Lance Wallnau, a major proponent of Seven Mountains Dominionism, explained that the Occupy Wall Street movement emerged as a result of the fact that the Devil, and not right-wing Christians, was in charge of Wall Street banks, which he says led to the economic crisis. Wallnau said that along with the economics mountain, “the Devil will send kings” to different cultural mountains, such as government media, arts and education, to “screw it up.”
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Prof. Boswell’s academic study is so well researched and documented that it poses fundamental questions for both modern church leaders and heterosexual Christians about their own modern attitudes towards homosexuality.
For the Church to ignore the evidence in its own archives would be cowardly and deceptive. The evidence convincingly shows that what the modern church claims has always been its unchanging attitude towards homosexuality is, in fact, nothing of the sort.
http://www.christianity-revealed.com/cr/files/whensamesexmarriagewasachristianrite.html
Men and sometimes women from a group of Jefferson County families disavowed by mainstream Amish have terrorized a half-dozen or more fellow Amish, cutting the beards off men and the hair off men and women, the sheriff said. The attacks occurred over the past three weeks in Carroll, Holmes, Jefferson and Trumbull counties, which form the heart of Ohio’s Amish population, one of the nation’s largest.
Abdalla said the motive may be related to unspecified religious differences involving 18 Amish families, 17 of them related, that have drawn previous attention from law enforcement, including a threat against the sheriff and a relative convicted of sexual contact with a minor.http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_AMISH_ATTACKS?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
The plaintiffs say that 59 schools and owners tied to the company “jointly promoted, advertised, and marketed defendants’ residential boarding schools as a place where children with problems could get an education while receiving instruction and direction in behavior modification for emotional growth and personal development.”
But they say the children were subjected to physical, emotional and sexual abuse at the schools including, Cross Creek Center for Boys, Brightway Adolescent Hospital and Red Rock Springs. They say the abuses inflicted upon some children for years “could be accurately described as torture.”
According to the complaint, students were locked in boxes, cages and basements at the schools, denied medical and dental care, and forced “to carry heavy bags of sand around their necks or logs throughout the day over many days.”
They were sexually abused, “which included forced sexual relations and acts of fondling and masturbation performed on them,” according to the 119-page complaint.
Students were “forced to eat their own vomit … bound and tied by hands and/or feet … chained and locked in dog cages … forced to lie in, or wear, urine and feces … forced to sleep on cold concrete floors, boxspring, or plywood,” and put to forced labor, the complaint states.
Children were “kicked, beaten, thrown and slammed to the ground … forced to eat raw or rotten food … poked and prodded with various objects while being strip searched … denied any religious affiliation, except for the Mormon faith … [and] threatened [with] severe punishment, including death, if they told anyone of their abuses and poor living conditions,” according to the complaint.
In a sharply worded open letter, Anonymous called the small group of Westboro Baptist Church members “an assembly of graceless sociopaths and maniacal chauvinists and religious zealots,” citing the way the group has condemned men and women who have died in the armed forces, as well as “prayed for and celebrated the deaths of young children.”
The Anonymous hackers continued with a warning: “Cease and desist your protest campaign in the year 2011, return to your homes in Kansas, & close your public websites.” The group states that “the damage incurred will be irreversible, and neither your institution nor your congregation will ever be able to fully recover.”
via [UPDATED] Westboro Baptist Church Responds to “Anonymous” Threat With a Defiant Tweet.
And while religious conservatives have long mapped personal piety onto national politics, some of the moral arguments against excessive borrowing are getting a new hearing among Christians already anxious about the economy. “America’s growing debt is a not just a financial issue, it’s a spiritual one,” said Jerry Newcombe, host of The Coral Ridge Hour, a television program broadcast by Coral Ridge Ministries. “The Bible is very clear about the moral dangers of debt.”
The Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based evangelical ministry dedicated a segment of its television show earlier this month to the “monstrous debt burden,” and has been sounding the alarm to its estimated 500,000 devotees through its radio programs, print publications and website.
via Evangelicals say national debt is ‘immoral’ | Religion | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle.
- Leviticus 27:6
Monetary values are assigned to lives according to age and gender. Lives under one month old have no value.
- Numbers 5:21-21, 27-28
A potion given to the Israelites by God is used to determine paternity. If the father is not the husband, an abortion occurs. god clearly places no value on a fetus that is not the result of union between husband and wife.
- Genesis 38:24
God’s law states that if a woman is pregnant and is to be executed there is to be no waiting for the fetus to be born. It is counted as part of the mother and she burned to death with it still in her womb.
via Rabble.