Staggering Ignorance

It’s absolutely staggering just how much men of “monumental blindness and ignorance” about the Gospel, will go to prevent blessings and hope, to a lost and dying world! The following article came out about the appearance of Franklin Graham and the evangelist’s invitation to speak at the Pentagon next month. (May 2010)

A watchdog group objected Tuesday to an evangelist’s invitation to speak at the Pentagon next month, saying his past description of Islam as “evil” offended Muslims who work for the Department of Defense and the appearance should be canceled.

Mikey Weinstein, president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, said inviting evangelist Franklin Graham to speak May 6, the National Day of Prayer, “would be like bringing someone in on national prayer day madly denigrating Christianity” or other religious groups.

It would also endanger American troops by stirring up Muslim extremists, Weinstein said.

Graham is the son of famed evangelist Billy Graham and president and CEO of both Samaritan’s Purse, a Christian international relief organization in Boone, N.C., and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, in Charlotte, N.C.

He said through a spokesman that he will be a guest of the Pentagon and will speak only if he’s still invited. A military spokeswoman said she was locating officials to respond to the criticism.

After the 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, Graham said Islam “is a very evil and wicked religion.” In a later op-ed piece in The Wall Street Journal, Graham wrote that he did not believe Muslims were evil because of their faith, but “as a minister …. I believe it is my responsibility to speak out against the terrible deeds that are committed as a result of Islamic teaching.”

Graham hasn’t changed his views on Islam, said his spokesman, Mark DeMoss.

DeMoss quoted Graham as saying, “As the father of a son serving in his fourth combat tour, I’d be glad to know someone was leading a prayer service at the National Day of Prayer, or any other day.”

Weinstein, the foundation president, also criticized the Pentagon’s working relationship with the National Day of Prayer Task Force, a Colorado group that organizes Christian events for the prayer day, designated by Congress.

Weinstein said that while he doesn’t object to the day of prayer, the Pentagon chaplain’s office has effectively endorsed the task force by using its materials and routinely inviting its honorary chairman to speak at the Pentagon. Weinstein said that amounts to preferential treatment in violation of Defense Department rules.

Graham is honorary chairman this year for the National Day of Prayer Task Force, based in Colorado Springs. A spokesman for the task force didn’t immediately return a telephone message.

Weinstein said the task force is entitled to organize Christian-oriented events. But he said the Pentagon chaplain shouldn’t be closely affiliated with the task force because it requires that all its events be conducted by Christians, although those with other beliefs are welcome to attend.

A federal judge in Wisconsin ruled last week that the National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional because it amounts to a call for religious action. The judge did not bar any observances until all appeals are exhausted.

Christians Don’t Hate People…

On Jan. 13, about 200 traditionalist Catholics destroyed 13 homes belonging to evangelical Christians in the Los Llanos community of San Juan Chamula, Chiapas, (Chiapas is the southernmost state of Mexico, located towards the southeast of the country. Chiapas is bordered by the states of Tabasco to the north, Veracruz to the northwest, and Oaxaca to the west. To the east Chiapas borders Guatemala, and to the south the Pacific Ocean.) according to VOM contacts. Led by community officials and the local catechist (layperson who teaches catechism), the traditionalists armed themselves with clubs, hammers and crowbars before tearing down the houses.

I don’t care what “religion” you claim to be with or associated with, you are deceiving yourself if you think you’re a Christian and perpetrate violence against any other human being. This is a huge “black eye” for any Catholic person who does believe on the Lord Jesus.

Yeah… this would really make me want to become a member of the local Catholic community!

In America, we called them the KKK (Ku Klux Klan)! The devil himself has deceived so many “religious” people that they, like the Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah and Taliban of the middle east, actually think they’re doing God a favor with their religious hypocrisy! As long as the devil can keep them from reading the Bible and knowing the truth, he’s got them dumb and lost.

Show Me “Mans Wisdom,” And I’ll Show You An “Empty Mind.”

The headlines and top news story yesterday; “The story of humankind is reaching back another million years as scientists learn more about “Ardi,” a hominid who lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia.”

“Reaching” is the operative word here! The article continues… “The 110-pound, 4-foot female roamed forests a million years before the famous Lucy, long studied as the earliest skeleton of a human ancestor.” “This older skeleton reverses the common wisdom of human evolution, said anthropologist C. Owen Lovejoy of Kent State University.” “LONG STUDIED???????????” How long could anyone study these bones. How much time can you spend on a pile of bones?

Common “wisdom?” You’ve got to be kidding me, right?

The “reaching” part is true, the “wisdom” part is a joke! How could you ever come up with an astronomical number like 4.4 million years ago?????

Carbon dating is only accurate back a few thousand years. How then, did they date this, with such “pinpoint” accuracy to within 400,000 years. At Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Scientists dated dinosaur bones using the Carbon dating method. The age they came back with was only a few thousand years old. So basically, when your test instruments don’t go back any further… you GUESS. You “speculate and hypothesize.” (Make it up!)

They must have some of the same people working with them as we have calculating the national debt… they’ve lost count and don’t really care. Their “so-called” facts are so far from facts that it would take me 29 quadrillion years to begin to think like they do, or use the “calculations” of a turtle to plan his run across a busy road and avoid getting hit by a semi-tractor trailer!

They go on… “Rather than humans evolving from an ancient chimp-like creature, the new find provides evidence that chimps and humans evolved from some long-ago common ancestor — but each evolved and changed separately along the way.” Oh really?

WAIT A MINUTE… Do you mean to tell me, after all these years I was taught that I came from an ape, it’s all wrong now? These scientists have got my world all “Topsy Turvy” now!

And for the FINAL BLOW?

“This is not that common ancestor, but it’s the closest we have ever been able to come,” said Tim White, director of the Human Evolution Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley.”

“The lines that evolved into modern humans and living apes probably shared an ancestor 6 million to 7 million years ago, White said in a telephone interview.”

Do you know what the word “probably” really means? It means were making the whole thing up and don’t really have a clue what we’re talking about, but because our student loans are already paid off and we make a whole lot of money as professors, and like our easy job’s, we’re not going to say that we’re full of horse hockey! It would give anthropologists a bad name.

Oh by the way, got any prediction on when we’ll evolve wings, so I can fly to the moon and save from having to spend my money on the space program?

It’s amazing what men will believe when they won’t believe the truth!

P.S. Anthropologists are social scientists who study the origin and physical, cultural, and social development of human beings. Anthropologists study the language, traditions, beliefs, possessions, and values of people in various parts of the world and formulate hypotheses to explain their research and findings. They generally specialize in physical anthropology, archaeology, linguistics, or cultural anthropology.