Category: Religion

Rand Paul sells out his Father’s Birthright

I saw this morning and I could not believe what I was hearing. Rand Paul has basically sold out his Father’s Libertarian Birthright. Just so he can have a shot at running in 2016.

The video comes via the neoconservative blog HotAir.com:

Rand Paul sells America out.

The Quote:

Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul took what very well could be considered his most pro-Israel stance yet, saying in an interview that an attack on Israel should be treated as an attack on the United States.

Asked whether the United States would stand with Israel and provide it foreign aid if the Jewish state were attacked by its enemies, Paul went a step further.

“Well absolutely we stand with Israel,” he said in an interview with Breitbart News, “but what I think we should do is announce to the world – and I think it is pretty well known — that any attack on Israel will be treated as an attack on the United States.”

There is no two ways about it, Rand Paul is not his Father at all. His Father has principles; Rand sold his out for a little power and to placate a protected minority. It is sad that Rand Paul is more interested in pleasing a small part of the so-called “right” in order to get the blessing of the banksters and mobsters of the elitists in DC.

But, that is politics and it is proof that we need real Americans in DC. Not these rich elitists, who never had to use their backs to make a living.

As it should be!

One of my biggest beefs with the Christian world is that they seem to be “hell-bent,” So to speak —- on shoving THEIR version of Christianity down my throat. I have my personal and very private beliefs thank you and I ask you nicely — don’t tread on me and my private convictions.

CHANGE: Religion As An Activity Engaged In By Consenting Adults In Private. Instapundit » Blog Archive » CHANGE: Religion As An Activity Engaged In By Consenting Adults In Private.

In other words, keep your silly damned nose out of my business and my religion or lack of it.  I read my Bible and yes, I do pray daily. But I will not submit to your idiotic, muddled, dish rag, version of Christianity. Never did, never will.

 

Lack of self-awareness of the day

Michael Moore, love him or hate him; he is something else. Seems that Moore was at an awards presentation and this happened:

The Story via the New York Post:

Michael Moore got a bad review from at least one upset critic at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards at Crimson on Monday. Moore was there to present Best First Film to David France for his doc “How To Survive a Plague,” a salute to a protest group that stormed St. Patrick’s Cathedral in 1989 over the AIDS crisis. But Armond White, gadfly critic and former organization chair, began heckling him for “anti-Catholic” rhetoric. Moore raised hackles when he recalled how activists at the height of the epidemic blocked roads, threw pies at politicians and interrupted Mass at St. Patrick’s. Moore stated, “I personally like that one. I say that as a former seminarian.” But White and a friend shouted, “[Bleep] you!” “You liar!” “Shut up!” and “Drop dead!” Moore responded, “I’ve pissed off the Catholics,” and began a blessing in Latin. He then went on to say that “those who would deify Reagan and Pope John Paul II are responsible for the deaths of thousands of people . . . because of their bigotry.” White — who has dished out his fair share of criticism to Moore in his reviews — was later heard saying that Moore “disparaged Catholics,” and told us, “I was offended . . . He was there to present the film and not present a personal political diatribe.”

Okay that is fine, Michael Moore is known for that sort of a thing. It goes with the territory. However this one here, really made me laugh:

Moore says, “I was just describing some of the things of the film . . . [White] is a reactionary conservative [bleep]hole.” 

So says the man who is known to be a left-wing reactionary Democrat liberal. Another thing too that really makes me wonder. This Armond White guy is a catholic and supposedly a Christian, if so, what gives here?:

But White and a friend shouted, “[Bleep] you!” “You liar!” “Shut up!” and “Drop dead!”

Just further proving what I have believed all along, Roman Catholics are NOT Christians! Anyone who is tied to a Church of that sort does not use language like that, at least not the ones I know. Oh, and before anyone asks, “what about this here?” Look, I know where I stand in eternity; I know the decision I made when I was a boy and according to the Word of God, I am sealed to the day of judgment. Not only that, I admit it, I am not perfect. But at the same time, I am not representing a Church either. Furthermore, I also happen to know about the false doctrines of that Church and I also happen to know that Catholics do NOT say a sinners prayer at all. Therefore, they are not Christians, not in the sense of the word as I know them!

Others: Weasel Zippers, NewsBusters.org blogs and Jammie Wearing Fools

I respect David Brody, Pat Robertson and CBN, but this is just morbid

How morbid can you be, David?

Guess what folks? Huckabee and Fischer are not alone. There are millions of evangelicals who believe the same thing. This is not heartless. It’s based on the biblical principle of reaping and sowing. Not that these little children sowed anything but are our schools left unprotected because of the past actions of our nation when it comes to removing God from our public schools?

The conversation is now all about banning guns but should the conversation really be about allowing God back into public schools?

Food for thought. It’s a discussion worth having.

via Sandy Hook Shooting: Is It about Banning Guns or Banning God?.

They did nothing to deserve what happened to them. Pat Robertson and David Brody ought to be ashamed.

The only thing worse than using tragic events like the one in Newtown CT for political purposes and that is using it to push a religious agenda. The reason I feel this way, is for a good number of reasons:

  • For one, it cheapens the Gospel of Christ. — It reduces the Gospel of Christ to a level of ridicule that should never be brought against the Christian World. It also turns the name of Jesus into a money-making machine. Pat Roberson and David Brody are a part of a ministry that makes tons of cash and now that tragic event in Newtown is a part of that money machine. 
  • Secondly, It cheapens the lives lost in this tragic event and the event itself.  — Every life is precious in the eyes of the Lord, even the little ones and to bring your brand of religion into this; is just morbid. 

I think Christians of all stripes really need to reconsider this whole idea that somehow or another Christians need to use tragic events like this to promote their particular brand of Christianity. As a Christian of 30 years — although, I do not always act like it, but I digress — it saddens me to know that there are Christians who actually believe that tragic events like this are good for use as an evangelistic tool and for proselytizing the victims and their families.

Think of it like this: if a Muslim group began to say that the shooting in Newtown, CT was the result of American rejecting Allah and Islam, the Christian right and most of America would be screaming from the rooftops about it. But because it is a Christian saying it, it is okay? Not hardly. 

If I were the families of these victims, I would come together as a group and file a lawsuit against the Christian Broadcasting Network and Pat Roberson personally for defaming the families and victims of this horrible tragedy. What has basically happened here, is that every last one of the so-called Evangelical Christian leaders, that has weighed in on this and made these sort of statements has slandered every last one of these families and have inferred that somehow that they are godless heathens and somehow deserved this fate.

As I have written on this blog many times. There is a rottenness in this Country which is exists on the Christian Right and this is a glaring example of it. There is a time and a place for sharing the gospel of Christ; anyone who happens to think that this is one of them, does not worship the same God and Jesus as I do. There is something called about Godly wisdom, and I am afraid that it is sorely lacking in these circles.

Open Message to the Israeli who called me an Anti-Semite

Yesterday, I wrote a piece on the wisdom of Israel continuing to provoke the Palestinians, by continuing to build on disputed land.

Well, naturally some Jew in Israel took offense to my critical thinking and my truth-telling of the Jews and what they did to my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

Basically, the idiot called me an Anti-Semite. Which is bunk, basically this person is one of those types that believes that anyone that says anything critical of Israel, the Jews and speaks frankly of the Bible and what it truly does say about the Jews is somehow a Jew hater and does not support Israel and its right to exist.

I got two words for ya Jerky. Get Bent!

I make no bones about it; I am, for intents and purposes, a Fundamentalist Christian. I am of the opinion that the King James Version of the Bible is the preserved Word of God for the English speaking people.  I am an Independent Baptist and I make absolutely no apologies for that at all. I also do not play the game of political correctness when it comes to this subject either. If some yarmulke wearing idiot wants to get his knickers in a wad over the fact that I tell the truth about what the Jews did to Jesus —- then that is just too bad. I choose not to play the game that the dish-rag evangelicals like to play and treat the Jews with kid gloves. They do not deserve it, especially when they see we American Christians as useful idiots. Furthermore,  I will not kowtow down to them or their American Neoconservative counterparts.

Anyone that has read the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John of the account of rigged trial, and crucifixion of Jesus Christ knows just what the Jews did to Jesus Christ. I am not going to sit here and act like that never happened. Sorry gang, I just do not play that game at all.

Some Bible for you unbelievers:

Now when they were going, behold, some of the watch came into the city, and shewed unto the chief priests all the things that were done. And when they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel, they gave large money unto the soldiers, Saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept. And if this come to the governor’s ears, we will persuade him, and secure you. So they took the money, and did as they were taught: and this saying is commonly reported among the Jews until this day. (Matthew 28:11-15 KJV)

…and the Jews have denied His resurrection and very existence ever since. So, in this case; the Jews are guilty as charged.

So, if I believing the Bible makes me a Jew-hater, an Anti-Semite, someone who hates Israel, then I am guilty as charged. I will not stand idly by and act like this never happened, I will not sit here and play footsie with murders. They killed my Lord and Saviour and then covered it up!

As for this jerk’s comment, I went into my spam folder, read his idiocy and deleted it. I also laughed at his stupid accusations. He needs to actually read the Bible and see what his forefather’s did to my Messiah. He also needs to read this, and yes, this passage does apply to the people of Israel, of which when Jesus appears on that great day will overthrow the leadership there and sit on that throne in the temple mount in Jerusalem and establish his kingdom there!

Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen. (Revelation 1:7 KJV)

That “all kindreds” part? That includes the Jews. 😀

Not only this, when this event occurs, the Jews will be in it as well, as they rejected Christ’s love offer:

And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. (Revelation 20:11-15 KJV)

Anti-Semite? Me? Nah, just a Christian truth-teller who is not afraid to tell it like it is.

 

Talk about a throwback!

Just my reaction to the video in this posting here. 

Kerry Livgren was a founder of Kansas, in the 1980’s he was a part of a band called AD.

This is “The Fury” from AD’s album “Art of the State”.

Man, taking me back to my youth days in southwest Detroit. I used to jam this song all of the time.

*shakes head*

Sorry, got a little sentimental there. 😀

2012 election voting broken down by region and religion

I found this to be mildly interesting…

Via VDare:


Hail to You uses Reuters’ America Mosaic polling explorer to check out his theory that the reason Episcopalians voted for Obama more than other Protestants did is because they are concentrated in the Northeast. So he looks at whites’ voting by religion for the Northeast and the South.

Mostly, it looks to me like whites in the Northeast went about 15-25 points less for Romney than did whites in the South and that holds for religious subsets. For example, Romney won 29% of the Jews in the Northeast and 46% of the Jews in the South. Romney got 45% of the Episcopalians in the Northeast and 66% of the Episcopalians in the South; 52% of the white Catholics in the Northeast and 72% of the white Catholics in the South.

Here are the charts:

The South via Hail to you:

…and the Northeast:

Mildly interesting indeed. The Republican Party has a bunch of work to do by 2016. We blew it this time around, we need a grassroots type and not another establishment type. This is why all of this talk about Jeb Bush makes me want to throw up. Please, no more Bush’s, not more President’s by pedigree. We want a real Conservative Christian President and not some wish-washy moderate and fake Christian. A protestant Christian would be nice too.

Also too, someone who is a not a chicken-hawk, neoconservative, warmonger would be nice too. For once, I would like to see a Republican run that is not all eager-beaver to run off to war. There used to be those kind of Conservatives out there; we need to bring them back. Another thing that the Republican Party needs to do is actually work harder here in Michigan. The reason Romney lost Michigan, is because he put little or no effort into winning here at all. Once he saw that Obama had him out numbered here in Michigan, he, like John McCain, gave up in Michigan. Ronald Reagan worked very hard here in Michigan and won big. The Republican Party could learn much from Ronald Reagan’s work here in Michigan.

Just my opinion.

Audio: James Dobson asks, “Where have the GOP’s Values Gone?”

This is a question that I have asked myself.

The Audio:

Part 1:

[podcast]http://drjamesdobson.org/11.15.12-FINAL.mp3[/podcast]

Part 2:

[podcast]http://drjamesdobson.org/11.16.12-FINAL.mp3[/podcast]

The Story via WND.COM:

Dr. James Dobson

The 2012 election was an open door for the GOP to lead America back to its roots in faith and morality, and the Republicans were AWOL, says Dr. James Dobson, founder of Family Talk and a brand new political outreach arm called Family Talk Action.

“I waited throughout the campaign for Mitt Romney to declare himself, to at least identify with the moral issues that are before us. He would not touch them,” Dobson said on a two-part radio program in which Penny Nance, head of Concerned Women for America, joined.

Dobson, whose advice about parenting, child-rearing, marriage and faith has guided millions of Americans and whose counsel on family matters has been sought by presidents, used two programs on his regular radio program, “Dr. James Dobson’s Family Talk” that were sponsored by his political action branch to comment on the re-election of Barack Obama.

He noted he and a handful of other conservative leaders, including Tony Perkins of Family Research Council, Gary Bauer and Gen. William Boykin, had met with the GOP candidate to encourage him to address social issues important to Christians across the nation.

“We begged him to deal with eight issues. We listed first the sanctity of life, marriage, religious life, ‘Don’t Ask,’ ENDA, on it went,” Dobson said. “We said we really are not here to jump on you, but evangelicals are not excited about your candidacy, not energized. … You could connect if you’ll even mention these things.

“He nodded and he smiled and he was gracious as he always is, and he went out and was silent,” Dobson said.

Dr. Dobson goes on to talk about how the Democrats have shifted on Abortion, Israel and many other topics. I here at this blog wrote about that little uprising myself. I have noticed one thing myself here; that Conservatives are saying that the keeping of the social platform in the Republican Party is going to be death knell for the Conservative movement.

I have one answer to that little idiotic notion — try winning elections without us folks. Fiscal conservatism is great, but without God, the Republican Party, much less the conservative movement will never survive.  Again, what good is telling people that rights come, not from the Government — but from God, if you are not willing to stand for that God? It makes no sense and it will never work.

Mitt Romney’s downfall might have very well been his refusal to get tough on social issues. There is also too:  Mitt Romney was a Mormon and quite frankly, the rest of the Christian world does not consider Mormonism to be true Christianity. This stance in the evangelical Christian circles is softening a bit. However, in the fundamentalist Christian circles it is very strong, I know this to true fact myself.

I also would like to make the following observation: It is not lost on me why the Conservative movement is moving away from the social conservative side of things. This is left-overs from the Neoconservative, Jewish-controlled, GOP of the George W. Bush-era. It is well-known, that according some of the staffers that worked in the Bush White House that most Conservative Christians were seen by the Bush White House as useful idiots.  This could be why God allowed America to be attacked on 9/11. I mean, the Lord could have said, “Forsake me, eh? Well, how do you like this?” and we were hit. I am just speculating. But it does make sense to me.

In contrast, the old school, Paleoconservatives are mostly known to be devote Christians who do take the Word of God; that is the Bible, literally. This is unlike President Bush, who admitted in a exit interview, that he did not take the Bible literally. You notice that President Bush did not admit that, until he was safely away from every being reelected.

In Closing: If the GOP continues down this path and rejects social Conservatism. It will go the way of the Whig Party. Because social Conservatives will not back a candidate that is not interested in being tough on social issues. It is just that simple. I do not believe that they will start their own political party; that has been tried before and failed. I simply believe that the conservative Christians will stay home.

This is something that the Republican Party and we as Conservative Americans cannot afford.

I agree, sort of

Bill, I agree. Kind of.

I don’t much get into the “Christian America” thing. Because it, to me; is a Christian version of shariah law.

I also agree that the “Christian Right’s” revision of history to suit a narrative is off-putting.

America is a Constitutional Republic. It’s founders acknowledged God. They were not Bible-thumpers, like we have today. In fact, most Christians during that period, avoided politics, like the plague. Which they should do now.

As for whom you are debating with; he’s nothing more than pompous jerk.  It seems that He and Ace over at the Spades HQ seem to have this real Anti-Christian, Anti-Heartland Conservative bias about them. Never did like it; so, I tend to avoid them.

Just my opinion.