Posted on 12/27/2015 9:00:02 AM PST by SkyPilot
Edited on 12/27/2015 10:05:32 AM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Among the Christian Right, and most Republican presidential candidates, it’s now an article of faith that the United States is persecuting Christians and Christian-owned businesses—that religion itself is under attack.
Why has this bizarre myth that Christianity is under assault in the most religious developed country on Earth been so successful? Because, in a way, it’s true. American Christianity is in decline—not because of a “war on faith” but because of a host of demographic and social trends. The gays and liberals are just scapegoats.
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Keep a close eye on Africa and China, great amount of growth there.
Walk into a Christian Church and kiss your Boyfriend and the Congregation will Pray for you.
Walk into a Muslim Mosque and kiss your Boyfriend and the Congregation will kick the crap out of you if not kill you.
Christians are such meanies. /s
But is he right that Christianity is dying in America?
How he personally feels about it is a lot less important.
“Yet why the packed churches on Christmas and Easter ?”
Tradition? Hypocrisy? Fire Insurance?
And I don’t actually SEE “packed churches” then. Just a few family members joining the regulars.
He walks among you as a lion seeking whom he can devour.
He had to carry on the river. There were sorts back then
that would just shoot people, rob them, and leave them
lying in the woods on the river bank. I hope I can only be
even half the man they were; but, I’m just a “Twinkie”
compared with them. - Another great-great grandfather was
a Rebel soldier at Shiloh. When my grandmother was a small
child she asked him if he had killed anybody at Shiloh. He
answered her, “Izora, honestly I don’t know if I killed
anybody at Shiloh; but don’t know how I could have kept
from it because it was such a mess!” - My parents took me
to Shiloh when I was just a child and that Bloody Pond was
still dark, dark, deep blood red from the stained rocks on
the bottom of the pond. It has faded over the years. My dad
was a combat veteran of WWII, N. Africa, Sicily, Italy &
lastly into Germany where his bunch liberated one of the
concentration camps. He stated that there was a line of
dead bodies, piled 10’ high for an eighth of a mile. He
had flashbacks for a long time, into his seventies.
In Russia too.
God can make children of Abraham from the rocks. He doesn't need the USA, we need Him. We as a nation better be mindful of the implications of this.
Did I misread your post? You meant Christianity is growing, right?
Was listening to Russian News and surprised to hear them list the various events where Christmas is being pushed out of America.....though true..... it’s still more than disturbing to hear and see Russians give greater honor to the Christmas Season and meaning to what it really is where our Government Officials and far too many foreigners find it “intolerable”!
Yes,in other parts such as in Africa and in Asia for example in China.
Well at my church one of the Christmas Eve worship was a packed house with people coming in as early as almost 3:30 PM.
Christianity’s membership and influence in the West is decline, yes, and it has been for decades. We are now witnessing outright persecution of Christianity in America. As far as the motivation of the author, he is blinded by his homosexual sin. Both are a sign (in my opinion) that we are in the Biblical last days.
We’ve trod some of the same turf. The mother of my children is a descendant of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston, who gave his life for the cause at the battle of Pittsburgh Landing.
Shiloh was one of my favorite places as a younger man.
My great-great grandfather was as far as I know just an
ordinary foot soldier who never “owned” a slave in his
life. He fought because “they” (the Yankees) were invading
“down heah”. - I liked to visit Shiloh, too. We lived fairly
close to that battlefield and I’ve been there several times.
- My sixth great grandparents were down in Georgia Indian
Territory before it became a state. (Cothams) They had several slaves. Their son married a Cherokee woman and my sixth great grandmother had a conniption fit. My sixth great
grandfather gave the boy his inheritance in gold and they
boarded a riverboat up river to Perryville, TN. That’s
how I ended up in Tennessee. Cherokee blood on both sides
of my family. Also Huguenot, British, Scots-Irish, &
who knows what else.
So, these “jihadists” can just kiss my grits!!!
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The clowns have no faith.
YHVH has a remnant on Earth, and he has promised that his remnant will not be plucked out of his hand.
His son said in Matthew 15:24 “I am not sent but to the lost sheep of the House of Israel.”
He also said in Matthew 7:14 “strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.”
Paul said “All Israel will be saved.”
Its not up to man. If it were, its not likely that any would be saved.
“But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.”
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AMEN!
Sure he doesn't just want to punish God and leave out all the middlemen?
What 'barf'?
He's right!
God used a talking ass to get thru to Balaam; so can HE use this fella.
Are you still killing your unborn? -- GOD |
Didn't you people learn ANYTHING from the smoke of SODOM?
-- GOD |
Genesis 18:20-21
20. Then the LORD said, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous
21. that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know."
Genesis 19:4-7
4. Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom--both young and old--surrounded the house.
5. They called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them."
6. Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him
7. and said, "No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing.
Isaiah 3:9 The look on their faces testifies against them; they parade their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! They have brought disaster upon themselves.
2 Peter 2:13b Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.
Ezekiel 16:49-50
49. "`Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.
50. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen.
1. But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them--bringing swift destruction on themselves.
2. Many will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into disrepute.
3. In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.
4. For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them into gloomy dungeons to be held for judgment;
5. if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others;
6. if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
7. and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless men
8. (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)--
9. if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials and to hold the unrighteous for the day of judgment, while continuing their punishment.
10. This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the sinful nature and despise authority. Bold and arrogant, these men are not afraid to slander celestial beings;
11. yet even angels, although they are stronger and more powerful, do not bring slanderous accusations against such beings in the presence of the Lord.
12. But these men blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like brute beasts, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like beasts they too will perish.
13. They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.
But there IS hope!!!
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
9. Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived:
Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders
10. nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
11. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
If you could NOT change, you would be in most pitiful shape...
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