Very true, indeed.....

"Marriage Equality" proponents' next step, is to open the floodgates to any type of marriage.

Some people say that those who believe in the biblical way of understanding of marriage, are just using the slippery rope argument in order to oppose marriage equality.

Now we have now that the reasonable end to this drive for equality, means that marriage will be open to all kind of "adult" arrangements. 

So the truth finally comes out, and we find it in the most comprehensive, and outspoken way. 

There are calls to legalize polygamy, since it will supposedly be a good thing for the family unit. Read what the Slate has published, and be convinced yourself.

I knew Cindy Jacobs was a false prophet. She confirmed it herself.

This is the way some people try to capitalize in the tragedy that just happened in Boston:

I am posting it here, but you can read it also in her own page.

By the way, I think we should pray everyday.

Cindy Jacobs‏@cindyjacobsI had tweeted that we need to pray on this day. Also been warning about a multiple bombing taking place in America! So sad! Two have died

 

Her Legacy..took from the poor and gave to the rich. The rich reward her in her death.

And many grew up believing the contrary

Carl Trueman - The Creedal Imperative

Creedal Imperative from Westminster Theological Seminary on Vimeo.

Syrian Christians flee. No "Eschatologist" can explain such an attack against the Christian faith.

There has been a mass exodus of 2.3 million Christians from Syria. Of the 60,000 Christians in Homs (third largest city), less than 1,000 remain. Christians are killed and tortured while their women are raped and churches destroyed.  "Terrorists" with green or black headbands beat up Christians and destroy their property, or use them as human shields on battlefields. Many  senior leaders of the Syrian churches have fled to Lebanon for safety, along with their church members (Christian Post 28/3/13).

Muslims are not reproducing as they were expetcted.

Global Muslim fertility rates have declined rapidly through a “flight from marriage” by Muslim women, and other causes. Demographer Eberstadt found across 49 Muslim countries fertility rates had declined an average 41% between 1975 – 2010, compared to a 33% decline for the world as a whole. Fertility in Iran declined by 70% to below replacement levels (Australian Prayer Network 1/4/13).

Dutch Court Says Pedophilia Advocacy Group Martijn Can Continue

Take a look at what the level of  morality some have on this regard. Children are our most sacred sacred things we have, for some, they are just prey.
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by Cíntia Taylor Apr 5, 2013 4:45 AM EDT

Judges in the Netherlands have ruled that an organization that wants to legalize pedophilia can continue to exist. Cintia Taylor speaks with the group’s most recent leader.

When Marthijn Uittenbogaard’s lawyer contacted him with the news that his pro-pedophilia group could continue to exist, he took to Twitter: “Fortunately, there are still wise judges,” he wrote. Uittenbogaard was the last leader of Martijn, a foundation established in 1982 to promote the legalization of consensual sex between adults and children in The Netherlands. (The similarity of the names Marthijn and Martijn is a coincidence.)

The group has been fighting a legal battle with the country’s Public Prosecution Service which has been seeking its dismantling since 2010. Last year a court ruled that Martijn be banned on charges that it glorified sexual relations between adults and children. But the appeals court in the northern town of Leeuwarden has now overturned that decision, claiming that although the work of the organization is contradictory to public order, there is no evidence leading to “a threat of disrupting society.”

Uittenbogaard, 40, sees this as a victory for freedom of expression. He thinks society can be very overprotective. “A child can see a lot of violence on television, on every cartoon there’s violence, on movies people get killed,” he explains, “But when Janet Jackson’s breast is shown at the Super Bowl people say: ‘Oh children are watching this.’ Nakedness and everything concerning sexuality is a taboo and violence is the norm. And I think that should be the other way around.” He further believes “almost everyone has pedophile feelings in them. Only the percentage is different, some have more than others.”

According to Uittenborgaard, pedophilia is not only about sex. He is, in fact, against penetration when it comes to small children, but he thinks that those above 12 years old are wise enough to decide whether they want to have intercourse with an adult. But child psychologist Sanderijn van der Doef disagrees. She admits children are aware of their sexuality at an early age, but “they can’t understand the consequences of their decisions, including those related to their sexuality.”

At the height of its activities, Martijn had 650 members, published a quarterly magazine and hosted a website featuring chat rooms, forums, and news archives on pedophilia-related stories.

In 2007 the organization came under fire after a member published on its website photos of children of the royal family, including of the crown prince’s daughter, princess Amalia. Then in 2011, former leader Ad van der Berg was sentenced to four years in prison for possession of child pornography, some 157,500 photos and videos, including 12,000 in which he could be seen posing.

Uittenbogaard stresses that Martijn doesn’t promote or incite acts of pedophilia. In fact, he claims, they discourage sex with children. Not only because it’s illegal, but also because the current moral context surrounding the practice would be too hard for the child to cope with. Instead, Martijn strives for a change in the law and in society.

To jurisprudence professor Roel Schutgens from the Radboud University, it’s this aspect of the organization that makes this case so difficult: “They say sexual contact between adults and children is OK and at the same time they say the law should be obeyed. They definitely don’t ask for illegality.”

Schutgens explains the judges’ decision is a clear message regarding freedom of expression in The Netherlands: “The court is saying we’re a democratic society which can protect itself against whatever the foundation Martijn says in the sphere of free debate.”

The judges reviewed the content of the organization’s website and concluded there were no illegal acts performed by the organization. Had they committed a crime, then it would have been easy to dismantle the organization, says Schutgens. He also clarifies that the group cannot be held responsible for individual criminal acts of its members.

In recent years large-scale pedophilia cases have caused much debate in the Netherlands regarding the way the justice system should deal with pedophiles. In 2010, a man in Amsterdam was arrested for abusing at least 87 children while working as a nanny. He is thought to have been a member of Martijn, and admitted to abusing the children. And an investigation by the newspaper NRC and Radio Netherlands Worldwide also reported widespread abuse in Roman Catholic institutions between 1945 and 1985. The report led to an investigation by the church which has found that up to 20,000 Dutch children may have been abused during that period.

Suspects and convicted criminals enjoy the right to privacy in The Netherlands; their last names are never revealed and their faces are partially covered in photos published by the media. But many are now wondering whether the right to privacy should prevail over child protection.

The Dutch parties ChristenUnie (Christian Union) and CDA (Christian Democratic People’s Party) have already started working on a bill to ban pro-pedophilia groups. To Arie Slob, leader of the parliamentary group of ChristenUnie, this is a no brainer: “The protection of children transcends the right to freedom of expression. Freedom cannot be used as a way to corrode basic rights, in this case those of children.”

Marthijn Uittenbogaard doesn’t want to continue leading the organization Martijn, which has now been reduced to some 60 members. He spends his days playing videogames at home: “No one will hire me,” he says. He survives on his father’s inheritance and his partner’s paycheck. But he’ll continue fighting for the rights of pedophiles.

Cíntia Taylor is a freelance journalist based in Amsterdam. She often reports on her home country, Portugal. Her work can also be heard on Radio France International and read on Deutsche Welle.

Gay Marriage supporters are not so bright in their memes

Raising a cartoon character.  And none of them really exist... you might not have the best argument for your position...

Top scholars including N.T. Wright headed to Australia in July

From Eternity Newspaper

NEWS | Sophie Timothy

Thursday 4 April 2013

Writer and popular New Testament theologian N.T. Wright will be among hundreds of scholars visiting Perth in July for the largest gathering of New Testament specialists ever to be held in the southern hemisphere.

It will be the first time the Society for New Testament Studies has met in Australasia, and a number of local scholars have been selected to present papers alongside their international counterparts.  Among them are Ridley Melbourne’s Principal Brian Rosner (formerly of Moore College, Sydney) and Theology Lecturer Mike Bird (previously of Queensland Theological College).

Mike is currently working on a New Testament Introduction co-authored with N.T. Wright and he’s organised for N.T. Wright to spend a week in Melbourne before heading to Perth.

N.T. Wright will speak at three public conferences in Melbourne during the week of July 16-20, the first of which will be held at Ridley, where he will speak on “Paul, Jesus, and the Mission of God’s People”, while the second conference is based on his new book: “Paul and the faithfulness of God”. He’ll then finish his visit to Melbourne with some filming and a two-day conference for the Uniting Church of Australia on “Wisdom’s Feasts” before leaving for Perth.

N.T. Wright is a Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, and was the Bishop of Durham until 2010.  Not afraid to challenge the status quo, N.T. Wright has made ripples in evangelical circles in the last 20 years by questioning the reformed/traditional understanding of the relationship between salvation and the law in the Apostle Paul’s writings. This so-called “New Perspective” aims to take into account a more positive view of Jewish beliefs at the time of Christ. The traditional view is seen as oversimplifying their relationship to God, as based on keeping the law. The most outspoken critics of the New Perspective include John Piper and D.A. Carson. It is a topic which will no doubt be canvassed during Tom’s time in Melbourne.

Jeremy Irons on Gay Marriage. Could a father marry his own son?

I am not aware of Jeremy Irons views on many issues, and he seems to be on the fence regarding gay marriage.

However, this is one thing that came into my mind some time ago. If all are allowed to marry whom they please, and there's no pro-creation, what's there to stop mothers and daughters, or fathers and sons marrying one another?

Marriage equality, will never be equal, until all can marry whoever, and whatever they want.

The interviewer tried to calms things down by suggesting that incest law would kick in, and trying to poke fun that Irons had said he was going to marry his dog. Yet, he couldn't get away from the fact that Iron's logic, is the proper one, and one that I think I will see suggested in my lifetime.

This is a theme that has been present in gay porn time and time again, and as in the case of other sexual promiscuity, I don't doubt that it will reach, if it hasn't yet, real life.

For all those who like conspiracy theories

April 02, 2013
Conspiracy Theory Poll Results
On our national poll this week we took the opportunity to poll 20 widespread and/or infamous conspiracy theories.  Many of these theories are well known to the public, others perhaps to just the darker corners of the internet.  Here’s what we found:
-          37% of voters believe global warming is a hoax, 51% do not. Republicans say global warming is a hoax by a 58-25 margin, Democrats disagree 11-77, and Independents are more split at  41-51. 61% of Romney voters believe global warming is a hoax
-          6% of voters believe Osama bin Laden is still alive
-          21% of voters say a UFO crashed in Roswell, NM in 1947 and the US government covered it up. More Romney voters (27%) than Obama voters (16%) believe in a UFO coverup
-          28% of voters believe secretive power elite with a globalist agenda is conspiring to eventually rule the world through an authoritarian world government, or New World Order.  A plurality of Romney voters (38%) believe in the New World Order compared to 35% who don’t
-          28% of voters believe Saddam Hussein was involved in the 9/11 attacks.  36% of Romney voters believe Saddam Hussein was involved in 9/11, 41% do not
-          20% of voters believe there is a link between childhood vaccines and autism, 51% do not
-          7% of voters think the moon landing was faked
-          13% of voters think Barack Obama is the anti-Christ, including 22% of Romney voters
-          Voters are split 44%-45% on whether Bush intentionally misled about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. 72% of Democrats think Bush lied about WMDs, Independents agree 48-45, just 13% of Republicans think so
-          29% of voters believe aliens exist
-          14% of voters say the CIA was instrumental in creating the crack cocaine epidemic in America’s inner cities in the 1980’s
-          9% of voters think the government adds fluoride to our water supply for sinister reasons (not just dental health)
-          4% of voters say they believe “lizard people” control our societies by gaining political power
-          51% of voters say a larger conspiracy was at work in the JFK assassination, just 25% say Oswald acted alone
-          14% of voters believe in Bigfoot
-          15% of voters say the government or the media adds mind-controlling technology to TV broadcast signals (the so-called Tinfoil Hat crowd)
-          5% believe exhaust seen in the sky behind airplanes is actually chemicals sprayed by the government for sinister reasons
-          15% of voters think the medical industry and the pharmaceutical industry “invent” new diseases to make money
-          Just 5% of voters believe that Paul McCartney actually died in 1966
-          11% of voters believe the US government allowed 9/11 to happen, 78% do not agree

And if you want the whole, funny and hilarious, survey, you can click here. 

Easter Sunday Sermon: Answering Objections to the Resurrection of Jesus