Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne, Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
Obama calls cloning ‘dangerous, profoundly wrong’
This was the headline for Obama’s decision to have the government become officially involved again in the destruction of human life through the sanctioning of fetal stem cell researching.
So, Obama approves of something grossly immoral and wicked and the headline gives us Obama standing in the gap against moral perfidy. What a joke.
Wouldn’t it be interesting to discuss with the President why he thinks cloning is wrong?
Periodically I read redstate.com which is a big forum for a form of conservatism as well as a big supporter of most things Reagan Republican. Today I got a kick out of billboards they are financing and putting up around the country in support of Rush Limbaugh.
The billboards read,
“Dissent Is The Highest Form Of Patriotism.”
Now, this made me chuckle because for 8 years I have been dissenting against the absolute bone-headedness of all things Republican during the Bush administration. I dissented against the extension of Empire in the Iraq war. I dissented against the Bush policy on immigration. I dissented on the Bush “no child left behind” legislation crafted with Teddy Kennedy’s approval. I dissented in the Bush “prescription drug entitlement for senior citizens.” I dissented when Bush campaigned against Pat Toomey in the Republican Pennsylvania primary in favor of that foul liberal Arlen Spectre. I spent 8 years dissenting from the Bush administration and I can’t tell you how many times people from my own tribe (Christians) accused me of being unpatriotic.
Now, that a Democrat is in the White House dissent is fashionable again.
Part of the reason that Republicans are in the mess that they are in is that instead of being patriots and dissenting during the Bush years they wilted under pressure. As such it’s hard to take them seriously now in their dissent of all things Obama.
Still, we patriotic dissenters are glad for the company and after having dwelt in the waters of dissent for a very long time now we can say … “Come on in boys, the water is fine.”
Oh, and while we are on the whole Rush Limbaugh vs. the White House matter let me make just a few points.
1.) There is a proverb that says, “one shouldn’t get in an argument with someone who buys ink by the barrel.” As such, I’m not sure how wise the White House war room was in trying to intimidate a guy who has 13,000,000 listeners for three hours every day.
2.) Limbaugh is good at what he does. If he were not such a war-hawk, Lincoln lover, and knee jerk Republican I might be able to actually appreciate him even more. Still, for all his mistaken convictions I think people need to realize that in this Limbaugh vs. White House war Limbaugh needs to win. Remember the end game in all this for the White House is the destruction of talk radio. Now, “Talk Radio” has its problems but without “Talk Radio” there will not be even a mildly alternative opinion out there accessible to the average American in competition with what the major media lies about.
Now, again, I realize that “Talk Radio” is hardly ideologically ideal but again if the White House succeeds in shutting town “Talk Radio” they and their major media market lap dogs will own the American mind. Yes, it is a crying shame that we have gotten to the point in this country where we must depend upon the simple bromides that are tossed to the citizenry by those on “Talk Radio” in order to build resistance but the situation is what it is and right now “Talk Radio” is the only game in town when it comes to large scale popular dissent and resistance.
3.) I am old enough to remember when Nixon went after the journalist Jack Anderson. The media was outraged by the idea that the Nixon White House had a journalist “enemies list.” Now Obama is doing the same thing and the lying dog major media doesn’t care? The White House is going after the first amendment and (through back door methodologies that will bring about the results of “fairness doctrine” legislation) very few people care?
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Emergent Churches, homosexual marriage, Seeker Friendly philosophy, abortion, Liberation theology, Keynesianism, intellectually vapid Pentecostalism, existentialism, Arminianism, collectivism, Radical Two Kingdom theology, the decline of public morality …
All of these seeming disparate movements and many more like them have one thing in common and that is they are arid and life destroying winds that blow in from hell which are given to the complete destruction of the Western Church and so Western civilization.
It is not as if these movements and the ideas that motivate them are not inner connected. Only the fool would think that we are bent over at the force of hurricane winds and not realize that all of these winds serve blow in from the same pit and serve the same end. It may seem like Emergent churches have little to do with Keynesianism or that Pentecostalism and existentialism are isolated and unrelated breezes but we have need to realize that all of the breezes that blow from hell are resulting in a similar end. The work of the winds of government schools is one with the work of the winds of Radical Two Kingdom theology. The work of the winds of Arminianism is one with the work of collectivism. All these winds blow from West to East and all of these winds blow from Hell.
Ideas have consequences and the consequences of these ideational trade winds from Hell is to rob God of His glory while impoverishing and killing those made in His image. It is not as if these winds are random and isolated. They blow in at the beckoning of their master to take the life out of all that they swirl about. Taken together they have the ability to turn a verdant land into an arid desert and to reduce a land filled with a vibrant people to a wasteland populated by emaciated skull and bones.
We cannot allow ourselves to think that we can shelter ourselves from some breezes while allowing some to blow across us. They all are dedicated to destroying us. We will not save our churches by sheltering our churches from the winds of hell, for winds that destroy our families will destroy our Churches. We will not save our families by sheltering our families from the winds, for the winds, should they destroy our culture, will wreak havoc on our families. This is not a windstorm we can resist piecemeal. No, we must build wind shelters simultaneously for all our institutions — from family to church, from civil to educational, from the the arts to economics, from our structures of jurisprudence to all our cultural infrastructure.
With the intensity of these winds from hell we have come to the point where no one person or institution can find a safe way out for themselves alone. As such all must join together, out of interest for God’s glory, and stand together in the work of building shelter in the storm. At this moment in history there are none who are of like mind who can isolate themselves from those who share their interest. What is at stake is no less than God’s glory and our freedom.
Gary DeMar has a great article,
http://www.americanvision.org/article/shilling-for-dollars-at-the-splc/
calling the Southern Poverty League Center (SPLC) and National Public Radio out on some hate speech and muck raking yellow journalism.
The only advice I would give to Gary on this article would be on the following phraseology,
The euphemism “gay” has been used by the homosexual movement to hide the fact that homosexuality is really same-sex sex. This renaming tactic has been used by abortion advocates for years.
Gary gets the euphemism “gay” spot on but then he turns and uses “sex” as a euphemism for buggery. Christians have to come up with a different label as to what two homosexual men do to each other to find physical release. In brief, it is not possible for two men to have “sex” with each other any more than it is possible for two men to be “married.” Homosexual acts of buggery and Homosexual coupling cannot be called “sex” and “marriage” without destroying the meaning of the words “sex” and “marriage.”
It is a fine article by Gary and one that Christians should read in order to be aware of the attempt to push them into the closet.
This is the way it always works right? If one group comes out of the closet then the group that was responsible for keeping them in the closet previously has to the group that goes into the closet. Whereas once upon a time homosexuality was the love that “dare not speak its name” increasingly it is Christianity that is the religion “dare not speak it’s name.”