Jewish family flees Delaware school district's aggressive Christianity

Jewish family flees Delaware school district's aggressive Christianity This is the sickest thing I have ever read. What are we coming to as Christians in America. Forcing others to adopt our faith ways in public places is not a good witness. I am really weary of all of these folks who want Christian prayer in schools and the Ten Commandants posted all over the place.

Prayer at the World Cup

It could have been my imagination but I noticed a lot of players from many countries offering prayers as they entered the pitch and prayers when a score was made. These were private prayers and no one was forced to bow their heads and join it ... That's the way it should be and that is a great witness.

Religious groups work to hurry apocalypse - baltimoresun.com

Religious groups work to hurry apocalypse - baltimoresun.com We live in a world filled with religious kooks. This article talks about hastening the end times and the return of Jesus to the earth. Weird!

I rejected this theology when I was 12 or 13 years old. By this theology I mean Dispensational Premillenialism. I raised the issue with my Pastor in Wickford, Rhode Island as to why at the end of the 1000 years Satan, who had been bound in Hell, would be loosed and people would follow him? He tried to explain. My response was that it just did not make any sense and sounded silly. My mother dealt with my theology when we got home from church!

NPR : New Book Examines Christian Nationalism

NPR : New Book Examines Christian Nationalism

Journalist Michelle Goldberg, a senior writer for the online magazine Salon, and covers the Christian Right. In her new book, Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism, she writes that Christian nationalists believe the Bible is literally true -- and they want to see the nation governed by that truth. This is copied from "Fresh Air" page. Look at the link and you can hear Terry Gross' interview with Michelle Goldberg. It is really scary. A wake up call??

The following is copied from Bruce Prescott's Blog Mainstream Baptist and he is quoting Buddy Shurden of Mercer College:

IT CAN HAPPEN HERE


Let me tell you why I believe it can happen here, this idolatrous mixing of church and state.

It can happen here because "Generation Joshua" is loose in our country. Have you heard of "Generation Joshua?" It is an effort by Michael Farris, founder of Patrick Henry College, to
turn Christian, home-schooled students into political foot soldiers to gain political power in order to subsume everything -- entertainment, law, government, and education -- under their right wing version of Christianity. Like Joshua of the Hebrew Bible, Generation Joshua's job is to possess the land,
to conquer the land, or, in the words of the religious right, "to take back the land." And, according to Michael Harris, in the spring semester of 2004, Patrick Henry College had more interns in the White House than any other college in the
nation. It can happen here because of a religious right-wing militancy.

It can happen here because by 2004 The Christian Coalition gave 42 out of 100 United States senators a rating of 100%. More than half of the senators received ratings of 83% by the militant Christian Coalition. It can happen here
because sincere religious ideologues are rampant in our country, and they mean business.

It can happen here because a recent survey of 100,000 high
school students in America concluded that one out of three students believes that the First Amendment goes TOO FAR in the rights it guarantees! That last sentence ought to be absolutely horrendous to your ears. In fact, that sentence
reminds me of a phone call we got about 12:30 one night when we were living in Louisville, Ky. The call was from Wayne Dehoney, pastor of Walnut Street Baptist Church in the city. He said, "Walter, this is Wayne Dehoney, I just received a call from Cullman, Ala., and Grady Nutt was killed in a plane crash tonight. I knew that you were close friends, so I am calling to tell you so that you can go be with his wife." It was my first and only death notice in the middle of the night. I remember saying in stunned shock and disbelief, "Wayne, you are going
to have to say that again." He said, "I understand." And then, with all those years of pastoral care under his belt, he slowly said once more, "I received a call from Cullman, Ala., and Grady Nutt was killed in an airplane crash tonight."

I do not trivialize my dear friend Grady Nutt's death by
saying to you that, if you hear it carefully, the sentence about the high school students and the First Amendment has all the tone and sound of a death announcement in the middle of the night about someone you love. So I want to repeat it, slowly, so that it will sink in: ONE IN THREE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN THIS REPUBLIC SAYS THAT THE FIRST AMENDMENT OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES GOES TOO FAR IN THE RIGHTS IT GUARANTEES TO YOU AS A CITIZEN!

The survey did not end there, however. It contained more surprises. More shocking still, only one-half of the students surveyed said that a newspaper should be allowed to publish freely without government approval of stories.

My friends, we are talking about my grandchildren's future here! This is America's tomorrow speaking! One third of them want the freedoms of the First Amendment curbed. And one half of them want newspapers to secure government approval for their stories!! These are astonishing and inconceivable attitudes for high school students in the United States of America. This survey is a terrible, scary phone call in the middle of the night about what has happened and what is happening in our nation. It can happen here because of ignorance of our History.

PEACE TAKES COURAGE

PEACE TAKES COURAGE This is the web site of a 15 year old girl, Ava, from Alabama. She is a peace activist and has done several animations on the theme. Click on the link. These are very moving.

Stephen Colbert Exposes The Hypocrisy Of� 10 Commandment Bill Sponsor

Stephen Colbert Exposes The Hypocrisy Of� 10 Commandment Bill SponsorThis is really funny. Congressman Lynn Westmoreland (GA) sponsored a bill to post the 10 commandments in various public buildings. Watch the video.

Custodians of chaos

Custodians of chaos Read this article it is great and I cannot improve upon with comment.

George W Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography, plus not-so-closeted white supremacists, aka Christians, and plus, most frighteningly, psychopathic personalities, or PPs, the medical term for smart, personable people who have no consciences.