Moral Decline

Here is yet another sign of the rapid moral decline of America. One of the hottest new video games of the year has a gay sex scene in it. A video of this scene is posted below, but please do not let anyone under 18 watch it.....

One "cutting edge" evangelical church in the Seattle area just held a meeting during which people got tatoos in front of the church during the service.

That's right - people getting tatoos up on stage while the service was going on.

Reportedly the church teaches that tatoos are "amoral" - neither right nor wrong.

This is what is going to happen in the last days. People are not going to read the Scriptures and corrupt preachers are going to lead people down paths that they should not go.

The Scriptures are very clear about how God feels about tatoos. In Leviticus 19:28, God told His people exactly how He feels about them:

Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the LORD.

So has God changed his mind now that we live in "New Testament" times?

No.

God does not change. In fact, God is very clear about his unchanging nature in Malachi 3:6:

For I am the LORD, I do not change

So what they are doing in that Seattle church is in direct contradiction to God's commandments.

But that is what happens when people surround themselves with teachers who tell them what they want to hear.

To read more about what the Bible has to say about tatoos, we encourage you to check out the recent article we posted about this topic on our new website.....

What Does The Bible Say About Tatoos?

In the video posted below, you will see Barack Obama call Islam a "great religion" during an Islamic religious ceremony inside the White House. What in the world is becoming of the United States? But Barack Obama is not the first president to promote this kind of insanity. In the video by Jesse Woodrow below, it is also pointed out that George W. Bush also hosted Islamic religious ceremonies inside the White House and also praised the Islamic religion. Why aren't more Christians speaking out against this blatant push towards a one world religion?.....

In a sign of just how bad the moral decline in America has gotten, 115 girls at one high school in Chicago either already have a baby or are pregnant. Yes, you read that correctly. 115 high school girls at one Chicago high school are pregnant right now or have already had a baby. As jaded as I have become from reading about America's moral collapse, I have to admit that even I was totally stunned by that news story.

How in the world do 115 girls at one high school get pregnant?

I remember the days when one or two pregnant girls at a high school would be a major scandal.

Not that the majority of the blame should be focused on these poor young girls or even the young boys who impregnated them.

Rather, a lot of the blame needs to go to those of us who are older.

We are getting what we deserve as a society.

When we teach our kids that they evolved from animals it is only a matter of time before they start acting like them.

When we quit teaching our kids the morality found in the Bible and instead tell them that morality is "wearing a condom" we should not be shocked when there is an explosion in teen pregnancy.

When we force kids to sit through "sex education" without giving them any moral instruction why should we be surprised when things like this happen?

The truth is that this is what the United States has become. A land where sin of almost every variety that you could possibly name is absolutely exploding.

There is only one solution - we must turn back to God. But Americans are becoming increasingly angry when you try to tell them that simple bit of truth.

In the meanwhile, American society is literally collapsing all around us as the moral decline accelerates.

Although Barack Obama has come out and announced that the U.S. government is not going to make the swine flu vaccine mandatory for all citizens (at least not yet), the truth is that schools, employers and the military are making swine flu vaccinations mandatory for millions of Americans, and a lot of people are getting really mad about being forced to take an untested, potentially unsafe vaccine against their will.

You see, instead of imposing the swine flu vaccine on everyone from the national level (which would spark mass outrage and protests), the U.S. government and world health authorities are putting pressure on employers and schools to make it mandatory on a local level. The following are just a few examples of this phenomenon.....

*If you are in the U.S. military you already probably know this, but it will be mandatory for all active duty members of the U.S. military to take the H1N1 swine flu vaccine. According to the DoD's own press release, the mandatory swine flu vaccination program will start around early October, and the swine flu vaccine will also be made available to all military family members who desire to get it, but fortunately it will not be made mandatory for them at this point.

*A new regulation took effect on August 13th that will require every single hospital and health care facility in the state of New York to provide evidence that all of their workers have taken the swine flu vaccine. Penalties for institutions that violate this new regulation include fines of up to two thousand dollars for the first offense and fines of up to five thousand dollars for subsequent offenses.

*The Hospital Corporation of America, also known as HCA, has announced that it is requiring approximately 120,000 employees in 163 hospitals, 112 outpatient clinics and other facilities in 20 states to take the seasonal flu vaccine, and is postponing a decision about whether or not to require the H1N1 swine flu vaccine until they receive more information about its availability.

*The chief of the Parkersburg, West Virginia fire department is very clear about plans to have all firefighters there required to take the H1N1 swine flu vaccine: "I'm looking into ways I can make it mandatory for them to receive the H1N1 vaccine."

*Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center has announced that they will require all faculty, staff, students, post-doctoral trainees and volunteers at the hospital to take the H1N1 swine flu vaccine.

There are also a large number of people out there saying that their employers or schools are considering making the swine flu vaccine mandatory, but they have not made an official decision yet.

If you do have such a report, please let us know. We would like to publicize these serious violations of our rights as much as possible.

If you are being forced to take a swine flu vaccine to keep your job, now is the time to contact a lawyer. Normally we are not an advocate of being litigious, but the swine flu vaccine is a life and death matter, and so if you have been backed into a corner, now is the time to use an attorney.

If you just buckle under and take the swine flu vaccine and you end up seriously ill or permanently disabled (or worse), nobody is going to help you then and nobody is going to pay for it. It will be your responsibility alone.

Do not make your decision about the swine flu vaccine lightly. Do some research and listen to all sides and decide for yourself what you should do. The health of your family may depend on it.

We have posted the video below as just another sign that the morality of America is completely collapsing.

The reality is that just about any sin that you could possibly name is exploding around the nation?

Why?

Because we have rejected God and we have rejected His commandments.

So this is what happens - we get men who feel a compulsion to have relations with animals.....



If you are caught in this or another type of serious sin, then we would encourage you to visit our new site called "Why God?" that will explain to you why God really exists and how you can know Him in a personal way and get delivered from your sin.

Is America cursed? Over the past few years, America has seen record setting fires, floods, tornadoes and earthquakes. But 2009 has seen things go to an entirely new level, with plagues, infestations, droughts, natural disasters and economic problems hitting the U.S. all at once.

Just consider the following examples.....

*Is America cursed? According to shocking new estimates from the CDC, hundreds of thousands of Americans could die from the H1N1 flu over the next two years.

*Is America cursed? The state of California is in such a financial mess that they are actually considering releasing tens of thousands of convicted criminals back on to the streets just to save money.

*Is America cursed? The emerald ash borer from China and the mountain pine beetle are eating America's forests at a rate that is absolutely mind blowing.

*Is America cursed? Organic Health has posted an article describing how the FDA specifically allows rat excrement, maggots and insect heads to be put into our food.

*Is America cursed? According to one new report, the U.S. government's maximum financial exposure for the Wall Street bailout could total nearly 24 trillion dollars.

*Is America cursed? The Truth has posted an article about how the U.S. government is spending 2.6 million dollars to train China's prostitutes how to drink responsibly.

*Is America cursed? Record breaking heat and drought continues to plague the state of Texas.

*Is America cursed? The Last Days has posted a story that points out that all of the newest poll numbers reveal that Christianity is in a state of massive decline in America.

*Is America cursed? The Emergency Food Supply is reporting that a disease known as "late blight" is absolutely devastating tomato and potato plants in the eastern half of the United States.

*Is America cursed? The very weak wheat harvest this year is disappointing farmers across the state of Illinois.

So is America cursed?

You tell me.

Most Americans like to believe that the United States is "the good guy" and that America is a good and moral nation. But is that the truth? Or is America plagued by an evil and wickedness that is so deep and so pervasive that most of us would rather live in denial rather than face the true horror?

The following is a list of 16 reasons why the United States of America is unspeakably evil.....

#1) America is completely addicted to pornography:

The United States is the world's biggest producer of pornography, and Americans are more addicted to it than ever before.

Did you know that....

*89% of all porn is created in the United States?

*$2.84 billion in revenue was generated from U.S. porn sites in 2006?

*89 dollars is spent on porn every single second of the day?

*260 new porn sites go online every single day?

*Porn revenue is larger than all of the combined revenues of all professional football, baseball and basketball franchises?

*25% of total search engine requests are porn related?

*More than 70% of men from 18 to 34 visit a pornographic site in a typical month?

In fact, a recent survey revealed that Americans are so enslaved to pornography that 25 percent of American employees who have Internet access visit porn websites while they are at work.

#2) America has slaughtered over 40 million babies through abortion:

Since 1973, well over 40 MILLION innocent babies have been chopped up and slaughtered in American abortion mills.

American "doctors" have dissected them, burned them alive, sucked their brains out and yet the American people seem to care less about this issue than ever.

How far down the toilet has America gone as a society when America kills about a million babies a year, and nobody even gets upset about it anymore?

#3) Scientists are now creating abominations of nature including fluorescent cats, spider goats and human/pig hybrids:

Thanks to advances in genetic modification, bizarre cross-species beasts are not just found in science fiction novels any longer. Now fluorescent cats, spider goats, human/pig hybrids and other incredibly weird creatures have actually been created by our scientists.....

http://thefinalhour.blogspot.com/2009/03/fluorescent-cats-spider-goats-and.html

#4) America is now tolerating gay marriage:

Maine has become the 5th state to legalize gay marriage. Several other states are also now considering making it legal.

Recent polls have revealed a rising trend of support for gay marriage in America. Now almost half of all Americans are in favor of gay marriage, and among young adults recent polls indicate that there is overwhelming support for gay marriage.

It now seems that those who speak out for morality are those that will be persecuted in America:

-A Methodist retreat center recently refused to allow two lesbian couples to use a campground pavilion for a civil union ceremony. The state of New Jersey punished the Methodists by revoking the center's tax-exempt status—a vindictive attack on the Methodists' religious liberty.

-In Massachusetts, where judges imposed gay marriage a few years ago, Catholic Charities was ordered to accept homosexual couples as candidates for adoption. Rather than comply with an order that would be harmful to children, Catholic Charities closed down its adoption program.

-California public schools have been told they must become "gay friendly". That includes a curriculum that teaches children that homosexuality is a valid lifestyle.

-Even speaking out against homosexuality can get you fired. Crystal Dixon, an associate vice president at the University of Toledo, was fired after writing an opinion piece in the Toledo Free Press in support of traditional marriage.....fired for exercising her First Amendment rights!

#5) America has totally accepted the theory of Darwinian "evolution" even though the actual science clearly shows that there was a Creator:

America is supposedly "one nation under God", but the truth is that the United States has done everything that they can to push God out of the classrooms. This is especially true in the science classrooms of America, where Darwinism is taught as absolute truth without any room for debate no matter what science might actually say.

The truth is that the science tells a whole different story than what our children are learning in the classroom, but the government of the United States has made it certain that they will never hear the truth in any public school.

To learn more about the shocking truth about this issue, check this out.....

http://whygodreallyexists.com/archives/the-creationevolution-debate

#6) America brutally tortures the helpless prisoners it captures:

The torture techniques that "good" America uses on prisoners include hooding, stripping detainees naked, subjecting them to extreme heat, cold, noise and light, and depriving them of sleep for up to 11 days.

This torture by American authorities often expands into more vicious forms of extreme torture such as vicious beatings, sexual degradation, sodomy, near drowning, and near asphyxiation.

Both Republicans and Democrats, Christians and non-Christians approve of this sadistic torture of helpless prisoners.....

http://signsofthelastdays.com/archives/american-christians-approve-of-torture

#7) America is fighting wars with immoral depleted uranium weapons:

Did you know that America is using nuclear waste to fight all of these wars?

This is what happens to babies whose mothers are exposed to depleted uranium.....

http://shatteredparadigm.blogspot.com/2008/07/when-we-use-nuclear-waste-du-weapons-to.html

If you don't know about the horrors of depleted uranium, than you need to find out about how the U.S. is using immoral weapons that are not only turning Iraq and Afghanistan into uninhabitable hellholes forever, but are also slowly nuking and killing our own troops.....

http://futurestorm.blogspot.com/2008/12/will-obama-stop-du-environmental-hell.html

#8) America's national debt is now over 10 TRILLION dollars:

Once upon a time, the United States was the biggest creditor in the world. But those days are long gone. Now America is the biggest debtor nation to ever exist on the earth.

America was once the richest nation in the world, but that was not nearly enough. Americans always had to have a bigger car, a bigger house and an endless supply of "stuff". So the government piled up debt, America's companies gorged on debt, and Americans made using credit cards into a national pastime.

Spending our own money wasn't even enough. We spent the money of our children, and of our grandchildren, and of their children, and now the national debt is well over 10 TRILLION dollars.....an amount that we will never be able to repay. And if you include the future liabilities that our government has committed us to such as future Social Security and Medicare payments, then the total is over 60 TRILLION dollars.

Now that many of our jobs have gone overseas, the price of gasoline is shooting through the roof, and people are losing their homes, do we find that Americans are learning their lesson?

No.

Instead we are squeezing everything we can out of our plastic. Total credit card debt in America has reached almost a trillion dollars, and it is increasing at a rate which is four times faster than earlier this decade.

Instead of showing restraint, Americans have jammed the accelerator to the floor.

Prices are increasing dramatically while wages are remaining flat or even decreasing. Jobs are being outsourced and factories are being closed at a staggering pace. Our largest banks and financial institutions are teetering on the brink of failure. Homes are being foreclosed at record rates. Personal bankruptcies recently hit an all-time high. And so what is the answer the politicians give us? Wasting even more money and getting us into even more debt.

The truth is that the United States is headed for a financial collapse of unprecedented magnitude.....

http://thetruthwins.com/archives/financial-collapse

#9) Child abuse, especially child sexual abuse, has become a national epidemic in America:

*It is estimated that there are over 60 million survivors of childhood sexual abuse in America today.

*Approximately 95% of all teenage prostitutes have been sexually abused.

*Of all American prisoners convicted of rape or sexual assault, two-thirds victimized children.

*Reported cases of child sexual abuse increased 322 percent from 1980 to 1990.

The truth is that tourists from the United States and Europe are a big part of the reason why human trafficking and child sex slavery is exploding around the world.....

http://futurestorm.blogspot.com/2009/05/human-trafficking-gone-mad-over-1.html

#10) Divorce is at record levels, and it is as common in the church as it is in the broader society:

*The percentage of the population that is divorced: 10% (up from 8% in 1990, and 6% in 1980).

*Only 63% of American children grow up with both biological parents - the lowest figure in the Western world.

*The percentage of married people who reach their 50th anniversaries in America: 5%

If we are so "advanced", then why can't we stay married?

#11) The greed of the United States of America is absolutely stunning:

*1 billion people in the world go to bed without food every night.

*Every 3.6 seconds someone starves to death and 3/4 are children under the age of 5.

*More than 2.8 billion people, close to half the world's population, live on less than the equivalent of $2 a day.

*More than 1.2 billion people, or about 20 per cent of the world population, live on less than the equivalent of $1 a day.

*More than 1 billion people do not have access to safe water.

*About one-third of all children under the age of five suffer from malnutrition.

*The top fifth (20 per cent) of the world's people who live in the highest income countries have access to 86 percent of world gross domestic product. The bottom fifth, in the poorest countries, has about one percent.

*The assets of the world's three richest men exceed the combined gross domestic products of the world's 48 poorest countries.

The truth is that the greed of the "advanced" nations is leading us to a food crisis of horrific proportions.....

http://disasterandemergencysurvival.com/archives/food-crisis

#12) Adultery and fornication are practically the national sports of America, and that has resulted in an explosion of STDs:

1 out of every four teen girls now has an STD and more than 25 percent of the residents of New York City now have herpes.....

http://themoralcollapseofamerica.blogspot.com/2008/07/1-out-of-every-4-teen-girls-have-std.html

#13) Murder is so common in the United States that it is a joke to the rest of the world:

The murder rate in the United States is among the highest of all developed countries, with rates in larger cities sometimes over 40 per 100,000 residents.

#14) False religions are exploding in America at a rate that is mind blowing:

False religion is spreading across America like a plague.

One big example of this is Oprah Winfrey's obsession with religion.

Imagine a religion where Jesus did not come to die on the cross, where there is no heaven, no hell, no sin, no salvation, no doctrine, where all spiritual paths in the world are equally valid and where "god" is in you and in everything else you see.

That is the religion of Oprah Winfrey.....

http://thefinalhour.blogspot.com/2009/01/oprah-winfrey-preparing-way-for-one.html

#15) The United States of America is leading the destruction of the environment of the world:

Most people do not realize that our reckless polluting has turned the Pacific Ocean into "the Great Pacific Garbage Patch" which is a "plastic soup" of trash, plastic, garbage and human waste an area about twice the size of the continental United States that stretches from Hawaii to Japan.....

http://futurestorm.blogspot.com/2009/01/pacific-ocean-is-now-great-pacific.html

#16) Meanwhile, more Americans than ever before have rejected Christianity, and even those who still practice Christianity don't even understand the basics of the Christian faith anymore:

A series of stunning new surveys has revealed that Americans are rapidly leaving the churches of America and are rejecting Christianity. These same surveys also show that even those who still call themselves "Christian" are rejecting traditional Christian beliefs.....

http://thefinalhour.blogspot.com/2009/05/is-evangelical-christianity-failing.html

So is there anything that can be done about all of this wickedness?

Well, sometimes when things get the darkest it allows light to shine the brightest.

Prophet Tom Deckard is warning that the judgment of God IS coming to America, but also that God will be working powerfully in the middle of that.

Prophet Tom Deckard is the controversial prophet who has been stunning the Christian community in the United States with the truly amazing miracles that he has been performing, and he has a prophetic track record that is 100 percent accurate that stretches back over 30 years.

Prophet Deckard has prophesied to presidents, prime ministers, and leaders all over the globe.

These are just a few of the major events that Prophet Deckard has prophesied that have come to pass.....

*He prophesied 9/11 two years in advance.

*He prophesied the end of the Cold War a year before it happened.

*He prophesied the coming of the AIDS epidemic two years before it hit.

*He prophesied both Iraq Wars two years before the first one even began.

*He prophesied the fall of the Berlin Wall in advance.

*He prophesied the Indonesian Tsunami and told the people living there to move from the coast while they could.

*He prophesied the economic collapse of the United States many years in advance and most people laughed and said that it could never happen. They aren't laughing anymore.

Not only that, but God confirms the message that Prophet Deckard speaks by the signs, wonders and miracles that God works through him.

The Lord God heals the blind, the deaf, the lame and those with terminal cancer through Tom Deckard. Children with autism are completely healed and restored to full health. In one crusade in Africa alone, hundreds of people were healed from AIDS and went back to the doctor and were medically certified as having been healed. He has even seen three people raised from the dead during the course of his ministry.

Come and see.

Prophet Deckard will be in Raleigh, North Carolina on June 6th and 7th. You can get full details here:

http://www.jewishprophet.com/Itinerary.htm

Come and be a part of the greatest move of God of this generation.

God is getting ready to do something so big that it will shock the world.

God has commissioned Prophet Deckard to gather the ten lost tribes of Israel (Ephraim) and to take them home to the land of Israel.

After the reign of King Solomon, the land of Israel was divided into two kingdoms - the northern kingdom (also known in the Scriptures as Ephraim) and the southern kingdom (also known in the Scriptures as Judah). Those two kingdoms existed side by side for several hundred years.

However, the northern kingdom (Ephraim) turned away from the Lord God and he allowed them to be invaded. Over 700 years before Jesus was born, the Assyrian empire invaded the northern kingdom and carried away the people into exile.

The northern kingdom has not been heard from since.

The southern kingdom (Judah) was later invaded by Babylon and also taken into exile, but later they were allowed to return to their land. The Jews (Judah) lived in the land of Israel until 70 A.D. when the Romans destroyed the Temple and scattered the Jews to the four winds.

There was no nation of Israel from 70 A.D. until 1948 when the modern nation of Israel was established and millions of Jews (Judah) starting returning to the land of their ancestors.

But what about the northern kingdom?

What ever happened to the ten lost tribes of Israel?

Did you know that the Scriptures very clearly teach that in the last days the southern kingdom (Judah) and the northern kingdom (Ephraim) will be reunited in the land of Israel once again?

Ezekiel 37:15-23

The word of the LORD came to me: "Son of man, take a stick of wood and write on it, 'Belonging to Judah and the Israelites associated with him.' Then take another stick of wood, and write on it, 'Ephraim's stick, belonging to Joseph and all the house of Israel associated with him.' Join them together into one stick so that they will become one in your hand. "When your countrymen ask you, 'Won't you tell us what you mean by this?' say to them, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am going to take the stick of Joseph—which is in Ephraim's hand—and of the Israelite tribes associated with him, and join it to Judah's stick, making them a single stick of wood, and they will become one in my hand.' Hold before their eyes the sticks you have written on and say to them, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will take the Israelites out of the nations where they have gone. I will gather them from all around and bring them back into their own land. I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. There will be one king over all of them and they will never again be two nations or be divided into two kingdoms. They will no longer defile themselves with their idols and vile images or with any of their offenses, for I will save them from all their sinful backsliding, and I will cleanse them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.

So has this happened yet?

Of course not.

So that means that this prophecy is still yet to be fulfilled.

Either it will happen or God is a liar - and we know that God is not a liar.

Ephraim and Judah will be reunited once again.

Could it be possible that God is calling you to be part of this movement?

Could it be possible that you are part of the ten lost tribes of Israel?

Watch the following video with an open heart. If you get a hold of this it will radically change your life.....



You always knew there was more, didn't you?

You always knew that the power of God was still real today, didn't you?

Come and see.

Drive, fly, take a train, run, catch a ride with a friend.....do whatever you have to do to get there to Raleigh on June 6th and 7th. If God is tugging on your heart as you read this, then make sure that you get there. It's a free conference. God is moving and you don't want to miss this.....

http://www.jewishprophet.com/Itinerary.htm

Do you want to see the real power of God?

Do you want to hear about what is going to happen to America from a proven prophet with a 100 percent track record?

Do you want to hear about how the Lord God is actually gathering the ten lost tribes of Israel?

Come and see my friend.

Come and see.

Is this swine flu pandemic a judgment from God for our moral decline?

Is this a case where God has taken his protective hand off of our society and has allowed this to happen?

Or does this have nothing to do with God at all?

Those are some very important questions.

The truth is that we are not going to be able to come to any hard conclusions about this for quite some time, if ever.

But that doesn't mean that these questions are not worth thinking about.

As this website has detailed for months and months, the U.S., the U.K. and most other countries in the world are in a serious state of moral decline.

We have rejected God and His ways, and so whether this pandemic is a judgment of God or not, the truth is that we should be expecting judgment as a society.

God has an incredible amount of patience, but as we see all through the Scriptures and all throughout history, at some point God decides that enough is enough.

In any event, this swine flu crisis is becoming quite frightening.

A confidential internal document out of Texas that reveals that authorities believe that there are 10 to 25 times as many actual swine flu cases as is being officially reported has gone absolutely viral on the Internet.

Dr. Marcus Gitterle, a doctor from New Braunfels, Texas, sent out an internal alert that was not meant to be seen by the public. The words that he penned in that internal alert should chill us all.

Gitterle explained in his internal memo that "what we are hearing privately from the CDC and Health Department is different from what you are hearing in the media."
One of the most important things that you can do to prepare is to get right with God. If you have sin in your life then this is a great time to repent of that sin and to turn to the Lord and ask Him to help you and your family get through this crisis safely.

President Barack Obama has signed into law the 5.7 billion dollar national service bill. This bill dramatically expands national service, but it also places extreme restrictions on those who want to serve.

"National service" sounds great until you realize exactly what is in this bill. The House version of this bill includes a provision that bans all national service participants from being involved in any form of evangelism.

You can find the full text of the bill here:

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h111-1388

The final version of this bill prohibits national service participants from engaging in the following:

Engaging in religious instruction, conducting worship services, providing instruction as part of a program that includes mandatory religious instruction or worship, constructing or operating facilities devoted to religious instruction or worship, maintaining facilities primarily or inherently devoted to religious instruction or worship, or engaging in any form of religious proselytization.

So the U.S. government plans to create a massive horde of young people who are serving the United States but who will be banned from serving the Lord Jesus Christ and from sharing the gospel with their friends.

Talk about the secularization of American society - a bill which seeks to get countless thousands of young Americans involved in "national service" and which will prohibit them from serving God.

What kind of insanity is this?

The truth is that the economy is a mess, wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and in several other covert locations have stretched the U.S. military beyond the breaking point, and many American cities need to be rebuilt. So now the Obama administration plans to use the cheap, conscripted labor of young people to get things fixed.

It's called involuntary servitude.

But this is what some in the Obama administration have been eyeing for quite some time.

Barack Obama's new chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, is the coauthor of a book that calls for, among other things, compulsory national service for all Americans between the ages of 18 to 25.

The following quotes are from pages 61-62 of the book Emanuel coauthored in 2006 entitled "The Plan: Big Ideas for America":

It's time for a real Patriot Act that brings out the patriot in all of us. We propose universal civilian service for every young American. Under this plan, All Americans between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five will be asked to serve their country by going through three months of basic training, civil defense preparation and community service. ...

Here's how it would work. Young people will know that between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five, the nation will enlist them for three months of civilian service. They'll be asked to report for three months of basic civil defense training in their state or community, where they will learn what to do in the event of biochemical, nuclear or conventional attack; how to assist others in an evacuation; how to respond when a levee breaks or we're hit by a natural disaster. These young people will be available to address their communities' most pressing needs.

Now keep in mind that the person who wrote that is going to be the new White House chief of staff.

Wow.

The frightening thing is that it looks like some of Emanuel's ideas are already being implemented by the new administration.

The official website of President-Elect Obama, Change.gov, originally announced that Obama would soon "require" that all students in middle school all the way through college would be forced to participate in community service programs.

Fortunately, the Internet exploded with outrage, and the website's wording was quickly softened.

But before the change, this is what Obama's website said about this program: "Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by developing a plan to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year."

I think that we have had enough of "Patriot acts" and I know that most young Americans do not want to be part of any kind of a draft.

How many of you would willingly submit to mandatory national service?

What would YOU do if you got drafted into the U.S. military?

The U.S. government is taking more control over our lives than ever before, and still most Americans seem like they could care less.

How far has America gone down the tubes when the government is passing laws that ban young volunteers from sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ?

Things are getting frightening.

New details about U.S. torture of terror suspects have come out, and the news is not pretty.

We had previously reported on the coverup of the torture scandal here:

http://themoralcollapseofamerica.blogspot.com/2009/04/torture-scandal.html

As if everything in our previous article was not bad enough, it has now been revealed that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times in March 2003 and Abu Zubaydah was waterboarded 83 times in August 2002.

Waterboarding brings a person right up to the point of death.

Imagine having to go through that once.

Now imagine having to go through it 183 times in one month.

How could we treat any human being that way?

On Thursday President Barack Obama released four top secret memos from during the Bush administration that discussed the torture of terror suspects held at Guantanamo Bay and at other secret detention centers around the globe.

In a statement accompanying the release of the memos, Obama said very clearly that those who had been involved in the torture would NOT be prosecuted. Obama stated that this is a "time for reflection, not retribution."

What in the world?

No prosecution for anyone?

President Obama correctly acknowledged that this was a "dark and painful chapter in our history."

So why is nobody being held accountable?

“Nothing will be gained,” Obama said, “by spending our time and energy laying blame for the past.”

Is he serious?

Is anything gained when we put a rapist in jail?

Is anything gained when we put a serial killer behind bars?

How can he say that nothing would be gained from prosecuting those people who have committed horrific torture crimes?

The new attorney-general, Eric Holder, also stated that there will be no prosecution of CIA operatives working within the guidelines set by the Bush administration: "It would be unfair to prosecute dedicated men and women working to protect America for conduct that was sanctioned in advance by the justice department."

Unfair?

Was it unfair to prosecute the Nazis after World War II who were "just following the orders of Hitler"?

You can read the four torture memos that Obama released here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/page/torture-memos

The torture techniques described in these memos include.....

*Forced nudity

*"Walling", which is slamming a prisoner into a wall

*"Cramped confinement" which means "placement of the individual in a confined space"

*Stinging insects placed inside "a confinement box"

*Waterboarding - one of the memos actually admits that "the use of waterboarding constitutes a threat of imminent death"

*Sleep deprivation for several days

*Sleep deprivation while wearing a diaper

*The use of "stress positions" to cause "muscle fatigue"

*"Dietary manipulation"

*Facial and abdominal slapping

One of the most shocking things in these memos is that they recognized that the techniques that they were authorizing were ones that we condemned other countries for using.

However, the reality of American torture goes far beyond what was described in those four memos.

The truth is that it is documented that the torture of American prisoners around the world has been absolutely sadistic and brutal.

The following is list of some of the torture acts that U.S. military personnel committed against "terror suspects" as recorded in the executive summary of the Article 15-6 investigation of the 800th Military Police Brigade by Major General Antonio M. Taguba. A full copy of this report can be found at MSNBC.com.....

*Videotaping and photographing naked male and female detainees;

*Forcibly arranging detainees in various sexually explicit positions for photographing;

*Forcing detainees to remove their clothing and keeping them naked for several days at a time;

*Forcing naked male detainees to wear women’s underwear;

*Forcing groups of male detainees to masturbate themselves while being photographed and videotaped;

*Arranging naked male detainees in a pile and then jumping on them;

*Positioning a naked detainee on a MRE Box, with a sandbag on his head, and attaching wires to his fingers, toes, and penis to simulate electric torture;

*Writing "I am a Rapest" (sic) on the leg of a detainee alleged to have forcibly raped a 15-year old fellow detainee, and then photographing him naked;

*Placing a dog chain or strap around a naked detainee’s neck and having a female Soldier pose for a picture;

*A male MP guard having sex with a female detainee;

*Using military working dogs (without muzzles) to intimidate and frighten detainees, and in at least one case biting and severely injuring a detainee;

*Taking photographs of dead Iraqi detainees.

*Breaking chemical lights and pouring the phosphoric liquid on detainees;

*Threatening detainees with a charged 9mm pistol;

*Pouring cold water on naked detainees;

*Beating detainees with a broom handle and a chair;

*Threatening male detainees with rape;

*Sodomizing a detainee with a chemical light and perhaps a broom stick.

Does that sound like torture to you?

I certainly hope so.

Don't you think that those who participated in such acts should be held accountable?

So do I.

But apparently Obama does not, so all of the torturers are going to escape punishment and will never be brought to trial.

The word "shame" is not nearly strong enough to describe this state of affairs.

Christians around the world are rapidly abandoning many of the beliefs that Christianity has taught for centuries. For example, a new nationwide survey conducted by The Barna Group has actually revealed that most American Christians do not believe that Satan or the Holy Spirit exists. Even the Pope decided that it would be a good idea to quote from the Hindu scriptures during his Good Friday prayer.

What in the world is happening?

It is called apostasy.

It has been happening for a long time and now the majority of Christians do not even believe that Satan or the Holy Spirit exists. Here is some of the data from Barna's survey:

*40% of American Christians strongly agreed that Satan “is not a living being but is a symbol of evil” and an additional 19% of American Christians said that they “agree somewhat” with that statement.

*38% of American Christians strongly agreed and 20% of American Christians agreed somewhat that the Holy Spirit is “a symbol of God’s power or presence but is not a living entity.”

But it is not just American Christians. Even the Pope has gone off the beaten path.

Hindus are applauding Pope Benedict for including a verse from Hindu scripture in the Good Friday Meditations and Prayers that was led by him at the Roman Colosseum.

The “Way of the Cross at the Colesseum” Meditations and Prayers on Good Friday included a verse from Brahadaranyakopanishad ("Lead me from the unreal to the real, from darkness to light, from death to immortality."), a line from Tagore’s Gitanjali ("Give me the strength to make my love fruitful in service."), and a reference to Mahatma Gandhi.

Since when does a "Christian" leader include Hindu scriptures in a Good Friday service?

Apparently now.

The reality is that Christianity is falling apart and is rapidly declining in western countries.

But where a void is left behind, other forces are eager to rush in and fill it.

Now Kabbalah classes are being taught in California public schools.

The program is called "Spirituality for Kids" and it is offered in Los Angeles public elementary schools during the day or after school.

"Spirituality for Kids" was created by a leader of the Kabbalah Centre International, and it actively promotes New Age spiritualism.

The following is one exchange between a teacher and a student that was witnessed by a writer for the L.A. Times:

"What does greater satisfaction bring?" she asks. Matthew replies: "Spiritual power!"

Zucker asks him where the power comes from? "Your inner light," the boy answers.

And where is that light found? "In your heart," he says.

Since 2006, almost 4,400 Los Angeles children have taken part in "Spirituality for Kids". The Spirituality for Kids Foundation reportedly has almost 18 million dollars in assets, and celebrity Kabbalah devotees such as Madonna are among its funders.

So Kabbalah gets to be taught in public schools, but if you say the name of Jesus you get taken to federal court.

What a great country we live in, eh?

We used to encourage young men to be responsible and to be strong leaders in their homes and in their communities.

Now we encourage them to be slackers, to act like idiots and to drink as much alcohol as possible.

What have we become?

Check out this video of one young man downing a pitcher of beer in 5 seconds.....

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Which holiday is more Christian: Passover or Easter?

On first glance that might seem like a ridiculous question. Isn't Passover a "Jewish" holiday and Easter a "Christian" holiday?

Well, not exactly.

The earliest Christians did not celebrate "Easter".

They celebrated Passover.

After all, when did Jesus die? (On the eve of Passover)

When did He rise from the dead? (During the Feast of Unleavened Bread)

What holiday foreshadowed the sacrifice of the lamb of God? (Passover)

So why do Christians celebrate a holiday called Easter?

Do you even know what the word "Easter" means?

Have you ever wondered where that word came from?

That is something I always wondered about when I was growing up.

However, it was not until I started doing some research that I began to learn the truth.

Our old reference books actually told us the truth about these things.....

The Britannica Encyclopedia (1934) stated:

"EASTER (es’ter). Ostara, or Eastre, was the goddess of Spring in the religion of the ancient Angles and Saxons. Every April a festival was celebrated in her honor. With the beginnings of Christianity, the old gods were put aside. From then on the festival was celebrated in honor of the resurrection of Christ, but was still known as Easter after the old goddess."

So why do we celebrate "Easter"?

Well, the story goes back a long way - to the ancient Middle East.

Have you ever heard of "Ishtar" or "Ashtoreth"? Most of you probably have. They are ancient names of the same pagan fertility goddess. In fact, if you trace the various pagan fertility goddesses back far enough, they all trace back to Semiramis of ancient Babylon.

Over time, "Ashtoreth" and "Asherah" became "Ishtar" which eventually became "Eastre" and then finally "Easter", but it is all the same pagan fertility goddess.

Some other names of "Easter" over the centuries included Aphrodite from ancient Cyprus, Astarte from ancient Greece, Demeter from Mycenae, Kali from India and Ostara, a Norse goddess of fertility.

Easter "eggs" and bunny rabbits are pagan fertility symbols that celebrate this pagan fertility goddess, and they have been used as symbols for her for thousands of years.

So why do Christians celebrate "Easter"?

Jesus did not die on "Easter".

Do you want to know when Jesus died?

He died on the eve of Passover.

You see, in the "Old Testament", God had His people come up to Jerusalem three times per year. One of those times was for Passover.

During the very first Passover, God had the Jews take the blood of a lamb and put it on their doorposts so that the death angel would pass over their houses.

And do you know what doorposts are most commonly made of?

Wood.

And do you know where wood comes from?

From a tree.

So the message of that very first Passover was that the blood of the lamb on the tree covers us from the wrath of God.

Does that sound familiar?

It should.

It is the message of the cross - the blood of the lamb on the tree covers us from the wrath of God!

So for hundreds and hundreds of years, God had His people gather in the exact city where Christ would die, at the exact time of the year when He would die, and He had them celebrate a holiday that perfectly foreshadowed the sacrifice of Jesus the Messiah.

So why do Christians not celebrate the holiday of Passover?

Did you also know that Jesus celebrated Passover? The Last Supper was actually a Passover meal (just look it up in the Scriptures).

During the Last Supper Jesus said to do this meal in memory of Him.

And did you know that all of humanity will celebrate the Passover during the 1000 year reign of Christ (see Ezekiel 45-46)?

Did you know that "Easter" was celebrated by ancient civilizations such as the Assyrians, the Phoenicians, and the Philistines? Did you know that ritual pagan sex acts were involved with the celebration of "Easter"?

So why have we all forsaken a holiday which predicted the sacrifice of Jesus, which is full of symbolism about Jesus, which is during the precise time when Jesus died and rose again and which God tells us in the Scriptures to remember?

Why have we instead been celebrating a pagan fertility festival that is named after a pagan fertility goddess and is filled with pagan symbols and traditions?

The YouTube video below contains even more information on this.....



Perhaps it is time to reconsider a lot of the things that we have taken for granted.

The Bible has nothing to say about Easter.

But it has a ton to say about Passover.

If you do not know much about Passover, I would encourage you to pick up your Bible and to read about it. Passover is a truly extraordinary holiday that perfectly foreshadowed the sacrifice of Christ every year for over a thousand years before Jesus arrived on earth.

So is Passover more Christian than Easter?

The truth is that there isn't even a comparison.

There was a time in America when parents could let their kids play out in the streets without any supervision without having to worry at all. Those days are gone. Now you had better protect your family because America is now full of sickos, perverts and child molesters.

Just consider the following example from Corpus Christi, Texas.....

Corpus Christi Police Sargent Jason Lee reported the other day that he "found a cat that has been severed in half and the 2 halves are separated about 15 feet apart here in the field it appears the entrails from the cat have been removed."

And this was not just an isolated incident.

Corpus Christi was plagued with quite a few cat mutilations back in August of 2008.

Who would run around severing cats in half and removing their entrails?

Someone who you would not want your kids to be around, that is who.

So who can be trusted?

Perhaps a judge?

Think again.

Former Mobile County Circuit Court Judge Herman Thomas was recently arrested and charged with 57 counts of kidnapping, sodomy, extortion and ethics violations.

The former judge is accused of sexually abusing inmates at Mobile Metro Jail.

The details of the allegations are extremely disturbing. Thomas is accused of paddling the bare butts of inmates, and of forcing a young man to perform oral sex on him.

Thomas has been released on a $250,000 bond, but he has been ordered by the court to have no contact with any males younger than 21.

So is there anyone we can trust and that would be safe for our children to be around?

How about the daughter of the Vice President of the United States?

Well, the New York Post is reporting that there is a video of Joe Biden's daughter that is being shopped around to various media outlets that allegedly shows her snorting cocaine at a house party in Delaware last month.

Hopefully it is not true.

But even if it turns out not to be true about her, the reality is that drug addiction is absolutely exploding in the United States.

Approximately 46 percent of those between the ages of 18 and 21 in the United States have used illegal drugs at least once.

That is a whole lot of young people.

Who is to say that it won't be your son or daughter who is the next one to get hooked on drugs?

The reality is that America may have been a "safe" place at one time, but those days are gone and they will not be coming back any time soon. When a nation rejects God, sickos and perverts flourish and morality starts to go down the toilet.

America has rejected God and the symptoms are showing all around us.

A government blueprint for a new primary curriculum in the U.K. is so bizarre that it is hard to describe. Instead of learning about the Romans, Vikings, Tudors or World War II, elementary students will be force fed lessons on sex, drugs and Twitter.

This new blueprint was developed by former Ofsted chief Sir Jim Rose following a request from Children's Secretary Ed Balls.

The following are some of the lowlights from this plan for U.K. education reform.....

*Compulsory sex education will start when children are five years old.

*Nine year old children will be given drug and alcohol education.

*There will be less emphasis on history and instead students will learn about Twitter, Wikipedia and blogging.

*Sustainability and global warming will be key elements of the curriculum.

Sustainability and global warming?

That must be the fiction portion of the curriculum.

But the most disturbing part is the compulsory sex education for five year olds.

What possible justification is there for showing a five year old kid how to put a condom on a banana?

The reality is that the sooner you teach kids about sex, the sooner they are going to want to do it.

Five year old kids cannot handle sexual information.

America is rapidly swirling down the moral toilet, but it seems that the U.K. is determined to get to the bottom even before the U.S.

The truth is that both countries have completely rejected the ways of God, and things have gotten so bad that almost every day now we see new signs of moral decay in both nations.

A new study has found that the theory of evolution is far less accepted in the United States than it is in most other western countries.

A chart that shows the results of this study is below.....

Well, it looks like the data shows that there is a consensus in the western world that the theory of evolution is true.

But is it?

What does the science actually say?

You might be surprised.

We recently wrote an article entitled "The Creation/Evolution Debate" which demonstrates that when you actually look at the facts they do NOT support Darwinism.

But people cling to the theory of evolution because the alternative is unthinkable to them - that there is a God who created them and who they are ultimately accountable to.

As the United States increasingly rejects God, those who try to hold on to traditional Christian values are under attack like never before. The reality is that America is not a "free" nation any longer - especially for Bible believing Christians.

The latest example of this comes from North Carolina. Three homeschoolers in that state have been ordered into public schools by a judge.

What was the rationale of that judge?

He claimed that the homeschooling the mother had provided over the last four years needed to be "challenged."

In other words, the judge believed that the children needed to be indoctrinated into the "American" system.

So were the children receiving a good education at home?

Yes, they were - they all have tested above their grade levels by as much as two years.

But that didn't matter to the judge.

Even while Christian values are being trampled on, the agenda of the radical left is marching forward across the United States.

For instance, same sex couples will have all of the rights and benefits that that state of Washington offers to married couples under a new bill passed by the state Senate.

So if same sex couples get to enter into a government sanctioned relationship that has the exact same rights and privileges as marriage, how is that any different from being married?

It isn't.

The truth is that this bill legalizes gay marriage in the state of Washington - just under a different name.

So how did this happen to America?

Well, when we let televisions raise our children this is what happens.

A new study shows that excessive television watching by teens leads to an increased chance of depression as adults.

And we certainly have a lot of depressed adults.

The vast majority of television programs have absolutely no mention of God - unless they are using His name as a cussword.

We allow our children to watch thousands of hours of "programming" that has no references to God at all, and then we wonder why our society is becoming godless?

The truth is that we have brought this upon ourselves.

America is falling, but you and your family still have time to repent and to turn back to God. We are in the end times, but there is still time for people to turn to the Lord.

If you live in America today and you have a job and you don't need government assistance to survive then you should consider yourself to be very fortunate. A record 31.8 million Americans are now on food stamps as the number of poor Americans is shooting through the roof.

Americans are also losing their homes at alarming rates. More than 11 percent of mortgages are delinquent or are in foreclosure, and it looks like the housing crisis is only going to get worse.

Things are so bad in fact that Deutsche Bank says that the U.S. economy could contract by as much as 10 percent in the first quarter of 2009.

So are the banks safe? Well, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation says that it may need to borrow as much as $500 billion from the Treasury Department. The truth is that is simply does not have enough cash to cover all the banks that are failing.

How in the world could this happen to America?

The United States of America was once the wealthiest, most prosperous nation on the entire earth. Americans lived in peace, almost everyone had a job, businesses were booming, the citizens were the healthiest in the world and almost everything America did turned to gold.

Those days are gone.

Instead of taking care of our national wealth, Americans spent it.

That wasn't enough for the new greedy generation of Americans, so they spent their children's money, and then they spent their grandchildren's money and then they spent their great grandchildren's money.

Now the United States is in the middle of a financial horror that is literally unprecedented in the history of the world.

As we posted on another blog the other day, the total liabilities of the United States government, including future social security and medicare payments that the U.S. government is already committed to pay out, now exceed 65 TRILLION dollars, which is more than the entire GDP of the whole world.

If you don't believe us, just read the 2008 Financial Report of the United States Government.

It's an official U.S. government report.

And you know what?

That 65 trillion dollars does not even reflect any significant money from the monstrous financial bailouts that Congress has passed.

So things are going to get MUCH worse financially.

How in the world could the richest nation on the earth let this happen?

This is what happens when extreme greed and extreme gluttony overcome a nation.

For decades, we, along with many other financial experts and patriots have been screaming and yelling about all the debt that America was getting into.

But nobody listened.

We sowed into the wind and so now we will reap the whirlwind.

Because of the mountain of debt that the U.S. government, financial institutions and ordinary Americans have piled up, the financial system is beginning to fail.

Already, 13 banks have failed in 2009. All of the bailouts that Congress have been passing certainly don't seem to be helping much yet.

The truth is that all of this government spending that Congress is doing will help the economy in the short term, but it will make the long term problems of the U.S. government far worse because all of this spending is just increasing the debt.

So who is going to buy all of this new government debt? China has serious doubts about who is going to buy all of America's new debt. The reality is that the only way that the government can "bailout" anyone or pay for any "stimulus" bill is to borrow.

So America borrows and borrows and borrows and borrows.

If your own personal finances were like that, how do you think it would end?

Times are going to get even harder my friends.

Already there are so many ordinary Americans that are in severe pain.

The U.S. economy lost 598,000 jobs in January. Just think about that. Over half a million jobs GONE in one short month.

These job losses are hurting real people. Do you know people who have lost jobs? We do. We know parents that are trying desperately to support their children who have now lost their jobs.

When people lose their jobs they don't have money to spend at the stores and they can't pay their mortgages either.

Foreclosures in the United States increased by 81 percent last year, and there doesn't seem to be any end in sight.

As more people lose their jobs, more people will lose their homes.

The truth is that there are more homes sitting empty in the United States today than there ever had been before.

Just think about that.

In fact, there are some areas of the United States that are in danger of becoming permanent disaster zones.

Did you know that some areas of New Orleans STILL have not been rebuilt after all this time?

In the "greatest country on earth" a situation like New Orleans can persist for YEARS and still the government does not fix the problem.

It is a national disgrace.

But New Orleans is not alone. There are a growing number of areas around the U.S. that have been hit by natural disasters or hard times and have just been left to rot away.

Just ask someone who has been to certain areas of Detroit. There are some places there that look like a war zone. People there are hurting bad.

Does anyone care?

All of this financial turmoil has also cause a sharp increase in the number of homeless.

It's not just people sleeping on street corners either.

Due to the huge number of foreclosures, tent "cities" have been popping up on the outskirts of major cities all over the nation.

The truth is that there are more people in the United States without a decent place to live than ever before.

And Americans are getting desperate.

Can you imagine getting down on your knees and begging for a job at the dump?

That actually happened recently in the Tampa Bay area.

136 people, most out of work, answered a recent employment ad for a position at a landfill.

"At one point I actually had a line of people 10 feet out the door waiting to talk to me," Scott Hanus, an operations manager for Veolia Environmental Services told the St. Petersburg Times.

In fact, he had 4 people actually get down on their knees and beg him for a job.

At the dump.

Wow.

Did you hear about the approximately 1,000 people who applied for 50 low paying jobs at a new In-N-Out restaurant opening in Nevada?

This is how the Las Vegas Sun described the scene:

Some wore ties. Some wore their pants too low. Some were balding. Some owed two months of mortgage payments. Some spoke openly of suicide. Some asked this reporter for a job. Some asked the manager at the hotel hosting the event for a job.

For some Americans, desperation is giving way to hopelessness.

One out of work Arizona woman described her increasing desperation this way: "When three months go by with only two job interviews, it's hard not to feel a certain amount of self-doubt and hopelessness."

All of this increasing desperation is putting a lot of stress on life in the home.

The Baltimore Sun is reporting on one woman in the Baltimore area is having a hard time hiding her desperation as her husband's business has almost completely failed. Her family's cars have been repossessed and their house is in danger of foreclosure. "We're behind on everything," she says.

She also tells of being afraid of her abusive husband: "He gets very frustrated, very, very angry."

The reality is that according the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, more than half a million Americans, almost all of them women, are abused by their spouses every year. All of this economic stress is making things even worse experts say.

Some Americans have decided that the economy is never going to fully recover and so there is a renewed interest in survival techniques. But is running off to the mountains really a long term solution?

The truth is that Americans have lived beyond their means for decades, and now America is full of people who think that life is over if all of their treasures are taken away.

But perhaps all of us would be better off if we took the words of Jesus in Matthew 6:19-21 to heart.....

"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."