Too Horrible for Children

Over 50 million children killed via surgical abortion since the passing of Roe v. Wade by the U.S. Supreme Court. It is the American Holocaust. It staggers the mind to think what we’ve lost. Would there not have been at least one genius in there who might have discovered something fantastic? It’s biblical in its proportions, terrible in its consequence.

Below I’ve included the link to the documentary “A Silent Scream.” This is where you get to watch on ultrasound as a baby is killed in the womb, torn apart limb from limb. Enjoy. And if you don’t have the stomach to watch, then you damn well better be pro-life.

Now, for the atheistic influence to spread, abortion is essential. Abortion is essential because the worth of human life has to be depleted in order to acceptably reduce humanity to an animal level. In other words, abortion is necessary to devolve humanity. There is not greater act of devolution than killing one’s own species in the very womb from which it is born. And it has to be killed then, lest it become born again. There is no greater delusion than to think such an act is morally acceptable—even if the law says it is.

I’ve never known a pro-life atheist. And if atheism is true, I can’t see a reason for a pro-life stance, either. But atheism is not true; devolution is not our end; we have the capacity for re-birth in the Holy Spirit. We must take that opportunity and evolve to the heights we were intended to attain.

Please watch the video and tell me what you think.

http://www.silentscream.org/

The Gluttonous and Atheism

One aspect of the atheist influence is gluttony. Look around you next time you go to the store, especially if you live in the South, everybody has a big fat ass or a gut that hangs over like an apron. It’s absolutely ridiculous.

Jesus said in his great discourse on faith:

For this reason I say to you, do not be worried about your life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body, as to what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

Gluttony is a lack of faith. A lack of faith is part and parcel of the atheistic influence. Show me an obese person, and I’ll show you a slave to this world, a slave who’s only comforts are the indulgence of his or her bodily pleasures, a hedonist, an atheist.

But let me also say this, even if a person is obese, if they are losing weight in the name of Christ, though they are currently overweight, they are not the person I’m talking about, for those people have repented. They are perfect and it doesn’t matter what they’re body looks like.

What got me started (actually re-started since I’ve posted about gluttony before) was an ad I think from Dairy Queen. They have a Blizzard or some such thing that is actually a large banana split blended until it can be sucked through a straw. Even the work of preparing the fat ass food has become too much for people! Now they have to be able to suck it through a tube. Well why stop there? Why not just get an NG tube, put it into their stomachs and let the liquefied calories pour in—no sucking necessary!

Look, I’m all for good food. And you can suck your banana split through a straw if you want—you won’t go to hell for that. But damn, at least go run a few miles that day. Or walk a couple of hours, or bike ride a dozen miles, or something. Humans can’t tolerate that kind of calorie intake without expending those calories.

And look at all the fast food restaurants. OMG, look how they have lead to the horrors of factory farming as the rotund fill their gaping mouths with chicken nuggets and triple Whoppers, and two-for-one Big Macs. Ground beef and chicken nuggets are not only a dishonor to the animals they came from but really gluttonous food. I’m telling you, it’s downright evil.

I won’t even talk about pig. That’s like eating a dog, and yet people pig out on pork like they can just eat the whole world without any conscience at all. And if you suggest people limit their meat intake, you might have as well said they stop breathing. Isn’t it enough to eat meat once a week—a well-prepared steak, or fish? Isn’t it enough to just eat one or two kinds of meat instead of every damn animal that walks on the face of the earth?

I mean can’t we exercise any control at all over our bodily desires? Our lack of control over our appetites, my friends, is the atheistic influence at work.

A Happy Birthday?

As I look out my window, I realize that today our country is 232 years old. We celebrate our independence from the British, and we have become exactly like they were—imperialists embroiled in war after war after war. We are great, but our greatness is like that of Rome, so can our future be any brighter?

In our history we have legalized abortion, legalized torture of enemy prisoners, clamped down almost completely on every right afforded in the Bill of Rights and become the most hated place on the planet. We freed the slaves and now use the equivalent of slave labor from Mexico. Our religion has turned away from God to become the faithless pursuit of pseudo-self-esteem and fiscal prosperity. And in this tepid petri dish of sewage, is it any wonder atheism flourishes?

Are you ready for a depression? Are you ready for the decline? Because here it comes and there isn’t anything we can do to get out of it. This one is going to be long and deep and it’s going to hurt—no Vaseline on this one, my friends. So what are we going to do? Keep fighting wars? Maybe we’ll start a new one in Iran and this time add in color with a national draft.

So, as you light your fireworks, think of the gunfire and IEDs that have killed and maimed and disfigured so many of our Nation’s finest in a war that never needed to be fought. We were lied to and duped into it by our leaders. As you wave around your sparklers think of how you could torture your enemy with it. When you have your barbeque and beer, think of how you’re going to afford to do so next year when they foreclose on your house.

232 years: we could have been a light shining on a hill for the whole world to see, but all we’ve become is a forest fire in the distance you hope is heading away from you.

This is the first year since I started voting that I won’t vote for our next president. It’s not a protest; I just don’t want to be responsible for what we get. That’s how inspired I am by our current leadership. When you get down to electing a senator for God’s sake, you’re really scraping the bottom of the barrel.

Do you ever wonder what a post-American world will look like? Does anyone feel positive about the future? Please school me on it if you can, because I don't have a clue how to feel good about our nation these days. Oh, and happy Fourth of July.

What Jefferson Said

So in an effort to regain some sense of patriotism, I’m watching a great HBO mini-series that is now on DVD called John Adams. You may be aware of it, but I want to draw your attention to episode four, entitled, Reunion.

In that segment, there’s a scene where Abigail Adams is walking with Thomas Jefferson on the lawns of an estate in France. She comments to him how tragic it must be to lose a child and his wife in the same year. What he says to her, I don’t know if it’s an actual quote of his or not (Maybe Ann R. Keye can instruct us on that one.), but he says:

“Perhaps the art of life is the art of avoiding pain. He is the best pilot who steers clear of the rocks and shoals.”

In my opinion, it fits with his deistic philosophy, but it stands in stark contrast to Jesus Christ who considered the cross to be his great glory and the purpose of his life on earth.

I’m just wondering what the atheist opinion is regarding what the fictitious Thomas Jefferson said in that movie.

By the way, I highly recommend the mini-series to anyone interested in Early American history.

Pets in Heaven

In a previous posting, Chris Blanchard raised the following question, and I wanted to treat it on it’s own in a separate posting. He said:

Wait: if you believe animals have souls and go to Heaven, why do you attack atheism for ostensibly trying to devolve humanity into animals? If animals go to Heaven, what aspect of humanity is unique and worth preserving?

Humans were never meant to remain animals. We have a mind capable of extremely high learning. I think if anyone looks around, they’ll realize we do not fit in “nature” at all. There is no animal like a human being; nothing even comes close. Human beings have an extremely supercharged mind. So much so, it’s hard to imagine an alien life form out there that could beat us in terms of IQ. We are mini-Creators.

Having said that, we are born animals. It’s impossible to look at a neonate and not see that it’s a human animal. It has not developed a mind to any degree and so it is just like an animal, and must be cared for like an animal must be cared for. It is perfect in its nature, just as an animal is perfect in its nature. But the human will change as his or her mind develops.

If our mind develops and we keep our animal spirit, we end up a monster. We do not remain perfect in our animal nature unless we are mentally retarded to a rather severe degree. The mind we develop will produce a soul via the animal spirit that will do all manner of evil. Just look around.

No, the fact is we must be born again. God will not suffer a monstrosity in heaven. Jesus said we had to be perfect, to be perfect we must get a different spirit. That spirit is the Holy Spirit, and that’s the spirit we take on when we are born again.

The Holy Spirit and the human mind produce a soul like Christ’s. And wasn’t that what Christ was: a man with the Holy Spirit?

So, where do pets and heaven come into this? Pets, animals, are perfect in their nature. God doesn’t put perfect things in hell—just the abominations. Everything that exists in this world exists in the kingdom of heaven or in hell. God can’t make something not exist that he’s already made exist. It’s kind of like trying not to think of a pink elephant once you’ve thought of it. So it’s either before Him or behind Him.

Now, atheists are an abomination, no doubt about it. But not just because they are atheists; it’s because they’re not born again. Notice what they turn into—Creator Haters. It’s part of the atheistic influence. Atheism would return humans to their animal state, but once the mind is developed it can’t go back, all it becomes is a monster.

So, come away from atheism. There’s nothing good to be had there. Don’t touch it. Don’t even look at it. Just turn away from it and, as Jesus said: Be perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect.

Christian Cross Talk's Blog Reviews!

Do you have a blog? Care to have it reviewed? We’re starting a blog review on the Christian Cross Talk web site, but frankly I don’t know where to begin. I have the criteria established and you can check it out just by following the link at the bottom of this post. I used a new rather useless blog called Bridging Gaps just to fill in the initial framework, but I’d much rather have a suggestion of a blog to go to.

I’ve got a large list of atheist blogs, and I will start looking at them as we fill in the content, but I’d rather get an invitation or recommendation to start with? Am I welcome at anyone’s blog? Or are you afraid of what we might find and report?

We’re going to do both atheist and Christian blogs. And consider this: we get thousands and thousands of hits at our website every month, not to mention the lurking at this blog, but when we start giving people something to really go there for other than our video blog responses, we expect the popularity to increase much much more.

This new Christian Cross Talk Blog Reviews will both generate interesting content, and as we are out their in blogs, it will serve to market our ministry. It could be good for your blog too—if we review it.

So, where should we go first? Check out what we’ve done so far: http://www.christiancrosstalk.com/

X = God

Maybe a great magnet pulls
All souls towards truth
Or maybe it is life itself
That feeds wisdom
To its youth

Constant craving
Has always been

--K.D. Lang (Constant Craving)

Every natural, innate desire in us corresponds to some real object that can satisfy that desire, but there exists in us a desire, which nothing in time, nothing on earth, and no creature can satisfy. Therefore, there must exist something more than time, earth, and creatures, which can satisfy this desire.

There are innate desires (food, air, water, sex, sleep, knowledge, Maslow’s Heirarchy of Needs) and artificial, externally conditioned desires (cars, political office, flying through the air like Superman). Innate desires are the ones we feel a corresponding state of deprivation should we not have them. Artificial desires don’t have a corresponding state of deprivation attached to them.

One of the innate needs is the constant desire for more, the absolute lack of satisfaction we feel, no matter how satiated we are with whatever we have. The more is actually infinitely more. The more is X. And we constantly desire it.

This argument does not so much give us a particular brand of God as it proves that we are pulled down an infinitely long corridor that can only end in God. Only God can satisfy our constant craving. That craving is innate, and in every single instance we find that innate desires also have a corresponding object in reality.

Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for these desires exists. A baby feels hunger; well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim; well, there is such a thing as water. Men feel sexual desire; well, there is such a thing as sex. If I find n myself a desire, which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. –C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity, Bk. III, chap. 10, “Hope”)