My shocking and eye-opening interview with former U.S. Marine and FBI Counter-terrorism officer, John Guandolo, airs May 7 and May 8 on our Radio program. You can download for free the entire report that Mr. Guandolo co-authored here. Go to http://strategicengagement.org to learn more about Mr. Guandolo and the work he and others are doing to inform America about the threat of Shariah law in the United States.
“For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many” (Mk 10:45). That includes you and me. Have you accepted the payment he made? He is risen.
Shehbaz Bhatti, the only Christian in the Pakistani cabinet, was assassinated on March 2 by Muslim terrorists for opposing Pakistan’s blasphemy laws. As he reveals in this short interview shortly before his murder, Mr. Bhatti chose courage over compromise for the cause of Christ and his persecuted Christian brothers and sisters.
Two High Court judges in the UK have ruled that a Christian couple can no longer provide a home to foster kids under the age of ten. Why? Because the couple does not agree with homosexual practice!
The judges declared that they were “secular.” This ruling is a kind of atheist inquisition. Contrary to popular opinion, all laws legislate morality, and there is no neutrality on moral issues, nor is there a neutral worldview. This ruling legislates the view that any view that contradicts homosexual practice will not be tolerated– conservative religious and moral beliefs must give way to homosexuality. Keep in mind that the Christian couple– Eunice and Owen Johns– were not even addressing homosexuality with their young foster kids. According to the court, simply holding natural law, traditional religious views disqualifies them from being foster parents. That’s not “tolerance,” that’s totalitarianism.
In fact, during the case, the Equality and Human Rights Commission, an official watchdog, suggested that the couple could attend a ‘re-education’ programme, according to Mrs. Johns. ‘Why do we need to be re-educated? Because we believe that homosexuality is not right?’ she said.
The people who say they are fighting for “tolerance” have proven once again that they are the most intolerant people out there. Unless Christians and others start standing up, the atheist inquisition will continue.
Melanie Phillips does a good job highlighting the numerous problems with this absurd ruling here. Worth the read.
Today is the 38th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, one the most famous cases in Supreme Court history. As we reflect on 52 million dead since the decision– and are reminded of the horrific reality of abortion by the discovery of the abortuary in Philadelphia (click here if you can stomach reading the grand jury report)– note that Roe has a number of parallels with another famous case, Dred Scott v. Sandford.
Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
7 to 2
Slavery is legal
Blacks are not persons
Blacks are the property of their owners (masters)
Abolitionists should not impose morality on the slave owner
Roe v. Wade (1973)
7 to 2
Abortion is legal
Unborn are not persons
Unborn are the property of their owners (mothers)
Pro-lifers should not impose morality on the mother
The truth of the abortion matter is that everyone is seeking to impose morality. While pro-life lifers want to impose continued pregnancy on the mother, pro-abortion people are imposing death on the baby whenever an abortion is chosen. Yes, a woman has a right to control her own body, but not if she kills an innocent human being unnecessarily in the process. And we know scientifically that there is a 100% genetic human being in a woman’s womb.
Unlike slavery, which took a war to end, it’s time we peacefully ended this abortion tragedy in America. The right to life is the right to all other rights– if you don’t have life you don’t have anything.
Why are atheists angry at God? Joe Carter, web editor of First Things, cites studies recently published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology that those who don’t believe in God tend to be the people most angry with Him. (Click here for the entire article.)
Of course, we cannot take aggregate data and apply it to specific individuals. It may be true that atheists on average are more angry with God than believers, that that doesn’t mean atheist X is. However, I’ve found the anger from many of the atheists with whom I’ve interacted to be quite palpable, beyond what you would expect if one were engaged in an honest pursuit of the truth. In fact, some individual atheists admit as much.
Atheist Thomas Nagel, Professor at NYU, admits that he has a cosmic authority problem with God. He thinks the same is true of Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens. When you read their books or hear their debates, it’s hard to disagree with Nagel. Hitchens in particular calls himself an “anti-theist” and God a cosmic dictator in a “celestial North Korea.” That’s why I said in our two debates that Christopher’s attitude seems to be, “There is no God and I hate Him.” (Maybe I’m misreading Hitchens, but I don’t think so. In addition to the evidence from Christopher’s own statements, his brother Peter, who wrote “The Rage Against God,” comes to the same basic conclusion writing of Christopher’s “passion against God.”).
One has to ask, why all the anger? To say that atheists are just angry with believers wouldn’t explain it because the study found anger with God, not his followers. If God doesn’t exist, why be angry with Him? The apostle Paul had an answer that he recorded in Romans 1:18-32. But I wonder what you think.