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Sunday, August 17, 2008
Obamessiah wants to be Abortionist In Chief of the USA but says...
Obama says pointed abortion query “above his pay grade”
Posted by: Ed Stoddard
DALLAS - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama side-stepped a pointed query about abortion on Saturday by “mega-pastor” Rick Warren during a televised forum.
Asked at what point a baby gets “human rights,” Obama, who strongly supports abortion rights, said: “… whether you’re looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific perspective, answering that question with specificity … is above my pay grade.”
He went on to reiterate his view that it was important to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies.
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...Above his pay grade until he is elected and ascends to his godhead position as the Obamessiah.
Translation of the above statement by Obama, "I dont need to decide. I'd kill them ALL!" (as his solution to pregnancies unwanted or otherwise...)
Obamessiah is the most liberal Senator in the US Senate. Omamessiah has a 100% pro-abortion voting record. He is recognized for this by NARAL (the National Abortion Rights Action League).
He specifically voted to allow "partial birth abortion" where the live baby is delivered feet first utill the skull still remains in the birth canal. Then the brains are sucked out, collapsing the skull.
This is the ULTIMATE sacrament to abortion lovers like Obamessiah.
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Friday, August 15, 2008
The Obamessiah's Prayer
Cross posted from Hannity.com
http://www.hannity.com//Article.asp?id=840892
The "Obama" Prayer
by Matthew Kramer
[as modified by James Foley]
Our Obamessiah, who art from heaven, or Jakarta in Indonesia, or Hawaii, or possibly Chicago,
Liberal be thy name,
Thy presidency come,
Thy will be done,
On Earth, as it is in San Francisco.
Give us this day our daily handouts.
And forgive us our individualism,
As we forgive those who don't properly inflate their tires.
And lead us not into the Clintons,
But deliver us from McCain
For thine is the kingdom,
and the power, and the glory,
for two full terms.
Amen Alleluia
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Friday, July 25, 2008
The Obamessiah and Bush Derangement Syndrome
The Obamessiah is still touring and blessing his faithfull acolytes and converts. This is bringing showers of money from those who hope to vote for him in November. He is raking in cash from people who can not be held accountable because they are not living inside the borders of the USA. FEC says Obamessiah's collection plates have brought in over a million that they know of. When the Clintons sought cash from the Chinese and other foreign sources, those were below the radar and I would bet that Obama cash handlers have plenty of that brand of action too. Here is an excerpted (and commented by me - comments in italics) report from one of Obamessiah's press release distributions, AP via:
http://www.620ktar.com/index.php?nid=46&sid=909813&r=1
Obama beats McCain in Europe donations
July 25th, 2008
By GREGORY KATZ AP Writer (and Obama Spear Carrier)
LONDON (AP) - Barack Obama's campaign has received roughly 10 times more money from declared U.S. donors living in Germany, France and Britain than his Republican rival... as he makes his first tour of the continent as the presumed...(ed: [] Democrat nominee [] Messiah of the world.)
Federal Election Commission reports show Obama has raised at least $1 million... The European totals include contributions of $200 or more from each individual as election laws do not require campaigns to itemize lesser amounts. So it's possible Obama has received money from smaller donors... (ed: who are not US citizens and not US registered voters). (ed: How is the FEC able to closely track this on contributions made in foreign countries? Are the Obamessiah acolytes counting the collection plate and giving a daily tally to the FEC?)
Obama's many backers in Europe say they are motivated by a yearning for America to once again be viewed with respect by the rest of the world. (ed: This means that they want us to join the growing number of countries under socialist rule to become a World Union of Socialist Republics.)
The disparity between the two candidates underscores the Democratic candidate's appeal on a continent where Obamamania seems to have taken hold of expatriates and Europeans alike.
Obama has been much more sophisticated about Internet usage, and when you live overseas that's the easiest way to contribute. (ed: The internet makes election year fraud much easier to do and harder to trace. Thank Algore.)
Each donor is permitted to give a maximum of $2,300 for each election, but since the primaries are regarded as a separate election, a person can make two separate donations of $2,300 before the general election in November. While some gave the maximum, others made contributions in the $10 and $25 range.
(ed: This kinda makes you sit back and say "hmmmmm" as you ponder the fact that now we have the Fieger Precedent. Geoffy was able to get underlings and associates to donate large sums of cash (over $100,000) to Democrat causes and then reimburse them to disguise the source. This was held to be legal by a jury of HIS peers. Thus we have the Fieger Precedent for a way for Democrats to mask large cash contributions.)
Only U.S. citizens are permitted to contribute to presidential campaigns. (ed: But in light of the Fieger Precedent, that is no barrier to the Democrats.)
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What is driving the soul deep yearning for the Obamessiah here and overseas? Three words describe it best: Bush Derangement Syndrome
BDS - The expressed naked hatred of Bush and that fear of a McCain presidency as Bush 3. Flip the coin and an Obamessiah presidency is Jimmy Carter 2. I say he would be MUCH WORSE. He doesn't have a brother Billy Bob, which would at least give some comic relief (Remember Billy Beer?)
Europeans are being given a chance to express the BDS and possibly get a vote if the Dems can figure a way to manufacture enough fake expatriate voter registrations to allow for absentee ballots for all of them. Be alert for them to try to block ballots from overseas serving airmen, soldiers, sailors, and marines.
We have illegal aliens here who managed to get registered before the drivers license/motor voter easy portal to voter registration was clamped down. We have heard an estimate that up to 3% of the vote is illegals and it is enough to sway the results one way or the other. In this years election it almost doesn't matter because both sides are belly crawling panderers to illegals, and will give legal status to these criminals. I just want to block the illegal vote.
How will the illegals, that have managed to register to vote, accomplish the deed this year? Absentee Ballots, now that they are registered they can vote where no one can challenge their vote. The absentee ballot is the means that Democrats use to manufacture graveyard votes, pet registration votes, New England-Florida Snowbird votes. They are endlessly creative at ways to defraud the voting public. The absentee ballot offers the easiest means to manufacture large numbers of fraudulent votes. Electronic, non-paper, voting machines are right in the mix now that butterfly ballots are no longer used.
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Sunday, July 20, 2008
A New Schism Emanating From Germany
heretic: a person who maintains unorthodox religious opinions or beliefs, esp. a baptized Roman Catholic who dissents from official church doctrine.
A New Schism Emanating From Germany
...and rooting about for new followers in the USA.
As in the past when Martin Luther chose to break away and founded his pseudo-Catholic sect in Germany, the Lutheran Church, a NEW heretic group, the Roman Catholic Womenpriests (RCWP) has emerged after clandestine, unapproved ordinations on the Danube, claiming legitimacy for woman bishops, priests, and deacons . The claim is made that current male active Roman Catholic Bishops in Germany performed the ordinations according to Church tradition and law. These RCWP bishops are proceeding to spread the heresy here in the USA with ordinations of heretic woman priests and deacons. A few of these heretics are former nuns.
They proudly proclaim themselves on their web page:
http://www.romancatholicwomenpriests.org/
RCWP Response Regarding Papal Excommunication Decree
Roman Catholic Womenpriests reject the penalty of excommunication issued by the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith on May 29, 2008 stating that the “women priests and the bishops who ordain them would be excommunicated latae sententiae.” Roman Catholic Womenpriests are loyal members of the church who stand in the prophetic tradition of holy obedience to the Spirit’s call to change an unjust law that discriminates against women. Our movement is receiving enthusiastic responses on the local, national and international level. We will continue to serve our beloved church in a renewed priestly ministry that welcomes all to celebrate the sacraments in inclusive, Christ-centered, Spirit-empowered communities wherever we are called.
The position of the Pope and US Bishops of the Roman Catholic Church is clear; that women who are participants in RCWP are excommunicated. They can not be "loyal members of the church" . They are NOT believers of the word of Christ as written in the following bible passage
(From: The New American Catholic Bible, St. Joseph Edition, IMPRIMATUR James A. Hickey, S.T.D., J.C.D. ArchBishop of Washington, August 27, 1986)
Matthew 16, 15-19
He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?"
Simon Peter said in reply, "You are the Messiah, the Son of the Living God."
Jesus said to him in reply, "Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My heavenly Father. And so I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven. Whatsoever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven."
The Pope, as the descendent of Peter with his authority, has said that these women are excommunicated. Thus as it is bound on earth, it is bound in heaven. Thus their claims as stated on the RCWP web page and mirrored above are pure sophistry on their part.
It is quite obvious that they do NOT believe and thus can not be true members of the Roman Catholic Church. They are repeating and renewing the Martin Luther heresy in a new schism. This is obviously an attempt of Satan to divide the Church in the USA.
RCWP Excommunicated:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/topstories/ 2008-05-30-3947588341_x.htm
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Friday, June 20, 2008
The Pfleger to return to St. Sabina RCC
The flaming race baiter, supporter of abortionists, and abortion loving politicians, Michael Pfleger, is being allowed to return to Saint Sabina RCC by Cardinal George. [Kinda tells ya where the red hat's head is doesn't it? Makes you say "hmmmmm? Who bought a cardinal?" Just another politician...]
Below, italics are mine.
http://www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/ religion/995461,CST- NWS-priest09.article
Rev. Pfleger to return to St. Sabina with 'no restrictions'
The South Side parish of St. Sabina exploded with shouts of joy and a standing ovation Sunday morning at the news firebrand Catholic pastor Rev. Michael Pfleger would be returning June 16.
Cardinal Francis George temporarily removed the outspoken priest from his parish last week following comments Pfleger made about then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Pfleger had said Clinton believed she was entitled to the Democratic nomination because she is white. Pfleger is white, while most of his parishioners are African-American.
Parish leaders were told by Cardinal George that Pfleger will continue as pastor of the church he has led for 30 years with "no restrictions" -- other than not being able to mention publicly the names of presidential candidates or campaign for them. [...besides it would take too long to break in a new racist for the job.]
[However, he can continue his race baiting unabated! I wonder if he ever told them that Planned Parenthood was formed by a racist Margaret Sanger to eliminate the black race? No, Pfleger is a front man, a stand up guy for abortion supporters like Obama.]
How effective is the Pfleger?
Two other parishioners, Rhonda Williams and Leslie Ross, who are not Catholic, said they would have left St. Sabina's and followed Pfleger to a new church if he had been removed. [No sweat, Chicago politician Cardinal George wouldn't do that. Besides the Churdh is short of priests, so even bad ones are needed.]
"I'm here because of the pastor, what he's done for me spiritually," Williams said.
Not effective enough to convert them though. Hey Mikey, do Rhonda and Leslie take communion at mass?
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Monday, June 09, 2008
Obama Campaign Slogans...
Barack Says:
"That's not the Tony Rezko I Knew"
"That's not the Bill Ayers I knew"
"That's not the Reverend Wright I knew"
"That's not the Michael Pfleger I knew"
"That's not the Trinity UCC Church I knew"
Some random thoughts...
Where does the next revelation about Barack Hussein Obama come from. Hillary wants to know...
Remember when the Clintons slogan was "I can't recall..."?
Hmmmm... Neither Scrouis Louis Farakhan nor Al Sharpton have been heard from about Barack Hussein Obama lately. In fact the whole race pimp squad has been conspicuously absent in the past few weeks. They pushed a white Roman Catholic priest out front as the latest race baiting member of the squad.
Sounds like Barack Hussein needs a giant body condom to insulate him from everyone he knows before they infect his campaign any more.
That area under the campaign bus is getting pretty crowded.
I wonder if Cardinal George will try to slip The Pfleger quietly back into Saint Sabina RCC. Our Chicago correspondents will have to track this.
Is HilLarry angling for a Veep nod from Moebama? Moe had better keep a squad of food tasters, as the Clintons are really "HUNGRY" to retake the White House. Being Veep puts her one Obama heart beat away from the Oval Office [big IF... IF Obama wins]
Can HilLarry successfully muzzle Bill if she gets the Veep nod? Most of the betting money says NO.
How many months before McCain discovers that the McCain Democrats he thought he had are really Obama Democrats?
His surrogates at the RNC are starting to realize that conservatives are not flocking to McCain. When does panic set in?
When are our legislators going to allow drilling in ANWR and other locations put off limits by the tree huggers and caribou humpers?
Obama will listen to the tree huggers/caribou humpers, and it appears that McCain is an Algore global warming deacon so he is in the same camp.
Does oil have to hit $200 before the lynching parties start looking for legislators to hang for inaction on domestic drilling, nuclear power plants, etc.?
This years election amounts to a choice of two evils (Moe vs Curley) forcing people to start comparing down the ticket to decide which to vote for.
God help us if they have to get down to state races to decide.
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An interesting site to check out:
REZKORAMA - Dedicated to Obama's and Illinois Governor Blagojevich's favorite political go-to man, fund raiser and money launderer.
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Friday, May 02, 2008
The Politics of Moebama's Racist Church
Cross posted from FaultLineUSA
permalink: http://faultlineusa.blogspot.com/ 2008/05/ revisiting- obamas- liberation- theology.html
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Friday, May 02, 2008
In March of 2007, I wrote an article expressing grave concerns about
Obama's Liberation Theology church and his controversial pastor,
Jeremiah Wright. Last year few Americans, other than Theologians or
graduates from left-leaning seminaries such as Brite Divinity
School, even knew about Liberation Theology.
The following
republished article exposed the truth about Jeremiah Wright's church
and quotes from the works of James H. Cone, one of the primary
authors of Black Liberation Theology. Additionally provided are some
important points about the grave dangers of Liberation
Theology written in 1984 by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger
(Pope Benedict XVI).
Following is the text from Obama's
Marxist Liberation Theology Church :
The
best lie is a little pig that's always hidden between several fluffy
layers of truth and covered with a lot of lipstick and charisma.
This
is a follow-up to yesterday's article originally posted on Right
Truth and here "What
Obama's Church Preaches"
Note:
This article isn't so much about religion as it is
about the politics of political revolution as fomented in all
Liberation Theology churches.
Read also the post by Church
and State: Obama's
Pastor Embarrasses Entire Congregation. Be sure to View the
video where "Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright, Barak Obama's pastor, went on
Hannity & Colmes last night to respond to claims that his church is
a black separatist congregation."
Obama's pastor, Rev.
Dr. Jeremiah Wright, continued to evade Hannity while he hammered
away asking again and agin if Hannity had ever read James H. Cone,
one of the primary authors of Black Liberation Theology.
Oddly
enough, I just happen to have several of Cone's works on hand.
Here's just a little from Cone's classic book A Black
Theology of Liberation (Twentieth Anniversary Edition):
Emphasis
added by me:
The definition of Jesus as black is crucial
for christology if we truly believer in his continued presence
today. Taking our clue from the historical Jesus who is pictured in
the New Testament as the Oppressed One, what else, except blackness,
could adequately tell us the meaning of his presence today? Any
statement about Jesus today that fails to consider blackness as the
decisive factor about his person is a denial of the New Testament
message. The life, death, and resurrection of Jesus reveal that he
is the man for others, disclosing to them what is necessary for
their liberation from oppression. If this is true, then Jesus Christ
must be black so that blacks can know that their liberation is his
liberation. . .
The black Christ is he who threatens the
structure of evil as seen in white society, rebelling against it,
thereby becoming the embodiment of what the black community knows
that it must become. . .
To be a disciple of the black Christ
is to become black with him. Looting, burning, or the
destruction of white property are not primary concerns. Such
matters can only be decided by the oppressed themselves who are
seeking to develop their images of the black Christ. . .
Whites
do not recognize what is happening, and they are thus unable to deal
with it. For most whites in power, the black community is a nuisance
–something to be considered only when the natives get restless. But
what white America fails to realize is the explosive nature of the
kingdom. Although its beginning is small, it will have far-reaching
effects not only on the black community but on the white community
as well. Now is the time to make decisions about loyalties, because
soon it will be too late. Shall we or shall we not join the black
revolutionary kingdom?
An excellent overview of
the grave dangers of Liberation
Theology was written in 1984 by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (Pope
Benedict XVI).
Here are some of the important points
Ratzinger makes about Liberation Theology:
1.
Liberation Theology has it center of power in Latin America and in
African Theology, but is found in many Christian denominations
throughout the Third World.
2. Liberation Theology is a new
interpretation of Christian reality.
3. Liberation Theology
is radically Marxist. " . . .the world must be interpreted in terms
of the class struggle and that the only choice is between capitalism
and Marxism."
4. Liberation Theology thrives on
perpetuating class struggle. The only people of the Church are those
who participate in class struggle.
5. Liberation Theology is
a theology of bloody political revolution. All of Christian reality
is reduced to politico-social liberation praxis (action).
6.
Liberation Theology rejects traditional scriptural interpretations.
"The experience of the "community" determines the understanding and
the interpretation of Scripture. . . Ultimately, what is normative
for interpretation is not historical research but the hermeneutic of
history experienced in the community or the political group."
7.
Liberation Theology makes the Bible subject to a Marxist view of
history. "The "historicality" of the Bible must justify its absolute
dominance and thus legitimize the' transition to materialist-marxist
philosophy, in which history has taken over the role of God. . .
historical criticism has loosed Scripture from the traditional
interpretation, which now appears to be unscientific.
8.
Liberation Theology is a threat to the faith of the Christian Church.
Here
Ratzinger analyzes some of the central concepts of Liberation
Theology:
Faith: Jesus' experience of
God is radically historical. "His faith is transformed into
fidelity." Thus faith is fundamentally replaced by "fidelity to
history". . .
Hope is interpreted as
"confidence in the.future" and as working for the future and thus is
subordinated once more to the history of class conflict. . .
Love
consists in the "option for the poor"; i.e., it coincides with
opting for the class struggle. . .
Kingdom of God:
" . .the Kingdom must not be understood in a spiritualist or
universalist manner, not in the sense of an abstract eschatological
eventuality. It must be understood in partisan terms and with a view
to praxis. The meaning of the Kingdom can only be defined by
reference to the praxis of Jesus, not theoretically: it means
working at the historical reality that surrounds us in order to
transform it into the Kingdom."
Overcoming
Dualism "Here we must mention another basic idea of a
particular postconciliar theology which has led in this direction.
People said that after the Council every dualism must be overcome:
the dualism of body and soul, of natural and supernatural, of this
world and the world beyond, of then and now. Once these supposed
dualisms had been eliminated, it only remained to work for a kingdom
to be realized in present history and in politicoeconomic reality.
This meant, however, that one had ceased to work for the benefit of
people in this present time and had begun to destroy the present in
the interests of a supposed future: thus the real dualism had broken
loose."
Note: The above explanation of
overcoming dualism certainly gives us some insight into the suicidal
nature of leftist thought!
Death and Resurrection:
" . . . Man has taken over God's gesture — this manifests the whole
transformation of the biblical message in an almost tragic way . . ."
Eucharist
is interpreted as a celebration of liberation in the sense of
politico-messianic hope and praxis.
The word redemption
is largely replaced by liberation, which is seen, against the
background of history and the class struggle, as a process of
progressive liberation.
Action is truth ". .
. The only true orthodoxy is therefore orthopraxy."
Ratzinger's
Summary
In trying to arrive at
an overall evaluation it must be said that, if one accepts the
fundamental assumptions which underlie liberation theology, it
cannot be denied that the whole edifice has an almost irresistible
logic. By adopting the position of biblical criticism and of a
hermeneutics that grows through experience, on the one hand, and of
the marxist analysis of history, on the other, liberation
theologians have succeeded in creating a total picture of the
Christian reality, and this total view seems to respond fully both
to the claims of science and to the moral challenges of our time,
urging people to make Christianity an instrument of concrete world
transformation; it seems to have united Christianity, in this way,
with all the "progressive forces" of our era. One can understand,
therefore, that this new interpretation of Christianity should have
exercised an increasing fascination over theologians, priests and
religious, particularly against the background of Third World
problems. To say "no" to it must seem to them to be a flight from
reality as well as a denial of reason and morality. On the other
hand, if one considers how radical this reinterpretation of
Christianity is, it is all the more pressing to find the right
answer to the challenge which it presents. We shall only survive
this crisis if we succeed in making the logic of faith visible in an
equally compelling manner and in presenting it as a logic of
reality, i.e., manifesting the concrete force of a better answer
attested in lived experience. Since it is so, since thought and
experience, interpretation and realization, are equally called for,
it is a task for the whole Church. Theology alone is insufficient,
Church authority alone is insufficient. Since the phenomenon of
liberation theology indicates a lack of conversion in the Church, a
lack of radical faith, only an increase in conversion and faith can
arouse and elicit those theological insights and those decisions on
the part of the shepherds which will give an answer to the magnitude
of the question.
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Thursday, April 10, 2008
Separation of Church and State?
According to the atheist leftists, socialists, and communists all governmental operations and support must be separated from all things Christian.
Apparently this separation of church and state does not extend to other "religions" in the USA though.
Read On:
http://thomistic.blogspot.com/
Cross post is from the Dumb Ox Daily News
Wall of silence broken at state's Muslim public school
By KATHERINE KERSTEN, Star Tribune
Last update: April 9, 2008 - 12:45 PM
Recently, I wrote about Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy (TIZA), a K-8 charter
school in Inver Grove Heights. Charter schools are public schools and by
law must not endorse or promote religion.
Evidence suggests,
however, that TIZA is an Islamic school, funded by Minnesota taxpayers.
TIZA
has many characteristics that suggest a religious school. It shares the
headquarters building of the Muslim American Society of Minnesota, whose
mission is "establishing Islam in Minnesota." The building also houses a
mosque. TIZA's executive director, Asad Zaman, is a Muslim imam, or
religious leader, and its sponsor is an organization called Islamic
Relief.
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the rest)
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Monday, March 24, 2008
Easter Question: Which Church Is The Top Treason Lobbyist?
Cross posted at "No Amnesty - GOT IT?"
Cross posted from:
VDare.com
Easter Question: Which Church Is The Top Treason Lobbyist?
By Joe Guzzardi
No matter which church you may attend on Easter Sunday, you stand a high probability of hearing a plea for "justice for immigrants"that’s a given. And you’ll also be called upon from the pulpit to, against all logic, embrace more immigration.
[ed: My parish has a Vietnamese priest. During our Easter services, he never once said a word that could be misinterpreted towards immigration. He was a LEGAL immigrant before he entered the seminary here in the USA.]
Accordingly, earlier this week I set out to determine which major religious denomination, pound for pound, has the worst pro-immigration record-members of the Treason Lobby, as we call it here at VDARE.COM. I limited my search to Roman Catholic as well as the Lutheran and Methodist Churches.
My secondary task was to find an official who represents one of those religions but who is also an immigration realist.
The Roman Catholic Church
For pro-alien lobbying, the Catholic church (in which I was raised) is by far the most the most visible and notorious of the three. And well it should be, with a flock of 68 million members. That total represents nearly 25 percent of the world’s Catholic population.
From the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic, Catholic immigration pandering has been non-stop for years. Even the relatively recent pedophilia scandals have barely slowed down Catholic immigration enthusiasm.
Over the last five years, Catholic Cardinals-most prominently Roger Cardinal Mahony, the Archbishop of Los Angeles-have urged support for amnesty and have argued passionately against immigration enforcement legislation.
Going one-step further to prove that no statement or action endorsing immigration is too outrageous, Mahony advocates violating federal law when and if enforcement measures are ever passed.
VDARE.COM writers have criticized Mahony with increasing disgust as his advocacy for illegal immigrants has intensified and his involvement in the pedophilia cover-ups have become more obvious.
But Mahony is far from the only Catholic Cardinal voice for aliens.
On the opposite coast, New York’s Cardinal Edward M Egan was out front and center (speaking Spanish, no less) at the Immigrant Workers’ Freedom Ride, an even orchestrated five years ago and organized by dozens of open borders subversives who predicted—100 percent incorrectly—that it would pressure Congress into passing an amnesty.
Other urgent issues like the New York diocese’s financial crisis have not distracted Egan, 75, from his illegal alien fanaticism.[ At 75, A Battle Tested but Unwavering Cardinal, By Michael Powell, New York Times, April 23, 2007]
The Methodists
Numbering about 15 million, about a quarter of the Catholic flock, they’re fewer but equally determined.
In 2006, VDARE.COM contributor W. James Antle, III exposed the Methodists and their "Open Hearts, Open Minds, Open Doors" policy, a transparent, feel-good slogan that can be condensed to "Open Borders."
Including their "Global Ministries ", "Justice for Our Neighbors " and "Hope for Newcomers " programs, the Methodists’ commitment to mass immigration is impressive to many-but not to us.
The Lutherans
They don’t have as much muscle (only 8 million members) as either the Catholics or the Methodists, but they’re tireless fighters, especially on behalf of “refugees”. Our Thomas Allen has written extensively about the refugee racket here.
The Lutherans always have a new wrinkle. The latest is its New Sanctuary Movement described as "a national immigrants' rights initiative by conscientious congregations responding to unjust deportations…" and a force that "…addresses the legal liabilities of providing sanctuary to undocumented immigrants."
"Troubling" state and local laws aimed at immigration enforcement concern the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service. To assist in law breaking, the LIRS has prepared a backgrounder, acknowledging and thanking "the National Immigration Forum, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the National Council of La Raza, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the National Immigration Law Center for sharing their resources."
I got a close look at the LIRS’s influence when I researched my column on the Somali Bantu invasion of tiny Cayce, South Carolina.
The local Lutheran coordinator for the Somalis, Rev. Richard Robinson, called the Bantus’ arrival "a blessing," even though few Cayce non-Lutherans agreed with him.
How much of a "blessing" LIRS-sponsored immigration may be depends on who you ask.
In 2004, James Fulford in his column linked the Lutherans, claiming to be "glorifying God’s name" and that "the love of God is in our hearts," to slavery and rape .[James Fulford writes: The actual acts of slavery and rape were, of course, committed by Albanian Gypsies -Lutherans aren't into that sort of thing .]
Comparing their relatively small numbers versus their influence on immigration policy in general and refugees in particular, I therefore announce my "pound for pound" top Treason Lobbyist...
THE LUTHERANS!
Battling individuals and organizations that allegedly follow the Bible’s word while doing "God’s work" is challenging. They purport to be on the high road while we the "nativists ," according to them, reject the Lord’s message.
But the Catholics, Methodists and Lutherans have distorted the truth to serve their own specific agenda—mainly money and more people in the pews.
The religious arguments center on how people of faith should treat the "sojourner," the catchall word they incorrectly use to represent today’s immigrants.
To learn more about their imprecise use of the Bible and its language—"the sojourner"—to beat back immigration reform patriots, I contacted Ed Childress, an ordained United Methodist elder and director of the Homeless Programs of Fauquier County, Virginia. I had worked with Childress when he was Deputy Director of NumbersUSA.
Childress (e-mail him) told me:
"I would emphasize again and again that ‘sojourner’ was a specific word for temporary wanderer, not meant to include immigrants. And the context of Biblical times, when ‘sojourner’ was used, was very different than today’s context. It’s appropriate that the citizens of a nation exercise oversight and stewardship of their national resources—and that includes their border."
Several years ago, Childress wrote an article for the Social Contract that included a five-point program on how to faithfully follow the Bible’s "true prescriptions" as they may relate to immigration. [The Sojourner Argument—Churches and Immigration, By Ed Childress, Social Contract, Spring 2001]
They are:
- Foreigners in this country should be accorded the respect and decency we owe to all people.
- People who are genuine refugees and cannot be cared for in proximity to their homes might be temporarily relocated to other countries. The U.S. would accept its fair share until they can safely return. Their temporary stay makes it possible for other refugees to "sojourn" here when necessary.
- Our ethic of caring requires we do what is necessary to help legal immigrants and legal residents to assimilate and function in U.S. society.
- Our ethic of caring requires that we not accept such a large number of annual immigrants that 1) Undermines the ability of workers to earn a decent living, 2) Harms the sustainability of the environment, and 3) Drains the best and brightest from their own nations where they can do the most good.
- We move away from an "America the Best" attitude and respect the future aspirations and identity of other nations.
The willingness—even eagerness—of the major religions to twist the Bible’s meaning shows that they, and not we, are the true immigration extremists.
Joe Guzzardi [ e-mail him] is the Editor of VDARE.COM Letters to the Editor. In addition, he is an English teacher at the Lodi Adult School and has been writing a weekly newspaper column since 1988. This column is exclusive to VDARE.COM.
[ed: Cross posted by permission from Joe Guzzardi. What Joe writes of is also known as the Marxist Christian Heresy that has crept into Big Religion.]
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Religious Convictions of Socialist Liberals: Totally Amoral
The latest brou-ha-ha about Obama, what he knew and when he knew it, about his racist pastor brings back the point that to be a good socialist liberal there must be a lack of a moral compass. Most liberals belong to the "let it all hang out", feel good, touchy feely crowd.
This latest incident is spin, trying to convince us that they really DO practice some form of Christianity. They desperately want to identify with Christian conservatives in a "ME TOO" way.
How can an abortion loving liberal claim to be saved?
The truth is, socialist Democrats are totally amoral and if they worship at all, the deity is jesus the homosexual abortionist. (note: lower case intentional)
Check out the NARAL ratings of our current crop of US Senators. final-2007-voting-records.pdf
And here is a rogues gallery of our Senate High Priests, Elders, and Super Delegates of the church of jesus the homosexual abortionist where the high sacrament is abortion. The congregation practices every perversion imaginable.
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note: Both Michigan Senators (Levin and Stabenow) are charter members as 100% NARAL rated abortion lovers.
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Saturday, March 15, 2008
Obama and Reverend Wright - The Rev is like an Uncle
Obama told MSNBC that he would not repudiate Wright as a man, describing him as "like an uncle" who says something that he disagrees with and must speak out against. He also said he expects his political opponents will use video of the sermons to attack him as the campaign goes on.
So Barack Hussein Obama will just give him a slap on the wrist and tell him to go to the back of the bus. In the 20 years since Wright brought Obama to this version of Christianity, Barack claims to have never heard any of the racism spewed by Reverend Wright.
Words from the pulpit of the racist Reverend Wright:
"We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye," Wright said. "We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost."
and
"The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing 'God Bless America.' No, no, no, God damn America, that's in the Bible for killing innocent people. God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme."
and
"Barack knows what it means to be a black man to be living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people. Hillary can never know that. Hillary ain't never been called a nigger."
Suggestions that these old words are no longer operative are met with the argument that if former members of other racist regimes are tarred with that brush for life, how can he escape it? Through the forgiveness of political convenience? Go and do no political sins in public?
Easy... the Democrats will always excuse one of their own.
It all comes back to roost on the fact that to be a good socialist Democrat you must be totally amoral. A good socialist Democrat that claims to be a christian (notice the lower case, it is indicative) worships a savior known as jesus the homosexual abortionist. It can be the only explanation for their slavish devotion to abortion as their high sacrament and homosexuality as a vehicle to worship. A HUGE number of liberals and moderates in the Republican party also attend and worship this same savior. This explains how the Republican party has been lead astray from the conservative fold.
Question: What is the Reverend Wright's religious position on abortion? What does he preach on the subject?
Has he ever used any of his vitriol to mention how Planned Parenthood was formed as a vehicle using abortion to rid the USA of blacks by a very racist Margaret Sanger?
Friday, the United Church of Christ issued a 1,400-word statement defending Wright (this has to include his racist rantings)!
"It's time for all of us to say no to these attacks and to declare that we will not allow anyone to undermine or destroy the ministries of any of our congregations in order to serve their own narrow political or ideological ends," John H. Thomas, United Church of Christ's president.
[ed: There, now you know where UCC stands! Hmmm... Barack surrounds himself with all sorts. I wonder if his wife is proud of Reverend Wright? She certainly was not proud of the USA.]
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Thursday, February 28, 2008
Barack Hussein Obama - Friend of Israel?
A simple question that I have not heard asked of the Democrats in this campaign year (so far)... What is your position on support of Israel? Was it asked and I missed it due to inattention? I am fairly sure that Hillary would support Israel but I cant say the same for Barack Hussein Obama.
Some factions have made noise about Obama's first training being in a Muslim madrassa, but that he belongs to a Christian church now. In Muslim circles that is a heresy and a cause for a death sentence. Was he given a dispensation from Islam by the mullahs? Is there a Muslim hit squad looking for him now? Or is his membership in a Christian church simply camoflage?
To Barack Obama... What are your feelings and political leanings on support of Israel and all it stands for?
This is a VERY fair question to ask of a man who would be the leader of the free world from the office of the President of the United States.
It is time to find out where Barack Obama stands in his own words and convictions concerning an ally of the USA in the middle east, Israel.
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It is also time to note that the Hollywood Lefties are composed largely of actors of Jewish descent. A very large proportion of the New York Jewish community are also liberal Democrats. Who do you suppose they will be voting for in the upcoming presidential election? There has been no mention of them flocking to support Hillary.
ps: The liberals are trying to intimidate us into believing that use of a given middle name is a slur and is politically incorrect. So what if Baracks whole name screams the connotation of marching to a different drummer. It has been his choice to use it as a political tool thus far.
Barack Hussein Obama (socialist Democrat)
John Forbes Kerry (socialist Democrat)
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (Democrat, before socialist takeover)
yada yada yada... all the middle name connotes is an extra identifier, not political persuasion.
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Illegal alien Chrisostomo takes sanctuary in same church Arrelano occupied in Chicago
Hey Little Johnny McCain, one of your illegal alien constituents really needs a little morale boost from you. She is hiding out at a church in Chicago and would really like to have you come pander to her. She is afraid that the government is going to make an example of her like the Arellano puta.
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Church harbors woman facing deportation
By MICHAEL TARM, AP Writer
CHICAGO - A Mexican woman says she is "picking up the torch" from another illegal resident who became a symbol for immigration reform when she took shelter in a Chicago church for a year before being deported.
Flor Crisostomo, 28,
who paid a smuggler to drive her across the U.S. border in 2000, spurned
a deportation order Monday and moved into Adalberto United Methodist
Church. [She didnt have the money to feed her kids but sure managed
to scrape together the fee to pay the coyote, typically $1500 or more
from reports. I wonder if she paid her border crossing fare on her back.
Three kids and no husband. Is her street corner getting lonely for her,
or did she work in a brothel.]
Crisostomo hopes her actions send a message similar to Elvira Arellano, who became a beacon of hope for millions of illegal immigrants and a lightning rod for those who saw her brazen refusal to leave the U.S. as proof of lax enforcement.
Arellano lived in an apartment on the church's upper floor for a year before leaving in August to visit Los Angeles, where immigration authorities arrested her and, within hours, deported her to Mexico.
Adalberto's pastor said no one pressured Crisostomo to take sanctuary at the church, which is in a predominantly Hispanic neighborhood.
"It's unfortunate we have to do this. This church has other priorities, like helping the poor in this neighborhood," the Rev. Walter Coleman said. "But God didn't give us a choice. When God says do this, we say, 'Yes, sir!'"
Coleman complained that the push for immigration reform has stalled, saying even sympathetic politicians have put the sensitive issue on the back burner.
"So what are we supposed to do?" he said. "Who's moving this movement forward? It's not moving forward."
Crisostomo, who spoke through a translator, said she left Iguala Guerrero, Mexico, after she was unable to find a job that would allow her to buy enough food for her two boys and one girl, ages 9 to 14.
In July 2000 she paid a smuggler to take her across the border and spent three days lost in desert-like conditions before making it to Los Angeles, she said. A month later she arrived in Chicago, where she worked 10 hours a day, six days a week in an IFCO Systems site that made packing materials.
By last year, she earned about $360 a week, sending $300 to her children for food, clothes and school books, she said. To keep her own costs down, she lived with four other women in a two-bedroom Chicago apartment.
"My children's lives improve a lot as a result," she said. "It wasn't luxury. But it meant they could survive."
Immigration authorities raided more than 40 IFCO sites in the U.S. in 2006 and arrested Crisostomo, along with more than 1,100 other people. The Board of Immigration Appeals last year denied Crisostomo's appeal and told her to leave the United States by Monday.
Crisostomo said she didn't know how long she would stay in the church, adding that she would keep busy by lobbying via phone, e-mails and letters on behalf of millions of illegal immigrants. The apartment, which is maintained by the church, includes a bedroom, office area and living room.
Groups opposed to illegal immigration say the case is a direct challenge to federal authorities.
"It will give American citizens a great opportunity to see if Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff is good at his word on strict immigration enforcement," said Rosanna Pulido, a spokeswoman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which advocates tougher immigration enforcement.
The move to re-create the same sanctuary situation as Arellano will backfire, Pulido said.
"This tactic is ineffective," she said. "This is creating more outrage, more bad feelings toward our government and toward people who are aiding and abetting illegals."
The judicial process had given Crisostomo more than enough time to comply with U.S. law following her arrest two years ago, the Chicago office of the U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a statement Monday.
"If Ms. Crisostomo does not comply with the immigration judge's order by tonight, she will become an immigration fugitive," the statement said.
But Crisostomo said she believes immigration authorities would not dare storm a house of worship to grab her.
"I hope they don't come for me," she said. "I hope they fear God enough."
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That is not the problem. Bush doesn't have the balls or the will to deport her. He will probably issue a presidential clemency order for her.
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Saturday, January 12, 2008
The 2007 Amnesty Year Review
2007 was the year when a powerfull axis of organizations joined to try to force amnesty for illegal aliens against the will of the citizens of the USA.
Cross posted from the Cox Newspaper 2007 Archives
Groups Join Forces on Immigration
By Eunice Moscoso | Thursday, January 18, 2007, 02:17 PM
Groups lobbying for changes in the nation’s immigration laws, including a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants, have dubbed themselves the “Alliance for Immigration Reform 2007.” [aka "The Amnesty AXIS", "The AXIS of Evil", or just "The AXIS"]
The organizations, which announced their new name Thursday in a conference call with reporters, include the National Council of La Raza, a Hispanic civil rights group; the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops; the Service Employees International Union; the National Immigration Forum; and the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank based in New York.
“This is the year to get this done,” said Tamar Jacoby, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. “Everybody, no matter who they are, is sick of the illegality and the porous borders. Businesses are tired of lying to the government and having to break the law just to get the work done. Latinos want to see their friends and family able to work with dignity. And soccer moms and dads want to see Congress solve something.”
Bruce Josten, executive vice president at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said he expected President Bush to address immigration in his State of the Union speech Tuesday.
“I have absolutley no doubt that he will raise this issue and he will press and stay on the message he has been on since a candidate for this office for a comprehensive solution to immigration,” Josten said.
White House spokesman Tony Snow confirmed the topic.
The speech “will address major issues, including the war on terror, energy, health care, immigration, and education,” he told reporters Thursday.
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The AXIS: Despite the backing of the US Chamber of Commerce, the Bishops, Arch Bishops, and Cardinals of the American Catholic Church, Big Union (AFL-CIO represented by SEI), a putatively conservative think tank (Manhattan Institute), El Presidente Bush, the DNC including all but a bare handfull of Democrat senators, approximately half of the GOP senators (including Frist, the GOP senate majority leader), MoveOnKoSoroStryker (arguably this IS the true leadership of the DNC politburo), and the MSM which is always sympathetic to socialist/leftist causes, but especially for amnesty...
The Patriots: Patriotic Citizens of all political persuasions joined together to turn back the AXIS attempt to dissolve our national sovereignty that would have effectively thrown open our borders to tens of millions of newly arriving illegal aliens.
The amnesty attempts were formulated in secret with no involvement in legislative committees. La Raza and other amnesty pimps were allowed to give input as to the content of the first bill (S.1348) to be taken directly to the senate floor, where The AXIS thought they had enough votes to force it through.
A very smug George Bush said, "I'll see you at the signing!" [...instead he got bitch-slapped again, just like with Dubai Ports and Harriet Miers. This may explain why he had his pet prosecutor, Jonny Sutton, dump border guards in prison while using a Bush Cartel drug smuggler as witness in the star chamber trials.]
Can you imagine the expression on the face of El Presidente Bush when he found out that The PATRIOTS had been flooding their senators and congressmens phones, faxes, and emails with demands that this bad legislation be defeated... and it was.
The AXIS made another stealth attempt with a renumbered amnesty package (S.1639). They tried a tactic of making the legislators unavailable except through special hotlines to allow illegal aliens to call in, excluding The PATRIOTS. These numbers were made public and citizens started using them too. Once again, The Patriots prevailed over The AXIS.
The midterm elections in 2006 was a turning point. It turned the senate and house, starting in 2007, over to Democrats. The new majority was made possible by new Democrat candidates who ran on platforms that were, in most cases, more conservative than their opponents. Time will tell if this is true.
The AXIS was not through with their attempts though. Instead of the comprehensive, big package approach, they shifted gears and now are using the incremental approach of attaching small items to other unrelated legislation to slip it to us a little at a time. The DREAM act was such a piece of legislation.
The AXIS had one victory in December of 2007. The managed to defund and kill the border fence that was authorized in 2006. This is a reason that patriotic citizens must stand together.
[The "death by a thousand cuts" analogy has been made as relates to the slow infiltration, occupation, and take over of our southwestern states without a shot being fired except by criminal gangs of illegals. El Presidente Bush has no intention of enforcing immigration law strenuously during his tenure, so this will fall to whoever is elected as the next president. By that time it may be necessary to use military units to clean out and retake our territory from the occupying hoard while guarding the border against military incursions from the south.]
Here is the page about the private hotlines for illegals to use to call in: Bush Listening
The Bush scandal that the MSM refused to cover, because it was a willing participant, is known as Bordergate. The MSM tried to fabricate out of whole air various things to use as a scandal for Bush, such as manufactured military records by CBS/Damn Rather, when they had everything they need, if they had not been so heavily involved themselves, via their political allegiance to the socialist Democrats who are also primo amnesty panderers.
In December 2007, Michigan AG Mike Cox issued his opinion (weight of law unless successfully challenged in court) that illegal aliens may not be issued Michigan drivers licenses, a reversal of the opinion of the Democrat former AG Frank Kelley. How this will affect the illegals already holding Michigan Drivers Licenses (and possibly voter registration cards) was not dealt with as far as I can ascertain. We may well face a certain number of illegal voters at the polls.
Independent Liberal Democrat and amnesty co-conspirator Senator Joe Lieberman endorsed John McCain for president.
Bush pardoned and commuted sentences of 105 criminals (fraud, robbery, drug smuggling, forgery, counterfeiting, car theft, income tax evasion, military AWOL, moonshining and bootlegging (illegal liquor), theft of US mail, illegal weapons) and no pardons or commutations for Ramos, Compean, or any of the other law men who were railroaded into prison by his pet prosecutor, Johnny Sutton. George did spring Scooter Libby (commuted not pardoned).
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Saturday, December 22, 2007
What is Mormonism?
Cross posted from RightTruth.com
December 21, 2007
What you need to know about Mormons
There are many differences between Christians and Mormons. I do not plan to get into all of those here and I understand that I will stir a hornet's nest with this post. What I DO intend, is to point out the one difference you need to know about. First a disclaimer:
I believe there ARE Christians in the Mormon church. I believe that many Mormons who have not gotten into the hierarchy and original teachings of the church, probably believe the same way I and most Christians believe. Having said that, I do NOT believe that the Mormon doctrine is truly Christian. Mitt Romney told the world that he believes in Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior. I have no reason to doubt his statement or his faith. That's between him and God and I would be the last person to judge another's faith or relationship with God. This is not about politics.
My way of determining whether a group is Christian or not is this: Do they believe the way to salvation is based on faith in Jesus Christ, and nothing else. Only faith is required.
- ... the Mormon Church teaches that the purpose of the atonement was to bring resurrection and immortality to all people, regardless of whether they receive Christ by faith. Christ's atonement is only a partial basis for worthiness and eternal life, which also requires obedience to all the commands of the Mormon church, including exclusive Mormon temple rituals (Gospel Principles, pp. 74-75; Mormon Doctrine, p. 669).
- ... the Mormon Church teaches that eternal life in the presence of God (which it terms "exaltation in the celestial kingdom") must be earned through obedience to all the commands of the Mormon Church, including exclusive Mormon temple rituals. Works are a requirement for salvation (entrance into the "celestial kingdom") - Gospel Principles, p. 303-304; Pearl of Great Price - Third Article of Faith; Mormon Doctrine, pp. 339, 671; Book of Mormon - 2 Nephi 25:23). (source)
Mormons believe in many gods and they believe that they can BECOME gods. They believe that God was once a human man.
Leaders of the Mormon church (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) say:
- ... the very name of the Savior is in the name of the church. . . . The New Testament is a fundamental scripture for us. We have in addition to that the Book of Mormon, which becomes another witness for Jesus Christ." (here)
First, there IS NO OTHER testament of Jesus Christ than the Bible. Not the Book of Mormon and not the Pearl of Great Price, or any other book. Mormons use a