Mr. Turner should have the right to do what he wants outside of the workplace unless it is an activity that brings direct embarrassment to his employer.  If he is getting paid for it, so what?  There is no law against working two jobs.

Is Channel 7 in Detroit embarrassed about being associated with the preaching of the Gospel?  If so, then they need to reminded of the words of Jesus Christ himself:

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Many unbelieving liberals know nothing about Christianity, nor Islam either for that matter, except what they were taught in comparative religion classes in college which is basically that all religions have much in common.  Nothing could be further from the truth.

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I guess if I was an ordained minister they would be calling me a that too.  Since when did exercising your right to vote in this country, regardless of your religious beliefs, become a terrorist act?  

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Since when did exercising freedom of conscience become a terrorist act?

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Now THAT is a terrorist act!

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If any thing it is the secularists who should be equated with Islamic extremists as they both share a common hatred of biblical Christianity, are hostile to Christians and would persecute the Church if given the opportunity to do so.

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Yes, they have had a lot of practice at it over the years.

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Thanks to the founding fathers of this nation, through the Constitution they framed, we have enjoyed more than 200 years of religious freedom in this nation.  Now however our religious liberties are being threatened and in serious danger of being taken away.  The secularists have largely succeeded in twisting the words of one of the founding fathers, namely Thomas Jefferson, and have siezed upon his words of " a wall of separation of church and state " to justify stripping away the religious liberties of Christians.  The communists of the former atheistic Soviet Union also siezed on Jefferson's words, using the very same language and including that concept when they penned their own constitution.

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Carter, the former Sunday School teacher, is wittingly or unwittingly allowing himself to be used to attack his brothers and sisters in Christ, if he is one of us, and to undermine religious freedom.  Evidently, CNN, and Carter himself no doubt, believes that the former liberal President of the United States is the ideal Christian and represents what true Christianity is all about.  I'm sure CNN will do all it can to polish Carter's image and to make him shine while making evangelicals look bad.

Latest Cold Case episode called 'bigoted' toward Christians

Allie Martin and Jody Brown
OneNewsNow.com
October 5, 2007
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The Culture and Media Institute says Hollywood is trying to portray Christians who practice abstinence as hypocritical, as Congress debates abstinence education.

In the most recent episode of the CBS crime show Cold Case, supposedly devout Christian teenagers -- all member of Hearts Wait, an abstinence club -- were portrayed as sexually active. Also, the young people were shown stoning a member of their group who had joined their club shortly before her death. Supposedly the character was attacked so the group's sins would remain secret.

The Culture and Media Institute (CMI), an arm of the Media Research Center, describes the episode as "a ham-handed attempt to influence this fall's Congressional debate on abstinence education programs" by depicting abstinence-only education as "useless, if not actively harmful" -- and "an exercise in bigoted, Christophobic fantasy." Kristen Fyfe, a senior writer for CMI, says the program shows Hollywood has an agenda.

"Do I think that the producers deliberately put this story on to coincide with that debate? No. But definitely, part of the liberal agenda, part of Hollywood's agenda, is all about sexualization of children," says Fyfe. "And abstinence education, which is another context of this particular story, is not something they are on board with."

In the opening scene of the episode, a high school "health" teacher is portrayed telling her class that school policy prevents her from telling them about various methods of birth control and how they work. CMI calls it one of several "gratuitous slaps at abstinence-only education," and notes that Congress is currently debating funding for such programs.

According to Fyfe, the show is part of a larger trend across all forms of media. "Nobody who pays any attention to the media is surprised that Christians ... constantly seem to be made the target of terrible story lines like this or attacks just flat-out painting them as bigoted or homophobic ...," she asserts. "Pick any slanderous epithet and it's usually been lobbed at Christians."

Fyfe points out that Hollywood would never portray Muslims in a negative light because of the current politically correct atmosphere in society.

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Matthews: Does Palin Think McCain is the 'Anti-Christ?'

By Geoffrey Dickens
March 26, 2009 - 18:59 ET
NewsBusters.com
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An offended Chris Matthews, on Thursday night's "Hardball," was so shocked by Sarah Palin's claim that there wasn't anybody to pray with on the McCain campaign, that he hurled multiple insults Palin's way, calling her, "a little scary," and asked if Palin thought McCain was, "the Anti-Christ?" Matthews was appalled by Palin's recent revelation that she had trouble finding someone to pray with before her vice presidential debate and the MSNBC host worried such talk about "The Deity in a political environment," wasn't "normal."

Matthews' guest panelists also joined in the fray as the Washington Post's Lois Romano declared, "I think it's bizarre and I think it's judgmental," and Mother Jones magazine's David Corn cackled it was "mean and catty." RNC chair Michael Steele was also knocked for a recent profession of faith, as Matthews blurted: "Why does everything sound like the '700 Club,' with this party now? I mean everything seems to be a religious discussion."

Matthews and his panel didn't just stop at insulting Palin's religious beliefs, they also belittled Palin for her hand gestures and attractiveness. Over video of Palin waving at a campaign rally Matthews ridiculed: "You know, doing that windshield wiper wave though is not serious. That's not a serious wave. I'm sorry that's not what you do when you want to lead the free world. That's, that's more like, 'I'm a celebrity and people like me.'

And just before that snide comment from Matthews, Romano and Corn dismissed Palin for her looks:

LOIS ROMANO: Look I predict that she's going to be Dan Quayle.

MATTHEWS: Oh!

ROMANO: All the way through.

DAVID CORN: He was pretty good-looking too.

The following are all the lowlights from the March 26, edition of "Hardball":

CHRIS MATTHEWS PREVIEWING SEGMENT: Okay I gotta ask you something that's really interesting. Do you think God belongs in American politics? I mean as per, not moral issues, ‘cause everything is sort of a moral issue. War and peace certainly, capital punishment, guns. There's a lot of moral aspects to a lot of things. Do you like this Sarah Palin always talking about – we're gonna talk about it in the next segment, but I'm gonna bring it up now because it fascinates me. She knocks the McCain campaign because she didn't have any body in the campaign to pray with. That is an amazing public statement to me. And then you've got Michael Steele, who seems like a decent guy saying he'll run for president if God wants him to. Are we hearing whispers? I mean this is a little bit theocratic isn't it? A little scary?

TODD HARRIS, REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST: There's a lot of God references.

MATTHEWS: Why, why God playing a role in, "I didn't have anybody to pray with?" And that's a knock against the McCain campaign?

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MATTHEWS: Is this good for American politics? We have no religious test. I mean I'm, I'm really offended as a Roman Catholic to have arguments about church, you know, doctrine and moral philosophy. Fine, we should debate it all the time and think about it and care about it, but arguing about it now, in secular newspapers? People taking shots at other Catholics and saying they're not good Catholics in secular newspapers. I think it's the wrong venue. "Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and God the things that are God." I think we're crossing the line with this stuff. Just my thought.

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MATTHEWS: Is he the Anti-Christ, I mean what, she's portraying him as some ungodly figure in which a campaign, a national campaign, where all the people surrounding her, and she couldn't find anybody that shared her Christianity. Is that what she's saying?

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MATTHEWS TEASING SEGMENT: Up next Sarah Palin is back. I want to give you the full quote from her, let her speak for herself. I hope this sounds good. We've got the audio. She is really talking, I think, a lot about the Deity in a political environment. And I don't think it's normal. We'll be right back.

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MATTHEWS: Let's take a listen now to the governor of Alaska, she took another shot at McCain and the whole campaign, in fact, at a recent speech up there to the north.

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SARAH PALIN: It was the night of the vice presidential debate against Biden. So I'm getting ready to go out there on stage and before any big thing, I pray. And I ask for God's wisdom, his strength, and everything else. I'm dedicated to God, and ask him to lift me up. So I'm looking around for somebody to pray with. I just need maybe a little help, maybe a little extra. Well, and the McCain campaign, love ‘em, you know, there are a lot of people around me, but nobody that I could find that I wanted to hold hands with and pray with. So-"

(End clip)

MATTHEWS: What do you make of that Lois? "I couldn't find anybody to pray with." It just seems like you don't even need to talk like this.

LOIS ROMANO, WASHINGTON POST: I think it's bizarre and I think it's judgmental and why did she need to pray with any one? Why couldn't she just pray by herself? You know prayer and religion are very private things. I think she was clearly pandering to the only base she has, which is the religious right. She just formed a PAC. And this is the way she gets news.

DAVID CORN, MOTHER JONES MAGAZINE: I remember she was talking there to a meeting of Republicans. So she was dissing John McCain before Republicans. And a lot of McCain aides who worked, who worked with her on the campaign, who are very offended by this. They were around. They say, "Hey I would've prayed with her easily." I mean it was a mean and catty thing to say. I think the big point it shows is that she's not getting good political advice. She's up in Alaska. There have been a lot of Republican consultants and advisers down in Washington who've tried to call, call her and give her some strategic advice. They've all been told, "No thank you, we'll handle it from here." And if this is the best advice they're giving to go out and talk about not being able to pray with John McCain's campaign aides? I mean I don't see the point.

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ROMANO: Look I predict that she's going to be Dan Quayle.

MATTHEWS: Oh!

ROMANO: All the way through.

CORN: He was pretty good-looking too.

MATTHEWS: Ha, ha!

ROMANO: He was good looking and he, and he, and the right-

MATTHEWS: Well she's very attractive, obviously. Yeah.

ROMANO: -loved him, but he fell off the table when he went to run for president.

MATTHEWS: Let me ask you about this blaming the media-

ROMANO: Wah, wah, wah.

MATTHEWS: -which I don't, this isn't "Reliable Source here. I'm not a media critic. You know but I wonder whether that works either. But does it, is it once again, as you said David, she's working a niche?

CORN: Yeah.

MATTHEWS: She's working the fringe.

ROMANO: She's pandering.

MATTHEWS: And they believe the media is the enemy. And it may be in some cases but, and may be in a lot of cases, but the fact is that, you know, [over video of Palin waving] doing that windshield wiper wave though is not serious. That's not a serious wave.

CORN: Ha, ha, ha!

ROMANO: Ha, ha, ha!

MATTHEWS: I'm sorry that's not what you do when you want to lead the free world. That's, that's more like, "I'm a celebrity and people like me."

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MATTHEWS: Here's another Republican, sorry, Michael Steele, again with the God question, was asked if he'd consider running for president. Let's take a listen.

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MICHAEL STEELE: Consider it if the opportunity was there and it was right. But, you know, God has a way of revealing stuff to you and making it real for you through others. And if that's part of the plan it'll be the plan. We may have this conversation in eight, 10, 12 years and you'll sit back and you'll play the tape back and say, "Oh look at what you said." But it'll be because that's where God wants me to be at that time.

(End clip)

MATTHEWS: Why does everything sound like the "700 Club," with this party now? I mean everything seems to be a religious discussion.

—Geoffrey Dickens is the senior news analyst at the Media Research Center.

Source: NewsBusters.com online news article at
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/geoffrey-dickens/2009/03/26/matthews-does-palin-thi...

For the media, it's un-Holy Week

Colleen Raezler - Guest Columnist - 4/9/2009 8:45:00 AM
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Most regular church-goers have heard their less scrupulously observant fellows called "Christmas and Easter Christians." Well, they also have their counterparts in the mainstream media: "Christmas and Easter Anti-Christians." How else to explain the spate of skeptical, negative stories that inevitably accompany the two most important Christian holy days?

This Holy Week has been typical. Newsweek proclaimed "The Decline and Fall of Christian America" on its cover. The Washington Post/Newsweek "On Faith" blog featured a post that belittled the significance of Jesus' death and resurrection. The Discovery Channel aired a documentary that painted Jesus as little more than an opportunistic politician who caught a bad break in a trial.

These are just the most notable recent instances of secular media's disdain for traditional Christians and the tenets of their faith. Anti-Christianism is the last acceptable prejudice. The assault on Christian beliefs and morality is ongoing. Take for example the howls of outrage when the Pope reiterated Catholic teaching on abstinence.

But because Easter is so central to understanding Jesus and His purpose, and to Christians' own understanding of the world, the secular attack escalates during Holy Week. It takes on more existential dimensions, questioning Christianity's relevance in the modern world, the meaning of Christ's lessons and ultimately, His divinity.

Depending on your point of view, Jesus was either a charismatic populist crusader, a doctrinaire Marxist, or a "do your own thing" feel-good guru. Anything but the Son of God. If that's what you think of Him, it's easy to see why you would question His relevance.

End of Christian America?

In Newsweek's April 14 cover story, "The End of Christian America," editor Jon Meacham argued that the falling numbers of self-identified Christians in America is a "good thing" and "the decline of and falls of the modern religious right's notion of a Christian America creates a calmer political environment and, for many believers, may help open the way for a more theologically serious life."

Meacham keyed his article around the March 2009 American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS) results that showed 76 percent of American identify themselves as Christians, compared to 86 percent in 1990. He also noted the rise in number of Americans who now state they have no religious affiliation, 15 percent compared to 8 percent in 1990. To Meacham, this is a good sign --

While we remain a nation decisively shaped by religious faith, our politics and our culture are, in the main, less influenced by movements and arguments of an explicitly Christian character than they were even five years ago. I think this is a good thing – good for our political culture, which as the American Founders saw, is complex and charged enough without attempting to compel or coerce religious belief or observance. It is good for Christianity, too, in that many Christians are rediscovering the virtues of a separation of church and state that protects what Roger Williams, who founded Rhode Island as a haven for religious dissenters, called "the garden of the church," from the "wilderness of the world."

Meacham tempered his argument by proclaiming "rumors of the death of Christianity are greatly exaggerated." Other findings, such as a decline in self-identified "moderate-to-liberal Protestants" and that one-third of Americans consider themselves born-again Christians, noted by ARIS authors as a "movement towards more conservative beliefs and particular 'evangelical' outlook among Christians," caused Meacham to admit, "there is no doubt that the nation remains vibrantly religious – far more so, for instance than Europe."

At least one person gave the article its proper due. Talk-radio host, author and CMI Advisory Board member Michael Medved called Meacham's characterization of the survey results an "outright lie" on the April 6 Fox and Friends, and pointed out the timing of the story's release:

Isn't it perfectly timed for Holy Week? Here we are coming up in the Jewish community, we're going to be celebrating Passover, Christians are going to be celebrating Good Friday and Easter Sunday so Newsweek tries to get a little bit of attention by insulting that overwhelming majority of Americans that describe themselves as Christians.

Medved also noted that Newsweek's "End of Christian America" claim was particularly ironic, since the magazine had run "a big cover story on the faith of Barack Obama ... because the overwhelming majority of Americans say they won't even vote for an atheist for president in Christian America."

Medved proposed that the rise in the number of people without a religious affiliation is because, thanks to the mainstream media, a lack of faith no longer carries much of a stigma. He told FNC's Gretchen Carlson, "It's more respectable to come out and say that I'm atheist. There have been a lot of books about it by Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins and they've been best-sellers." His statements echo the findings of last year's "The Apostles of Atheism," in which CMI found 80 percent of feature stories about atheism or atheists in 2007 had a positive tone and none negatively portrayed it.

'On Faith' or 'No Faith?'

Erik Reece, author of An American Gospel: On Family, History and the Kingdom of God, used the April 3 Newsweek/Washington Post "On Faith" blog to rant against Easter in which he expressed disbelief in Jesus' resurrection:

American Christianity has historically been focused so obsessively on the Nicene Creed -- which says Jesus was the son of God, who was crucified for our sins and rose from the grave three days later -- that it never made much room for the actual teachings of this radical Jewish street preacher.

That's why I'm against Easter. It celebrates the death of Jesus nearly to the exclusion of his life. If the Easter miracle can save us from this life, then why bother with the harder work of enacting the kingdom of God here? It is, after all, much harder.

This is a negation of the singular cornerstone of Christian faith: Jesus' death and resurrection. Jesus came to this earth, not simply to give us guidance on how to live a good life and play nice with each other, but to give us eternal life with God. He had to overcome temptation to live a perfect, sinless life, die and triumph over death in his Resurrection to fulfill the promise of us living in the kingdom of God.

The Bible teaches that faith and living by Jesus' teachings go hand-in-hand. James 2:17 states, "faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead." Just as Christians cannot be saved by deeds alone, their belief in Jesus spurs them to act as He teaches.

In the long history of Israel, a nation whose understanding of itself came largely from the mouths of prophets, we can surmise that there was no shortage of "radical Jewish street preachers." Only one changed the entire course of human history. He didn't do it with just words.

'Who Was Jesus?'

The Discovery Channel aired an original three-part documentary called Who Was Jesus? that premiered on Palm Sunday. Focused on Jesus' "Childhood," "The Mission" and "The Last Days," scholars tried to paint a human portrait of Jesus, using archeological evidence to ponder what life must have been like for Jesus. The portrait that emerged might have written for the World Workers Party (or the Obama Campaign.)

More importantly, the producers failed to explore the fundamental Christian principle that Jesus is at once fully man and fully God.

Narrator Hasani Issa's final words of the series summed up the picture it painted, "The young man with a mission, the charismatic leader who sacrificed everything in the hope of a better world."

Viewers could not be faulted for thinking they were watching a biography on any populist politician, rather than a documentary about the Son of God.

Part 1, "Childhood," laid the groundwork for the argument that Jesus' later teachings came as a direct result of his socio-economic status as a child. Issa wondered, "Was the compassion he showed for others in his later teaching rooted in his own experience?" Later Issa noted, "On a Sepphoris market day, the young Jesus must have been all too aware of the increasing gulf between poor people like him and the wealthy few."

An exchange between co-host Byron McCane, a religion professor and archeologist from Wofford College, and University of La Verne professor Jonathan Reed at the site of a grand home from the period further illuminates this idea:

McCane: To what extent to you think Jesus would have been aware of this kind of property?

Reed: To me, it's pretty clear that Jesus, even if he doesn't come inside this house, he understands, just by looking at the outside of it, even from a distance, that there are people that have sort of a much higher level of wealth and status than he does.

Rachel Havrelock, touted as a biblical scholar from the University of Illinois at Chicago, wondered how Mary told Jesus He was the Son of God. Later, when speaking about how Jesus must have admired the Jewish priests He learned from during a visit to Jerusalem when He was 12, Havrelock opined, "So if someone like Jesus wanted to speak to a crowd and impress them, it would certainly be done through preaching."

Havrelock and her co-hosts appeared to not understand first, that Jesus is also God, and would not need Mary to tell Him He's the Son of God; and second, that Jesus didn't preach to "impress" people but to bring the word of God to people.

Issa began "The Mission" by saying, "Jesus, a people's crusader on a lethal collision course with the Roman Empire."

Havrelock carried that theme, noting, "We can imagine Jesus as a young man, unhappy with the situation in his time and hungry for change and wanting to leave home and become part of some movement advocating for change."

Baptist minister and theologian Allen Callahan charged that Jesus, in His preaching, miracles and encouraging people to follow Him, has "got an agenda – free food, free medical care, free education. And with that agenda, he's not just transforming individuals – there's something bigger going on here."  Havrelock asserted, "He also gains a kind of political power by amassing these followers here."

Again, by painting Jesus as an ACORN activist, they all missed the point that Jesus' actions and words had no purpose but to glorify God. After raising Lazarus from the dead, (a miracle not discussed during "The Mission") Jesus says, "Father, I thank you that you have heard me. I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me," as noted in John 11:41-42.

Callahan went so far as so say Jesus "was extraordinary, but, no, he was not unique" in performing His miracles. Yes, there were others who miraculously healed people but only one did so in the name of God the Father. That makes Jesus unique. None of the scholars said anything about biblical accounts that said Jesus lived a perfect, sinless life.

"The Last Days," the final segment, explored what is now considered Holy Week and went through Jesus' triumphal entry, the Lord's Supper, Good Friday, and the first Easter morning but still failed to portray Jesus as anything other than a human.

Issa questioned why if all disciples were present when the Romans arrested Jesus in Gethsemane, "how was it that none of them went down with their leader?" And after recounting Peter slicing off the ear of one guard, Issa noted "Jesus stepped in to prevent any more violence" but failed to relate that Jesus also healed the guard's ear. He counts the biblical account of what happened in Gethsemane as "an early example of spin-doctoring."

Callahan agreed. "The story is being told on behalf of those survivors. Some of those survivors are now leadership, in the leadership of the community. You don't want to say that they all turned tail and ran. What you say is Jesus was looking out for them and had their best interests at heart, and because he didn't want to resist violently, there was no violent resistance."

Callahan apparently does not understand that Jesus did have their best interests at heart. John 17: 6-17 details how He prayed for them that night. As recorded in verse 15, "My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one."

As for Jesus' resurrection, Issa said, "Rational analysis alone cannot resolve the 2,000-year-old debate over what had happened here [in the tomb] since sunset on Friday night."

With that, Issa finally got to the concept of faith. Faith is "belief that is not based on proof." Christians are called upon to accept the Bible as the inherent Word of God, as fact. They don't need archeologists or biblical scholars to prove these things happened.

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The word " pernicious " is used once in the King James version of the Holy Bible to characterize false prophets and false teachers in the Church:

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) meaning ruin or loss (physical, spiritual or eternal).  Of course in the biblical context of that passage  this is speaking of spiritual ruin which leads to people losing their souls.  That's what happens when false gospels are preached and are believed by the hearers. Unless the white missionaries were preaching a false gospel to the native Hawaiians then they cannot be labled "pernicious" in the biblical sense.  I don't believe they did.

People will also remain in their lost spiritual condition and die in their sins if the gospel is not preached at all which is what the muticulturalists, who believe that Christianity destroys indigenous cultures, would like to stop Christians missionaries from doing.  

The missionaries had nothing to do whatsoever with the damage of plant life on the islands.  If the muliculturalists and environmentalist whackos had their way it would mean the destruction of souls.

Well, as 2 Peter 2:2 says, "...the way of truth shall be evil spoken of."  If a missionary is living an ungodly life and not practicing what he preaches then that brings reproach upon the name of Christ and His Church.  It does harm to the Gospel.  However, in this case the enviromentalists, muticulturalists, the secularists, the Washington Post and the rest of the liberal mainstream media are also speaking evil of the way of truth for all of the wrong reasons.

The queen of the Hawaiian Islands in the 1800s converted to Christ and helped spread the Gospel in the islands. Her last words before she died were:

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See online article entitled ' Where the Mansions are Ready ' by William Federer at http://www.dakotavoice.com/2009/03/where-the-mansions-are-ready/