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The Crumbling!

Posted Sunday, May 23, 2010, at 3:46 PM

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Just as the removal of prayer from public education was the first crack in the foundation of America, the big divide would not come until a decade later , and that would completely shake America, a thing called abortion. Along with the Vietnam War this horrible act divided America just the same as slavery did a century earlier.

The following is courtesy of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_v_wade as well as other stats will be from sites that I will note.

Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973),[1] was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on the issue of abortion. The Court held that a woman's right to an abortion is determined by the stage of pregnancy, and the state cannot prohibit abortion before viability. After viability, the state cannot prohibit abortion if "it is necessary, in appropriate medical judgment, for the preservation of the life or health of the mother" as defined in the companion case of Doe v. Bolton.[2] The Court said that "viability" means "potentially able to live outside the mother's womb, albeit with artificial aid. Viability is usually placed at about seven months (28 weeks) but may occur earlier, even at 24 weeks."

The Court rested these conclusions on a constitutional right to privacy emanating from the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, also known as substantive due process.

In disallowing many state and federal restrictions on abortion in the United States,[3] Roe v. Wade prompted a national debate that continues today, about issues including whether and to what extent abortion should be legal, who should decide the legality of abortion, what methods the Supreme Court should use in constitutional adjudication, and what the role should be of religious and moral views in the political sphere. Roe v. Wade reshaped national politics, dividing much of the nation into pro-choice and pro-life camps, while activating grassroots movements on both sides.

To have to choose between the life of the mother and her child is one thing, but to just decide to murder the unborn creation that you are carrying just because you don't have time for it is purely a abomination!

Norma L. McCorvey was the patsy for two liberal attorneys who adivise her to report that she had been raped, which later on turned out to a a lie.

After going to several small courts and the finally to the Supreme court . Abortion was made legal on January 22 1973 by a 7 to 2 vote, changing the course of history to this day..

Where life begins is the whole disagreement on the subject of abortion, Christians differ on whether at conception, half way through or at birth, I have one friend who supports it all the way up until birth, as long as it has not seen daylight, and he claims to be a devout Christian?

I for one believe life begins at conception and can only see one reason for abortion and that is death to the mother, some will include the reasons for rape and incest, though they believe that God is in control of everything so did he ordain the rape or the incest? I think not!

Since that landmark decision McCorvey has seen the light, though she never had the abortion and is a staunch pro- life supporter.

Here are some stats on abortion.

UNITED STATES

Number of abortions per year: 1.37 Million (1996)

Number of abortions per day: Approximately 3,700

Who's having abortions (age)?

52% of women obtaining abortions in the U.S. are younger than 25: Women aged 20-24 obtain 32% of all abortions; Teenagers obtain 20% and girls under 15 account for 1.2%.

Who's having abortions (race)?

While white women obtain 60% of all abortions, their abortion rate is well below that of minority women. Black women are more than 3 times as likely as white women to have an abortion, and Hispanic women are roughly 2 times as likely.

Who's having abortions (marital status)?

64.4% of all abortions are performed on never-married women; Married women account for 18.4% of all abortions and divorced women obtain 9.4%.

Who's having abortions (religion)?

Women identifying themselves as Protestants obtain 37.4% of all abortions in the U.S.; Catholic women account for 31.3%, Jewish women account for 1.3%, and women with no religious affiliation obtain 23.7% of all abortions. 18% of all abortions are performed on women who identify themselves as "Born-again/Evangelical".

Who's having abortions (income)?

Women with family incomes less than $15,000 obtain 28.7% of all abortions; Women with family incomes between $15,000 and $29,999 obtain 19.5%; Women with family incomes between $30,000 and $59,999 obtain 38.0%; Women with family incomes over $60,000 obtain 13.8%.

Why women have abortions

1% of all abortions occur because of rape or incest; 6% of abortions occur because of potential health problems regarding either the mother or child, and 93% of all abortions occur for social reasons (i.e. the child is unwanted or inconvenient).

At what gestational ages are abortions performed:

52% of all abortions occur before the 9th week of pregnancy, 25% happen between the 9th & 10th week, 12% happen between the 11th and 12th week, 6% happen between the 13th & 15th week, 4% happen between the 16th & 20th week, and 1% of all abortions (16,450/yr.) happen after the 20th week of pregnancy.

Likelihood of abortion:

An estimated 43% of all women will have at least 1 abortion by the time they are 45 years old. 47% of all abortions are performed on women who have had at least one previous abortion.

Abortion coverage:

48% of all abortion facilities provide services after the 12th week of pregnancy. 9 in 10 managed care plans routinely cover abortion or provide limited coverage. About 14% of all abortions in the United States are paid for with public funds, virtually all of which are state funds. 16 states (CA, CT, HI, ED, IL, MA , MD, MD, MN, MT, NJ, NM, NY, OR, VT, WA and WV) pay for abortions for some poor women.

Courtesy of the Center for Bio- Ethical Reform.

Seems as if the liberals and some so- called conservatives alike want to attack the basic things, like prayer, life and the next subject is marriage.


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Michaelbell,

More and more churches are becoming Federally Controlled. The Federal Government is offering churches loans if they will Partnership with the Federal Government. This came from Jerry Falwell Jr. Chancellor, Liberty University who also said it sounded like a take over like the banking industry.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LbC_sp4i...

His college is aware of what the government is doing and adds this information in their classes to warn new preachers/ministers and students what the federal government is up to.

The government is replacing FREE Salvation through Jesus Christ with a controlled Salvation by the federal government with much needed money for the churches.

It is like I said last year. If the churches turn to the government to bail them out or loan them money to stay in business, then they are giving their freedom of worship away and will fall under its jurisdiction, just like the schools have and other businesses.

-- Posted by Unique-Lies on Mon, May 24, 2010, at 12:00 AM

You did not mention that many believe that the "soul" enters the body with the first breath.

I am not commenting on when life begins, I do not know. I do not believe in abortion, but I do also think that there are a lot of important issues that are just as relevant and just as important and morally needed that are being ignored and not dealt with because people use Abortion as a distraction. The issues to do with life should not be thrown out the window just because the life is no longer in the womb. Again I have no answers,I can not decide for others that is between them and God since it is he who will be asking the questions about our actions when all is said and done. Again I do not endorse abortion, and would never want to judge the motives of a woman who has felt she has had to do so. What may seem to be merely selfish motivation may have a much deeper explanation that any of us can see or understand, yet God will know and he will will determine what he feels is just. he knows what he has led the mother to decide and he knows how she became to be where she is. It is HE God that has the position to judge not me, or for that matter any one else, all we have enough knowledge to know is his word and our OPINIONS about what we THINK is the woman's situation and motives. In truth we do not know her motives, or her total situation.

I for a while worked at a center that helped women and girls find alternatives to abortion, letting them know they had options, and there was help for them to HAVE their child. We were down stairs from a Family Planning Center so we were able to counter their abortion enforcements.

The old saying about walking in another persons shoes has strong meaning. As we speak against abortion we must also find ways to offer hope and solutions to those women/girls who find themselves in positions where they feel they have no options, have been convinced they are actually acting in the child's best interest, are being led into the abortion by someone and feel they have no choice, and those who just don;t care or those who have been manipulated into thinking it just a hunk of tissue.

When a person walks through the door of an office seeking information on abortion they are greeted by personnel who are trained how to make that that person NOT go to term. They are there to convince that woman into terminating. Very few places offer true long tern life solutions. So take a confused hormonal person who is scared and has little to no hope for the future of that tissue ( they are not told "baby") , they are putty in the hands of Pro Choice Professionals.

SO may I again suggest don't be too judgmental in these situations of the woman, you have no actual idea of her story other than she was with child and is now with out. There are many many facts in between that are not known. And one last time I do not back abortions, and have worked where we gave the mother hope and options that did not end in abortion. These women need help, training and hope to get past where they are and on to a productive meaningful life for them and their child. (no one is perfect and we all end up in hot water at times, God is our Judge, he will decide our fate in the end and guide us individually. Until then we need to ask how he wants us to deal with OUR actions and not how he is going to deal with others - he would not tell us his message for the other person about their situation would he, he would tell them theirs and tell us about our owns according what we each needed to hear from him)

-- Posted by wonderwhy on Mon, May 24, 2010, at 12:29 AM

I am going to keep this short and sweet.

I know a lot of women that were very church going women and many had an abortion. They didn't seem as if it was too big of a deal as long as the public never knows.

BTW, Wikipedia is the worse place to go for stats. Anyone can add or delete as long as they have an account.

-- Posted by UVilleGators on Mon, May 24, 2010, at 1:16 AM

Have you ever noticed that the majority of people that you see speak out against abortions are men?

I bet if men could get pregnant there would be an abortion clinic on every corner, outnumbering Starbucks and 7-11. Think about it. How many women have you seen blowing up abortion clinics or carrying those big signs at rallys with pictures of an aborted fetus on them.

Just seems kinda weird to me...a man telling a woman what to do with her body. Oh well, at least we let them vote now.

-- Posted by Rocket Valentine on Mon, May 24, 2010, at 8:14 AM

Diary of an Unborn Child

OCTOBER 5:

Today my life began. My parents do not know it yet, but it is I already. And I am to be a girl. I shall have blond hair and blue eyes. Just about everything is settled though, even the fact that I shall love flowers.

OCTOBER 19:

Some say that I am not a real person yet, that only my mother exists. But I am a real person, just as a small crumb of bread is yet truly bread. My mother is. And I am.

OCTOBER 23:

My mouth is just beginning to open now. Just think, in a year or so I shall be laughing and later talking. I know what my first word will be: MAMA.

OCTOBER 25:

My heart began to beat today all by itself. From now on it shall gently beat for the rest of my life without ever stopping to rest! And after many years it will tire. It will stop, and then I shall die.

NOVEMBER 2:

I am growing a bit every day. My arms and legs are beginning to take shape. But I have to wait a long time yet before those little legs will raise me to my mother's arms, before these little arms will be able to gather flowers and embrace my father.

NOVEMBER 12:

Tiny fingers are beginning to form on my hands. Funny how small they are! I'll be able to stroke my mother's hair with them.

NOVEMBER 20:

It wasn't until today that the doctor told mom that I am living here under her heart. Oh, how happy she must be! Are you happy, mom?

NOVEMBER 25:

My mom and dad are probably thinking about a name for me. But they don't even know that I am a little girl. I want to be called Kathy. I am getting so big already.

DECEMBER 10:

My hair is growing. It is smooth and bright and shiny. I wonder what kind of hair mom has?

DECEMBER 13:

I am just about able to see. It is dark around me. When mom brings me into the world it will be full of sunshine and flowers. But what I want more than anything is to see my mom. How do you look, mom?

DECEMBER 24:

I wonder if mom hears the whispering of my heart? Some children come into the world a little sick. But my heart is strong and healthy. It beats so evenly: tup-tup, tup-tup. You'll have a healthy little daughter, mom!

DECEMBER 28:

Today my mother killed me.

-- Posted by blueanjell on Mon, May 24, 2010, at 8:31 AM

Just think all of the little babies that are in heaven. Millions of them. So sad that these babies were never given a chance. Apparently they didn't fit into one's criteria or budget.

God knew us before we were even knit in our mother's womb. We are fearfully and wonderfully made. Praise God! I am so blessed to serve such a wonderful Savior!

-- Posted by honda14 on Mon, May 24, 2010, at 9:57 AM

Michaelbell,

The truth of the mater is, when I look around me at all the things going on in the world today, I can not imagine anyone being selfish enough to want to bring a child into this world.

Everyone is walking around like zombies, not knowing what is going on around them in the world and refusing to believe anything is happening to them. Matt 24:38-39 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark;

39 and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.

If the Christians don't know what is going on around them in the world today and don't care, how will they know when Christ is coming back?

If the Christians can't see what the Anti-Christ is doing to them TODAY (Right Now), how can they protect themselves from him when he already has control of them? As the years go by, there are fewer and fewer churches surviving the times because people are going about their business eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage and not watching.

Christians concern themselves with watching out for people like me who speaks the truth and reveals things that are happening today, thinking I am anti-Christ and should be shut up or ignored as a drug induced or drunken liar.

Go ahead and bring lots of babies into the world today, so they can receive these great Last Days benefits:

Just as soon as the World Bank puts us in the poor house, we will be faced with famine and disease. Mexico, United States and Canada will be one country called the North American Union. Your child won't have any constitutional rights because our U.S. Constitution will be replaced with the NAU Constitution and laws. Every child between 18 and 25 will have to enlist into a civilian army by law, if you are fortunate enough to keep them alive that long.

You children will inherit the debt Congress is putting the country in now and will have to pay taxes on everything (i.e. Cars will have devices to register miles driven so they can be taxed by the mileage driven, etc.).

Every state will come under federal law where your child will have no rights in court.(Like the days of our forefathers who were tried out on the open water on ships where they had no rights)

(Matthew 10:21 And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.)

But that is not for you to concern yourselves with, because you adults will be taken away in some Rapture when all this begins. It will be ashame you won't be here to protect your children who were taught anti-Christ teachings in school and how the New One World Order will work and God is forbidden in any school or workplace and without a doubt in the churches also.

The Beast will be the creature worshiped and his image by all people or they will be killed or imprisoned (See Matt 24:21).

_ _ _ _ Michaelbell, don't you and Parkerbros teach that once saved always saved? If that is true, then anyone who is saved can have an abortion and simple ask God to forgive them and everything will be just great between them and God.

YOU are making abortion a sin by saying it is wrong! By saying abortion is a sin you are saying that the Grace of God which saves us by faith does not keep us in his grace nor saved, meaning as I understand it, they loose their Salvation when they have a sinful abortion. WHAT DO YOU SAY Michaelbell?

The bible says we are not to look at something as a sin, but Love God with all our heart and soul and to love our neighbor as ourselves.

The laws on abortion apply to the nonbelievers not the Christians. A true devout Christian won't have an abortion, but some may concerning issues. It is between God and them - not us.

The same holds true with Homosexuals, before you start on them also.

God knew from the foundation of the earth who would have an abortion and who wouldn't and who would be a homosexual and who wouldn't. God has already dealt with them in his own way. The guilt they carry because of society can be more of a burden than the crime itself. We may be held accountable for our brothers blood, but we can be forgiven of all sins except Blasphemy against the holy ghost.

-- Posted by Unique-Lies on Mon, May 24, 2010, at 11:08 AM

I find your comment funny Rocket Valentine because most people I have come in contact with that have been against abortions is women but I am sure there are plenty of men against it too.

As far as your stupid remark, I doubt I would enjoy getting pregnant but I would like to think I would have the intelligence to keep my legs closed or use protection if I didn't want to get pregnant. If I did get pregnant though, I would know it is my responsibility to give birth to the child because that is a life and I could not live with myself knowing I murder a child. I think the right to life has no gender boundaries.

-- Posted by jaxspike on Mon, May 24, 2010, at 11:40 AM

Michael,

Please if you are going to go factual, please read the facts first. These are a little otherworldly.

An estimated 43% of all women will have at least 1 abortion by the time they are 45 years old...

Really? I think these stats are skewed a bit! I doubt that is the case. Is the estimate +/- 30% ? Come on really, this is ridiculous to even imagine.

Why women have abortions

1% of all abortions occur because of rape or incest; 6% of abortions occur because of potential health problems regarding either the mother or child, and 93% of all abortions occur for social reasons (i.e. the child is unwanted or inconvenient).

Seriously, Social Reasons?! You left out, it wasn't the right gender or sexual orientation.

Blueanjell,

/sarcasm on/ The baby was not able to write a diary before exiting the womb. Do you have facts or is that merely faith that the baby wrote that? /sarcasm off/

Uniquelies,

Really, Jerry Falwell Jr? The government is taking over churches? You mean the son of the same guy that started at a CHRISTIAN Politician uUniversity ??

A Christian school to train Christians to be politicians, http://www.liberty.edu/academics/index.c...... Please, Seperation of Church and State and now you call this guy being victimized? HE was asking for FEDERAL grants, and he is Federally subsidized. How can you be seperated by the church and state if ...

"The Helms School of Government prepares students to understand and articulate the Biblical Christian sources of our religious, economic, and political liberties, and equip them to become Christ-centered leaders, able to apply God's Word in every area of life."

You can't have both.

-- Posted by Evil Monkey on Mon, May 24, 2010, at 12:33 PM

it's not your place to decide, it's the woman's.... simple as that

-- Posted by deathtongue on Mon, May 24, 2010, at 1:24 PM

Not speaking up for one side or another, but I do want to know where you got your stats. I find it very hard to believe that 43 percent of all women have had or will have an abortion. In one part you say 60 percent of the women who get abortions are white, then you say "their abortion rate is well below that of minority women. Black women are more than 3 times as likely as white women to have an abortion, and Hispanic women are roughly 2 times as likely."

Huh?

My math skills aren't the best -- my checking account can testify to that -- but something doesn't add up here.

I found your presentation very well thought out, but I do want to know who supplied the stats.Please remember that wikipedia is NOT a reliable source for anything.

-- Posted by MotherMayhem on Mon, May 24, 2010, at 3:21 PM

http://www.abortionno.org/Resources/fast...

To deathtongue, there is a father involved he has say so does he not?

4 or 5 different sites had the same stats, though there is a margin for error I would think.

-- Posted by michaelbell on Mon, May 24, 2010, at 5:12 PM

Why are all the Statistical information coming from 4 different dates??? We are talking some skewed results here. eh?

© Copyright 1998, The Alan Guttmacher Institute. (www.agi-usa.org)

© Copyright 1997, The Alan Guttmacher Institute. (www.agi-usa.org)

© Copyright 1995, Family Planning Perspectives

© Copyright 1988, Family Planning Perspectives

-- Posted by Evil Monkey on Mon, May 24, 2010, at 5:31 PM

whatever , abortion is still wrong if used as a birth control method.

-- Posted by michaelbell on Mon, May 24, 2010, at 5:47 PM

Evil Monkey,

Back up and look at what you are saying!

Jerry Falwell Jr., Chancellor of the Liberty University is a Lawyer. His mission is to teach the word of God in all 10 or more different Schools and Colleges Liberty has and not just the Helms School of Government. The colleges/Schools put God first in their courses as it should be. These courses aren't teaching students to become parishioners and Political figures, lawyers,Aeronautics, etc.. They instruct students in the field they chose and put God in the middle of their teachings.

President Obama is a soft spoken, kind hearted, Charismatic person who appears to be God fearing, but look what he has lied about since becoming president, (everything). Obama may be a very polite, well mannered Charismatic Christian with a heart of gold but you have to understand no president that is elected has power to do anything. He is controlled by higher up nonpolitical people who own the world. President Obama must do what he is told to do or he will sleep along side of John F. Kennedy!

Personally, I have never had any use for Jerry Falwell, because he was a trouble maker (in my opinion) under the guise of being a religious leader, but I don't know his son.

Since Jerry Falwell, Jr. is chancellor of the Liberty University I would say he would know what the Government was doing in the churches with its partnership offer.

You posted: Please, Seperation of Church and State and now you call this guy being victimized?

-{ First of all, I didn't say he was being victimized! I said he warns his students about what the government is up to with its "partnership" offer.

If he asked for and got Federal grants and is Federally subsidized - then he got just what he asked for and what I warned about last year.

You also said: How can you be seperated by the church and state if ...

...You can't have both.

-{ I am tired of the phrase "Separation of Church and State"!

No where in the U.S. Constitution does it say "Separation of Church and State" nor does it even imply that.

"Separation of church and state" is perhaps one of the most misunderstood, misrepresented and maligned concepts in today's political, legal and religious debates.

The phrase was coined by the DOJ. Just another way for the "anti-christ" government to override peoples rights by confusing the people of the correct meaning of the U. S. Constitution.

The 1st amendment does not separate Church and state.

First, it ensures that religious beliefs are removed from attempted government control.

Second, it ensures that the government does not get involved with enforcing, mandating, or promoting particular religious doctrines.

This is what happens when the government "establishes" a church - and because doing so created so many problems in Europe, the authors of the Constitution wanted to try and prevent the same from happening here...

by putting it in the very first article of the Bill of Rights, to prevent the states from creating a church then forcing people to pay taxes to the church and worshiping its religion instead of their own.

So you see, we can have it both ways, until the NAU comes into play and replaces our U.S. Constitution with their NAU Constitution.

-- Posted by Unique-Lies on Mon, May 24, 2010, at 7:39 PM

Michael, I understand your points, but to compare the issues of abortion, and the Vietnam War, with the Civil War may be a reach. While the nation may have been divided about these issues, with the debate surrounding abortion continuing even today, they both lack the most important quality that shaped the doggedly stubborn ideologies prevalent during the Civil War. It was not the morality or religiosity of the most radical abolitionists that drove the nation into civil strife, but the political and economic realities between the north and south.

I just do not see abortion as portending America's crumbling. I may accept that it is morally questionable, a travesty of the traditional sanctity of life, or even an unfortunate by-product of contemporary social realities, but not an omen of prophesy.

If you truly want to decrease abortions, preach about the social conditions that propagate its desirability as an elective. Instead of being concerned only with individual personal responsibility and the evils of recreational sex, also reinforce those imperatives with messages highlighting the dignity of motherhood. Advocate for public policies that reward pro-life decisions, such as truly competitive medical and financial support for those who would require it to remain outside of the workforce, and understand the need for high-quality low cost childcare. That is the only way to achieve your goals. There will not be a legislative end to abortion. To diminish abortion, the nature of how we, as a society, view and support motherhood must change.

MotherMayhem, I think the discrepancies in the statistics are just in how they are understood. It is very possible for white women to have a majority of abortions, but for minorities to have many fold more per capita than the whites within each subset. The high overall percentage was likely reached by taking an unusually high yearly number of abortions and then multiplying that by the years indicated (likely 15-45 so 30) then dividing that number by the total population of American women in that age range. That would eliminate the number of "down years" for abortions and also not account for those who have had multiple abortions inflating the percentage further. I do not know for sure though. I didn't look at them.

Anyone Criticizing Wikipedia, I think Wikipedia is a great source. As a first step in any research, Wikipedia is an invaluable tool. I have never once come upon any blatantly false information that was not fixed quickly. Is there bias? Sure, there is some, but there is bias from virtually every source you are likely to encounter anywhere. I dare anyone to spend some time looking and find "bad" entries. I bet you can't. My only complaint is that many of the articles do not contain the detail that I wish they would.

Unique-Lies, I am sorry that the separation of church and state bothers you. I agree with you that there is not any mention of it (or the right to privacy) within the Constitution, but likewise, you will not find any mention of Jesus, Christianity, or even God there either.

-- Posted by memyselfi on Tue, May 25, 2010, at 1:44 AM

you are absolutely right,the baby was not able to write before or even after exiting the womb.This, of course,was not written with that intention. IT was written ONLY to make us stop and think ---and what better way than from the baby's point of view ? If that doesn't touch our hearts , nothing will.

the Bible shows that Jehovah God has high regard for human life right from its very start--Ex. 21:22-25.

It is important to realize that life is passed on, not at birth, but, rather, when conception occurs. It is then, says the Encyclopędia Britannica, that "the life-history of the individual, as a distinct and biological entity, begins."

Jehovah certainly has regard for human life prior to birth, for the divinely inspired psalmist David said of him: "Your eyes saw even the embryo of me, and in your book all its parts were down in writing, as regards the days when they were formed and there was not yet one among them."--Ps. 139:16.

Rather than considering abortion, how much better it is to take the view expressed by the inspired psalmist! "Look!" declared King Solomon of ancient Israel, "Sons are an inheritance from Jehovah; the fruitage of the belly is a reward." (Ps. 127:3) Yes, childbirth and parenthood have their anxieties, but not the psychological pain and guilt that so often follow abortion.

As for separation of church and state:

'Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's and unto God the things that are God's.' Matt 22:21

-- Posted by blueanjell on Tue, May 25, 2010, at 4:40 AM

Uniquelies,

I know exactly what I said, And Nothing has changed. You CANNOT have both... If that were the case then it would be the Dark Ages still.

The point of such an amendment is twofold. First, it ensures that religious beliefs - private or organized - are removed from attempted government control. This is the reason why the government cannot tell either you or your church what to believe or to teach. Second, it ensures that the government does not get involved with enforcing, mandating, or promoting particular religious doctrines.

This is exactly what the Falwells have been trying to do for the past 4 decades, Weaseling their way into the government with their doctrines to manipulate laws to further the goals of organized religion. Sorry, but the terms 'Separation of Church and State' might not be in the Constitution but neither is having a 'Right to a Fair Trial' or 'Right to Privacy'. But the concepts are there, Right?

And to answer your comment regarding:

//Jerry Falwell Jr., Chancellor of the Liberty University is a Lawyer. His mission is to teach the word of God in all 10 or more different Schools and Colleges Liberty has and not just the Helms School of Government. The colleges/Schools put God first in their courses as it should be. These courses aren't teaching students to become parishioners and Political figures, lawyers,Aeronautics, etc.. They instruct students in the field they chose and put God in the middle of their teachings.//

He is a Lawyer and a minister (oxymoron, if you ask me). The links below show the "put God first attitude" approach this University has ...

A few links to look at:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story...

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=20...

http://www.patrolmag.com/scanner/2064/th...

http://blog.au.org/2010/05/05/rage-again...

http://www2.newsadvance.com/lna/news/loc...

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/...

-- Posted by Evil Monkey on Tue, May 25, 2010, at 11:11 AM

Abortion, gay marriage, and prayer in schools are three issues that really show the differences in conservative and liberal thinking.

Conservatives seem to think that they must force everyone to live by their beliefs.

It is already acceptable for any child to pray in school, as long as it is not disrupting classroom activites. If a kid wants to bow his head silently and say a prayer before his math test, nobody would even know or care.

So why do you need to force everyone in class into prayer?

And if two gay people want to get married, how does that really effect your life? What gives you the right to deny them the right to live their lives the way they want.

As for abortion, I find it ironic that conservative pro-lifers fight so hard for these babies to be born, but then reject them afterwards when the mother needs welfare assistance, food stamps, TennCare, etc.

I am by no means "pro-abortion", but I do believe that if you are "pro-life", it shouldn't end at birth. Why did so many conservatives fight against a heathcare bill that would provide medical services for these children once they were born?

Why do conservatives fight against the right for a loving married couple to adopt a child just beacuse they are gay?

Here are some more stats for you. These come from The National Association of Social Workers.

Over 700,000 children will experience a period of foster care this year alone with 519,000 living within the system for some extended period of time.

33% will experience homelessness 12-18 months after leaving foster care. Three of ten of the nation's homeless are former foster children

27% of the males and 10% of the females had been incarcerated (80 percent of prison inmates have been through the foster care system)

It just seems to me that many pro-lifers are the same people that turn their heads on these people later.

-- Posted by Rocket Valentine on Tue, May 25, 2010, at 12:02 PM

Evil Monkey,

Separation of Church and State:

The 1st Amendment merely states "Congress shall make no law respecting an "establishment" of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;..."

(These are NOT rights that are being conferred upon the Sovereign People. These are rights that already belong to us as a basic part of our unalienable rights granted by our Creator. This Paragraph is for the sole purpose of restricting the ability of the Federal Government from persecuting the Sovereign Citizens.)

In the Tennessee State Constitution it is stated differently: It speaks of no human authority can... which would both include state and federal human authority.

Article I, § 3. Freedom of worship

That all men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own conscience; that no man can of right be compelled to attend, erect, or support any place of worship, or to maintain any minister against his consent; "that no human authority can, in any case whatever, control or interfere with the rights of conscience; and that no preference shall ever be given, by law, to any religious establishment or mode of worship."

The Right to a Fair Trial:

The 5th Article of the Bill of Rights states in part:

...nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;...

(Since the Common Law Courts have the sole Jurisdiction over the Sovereign People and their unalienable rights the Federal Government is totally restricted from performing any actions against the Sovereign Citizens except for 4 or 5 Federal Charges which the Government was given power over the people.)

The Tennessee State Constitution states in Article I, § 9:

§ 9. Rights of accused

That in all criminal prosecutions, the accused hath the right to be heard by himself and his counsel; to demand the nature and cause of the accusation against him, and to have a copy thereof, to meet the witnesses face to face, to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and in prosecutions by indictment or presentment, a speedy public trial, by an impartial jury of the County in which the crime shall have been committed, and shall not be compelled to give evidence against himself.

Also § 6, § 8 and § 10 add protects for a Fair Trial.

Both Constitutions explain your Rights to a Fair Trial even thou they don't use the phrase "Right to a Fair Trial".

Maybe they don't use the words "Right to a Fair Trial", because even thou you are entitled to these conditions, you are being tried by a Maritime or Law and Equity (Statutory) law instead of the De Jure Law (Common Law) which is the Law of the Land.

The Right to Privacy:

Amendment IV of the U.S. Constitution:

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated,...

(As with the other Amendments in the Bill of Rights, this provision is critical to prevent invasion, or infringement, of the Sovereign rights of the People. There are no provisions in the Federal Constitution that permits the Federal Government to take any action against any Sovereign Citizen, therefore, this provision is actually a provision pointed at the Common Law Courts of the People.)

Tennessee Constitution Article I § 7. Searches and seizures; warrants

That the people shall be secure in their persons, houses, papers and possessions, from unreasonable searches and seizures; and that general warrants, whereby an officer may be commanded to search suspected places, without evidence of the fact committed, or to seize any person or persons not named, whose offenses are not particularly described and supported by evidence, are dangerous to liberty and ought not to be granted.

That pretty much says you have a "Right to Privacy"!

A lot different from Separation of Church and State that only mentions "...no human authority can, in any case whatever...".

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story...

Jerry Falwell came from a fundamentalist Christian tradition that claimed it was illegitimate, and even actually sinful, for a Christian to get his hands dirty in politics (basically what the bible says) to a national high-profile figure right up until he died that wanted to change the world of politics. He preached politics as much as he did religion which the bible is against.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=20...

Rev. Falwell Sr. didn't do things according to the scriptures as far as I am concerned. This was one stunt that should have been against the law. Kinda like insider trading or influencing voters.

In spite of everything he was using his ministry to influence them into voting his way. That was definitely not a Separation of church and state, but should have been.

Just another example of why I had no use for him.

http://www.patrolmag.com/scanner/2064/th...

Glenn Beck is not afraid to speak out against the Government, or anyone in official capacity who commits fraud against the people.

He tries to tell everyone who will listen just how the Government is taking our rights away and who they are and other things they do that would shock the nation.

Glenn Beck is a God fearing man who speaks his mind. Many people listen to Glenn Beck when they should be listening to the people who think they are in power that Glenn Beck exposes on his show with their own words on National TV.

Glenn Beck was a perfect choice as a speaker for Liberty's commencement.

http://blog.au.org/2010/05/05/rage-again...

Now this one was very interesting. This one is - The official blog of Americans United for Separation of Church and State.

Here Jerry Falwell, Jr. sent his Liberty University students in town to try to take over the city government by hopefully being voted in. That is a refreshing thought. Haven't we all spoke out against the crooks and liars in office and want to see good honest people in office? (which will never happen because they would just be corrupted as well)

Of course, because of the way the system works, they would have to be voted for to take any positions in the city. So what was the harm of trying a little hands on training or on the job training? Just because Falwell sent them in they had to apply and qualify for any office they ran for. That is our inalienable right to run for any office. It is the voters who filled the seats not Falwell, Jr.. Had they won and favored Liberty University over other business in anything they would be impeached or face criminal charges or both.

http://www2.newsadvance.com/lna/news/loc...

"The Democratic Party platform is contrary to the mission of Liberty University and to Christian doctrine (supports abortion, federal funding of abortion, advocates repeal of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, promotes the "LGBT" agenda, hate crimes, which include sexual orientation and gender identity, socialism, etc.)" LGBT refers to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.

What is the big deal about the university's suspension of the campus Democratic party club.

The democratic party is for everything the church is against by God's word. How can they teach Christians to support abortions, gays, lesbians, same sex marriages etc. and God also?

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/... :

Liberty University law school is like any other law school only it starts it classes with a prayer and teaches Law with Christian Moral matters. - To be able to Litigate cases involving christian rights and Constitutional rights, as well as.

By teaching law from a Christian perspective, Falwell hopes to train a cadre of Christian lawyers to fight what he sees as the growing secularization of public life across the country.

(Luke 11:46) And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.

So some Christian Lawyers would be a welcome sight in U.S. courts.

-- Posted by Unique-Lies on Tue, May 25, 2010, at 4:25 PM

memyselfi,

You posted: Unique-Lies, I am sorry that the separation of church and state bothers you. I agree with you that there is not any mention of it (or the right to privacy) within the Constitution, but likewise, you will not find any mention of Jesus, Christianity, or even God there either.

-{ Althou these words are not in the U. S. Constitution they were used by our Congress back then. They prayed before each session. When you read the U.S. Constitution you can see how they were able to write such a document with the help of God. It is written kinda like the Bible.

In fact, On January 21, 1781, Philadelphia printer Robert Aitken (1734-1802) petitioned Congress to officially sanction a publication of the Old and New Testament which he was preparing at his own expense. Congress "highly approve the pious and laudable undertaking of Mr. Aitken, as subservient to the interest of religion . . . in this country, and . . . they recommend this edition of the bible to the inhabitants of the United States."

HOWEVER, the Tennessee State Constitution is a little different.

The word God appears:

Article I, § 3. Freedom of worship

That all men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own conscience...

Article IX, § 1. Clergy; eligibility to serve in legislature

Whereas Ministers of the Gospel are by their profession, dedicated to God and the care of souls, and ought not to be diverted from the great duties of their functions; therefore, no Minister of the Gospel, or priest of any denomination whatever, shall be eligible to a seat in either House of the Legislature...

Article IX, § 2. Atheists holding office

No person who denies the being of God, or a future state of rewards and punishments, shall hold any office in the civil department of this State.

-- Posted by Unique-Lies on Tue, May 25, 2010, at 4:53 PM

Unique Lies,

You are changing the subject and arguing semantics when it benefits your argument.

The point isn't about the Law School, It is about forcing religion into politics. It can't be done without a lot of violence. This country was founded upon that very reason.

If a politician is a Christian I see no problem with that, people will see his actions and make a decision based on that but to use it as a motivation is wrong on many levels.

Since you didn't read what I said or understand it, I will not argue the valid point that religion and government do not mix. History speaks for itself.

-- Posted by Evil Monkey on Tue, May 25, 2010, at 8:09 PM

Evil Monkey,

I can concede to religion and government do not mix.

My original post was only using the video of Glenn Beck and Jerry Falwell Jr. as a source that the Government was buying out favors from the Religious organizations/churches to obtain Partnership control with Federal loans.

I stated that J.F. Jr. being a chancellor of Liberty University should be qualified as a person who would have some knowledge of the Government using Social Justice as a way to get into the churches, since he was not only a minister and chancellor of LU, but a lawyer as well.

You did some great research on the subject and I went overboard with my response which is actually moot.

Personally I don't want Politics in the church nor the state interfering with the church. I will say that the Government more so than the states, will one day, because this world will have a One World Religion controlled by the One World Government.

-- Posted by Unique-Lies on Tue, May 25, 2010, at 9:57 PM

Do a little research on "AGENDA 21" and you will find that Christians, in particular, are seen as a threat to "Sustainable Development" which is lttle more than mother earth worship under the false pretense of saving the planet, or "Going Green".

Here is the Youtube link for "Agenda 21 for Dummies"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzEEgtOFF...

There is plenty of info on this on the UN website here;

http://www.un.org/esa/dsd/agenda21/res_a...

Be blessed,

-- Posted by Liveforlight on Wed, May 26, 2010, at 3:05 PM

Unique-Lies, I am not really sure what you are getting at. I guess my comment was too vague. What I was trying to point out was that you have no difficulty defending the right to fair trials, or privacy, but previously appeared (before your most recent posts) to refuse to accept the separation of church and state as being legitimately conferred in the same manner. There is no doubt of intent. The concept was an integral part of the drafting, but even if it were not originally, it has become so now.

That does not indicate that I dispute the religious convictions of some of the framers. There were many different traditions represented, with Christianity being dominate. That being understood, Christianity was not the only system of beliefs protected. In fact, the separation of church and state has a much older foundational standing than most of what we consider today to be any resemblance of a right to "fair" trials or privacy.

Privacy, or its currently accepted understanding, is the entire focus of this blog. Should personal privacy extend to a married couple's birth control? What about unmarried couples? What about an abortion, sodomy, or even homosexuality? Based on the rulings of the era, yes. Moreover, those rulings indicate that the concept was always there and under protection, but heretofore neglected and improperly restricted. It is the same with the separation issue.

The Tennessee Constitution does read in the manner you described, but the parts you pointed out are superfluous. Not only is the state constitution subordinate to the federal, the document itself renders the restrictions wholly unverifiable. I imagine the intent was to limit the most radical adherents of either side from achieving political power in much the same way that the poll tax restricted the poorest citizens' voices.

I do not see many similarities between the Bible and any constitution, save possibly the Priestly Old Testament portions of the KJV.

-- Posted by memyselfi on Thu, May 27, 2010, at 5:22 AM

Liveforlight, Out of curiosity, I looked at your links. There have always been controls implemented to guide the world-views of the populace. This one is not so bad in comparison to many of the past. What effect on Christians do you believe will result? I found very few problems with Agenda 21, except that, as usual, the initiatives are initially directed to societies who can least afford them, while the more powerful nations will be largely unaffected.

The youtube video makes even my own paranoia appear insignificant. This program is likely not the beginning of armageddon, or any more aggressive than many programs that came before it. This framework only propagates the role of lesser nation's subordination through further indebtedness and obligatory constraints while hiding under the guise of environmentalism and giving a nod toward its importance.

As for the "Mother Earth worship", I have to wonder if you believe that the exercising of dominion on this earth should also encompass measures of protection from those who may exercise too much dominion in order to achieve selfish and consequential ends.

-- Posted by memyselfi on Thu, May 27, 2010, at 7:10 AM

Too bad BP did not have of Worship for Mother Earth. With out "her" we have nothing, not even a place to hang our hat (call home).

this is from Answers.com about agenda 21 ( it is part of it, it also gave the longer version from Wikipedia,)

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A set of proposals, made at the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development for the furtherance of world-wide, sustainable development. Agenda 21 sets out environmental strategies for the management of coasts, oceans, and water, the monitoring and reduction of chemical waste, the eradication of radioactive waste, and the conservation of natural vegetation and soils. This last proposal links with plans for the development of sustainable farming, and other socio-economic proposals include measures to improve health care, to reduce poverty, and to develop fair and environmentally friendly trade policies.

The aim is to promote global sustainable development at a more fundamental level than traditional aid programmes, based on common needs and interests, and on collective responsibility. Agenda 21, as agreed by national governments at Rio de Janeiro, is an action plan at all scales, requiring local governments to develop their own 'Local Agenda 21' in order to spread understanding of, and action for, sustainable development.

Agenda 21 is accessible online at http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/documents/...

/index.htm.

__________________________________________________

The Gulf crisis now is an example of why we should have some actions to control how the planet is being cared for. Earth needs protection from greed and ignorance, and hopefully by looking ahead and making safe guide lines to set standards that will help prevent things like the Gulf spill in progress we can avoid more of the same.

I have not read the whole 21 proposal so am not debating the specifics in it, but am defending the concept of having a plan in place to protect "Mother Earth" so that she is well and healthy for future generations. She needs respect, and protection from those who put greed and profits first with no real regard for the environment. BP is said to have allowed this to happen by negligence, that it could have been avoided. With out anything to protect us from these things where will be? What will be next? Sadly there are actually people who will argue with projecting the planet from the abuses, to them I say move to the Golf coast and leave the undamaged areas to those who love and respect it. God gave us this wonderful planet to care for her and love her - The Golf is what we get when we do not honor our responsibility. We do not need to have less regulation of these agency, like many are calling for, but rather tighter restrictions and control that would protect us from this sort of thing again. Regulations have been lax and we can see how that is working by looking at this spill. Yes they "should" be able to monitor themselves, but BP is showing us that we can not trust them to. Not everyone sees this planet as a blessing from our Lord, many see only dollar signs, they work with greed in mind not respect for what God has trusted us with. We can not trust them with the future of this planet, not if it is connected to their profits.

-- Posted by wonderwhy on Thu, May 27, 2010, at 8:42 AM

I agree, the Earth needs to be cared for. God created us as caretakers. We are to replenish it not destro it.

Ge 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Ge 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

Wonderwhy posted;

God gave us this wonderful planet to care for her and love her -

-- Posted by wonderwhy on Thu, May 27, 2010, at 8:42 AM

We are to love God, not the Earth. We should care for the earth as belonging to God and not let our greed destroy it.

Everyone has greed to some degree. Most everyone wants to see the earth cared for as well.

Agenda 21 goes way beyond caring for the Earth. It only uses this as a means to an end. That end being CONTROL.

Here is link to more about "Mother Earth Worship". Be sure to read the qoutes from Al Gore.

http://contenderministries.org/UN/gaia.p...

-- Posted by Liveforlight on Thu, May 27, 2010, at 12:07 PM

Here are some links about agenda 21 and population reduction. I remember some talk of this when the senior Bush was president. They want to reduce the Earths population to 500 million. That means about 4.5 billion have got to go.

One of these links also talks about seizing control of oil.

Has anyone ever wondered why an oil rig that floats on submerged pontoons sank? Yes, it caught on fire on the parts above the water, but how did the pontoons that were far below the surface of the water loose their bouyancy from a fire that was far above the surface of the water? Something is not right about that whole situation.

There seems to be a lot at stake in the Gulf more than we will probably ever know.

But for population control and reduction, there is no doubt that abortion is effective. So is abstinence, one is a Godly method, the other is not, which one is being promoted the most by Agenda 21 and our government?

http://www.tcrnews2.com/Agenda21.html

http://www.resistnet.com/profiles/blogs/...

-- Posted by Liveforlight on Thu, May 27, 2010, at 12:34 PM

memyselfi.

You posted: I do not see many similarities between the Bible and any constitution, save possibly the Priestly Old Testament portions of the KJV.

-{ What I meant was the the writings are similar in that they both can be interpreted in different ways by different people. We have to have the Supreme Court interpret the Constitution and yet, it is interpreted by the same Supreme Court to mean two different things.

The Bible is interpreted differently by everyone who reads the bible.

Both Law and the Bible are complicated writings, yet are very simple to understand.

Both instruments can be interpreted one way and stand for the truth, until someone finds another law or scripture that says just the opposite.

That is way we have to go all the way to the supreme court for the answers and in the bible we must rely on the holy spirit to explain it. To each in his own way.

-- Posted by Unique-Lies on Thu, May 27, 2010, at 1:43 PM

Wonderwhy posted;

God gave us this wonderful planet to care for her and love her -

-- Posted by wonderwhy on Thu, May 27, 2010, at 8:42 AM

Liveforlight replied:

We are to love God, not the Earth. We should care for the earth as belonging to God and not let our greed destroy it.

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Come on your being a bit over the top here, God has given us many blessing, one of them is the ability to love. Yes HE is our greatest love, but in no way is it wrong for us to love the blessings he has granted us as long as we do not put them above our love for HIM. What good is the gift of love if we can not use it?

I pointed out I had not read the whole agenda 21 thing, let me clarify what my point was, it was that because of the nature of greed in people there needs to be some method of control in place to control the greed in those who choose not to control it themselves. This sort of event is what happens if it is left unchecked, there needs to be checks and balances to keep the honest.

I never said anything about 'Mother Earth Worship" they sound like another bunch of fanatics who grasp an idea, twist it around and run crazy out of control with it. Most people just look right past them. ( like Jim Jones or those people who used to pass out flowers at airports) Personally I have never heard of them before.

I do agree with you that there is something not right with this accident,( I think I heard that some of the under water damage was done by falling debris, but I can not quote the source) and I question if there was a "helping hand" involved. But then again there is always a lot of speculation of evil intent when man made horrible events happen. I am surprised we are not hearing both political parties accusing the other of doing this to harm the other.

-- Posted by wonderwhy on Thu, May 27, 2010, at 1:47 PM

wonderwhy,

The gulf crisis is a good example! How can they do offshore drilling and not know the consequences and dangers? Wasn't Exxon a good enough example?

Now our major oil companies are wasting millions of barrels of oil and told we aren't going to suffer from this mishap. President Obama wouldn't even add this oil to lower the cost of gasoline when it was higher than ever. Now where is all this oil going? It can't be in a safe container somewhere.

It is contaminating our world without anything we can do at a cost the American people can not afford.

The Government was concerned with all the aerosol spray cans a few years back exposing gas to the atmosphere, yet launching Shuttles whenever they wanted to and some even exploding putting more dangerous gases in the atmosphere than we ever could with spray cans.

We aren't polluting the atmosphere like the government is doing and allowing Big Corporations to add to the pollution.

Not only is the seafood in the gulf being contaminated but the wild life as well and the water itself. Will the government allow this contaminated animal life and water contamination to be used to lower the population of mankind? What precautions or limits have been placed on fishing in the gulf or shrimp and lobster ban?

What about global warming? The weather has be warming up every since I was a kid in Florida. That is why I came to TN to get away from the heat.

Even with the weather warming up some each year we still have our cold winters with ice and snow and in some areas or states the cold weather gets worse.

It is just a scare to take rights away from the people and may them pay a tax on the air we breathe. What does that have to do with global warming? It doesn't! It is just an excuse to tax the people and not use a penny of it to provide more air or cleaner air to breathe.

Look at the CASH for Clunkers plan the Government came up with. It was just a ploy to get the older cars off the earth so everyone who can't afford a new car will have a life without a vehicle.

Notice how fast that program fell apart? They weren't trying to save the ozone, but make the poor poorer by enforcing new laws on environmental economy regulations.

Look at all the regulations they have in place now but won't enforce. They only want the fines after people have been killed.

The Big Corporations dump chemicals in streams and rivers and the government only hands out fines but doesn't eliminate the problem

because the Big Corporations run this world.

-- Posted by Unique-Lies on Thu, May 27, 2010, at 2:35 PM

Wonderwhy,

It may be "over the top" as you say, but there is a fine line here. The scriptures below say not to love the world or anything in it.

1jo 2:15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

1jo 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

1jo 2:17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever

The scripture also says to love God and your neighbor. The problem here is in loving the earth more than God and more than our neighbor. Agenda 21 places more value on the earth than it does either of these two.

-- Posted by Liveforlight on Thu, May 27, 2010, at 3:33 PM

Unique-Lies, yes this oil mess is a great example of the state of things.

Your attempt to put it on Obama is very weak. He is the head of our country and he is the one currently responsible and is taking the responsiblity, but if you read below he was against this sort of thing and has imposed a ban, Daddy Bush put a ban on drilling into place that Clinton extended, good ole George though was not in agreement with these other fine men was he?Now we see why the ban was such a good thing, and that giving into the greed of the big oil corps was not. Bush was not only in bed with these guys he seems to have provided them with silk sheets. It is not so much a dem/rep thing (daddy Bush and Clinton and Obama were all in agreement) It is a G.W.Bush thing, backed by McCain and our dear sweet drill baby drill Palin group.

We need to across the board respect and care for this planet, from the spray can to the rockets, from me and you to the big shots in the huge corporations. As for enforcing the safety regulations talk to your party about that they seem to prefer easing them (silk sheets) to backing them.

_________________________________________________ Below is a news artical that provides some information on the attitudes and actions to with the drilling . It is really interesting if you want a better idea of the who and what of how they got out there.

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Bush To Echo McCain's Plan To Drill In Oceans

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WASHINGTON -- President Bush plans to make a renewed push Wednesday to get Congress to end a long-standing ban on offshore oil and gas drilling, echoing a call by GOP presidential candidate John McCain.

Congressional Democrats have opposed lifting the prohibitions on energy development on nearly all federal Outer Continental Shelf waters for more than a quarter-century, including waters along both the East and West coasts.

With oil prices soaring and motorists paying $4 a gallon for gasoline, political pressures have been growing for more domestic oil and gas production.

"The president believes Congress shouldn't waste any more time," White House press secretary Dana Perino told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

"He will explicitly call on Congress to ... pass legislation lifting the congressional ban on safe, environmentally friendly offshore oil drilling," Perino said. "He wants to work with states to determine where offshore drilling should occur."

Bush also will reiterate his call for development of oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, Perino said. McCain has opposed drilling in the refuge, maintaining that the pristine areas in northeastern Alaska should be protected from energy development.

On Monday, McCain made lifting the federal ban on offshore oil and gas development a key part of his energy plan. The Arizona senator said states should be allowed to pursue energy exploration in waters near their coasts and receive some of the royalty revenue.

Bush has made clear in recent weeks that the drilling moratorium in coastal waters should end to allow for more domestic oil production and help "take the pressure off the price of gasoline."

Democrats, as well as some Republican senators from coastal states, have opposed lifting the drilling prohibitions, fearful that energy development could harm tourism and raise the risk of oil spills on beaches.

Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic candidate for president, opposes lifting the ban on offshore drilling and says that allowing exploration now wouldn't affect gasoline prices for at least five years.

Congress imposed the drilling moratorium in 1981 and has extended it each year since by prohibiting the Interior Department from spending money on offshore oil or gas leases in virtually all coastal waters outside the western Gulf of Mexico and in some areas off Alaska.

President George H.W. Bush imposed a separate executive drilling ban in 1990, which was extended by President Clinton and then by the current president until 2012.

Bush has been considering lifting the executive ban as a symbolic move to get Congress to take action, but he decided against doing so for the time being, said an official who spoke on condition of anonymity because internal deliberations were involved.

The House Appropriations Committee was scheduled to vote on legislation Wednesday that included a provision that would continue the drilling moratorium into late 2009. Rep. John Peterson, R-Pa., planned to try to strip that provision from the bill. A proposal Peterson offered last week that would open all federal waters 50 miles from shore to oil and gas development was rejecte

-- Posted by wonderwhy on Thu, May 27, 2010, at 4:37 PM

http://mediamatters.org/research/2010043...

-- Posted by wonderwhy on Thu, May 27, 2010, at 5:10 PM

Again, when our government gets involved in "anything" it goes wrong and is very costly, not to mention the world bankers are behind the orders to drill or not.

This offshore oil drilling rid is on top of the gulf drilling 5,000 ft or more under the gulf. That is almost a mile below the surface where the pressure is 2,230 pounds per square inch, 152 times that of the atmosphere at sea level.

We don't have anything that can dive that deep to fix, install, or maintain anything that deep, let alone stop a leak that far down and out of reach.

Inserting a pipe inside of the pipes is the only way the leak can be stopped or controlled and then it may not be 100% stopped. What happens after they stop drilling and pumping and leave the well to drill somewhere else?

Didn't hurricane katrina teach our leaders or Oil Corporations anything?

Then the weather service predicts over 40 Bigger Hurricanes than what we have already had is expected to hit the U.S..

-- Posted by Unique-Lies on Thu, May 27, 2010, at 11:46 PM

Unique-Lies, Oh okay, I get it now. I also happen to agree with you, but am a little surprised to read so much relativism from such a devout Christian.

Liveforlight, Where did you get the example of population reduction? I did not get that understanding. I imagine that such a contingency is in place, but the execution of it would not be taken lightly. The eventuality of such an event would only be the result of no better choice. The way I see it, those who find themselves in a position to make such a decision would have absolutely no desire to do so. There is simply no benefit for them to justify the action. When any population experiences a sudden extreme decline, the traditional power structures face democratizing forces that usurp their authority. Markets constrict and collapse, creditors fail as debtors die, the cost of labor increases exponentially, and there is a period of relative equality that invariably creates entirely new power structures.

I guess if true environmental ideologues ran the world, we may need to be concerned. However, true environmentalists do not run the world, and likely never will.

-- Posted by memyselfi on Fri, May 28, 2010, at 4:54 AM

Liveforlight, Where did you get the example of population reduction?

However, true environmentalists do not run the world, and likely never will.

-- Posted by memyselfi on Fri, May 28, 2010, at 4:54 AM

The population reduction is referenced in the resources provided in the links I posted above concerning sustainable development.

I agree, TRUE environmentalist are not running the world. They don't really care about the environment, they care about power and possessions. They just use the environment as a ruse.

This type of thinking is the same kind that Hitler used to justify the murder of millions. Oh wait, that is what abortion is doing isn't it?

-- Posted by Liveforlight on Fri, May 28, 2010, at 7:09 AM

Liveforlight,

This type of thinking is the same kind that Hitler used to justify the murder of millions. Oh wait, that is what abortion is doing isn't it?

-{ If you have read just some of the evil, torturous news items and researched stories, then put them all together, I think you would have to say it is a blessing for those who are aborted and won't have to face what is to come, even though it is wrong.

I will state that I am against abortion, but just "Agenda 21" tells us that their lives are in the hands of murderers from this day forth.

For the past 35 years I have known about the One World Order, The take over of the Bankrupt Central Government, The destruction of all lawful money in the U.S., Giving Sovereignty to Corporations over the people by changing our laws to protect businesses and not the people, Powers given to the United Nations, How the Central Government got its unlawful Sovereignty and the IMF.

Now it goes deeper into powers of the World Bank, the Bilderberg group, Agenda 21, FEMA's 500,000 Plastic Coffins near Atlanta, GA, FEMA's private Army, U.N. Troops in America, Private Police Forces for NAU, North American Union, the Amero, The Super Highway 4 football fields wide to transport import/export and to make people pay toll to pay for it and the worse of it all is Martial Law. (Look at Martial Law in New Orleans when the military took everyone's arms inspite of their rights.

And let's don't forget about the FEMA Concentration Camps, All states will be under Federal Jurisdiction (BIG, HUGE, ENORMOUS Mistake on the part of the states), and of course the Global Warming.

Did I mention the FEMA Colors for every man woman and child that determines what happens to them? Taxes to breathe in America. What happens if you can't pay? The new Health Care fee that you will have to pay to the IRS. (Which reminds me, anyone hear how many insurance companies have folded without paying claims in the Nashville Flood this year?)

Starvation, our own military forcing you to get shots, leave your home, separating family members and putting in FEMA Camps according to the color by their name, and our Military sons and daughters executing men, women and children to bring the population down and you worry about an abortion.

I am sure there is a color black next to my name so I will be killed when this all comes in play. That is better than accepting the mark of the beast.

I can only say that is better than being someone with the color yellow. They know nothing about the one world order, so they can be retrained to think the way they want them to. This would include obeying a government created Religion and worshiping the beast and accepting his mark.

NOTICE:

I know no one wants to believe any of this and that we have a Christian Nation, but we don't and these things are happening now. They go hand and hand with what the bible tells us will happen.

People have thought that the world would be destroyed by an asteroid or meter. Some think by a world War III. Some say when the World comes against Israel. Some try to say that the earth will turn to an ice age and freeze because of a meteorite.

Still others think it will be the Battle of Armageddon which doesn't happen until Christ returns.

Scientists have left everything wide open to... a Gamma-ray burst, Ice-nine, Rogue black holes, Giant solar flares, Reversal of Earth's magnetic field, Reversal of Earth's magnetic field, Global epidemics, Ecosystem collapse, Biotech disaster, Particle accelerator mishap, Nanotechnology disaster, Environmental toxins, Robots take over, Mass insanity, Divine intervention or an Alien invasion.

The Word of God explains how the end will come about. The alien invasion is the closest event to the truth.

As I stated in the beginning, "For the past 35 years I have known about the One World Order..."

This has been going on for the past century or more, so when it will finally happen no one knows the day or hour!

If Bible Genealogy and the scientists carbon dating is accurate, by my calculations we are in the beginning of the sixth day (if 1,000 years is like a day and a day is like 1,000 years). We still have 700+ years to go before the Sabbath day begins with the Millennium, or first Resurrection!

We may even have longer, depending on the number of days in a year back then.

-- Posted by Unique-Lies on Fri, May 28, 2010, at 12:16 PM

WOW!...I kinda picture this Unique-Lies guy sitting in his underground bunker wearing a tin-foil hat, surrounded by automatic weapons, boxes of ammo, crates of spam, bottled water, and duct tape. And watching a portable battery operated television tuned into The Glenn Beck Show.

-- Posted by Rocket Valentine on Fri, May 28, 2010, at 1:00 PM

Nah! Just a guy who believes in keeping up with what is going on around me. I don't own any guns at all, well, except for an old BB gun.

Non of that will protect me from what I have just described, besides, I can't afford any of that crap with all the taxes and cost of living as high as it is and climbing.

The armor of God and patience is all I need along with the knowledge I have.

I will only say that I am not your ordinary person.

-- Posted by Unique-Lies on Fri, May 28, 2010, at 1:48 PM

-{ If you have read just some of the evil, torturous news items and researched stories, then put them all together, I think you would have to say it is a blessing for those who are aborted and won't have to face what is to come, even though it is wrong.

I will state that I am against abortion, but just "Agenda 21" tells us that their lives are in the hands of murderers from this day forth.

-- Posted by Unique-Lies on Fri, May 28, 2010, at 12:16 PM

Hitler had a society that was ready to accept his ideas and even condone them, or least not oppose them. We now have a society that has much the same attitude towards abortion.

I suppose if society reaches the point where someone will sentence you to death for killing an animal, cutting a tree, or drilling for oil, and society accepts it, then we will be very near the end.

I think it was Thomas Jefferson who said, "All it takes for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing."

Darkness and light cannot exist in the same place and time.

-- Posted by Liveforlight on Fri, May 28, 2010, at 3:30 PM

Wow some of these things are really either paranoia, or extreme fear mongering. I do agree we need to keep our eyes and minds open to see and watch for the enemy, but some of this stuff is really stretching it.

Help me out here a bit, where are these so called FEMA camps?

you say"If you have read just some of the evil, torturous news items and researched stories, then put them all together,"

Too me it sounds like you are taking some scissors and trimming the edges of the puzzle pieces to make them fit where they are not intended to. Beware, anyone can take bits and pieces of truths and manipulate them with fear mongering and give them totally different meanings.

-- Posted by wonderwhy on Fri, May 28, 2010, at 4:32 PM

wonderwhy,

Congress Threatened with Martial Law Congress doesn't work for us anymore:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgMx2F41X...

Soldier, Former State Trooper Speak Out On Forced Vaccinations:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuK8jROlU...

FEMA Concentration camps:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxd_hsiZ1...

Executive Orders giving Government total control over people and "Everything":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtsAlNhQZ...

FEMA List- Red, Blue, or Yellow stickers...Which one do they Identify you with?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WnezhaKz...

Cop Talks About FEMA Camps & Red Blue Dots:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqyHkxbj_...

Confession of a CIA Agent about FEMA - Important !!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K9dgqKmJ...

MASS EVACUATION BUS-MUST SEE!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr5W1Dy07...

You can see just about everything going on here on youtube. You have to sort it out. 50/50 agree/disagree with what is being told and shown. You must believe what you have to.

Take Pearl Harbor for example. How could that have ever happened with all the equipment on those ships including Radar and Radios? I just can't except that much stupidity. I believe our officers were ordered to stand down until it was too late.

Look at the Martial Law in New Orleans. The Governor finally asked for federal help and got Martial Law instead. Martial Law is against our United States Constitution and the Federal Government is suppose to protect the constitution.

Today they are doing everything to suspend the constitution, take the arms away from every American, take away our rights to free speech and make it a crime to talk about the government or your God.

Believe it or not! I just say be aware!

Remember the Ruby Ridge Incident? http://www.rotten.com/library/conspiracy...

What about the unlawful Martial Law attack of the U.S. Military at The Waco Massacre. http://www.serendipity.li/waco.html

74 men, women and children were murdered by agents acting under the authority of the U.S. government by orders from Janet Reno.

Already back in 1993 the US government demonstrated its contempt for the American people by carrying out a massacre in order to "demonstrate" (on prime time TV) its supposed "authority" (a tactic favored by fascist governments).

The Branch Davidians were law-abiding American citizens, even if they thought differently to most other folks. What did they do that the government had a right to execute all 74 men, women and children? A horrible death by burning for 74 men, women and children. They could at least showed them mercy and bombed the dam church/home!

Fire trucks were prevented by the FBI!!

Wake up and watch what the government does. Health care: Is it really health care or forced inoculations, forced quarantine (isolation or restriction of free movement) or another way of putting it - Forced evacuation to separate family members.

Don't you see any injustice by the federal government and its agencies? There will be more to come as you watch them.

Put all that together as is and add with it God's word and you have the truth.

Who is anti-christ? 1 John 2:18, 1 John 2:22, 1 John 4:3 and 2 John 1:7

FEMA Troops (U.S. Military also) will lead us into captivity and even kill many.

Revelation 13:10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.

All these One World Order Police, Special Police, U.S. Military and FEMA Special Forces that lead us into captivity aren't smart enough to realize they too will go into captivity and killed when they are no longer needed to lead anyone into captivity or kill.

Funny how the devil works.

This is an example of he who saves his life will lose it.

Mark 8:35 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it.

Luke 17:33 Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.

But wait, there is more!

We have the trading with the enemy act of Oct 6,1917 as amended march 9,1933, which included U.S. citizens as the enemy when we were at war or in a state of emergency.

Proclamations 2038, 2039 and 2040 that let the president (F.D. Roosevelt)declare a banking holiday by putting America in a state of Emergency (Bankruptcy) and including U.S. citizens as the enemy so the federal reserve could take the gold from the people and introducing the federal notes as our money.

Under the trading with the enemy act, a U.S. citizen is now an enemy and can not have a legal binding contract with any United States Corporation or sovereignty.

Sec. 5(b) of the Trading with the Enemy Act (Now) give every president the power to do anything without the consent of Congress.

Also read Senate Report 93-549.

A List of Executive Orders and a US MARINE DRILL SERGEANT BOASTS OF WHAT THEY WILL DO TO CIVILIANS UNDER MARTIAL LAW IN THE USA/MONTANA, Civilian Inmate Program - US Army Regulation 210_35:

http://www.freedomfiles.org/war/fema.htm

North American Union to Replace USA:

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?i...

It is up to you what you learn at these places.

-- Posted by Unique-Lies on Sat, May 29, 2010, at 12:24 AM

Unique-Lies, It's not what we "learn" at your posted links, it's what a person chooses to believe or how gullible you may be. Since it's all really just speculation and usually written by someone trying to sell you a book.

I can post links for you about the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969 being an elaborate hoax by the U.S.

Or that real Paul McCartney actually died in 1966 and was replaced by a man named William Cambell who looked and sounded just like the real Paul.

Or that space aliens are actually living along side us right now. They are called the "Anunnaki" and are from the constellation Draco.

Or that Princess Diana was actually murdered by the royal family and the British government.

Your theories have about as much merit as the ones I just listed.

-- Posted by Rocket Valentine on Sat, May 29, 2010, at 11:00 AM

Like I've I said, you can take any point and find ways to back it with half truths and facts taken out of context mixed with good old fashioned fear mongering and manipulation. Who knows what is or is not true any more.

-- Posted by wonderwhy on Sat, May 29, 2010, at 11:36 AM

Liveforlight, Yes, I have looked at many of the links posted, but how is Agenda 21 specifically related to these other concerns? It is one thing to judge the merits of any given concept, but when those judgments are infused with unverifiable and un-sourced theory, it obscures the reality of the concepts at hand, and renders objective contemplation impossible.

-- Posted by memyselfi on Sat, May 29, 2010, at 12:50 PM

Rocket Valentine,

You are absolutely right. Put a yellow mark next to your name!

None of it makes any real sense.

The world bankers run our country and threaten congress if they don't???

If the bankers want to get richer why would they want to decrease the world population by 80-90%?

If they intend to take our homes and property for the debt of the United States then feed and house us in FEMA Camps what have they gained. Who will be the work force laborers if they kill off 80-90% of the population.

Why would they build a super Highway (some say 4 football fields wide while others say 8 fields wide) to carry products and supplies to and from Big Corporations if they have eliminated 90% of the world market - Sellers and buyers?

But then, look how stupid the kings of the earth are!

Rev 16:12-16

12 The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings from the East.

13 Then I saw three evil[a] spirits that looked like frogs; they came out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet.

14 They are spirits of demons performing miraculous signs, and they go out to the kings of the whole world, to gather them for the battle on the great day of God Almighty.

15 "Behold, I come like a thief! Blessed is he who stays awake and keeps his clothes with him, so that he may not go naked and be shamefully exposed."

16 Then they gathered the kings together to the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon.

We see that God dries up the water of the great river Euphrates so the kings of the earth can march against Christ at Armageddon.

Looks like a trap to me!

The bible says these kings of the earth will use it to go to Armageddon. If they read God's word why would they use it? Wouldn't the one world military use the high tech weapons we see on TV?

For some reason they don't.

Maybe because... Isaiah 54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.

No mater which way it goes... It all SUCKS!

-- Posted by Unique-Lies on Sat, May 29, 2010, at 1:30 PM

wonderwhy,

You posted: Who knows what is or is not true any more.

-{ You are absolutely right also!

The only way to know what is true is to wait and see what happens but don't be ignorant of WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN!

Just as the Bible scriptures are twisted around to mean whatever someone wants them to mean, doesn't make it the truth.

God's word is the truth but you have to get it from the Holy Spirit not from the mouth of man including man made Schools, Colleges, Universities and Ministries.

Our brain is like a computer... file away information until you see its possibility of applying one way or the other.

The Bible tells us that the Beast will rule the One World Government, Judicial System and Religion.

If that is true, then some how it has to become a reality. This is why many will not see it coming because they can't believe their own Government (people who may live next door to them or down the street or even related to them) could do this to them.

Look at the past.

President Franklyn Roosevelt took the Gold from the people and traded it for federal reserve notes by including the U.S. citizens as the enemy to the United States (these were 14th Amendment citizens not Sovereign American born citizens) changed the Trading with the enemy act to say the President had special power over congress when this country was in a state of emergency then declared a state of emergency giving him power over congress, before he was even inaugurated.

President Kennedy discovered this and minted silver coins to pay our debt with. The federal reserve had Kennedy assassinated and Johnson became the president. Johnson was ordered to melt the silver coins and remint them using less silver and eliminating the half dollar, as Kennedy was being put in the ground. Johnson pass the coinage act in 1965. That should count as some reliable proof.

Ruby Ridge with the murder of his wife and son over shotguns being sawed off too short, and the Waco Incident have already occurred with all evidence burned to the ground by Military Tanks while the FBI prevented any fire trucks on the scene.

Is this the kind of Government you want serving you? These are people just like you and me who live next door and are ordered to commit murder... and do it!!

What about our congress being threatened with Martial Law if they don't do what they are told.

That pretty much makes our congress useless!

Why give them a job and pay them if they are going to work for the Bankers who enticed congress to put us in debt?

L@@ks like it is time to replace "all" of these useless followers (Demoncrats and Republican'ts) of the dictatorship of the rich bankers.

I thought it was strange that our government was shutting down so many U.S. Military Bases years ago. I hadn't heard about concentration camps etc.. These bases have already been renovated for living quarters and have guards walking.

If they are for emergencies where is the FEMA Housing for Nashvillians who lost their homes and property in the floods recently. Did FEMA come in and help these people with housing and food secretly?

When Cops, Soldiers, a former State Trooper and a CIA Agent stand up and speak out to warn the people, shouldn't you listen to what they are risking their lives to tell you?

Each of us have to decide what is true and what isn't. I don't ask anyone to believe or not, just check it out then decide what is right for each person to consider.

Even Jesus did a lot of fear mongering and manipulation through his parables about the end times.

God wrote the bible using men inspired by the holy spirit and there is an awful lot of fear mongering and manipulation in its pages coming straight from God. It is a part of the learning process.

A lot of it is just plain History and has been made law!

-- Posted by Unique-Lies on Sat, May 29, 2010, at 2:42 PM

WOW!...I kinda picture this Unique-Lies guy sitting in his underground bunker wearing a tin-foil hat, surrounded by automatic weapons, boxes of ammo, crates of spam, bottled water, and duct tape. And watching a portable battery operated television tuned into The Glenn Beck Show.

-- Posted by Rocket Valentine on Fri, May 28, 2010, at 1:00 PM

Somebody's paying attention.

He also has a herd of sacraficial goats with him he is protecting and wears an 8" wide metal band around his neck to prevent his head from being chopped off.

Too many years on the crackpipe???

-- Posted by somecommonsense on Sat, May 29, 2010, at 7:54 PM

somecommonsense,

You didn't even get that right! Can't you do anything right? You do the same thing with bible scriptures.

I believe you will get a yellow sticker because you can't get anything right.

-- Posted by Unique-Lies on Sat, May 29, 2010, at 11:52 PM

I see so many people who are so consumed with the issue of abortion, I can not help but think how happy the devil must be. The tunnel visions many have on this issue has become a wonderful tool for him. Not only has he been able to convince many that abortions are an acceptable choice but he has even been able to use the fight against abortion as a tool to keep some others so totally distracted thus making it so much easier for him to do his work on them from other angles. I see and hear people who are so consumed in their opposition and judgment of abortion and homosexuality that they are nearly blind to the rest of what is gong on in this world. The devil has been able to use these issues to keep them so distracted and hyper focused that he is able to get most everything else he chooses past them. He uses these two issues to bring even some of the most God fearing sheep unknowingly to his aide.

Do not let your passion against abortion blind you to the rest of the devils missions against you.

-- Posted by wonderwhy on Sun, May 30, 2010, at 9:31 AM

wonderwhy,

An excellent examination of what is happening today with not only the devil but the anti-christ also.

You open your eyes one day and WHAM! When did that happen?

-- Posted by Unique-Lies on Sun, May 30, 2010, at 11:00 AM

I believe you will get a yellow sticker because you can't get anything right.

-- Posted by Unique-Lies on Sat, May 29, 2010, at 11:52 PM

You believe.....you believe....you believe.....you believe...blah,blah,blahblah, blah.....

But no one believes anything you believe except the JW's.

-- Posted by somecommonsense on Sun, May 30, 2010, at 7:49 PM

In the Christian Greek Scriptures, 1 Corinthians 6:9, 10 says, according to the New International Version: "Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral . . . nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders . . . will inherit the kingdom of God."

It is interesting that, according to dictionary definitions, homosexuality includes sexual DESIRE for others of one's own sex. Yet the Bible makes a distinction between the PRACTICE of what is bad and sinful DESIRES or tendencies.

These DESIRES may be present despite determined efforts to eradicate them from mind and body. Because of their earlier life environment, and perhaps other factors, there are those who have the urge for this type of relationship,of course, BUT they CAN fight that unnatural, Satan-inspired desire--and they DO NOT have to give in to it. They CAN get control of their thinking, knowing that wrong desire that is allowed to grow fertile is bound to express itself in wrong acts.--James 1:14, 15; Colossians 3:5-10.

-- Posted by blueanjell on Mon, May 31, 2010, at 12:47 AM

Jesus Christ in praying to his Father, the Great Creator, Jehovah, declared: "Your word is truth." (John 17:17)

why would GOD send us his word of truth, IF everyone is to interpret it IN THEIR OWN WAY ?

why would GOD have gone to the trouble of having his words of instructions written down for us , if we are to go by our own interpretation ?

Wouldn't it make more sense to say that GOD has his clear message written there for us ? to be understood ,a little at a time, as GOD himself sees fit ?

Notice what is said in The book of Daniel --------

4 "And as for you, O Daniel, make secret the words and seal up the book, until the time of [the] end. Many will rove about, and the [true] knowledge will become abundant."

8 Now as for me, I heard, but I could not understand; so that I said: "O my lord, what will be the final part of these things?"

9 And he went on to say: "Go, Daniel, because the words are made secret and sealed up until the time of [the] end. 10 Many will cleanse themselves and whiten themselves and will be refined. And the wicked ones will certainly act wickedly, and no wicked ones at all will understand; but the ones having insight will understand.

If we pay very close attention to what is written in the verses --- and follow thru , there will be explanations in later verses or,even in another book of the Bible ,perhaps .But with the right motives and with deep study --the true message from Jehovah CAN be understood in the way HE meant for it to be understood

-- Posted by blueanjell on Mon, May 31, 2010, at 1:48 AM

Kinda like Hidden truths in the Bible wouldn't you say? I guess we are not meant to reveal any truths. They must be revealed by God only to believers.

-- Posted by Unique-Lies on Mon, May 31, 2010, at 12:53 PM

blueanjell/Unique-Lies,

Why don't you tell us all about your JW "secret" that the second coming occurred invisibly in 1914?

Did all the "soul sleepers" snooze right through it and miss it?

-- Posted by somecommonsense on Fri, Jun 4, 2010, at 7:38 AM

somecommonsense,

Where did you read that at? It isn't in any of my bibles.

If you are going to make false accusations you should at least have some source to protect your liability.

-- Posted by Unique-Lies on Fri, Jun 4, 2010, at 5:03 PM

Read a recent blog of Mr. Bell's titled "The Resurrection". I think sources were identified several times.

-- Posted by somecommonsense on Fri, Jun 4, 2010, at 7:58 PM

AS regards the following message :

blueanjell/Unique-Lies,

Why don't you tell us all about your JW "secret" that the second coming occurred invisibly in 1914?

Did all the "soul sleepers" snooze right through it and miss it?

-- Posted by somecommonsense on Fri, Jun 4, 2010, at 7:38 AM

************I would be very happy to share with you and anyone else who sincerely wants to know , the details confirming that Jesus did indeed begin ruling in 1914. But it is all too evident from your tone of speech that you really don't want to know , (for whatever reason )

The Bible at times alludes to the preciousness of pearls in an illustrative way. With reference to the surpassing value of true wisdom, Job said: "A bagful of wisdom is worth more than one full of pearls." (Job 28:18) In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus Christ counseled: "Do not throw your pearls before swine, that they may never trample them under their feet and turn around and rip you open." (Mt 7:6) Evidently Jesus meant that, if a person shows no appreciation for spiritual things, one should not further endeavor to share spiritual thoughts and teachings with him. Such persons would only trample upon valuable spiritual things and abuse or injure anyone endeavoring to share these with them. Jesus also illustrated the preciousness of the Kingdom of the heavens by speaking of "one pearl" of such high value that a traveling merchant seeking fine pearls "promptly sold all the things he had and bought it." (Mt 13:45, 46) Thereby Jesus showed that an individual appreciating the true worth of gaining the Kingdom of the heavens would be willing to part with everything in order to gain it.--Compare Mt 11:12; Lu 13:23-25; Php 3:8-11.

-- Posted by blueanjell on Sat, Jun 5, 2010, at 2:22 AM

...that Jesus did indeed begin ruling in 1914.

Posted by blueanjell on Sat, Jun 5, 2010, at 2:22 AM

blueanjell,

You have previously already told us how you believe the "invisible" occurred in 1914 in the previous blog titled "The Resurrection". It was heretical the first time you explained it and remains the same with me today as it also does with mainstream Christianity.

By the way, the "invisible" concoction did not start until the 1914 date failed to materialize as the second coming date predicted by the Watchtower leader Taze Russell.

-- Posted by somecommonsense on Sat, Jun 5, 2010, at 7:19 PM

well, see that's where the problem lies . "YOU" don't see that anything happened that year ----------but it did.

It seems most people are expecting a visible return of Jesus when that's not likely to happen since he himself isn't visible to humans . he returned to heaven as a spirit being .Remember what the Bible says ? flesh and blood cannot enter into the kingdom of GOD ?( the one we pray for when repeating THE LORD"S PRAYER ?) that means only spirit beings are in heaven

as for the heretical or departure from the accepted beliefs = this is true with Christendom , but not with true Christianity. True Christianity started waaaaaaaay back in the garden of Eden .and there's been a direction line of faithful men ever since then, for GOD's plan for the earth hasn't changed. It will still be the way he intended for it to be .

-- Posted by blueanjell on Sun, Jun 6, 2010, at 5:05 AM

As I have stated before, these recent last century heresies created by the Watchtower Society (Jehovha Witnesses) are rejected by virtually all but a small minority who have been misled with false teachings created by men wanting to carve out a seperate identity for themselves claiming to have "new" or "secret" knowledge.

For an overview of all the false predictions and teachings of the Watchtower Society, type in the following links :

http://www.truthnet.org/Christianity/cul...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversi...

-- Posted by somecommonsense on Sun, Jun 6, 2010, at 7:14 AM

somecommonsense,

Sorry, but YOU read more Jehovah Witness and Watchtower magazines evidently than I do. You seem to know all about them. I spend my time reading the KJ and NIV.

However, you keep reading those Watchtowers so you will know who is just like you.

You still don't know that God has hidden the truth in his word or refuse to believe it.

You want me to believe YOU know everything about God's word and his plan, yet YOU can not explain the verses you use as proof, then say there are no secrets in the bible.

The scriptures tell us that when we die we sleep and know nothing and do nothing, yet you refuse to believe those scriptures God hid in his word.

I say "God HID in his word", because YOU can not See nor understand those scriptures.

So, Tell US, How do YOU differ from any other false prophet or religion?

-- Posted by Unique-Lies on Sun, Jun 6, 2010, at 10:50 AM

Unique-Lies,

Sorry, but your false jabberings are still rejected. Converse with blueanjell since you both have been mislead by the same sect.

-- Posted by somecommonsense on Sun, Jun 6, 2010, at 4:38 PM

It seems most people are expecting a visible return of Jesus when that's not likely to happen since he himself isn't visible to humans .

Posted by blueanjell on Sun, Jun 6, 2010, at 5:05 AM

blueanjell,

He was "seen" ascending and will be "seen" when He returns.

Acts 1

3To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:...........

........9And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.

10And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;

11Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.

What part of "seen" gives you the most trouble?

Did you also miss the part in verse 3 that said he shewed himself alive and being "seen" by them for 40 days after the Resurrection?

What part of "alive" is so hard to understand?

-- Posted by somecommonsense on Sun, Jun 6, 2010, at 5:03 PM

somecommonsense,

Now see there, You DID understand the scriptures in Acts 1.

I have always said everyone who is alive will see Jesus when he returns.

It is the mislead christians who think they will be in the rapture who believe Christ will return invisible to get his church, so no one will know he came and got them.

Paul tells us in Acts that when Jesus Christ, the Lamb, returns at the second coming, we will all see him and know when he is coming because the trumpet will sound, loud noises will be heard with thunder and lightening.

We will see him returning in the clouds.

When angels came to earth they looked like humans, because the people they came to visit would prepare a feast for them or gave them food and drink for their journey. The fallen angels took wives of the women so they could not only be seen but felt.

If the angels, which we don't see, can make themselves visible to mankind, Christ will have no trouble making himself visible.

The kings of the earth are coming against Christ when he returns, so they will have to be able to see him, because this will be the battle of Armageddon!

I do not believe the things that the Jehovah Witness believe but I do believe what I read in my bible.

-- Posted by Unique-Lies on Wed, Jun 9, 2010, at 8:15 PM

It is the mislead christians who think they will be in the rapture who believe Christ will return invisible to get his church, so no one will know he came and got them.

Posted by Unique-Lies on Wed, Jun 9, 2010, at 8:15 PM

uniquelies,

Almost all Christians I know of think it will be visible when we are caught up (raptured) to meet Him in the air.

Revelation 14

14And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.

15And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe.

16And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped.

Reaped up and gathered up into the clouds by Jesus as seen by John.

1 Thessalonians 4

16For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

17Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

18Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

Reaped up and gathered up into the clouds to be with Jesus forever in the words of Paul and comforting indeed.

Oh yes, oh yes comforting indeed.

-- Posted by somecommonsense on Thu, Jun 10, 2010, at 8:31 PM

somecommonsense,

You posted: Almost all Christians I know of think it will be visible when we are caught up (raptured) to meet Him in the air.

Matthew 24:30-31 (King James Version)

30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

-{ There is no question about it! Everyone will see Christ return except maybe those who are in hell!

-{ I also believe Christ will return with a loud noise and everyone will see him, However...

These are only his elect thou, because Matthew tells us in Matthew 13:41 = That His angels shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity;

NOTICE:

The angels gather the evil out of his "kingdom", meaning his kingdom here on earth, not in heaven, because the evil can not be in heaven! When Christ returns, the earth then becomes the kingdom of God.

AND:

In Matthew 13:43 = Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father.

NOTICE: The righteous are Not TAKEN UP, but are left here alive to shine in "God's New Kingdom here on earth".

Matthew 13:37-43

37 He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man;

38 The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;

39 The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.

40 As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world.

41 The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity;

42 And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

43 Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.

Now... You can remove these scriptures if you like to make the bible say what YOU want it to, but it will still remain the truth for everyone else.

-- Posted by Unique-Lies on Fri, Jun 11, 2010, at 1:25 PM

Now... You can remove these scriptures if you like to make the bible say what YOU want it to, but it will still remain the truth for everyone else.

Posted by Unique-Lies on Fri, Jun 11, 2010, at 1:25 PM

uniquelies,

Why would anyone want to remove the parable of the tares of the field that tells us of a "heavenly" kingdom and a "worldly" field that is harvested.

Perhaps if you would have included verses 24 and 30 it might have been clearer to you.

24Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:.....

.......30Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.

It is comforting to know "we" Christians are gathered up into His barn.

It is however disheartening to realise "they", the tares, are bundled up for the fire after "we" have been harvested up and away.

-- Posted by somecommonsense on Fri, Jun 11, 2010, at 10:14 PM


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