Posted on 02/17/2013 6:52:42 PM PST by wesagain
"WND founder to launch national billboard campaign featuring the moral law"
WASHINGTON – America has turned from God and has forgotten right from wrong, says WND founder Joseph Farah, who is announcing the launch a dramatic new national billboard campaign featuring the Ten Commandments to help awaken believers and non-believers alike to “the wickedness and evil that abound in our country.”
The campaign kicks off this week with 11 major billboards – all in the heart of what some call “sin city,” Las Vegas. Farah is asking for contributions from those who recognize the Ten Commandments represent the glue that holds civilization together to take the campaign nationwide.
“The problem is America is not limited to atheists, agnostics, cults and non-believers,” says Farah. “In fact, the biggest problem America has is with those who call themselves believers but who act no differently than the worldliest individuals on the planet. You can call these people backslidden. You can call them false converts. Or you can call them undiscipled, nominal believers. What they all have in common is they are not in obedience to God. They are not even trying to follow the most basic moral law, as Jesus and the prophets all instructed.”
With that in mind, Farah is planning to erect hundreds of Ten Commandments billboards around the country in a move that is sure to annoy the American Civil Liberties ..........
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
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They an important historical early codification of law, but I don’t think the problem with schools and the legal system is that they don’t preach the 10 Commandments.
WASHINGTON – America has turned from God and has forgotten right from wrong, says WND founder Joseph Farah, who is announcing the launch a dramatic new national billboard campaign featuring the Ten Commandments to help awaken believers and non-believers alike to “the wickedness and evil that abound in our country.”
Really?
Farah should run his own site through that filter, specifically with respect to the 3rd and 4th commandments. (For you Roman Catholics and Lutherans with a slightly different division, I'm referring to sabbath keeping and taking the name of God in vain.)
WND religion section has been known to push some weird, fringey stuff. If he would show some discernment and rein in the nuts, I'd pay WND a more respectful heed.
Nope. The problem with the schools and the legal system is that they frequently preach open defiance of them.
There’s only four that I can see that should be a part of the legal system. The one about your father and mother is subjective. If your father is an abusive drug addict, don’t honor him, run away.
You misunderstand what it is to honor someone.
Maybe and maybe not. But life was a lot more civilized when the public schools respected the Word of God and encouraged students to live their own life accordingly.
America was also a much stronger nation then; in terms of culture, economically, financially, and as a respected world power, than without the Christian God (of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob). I am of the opinion this is not a coincidence.
Good luck writing that law.
I don’t think the FedGov teaching religion will help. I would fault the establishment of the DOE, loss of local control, and the rise of teachers’ unions.
I agree. Think the commandments aren’t relevant today? Lets take a look at a few.
Keep holy the Sabbath... How many Americans go to church (any church) every Sunday? Seems to me you might drink a little less if you knew you had to look respectable in front of your community at 9:00 am the next morning.
Honor they father and thy mother. Children and young adults would be more respectful to everyone if they first respect their parents. Flash mob gangs of youths anyone?
Thou shall not steal.. legal ramifications clear here, also explain how giving everyone an A does not “steal” from those who really work hard. Same can be said about illegals.. they steal the resources from hard working americans trying to put food on the table.
I could go on...
Writing what law?
The one that defines how you are required to honor an abusive parent.
God has turned His face from this once great nation, and has removed His blessings from us- We don’t want Him to be a part of our nation, and sadly He’s complying with our wishes- We’ve kicked Him out of practicalyl everythign public, and even go so far as to arrest folks for ‘violating’ their secularist laws that prohibit God in public- and this country foprsook truth and justice in favor of ‘gubmint handouts’, and sent a loud and clear message that they prefer eveil over morality and Godliness- they sent that message loud and lcear when they reelected his highness again for 4 more years.
I don’t know if there’s any coming back from this hell hole we’;ve slipped into, but we are becoming another soddom and ghomorrah where evil and homosexuality are favorable to heterosexuality and morality and honesty- We even have schools today prepping kids to be queer and encouragign them to be gay- but preventign htem from hearign hte truth-
I truly beleive God has removed His blessings on this nation
I’m starting to think America needs about 25 so far..
almost daily commandments are starting to add up..
[[Joseph Farah, who is announcing the launch a dramatic new national billboard campaign featuring the Ten Commandments to help awaken believers and non-believers alike to “the wickedness and evil that abound in our country.”]]
Be prepared for hte ACLU and hteir rabid supporters and anti-Christians to attack wityh lawsuits- which they will most likely win seeings how public places can’t even display a cross anymore in many places- God apparently is no longer welcoem ghere in Aemrica as per orders of the ACLU
If America obeyed only the Commandments that forbid coveting and theft, that would stop socialism, which is based on those sins.
sorry...the RATS have already turned them into the 10 suggestions
HonorAgain, I reiterate: you misunderstand what it is to 'honor', I direct your attention to the definition above, particularly the bold & underlined definition. That definition is the the most applicable, though the others are too. Applying it to the commandment is to be a source of credit to your parents, the sort of person that makes people say that they did a good job raising you. (That they did or did not is no matter, the point is your character; to put it in militaristic terms, serving under a cruel and despotic commander would not alleviate me of the accountability of acting with dignity and respect to him or to others.) Nothing about 'honor' is to encourage a soft yielding-capitulation to evil.
- honesty, fairness, or integrity in one's beliefs and actions: a man of honor.
- a source of credit or distinction: to be an honor to one's family.
- high respect, as for worth, merit, or rank: to be held in honor.
- such respect manifested: a memorial in honor of the dead.
- high public esteem; fame; glory: He has earned his position of honor.
As the bold-only shows, there is a respect element. "Respect" is not a self-effacement, but to hold in some manner of esteem. To go back to the military example: even if the commander is a lying cheat there is no excuse for me to discount his authority "because he's a bad guy." To react that way would be to undermine my own dignity.
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