Thursday, January 12, 2012
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Political Correctness
You probably know how much I dislike political correctness, so, you might not be surprised, then, that I thought this quote from Southpark was quite funny:
Cartman: "You should never use the word, Fag, Kyle. That's a hate word, and it's insensitive to butt-pirates."
Cartman: "You should never use the word, Fag, Kyle. That's a hate word, and it's insensitive to butt-pirates."
Saturday, August 8, 2009
Sponsoring Terrorism
Keep in mind that every time you put gas in your car, you are putting more money in the pockets of Muslim States. And they are taking your money and sponsoring more terrorism around the world. That’s a fact.
Example: All 19 highjackers were Saudi citizens. Saudi Arabia sponsored the 9\11 attacks, but where did they get all their money?? From us--from all the oil we buy from them!! Where did the Bin Laden family get all their millions from so that Osama could carryout and fund all the terrorism he has?? They got their fortune from the only place anyone in Saudi Arabia gets money: From us buying their oil!! In a real sense we funded these terrorists to attack our own nation!!
If there was any reason to find an alternative to oil, this is it. Send these Muslim nations back to the Stone Age by refusing to purchase their oil. If there was any justification for occupying Muslim nations and taking their oil from them by force this is it: To end their ability to sponsor Islamic terrorism.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Islam is Taking Over the World!
The facts are indisputable. In just a few decades from now all of Europe will be Muslim! For example: Non-Muslim French people are having 1.8 babies on average, while the Muslims in France have 8.1 babies on average. Do the math. The Muslims will eventually take over. In fact, France will be a Muslim nation within 39 years. Moreover, in Belgium 25 percent of people are Muslim and 50% of all newborns are Muslim RIGHT NOW, and this number will only increase. Holland (where pot and prostitution is legal and barely anyone calls themselves a Christian anymore) will be 50% Muslim in just 15 years from now! What will happen in 25 years from now? The Netherlands may look like Iran. A place where girls ran around in shorts, women may have to wear burkas! 
The same trend is true in Germany, England, Spain, Italy, all of Europe in fact. This is true of Russia as well, and Canada too, and even in the USA it looks like. The birth rates in all these nations are not enough to sustain our cultures. And I believe the fault lies with abortion. We have aborted 50+ million of our babies since Roe vs. Wade. This may be God's judgment on the West because of the sins of our nations. Example: There were only 100,000 Muslims in America before the "landmark" Roe vs. Wade decision. And in 2008 there were 9,000,000 Muslims in America. That is a 90-fold increase in less than four decades! Do the math and be horrified.
Fortunately there are still a lot of Christians in America, but that is not the case in Europe and the UK. For the most part those nations have rejected Jesus Christ, and there are consequences when nations reject Him. I believe we are seeing those consequences played out right now. Watch this video and see for yourself. You will be shocked and amazed. God help us and God help our nations!
Here's the video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCU34X1k83U
Here's the video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCU34X1k83U
Monday, July 13, 2009
THE KING
The “King of Pop” is gone . . .
The “King of Comedy” is gone . . .
The “King of Soul” is gone . . .
The “King of Rock ‘n’ Roll” is gone . . .
BUT . . .
The “KING OF KINGS” lives forever!!!
Saturday, April 4, 2009
The Plight of Nepalese Girls Abducted and Forced into Prostitution
It is difficult to go into many details about what the girls in Nepal who are abducted face. A lot of Christians simply don’t want to hear those horrific stories.
So much of Nepal is remote (no electricity, phones, education, or money, etc.). Villagers try and grow enough food on their land and hope it will be enough to feed themselves and their kids. Unfortunately, male children are esteemed more than girls throughout Nepalese society. This is mainly due to Hinduism because for the parents to find “salvation” after death, they need a “son” to perform their last rites. Their daughters, on the other hand, will belong to her husband’s family once she’s married (the literal word they use for this is “property” in Nepali: Girls become the property of the husband’s family). The man doesn’t leave his father’s house but stays at his father’s house with his wife. Daughter-in-laws, though clearly mistreated and forced to do all the household chores, seem to be held in higher esteem than daughters because daughters just cost them for the most part (e.g. dalry, wedding expenses, no help toward the parents’ salvation, etc). Daughters end up leaving the home and helping the husband’s family. All that is to say, ignorant parents (of which there are countless throughout Nepal) don’t see the need to educate their daughters or do anything for their daughters’ future. Often, the girls are “lent” for a year at a time (for the parents to get money of course!) to work as housekeepers for middleclass and rich people in the cities of Nepal, especially in Kathmandu. This while usually legitimate in the sense that they are not being sold into prostitution (though their bosses do sometimes take advantage of them) is still a form of slavery. Years ago I mentioned to friends back home about two girls (one was 11 the other 13 at the time) who were the housekeepers at the landlord’s flat where we had an apartment. The girls were sold to him for money to work for a year and then he would have to pay the parents again or give them back (moreover, the landlord tried to talk my wife and I into getting a girl to work for us because they can be bought quite cheap). The girls at the landlord’s flat didn’t get any schooling during the whole time; nor did the landlord give them any pocket money. They didn’t even get their own room to sleep in. They slept on the kitchen floor and worked from 5am in morning till 11pm at night or later. Nevertheless, these girls are lucky compared to the plight of so many other girls in Nepal.
With ignorant villagers seeing their daughters as a liability, when unscrupulous Indians come to these remote villages promising that they have good jobs for their daughters in India where they will be able to make money for their family (and they give the parents a sum of money in advance: maybe $50 to $100, which seems like a huge amount of money to the parents of the girls), the parents immediately send their daughters off with the Indian men. This happens to 10,000+ Nepalese girls every year. The parents don’t even consider what could happen to their daughters. The girls who once were thought of as a liability (The family not having much money themselves for food and always having to feed these daughters who will eventually leave the home anyway), now, instead of their daughters being a liability, they can actually profit the family, plus, with the girls gone, less food is required to feed the household.
So the young girls are sent by their parents with strangers “for a better life”. And now these poor, virgin girls, who previously wouldn’t even make eye-contact with men, who have never even held a man’s hand, or been far from home before, are whisked off to a strange, faraway city and are now forced to have sex with often 20 men a day! And I’m not kidding about the number of times. Think of it this way: India has five times as many people as there are in America, and yet India is only 1/3 the size of America. That means for every one America there are literally 15 Indians occupying the same amount of space. And this number greatly increases in the cities, where most of the Indians have to go if they want to try and make a living. Cities like Mumbai (Bombay) are so overcrowded the people are like insects; there are so many people. Now try to imagine the daily, endless line of evil Indian men (who have left their own wives in their villages and come to the city to make money) visiting these brothels to have sex with these Nepali girls. And it is the Nepali girls that they seek out and like most because the skin of Nepali girls is much fairer than that of most Indians. Fair skin is thought of as much more beautiful than darker skin in India and Nepal, and that’s what the men like in women (plus Nepali people are exceptionally beautiful people overall any way).
So these innocent Nepali girls (mere children) are forced to have sex, often with 20 men a day. They still are not given an education or any pocket money, but they are given all sorts of diseases. In fact, there is a widespread myth in India that if you have AIDS or some other STD then you should have sex with a young girl. Somehow the purity of young girls is supposed to heal you of your diseases. For that reason too the abductions often happen to girls just nine or 10 years of age, as well as young teens. Of course, eventually the abuse these girls receive (many times they live in windowless rooms half the size of a prison cell, and that is where they stay from morning till night) takes its toll, they lose some of their beauty, become less profitable, and eventually they are discarded like trash. But before that day comes (which eventually through disease, physical abuse, forced abortions, etc. is bound to come) they are forced to do every type of sex act imaginable and are beat and burned if they refuse to do anything they’re told to do. The girls don’t see the money of course and it’s not much money to begin with any way. Most men in India are not wealthy, so these girls are sold for sex for the same price you can buy a cheeseburger for in the USA, which is also why they are forced to have sex so many times each day, seven days a week; otherwise, the profit margin is not that high for their masters.
There are roughly 200,000 Nepali girls in Indian brothels today. Both India’s and Nepal’s governments know all about this and know about the many thousands of abductions each year, too, but are doing nothing about it. The very few girls who do get rescued (probably 90% of which have AIDS when they are rescued) are usually not accepted back by their families (even though it wasn’t the girls’ fault. The fact that they were having sex and are now diseased makes parents want nothing to do with them because of the bad reputation it will give the family in their community). So they are considered dead to the family, rejected by society, and the girls often just long for their own deaths to come, to end their misery.
There are other issues too, for example: There are some people groups in Nepal where the warped religion of Hinduism considers the girls born into that people group “a prostitution caste”, so those girls don’t even have to be taken away to India. They are forced to work as sex workers to truck drivers, etc. right in their own communities. It is their “fate”, probably because of sins in their past lives, it’s thought. This is also why so few people have compassion for the girls who are abducted, raped and forced into prostitution: “They must have done something terribly wrong in a past life to deserve it.” is the common sentiment of many Hindus.
So much of Nepal is remote (no electricity, phones, education, or money, etc.). Villagers try and grow enough food on their land and hope it will be enough to feed themselves and their kids. Unfortunately, male children are esteemed more than girls throughout Nepalese society. This is mainly due to Hinduism because for the parents to find “salvation” after death, they need a “son” to perform their last rites. Their daughters, on the other hand, will belong to her husband’s family once she’s married (the literal word they use for this is “property” in Nepali: Girls become the property of the husband’s family). The man doesn’t leave his father’s house but stays at his father’s house with his wife. Daughter-in-laws, though clearly mistreated and forced to do all the household chores, seem to be held in higher esteem than daughters because daughters just cost them for the most part (e.g. dalry, wedding expenses, no help toward the parents’ salvation, etc). Daughters end up leaving the home and helping the husband’s family. All that is to say, ignorant parents (of which there are countless throughout Nepal) don’t see the need to educate their daughters or do anything for their daughters’ future. Often, the girls are “lent” for a year at a time (for the parents to get money of course!) to work as housekeepers for middleclass and rich people in the cities of Nepal, especially in Kathmandu. This while usually legitimate in the sense that they are not being sold into prostitution (though their bosses do sometimes take advantage of them) is still a form of slavery. Years ago I mentioned to friends back home about two girls (one was 11 the other 13 at the time) who were the housekeepers at the landlord’s flat where we had an apartment. The girls were sold to him for money to work for a year and then he would have to pay the parents again or give them back (moreover, the landlord tried to talk my wife and I into getting a girl to work for us because they can be bought quite cheap). The girls at the landlord’s flat didn’t get any schooling during the whole time; nor did the landlord give them any pocket money. They didn’t even get their own room to sleep in. They slept on the kitchen floor and worked from 5am in morning till 11pm at night or later. Nevertheless, these girls are lucky compared to the plight of so many other girls in Nepal.
With ignorant villagers seeing their daughters as a liability, when unscrupulous Indians come to these remote villages promising that they have good jobs for their daughters in India where they will be able to make money for their family (and they give the parents a sum of money in advance: maybe $50 to $100, which seems like a huge amount of money to the parents of the girls), the parents immediately send their daughters off with the Indian men. This happens to 10,000+ Nepalese girls every year. The parents don’t even consider what could happen to their daughters. The girls who once were thought of as a liability (The family not having much money themselves for food and always having to feed these daughters who will eventually leave the home anyway), now, instead of their daughters being a liability, they can actually profit the family, plus, with the girls gone, less food is required to feed the household.
So the young girls are sent by their parents with strangers “for a better life”. And now these poor, virgin girls, who previously wouldn’t even make eye-contact with men, who have never even held a man’s hand, or been far from home before, are whisked off to a strange, faraway city and are now forced to have sex with often 20 men a day! And I’m not kidding about the number of times. Think of it this way: India has five times as many people as there are in America, and yet India is only 1/3 the size of America. That means for every one America there are literally 15 Indians occupying the same amount of space. And this number greatly increases in the cities, where most of the Indians have to go if they want to try and make a living. Cities like Mumbai (Bombay) are so overcrowded the people are like insects; there are so many people. Now try to imagine the daily, endless line of evil Indian men (who have left their own wives in their villages and come to the city to make money) visiting these brothels to have sex with these Nepali girls. And it is the Nepali girls that they seek out and like most because the skin of Nepali girls is much fairer than that of most Indians. Fair skin is thought of as much more beautiful than darker skin in India and Nepal, and that’s what the men like in women (plus Nepali people are exceptionally beautiful people overall any way).
So these innocent Nepali girls (mere children) are forced to have sex, often with 20 men a day. They still are not given an education or any pocket money, but they are given all sorts of diseases. In fact, there is a widespread myth in India that if you have AIDS or some other STD then you should have sex with a young girl. Somehow the purity of young girls is supposed to heal you of your diseases. For that reason too the abductions often happen to girls just nine or 10 years of age, as well as young teens. Of course, eventually the abuse these girls receive (many times they live in windowless rooms half the size of a prison cell, and that is where they stay from morning till night) takes its toll, they lose some of their beauty, become less profitable, and eventually they are discarded like trash. But before that day comes (which eventually through disease, physical abuse, forced abortions, etc. is bound to come) they are forced to do every type of sex act imaginable and are beat and burned if they refuse to do anything they’re told to do. The girls don’t see the money of course and it’s not much money to begin with any way. Most men in India are not wealthy, so these girls are sold for sex for the same price you can buy a cheeseburger for in the USA, which is also why they are forced to have sex so many times each day, seven days a week; otherwise, the profit margin is not that high for their masters.
There are roughly 200,000 Nepali girls in Indian brothels today. Both India’s and Nepal’s governments know all about this and know about the many thousands of abductions each year, too, but are doing nothing about it. The very few girls who do get rescued (probably 90% of which have AIDS when they are rescued) are usually not accepted back by their families (even though it wasn’t the girls’ fault. The fact that they were having sex and are now diseased makes parents want nothing to do with them because of the bad reputation it will give the family in their community). So they are considered dead to the family, rejected by society, and the girls often just long for their own deaths to come, to end their misery.
There are other issues too, for example: There are some people groups in Nepal where the warped religion of Hinduism considers the girls born into that people group “a prostitution caste”, so those girls don’t even have to be taken away to India. They are forced to work as sex workers to truck drivers, etc. right in their own communities. It is their “fate”, probably because of sins in their past lives, it’s thought. This is also why so few people have compassion for the girls who are abducted, raped and forced into prostitution: “They must have done something terribly wrong in a past life to deserve it.” is the common sentiment of many Hindus.
I’ve only given the details of the girls abducted in Nepal and forced into prostitution. I could speak about the children being purposely deformed to make them pitiful beggars. That movie “Slumdog Millionaire” really shows some graphic and true details of the lot of so many children, both here in Nepal and in India (though this is especially prevalent in India). Nepali girls are stolen away and made to become prostitutes because of their ignorant parents (making them easy prey), their light skin, their good looks, sometimes their caste, and because both the Nepalese as well as the Indian governments turn a blind eye to the atrocities. Police will raid Indian brothels sometimes, but rarely ever to rescue the girls. They do it to get “a cut” of the profits! However, since you don’t need beauty and light skin to be a beggar, Indian children suffer the burning, amputation and are purposely deformed the most, to be made into profitable beggars. And Nepalese girls are by far the most targeted to be forced into prostitution.
If it were up to me I would call down fire from Heaven to destroy every person who is responsible for these horrific acts—taking away the innocence of so many poor children.
Please do pray for the kids who are suffering right this minute by the atrocities I’ve mentioned above. Please pray for God to hear from Heaven and rescue them, these precious children who have really been orphaned by their families.
“You shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child. If you afflict them in any way, and they cry at all to Me, I will surely hear their cry; and My wrath will become hot, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.” (Exodus 22:22-24)
“And I will come near you for judgment; I will be a swift witness…. Against those who exploit wage earners and widows and orphans” (Malachi 3:5)
If it were up to me I would call down fire from Heaven to destroy every person who is responsible for these horrific acts—taking away the innocence of so many poor children.
Please do pray for the kids who are suffering right this minute by the atrocities I’ve mentioned above. Please pray for God to hear from Heaven and rescue them, these precious children who have really been orphaned by their families.
“You shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child. If you afflict them in any way, and they cry at all to Me, I will surely hear their cry; and My wrath will become hot, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.” (Exodus 22:22-24)
“And I will come near you for judgment; I will be a swift witness…. Against those who exploit wage earners and widows and orphans” (Malachi 3:5)
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Dead People Got No Reason to Live\Boast
Salvation Analogy:I’ve heard all sorts of analogies of how one is saved. For instance, sometimes people will say “We are drowning; God throws us a life preserver, but it is up to us to reach out and grab it.” I find this particular analogy utterly wanting. It does not line up with Scripture. The Bible does not say we are drowning; it says we are dead. Dead men cannot reach out and grab a life preserver. The only thing dead people can do is rot.
A Biblical Analogy of Salvation:
A more biblical analogy would be of an open grave. This grave was dug out by the hands of our father, and we fell in, and in so doing, our eyes were violently rent, our eardrums gored with debris; our necks were crushed by the fall, and we died. Adam’s sin as well as our own covers us in the form of six feet of solid earth. Nothing is able to penetrate this hard dirt except for the worms which feast upon our rotting corpses. The Son of God has the only tool capable or necessary for lifting off the tons of earth that weigh upon us and crush our bones to powder. By His cross and resurrection, Jesus takes away our dirt, lifts us out of our tomb; and in His mercy, He speaks life into our dead bones and says “Live!” It is at that moment that our eyesight is restored; our hearing returns to us; sinews cover our dry bones and our bodies are able to move. Seeing the beauty of the Son of God for the first time and hearing His voice causes us to run to Him willingly and cling to Him for our lives. ...Sadly though, in time many of us begin to think we somehow helped pull ourselves out of our tombs, as if the faith we have were not also God’s gift to us, and forgetting that it was entirely an act of God’s grace toward us that saved us from the grave. But then there are many as well who press forward to give all the credit of their salvation to God alone. Some of these are ridiculed by their fellows by calling them "know-it-alls", “prideful”, “arrogant” and the like. But no matter what is said, these will not flinch in their conviction. They set their faces like flint, pointing to Jesus as the Alpha and Omega of their salvation, the Author and Perfecter of their faith, because they have not forgotten their former days when they were but dust into whom God spoke life.Lazarus’ Example:
Lazarus could have patted himself on the back and said “I walked out of the tomb myself (by God’s grace, but I did it myself). I’m the one who stood up and walked to my Lord! But of course, Lazarus would be forgetting that he was previously a dead man, and Jesus made him alive before he could do anything. I think this is the same mistake many non-Calvinists make. They forget they were once dead; God made them alive, making it possible for them to believe, possible for them to repent, possible for them to turn and walk willingly to Christ.The Reality:
Spiritual death is a reality, not just an analogy. It is a certainty if we are to take Scripture seriously. If fallen people are not dead, then right from the beginning the serpent was right and God was the liar. (Gen. 2:17)Unbelievers are incapable of submitting to God’s Laws (Rom. 8:7). They are incapable of comprehending or accepting the things of the Spirit (1 Cor. 2:14). They are incapable of coming to Christ (John 6:44, 65). They are incapable of seeking God (Rom. 3:11). Period. Repentance must be granted to them (Acts 11:18; 2 Tim. 2:25). Faith in Christ must also be granted to them (Phil. 1:29). Unbelievers can do nothing Godward. They are blind to the things of God (John 3:3), deaf to His voice (Matt. 13:15; John 5:25). Their hearts are entirely deceitful (Jer. 17:9). Every thought they have is only evil (Gen. 6:5). The Bible paints an ugly picture of our fallen race (Rom. 3:10-19). Of themselves, they are utterly without hope (Eph 2:12; Matt. 19:25-26). In short, it takes much more than simple prodding for an unbeliever to turn to Christ. It takes resurrection from the dead! (John 5:25; Eph. 2:1, 5; Col. 2:13)
The dead must be brought to life in order to repent and believe. Paul tells us that God does a work in us so powerful in order for us to believe upon Him; it is equal in power to raising Jesus from the dead (Eph. 1:17-20). And Regeneration (AKA: Being born again) is something completely of God; something we are completely neutral in. We see our passivity in regeneration, for instance, when John 1:13 assures us that our human wills did not play any part in our being born again. God makes us alive. This is the answer to the “why” and to the “how” of our coming to Christ.
As the above demonstrates, God deserves ALL the credit of our salvation, and that is all most Calvinists are trying to do: Give God the credit and glory for our salvation which He alone deserves. And I want to add that I know there are many non-Calvinists sincerely trying to do this too. Is Calvinism flawless? I wouldn’t go that far. Is it the best Christians have come up with in a faithful attempt at understanding God and His Word? Humbly, I would say "Yes."
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