Homosexuals headed for Jerusalem - Jerusalem Newswire
They know not what they do....woe to those who call good evil, and evil good!
Iran again threatens to destroy Israel
Iran again threatens to destroy Israel - Jerusalem Newswire
"I will bless those that bless you, and curse those that curse you."
Woe be to Iran if and when they truly decide to follow through with this threat.
"I will bless those that bless you, and curse those that curse you."
Woe be to Iran if and when they truly decide to follow through with this threat.
I certainly don't want one
Big Brother will be watching you drive...and your insurance company will be too:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,132056,00.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,132056,00.html
And still they force 2nd child abortions
between India and China, it's a wonder any women survive in either of those countries at all:
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/china-04e.html
http://www.thehindu.com/2006/01/10/stories/2006011004311300.htm
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/china-04e.html
http://www.thehindu.com/2006/01/10/stories/2006011004311300.htm
Stem cell research
Embryonic stem cell research has done nothing to enhance medical science, but adult stem cells have been proven to work:
http://www.lifeissues.org/cloningstemcell/bradsarticle.html
http://www.lifeissues.org/cloningstemcell/bradsarticle.html
Scientists will ALWAYS find a way to corrupt the good
And in the mad scientist department....here are some real winners:
"Chimeras [human-animal crossbreads] or parahumans might legitimately be fashioned to do dangerous or demeaning jobs. As it is now, low-grade work is shoved off on moronic and retarded individuals, the victims of uncontrolled reproduction. Should we not program such workers 'thoughtfully' instead of accidentally, by means of hybridization?" — Dr. Joseph Fletcher, Harvard University professor widely recognized as the "patriarch of bioethics"
"The horizons of the new eugenics are, in principle, boundless. For the first time in all time, a living creature understands its origin and can undertake to design its future..." — Dr. Robert Sinsheimer, molecular biologist, Chancellor of the University of California at Santa Cruz, initiator of the Human Genome Project.
"No newborn infant should be declared human until it has passed certain tests regarding its genetic endowment, and that if it fails these tests it forfeits the right to live.” — Dr. Francis Crick, Nobel Prize Laureate 1962, co-discovery of DNA. Crick also favored a scheme for licensing parenthood or a tax on children to encourage "those people who are more socially desirable to have more children.”
"If you are really stupid, I would call that a disease...so I'd like to get rid of that....People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great." [typical man] — Dr. James Watson, president of the Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory, New York, Nobel Prize Laureate, co-discovery of DNA, advocating for manipulation of the human genome.
"Science is moving at such a fast pace that scientists have proven that they can create headless mice through removal of genes in the embryo that control development of the head. But the body would have the capacity to keep the organs functional for use as transplants.... Embryonic stem cells, which holds promise of cure of any organ, is but a slow move towards immortality." — Dr. P.B. Desai, world renowned oncologist in India
"If biological manipulation is indeed a slippery slope, then we are already sliding down that slope now and may as well enjoy the ride.'' [oh, that's SUCH a good reason] — Gregory Stock, Director of the Program on Medicine, Technology, and Society at UCLA’s School of Public Health and author of Redesigning Humans: Our Inevitable Genetic Future
"There is a close analogy between a human body invaded by a cancer and a nation afflicted with subpopulations whose inborn defects cause them to become social liabilities. Just as in cancer the best treatment is to eradicate the parasitic growth as quickly as possible, the eugenic defense against the dysgenic social effects of afflicted subpopulations is of necessity limited to equally drastic measures . . . . When these inferior elements [hey, not only the sick or deformed, but the unborn and elderly too!] are not effectively eliminated from a population, then—just as when the cells of a malignant tumor are allowed to proliferate throughout a human body—they destroy the host body as well as themselves." — Dr. Konrad Lorenz, Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, 1973. (Taking Eugenics Seriously)
Advocates of Human Engineering...aka those COMPLETELY living in a dream world:
Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
Journal of Evolution and TechnologyWorld Transhumanist Association
Incipient Posthuman
Creative Conscious Evolution - TranshumanChildren of the Millennium
Future of Humanity Institute
Transtopia -- Transhumanism Evolved
PrometheismReason
Peter Singer
The Judas We Never Knew - Christianity Today Magazine
In the last days, satan's influence will grow, and many people will be led astray ... led away from the truth of the Bible. It's also amazing that many people who consider themselves too "intelligent" to believe in the Bible, tend to believe stuff like "the Gospel of Judas:"
The Judas We Never Knew - Christianity Today Magazine
It's just another sign, already predicted ... 2,000 years ago.
Matthew 24 - Signs of the End of the Age
"Watch out that no one deceives you. 5For many will come in my name, claiming, 'I am the Christ,' and will deceive many.
10At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, 11and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people. 12Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, 13but he who stands firm to the end will be saved.
23At that time if anyone says to you, 'Look, here is the Christ!' or, 'There he is!' do not believe it. 24For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and miracles to deceive even the elect—if that were possible. 25See, I have told you ahead of time.
26"So if anyone tells you, 'There he is, out in the desert,' do not go out; or, 'Here he is, in the inner rooms,' do not believe it. 27For as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
Are YOU ready?
The Judas We Never Knew - Christianity Today Magazine
It's just another sign, already predicted ... 2,000 years ago.
Matthew 24 - Signs of the End of the Age
"Watch out that no one deceives you. 5For many will come in my name, claiming, 'I am the Christ,' and will deceive many.
10At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, 11and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people. 12Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, 13but he who stands firm to the end will be saved.
23At that time if anyone says to you, 'Look, here is the Christ!' or, 'There he is!' do not believe it. 24For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and miracles to deceive even the elect—if that were possible. 25See, I have told you ahead of time.
26"So if anyone tells you, 'There he is, out in the desert,' do not go out; or, 'Here he is, in the inner rooms,' do not believe it. 27For as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
Are YOU ready?
Conservative Christians losing faith in GOP
Count me in on this one. Dubya has not been making me very happy in many instances. However, I'm still not going to go Democrat.
Dallas Morning News News for Dallas, Texas Latest News:
Conservative Christians losing faith in GOP
Saturday, April 1, 2006
By WAYNE SLATER / The Dallas Morning News
WASHINGTON – There was no clearer sense of the despair among conservative Christians who gathered recently than the row upon row of books with urgent, alarmist titles.
Pagan America. Judicial Tyranny. Liberalism Kills Kids. The Criminalization of Christianity.
In the political culture wars, religious conservatives say they've been electing candidates but not getting the results they want. And leaders worry that they might be about to lose Christian conservatives as a potent political force because of unmet expectations on a host of issues and stumbles by a Republican administration they helped elect.
Conservative "values voters" have been crucial to Republican success, with religious leaders driving huge voter turnout in recent elections. If they lack enthusiasm this fall, experts say, the GOP could lose control of Congress.
"The nation isn't focused today in a way it was on such issues as abortion, marriage, the nature of the family," said the Rev. Laurence White of Houston. "For us, it's not the economy, stupid. It's the morality, stupid."
The Rev. Rick Scarborough, an East Texas evangelist whose group Vision America sponsored a two-day conference aimed at getting Christian activists involved in the 2006 elections, says he hopes to mobilize groups representing 20 million people. To motivate them, he offers a list of 10 grievances and a program to register voters and press candidates to pass specific legislation.
"We're tired of talk. We want action," he said. "It occurs to us that no matter who is in the White House or who says what we want to hear, nothing ever changes."
High on the list are a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage and a judiciary more sympathetic to religious expression, like permitting the Ten Commandments in government buildings and allowing pastors to endorse candidates from the pulpit.
"If these issues are not addressed, you'll see values voters stay home by the millions. And then the Republicans and others who have been the beneficiary of the values vote are going to lose," Mr. Scarborough said.
Those who work to counter the influence of religious conservatives scoff at the notion that their opponents should feel aggrieved. The White House is occupied by the most openly religious president in memory, two new Supreme Court justices hold an expansive view of religious rights, and social conservatives control Congress.
"This language of persecution would be more credible if the very people using it weren't sitting at the seat of power in government today," said Kathy Miller of the Texas Freedom Network, a nonprofit group that monitors church-state issues.
Still, the dissatisfaction in the social conservative base threatens to divide a GOP already struggling to balance the interests of social conservatives with those of economic and traditional conservatives, who care primarily about Iraq, immigration, and taxes and government spending.
Turnout
Professor John Green of the University of Akron, an expert on religion and politics, said evangelicals accounted for 35 percent to 40 percent of President Bush's re-election vote in 2004 and are instrumental to GOP success.
"These voters are quite important to Republican control of the House and Senate," Mr. Green said. "In Ohio, probably Florida, Pennsylvania and maybe Missouri in 2006, these voters could be absolutely crucial to Republicans."
A group called Reformation Ohio has enlisted more than 1,000 "patriot pastors" to help register voters who could benefit the GOP, particularly gubernatorial candidate Kenneth Blackwell. The group's leader, evangelist Rod Parsley, has lent his support to a similar group, the Texas Restoration Project, whose voter-registration efforts are being used by Gov. Rick Perry's re-election campaign.
The "War on Christians and Values Voters in 2006" conference last week offered a clear view of how social conservatives are approaching this election year. They aren't dwelling on their recent successes; instead, a siege mentality seems prevalent.
On the dais and in the hallways of a hotel at the gathering of about 400 conservative Christians, the talk was about moral values under attack and what one participant called "this alien idea of an absolute wall of separation between church and state."
A succession of panels featured vivid stories about religious liberty in jeopardy.
A Navy chaplain said he was disciplined for delivering an evangelical Christian prayer during a memorial service. A Florida artist recounted how his paintings were banned from a city hall exhibit because they depicted religious themes. And a Massachusetts radio talk show host said he was physically threatened for hosting a "Mr. Heterosexual Contest" after hearing about a gay beauty pageant in California.
Panelists warned that whatever the electoral gains of recent years, American culture is still besieged by Hollywood, the news media, gays, liberals, "secular humanists" and the ACLU.
There were some acknowledgments of victory. One panelist declared that cable TV and bloggers have "broken the media monopoly," and another sparked applause by announcing he was appearing that night on Bill O'Reilly's show on the Fox News Channel.
When a conference delegate asked whether Christians should buy control of newspapers that are for sale, longtime conservative activist Paul Weyrich said there was no need.
"Newspapers are a dying industry," he said. "There won't be any newspapers 20 years from now. Buy television."
As for Hollywood, panelists were uniformly critical of what they see as its denigration of Christian values but reluctance to critique Islam and risk what conservative activist Janet Folger called "folks in turbans dancing around the ashes of the building."
A declaration by Don Feder of Vision America – "Hollywood likes Islam almost as much as it loathes Christianity" – prompted a delegate to ask why Jewish movie executives would support a religion whose extremists wanted to destroy Israel.
Mr. Feder explained that Hollywood executives are political liberals who do not reflect Judeo-Christian ethics.
"The people in this audience," he said of the largely white, Protestant crowd, "are more Jewish than people like Barbra Streisand, because you embrace Jewish values. She doesn't."
One delegate came as George Washington, dressed in three-pointed hat and full revolutionary regalia. During a question-and-answer session, he offered brisk assurance that the Founding Fathers favored a close church-state alliance, even quoting "my friend Thomas Jefferson."
ON THEIR LIST
Conservative Christian voters say that Republican leaders they helped put in office haven't moved quickly enough on their policy agenda. Here are some of the issues they feel haven't been addressed:
Gay-marriage ban. Although 19 states, including Texas, have amended their constitutions to ban same-sex marriage, Congress has not authorized a federal constitutional amendment. Conservatives say such a step is necessary to protect traditional marriage against court decisions requiring recognition of gay unions.
Religious expression. Conservative evangelicals want churches to be able to support political candidates without jeopardizing their tax-exempt status, teacher-led prayer to be allowed in schools, and religious symbols such as the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public places.
The judiciary. President Bush gets high marks for the two Supreme Court justices confirmed this year. But courts should be prohibited from taking "under God" out of the Pledge of Allegiance or otherwise ruling against acknowledgements of God in public declarations, conservative evangelical leaders say.
Abortion. Roe vs. Wade, which legalized abortion, has not been overturned.
Property rights. Conservatives want restrictions on eminent domain, the government power to take private property for public use.
Add: Border Security! Stop illegal immigration!
School vouchers. Parents should be permitted to send children to private schools, including those run by religious institutions, with public money, these voters argue.
Dallas Morning News News for Dallas, Texas Latest News:
Conservative Christians losing faith in GOP
Saturday, April 1, 2006
By WAYNE SLATER / The Dallas Morning News
WASHINGTON – There was no clearer sense of the despair among conservative Christians who gathered recently than the row upon row of books with urgent, alarmist titles.
Pagan America. Judicial Tyranny. Liberalism Kills Kids. The Criminalization of Christianity.
In the political culture wars, religious conservatives say they've been electing candidates but not getting the results they want. And leaders worry that they might be about to lose Christian conservatives as a potent political force because of unmet expectations on a host of issues and stumbles by a Republican administration they helped elect.
Conservative "values voters" have been crucial to Republican success, with religious leaders driving huge voter turnout in recent elections. If they lack enthusiasm this fall, experts say, the GOP could lose control of Congress.
"The nation isn't focused today in a way it was on such issues as abortion, marriage, the nature of the family," said the Rev. Laurence White of Houston. "For us, it's not the economy, stupid. It's the morality, stupid."
The Rev. Rick Scarborough, an East Texas evangelist whose group Vision America sponsored a two-day conference aimed at getting Christian activists involved in the 2006 elections, says he hopes to mobilize groups representing 20 million people. To motivate them, he offers a list of 10 grievances and a program to register voters and press candidates to pass specific legislation.
"We're tired of talk. We want action," he said. "It occurs to us that no matter who is in the White House or who says what we want to hear, nothing ever changes."
High on the list are a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage and a judiciary more sympathetic to religious expression, like permitting the Ten Commandments in government buildings and allowing pastors to endorse candidates from the pulpit.
"If these issues are not addressed, you'll see values voters stay home by the millions. And then the Republicans and others who have been the beneficiary of the values vote are going to lose," Mr. Scarborough said.
Those who work to counter the influence of religious conservatives scoff at the notion that their opponents should feel aggrieved. The White House is occupied by the most openly religious president in memory, two new Supreme Court justices hold an expansive view of religious rights, and social conservatives control Congress.
"This language of persecution would be more credible if the very people using it weren't sitting at the seat of power in government today," said Kathy Miller of the Texas Freedom Network, a nonprofit group that monitors church-state issues.
Still, the dissatisfaction in the social conservative base threatens to divide a GOP already struggling to balance the interests of social conservatives with those of economic and traditional conservatives, who care primarily about Iraq, immigration, and taxes and government spending.
Turnout
Professor John Green of the University of Akron, an expert on religion and politics, said evangelicals accounted for 35 percent to 40 percent of President Bush's re-election vote in 2004 and are instrumental to GOP success.
"These voters are quite important to Republican control of the House and Senate," Mr. Green said. "In Ohio, probably Florida, Pennsylvania and maybe Missouri in 2006, these voters could be absolutely crucial to Republicans."
A group called Reformation Ohio has enlisted more than 1,000 "patriot pastors" to help register voters who could benefit the GOP, particularly gubernatorial candidate Kenneth Blackwell. The group's leader, evangelist Rod Parsley, has lent his support to a similar group, the Texas Restoration Project, whose voter-registration efforts are being used by Gov. Rick Perry's re-election campaign.
The "War on Christians and Values Voters in 2006" conference last week offered a clear view of how social conservatives are approaching this election year. They aren't dwelling on their recent successes; instead, a siege mentality seems prevalent.
On the dais and in the hallways of a hotel at the gathering of about 400 conservative Christians, the talk was about moral values under attack and what one participant called "this alien idea of an absolute wall of separation between church and state."
A succession of panels featured vivid stories about religious liberty in jeopardy.
A Navy chaplain said he was disciplined for delivering an evangelical Christian prayer during a memorial service. A Florida artist recounted how his paintings were banned from a city hall exhibit because they depicted religious themes. And a Massachusetts radio talk show host said he was physically threatened for hosting a "Mr. Heterosexual Contest" after hearing about a gay beauty pageant in California.
Panelists warned that whatever the electoral gains of recent years, American culture is still besieged by Hollywood, the news media, gays, liberals, "secular humanists" and the ACLU.
There were some acknowledgments of victory. One panelist declared that cable TV and bloggers have "broken the media monopoly," and another sparked applause by announcing he was appearing that night on Bill O'Reilly's show on the Fox News Channel.
When a conference delegate asked whether Christians should buy control of newspapers that are for sale, longtime conservative activist Paul Weyrich said there was no need.
"Newspapers are a dying industry," he said. "There won't be any newspapers 20 years from now. Buy television."
As for Hollywood, panelists were uniformly critical of what they see as its denigration of Christian values but reluctance to critique Islam and risk what conservative activist Janet Folger called "folks in turbans dancing around the ashes of the building."
A declaration by Don Feder of Vision America – "Hollywood likes Islam almost as much as it loathes Christianity" – prompted a delegate to ask why Jewish movie executives would support a religion whose extremists wanted to destroy Israel.
Mr. Feder explained that Hollywood executives are political liberals who do not reflect Judeo-Christian ethics.
"The people in this audience," he said of the largely white, Protestant crowd, "are more Jewish than people like Barbra Streisand, because you embrace Jewish values. She doesn't."
One delegate came as George Washington, dressed in three-pointed hat and full revolutionary regalia. During a question-and-answer session, he offered brisk assurance that the Founding Fathers favored a close church-state alliance, even quoting "my friend Thomas Jefferson."
ON THEIR LIST
Conservative Christian voters say that Republican leaders they helped put in office haven't moved quickly enough on their policy agenda. Here are some of the issues they feel haven't been addressed:
Gay-marriage ban. Although 19 states, including Texas, have amended their constitutions to ban same-sex marriage, Congress has not authorized a federal constitutional amendment. Conservatives say such a step is necessary to protect traditional marriage against court decisions requiring recognition of gay unions.
Religious expression. Conservative evangelicals want churches to be able to support political candidates without jeopardizing their tax-exempt status, teacher-led prayer to be allowed in schools, and religious symbols such as the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public places.
The judiciary. President Bush gets high marks for the two Supreme Court justices confirmed this year. But courts should be prohibited from taking "under God" out of the Pledge of Allegiance or otherwise ruling against acknowledgements of God in public declarations, conservative evangelical leaders say.
Abortion. Roe vs. Wade, which legalized abortion, has not been overturned.
Property rights. Conservatives want restrictions on eminent domain, the government power to take private property for public use.
Add: Border Security! Stop illegal immigration!
School vouchers. Parents should be permitted to send children to private schools, including those run by religious institutions, with public money, these voters argue.
Eminent domain ain't what it used to be
Eminent Domain:
"The power to take private property for public use by the state or municipality with just compensation."
"The right of a government or municipal public body to acquire private property for public use. It is acquired through a court action called condemnation in which the court determines the use is a public use and decides the price or compensation to be paid to the owner."
But now, it seems, Eminent Domain isn't just for the public good, or for public use. It now means pretty much this: "The reigning governental body will take any land and any property for whatever it wants to use it for (shopping mall, parking lot, sports stadium), and will pay owner whatever compensation it feels like, which may or may not be fair market value (and which may leave the previous owner scrambling to find new shelter with much less money).
WorldNetDaily: City to seize church by eminent domain (this is only the beginning....churches in general are going to start getting crowded out by eminent domain)
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/cowboysstadium/stories/062505dnmetcondemn.415743ed.html (good old Jerry Jones strikes again)
"The power to take private property for public use by the state or municipality with just compensation."
"The right of a government or municipal public body to acquire private property for public use. It is acquired through a court action called condemnation in which the court determines the use is a public use and decides the price or compensation to be paid to the owner."
But now, it seems, Eminent Domain isn't just for the public good, or for public use. It now means pretty much this: "The reigning governental body will take any land and any property for whatever it wants to use it for (shopping mall, parking lot, sports stadium), and will pay owner whatever compensation it feels like, which may or may not be fair market value (and which may leave the previous owner scrambling to find new shelter with much less money).
WorldNetDaily: City to seize church by eminent domain (this is only the beginning....churches in general are going to start getting crowded out by eminent domain)
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/cowboysstadium/stories/062505dnmetcondemn.415743ed.html (good old Jerry Jones strikes again)
Animal and Humans are NOT equal!
While it's true we humans as a whole pretty much suck at our stewardship of the world, still, animals should not have the same "rights" as human beings.
Humans beings are created in the image of God. Animals were put here on the earth to serve, and be companions to, human beings. They are not sentient, and do not have spirits or souls to communicate with, and worship, God the way that human beings do. This is the main distiction between the two!
Animal Liberation & Rights: PETA, Bible, & Christianity
Humans beings are created in the image of God. Animals were put here on the earth to serve, and be companions to, human beings. They are not sentient, and do not have spirits or souls to communicate with, and worship, God the way that human beings do. This is the main distiction between the two!
Animal Liberation & Rights: PETA, Bible, & Christianity
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