Posted on 12/11/2012 6:45:49 AM PST by Kaslin
Bill O'Reilly asked this question on his Fox News program last week: "Why do I have to be the leader defending Christmas against its attackers?" O'Reilly was criticizing Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee's renaming his state's Christmas tree a "holiday tree."
Good question. It's time for Christians to realize that their religion is under attack, and they had better start fighting to win the war for religious liberty in public opinion, in the courts and in the schools.
The war against Christianity has been waged by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Freedom From Religion Foundation and similar groups. Their tactics use the threat of litigation, with the hope that supremacist judges will accept their reinterpretation of the First Amendment, as Americans have understood it for over two centuries.
The re-election of Barack Obama has made this issue even more pressing. Throughout his first term, he waged a persistent campaign to secularize America, to push all religion behind church doors and to ban all mention of religion from every public place, park, building, military facility, school and speech.
The public schools have become the front line in this battle to banish Christmas from celebrations, songs and events, and anti-Christmas public school rulings have been accelerating. Here are a few examples.
Pennsylvania fourth-graders were prohibited from handing out religious Christmas cards to classmates, Massachusetts ninth-graders were told they could not create Christmas cards that depict a nativity scene, a Georgia school board deleted the word "Christmas" from the school calendar, Minnesota middle school kids were disciplined for wearing red and green scarves in a Christmas skit and for ending the skit with wishing all a Merry Christmas, and dozens of schools banned Christmas carols, in favor of songs such as "Frosty the Snowman" and "Winter Wonderland".
A New Jersey second-grader was prohibited from singing the pop song "Awesome God" at an evening talent show, and a Colorado school counselor changed the words of the Pledge of Allegiance on the public-address system from "one nation under God" to "one nation under your belief system" (that was, fortunately, overturned). A Massachusetts elementary school censored God from Lee Greenwood's famous song, changing the line "God bless the U.S.A." to "We love the U.S.A."
A first-grade girl in North Carolina wrote a poem for her school's Veterans Day assembly honoring her two grandfathers who had served in the Vietnam War that included the sentences, "He prayed to God for peace. He prayed to God for strength." The school censored the word God out of the poem before the kid read it. A Texas high school ordered the football coach not to bow his head or kneel when the team said a prayer before a game.
Cranston High School West in Rhode Island banned a prayer banner that had hung on the auditorium wall for 38 years without complaint. The banner read in part: "Our Heavenly Father, Grant us each day the desire to do our best ... Help us to be good sports and smile when we lose as well as when we win. Teach us the value of true friendship. Help us always to conduct ourselves so as to bring credit to Cranston High West. Amen."
A Plano, Tex. school banned an eight-year-old from handing out candy canes with Jesus' name on them to classmates at a school holiday party, confiscated a girl's pencils because they mentioned "God" and banned an entire classroom from writing "Merry Christmas" on cards to be sent to our troops serving in the Middle East. Litigation followed the action of a Texas high school that tried to forbid cheerleaders from displaying a banner at a football game with the Bible verse: "And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us."
President Obama is a major part of the campaign to secularize America. For the fourth straight year, Obama again deleted God from his Thanksgiving Day address as he personally read it from the teleprompter into a camera.
Of course, there is nothing in the U.S. Constitution that requires this anti-Christmas nonsense. The purpose of all these actions is to mandate a religion of secularism, which is completely contrary to American history, heritage and constitutional law.
Christians had better wake up and realize the threat of the secularists to the First Amendment. Our answer to the ACLU and atheist lawyers who are trying to change America should be the favorite words of Scrooge in Charles Dickens' story, "A Christmas Carol": "Bah, humbug!"\
“At this point, all of the ‘sects’ consist of the Whore and her daughters.”
Snort. Guffaw. So you know those other members of your secret group by the fact that they have no sect or denomination?
So if I am looking to find this odd little secret group, how would I find it? Is there a secret “yellow pages” that you consult?
Yeshua’s children have never belonged to any sect.
Please do not take that to mean that they have not gathered in his name in various places, but they do not do so as a ‘sect.’
Please do not take that to mean that they have not gathered in his name in various places, but they do not do so as a ‘sect.’So what name do they put on the sign outside their gathering places? Or is there a reason you play these word games to avoid naming the church you claim as the one true church?
“One True Church” is cultic
The catholic church is the bulk of the pagans in the western world. They are following the pagan traditions to the hilt. Using the ancient pagan titles, Mother of god, and queen of heaven, some even baking cross cakes; I understand that they are even planning to return to eating fish on Dagon’s day (Friday).
And pray tell, what sect does the poster think is the one, true church? Hmmmm? What does editor-surveyor say?
The one in the mirror, correct?
Let me see... just TRYING to remember... There at the end of the prophets, where they describe the time after the Messiah comes to claim the throne of David... There were some holidays they mentioned that the whole world would come to Jerusalem to celebrate...
Weren't they Christmas, Easter, and St. Constantine's Day? And isn't there a giant cathedral up there on the Temple Mount?
Cuz if that's what they wrote, then you MUST be wrong!
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"The Holy Spirit has never had anything to do with the RCC."
So say those who one day argue the heresy of once saved always saved by quoting, "it is finished" then contradict themselves by spewing out a long list of things Jesus Christ still has to do before it really is finished.
Obviously, the folks who fabricate or adopt whatever false interpretation of Scripture marketers tells them sells the best have hardened their hearts to the Holy Spirit and followed the rebellion of Core. Following Core makes them incapable of even recognizing the Holy Spirit because they've embraced the spirit of anti-Christ that leads them into Self Worship the same way it led Eve to see herself as becoming equal to god.
No matter how often such Self-Worshipers repeat lies about The One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church Jesus Christ Himself founded, all their channeling of those lies and heresies only serves to drive them further into their Self Worship making it more likely that they'll be hearing, "I never knew you" from the same Jesus Christ they refuse to surrender to.
As if we don't have enough crap with the queers, the baby murderers, and the atheists attacking The Church, now we have alleged Christians doing so.
Side with whom ye will. By their fruits shall ye know them.
When you see the queers, the baby murderers, and the atheists attacking the Church, and the anti-Catholics piling on, you just know that Satan knows the right address. The queers, the baby murderers, and the atheists aren't wasting their time attacking the anti-Catholics. You'd think the anti-Catholics would recognize they're on the same team as the queers, the baby murderers, and the atheists and reconsider. But none so blind...
editor-surveyor seems to have missed your question. Odd that.
Nah... ES and I think pretty much along the same lines... What is odd is that you seem to have missed the sarcasm in that post.
>> “By their fruits shall ye know them.” <<
That was the basis of my statements.
>> “What is odd is that you seem to have missed the sarcasm in that post.” <<
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No, I find it odd when Narses understands something.
In Narses ‘home’ they medicate them while they sleep, thus saving them the terror
precisely
The pope is the quarterback on Satan’s team, and he sure doesn’t have to worry at salary negotiaton time.
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