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‘Hating Jesus’: Liberals Declare Spiritual Warfare
Townhall.com ^ | May 29, 2016 | Matt Barber

Posted on 05/29/2016 7:12:00 AM PDT by Kaslin

“Remember what I told you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also.”

– John 15:20

The answer had to be yes. The Holy Spirit made it crystal clear. When Tristan Emmanuel, managing publisher and CFO of BarbWire Books, called me and said it was time for me to put pen to paper and write a book on the anti-Christian left’s demonic war on religious liberty (and all things godly and good), I immediately agreed.

And so with the tireless help of my project partner – author, researcher, editor and veteran intelligence expert Paul Hair – I have now released my new book, “Hating Jesus: The American Left’s War on Christianity.”

Why did I write the book? Because it had to be written. God’s natural created order, His immutable, scientific and transcendent moral precepts, as well as the very lives and livelihoods of Christian Americans, are under vicious attack today at a level unprecedented in American history.

I had to sound the alarm. And I had to lay out a clear defensive strategy as to how we Christians might preserve our American, indeed our Christian, way of life.

What a mess our world is in. What a mess America is in. What a mess the church is in.

Depressed yet?

Isaiah 5:20 encapsulates, I believe, the cultural condition of much of the world, most of America and an alarmingly high percentage of those who belong, or at least claim to belong, to the body of Christ. “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.”

Calling evil good. That sums us up.

There are evil blasphemies beyond imagination being foisted upon the American people today by our own godless government in the name of “progress.” Things like presidential edicts that open up little girls’ showers to grown men; the sin-centric and oxymoronic notion of “gay marriage”; forced taxpayer funding of child sacrifice; and forced participation by Christ’s followers in all the above sins, under penalty of law, to name but a few.

Amid the final sprint to election 2016, the secular left’s utter disdain for both our Creator Christ and His faithful followers is fast approaching critical mass. Self-styled “progressives” – that is, America’s cultural Marxist agents of ruin – typically disguise their designs on despotism in the flowery and euphemistic language of “reproductive health,” “anti-discrimination,” “civil rights” and “multiculturalism.”

Just a few short decades ago a churchgoing man who publicly supported the right to life, backed laws protecting marriage and spoke freely of Christ’s love for fallen man would be universally recognized as a fine and upstanding citizen. He would be welcomed anywhere, including at the highest levels of power.

But things have changed. In today’s America, the progressive left actively endeavors to destroy such a man. Modern American liberals start by vilifying Christians. They then begin scheming, quite often with success, to get Christians terminated from employment and forever marked with a scarlet “C” to inhibit any future prospects for employment.

Next, they simultaneously attack their family and work to tear it apart, at once sending a warning shot over the bow of other Christians and pushing them to the fringes of society.

The ultimate goal? Conform to their pagan demands, or face incarceration.

American progressives have co-opted every elite institution: schools, government, the media, Hollywood and the arts – even, at an increasing rate, many conservative organizations. What’s worse is that progressivism has, like a deadly cancer, fully metastasized into what passes for the church in America. There is a great falling away afoot, and apostasy is widespread.

The secular left doesn’t merely have a disagreement with Christianity. These are not people with whom one may reason, compromise or even disagree. They are dedicated to evil. They demand nothing less than the abolition of the biblical worldview and the destruction of Christ’s followers right along with it.

Now is the time to fight back. If you are someone, Christian or not, who refuses to see Christianity wiped out (like it ever could be) and your children indoctrinated into pure evil, then sitting on the sidelines is no longer an option.

In “Hating Jesus,” I first document how successful the American left has been in its War on Christianity and then conclude by providing both hope and a simple action plan on how the body of Christ can fight back against the enemies of God.

We live in dire times. But, with Christ, it’s never too late to turn the tide.

The American church has a problem. It’s one part fear, one part confusion and one part apathy. Pastors, priests and rabbis have long swallowed the false notion that all things religious and all things political are somehow mutually exclusive – that never the twain shall meet.

Nonsense. They’re one in the same.

Leading up to Ronald Reagan’s landslide presidential victory in 1980, Rev. Jerry Falwell, the founder of Liberty University, captured the crux of the church’s apathy problem. “I’m being accused of being controversial and political,” he said. “I’m not political. But moral issues that become political, I still fight. It isn’t my fault that they’ve made these moral issues political. But because they have doesn’t stop the preachers of the Gospel from addressing them. …”

Nor does it stop those of us in the pews from standing right alongside them.

Indeed, it is not just within the church’s purview, but it is the church’s duty to insert itself into state matters relating to morality, public policy and culture at large.

The push back has begun. Christian governors, lawmakers, business owners, lawyers, parents, judges, county clerks, organizations, universities, hospitals, adoption agencies and other individuals and groups have been given an ultimatum by the anti-Christian left: “Keep your Christianity at church and away from our culture!”

To which we say, “Not on your life.”

“Or our own.”

Will you join the fight?


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: christianity; moraldecline; progressives; religion
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1 posted on 05/29/2016 7:12:00 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Then, keep your culture away from our Christianity.


2 posted on 05/29/2016 7:17:20 AM PDT by FrankR (You're only enslaved to the extent of the charity that you receive!)
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To: FrankR

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. (Ephesian 6:12)


3 posted on 05/29/2016 7:24:43 AM PDT by RetiredArmyMajor
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To: Kaslin

+1


4 posted on 05/29/2016 7:31:44 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Jesus, my Lord, my God, my All.)
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To: Kaslin

Count me in. I do what I can now.


5 posted on 05/29/2016 7:39:27 AM PDT by painter ( Isaiah: �Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,")
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To: Kaslin

Bump 4 L8R


6 posted on 05/29/2016 7:47:01 AM PDT by oldfart
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To: The Mayor; Kathy in Alaska; LUV W; AZamericonnie; beachn4fun; fatima

True Words in Love of God and Christ against Satan’s 1st Amendmant Haters.


7 posted on 05/29/2016 7:52:13 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Kaslin

Correction: Liberals hate J*sus as worshiped by whites and non-Hispanic Catholics. They are very solicitous and supportive of J*sus as worshiped by Black Protestants and Hispanic Catholics, neither of whom have ever objected to leftist blasphemies, and apparently never will.


8 posted on 05/29/2016 7:55:23 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (HaShem first! Anything else is idolatry, a violation of the very first commandment!)
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To: Kaslin
America’s cultural Marxist agents of ruin...

More precisely...Social Engineering...."don't ask don't tell to excepting gays in the military and socially everywhere....normal people may not be "offended"! Obama's edict on school bathrooms OR Obama will withhold Federal Money...a bit of BLACKMAIL! Social engineering covers morality, public policy and culture....Why is Obama/Libs stepping on the toes of people with values? Who is this man - these liberals who do not believe a "...person's standards of behavior or beliefs concerning what is and is not acceptable for them to do" matter not. They are indeed the Agents of ruin.

9 posted on 05/29/2016 8:14:58 AM PDT by yoe
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To: SandRat

Scripture of the day......
Hosea 14:9
Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them; for the ways of the LORD are right, and the upright walk in them, but transgressors stumble in them.


10 posted on 05/29/2016 8:27:30 AM PDT by luvie (Bah!)
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To: Kaslin

postmodernism + secular humanism + marxism + belief that society causes bad behavior + blaming Christian worldview for bad society = anti Christian libtards


11 posted on 05/29/2016 8:38:36 AM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: Zionist Conspirator

No-—not all Black protestants churches. Actually Pastor Bonhoeffer approved of the “Black” congregations-—of the Manning type but now there are too many “Wright” (Marxist) types. In “white” churches, the Christianity is watered down so much that boys are emasculated and are prevented from forming true Virtue (character) (so they can not become true moral masculine males where cultures will flourish).

Milquetoast Christianity-—not the “Carry the Sword of Truth” kind, exists today in most “churches”. Christianity is supposed to be VERY MASCULINE-—but the Feminization has even reached the top of the Catholic hierarchy (Marxist/Freemason takeover in the 60s for a One World Religion devoid of Christianity (Christianity demands Truth always— Natural Laws (Reason/Logic) since we are the ONLY Rational animal). Take away Objective Truth, Reason/Logic, and we are nothing but godless animals to be herded by the Left.

The Left is destroying Logic and Reason in children through schools—they destroy Classical Christian education, the only one which gives the tools to “think” and “reason”. Christian Worldview created the Age of Reason, Modern Science, the US Constitution—the pinnacle of Reason AND FAITH—the TWO can NEVER be separated.

There is a Faith being promoted in EVERY IDEA even schools/TVs-—and Christianity has been banned and marginalized and demeaned constantly since the 60s. Satanism is taking its place (Ba’al Rites is always sodomy (so they have to normalize sodomizing others in our little boys and girls, because sodomizing children on altars is their pinnacle of power (like with Sandusky, Franklin Cover-Up, Jimmy Savile, along with killing (sacrafice) of the innocent (babies/children)—their chief rituals are necessary to normalize “in the children”.

The War on Christianity has never been greater and infiltration of all branches of Christianity was infiltrated (feminized)-—the Protestant Churches easier to subvert than the Catholic Church, but the March through ALL the institutions of “power” (influence) has been accomplished (by the 60s.

Pockets of Truth still exist—but they are being persecuted—even the righteous Cardinals and Bishops inside the Catholic Church. It was the Protestant Churches who normalized contraception in 1930 which is the slippery slope to Satanism—dehumanizing and desacralizing the sex act to make it meaningless and the gift of life into “evil”.

SLIPPERY SLOPE, people, always works-—allowing abortion (killing (sacrifice) of own genetic offspring (dehumanization) was EXTREMELY satanistic-—and the promotion of that
“FAITH of Satanism” into “Just” (LOL) LAW was allowed (when ALL JUST LAWS ONLY PROMOTE “public virtue” (Christian Ethics) (Montesquieu).

It is easy: The Truth will set us Free. Not allowing the promotion of Vice in “Just Laws” (Just Laws are the only Constitutional ones—Nuremberg Trials/John Marshall).

Truth was banned by the 10s-60s USING the American “Legal” system (Courts were the first TAKEOVER by Marxists while they took over the SCHOOLS and ALL TEXTBOOKS to promote Neo-Marxism/Neo-Freudianism (satanism)).

When Laws promote vice, it will destroy Freedom and create chaos, then tyranny (exactly what we see with all the irrational, evil “Laws” to control us and “how” our little children “think”. (That is why Cicero stated that Vice will destroy the culture because vice (evil ideology) will be naturally embedded by children who are exposed to it (like the homoerotic, vulgar Weimar Republic destroyed the Virtue in Germans-—made them into suicidal cowards. (vice emasculates and destroys the maternal instinct so children are abused and incapable of true “love” in the Christian sense).

The most important takeover was the schools-—the Minds of even 5 year olds, instead of the individualism and Natural Family where children learn of their unique identity and form loyalty to their parents and love of culture, they are ripped from the safety and forced into an artificial “group” “think” factory where “thinking” will be impossible because all the tools to “think” have been removed. Schools are ONLY to teach Virtue (Socrates) because without Virtue formation in children, Freedom is impossible. (Without inner control of base emotions, outer control (The State) is necessary).

So—to discard Progressive totalitarianism (Marxism) we have to take back the minds of our children FIRST from the evil Left and most of the “Art” (culture) which is embedding vice and evil worldview (using others in non-Christian, evil ways—as a Means to an End—antithetical to Christian Worldview and the Constitution and ALL “Just Laws”.

We have to TEACH Classical Christian curricula in the schools again (Christianity was banned and Satanism, paganism, Mother Earth Worship, etc. is the only allowed “faith” to be transmitted to children (all irrational) where Up is Down, Vice is Virtue, and Boys are Girls to destroy ALL sexual identity formation in little children, so they remain puerile, ignorant, dumb and incapable of “thinking for themselves/outside the “group think” (programming).

All screens dehumanize and program a “faith”. (Amish were correct). All “group think” factories dehumanize—remove our unique identity and make us HATE self for HERD approval (group think). It emasculate the boys (destroys Virtue formation in both girls and boys and creates “hate” of the “Other” (true diversity: male/female paradigm)—making everyone incapable of Self-Reliance (like the German puerile “men” of today and the self-loathing, suicidal women who refuse to have babies and raise them).


12 posted on 05/29/2016 8:55:23 AM PDT by savagesusie (When Law ceases to be Just, it ceases to be Law. (Thomas A./Founders/John Marshall)/Nuremberg)
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To: Kaslin
Been going on for several decades now, under the guidance of "progressives" (regressives).

The following "Lesson" from a Co-Editor of "Our Ageless Constitution" contrasts the Founders' Ideas of Liberty" which the Founders intended should be taught to rising generations, with the Counterfeit Ideas being promoted in the so-called "public schools" of America for decades.

IDEAS OF LIBERTY:

(from America’s Founders and Presidents)

“The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.” (Jefferson - 1774)

“Statesmen may plan and speculate for Liberty, but it is Religion and Morality alone which can establish the principles upon which Freedom can securely stand.” (John Adams - 1775)

“The Sacred Rights of Mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the Hand of the Divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.” (Alexander Hamilton)

“Without God, there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life. Recognition of the Supreme Being is the first and the most basic expression of Americanism. Thus the founding fathers saw it, and thus, with God’s help, it will continue to be.” (Dwight Eisenhower)

“The same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe, the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.” (John F. Kennedy - 1961 Inaugural)

“…it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly implore His protection and favor….”(George Washington)

“Now the virtue which had been infused into the Constitution…and was to give it…the stability and duration to which it was destined, was no other than…those abstract principles…proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence—namely, the self-evident truths of the…unalienable rights of man…the…sovereignty of the people, always subordinate to a rule of right and wrong, and always responsible to the Supreme Ruler of the universe for the rightful exercise of that sovereign…power.” (John Quincy Adams, on the occasion of The Jubilee of the Constitution - 1839)

"Today, across our nation, we see consequences of decades of gross neglect and outright censorship of the Founders’ ideas from textbooks and from our public discourse. We have allowed counterfeit ideas to dominate the public square, and the Founders’ principles have been crowded out. Unwittingly, many teachers and other unknowing officials have participated in the agenda of an unelected mind-controlling elite whose tyrannical actions have robbed generations of Americans from reading or studying the ideas that made America free. Like termites, they have eroded our foundations as effectively as if they had burned the books. Yet, not once have they been willing to call it by its rightful name—censorship. Once, in America, stifling ideas about the Creator and Creator-endowed liberty was considered unthinkable. . . .

"The ideas of liberty must be passed on from generation to generation if liberty is to survive. These ideas, when they are allowed to be examined freely, will prevail, because their appeal is to reason and to the love for liberty that is deep in the human heart. John Adams warned: “The people of America now have the best opportunity and the greatest trust in their hands, that Providence ever committed to so small a number…if they betray their trust, their guilt will merit even greater punishment than other nations have suffered, and the indignation of Heaven.”

COUNTERFEIT IDEAS:

(from some of those whose views have dominated national educational policy)

“The idea of God is the keystone of a perverted society. The true root of liberty, equality and culture is atheism.” (Karl Marx)

Our thinking is enlightened “in the degree in which we cease to depend upon belief in the supernatural.” (John Dewey, father of ‘progressive education’ and 1st President of American Humanist Society)

“…democracy is a human faith and movement, unencumbered by supernatural preconceptions.” (John Childs, a protégé of John Dewey at Columbia)

“…the majority of our youth still hold the values of their parents, and if we do not alter this pattern, if we do not resocialize ourselves to accept change, our society may decay.” (John Goodlad, 1971 Report to President, Schooling for the Future)

“As in 1933, humanists still believe that traditional theism, especially a faith in the prayer-hearing God, who is assumed to love and care for persons, to hear and understand their prayers, and be able to do something about them, is an unproved and outmoded faith.” (Humanist Manifesto II, 1973)

“…the most important factor moving us toward a secular society has been the educational factor. Our schools may not teach Johnny to read properly, but the fact that Johnny is in school until he is sixteen tends to lead toward elimination of religious superstition.” (Paul Blanshard, The Humanist, March-April, 1976)

“It [the Nat’l. Education Association’s publication list] includes the delegitimizing of all authority save that of the state, the degradation of traditional morality and the encouragement of citizens in general and children in particular to despise the rules and customs that make their society a functional democracy. The NEA is drifting into exceedingly dangerous waters, and probably carrying more than a few teachers and pupils with it.” (Chester E. Finn, Jr., Ass’t. Sec. Of Education & Prof. Of Education & Public Policy, Vanderbilt Univ., 1982)

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“Now, my countrymen, if you have been taught doctrines which conflict with the great landmarks of the Declaration of Independence…let me entreat you to come back. Return to the fountains whose waters spring close to the blood of the Revolution.” (Abraham Lincoln)


13 posted on 05/29/2016 11:12:18 AM PDT by loveliberty2
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To: FrankR

“Then, keep your culture away from our Christianity.”

That about sums it up.


14 posted on 05/29/2016 11:19:45 AM PDT by tuffydoodle ("Never underestimate the total depravity of the average human being.")
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To: Kaslin

SAVIOR, LORD, KING OF KINGS, ONLY SON OF JEHOVAH

I am a CHILD of the KING!

15 posted on 05/29/2016 1:41:52 PM PDT by GailA (any politician that won't keep his word to Veterans/Military won't keep them to You!)
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To: mjp

BINGO!


16 posted on 05/29/2016 1:42:48 PM PDT by GailA (any politician that won't keep his word to Veterans/Military won't keep them to You!)
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To: Zionist Conspirator
They are very solicitous and supportive of J*sus as worshiped by Black Protestants and Hispanic Catholics, neither of whom have ever objected to leftist blasphemies, and apparently never will.

This is a mighty broad brush you are swing here!

17 posted on 05/29/2016 1:49:56 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: GailA
 
 
 
 
 Jude (NIV)

Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James,

To those who have been called, who are loved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ:

Mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance.

The Sin and Doom of Ungodly People

Dear friends, although I was very eager to write to you about the salvation we share, I felt compelled to write and urge you to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to God’s holy people. For certain individuals whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord.

Though you already know all this, I want to remind you that the Lord at one time delivered his people out of Egypt, but later destroyed those who did not believe. And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their proper dwelling—these he has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great Day. In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire.

In the very same way, on the strength of their dreams these ungodly people pollute their own bodies, reject authority and heap abuse on celestial beings. But even the archangel Michael, when he was disputing with the devil about the body of Moses, did not himself dare to condemn him for slander but said, “The Lord rebuke you!” 10 Yet these people slander whatever they do not understand, and the very things they do understand by instinct—as irrational animals do—will destroy them.

11 Woe to them! They have taken the way of Cain; they have rushed for profit into Balaam’s error; they have been destroyed in Korah’s rebellion.

12 These people are blemishes at your love feasts, eating with you without the slightest qualm—shepherds who feed only themselves. They are clouds without rain, blown along by the wind; autumn trees, without fruit and uprooted—twice dead. 13 They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.

14 Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about them: “See, the Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones 15 to judge everyone, and to convict all of them of all the ungodly acts they have committed in their ungodliness, and of all the defiant words ungodly sinners have spoken against him.” 16 These people are grumblers and faultfinders; they follow their own evil desires; they boast about themselves and flatter others for their own advantage.

A Call to Persevere

17 But, dear friends, remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ foretold. 18 They said to you, “In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires.” 19 These are the people who divide you, who follow mere natural instincts and do not have the Spirit.

20 But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, 21 keep yourselves in God’s love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life.

22 Be merciful to those who doubt; 23 save others by snatching them from the fire; to others show mercy, mixed with fear—hating even the clothing stained by corrupted flesh.[f]

Doxology

24 To him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy— 25 to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen.


18 posted on 05/29/2016 1:55:53 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: FrankR

Destruction of Christianity is their central goal.


19 posted on 05/29/2016 2:10:53 PM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: GailA

As am I.


20 posted on 05/29/2016 3:34:37 PM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
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