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Report Confirms Shocking Rise in Threats to Religious Freedom
Posted On 03 Jul 2017
Consumers of conservative news will be more likely than most to believe that religious freedom has been under attack in America for the last three years because most of this news has been shamelessly ignored by the mainstream media. Or, if it is covered at all, it is treated as a “good” thing and conveyed as though the Obama administration and left-wing governments around the country are finally cracking down on mean, discriminatory Christians after years of giving them a free pass.
But is all this just fiction? Is it just a narrative meant to rally the base? Surely in a country where the majority of Americans are Christians, there can’t be any legitimacy to the claim that Christians and others of faith are being oppressed, right? Isn’t that why we have the First Amendment? Naw, this has to just be one of those Fox News things where conservatives are getting all up in arms about an imaginary threat.
Wrong.
The liberal media couldn’t quite understand why evangelical Christians would support a candidate like Donald Trump for president, as he didn’t appear to embody many of Christ’s teachings. It was beyond their bubble, of course. They were oblivious to how strange American Christians were feeling in their own country. How marginalized. How fearful for the future. And if it took someone with questionable virtues and an even more questionable grasp of Christian teachings to be a warrior for the Lord, well, evangelicals are accustomed to the idea that God’s fighters are not always what we imagine them to be.
According to a new report from the Family Research Council, that fighter might have come in the nick of time. In their annual survey, they found that since 2014, there has been a 76% increase in the number of religious freedom violations across the United States.The report comprehensively lists the incidents they found – some of which include:
- Academic staff being charged with criminal contempt due to praying over a meal at a school function.
- A middle-school student in Mississippi being disciplined for including “Jesus” in her poetry assignment (an assignment that was centered around Christmas, no less).
- Christian firefighters in San Diego being threatened with disciplinary action if they chose not to participate in the city’s gay pride parade.
- An Ohio library banning a Christian group from using their facilities to discuss marriage unless the discussion included support of gay weddings.
And the FRC cautions that their survey of threats probably doesn’t even scratch the surface of actual violations, many of which can fly under the radar.
A new president won’t be enough, alone, to turn back the tide. But if state governments are emboldened by the new direction of this administration – and the solidity of a conservative Supreme Court – we can begin to move the needle back to the center.
It is a sad situation when a country that was founded on Judeo-christian principals has to succumb to people’s whims just because they have lost their way in life. They are confused and want everyone around them to become as confused as they are. No one wants to stop anyone else from having their own beliefs but also they want the same considerations not to be bullied into doing something that goes against their religious convictions!
Part of the “Judeo-Christian” value system apparently is the view that Trump is being used by GOD! 2 further their oppressive social agenda. Without a doubt, the president is very manipulable, but we should B looking 4 the identity of manipulators among ground-level creditors, rather than “on high.”
the left believes in compromise as long as you do it their way (I never did like f. Sinatra).
Sounds exactly the same for the right except that they’ve been in control since the beginning of human civilization.
Man couldn’t sing a note.
You can bet if it were muslims it would be alright.
I was just thinking that. In fact, I read some elementary schools are allowing muslim students prayer time.
“I read some elementary schools are allowing Muslim students prayer time.”
Meanwhile, they won’t allow Christian students prayer time.
Public schools are TEACHING ISLAM !!
Yes they are teaching islam. And islam is not even a religion never was and never will be and it won’t be long before we are fighting musilms in America streets.
MSM and the left thought it was alright from 2008 – 2016.
Hey…Sam….The country is NOT a theocracy. Get it? Religion does not come into play when it comes to making laws, rulings and legislation. Get it? Civil rights have nothing to do with religion. Get it? Why don’t you go back to high school and take your US Government class again and learn about Separation of Church and State. Listen this time instead of scratching your fat @$$ and picking your nose.
You pos! I have slugs like you to scratch my a**! You need to study American History and you will know just what principals this country was founded on before morons like you came along and started screwing it up!
Hate to tell you…but we are not going away. If you don’t like it, why don’t you go in your house, lock all the doors, close the curtains , never turn on the TV or radio, have your groceries delivered….and…..you may never have to deal with folks like me ever again. If you don’t want to do that….then…..SUCK IT UP!!!!
I figured that! You like all the other Onamaites aren’t going to let go of the government teet because you just might have to stand on your own two feet. But we all know that would be impossible!
Excuse me, Sweetie, but the only ‘government money’ I get is the money that I put in it…Social Security. And as far as standing on my own two feet….I have an 1800 square foot, three bedroom, two bath house that is 250 feet from the ocean on a 1/2 acre lot with a swimming pool and two car garage. And all that was from working for less than $25,000 a year all my life. So shut your ignorant, intolerant and bigoted mouth and don’t hand me this $H!T about being on the government dole. So…once again…you are WRONG!
Sweetie? Really? I don’t believe in your lifestyle!
HEY….Did I ask you out on a date? Did I ask you to go to bed with me? I don’t go to bed with stupid and ignorant men. Nor do I date them. So you have no fear. You are safe. I don’t give a rat’s @$$ what you believe. There is no skin off my nose. You will remain ignorant and intolerant for the rest of your life. Your CHOICE. Goodbye, Sam….We leave you in the dust of the past and your ignorance. Goodbye, Sam.
You must have been the”village idiot”, in the Village People.
How long have you been living with Grandma ? Do you get to stay there after she’s gone ?
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Sweetie you must be a queer to call a man sweetie no real man would ever call another man sweetie. And I don’t believe you own anything let alone a ocean front view maybe in your dreams.
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Like HEMORRHOIDS…
YOUR TYPE OR “FILTHY ILK”, HAVE ALWAYS BEEN
HERE . JUST LIKE THE PSEUDOINTELLECTUALS
YOU WORK SO HARD TO EMULATE !
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Damn that hat he has on makes him look more stupid than he is.
ignore…
Like the “Village Idiot” from the
Village People .
If you call burning like a road flare in Hell forever not going away then okay !
Ignore…
IGNORANT ASS !
ignore…
ASSHOLES like you can always be put away.
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Nothing like a progressive/liberal being a loud mouth bully to show the need for Judeo-Christian principles in our lives. If you can’t handle a discussion with facts, then resort to name-calling and other bullying tactics so you don’t have to listen to how wrong you are.
James….Excuse me…..obviously you have not read several of the responses to me with your reference to name calling? You are just like the rest. Uneducated, ignorant and intolerant. You do not understand the concept of Separation of Church and State. I suggest your round up the other two and go take your US Government class again and listen this time. Your profound ignorance is showing much like that of the other two here. Sorry to say. I shall ignore any further responses. What you have to say further is irrelevant until you get educated on the subject.
Get it?
So true. These A**hole people who say their right to freedom of religion is being taken away is ludicrous. I detest these jerks that hide behind religion to deny us gay people a right to live the way we want. Freedom FROM religion is better. Any religion is toxic.
Robbee67……Thank you for your comment. I will tell you. After dealing with these ‘holier than thou’ fundamentalists all these years, I have come to realize they are too stupid and lazy to do the research and find out the true, unbiased and legitimate information regarding homosexuality. They sit on their fat @$$es and listen to other ignorant and intolerant morons and blindly believe them. They listen to groups like the American Family Association that twists information to suit their agenda. None of it is real or factual. So, I have realized they will never change. So I just let them have it with both barrels regarding that ignorant book they keep quoting from. And anyone who believes that a book, obviously written by men, was written by God, is totally delusional. There are so many errors in it and mistakes that if God actually had any hand in its conception, God is a MORON. Also, you have those who totally do not understand the concept of Separation of Church and State when it comes to making civil, legal and governmental legislation. It is sad. I was 24 when Stonewall happened. And from that moment on, being gay was a whole new story. We organized as a group and started telling folks that we weren’t taking the $H!T any longer. We were citizens and we have rights…and….we wanted them.
“…and listen to other ignorant and intolerant morons and blindly believe them.” The pot calling the kettle black. Listen to yourself. Who’s the zealot now! Religious or Gay you all should have equal (HUMAN) rights. May as well arm yourself to the teeth because you don’t sound any less extreme than the right.
Than go back into your closet and stop forcing your beliefs on other people.What you do is very SICK and wrong.
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Hey (Robbie 67), please listen to yourself when responding. You sound no better than the extreme right when they attack your individual rights as a gay person. Saying “Any religion is toxic” is no better than saying all gays should be crucified or hung. Each side needs to respect the others beliefs or the individual’s right to not believe as well. I have LGBTQ friends who are of Christian and Moslem faith and they should be allowed to express those beliefs without your condemnation. Please think before you post.
So you both are peter puffers I knew it boy the devil sure loves you guys and buy the way homosexuality is a big SIN moron and I would not care to bet that both of you have AIDS or close to getting AIDS.
You are just an ignorant CUNT and TOXIC. Religion is what’s wrong with this world. Too bad dumb bitch,
WRONG! The right to your religious beliefs are a civil right as well. Separation of Church and State does NOT apply to individual rights when choosing your right to believe or not believe. You need to listen to yourself as well before scratching your nose and picking your fat @$$. As a centrist you make it hard to want to defend you.
Lycanroc…..Your right to believe what ever you want religiously, yes, is your civil right. My point is. No one’s religious beliefs are allowed to influence the making of legal legislation that affects ALL citizens.. The country is NOT a theocracy. You keep your religious beliefs to yourself if you are making legal legislation that affects ALL people. That is what Separation of Church and State is all about. Well, these religious fundamentalist want to influence laws affecting everyone, suited to their religious beliefs. THAT is WRONG.
Thornton, that is a view I can respect. However, please refrain from the condemnation of those with religious faith as some from the extreme right are wrong when condemning those with progressive views. I respect and believe in your human rights and pass no judgement (and I have no God-given right to do that) on how you were biologically created since this is not a given choice at birth. I agree with you that the U.S. is not a theocracy and that it should remain that way so as to avoid human rights abuses currently going on in the middle east (i.e. Saudi Arabia, Iran, Yemen, etc.) and around the world (especially Russia). However, heed my word, be prepared because some on the extreme right feel they have a God-given right to exterminate anyone center or left of their extreme views. And that is WRONG as well.
Lycanroc…..I knew we were basically on the same page. It’s just that it required a bit of a clarification. My arguments are NOT with most religious folks. They are with those who will not accept the unbiased and legitimate scientific proof and they use verses, written by men over 1500 years ago, who had NO understanding or scientific information on MANY subjects, who sit and judge me. The audacity of those arrogant, ignorant, intolerant and bigoted fundamentalist @$$holes. As you see, I defined which fundamentalists I’m referring to. If someone can be defined as arrogant, ignorant, intolerant or bigoted, then you have a clue as to what I think about that person. These are the same ones who believe the First Amendment of the Constitution allows them to interject their religious beliefs into laws and legislation for the country. WRONG, BILBO! It only allows them to believe in any religious doctrine they want to. And NO religion will be the national religion. THAT IS ALL. But they are too STUPID to understand that.
YOU ARE TEN TIMES X10
The BIGOTED INTOLERANT
ARROGANT IGNORANT
CHRISTIPHOBIC DIM WITTED BLOVIATING HELLBOUND MORON
THAN THE PEOPLE YOU SAY SIT AND JUDGE YOU.
YOU’RE BEING JUDGED ON YOUR OWN IGNORANCE AND INTOLERANCE OF PEOPLE THAT KILL NO ONE IN THE NAME OF THEIR GOD. ONLY ISLAM SOUNDS LIKE YOUR DIATRIBE. WHY DON’T YOU TAKE TOUR DOGMA FOR A WALK IN EASTERN EUROPE WHER ATHEISM
(YOUR CHURCH) FLOURISHED FOR DECADES OR PUT ON A BURQA , YOU SELF AGGRANDIZING FOOL !!
P.S.
IF THE BIBLE IS NOT TRUTH THEN WHY WAS THE “DEEPWATER HORIZON GULF OIL SPILL”
MENTIONED IN REVELATIONS 8:8 ? READ IT AND WEEP HELLBOUND!!!!!!
THE TIME FOR CELEBRATING YOURSELF IS ABOUT TO END !!
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The “SEPARATION CLAUSE” STATES that Congress SHALL PASS NO LAWS RESTRICTING RELIGIOUS LIBERTIES.
NOT , THAT RELIGION IS BANNED FROM LAW , MORON !!!!!!
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GREAT DEBATE PINHEAD !!!
YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THE CONSTITUTION, OUR HISTORY OUR FOUNDING FATHERS OR THE LAW !!! YOU ARE A HUGE BAG OF METHANE ! A TOTAL WASTE
OF SLUDGE !! I BET “IN OVER YOUR HEAD” IS ALL YOU’VE
EVER KNOWN AND BEEN !
POOR TIRED OLD QUEEN !!!
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Hey shit for brains take off the cowboy hat makes you look like a retired Idiot damn sorry about that you are a fucking IDIOT!!!!!
ignore.
I like to have two of the hats he has on one to shit in the other to cover it up
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How is it that gays and Muslims and LIBERALS have EVERYTHING
BACKWARDS and WRONG ?Are each of you going to get your own Easy Bake Oven apartment in Hell or do you get to share the same one ?
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IGNORANT MORON !
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mlstephens is right you are a complete fucking MORON at best.
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Thou shalt not KILL
Thou shalt not STEAL
Thou shalt not BARE FALSE WITNESS….
HOW DID THESE WIND UP LAW
IF RELIGION CAN’T INFLUENCE
THEIR WRITTING ? TOO BAD YOU LIVE YOUR LIFE SO IGNORANT AND STILL WIND UP IN HE’LL. MAYBE YOU SHOULD SUE YOUR PARENTS FOR MALPRACTICE. I HOPE YOU ARE NOT IN ANY POSITION TO INFLUENCE ANY CHILDREN. WOULD BE TRAGIC
Hey….Stupid @$$……those same ideals are believed and upheld by atheists and decent people across the globe. They have NOTHING to do with religion. You IGNORANT MORON. Goodbye. I’m tired of responding to idiots like you.
YEP , WOULD BE TRAGIC…
ALTHOUGH YOU DO RESEMBLE A CAPRIPHILE
(goat molestor) HUH !??
I BET YOU ONLY TARGET THE KIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDS !!!!!
MUST BE THAT GOAT ROPERS HAT ON YOUR ASS THAT GAVE IT AWAY !
AND YES , ASS IS IN THE BIBLE .HAVE A GREAT DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BECAUSE THEY ARE THE LAW
YOU MORON !! OTHERWISE
YOUR “ATHEISTS AND DECENT PEOPLE”, WOULD BE OUT, KILLING AND STEALING, AND LYING ABOUT IT !
WHAT A PUTZ !!!
THEN KEEP YOUR GLUTEUS MAXIMUS CLENCHED SHUT !!
Wrong dude religion has always been apart of America.
Millard,…Dude….it may be part of the history but it is NOT in the government. The US is NOT a theocracy. Do I need to explain to you what a theocracy is? Did you not pass your US Government class when it was being discussed? Look it up! The Governmental laws and regulations of the US cannot be influenced by ANY religion because ALL religions are equal in the country. Get it?
GOT IT WRONG AGAIN MORON THAT’S COMPLETELY BACKWARDS. YOU KNOW NOTHING. A THEOCRACY IS WHEN YOU HAVE TO SIT AND LISTEN TO OBAMA PREACHING ABOUT SOCIAL JUSTICE, WHICH IS WHAT HIS RELIGION (black liberation theology) WAS ALL ABOUT. I BET YOU NEVER COMPLAINED IN THE WHOLE 8 YEARS. DID YOU ?
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“Religion does not come into play when it comes to making laws,”
Except if the religion is Islam, in which case Sharia law requires laws that agree with the Quran.
Excuse me…..Did I say anything about the Middle East? This article was regarding the United States. The United States is NOT a theocracy. Stop taking words out of the context of my comment. I dislike people taking my words and twisting them from their original meaning.
“The United States is NOT a theocracy”
Well maybe not yet.
The Muslim Brotherhood, the terrorist organization that the Obama regime refuses to admit is terrorists, is ramping up its efforts to infiltrate the American way of life, making Shariah law be held above the very document and set of laws upon which
this country was built – the Constitution.
Investors Business Daily (IBD) reports on a very disturbing effort by a group that is attempting to sell itself as simply a Muslim coalition. The Muslim Brotherhood is working actively towards developing a third political party, “turning Muslims into an Islamic voting bloc.”
‘Muslim voters have the potential to be swing voters in 2016,” said Nihad Awad in launching the benign-sounding U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations, whose membership reads like a Who’s Who of Brotherhood front groups.
“We are aiming to bring more participation from the Muslim community.”
USCMO also aims to elect Islamists in Washington, with the ultimate objective of “institutionalizing policies” favorable to Islamists — that is, Shariah law.
This development bears careful monitoring in light of the U.S. Brotherhood’s recently exposed goal to wage a
“civilization jihad” against America that explicitly calls for
infiltrating the U.S. political system and “destroying (it) from
within.”
The subversive plan was spelled out in hundreds of pages of founding archives that the FBI confiscated from a
Brotherhood leader’s home in the Washington suburbs after 9/11.
Translated from Arabic, the secret documents listed a number of Brotherhood front organizations — some of which just happen to make up the newly formed USCMO.
Among the groups involved in this attempted takeover of the American political system and destruction of America as we know it is the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). This group is been directly linked to
the terrorist group Hamas not just in the way of verbal support, but financial support as well.
Another group is the Muslim American Society, described as “the overt arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States.” According to Investors, his group praised Osama bin Laden as “a visionary who believed in an Islamic state in Afghanistan.”
That’s right, the man responsible for the death of so many Americans at the hands of Muslim terrorists described as a ‘visionary’ by a group that wants to take over the American political system.
The article continues to reveal just how dangerous and disturbing this plan to form a new Islamist party truly is. Oussama
Jammal, the chair of the new party, led a mosque in Obama’s hometown of Chicago named Bridgeview Mosque. The history of this mosque, and the fact that its leader is attempting to infiltrate the American political system, should send a chill down the spine of Americans everywhere.
One of that mosque’s leaders was arrested and jailed for funneling millions to Hamas. And one of its most honored guests was bin Laden’s spiritual mentor, the late Palestinian cleric Abdullah Azzam. Some of Azzam’s relatives are Bridgeview members.
“The walls were covered with Hamas posters and recruiting literature showing masked gunmen brandishing automatic weapons. . . . You could see daggers plunged into Jewish hearts wrapped up in American flags,” said Steve Emerson,
describing the mosque in his book “American Jihad.” “They even had a library filled with terrorist videos.”
As Bridgeview’s president, Jammal blasted the FBI for arresting terrorist members and even expressed doubts that al-Qaida was responsible for 9/11.
Not to worry. As head of the USCMO, he’ll see to it that the council places “premium” importance “on defining the common good based on the Quran and the model of the prophet (Muhammad), and coordinating institutions to implement that common good in American society.
IBD reports that the group has a 30 point policy platform for “promoting Islam’s core universal principles to benefit American society.” A $3500 yearly payment is required of any Muslim who wants the ability to vote within the group and $1000 if one wants to merely join.
This is definitely a development that must be watched. The purpose of this planned Muslim political party is certainly not to simply give Muslims a voice, but rather is part of their plan of worldwide domination and dismantling of America and the United States Constitution
Don’t forget if the muslims in America ever take control the queers and Jews will be no more. And if the queers and Jews want this than they will be no more.
YOU GET BACK TO SCHOOL STUPID. IT’S MY CIVIL RIGHT TO PRACTICE MY RELIGION!
OBOBO PUSHED “SOCIAL JUSTICE” DOWN OUR THROATS. ” SOCIAL JUSTICE” IS AT THE CENTER OF “BLACK LIBERATION THEOLOGY”, JEREMIAH WRIGHT’S BUCKET OF CRAP, THAT OBOBO SAT AND SOAKED IN FOR 24 YEARS !
HIS ENTIRE AGENDA WAS BASED ON HIS RELIGION.
“KING OBOBO BIN LIPPY AL OAHU”, IS THE ONLY LEADER OF THIS COUNTRY TO EVER FORCE FEED US HIS THEOCRACY , AND TRASH THE SEPARATION CLAUSE ,
MORON !!!!!!
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Don’t like the truth moron liberal never like the truth.
Ignore,…,
Funny how you could’ve turn this around not too long ago, possibly just in the last century, when the Evangelists were out pushing (or bullying) their beliefs on the public and condemning anyone who didn’t follow those same convictions. The U.S. constitution was created just so certain religious and political groups couldn’t force individual citizens to comply with their religious,social or political beliefs. I’m a Christian myself but I believe our Father-God wouldn’t want us forcing our convictions on people who want to believe otherwise. This should work both ways and should be done with equal respect. Religious freedom is a right but it should not be used as basis for discrimination or prejudice. However, perhaps their needs to be some sort of compromise with respect to religion and individual rights. For instance, as with certain religions (i.e. if you’re Catholic you don’t use a synagogue to marry someone of Christian faith) or Individual groups (i.e. if you’re from the LGBT community or of African descent you wouldn’t rent a civic hall from a known KKK member) extreme examples I admit, but still why then can’t certain compromises be made to create hall, churches or retail establishments to serve those special interests. I know, because some groups will perceive this as outright discrimination. Eventually both sides will need to work it out otherwise we can expect that no compromise could lead to some sort of civil strife.
I also am a Christian and have lived through all the tent evangelism and don’t remember anyone that I ever visited their revivals forcing their belief on anyone! They preached the Bible as their interpretation went but never “forced” anyone to become a Christian.
Sad, but communism doesn’t work that way. The Anti-American Democrats are full out communists.
If you really care, invest 90 minutes of passive “youtube” listening to thoroughly understand Trump’s political problems, what has happened to USA, what is currently happening and what is planned by the “Establishment” to ruin our freedoms go to v=D4zMVZ8HnFI. Save the link for others to hear. I guarantee you will pass it on.
Also, if you want to know how utterly deceitful and unscrupulous politicians and the media are, read “The Smear” by Sharyl Atkinson.
In the book, she explains “HOW SHADY POLITICAL OPERATIVES AND FAKE NEWS CONTROL WHAT YOU SEE, WHAT YOU THINK, AND HOW YOU VOTE.”
You cannot lump all media together. I listen carefully to what is being said. Trump is the FAKE news. He tries to discredit all media. That is dangerous. How do you think Hitler got started? Putin did the same thing and he’s had his political opponents poisoned. One three times. He now lives here. Devil in Disguise, for sure.
Read the book, or remain uninformed.
Read the book. Then get back to me.
And OBAMA cried about FOX
NEWS for e-i-g-h-t l-o-n-g years.
This article is a load of shit. Al these fake christians do is HATE if you don’t believe like pat robertson and his phony money followers. I suppose you think 45 is just great? He’s a white supremacist who is evil. Fox has nothing but perverts (three so far.) They are the fake news. Grow up and look how 45 is ruining this country.
If the terrible Christians set your house on fire and shot your family in the head , would you THEN treat them with respect ? Are you dating a MUSLIM ? Is that why you are so down on Christians ? WHAT
DID YOUR PARENTS DO TO YOU ? Did they dress you up like a NUN for Halloween ? WHO TWISTED YOU SO UP?
Should have been child abuse charges. IN the meantime could you just PLEASE go away?
I thought you LIBERALS were the “POPE OF ISLAM” ( ONLY you can identify a REAL a Muslim or Islamic BEHAVIOR.
NOW you can identify “FAKE” from “REAL” CHRISTIANS.
WOW !!!! YOU MUST BE THE LEFT’S GREATEST MORON MOUTH PIECE. CHUCK, NANCY, HILLARY, HARRY , MAXINE…..STEP ASIDE POSERS !!! THE REAL DEAL HAS ARRIVED !!!
Hitler got going good when the
“HITLER YOUTH” GROUPS BEGAN TO SPILL OVER INTO THE STREETS OF BERLIN SHUTTING DOWN FREE SPEECH. LOOK NO FURTHER THAN THE ANTIFA AND LIBERAL COLLEGE GROUPS
TO SEE OUR FUTURE. ZEIG HIEL ! DUMB KAUF !
This is what communism is all about and the Communist Anti-American Democrats are full out communists. Any socialist out there who thinks theirs is the way the country should go, you should read this. It’s what I have been trying to tell you.
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Time Magazine: ‘Marx May be Poised for a Surprising Comeback’ | MRCTV
According to some estimates, Marxism killed nearly 100 million people in the 20th century.
For some people, that’s just not enough devastation. On May 31 Time magazine published an excerpt from Sean McMeekin’s new book, “The Russian Revolution: A New History.” The book explores the 1917 Russian Revolution, which this year marks its 100th anniversary.
In the excerpt, McMeekin argues that after being discredited after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Marxism has found new disciples:
A quarter-century later, there are signs that the political worm is turning again. Works such as Thomas Piketty’s 2013 international best seller Capital in the Twenty-First Century, along with the popularity of openly avowed socialists, such as Bernie Sanders, with young voters in previously socialism-unfriendly America, suggest that Marx may be poised for a surprising comeback. For “millennial Marxists,” as the Nation magazine has described the wave of young activists motivated by the “scourge of inequality,” the financial crash of 2008 has more resonance than the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, which marked the end of Communism in eastern Europe, or the collapse of the USSR in 1991. By many measures (such as the “Gini coefficient”), social inequality is indeed rising sharply in Western countries, which lends ammunition to ever-broader indictments of capitalism. We can surely now expect counterrevisionist books on the history of Communism, as younger historians revive the old dream of social revolution.
Continue reading here: http://www.mrctv.org/blog/time-magazine-marx-may-be-poised-surprising-comeback?
God chose St. Paul. ‘Nuff said.
Excuse me….Paul, who wrote Romans, was a latent and closeted homosexual who hated himself. That’s why he wrote the stuff he did. He is a perfect example of the great line from Shakespeare. “The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”
I’ve never heard that before. I’ll probably never hear it again, either.
Guess what boys, girls, LGBTQA (and other alphabet soupers who might be offended!)..Christ died for ALL OUR SINS …PERIOD! What DON’T you get about that statement? He made believers out of commoners, fishermen, laborers and carpenters of the day..NOT the rich parasites like the Pharisees..Donald Trump worked his butt off to get where he was (is) financially today..you liberals and left-wing sadists jealous??? Work hard to earn your way in this world..and by the way,….STOP telling the snowflakes and 18-30 year olds that the GOVERNMENT will BAIL OUR THEIR LIVES on healthcare and jobs…..get OUT and WORK for it….We as the Baby-Boom generation had to! Grow up a little….Stop living on mom & dad’s GRAVY train (handouts)…Beware of Bernie Sanders, Hit-lery and STOP listening to BHO (Barack Oh-blame-ah).
The current economy does not work the same as it used to. There are not enough jobs to sustain everyone.
The cost of living must come down to return to the “good old days”.
Read a book on the economy please.
“There are not enough jobs to sustain everyone.”
Actually, there is a shortage of skilled craftsmen, (plumbers, electricians, pipe fitters,etc to fill the openings available.) These are high paying jobs.
However, the millennials believe these jobs are below them.
You have to be trained in those jobs and most of the skilled workers do not want to train certain people.You mention jobs that take a long time to learn.
You cannot prove that millennial’s believe the job you mention are below any ones dignity. Those jobs pay over $100,000 per year when fully skilled.
Please see the video below concerning millennials.
https://videos.files. wordpress.com/MaDgJImK/the- conservative-millennial_hd.mp4
No video. Also even if there was a video i would not believe it.
BS pineapple did so the millennials like welfare more than work end of story.
That’s the problem in America millennials and there queer buddys the believe everything that comes out of the commie mouths.
I have 1 serious question….what can us Christians do in order to make this shit stop and bring Christianity back to where it belongs………FREEDOM OF RELIGION….GOD HELP US!!!
Yes freedom of religion all religions and no religion!
That is the stuff this nation is made of!
Yes, better yet Freedom From Religion.
“Freedom From Religion”
Could you be referring to Islam, which says that all non-Muslims should be converted to Islam or killed?
Yes, you can’t force religion on anyone because it suits you. bible belt is good for that. Think Pence.
How about freedom from “Homo Warrior Morons” ?
When was the last time YOU were dragged into a Church kicking and screaming against your will ? If the rest of the world was Christain, WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE TO YOU ? WHY DO YOU CARE ?
IF YOU WEREN’T SO ABNORMALLY IN TOUCH WITH YOUR INNER-BITCH , YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO GRASP ON TO SOME SHRED OF A NORMAL EXISTENCE AND LET PEOPLE ALONE THAT CAUSE YOU NO HARM . BUT LOW LIFE’S LIKE YOURSELF ARE NEVER SATISFIED TO LET OTHERS BE . YOU LOVE TO START CRAP YOU CAN’T BACK
AND THEN CLAIM VICTIMHOOD WHEN TSHTF.
GROW UP LITTLE ANGRY BOY.
GET OVER YOURSELF !!!
the left wing constantly show their Lunacy on damn near every thing
Sadly but joyfully I regret to inform you that religious freedom is not under attack you asswipes have gone overboard with this issue. The experiment we call the Constitution has given/bequeathed to you all the room you need or could ever want to practice your own self made freedom of expression. Separate from the workings of our constitution. More or less due to the fact that Europe in and of itself made the expression of religion a fitting place to wage war and mayhem in the name of a fictitious character as your leader head honcho or savior to kill and be killed simply by thought or omission. You religionists are killing yourselves with all your made up bullshit. As a former religionist of the Roman Catholic version; you really have outdone yourselves and certainly do deserve to be under attack; but you are doing this to yourselves all on your own just fine. The majority that you claim to be your right has no right to be trying (and failing I might add) to legislate the actions of any minority. Get over yourselves and you may survive; however I doubt that this will make you happy. Religionists are never happy with a made of path to however you see Heaven, Hell or Purgatory in a one time use of the soul. Therefore may I suggest that you take your fucking book and shove it up that place where the sun don’t shine along with your proverbial heads.
What happened to you ? Did a priest stand you up on a date ? PLEASE don’t let your misspent time with one of Europe’s largest” mass murder & sex cults”, CONFUSE you with having had a “Christian” experience “dearie”.
One truth they MAY have told you though:” HELL IS FOREVER ! ”
ENJOY !!!
This is why we most stand up for the right of Freedom Of Religion, not from religion. If they do not like to worship God or fear Him. They want to go some place else. Our Country was founded on Judeo-Christian & Biblical Principals fought for by our forefathers, they died for their convictions. If I meet someone that disagrees with me that’s their right. I agree to disagree. If they want to believe in the Easter Bunny or whatever, I do not have to go along to get along.
What amazes me are how many people out there are total MORONS because they do not understand the concept of Separation of Church and State. No one’s religious freedom is under attack. Civil rights have NOTHING to do with religion. Get it? So all you stupid imbeciles, go back to high school and take your US Government class again and listen and learn this time when they discuss Separation of Church and State, instead of scratching your fat @$$es and picking your noses.
The judges will have to pay for there part in going against GODS laws
The problem with the “Evangelical” Christians is that they BELIEVE!!! that they have a direct commandment from GOD!!! to *convert the whole world* to their particular faith. (So do the Muslims, remember.) Americans were getting very tired of their pious antics a long time before 9/11. Other kinds of Christians (not to mention Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, Pagans and even Atheists) take the general attitude that having a strong religious faith is like having a penis; if you’ve got one, fine — but you can’t go waving it around in public, and you can’t shove it down someone else’s throat without their permission. What the Evangelicals have been wailing about is not an attack on their rights and liberties, but a restriction of their old *power* — to which I can only say boo-hoo, suck it up.
What I find far more troubling is that the law and govt. have *not* put the same restrictions on the Muslims. Muslims are allowed to wag and shove their faith around in ways that nobody else can, and the govt. bends over backward to oblige them. Why? For fear of being called “racist” or “Islamophobe”? Or for fear of losing lots of under-the-table Arab money?
THIS is what the concerned Christians — and everybody else — ought to be yelling about.
Thanks to Lefty Obama who started it.
NO Theocracy of any kind!!
From reading most of the posts below it’s pretty obvious why religion has always been a touchy issue and should not be discussed outside the individual’s Church, Synagogue or Mosque.
Doesn’t surprise me. God’s word prophesied this over 2,000 yrs ago. He also prophesied a terrible punishment for those who do wrong against His flock who follow His commandments. It is your choice.
Actually, the biggest threat to our religious freedoms come from the Evangelical and Fundamentalist Christians who want to shove their social issues down the throats of those of us who do not agree with them. I am a Quaker and my ancestors fled from them in England so that they would not be tried for heracy, and forced to go against our pacifist religious beliefs. My ancestors did serve in both the Revolution and the War of 1812, but as streatcher bearers – trying to save lives – and I followed in this footsteps by driving the morgue truck, for those who had given the last full measure. Now we find that Christianity is actually trying to take advantage of its status – a local mega church applied to have the section of land that they owned annexed into the city. They would have continued to own the property, which would have remained tax exempt, but that would have left the real taxpayers holding the bag by building and having to provide free police and fire services to their annex. The voters got into the mix, we had a special election, and there was no favoritism for the church. Give them an inch and they will take the mile. As a Quaker, I consider my home to be a meeting house, and scantuary, but I do not make any attempt to avoid paying my fair share in taxes because of this use.
I rather firmly believe that the greatest danger to our religious freedoms are those Evangelicals and Fundamentalists whose views are over represented in our legislative and executive bodies and officials. These are the ones who would inflict their relious views on the majority of the people who do not share these views on such things as abortion, and the sexual orientations and practices of others. In the national level, we see this emphasis on repealing funding for Planned Parenthood, which does provide abortions, but with the money contributed by people like me who believe that women have the right to choose, with the most important word in the Roe decision being SAFE. i am 77 years old with 12 years of college education, most of it before the Roe decision and so I saw the results of women wanting to abort for various reasons, and with abortions being illegal at the time, having to turn to unqualified people or doing it themselves. In these desperate processes, some became permanently infirtile and some actually died – neither of which are desirable outcomes. On the sex issue, long ago the Supreme court held that Georgia’s sodomy laws was unconstitution because it involved conduct that was in private, and was unenforceable. In the course of my 77 years I have known people with sexual orientations other than mine for women only, and none of them did anything overtly sexual in public, so it was none of my business, any more than were the sexual practices of others who I think share my sexual preferences for people of the opposite sex. Also, in my experience, I had to clean many women’s rooms and by observation, they had stalls which were private, so this would render the claim that trnsexuals use women’s so that they can spy on the women in the stalls. The greatest threat to their privacy comes from those who would use currently available technology to do the spying. In other words, it is a Bull Shit claim, that should have no legal weight anywhere. I prefer to use ‘friendly bushes’ when an appropriate facility is not available and know women who do do the same. With this excessive influence, these religious radicals have taken laws and regulations out of the board rooms and into the bedrooms. These are just distractions from the real problems that face the country and its people.
The current administration seems to want to favor a return to the Crusades at the behest of the ones who claim to be the most religious without regard to the Commandment that thou shall not kill. I also find it strange that those who claim that they are ‘pro life’ also tend to be the ones most in favor of the Death Penalty. Strange?
Then we find the official anti-science orientation in the current information. The goal of science is to apply the scientific method of replication to phenomena such as the question of whether thee has been life on other planets or even if other planets could support life as we know it. If life is actually discovered, then it would disturb the Christian teaching as much as the finding of Copernicus and Galalo, by raising significant queqions regarding whether humans on earth are as special as claimed. With the blocking of funding of funding and the denial of climate change, both are favors to the radical Christian Community, which are only intented to delay the finding that humans can really destroy their enviornment, which they currently believe that their deity would not permit.
Then there is the fundamentalist belief in the Pure Capitalism as stated by Adam Smith in ‘Wealth of Nations’, which is really just taking the beliefs of John Calvin and John Wesly, creating terms that are now used in economics, and totally adopting the idea of the select or elect who have shown that they are already saved by having stewardship over so much of the diety’s wealth. Under this idea, it is immoral for those not already having this stewarship to demand higher wages to diminish the stewardship of the wealthy and is also immoral for the state to diminish this wealth by taxing income and wealth. You many have noticed that most of the Trump family do not belong to any formal branch of religion, and so why should they, since they are already saved, and are able to inflict their other beliefs on others? This idea would explain at least a part of the conservative opposition to such things as increasing the minimum wage, and taking positions against the organization of labor which has the same goals – to redistribute the wealth, along with the totally irrational believe that what they call socialism is actually the greatest economic evil of all. For example, with the great tax cuts advocated by Trump, the monies for this would come directly from the reduction in government costs for healthcare. The reason behimd this is that if the poor do not show that they are favored by have the deities wealth, they really have no right to life at all.
Put that in your bowl and smoke it.
Christ is Lord. All is forgiven for those who embrace him.
Not trying to move the discussion way off course but . . . shouldn’t some old bag be retiring from the SCOTUS and move to New Zealand because she can’t stand living in a country of deplorables led by (what’s a nice nickname the crybaby snowflakes are using to insult the GREATEST PRESIDENT OF THE CENTURY?)?
Just wondering.
The blessings that have been bestowed on America are beyond questioning. Now he comes,and he will lay his sword
across America.
Speaking for myself, I’m not what one would call a terribly religious person when it comes to going to church. I believe in the Ten Commandments as any person should. It’s simply trying to live right and do the right thing. Since I don’t believe in turning the other cheek, any rotten piece of trash attacks my way of thinking will have a fight on his hands. Hopefully more feel the same.
Trump won because he called society on the number of illegal immigrants in this country that took jobs away from U.S. citizens. As the L.A. Times explained back in 2008, only 2% of illegal immigrants work in agriculture. There are highly trained legal immigrants, too, that have been hired by U.S. companies thru the Visa program that have replaced citizen workers. Trump is the only one who has actually tried to reverse this trend, and that is why so many in his own party are not helping him because they are part of the swamp.
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