Showing posts with label faith. Show all posts
Showing posts with label faith. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

values - Bloomberg Bans Clergy for 9/11

From: ConservativeActionAlerts  Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 Subject: AUGUST 24: Bloomberg Bans Clergy for 9/11
Bloomberg's 9/11 Exclusion Spurs Outrage
by admin on August 24, 2011
     Religious leaders are calling on Mayor Michael Bloomberg to reverse course and offer clergy a role in the ceremony commemorating the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.
     Rudy Washington, a deputy mayor in former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's administration, said he's outraged.  Mr. Washington organized an interfaith ceremony at Yankee Stadium shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
     "This is America, and to have a memorial service where there's no prayer, this appears to be insanity to me," said Mr. Washington, who has suffered severe medical problems connected to the time he spent at Ground Zero. "I feel like America has lost its way."
     City Hall officials, who are coordinating the ceremony, confirmed that spiritual leaders will not participate this year - just as has been the case during past events marking the anniversary.  The mayor has said he wants the upcoming event to strike a similar tone as previous ceremonies.
     "There are hundreds of important people that have offered to participate over the last nine years, but the focus remains on the families of the thousands who died on Sept. 11," said Evelyn Erskine, a mayoral spokeswoman.
     But the mayor's plans this year have drawn increased scrutiny and some disapproval, as the event will attract an international audience and President Barack Obama will attend.
     New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has publicly criticized the mayor about the list of speakers, and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has quietly sought to play a larger role.
     But the exclusion of religious leaders has struck some as particularly glaring.
     City Council Member Fernando Cabrera, a pastor at New Life Outreach International, a Bronx church, said he is "utterly disappointed" and "shocked" by the event's absence of clergy.   When the terrorist attacks occurred, people in the city and nationwide turned to spiritual leaders for guidance, he said.
This article was written by MICHAEL HOWARD SAUL; full article at WALL STREET JOURNAL

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Sunday, August 21, 2011

GBTV 3 Shows Mo.22Aug-Wed.24Aug + link to free lapel pin + short online classes re US/Judaeo-Christian History

Some friends and I are watching Monday-Wednesday's GBTV.com daily broadcasts of Glenn Becks' online presentations from Israel.  If you would also like to view them, they are being broadcast at this web address:
(Visible via the Internet on a PC, Apple/Mac, smartphone, or tablet.)
The three remaining events are:

Restoring Courage: Courage to Remember

MONDAY, August 22, 2011 - click here

GBTV Broadcast Time(s): 
PRIMETIMELIVE: Event begins at 1:00pm ET  
 REBROADCAST: 8:00pm ET

GBTV Documentary: The Journey to Restoring Courage

TUESDAY, August 23, 2011 - click here

GBTV Broadcast Time(s):

PRIMETIME BROADCAST: 8:00pm ET
Join Glenn and Tania Beck as they visit Auschwitz on the Journey to Restoring Courage.

Restoring Courage: Courage to Stand
WEDNESDAY, August 24, 2011 - click here

GBTV Broadcast Time(s):

LIVE: One hour pre-show begins at 9:00am ET followed by the event at 10:00am ET
PRIMETIME REBROADCAST: 7:00pm ET
On August 24, 2011, Glenn Beck will host an event at the Davidson Center in Jerusalem. Taking place just steps from the Western Wall and the Temple Mount,

GBTV.com Restoring Courage Israel series
P.S.
    A short but informative online course about American founding history as to how it relates to Judaism and Israel is online at:
And the complete class series is available online at: http://pathways.aish.com/pathways/graphics/mmcolumn/55_historyright.jpg
The classes can be printed and you can take a test for each online.
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Tuesday, July 19, 2011

o'we are not a Christian nation - "The Cost of Comfort" (Father Austin Mansfield, Yuma Padre, 2011)

From: rapa Sent: Monday, July 18, 2011 Subject:  Yuma Padre
'Yuma Padre' is our parish Father Austin Mansfield -- A.

"The Cost of Comfort" by Father Austin Mansfield
Posted: 14 Jul 2011

     Roman Catholics were persecuted in England under Henry VIII (monasteries were looted, clergy executed for not declaring Henry was the leader of the Church over the Pope.)  Under his daughter Mary's reign, hundreds of protestant clergy were burned at the stake for heresy.  Some decades later, both were banned under the Puritan leadership of Oliver Cromwell.  When Charles II took the throne, liturgical Anglicanism grew back in favor.
     Against this historical backdrop, colonists sought freedom in the New World.  The persecution they and their ancestors had faced under a national religion in England prompted them to ensure this would not happen here.
      That's quite different from the secular revisionism foisted upon an unsuspecting public by our nation's atheistic fringe today.  The persecution our founders faced made them determined to ensure religious liberty and free public expression thereof.   That determination brought forth an endurance that eventually brought comfort and calm in the religious life of Americans in all our states, regardless of denomination.
     That comfort, however, soon led to complacency, which led in turn to various degrees of apathy.
     Our apathetic population began to seek commerce instead of Christ on Sundays, and Sunday mall shopping superseded worshipping.   The absence of parishioners led to a decline in personal responsibility, and an increase in government programs that soon replaced the role of church communities.
     As Christian communities became less relevant, their tax-free presence engendered more and more hostility.  We are now on the cusp of persecution, with Christians labeled as haters for disagreeing with any political group about issues or positions antithetical to biblical direction.
     I see the following historical pattern, and sense that things will get much worse for Christians before they get better.  The cycle seems to begin with comfort.
  •          Comfort leads to complacency
  •          Complacency leads to apathy
  •          Apathy leads to absence
  •         Absence leads to abandonment
  •          Abandonment leads to rejection
  •          Rejection leads to hostility
  •          Hostility leads to persecution
  •          Persecution leads to determination
  •          Determination leads to endurance
  •          Endurance leads to success
  •          Success leads to comfort
     Christians currently face the most intense persecution in Islamic and Communist nations.  Yet those nations are seeing Christianity flourish exponentially. As more Christian beliefs and practices become illegal, we will face even greater hostility at home for our beliefs.
     The only relief from this cycle is our hope in Jesus Christ and his grace.  Despite the best efforts of forces bent on the destruction of all that is holy, holiness continues to thrive in this world.
     A belief growing from the discovery of the empty tomb could have been easily snuffed out by producing the body.  The belief in Jesus' resurrection persists today, 21 centuries later, because neither the Romans nor the religious leaders in the 1st Century could show more than grave clothes without a body.
     Jesus will lead us through the coming tribulation, not just to it.  In all our difficulties, he is always there with us.  The days, months, or years ahead will test the mettle of American Christians.  We will continue as a nation only if we return to our Lord and turn away from our habit of calling good evil, and evil good.


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