tolerate those who practice their faith in public. You shall forget your Christian heritage.

6. Womens' freedoms come from the state. You shall not pass any law that challenges a woman's right to an abortion in any shape or form.

7. The state gives you freedom and happiness. The state issues marriage licenses. Therefore, you shall allow equal access to marriage to all persons without regard to their gender. Nor shall you restrict the number in a marriage to two.

8. The state is the savior of mankind. You shall gladly surrender your property for the development of your community. You shall gladly support social programs that transfer wealth from those who have to those who have not.

9. Those who speak against political correctness are intolerant and bigoted. Lying, defamation, and slander of those who oppose political correctness shall be speech protected by the state. You shall destroy anyone in politics who does not adhere to political correctness. The end of preserving political correctness shall justify any means of doing so.

10. The state shall be your protection from a guilty conscience imposed by religious morality. The state shall guarantee your privacy. The state shall guarantee that pornography and perversion shall be protected speech forever.

Posting of these commandments in public will be protected from any lawsuit from the ACLU or People for the American Way.

Folly in the Highest Places

2005-06-29T08:17:00.000-04:00

A majority of Justices in the Supreme Court have assigned themselves the
role of arbiter against religion or non-religion. What folly! They can't
even observe the Law of non-contradiction, a fundamental law of logic. And
they serve in the highest court of the land!

God help us!

Let Justice Be Served on the Justice

2005-06-29T07:56:00.000-04:00

This report from WorldNetDaily.com:

"A private developer contacted the local government in Supreme Court
Justice David Souter's hometown in New Hampshire yesterday asking that the
property of the judge – who voted in favor of a controversial decision
allowing a city to take residents' homes for private development – be
seized to make room for a new hotel.

Logan Darrow Clements faxed a request to Chip Meany, the code enforcement
officer of the town of Weare, N.H., seeking to start the application
process to build a hotel on 34 Cilley Hill Road, the present location of
Souter's home.

Wrote Clements: "Although this property is owned by an individual, David H.
Souter, a recent Supreme Court decision, Kelo v. City of New London, clears
the way for this land to be taken by the government of Weare through
eminent domain and given to my LLC for the purposes of building a hotel.
The justification for such an eminent domain action is that our hotel will
better serve the public interest as it will bring in economic development
and higher tax revenue to Weare."

The Hotel will be named "Lost Liberty Hotel."

The Thought Police Against Religion

2005-06-28T07:59:00.000-04:00

The Supreme Court affirmed that the Ten Commandments display in Texas could
stand while the Ten Commandments displays in Kentucky were
unconstitutional. The deciding vote in either case was based on the
Courts' determination of the intent of those who put up the respective
displays, whether it was for a religious purpose or a nonreligious purpose.
The Court now claims jurisdiction over the minds and hearts of the
citizens, claiming to be the judge of their innermost religious attitudes.
Thus, the Supreme Court indeed behaves as the god of this age, the idol of
secularism, the thought police against religion.

The Day America Lost Her Birthright

2005-06-24T18:54:00.000-04:00

When the Supreme Court outlawed prayer from public schools, it took the side of atheists and effectively established Pluralism as the official "religion" of the state. What has followed from that decision has been the massive erosion of religious liberty. Secular fundamentalists and the ACLU have hounded Christians and dragged them into court for such simple reasons as a teacher wearing a cross to a public school or a student reading a bible during recess in public schools. They have sought to eradicate the Ten Commandments from public display and to remove all references to God in public places and have sought to prevent public officials from uttering God and the Lord Jesus in public prayer. I doubt that any of those Justices had any idea of the consequences of that fateful decision in 1963.

Now, the myopic Supreme Court in Kelo vs New London has unwittingly handed yet another weapon to the secularists to use against the Church. This weapon is that of eminent domain. The Supreme Court ruled this week that city governments can force property holders to sell against their will if the city government wants their land for development. The property will be awarded (sold) to another private owner favored by the city government.

Churches, because of their tax exempt status, will be particular targets for eminent domain from cash-starved city governments. Churches will be at risk if they speak out boldly against, for example, casino gambling initiatives of city governments, or rallying to enforce zoning against pornography outlets in the city. The secularist city mayor will have the weapon of eminent domain to club Churches into silence. The Supreme Court has broken the dam and has unleashed the threat of bureaucratic tyrrany like a flood against private citizens and Churches, all in the name of economic development. America has become just one big real estate for economic development rather than the land of the free and home of the brave.

Like Esau who sold his birthright for a mesh of pottage, the Supreme Court has sold the sacredness of the right of America to own private property in exchange for real estate development. The spirit of Jezzebel who enabled the taking of Naboth's vineyard lives in the Supreme Court today. But all of this is meaningless to a Court which has rejected the Word of God as the foundation of law. Kelo vs New London is but a consequence of that rejection.

June 23, 2005: Another millstone (sic) in the history of America.

UPDATE: Use your remaining rights before the courts take them away too: The Castle Coalition