Posts Tagged ‘Judeo-Christian’
Robbing Man of His Divine Heritage
By Steve Farrell In the long battle to subvert the liberties of man a key to victory over the forces of liberty has always included center stage: 1. an all out effort to subvert the Judeo-Christian belief that man is a child of God, made in His image and likeness, possessed of a duel nature of spirit and body, endowed with the godlike qualities [...]
Nil Desperandum
By Steve Farrell Liberty Letters, Samuel Adams, 1772 Human nature being what it is, patriotic fervor tends to come and go. In 1772, when it seemed to be more going than coming, James Warren reported to Samuel Adams from Plymouth about the towns he had been canvassing: "They are dead," he lamented, "and the dead can't be raised without a [...]
Double Standards and Church Buildings — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, An AP story out of Bridgeport Connecticut: U.S. District Court Judge Janet Hall ruled “two public high schools can’t hold their graduations inside a church because that would be an unconstitutional endorsement of religion .” If each student had to “cross” him/herself as they picked up a diploma on stage from the [...]
Progressive Tolerance — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, A couple of painful ‘email forwards’ made their way across the internet this past week, reminders of the Holocaust with pictures and narrative. Viewing the photographs was painful and disturbing and yet necessary. General Eisenhower instructed accompanying journalists to take pictures and record everything because he knew that [...]
No Other Patron Necessary — Algernon Sidney
Liberty Letters Quote of the Day, Algernon Sidney This appears so plainly in Scripture, that the assertors of liberty want no other patron than God himself; and his word so fully justifies what we contend for ... Magna Charta could give nothing to the people, who, in themselves, had all; and only reduced into a small volume, the rights which the [...]
Jim Wallis: Now Violating the 9th Commandment
By Bryan Fischer Rev. Jim Wallis, in his ongoing crusade to redefine evangelicalism as socialism in clerical robes, is now out there breaking the 9th commandment along with the 8th and 10th. He advocates trashing the 8th commandment, the one that prohibits stealing, by arguing that the "heart of the gospel" is the forcible redistribution of [...]
Beware Lest Thou Forget — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, I was asked to teach the next Sunday School lesson, Beware Lest Thou Forget , since our regular teacher has been called to be a councilor in the Bishopric and would be unavailable. My preparation started with a review of the suggested material earlier in the week, a chance to let the Spirit work and figure out how to present [...]
The Optimistic First Lady of Conservatism — Steve Farrell
The Moral Liberal with Steve Farrell Speaking in Naples, Florida at the 30th Annual Eagle Forum luncheon, Phyllis Schlafly, the First Lady of Conservatism, called the 2010 election “the most important election of our lifetime.” She urged the audience to vote for good conservative, pro-family Republicans. “I am optimistic we can do it [...]
“Fighting Words” & the 1st Amendment –T. F. Stern
By T. F. Stern, If you walked up to someone and hit them with your fist, that’s assault. If you call someone a name, such as a racial slur intended to antagonize, that’s covered under disorderly conduct in most places. What’s different about an organized hate rally at the funeral of a fallen United States soldier, a rally intended to [...]
Will the Real Bullies Please Rise?
Liberty Alerts, Eagle Forum, Education Reporter A California judge has denied that parents are entitled to keep their kids out of pro-gay school lessons. Numerous Alameda school district parents claimed their right to have their children excused from such curriculum under a California "opt out" provision. Education Code section 51240 allows [...]
Why Many American Christians Really are Un-Christian — Selwyn Duke
By Selwyn Duke In this age of media insolvency and newsroom job cuts, I sometimes think that restaurant reviewers are doubling as religion writers. After all, both today seem to treat their subjects as matters of taste. In fact, I expect to soon open a modern newspaper’s religion page and read something akin to the following: The steeple was [...]
Man's Origin and Destiny In God — John Foster Dulles
American Minute with Bill Federer "Our institutions reflect the belief of our founders that all men were endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights ... They believed that human institutions ought primarily to help men develop their God-given possibilities," thus stated Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, who was born FEBRUARY 25, 1888, [...]
Culture In The Rye — Selwyn Duke
By Selwyn Duke Many years ago, I was told a story by a woman I knew whose son had been diagnosed with “A.D.D.” She said that she finally had to take from her boy a book a therapist had given him about how an A.D.D. child acts. The problem? Her son was reading it and then imitating the behavior of the child in it! Then I remember when [...]
Battle Hymn of the Republic — Julia Ward Howe
American Minute with Bill Federer Five dollars was all she was paid by the Atlantic Monthly Magazine for her poem, The Battle Hymn of the Republic, published FEBRUARY 1, 1862. The Union's theme song during the Civil War, Julia Ward Howe wrote it while visiting Washington, D.C., and seeing the teeming military, galloping horses and countless [...]
Heaven Ordained Prayer At The Continental Congress
American Minute with Bill Federer Jacob Duche' was born JANUARY 31, 1738. An Anglican minister, the Continental Congress had requested he open their first session with prayer. Conscious of impending British attack, Rev. Jacob Duche' read Psalm 35: Plead my cause, Oh, Lord, with them that strive with me, fight against them that fight against me [...]
Divine Help Alone Sustains the Soldier — Douglas MacArthur
American Minute with Bill Federer Douglas MacArthur was born JANUARY 26, 1880. He commanded in World War I, was superintendent of West Point, and the youngest Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army. A four-star general, he retired in 1939, but returned in 1941 to defend the Philippines. When Japan invaded, President Roosevelt ordered him to Australia, [...]
Obama’s Healthcare Discrimination — The Audacity of the Dope — Selwyn Duke
By Selwyn Duke One thing we get with our mother’s milk today is revulsion for what civil-rights lawyers call “invidious” discrimination. For the civil-rights lawyers who attained their status through the invidious discrimination known as affirmative action, the parenthesized word means “likely to create ill will” or “offensively or [...]
What I Did Was Wrong — Former 'Jane Roe' of 'Roe v. Wade'
American Minute with Bill Federer JANUARY 22, 1973, the Supreme Court decisions of Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton allowed abortion in all nine months of pregnancy. 23 years later, Norma McCorvey, who was the “Jane Roe” in the Roe v. Wade suit, was interviewed by USA Today. She stated that once, while employed at a clinic when no one was in: I [...]
God's Law, Liberty's Basis — Cecil B. DeMille
American Minute with Bill Federer He produced epic films in Hollywood for almost five decades and started Paramount Pictures. His name was Cecil B. DeMille and he died JANUARY 21, 1959. His best-known films include: Samson and Delilah, The Ten Commandments and The Greatest Show on Earth, for which he won an Academy Award. At the opening of The [...]
More Troubling Than Pat Robertson's Remarks — Selwyn Duke
By Selwyn Duke Of all the responses to the devastation in Haiti, the most copy-worthy is televangelist Pat Robertson’s claim that the earthquake was divine retribution. In making his case, he told a story about how Haitian leaders long ago made a pact with Satan, promising to serve him if he would help vanquish their French oppressors. The [...]
Our Institutions Presuppose a Supreme Being — Justice William Orville Douglas
American Minute with Bill Federer William Orville Douglas died JANUARY 19, 1980. He was a Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court for 36 years, after having taught law at Yale and Columbia University. In the 1952 case of Zorach v. Clauson, Justice Douglas wrote: The First Amendment, however, does not say that in every and all respects there shall be a [...]
Hope or National Catastrophe? — Daniel Webster
American Minute with Bill Federer One of the five greatest Senators in U.S. history, the State of New Hampshire placed his statue in the U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall. His career spanned almost four decades, serving as Secretary of State for Presidents William Harrison, John Tyler and Millard Fillmore. His name was Daniel Webster, born JANUARY 18, [...]
A Plea for Religious Toleration — Roger Williams
Liberty Letters, 1644, Roger Williams First, that the blood of so many hundred thousand souls of Protestants and Papists, spilt in the wars of present and former ages, for their respective consciences, is not required nor accepted by Jesus Christ the Prince of Peace. Secondly, pregnant scriptures and arguments are throughout the work proposed [...]
The Mayflower Compact — William Bradford
Liberty Letters, November 11, 1620, William Bradford In the name of God, Amen. We whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread sovereign Lord, King James, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France and Ireland king, defender of the faith, etc., having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, [...]
Almighty God Created the Mind Free — Thomas Jefferson
American Minute with Bill Federer “Each year on JANUARY 16, we celebrate Religious Freedom Day in commemoration of the passage of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom,” wrote President George W. Bush in his 2003 Proclamation. Jefferson's Article of Religious Freedom, which he commemorated on his tombstone, was passed JANUARY 16, 1786, [...]
The Gospel of Love — Martin Luther King Jr.
American Minute with Bill Federer Martin Luther King, Jr. was born JANUARY 15, 1929. A minister like his father and grandfather, he pastored Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery and Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. He formed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. On April 16, 1963, King wrote: As the Apostle Paul carried the [...]
Ten Commandments Display Constitutional
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Cincinnati, OH – Today in ACLU v. Grayson County, Kentucky, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of a display including the Ten Commandments in Leitchfield, KY, on the second floor of Grayson County’s courthouse. The display is entitled “Foundations of American Law and Government” and [...]
The Meat and Drink of the Body Politic — Timothy Dwight
American Minute with Bill Federer Grandson of Princeton president Jonathan Edwards, he could read at age 4 and entered Yale at 13. He was a chaplain in the Continental Army until his father died, when, as the eldest of 13, he worked the family farm to pay off debts. He was in Massachusetts' first State Legislature. This was Timothy Dwight, who [...]
Equal Before God — Richard Nixon
American Minute with Bill Federer He lost his first presidential race to John F. Kennedy by the smallest margin to that date. A Lieutenant Commander in the Navy during WWII, he was a Congressman, Senator, and Vice-President under Eisenhower. His name was Richard Milhous Nixon, born JANUARY 9, 1913. He was the 37th U.S. President before becoming [...]
Unions vs. Property, Employer, Workmen, and Public Rights — Joseph F. Smith
Prophet Statesmen, Joseph F. Smith Excerpt from a 1903 article written by Joseph F. Smith in The Millennial Star, Volume 65, p. 418. There are three clearly defined principles that should be well understood and carefully observed in the relationship which men occupy to their employers. In the first place, employers should be made to feel secure [...]
Do Not Be Afraid — Boyd K. Packer
Prophet Statesmen, Volume I, No. 45, Packer Excerpt from Elder Boyd K. Packer's April 2009 General Conference Address, Counsel to Young Men. Perhaps the hardest challenge of war is living with uncertainties, not knowing how it will end or if we can go ahead with our lives. I was issued a small serviceman’s Book of Mormon that would fit [...]
Corrupt Politicians Are Making Americans Sick
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel On Saturday, the Senate voted 60 to 39 to start the debate on Harry Reid's massive and very costly 2,074-page healthcare monstrosity. When Congress returns from Thanksgiving break the senators will begin debate on the bill (H.R. 3590) In order to buy a needed vote in the Washington version of "pay to [...]
You Can’t Explain to the Ocean
Modern Prophets Speak, Volume I, No. 29 , Cook Excerpt from Elder Quentin L. Cook's October 2009 General Conference address, Stewardship a Sacred Trust. As servants of the Lord Jesus Christ, it is our sacred responsibility to teach His standard of morality, which is the same for all of His children. When our thoughts or our actions are impure, [...]
Thomas: First Things
By George Thomas (with a response from Steve Farrell) A review of Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment, by Anthony Lewis and Liberty of Conscience: In Defense of America’s Tradition of Religious Equality, by Martha Nussbaum The First Amendment was not, of course, "first" among the amendments put before the [...]
