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To: Quix
>>I don’t know the sequence of the book foreword and his purported conversion experience.<<

There sure seemed to be a strong opposition to him coming from you even though you now claim to not know. A little more study and information may be in order before you publicly condemn the man.

2,314 posted on 05/02/2012 4:50:57 AM PDT by CynicalBear
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Welllllll

Here's a review on Amazon mentioning a 1995 collaboration with Toffler (book was published March 1995):

When I was in my early 20s I read a book called 'The Third Wave' by Alvin Toffler. It completely changed my life. It made clear the things I felt happening in the world and explained them in a way I still carry with me today. I became a Toffler devotee and read everyone of his 1000+ page books. Then in 1995 he wrote a small 200 word book with Newt Gingrich about the future of politics. It was the worse piece of crap I had ever read. It made no sense. It's ideas were vapid and muddled. Someone recently said that Newt is "a stupid guys idea of what a smart person sounds like." I completely agree. Knowledge without ethics, empathy or vision does not make you smart. It makes you dangerous.

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from

http://www.amazon.com/review/RTJDMH5P17W80/ref=cm_cr_pr_viewpnt#RTJDMH5P17W80

Here's a great article by Chuck Colson I ran into along the way:

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/greghengler/2012/04/23/chuck_colson_19312012

I spoke to between three and four hundred excited inmates jammed in the chapel that morning, many apparently serious believers. Five minutes into my talk I asked them the question that had struck me that morning, "Okay, now, you fellows that are in here, you are the experts. Why is it that we as a nation are filling so many prisons?"

Dozens among the guys sitting there in their blue denim uniforms began shouting out, "Sin!" The word became a ringing chorus. "Sin!" I was stunned. I can't imagine any other audience where, if I asked that question, I would get that answer. These men had lived it though. They know the truth. (p. 75, The Faith)

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Utopianism is one of the most pervasive myths of our age. It lies at the heart of the great "isms" of the twentieth century, from National Socialism to Marxism. Utopianism denies the biblical doctrine of sin by defining the human dilemma not as moral rebellion against God but as ignorance, poverty, or oppression. The answer, then, is simply better education, income redistribution, or political reforms.

The promise is that if we reform unjust social structures, natural human goodness will flourish. (p. 335)

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Here's a Christianity Today article on his Baptism as a ?liberal? Baptist:

http://blog.christianitytoday.com/ctpolitics/2009/03/gingrich_to_con.html

He evidently remains a member of the CFR.

I have been unable to find any repentance and refutation of his globalist values and goals since any purported conversion.

He evidently became an RC in 2009 to join his 3rd wife--a former Capital Hill staffer, in her religion.

He was Southern Regional Director for globalist Nelson Rockefeller in 1968.

From his Wiki article:

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

"Gingrich has also been an advocate for health information technology. In 2005, together with Hillary Rodham Clinton he announced the proposal of the 21st Century Health Information Act, a bill which aimed to replace paperwork with confidential, electronic health information networks."

. . .

In 2005 he became the co-chair of a task force for UN reform, which aimed to produce a plan for the U.S. to help strengthen the UN.

. . .

Religion

Gingrich was raised a Lutheran.[185] In graduate school he was a Southern Baptist. He converted to Catholicism, Bisek's faith, on March 29, 2009.[186][187] He said "over the course of several years, I gradually became Catholic and then decided one day to accept the faith I had already come to embrace." The moment when he decided to officially become a Catholic was when he saw Pope Benedict XVI on his visit to the United States in 2008: "Catching a glimpse of Pope Benedict that day, I was struck by the happiness and peacefulness he exuded. The joyful and radiating presence of the Holy Father was a moment of confirmation about the many things I had been thinking and experiencing for several years."[188] Gingrich has stated that he has developed a greater appreciation for the role of faith in public life following his conversion, and believes that the United States has become too secular. At a 2011 appearance in Columbus, Ohio, he said, "In America, religious belief is being challenged by a cultural elite trying to create a secularized America, in which God is driven out of public life."[111]

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Below from:

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/mar/03/nation/la-na-newt-gingrich-20110303

Gingrich's moves are meant to allay concerns among influential religious conservatives that his personal history is at odds with their views. In 2007, he admitted during a radio interview with Focus on the Family founder James Dobson that he had been having an extramarital affair with his present wife as he was excoriating President Clinton for lying to a grand jury about his dalliance with a White House intern. As Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, put it, Gingrich has "one ex-spouse too many for most evangelicals."

But as the former speaker moves closer to a potential White House bid, with more details expected Thursday, his wooing of the evangelical community appears to be paying off.

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Gingrich, who was raised Lutheran and became a Southern Baptist when he entered Georgia politics, was not known for a focus on religious issues during his 20 years in Congress. But friends and Gingrich himself said his conversion two years ago to the Roman Catholic faith of his third wife, Callista, convinced him of the nation's need for spiritual renewal.

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From the Washington Post: What Kind of [Roman] Catholic is Newt Gingrich?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-faith/post/what-kind-of-catholic-is-newt-gingrich/2011/12/14/gIQAvKC2tO_blog.html

In summary . . . I find nothing that utterly convinces me of the authenticity of his 'conversion,' at a heart level to a thorough going loyalty to Jesus The Christ.

He has a life long history of decisions and actions convenient to his goals, preferences and predilections at the time.

I have learned of absolutely not the faintest hint of his renouncing his secret society and globalist values, allegiances and goals.

At this point, I'll continue to be wary and skeptical. If and when he becomes more convincing about his relationship with Jesus--PRAISE GOD, I'LL BE HAPPY TO CHEER HIM ON.

At this point, my best guess is that his loyalty to his secret society brothers and to globalism still ranks higher than his loyalty to Jesus--which would likely mean that from Jesus' standpoint, Newt is not at all sold out to Jesus sufficiently to warrant the label "Christian." One cannot serve 2 masters--satan and Jesus. And globalists do NOT serve Jesus The Christ as Lord and Savior.

2,318 posted on 05/02/2012 6:27:17 AM PDT by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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