3 posts tagged “christian heritage”
In Western politically Democratic secular nations religious interaction with taxpayer operated agencies is usually frowned upon, especially when linked to educational instruction.
In Europe (more so) and America religious instruction or practice is particularly frowned upon in Public Schools. This is abundantly the case with the Christian faith.
In America the practice of prayer and Christian interaction was a normal part of life until Secular Humanists and atheists gained the aid of Left Wing lawyers to convince the Supreme Court to reinterpret the First Amendment in which disestablishment clause states “Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion”. The Supreme Court used an atheist suing about prayer in school to reinterpret the Disestablishment Clause from meaning the Government cannot establish a State Church to religion must be totally separate from the Government; i.e. the old myth of Separation of Church and State. The Supreme Court totally ignored the grammar of the First Amendment which follows the Disestablishment Clause by a comma and states “or prohibiting the free exercise thereof”. Thus the Supreme Court single handily prevented hundreds of years of American practice prior to the 1960’s with the paradox of prohibiting religion in Government yet not prohibiting the Freedom of Religion. The paradox is by prohibiting zero religious interaction in Government (i.e. schools, Universities, Courts, taxpayer supported social programs et al) in effect prohibits the “free exercise” of religion.
Now here comes the real rub! Western nations are now expressly prohibiting the practice of anything Christian however with some kind of twisted thinking of diversity are forcing Public School students to learn the faith of Mohammedanism even to the extent of forcing the practice of its rituals. American Universities are even providing special Mohammedan exceptions that would be considered Leftist blasphemy for Christians to practice their faith on the taxpayer dime.
Now I am reading in the UK that two students were punished and reprimanded for refusing to practice an academic exercise that would force them to pray like Mohammedans. The article also mentions how American-Mohammedan organizations like CAIR have gone to Public School assemblies to preach the Mohammedan theology (which denigrates Christian Theological beliefs) to students on the taxpayer dime.
This is outrageous Left Wing allowed practices that I believe is perpetrated on American students and European students to undermine Christianity as the foundation of Western Culture.
If the free exercise of the Mohammedan religion is allowed on the public dime then BY GOD our cultural heritage of Christianity MUST be allowed as it indeed was prior to the 1960’s.
Christian evangelism is winning the hearts of people for the Kingdom of God through the sharing or witnessing of the sacrifice of Christ on the Cross and the Lord’s bodily Resurrection of New Life.
Yes there have been bloody wars over what man has thought to be the correct doctrine of the nature of Christianity; however that is contrary of the Great Commission written in the Holy Scriptures.
16 Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, to the mountain which Jesus had appointed for them. 17 When they saw Him, they worshiped Him; but some doubted. 18 And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19 Go therefore[c] and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.[d] (Matt. 28: 16 – 20 NKJV)
14 Later He appeared to the eleven as they sat at the table; and He rebuked their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen Him after He had risen. 15 And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. 16 He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned. 17 And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; 18 they[b] will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.” 19 So then, after the Lord had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God. 20 And they went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the word through the accompanying signs. Amen.[c] (Mark 16: 14 – 20 NKJV)
46 Then He said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise[h] from the dead the third day, 47 and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. (Luke 24: 46 – 47 NKJV)
21 So Jesus said to them again, “Peace to you! As the Father has sent Me, I also send you.” (John 20: 21 NKJV)
8 But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me[a] in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” (Acts 1: 8 NKJV)
These New Testament Scriptures demonstrate the true way to convert or proselytize people to Christianity: Find people, Share the Good News, People believe or disbelieve and people are Redeemed by the Blood of Jesus through belief or have chosen self-condemnation by disbelieving. Human force is not part of Redemption. Humanity then is divided up between the sheep and the goats at the Last Judgment and they are rewarded/judged according to their choice.
Of course we know as the nature of the human being, self-enthusiasm took the road of forced conversions and judgment of choice mostly in the Middle Ages through the Reformation. The Scriptures show that this was not the Way of Christ Jesus.
Now let us look at the Mohammedan way to win converts to their Allah.
Here are numerous Mohammedan scriptures that demonstrate that persuasion was part of the plan of conversion: CLICK HERE. Peaceful persuasion was not the example neither set by Mohammed nor even found in many of the Mohammedan scriptures.
Here is a host of Mohammedan scriptures that require forced conversion: CLICK HERE. Unlike Christian New Testament Scriptures it is inherent in Mohammedan scriptures to utilize violence, humiliation and mayhem to force a conversion or receive a judgment of death.
It is the path of forced conversion that spread Mohammedanism in multi-directions to build an empire. The only way such a huge empire could be maintained is to have loyal Mohammedan subjects as the majority who had power to humiliate and tax heavily an allowed minority of non-Mohammedans. Forced conversion was essential. It was like a Star Trek Borg thing – Resistance is futile. (I wouldn’t be surprised if Roddenberry got the Borg idea from Mohammedans.)
So really Mohammedanism is a political ideology that uses religious rules and rituals to maintain control of the populace. As the centuries went by in the conquered lands the religious rules and rituals became inculcated in the minds of the populace as the generations of people went by.
At this point if you are still with me you have to be asking yourself, “Why is this guy making a point to show his dislike of Mohammedanism?”
Here is the thing. Mohammedanism – particularly the Islamist kind – is a program for one world rule by man utilizing religious cultic symbolism to maintain a system of despotic oligarchs by tribal leading elites or clerical leading elites. There is little respect of the rights of man in the Western sense because all sentient humans must submit to the will of Allah according to clerical (i.e. humans) interpretation of Mohammedan holy scriptures. In essence the rule of law is based on an often despotic ruling oligarchy which sometimes is transcended by a charismatic individual that is a supreme cleric (a Caliph or Ayatollah) or a supreme all ruling monarch or dictator.
The spread of Mohammedanism is non-Mohammedan peoples are by persuasion, deceit or violence. These three conversion methods are all a part of the Mohammedan scriptures. Although violence has been used in the history of Christianity to convert people, it is not a method prescribed in Christian Scriptures as fulfilled in Christ Jesus.
The one world aspect of Christianity is the result of the fulfillment of God-action not human-action. The martyrs that die for Mohammedanism die as a result of fighting for a devoted human leader (even if it takes innocent lives with him). The martyrs that die for Christianity die because they are persecuted or not willing to give up their faith to a belligerent human leader.
Now that I have defined my view of Christianity and Mohammedanism in the world today, let us look at Mohammedanism in lands that it is the minority or dar al-harb in Mohammedan language. (Lengthier description of the Islamist view of dar al-harb HERE)
In the West I still believe there is a large amount of Mohammedans that seek to live a Western law abiding life; however I also think this is a pendulum swinging toward the Islamist view of jihad and dar al-harb because most of the well financed Mohammedan Non-Profit Organizations (NGO’s) and Mosques are being financed and/or are teaching radical Islam.
In America there is a significant appearance that radical Islamist organizations have infiltrated the highest levels of American Government that at the very least may affect policy making decisions.
One example of this is the outrageous dismissal of Maj. Stephen Coughlin as an Islamist expert by Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England at the behest of his friend advisor Hesham H. Islam. The Defense Department has given a cover story of termination of the Coughlin contract because his services were no longer in the budget. The thing that makes the cover story fishy is that Hesham H. Islam has been linked to American-Muslim organization Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) which was an unindicted co-conspirator in the HLF trial (Doc. Attachment A Section VII no. 3) and a front organization of the Egyptian Islamist organization Muslim Brotherhood.
Mohammedanism is clearly becoming a political force in the West and America where I live. The Theo-political cult is increasingly following the Muslim Brotherhood fifth columnist infiltration and it is a scenario I truly am not amenable toward.
This is a must read for all Believers in Christ from American Infidel. It pertains to HR 888 proposed by Rep. Randy Forbes of Virginia to address all the anti-Christian escapades being ramrodded by the Left.
JRH 1/29/08
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H. Res. 888 - This measure affirms the rich spiritual & religious history...Nations founding
January 28, 2008
Grace and peace be multiplied to you through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ!
(2 Peter 1:2)
In the latter months of 2007, there was a flurry of incidents attempting to censor America's religious heritage (e.g., the capstone at the Washington Monument, the flag folding ceremony in the Veterans' Department, the flag certificates from the Architect of the Capitol, etc.). In each case, citizens learned of the incidents and in large numbers made their feelings known; each policy was promptly reversed.
In response to those (and other) incidents, Congressman Randy Forbes of Virginia introduced a Congressional Resolution affirming America's Godly heritage through dozens of documented historic examples.
That measure, H.Res.888 , declares its two-fold purpose:
