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Pastor-View News Commentary Paying attention to issues that
affect the attitude of our nation toward God through Jesus Christ.
May,
2006
Very Valuable Public
School Parent Information!!
Cultural and Political News: Pray for those in authority…
1. Da Vinci Code
distortions.
Good internet resources.
Catholic Church leads
charge against it. Tom Hanks apparently
can*t decide whether its serious dialogue or just fun.
2. Homosexuality
has no proven
biological basis. DNC chair
struggles to toe the line. Confusion
about God and transgender.
3. Cowboy Church facing
government control!
4. Immigration
nuanced
discussions. Christians need to think
hard about immigration issues.
5. Massachussets school redefines
homosexuality as a civil right not a sexuality issue to let parents choose to
opt-out their children. Is this
the result?
6. University of California Hastings College of Law decides for
Christian club what it believes! Lying
Nobel Prize Winner considered
quality OSU speaker. Conservative
Books provided cause
for heterophobia at OSU. Downright
liberal intolerance!
7. Duke Rape Case: Change
definition of morality, lose appreciation of danger. Example: STD’s
8. Jewish Influence: recycling
anti-semitism.
9. Iran: Weapon’s grade
uranium found! Russia
helping them. Can
we stop Iran?
10. Roe V Wade on the ropes Washington
Post makes complicated humanistic argument for less late term abortions but more
abortion pill usage. Article does not quite say it but really argues for
problem free extra-marital sex: the complicated term they use for this is
*individual autonomy*.
11. University of Texas biologist Erick Pianka. Saving earth
with Ebola. Respected
Environmentalist calls
for extermination of human race through Ebola. UN argues that
man is causing biggest extinctions since dinosaurs. Russian Communist Leader exposes moral
ambiguity of his own military research. Scientists do science with
mentally retarded but end up with religious humanism conclusions based on
faith and not observation.
12. Katrina Refugees overwhelming
compassion of Houston.
13. Lord, we pray for protection
against disease. Chronology
of flu spread. Real
Panic out there. Panic
is dangerous fundraising tool. Worldwide H5N1 Avian Bird Flu Panic reveals
lack of hope in powerful, loving God. United
States watching
Canada on this. God hears the cry of those who seek Him! It is arrogant
for mankind to think he can save himself through science. Medical knowledge
is great, repentance and trust in God is best.
Worldview Issues: Popular
Humanism (The Light came into the world but the world hated the light. Pray:
Lord of the Harvest raise up workers.)
1. Freedom of Speech/Religion What
is the balance? Europe losing
perspective. NewsMedia cowed
into submission.
2. Global Warming/Christianity agenda
driven Christianity dangerous. Evangelicalism
split on the issue.
3. Bush recommends
anti-communism book.
4. Social Gospel Dying: Marvin
Olasky. Conservative vs.
Progressive Children future
going to conservatives due to child-bearing rates. Traditional Married Women happier according to new
study. Republicans happier according to
consistent studies since 1970’s. The
Feminine Mistake.
Flawed Berkley Study says
whiny kids grow up to be conservatives. Roots of poverty: important
distinctions. Fathers are important despite
what many authors/social scientists claim. 1 in 3 children
go to sleep in homes without dads!
5. Homosexual Adoption soon to be
outlawed by states. In Massachusetts, though,
Catholic
Charities who reject homosexual parents have been shut down. Same-sex Marriage slippery
slope after all. Massachusetts
law Homosexuality: United Methodists/Episcopalians diverge
on issue. China
rejects
homosexual festival. Golden Globe Awards thoroughly
gunked with homosexual themes. Vatican takes strong
steps on homosexual priests. Brokeback
Mountain celebrates
homosexuality. Homosexual clubs
get money over Christian clubs. Abuse: Is Homosexually
abusing someone more criminal than sexually abusing someone? Biblically,
yes, though both are horrible. Hate Speech: Psychiatrists: Want
to label hate an illness. Moving
to label homophobia a psychiatric disorder. Shocking! UConn students
use
*hate speech* label for conservative perspective. Kansas U Professor
On Intolerance lies
about hate motivated attack. Strange
indeed! Meanwhile, Resident Advisers at University banned
from doing Bible studies. Clear violation
of constitutional rights.
6. WB Vendetta dangerously
turning terrorism clarity into confusion. Oscars Anthony Hopkins notes
Hollywood arrogance. Hollywood
used to champion its trash, violence and sex, by claiming they were just
giving the audience *what it wanted*. Now
with wildly unpopular liberal
social movies they claim courage to *teach* lessons for future generations.
This simply proves that morality was never something they were interested to
champion, unless
that meant liberal (im) morality. Not like any of this is really a shock.
Humanism has
always been their curriculum. Underage
sex link
to media found. Pornography: College
Dorm Brothels? Our
teens are learning all about it! Bowling Green State
University pays
porn star to teach our college kids about pornography. Carnegie
Mellon U encourages
porn industry. US Government is finally getting serious about policing
pornography sites
7.
God Rejecting Political Entities
Experiencing Decline: France continues to
face major youth unrest. EU
rejects God for constitution and faces
economic decline, attacks from
angry nations. If world is headed for an Asian shift, look for a nation
with significant evangelism explosion to lead the way, (China?). Massachusetts:
Why
is everyone leaving? Canada goes
conservative?!
Bias In Culture: Cultural
Blindness: (Surrounding ourselves with those who teach what we want them to
teach. Lord, raise up prophets to speak Your word.)
1. Matt Lauer makes
socialist preaching teacher look like victim his student*s questions.
2. Air America
still struggling to
survive.
3. Bias In Media? Amazing twist of logic
from left about media bias. Definitive UCLA
study silences critics with its analysis. Scandals
treated inequitably.
4. University Conservatives
are New Hot Item. UNCG: uses
*disrespect* as tool to shut down free speech. Wake Forest
unconstitutional discrimination
being exposed!
5. Mike Adams: essential
voice in our culture today.
International Matters: (Why do
the nations rage?)
1. Saddam Hussein argues
*might makes right*, killing 150 people in town was his right as leader of
Iraq.
2. Israel Archaeological
Tunnel Finds point to fall of Jerusalem.
3. Chavez continues
to consolidate his communist power.
4. Hamas wins elections in Palestine.
Now
they must prove their worth. Muslim
World Like
Angry Beehive over political
cartoons depicting Muhammed.
Different from Christian Response to Kanye West Photos? Islamic World Domination: Iran
leader calls
for final war between Islam and the West. They
are not even trying to hide it.
5. Why do
Japanese live so long? Is it their intense commitment to honor parents?
6. 15 year old Buddha
developing large following.
International Missions
- Bahai Faith: Major
force for humanism.
- Inspiring Story
of Nien Cheng
- Chinese House Churches shut
down amidst brutal torture.
- North Korea leads
the way in Human Rights abuses.
- Hindu Persecution
of Christians in Nepali.
- Wow, How
can the UN think this is okay?
- Converted
Shia woman
disappears. Pakistani
Christians violently
attacked on Easter morning.
- Indonesia church
attacks.
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