Republicans often take the high ground with abortion being one of the platforms they are against. So how come since Roe vs Wade, none of them have accomplished much? I think it is political and used to get the churches behind them. Once abortion is not an issue, the churches might look at what else they are doing wrong. So all you church people voting Republican, might take that into account. Democrats run on the platform it is a woman's body, and therefore a woman's choice whether to abort or not. That is pure unadulterated smelly stuff straight from the Devil himself. Let's be blunt. Straighten out the PR language a little here. It is a woman's choice to kill another human being because she was too stupid to use birth control or it didn't work and she is now humiliated by being pregnant. It is her right because it is her body. She has the right to kill a baby. Don't sound so good when it is said that way, does it? You women out there that have done this are guilty of murder. That plain enough for you? Great PR job on that though, Democrats!
Then there is the question of competence. I have had many pregnant women around me. During the first 4 months of a woman being pregnant, there is a whole bunch of things going on. For one thing, there is an entire metabolism change necessary to accommodate a baby. This includes all kinds of things. Hormones change. Emotions change. Some women go through depression, a lot do. Some drive their mates crazy. They are up one day and down the next. It is like nothing a male can ever imagine. Okay, let us say you are going to go through this incredible painful experience that will last anywhere from 4 to 24 hours or more. Everything about your body is changing so rapidly you cannot even keep track of it. Your stomach gets larger. You can gain anywhere from 40 to 80 pounds. In 4-5 months you have to bring a baby out of your body through a channel that is way too small for the head. What would you do, men?
Given all those circumstances, if the choice is there, would you abort? Would you murder a baby?
Yet 2 hours afterwards, most women are very happy to hold that same little monster in their arms, breast feed it, give it all their life and all their love.
The problem is nature gives us hormones that go crazy. It isn't just women. Men have crazy hormones too. But we are not faced with the battleground that becomes a woman having a baby. I think during that time, a lot of women are crazy. Not bad crazy, just overwhelmed with it all. It is no wonder so many opt to end the pregnancy with an abortion. I make the case they are not responsible. They are going through a literal kind of hell during those months. I maintain the entire human race is responsible to that baby to give it a decent chance during pregnancy and afterwards give it a chance at life.
A lot of people lose sight of this. A lot want to abort any baby because of circumstances involved in becoming pregnant like rape. I agree with one thing. The rapist needs to be punished. I think the baby needs a chance at life.
Here is what happened in one case. The woman kept the baby. It was adopted. Later she married. It was only then that they found out that the baby was the only one she would ever have due to a medical condition. So her entire family line would have died out if she had aborted the innocent child. She eventually located the child and helped raise it as an “aunt”. That is an exception not the rule.
The cases are all individual and need individual judgment. But not from a person so blinded by emotion and fear, they have no clear idea what they are really doing. And that is why the abortionists are in business. I feel no woman in her right mind would murder a child. But I don't have to go through 9 months of agony. I am male.
If you want clear evidence that rape is an emotional crime, there are over 200 men in this country that were convicted in a court of law by 12 jurists that were later discovered to be innocent because of DNA testing. Even then, the courts were reluctant to release them and compensate them for wrongful conviction. I think the number is much higher than that. They are still being discovered and rooted out of the jails. How would you like to be convicted of a crime you didn't commit, lose 10 years of your life in prison? Only to discover when you are innocent, the state doesn't take responsibility for their actions! That is what is happening. These people will be ex-cons the rest of their life even though they were innocent of any wrong doing. The state tries to bargain with them to release themselves from liability. That is so wrong in so many ways.
What convicted them? They looked like the person that did the rape. The prosecution disobeyed numerous laws and got away with it during the trial because of the emotional overtones of the crime.
No action has ever been taken against the prosecutors. Wonder why? I would have them disbarred.
They should be disbarred for not following the very laws that make their existence possible. Often people lose sight of one thing in a court of law. We are all human. We all make mistakes. It is not about winning or losing a case. It is about finding out the truth of what happened and keeping innocent people from going to jail. Our people that wrote the constitution came from such a corrupted legal system in Europe. It spanned many countries. So they wrote a set of rules that allowed guilty people to go free if there was any doubt as to their guilt. Zealous prosecutors have made a farce out of that set of game rules. For that they should be punished. I think a warning is adequate the first time. The second time they should be disbarred. If elected they should be impeached. They know they are doing something wrong and they are well aware that nothing will happen to them under the current system of courts.
I think abortion is wrong in all cases. But I take the side of the silent and innocent child. Everything else is fixable. Nothing we can ever do or attempt to do can ever fix a violated person. Only a good church, only a good Christian religious follower has ever beat the psychological damage of a rape. The rage, the anger of ruin, the assault is not fixable. The only thing that works for a violated person is to talk it out, release the anger, forgive and seek no revenge(and that is really difficult to do) and I know very few people able to do it, then heal and get on with living.
Anger in some cases is a good thing. Most times when you are done wrong, the victim pays the penalty as much as the person that violates that person. It is the same with divorce, rape, assault, and any number of other things. That anger smolders for years. It is corrupting. It will eat the victim alive.
That is one reason why Jesus said to forgive. It is not easy to do. Years afterwards a person will still have the anger deep within themselves. It takes everything we have to change that. And still when you are not looking, that anger will come back to haunt you. I suggest only Jesus can help someone in that situation. Prayer helps.
In the United States today, moral relativism rules. Long ago, the nation as a whole rejected God's laws, and now everyone pretty much does what is right in his or her own eyes. People mostly make us the rules as they go along. In fact, this whole country is just kind of making up the rules as we go along at this point. What is "right" and what is "wrong" has become completely clouded. Our young people have no moral compass. But this is what happens when a nation rejects God.
The following are 18 very disturbing signs of moral relativism in America in 2011....
*It is estimated that approximately 50 million babies have been aborted in the United States since 1973.
*Planned Parenthood received $363.2 million in government grants and contracts during its 2008-2009 fiscal year, according to the organization's annual report. That was up from $349.6 million in fiscal year 2007-08.
*The board of the American Conservative Union has approved a homosexual Republican group for a planning role in the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), a major annual event in Washington, D.C., that draws conservatives from across the country.
*Fresh off of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” victory, Vice President Joe Biden said in a morning show interview that legislation approving gay marriage is inevitable.
*The Obama administration has declared that the field of synthetic biology poses only "limited risks" and should not be restricted.
*By unanimous consent in the Senate, Chai Feldblum, a lesbian law professor and the primary author of the pro-homosexual Employment Non-Discrimination Act, was recently confirmed as a member of the powerful Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which wields enormous power over the nation's employers.
*Nickelodeon’s new Illuminati-themed show House of Anubis, already airing in Belgium and Netherlands is due to air in the United States for the first time in January 2011.
*The Navy has opened an investigation into how a series of raunchy videos were produced and shown to the crew of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise while on deployment supporting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
*A Michigan man faces up to 5 years in prison for reading his wife's e-mail to find out if she was having an affair.
*CNN is reporting that an investigation has revealed that up to 5200 Pentagon employees may have been purchasing child pornography online.
*Victims of clerical sex abuse have reacted furiously to Pope Benedict’s claim yesterday that pedophilia wasn’t considered an “absolute evil” as recently as the 1970s.
*Planned Parenthood's website has announced that the group is preparing to launch a nationwide “social change initiative” to end the “stigma and shame about sex” in American culture.
*A new survey has found that 54 percent of "evangelical Protestants" believe that people from religions other than Christianity can get into heaven.
*According to a new Gallup poll, seven in 10 Americans say religion as a whole is losing its influence on American life. This is a near-record high percentage since Gallup began asking the question more than 50 years ago.
What in the world is happening to America.
How long will it be before God starts pouring out his judgment upon this nation?
Have you ever stopped for a moment and really wondered what is happening to this country? We are in such an advanced state of moral decline that it hard to even describe. It is as if a large percentage of the population has gone crazy. If you have not seen the video posted below, please take 4 minutes out and watch it. It is entitled "The Madness Of A Lost Society" and it is extraordinary. In it you will view footage of what happened at stores from coast to coast this past Black Friday. Americans were actually trampling on top of one another to get their hands on the best deals on cheap foreign-made plastic crap.
What American is becoming is hard to believe. Just check it out....
So exactly what is happening to America?
Why are people behaving this way?
It is because we have turned our backs on God.
God has instructed us how to live, but we think that we know better.
We have pushed Him out of our government, out of our schools, out of our workplaces, out of the news, out of our entertainment and even out of most of our churches.
Today, most Americans do not want anything to do with the God of the Bible. Instead, they just want to keep indulging in sin after sin.
But what should we expect?
The apostle Paul told us that things would be like this in the last days in 2 Timothy chapter 3....
But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.
The truth is that people are only going to be getting worse.
By the end, most people are going to be acting no better than animals.
Don't let that happen to you.
Now is the time to get radical for Yeshua (Jesus Christ). We would encourage you to read up about the great Christians of the past who have not denied Yeshua even though it cost them their lives. A great book that has hundreds of amazing stories is Extreme Devotion: The Voice of the Martyrs
We also encourage you to check out some of our other sites about the news and events of these last days....
The new "enhanced pat-downs" being conducted by TSA officials at airports all across the United States are provoking a massive backlash by outraged citizens. Why? Well, because the truth is that these new enhanced pat-downs are little more than legalized groping. TSA officials are now required to feel air passengers up wit the fronts of their hands. During enhanced pat-downs the new guidelines instruct them to actually feel the outlines of the male and female genitalia. In addition, in many instances it is being reported that TSA officials are actually reaching down the pants of men and up the skirts of women during these enhanced pat-downs. Some TSA officials are performing enhanced pat-downs hundreds of times a day, and they do not put on clean gloves each time they perform an "examination".
Yes, this is really happening in the United States of America in 2010.
Things have gotten so bad that incoming chief deputy DA of San Mateo County, Steve Wagstaffe, has announced that he is sending deputies into San Francisco International Airport to investigate felony groping by TSA officials.
Prominent blogger Erin Chase is a regular air traveler, and she recently made headlines across the country when she described the groping that she experienced during one of these enhanced pat-downs....
She patted my left arm, my right arm, my upper back and my lower back. She then said, “I need to reach in and feel along the inside of your waistband.”
She felt along my waistline, moved behind me, then proceeded to feel both of my buttocks. She reached from behind in the middle of my buttocks towards my vagina area.
She did not tell me that she was going to touch my buttocks, or reach forward to my vagina area.
She then moved in front of my and touched the top and underneath portions of both of my breasts.
She did not tell me that she was going to touch my breasts.
She then felt around my waist. She then moved to the bottoms of my legs.
She then felt my inner thighs and my vagina area, touching both of my labia.
She did not tell me that she was going to touch my vagina area or my labia.
So how did Erin feel after receiving an enhanced pat-down? She was horrified beyond belief...
I stood there, an American citizen, a mom traveling with a baby with special needs formula, sexually assaulted by a government official. I began shaking and felt completely violated, abused and assaulted by the TSA agent. I shook for several hours, and woke up the next day shaking.
Here is why I was sexually assaulted. She never told me the new body search policy. She never told me that she was going to touch my private parts. She never told me when or where she was going to touch me. She did not inform me that a private screening was available. She did not inform me of my rights that were a part of these new enhanced patdown procedures.
Is this what America has come to?
This is yet another sign of how far our moral decline and our moral collapse has advanced.
Now countless Americans will be publicly groped and fondled every day at airports across the United States.
Of course you know who is going to run out and apply for these jobs, right? It is going to be pedophiles, perverts and sickos.
If you have any doubt that the TSA is totally out of control, just check out the following video....
So how much more of this will the American people put up with?
We are rapidly being turned into an anti-American Big Brother police state.
In recent years, political correctness has taken over the public school classrooms in the United States and Canada. It is coming out that publishers are actually giving textbook writers social engineering guidelines that they are to follow. For example, one educational consultant in Canada has recently come forward and has admitted that he purposely featured girls in a positive light and boys in a negative light in textbooks due to the direction he was receiving from the publishers. The following quotes from that consultant recently appeared in a mainstream newspaper article up in Canada....
"If you had a picture of a person doing something positive, winning a race, performing an experiment successfully, etc., [you had to] make sure it was of a girl."
"If you had to have a picture of someone doing a bad thing - bullying, making a mistake, being unsure which course of action to take, etc. - the image was invariably of a boy."
"The side effect was to show the boys that they are rarely winners and we expect less of them."
"The unstated assumption was that boys did not need the same degree of encouragement."
Well, those are just words, right?
What kind of harm can they really do?
A lot, actually.
Today, boys rank far behind girls in nearly every measure of scholastic achievement in the United States and Canada.
Today, boys are much more likely to have behavior problems, much more likely to repeat a grade and much more likely to drop out of school altogether.
Today, women make up approximately 60 percent of the students at colleges and universities across the United States and Canada.
We have a huge problem.
Our boys are falling behind and they are not becoming men.
This yet another sign of the moral decline and the moral collapse that is going on in the United States and Canada.
For much more on what is happening with our young males, we recommend the following resources....
In addition, we very much encourage you to visit our new website entitled "The Debt" along with some of our other websites that we have been working on for a while....
If you ask most Americans, they will tell you that slavery was abolished back in the 19th century.
But that is a lie.
Today you can find slavery all over the United States. Not only is "human trafficking" a major problem (and an issue that we have touched on in other posts), but migrant workers all over the agricultural areas of the United States are being horribly exploited.
Because they are not legally here to work, employers feel free to pay them far below minimum wage. By paying them barely enough to survive, these employers have created a modern day form of slavery.
The following video about modern day slavery in Florida is by Paul Franz, a graduate student at the University of Miami School of Communication and the Knight Center for International Media.
The video follows the story of Joseph Dieune, a Haitian migrant worker who visited the United States to make money for his family back home. He works at a small agricultural center located just south of the city of Miami, and his life is far from easy.
As you watch this video, ask yourself if this is the right thing for American employers to do....
The truth is that this is yet another sign of the moral decline of America.
How in the world can we allow this type of thing to go on in the 21st century?
Unfortunately, this type of exploitation is only going to get worse.
Modern day slavery is going on all over the world, and as the moral collapse of the world continues, slavery is going to thrive even more.
Even as the U.S. military continues to put restrictions on using the name of Jesus and on members of the military sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ, they have launched two new initiatives to make the U.S. military more welcoming for gays and for pagans.
For example, the U.S. Defense Department starts the clock next week on what is expected to be a several-year process in lifting its ban on gays serving openly in the military. Now that Barack Obama openly called for the end of the ban on gays in the military during his State of the Union speech, it looks like it is only a matter of time before this is going to become a reality.
In addition, the U.S. Air Force Academy is officially adding a worship area for pagans which will be dedicated during a ceremony scheduled for March 10th. A stone circle located on a hill overlooking the Cadet Chapel will join Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, Muslim and Buddhist sacred spaces at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs.
So what do all of you think of these changes to the U.S. military? Feel free to leave a comment with your thoughts....
Here is yet another sign of the rapid moral decline of America. One of the hottest new video games of the year has a gay sex scene in it. A video of this scene is posted below, but please do not let anyone under 18 watch it.....
One "cutting edge" evangelical church in the Seattle area just held a meeting during which people got tatoos in front of the church during the service.
That's right - people getting tatoos up on stage while the service was going on.
Reportedly the church teaches that tatoos are "amoral" - neither right nor wrong.
This is what is going to happen in the last days. People are not going to read the Scriptures and corrupt preachers are going to lead people down paths that they should not go.
The Scriptures are very clear about how God feels about tatoos. In Leviticus 19:28, God told His people exactly how He feels about them:
Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the LORD.
So has God changed his mind now that we live in "New Testament" times?
No.
God does not change. In fact, God is very clear about his unchanging nature in Malachi 3:6:
For I am the LORD, I do not change
So what they are doing in that Seattle church is in direct contradiction to God's commandments.
But that is what happens when people surround themselves with teachers who tell them what they want to hear.
To read more about what the Bible has to say about tatoos, we encourage you to check out the recent article we posted about this topic on our new website.....
Although Barack Obama has come out and announced that the U.S. government is not going to make the swine flu vaccine mandatory for all citizens (at least not yet), the truth is that schools, employers and the military are making swine flu vaccinations mandatory for millions of Americans, and a lot of people are getting really mad about being forced to take an untested, potentially unsafe vaccine against their will.
You see, instead of imposing the swine flu vaccine on everyone from the national level (which would spark mass outrage and protests), the U.S. government and world health authorities are putting pressure on employers and schools to make it mandatory on a local level. The following are just a few examples of this phenomenon.....
*If you are in the U.S. military you already probably know this, but it will be mandatory for all active duty members of the U.S. military to take the H1N1 swine flu vaccine. According to the DoD's own press release, the mandatory swine flu vaccination program will start around early October, and the swine flu vaccine will also be made available to all military family members who desire to get it, but fortunately it will not be made mandatory for them at this point.
*A new regulation took effect on August 13th that will require every single hospital and health care facility in the state of New York to provide evidence that all of their workers have taken the swine flu vaccine. Penalties for institutions that violate this new regulation include fines of up to two thousand dollars for the first offense and fines of up to five thousand dollars for subsequent offenses.
*The Hospital Corporation of America, also known as HCA, has announced that it is requiring approximately 120,000 employees in 163 hospitals, 112 outpatient clinics and other facilities in 20 states to take the seasonal flu vaccine, and is postponing a decision about whether or not to require the H1N1 swine flu vaccine until they receive more information about its availability.
*Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center has announced that they will require all faculty, staff, students, post-doctoral trainees and volunteers at the hospital to take the H1N1 swine flu vaccine.
There are also a large number of people out there saying that their employers or schools are considering making the swine flu vaccine mandatory, but they have not made an official decision yet.
If you do have such a report, please let us know. We would like to publicize these serious violations of our rights as much as possible.
If you are being forced to take a swine flu vaccine to keep your job, now is the time to contact a lawyer. Normally we are not an advocate of being litigious, but the swine flu vaccine is a life and death matter, and so if you have been backed into a corner, now is the time to use an attorney.
If you just buckle under and take the swine flu vaccine and you end up seriously ill or permanently disabled (or worse), nobody is going to help you then and nobody is going to pay for it. It will be your responsibility alone.
Do not make your decision about the swine flu vaccine lightly. Do some research and listen to all sides and decide for yourself what you should do. The health of your family may depend on it.
We have posted the video below as just another sign that the morality of America is completely collapsing.
The reality is that just about any sin that you could possibly name is exploding around the nation?
Why?
Because we have rejected God and we have rejected His commandments.
So this is what happens - we get men who feel a compulsion to have relations with animals.....
If you are caught in this or another type of serious sin, then we would encourage you to visit our new site called "Why God?" that will explain to you why God really exists and how you can know Him in a personal way and get delivered from your sin.
Christians around the world are rapidly abandoning many of the beliefs that Christianity has taught for centuries. For example, a new nationwide survey conducted by The Barna Group has actually revealed that most American Christians do not believe that Satan or the Holy Spirit exists. Even the Pope decided that it would be a good idea to quote from the Hindu scriptures during his Good Friday prayer.
What in the world is happening?
It is called apostasy.
It has been happening for a long time and now the majority of Christians do not even believe that Satan or the Holy Spirit exists. Here is some of the data from Barna's survey:
*40% of American Christians strongly agreed that Satan “is not a living being but is a symbol of evil” and an additional 19% of American Christians said that they “agree somewhat” with that statement.
*38% of American Christians strongly agreed and 20% of American Christians agreed somewhat that the Holy Spirit is “a symbol of God’s power or presence but is not a living entity.”
But it is not just American Christians. Even the Pope has gone off the beaten path.
The “Way of the Cross at the Colesseum” Meditations and Prayers on Good Friday included a verse from Brahadaranyakopanishad ("Lead me from the unreal to the real, from darkness to light, from death to immortality."), a line from Tagore’s Gitanjali ("Give me the strength to make my love fruitful in service."), and a reference to Mahatma Gandhi.
Since when does a "Christian" leader include Hindu scriptures in a Good Friday service?
Apparently now.
The reality is that Christianity is falling apart and is rapidly declining in western countries.
But where a void is left behind, other forces are eager to rush in and fill it.
Now Kabbalah classes are being taught in California public schools.
The program is called "Spirituality for Kids" and it is offered in Los Angeles public elementary schools during the day or after school.
"Spirituality for Kids" was created by a leader of the Kabbalah Centre International, and it actively promotes New Age spiritualism.
"What does greater satisfaction bring?" she asks. Matthew replies: "Spiritual power!"
Zucker asks him where the power comes from? "Your inner light," the boy answers.
And where is that light found? "In your heart," he says.
Since 2006, almost 4,400 Los Angeles children have taken part in "Spirituality for Kids". The Spirituality for Kids Foundation reportedly has almost 18 million dollars in assets, and celebrity Kabbalah devotees such as Madonna are among its funders.
So Kabbalah gets to be taught in public schools, but if you say the name of Jesus you get taken to federal court.
There was a time in America when parents could let their kids play out in the streets without any supervision without having to worry at all. Those days are gone. Now you had better protect your family because America is now full of sickos, perverts and child molesters.
Just consider the following example from Corpus Christi, Texas.....
Corpus Christi Police Sargent Jason Lee reported the other day that he "found a cat that has been severed in half and the 2 halves are separated about 15 feet apart here in the field it appears the entrails from the cat have been removed."
And this was not just an isolated incident.
Corpus Christi was plagued with quite a few cat mutilations back in August of 2008.
Who would run around severing cats in half and removing their entrails?
Someone who you would not want your kids to be around, that is who.
The former judge is accused of sexually abusing inmates at Mobile Metro Jail.
The details of the allegations are extremely disturbing. Thomas is accused of paddling the bare butts of inmates, and of forcing a young man to perform oral sex on him.
Thomas has been released on a $250,000 bond, but he has been ordered by the court to have no contact with any males younger than 21.
So is there anyone we can trust and that would be safe for our children to be around?
How about the daughter of the Vice President of the United States?
Well, the New York Post is reporting that there is a video of Joe Biden's daughter that is being shopped around to various media outlets that allegedly shows her snorting cocaine at a house party in Delaware last month.
Hopefully it is not true.
But even if it turns out not to be true about her, the reality is that drug addiction is absolutely exploding in the United States.
Approximately 46 percent of those between the ages of 18 and 21 in the United States have used illegal drugs at least once.
That is a whole lot of young people.
Who is to say that it won't be your son or daughter who is the next one to get hooked on drugs?
The reality is that America may have been a "safe" place at one time, but those days are gone and they will not be coming back any time soon. When a nation rejects God, sickos and perverts flourish and morality starts to go down the toilet.
America has rejected God and the symptoms are showing all around us.
A government blueprint for a new primary curriculum in the U.K. is so bizarre that it is hard to describe. Instead of learning about the Romans, Vikings, Tudors or World War II, elementary students will be force fed lessons on sex, drugs and Twitter.
This new blueprint was developed by former Ofsted chief Sir Jim Rose following a request from Children's Secretary Ed Balls.
The following are some of the lowlights from this plan for U.K. education reform.....
*Compulsory sex education will start when children are five years old.
*Nine year old children will be given drug and alcohol education.
*There will be less emphasis on history and instead students will learn about Twitter, Wikipedia and blogging.
*Sustainability and global warming will be key elements of the curriculum.
Sustainability and global warming?
That must be the fiction portion of the curriculum.
But the most disturbing part is the compulsory sex education for five year olds.
What possible justification is there for showing a five year old kid how to put a condom on a banana?
The reality is that the sooner you teach kids about sex, the sooner they are going to want to do it.
Five year old kids cannot handle sexual information.
America is rapidly swirling down the moral toilet, but it seems that the U.K. is determined to get to the bottom even before the U.S.
The truth is that both countries have completely rejected the ways of God, and things have gotten so bad that almost every day now we see new signs of moral decay in both nations.
As the United States increasingly rejects God, those who try to hold on to traditional Christian values are under attack like never before. The reality is that America is not a "free" nation any longer - especially for Bible believing Christians.
He claimed that the homeschooling the mother had provided over the last four years needed to be "challenged."
In other words, the judge believed that the children needed to be indoctrinated into the "American" system.
So were the children receiving a good education at home?
Yes, they were - they all have tested above their grade levels by as much as two years.
But that didn't matter to the judge.
Even while Christian values are being trampled on, the agenda of the radical left is marching forward across the United States.
For instance, same sex couples will have all of the rights and benefits that that state of Washington offers to married couples under a new bill passed by the state Senate.
So if same sex couples get to enter into a government sanctioned relationship that has the exact same rights and privileges as marriage, how is that any different from being married?
It isn't.
The truth is that this bill legalizes gay marriage in the state of Washington - just under a different name.
So how did this happen to America?
Well, when we let televisions raise our children this is what happens.
The vast majority of television programs have absolutely no mention of God - unless they are using His name as a cussword.
We allow our children to watch thousands of hours of "programming" that has no references to God at all, and then we wonder why our society is becoming godless?
The truth is that we have brought this upon ourselves.
America is falling, but you and your family still have time to repent and to turn back to God. We are in the end times, but there is still time for people to turn to the Lord.
If you live in America today and you have a job and you don't need government assistance to survive then you should consider yourself to be very fortunate. A record 31.8 million Americans are now on food stamps as the number of poor Americans is shooting through the roof.
Americans are also losing their homes at alarming rates. More than 11 percent of mortgages are delinquent or are in foreclosure, and it looks like the housing crisis is only going to get worse.
So are the banks safe? Well, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation says that it may need to borrow as much as $500 billion from the Treasury Department. The truth is that is simply does not have enough cash to cover all the banks that are failing.
How in the world could this happen to America?
The United States of America was once the wealthiest, most prosperous nation on the entire earth. Americans lived in peace, almost everyone had a job, businesses were booming, the citizens were the healthiest in the world and almost everything America did turned to gold.
Those days are gone.
Instead of taking care of our national wealth, Americans spent it.
That wasn't enough for the new greedy generation of Americans, so they spent their children's money, and then they spent their grandchildren's money and then they spent their great grandchildren's money.
Now the United States is in the middle of a financial horror that is literally unprecedented in the history of the world.
As we posted on another blog the other day, the total liabilities of the United States government, including future social security and medicare payments that the U.S. government is already committed to pay out, now exceed 65 TRILLION dollars, which is more than the entire GDP of the whole world.
That 65 trillion dollars does not even reflect any significant money from the monstrous financial bailouts that Congress has passed.
So things are going to get MUCH worse financially.
How in the world could the richest nation on the earth let this happen?
This is what happens when extreme greed and extreme gluttony overcome a nation.
For decades, we, along with many other financial experts and patriots have been screaming and yelling about all the debt that America was getting into.
But nobody listened.
We sowed into the wind and so now we will reap the whirlwind.
Because of the mountain of debt that the U.S. government, financial institutions and ordinary Americans have piled up, the financial system is beginning to fail.
Already, 13 banks have failed in 2009. All of the bailouts that Congress have been passing certainly don't seem to be helping much yet.
The truth is that all of this government spending that Congress is doing will help the economy in the short term, but it will make the long term problems of the U.S. government far worse because all of this spending is just increasing the debt.
So who is going to buy all of this new government debt? China has serious doubts about who is going to buy all of America's new debt. The reality is that the only way that the government can "bailout" anyone or pay for any "stimulus" bill is to borrow.
So America borrows and borrows and borrows and borrows.
If your own personal finances were like that, how do you think it would end?
Times are going to get even harder my friends.
Already there are so many ordinary Americans that are in severe pain.
The U.S. economy lost 598,000 jobs in January. Just think about that. Over half a million jobs GONE in one short month.
These job losses are hurting real people. Do you know people who have lost jobs? We do. We know parents that are trying desperately to support their children who have now lost their jobs.
When people lose their jobs they don't have money to spend at the stores and they can't pay their mortgages either.
As more people lose their jobs, more people will lose their homes.
The truth is that there are more homes sitting empty in the United States today than there ever had been before.
Just think about that.
In fact, there are some areas of the United States that are in danger of becoming permanent disaster zones.
Did you know that some areas of New Orleans STILL have not been rebuilt after all this time?
In the "greatest country on earth" a situation like New Orleans can persist for YEARS and still the government does not fix the problem.
It is a national disgrace.
But New Orleans is not alone. There are a growing number of areas around the U.S. that have been hit by natural disasters or hard times and have just been left to rot away.
Just ask someone who has been to certain areas of Detroit. There are some places there that look like a war zone. People there are hurting bad.
Does anyone care?
All of this financial turmoil has also cause a sharp increase in the number of homeless.
It's not just people sleeping on street corners either.
Due to the huge number of foreclosures, tent "cities" have been popping up on the outskirts of major cities all over the nation.
The truth is that there are more people in the United States without a decent place to live than ever before.
And Americans are getting desperate.
Can you imagine getting down on your knees and begging for a job at the dump?
That actually happened recently in the Tampa Bay area.
"At one point I actually had a line of people 10 feet out the door waiting to talk to me," Scott Hanus, an operations manager for Veolia Environmental Services told the St. Petersburg Times.
In fact, he had 4 people actually get down on their knees and beg him for a job.
At the dump.
Wow.
Did you hear about the approximately 1,000 people who applied for 50 low paying jobs at a new In-N-Out restaurant opening in Nevada?
Some wore ties. Some wore their pants too low. Some were balding. Some owed two months of mortgage payments. Some spoke openly of suicide. Some asked this reporter for a job. Some asked the manager at the hotel hosting the event for a job.
For some Americans, desperation is giving way to hopelessness.
One out of work Arizona woman described her increasing desperation this way: "When three months go by with only two job interviews, it's hard not to feel a certain amount of self-doubt and hopelessness."
All of this increasing desperation is putting a lot of stress on life in the home.
The Baltimore Sun is reporting on one woman in the Baltimore area is having a hard time hiding her desperation as her husband's business has almost completely failed. Her family's cars have been repossessed and their house is in danger of foreclosure. "We're behind on everything," she says.
She also tells of being afraid of her abusive husband: "He gets very frustrated, very, very angry."
The reality is that according the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, more than half a million Americans, almost all of them women, are abused by their spouses every year. All of this economic stress is making things even worse experts say.
Some Americans have decided that the economy is never going to fully recover and so there is a renewed interest in survival techniques. But is running off to the mountains really a long term solution?
The truth is that Americans have lived beyond their means for decades, and now America is full of people who think that life is over if all of their treasures are taken away.
But perhaps all of us would be better off if we took the words of Jesus in Matthew 6:19-21 to heart.....
"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."
Have video games gone too far? A PC game out of Japan that allows gamers to gang rape women inside the video game and then force them to have an abortion has been banned from Amazon.com.
The game is called Rapelay, and in the game players are directed to sexually assault a mother and her two young daughters in an underground station. There is also an option for several players to gang up and perform a gang rape.
At one point in the game, the gamer is directed to force the woman who was raped to have an abortion. If the woman is allowed to give birth in the game, the woman throws the gamer's character under a train.
Originally, the game was only supposed to be released in Japan, but ended up being offered to consumers in the U.K. through Amazon Marketplace, but the game has now been banned and is no longer available.
But this incident really begs the question of how far is too far when it comes to sex and violence in these games.
The majority of all video games are marketed at teens and young adults.
They end up absorbing these scenes for hour after hour, and the sad reality is that what a person thinks about constantly is eventually what they start to become.
That is why we would be wise to heed the advice of Philippians 4:8.....
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.
What do you think about this debate? Feel free to leave a comment.....
In a stunning new interview with Fox News that will undoubtedly harm Sarah Palin's political standing with social conservatives, Bristol Palin said that she believes that abstinence is "not realistic".
When pressed for a reason why it is not realistic, Bristol Palin seemed to infer that it was because sexual activity among teens is now "more accepted".
Perhaps that is a twist on the more familiar "everyone else is doing it" excuse.
It was really a rather bizarre interview. Check out the video of Bristol Palin's stunning comments on Fox News.....
So is teen sexual abstinence really unrealistic?
Do we live in a world where our teens have no choice but to run around having sex with their classmates, getting pregnant and passing around sexually transmitted diseases in the process?
The truth is that when God tells us to do something, it is for our own good. When we violate God's laws there are consequences.
God tells us to stay pure until marriage for many reasons, and one of them is that staying pure protects our health.
And for those teen girls who acknowledged having sex, the rate of infection is 40%.
Dr. Margaret Blythe, an adolescent medicine specialist at Indiana University School of Medicine and head of the American Academy of Pediatrics' committee on adolescence says that these figures are "overwhelming because you're talking about nearly half of the sexually experienced teens at any one time having evidence of an STD."
A nation full of sexual immorality is a nation full of sexual disease.
And did you know that a new study by the Health Department of New York City has found that 26 percent of all residents of New York City have herpes?
Now keep in mind.....that is only one sexually transmitted disease.
Chlamydia, gonorrhea, infectious syphilis, AIDS and many other disgusting sexual diseases are also running rampant in New York City and across the United States.
How in the world did America get to this point?
America violated the Word of God.
America broke God's Laws.
If everyone waited until marriage and kept sex inside of marriage, then these diseases would not be running rampant in the United States. But America thought it knew better, and America did things that way that it wanted, and now America is paying the price.
In a new federal survey, more than 50 percent of both male and female 15 to 19 year old teenagers admit to having engaged in oral sex.
Think about that for a while.
That is absolutely stunning.
More teenagers have practiced oral sex than have not.
These are young kids who have not even reached their 20th birthday yet.
Can the wickedness that is plaguing this nation get much worse?
What are we teaching our kids that they would act this way?
Have we completely failed them?
Just when we thought it couldn't get any worse, the survey of American teen girls that Tyra Banks conducted totally stunned us.
More than 10,000 teenage girls and young women took part in an anonymous survey last summer on the website of "The Tyra Banks Show", and the results were absolutely shocking:
*On average, girls are losing their virginity at 15 years of age.
*14 percent of teens who are having sex say they’re doing it at school.
*52 percent of the respondents say they do not use protection when having sex.
*One in three says she fears having a sexually transmitted disease.
*24 percent of respondents with STDs say they still have unprotected sex.
*One in five girls says she wants to be a teen mom.
*One out of three respondents admits to having tried drugs.
One 16 year old girl that was interviewed on Tyra's show says that she had sex for the first time at 13 years of age. Since then, she says that she has had 9 sex partners and has contracted several sexually transmitted diseases, including genital herpes.
Is this any way for our teens to live?
Why do we insist on not teaching them to avoid these behaviors?
The truth is that our society has rejected God and His ways, so this is what we get.
We teach our children that they came from animals and that they can have sex whenever they want. We just suggest that they use a little "protection" (which actually is not much protection at all).
We have failed our teens.
The results speak for themselves.
The reality is that we are living in the last days, and our society is full of proud, wicked people who love to sin just like the Scriptures tell us:
2 Timothy 3:1-5
But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them.
The U.S. State Department says that there are 800,000 new victims each year, while the International Labor Organization claims that the number is actually about 2.5 million.
The executive director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, Antonio Maria Costa, had this to say about the report: "It's sick that we should even need to write a report about slavery in the 21st century."
Actress Mira Sorvino has been appointed as a U.N. goodwill ambassador to help Costa's agency fight human trafficking, and she had this to say about the human trafficking phenomenon: "Until a few years ago, I blissfully believed that slavery was a thing of the past.....Well, obviously I was terribly wrong."
According to the U.N. report, sexual exploitation accounts for 79 percent of human trafficking, while forced labor accounts for 18 percent.
So just who is being trafficked?
The report says that women are 66 percent of the victims, followed by young girls at 13 percent, men at 12 percent, and young boys at 9 percent.
And you know what makes this worse?
Sickos from the United States are fueling much of this.
The term "sex tourism" has actually become part of the English language over the past decade as thousands upon thousands of Americans (and Europeans too) have flown to foreign countries to have sex with these sex slaves. Often these sex slaves are only young boys or young girls.
Our world is becoming full of sickos and perverts just as 2 Timothy 3:1-4 warned us would happen in the last days before the return of Christ.....
"But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God"
America has turned against God and every day there are more stories in the news that illustrate this sad reality. Thank you for visiting and please help us get the word out about this blog.
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