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So, all of you who have held up George W. Bush as a paragon of Christian virtue: how do you ‘splain this?

George W. Bush, outgoing President of the United States, now says that the Bible is “probably not” literally true.

Bush also says that evolution is not incompatible with the Bible.

Adding to his statement that he is “not a literalist”, Bush also hedged immensely when he said that the most important lesson in the Bible is that “God sent a son”. Ummmm… Georgie baby, if you studied the Bible at all, you would know that God sent His only Son.

I saw firsthand eight years ago that the Cult of Bush was anything but Christ-like. Bush and his faithful do not worship God: they worship raw, naked power. Bush just happened to say the right words and the “evangelical conservatives” – who are by far the ...

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You know, Jesus beat and chased the money changers out of the temple because they had turned His father’s house into a den of robbers.

So what would His reaction be if he saw His father’s house turned into an automobile showroom?

A single photo demonstrates how screwed-up America has become…

Three vehicles – one from each of the major domestic auto makers – were brought to the altar of Greater Grace Temple, one of Detroit’s largest churches. They were there to help with an appeal to Heaven: that God might do a work in the souls of the President and members of Congress and move them to give Ford, General Motors and Chrysler a fat juicy bailout package.

Sayeth the Reverend Charles Ellis…

At one point, Ellis summoned up hundreds of auto workers and retirees in the congregation to come forward toward the vehicles on the altar to

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Before I get to the meat of this particular post, there’s something that I’m gonna share here, that I think is nigh worth passing along…

In the past several days, two individuals – each of whom is a highly respected and admired member of the community in this area – have volunteered to me their opinion of WGSR Star 39: the television station “serving” the market around Reidsville, North Carolina.

The first person said that WGSR is an “embarrassment” and that it “makes the people here look dumb”.

The second person was more precise in their assessment: that WGSR general manager Charles Roark is not a serious broadcaster, that he is only out for “tabloid television” and that Reidsville’s television station never tolerated such “nuts like Johnny Robertson” when it was operating as WAEU Channel 14 several years ago.

I agree, one hunnerd percent. WAEU had a much more professional ...

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This is what happens when otherwise normal individuals don’t think for themselves with the minds that God gave them…

It was thirty years ago today – November 18th, 1978 – that the Jonestown Massacre occurred at the People’s Temple Agricultural Project near Kaituma, Guyana. Following an ambush at a nearby airstrip (which took the life of United States Representative Leo Ryan), People’s Temple founder and leader Jim Jones told his followers that their enemies were coming to destroy them and that the only option left to them that afforded any “dignity” was to commit “revolutionary suicide”.

Jones then ordered his faithful to drink cyanide-laced fruit drink. Many families used syringes to squirt the deadly poison into the mouths of infants, before they themselves ingested the fatal fluid. All told, 909 people – including Jones, who was later found with an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head – killed themselves ...

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We do not need any more elected officials who believe that God is telling them to change the world.

What we need and cannot get enough of are elected officials who are letting God change them instead.

(And if more common folk would be willing to let God control them instead of trying to control the world for God, this would be a much happier place anyway…)...

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Norm Fields, who has hosted one of the three weekly live television broadcasts of the self-professed “Church of Christ” cult in the Reidsville, Martinsville and Danville area of north-central North Carolina and southern Virginia, has been kicked off the air by cult leader Johnny Robertson, The Knight Shift has learned.

Fields, who came to this area from Georgia in 2007 and has been working at the Danville Church of Christ, has been doing the Bible Q&A broadcast every Thursday night at 10 p.m. on WGSR Star 39, broadcasting from Reidsville, North Carolina. For the past several weeks Fields has been conspicuously absent. This past week there was a two-hour broadcast of A Word from the Lord at 9 p.m. to fill in the hour that Fields has usually hosted. That broadcast featured a “debate” between James Oldfield of the Reidsville Church of Christ and Larry Surber of Stoneville ...

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When he goes to Beijing for the opening of the Olympics over a week from now, George W. Bush will “worship” at a church there, it’s being reported.

Now for the part of the story that the Bush Administration doesn’t like to talk about…

The “church” that Bush will attend is no doubt going to be one of the state-approved churches that the communist government of mainland China keeps under its control. It will not be a congregation of believers who are free to worship as they best understand the leading of the Holy Spirit. They cannot even appoint their own leaders for their churches: the Chinese government determines who are the pastors and other officials, even installing its own priests for the supposedly “Catholic” churches there.

(By the way, Bush did the same thing almost three years ago and I wrote about it then, too.)

The church ...

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In his latest essay, Chuck Baldwin – pastor and the Constitution Party’s candidate for President – presents a very strong case that in spite of their words, most of today’s Christians… do not truly place their faith in God at all, but rather put their faith in their own understanding and the schemes of this world.

Writes Baldwin…

Most everyone, including Christian people, realize that our country is in a mess. They readily agree that a divine healing is needed. They even use the great stories and examples of the Bible to teach our boys and girls how to obey and trust God. They extol the examples of Daniel, the three Hebrew children, Simon Peter and the Apostles, etc. They use these stories to illustrate the importance of putting obedience to God and God’s principles above the machinations and demands of men.

When it comes to voting for and

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