Ingrid slanders Nathan again.

Frankly, Nathan sounds like a shill for Planned Parenthood when he repeats the outrageous lie that “hundreds of abortion clinics have been bombed”.

According to these statistics since 1989 show 179 attacks against abortion clinics. This wikipedia article cites a similar study which states:

property crimes committed against abortion providers have included 41 bombings, 173 arsons, 91 attempted bombings or arsons, 619 bomb threats, 1630 incidents of trespassing, 1264 incidents of vandalism, and 100 attacks with butyric acid (”stink bombs”).

I tried to find more neutral sources for these statistics and found this article from MSNBC which states:

There were 1,700 acts of violence against abortion providers between 1977 and 1994, with four people killed in 1994 and one in 1993, according to statistics from the National Abortion Federation. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms has logged 167 attacks against abortion clinics over the past 15 years.

Now I have no doubt that these statistics are as inflated as possible since they come from an obviously biased source (the National Abortion Federation), but even taking that into account this has been a significant source of violence on the part of Christians over the years.

Can it be compared to 9/11? No, of course not. Did Nathan tell the truth? Yes, he did.

It gets scarier though, as apparently Ingrid has creatively re-imagined Northern Germanic armies as warriors of God fighting and killing for the gospel:

They could read about the Battle of Tours, (October 10, 732) where God sent the northern Germanic tribes to stand and block the way of the Islamic warriors—a “Wall of Ice” the Saracens called them, as the Northern tribes stood with their shields and defeated them—so that the Gospel and Christianity would take root in the West instead of Islam.

Wow.

I nearly fell over in laughter in reading Ingrid’s recent piece about how nothing really peaceful can come from Islam. Here are her comical words.

The London Telegraph reports on a new Muslim evangelist who has a whole different take on Allah. Apparently the Muslims that flew into the World Trade Center had the wrong one. Apparently the Saracens who sliced and chopped their way through Europe and the Middle East with Allah’s sword in the year 732 had it all wrong as well. Evidently, the Muslims who have committed 10,663 reported acts of terrorism since 9-11 also had it wrong. For a real look at the Allah of love, visit the Religion of Peace website that documents the atrocities done in Allah’s name. This new Muslim evangelist may be useful to ignorant Western tolerance shills like Tony Campolo and Jim Wallis, but he is living in different world than the rest of us are. Just ask the victims of 9-11 or the 10, 663 terror attacks since.

Of course, Ingrid would never mention that, while many believers would profess that God is love, hundreds of abortion clinics are bombed in the name of Jesus Christ. Forget the fact that hundreds of fallen soldiers are having their funerals invaded by posters with Christian phrases such as “God Hates Fags”. Cover up the crusades, the Salem witch trials, and other atrocities in the name of the Lord. Just ask the family members who had their grandfather hung by a tree and burned by Jesus Christ’s KKK. We all worship the same God that ordained these events, yes? You see, the same arguments that show Islam is not a religion of peace are the same arguments that show Christianity has nothing to do with love.

Apparently Ingrid forgot that little proverb “people who live in glass houses should not throw stones”

**UPDATE**

Ok, there are not literally hundreds of abortion clinics being bombed.  Rather than address the issues, the ODMs have decided to nit-pic the details.  Here are the hard facts if you really want them.

Since 1977 in the United States and Canada, acts of violence committed against abortion providers have included 41 bombings, 173 arsons, 91 attempted bombings or arsons, and 619 bomb threats.

Not enough evidence?

Startling Discovery!

During this past century, the remains of a giant man – perhaps one of the Nephilim! – was discovered behind a barn in Cardiff, New York! This startling find has had people in this small northeastern town buzzing for years, but it seems that the world has not heard enough about this. We need to know about this though, so that we can know the truth of human origins!

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Cold Fusion

Hope for the future! In the face of dwindling oil supplies, Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann, chemical researchers at the University of Utah have recently discovered a means of producing nuclear fusion power at room temperature, potentially revolutionizing clean power production for generations to come! This amazing discovery should be able to provide energy for the human race until perpetual-motion-based power sources are further refined.

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Honesty in Politics!

George Smathers down-home honesty recently won him the Florida Senate Seat against Sen. Claude Peppers.  During the heated campaign, Smathers was able to get the truth out about his competitor:

• That he had matriculated with several young women!
• That Peppers’ brother was a practicing homosapien!
• That his sister was a New York thespian!
• That Peppers was a shameless extrovert!

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For more stories just as recent and true, see links like this one and this one.  (Shocking and as ‘true‘ as most writing at that site.)

Did you know? The PD Church, the ECM, Oprah and the New Agers are in cahoots to create a one-world religion!!! O N03Z!

Seriously.

I heard it from Ingrid Schleuter and Brannon Howse on the interwebs, so it must be true! Right?

Ingrid recently did an interview of Brannon Howse’s radio show, where she tied together wacky power-of-positive-thinking, pop-psychology movies The Moses Code, new-agey The Shift, TM guru Eckhart Tolle, Oprah Winfrey, and other New Age ‘prophets’ with individual Christians, like Brian McLaren (who has a book called .. wait for it … “Everything Must Change”) and Rob Bell, and churches from Willow Creek to all of the “Emerging Church” (despite the fact that the ECM isn’t a monolithic entity) – which is part of the (cue the spooky music) “The Great Emergence”. “Contemplative Spirituality” is bringing demons into the Church! We MUST panic!

Neale Donald Walsch (”Conversations With God”) is one of the “high-level shills for The Antichrist”! Did you know that Walsch has a 5-point PEACE plan? Guess who else has a 5-point PEACE plan and a ’social gospel’? And Dennis Kucinich wants a cabinet-level “Department of Peace”. And guess who could institute it? Barak Obama, who many are hailing as a “new messiah”. You hear it first from Ingrid. We’d best all panic (or not panic, if you believe in a pre-trib rapture). And guess what – “you heard it first here”, says Ingrid – Oprah will be appointed to head the Department of PEACE.

With the Moses Code movie, people across the world are being asked to unite in a “global consciousness prayer” on April 5th for peace in the Middle East. These are New Age heathens, so what do they care about peace in the Middle East, unless it’s the beginning of a religious movement of such a scope as to send Tim LaHaye into fits of ecstasy. Peace in the Middle East? Joel Rosenberg, in his book, Epicenter has predicted that this will bring about Armageddon!

“This is no joke”, Ingrid jokes (without knowing it), explaining how you can go to a website where people teach about bending spoons with their mind. This is all the emergence of diaprax – the retraining of our children via their youth pastors, to do Christian yoga (”there’s nothing Christian about it”, says Howse), use contemplative prayer, walk labyrinths, and all of these emerging occultic practices. This will become the one-world religion of the last days, and Igrid and Brannon have cracked the code! Such great research!

Rob Bell wrote Velvet Elvis, in which he footnotes a book by Ken Wilbur! He must endorse EVERTHING Ken Wilbur believes! Heretic! This will lead to shambala, contemplative prayer, yoga, cats sleeping with dogs, mass hysteria! According to Ingrid, Bell, McLaren, Dan Kimball (Mr. Labyrinth) and the ECM are going to be the “cheerleaders” for the anti-christ. Bell even quotes Nelson Mandela (a communist!) – Marianne Williamson, in reality (a new ager) – (who cares that the quote is taken completely out of context and Bell is slandered in the process). In quoting Williamson, who is promoted by Oprah, Bell is supporting her channelling of demons, and ultimately bringing the antichrist here!

O NO3Z!

What utter hysterical foolishness tied together with lies and innuendo.

When viewing these things, the question becomes – is the right response to panic or to see that there is an opportunity to spread the Gospel in a world where people are seeing the need for a change in the way they live and operate? In the world of the chicken-little ODM’s, the response is apparently to bunker in and prepare for battle. Third-world microfinance, relief for those afflicted with AIDS, and any other causes/methods taken up by the ’secular’ world become immediately taboo, in a web of guilt-by-association.

Perhaps a separate way to look at these events is in the same lens viewed by 12 young men set loose by their Rabbi almost 2000 years ago. They went out into a Greek/Roman world in which many gods claimed virgin births and resurrections. These gods provided free medical care, food, water, clothing and community for people in that world through their temples. These young men, along with the Apostle Paul responded to the world, not through denunciation, fear-mongering and hysteria – but rather by preaching the truth of Christ, living in the Way of Christ, and allowing the Holy Spirit to convict the world of the truth.

Could the world end today? Sure. Could it end tomorrow? Yup. What might Jesus say in response to this?

“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; or about your body, what you will wear. Life is more than food, and the body more than clothes. Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God feeds them. And how much more valuable you are than birds! Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? Since you cannot do this very little thing, why do you worry about the rest?

“Consider how the lilies grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today, and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith! And do not set your heart on what you will eat or drink; do not worry about it. For the pagan world runs after all such things, and your Father knows that you need them. But seek his kingdom, and these things will be given to you as well.

“Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father has been pleased to give you the kingdom. Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide purses for yourselves that will not wear out, a treasure in heaven that will not be exhausted, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

“Be dressed ready for service and keep your lamps burning, like men waiting for their master to return from a wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him. It will be good for those servants whose master finds them watching when he comes. I tell you the truth, he will dress himself to serve, will have them recline at the table and will come and wait on them. It will be good for those servants whose master finds them ready, even if he comes in the second or third watch of the night. But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into. You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.”

Playing “let’s panic”, pin-the-tail-on-the-antichrist, slandering Christians, and trying to read the newspaper in one hand with the Bible in the other is simply a recipe for failure in the mission of the kingdom.

 

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Maybe I’m just getting too cranky… but yesterday I was keeping abreast of the violence and persecution being wrought against our brothers and sisters in Orissa, India – Updates here and here.

Then I trolled around the Rapture Ready Bulletin Board a bit to see what new apostasies are out there and I found this post from a person who’s concerned the lights may be dimmed in their worship service.  I was particularly struck by the praise that “The lights haven’t changed, thank goodness. Thanks for your prayers.”

I know the two are unrelated, but I was struck by the juxtaposition of the life and death struggle in India, and what some are concerned with here.

 

There are some who would think it far worse to be considered unfashionable than to be thought unchristian. To be unchristian would be but such a common accusation that they might submit to it; but to be unfashionable would be horrible indeed! Young men in London get to be affected by this.

If the young men in the house are going to such-and-such an entertainment—they all read a certain class of books—if they are dissipated and skeptical, then the temptation is to chime in with them, and only the man who is strong, and hath the word of God abiding in him, will overcome the wicked one by doing the right alone. “Faithful among the faithless found.”

–Charles Spurgeon

HT: Pyromaniacs

This couldn’t fit the ODMs any better. They’re told constantly the way they conduct themselves is unChristian, and they tolerate that quite well, in fact they revel in their harshness and half-truths knowing their slander and unChristian tone will bring them accolades from other ODMs and their hanger-ons, as well as link love and google hits.

It seems as if CRN will never tire of re-hashing the same old tired arguments concerning Rob Bell. The Editor claims this piece demonstrates the “propensity of Rob Bell of the emerging church to over-emphasize the humanity of Christ Jesus of Nazareth and turn our Creator into a first century rabbi.”

So does Rob Bell over-emphasize the humanity of Jesus? It seems like a very odd claim to me. After all Jesus was both fully God and fully man. There of course is much of this union that will always be a mystery to us. However to claim that Jesus didn’t learn, wasn’t at all affected by the culture He grew up, and somehow wasn’t quite all human seems to go against many of the details we’re given in the Gospels.

First, we aren’t given a lot of details about Jesus’ childhood and adolescent years. Luke 2:52 says, “Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.” This is the sum of the information we’re given about Jesus’ life between the ages of 12 and 30. Interestingly enough, this is the exact phrase used in 1 Samuel 2:26 to describe Samuel’s development while he served in the temple. It seems that Luke was trying to tell us something about Jesus’ education. It seems very likely that Jesus would have studied using the same methods as other Jewish children at the time.

The fact that Jesus was viewed as an average Jewish man prior to the beginning of His ministry is emphasized later in Luke 4. Jesus is at the synagogue in His hometown of Nazareth, and is asked to read (a very common practice for a Jewish man at sysnagogue), and He reads from Isaiah 61. After reading, we are told Jesus

“rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him, and he began by saying to them, ‘Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.’ “

This outraged the people from His hometown. “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?” they asked. It seems to me that they had no reason to suspect Jesus was anything but a common working man prior to this.

So, even from this brief look at Scripture, we get a picture of Jesus that paints Him as fully human. This in no way denies He was fully divine, but it does enforce that Jesus was a real person in history, in Israel, and entrenched in Jewish society at the time. Jesus wasn’t born with all Scriptures in His head. He worked to memorize them. He studied, and he humbled himself to learn from other people.

When we think of how much God humbled himself to live on this planet, it is truly amazing. So let’s not fall prey to an old heresy that Jesus only looked human. Let’s embrace the mystery of the Incarnation in it’s full beauty.

Early last week, Steve Camp wrote a moving tribute to his friend Larry Norman. Then, later in the week, Camp went after Mark Driscoll for his comments on Song of Solomon.

My question is, what is more “graphic-smutty-over the top-foul language”, Larry Norman’s lyrics or Mark Driscoll’s comments? Here’s some of Norman’s lyrics:

Pardon Me (from “Only Visiting This Planet”)

Close your eyes, and pretend that you are me.
See how empty it can be
Making love if love’s not really there.

Watch me go, watch me walk away alone,
As your clothing comes undone,
And you pull the ribbon from your hair.

“Why Don’t You Look Into Jesus” (from “Only Visiting This Planet”)

Gonorrhea on Valentines day, and you’re still lookin’ for the perfect lay.
You think rock and roll will set you free, honey, you’ll be deaf before you’re 33
Shootin’ junk until you’re half insane, broken needle in your purple vein.

Steve Camp, your hypocrisy is showing.

*Note: This is not an attack on Larry Norman. I am using hyperbole to make a point.