Presbyterians Week Headlines
[1] Christian Observer Highlights for March 2012
[2] Australian Ethicists Argue the Right to Kill Babies After They’re Born
[3] President Obama Elevates Providing Abortion Inducing Drugs and Sterilization above Religious Freedom and the First Amendment
[4] U.S. HHS Secretary Sebelius Says Reductions in Births from Contraceptive/Sterilization/Abortifacient Mandate will Pay for Program
[5] Pastor Steven Andrew – “Jesus Says Obama is Not a Christian -- Obey God and Turn Away from Obama”
[6] BOND Action Founder and President the Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson Rebukes the Rev. Franklin Graham for Caving in to the NAACP, and Apologizing to U.S. President Obama
[7] The Syncretist Driven Life – The Next Chapter
[8] Muslim Terrorists Burn Down Seven Northeastern Nigerian Schools, Leaving Thousands of Students without Schools
[9] “William Hamilton is Dead” – God
[10] Radio Host Mocks Christians as Deadly Tornados Ravage the South
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[1] Christian Observer Highlights for March 2012
New articles in the Christian Observer for March 2012 include:
-- Progressivism and Infallibility: “Shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?” – Romans 3:3 Geneva Bible – by David Brand – Part One of a multipart article – The development of progressivism from the late 18th into the 19th century and the accompanying attack on biblical infallibility, culminating in development of the Revised English Version and its new rendering of the Greek pistis;
-- Jesus Keeps Bad Company – The Scandal of the Company He Keeps – Gospel Reading: Mark 2: 13-17 – by the Rev. William H. Smith, a.k.a. The Christian Curmudgeon – A study of the Pharisees’ reaction when Jesus began keeping company with the “wrong” kind of people, and its application to the contemporary church;
-- The Conflict of Contrasts – by Christian Observer Contributing Editor Dr. Joe Renfro – Transcript of the 4 March 2012 WNEG AM 630 Christ Over All radio message – the inherent conflict resulting from the contrasts between the Judeo-Christian and the Islamic world views;
-- The Food for Thought – by Christian Observer Contributing Editor Dr. Joe Renfro – Federal food police in action in the Hoke County, North Carolina school system enforcing U.S. Department of Agriculture guidelines on brown bag lunches brought from home, as a prime example of the U.S. Government seeking to dictate their mandates into every corner of the educational domain;
Plus, regular features including weekly Sabbath School Lessons by Christian Observer Assistant Editor Dr. Robert LaMay, and Daily Devotionals by T.M. Moore, dean of the Centurions Program of the Wilberforce Forum and principal of The Fellowship of Ailbe.
+ Christian Observer, Post Office Box 1371, Lexington, Virginia 20110, christianobserver@christianobserver.org
[2] Australian Ethicists Argue the Right to Kill Babies After They’re Born
The Liberty Counsel reported 2 March 2012 that an article entitled “After-birth abortion: Why should the baby live?” was recently published in the London-based Journal of Medical Ethics, advocating that if abortion is allowed, then society also has the right to kill a newborn child. This outrageous deduction by Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva takes abortion to its logical conclusion.
The abstract states: “By showing that (1) both fetuses and newborns do not have the same moral status as actual persons, (2) the fact that both are potential persons is morally irrelevant and (3) adoption is not always in the best interest of actual people, the authors argue that what we call ‘after-birth abortion’ (killing a newborn) should be permissible in all the cases where abortion is, including cases where the newborn is not disabled.”
The authors are willing to admit that handicapped children are able to live happy lives but then advocate that, because of their burden on the rest of the family, the children should be able to be killed.
Mathew Staver, Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel, commented: “Abortion opens the door to infanticide. If you can kill a child in the womb, even up to the moment before birth, then there is no logical reason to protect life after birth. A human being begins at the moment of conception and should be afforded legal protection at all stages of life. This is the only logically defensible position. It is shocking to see people advocating killing children after they are born. It is just as shocking to see people advocating killing them before they are born.”
+ Liberty Counsel, Post Office Box 540774, Orlando, Florida 32854, 800-671-1776, Liberty@LC.org
[3] President Obama Elevates Providing Abortion Inducing Drugs and Sterilization above Religious Freedom and the First Amendment
In a 2 March 2012 press release, the Christian Defense Coalition states that U.S. President Barack Hussein Obama’s U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Contraceptive/Sterilization/Abortifacient mandates upon Christian institutions show that the Obama Administration seeks to impose their will on the faith community. President Obama continues to show a profound disrespect for religious freedom, liberty and personal conscience and treats faith as nothing more than a “political commodity.” The U.S. president can no longer portray himself as a candidate who embraces faith and religious liberty as he did in 2008.
The Christian Defense Coalition will lead major demonstrations in support of religious freedom at HHS headquarters in Washington DC on Friday, 23 March and in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on Sunday, 25 March 2012.
Reformed Presbyterian pastor and Director of the Christian Defense Coalition the Rev. Patrick J. Mahoney states:
“It is stunning that America now has President and an administration who has put protecting abortion-inducing drugs and sterilization above the principles of religious freedom and the First Amendment [to the U.S. Constitution , i.e. Freedoms of Speech and Religion].
“President Obama continues to show a profound disrespect for religious liberty and respecting matters of individual conscience. These unjust HHS mandates show this administration seeks to impose their will on the faith community and their values.
“When President Obama ran for President in 2008, he made his Christian faith a very visible part of his campaign. It is now clear that was nothing more [than] political posturing and there appears very little commitment by the President to protect religious freedom and justice.
“This issue has now become a major issue in the 2012 elections and has energized the faith community more than Romney, Santorum, Gingrich and Paul combined.
“We would encourage the President to move away from this reckless position of crushing and trampling the First Amendment and recommend he embrace the proposition that every American should have the right to freely practice their faith traditions without government interference or harassment.”
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+ Christian Defense Coalition, Post Office Box 77168, Washington DC 20013, 202-547-1735, ChristianDefense@gmail.com
+ U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 200 Independence Avenue Southwest, Washington DC 20201, 877-696-6775, Contact Page
[4] U.S. HHS Secretary Sebelius Says Reductions in Births from Contraceptive/Sterilization/Abortifacient Mandate will Pay for Program
A 1 March 2012 CNSNews.com article by Fred Lucas titled “Sebelius: Decrease in Human Beings Will Cover Cost of Contraception Mandate” reports that U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on 1 March 2012 told a U.S. House of Representatives panel that the reduced number of U.S. births in the United States will compensate employers and insurers for the cost of the new HHS Contraceptive/Sterilization/Abortifacient mandate requiring all health-care plans to cover U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved contraceptive and abortifacient drugs, and sterilizations.
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+ U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 200 Independence Avenue Southwest, Washington DC 20201, 877-696-6775, Contact Page
+ U.S. House of Representatives, Washington DC 20515, 202- 224-3121, Contact Page
+ U.S. Food and Drug Administration , 10903 New Hampshire Avenue, Silver Spring, Maryland 20993, 888-463-6332, druginfo@fda.hhs.gov
[5] Pastor Steven Andrew – “Jesus Says Obama is Not a Christian -- Obey God and Turn Away from Obama”
In a 1 March 2012 statement, Pastor Steven Andrew of USA Christian Ministries said “Christians are to obey God and turn away from Barack Obama -- Obama is lost in sin.”
Pointing to the Sermon on the Mount where Jesus says, “You will know them by their fruits,” Pastor Andrew explains that by looking at Obama's fruits, Jesus says Obama is not a Christian (Matthew 7:16). For example, Obama advocated abandoning living babies to die who survive botched abortions, and covered Jesus' name and cross on a lectern at Georgetown University.
Obama has removed references to God when quoting the Declaration of Independence and Bible verses from the Pentagon reports. Instead of saying the USA's national motto is “In God We Trust,” Obama has lied, saying that it is something without God.
Pastor Andrew adds:
“God says homosexual sin is an abomination in Leviticus 18:22 and that He removes nations for homosexual sin (2 Peter 2:6). However, Obama promotes sexual and homosexual sin and is trying to change God's holy marriage to unholy homosexual 'marriage'.”
“Obama has tempted Americans to desire other people's money in covetousness, but each person is to live for God-not to get other people's money.”
“There is no place in the Holy Bible that says to follow anyone sinning. Instead, God says that Christians are to separate from (1 Corinthians 5:13), turn away from (2 Timothy 3:5), avoid (Romans 16:17), not help (2 Chronicles 19:2) and not listen to people like Obama (Psalm 1). No Christian can follow Obama in sin.”
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+ USA Christian Ministries, 2059 Camden Avenue #280, San Jose, California 95124, Contact Page
[6] BOND Action Founder and President the Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson Rebukes the Rev. Franklin Graham for Caving in to the NAACP, and Apologizing to U.S. President Obama
BOND Action Founder and President the Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson on 29 February 2012 criticized evangelist the Rev. Franklin Graham after Graham apologized for questioning U.S. President Barack Hussein Obama's Christian faith. In a statement released 29 February 2012, Graham said, “I regret any comments I have ever made which may have cast any doubt on the personal faith of our president, Mr. Obama.” Graham also stated that he objects to Obama's policy stances on abortion and same-sex marriage, which Graham considers to be in “direct conflict” with Scripture. Graham's apology reportedly came on the heels of pressure from black churches and more than a dozen National Organization for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) religious subgroups. The NAACP accused Graham of “bearing false witness” and fomenting racism. Mr. Peterson issued the following statement regarding Graham's forced apology:
“I am saddened to hear that Rev. Franklin Graham was bullied into issuing an apology for the truthful words he spoke, due to accusations of 'racism' by the NAACP and left-wing black clergy. Franklin Graham's weakness is a pitiful representation of Christ and is disheartening to Christians in America and those persecuted around the world.
“This is a politically-motivated attack on a Christian leader by Democrats and the NAACP . Democrats could not allow the facts of what Graham said about Obama's faith to stand and cast doubt in the minds of Christian voters. So they attacked the messenger, labeling him a racist and a liar. This is reminiscent of the intimidation used by Hitler in Nazi Germany.
“Barack Obama has shown without a doubt that he does not believe in a Judeo-Christian God. It's unfortunate that white Christian men and women are being attacked for stating the obvious about this president and they're too weak to stand for righteousness.”
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+ BOND Action, Post Office Box 35586, Los Angeles, California 90035, 323-556-2623, info@bondaction.org
+ NAACP, 4805 Mt. Hope Drive, Baltimore, Maryland 21215, 410-580-5777, Contact Page
[7] The Syncretist Driven Life – The Next Chapter
A 2 March 2012 article by Jim Hinch in the Orange County Register titled “Rick Warren Builds Bridge to Muslims” reports that Saddleback Church pastor the Rev. Rick Warren “has embarked on an effort to heal divisions between evangelical Christians and Muslims by partnering with Southern California mosques and proposing a set of theological principles that includes acknowledging that Christians and Muslims worship the same God.”
+ Orange County Register, 625 North Grand Avenue, Santa Ana, California 92701, 877-469-7344, thorne@ocregister.com
[8] Muslim Terrorists Burn Down Seven Northeastern Nigerian Schools, Leaving Thousands of Students without Schools
A 1 March 2012 Reuters article titled “Suspected Islamists Burn Down Seven Nigerian Schools” reports that arsonists suspected to be members of the Boko Haram Islamist terrorist group burned down seven schools in northeast Nigeria over several days leading to 1 March 2012, leaving thousands of students without their schools at midterm.
Reuters explains that Boko Haram, which translated means “Western education is sinful,” an Islamist movement styled after the Taliban.
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[9] “William Hamilton is Dead” – God
Mark Ellis of ASSIST News Service reported 3 March 2012 that radical theologian William Hamilton, who led the “God is Dead” movement in the 1960’s died in Portland, Oregon, at age eighty-seven.
In his 1966 book, “Radical Theology and the Death of God,” co-written with Thomas J.J. Altizer, Hamilton stated “The death of God is a metaphor. We needed to redefine Christianity as a possibility without the presence of God.”
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[10] Radio Host Mocks Christians as Deadly Tornados Ravage the South
Talk radio host Mike Malloy on 2 March 2012 used the deadly tornados ravaging the southern U.S. to further the atheist and evolutionary agenda.
Malloy said of southern Christians “Their God … keeps smashing them into little grease spots on the pavement in Alabama, and Mississippi, and Arkansas, and Georgia, and Oklahoma. You know, the Bible belt, where [in a mocking voice] they ain’t gonna let no [God’s name taken in vain] science get in the way, it says in the Bible, blah blah blah blah blah. So, according to their way of thinking, God with his omnipotent thumb reaches down here and so far tonight has smashed about twenty people into a grease spot on highway 12, or whatever the hell highway they live next to.”
Malloy’s website (www.mikemalloy.com) now contains an apology that says in part:
“Those comments, as published on various blog sites, were lifted out of context from a larger point I was making about the hypocrisy of many political leaders and commentators who refuse to acknowledge science, logic and fact in assessing disasters such as this one.”
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Wednesday, March 7, 2012
7 March 2012
