tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post6552967760292589473..comments2023-11-02T03:10:39.674-07:00Comments on GeeeeeZ!: Christian Persecution.....THIS bad??Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15989573357446569262noreply@blogger.comBlogger49125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-45440269371311143382013-08-10T13:40:34.713-07:002013-08-10T13:40:34.713-07:00Contrarian antagonists
____ care rarely for what’...<b><i>Contrarian antagonists <br />____ care rarely for what’s true.<br />They’re far more eager to denounce, <br />–––– so here is what they do.<br />Their purpose is to denigrate, <br />-––––– belittle and defame.<br />Their wish is to humiliate <br />–––– in hopes of fixing blame.<br />The truth too easily is lost <br />–––– in battles of this kind.<br />Hectoring and badgering <br />––––– abuse the human mind.<br />Instead of curiosity <br />––––– we often find expression<br />Of little but indulgence <br />––––– of a passion for aggression.<br />When avidness appears <br />––––– to open Vitriol’s loose spigot,<br />The one who twists and turns the tap <br />–––– is apt to be a bigot.</i></b><br /><br />~ FreeThinke<br />FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-10941448063717687912013-08-07T18:48:04.974-07:002013-08-07T18:48:04.974-07:00- August 2010 – Obama speaks with great praise of ...<br />- August 2010 – Obama speaks with great praise of Islam and condescendingly of Christianity. <br /><br />- August 2010 – Obama went to great lengths to speak out on multiple occasions on behalf of building an Islamic mosque at Ground Zero, while at the same time he was silent about a Christian church being denied permission to rebuild at that location. <br /><br />- 2010 – While every White House traditionally issues hundreds of official proclamations and statements on numerous occasions, this White House avoids traditional Biblical holidays and events but regularly recognizes major Muslim holidays, as evidenced by its 2010 statements on Ramadan, Eid-ul-Fitr, Hajj, and Eid-ul-Adha.<br /><br />- October 2011 – Obama’s Muslim advisers block Middle Eastern Christians’ access to the White House.<br /><br />- February 2012 – The Obama administration makes effulgent apologies for Korans being burned by the U. S. military, 51 but when Bibles were burned by the military, numerous reasons were offered why it was the right thing to do. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />"Many of these actions are literally unprecedented – this is the first time they have happened in four centuries of American history. The hostility of President Obama toward Biblical faith and values is without equal from any previous American president."<br /> <br />obama talks about his muslim faith <br /> <br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bMUgNg7aD8M<br /> <br />And why would John McCain talk about obama’s Christian Faith?? There would be virtually no reason for obama to utter any of this if he tian Faith.Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05287399775879832602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-56753023195031083992013-08-07T18:48:00.008-07:002013-08-07T18:48:00.008-07:00- July 2010 – The Obama administration uses federa...<br />- July 2010 – The Obama administration uses federal funds in violation of federal law to get Kenya to change its constitution to include abortion. <br /><br />- August 2010 – The Obama administration Cuts funding for 176 abstinence education programs. <br /><br />- September 2010 – The Obama administration tells researchers to ignore a judge’s decision striking down federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. <br /><br />- February 2011 – Obama directs the Justice Department to stop defending the federal Defense of Marriage Act. <br /><br />- March 2011 – The Obama administration refuses to investigate videos showing Planned Parenthood helping alleged sex traffickers get abortions for victimized underage girls. <br /><br />- July 2011 – Obama allows homosexuals to serve openly in the military, reversing a policy originally instituted by George Washington in March 1778. <br /><br />- September 2011 – The Pentagon directs that military chaplains may perform same-sex marriages at military facilities in violation of the federal Defense of Marriage Act. <br /><br />- October 2011 – The Obama administration eliminates federal grants to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops for their extensive programs that aid victims of human trafficking because the Catholic Church is anti-abortion. <br /> <br />4. Acts of preferentialism for Islam:<br /><br />- May 2009 – While Obama does not host any National Day of Prayer event at the White House, he does host White House Iftar dinners in honor of Ramadan. <br /><br />- April 2010 – Christian leader Franklin Graham is disinvited from the Pentagon’s National Day of Prayer Event because of complaints from the Muslim community. <br /><br />- April 2010 – The Obama administration requires rewriting of government documents and a change in administration vocabulary to remove terms that are deemed offensive to Muslims, including jihad, jihadists, terrorists, radical Islamic, etc. <br />con't------------------Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05287399775879832602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-66577203265960452062013-08-07T18:47:41.513-07:002013-08-07T18:47:41.513-07:00- June 2011 – The Department of Veterans Affairs f...- June 2011 – The Department of Veterans Affairs forbids references to God and Jesus during burial ceremonies at Houston National Cemetery. <br /><br />- August 2011 – The Air Force stops teaching the Just War theory to officers in California because the course is taught by chaplains and is based on a philosophy introduced by St. Augustine in the third century AD – a theory long taught by civilized nations across the world (except America). <br /><br />- September 2011 – Air Force Chief of Staff prohibits commanders from notifying airmen of programs and services available to them from chaplains. <br /><br />- September 2011 – The Army issues guidelines for Walter Reed Medical Center stipulating that “No religious items (i.e. Bibles, reading materials and/or facts) are allowed to be given away or used during a visit.” <br /><br />- November 2011 – The Air Force Academy rescinds support for Operation Christmas Child, a program to send holiday gifts to impoverished children across the world, because the program is run by a Christian charity. <br /><br />- November 2011 – The Air Force Academy pays $80,000 to add a Stonehenge-like worship center for pagans, druids, witches and Wiccans. <br /><br />- February 2012 – The U. S. Military Academy at West Point disinvites three star Army general and decorated war hero Lieutenant General William G. (“Jerry”) Boykin (retired) from speaking at an event because he is an outspoken Christian. <br /><br />- February 2012 – The Air Force removes “God” from the patch of Rapid Capabilities Office (the word on the patch was in Latin: Dei). <br /><br />- February 2012 – The Army orders Catholic chaplains not to read a letter to parishioners that their archbishop asked them to read. <br /> <br /> <br />3. Acts of hostility toward Biblical values:<br /><br />- January 2009 – Obama lifts restrictions on U.S. government funding for groups that provide abortion services or counseling abroad, forcing taxpayers to fund pro-abortion groups that either promote or perform abortions in other nations. <br /><br />- January 2009 – President Obama’s nominee for deputy secretary of state asserts that American taxpayers are required to pay for abortions and that limits on abortion funding are unconstitutional. <br />was of Chris<br />- March 2009 – The Obama administration shut out pro-life groups from attending a White House-sponsored health care summit. <br /><br />- March 2009 – Obama orders taxpayer funding of embryonic stem cell research. <br /><br />- March 2009 – Obama gave $50 million for the UNFPA, the UN population agency that promotes abortion and works closely with Chinese population control officials who use forced abortions and involuntary sterilizations. <br /><br />- May 2009 – The White House budget eliminates all funding for abstinence-only education and replaces it with “comprehensive” sexual education, repeatedly proven to increase teen pregnancies and abortions. He continues the deletion in subsequent budgets. <br /><br />- May 2009 – Obama officials assemble a terrorism dictionary calling pro-life advocates violent and charging that they use racism in their “criminal” activities. <br /><br />- July 2009 – The Obama administration illegally extends federal benefits to same-sex partners of Foreign Service and Executive Branch employees, in direction violation of the federal Defense of Marriage Act. <br /><br />- September 16, 2009 – The Obama administration appoints as EEOC Commissioner Chai Feldblum, who asserts that society should “not tolerate” any “private beliefs,” including religious beliefs, if they may negatively affect homosexual “equality.” <br />con't ---------Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05287399775879832602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-69551205033115965962013-08-07T18:47:13.976-07:002013-08-07T18:47:13.976-07:00- January 2011 – After a federal law was passed to...<br />- January 2011 – After a federal law was passed to transfer a WWI Memorial in the Mojave Desert to private ownership, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled that the cross in the memorial could continue to stand, but the Obama administration refused to allow the land to be transferred as required by law, and refused to allow the cross to be re-erected as ordered by the Court. <br /><br />- February 2011 – Although he filled posts in the State Department, for more than two years Obama did not fill the post of religious freedom ambassador, an official that works against religious persecution across the world; he filled it only after heavy pressure from the public and from Congress. <br /><br />- April 2011 – For the first time in American history, Obama urges passage of a non-discrimination law that does not contain hiring protections for religious groups, forcing religious organizations to hire according to federal mandates without regard to the dictates of their own faith, thus eliminating conscience protection in hiring. <br /><br />- August 2011 – The Obama administration releases its new health care rules that override religious conscience protections for medical workers in the areas of abortion and contraception. <br /><br />- November 2011 – Obama opposes inclusion of President Franklin Roosevelt’s famous D-Day Prayer in the WWII Memorial. <br /><br />- November 2011 – Unlike previous presidents, Obama studiously avoids any religious references in his Thanksgiving speech. <br /><br />- December 2011 – The Obama administration denigrates other countries' religious beliefs as an obstacle to radical homosexual rights. <br /><br />- January 2012 – The Obama administration argues that the First Amendment provides no protection for churches and synagogues in hiring their pastors and rabbis. <br /><br />- February 2012 – The Obama administration forgives student loans in exchange for public service, but announces it will no longer forgive student loans if the public service is related to religion. <br /> <br />2. Acts of hostility from the Obama-led military toward people of Biblical faith:<br /><br />con't ----------Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05287399775879832602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-13648527458927813752013-08-07T18:46:49.050-07:002013-08-07T18:46:49.050-07:00Z, consider the following:
1. Acts of hostility to...Z, consider the following:<br />1. Acts of hostility toward people of Biblical faith:<br /><br />- April 2008 – Obama speaks disrespectfully of Christians, saying they “cling to guns or religion” and have an “antipathy to people who aren't like them.” <br /><br />- February 2009 – Obama announces plans to revoke conscience protection for health workers who refuse to participate in medical activities that go against their beliefs, and fully implements the plan in February 2011. <br /><br />- April 2009 – When speaking at Georgetown University, Obama orders that a monogram symbolizing Jesus' name be covered when he is making his speech. <br /><br />- May 2009 – Obama declines to host services for the National Prayer Day (a day established by federal law) at the White House. <br /><br />- April 2009 – In a deliberate act of disrespect, Obama nominated three pro-abortion ambassadors to the Vatican; of course, the pro-life Vatican rejected all three. <br /><br />- October 19, 2010 – Obama begins deliberately omitting the phrase about “the Creator” when quoting the Declaration of Independence – an omission he has made on no less than seven occasions. <br /><br />- November 2010 – Obama misquotes the National Motto, saying it is “E pluribus unum” rather than “In God We Trust” as established by federal law. <br />con't..............Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05287399775879832602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-40754503615460372662013-08-07T13:38:29.341-07:002013-08-07T13:38:29.341-07:00i REPEAT:
t's hard to believe, Dave, that you...i REPEAT:<br /><br /><b>t's hard to believe, Dave, that you don't seem to realize that a deliberate and ruthless campaign of ostracism, denigration and defamation of Christians and Christian Ideals and Principles on the part of an agglomeration of organizations powerful and influential as The National Media Establishment along with a HUGE segment of The Professoriate AND The Entertainment Industry is most CERTAINLY a potent and highly effective form of PERSECUTION.<br /><br />One does not have to be literally killed, maimed or vandalized in order to qualify as a victim of persecution.<br /><br />The most powerful organs of public communication and public education effectively mock, scorn, deride, revile and persecute Christianity every day 'round the clock.</b>FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-65647719652001736372013-08-07T12:30:05.636-07:002013-08-07T12:30:05.636-07:00Especially targeted have been Syrian Christians, w...Especially targeted have been Syrian Christians, who include the last small enclave speaking Aramaic, the language of Christ. Rebel jihadists have sacked Christian churches; photographic evidence shows a militiaman dressed in looted priestly vestments, resembling a scene from Spain in 1936. The Brigade of Islam, a Wahhabi group, killed Christians in Damascus during the rebels’ occupation of the capital. In the town of Qusayr, the last remaining Christian inhabitants out of 10,000 formerly resident have fled. In April, 50,000 Christians were expelled from Homs.<br /><br />Who cares? Christians are not a fashionable minority. In 2,000 years of Christianity there have been 70 million Christian martyrs, 45 million of them in the 20th century. Today the martyrdom rate worldwide is 105,000 a year or one every five minutes.<br /><br />~ Gerald Warnerelmers brotherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03382038085149828957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-14379538964305012122013-08-06T22:21:25.662-07:002013-08-06T22:21:25.662-07:00I know Z..awful. One jailed Iranian pastor has bee...I know Z..awful. One jailed Iranian pastor has been leading an Armenian. AOG church in Iran. He was released recently with the admonition not to conduct services in Farsi while awaiting trial. elmers brotherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03382038085149828957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-41287251201009813862013-08-06T22:17:09.617-07:002013-08-06T22:17:09.617-07:00Elbro, the Armenians suffered for their faith, as ...Elbro, the Armenians suffered for their faith, as you know. 1.5 million fathers, mothers and babies; some torn from their mothers' bodies before they'd been born. Some of my ancestors went through that; thankfully, not too many.<br />Kurds moved into the homes of Armenians in some communities...while breakfast was still warm on the table, the beautiful linens and silver and clothes left behind while their rightful owners were beheaded or drowned or forced to walk to Syria, as my own grandmother did at the age of 9, seeing bodies floating in the rivers on the way. AWFUL stuff. And the Kurds helped themselves to the spoils.<br />I guess we can't blame them; they know the Armenians weren't coming back, but what the Turks did was astonishing and despicable.Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15989573357446569262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-35862608361365549652013-08-06T22:13:56.655-07:002013-08-06T22:13:56.655-07:00Dave, of course I understand that. It's very ...Dave, of course I understand that. It's very obvious we're not being dragged from churches and having our throats cut. When I said "harder to SEE" I should have been clearer...I meant "harder to IMAGINE HERE IN THIS COUNTRY".<br /><br />And my point is that this is America and, while it's not violent yet, even the insults and mockery of the Christian faith here is shocking.<br />Not violent, not murder, but shocking..in comparison to what this country was and how it revered Christianity and how well we functioned during those times.<br /><br />Also, I doubt many of the truly persecuted spend much time thinking "gee, those Americans shouldn't whine when we have it so bad"<br /><br />What's happening elsewhere is beyond horrible and inexcusable...I never meant to compare but I think I have a point, too. Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15989573357446569262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-52892298057909152142013-08-06T22:10:50.230-07:002013-08-06T22:10:50.230-07:00http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaldean_Christians...http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaldean_Christians<br /><br />You may be interested in the paragraph on their persecution elmers brotherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03382038085149828957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-31312836867717047552013-08-06T22:04:48.207-07:002013-08-06T22:04:48.207-07:00Duhkkky....Iraqi Christians fled in droves to the ...Duhkkky....Iraqi Christians fled in droves to the US before the war...San Diego has quite a large Chaldean Catholic population elmers brotherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03382038085149828957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-61956126751157570012013-08-06T22:02:39.734-07:002013-08-06T22:02:39.734-07:00Z....Calvinists....duhkkky must be pissing his pan...Z....Calvinists....duhkkky must be pissing his pantselmers brotherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03382038085149828957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-13232294604706669782013-08-06T21:59:30.372-07:002013-08-06T21:59:30.372-07:00Duhkkky....and why not thank those Israeli doctors...Duhkkky....and why not thank those Israeli doctors treating Syrian wounded. elmers brotherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03382038085149828957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-57135174570472643362013-08-06T20:23:22.385-07:002013-08-06T20:23:22.385-07:00Z, my point is that while yes, some Christians in ...Z, my point is that while yes, some Christians in the US have faced difficulty, to call those experiences persecution, compared to what others around the world deal with, cheapens what those in other countries are dealing with.<br /><br />We are not seeing churches burned to the ground simply for worshiping Jesus, people killed for the same, etc.<br /><br />There is simply no way to equate what some in the US experience to the things the author talks about.Dave Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04272431500457083818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-10094205854259224292013-08-06T20:00:38.184-07:002013-08-06T20:00:38.184-07:00Alright, Ducky,...ALRIGHT!
ANYTHING bad that happ...Alright, Ducky,...ALRIGHT!<br />ANYTHING bad that happens to Christians doesn't matter because others suffer, too. WE GET THAT ... <br /><br /><br />your remark about Lebanon is so perverse I don't know where to start.Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15989573357446569262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-14602213945306998222013-08-06T19:43:18.090-07:002013-08-06T19:43:18.090-07:00@Ducky:
Gotta get those licks in on those Jooooos...@Ducky:<br /><br />Gotta get those licks in on those Jooooos right?Impertinenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04949905441786404348noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-37305545515638594942013-08-06T18:47:35.962-07:002013-08-06T18:47:35.962-07:00Oh, and why not thank your good friends in Israel ...Oh, and why not thank your good friends in Israel for setting off the war in Lebanon that killed so many Christians.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-63386741127488990462013-08-06T18:06:05.889-07:002013-08-06T18:06:05.889-07:00@z -- Bob, they're Christians; Ducky cares n...@z -- Bob, they're Christians; Ducky cares not.<br /><br />-----<br />An absolute pant load.<br /><br />And Human Rights Watch or Amnesty International are both good organizations to get facts. The persecution deserves attention and NO MORE attention than any other.<br /><br />Now, if you want to gin up hysteria you go to a "Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center" or Jeffrey Goldberg, a noted apologist for the Iraq fiasco. Much pearl clutching from that moronic cheerleader who helped instigate the very war which caused the exodus of Christians from a country were they lived relative safety.<br /><br />But no, we have to have these hacks complaining that with all the slaughter going on in the world and especially the mid East it is the Christians who should be front and center. <br /><br />It's as absurd as Farmer whining about the non existent IRS scandal.<br />But the right sure can whine. Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-58013566585170085032013-08-06T17:55:41.563-07:002013-08-06T17:55:41.563-07:00Since Christianity is over 2000 years old...I'...Since Christianity is over 2000 years old...I'm quite certain it will outlive all those who seek to destroy it.<br /><br />It did with yesterdays heathens and bastards....and it will do so with today's and tomorrows bastards and heathens. Including the worst of them...mooslims.Impertinenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04949905441786404348noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-80439264733249792292013-08-06T17:36:16.827-07:002013-08-06T17:36:16.827-07:00....and ducky believes that the IRS was targetting.......and ducky believes that the IRS was targetting "progressives", too.Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-36098416573035664452013-08-06T17:09:00.325-07:002013-08-06T17:09:00.325-07:00VOM is a great way to actually do somethingVOM is a great way to actually do somethingelmers brotherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03382038085149828957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-16767668457208222362013-08-06T17:06:27.350-07:002013-08-06T17:06:27.350-07:00They sponsor hospitals in Sudan as an example
ht...They sponsor hospitals in Sudan as an example<br /><br /> http://www.persecution.com/public/media.aspx?mediapage_ID=NTc4elmers brotherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03382038085149828957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-51930931141802197582013-08-06T17:00:48.300-07:002013-08-06T17:00:48.300-07:00http://www.persecution.com
They do more than just...http://www.persecution.com<br /><br />They do more than just write about itelmers brotherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03382038085149828957noreply@blogger.com