Federal Hate Crimes Bill

Well, its finally happening. The quickening.

The Federal Hate Crimes Bill: Federalizing Criminal Law While Threatening Civil Liberties

This bill criminalizes thought. Circumventing the constitution has now left the realm of large corporations but now has entered social justice. Question: Social Justice has to negate the constitution (the most liberating governing document in history) then is it really social justice?

You don't believe it? How about the true story of two Pennsylvania Grandmothers who were arrested for handing out Christian literature outside of a Gay Rights Convention (under the Pennsylvania version of the same Hate-Crimes Law that the Federal Government proposes to pass).

When grandmas go to jail for witnessing

The truth is, homosexuality is a sin just like adultery, murder, covetousness, and theft.

1 Corinthians 6:8-10 (New King James Version)

No, you yourselves do wrong and cheat, and you do these things to your brethren! Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals,[a] nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.

All of these sins can be found in the church. I myself have been guilty of committing pretty much all of them. I am no better than someone who is practicing any of these sins even if I am not currently practicing them. God's law is like a sheet of glass, it doesn't matter if you drive a truck through it or shoot it with bb's, once its broken, its broken.

The hope of Christ is that even though we all have broken God's law, He loved us so much that He gave us a way to reconcile ourselves to Himself. To repair the brokenness that is sin. That Way is the death of Jesus Christ on the cross.

When a person accepts Jesus as their savior and begins learning about His teachings, they begin the process of renewing their mind and changing that sinful person they once were. A believer will still have sinful desires, but will now have a conscience that these sins grieve the heart of God.

I love my Mom, always have. I have done things to grieve her heart but have always felt bad about it later and apologized. She has forgiven me due to her mutual love for me. This is the same as God's love. This is also the good news of the gospel!

This hate-crimes bill is a smokescreen for inhibiting the spread of the good news of God's forgiveness to an unforgiven world. It would seem that people would rather be told by the government what and how they should believe instead of hearing all sides to the story and making an informed decision.

Join me in praying. Lord Jesus, please open the hearts and minds of men and women across the country to your wonderful love. Amen

BTJ

Philosophy of Aquinas

I have been devoting my writing time to other things lately, so I haven't been updating as often as usual.

I would like to direct your attention to a blog by a very good, hard-thinking preacher by the name of Brian Zhand. One of his most recent post, entitled "Thomas Aquinas" had me thinking for a few days. A quote...

Aquinas asserted that Faith and Reason are in no way contradictory. There are not two truths -- spiritual truth and rational truth -- but only Truth. Indeed, all truth is God's truth. I've said before that, in theory, one could study any object in the universe, a pea for example, and ultimately it would lead to the knowledge of God.* But the problem is it takes too long, and thus the need for what Aquinas called "special revelation" -- a divine shortcut to knowing God. Primarily, special revelation is the Scriptures.

Full Article

BTJ

Read this before forming an opinion on Hillary Clinton

I have always had mixed thoughts on Hillary. I do feel a certain inevitability to her presidency, as though she is the chosen one.

Just today, I was surfing CNN's website and found this very cool excerpt from the book, Bill and Hillary, By Christopher Anderson. What sets this apart is the inside information and transcripts of actual conversations that the President had with his wife, advisors, and friends.

It took me almost 30 minutes to read the whole thing but it gave me more REAL information about "Hillary the Presidential Candidate" than any media source. This article is an election-year MUST READ!

A quote:

Hillary Clinton had also sought spiritual guidance from decidedly less traditional sources. In the spring of 1996, she turned to "reflective meditation" sessions with New Age psychic philosopher Jean Houston. Hillary confided in Houston that she had always felt the presence of Eleanor Roosevelt in the White House. At Houston's urging, Hillary actually sat in her room and "talked" to Eleanor Roosevelt. "I was a huge admirer of Eleanor Roosevelt -- I wanted so much to be like her, to make a real contribution as First Lady," Hillary said. "But after three years in the White House I felt stymied. I wanted to know what this brilliant woman would have done if she were alive today." At this time it was not unusual for White House staff members to hear Hillary, behind closed doors, having animated -- if one-sided -- conversations with Eleanor's ghost. "I try to figure out what she would do in my shoes," Hillary recalled. "She usually responds by telling me to buck up or at least to grow skin as thick as a rhinoceros."

BTJ

David Duke, Evolution's Great Proponent

If you find yourself siding with the mainstream evolutionary theories, you are in agreement with David Duke, famous racist and Nazi. It is well known that the Nazi party of Germany was attempting to use selective breeding to remove "inferior races" from the earth, hence their wholesale slaughter of Jews. But few people realize this thinking had its basis in Darwinistic Evolution. Conversely, if one believes that everyone on earth came from one man, Adam, then we are all brothers and sisters and racism is not just morally wrong but cannot exist.

Consider this quote:

Race mixing is especially anathema to Duke, and is the reason why he is so concerned about segregation. Preserving the Caucasian genotype is critical, and interracial marriage, which can be prevented only by separating the races, is required to prevent degeneration of the human genome. Duke notes that interracial marriage is genocide, and is no less terrible than what the Germans attempted against Jews—and the ultimate result, he stresses, will be identical. Preserving the Caucasian race is but a precondition for continuing its evolution to a higher level.

Read the entire article, Darwinism’s influence on modern racists and white supremacist groups: the case of David Duke.

If evolution is true, then there are grounds for people to say that races are different, evolving along different lines and having superior and inferior characteristics. In short, Hitler was right. Thousands of men and women died in World War 2 in hopes of defeating such flawed thinking. Anything less than complete rejection of evolution's evil empire is dishonoring their sacrifice and spitting on their graves.

BTJ

NFL Shuts Down Church's Super Bowl Party

So the Church of Excesses (AKA the NFL) doesn't want the Church of Jesus Christ in on their version of Easter Sunday. They have banned one church in one town from having a Super Bowl party and have cited some pretty ridiculous reasons why. An excerpt from the article...

"While this may be a noble message," NFL assistant counsel Rachel L. Margolies wrote in a follow-up email, "we are consistent in refusing the use of our game broadcasts in connection with events that promote a message, no matter the content." --Rachel L. Margolies (NFL Representative)

Read the whole article

OK NFL, that's a great point, except for the fact that it completely contradicts itself. What about the bars and taverns that use your game broadcasts to bring more alcoholics into their establishments. What about the casinos who are using your broadcast to make millions of dollars in gambling revenues off of the game. Do neither of these things promote a message? Or is it just NOBLE messages you are concerned about. It's perfectly all right with you that the Super Bowl is used to promote the message that alcohol is the answer to your problems and that gambling is a fine pursuit as long as the message is not NOBLE.

What about the commercials? Do they not use the broadcast to promote a message? The girls who will watch the Super Bowl will see their actress peers dressed in "not-enough-pants" and "you-call-that-a-shirts" and they're not promoting a message? That women are sex objects to be used and viewed as such?

A message to the NFL:

Christianity brings hope to the alcoholic and the gambling addict. It promotes morals and ethics that dissuade women from dressing like prostitutes. Therefore it is your enemy. May as well treat it as such. Your organization has brought joy to many, downfall to some. Why not have a policy that reflects both the good and the bad about your league and quit trying to pretend that the NFL isn't promoting a message itself!

BTJ