It Is NOT a Crime To Be a Christian Politician

And there is NO Wall of Separation

OK folks,

Getting really tired of the complete BS and outright attacks from the Left on Christians. I really am. It is ALWAYS an Open Season on Christians. The Press openly attack us. The Left attack us. Jokes are made at our expense. Our President calls us Bitter Clingers. We are called Stupid. We are called Racists. We are called Chauvinistic, Homophobes. Jews are not too far behind us.

Yet? Ask a question about Islam? Can't do that. There are laws against it. There are laws against attacking ANYONE'S Religious Views. Ask questions about ANY Religion, other than Christianity, you will be held accountable. Christianity? ALWAYS Open Season. Forget the laws. Forget even imagined decorum. Just let it rip. Question them about their Faith and why they feel they do. Denounce their beliefs. Quiz them on what you may INCORRECTLY see as Biblical Inconsistencies or Contradictions. There are none. I repeat, NONE. Simply a lack of understanding. However, ask a Muslim why they feel it necessary to strap a bomb to themselves and blow up innocent people? COMPLETELY OFF LIMITS. YOU RACIST! How dare you ask that question. Right?

Why do Catholic worship Mary, kneel before the Pope, and have IDOLS, when the Bible says there is but ONE mediator between you and God, and he is IN you. Have no other Gods before God, and do not worship IDOLS. Yet? Just asking those questions, I will be called Anti-Catholic. A Sinner and a heathen. Right?

If I asks why Jews do not believe in Jesus, who was a Jew, called King of the Jews, HONESTLY asking why, I'm called an Anti-Semite. If I ask how anyone can believe in Reincarnation, I must be Racist. I do not accept Hinduism, Jainism, or Sikhism. I must HATE Indian people. Right?

Hell, if I tell the TRUTH, that Evolution MINUS God, is Scientifically IMPOSSIBLE, I'm called stupid, hateful, and closed minded. Something can not come from Nothing. It really is just that simple. Then if you get past that, how can Cold Blooded, Warm Blooded, everything from Trees to Mosquitoes all come from ONE Cell? They CAN'T. But yet, I'm stupid. I'm Insane. Yet, there are some who spend their ENTIRE Life fighting against something they do not even believes Exists, God. Who's Crazy?

Now I'm not advocating the denouncing of, or the attacking of, ANYONE'S Religion. I do not advocate the RESTRICTION on ANYONE'S First Amendment RIGHT of Freedom OF Religion. As long, of course, that does not include MURDERING Innocent People. There is NO WALL. We ALL have a RIGHT to Practice our Faith ANYWHERE and at any time we choose to. To this day, Congress is started with a Prayer. The Ten Commandments hang on the Wall of the Supreme Court, this is NOT a Secular Nation. We are a Nation to begin with for Religious Freedom. Now Atheists have done a pretty good job at rewriting the First Amendment, and American History, but that doesn't make it true.

So this piece by Rachel Zoll from the AP is no surprise. My guess is that she is probably NOT a Christian. I doubt that she even believes in God. Yet, she IS a Religion Writer over at AP. Here is her Piece Yahoo News / AP - A hot issue on the campaign trail: theology By RACHEL ZOLL - AP Religion Writer AP

Rick Perry dived right in. The Texas governor, now a Republican presidential candidate, held a prayer rally for tens of thousands, read from the Bible, invoked Christ and broadcast the whole event on the Web. There was no symbolic nod to other American faiths, no rabbi or Roman Catholic priest among the evangelical speakers. It was a rare, full-on embrace of one religious tradition in the glare of a presidential contest.

Why SHOULD there have been a "nod to other American faiths, no rabbi or Roman Catholic priest among the evangelical speakers?" It was a CHRISTIAN even. A PRIVATE Christian event. She goes on to say this:

In 1960, John F. Kennedy could blunt Protestant fears about his Catholicism by calling his religion private. After four decades of culture wars and Christian right activism, the Kennedy strategy no longer works. Politicians are evaluated not only by what church they attend, but also by what their congregation teaches and what their pastor says on Sundays.

"Candidates often have to make tough choices about their religion — whether to talk about it, what to say about it and even what to do about it — such as leaving a church," said John Green, director of the Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the University of Akron, Ohio. "These tensions are quite strong among Republicans as the presidential nomination contest heats up, partly because of religious disagreements among key constituencies, but partly because of differences in issue priorities — economic vs. social issues."

Those Running should just be true to themselves and to their Faith. The People will decide if it is a PROBLEM with THEM or not. But to HIDE, what should be one of the most Important things in their lives, just to get elected? If you have a problem with some one's FAITH, if it is TRUE Faith, then you have a problem with the Person. Sorry, and a Person who has TRUE Faith, IS effected by that. You really can not separate the Person from their Core Values and Beliefs. If you do, what you have left is dishonest.

The current presidential campaign began with two cautionary tales fresh in the minds of political strategists:

In 2008, candidate Barack Obama broke ties with his Chicago pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, after videos surfaced of Wright sermonizing that U.S. foreign policy played a role in the 9/11 attacks. "America's chickens are coming home to roost," Wright said. Obama was so close with Wright that the Democrat took the title of his 2006 book, "The Audacity of Hope," from one of the pastor's sermons.

It wasn't Obama's Christian Faith or Christianity that people had a Problem with. It was the fact that his Pastor, that he loved and Followed for 20 years is a RACIST! One that HATES this Country. One that called for God to DAMN this Country. THAT is what people had a problem with. Not Obama's Relationship with God, but his relationship with an Anti-American, Racist.

Republican Mitt Romney was the other example. The former Massachusetts governor had struggled to address concerns about being Mormon despite a major faith-and-values speech in 2007 in Texas.

He quoted the New Testament and declared his belief in Jesus. (Many Christian denominations don't consider Mormons to be Christian.) He commended the deep faith of the Founding Fathers and decried secularism. And like Kennedy, he promised that "no authorities of my church, or of any other church for that matter, will ever exert influence on presidential decisions." Yet, polls continued to show an unwillingness to vote for a Mormon, especially among white evangelicals, who form a large segment of the GOP.

"That speech probably drew more attention to his Mormonism than it was worth," said Ed Kilgore, a former policy director at the centrist Democratic Leadership Council who oversaw programs that urged Democrats to talk about the values behind their policies. "It raised a lot of questions and didn't really resolve them."

Romney is once again seeking the GOP presidential nomination. He has barely discussed his religion so far.

Sorry Rachel, yeah some had a problem with his faith, but mostly, he ran out of money and QUIT. He has a few Other Problems that people are not going to overlook and Vote for him. Little, if not ANY of the Lack of Faith in Romney this time around has to do with his Religion.

Politicians like to quip that they're not running for theologian in chief. Still, they face increasingly complex questions on doctrine — prompted in many cases by their own attempts at highlighting their faith.

Republican Michele Bachmann has been asked to explain a statement she made in the context of her 2006 Minnesota congressional campaign — that she submits to the authority of her husband. The teaching is based on Ephesians 5:21-23 and other Bible verses. Evangelicals say the doctrine is about sacrificial love, the way Christ sacrificed himself for the church. A wife should put her husband's needs first and the husband should serve his wife, although some Christian conservatives view the teaching as a license to control their wives.

In a GOP debate ahead of the Iowa straw poll this month, Bachmann was asked by a conservative newspaper columnist to explain whether, as president, she would submit to her husband's authority. The audience booed the question. Bachmann was tight-lipped as she listened, then thanked the questioner and said that to her, submission means that she and her husband respect each other.

Bachmann also found herself in the midst of a row about — of all things — the Reformation. News outlets reported that the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, the tiny denomination she formally left around the time she launched her presidential campaign, said on its website that the papacy is the anti-Christ. (The Lutheran World Federation agreed in a 1999 joint statement with the Vatican to drop the doctrinal condemnation. The Wisconsin Synod is not a member of the federation.) Bachmann insisted she was not anti-Catholic.

Perry largely dismissed the outcry over his July prayer rally, held the week before he announced he was running for president.

The event was his idea and was financed by the American Family Association, a Tupelo, Miss.-based group whose policy director believes that freedom of religion applies only to Christians. Among the supporters were well-known Christian conservative leaders such as the Rev. Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention and Focus on the Family founder James Dobson. Other endorsers were Pastor John Hagee, a Christian Zionist who had called the Catholic Church "the great whore," though he later apologized for the statement. Activist and historian David Barton, who argues that the United States was founded to be a Christian nation, was another backer.

Religion was so in the foreground in the 2008 presidential race that for their first appearance on the same stage after their party conventions, Obama and Republican John McCain agreed to an event at a church where they would be interviewed by a minister.

The Rev. Rick Warren, founder of Saddleback Church in California, asked the candidates what faith in Jesus meant to them and at what point a baby gains human rights. For the latter question, McCain answered, "At the moment of conception." Obama joked that the question was "above my pay grade," then went on to explain the moral thinking behind his support for abortion rights. Obama soon after apologized for the way he started his answer, saying he was too flip.

"These folks are not professional theologians and, except in a few cases like Huckabee, they haven't been to seminary," said Gary Smith, author of "Faith & the Presidency" and a historian at Grove City College, a Christian school in Pennsylvania. Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor and 2008 GOP presidential hopeful, is a Southern Baptist minister.

"Most of them haven't had more education about the relationship between Christianity and politics than the average person on the street," Smith said. "While they have their own personal faith, it isn't usually well informed by history and theology."

And yet, voters have started pushing for specifics because they no longer consider belief separate from action and faith unrelated to policymaking, said Kathleen Flake, who specializes in American religious history at Vanderbilt University. The nation's Catholic bishops, more vocal than ever on the duty of Catholic lawmakers to follow church teaching, underscored that way of thinking. Bishops have said repeatedly that a true Catholic cannot support any policy that allows abortion.

"The voting public no longer believes, as they did as late as the 1950s, that religion was about what you thought and not what you did," Flake said.

The trend started with Democrat Jimmy Carter, who in 1976 said at a campaign event that he was a born-again Christian.

OK this goes on and on. But it is basically all about Christians and the "conflict" between expressing their Faith and keeping Silent out of FEAR of Rejection by the People they hope to get Votes from. ONE Paragraph about Obama and his Pastor "Wright sermonizing that U.S. foreign policy played a role in the 9/11 attacks." which had NOTHING to do with ANYTHING, to all the rest of this about ACTUAL Faith of Candidates.

Now I disagree with some of my friends on the Right who say "fight this." I say be ready for it. They do not ask these types of questions to Liberals because they already know most Liberals do not believe in God or ANYTHING bigger than themselves. But they did, do, and will continue to ask these type of questions of ANYONE on the Right. Especially those who profess themselves to be, or are ASSUMED to be Christians. Just be ready for it and answer it honestly. Let the People Decide.

If you were to ask me outright, "Pete, do you really believe XWZ?" I will answer you. I will attempt to explain to you WHY. If you fail to understand what I tell you, may or may not be a product of your LACK of understanding or misconception of Scripture, or you may or may not LIKE my answer, but none of that changes my answer. If I ran and became President, I am the President for ALL Americans. You have the SAME Right to practice YOUR Faith, or lack of, as I do. But let me ONCE again, post the ACTUAL and OFFICAL Job Description of the President of the United States.

Before he enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath or Affirmation:

"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

Section 2 - Civilian Power over Military, Cabinet, Pardon Power, Appointments

The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to Grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.

He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.

The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session.

Section 3 - State of the Union, Convening Congress

He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers; he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall Commission all the Officers of the United States.

Now notice NOWHERE in this Job Description does it mention Job Creation, Redistribution of Wealth, or CREATING New Laws and Regulations. Infringing in Personal Freedoms and the take over of Private Industries. His number one Job is to keep America Safe, and make sure that Laws of the Land are Enforced. Nowhere in there does it talk about leveling the playing field, spending Trillions of dollars, most of which going to line Friend's Pockets, traveling the World on Tax Payer's Bill for Vacation after Vacation.

When you actually see the REAL Job Description of President, you also see nothing in there about protecting people FROM Religion. Prohibition of Practicing one's Faith. Or saying only THIS Faith is acceptable to be President. So these questions that are often posed to Republicans are irrelevant and only serve one purpose, that is to attempt to paint a picture of them to the Voter, that they fit a stereotype that the Libs want you to believe. It really is just that simple.

It really is time for Christians to stand up and say enough is enough. If we are going to Protect People's Freedom OF Religion, then we must also protect Christians. But the reason this takes place is as simple as this.

22And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved. Matthew 10

12 But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake. Luke 21

18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. John 15

So I guess it should really not come as any surprise. We were warned of this before hand. Still, it really drives me nuts. Especially because those hurling the accusations have no clue what they are talking about. Just remember, whenever you remove God, something else fills the Void.
Peter

Sources:
Yahoo News / AP - A hot issue on the campaign trail: theology

Gov. Robert Bentley Repeats Bible Passage, Gets Attacked

Who is Dr. Robert J. Bentley?

Hey folks,

He is an active member of First Baptist Church (FBC) Tuscaloosa where he serves as a Deacon and Sunday School Teacher. At FBC Tuscaloosa he has been the Chairman of the Board of Deacons four times and a member of the Youth for Christ Advisory Board, as well as the Family Counseling Advisory Board. Dr. Bentley has also served on the State Advisory Board for Sexually Transmitted Diseases. Currently, he serves on the Board of Trustees for Judson College in Marion, Alabama and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Alabama Medical Education Consortium which he helped found.

Just Elected Alabama Governor. What is one of the First things he wants to do? Create a Special Session to deal with Ethics.

The Special Session will be held during the first Regular Session, so that there will be no added cost to taxpayers. A Special Session dealing with ethics reform will isolate the issue and allow for the full attention of legislators, media and the public.

In the Special Session we will

1. Ban transfers from one political action committee to another, otherwise known as PAC to PAC transfers. Each time this legislation has come before the Alabama House of Representatives in the past seven years, I have voted in favor of it. Now is the time to pass this piece of legislation. I firmly believe if the people of Alabama change the Legislature in this election, we will finally see an end to PAC to PAC transfers.

2. We must also wholly eliminate the ability of lobbyists to entertain Legislators. At the very least, we must pass laws that require legislators to report every single penny spent, and put a very restrictive cap on how much a lobbyist is allowed to spend on an elected member of the house and senate.

3. Transparency will be the ultimate end result of ethics reform under a Bentley Administration. Every penny given to a candidate should be reported at least weekly. I propose this be done online, where access is readily available and open for public view. These sweeping changes in Alabama's ethics laws must be a priority of the new legislature that voters choose to elect.

4. I expect our new legislature to bring fresh ideas on ethic reform. I will listen and consider the ideas of the new legislature the voters will elect this November.

I know Horrid is it not. Oh, and he made a statement that if your were not Christian, then you are not his Brother of Sister. {Gasp!!}

Yes folks. A CHRISTIAN Sunday School Teacher, in CHURCH, said if you do not have the Spirit of Jesus in you, then you are not his Brother or Sister.
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You do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.

We are all God's Children. Just accept everyone as who they are. For we are ALL God's Children. No right, wrong, or indifferent. Just whatever you chose to believe. Right?

Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.

Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.

Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?

He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.

John 8:41-47 So imagine this, Jesus the CHRIST, tells the Religious Folks back in the day that we are not all God's Children, and that those RELIGIOUS folks, were of the devil, then where did this, we are all God's Children Bunk come from? Uh, yeah.

So now imagine a SUNDAY SCHOOL Teacher. A Christian. Talking to a CHURCH group, in a CHURCH. He repeats what Jesus says, well, not even as strongly, and he is not fit for Governorship? Forget the stupid argument about the First Amendment, that's just a complete waste of time. He was not even attempting to insult anyone. He was attempting to get non-Christians to hear what the Word of God Says. IN A CHURCH. No different than most Christian Denominations that wrap up their Service with "Do you know Christ as your Personal Saviour?" He was at the Dexter Avenue King Memorial Church AFTER the Official Inaugural Ceremony. What he was talking about is that it doesn't matter what Color you are, where you come from, or what you have, that he considered anyone who believed in Jesus to be his Brothers and Sisters. This guy is being attacked for practicing his Faith. But then again, just another example of where it is Open Season on Christianity all year long.

Stand Strong Governor. I AM your Brother. You already told everyone that you are the Governor for all people in Alabama. The PEOPLE Elected you. Be the Governor of all people. Forget these dweebs that hate Christianity and anything God. Let them wallow is their own self pity. Stand Strong in your Faith, and Prove your Critics wrong.

I'll admit I never heard of this guy before today. But he seems like a Good Faith Based Guy. We need MORE Faith Based People in Government. Not the spread of more lies, Cheats, and Thieves. Not more Government as usual. We need more Ethics in Government. Who can really argue his plans? They can't. So they attack his Faith. Sad really.
Peter

Sources:
AP - New Ala. gov: Just Christians are his family

IWA For Sunday 010911

Just another Puppet

Hey folks,

Who is Arthur Davenport? Has he LEGALLY changed his name? If not, is he even legal? Who is Russell Davenport, and Frances Brown? What does Fattah mean?

OK. First, Russell Davenport now calls himself David Fattah. David Fattah, married, I think, Frances Brown, who now calls herself Queen Mother Falaka Fattah. What does Fattah mean? Well, according to many sources, "Gate Keeper" and or "Conqueror." According to all it is Muslim. One source: One Pakistan.com: Servant of the conqueror (Allah).

Now David Fattah and Queen Mother Falaka Fattah head up The House of Umoja. Now on the surface, I would be willing to say, although seemingly Cult Like, they seem to be doing some good with Inner City Youths. I do not know much more than that.

Now Arthur Davenport, who calls himself a Christian {Baptist} also calls himself Congressman Chaka Fattah (D-PA) Just like Obama, he has a history in Community Organizing, a Muslim Background, and of course, he is now a Christian. He also, like Obama, is completely against any attempt to repeal Obamacare. And of course, he is not above lying. According to a Statement just released Jan. 7, 2011

The nation sees steady job growth since enactment of healthcare reform.

What? Really?

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Congressman Chaka Fattah (D-PA) releases the following statement as the House prepares to take a vote on repealing healthcare.

"The GOP continues to play to its base and ignoring the needs of the American people. Next week they will call for a vote to repeal healthcare reform – a vote they know is symbolic and stands no chance of making it to the President's desk. By calling it a jobs killing measure they fail to accurately present the facts which are exactly opposite to their argument.

This outta be good.

"A careful examination of those facts shows in 2009, 4.7 million jobs were lost in the private sector compared to 12 straight months of private sector job growth in 2010. Since March 2010, and the enactment of healthcare reform, 1.1 million jobs have been created. Overall, 2010 saw the addition of 1.3 million jobs in the private sector.

"And a new report from the Kaiser Family Foundation shows over the past year small businesses offering health coverage has risen 13 percent and it's largely due to the reforms of the new tax credit.

"It's time to stop wasting time and get serious. I encourage my colleagues from the other side of the aisle to stop wasting time playing politics with the physical health of the American people and the financial health of the country. Let's be serious about bringing legislation to the floor that will get America back to work."

SOURCE Office of Congressman Chaka Fattah

CONTACT: Debra Anderson of the Office of Congressman Chaka Fattah, +1-202-225-5402, +1-202-225-5236

Complete Bunk. Not even worthy of attempting to argue it. The numbers, the REAL numbers do not lie folks. Obamacare WILL cost Jobs. Will add to the Deficit. Will destroy the best Healthcare system in the world. Repealing it WILL save jobs. WILL NOT add to the deficit. And WILL be better for all Americans.

You know, when I heard that our Idiot this week, was about to release a Statement, I expected to hear the typical, and FALSE Liberal Talking points. Yet, he gave us a new one. Obamacare created Millions of Jobs. {Sigh}

Congratulations Arthur, uh, I mean Chaka, wait, is Chaka NOT the Money boy, man, in "Land of the Lost?" I also loved Chaka Khan,, Anyway, Congratulations Chaka Fattah, for CLEARLY Lying to the American People in a lame attempt to support your Brother Liberal in solidarity, Obama, and telling everyone that Obamacare Created over a million jobs, you ARE the Idiot of the Week. Although, I would not playing you in the remake of LOTL. You get to feel up Anna Friel. But leave the Lying to those good at it. You know, like Obama. Well, OK. Maybe you guys should get lessons from Bill. Wait, his Mother is Queen, does that make him a Prince? I know, I know, I could go on all day. I'll quit now.

That's it folks, See you Tuesday.
Peter

Exploration Into Religion

If one comes to an area near ME, I'll go.

Hey folks,

I'm actually really sorry that due to reason Illnesses and Events, I'm NOT going to be able to make the trip. I would love to be there. To my friends in New York, I HIGHLY encourage you to go to this.

You all know that I'm a Christian. Some of you know that in the early years of my life I was on a quest. A quest for the Truth. In my late Teens and early Twenties, I started looking into Faith and Religion. I examined in detail Judaism, Catholicism, Christianity, Many different denominations of all three. Hinduism, Buddhism, some of the more the mystical Faiths.

Some I can conceive. Some are a bit out there for me. I understand that there is Truth in many. Problem with many, is that you have to wade through a bunch of man-made Traditions, in some cases, nullifies the Truth, to get to the Truth. Jesus himself warned us of this.

6He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

7Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

8For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.

9And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.

10For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:

11But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free.

12And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;

13Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.

Mark 7:6-13 Many other places Jesus points out the Difference between Faith and Traditions of Men, Matthew 7:21-23, John 8:31&32 /37-59, Romans 8, Just to name a few. I found this to be true, by actually spending time in various forms of Religion.

Now I know that I'm trying to cram a Lifetime of reasoning into a couple of paragraphs here, but I'm doing this for a reason. I have also been extremely open about my growing doubt of Islam. All we keep hearing, contrary to all the evidence, is that it is a peaceful Religion hijacked by a few radicles that want to twist it into authorization to commit genocide. To MURDER anyone that fails to believe as they. So like I have always done, I have started to look into Islam more in depth.

So anytime I see something like this, I HIGHLY encourage you, whatever your belief, to take the time and USE this valuable tool for your OWN understanding. What I'm talking about is this.

Coexist Foundation Sponsors Major Three Faiths Exhibit at New York Public Library
PR Newswire

NEW YORK, Oct. 14

“Three Faiths” Displays Magnificent Collection of Jewish, Christian and Muslim Manuscripts

NEW YORK, Oct. 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Coexist Foundation announced today it is co-sponsoring a major new exhibition at the New York Public Library -- “Three Faiths.” The four month exhibit includes rare and treasured Jewish, Christian and Muslim manuscripts and sacred texts. “Three Faiths” also includes over 100 different educational programs across 80 different branches of the New York Public Library network, with the idea of creating a better understanding of these faith traditions in a globalized world.

“Coexist” is a non-profit foundation working around the world to promote, encourage and support engagement between Jews, Christians and Muslims. The foundation says it hopes “Three Faiths” will inform the discussion between these religious traditions and wider society by showing texts inspired by millenia of spiritual history. Three Faiths is on view from October 22, 2010 through February 27, 2011: some two hundred of the Library’s most inspiring sacred texts will be on display.

“Coexist is delighted to be sponsoring Three Faiths at the New York Public Library,” says James Kidner, Director of Coexist. “This unique exhibition will enable visitors not only to see this great institution’s magnificent collection of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim treasures, but also to explore the ways in which the history, culture, art, and theology of these three religions have influenced one another through the ages. This is a wonderful opportunity to take a journey into these faith traditions and learn how they can coexist in society today.”

The exhibition will showcase materials drawn entirely from the collections of The New York Public Library. Three Faiths illustrates the most important threads which run between the three: a belief in one, all-powerful God; the importance of the Prophets – notably Abraham; Divine Revelation; and the central role of Scripture. After introducing the key figures in these faith traditions, the exhibition explores the scriptures they produced or inspired, and the ways in which those texts have been used, for so many centuries, in the daily lives of ordinary people.

Alongside the exhibition, Coexist will also be supporting the NYPL's large-scale series of education programs for teachers, school-children, public sector workers and others to promote better understanding of these three religious traditions, their commonalities and their differences. And Coexist will be bringing in another of its partner organizations, Prince Charles’s School of Traditional Arts, to show how the artistic traditions of these three faiths have intertwined and influenced each other over the centuries.

About Coexist

Coexist works to promote, encourage and support engagement between Jews, Christians and Muslims, and between these communities and others, through education, dialogue and research. Founded in 2006, Coexist is an operational foundation which works around the world to forge new partnerships and programs aimed at helping people to understand what it means to be Jewish or Christian or Muslim today. It facilitates the building of bridges between these communities, and funds initiatives which inspire the wider public to understand faith better in twenty-first century society. They have included projects in the United States, England, India and Iraq. For information please visit the webiste: www.coexistfoundation.net

SOURCE Coexist Foundation I do truly wish I could make this. I can not. But if any of you are in the area, check it out. It may help you have a better understanding as to why you believe what you do. It make also open your eyes to a bigger reality.
Peter

Christianity Vs Islam

Special Sunday Edition "From the Emails"

Hey folks,

"Hey Pete. You were talking about your growing uncertainty of what some call peaceful Islam. You have also spoke out against what you see as the Mainstream Media and others being able to attack Christianity without reprisals. I thought that you might like to know you are not alone. Check out this piece in Human Events by Doug Giles. It almost sounds like something you would write. Peace to you."

Hey CS, thanks for sharing it. You are right. It is an excellent piece. Sorry for the delayed posting. Still under the weather, but here I am none the less. Here it is folks, From Human Events Online - Blame Stream Media: Christianity Sucks and Islam is Yummy? by Doug Giles

Man, don’t cha love how the Blame Stream Media© and their soft-brain disciples make Christians out to be fish-stickered, bug-eyed equals to incensed Islam? If you were to accept as true what some atheists, secularists and prattling gay activists say about Christians, you’d think the church is chomping at the bit to chop off some heads of unbelievers, glory to Gawd!

Yep, if you were to believe the barf belched out by the BS brokers on the Left, you’d stagger away Kool Aid drunk with the belief that there is little disparity between conservative Christians and militant Muslims.

As a matter of fact, you probably would be bamboozled into believing that Islam is a peaceful, Little House on the Prairie religion being temporarily hijacked by jihadist renegades, and Christianity . . . Christianity is the real charity-vacant, vicious cult that’s vying for the opportunity to seize the whip and whip us good.

Yes, the postmodern reality stylists are working their butts off trying to convince us TV-addled cattle of two primary things: 1) violent jihad is not based on the Koran and 2) All conservative Christians are theocrats ready to burn Lindsay Lohan at the stake, stone Jay Alexander in a nearby gravel pit and governmentally ramrod Christianity down everyone’s pie hole.

I haven’t seen this kind of ham-fisted, forced PR, farcical facade being parlayed upon the public since Michael Jackson tried to make out with Lisa Marie in an attempt to convince us all he’d found true love in an adult of the opposite sex.

Look, there’s no denying violent things have been done by the church and in the name of God, but that has been the exception and not the rule. In addition, when the church has spent time with its head up its butt doing bogus things, the church’s leaders have historically owned it when wrong, have not repeated the gaff, have grabbed the wheel and have effectively steered saints out of any erroneous, detrimental ditch.

Not so with Islam.

A few years ago mi amigo, Robert Spencer unleashed a book, Religion of Peace: Why Christianity Is and Islam Isn’t, which shredded the chipper Islam spin. Bob showed those who can still be shown anything factual the massive and fundamental differences between Islam and Christianity. That they are not equal no matter how much the blah blah blatherers of political correctness purport them to be. Their beliefs are not similar, nor their practices, nor their means to spreading their message—and to think otherwise, postmodern Pollyanna, could cost you your ass.

Spencer pointed out the crystal clear facts that clash with the current anti-Christian hype such as . . .

• Most Muslims do not condemn jihad.

• Christianity and Islam have neither similar traditions nor similar modern realities—Christian religious violence, real or imagined, does not mitigate the reality of jihad.

• A “Christian theocracy” in America is a figment of the Left’s imagination.

• The Islamic world has never developed the distinction between religious and secular law that is inherent in Christianity.

• Christianity has embraced reason—and Islam has always rejected it.

• The Koran does not invite interpretation, and Muslim leaders refuse to discuss how to fit their beliefs into modern society.

• Political differences and unwanted international interference are not, in fact, the cause of the turmoil in Iraq and Middle Eastern antagonism towards the west.

• Jews, Christians and peoples of other faiths (or no faiths) are equally at risk from militant Islam.

• The most determined enemies of western civilization may not be the jihadists at all, but the leftists who fear their churchgoing neighbors more than Islamic terrorists.

Listen, 21st century truth reconstructors . . . you’ve gotta relax. Please do us all a favor and go get healed from your bad Sunday school experience and lay down your church-grinding axe. Thinking people aren’t buying the “Christianity = Islam” smack.

You and I both know that regardless of what a few loopy CINO’s (Christians in name only) have done via violence in the name of the Father that it is not in the body of Christian doctrine to hack off the noggin of the obstreperous. There’s not even an obscure passage in the Book of Revelation that some demented clod could twist like your Gumby doll to make the Christian scripture green light your demise or anyone else’s.

Additionally, Christians aren’t longing for TBN to replace DC as our nation’s headquarters.

So chill, you shrill shredders of Christianity.

On the flip side, it is within the pages of the Koran to convert, conquer or kill non-Islamic people. And I’m a thinkin’ that no matter how much you work to besmirch Christianity and misinform on behalf of militant Islam, that if they had it their way, you, the secularist, would be a deceased grease stain on God’s green earth.

Therefore, gay guy, relax on the anti-Christian rhetoric, okay? Atheists, dial down and go back to studying monkeys (or whatever you do) and secularists, switch to decaf and exhale because you guys are barking up the wrong tree in trying to paint Christians as a coercive, could-be-violent, cabal like, militant Islam.

Radical Muslims, on the other hand, are the ones you need to sweat—because their book has zero tolerance for the likes of Neil Patrick Harris, Christopher Hitchens and Jay Alexander—or anyone for that matter, who doesn’t lock step. You can bet your backside that if uncut Islam were in charge, Michael Bloomberg would be history, Drew Barrymore would be nevermore and Elton John would never be seen again.

The Judeo-Christian worldview (and subsequently, the great western traditions it under girds) is the only powerful cudgel in existence to ward off militant Islam. That’s what makes the Left’s lies about Christ’s Church and the Left’s desires to diminish it so diabolical. If the church’s presence and power gets marginalized via these secularists’s anti-Christian propaganda, then all I’ve got to say is, “I hope everyone is cool with wearing burkas.”

I have nothing to add.
Peter

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IWA For Sunday 090510

Agree or not, this is just wrong.

Hey folks,

Time to wrap things up with the Idiot of the Week. Surprisingly, I find myself agreeing with CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad, who released the following statement.

"Just as all Muslims should not be blamed for the actions of a few extremists, neither should all Christians or all Americans be blamed for the intentionally offensive actions of the Dove World Outreach Center," said CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad. "Pastor Terry Jones represents nothing but an extremist fringe."

He said the Dove World Outreach Center is only seeking cheap publicity and does not represent mainstream Christianity.

"Media professionals have a responsibility to put this publicity stunt in its proper context in their reports and commentaries," said Awad.

CAIR this week distributed a television public service announcement (PSA) that implicitly challenges the Quran burnings.

Now I am still having reservations about Islam itself, and I am finding it more and more difficult to distinguish the difference between "Peaceful Islam and "Extremist Islam," for reasons pretty well laid out in the Human Events Online peace. Yet, I encourage the MMD to follow Mr. Awad's advice and report the FACTS on this and not simply use it as an excuse to bash all Christians.

When I first heard this, I thought it was just another attention seeking Westboro Baptist Church Leader and Gay-Basher Extraordinaire Fred Phelps moment. I have and many have, spoke out against this Idiot on more than a few occasions. Unlike the Muslim Community, we in the Christian Community are quick to point out that this guy is NOT a Christian, nor does he represent TRUE Christianity.

Well, seems he might finally have some competition for the title of America’s most attention seeking hate filled Church Preacher. You see, on Sept. 11, Terry Jones, and his Dove World Outreach Center, will hold the first “International Burn a Koran Day” Ceremony on the steps of his church in Gainesville, Fla. According to the Church’s Website, the event was organized “in remembrance of the fallen victims of 9/11 and to stand against the evil of Islam. Islam is of the devil!”

Pastor, or Idiot, Terry Jones said this.

"We believe that Islam is of the devil, that it's causing billions of people to go to hell, it is a deceptive religion, it is a violent religion and that is proven many, many times," Pastor Terry Jones told CNN's Rick Sanchez earlier this week.

During this interview, he went on to say this.

"I mean ask yourself, have you ever really seen a really happy Muslim? As they're on the way to Mecca? As they gather together in the mosque on the floor? Does it look like a real religion of joy?" Jones asks in one of his YouTube posts.

"No, to me it looks like a religion of the devil."

Now unlike the Islam Community, Christians are speaking out against this.

The National Association of Evangelicals, the nation's largest umbrella evangelical group, issued a statement urging the church to cancel the event, warning it could cause worldwide tension between the two religions.

"The NAE calls on its members to cultivate relationships of trust and respect with our neighbors of other faiths. God created human beings in his image, and therefore all should be treated with dignity and respect," it said in the statement.

When is the last time you heard "Peaceful Muslims" speak out against 9-11, the notion that all non - Muslims be killed, and or the "Ground Zero Mosque." You don't. That is part of the problem.

But any time you have a Christian Kook stand up and attempt to do something that is AGAINST Christianity and it's principles, you have no shortage of Christians standing up against them.

So even if you agree, that at least in appearance, Islam is far from a peaceful Religion, you have to understand that Burning the Koran is just plain wrong. It goes completely against what we stand for in America. It's called the First Amendment. What if the Muslims were Burning the Bible? Would you be OK with that? Of course not. Congratulations Idiot Terry Jones, you ARE the Idiot of the Week, for calling on others that you lead to do what is against God and America. People like you should not be Pastors. Ever wonder why you only have a 100 count membership?
Peter

Sources:
CNN - Church plans Quran-burning event
CAIR Press Release.

Islamofascist Now a Human Rights Violation

But never mind about China, Iran, or any of those Dictatorships.

Hey folks,

This is just utterly absurd. Did you know that if you use the phrase Islamofascist, according to the UN, you are now guilty of a Human Rights Violation? I'm not kidding. Get this.

NEW YORK, March 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The World Jewish Congress (WJC) strongly condemned today's passage in the United Nation Human Rights Council of a resolution calling "defamation of religion" a human rights violation. The Council adopted the text proposed by Pakistan on behalf of the Organization of the Islamic Conference that, in essence, deems criticism of Islam a human rights violation.

It's will not be long folks, until Obama and Crew sign up with this. They already have proven that they are no friend of Israel, and they want to continue to push this two State Solution.

"The World Jewish Congress, long a leader in the effort to champion human rights and freedom of religion, has for many years defended the rights of the members of all faiths, including the Muslim faith," said Ronald S. Lauder, president of the WJC. "However, we strongly oppose the issue of "defamation of religions" being cast as a human rights violation at the United Nations. We see it as weakening the rights of individuals to express their views and criticize other religions, and, in the case of this specific resolution, particularly Islam." Lauder added," This resolution is an attempt to bring to the international body the blasphemy laws prevalent in some Muslim countries. In accordance with human rights laws, the rights of individuals to express their views should be protected and not restricted or punished by the state. Today's vote is unfortunately only a harbinger for what may yet transpire in Geneva at the upcoming Durban Review Conference as proposals such as this one keep coming to the fore," he said.

The World Jewish Congress is the international organization representing Jewish communities in 92 countries. Founded in Geneva in 1936, the WJC serves as the diplomatic arm of the Jewish people to governments and international organizations. It has special consultative stays with the United Nations Economic and Social Council.

The Durban Review Conference is to be held from 20-24 April 2009 in Geneva. The UN Human Rights Council is organizing the event.

Well, then I call for our government to enact new laws in this country. Anyone that attempts to degrade Christianity, or those that practice it, should be locked up and charged with Human Rights Violations. No more will we stand for "Bitter Clinger" comments, called stupid, or told that we are outdated, Racist, Bigoted, Homophobes. Now, since Obama wants to be one with the world, we should place ALL religion, and Free Speech, under these new restrictions. Right? {Sigh} Unbelievable.
Peter