Did you know that Pepsi supports gays? It even makes its employees attend attend sexual orientation and gender identity diversity training, where they are taught to accept homosexuality. http://www.boycottpepsico.com/default.aspx
Now its Campbell's soup labels?http://www.afa.net/campbells011209.htm
Obama is running fast with his gay and abortion agenda.http://www.afa.net/obamaagenda.asp
Act quickly, send your letter directly to President Obama and let him know you do not agree with his policies. http://www.afa.net/Petitions/Issuedetail.asp?id=341
As Christians we have been nice too long. We let prayer be taken out of schools. We let people murder their babies legally. We must stand up for honor. We must stand up for what is right. We must stand up for what God's word represents and keep our freedom of religion and right to bear arms and everything else America stands for.
FREEDOM ISN'T FREE
Showing posts with label Greed. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Greed. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Food for thought
Here are some eye opening numbers for you.
Since Jan. 22, 1973 the Roe vs Wade decision 28 million babies have been killed,
6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust
1,000 troops have been killed since the start of the Iraq war. I could not find an updated number for this.
I want to point out that there is outrage over the Holocaust victims and the troops who die in war, but little is heard for the victims of abortion. One third of our population has been destroyed. Look around your church, workplace, the grocery store. Fully one third of the people you see represent those who are not there because they were murdered in abortion. They are your friends, coworkers, neighbors, teachers, doctors, lawyers, etc.
The other day a man killed his wife, 5 children and then himself. If he hadn't killed his wife and then himself, there would be no difference in this killing and an abortion. A life is a life. He would surly have stood trial for the murders yet everyday abortion clinics kill thousands of babies and they never stand trial.
Since Jan. 22, 1973 the Roe vs Wade decision 28 million babies have been killed,
6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust
1,000 troops have been killed since the start of the Iraq war. I could not find an updated number for this.
I want to point out that there is outrage over the Holocaust victims and the troops who die in war, but little is heard for the victims of abortion. One third of our population has been destroyed. Look around your church, workplace, the grocery store. Fully one third of the people you see represent those who are not there because they were murdered in abortion. They are your friends, coworkers, neighbors, teachers, doctors, lawyers, etc.
The other day a man killed his wife, 5 children and then himself. If he hadn't killed his wife and then himself, there would be no difference in this killing and an abortion. A life is a life. He would surly have stood trial for the murders yet everyday abortion clinics kill thousands of babies and they never stand trial.
Monday, December 8, 2008
New motto for the dollar bill?
I saw this on another blog and thought how fitting. We take God out of everything and this is our motto instead. When I was a little girl, I remember seeing a sign at a store that said In God we Trust, all others pay cash.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Greed
God Wants Me to Be Richby Karl Taro Greenfeld Joel Osteen preaches the virtues of prosperity--for himself as well as his congregation. A look at the man who may well be one of the biggest beneficiaries of the slumping economy.
Who will save us? Who will lift us up from crushing credit-card debt and resetting mortgage payments and impending foreclosure, from increasing gas prices and decreasing health-insurance coverage? We are a nation stumbling through our worst financial crisis in a generation and our worst housing market in a lifetime. And so we come, seeking gentle salvation, inspiring prayers, steadying words, soothing notions, and calming thoughts that will allow us to become, in Joel Osteen's words, "victors, not victims."
We are in Greensboro, North Carolina, making our way into the downtown arena through the hot, buggy air, to worship with the pastor who will save us, the man anointed, by one of his congregants, as "Reverend Feelgood." Sixteen thousand will file in this evening, as have millions more to coliseums, concert venues, and baseball stadiums around the country--all, in a way, his churches. (View a slideshow that tallies the budgets of some of the biggest churches.)
We are a diverse, representative swath of troubled America: families struggling under debt, husbands and wives seeking reconciliation, young couples on first dates, children dragged by pious grandparents who promise them popcorn and BibleMan action figures. It is religion as escapism, criticized throughout the Bible Belt as "Christianity lite" or "prosperity gospel." But this murmuring crowd, slouching toward a kinder, gentler salvation, is a more telling indicator of the state of our union than consumer durables purchased or capital goods ordered. Unemployment they know; they don't need to wait for the Bureau of Labor Statistics to publish a monthly number. O, but come to Joel, lift your hands to Jesus, banish your negative thoughts, and you can find in these dark times a beacon.
If, in this country, there is great hurting, then Osteen is here to soothe that suffering. He does not wish that pain on any of us, and the sight or thought of it will bring forth from him great torrents of tears--his eyes clamped shut, his fingers pressed into narrow eye sockets, his lips pulled back over pink gums as he grimaces. The crying has become a visual touchstone of an Osteen sermon, the born-again equivalent of James Brown's pre-encore collapse from "exhaustion."
Joel feels our pain and has made himself wealthy (reportedly earning $13 million for his last book advance alone) and his church prosperous ($75 million and counting in annual revenue) by urging us to let go of it, to turn it over to God, to accept God's favor so that we may be as prosperous as Joel.
There was always a strain of American Puritanism that pointed to Scripture as justification for asserting that wealth is somehow godly. But ever since evangelical Christianity separated from the mainline faiths in the early 20th century, some preachers have gone further and linked their focus on personal piety to financial success. The big-tent revivals of the 1930s promised the dust-bowl destitute the possibility of finding Jesus and their next meal just by listening to a fire-and-brimstone message. By the late 1970s and early 1980s, televangelists like Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart made prosperity gospel big business, capitalizing on that era's economic uncertainties to win over a new generation of acolytes, before those ministries were brought down by scandal.
Osteen is one of a new breed of televangelists--Joyce Meyer, T.D. Jakes, and Creflo Dollar are also rising stars--who are preaching a less sanctimonious, more inclusive message. His church is in that part of the economy that thrives in troubled times, that can count on full pews when wallets are empty and an ever more receptive audience if we do go into a full-on recession.
Read entire article here.
Who will save us? Who will lift us up from crushing credit-card debt and resetting mortgage payments and impending foreclosure, from increasing gas prices and decreasing health-insurance coverage? We are a nation stumbling through our worst financial crisis in a generation and our worst housing market in a lifetime. And so we come, seeking gentle salvation, inspiring prayers, steadying words, soothing notions, and calming thoughts that will allow us to become, in Joel Osteen's words, "victors, not victims."
We are in Greensboro, North Carolina, making our way into the downtown arena through the hot, buggy air, to worship with the pastor who will save us, the man anointed, by one of his congregants, as "Reverend Feelgood." Sixteen thousand will file in this evening, as have millions more to coliseums, concert venues, and baseball stadiums around the country--all, in a way, his churches. (View a slideshow that tallies the budgets of some of the biggest churches.)
We are a diverse, representative swath of troubled America: families struggling under debt, husbands and wives seeking reconciliation, young couples on first dates, children dragged by pious grandparents who promise them popcorn and BibleMan action figures. It is religion as escapism, criticized throughout the Bible Belt as "Christianity lite" or "prosperity gospel." But this murmuring crowd, slouching toward a kinder, gentler salvation, is a more telling indicator of the state of our union than consumer durables purchased or capital goods ordered. Unemployment they know; they don't need to wait for the Bureau of Labor Statistics to publish a monthly number. O, but come to Joel, lift your hands to Jesus, banish your negative thoughts, and you can find in these dark times a beacon.
If, in this country, there is great hurting, then Osteen is here to soothe that suffering. He does not wish that pain on any of us, and the sight or thought of it will bring forth from him great torrents of tears--his eyes clamped shut, his fingers pressed into narrow eye sockets, his lips pulled back over pink gums as he grimaces. The crying has become a visual touchstone of an Osteen sermon, the born-again equivalent of James Brown's pre-encore collapse from "exhaustion."
Joel feels our pain and has made himself wealthy (reportedly earning $13 million for his last book advance alone) and his church prosperous ($75 million and counting in annual revenue) by urging us to let go of it, to turn it over to God, to accept God's favor so that we may be as prosperous as Joel.
There was always a strain of American Puritanism that pointed to Scripture as justification for asserting that wealth is somehow godly. But ever since evangelical Christianity separated from the mainline faiths in the early 20th century, some preachers have gone further and linked their focus on personal piety to financial success. The big-tent revivals of the 1930s promised the dust-bowl destitute the possibility of finding Jesus and their next meal just by listening to a fire-and-brimstone message. By the late 1970s and early 1980s, televangelists like Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart made prosperity gospel big business, capitalizing on that era's economic uncertainties to win over a new generation of acolytes, before those ministries were brought down by scandal.
Osteen is one of a new breed of televangelists--Joyce Meyer, T.D. Jakes, and Creflo Dollar are also rising stars--who are preaching a less sanctimonious, more inclusive message. His church is in that part of the economy that thrives in troubled times, that can count on full pews when wallets are empty and an ever more receptive audience if we do go into a full-on recession.
Read entire article here.
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