Interesting but I don't agree with all of it.

Religious Right R.I.P.
Cal Thomas
Thursday, November 06, 2008

When Barack Obama takes the oath of office on Jan. 20, 2009, he will do so in the 30th anniversary year of the founding of the so-called Religious Right. Born in 1979 and midwifed by the late Rev. Jerry Falwell, the Religious Right was a reincarnation of previous religious-social movements that sought moral improvement through legislation and court rulings. Those earlier movements -- from abolition (successful) to Prohibition (unsuccessful) -- had mixed results.

Social movements that relied mainly on political power to enforce a conservative moral code weren't anywhere near as successful as those that focused on changing hearts. The four religious revivals, from the First Great Awakening in the 1730s and 1740s to the Fourth Great Awakening in the late 1960s and early '70s, which touched America and instantly transformed millions of Americans (and American culture as a result), are testimony to that.

Thirty years of trying to use government to stop abortion, preserve opposite-sex marriage, improve television and movie content and transform culture into the conservative Evangelical image has failed. The question now becomes: should conservative Christians redouble their efforts, contributing more millions to radio and TV preachers and activists, or would they be wise to try something else?

I opt for trying something else.

Too many conservative Evangelicals have put too much faith in the power of government to transform culture. The futility inherent in such misplaced faith can be demonstrated by asking these activists a simple question: Does the secular left, when it holds power, persuade conservatives to live by their standards? Of course they do not. Why, then, would conservative Evangelicals expect people who do not share their worldview and view of God to accept their beliefs when they control government?

Too many conservative Evangelicals mistake political power for influence. Politicians who struggle with imposing a moral code on themselves are unlikely to succeed in their attempts to impose it on others. What is the answer, then, for conservative Evangelicals who are rightly concerned about the corrosion of culture, the indifference to the value of human life and the living arrangements of same- and opposite-sex couples?

The answer depends on the response to another question: do conservative Evangelicals want to feel good, or do they want to adopt a strategy that actually produces results? Clearly partisan politics have not achieved their objectives. Do they think they can succeed by committing themselves to 30 more years of the same?

If results are what conservative Evangelicals want, they already have a model. It is contained in the life and commands of Jesus of Nazareth. Suppose millions of conservative Evangelicals engaged in an old and proven type of radical behavior. Suppose they followed the admonition of Jesus to "love your enemies, pray for those who persecute you, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, visit those in prison and care for widows and orphans," not as ends, as so many liberals do by using government, but as a means of demonstrating God's love for the whole person in order that people might seek Him?

Such a strategy could be more "transformational" than electing a new president, even the first president of color. But in order to succeed, such a strategy would not be led by charismatic figures, who would raise lots of money, be interviewed on Sunday talk shows, author books and make gobs of money.

God teaches in His Word that His power (if that is what conservative Evangelicals want and not their puny attempts at grabbing earthly power) is made perfect in weakness. He speaks of the tiny mustard seed, the seemingly worthless widow's mite, of taking the last place at the table and the humbling of one's self, the washing of feet and similar acts and attitudes; the still, small voice. How did conservative Evangelicals miss this and instead settle for a lesser power, which in reality is no power at all? When did they settle for an inferior "kingdom"?

Evangelicals are at a junction. They can take the path that will lead them to more futility and ineffective attempts to reform culture through government, or they can embrace the far more powerful methods outlined by the One they claim to follow. By following His example, they will decrease, but He will increase. They will get no credit, but they will see results. If conservative Evangelicals choose obscurity and seek to glorify God, they will get much of what they hope for, but can never achieve, in and through politics.

 

Bob Wentz 11/09/08

Over the years I have seen the effects of a morally corrupt government upon our society in general but especially in the black community, having spent 63 years of my life in Philadelphia, and most of it working in the inner city, within or near the black community.

Abortion mills, disguising themselves as Planned Parenthood, using propaganda such as educating the masses on sexual and birth related topics; while their main objective is to snuff out innocent lives. Their marketing strategy is for all who could be lured, but primarily focused on the black community. This is evident by the vast majority of abortion mills located within the black community and close to schools. Brothers and sisters, the killing of these precious souls is being done with our tax dollars, and the blessings of our elected officials.

In April, the annual report of Planned Parenthood Federation of America revealed that the abortion mill giant had a total income of $1.02 billion—with reported profits of nearly $115 million. Taxpayers kick in more than $336 million worth of government grants and contracts at both the state and federal levels. That’s a third of Planned Parenthood’s budget.

The total numbers of babies burned alive in their mother’s womb, and torn limb from limb are more than an estimated 50 plus million which include, some figures saying, 16 million black babies. These figures grow at an alarming rate of 3-4 thousand innocent lives a day being brutally slaughtered. Pure eugenics, with the sugar coated thyme of a woman’s right to choose. This makes Hitler’s eugenic slaughter of 11 million, some 6 million being Jews seem tame.

The bloods of these innocents cry out for justice. It will be granted when this country answers to the Almighty at the Judgment Seat for their crimes against his creation. What about us Christians in this matter? These killers have taken our silence as acceptance and we’ve even become known as the silent majority. Our Silence is deafening, it starts from the pulpit, the leaders of the church down to the least of us.  Does our silence absolve us from any guilt in this matter? NO! Even man’s law states that if a person witnesses a crime and does nothing to stop it or report it, that same person is guilty of conspiracy in the commission of that offence. We find proof of this 3 times in Ezekiel, where the Lord tells Ezekiel that the blood of the sinners will be on his hands as well, if he fails to warn them. Some of us even vote for elected officials knowing they support these atrocities. Isn’t the blood of these innocents on the hands of these voters as well?

We as the body of Christ must pray for divine intervention in this matter. We must also become vocal on this issue and active in the political arena, even if nothing more than voting.

Why are they targeting inner city and primarily black areas? Read on! The answer will astonish you, but more so should infuriate you.

The following are excerpts from several sites regarding the abortion issue, from which much is related to our black brothers and sisters. They have addressed it with more incite and clarity than I can ever hope to. 

Much of what is written is by Rev.Dr. Clenard Childress founder of BlackGenocide.org. Other sources are; Abortion facts.com and Christians for Social Justice.

                                               Source: Abortion Facts .com

 In an article dated August 12, 1996, in US News and World Report, results about abortion from the Alan Guttmacher Institute, Planned Parenthood's research arm, were reported. According to this report, "Blacks who make up 13.7% of all childbearing women, have 31% of all abortions and whites, who account for 81% of women of childbearing age, have 61%". Since Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton over 16 million African American babies have been sacrificed for any reason or no reason in "clinics" offering "safe" and legal abortions. What has caused this shift in attitude? Has this phenomenon happened haphazardly or has there been a conscious effort external and internal to the Black community to effect such a change? I argue that there are historical precedents both external and internal to the Black community that has shaped present day attitudes. The search for an answer leads to the number one abortion provider in America and internationally, Planned Parenthood Federation and its founder, Margaret Sanger.

Abortion as birth control and a solution for an unwanted pregnancy has its genesis in two movements that have been prevalent during much of the 20th century: the birth control and women's movement (particularly the feminist movement). There can be no doubt that women have had and continue to have legitimate concerns about their sometimes negative status in this country and abroad. But both of these movements must, moreover, be viewed in the historical context of the ideology of eugenics; neo-Malthusianism and socialism which Margaret Sanger promoted. Eugenics is the science that seeks to improve races through the control of hereditary factors--encouraging reproduction from those who are assumed to have the best genes. Neo-Malthusians of the 20th century based their ideas on Robert Malthus's 19th century view of population growth which was "population will always grow faster than available food supply." Therefore, a stable population requires that 2 individuals produce no more than 2.1 children: 2 to replace themselves and 0.1 to make up for those people who remain childless. I haven't figured out you can have a 0.1 child.

Early on the Black birth rate was identified as a problem. In issues of The Birth Control Review, Margaret Sanger's magazine, dating from the summer of 1932, many of the so called prominent leaders in the Black community contributed articles articulating their views on the solution of the "Negro" problem. Dr. W.E.B. DuBois, Professor Charles Johnson of Fisk University, Dr. W.G. Alexander, general secretary of the National Medical Association of Negro Physicians, Newell Sims, and others helped "throw light on the need for birth control among the underprivileged Negroes." Dr. Dubois wrote that large numbers of children were a handicap to those Negroes "who were striving to improve their economic positions," and that "there was a clash between those for better economic position and those whose religious faith made the limitation of children a sin." DuBois's recognition that the church played an important role in the community not only for spiritual guidance but also for community information on various subjects prompted him to say that "the churches are open for the most part to intelligent propaganda of any sort, and the American Birth Control League and other agencies ought to get their speakers before church congregations and their arguments in the Negro newspapers." His suggestions would be acted upon in 1939 with the formulation of the "Negro Project" developed by Margaret Sanger with help from Clarence Gamble (of Proctor and Gamble) and others.

In the June 1932 magazine issue, Elmer Carter, a magazine editor, wrote an article titled "Eugenics for the Negro" in which he states "that the race problem in America is infinitely aggravated by the presence of too many unhappy born, sub-normals, morons, and imbeciles of both races. Therefore, those fighting for birth control must take eugenics into consideration." From his statement, it is obvious that the so called Black elite wanted the gene pool of the "unfit" to be eliminated.

As can be seen from above, some influential Black Americans had begun to believe in and spread the doctrine of birth-control as an economic necessity and as a way to improve or cleanse the race by the practice of eugenics. Sanger, at the forefront of this thought, summarized the ideologies by saying "eugenics without birth control seemed a house built upon sands ... The eugenists wanted to shift the birth-control emphasis from less children from the poor to more children from the rich. We [birth controllers] went in back of that and sought to stop the multiplication of the unfit." Thus, she made this a class issue as well as race issue. I would like to think that the early Black leaders who promoted birth control devices were thinking more in terms of contraceptives used for family planning and that they would be appalled to see that today abortion is considered by many as a form of birth control which is different from family planning.

Subsequently, the seeds of the eugenics movement of which abortion is only one way it is manifested, are bearing a bountiful harvest today, for every 3 Black babies born, 2 are aborted. Every month more than 133, 333 babies are aborted; more than 41,000 are Black Americans. It is no accident that 78% of abortuaries are located in or near predominately minority neighborhoods.

                       Source: Christians for Social Justice – Black Genocide

Several years ago, when 17,000 aborted babies were found in a dumpster outside a pathology laboratory in Los, Angeles, California, some 12-15,000 were observed to be black." --Erma Clardy Craven (deceased)

Minority women constitute only about 13% of the female population (age 15-44) in the United States, but they underwent approximately 36% of the abortions.

According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, black women are more than 3 times as likely as white women to have an abortion

On average, 1,452 black babies are aborted every day in the United States. 

Sen. Obama had a 100 percent rating from the Illinois Planned Parenthood (an organization whose founder called blacks "human weeds") for his support of abortion.

By his advocacy of abortion Sen. Obama has done everything to promote the killing of the most vulnerable members of the African American community - the preborn.

This incidence of abortion has resulted in a tremendous loss of life. It has been estimated that since 1973 Black women have had about 16 million abortions. Michael Novak had calculated "Since the number of current living Blacks (in the U.S.) is 36 million, the missing 16 million represents an enormous loss, for without abortion, America's Black community would now number 52 million persons. It would be 36 percent larger than it is. Abortion has swept through the Black community like a scythe, cutting down every fourth member."

A highly significant 1993 Howard University study showed that African American women over age 50 were 4.7 times more likely to get breast cancer if they had abortions compared to women who had no abortions.

                                  Source: Christians for Social Justice – Eugenics

                               Margaret Sanger Would Have Loved Barack Obama

by Rev. Clenard H. Childress, Jr.

Revelations of eugenic ideology and the racist practices of Planned Parenthood are unfolding more and more. The public is just beginning to believe what people of conscience have known long ago. Planned Parenthood has diabolically perpetrated their murderous plot to surgically eliminate those they deem undesirable. In other words, kill the babies of unsuspecting minority women by aborting their children .Then, tell them this is a “good thing” for you and your people.

No other ethnic group in the United States has been decimated more by abortion than the Afro-American community. The war being waged upon innocent captives in the womb is led by Planned Parenthood.

What is the strategy? Convince the targeted community to accept their eugenic racist plan by selecting one from their ethnicity to promote it. One of Planned Parenthood’s earliest known projects was in 1939. It was called the Negro Project. A project designed to control the birth of “human weeds” which was how Margaret Sanger  referred to colored people. A project designed to introduce abortion, sterilization and different forms of birth control. This is what a co-eugenic wrote to Margaret Sanger to make sure the “Negro Project”  was a success:

Clarence Gamble, the Heir of Proctor and Gamble, wrote a memorandum in November 1939 entitled "Suggestions for the Negro Project," In the letter he suggested black leaders to be placed in positions where it would appear they were in charge.”

This is a letter to Clarence Gamble, from Margaret Sanger, which she wrote, "We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don't want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members."

For those of you that don’t know, Barack Obama became a “minister” of Planned Parenthood a long time ago. He’s so good at carrying out their racist murderous agenda against Afro-Americans and society at large that they gave him a 100% score on his voting record. Planned Parenthood is following the strategy of their racist founder Margaret Sanger to the letter. Planed Parenthood is saying ‘We have our poster boy’ get him out in front as a lure for their women and men. Get them into our abortion clinics and dismember their children by the millions! You say absurd? No Way? Planned Parenthood’s Valentine cards were sent out to hundreds of thousands of young people in the nation. Whose face is plainly seen waving to them with a big smile? Whose endorsement is given to this racist and calloused organization? Who is used to lure children and give credibility to its hideous plot? Barack Obama, that’s who!

“Thank You, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, ($) Thanks to all of you at Planned Parenthood for all the work that you are doing for women all across the country and for families all across the country-and for men who have enough sense to realize you are helping them, all across the country. I want to thank Cecile Richards (national president of Planned Parenthood) for her extraordinary leadership. I am happy to see so many good friends here today, including Steve Trombley and Pam Sutherland from my home state of Illinois. We had a number of battles down in Springfield from many years and it’s wonderful to see that they are here today.” The first friend mentioned is Cecile Richards who he commends for extraordinary leadership in killing babies who are disproportionately black.

The second is Steve Trombley ; he is the president of Planned Parenthood Chicago. You can imagine how many of our young women have been victimized and whose pre-born children were killed under his supervision. His third friend he mentions is Pam Sutherland. She is the State CEO of Planned Parenthood for Illinois. America needs to know how much these folks were and continue today to be into the head and actions of Senator Barack Obama. How much did he compromise his own values?

Dr. Martin Luther King, from his last Sunday sermon before his death, said “There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right. I believe today that there is a need for all people of goodwill to come with a massive act of conscience and say in the words of the old Negro spiritual, We ain’t goin’ study war no more” This is the challenge facing modern man.”

When the challenge came to Barack Obama to call on conscience, he refused. What most Americans would say no to, he chooses to say, YES. He refused to do what the Dream called for, to allow your conscience to tell you what is right and what would be wrong. You may ask why but always remember this observation. Abortion is a lot like slavery. If it was not lucrative it would not have been legal!

Pam Sutherland of Illinois Planned Parenthood told ABC News, "We worked with him specifically on his strategy. The Republicans were in control of the Illinois Senate at the time. They loved to hold votes on 'partial birth' and 'born alive.' They put these bills out all the time ... because they wanted to pigeonhole Democrats. ..."

Let me interpret. We, Planned Parenthood, told him what to say and how to say it so we could continue to kill infants. Babies just a few inches from birth and those completely out of the womb that we missed! Our “colored minister” was well prepared by Planned Parenthood. Partial Birth abortion, which I will not describe here but know that 80% of Americans don’t want this barbaric act practiced here in this country, Barack voted to keep it legal. The Born alive victims act is a law to protect a child that was born alive after a botched abortion. This is a law that would require that the child would receive medical assistance. Barack Obama voted against it. Barack Obama, with an “engaging personality,” is being used by the leading abortion provider in the United States to promote and execute infanticide of predominately minority babies. And what are most Afro-Americans saying, “Yes We Can, Yes We Can!” They are ignoring conscience. They are ignoring the Dream!

I have a Dream that one day, my four little children will live in a world where that they won’t be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

Yes, I believe it would be wonderful to have a Black man as president but it’s more important for there to be God’s man as president. That his or her character would reflect my values, values that are reflected in the 10 Commandments and our Declaration of Independence. Most African-Americans are applauding him for the color of his skin. They have failed to look at closely the content of his character.

Martin Luther King, while sitting in a Birmingham jail , without the internet, cell phone, library resources or communication from the outside, penned that famous prophetic letter to answer some local Pastors who questioned his use of public demonstrations. Martin, in a portion of his letter discussed the responsibility of the church to address social issues, he said, “the early church put an end to such evils as infanticide” Martin Luther King wrote from the passion of his spirit. That spirit fought for justice and equality. Martin called infant killing evil. Barack Obama calls it a women’s right. Martin Luther King made his observation from a jail cell having been put there for defending the civil rights of those whom had been denied. Barack Obama has made his from caucusing with those who profit from the destruction of babies in the womb. These are men and women whom ignore the silent screams of a lost generation. Can we trust Obama’s judgments? I think not.

Another quote form Dr. Martin Luther King that would be so appropriate here is “The Negro cannot win if he chooses to sacrifice the future of his children for immediate comfort and safety.” It is now imperative that we all hear the words of this great prophet of God. It is obvious that we must reject the Barack Obama’s that have placed us in great danger by their ideologies. A position Martin Luther King warns us we cannot expect to win! Yes, Margaret Sanger would love Barack Obama. Her protégés certainly do.

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