tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post7511721740325309983..comments2024-03-28T12:34:14.649-07:00Comments on dangerous idea: It's all because of that darned school prayer decision!Victor Repperthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10962948073162156902noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-58225106732277596982011-05-28T18:12:56.373-07:002011-05-28T18:12:56.373-07:00Even if "prayer" was still a part of civ...Even if "prayer" was still a part of civic education, who's going to save the children from the message in the pulpit?<br /><br />Messages like:<br /><br /><b>E.W. Bullinger's "The Witness of the Stars" or Missler's "The Gospel in the Stars"</b>---<i>think "Astrology 101"...or call it "Astro-theology", if you prefer.</i><br /><br /><b>"Guess what...there's a Face on Mars!! Hallelujah!!!"</b>---<i>even if there really was a supernatural "face" on Mars, would such a "lawless" and "unbelieving" Nation---a Nation with a 400-500% increase in crime owing to the removal of school prayer---really care anyway? Actually...they might...if it's covered on TMZ or TBN.</i><br /><br /><b>"Y2K: It's the End of the World as we know it"</b>---<i>it definitely was the "end of the world", in terms of book sales after Jan. 1, 2000, for publishers looking to cash in on the so-called "cyber-apocalypse". It was also the "end of the world" for all those trees that nobly gave their lives up for the sake of Y2K-hype---you will be sorely missed</i><br /><br /><b>"The Anti-Christ is alive and well...somewhere...muahahaha"</b> <---<i>that's the Devil's laughter, of course. Something to consider: perhaps the identity of the Anti-Christ is to be revealed in the person of the "Sasquatch"....who is currently leading a feral existence in the wilderness until the fullness of his time has come; that is, that he may make his appearance and terrible power a palpable force amidst the global tyranny of "The New World Order".</i><br /><br /><b>"RF-ID micro-chip implants are the 'mark of the beast'....it's clearly prophesied in the book of Revelation."</b><br /><br />The irony is that the doom-sayers are part of the problem rather than being part of the solution.<br /><br />I had a hard enough time growing up as things were for me. But you can't imagine how much more difficult my life became when I started reading and absorbing and living the thoughts of Hal Lindsey, Tex Marrs and Dave Hunt at 17 years of age. And I had virtually no Christian guidance when I began these studies---impressionable youth that I was. <br /><br />Let Government take away "prayer" in schools....but I can still pray. So can you. But Government can't take away our union and communion with God, in Christ. And it is that message (i.e. our union with Christ) which gave our ancient forebears hope in the face of trouble. God knows they put their "faith" in neither world rulers nor society.Gregorynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-64766318794553605932011-05-26T17:21:37.925-07:002011-05-26T17:21:37.925-07:00Well, when the total population increases you can ...Well, when the total population increases you can expect other things to increase as well, such as violent crime. That would account for some of it, but not all. Personally, I think the large increase in crime over the last few decades in America has more to do with A) increasing poverty levels in America and B) the decreasing effectiveness and efficiency of our justice system.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-88991951515404444992011-05-26T13:06:58.201-07:002011-05-26T13:06:58.201-07:00And yet, we have had a 500% increase in violent cr...<i><br />And yet, we have had a 500% increase in violent crime,<br /></i><br /><br />While this claim was likely true back in 1993 when William Bennett said it (<a href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/arch/usadecline.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/arch/usadecline.html</a>), since 1993, violent crime has decreased 40% or so. So the correct increase in violent crime for 1960-2009 is now something like 260%, and dropping. Clearly, something has been going right for our "nation in peril" since the 1990s.<br /><br />I imagine most of the figures in the quoted article are similarly out of date.<br /><br />Crime data can be viewed here:<br /><a href="http://www.ucrdatatool.gov/Search/Crime/State/RunCrimeStatebyState.cfm" rel="nofollow"> http://www.ucrdatatool.gov/Search/Crime/State/RunCrimeStatebyState.cfm</a>D3U7ujawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13081990693148277532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-86721759972288804082009-07-07T16:29:45.516-07:002009-07-07T16:29:45.516-07:00Ilion,
Birds gotta fly, worms gotta be fed.
I j...Ilion,<br /><br />Birds gotta fly, worms gotta be fed. <br /><br />I just wonder, have you seen the other side, behind the metaphysical curtain? <br /><br />I don't know what happens after death. I'd like to know. But reading various religious texts from the ancient Near East, they begin with Sheol (where nearly everyone but great heroes went after they died), and evolve concepts of an afterlife during the Inter-testamental period, and then there's today's Near Death Experience stories, which are remarkably diverse, including visionary stories from every religion and culture. <br /><br />Sincerely, I'm unsure what to make of it all.Edwardtbabinskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13036816926421936940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-86330710599374258972009-07-07T16:24:53.037-07:002009-07-07T16:24:53.037-07:00You're right Vic,
Catholics in the 1800s wer...You're right Vic, <br /><br />Catholics in the 1800s were using <br />the court system to try and get the Protestant King James Bible and prayers out of the schools long before non-Christians in the 1990s with their court cases. <br /><br />In fact one Catholic neighborhood in Philly in the 1800s near the time of the Civil War rioted over their children being taught the King James Bible. People were killed, neighborhoods set aflame, gun boats commandeered by counter-rioting Protestants to fire canons into the Catholic neighborhood. Sheesh.Edwardtbabinskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13036816926421936940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-52127847197058211392009-07-01T21:51:54.087-07:002009-07-01T21:51:54.087-07:00@Ilion - These anti-Christians always give themsel...@Ilion - These anti-Christians always give themselves away. Like Phillip Pullman, who upon convincing himself that C.S. Lewis was engaged in brainwashing, decided to write his own children's books. Have you read Stephen Hawkings' children's books? He, too, thinks that brainwashing children to "protect" them from Christianity, is a function of children's literature. The books are truly terrible.<br /><br />When you see what Dawkins, Pullman, and Hawkings think about humans, you can understand why their "literature" is so bankrupt and crude.JSAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00681934865643964687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-52735859706066142972009-07-01T10:05:05.014-07:002009-07-01T10:05:05.014-07:00I'd link it to the decline of Christianity gen...I'd link it to the decline of Christianity generally rather than to any thing particular like school prayer.Blipnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-18702027078248740122009-07-01T09:57:56.834-07:002009-07-01T09:57:56.834-07:00The real culprit is John Dewey who changed the pur...The real culprit is John Dewey who changed the purpose of American education from life preparation to job preparation.Mike Darushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06669617343235073078noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-9096366196845532012009-06-30T21:22:03.056-07:002009-06-30T21:22:03.056-07:00Over as What's Wrong With The World, Mr Feser ...Over as <i>What's Wrong With The World</i>, Mr Feser has a small post about the new "New Atheist" atheistic summer camp, being funded (at least in part) by Mr Dawkins; <a href="http://www.whatswrongwiththeworld.net/2009/06/richards_holiday_camp.html" rel="nofollow">Richard’s Holiday Camp</a><br /><br />"<i>New Atheists like Richard Dawkins feign outrage at any suggestion that their creed itself amounts to a kind of religion – even as (for example) they issue their own suggested revisions of the Ten Commandments (see The God Delusion, pp. 263-4). Now, a reader informs me, Dawkins has decided to sponsor his own version of Bible Camp. I kid you not. All Dawkins needs now is a camp song; have fun coming up with your own lyrics.</i>"<br /><br />Here is my submission:<br /><br />Here at Camp Quest we<br />Learn our Dest'ney<br />Is but to be<br />Worm Food!<br /><br />Here at Camp Quest one<br />Learns to question<br />All things Xtian:<br />True Rood!<br /><br />Here at Camp Quest they<br />Tell us some day<br />Life will ix-nay:<br />Don't brood!<br /><br />Here at Camp Quest I<br />Never did (a)pply<br />Reason to my<br />Cert'tude!<br /><br />Here at Camp Quest you<br />Can be sure to<br />Know you are too<br />Worm Food!Ilíonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15339406092961816142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-11724950505535136322009-06-30T19:43:45.346-07:002009-06-30T19:43:45.346-07:00Perhaps the removal of school prayer (Protestant o...Perhaps the removal of school prayer (Protestant or Catholic) is a symptom of the seizure of education, media, and other organs of culture by anti-western Marxists?DocShawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14403837001498823611noreply@blogger.com