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“Western experts, Bill Clinton, the UN, and the World Health Organization, look upon the AIDS problem as ‘not enough condoms.’ We on the ground, those who actually live in the country, see that the problem is too much promiscuity.” Martin Sempa, a Ugandan pastor and the “brains” behind the Ugandan effort against the spread of AIDS, says he avoided the Toronto AIDS conference because of the seething hostility to his message he was likely to find there. The only trouble is, he says, that the delegates in Toronto are missing the one thing that will save the lives of millions.  http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/aug/06081603.html

More Catching up....

Is Islam is a religion of peace? Photos to view: http://www.snopes.com/photos/politics/muslimprotest.asp

Why Islam Hates America Allan J. Ashinoff

NCTC: Up to 70 Terror Threats a Day - Ronald Kessler

Commentary

Family Research Council - August 15, 2006 - Washington Update - A recent poll of Americans shows that 77 percent can identify at least two of Walt Disney's Seven Dwarfs, but only 24 percent can name two current members of the U.S. Supreme Court. The Three Stooges topped the three branches of the federal government in public awareness by 74 percent to 42 percent. Homer Simpson--bratty Bart's dad--was identified by 60 percent, nearly three times as many as could name a work written by the Greek poet Homer. This poll comes on the heels of a May survey by the National Geographic Society that found that 88 percent of young adults could not locate Afghanistan on a map of the world. The poll of popular culture was commissioned by Syracuse University. Prof. Robert Thompson does not claim the results show that Americans are "dumb," but that the mass media are much more successful at getting their messages out than either government or our educational system. Our government schools are doing a terrible job preparing young people to be citizens of a great republic. With classrooms set to reopen soon, we might want to hear less whistling while we work.

Now see: Education (Propaganda Factories) or Indoctrination and Education Resources

"Without a Heritage Every Generation Starts Over"

"The world is a dangerous place to live—not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." Albert Einstein

EarsToHear.net Op-ed submission to several media outlets:

Abusing the State Constitution

Massachusetts Democratic lawmakers are now abusing the rules of Commonwealth to provide "selective" legislating. This is evident by lawmaker actions ignoring the voter mandated income tax rollback and obstructing an overwhelming and record 170,000+ initiative signatures, to bring a vote on marriage to the ballot.

Legislators have also abused conference rulings to stall a legislative vote on Representative Emile Goguen's Bill of Address to remove (not impeach) the four despotic justices who tyrannically mandated same-sex marriage on the entire Commonwealth. Yet a vote is required by the Constitution written by John Adams in 1780, and to be taken immediately after the resolution is filed.

These selective and undemocratic rulings in Massachusetts are also highlighted by the fact that 19 other states have already adopted a constitutional ban on gay marriage and 6 more may have it on their ballots this November. Are Massachusetts State lawmakers using this "selective" tactic in the same vein where secular liberals use "selective" definitions of "discrimination, diversity, tolerance, bigotry, hate normal, natural, morals, values, and virtue" selectively exclude Judeo-Christians. This deception has been successful under the guise of "safety," where politicians, school administrators, and worse, judges have all been duped.

That said, I have been told by one Democrat seeking to replace Representative Goguen that he has “no problems with same-sex marriage” as well as stating there are “more important issues to deal with.” I can only deduce from his convenient spin, that moral virtue as outlined in America's founding document is now obsolete, that the "Laws of Nature and of Nature's God" are no longer the standard by which "unalienable Rights" and to be "entitled."

It leaves one to wonder by which standard one prioritizes the issues, by virtue or money. The history of the Democratic Party has left me to conclude that they have now become the party of socialistic "programs" which breed fiscally irresponsible and are aimed at creating a cradle-to-grave-nanny-state where dependence on Government is replacing personal and moral responsibility and commitment.

So when you hear a politician mention an issue like more funding to improve our government-run schools where the darkness of GLSEN has replaced the Light of Christ, please remind them of the plan Dr. Benjamin Rush proposed for public education in 1787. This signer of the Declaration of Independence and the man considered "the father of modern medicine," proposed: "Let the children who are sent to those schools be taught to read and write - - (and) above all, let both sexes be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education." In 1791, Dr. Rush wrote a pamphlet titled, "A Defense of the Use of the Bible as a Schoolbook." AND a 1783 letter: "[T]he only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments." And "Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind." AND warned if America ever removed the Bible from the classroom, all of our time will be spent fighting crime."

Today's Democrats (and some RINOs) tell us there are more important issues. Will the Judeo-Christians voters in Massachusetts continue to shun their call to be the salt and light and instead fall prey to a tyrannical government over their God-given liberty and virtue? We’ll see in November.

When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand. Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul. Ezekiel 33:8-9 (KJV)

In case you missed it....

Gladiator, American Style - Someone did a super job of putting this together. 

Action Items

The time has come to end IRS tyranny and oppression by demanding leadership scrap our present tax system in favor of the Fair Tax. Please sign a national Grassfire petition supporting this move.  http://www.grassfire.org/84/petition.asp?PID=11553637&NID=1

(For more on taxation and the economy see: http://www.earstohear.net/resources/taxes.html)

American Minute with Bill Federer - August 16 - Charles Finney died August 16, 1875. An attorney, he saw so many Scripture references in Blackstone's Law Commentaries that he bought a Bible and came to faith. His Revival Lectures, 1835, inspired George Williams to found the YMCA-Young Men's Christian Association, 1844, and William Booth to found The Salvation Army, 1865. Finney formed the Benevolent Empire - a network of volunteer organizations to aid with social problems - which by 1834 had a budget which rivaled the Federal Government. Concerning the Kingdom of God, Finney wrote "Every member must work or quit. No honorary members." While president of Oberlin College, 1851-66, it was a station on the Underground Railroad secretly bringing slaves to  freedom, and granted the first degree in the U.S. to a black woman, Mary Jane Patterson. Charles Finney wrote: "The time has come for Christians to vote for honest men, and take consistent ground in politics or the Lord will curse them...Politics are a part of a religion in such a country as this, and Christians must do their duty to their country as a part of their duty to God...God will bless or curse this nation according to the course Christians take in politics." See also: Directory of biographies, sermons and articles of  CHARLES G. FINNEY

Book from EarsToHear.net

While conservative activists, columnists, and politicians continue to work to convince those on the secular left through worldly understanding and wisdom, have Christians lost sight of their higher calling? Christians are called to be "salt" and "Light" and to "reprove" (not judge) the world of sin, yet, this author wants to remind Christians to seek "first" the Kingdom of God for the harvest is truly great. The power of God DOES NOT follow the Christian - the power of God follows the preaching of His Word and His Kingdom.

If you enjoyed the "challenges" and Gospel of John quiz this book will challenge you further.