Monday, February 15, 2010

 

Iran's is a Dangerous Regime



February 11, 2010 marked the 31st anniversary of the Iranian Revolution.

Some of you are old enough to remember the terrifying, daily headlines about the threats to the lives of the Americans who were kept hostage by Iranian terrorists in the U.S.'s own Embassy ...for months after the riots broke out in Tehran.

Remember an Embassy is a place of safety and refuge for foreigners in civilized, and even hostile, countries in most other places in the world ...except Iran. (We Canadians can be proud that a Canadian embassy official was instrumental in getting many of the Americans trapped in Iran, in 1979, out and home to safety)


Around the world during this season, many people's eyes are on Iran because it's leaders say they'll make an announcement that "will provide a big blow to the West" and "Israel will soon be destroyed.

We are wise to examine not only what the heads of this barbaric regime say during this season. But also what they have done during the past 30 years. Only in this way can we really understand the underlying basis of the real threat facing the Body of Christ and all Infidels, as Iran's leaders and other terrorists love to call us.

Remember though:
The threat to your family is from radical and violent Islamism, the ideology, NOT Islam, the religion. And it is Iran's seemingly insane leaders that are one major source of the threat to us ...NOT the Iranian people nor Muslims generally ...despite what some Christians are saying on the WWW.

You can watch an Arab reporter interview a well-known Muslim in the video here. He shares his startling views on this issue of radical ideology which he calls "...our problem in the Arab world".

This site here will educate you more about this threat. You can subscribe to breaking news updates there by e-mail if you wish.

Another excellent and helpful site is that of Dr. Tawfik Hamid, a prior terrorist turned Reformer. You can discover how he distinguishes between Islamism, the ideology that maims and kills, and Islam, the religion at his site here. His article on the elimination of the Iranian regime as a major key to resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict is here.

Please take a few minutes to educate yourselves on Iran and the dangers of Islamism.

Please also tell your colleagues, friends, neighbours and relatives why it is so important to look at Iran's regime as a dangerous one. That's because Iran's is a regime filled with violent men. They are bent on destroying not only Israel and the Great Satan, the U.S, but also you and your kids and everyone else in Western society whom they call Infidels.

Beware because of the spirit that possesses Iran's leaders that drives them to recurring murder of Muslims and non-Muslims alike.

These followers of Shia, not Sunni, Islam are called Shi'as but are also known as Shiites. They passionately believe that by terrorizing and murdering us that they will hasten the coming of their messiah. But their 'Mahdi' or 'Medhi', as he's know but seldom talked about in the media, is not the loving Jesus of the Bible Whom they say they honour and respect.(Some teach that their Madhi is "The Antichrist", the unknown person, organization or thing that the Bible talks about a lot, using many different names, but does not describe clearly.)

Beware, educate yourself and, especially, pray! Our key, spiritual warfare weapon is far more powerful than than the dirty nuclear bombs that Iran's leaders also are trying to get their deadly hands on.

How you feel about these issues I'd love to hear.

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Saturday, July 05, 2008

 

Does Henry Morgentaler Deserve the Order of Canada?


Quick, name one thing that's more contentious in Canada than abortion? Varying political views you might answer? Or religion? Or how to approach terrorism?

All these may be inappropriate in 'polite company' some may argue. But, they all seem to pale in contentiousness beside the question of whether or not one agrees that a fertilized egg in the womb is a incipient human being and to cause that life to be ended is murder.

People of faith, including we Followers of Jesus, seem to hold varying views on the issue of abortion. The great majority of us, however, oppose Mr. Morgentaler's selection for the highest honour in the land ...or any honour for that matter. Many Canadians, in fact 92% of us according to one poll, oppose his getting the Order of Canada, at least.

Ms. Barbara Kay, a commentator for the National Post in her column, Full Comment, feels we do so because the contentiousness of the man and that his promotion and facilitation of abortion fly in the face of the purpose of the award.

"Dr. Morgentaler is unsympathetic to these and all other moral shadings", she writes. "So a significant number of Canadians were offended [July 1st] — and many were more than offended: They were ashamed and morally anguished at his invitation into the Order."

"He was rewarded for remorseless extremism in a morally dubious cause, Ms Kay contends." You can read why she feels Canadians are so opposed here.

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Tuesday, June 10, 2008

 

Might Global Warming Be an Attack on the Traditional Family?


How do you feel about the threat of 'Global Warming'? How about abortion and population control? And what about the so-called threat to the traditional family? The lunacy of the 'left'? Or the 'right'?

No matter what your views might be on one or all of these important subjects, be prepared to exercise your emotions as you read the column by Mr. Don Feder called "Global Warming - Left's Latest Excuse for the War on the Family".

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Thursday, May 22, 2008

 

Is Canada Really A Wallflower at UN Dance?


What do you think about the U.N.? How about our participation in it? Might you think we should have pushed harder for a so-called 'coveted seat' on the UN Security Council ...despite the various costs to Canada, it's reputation and the values of many of it's citizens?

Well, Lynda Hurst lamented we should have in her news feature in the Toronto Star on May 20th. She extensively quoted Paul Heinbecker, Canada's U.N. Ambassador from 2001-2004. He held the job under the former Liberal Government and their Middle East foreign policy.

Jonathan Kay of the National Post wrote on the same subject from a different perspective in his piece on the same day. He was kinder than Ms. Hurst and Mr. Heinbecker to the current Conservative Government, led by Stephen Harper, and their differing foreign policy approach to Israel and the Palestinian Authority than that of the Liberals. He felt that Ms. Hurst's and Mr. Heinbecker's call for Canada to take a more "fair-minded" stance is really and anti-Israel position.

Mr. Kay took flack regarding his position. So he wrote a follow-up piece on May 21st. In it he commented further on his last line from his piece the day before.
"If the UN is an institution where principle must be left at the door, where the only way to gain advancement is to toe a party line dictated by Muslim dictatorships, where our Western allies are fodder for committees and agencies dominated by rogue states", Mr. Kay concluded, "… then maybe the question isn’t why we aren’t more popular at the UN. It’s why we’re a member there at all."
He also said some other things that some would say are extreme.

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Thursday, November 29, 2007

 

Stem Cell Research Breakthrough



For those of you who may not have seen the announcement in your local paper, there has been a confirmed breakthrough in this morally "dicey" area. It does not seem to be part of a campaign to raise funds for further research as too many of these kind of announcements seem to be.

A group of researchers announced that they had "...successfully reprogrammed human skin cells into cells indistinguishable from embryonic stem cells.”

Here's what one conservative commentator, Chuck Colson, had to say about the event and the future of stem cell research controversy.

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Tuesday, November 27, 2007

 

So, What's The Big Deal About Illegal Immigration?

You may change your mind or become more concerned, depending on your current opinion, after reading this short article.

In the U.S., illegal immigration is currently a hotly debated topic. In Canada, my country, it's a big yawn issue for the majority of us ...yet still a significant problem.

Dr. Douglass is an American, self-labeled politically-incorrect, medical writer. Below is Dr. Douglass' astonishing take on my question above. I extracted it from his November 26, Newsletter which I highly recommend if you too read food labels and to which you can subscribe here:
"A lot of people avoid red meat because of concerns about fat content, so they
turn to chicken as a healthier alternative. But here's a disgusting little item
that could get you re-thinking the health benefits of chicken. Not because of
its fat content - but because it may be contaminated with dreadful human
diseases.

"In early November, 212 workers at a single Alabama poultry
processing plant tested positive for tuberculosis. And doctors with the Alabama
State Department of Public Health are still waiting on X-ray results for 165
other employees to see if they are contagious as well. Worse still, two of the
poultry processing workers were found to have active TB - the airborne bacteria
of which is easily spread by coughing, laughing, or even talking.

"Yummy! Chicken salad, anyone?

"Now if you're my age, you may be surprised to
hear about an outbreak of tuberculosis, a disease that's been largely eradicated
in the U.S. And that's the key phrase, my friends: eradicated in the U.S. In
third-world countries like Mexico, it's still quite common. Of the 212 workers
who tested positive, many were Hispanic - including the two with the active
virus.

"It's a well-known fact that a large proportion of the work force
in the poultry industry is Hispanic. And it's also a well-known (and often
denied) fact that a majority of these workers are illegal immigrants.

"As illegal immigration continues to run amok thanks to business and the government
turning a blind eye, tuberculosis is making a comeback in the States. Reports
say that over three-quarters of the TB cases reported in California were found
in foreign natives.

"And what's worse: Some of my colleagues in the
medical community have difficulty diagnosing TB because they're unfamiliar with
the symptoms. They rarely encounter this largely extinct illness, so it's tough
to recognize. (If you find your furniture scratched up, you think "cat," not
"saber toothed tiger," right?)

"This is a telling incident. It reveals
one of the least talked about issues within the larger debate over illegal
immigration.

"I'll be the first one to step up and get a tear in my eye about huddle
masses yearning to breathe free and live "the American Dream" in this "Land of
Opportunity." But the cold fact is that the people coming to America for a
better life are coming here from countries with markedly lower and even
non-existent health standards. In some of these countries - Mexico included -
diseases that you only read about in Victorian novels (cholera, TB, typhoid, and
even plague) are daily occurrences.

"Let me spell this out for you: These
are people with a highly contagious disease, and they're handling your food.
It's more than disgusting - it's downright dangerous. And it's the least talked
about and most potentially deadly danger of illegal immigration. Public health
officials are not concerned enough by this. As for me? I'm terrified. Because
the most frightening part of this is that there are emerging strains of
drug-resistant TB being brought into the country by illegal immigrants who, of
course, bypass the health screenings regularly conducted with legal immigrants.

"You can probably recall stories told to you by parents or grandparents
about time spent on Ellis Island when they arrived in the U.S. Today, people
consider these screenings and quarantines of new immigrants the policies of a
bigoted and xenophobic country. But the truth is, the government was afraid -
and rightly so - of people bringing epidemics into the country.

"The poultry farms in Alabama? Well, they claim that the laws don't really allow for
pre-employment screening because of HIV privacy laws. Which sounds like a
convenient excuse from an industry that relies on the labor of illegal
immigrants to turn a profit. Any why not? The only ones at risk are their
customers - everyone in the U.S. that eats chicken.

"As you know, I'm not a fan of political correctness, so I'm not afraid to tell you that I think it's
high time someone in our government do something to stop illegal immigration
before it brings this country to its knees - and puts us all in the hospital.
Put up that border fence and keep those diseases from the third world on the
other side.

"Protecting our borders,

"William Campbell Douglass II, M.D.
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Saturday, November 03, 2007

 

Homosexuality: What's all the fuss?


Do you think and feel that Christians focus too much on only one of what the Bible calls sins? Do we spend too much time and energy reacting to homosexuality in society? Does this result in us being labeled as "homophobes" rather than "pro-moralists"?

Alternatively, does the stance taken by, what some call, moral relativists demand that Christians focus on this issue above all other "sins". Is the morally relativistic demand that we must all not only agree that homosexuality and same sex marriage are equal to heterosexuality and traditional one man to one woman marriage but we must celebrate these so-called "truths" too one-sided?

There's an interesting discussion of these two points of view by two Christian brothers available to you. Jared Barber, the younger 19 year old, wrote a short article in which he took an articulate position on the first view above. His journalist brother, Matt, thought the article was beyond Jared's years in wisdom. So Matt published Jared's piece and attached a partial rebuttal covering the second view above.

You can check it out if you wish to consider this subject further.

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Thursday, October 25, 2007

 

Why Do Atheists Often Have The Last Say?


Good question, eh? (I use "Eh" in my writing to help people remember that I am a 'Canuk' ('Canadian' for my still ignorant readers from or in other lands).

It's a good question because it's often true. True anyways when it comes to Christians defending what they believe. I'll let representatives of other faiths speak for themselves. I'm a Follower of Jesus. I've only experienced us too often doing a terrible job of speaking up for our Saviour and Lord when He's attacked by those who are not yet as fortunate and privileged as we in Having Jesus as their Bother.

But all this can change! It can change at least for those of us wise enough to read and memorize some of responses to myths often wielded like clubs by those who say they don't believe in God or are unsure about His existence. You'll find these myths exploded in two new books from Regnery namely, "What’s So Great about Christianity" and "The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Bible".

It's my experience in relating to atheists and agnostics that what they often dislike is really religion or Christians ...not Deity. I discovered this by actually listening to their concerns rather than shouting at them, like too many Christians who confuse apologetics and witnessing with brow-beating those who don't agree with them. (I'm always with atheists on their first hate and too often on their second. I too hate 'religion' and dislike the word 'Christian'. Jesus came not to found another religion. He came to destroy religion as the route to God and enable humankind to relate to Him and His heavenly Father directly via His Spirit. That's one reason I don't describe myself as a Christian but as a Jesus Follower.)

You can discover if you'd be wise to at least peruse these books at your local Library by noting who may questions you can answer clearly and succinctly in my short quiz below:
  1. What would you say to another who says that the Bible stands in the way of science?
  2. How do you respond when someone argues that the Bible condones slavery?
  3. Why are Christianity and science not in conflict at all and the latter depends on the former?
Didn't do so well? Relax! You're not alone in my experience in dealing with those who should know over the last 25 years in the Toronto marketplace.

If you like to find out how to answer the questions above that you flunked, you can read the answers as part of a commentary on the two books by Doug Giles on Townhall.com.

In addition, you also may enjoy an insightful interview with one of the authors, Dinesh D'Sousa who wrote "What's So Great About Christianity". Here he briefly outlines why theism makes vastly more sense of the world and of our lives than agnosticism or atheism. His words could persuade genuine seekers that they should take Christianity seriously, and give it real consideration. He will not convince dogmatic atheists. However, he does expose and refute and embarrass them.

If you're an agnostic or atheist, you might find these books and the interview with Dinish D'Sousa helpful in answering some of the things about Following Jesus that bother you. There's a common political expression that says: "If you are 18 and not a liberal, you have no heart. If you are 50 and not a Conservative, you have no brain." In a similar vein, I suggest that: "If you are 20 and not an agnostic or atheist, you have no brain. If you are 50 and are not a Jesus Follower, you have no heart."

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Saturday, October 15, 2005

 

Can You Get Avian Flu from the Vaccine?

The Centres for Disease Control in Alanta, Georgia has announced that there is a 50% death rate from the Avian Flu once it is contracted ...with no known immunity.

Did you know that between 1988 and 1995, the U.S. Government has paid out $57,589,828.07 to individuals and the families of individuals who were killed or maimed by vaccinations? You can read about it at this governement site and this university one.

Did you know that the drug industry is currently lobbying the U.S. Congress to change the law making them liable for the vaccines they produce? Read about it here.

Did you know that there are serious, documented dangers associated with using vaccines according to some M.D.s?

Might this be a reason that Japan has banned the use of vaccines as a way to combat the Avian Flu in their country? Read more here ...

So, how vulnerable are we to an Avian Flu pandemic, really? It's a question of probabilities according to researcher/writer Mark Alexander. "While a pandemic is not likely, we are overdue. Right now, H5N1 is akin to a tropical depression far off in the Atlantic -- one with little likelihood of making landfall in the U.S.", he points out. "On the other hand, it could well become a category-five storm that threatens the entire nation." Read more here ...

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Is the amount of media hype about the so-called 'Avian Flu Pandemic' bothering you? What do you think and how do you feel about the documented dangers of using vaccines? Injecting them into young children? (My 'Comment Section', in which you can share anonymously, will open to you when you click on "comments" immediately below this post.)

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