Days Are Evil, II

Col. 2:8 Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ. This thread will continue to develop and highlight the "traditions of men" that are spread "through philosophy and empty deceit." Why? Paul warns the believer that they can be cheated by these basic principles of the world. 2Cor. 6:11 O Corinthians! We have spoken openly to you, our heart is wide open. 12 You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted by your own affections. As it was possible for the Corinthians to suffer from the basic philosophies and empty deciet of the world, so it is possible today.In ChristJeff

Beware of seducing spirits

I completely disagree with studying false religions to learn more about the world.Understand this: If Jesus was who he says he was, then he is the only way to God (Jn 14:6). If that's true, then all other "paths" are false, and as he put it, are a part of the wide road. To be more blunt, they are not only "askew", they are lies from Hell, and that's where they're taking people! To study the lies of Satan in hopes of becoming more worldly is playing with fire. I've said before that there's a place for an apologist to know the ways of the enemy, but to learn from the enemy in hopes of gaining what you might view as some of his better qualities is not right. To quote Ravenhill summerizing what Paul said of the world, "It's antichrist from the word 'Go'".As for me and my house, we shall serve the Lord. Don't get involved in the false things of this world.Grace and Peace...

Bubbaguy wrote:Are you saying that a person confident and secure in their Christian faith cannot, for example, study and learn from Buddism? Is there nothing to learn from the religious experiences of other cultures and faiths?Are there any examples in the Scriptures where a saint is depicted as studying other religions? Once the Truth takes hold all other thoughts are put into subjection. There is no other wisdom, there is only dross.The only thing that one might glean from false religion is the ways of fallen man and the hopelessness that permeates their lives.In ChristJeff

(continuation of U.S. Population Policy adopted in 1974, Nssm200)" The following areas appear to contain significant promise in effecting fertility declines, and are discussed in subsequent sections. providing minimal levels of education especially for women; reducing infant and child mortality; expanding opportunities for wage employment especially for women; developing alternatives to "social security" support provided by children to aging parents; pursuing development strategies that skew income growth toward the poor, especially rural development focusing on rural poverty; concentrating on the education and indoctrination of the rising generation of children regarding the desirability of smaller family size." Do you see the seeds that were planted 30 years ago? Look especially to the thought of encouraging women into the work force. Also look to the very last sentence regarding the children. "concentrating on the education and indoctrination of the rising generation of children"Do you see how the humanists view the battle. They are seeking to indoctrinate the "rising generation of children."Do you see how the true battles are waged? In ChristJeff

(continuation of U.S. Population Policy Nssm200)... The most recent forum for such an effort was the August 1974 U.N. World Population Conference. It was an ideal context to focus concerted world attention on the problem. The debate views and highlights of the World Population Plan of action are reviewed in Chapter VI. The U.S. strengthened its credibility as an advocate of lower population growth rates by explaining that, while it did not have a single written action population policy, it did have legislation, Executive Branch policies and court decisions that amounted to a national policy and that our national fertility level was already below replacement and seemed likely to attain a stable population by 2000...."Please notice this statement: "Executive Branch policies and court decisions that amounted to a national policy..."What court decisions are these? Roe vs Wade was decided one year prior to this policy paper. Do you see how the government looked at abortion? They treated abortion as a means of fertility reduction. In ChristJeff

(continuation of U.S. Population policy paper Nssm200)3. Expanding Wage Employment Opportunities, Especially for Women Discussion Employment is the key to access to income, which opens the way to improved health, education, nutrition, and reduced family size. Reliable job opportunities enable parents to limit their family size and invest in the welfare of the children they have. The status and utilization of women in LDC societies is particularly important in reducing family size. For women, employment outside the home offers an alternative to early marriage and childbearing, and an incentive to have fewer children after marriage. The woman who must stay home to take care of her children must forego the income she could earn outside the home. Research indicates that female wage employment outside the home is related to fertility reduction. Programs to increase the women's labor force participation must, however, take account of the overall demand for labor; this would be a particular problem in occupations where there is already widespread unemployment among males. But other occupations where women have a comparative advantage can be encouraged. Improving the legal and social status of women gives women a greater voice in decision-making about their lives, including family size, and can provide alternative opportunities to childbearing, thereby reducing the benefits of having children. The U.S. Delegation to the Bucharest Conference emphasized the importance of improving the general status of women and of developing employment opportunities for women outside the home and off the farm. It was joined by all countries in adopting a strong statement on this vital issue. See Chapter VI for a fuller discussion of the conference. Recommendation: 1. AID should communicate with and seek opportunities to assist national economic development programs to increase the role of women in the development process. 2. AID should review its education/training programs (such as U.S. participant training, in-country and third-country training) to see that such activities provide equal access to women. 3. AID should enlarge pre-vocational and vocational training to involve women more directly in learning skills which can enhance their income and status in the community (e.g. paramedical skills related to provision of family planning services). 4. AID should encourage the development and placement of LDC women as decision-makers in development programs, particularly those programs designed to increase the role of women as producers of goods and services, and otherwise to improve women's welfare (e.g. national credit and finance programs, and national health and family planning programs). 5. AID should encourage, where possible, women's active participation in the labor movement in order to promote equal pay for equal work, equal benefits, and equal employment opportunities. Do you see how these recommendations have come to fruitition in our own communities? How many children have been lost to the pursuit of money, self-esteem, and the pursuit of power? There is a wealthy community close to where I live. In Santa Clarita both parents work. They have 3000 and 4000 square foot homes. They drive expensive cars. Their children have the best money can buy. Yet is is surprising to know that some of the same children end up walking the streets of Hollywood Blvd. Luke 16:13 “No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.”In ChristJeff

(Just two more post left from the population policy Nssm200)"IV. A. Research to Improve Fertility Control Technology Discussion The effort to reduce population growth requires a variety of birth control methods which are safe, effective, inexpensive and attractive to both men and women. The developing countries in particular need methods which do not require physicians and which are suitable for use in primitive, remote rural areas or urban slums by people with relatively low motivation. Experiences in family planning have clearly demonstrated the crucial impact of improved technology on fertility control. None of the currently available methods of fertility control is completely effective and free of adverse reactions and objectionable characteristics. The ideal of a contraceptive, perfect in all these respects, may never be realized. A great deal of effort and money will be necessary to improve fertility control methods. The research to achieve this aim can be divided into two categories: 1. Short-term approaches : These include applied and developmental work which is required to perfect further and evaluate the safety and role of methods demonstrated to be effective in family planning programs in the developing countries. Other work is directed toward new methods based on well established knowledge about the physiology of reproduction. Although short term pay-offs are possible, successful development of some methods may take 5 years and up to $15 million for a single method. 2. Long-term approaches : The limited state of fundamental knowledge of many reproductive processes requires that a strong research effort of a more basic nature be maintained to elucidate these processes and provide leads for contraceptive development research. For example, new knowledge of male reproductive processes is needed before research to develop a male "pill" can come to fruition. Costs and duration of the required research are high and difficult to quantify. With expenditures of about $30 million annually, a broad program of basic and applied bio-medical research on human reproduction and contraceptive development is carried out by the Center for Population Research of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. The Agency for International Development annually funds about $5 million of principally applied research on new means of fertility control suitable for use in developing countries. Smaller sums are spent by other agencies of the U.S. Government. Coordination of the federal research effort is facilitated by the activities of the Interagency Committee on Population Research. This committee prepares an annual listing and analyses of all government supported population research programs. The listing is published in the Inventory of Federal Population Research .A variety of studies have been undertaken by non-governmental experts including the U.S. Commission on Population Growth and the American Future. Most of these studies indicate that the United States effort in population research is insufficient. Opinions differ on how much more can be spent wisely and effectively but an additional $25-50 million annually for bio-medical research constitutes a conservative estimate. Recommendations: A stepwise increase over the next 3 years to a total of about $100 million annually for fertility and contraceptive research is recommended. This is an increase of $60 million over the current $40 million expended annually by the major Federal Agencies for bio-medical research. Of this increase $40 million would be spent on short-term, goal directed research. The current expenditure of $20 million in long-term approaches consisting largely of basic bio-medical research would be doubled. This increased effort would require significantly increased staffing of the federal agencies which support this work. Areas recommended for further research are: 1. Short-term approaches : These approaches include improvement and field testing of existing technology and development of new technology. It is expected that some of these approaches would be ready for use within five years. Specific short term approaches worthy of increased effort are as follows: a. Oral contraceptives have become popular and widely used; yet the optimal steroid hormone combinations and doses for LDC populations need further definition. Field studies in several settings are required. Approx. Increased Cost: $3 million annually. b. Intra-uterine devices of differing size, shape, and bioactivity should be developed and tested to determine the optimum levels of effectiveness, safety, and acceptability. Approx. Increased Cost: $3 million annually. c. Improved methods for ovulation prediction will be important to those couples who wish to practice rhythm with more assurance of effectiveness than they now have. Approx. Increased Cost: $3 million annually. d. Sterilization of men and women has received wide-spread acceptance in several areas when a simple, quick, and safe procedure is readily available. Female sterilization has been improved by technical advances with laparoscopes, culdoscopes, and greatly simplifies abdominal surgical techniques. Further improvements by the use of tubal clips, trans-cervical approaches, and simpler techniques can be developed. For men several current techniques hold promise but require more refinement and evaluation. Approx. Increased Cost $6 million annually. e. Injectable contraceptives for women which are effective for three months or more and are administered by para-professionals undoubtedly will be a significant improvement. Currently available methods of this type are limited by their side effects and potential hazards. There are reasons to believe that these problems can be overcome with additional research. Approx. Increased Cost: $5 million annually. f. Leuteolytic and anti-progesterone approaches to fertility control including use of prostaglandins are theoretically attractive but considerable work remains to be done. Approx. Increased Cost: $7 million annually. g. Non-Clinical Methods . Additional research on non-clinical methods including foams, creams, and condoms is needed. These methods can be used without medical supervision. Approx. Increased Cost; $5 million annually. h. Field studies . Clinical trials of new methods in use settings are essential to test their worth in developing countries and to select the best of several possible methods in a given setting. Approx. Increased Cost: $8 million annually. 2. Long-term approaches : Increased research toward better understanding of human reproductive physiology will lead to better methods of fertility control for use in five to fifteen years. A great deal has yet to be learned about basic aspects of male and female fertility and how regulation can be effected. For example, an effective and safe male contraceptive is needed, in particular an injection which will be effective for specified periods of time. Fundamental research must be done but there are reasons to believe that the development of an injectable male contraceptive is feasible. Another method which should be developed is an injection which will assure a woman of regular periods. The drug would be given by para-professionals once a month or as needed to regularize the menstrual cycle. Recent scientific advances indicate that this method can be developed. Approx. Increased Cost: $20 million annually. "Do you see how these efforts, started back in 1967, have manifested themselves in our communities today? These efforts have been successful in the Post Christian west. These efforts have failed though in all the countries that we now fear. In ChristJeff

Last thought gleaned from Nssm2006. Concentration on Education and Indoctrination of The Rising Generation of Children Regarding the Desirability of Smaller Family Size Discussion: Present efforts at reducing birth rates in LDCs, including AID and UNFPA assistance, are directed largely at adults now in their reproductive years. Only nominal attention is given to population education or sex education in schools and in most countries none is given in the very early grades which are the only attainment of 2/3-3/4 of the children. It should be obvious, however, that efforts at birth control directed toward adults will with even maximum success result in acceptance of contraception for the reduction of births only to the level of the desired family size -- which knowledge, attitude and practice studies in many countries indicate is an average of four or more children. The great necessity is to convince the masses of the population that it is to their individual and national interest to have, on the average, only three and then only two children. There is little likelihood that this result can be accomplished very widely against the background of the cultural heritage of today's adults, even the young adults, among the masses in most LDCs. Without diminishing in any way the effort to reach these adults, the obvious increased focus of attention should be to change the attitudes of the next generation, those who are now in elementary school or younger. If this could be done, it would indeed be possible to attain a level of fertility approaching replacement in 20 years and actually reaching it in 30. Because a large percentage of children from high-fertility, low-income groups do not attend school, it will be necessary to develop means to reach them for this and other educational purposes through informal educational programs. In these few paragraphs we find the source for the promotion of sex education in our schools.We find that the schools are used to indoctrinate the children. The battle that is waged by the humanists is centered on our children. In ChristJeff

Sorry one more last thought from Nssm200. Another thread today spoke of the dissemination of lies of Satan by use of the TV. Well in the U.S. Policy Paper Nssm200, the government highlights this media as a means to educate reasonable people."C. Utilization of Mass Media and Satellite Communications Systems for Family Planning 1. Utilization of Mass Media for Dissemination of Family Planning Services and Information The potential of education and its various media is primarily a function of (a) target populations where socio-economic conditions would permit REASONABLE PEOPLE to change their behavior with the receipt of information about family planning and (b) the adequate development of the substantive motivating context of the message. While dramatic limitations in the availability of any family planning related message are most severe in rural areas of developing countries, even more serious gaps exist in the understanding of the implicit incentives in the system for large families and the potential of the informational message to alter those conditions. So in this paper, we have been given a glimpse into the ways governments in their wisdom seek to indoctrinate the subject people. We have seen that these efforts are long term projects which seek to form the beliefs of future generations. Scripturally speaking, doesn't this highlight the precept of apostacy? Do you see how it is a spiritual battle? In ChristJeff

For the sake of continuity of the thought developed I would like to post from the previous thread 3 former posts from the book "The Death of the West," by Patrick J. Buchanan.(thought continued from the book page 32)(A) The New Economy.In an agricultural economy, the workplace was the home where the husband and wife labored together and lived together. In the industrial economy, the man left the home to work in a factory, while the wife stayed home to look after the children. The agricultural economy gave us the extended family; the industrial economy, the nuclear family. But in the postindustrial economy, husband and wife both work at the office, and no one stays home with the children. Indeed, there may be no children. As political science professor James Kurth of Swarthmore writes:"The greatest movement of the second half of the nineteenth century was the movement of men from farm to the factory.... The greatest movement of the second half of the twentieth century has been the movement of women from the home to the office...[This] movement separates the parent from the children, as well as enabling the wife to separate herself from her husband. By splitting the nuclear family, it is helping to bring about the replacement of the nuclear family with the non-family."As men's jobs in manufacturing, mining, farming, and fishing are no longer needed, or are shipped overseas, the skills and talents of women are now more desirable. There are also opportunities in government, education, and the professions open to women today that their mothers and grandmothers never had. Businesses, large and small, offer packages of pay and benefits to lure talented women out of the home and keep them out of the maternity ward, where they are "no good to the company." It is working. In the scores of millions, American women have left the home for the office to work beside and compete with men. By the tens of millions, women college graduates have put off marriage, many forever. "You can have it all!" the modern woman is told--baby and a career. With nannies, courtesy of open borders, with equal-pay-for-equal work, maternity leave, and daycare, courtesy of the government and the company, the lure is not a lie. What you can't have is a brood of kids back home while keeping pace with the competition at the office.Forced to choose, women are choosing career, or career and the joy of motherhood, once. The Global Economy works hand in hand with the New Economy, transfering manufacturing jobs from high wage Western nations to the low-wage, newly industrialized nations of Asia and Latin America. With Working America's yellow brick road to the middle class down to one lane, wives must work to keep up with the Jones next door. So children are put off, sometimes for good. In 1950, 88 percent of women with children under six stayed home, where they often had more kids. Today, 64 percent of American women with children under six are in the labor force."How you gonna keep' em down on the farm, after they've seen Paree?" was said of the World War I soldiers who went off to Europe. Well, how you gonna get' em back in the 'burbs, after they've seen D.C. one might ask of the talented women lawyers, journalists, PR specialists, and political aides who have enjoyed the great game in an exciting city.Writing in the Spectator, Eleanor Mills is an authentic voice of her generation; "The fact is that girls like me--ie. healthy, hearty, middle-class women in their 20s--are just not breeding." Why not? Because, she writes, "my generation's twin preoccupations are, unfortunately, looks and money." She quotes one of her many childless contemporaries;"If I had a kid," said Jane, and advertising executive, thoughtfully, "I wouldn't be able to do half the things I take for granted. Every Saturday at 10:30 am when we are still in bed, my husband and I look at each other and just say, "Thank God we weren't up at 5 a.m. caring for a brat." We have such a great time just the two of us; who know if it would work if we introduced another person into the equation?""The rich are different from us," said F. Scott Fitzgerald. To which Hemingway replied, "Yes, they have more money." But the rich also have fewer children. Using Occam's razor--the somplest explanation is usually the right one--the best explaination for the sinking birthrate in the West may be the simplest. As America's poor enter the middle class, and the middle class becomes affluent, and the affluent become rich, each adopts the style of the class they have lately entered. All begin to downsize their families; all begin to have fewer children. A corollary follows; The richer a nation becomes, the fewer its children, and the sooner it begins to die. Societies organized to ensure the maximum pleasure, freedom, and happiness for all their members are, at the same time, advancing the date of their own funerals. Fate may compensate the Chinese, Islamic, and Latin peoples for their hardships and poverty in this century with the domination of the earth in the next. Indeed, do we not have it on high authority that "Blessed are the meek...they shall inherit the earth?"end of thoughtIn Christjeff

Page 35(B) End of the "Family Wage."In the 1830s, as America's industrial revolution was about to begin, the Philadelphia Trade Union warned its members about the hidden agenda of what it called "cormorant capital":"Oppose [employment of our women folks] with all your minds and with all your strength for it will prove our ruin. We must strive to obtain sufficient remuneration for our labor to keep the wives and daughters and sisters of our people at home... That cormorant capital will have every man, woman, and child to toil: but let us exert our families to oppose its design."In 1848, the year of Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto, the labor publication Ten Hour Advocate editorialized: "We hope the day is not distant when the husband will be able to provide for his wife and family, without sending [the wife] to endure the drudgery of a cotton mill.?This vison of American free labor was at war with the view being espoused by Marx and his patron and collaborator, Friedrich Engels, who wrote in The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State; "The first condition for the liberation of the wife is to bring the whole female sex into public industry and ...this in turn demands the abolition of the monogamous family as the economic unit of societ." Is it not a remarkable coincidence how global capitalism's view of women--as units of production, liberated from husbands, home, and family--conforms so precisely to the view of the fathers of global communism?As Allan Carlson, who also publishes The Family in America, writes, there was a consensus in America, not so long ago, that employers should pay fathers a "family wage" sufficient to support their wives and children in dignity without their having to leave the home to go to work. That was considered one of the defining characteristics of a good society. ...This idea was widely accepted. Carlson notes that the "wage gap" between men and women actually widened after World War II. In 1939, women earned 59.3 percent of men's pay; by 1966, that had fallen to 53.6 percent. In the 1940s and 1950s, the culture, with a good conscience, separated men and women in the workplace. In newspapers, the "Men Wanted" ads were run separate from the "Women Wanted" ads. Only rarely could working women be found outside such occupations as clerk-typist, secretary, nurse, school teacher, or salegirl. Carlson writes:"To an observer from the Year 2000, the most amazing thing about this system was that it was both understood by the average people and popularly supported. In opinion polls, large majorities of Americans (85 percent or more), women and men, agreed that fathers deserved as income that would support their wives and children at home and that the labor of mothers was secondary or supplemental. This was seen as simple justice."This system fell apart in the 1960s, when feminists managed to add "sex" to the discriminations forbidden by the sweeping Civil Rights Act of 1964, which had been written to protect the rights of African Americans. This turned the new Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) into a siege gun against the family wage. "Men Wanted" ads were declared discriminatory and outlawed. Gender equality replaced "moral contract." The rights of individuals took precedence over the requirements of family. Women's pay soared, and as women began moving into occupations that had been largely restrictived to men--medicine, law, the media, the academy, the upper bureaucracy, and business--families began to crumble. Between 1973 and 1996, writes Dr. Carlson, "the [real] median income of men, aged 15 and above, working full-time, fell 24 percent, from $37,200 to $30,000," Marching under feminist banners--equal pay for equal work, and equal pay for comparable work--women moved into direct competition with men. Millions succeeded, shouldering men aside with superior performance. Their pay rose steadily, and the absolute and relative pay of married men began to yield to wives' insistence that they " go back to work." Young men found they no longer earned enough in their late teens or early twenties to start a family, even if that had been their hope and dream. Stripped of the duties of fatherhood and family, many of these young men wound up in trouble--and even in prison.America's young women found they could achieve independance on their own. They need not get married, certainly not yet. More and more did not marry. In 1970, only 36 percent of women aged twenty to twenty-four were unmarried. By 1995, 68 percent were in the "never married" category. Among women twenty-five to twenty-nine, the "never marrieds" had soared from 10 percent to 35 percent.The young family with a batch of kids is now an endangered species. Only the young rich can afford that "lifestyle," and they are uninterested. With the Democratic party so beholden to feminism that it cannot even oppose partial birth abortions, and the GOP in thrall to libertarian ideology and controlled by corporate interests, the call of the gods of the marketplace for more women workers prevails over the command of the God of Genesis: "Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth." Many conservatives have succumbed to the heresy of Economism, a mirror-Marxism that holds that man is an economic animal, that free trade and free markets are the path to peace, prosperity, and happiness, that if we can only get the marginal tax rates right and the capital gains tax abolished, Paradise--Dow 36,000!--is at hand. But when the income tax rate for the wealthiest was above 90 percent in the 1950s, America, by every moral and social indicator, was a better country. The reformed radical and Christian convert Orestes Brownson saw this new idolatry of "Mammon worship" rising in the America of the nineteenth century: "Mammonism has become the religion of Saxodom, and God is not in all our thoughts. We have lost our faith in the noble, the beautiful and the just." A century later, another convert from a failed materialistic faith would remind us again. Wrote Whittaker Chambers, "Economics is not the central problem of our age, faith is."In ChristJeff

page 38(C) The Population Bomb Hysteria.Then there was the antipeople movement of the 1960s and 1970s, the elite's backlash against the baby boom. Paul Ehrlich, a Stanford University biologist, was its guru, and his bestseller, The Population Bomb, did for population control what Rachel Carson's Silent Spring had done for environmentalism. Ehrlich was a twentieth-century reincarnation of Thomas Robert Malthus, the British demographer whose prediction of world starvation proved so spectacularly wrong in the nineteenth century. Malthus had written: "It may be safely asserted....that population, when unchecked, increases in geometrical progression of such a nature as to double itself every twenty-five years." As the world's food production could not double every twenty-five years, said the gloomy parson, mass starvation was dead ahead. Malthus proved as wrong about food production as Ehrlich did about the world's resources, which he assured us were running out. Today, the six billion on earth live in far greater freedom and prosperity than did the three billion in 1960, the two billion in 1927, or the one billion in 1830. Political incompetence and criminality, foolish ideas and insane ideologies, are the cause of starvation and misery, not people.Published by the Sierra Club, Ehrlich's book became required reading in many high schools. By 1977, former secretary of defense and World Bank president Robert McNamara was playing Henny Penny to Ehrlich's Chicken Little, warning that "continued population growth would cause "poverty, hunger, stress, crowding, and frustration," that would threaten social, economic and military stability." In 1978, a congressional select committee on population announced that the "major biological systems that humanity depends upon....are being strained by rapid population growth...[and] in some cases, they are.... losing productive capacity." As Jacqueline Kasun, author of The War Against Population, writes, about this time the Smithsonian Institution created a "traveling exhibit for schoolchildren called "Population: The Problem Is Us, " [that] featured a picture of a dead rat on a dinner plate as an example of "future food sources."As a result of this antipopulation propaganda from America's elite institutions of politics and ideas, the public funding for population control here and abroad exploded. But though the message was taken to heart by the First World wealthy and middle class, it was largely ignored by the Third World poor, at whom it had been targeted. We can see the results today: a birth dearth among the affluent nations, and baby boom across the Third World.end of thoughtIn ChristJeff

The portions of the U.S. Population Policy Paper Nssm200 posted in the beginning of this new thread fit into this last post as a means of further developing the manifestations of population decline in western society. From this point forward I have a few more posts that illustrate the decline of western populations and culture. All of these manifestations have as their root the religion of humanism.In Christ Jeff

(D) Feminism.To be “pro-choice” on abortion is today almost a defining mark of the “modern woman.” To many feminists, the phase “women’s” liberation from the traditional and, in their view, narrow and constricting roles of wife, mother, and homemaker. But among the founding mothers of feminism it was not always so. Writing on the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision in The New Oxford Review, Catholic columnist Joseph Collison observed:“Early feminists had been fiercely antiabortion. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, organizer of the first women’s rights convention in 1848, called abortion “a disgusting and degrading crime.”…. And Susan B. Anthony, early crusader for the women’s vote, wrote that “No matter what the motive…the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed. It will burden her conscience in life; it will burden her soul in death.” It was in fact the 19th century feminists who campaigned to pass the laws that criminalized abortion.”Collison adds that in early editions of The Feminist Mystique, Betty Friedan’s seminal work, abortion went unmentioned. It was not a feminist issue in the early 1960s. Back before World War II, when Margaret Sanger, birth mother of Planned Parenthood, wrote that “the most merciful thing a large family can do to one of its infant members is to kill it,” she was a radical socialist far outside the American mainstream. But the Sanger animus against big families has since become a central feature of the new American feminism that was mainstreamed in the 1960s and 1970s. Today, the perception that marriage is human bondage has become a hallmark of movement militants. Marriage, writes Andrea Dworkin in “Pornography: Men Possessing Women,” is “an institution [that] developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use but possession of ownership.” Pure Marx. And a logical conclusion follows. “The nuclear family must be destroyed, “ said the feminist Linda Gordon. “Families have supported oppression by separating people into small, isolated units, unable to join together to fight for common interests.” In 1970, Robin Morgan, now the nanny of Gloria Steinem’s love child, Ms. Magazine, called marriage “a slavery-like practice. We can’t destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.” That same year, Ms. Morgan edited Sisterhood Is Powerful, containing an essay by Valerie Solanis, president of the Society for Cutting Up Men. “It is now technically possible to reproduce without the aid of males…and to produce only females,” wrote Ms. Solanis. “We must begin immediately to do so. The male is a biological accident…The male has made the world a shitpile.” Not a lady to be trifled with, Ms Solanis established her bona fides by going out and shooting Andy Warhol. By late 1973, Nancy Lehmann and Helen Sullinger had circulated a new manifesto of the movement they titled “Declaration of Feminism, which was broadly reproduced and widely praised:“Marriage has existed for the benefit of men; and has been a legally sanctioned method of control over women….We must work to destroy it…The end of the institution of marriage is a necessary condition for the liberation of women. Therefore it is important for us to encourage women to leave their husbands and not to live individually with men…All of history must be rewritten in terms of oppression of women. We must go back to ancient female religions like witchcraft.” (thought to be continued)This is a spiritual battle. Little do we know how pervasive Satan’s attack is. Little do we understand how the religion of humanism permeates our own beliefs. But how can we escape? Heb. 5:12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food. 13 For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe. 14 But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.In ChristJeff

Hi Jeff,It is amazing how you have pulled this altogether going back to the last posting. A monumental work and much appreciation for it. Some very eye opening things in here, the ideologies of the world and of the politics thereof...Found this a bit of a tongue-twister to think about for a moment;Political incompetence and criminality, foolish ideas and insane ideologies, are the cause of starvation and misery, not people.Surely the effort was meant to mean 'people' as in population control but...This is a spiritual battle. Little do we know how pervasive Satan’s attack is. Little do we understand how the religion of humanism permeates our own beliefs. But how can we escape? Very true, it permeates everything doesn't it? (Humanism) How to escape? It seems to lend more and more credence to that word; "Endurance" as this continues to play out and one that the Lord told us we must have and do...2Ti 1:13 Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. Heb 10:23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;) Rev 3:3 Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.

Brother Mike wrote:Very true, it permeates everything doesn't it? (Humanism) How to escape? It seems to lend more and more credence to that word; "Endurance" as this continues to play out and one that the Lord told us we must have and do...Just think of the distinction that Paris Reidhead makes in his sermon Ten Shekels and a Shirt. Humanism is rooted in the pursuit of the happiness of man. Think about the distinction the Lord taught him about his own motives for serving God. This is a man who loved the Lord. What about those who hate the Lord? To what depth of depravity will the pursuit of happiness drive the world? I keep hearing the word "FREEDOM." Why is this word so appealing to the masses of men? In ChristJeff

(Feminism thought continued from page 41)“Among feminists, the slavery simile competes with the prostitution metaphor. “Being a housewife is an illegitimate profession,” wrote Vivian Gornick, Penn State professor and author, in 1980. “The choice to serve and be protected and plan toward being a family-member is a choice that shouldn’t be. The heart of radical feminism is to change that.”“I can’t mate in captivity,” Gloria Steinem told a Newsweek reporter in 1984. In a 1991 Wall Street Journal piece, Christina Sommers quotes legal scholar Catherine Mackinnon as saying: “Feminism stresses the indistinguishability of prostitution, marriage and sexual harassment.” To the militant feminist, marriage is prostitution, and the family is at best a failed institution and at worst a prison or slave quarter. A decade ago, novelist Toni Morrison told Time, “The little nuclear family is a paradigm that doesn’t work.” In 1994, the Chicago Tribune quoted Judith Stacey: “The belief that married-couple families are superior is probably the most pervasive prejudice in the Western world. “ In the Jewish World Review in February 2000, in a piece titled “NOW: Pro-Fatherhood Funding Is Unconstitutional,” Sheila Cronin was quoted: “Since marriage constitutes slavery for women, it is clear that the women’s movement must concentrate on attacking this institution. Freedom for women cannot be won without the abolition of marriage.” Now, most American women do not harbor so bitter and hostile a view of marriage and family. If they did, there would be even fewer children and the Death of the West would be imminent. But millions are influenced by feminist ideology and its equation of marriage with prostitution and slavery, and that ideology has persuaded many to put off marriage and not to have children….(thought to be continued)Gen. 3:16 To the woman He said:\t“I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception;\tIn pain you shall bring forth children;\tYour desire shall be for your husband,\tAnd he shall rule over you.” 1Tim. 5:9 Do not let a widow under sixty years old be taken into the number, and not unless she has been the wife of one man, 10 well reported for good works: if she has brought up children, if she has lodged strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, if she has diligently followed every good work. How does the philosophy of Feminism stand with these Sciptures? How is the word of God sharper than a two edged sword?In ChristJeff

I keep hearing the word "FREEDOM." Why is this word so appealing to the masses of men? Without accountability to anyone ... ever.