The U.S. military has confirmed that it destroyed some Bibles belonging to an American soldier serving in Afghanistan. According to Reuters News, the Bibles were confiscated and destroyed after Qatar-based Al Jazeer television showed soldiers at a Bible class on a base with a stack of Bibles translated into the local Pashto and Dari languages. The US military claims their personnel are not allowed to proselytize.
Lt. Col. Bob Maginnis (rtd), a Pentagon adviser and military and national security analyst finds it mind-boggling to think that military officials would allow Al Jazeera to walk through the front gate of a forward operating base and videotape soldiers conducting a Bible study. 22,000 people responded to a poll conducted by OneNewsNow on the issue, 63% of whom believe that if had been the Koran, the US military will never have dared to destroy the books. At least there would be a few local Christians who would have been blessed having the Bibles for their own personal studies.
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Security/
Friday, May 22, 2009
Violence increasing in frequency and intensity
On Sunday, March 15, an Illinois pastor was murdered while standing in his pulpit; two days later, on Tuesday, a man went on a shooting rampage in Alabama that left 10 victims dead. On that same day, a teenager killed 15 students at a school in Winnenden, Germany. Within the next month, eight other high-profile killings were further reported – in the US alone. Three of these (including an engineer with Yahoo) involved people killing members of their own immediate families (20 dead), while 2 involved police officers (7 of who were killed). For a list, briefly describing these tragic evidences of gradual failure of modern society, see http://www.raptureready.com/nm/243.html. With similar situations being replicated in several locations all over the globe, we can only concur with Todd and Terry at RaptureReady that all these violence is symptomatic of the end times - just like the Bible predicted over 2000 years ago, and the exact opposite of what the evolution theory predicts – progressive improvement, goodness, satisfaction, etc in mankind with time.
Atheist Richard Dawkins dodges Debate Challenge
Ray Comfort, author of the Amazon.com’s best seller, You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, But You Can't Make Him Think – is offering $20,000 to Richard Dawkins (probably the world’s most famous atheist) simply for Dawkins to appear in a public debate on the issue of the beginnings of the universe with him.
However, it seems Prof Dawkins would rather keep his tirades against God to his website and circle of atheist fans. Dawkins first claimed he will not join the debate as it would only give “credibility to the opponents” and again that as far as the origin of the Universe is concerned, “the debate is over”.
However even ardent fans of Dawkins are beginning to question the rationale of rejecting the opportunity of picking up an easy $20,000 (which could be donated to charity) just by turning up to articulate the position you are famously noted for. Phrases such as “ weak sauce”, “a total cop-out”, “arrogant” etc are freely being used on blogs discussing the challenge. Dawkins later said he would do the debate only for $100,000 – which only further put holes in his earlier argument that he was refusing the debate on points of principle.
As seen on Ray’s blog, Atheist Central (http://raycomfortfood.blogspot.com/), scientists far more eminent than Dawkins had not hidden their raw contempt for atheism. Samples:
“In view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who say there is no God. But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views” – Albert Einstein
“Atheism is so senseless” – Isaac Newton
Explaining his motivation for making the $20,000 offer, Ray explains:
"All I want [is] for people...to be open-minded, if they're sitting on the fence, to realize that it's very easy to prove God's existence. …You cannot have a creation without a creator, you cannot have a painting without a painter. Everything made shows us there was a maker."
However, it seems Prof Dawkins would rather keep his tirades against God to his website and circle of atheist fans. Dawkins first claimed he will not join the debate as it would only give “credibility to the opponents” and again that as far as the origin of the Universe is concerned, “the debate is over”.
However even ardent fans of Dawkins are beginning to question the rationale of rejecting the opportunity of picking up an easy $20,000 (which could be donated to charity) just by turning up to articulate the position you are famously noted for. Phrases such as “ weak sauce”, “a total cop-out”, “arrogant” etc are freely being used on blogs discussing the challenge. Dawkins later said he would do the debate only for $100,000 – which only further put holes in his earlier argument that he was refusing the debate on points of principle.
As seen on Ray’s blog, Atheist Central (http://raycomfortfood.blogspot.com/), scientists far more eminent than Dawkins had not hidden their raw contempt for atheism. Samples:
“In view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who say there is no God. But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views” – Albert Einstein
“Atheism is so senseless” – Isaac Newton
Explaining his motivation for making the $20,000 offer, Ray explains:
"All I want [is] for people...to be open-minded, if they're sitting on the fence, to realize that it's very easy to prove God's existence. …You cannot have a creation without a creator, you cannot have a painting without a painter. Everything made shows us there was a maker."
Is Zionism apartheid? Prasch challenges Sizer to public debate
Bible teacher Jacob Prasch has left a standing challenge on his website (www.moriel.org) for a public debate with Stephen Sizer, the Vicar of Christ Church, Virginia Water, UK. Sizer is a vocal proponent of the notion that Zionism is apartheid and that the modern state of Israel does not fulfill biblical prophecy.
The statement from Prasch reads in part: “As an Anglican in a church ordaining homosexual clergy and with a Druid Arch Bishop of Canterbury now calling for Britain to integrate elements of Islamic Sharia, anti Zionists like Sizer in a church with a pro Islamic hierarchical agenda must be challenged.”
Prasch considers it “nothing short of ludicrous” the continued insistence by Sizer and elements of the Anglican Church in the UK that Israel is the major perpetrator of injustice in the Middle East; when all available evidences clearly demonstrate that Israel is the one country in the Middle East which assures the rights and security of its Christian population in the face of widespread persecution of Arab, Persian, Asian, and African Christians throughout the Moslem world.
“We are compelled by the evidence to regard Sizer as hypocritical and biblically ignorant. …It is also difficult for us not to additionally suspect Sizer of being a pseudo-academic fraud, but he at least deserves the opportunity to demonstrate otherwise in a public forum.” Jacob concludes.
http://www.moriel.org/Moriel_UK/Moriel_UK.html
The statement from Prasch reads in part: “As an Anglican in a church ordaining homosexual clergy and with a Druid Arch Bishop of Canterbury now calling for Britain to integrate elements of Islamic Sharia, anti Zionists like Sizer in a church with a pro Islamic hierarchical agenda must be challenged.”
Prasch considers it “nothing short of ludicrous” the continued insistence by Sizer and elements of the Anglican Church in the UK that Israel is the major perpetrator of injustice in the Middle East; when all available evidences clearly demonstrate that Israel is the one country in the Middle East which assures the rights and security of its Christian population in the face of widespread persecution of Arab, Persian, Asian, and African Christians throughout the Moslem world.
“We are compelled by the evidence to regard Sizer as hypocritical and biblically ignorant. …It is also difficult for us not to additionally suspect Sizer of being a pseudo-academic fraud, but he at least deserves the opportunity to demonstrate otherwise in a public forum.” Jacob concludes.
http://www.moriel.org/Moriel_UK/Moriel_UK.html
Luring of society into total microchip dependence unabating
VeriChip Corporation has announced that it has completed the development of a new, smaller human-implantable RFID microchip measuring approximately 8 millimeters by 1 millimeter. The new, smaller microchip has been developed specifically to be incorporated into Medical Components, Inc.'s ("Medcomp") vascular ports. The Company's existing microchip, used as part of its VeriMed™ Health Link system for patient identification, measures approximately 11 millimeters by 1 millimeter.
Similarly, from Dubai came the report (May 11) that Emirates NBD is issuing to its customers, a wristwatch featuring contactless payment capabilities. With the watch on their wrists, customers can make purchases of up to $27 and just simply walk out of the stores without any need to sign any receipt. (Signatures are required for larger purchases). The watches are made by Laks GmbH, which provides similar products to Vakif Bank in Turkey.
www.americanbanker.com/article.html?id=200905089VA49MC0
Similarly, from Dubai came the report (May 11) that Emirates NBD is issuing to its customers, a wristwatch featuring contactless payment capabilities. With the watch on their wrists, customers can make purchases of up to $27 and just simply walk out of the stores without any need to sign any receipt. (Signatures are required for larger purchases). The watches are made by Laks GmbH, which provides similar products to Vakif Bank in Turkey.
www.americanbanker.com/article.html?id=200905089VA49MC0
Patent sought for 'Killer tracking Chip implant'
The German Patent office has rejected an application filed by a Saudi national to patent a microchip device which, linked to GPS, will continually track the location of the implantee. The device, according to the application filed, is specifically meant for “ people sought by security forces” including fugitives from justice, terrorists, illegal immigrants, criminals, political opponents, defectors, domestic help”, as well as people who overstay their visas – such as people “who don't return home from pilgrimages,"
In case such people become security risk, the Saudi inventor also makes provision for a model B of the device that could remotely release poison to "eliminate" the individual. This is no fiction, and it demonstrates not only the present capabilities achievable by microchip implants, but also the thinking of people developing the technology.
It is not much relief learning that the German Patent and Trademark Office rejected the request, since, according to a spokeswoman of the office, Stephanie Kruger, it is quite likely that this inventor, like most others, also made similar applications in several countries.
And according to Worldnetdaily, “That leaves open the possibility the Saudi inventor will find success in another country.”
www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=98386
In case such people become security risk, the Saudi inventor also makes provision for a model B of the device that could remotely release poison to "eliminate" the individual. This is no fiction, and it demonstrates not only the present capabilities achievable by microchip implants, but also the thinking of people developing the technology.
It is not much relief learning that the German Patent and Trademark Office rejected the request, since, according to a spokeswoman of the office, Stephanie Kruger, it is quite likely that this inventor, like most others, also made similar applications in several countries.
And according to Worldnetdaily, “That leaves open the possibility the Saudi inventor will find success in another country.”
www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=98386
Antichristian elites intend to herd people in electronic death camp to gain absolute control
In a recent interview with Interfax-Religion, Russian academician, biocybernetics and management systems expert, Valery Filimonov, averred that “world elites” are working assiduously on using technology to turn humanity into controllable “biomass”. He referred to a universal technotronic dictatorship as an old dream of the high and mighties:
“Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote about necessity of total control and technotronic dictatorship in 1968. David Rockefeller cynically said, “The super-national sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination” Today their plans are gradually materializing. It is becoming only evident that the current recession is part of the world's elite scheme to enslave humanity. ”
Filimonov described as the ultimate goal, the use of “the latest informational and telecommunicational technologies as a powerful instrument of electronic suppression of free human will.” He further points out that “ It is an open secret that the main driving force behind the global Internet community unites antichristian and cosmopolitan members of the world's elite, rather than science experts.”
In conclusion, he sees a spiritual aspect to the whole exercise: “ God created man in His image, free and responsible. Technotronic dictatorship is being introduced with the aim to suppress the Divine freedom of each human individual and completely change all behavioral patterns. Is it possible to preserve God-like dignity in the society of creatures stuffed with electronics and subjected to various manipulations?” he asked rhetorically
Details at www.interfax-religion.com/?act=interview&div=71
“Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote about necessity of total control and technotronic dictatorship in 1968. David Rockefeller cynically said, “The super-national sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination” Today their plans are gradually materializing. It is becoming only evident that the current recession is part of the world's elite scheme to enslave humanity. ”
Filimonov described as the ultimate goal, the use of “the latest informational and telecommunicational technologies as a powerful instrument of electronic suppression of free human will.” He further points out that “ It is an open secret that the main driving force behind the global Internet community unites antichristian and cosmopolitan members of the world's elite, rather than science experts.”
In conclusion, he sees a spiritual aspect to the whole exercise: “ God created man in His image, free and responsible. Technotronic dictatorship is being introduced with the aim to suppress the Divine freedom of each human individual and completely change all behavioral patterns. Is it possible to preserve God-like dignity in the society of creatures stuffed with electronics and subjected to various manipulations?” he asked rhetorically
Details at www.interfax-religion.com/?act=interview&div=71
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