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David Benham and Jason Benham #fundie raptureforums.com

Recently we had the privilege of appearing with John Stossel on Fox News to discuss the attack on free speech in America. [...] His hour-long special titled, "Censored in America," was an eye-opening look into the reality of the direct assault on conservative values in America today.

Unfortunately, many Americans don't realize just how deep the attack on free speech has become - partly because mainstream media won't tell the truth, and partly because Americans would rather not know the truth.

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During our interview, we told John that this siege was not just a "secular" agenda to silence conservative values. We said it was a spiritual battle between truth/lies, light/darkness, good/evil. That made for an interesting off-camera conversation.

The reason we continue to say this is because the agenda is not simply about removing God and becoming godless. It's about replacing one God with another.

Why is it that the same agenda for gay rights (a secular agenda) defends the absolute protection of Islam) a spiritual one)? Don't you find it interesting that in today's America that gay rights and Islam have become interesting bedfellows? In countries where Islam is the dominant religion, gay rights are squashed with killings and brutal treatment of gays.

The reason for this bizarre unity is because this is not a secular battle, but a spiritual one. This battle was first waged in heaven and now rages here on earth. [...] Today, Satan - the devil - uses any means necessary to fight against the truth. And he unites enemies to accomplish his purposes. [...] He's simply doing the same thing today by uniting radical Islam with the gay agenda, to desperately try to remove the truth that sets people free.

Geri Ungurean #fundie raptureforums.com

In the last week, the pope announced to the world that Jews do not need Christ to go to heaven - a fierce lie directly from the pit of hell. Satan is pleased.

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Many Christians are rejoicing over the words of the rabbis who have sworn partnership with "Christianity." I am NOT rejoicing. What most readers do not understand is that when these rabbis speak of Christianity - the are referring to the Vatican. Catholicism is not Christianity!

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Brethren, can you now see where this is going? Israel will be completely deceived by Antichrist, just as the Word tells us. It was difficult for me, as a Jew, to understand how the people of Israel would be fooled - especially if Antichrist is not a Jew. But now with these new revelations, it is crystal clear that the spirit of Antichrist is already at work to deceive God's people, the Jews.

Daymond Duck and Rachel Duck #fundie raptureforums.com

According to the Bible there will be an increase in wickedness and violence on earth at the end of the age and that is exactly what is happening with abortion, school shootings, cop killings, Islamic terrorism and more (Matt. 24:31; Gen. 5:5; II Tim. 3:1-5).

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The root cause of America's problem is sin. But Pres. Obama, many politicians, many celebrities, many in the mainstream media and many preachers choose to be willfully ignorant of this fundamental biblical truth.

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Many of America's citizens know that there is widespread corruption in Washington. Many of America's citizens are afraid of their dishonest government that has already used the IRS to target Christians and conservatives, used lawyers to explain away Islamic terrorism and refused to go to the aid of besieged American troops when they were under attack by Muslims in Benghazi.

Many of America's citizens know that Islamic State leaders have promised more terrorist attacks in the U.S. The FBI says they are here and our pro-Muslim president wants to fly tens of thousands of other Muslims into this country without adequate background checks and without the ability to keep tabs on them. They know that he absolutely refuses to call someone a Muslim terrorist even though that person grows a beard, attends a Mosque and shouts Allahu Akbar when they kill.

Many of America's citizens know that seriously religious Muslims go by the Koran. They know that the Koran teaches violence against non-Muslims (Sura 5:33, 8:59 and 9:5).

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Many of America's citizens know that Pres. Obama is releasing Islamic terrorists at GITMO and some of them are returning to the battlefield to continue their bloodbath against non-Muslims.

Many of America's citizens know that it is dangerous for them to be disarmed and to become totally dependent upon a corrupt, politically correct, pro-Islamic government to protect them. They know that Muslims are raping and killing Christians all over the Middle East including very young children, and President Barack Hussein Obama won't lift a finger to help these innocent victims. They know that the saying "If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns" is a true.

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Our deceptive president has Muslims in the White House. He wants to take over the local police. He has troops practicing ways to eliminate local militants. He has a list of "Potential Domestic Terrorists" which includes evangelical Christians; members of the TEA Party; veterans; gun owners; people who oppose abortion, gay marriage, illegal immigration, Islamic terrorism, world government and more.

Should Christians be allowed to have guns to defend themselves?

No one can honestly deny that the Bible says that Jesus told His disciples to buy a sword and they bought two swords (Luke 22:36-38). No one can honestly deny that it says Peter cut off the ear of the high priest's servant when Jesus was arrested (Matt. 26:51). Jesus could have protected His disciples, but He was teaching them that honest people sometimes have to go armed to defend their selves and others.

Wake up America! The satanic government of Antichrist and his False Prophet will kill multitudes of disarmed citizens during the Tribulation period. What we do now could be paving the way for that and it could be some of our loved ones that get beheaded.

Terry James #fundie raptureforums.com

Christmas 2015, to me, seems strangely removed from Christmases of the past. By that I mean the culture has changed in America to the point that Jesus is now truly marginalized. He has been, it seems to me, moved by opposition forces to the periphery for the first time in the nation's history of celebrating His birth. The ambience of the season feels different this time.

News reports tell almost daily of public schools that have changed the name of the season's celebration to something other than Christmas. Calling it Christmas is forbidden within a growing number of corporate entities and organizations. We must now refer to the season as Happy Holidays rather than Christmas. People are more and more offended by anything associated with the name of Jesus Christ, or so it seems according to the politically correct - the minority that has been allowed to rule American society over the past number of years.

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Everything Christian is frowned upon, and morality has been redefined. Tolerance is the mantra of the day. Things the Word of God says are wrong, those in control of the reins of governance declare to be good. The shedding of the blood of the innocent is legally stipulated to be a good thing for the sake of giving women the right to choose. God's definition of marriage is considered narrow-minded and evil because it restricts the right to "love" as one chooses. Man with man and woman with woman in the sexual union, and in marriage, is lauded and applauded by the neo-pagan culture as proof that we are becoming an enlightened people.

While God's Son and Christianity are pushed out of society and culture, a false religion, whose worshippers behead and commit other atrocities upon those who won't bow the knee to their false deity, is given governmental protection at every turn by this president.

Todd Strandberg #fundie raptureforums.com

Liberal Media Goes into Kamikaze Mode

A priest in Poland recently performed an exorcism. It was aimed at the Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza. The reason for the ritual was to denounce the "lies of the media." The motivation of the priest was a bit murky, but I think he had the right idea of confronting a place where demons like to congregate.

Gone are the days when it could be said that the press just has a liberal bias. We've entered into a new frontier where they have transformed into a kamikaze mode - where they are dedicated to spreading their agenda; willing to sacrifice their individual interests for the "greater" cause.

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The press has been covering up for ISIS, ignoring the murder and torture of those deemed by their killers as "lesser" Muslims. The same goes for Christians, old people, and now helpless children who are constant targets of the butchery and madness of these ruthless terrorists. I think we have reached the limit of tolerance for media cover-up in this area. By not reporting the truth, the media is complicit with ISIS.

I think the reason why poor ratings and grizzly crimes are being brushed aside by the liberal media like never before is because time is running out. Only the Lord knows the exact day of the Tribulation hour's beginning, but it should be clear to all that the time is very near.

Terry James #fundie raptureforums.com

Satan's dark, spiritual firepower is directed at destroying America's moral fiber. The national fabric is literally unraveling as each volley slams against our most basic institutions and against the Constitution God gave our founding fathers the wisdom and discernment to form.

The family is torn apart, with unwanted babies murdered in their mother's wombs by the millions. Marriage is redefined as same-sex couplings to be equal to - even superior to - heterosexual unions. Mention of Jesus Christ is becoming the equivalent of hate-speech. At the same time, Islam, whose holy book says it is acceptable, even incumbent upon Muslim men, to rape non-Muslim women - and even children - is protected and shielded by a governing system gone mad with sin-sickened, reprobate thinking.

Dean T. Olson #fundie raptureforums.com

[From part of a series of articles called "God, Guns and America in the End Time - Gun Facts and What the Bible Says":]

In line with their globalist impulses - impulses that coincide with the preparatory steps necessary to usher in the one world empire of the antichrist after the rapture - liberals also push the false narrative that America is an extremely violent nation that leads the world in murders due to the wide availability of guns. The goal of this lie is two-fold; to shame fence-sitters who haven't yet bought into the gun grabber deception that America is the most violent nation on earth due to guns, and to denigrate a nation they despise.

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The gun control impulse is at odds with God's truth in the Bible. It is yet another sign of the movement of many Americans away from Gods truths toward unrepentant sin in our increasingly secular, pagan culture.

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Before America's breathtaking decline at the hands of the secular progressive/liberals, which is nothing more than a morally bankrupt, arrogant multicultural elite, this issue never came up. Since we have become a morally fallen nation, we had to replace personal responsibility with legislation to control our behavior. This approach invariably treats the symptom, not the cause, and gun control is no exception. That is why study after study documents those nations with strict gun control laws have substantially higher murder rates than those who do not.

Dean Olson #fundie raptureforums.com

In line with their globalist impulses - impulses that coincide with the preparatory steps necessary to usher in the one world empire of the antichrist after the rapture - liberals also push the false narrative that America is an extremely violent nation that leads the world in murders due to the wide availability of guns. The goal of this lie is two-fold; to shame fence-sitters who haven't yet bought into the gun grabber deception that America is the most violent nation on earth due to guns, and to denigrate a nation they despise.

Daniel Greenfield #fundie raptureforums.com

[From an article titled, "Three Media Lies About Syrian Refugees"]

1. The "Refugees" Are Not Fleeing Persecution, They're Welfare Migrants

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Muslims are not fleeing to Europe because of religious persecution, but for economic reasons. They specifically seek out countries such as Germany and Sweden with generous welfare states.

The media loves offering false analogies to Jewish refugees during the Holocaust. But the Jews were a stateless people then. They had no country of their own to go to. Muslims have more countries than nearly every other religion on the planet. They choose to go to the wealthiest Western countries, rejecting Slovenia and Bulgaria for Germany and Sweden, because they want money and they want easy money.

Syrian Muslims are not refugees. They're migrants. Only Christians and other non-Muslims are refugees.

While Muslims have easy access to UN refugee camps in Muslim countries, Christians have trouble surviving there. But by outsourcing our immigration to the UN's refugee infrastructure, we abandon Christian refugees and instead take in Muslim welfare migrants. And that is truly shameful.

There is no reason for us to provide special privileges for Muslim economic migrants. [...] We already take in far more immigrants every year than we can afford.

It's time for our leaders to put our country and our people first.

2. Taking in "Refugees" Helps ISIS

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ISIS not only embeds its terrorists as refugees in Europe, but it depends on European Muslims for recruits. Thousands of European Muslims ahve already left to join ISIS. Even those Syrian migrants that may be opposed to the group will have children that will provide a recruiting reserve for ISIS or other groups like it. Without the refugees and children of refugees in Europe from previous generations, ISIS might not even have enough fighters. And the refugees make it easier for ISIS to attack Europe.

Even those Syrians who will never support ISIS and whose children will never support it aid ISIS just by leaving the country. The large numbers of military age men are in part fleeing to avoid being drafted to fight ISIS. Potential ISIS opponents who leave Syria for permanent resettlement in Europe or America make it easier for the Islamic State to consolidate its control over the country.

Every time Europe or America takes in a military age Syrian as a refugee, they are helping ISIS by aiding deserters from the Syrian military, the Free Syrian Army and other groups that are fighting ISIS.

During WW2, we weren't encouraging British soldiers to run away and move to America. So why are human rights activists helping ISIS by encouraging Syrian deserters to flee the fight against ISIS?

3. Vetting Syrian Migrants is Impossible

Syria is a non-functioning state and a state sponsor of terror. We can't rely on it and that means we have to rely on information from UNHCR. The UN refugee agency is incompetent and overloaded. Its employees are corrupt and have a history of selling refugee cards to the highest bidder.

It's UNHCR that decides who qualifies for resettlement and any vetting we do afterward is cosmetic.

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The only way to be absolutely sure is not to allow any potential terrorists into the country. It's a much safer bet than assuming that the same system that failed to stop the World Trade Center bombing, 9/11, the Boston Marathon bombing and other terrorist attacks will work exactly when we need it to.

Migrants arriving from terror states are unsafe at any degree of vetting. Our system has failed before and will fail again. We owe it to our children and our loved ones to protect them from the next attack.

And our leaders owe it to us to stop lying about the risks of Muslim migration to our families and our future.

Dean T. Olson #fundie raptureforums.com

[From a series of articles titled, "God, Guns and American in the End Time - Would Jesus Carry Concealed?"]

While the title may be jocular, the subject of gun control is a serious end of the age matter. Like many social issues that dominate the headlines in the run up to the rapture, calls for gun control following mass shootings are more than they appear. It isn't just about controlling guns to prevent mass shootings. It's about control, period.

Bible prophecy foretells that in the last days the world will accept a leader called the antichrist who will control the world based on a three-legged stool consisting of one world economy, one world government and one world religion. To accomplish this agenda there must first be control. In order to establish one world government it is necessary to control the populace. An unarmed populace is easy pickings for a dictator.

That is the ultimate goal of all gun control plans; to disarm freedom-loving Americans under the pretense of accomplishing a public good.

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All of the elements necessary for the rise of the antichrist after the rapture and during the tribulation hinge on reducing or destroying Christian America. Here in the US many of our secular progressive/liberal leaders are doing their part in this evil control scheme by enacting regulations that will ultimately result in tyrannical authoritarian power over the masses. A major facet of this scheme is called "gun control." Its goal serves the purposes of Satan in the preparatory steps necessary to install to power, and eventually indwell the antichrist to rule a world lacking much of the restraining power on evil provided by the Holy Spirit after the removal of Christians during the rapture.

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Because America remains a Christian nation containing a majority of freedom-loving citizens, at least until the rapture, Satan is forced to undermine that base of support using a two-pronged attack. First, he influences mentally unbalanced individuals to commit mass shootings that play into the hands of liberals who rush to decry the slaughter by blaming the instrumentality of the crime, firearms, while expressing nary a whisper about the personal responsibility of the killers.

It is important to remember that due to Satan's deceit, every step necessary to usher in the one world government of the antichrist will appear to be logical, wise and irresistible. That is why gun control is so appealing to many of those lacking in spiritual discernment amid a world awash in wanton and unrepentant sin. The second prong works hand in hand with the first. Satan wields one of his most powerful weapons; the propagandists of the secular progressive elites dominating the mainstream media (MSM) to demonize gun owners.

Todd Strandberg #fundie raptureforums.com

[On the 2015 Paris attacks:]

I am nauseated by the candlelight vigils, buildings lit-up in the colors of France, and all the misty-eyed speeches by celebrities. Here is a useful list to help our liberal friends to identify the problem:

The Hebdo attack were Muslims.
The Shoe Bomber was a Muslim.
The Beltway Snipers were Muslims.
The Fort Hood Shooter was a Muslim.
The underwear Bomber was a Muslim.
The U-S.S. Cole Bombers were Muslims.
The Madrid Train Bombers were Muslims.
The Bafi Nightclub Bombers were Muslims.
The London Subway Bombers were Muslims.
The Moscow Theatre Attackers were Muslims.
The Boston Marathon Bombers were Muslims.
The Pan-Am flight #93 Bombers were Muslims.
The Air France Entebbe Hijackers were Muslims.
The Iranian Embassy Takeover, was by Muslims.
The Beirut U.S. Embassy bombers were Muslims.
The Libyan U.S. Embassy Attack was by Muslims.
The Buenos Aires Suicide Bombers were Muslims.
The Israeli Olympic Team Attackers were Muslims.
The Kenyan U.S, Embassy Bombers were Muslims.
The Saudi, Khobar Towers Bombers were Muslims.
The Beirut Marine Barracks bombers were Muslims.
The Besian Russian School Attackers were Muslims.
The first World Trade Center Bombers were Muslims.
The Bombay & Mumbai India Attackers were Muslims.
The Achille Lauro Cruise Ship Hijackers were Muslims.
The September 11th 2001 Airline Hijackers were Muslims.

French President Hollande declared a state of emergency and put the entire city of Paris under lockdown. This has been the first mandatory curfew in Paris since 1944. The reason why all citizens of Paris were made prisoners in their own homes is because of an inability to confront the root cause of the problem - Islam.

Terror experts were quick to talk about new security measures for Paris, but you can't put a net over the whole city. Israel struggled with Palestinian terror in the 2000s, and found the only solution was to isolate the Palestinians from accessing her territory.

France is already overrun with Muslims. Around 10 percent of the population are followers of the Islamic faith. Before the French can even talk about kicking some of the more extreme Muslims out of the country, they need to stop new ones from pouring across their border.

Islam should be a pariah religion. Since it was given a pass after 9/11 and a long list of other terrorist attacks, the Imams of this faith can smile and say, "Don't look at me."

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One possible explanation for why Islam seems to be given a free hand to cause havoc in the world is that the stage is being set for the Antichrist to deal with them. Being the ultimate problem solver, he may win the favor of Europeans by declaring war on Islamic terror.

Pamela Geller #fundie raptureforums.com

[A judge ruled that ads for "The Muslims are Coming!", a movie about Muslims in comedy, must be allowed on New York City's buses and subways. Pamela Geller's bigoted ads were also initially rejected by the Metropolitan Transit Authority, but allowed to run after a judge ruled the ban was a violation of the First Amendment.]

Make no mistake. "The Muslims are Coming!" ad is political. This "movie" is nothing but agitprop for Islam under the guise of - you guessed it - making lame jokes about "Islamophobia." If that's comic, no one is laughing.

Nonetheless, the Muslims sued. And last week they won (of course), which shows how utterly corrupt the system is. A federal judge last Wednesday ordered the MTA to allow these dissemblers to run a series of advertisements promoting their film in the subway.

And no, "The Muslims Are Coming!" is not a film about the current invasion of Europe. It's political propaganda, a long diatribe about "Islamophobia," despite the obvious advantages of their status as Muslims in America today.

Ron Graham and Nathele Graham #fundie raptureforums.com

Demons are not myths or fairytales. They aren't something we like to think about, but they are real and we need to beware of them. Jesus knew the reality of demons and cast many out of people who were possessed. Jesus is the ultimate authority, so since He says demons are real, then they are real.

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God is the only protection against demons. Even a Christian can be oppressed by demons if you embrace sin instead of submitting to God. Some of the ways to open yourself to demons are using drugs, participating in any kind of witchcraft, horoscopes, tarot cards, Ouija boards, meditation, contemplative prayer, embracing any sin, yoking yourself with those who are not of God, and the list goes on. Anything that encourages you to "empty your mind" is satanic. Many "Christian" groups embrace these practices and therefore invite demonic forces to enter the congregation. Yes, Satan is bold enough to enter a Christian gathering. There is no such thing as Christian yoga and none of these Eastern mystic activities have any place in a Christian's life.

Necromancy is another way to invite demons in. It is defined as the conjuring of the spirits of the dead and always involves demons. Their intention is not to communicate truth or wisdom, but pure lies.

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Today children usually aren't placed on the red hot arms of Moloch, but babies are sacrificed through abortion. This is a demonic practice that opens portals to demons.

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Most people today shrug off any idea that demons might actually be real. Hollywood has an agenda to make demons seem entertaining or cute. The desensitizing of the populous to demons has been very successful and most folks give them no more thought than smiling at the little ghouls and goblins making ready to trick or treat on Halloween. Yes, our little ones begin at a very early age to make friends with demons. A little devil costume is so cute on Billy and Susie is adorable in her witch hat and black robe. Is this just harmless fun? No.

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As we see Halloween approaching, stores are filled with demonic costumes. Parents will buy their children costumes that will identify them with demons. Adults will also dress up in costumes that glorify Satan. It's all in good fun, right? As a Christian, why would you dress up in satanic costumes and identify yourself with the enemy? [...] When Christians refuse to believe Satan and his minions of evil are real, they've fallen for his lies. Demons aren't just costumed pranksters wearing masks; they are pure evil amassed to destroy humanity.

Lucie Kirouac #fundie raptureforums.com

A long time ago, my husband (who went home to be with the Lord recently) and I, went to a Christian service and little did we expect to witness a case of demon possession!

A young woman by the name of Gayle went up front for prayers. As we realized what was going on, the congregation was leaving as it was almost the end of the service. Several brothers and sisters stayed to help Gayle.

Many evil spirits and demons devastated her life. She was no longer in control of herself. She became very strong and had to be held down. Entities refuse to leave a person. I will not detail the exorcism but it took close to four hours to deliver her! She was very relieved after such an ordeal.

What caused her to become possessed is that she played with a Ouija board along with a girl friend of hers who later on, needed help to get freed from a demon.

If it could be of any help to you to know what happened, contact me. Ouija boards are not a game, people...If you want to experience "hell on earth," dabbling into occultism is a sure way to destroy yourself.

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If you [Christians] allow yourselves to get involved in any form of the occult, although you can't be possessed having the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, you put yourselves at risk of becoming "harassed" by spirits and their bondage. That means that your mind, thoughts and even your body can get inflicted with all kinds of disorders.

Todd Strandberg #fundie raptureforums.com

I would put the phrase "Black lives matter" on par with "Work will set you free" at the former Dachau concentration camp. "Black manners matter" is a mantra that should be adopted instead.

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The greatest reason why black lives don't matter is because of the power that the Democratic party has over them. The Democrat party created the Ku Klux Klan, poll taxes, Jim Crow, and they waged war against every major federal Civil Rights Act. Having the lost the battle over racism in the 1960s, the Democrats just switched from overt racism to a subversive strategy of getting blacks as dependent as possible on the government to secure their votes.

It can only be called slavery when you have a group of people locked into system that has done them untold harm. Despite the ravages of the welfare programs, blacks vote 93-98 percent of the time for the Democratic party.

Joseph Chambers, David Benoit, and Eric Barger #fundie raptureforums.com

Abortion: Blood Sacrifice to "Gods" of Planet Earth

The aborting of unborn children is the darkest act of human existence. The Islamic terrorists who march around the world looking for ways to destroy all religions and governments that differ from Islam are not any more vile than a mother who destroys her own child in her womb. The pro-abortion doctors and liberal politicians in our Western world who support this depraved industry might as well be judged by the Creator more seriously than the Islamic terrorists. How did we descend to accepting the mindset that murdering an unborn child is acceptable? Could this fall have started when we stopped saying "mother with child" and started saying "pregnant woman?" This terrible tragedy of sacrificing millions of children cannot be understood without understanding Bible prophecy.

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In their book, Entertaining Spirits Unaware, authors David Benoit and Eric Barger stated:

"It is obvious that if we think the "civilized world" is rid of such horrors [as sacrificing human lives], we need to think again. The spirit of Moloch is alive and well in America today. Satan's desire to kill, steal, and destroy [...] is vividly displayed through both the emotional and physical acts of child abuse and the ultimate practice inspired by this horrific god/abortion. Abortion may not be carried out in consideration of an actual deity, but they are surely an act of human sacrifice, taking life on the altar of convenience to appease the god of "self" and sexual promuscuity. [...] I do not believe it is possible for Spirit-led believers to offer their unborn children on an abortion clinic altar.

Dean T. Olson #fundie raptureforums.com

The Crusades, while they did include atrocious conduct by Christians, came after 400 years of vicious attacks by Muslims on Christians throughout the Middle East and into the heart of Europe.

While the Christians involved naively extended an outreached hand to their Islamic counterparts, the Muslim's intent was entirely different. It was an intentional act of stealth jihad - the process of spreading Islam by means of cultural rather than armed warfare - intended to feed the supremacist strains of Islam while humiliating Christians in the foremost representation of the faith in the capital of the foremost Christian nation on earth.

One of the major mistakes Christians make about Islam is to fail to understand its political nature. Unlike Christianity, subjugation of other religions and cultures is at its core. It is vital for Christians to remember that in Islam jihad doesn't rely on violence alone. Conquering Christian American can be accomplished using pre-violent warfare like the interfaith dialog travesty on display at the National Cathedral. Islam is not like other religions because it embodies an open-ended, divinely sanctioned command to conquer the world. It also dehumanizes infidels, or non-believers, especially Jews. No other major religion calls for a universal empire - the Caliphate - to be established by any and all means necessary, including stealth jihad where Muslims are weak and violent jihad where they are strong.

Ron Graham and Nathele Graham #fundie raptureforums.com

In order to oppose God, a person must admit God exists. There is a big difference between knowing God exists (head knowledge) and faithfully trusting Him with your eternity (heart knowledge). Non-Christians know God exists, but they believe His laws to be a burdensome stone with too many restrictions. They don't like His "rules" and believe He ruins all their fun. God set laws in place to protect humanity from disease like AIDS, yet God is mocked, His laws broken, and the heathen rage on and on. [...] Heathens are people who oppose God Almighty and they rage against Him and against those who love and follow Him. These heathens are like children who throw a fit if they don't get their way, even if getting their way means aligning themselves with Satan. [...] They believe that if they can just pass legislation to get rid of God they can do what they want with no consequences. How wrong they are. Without God and His love holding all things together, the heathen and ungodly nations would cease to be. America, which was founded on Judeo-Christian principles, has been turning against God for a number of years and is soon to face God's judgment. Prayer was taken out of schools and then abortion, the act of offering children to demonic gods who demand human sacrifice, was legalized. The homosexual agenda is the final nail in America's coffin.

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It is simply astonishing to me that so many people have thoroughly hardened their hearts against God. Not only do they refuse to see the truth but they take great pleasure in denying it. It is comparable to a parent trying to teach a rebellious child not to touch a hot stove and that child defiantly placing his hands on the strove. Even though the pain is great it is more important to prove the parent wrong. The heathen continually try to prove God wrong, but they are the ones who suffer. [...] Satan, the liar who fell from grace long ago, is currently doing everything he can to convince people that God does not exist and that there is no right or wrong.

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There is a movement afoot to eliminate Christianity from the whole world. The heathens will soon get their wish, but it won't be through their vile raging. One day very soon Jesus will call those of us who follow Him Home. [...] Once we are gone, the heathen will have their way and they will get the leader they have been clamoring for. They don't have any idea what horrors that will bring. [...] Then things on earth will get worse. When the man of sin steps into the role of world leader, he will seem like a peace maker. It won't be along until those non-believers who are left on earth after the Rapture will understand that God Almighty, who they raged against and rejected, loved them. God's love was available to them, but they will have chosen to reject Him to follow Satan.

Dontwobears #fundie raptureforums.com

AS I have stated before, School began with the Pledge of Allegiance and a Prayer, Congress would begin their work with a Prayer. Pastors and Ministers proudly Proclaimed the Lord and Sin was the disease that needed to be eradicated in all. So much for those days of a bygone era. Yet it is most astounding, that so few remember how things once were, as compared to how things are today. It is to our discredit, that we have viewed those things and those days, as "Old Fashioned", just as they view the Holy Word of God as "Old Fashioned." The "Oxymorons" then wonder what is wrong with today and they never once are willing to look to the past and make the needed adjustments accordingly.

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It is in truth, here in the USA, we have eradicated such disease processes as the Plague, Tuberculosis and Leprosy, yet we can't cure the common cold, how odd is that? We have taken the Antibiotics to the point that diseases recur, because we have made these diseases Antibiotic resistant. For instance, we thought we had eradicated Measles, not so today, children are dying from it, once again. Do you ever wonder what all is going on now, as compared to times past? Do we not think, technology should be beyond this sort of thing, we should be prospering like no other?! So...what is the answer?!

Dr. Michael Brown #fundie raptureforums.com

[The Kleins declined to bake a cake for the Bowman-Cryers' same-sex wedding, posted their personal information online, and were fined for the damage they caused.]

Oregon Declares War on the Christian Faith

In one of the most egregious anti-Christian acts committed by a state official in recent memory, Oregon Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian not only upheld the ridiculous $135,000 fine levied against Aaron and Melissa Klein for declining to bake a cake for a lesbian commitment ceremony, but he ordered the Kleins to "cease and desist" from making any public comments about their religious convictions relative to this case.

This is an outrage and a travesty, and it must be rebuked and resisted. Who does Mr. Avakian think he is?

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The list of 178 (!) purported damages compiled by the two lesbians includes the following (this is not a spoof; the list is real): "concern for privacy at home; concern for safety at home; dislike of going to work; distrust of former friends; distrust of men; fear of not being able to get another job; fear of being alone; felt mentally raped, dirty and shameful; future job opportunities damaged; hysteria; inability to find work; irritability with family and friends; loss of opportunity for bonding with infant; migraine headaches; nightmares; not wanting husband (?) to touch her; pale and sick at home after work" - just to name a few.

The proper response of the court (and Mr. Avakian) should have been, "Are you kidding me? All this because a Christian couple declined your business on religious grounds at a time when same-sex 'marriage' wasn't even legal here?"

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I don't doubt that the women felt hurt, but they are either completely exaggerating what they experienced or they have quite a few other, deep emotional problems that need to be addressed that are no fault of the Kleins. On either score, any fair court would have recognized the absurdity of the list.

Yet in the increasingly anti-Christian, pro-homosexualist world in which we live, the Kleins were found guilty of being true to their faith and punished severely for it.

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This is yet another example of gay activist overreach (either by gay activists themselves or by their straight allies), and it must be confronted in the strongest of terms.

To state things, then, plainly and directly: Mr. Avakian and the State of Oregon, your bullying will backfire. You are on the wrong side of justice, and your attempts to steal our freedoms of religion and speech will be to your lasting shame.

I sincerely pray that you will humble yourself and realize the error of your ways.

I'm sure the Kleins would like nothing more than to forgive you to your face and give you a great big hug. Not only are Christians moral people, they are forgiving people.

But please do not associate forgiveness with weakness. We are quite committed to stand for what is right.

As Aaron [Klein] stated clearly, "For years, we've heard same-sex marriage will not affect anybody. I'm here firsthand to tell everyone in America that it has already impacted people. Christians, get ready to take a stand. Get ready for civil disobedience."

That time has come.

Terry James #fundie raptureforums.com

Homosexuality cannot reproduce. If allowed to continue as the militant proponents of gay marriage want, the human race would die - something the devil has wanted from his seduction of Eve in the Garden. The abortion industry joins in the gay marriage evil that fulfills the Apostle Paul's prophecy that in the last days there will come a generation "without natural affection." Those dual demonic strategies to destroy appear to be making tremendous headway.

So the churches, by their inward-turning silence are aiding and abetting the journalists that are the Goebbels-like mouthpieces for the prince of the power of the air.

Never do we hear from the churches to any large degree that God's judgment is building. But, make no mistake, judgment is on its way as surely as you are reading this commentary. The journalists, of course, caught up in the ebullience of making such societal progress, aren't even aware of that coming judgment that is almost upon a world ripe for the wrath of God.

Todd Strandberg #fundie #homophobia raptureforums.com

After Gay Marriage What Comes Next?

The recent decision by the Supreme Court to legalize gay marriage is a major indication that America has lost its way. The true moment of hopelessness occurred to me several days prior to the ruling when it dawned on me that I knew exactly how the vote would go. The proponents of same-sex marriage have spent so much time destroying the biblical foundations of our nation, it was easy to determine that the Supreme Court would bow to the will of the pop culture.

CBS News showed its involvement in the gay agenda by showing clips from a 1967 documentary. It was called The Homosexuals, and it was an eye opener to see how drastically moral values have changed in America. Even though CBS only gave a mild endorsement of the alternative lifestyle at that time, the network could not find a single company that would allow their ads to run during the program.

A homosexual man being interviewed in the documentary made the strange move of only allowing himself to be interviewed from behind a house plant. He had a good reason to be camera shy. Back in 1967, there was only one state in the union where it was legal to be a practicing homosexual. You would be fired from any high-profile job if it was learned that you had same sex preferences. Gays were on the same level of drug dealers and prostitutes.

Today, homosexuality is seen as normal. Corporations are now proud to sponsor gay events. All the limits on jobs have been removed. The CEO of Apple, the largest company by market capitalization, was proud to come out of the closet as a gay man. Christians and conservatives, who oppose the sin of homosexuality are now seen in a negative light.

The moral struggle will not end with gay marriage. It will quickly become obvious how little homosexuals care about monogamous relationships. Sure, gays wanted the legitimacy that comes with marriage but they still prefer to whore around with multiple partners.

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We are now at the point where all is left for the gay lobby is for them to come after Christians. Because there is no long-term satisfaction is sin, homosexuals will always be driven to force others to approve of their lifestyle. If the left had their way, 100 percent attendance would be required at the next gay pride parade. Anyone not seen waving the rainbow flag would be sent off to re-education camp.

Dr. Michael Brown #fundie raptureforums.com

How to Respond to the Rising Tide of Anti-Christian Hatred

In the aftermath of the Supreme Court's decision on marriage, which effectively codifies Bible believers as bigots, the attack on conservative Christian values has reached fever pitch.

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How then do we respond?

First, the uglier and more vile the attacks, the more we know we're doing the right thing. The opposition is a sign of encouragement to us, and the more people try to silence us, the louder we shout.

Second, we must remember that this is a spiritual battle and that Satan hates homosexuals and heterosexuals alike. Fervent prayer is one of our greatest resources.

Third, we must bless those who curse us and overcome evil with good, to use the words of Jesus and Paul. Responding to hatred with hatred will hurt everyone, ourselves included.

Fourth, we must continue to propagate the truth until the lies are dispelled, cutting through the emotional arguments and rhetorical attacks and doing our best to get people to think, sometimes by asking questions.

Fifth, we must remember that Jesus already warned us that the world would hate us for doing what is right, and so we must renew our resolve to stand firm with backbones of steel and hearts of compassion.

Sixth, we must determine afresh to bring the good news of the gospel to everyone, knowing that our ultimate counterculture weapon is the message of the death and resurrection of the Son of God.

Seventh, we must pray for revival and visitation, knowing that only a massive move of God can turn the tide.

Ultimately, whether America goes up or down, we will continue to live for the Lord, continue to do what is right, continue to reach out, and continue to stand strong.

Forward!

Robert Campbell #fundie raptureforums.com

My people, black people of America, "have been totally destroyed( not all but most)."

In 6 years or less, our President has turned and entire nation, if not world, into a cesspool of evil. And unfortunately, Its been my people the blacks, leading the way. And leading them, are the Preachers, and false leaders like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Hillary Clinton etc. Not to mention the media giving it fuel.

It should be clear now, with the chain of events that have now taken place here in America, our President is not what he seems.

When the "Supreme Court" Handed down the decision to allow same sex marriage; "out of there own mouths they sealed the doom of America." And most blacks folks, (most but not all) fell right in sync with it.

Do you need to see evidence of that? "just look around." We as blacks lead the nation in abortion,(1800 daily), fathers out of the home,(80%), children out of wedlock 78%, and black on black crime. Oh, and lets not forget the ridiculous police shootings, and incidences, that led blacks to believe in their own twisted truths. Lets not talk about the riots, property destroyed and lives lost. I can go on and on, but the list is to long.

And all led by our President "Barack Obama."

He and his cronies, have turned this country into what he has always wanted all along.

A Socialistic Godless society.

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How did this happen to us? Could part of this have started when, "Lyndon Baine Johnson" Our 36th. President of the United States, introduced the Welfare Act, some 50 years ago? Was it this bill that started the slow and meticulous destruction of the Afro-American?

This bill took care of the family, the bill fed you, it clothed you, it housed you.

One exception though, "no man must be in the home." That bill alone help start the decline of the black man. Or at least the black man we once knew. The one that went to work every day, and took care of his family, the one that fathered all his children from one women-his wife.

There is no more black family, it has been destroyed. It has been replaced by a new breed of black man, or so called.

This new breed of black man, does not believe in having a family, just having babies.

This new breed of black man, likes to look like a women, with its dreadlocks and earrings. with its pants hanging down low.

He won't even keep a job to support the many children he has fathered.

We now look at him as our modern day black man. "The new baby daddy."

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One of the major sins we have committed is Abortion. We have killed 60 million babies in this country alone. That one sin alone, would be a hard one to forgive.

The other one, is turning our back on Israel. America has turned its back on Israel under this President.

And finally slapping God's hand, and telling Him, that a man and a women is not good enough.

We in America have achieved all three. America has turned its back on God. It is apparent that satan, is making you take sides.

Dean T. Olson #fundie raptureforums.com

The ruling today [on same-sex marriage] will open the floodgates of persecution of Christians in America. There is an axiom that whatever the government taxes it controls. Today's ruling clears the way for the government to remove tax exempt status from churches refusing to knuckle under to the gay agenda. Not only may churches lose tax exempt status, but the coercive power of a godless government can fine and imprison pastors declining to perform gay weddings. Adhering to Biblical truths can now be labeled hate crimes leading to job loss, fines and imprisonment.

Satan is winning battle after battle in our increasingly wretched culture. A sure sign that we are now circling the drain and our redemption via the rapture is very near. [...] Today's decision greases the skids for wholesale persecution of Christians at the hands of godless secular progressives now running our nation. Believers will witness a dizzying onslaught of perverse cultural events that will so transform our beloved America that we will no longer recognize it. It is like a slow motion train wreck watching the implosion of our society. I hit my knees nightly to beg Jesus to come quickly and take us out of here.

Dr. David R. Reagan #fundie raptureforums.com

We can be assured that there will now be an all-out assault on Christians by the Gay Mafia as they attempt to force us to violate our biblical beliefs. They will confront all Christian businesses that participate in any way in marriage ceremonies, they will insist that ministers perform their marriage rites and they will demand that churches host their weddings. And when churches and ministers refuse, there will be a demand for them to be stripped of tax exemptions and benefits (like the housing allowance for pastors). And you can also be assured that ultimately there will be attempts to make even anti-Gay speech, including sermons, illegal as "hate crimes."

Note the date: June 26, 2015. It is the date that should be put on the headstone of our nation because it is the day that America died. We have sealed our destruction. We are now a walking-dead nation.

Todd Strandberg #fundie raptureforums.com

I'm sure when the Antichrist comes along he will be the biggest environmentalist, gay-friendly, Islam loving leader the world has ever seen. Being so close to the Tribulation hour, the Beast of Revelation might be serving in some public office right now.

Geru Ungurean and W. Cleon Skousen #fundie raptureforums.com

When we watch what is happening in America, we must realize that the devil knows that his time is short. Atheism is rampant all over the earth, but for this article I will focus on our country.

I happened upon a website which spoke about a book which was written in 1958. The publisher of the book was W. Cleon Skousen, and he exposed the history and goals of Communism. The name of that book is "The Naked Communist."

Here are some of the 45 goals of Communism named in this book:

11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If the U.N. charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one world government with its own independent armed forces.

15. Capture one or both political parties in the United States. (In David Horowitz's book The Shadow Party, he shows how the Democratic Party is now under the control of what he calls the Shadow Party of Socialist-Communist influences.)

17. Get Control of the Schools. Use them as transmission belts for Socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the Party line in textbooks.

20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policy-making positions.

21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.

22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. Eliminate all good sculptures from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.

23. Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.

24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.

25. Break down culture standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio and TV.

26. Present homo-sexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."

28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state." (A.C.L.U. lawyers accomplished this goal in a very short 4 years from publication of the book "The Naked Communist.")

29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a world-wide basis. (In 2012, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Ginsberg and A.C.L.U. member said exactly this while visiting Cairo, Egypt.)

30. Discredit the American founding fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."

31. Belittle all forms of American culture, and discourage the teaching of American history on the grounds that it was only a minor part of "the big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.

32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture, education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.

36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.

37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business. (Then move the jobs overseas, to stifle the American economy. Import goods from other countries, to create an imbalance of trade.)

40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and the retarding of children to suppressive influence of the parents.

42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use "united force" to solve economic, political or social problems. (Occupy Wall Street is being organized by the Communist Party.)

45. Repeal the Connally Reservation so the U.S. cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction over nations and individuals alike.

Are any more words really necessary at this point? Obviously, Communism is the end game for Satan and his minions in America. As I read the goals of Communism, it almost took my breath away. There is no doubt that this is where we are headed.

Michael Bresciani #fundie raptureforums.com

How is our national conscience faring these days?

We have had well over 40 years' worth of pulling tiny human beings from the womb and throwing them in waste receptacles.

We have followed the ruler of darkness through his incrementally introduced progressions into sins of the flesh and now we are primed and ready to let men marry men, and women marry women. How proud we must all be!

We are wobbly and unsure about our support of Israel and her right to possess every inch of her God given nation. Palestine, having never been a country, a nation or even a recognized colony in the earth has not stopped us from ignoring historical facts. It's the 'in' thing and Isis is here to prove it.

Without laboring the point to death - our conscience failed us at the start and it is also failing us as we approach the finish line.

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America's last state is not some territory that will give us a fifty first star on our flag, but is a state that only can be described as one of nearly full reprobation.

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Long ago I began to warn that the U.S. would begin to pervert and disregard the original intent and the literal aspects of her own Constitution. Following that, attacks would be leveled against the teachings of the Bible and those who represent those teachings. Along with these developments will follow disregard for long standing traditions and practices that collectively gave the nation its sense of unity.

Montreea #fundie raptureforums.com

The lure of bright lights is really what separated me from God. I could not comprehend that He was the brightest light I could ever find. Having studied music all my life, I was excited to begin my journey into the music industry. Almost immediately, I encountered a spirit of homosexuality that permeated throughout the entertainment industry. Sexual deviancy was promoted, encouraged, rewarded and applauded.

Lesbianism was so easy for me and doors were opened for me based off of my commitment to this lifestyle. I traveled the nation singing. I met Oscar winners, Emmy winners, Grammy winners and Tony winners. I was doing tour dates with Rock and Roll Hall of Famers and was on national TV. My face was appearing in major media outlets all over the world and I had worked my way up to jets flying outside the country to sing for the most powerful people in entertainment. The biggest names wanted to know who I was. I felt like my life mattered.

I had women all over the world that followed my every move and were prepared to marry me. Mothers who would leave their kids alone at 2am to sleep with me. I didn't have to work because I had multimedia deals. My life was paid for. I was on the brink of my dream coming true until I went to see the doctor.

"Within 1 year, you will be a paraplegic. You will never walk again and your dream to be a singer is over," stated the doctor. I was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy. A year later, I had lost all my music deals. No one in music wanted anything to do with me. I could not walk and was preparing to commit suicide. I did, however, still have a lot of women. I settled down and became a husband to a woman.

Something was very wrong. I had lost my dream, my ability to walk, my will to live and was pretending to be a male. God gave me an ultimatum, "Leave sin completely and I will save your pitiful career and fragmented life or you will die." Not only that but now I had to sing for Him and no one else and then maybe I could be somebody.

That was 5 years ago. I'm still a paraplegic but I am an exlesbian that tours extensively speaking and singing for God. I walk alone with Him because it is His will.

Todd Strandberg #fundie raptureforums.com

The lack of moral backbone on the part of our lawmakers is what has allowed sinful vices to take over our nation. For years, I watched gambling spread across the land. First, it was confined to specially designated areas like Las Vegas and Atlantic City. Next, gambling moved to Indian reservations and river boats, and then finally it became all pervasive with lotteries and scratch off cards.

Now that marijuana is sweeping over the country in record time, I wouldn't be surprised to see prostitution soon become the next expanded wave of moral decay.

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I've pretty much given up on both the Democrats and the Republicans. Since they have obviously lost sight of the biblical guidelines that made America a great nation, I don't have any hope that someone from these two parties can get us back on the straight and narrow. Unless a secular leader understands spiritual forces that cause trouble in this world, their best carnal efforts will likely end in failure (Ephesians 6:12).

Ronald and Nathele Graham #fundie raptureforums.com

Demons presence is everywhere and poised to pounce like a lion hidden and waiting on its prey. Give them opportunity and they will take control of your self-will. They are spirit beings and they need a portal in which to enter and set up residence in a human body. Portals are easy to open but demons can't just come in, they must first be invited. Christians must be on guard so that no unintentional invitation is given. We have the protection of the Holy Spirit and cannot be possessed, but if we willingly open a door and invite a demon into our life we can be oppressed.

Drug use is one way to open your mind and body to demons. [...] The word "witchcraft" comes from the Greek word "pharmakeia" which, among other things, means "the use or administering of drugs". Though drugs have been an issue since the beginning of time, the 1960's ushered in a generation who used mind-altering drugs to "tune in, turn on, and drop out". In doing so they opened the way for demons to enter. Marijuana, LSD, cocaine, heroin, and so on will alter your thinking and invite demons into your life.

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Another invitation to demons is yoga. This satanic practice is even promoted by misguided Christian congregations who allow this satanic practice into their hallowed halls. Anyone who practices this Eastern Mysticism opens their minds to demons. [...] THis is satanic and Christians need to run from this evil practice. The yoga positions are designed to activate a "Kundalini" in the base of your spine. When released it supposedly rushes up your spinal cord to your brain. What is Kundalini? It is a "fiery serpent". Scripture refers to Satan many times as a serpent or a dragon. Do you see how evil this practice is? Totally demonic.

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Today we see that evil is growing stronger. Remember the man in Florida who ate another man's face? He growled at the police as they tried to stop the attack before shooting him. At first the authorities thought he was on drugs, but the autopsy didn't support that. This was demonic and it isn't an isolated incident. Lately we hear of many mas shootings. The killer murders and injures many people then turns the gun on himself. This is satanic. [...] By accepting activities such as yoga, "recreational drugs", or horoscopes we are going against God and are allowing portals to be opened and demons to enter. Demons are real.

Michael Bresciani #fundie raptureforums.com

I have watched America's decline and approach the dark realms of apostasy and reprobation for these last 40 years, but nothing has caused more concern in my heart than the approaching battle to retain marriage between one man and one woman.

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After more than 40 years of the fruit of Roe v Wade and the resulting 55 million deaths of unborn humans we are now on the precipice of another action that will put the cap on our full national reprobation.

We have allowed the gay agenda to flourish in the American psyche and promoted it with a grand lack of perspicaciousness and common sense. We have introduced it to our children in education, and the weak minded, who get all life's cues from pop-culture influences like TV, films and media.

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Our protection of Israel is weaker than it has ever been, we have 55 million ghosts of the unborn calling for justice and now we may think that it is time to flaunt our attack on marriage and family under the banner of judicial rulings.

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I can say without reservation, that if marriage is perverted in this way, you have only one thing left to do - count time, for there is very little left to promise and guarantee the survival of our nation.

Michael Bresciani #fundie raptureforums.com

To millions of Christians and people who have not lost their basic understanding of what makes up a reasonable life that is coherently connected to the main stream of thought; abortion is still murder and homosexuality is still perversion. To apologize or shrink away from this view requires lying and denying something so basically human, as to be a sacrilege.

The alternative to this kind of natural, or intrinsic honesty, is to follow the path, the yellow brick road to the fantasy land of political correctness.

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Any uncertainty that PC is doubtful, deadly and dehumanizing is put to rest when considering the words and wordy excuses of the PC indoctrinated to cover the deaths of 55 million unborn human babies just in the U.S. and around 160 million worldwide.

For an entire generation we have hidden behind the word 'fetus.' Recent secret tapes made in Planned Parenthood offices affirm that some women are still told what Alveda King was told many years ago, that it is just a lump of tissue. Words outside of the purview of acceptable PC verbiage such as child, baby or infant, are never used, and the words human being would be a considered almost a disgrace.

Politically correct speech has itself become the standard of perversion. In fact, it now has lent new definition to the word disgrace.

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It used to be called sin, until a few decades back when our worst behaviors were called problems, but under today's PC everything is now called an issue.

In fact, PC dishonesty is labeling 'social trends' as social issues falsely. PC promotes social trends and covers gross immorality by means of semantic wrangling, national dishonesty and spiritual deception. Social issues are more often sin, candy coated for consumption among the indoctrinated. Regardless of how strong the trend, some things cannot be hidden under PC's choice of words.

- Homosexuality is still perversion

- Abortion is still murder

- Roe v. Wade is still genocide under guise of the law

- Islam is still a violent religion with highly doubtful origins

PC is conversation rooted and birthed in the lusts of the flesh. It is humanity hiding its worst behaviors in plain sight by the use of choice words to disguise the veiled compunctions of the basest of human behavior.

Michael Bresciani #fundie raptureforums.com

America's three pronged plunge into reprobation - No politics can solve this dilemma

1. Over 40 years past America decided that nine Supreme Court justices got it right when they ruled that women could legally abort (murder) another human being. The battle to stop this genocide has raged since then, but to no avail. Under the Obama administration it has reached all new heights and taxpayers and working class people have begun to pay for these abortions.

2. America was the first nation to recognize Israel's statehood when she became a free and independent nation in 1948. Since then most presidents have supported Israel unequivocally. Today for the first time under Barack Obama that recognition has waned and fluttered to the point that most Americans now believe that in a showdown between Muslim nations and Israel, Barack Obama would throw Israel under the bus in an instant.

3. Thirty seven states now allow "same sex marriage" and the Supreme Court is once again on the cusp of allowing the general acceptance, streamlining and lawful practice of this perversion throughout the nation.

Dr. Michael Brown #fundie raptureforums.com

On a regular basis, we hear the latest horror stories of gay activists targeting Christian businesses, and on a regular basis, the state is siding with the gay activists to the point that now, it is the state attorneys general who are bringing charges against these Christians.

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The bakers [of Sweet Cakes by Melissa, which denied a wedding cake to a lesbian couple] could potentially be fined $200,000 for holding to their Christian convictions. $200,000!

Can you imagine a Jewish photographer being fined $200,000 for refusing to shoot a wedding on the Sabbath?

Can you imagine a Muslim caterer being fined $200,000 for refusing to provide pork for a party?

For that matter, can you imagine a lesbian printer being fined $200,000 for refusing to print flyers for a church that said: "Leviticus 18:22: Homosexuality Is Not OK"?

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What America is learning about now is something some of us have been shouting for the last 10 years: Those who came out of the closet want to put us in the closet.

This aggressive, intolerant activism could be coming to a business or school near you.

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This means that we must push back against the intolerance and discrimination and injustice of gay activism.

And while we know that there are times when the church must serve God and society by going underground, that time is not now here in America, which means that now is the time to strengthen our resolve to do what is right.

I believe 2015 is the year of pushback and that the gay bullying will backfire. And so, while we reach out to every individual who identifies as LGBT, recognizing that the vast majority of them are not aggressive activists, we absolutely, firmly, resolutely resist the onslaught of gay activism on our society, determined to be a holy counterculture movement that will reclaim the moral ground that has been taken out from under our feet.

Daymond Duck #fundie raptureforums.com

[There] are Muslim towns, communities and villages that non-Muslim city officials, police, firemen and others often avoid in France, England and other parts of the EU. But these No-Go Zones quickly became a subject that some politicians and media personalities didn't want people to discuss.

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Part of the problem is Globalists and their satanic desire for a one-world government and a one-world religion. They categorize people as "citizens of the world" instead of citizens of a nation or citizens of a religion. They want to pull people out of their religion and into a politically correct religion. They want to integrate the cultures and religions of the world; and they are trying to do this by opening borders and encouraging immigration.

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I have not read the Koran, but I have read an untold number of articles about the Koran and what it teaches.

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Muslims can use violence or they can use population growth, persuasion and domination to convert the world. Most Muslims choose to use population growth, persuasion and domination, but some choose violence. Some establish terrorist cells. Some recruit people to join terrorist cells.

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The U.S. president is pro-Muslim at best and a committed Muslim at worst. He has Muslim advisors, Muslims in Homeland Security, a Muslim in charge of the CIA, allowed a Muslim in the country that is establishing a Muslim political party and who knows what else?

Terry James #fundie #homophobia raptureforums.com

Unlike the teenagers of the movie Rebel without a Cause (starring James Dean), who didn't know why they were rebels, there is a growing population among this generation that are rebels with a cause. That cause is an ancient one, led by the most hate-filled of all rebels. The cause is twofold: hatred for mankind in general and for the Jewish race in particular.

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Without reservation, I include in [Satan's] army of rebels those who rage against anyone who opposes the inflicting of homosexuality on our society and culture. I include anyone who believes it is preferable to murder babies in the womb so that life can be more convenient for those who don't want the babies--only the carnal pleasure involved in procreating them.

Homosexuality and abortion each bring to the war against humanity the insidiously clever methodologies Satan employs in conducting the battles that he and his and his army wage daily. In each "cause"--homosexuality and abortion--the destruction of human life and prevention of human life through the perversion of sodomy are presented as nothing more or less as the right of the individual to choose what is right in his or her own eyes. Who is this God that He should interfere with man's business?

Part of the cause Satan has inspired his army of rebels to push in the war on mankind involves the whole matter of population control. Abortion and homosexuality aren't doing away with mankind quickly enough. Here again, the evil genius of the master manipulator--Lucifer the fallen one--is seen at work. Mankind must be taken off the planet so life can be better and survivable.

Officials within the UN are pushing the notion that the human population should be reduced in order to effectively combat climate change.

Michael Bresciani #fundie raptureforums.com

What Christians Really Hate - No, it is not the Gays

The bible message does not allow for the hatred of any individuals or group, regardless of their viewpoints or practices. If some hatred were allowed most Christian would probably be inclined to hate those who insist we hate the gays.

The use of the word "homophobia" is subterfuge being used as the last day's PC war cry for anyone who does not want to face the serious nature and consequences of their own worst behaviors.

Not wanting to bake cakes for gays is nothing when considering that Christians are called upon to refrain from even mentioning what gays do in secret - why would they consent to promote or celebrate such behaviors. [Here he quotes Ephesians 5:11-12.]

Regardless of which way these legal battles turn out one thing is clear the only thing real Christians hate about the gays is the fact that more creatures created in the image of God will be cast into an eternal hell.

Concern and sadness about the loss of their lives and futures is something that compassionate believers all share because it is not the will of God that anyone should perish. If it is not God's will then it is not our will.

Dr. Michael Brown #fundie raptureforums.com

With all the major, life-critical issues taking place in America and around the globe, it is absolutely mind-boggling that President Obama has decided to declare war on so-called "conversion therapy," joining in the battle to outlaw professional counseling for minors struggling with unwanted same-sex attraction or gender identity confusion.

This is political correctness run amuck, and the president, with all his power and influence, is intruding himself where he most certainly does not belong, standing in the way of personal autonomy and individual choice, seeking to deprive young people of the very thing that might just save them from many years of suffering and pain.

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It is well-known that many of those who identify as homosexual and bisexual were sexually abused as children, and sometimes, they can trace their gay or bisexual feelings back to that abuse.

Yet the president wants to tell a child who has been sexually abused, who is now dealing with unwanted same-sex attractions, who for any number of reasons - social, spiritual, moral, familial - is not happy with those attractions, that it is illegal for that boy or girl, even at 17-years-old, to receive professional counseling.

This is outrageous and represents an extraordinary example of improper government overreach.

The same is true when it comes to transgender issues.

The president wants to make it illegal for a child who struggles with gender identity to receive professional counseling to help resolve those issues. In other words, if a boy feels like he is a girl trapped in a boy's body, it would be illegal - yes, illegal - for that boy to meet with a psychologist or therapist who would work with the child to help him feel at home in his body.

Yet the president would be all for that child going to another counselor who would tell his parents, "Send him to school dressed as a girl, demand that the school treat him as a girl and be sure he uses the girl's bathroom, put him on hormone blockers before he goes into puberty, and as soon as he's old enough, get him sex-change surgery and then put him on hormones for life."

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Sir, please don't impose your views on precious kids and young people who do not share you radical LGBT ideology. That is a right that you do not have, and it is absolutely not part of your job description to attempt to steal the right of self-determination from a young person.

Daymond Duck #fundie raptureforums.com

The growing persecution and spiritual decline of America is bad enough already, but it is going to get much worse in the future. It is difficult to say how many Muslims are coming into the U.S. when people are saying the number is much higher than our government is letting on. And Pres. Obama has already said he will increase it even more. It is sad to know that Syrian Muslims are being brought in, but Syrian Christians are being refused entry. Bringing non-Christians in and keeping Christians out changes things.

Increasing the population of Muslims is going to mean more mosques; more demands to stop monitoring mosques, more demands to stop profiling Muslims; more demands to bring in extended families of Muslims; more demands for Muslim prayers before Congress, at city council meetings and the like.

It will mean more demands for Sharia Law: more attempts to get rid of the Bible, portray Christians as hate-mongers and extremists, send Christians to sensitivity training, get rid of chaplains in the military and the like; more demands to change school textbooks, lunch menus, etc. and perhaps more terrorist attacks, especially on churches.

Muslims are coming (and being brought) to the U.S. for many reasons, but the primary reason they are coming is to fundamentally transform the U.S. into a Muslim nation.

I have been to Mexico and seen many faithful Hispanic Christians. The vast majority is nominal at best. About 75-80%, say they are Catholic. They say they are Catholic because their parents were Catholic or they believe they were born Catholic. But their Catholic beliefs are far from traditional mainline Christianity. In many cases, their beliefs have been blended with ritualism, magic, voodoo, varied Indian cultural practices and the like.

Several years ago, a missionary took my wife and me to a Roman Catholic Church in Mexico and a voodoo ceremony was being performed in the church. I am not against legalized immigration (and I don’t blame anyone for seeking a better life), but I am saying that letting 25-30 million people with many kinds of strange beliefs come into the U.S. in the next 4 to 5 years (and not letting Christians in) will decrease the percentage of true Christians in the U.S.

Understand that the Bible is not wrong. Every jot and tittle will be fulfilled including what it says about persecution. Understand too, that what Islamic terrorists do in other countries (behead Christians, burn churches, burn people alive, cut babies in two, sell people into slavery) they will also do in the U.S. Their threats to raise the Islamic State flag over the White House and to blow up the White House should be taken seriously.

The spirit of Antichrist is already here and a flood of epic proportions is on the way. It will further weaken the U.S. spiritually and we should be concerned for our Lord, our children, our grandchildren, others and ourselves.

Daymond Duck #fundie raptureforums.com

[N]ew Hispanic voters will increase the percentage of people in the U.S. that will support the merger of Canada, Mexico and the U.S. into the North American Union and they will decrease the percentage of people in the U.S. that will oppose the merger. These unsuspecting Hispanics are pawns in an Obama scheme to garner support for the North American Union. Don’t forget that Henry Kissinger said that Pres. Obama has been chosen to bring in the New World Order.

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Existing laws and rules will be changed to force communities to accept these Hispanics and Muslims; to deny grants, benefits, etc. to those who oppose this; to allow those who oppose this to be sued; and at some point, to give these Hispanics and Muslims preference over existing U.S. citizens. Put another way, in the future there will be two nations inside the U.S.

1) A nation of Hispanic and Muslim immigrants with preferred status and benefits, and 2) A nation of second class citizens who have lived here all their lives and won’t qualify for preferred status and many benefits. Pres. Obama plans to force the Border Patrol and ICE to keep the border open and not deport illegal aliens, and he plans to ignore court rulings that go against this scheme. This will fundamentally transform America.

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Seven million immigrants in one year will change the demographics of the U.S. in a hurry. Giving them benefits costs a ton of money and there could be a lot of terrorists in a group that size.

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I suspect that Pres. Obama, Eric Holder and George Soros brought in Al Sharpton and others to intervene in the Trayvon Martin (Sanford FLA) and Michael Brown (Ferguson MO) cases because they want to insure the support of the African American community when they elevate the status of the Hispanic and Muslim immigrants and lower the status of non-black existing citizens.

I see no other reason for Mr. Obama and the others to pre-maturely condemn innocent men, stir up African American opposition to the police and non-blacks, cry racial profiling and to call for new mechanisms to deal with police misconduct. If I was a betting man, I would bet that these new mechanisms are Muslim-friendly.

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Everyone should be very concerned especially women, gays, non-Muslims, young people and those who can be threatened with losing their government benefits if they refuse to toe the line.

Todd Strandberg #fundie raptureforums.com

A nation has reached its most sinful state when acts of profound immorality occur without being noticed. Hardly a day goes by when I don't find examples of how this reality applies to our generation.

A few days ago I ran across a news article that read, "Jesse Tyler Ferguson's husband Justin Mikita won't be charged in a deadly crash that occurred back in November 2014." The story was about the husband of a Hollywood actor who was involved in a car wreck where someone in another vehicle died. The article didn't bother to mention that the actor involved is in a homosexual relationship.

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What set us on this path of sin becoming a seemingly irreversible commonality is the death of the Christian apologists in America. Back in the 1980s, there were dozens of ministries that specialized in shining the light of truth on errors in the church and the nation. People cared because if you became a target of moral watchdogs, your career or business could be severely impacted.

Bryan Fischer #fundie raptureforums.com

Once again this Christmas season, Americans are forced to deal with the travesty of satanic displays in state government buildings. Such displays have been erected or are being proposed in Oklahoma, Michigan and Florida.

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Does the Constitution require us to put up with this idiocy?

It all depends on whether we use the Constitution as given to us by the Founders or the one mangled beyond recognition by the Supreme Court.

If we use Jefferson's Constitution, the answer is a flat no. We do not have to put up with such errant nonsense unless we want to. If we use the one butchered by the Supreme Court, however, we may have no choice.

According to Joseph Story, the longest serving associate justice in Supreme Court history, the Founders were dealing exclusively with Christianity, and not religion in general, when they drafted the First Amendment.


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They weren't dealing with alternative religions at all. They were neither endorsing them nor prohibiting them. They intended to leave all matters of religious expression up the states, and keep the central government, and every branch of it, including the judiciary, out of the equation altogether.

They flatly prohibited the central government (including the judiciary) from interfering in any way whatsoever with the exercise of religion in the various individual states. Regulating religious expression was literally to be none of the central government's business.

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This kind of freedom is what Joseph Story said the Founders intended, and this is the kind of freedom that Thomas Jefferson, the icon of religious liberty, practiced as president. They were right. Perhaps it's time we embraced the Founders and their view of religious liberty once again.

Railfan727 #fundie raptureforums.com

(On the subject of the Titanic sinking)

Recall that the designers of the ship claimed that "not even God Himself could sink this ship"...

Suddenly, it dawned on me... I realized that the engineers crossed a line with God with this statement, and that God may have carefully orchestrated these factors in order to prove a point (and I think that he may have arranged to have His creation on full display as part of this as well). I suspect that if they had something else along the lines of "we are confident this ship can handle every incident or accident scenario that has ever occurred, and then some" or something like that, things may have turned out differently... I think it was the direct, personal mocking of God that brought this disaster about.

iSong 6:3 #fundie raptureforums.com

[Responding to: Sen. Ted Cruz was booed offstage at a conference for Middle Eastern Christians Wednesday night after saying that “Christians have no greater ally than Israel.”]

Time and time again we see that Arabs of any persuasion - even those who think themselves *Christian* because they were baptized into the Eastern Orthodox or Catholic church as babies - are more loyal to Arabs of any persuasion than they are to Christians or the Jews who are kinder to them than the ones they are purportedly trying to be defended against - Arabs of different persuasions. It's crazy.

railfan727 #fundie raptureforums.com

I would love to see Ted Cruz as President!!! But, sadly, I don't think it will happen... it seems that the government of this nation has been given over to the Enemy, and the Enemy surely has a giant bull's-eye on Cruz's back by now. Either a literal bull's eye, or by stirring up a scandal or something else to discredit him and take away his votes. Or simply voter fraud on an epic scale.

I do not believe he will ever have the chance to step foot in the Oval Office, as badly as he's needed there

Gina Miller #fundie raptureforums.com

When we sign up on Facebook, we should know that it is a company run by liberals. The young CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, is a leftist and known supporter of Barack Obama (or whatever his name is). That should tell you plenty about where his sympathies lie. Facebook's notorious censorship of conservatives and pro-family advocates comes as no surprise, although it's utterly detestable in a "free" society like ours is supposed to be. I have known people who have had their pro-life, pro-family pages deleted by Facebook without warning or explanation, including Americans for Truth About Homosexuality's Peter LaBarbera, who had his personal page deleted without reason or notification, although the reason was undoubtedly the iron fist of "political correctness," since Pete tells the truth about the immoral, unnatural and unhealthy behavior of homosexuality and its tyrannical, activist movement.

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Meanwhile, I'll continue to use Facebook until its censors delete my page for containing soon-to-be-outlawed "hate speech," since I speak the truth about their beloved Dear Leader, his evil schemes and the vile agenda of the radical Left.

Aneriz #fundie raptureforums.com

[In response to a Slenderman article]

I refuse to quote from that page.

I am just going to say that demons will ride the pages of fiction when the authors are open to the occult. The evidence is that it conceives thoughts of hatred and gives birth to violence.

Be aware that of which the allure is fright. There is no darkness in God.

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