Posted on 12/30/2004 8:54:47 PM PST by Mr. Silverback
A friend of mine recently installed voice-recognition software on his computer. Instead of “keyboarding” thoughts, he now speaks them in. He tested the software by saying a wide range of words and sentences and found the software did reasonably well, even on technical vocabulary.
But then he spoke the word exegesis, meaning the explanation or elaboration of a biblical passage or other text. He nearly fell off his chair laughing when exegesis came up on the monitor screen as exit Jesus—a computer Freudian slip, but prophetic nonetheless.
Later that day several news dispatches reminded him that there is a concerted effort to “exit Jesus” from public discourse. For example, Pastor Richard Parker was ready to deliver the customary invocation prayer at the Warren County, Virginia, Board of Supervisors meeting. Just before he was to speak, the county attorney alerted him that he could say “Lord” or “God,” but not “Jesus.” Pastor Parker rightly walked out, explaining that as a Christian pastor, he would not pray if he had to “exit Jesus.”
Literally hundreds of violations of religious freedom in the United States have been documented by a Texas-based group, the Liberty Legal Institute. On October 20, it presented the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Property a fifty-one-page report titled “Examples of Religious Hostility in the Public Square.”
Just a few examples: A Houston teacher trashed two students’ Bibles, then marched them to the principal’s office and threatened to report their parents to Child Protective Services for allowing them to bring their Bibles to school. A ninth-grader got a zero on her research project because she chose Jesus as the topic; worse, her teacher refused to let her submit a substitute project. A St. Louis public school student was “caught” praying over his lunch. As punishment, he was lifted from his seat, reprimanded in front of classmates, and ordered never to pray in school again.
At a New Jersey Veterans’ cemetery, an honor guard member was fired for telling a deceased veteran’s family, “God bless you and this family.” A Minnesota state employee was banned from parking in the state parking lot, because his car had stickers saying, “God is a loving and caring God” and “God defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman.”
McKinney, Texas, “has no problem with people meeting in their homes for football watch parties, birthday parties, or even commercial gatherings to sell Tupperware.” But when a few couples gathered in a pastor’s home, they were told, “The City prohibits a church meeting in a home unless the home sits on at least two acres.” And on it goes, for fifty-one well-documented pages.
Make no mistake: Well-financed organizations are working hard to expel Christianity from public discourse. If agitators try to do this in your city or school district, there are Christian attorneys and organizations that can help you. Call us here at BreakPoint (1-877-322-5527) for resources or for more information about worldview issues, something all Christians need to be aware of. If we stay alert and resolute, our adversaries will not succeed in “exiting Jesus.”
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I'd like to get a copy of that report.
I like it when the world tries to expel Jesus...the more they try...the more Jesus is embedded in the hearts of those who love Him.
You're added!
You are right again...and it is so reassuring for those on the right path...
Put me on this list, please!
I seem to recall reading in SOME book, some where, that in the last days, good will be called evil and evil Good..darn, now what was that book again?...
Check out Isaiah Chapter 5 verse 20...
You and I know...He da Man (and then some...)
Yup...
Why would he rather pray to J*sus instead of G-d/YHVH?
The Federal government recognizes as federal holidays the births of only four people in history.
George Washington - but not on his birthday.
Abraham Lincoln - but not on his birthday.
Martin Luther King - but not necessarily on his birthday.
Jesus of Nazareth - but not necessarily on his true birthday.
So why is Jesus singled out for special derision during the time of celebration?
It is like finding a dead rat at his birthday party. You step on it and out the a$$ end squirts maggots each with a writ crying "I'M SUING! I'M SUING!
What if we could not mention Washington because it might offend the Brits and Canadian tories.
What if we could not mention Lincoln because it might offend some who are still fighting the Civil War?
What if we could mention ML King because it might offend the pointy heads?
So why does the name of JESUS cause such offense?
Perhaps this might be the reason...
My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus'
blood and righteousness,
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
but wholly lean on Jesus' name.
On Christ the solid rock I stand
All other ground is sinking sand,
All other ground is sinking sand.
Your faith in God is in your very soul.
Jeremiah 23:27
27 That think to cause My people to forget My name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers forgot My name for Baal.
Now, why is it that 'YHVH' is removed yet Baal remains in most bibles? Who did that?
Baal from the Hebrew
1168 Ba`al bah'-al the same as 1167; Baal, a Phoenician deity:--Baal, (plural) Baalim.
Baal = "lord"
1) supreme male divinity of the Phoenicians or Canaanites
2) a Reubenite
3) the son of Jehiel and grandfather of Saul
4) a town of Simeon, probably identical to Baalath-beer
So, lord, Lord, and LORD all equal Baal. LOL
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