Hell Freezes Over As Mitt Romney Marches in DC w/ Evangelicals For Black Lives Matter!

By DoctorWho

That’s it folks, embrace the Rapture and Lizard Overlords and get your best winter coat ‘cause End Times are here:

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/7/1951304/-BREAKING-Hell-Freezes-Over-As-Mitt-Romney-Marches-in-DC-w-Evangelicals-For-Black-Lives-Matter

Georgia Governor Lifts Some Shelter In Place Restrictions

Trump should be removed from office

It’s time to say what we said 20 years ago when a president’s character was revealed for what it was.

 

By Mark Galli 

 

December 19, 2019

 

In our founding documents, Billy Graham explains that Christianity Today will help evangelical Christians interpret the news in a manner that reflects their faith. The impeachment of Donald Trump is a significant event in the story of our republic. It requires comment.

The typical CT approach is to stay above the fray and allow Christians with different political convictions to make their arguments in the public square, to encourage all to pursue justice according to their convictions and treat their political opposition as charitably as possible. We want CT to be a place that welcomes Christians from across the political spectrum, and reminds everyone that politics is not the end and purpose of our being. We take pride in the fact, for instance, that politics does not dominate our homepage.

That said, we do feel it necessary from time to time to make our own opinions on political matters clear—always, as Billy Graham encouraged us, doing so with both conviction and love. We love and pray for our president, as we love and pray for leaders (as well as ordinary citizens) on both sides of the political aisle.

Let’s grant this to the president: The Democrats have had it out for him from day one, and therefore nearly everything they do is under a cloud of partisan suspicion. This has led many to suspect not only motives but facts in these recent impeachment hearings. And, no, Mr. Trump did not have a serious opportunity to offer his side of the story in the House hearings on impeachment.

But the facts in this instance are unambiguous: The president of the United States attempted to use his political power to coerce a foreign leader to harass and discredit one of the president’s political opponents. That is not only a violation of the Constitution; more importantly, it is profoundly immoral.

The reason many are not shocked about this is that this president has dumbed down the idea of morality in his administration. He has hired and fired a number of people who are now convicted criminals. He himself has admitted to immoral actions in business and his relationship with women, about which he remains proud. His Twitter feed alone—with its habitual string of mischaracterizations, lies, and slanders—is a near perfect example of a human being who is morally lost and confused.

Trump’s evangelical supporters have pointed to his Supreme Court nominees, his defense of religious liberty, and his stewardship of the economy, among other things, as achievements that justify their support of the president. We believe the impeachment hearings have made it absolutely clear, in a way the Mueller investigation did not, that President Trump has abused his authority for personal gain and betrayed his constitutional oath. The impeachment hearings have illuminated the president’s moral deficiencies for all to see. This damages the institution of the presidency, damages the reputation of our country, and damages both the spirit and the future of our people. None of the president’s positives can balance the moral and political danger we face under a leader of such grossly immoral character.

This concern for the character of our national leader is not new in CT. In 1998, we wrote this:

The President's failure to tell the truth—even when cornered—rips at the fabric of the nation. This is not a private affair. For above all, social intercourse is built on a presumption of trust: trust that the milk your grocer sells you is wholesome and pure; trust that the money you put in your bank can be taken out of the bank; trust that your babysitter, firefighters, clergy, and ambulance drivers will all do their best. And while politicians are notorious for breaking campaign promises, while in office they have a fundamental obligation to uphold our trust in them and to live by the law.

And this:

Unsavory dealings and immoral acts by the President and those close to him have rendered this administration morally unable to lead.

Unfortunately, the words that we applied to Mr. Clinton 20 years ago apply almost perfectly to our current president. Whether Mr. Trump should be removed from office by the Senate or by popular vote next election—that is a matter of prudential judgment. That he should be removed, we believe, is not a matter of partisan loyalties but loyalty to the Creator of the Ten Commandments.

To the many evangelicals who continue to support Mr. Trump in spite of his blackened moral record, we might say this: Remember who you are and whom you serve. Consider how your justification of Mr. Trump influences your witness to your Lord and Savior. Consider what an unbelieving world will say if you continue to brush off Mr. Trump’s immoral words and behavior in the cause of political expediency. If we don’t reverse course now, will anyone take anything we say about justice and righteousness with any seriousness for decades to come? Can we say with a straight face that abortion is a great evil that cannot be tolerated and, with the same straight face, say that the bent and broken character of our nation’s leader doesn’t really matter in the end?

We have reserved judgment on Mr. Trump for years now. Some have criticized us for our reserve. But when it comes to condemning the behavior of another, patient charity must come first. So we have done our best to give evangelical Trump supporters their due, to try to understand their point of view, to see the prudential nature of so many political decisions they have made regarding Mr. Trump. To use an old cliché, it’s time to call a spade a spade, to say that no matter how many hands we win in this political poker game, we are playing with a stacked deck of gross immorality and ethical incompetence. And just when we think it’s time to push all our chips to the center of the table, that’s when the whole game will come crashing down. It will crash down on the reputation of evangelical religion and on the world’s understanding of the gospel. And it will come crashing down on a nation of men and women whose welfare is also our concern.

Mark Galli is editor in chief of Christianity Today.

Christianity Today Editor-In-Chief: Trump’s Character Is Troublesome | Velshi & Ruhle | MSNBC

 

New Game PC, PS3 and XBOX 360 - Knights of al-Aqsa Mosque

New Game PC, PS3 and XBOX360 - Knights of al-Aqsa Mosque

Assalamu Alaykum (Peace be with you)
First of all, I would like to thank my friend @dlevere for supporting me by promoting my game projects on his website gamehacking.org/ and now here.

Also I would like to thank my brazillian fellow, ROD Lima, for all his help with Unreal Scripting Programming. He is most known for his Resident Evil 2 Fan Remake in UDK Engine:

I would like also to thank my friends at UDK Engine Forums (https://forums.unrealengine.com/legacy-tools-unreal-engine-3-udk) for all their help and support.

As you may know, recently I had to put offline my project UDK Ultimate Engine (the custom build of UDK Engine with PS3 and Xbox360 Export Support) for copyrights reasons (EPIC asked me to do this), however, they were very kind with me and allowed me to keep using my custom version of UDK to publish my games, I even signed with them an Unreal Engine License Commercial Amendment, so now I am a Licensed Unreal Engine Developer and I am ready to pursue my dream of life!





DISCLAIMER: In this game, the player does not shoot Israeli civilians, women, children, elderly, only soldiers. Also in this game there are NO images of sexual content, illicit drugs, religious desecration, hate of speech against any group, ethnicity or religion, anti-Semitist propaganda against Jews, Nazi propaganda or boasting of any terrorist groups and / or other unlawful acts. This game only contains the virtual representation of the Palestinian Resistance Movement against the Israeli Military Occupation, which is officially recognized by the United Nations (UN). I even sent this project for Brazillian's Government Justice Department, Age Rating Sector (kinda Brazillian ESRB) for their approval and age rating. This project was approved, now I am just waiting for the Age Rating Information of my game which will be available very soon on their website (http://portal.mj.gov.br/ClassificacaoIndicativa/jsps/ConsultarJogoForm.do)

I am Brazillian, from Arab ascendance, my father is from Palestine, and something I never revealed before, and one of the biggest reasons of me creating this game, is that my father was a Fighter of the Palestine Resistance Movement, he fought against Israel Army in the Lebanese Civil War on the 70's, and from since I was a kid, I felt too much proud of my father and the Palestine People in General, because of their Strenght and Constant Resistance. So this game is kinda tribute to the Brave People of Palestine and their Resistance against Military Occupation.

Fursan al-Aqsa - Knights of al-Aqsa Mosque is a Third Person Action Game on which you play as Ahmad al-Ghazzawi, a young Palestinian Student who was unjustly tortured and jailed by Israeli Soldiers for 5 years, had all his family killed by an Israeli Airstrike and now after getting out from the prison he seeks revenge against those who wronged him, killed his family and stolen his homeland.

This game is being developed during the course of 4 years by one person (me, Nidal Nijm), in a custom version of UDK Engine (Unreal Engine 3), using the best technology to tell a compelling story through a game packed with non stop action, advanced 3D graphics and modern gameplay mechanics, however keeping the soul of old school shooters. You will play in missions accross ground, sea and sky, you have many objectives to accomplish in each mission, epic bosses battles, powerful guns, vehicles to drive, helicopters to take down, and much more. Expect a LOT of Action and Adrenaline!!!

This game also is greatly inspired by Hideo Kojima's Metal Gear Solid, Call of Duty Modern Warfare and Insurgency Sandstorm.
I hope you enjoy this game and support me by purchasing it, Insha Allah (God's Willing). I decided to release this game as episodes (missions), each mission by a symbolic value just to cover my development costs, as everyone knows that develop a game is not an easy task, it takes a lot of time and efforts. It will be a very small value, however any copy sold of this game is very important and will truly help me.

I hope until the end of this month (november) release a free demo of this game (for PC, PS3 and Xbox360), so people can enjoy and feel what my game is about, enjoy the game play, feel the action. I plan to make something similar to Metal Gear Solid VR Missions (If you may remember), on which I will teach the player the basis of the Gameplay, like training the player for the true battle that will come on the final game. About the first episode (mission), I hope to release it until the end of December, beginning of January 2020.

INSANE!!! Trump Indicates He's the 'King of Israel,' the '2nd Coming of God,' and 'the Chosen One.'

Where are the Evangelicals who ramble on about respect for their religion all the time?

Donald Trump retweets Wayne Allyn Root thanking him for calling him the King of Israel and the Second Coming of God.

Later in the day, Donald Trump referred to himself as the "Chosen One" and shameful Evangelical Christian hypocrites all over the nation are silent!

Huckabee Sanders Says God Wanted Trump To Be President

During an interview with CBN, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that God actually chose Trump to be resident and that the Almighty WANTED Trump to be resident of the United States.

This woman isn’t playing with a full deck, and her comments prove that. But there’s a lot of implications from her comment that she likely didn’t realize, and Farron Cousins explains those.

Maxine Waters My Hero - We Need To Treat Trumpscum Like Trumpscum - Full Court Press

By PaulX2

Trump and his supporters are all upset because their whiteness is losing it's total control of our government. White racist men are being overwhelmed by women, demographics, and a culture shift. Brown people and women are actually doing things, and they don't like it one bit.

Trump's only option is to double down on Fascist behavior to impress his base of mentally retarded racist crackers, and hope they turn out in greater numbers in November. The more Trump mistreats the powerless the happier it makes them. Trump knows it. We know it. The world knows it.

Trump, and all his minions need to be opposed any and every way possible. From kicking a lying fake Christian out of a restaurant, to kicking any lying fascist nazi supporter out of anywhere. Trump supporters are scum and need to be treated like scum.



Full Court Press

We stand for good, and they stand for evil.

We act like christians, and they obviously serve Satan.

Get In Their Face.

They have never been nice, and I refuse to be nice to sickos.

Maxine, they are scumbags. Give it to them.

When they go low, I kick them in the chops with a 63 yard field goal kick.

No quarter.

ALEISTER CROWLEY AND THE BUSH CONNECTION

Posted by VERITASLIB3RA

Few people understand that one of the most notorious individuals in British history may have contributed to the lineage of our current (*now past) president. Evidence points to the disturbing possibility that Crowley was the true father of Barbara Bush, the former First Lady and mother to George W. Bush. If you look at the below pictures, you can see the resemblance of Crowley and Bush are too apparent to dismiss. Anyone who remotely knows genetics can see these two people are related!!!

The story may seem difficult to believe at first, until one learns more about the social inter-relations that tied together these unlikely parties. Specifically, we must focus on a fascinating woman named Pauline Pierce, born Pauline Robinson—whose third child was named Barbara. Most sources divulge little about this woman. We learn more about her husband Marvin Pierce, the president of the McCall Corporation, which published McCall’s magazine and Redbook. He married Pauline, a beautiful young socialite, in 1919. Their first child, Martha, was born the next year; the second, James, was born in 1921. At this time, Aleister Crowley inhabited what must have seemed a very different world, as he embarked upon the great communal experiment of the Abbey of Thelema in Italy.

During the Abbey period, a Crowley follower had accidentally died during a magical (Crowley’s spelling) ceremony. The incident created a firestorm of unwanted publicity (the sensationalist British press labeled Crowley “The Wickedest Man in the World”), which prompted Mussolini’s government to expel Crowley and his followers from Italian soil.

When Crowley was 50 years old, he was residing in the home of Frank and Nellie O’Hara in Paris, France. In early 1924, Nellie was visited by her American friend, Pauline Pierce, the wife of Marvin Pierce, president of the McCall Corporation, which published McCall’s and Redbook magazines.

During Pauline’s visit, Crowley underwent what he termed the “supreme ordeal”, an initiation into the Masonic Ipsissimus Grade — the highest magickal achievement in his Order. The initiation rite included choosing one or more experienced attendants, charged with arousing and exhausting him sexually by every means possible, employing every artifice and stimulant. In that place and time, Nellie and Pauline were the most suited for this task.

Pauline returned to America, and on June 8, 1925, eight months after Crowley’s “supreme ordeal”, Pauline gave birth to a daughter she named Barbara. Barbara grew up to marry George H. W. Bush, who later became President of the United States. Is Aleister Crowley the father of Barbara Bush?

It’s very possible and highly likely that she knows her real father was Crowley and is working behind the scenes to carry on the agenda he started. Illuminati families are way more aware of things like this than we think they are. I suspect Crowley is indeed Barbara Bush’s real father.

Barbara Bush matches her real father, Aleister Crowley to near perfection. The face and eyes, it’s all very clear. (BELOW) Barbara Bush has no resemblance to the man on the right, Marvin Pierce (Her alleged father). But is a perfect match to the man on the left (Crowley)

Two very recent pics of Barbara Bush (Below) and her father, Aleister Crowley. You should be able to discern the evil in both, as a matter of fact, if you took the hair off Barbara Bush, she could be Aleister Crowley’s twin:

WATCH THE RESEMBLANCE

However, more than one person has noted the resemblance and it is astounding!—and this resemblance is not just physical. Many will recall the former First Lady’s haughty and thoughtless remarks in the aftermath of the Katrina disaster.

Those “in the know” were reminded of Aleister Crowley’s similar reaction to the loss of life which occurred during the ascent of Kangchanjunga, an expedition he commanded: “This is precisely the sort of thing with which I have no sympathy whatsoever.”

Barbara Bush (Who is also the cousin of George Bush Sr. in addition to being his wife) lso, said a truly despicable statement when asked about the war casualties in Iraq…She stated…”It’s not relevant, why should I concern my beautiful mind with that?” Hmm, Beautiful mind? No, she has an EVIL mind..the same as her father Crowley. But America..(and@NOX) WAKE UP!! This is the same disgusting first lady you admired for 8 years! (George Bush Sr. was the REAL president when Reagan was in power). She is not who she presents herself to be. She is the product of generational satanism. And each generation gets more and more evil than the one which preceded it.

Ephesians 5:11
“And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.“
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https://welcome2jesus.wordpress.com/2016/08/12/aleister-crowley-and-the-bush-connection/

The Biggest Loser In The Alabama Election

It’s not Republicans or Democrats, but Christian witness.

By Mark Galli December 12, 2017

 

Image: Joe Raedle / Getty Images

No matter the outcome of today’s special election in Alabama for a coveted US Senate seat, there is already one loser: Christian faith. When it comes to either matters of life and death or personal commitments of the human heart, no one will believe a word we say, perhaps for a generation. Christianity’s integrity is severely tarnished.

The race between Republican candidate Roy Moore and Democratic candidate Doug Jones has only put an exclamation point on a problem that has been festering for a year and a half—ever since a core of strident conservative Christians began to cheer for Donald Trump without qualification and a chorus of other believers decried that support as immoral. The Christian leaders who have excused, ignored, or justified his unscrupulous behavior and his indecent rhetoric have only given credence to their critics who accuse them of hypocrisy. Meanwhile the easy willingness of moderate and progressive Christians to cast aspersions on their conservative brothers and sisters has made many wonder about our claim that Jesus Christ can bring diverse people together as no other can.

The Hypocrisy on the Left

From moderate and liberal brothers and sisters, conservatives have received swift and decisive condemnation. They call these conservatives idolaters for seeking after political power. They call them homophobes for wanting Christian bakers to legally follow their conscience. They call them racists and Islamophobes for wanting secure borders. These moderates and liberal evangelicals are so disturbed by the political beliefs of their brothers and sisters that many say they don’t even want to be associated with them anymore; they seem to view these brothers and sisters in Christ as tax collectors and sinners.

In general, we have witnessed few Christians among these critics taking the time and effort to understand the views of their conservative fellow believers or to delve into the social and political realities they might be coming from. Some secular analysts, who frankly acknowledge being on the Left, have been doing this admirably. UC Berkley sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild’s Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right strives to understand Tea Party advocates in Louisiana, most of whom are evangelical Christians. And law professor Joan Williams’s White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America unpacks the class dimensions of much of our political divide. And then there is Jonathan Haidt’s The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion, which demonstrates the moral ground of advocates left and right. None of these writers could be mistaken for a conservative, but they each at least attempt to be charitable and fair-minded in trying to understand the views of those with whom they disagree. If only some leading evangelical progressive or moderate would do the same.

This is not to excuse some statements by conservative leaders that cannot be interpreted in any other way than as a slur against gays, Muslims, Mexicans, and others. Some conservatives are fearful beyond reason. Some conservatives clearly worship political power as much as they do Jesus Christ. 

But too often, we mistake the inarticulate groanings of certain foolish conservative leaders for the actual beliefs and behavior of the mass of evangelicals who vote for Donald Trump or Roy Moore.

 When you actually talk to such supporters face to face, you often find more nuanced and reasoned political views, grounded in moral principles, combined with a ready willingness to condemn the immorality and verbal carelessness of these two men. These conservatives are of a view one can appreciate philosophically: Sometimes in a nation’s life, one must for prudential reasons cast one’s lot with a morally unsavory candidate. Sometimes it really is a choice between the lesser of two evils, and sometimes three. We can respect that while continuing to disagree with some of their prudential choices, as they disagree with ours.

Our concern here is with a cabal of noisy conservatives, whom the press has apparently (and unjustly) appointed as spokesmen for all conservatives. This group pretends that the choice for someone like Moore represents unalloyed godliness and refuses to unmistakably criticize immorality in other leaders they admire. To justify or ignore the moral failings of a politician because he champions your favored policies—well, that is to step onto the path of self-deception and hypocrisy, which according to Jesus, leads to no less place than hell (Matt. 23:15).

Of course, this charge of hypocrisy cuts both ways. It has applied equally well to progressive and moderate Christians, who have in the past turned a blind eye to the moral failings and moral bankruptcy of liberal candidates they support and who have decided, at best, to whisper truth to power lest they delegitimize their candidate or office holder. Clearly, there are moments on the Left in which partisans are too weak to resist the temptation to entrust themselves to the power politics of the moment instead of “to him who judges justly,” to whom “the nations are like a drop in a bucket … regarded as dust on the scales,” who “brings princes to naught and reduces the rulers of this world to nothing” (Isa. 40:15, 23).

Hypocrisy on the Right

As suggested above, some of the critiques by the Left and center (matched by a fair amount of critiques by leading conservatives, by the way), are hard to argue with. Hypocrisy is again the most salient charge.

As recently as 2011, PRRI found that only 30 percent of white evangelicals believed “an elected official who commits an immoral act in their personal life can still behave ethically and fulfill their duties in their public and professional life.” But by late 2016, when Donald Trump was running for president, that number had risen sharply to 72 percent—the biggest shift of any US religious group.

The reason for the flip is not hard to discern. David Brody, a correspondent for the Christian Broadcasting Network, has noted the desperation and urgency felt throughout much of conservative Christianity. “The way evangelicals see the world, the culture is not only slipping away—it’s slipping away in all caps, with four exclamation points after that. It’s going to you-know-what in a handbasket.” The logic is then inexorable: “Where does that leave evangelicals? It leaves them with a choice. Do they sacrifice a little bit of that ethical guideline they’ve used in the past in exchange for what they believe is saving the culture?”

Apparently yes. This is precisely why, when serious and substantial allegations of sexual abuse of minors were made against Roy Moore, many doubled down on their support for him. Within days of this news story in The Washington Post, polls indicated that not only would 57 percent of evangelicals continue to support him, another 37 percent said they were now more likely to vote for him.

As some have pointed out, many conservative Christians simply don’t believe the many news accounts and chalk it up to a secular, liberal, Democratic conspiracy against Moore. Others acknowledge that while the charges may be true, they are minor in nature or happened so long ago they don’t matter today. Some are simply Machiavellian, saying they are not electing Mother Teresa but a man who can look out for the interests of conservative Christians.

What is going on here? Among other things, there is this: Many conservatives feel marginalized by the culture and remember the days when a Judeo-Christian morality didn’t need explaining or defending. They know that a people without a vision of sound moral grounding will perish. They don’t want to perish, and to give them credit, they don’t want this nation to perish. They really do believe that this is a matter of life and death. To them, our choices are simple and stark: devilry or godliness.

They are right, of course, about moral decline in America. Yes, there are all sorts of qualifications and nuances to make, and our culture, in fact, champions many biblical values (the recent #MeToo campaign and the fight against racism are but two examples). But there is no question that from a biblical perspective, our nation has lost its moorings. Nearly everyone does what is right in his own eyes, which results in moral, psychological, and social suffering unheard of in our history. The gap between rich and poor, the number of abortions and fatherless children, the steady rise of drug addiction, the increasing sympathy with euthanasia—these are but a few indicators that something is deeply wrong.

The problem with many Christian conservatives is this: They believe they can help the country become godly again by electing people whose godliness is seriously questioned by the very people they want to influence.

They have forgotten that old evangelical idea (and, before that, a Jewish idea) of putting a “hedge around the law.” That refers to behavior that is not wrong in itself but is practiced so as to not give even a hint of wrongdoing. It is not immoral to drink alcohol as such, but many Christians refuse to do so because they recognize that drinking alcohol may impair their judgment about matters that in fact are moral. When it comes to choosing leaders and shaping our life together, we’ve rightly followed this biblical teaching: “Abstain from all appearance of evil” (1 Thess. 5:22, KJV).

This attitude has sometimes nurtured legalism and self-righteousness, to be sure, but it has also helped us to lead lives that are often respected by unbelievers, even when they don’t agree with our choices. We have taken seriously these words of the apostle Peter: “Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us.” (1 Pet. 2:12).

When a public Christian is accused of some immorality, the honorable and moral thing to do has been to take a leave of absence until the matter of settled. This is precisely what Moore, who sees himself as a godly and moral candidate, has refused to do.

But what if this is merely a political ploy to remove a candidate from running for office, and what if it’s all a lie in the end? What if our godly candidate is merely being persecuted and harassed (by “the powerful Obama-Clinton Machine,” as Moore put it), and this is further evidence we’re not in just a political battle but a spiritual one (as Moore has repeatedly claimed)?

Well, how does the Bible say we fight spiritual battles when, for instance, people “falsely say all kinds of evil against you” (Matt. 5:11)?

By turning the other cheek (Matt. 5:39).

By forgiving 7 times 70 (Matt. 18:22, KJV).

By doing good to our enemies (Matt. 5:43–48).

If we’re really anxious to help the nation become more godly, we have to act godly even when we think we are unfairly judged, even when the stakes are at their highest:

But if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God. To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps.

“He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in his mouth.”

When they hurled their insults at him, he did not retaliate; when he suffered, he made no threats. Instead, he entrusted himself to him who judges justly. (1 Pet. 2:20–23)

Some have argued along these lines: We have the best chance in decades of reversing Roe v. Wade, protecting the religious liberty of the church, and reversing unjust and immoral laws! Let’s say for the sake of argument that such a political agenda could be enacted in the next few years by the means chosen—electing and supporting officials whose behavior is widely viewed as immoral. Will our political enemies be convinced of the righteousness of our moral agenda? Or will they think we are hypocrites who are using political power to force our wills on others? Will they more deeply respect us, or will they more deeply resent us and disbelieve our faith?

When combative conservative Christians refuse to suffer patiently in the public square, retaliate when insults are hurled at them, and do not refrain from the appearance of evil, they sabotage not only their political cause but the cause they care about the most: the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Resisting the Temptations of Political Life

What events of the last year and a half have shown once again is that when Christians immerse themselves in politics as Christians, for what they determine are Christian causes, touting their version of biblical morality in the public square—they will sooner or later (and often sooner) begin to compromise the very principles they champion and do so to such a degree that it blemishes the very faith they are most anxious to promote. And one of the biggest blemishes—for it is an open refutation of Jesus’ prayer that we be one—is when we start divorcing one another over politics. Jesus said it is our unity in him that will, more than anything, help the world see “that you [Father] have sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me” (John 17:23). No wonder few believe much of anything we say anymore.

The way forward is unclear. For to love one’s neighbor in a democratic society means that Christians must participate in the public square to seek the common good. We cannot forsake our political duty, and that duty will lead believers in different directions. It’s just that when we do engage in politics, we so often end up doing and saying things that make us sound and act like we don’t care about the very values we champion. Perhaps the first step is for Christians Left and Right, when they stand up to champion a cause, to stop saying “Thus says the Lord” and “Lord, I thank you that you have not made me like these other Christians,” but frame their politics with, “Lord, have mercy on me a sinner.”

Mark Galli is editor in chief of Christianity Today.

Televangelist Warns Viewers: Buy My Pancake Mix Or Face Eternal Damnation

Disgraced televangelist Jim Bakker told his audience recently that if they don’t buy his $60 pancake mix, they will likely be facing eternal damnation. His reasoning for this statement is quite impressive and it probably resulted in more than a few petrified conservatives calling in to order his latest scam products. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.



https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/televangelist-threatens-viewers-grandkids-with-eternal-damnation-unless-they-buy-his-pancake-mix/

Televangelist: God Will Punish Those Who Mock Me!

Jim Bakker wants you to know that if you make fun of him God will punish you. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, the hosts of The Young Turks, break it down.

“You remember Jim Bakker? He’s the guy who hosted the televangelist program The PTL Club in the 1980's until it was revealed he paid off Jessica Hahn over rape allegations. Bakker would end up serving five years in prison for mail and wire fraud and has since gone back to his televangelist ways, hosting a show in which he pitches survivalist goods to those prepping for the end of days.

 Last week, during his program’s broadcast, Bakker took aim at those who have ridiculed him over the years by telling them that eventually, they will have to answer to God for doing so.

 Defending his past prophecies that haven’t come true yet, Bakker and his wife claimed that he had accurately predicted 9/11 while noting that “when God says something to you, you don’t always know the exact time it’s going to happen.”

He added that his critics need to stop “beating up on prophets” because the lord proclaims “woe unto you when you beat up on the prophets.” After labeling those who aren’t speaking to God as “mean people” and “anti-Christ,” he then railed at those who have made fun of him over the years.”



https://www.mediaite.com/weird/televangelist-jim-bakker-warns-critics-god-will-punish-you-for-making-fun-of-me/

Is Joel Osteen A Bad Guy For Reasons Beyond Failing To Act During Hurricane Harvey?

In this episode of "The Conversation", Jesse Dollemore discusses Joel Osteen and his bizarre Americanized version of Jesus' Gospel message.

His inaction in the face of the suffering caused by Hurricane Harvey was bad, but are there more reasons his actions should be questioned and scrutinized?

Ex-Producer Reveals The Truth About Pat Robertson

Pat Robertson is actually a terrible person.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/put-that-on-the-air-and-it-will-cost-this-ministry-millions-producer-reveals-pat-robertson-more-concerned-with-money-than-jesus/

Roland Martin To Paula White: Be A Prophetic Voice And Don't Just Be A Profitable Voice

Roland Martin rips Pastor Paula White for her partisan comments about Donald Trump: Be a prophetic voice and don't just be a profitable voice.

New Dead Sea Scrolls Found

By John Walsh

Archeologists in Israel discovered a 12^th cave they believe once housed the Dead Sea Scrolls after finding historical artifacts proving they had been stored there. If they are right, it would be the latest “scroll cave” discovered in over 60 years, Harretz reported Wednesday.

Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Institute of Archeology found Cave 12, in the archeological site in Qumran, Israel, close to the location where the first Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in 1947 in the West Bank. Until the announcement, it was believed that 11 caves had once contained the scrolls.

Cave 12 contained shattered pottery jars, which held the scrolls, scroll casings  and strips of cloth that tied the scrolls, which were all over 2,000 years old, one of the project’s head researchers, Dr. Oren Gutfeld from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, told Travel + Leisure.

Researchers announced that the cave likely held the Dead Sea Scrolls after discovering empty lidded pottery jars similar to the ones found inside of Cave 8. While archeologists found a piece of parchment rolled up in one of the jars from the Second Temple period, which was the same era the Dead Sea scrolls were made in (530 BC to 70 AD), it was blank.

The Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of 972 manuscripts containing parts of what is now known as the Hebrew Bible. In addition to being one of the earliest copies of the Ten Commandments, it is also comprised of secular texts, such as calendars, astronomical information and community regulations.

These can now be viewed at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

Researchers said the Dead Sea Scrolls that used to be in the cave were likely stolen by Bedouins in the middle of the 20^th century after finding two iron pickaxe heads from the 1950’s inside.

"Although at the end of the day no scroll was found, and instead we ‘only’ found a piece of parchment rolled up in a jug that was being processed for writing, the findings indicate beyond any doubt that the cave contained scrolls that were stolen," said Gutfeld. 

Minorities And Muslims Should Fear The Incoming White Supremacist Administration

By Rmuse

These Trump appointments of extreme racists and religious bigots do not bode well for any Americans who are not white and not Christian.

*The following is an opinion column by R Muse*

As this column confesses more than one wants to, it is a travesty that the American people are so woefully ignorant and in many cases just plain stupid. Of course no citizen wants to admit that their fellow citizens are “thick,” but as a classical Cynic one calls it exactly as they see it.

There is a misconception among some of the more cognitively challenged in America, typically on the right, that what made America exceptional was its predilection to interfere around the world and use its military might to impose its will on people and nations; kind of like what the incoming fascist administration promises.

However, what really made America exceptional, and helped build America into a great nation, was its policy of accepting any and all people, no matter where they are from, or no matter what color they are, or no matter what religion they observed into the country with a clear path toward citizenship; that exclusively American exceptionalism is about to be eradicated with a decidedly white supremacist administration chosen by a minority of the people.

As a few Americans learned over the past few years, it is not just the idea of foreigners who want to emigrate and live in America that offends those who voted for Trump, they are offended that any non-white and non-Christian person lives in ‘their’ America.

Subsequently, those white supremacists were crucial to electing a swindler and television celebrity who is already building an administration staffed with white supremacists; supremacists that polite company refers to as “white nationalists.”

What that incoming administration means for a very significant percentage of the American population is that this country is a couple of months away from having a White House administration with a clear agenda of specifically targeting about a third of the population to put them in a place the majority of Trump voters demand; at the mercy of a toxic white supremacist movement. As Ned Resnikoff noted, “The doctrine of the Trump administration will be white nationalism [supremacy].”

Many readers are already aware that to keep tabs on his administration’s progress to racially and religiously cleanse America of undesirables, Trump appointed white supremacist and all-around malcontent Stephen Bannon as most senior adviser and strategist. Some people may have heard that Bannon is being tapped to begin spreading Trump’s white supremacy hate throughout the European Union; more on that in another column. But Bannon is just an adviser and strategist for Trump and although he has the happy fascist’s ear, the real impending damage is going to come from the administration’s appointees who will wield a dangerous amount of white power under the guise of “governing.”

It is difficult to call to mind when in American history an incoming administration not only campaigned on white supremacy, but immediately upon winning began choosing avowed racists and religious bigots to serve and advise; at least a third of the population should be absolutely terrified.

As an aside, world leaders should also brace for some of Trump’s white supremacy if confirmed Islamophobe Rudy Giuliani, also a blatant racist, eventually becomes Secretary of State. He will be free to spread some Trump and Fox News’ hatred around the globe through official government and diplomatic channels.

Closer to home, people of color can look forward to institutionalized white supremacy that will erase whatever Civil Rights gains they have made over the decades when the federal criminal justice system is administered by a man that was too racist to serve as a federal judge and rejected by the Senate. If Jeff Sessions (R-AL) does become attorney general, and there is every reason to believe he will, it will signal the end of the Justice Department enforcing Civil Rights laws or holding Republican states to account for voting rights violations.

Sessions is notorious for claiming the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was “an intrusive piece of legislation;” with Sessions running the Department of Justice, voting rights violations will be celebrated, not prosecuted and it is hardly an exaggeration based on his past statements.

In testimony before Congress in 1986, a prosecutor, J. Gerald Hebert said that Sessions agreed with another racist and federal judge that a white lawyer was “a disgrace to his race” because he dared represent African American clients. Mr. Hebert also testified that Sessions referred to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (N.A.A.C.P.) as “un-American” for “trying to force civil rights down the throats of people.”

Remember, this was in 1986 and over two decades after passage of the Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act and 210 years after the “all men are created equal” in the Declaration of Independence was signed by the Founding Fathers; it was also 118 years after ratification of the 14th Amendment guaranteeing all citizens equal and civil rights. Any hope that any person of color or a person of a non-Christian religion may have had that the Department of Justice in a “white nationalist” administration will fight for every American citizen’s constitutionally-protected equal and civil rights likely took a major hit with news that Trump wants Sessions as Attorney General.

Trump’s choice for National Security Adviser, Former Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, will be just as devastating to the Muslim community as Sessions will people of color. According to Flynn, like many Republicans, in his mind there is no distinction whatsoever between terror organizations like ISIS and the Muslim religion. Flynn obviously subscribes to Trump’s hateful campaign rhetoric that fearing and hating Muslims, even American Muslims, is only logical since he claims that Muslims are terrorists. He actually used Twitter to declare that “fear of Muslims is ‘RATIONAL’” and only left it to the reader’s imagination to go to the next step and believe that “hatred of Muslims is RATIONAL.”

Flynn also supported Trump’s “big deal” during the campaign that to defeat “radical Islam” that it is vital that all politicians use that pejorative, radical Islam, ad nauseam. Flynn also dared all leaders in the Middle East to renounce their Islamic religion because in his mind that Abrahamic faith is terrorism.  Flynn took to Trump’s favorite means of communication, Twitter, and wrote:

“In next 24 hours, I dare Arab & Persian world “leaders” to step up to the plate and declare their Islamic ideology sick and must B healed.”

One wonders how long it will take a cretin like Flynn to convince Trump to issue an executive order demanding, not daring, all American Muslims to “step up” and declare their Islamic faith sick, and that it must be eradicated off the face of the planet. It is not out of the realm of possibility either. It is still two months before the fascist administration takes power and already there have been serious discussions on implementing a national registry for Muslims and the precedent of internment camps to “make American great again;” or some such bovine excrement.

These first set of Trump appointments, or proposed appointments, does not bode well for Americans who are not white and not Christian; the Census Bureau regards people from the Middle East and Northern Africa as part of the white population, but they are predominately Muslims so they have plenty to fear. What is clear is that Donald Trump is following through on his white nationalist (supremacist) rhetoric he promised throughout the campaign.

It is bad enough that a white supremacist (Bannon) and Muslim hater (Flynn) will have Trump’s ear and advise him according to their particular hate, but worse that the head of the Justice Department cannot countenance that all Americans are guaranteed equal rights.

The combination of two bigots advising an authoritarian with an attorney general unwilling to enforce equal and civil rights laws will not make America great again; it will make America a mirror image of the incoming white supremacist administration and there is precious little anyone can do to stop it.

Tim Kaine has belonged to a black church for more than 30 years

By kwassa

Kaine and his wife, Anne Holton attend St. Elizabeth Catholic Church in a poor, predominantly black working-class neighborhood in Richmond, Virginia. It is the same church that they have been attending for 30 years, and where they were married in 1984. 

Kaine is also a Tenor in the church choir. In an interview with NPR, Father Jim Arsenault, the priest at St. Elizabeth, had the following to say about Kaine as church parishioner and member of the close-knit community:

This past Good Friday, we were about ready to start the procession for the veneration of the cross. And Tim was in back of church. And I said to him, hey Tim, we need your help. Help us carry this cross. It was sort of life-size. And he said sure. And gospel choir was singing some gospel spiritual songs. And Tim was there as people with tears in their eyes would venerate the cross. And they’d come up, and he’d help them up after they were kneeling or something. And he’d shake their hand, and he’d practically pull them up. And then they’d give Tim a nice hug. Everybody knows Tim Kaine.

http://heavy.com/news/2016/07/tim-kaine-religion-catholic-jesuit-religious-faith-church-missionary-wife/



Tim's wife, Anne Holton,

As a schoolgirl in 1970, she was on the front lines of the fight to desegregate Virginia’s public schools. Holton is the daughter of Virginia Gov. A. Linwood Holton (R), who championed integration in a state that was known for its vigorous efforts to resist it. To drive home this point, he sent his daughters to a historically all-black Richmond City public school, escorting Anne Holton’s sister to class in a gesture captured in a historic photograph.

“I have spent much of my working life focused on children and families at the margin, with full appreciation of the crucial role education can and must play in helping young people escape poverty and become successful adults,” Holton wrote in a Washington Post op-ed in June 2015.

Holton and Kaine also sent their three children, who are now grown, to Richmond public schools.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/7/23/1551522/--Meet-Tim-Kaine-s-Wife

Christians Can't Wait For God To Punish 'Wicked' America With Trump — And Usher In The Apocalypse

By Lorraine Berry

For some, Donald Trump's ascendancy heralds the beginning of the end times.

 

Christians who claimed months ago that Donald Trump was foretold in Biblical prophecy must be feeling prescient today. Worrying in 2015 that Trump would be a major party nominee was treated as being about as likely as the 5000-1 odds that bookies gave Leicester City at the beginning of the 2015-16 season.

But this week, as both unlikely predictions came to pass, it seems prudent to take a look at just what it is that those eschatologists claim to see.

Historical lists of those who have predicted either that God would destroy the world as punishment for collective sins or those who have used formulae to predict that people should circle specific days on their calendar is far too long to list here. (Wikipedia has one such list.)

Specific individuals who were seen as catalysts for the end have included Ronald Reagan, various popes, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Barack Obama–although even Richard the Lionheart was implicated back in the 13th century by Joachim of Fiore.

Joachim is often credited as being the first eschatologist to cause major upset in Christendom with his predictions. Joachim used a complex formula that counted the number of generations in the Bible before and after the birth of Christ, combined them with the detailing of three ages of history until the end of the world, and came up with the period 1200 to 1260 CE as containing the fateful year.

And while counting generations is just one of the methods of predicting the end of the world, other “prophets” have observed the chaos of the world around them and declared that God must be coming: what else could explain the horror and sin surrounding them?

Friedrich Engels, co-author with Karl Marx on some of the source texts for Marxism, profiled the remarkable story of Thomas Muntzer, the common man who led thousands of German peasants to rebel in what is known as The Peasants War of 1525 by historians. Muntzer was among the estimated 75,000-100,000 peasants who were killed by German princes, who were not happy at being defied on the basis of someone reading the Bible.

Muntzer warned the princes in published pamphlets that they were about to incur the wrath of God unless they changed the way they governed. Luckily for the princes, Martin Luther threw his considerable weight around to discredit Muntzer, but not before the two had engaged in a war of words that took no prisoners.

The idea that Donald Trump may herald the beginning of the end times can be seen as contained within a long and storied tradition of this type of thing. But, the writings implicating Trump are remarkable in their own right. Last year, one such Biblical interpreter claimed that God told him:

“So have I raised up Trump to fulfill my purposes and plans prior to the 2016 election. You must listen to the trumpet very closely for he will sound the alarm and many will be blessed because of his compassion and mercy. Though many see the outward pride and arrogance, I have given him the tender heart of a father that wants to lend a helping hand to the poor and the needy, to the foreigner and the stranger.”

After a “firestorm” blew up  among conservative Christians, the owner of the vision defended himself on Facebook, saying that he would he would publicly repent if he was proven to be wrong.

Another article drew parallels between Trump and events, which pointed toward an apocalyptic future. The article cites article after article about Trump, and verses of the Bible that he finds relevant. After a long, protracted presenting of both sides of the argument, eleven reasons are presented as to why Donald Trump is “apocalyptic.” As one of these eleven reasons, Trump’s statements against Apple are cited, which “suggest an environment of loss of privacy and favoring unlimited government control. This type of thing will be exploited by 666 of Revelation 13:16-18.”

Perhaps the most virulent of the “Trump = End Times” predictions is contained at a website called “Now the End Begins.” There a mean-faced Trump stares out at the reader while text, in bold, all caps, and italics–depending on the point being made–hammers home that

“DONALD TRUMP IS THE ANSWER OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TO THE REPUBLICAN POLITICAL MACHINE, AND GOD’S ANSWER TO A WICKED NATION”

Christian conservatives have agitated for decades for the election of a “Godly” man who will help to reform America and bring it in line with Christian values. No one sees Donald Trump as that man.

But, Trump’s “immorality” is not why Christians should vote for Trump. They should vote for Trump because he’s going to bring Christ back to earth a lot faster than he is currently on track to get here.

Just as God brought Hitler to do the “good work” of creating Israel, so too has he brought forth Trump to take Christians to higher ground.

God raised up the ungodly King Nebuchadnezzar to shake and enslave Israel for 70 years, and He used the ungodly King Cyrus to allow construction of a new Jewish Temple. He allowed the ungodly Pharaoh to enslave His people the Hebrews for over 400 years, and He allowed the Roman emperor Titus to burn Israel to the ground in 70 AD. Furthermore, God allowed the demonic Adolf Hitler to create the Holocaust in order that Israel might be regathered in 1948 according to prophecy in the last days.

Ben Carson And The Satanic Sabbath Persecution Conspiracy

The GOP presidential candidate indicated that he accepts an odd and dark religious belief.

—By David Corn

Jose Luis Magana/AP

Ben Carson, the retired neurosurgeon who's in the top tier of the GOP's 2016 contenders, holds some unusual beliefs. In defending creationism, he has said Satan is behind the Big Bang theory and the promotion of evolution, and he has embraced and endorsed a paranoid McCarthyesque conspiracy theory that claims nefarious Marxists for decades have infiltrated every echelon of American society—including PTAs—in order to destroy the United States.

But, it seems, Carson's conspiratorial worldview goes beyond all this.

In a talk he gave a year ago, Carson, who is a Seventh-day Adventist, indicated that he accepts a dark prophecy rendered a century and a half ago by a founder of his church. She claimed that as part of the End Times (the apocalyptic period when Jesus Christ supposedly will return and battle with the devil), a time will come when Seventh-day Adventists will be imprisoned by the government and even put to death merely for observing the Sabbath on Saturday, not Sunday.

Some background: The Seventh-day Adventist Church traces back to the 1820's, when William Miller, a veteran of the War of 1812, told people that Jesus Christ was heading back to Earth in 1843 or 1844. After "the Advent" didn't occur, Miller's followers didn't give up. They concluded that he had gotten the date wrong, and the church continued. A crucial part of its theology was that the Sabbath starts on Friday night and concludes on Saturday at sundown.

This Saturday Sabbath was no small point. Ellen White, one of the founders of the religion who, according to church doctrine, was a prophet, dwelled on the persecution of Seventh-day Adventists for Saturday worshipping in many of her writings, and repeatedly claimed that the Sunday Sabbath was the "mark of the beast"—that is, Satan's doing. In one of her books, Love Under Fire, she charged that the Roman Catholic Church had changed the day of worship from Saturday to Sunday and that this had led to Christians "worshipping the beast and his image." (Such sentiments may have led some to believe the Seventh-day Adventist Church is anti-Catholic or anti-papal.)

And in the 1800's, as some Christians advocated and some states enacted "Sunday laws" that made it illegal to do business on Sundays (in order to promote this day as a time for churchgoing), Seventh-day Adventists considered these moves as an act of persecution against their religion.

"I don't know what role the Lord has for me in all this. I do know—and looking at prophecy—that the United States will play a big role," Carson told a crowd of fellow Seventh-day Adventists.

In her writings, White was not only looking backward. She was—and remains—a visionary prophet for Seventh-day Adventists. In her book, The Great Controversy, she peered ahead and provided her take on the Book of Revelation and the coming "final conflict" between Satan and Jesus Christ. And the Sabbath, she declared, would be a key element of this titanic clash.

During the ultimate conflagration, White noted, Satan would "plunge the inhabitants of the earth into one great, final trouble. As the angels of God cease to hold in check the fierce winds of human passion, all the elements of strife will be let loose. The whole world will be involved in ruin more terrible than that which came upon Jerusalem of old." In this period of anarchy, corruption, and disaster, millions would turn to religion, but "in the great drama of deception," Satan would pretend to be Jesus Christ, and, with the Catholic Church and many Protestant denominations falling for the ruse, much of the world would end up worshiping a false and evil god who commands people to mark Sunday as the holy day.

Seventh-day Adventists would have an especially hard time in this stretch. Governments, White foresaw, would enforce the "observance of the false sabbath." She noted, "As the defenders of truth refuse to honor the Sunday-sabbath, some of them will be thrust into prison, some will be exiled, some will be treated as slaves." She added that those who do not obey will even be sentenced to death. In fact, as Jesus Christ and Satan wrestle to decide the fate of the world, she predicted, the Sabbath will be the "final test" separating those who serve God from those riding with Satan.

The picture is clear. The End Times will bring about a sweep of false religiosity and the persecution of Christians who stick with the Saturday Sabbath. And this has made many Seventh-day Adventists highly sensitive about any actions that may be interpreted as discouraging Saturday worship.

It's a belief that some Seventh-day Adventists continue to spread. In a 1983 book that was something of a condensed version of White's The Great Controversy, Jan Marcussen, a Seventh-day Adventist minister, wrote that during the final Armageddon, "the whole wicked world is really angry. They've decided that those who honor God's Sabbath of the Bible are the cause of the horrible convulsions of nature and they determine to blot them from the earth! The date is set. When the clock strikes midnight on a certain day, God's obedient people will be sentenced to death!" (But Seventh-day Adventists need not worry. Just as Satan is about to enforce the death decree, "God steps in to save His people.") In 2008, Marcussen declared that observing the Sabbath on Sunday "is the biggest hoax the world has ever seen."

As a former member of the church who became a critic put it a few years back, "I remember vividly when minister Jan Marcussen…came to our church with a pile of newspaper clippings purporting to show the imminence of a national Sunday law. He solemnly held up his hand and declared to the congregation that it would happen so soon that a child could count the number of months. That was 19 years ago."

So does Ben Carson believe that when the big spiritual bang comes, his co-religionists will be rounded up, imprisoned, and executed? Though he frequently cites his faith in God when he speaks publicly and campaigns, he has not discussed this core tenet of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

But about a year ago, he did refer to it when he was a guest sermonizer at a Seventh-day Adventist Church in Australia. Asked to describe the political landscape of the United States, Carson noted that most people in the United States were afraid to declare their faith. He then continued:

I don't know what role the Lord has for me in all this. I do know—and looking at prophecy—that the United States will play a big role, that there has to be a return first to a religious awakening, and, more than likely, any persecution, particularly of the Sabbath, will come from the right, not from the left.

Here's the video:



This was a brief comment, but in front of a Seventh-day Adventist crowd, he mentioned prophecy, which has a well-defined meaning for this audience, and what he said jibed with White's prediction: In the End Times there would be a (false) religious awakening and persecution of Christians who stick to the Saturday Sabbath. Interestingly, Carson said this persecution would be waged by conservative forces—a notion consistent with White's fixation on the Catholic Church as the lead player in the Sunday Sabbath conspiracy.

Asked by Mother Jones whether Carson believes in the Sabbath persecution prophecy and thinks Seventh-day Adventists will at some point be considered criminals, arrested by government forces, and ultimately sentenced to death, a spokesman for the candidate said in an email that this was "not a fair interpretation at all." He added, "Trying to twist a person's faith is quickly becoming a favorite sport of the left. That kind of intolerance exposes who they really are, not what they claim to be. He never mentioned prophecy, you did." When Mother Jones followed up by noting that Carson indeed had referred to "prophecy" and Sabbath "persecution" in the video, the Carson spokesman replied by sending the original statement, but with the false claim that Carson had not mentioned "prophecy" now excised.

Even though political candidates often emphasize their faith, the specific religious beliefs of office seekers are usually not scrutinized. But Carson has made a series of anti-Muslim comments, and as a fellow seeking the presidency, Carson might fairly be asked about his penchant to believe in extreme conspiracies and whether he truly fears a plot to criminalize Saturday worship and use state force to round up Seventh-day Adventists and others who don't wait until Sunday to commemorate the Sabbath. Carson, who has said present-day America "is very much like Nazi Germany," has forthrightly stated that he believes Satan has pushed the theory of evolution and embraced the notion that commies have secretly infested the schools, media, and government of the United States. If his dark vision of the world extends further, he probably ought to share it with the voters.

David Corn

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