Nehemiah, Chapter 4, Verse 3
We prayed to our
God and posted a watch against them day and night for fear of what they might do.
Here this
references the Jewish people as they attempt to rebuild their great nation and
the enemies of Judah encircle them and poise to launch an attack against them. Sounds
like the battle cry of the unbelieving secular media. One wonders what the god
of a secular media is.
False Gods[1]
The media view themselves as their own gods—masters of their own
fates. Many of these self-made gods control our media. As gods, they want no
competition. They reject the truth that God is God alone and that He will hold
them accountable for mocking Him and His followers. Thus, the truth is hell to
them, even before they get there. They express their hatred for God’s truth by
heaping venom on anyone who declares the truth. They are rewriting American
history, to fit their desire for self-worship, want to silence truth. Thus,
whenever a Christian lovingly and thoughtfully points them to the truth of
history, they hound them down, accusing them of “racism,” “hate speech” and
“bigotry.” Why? Because truth to them is hell, so they want to muzzle their
message. To them these truths are hell, so they respond by likening Christians
to the Taliban and the Jihadis … can you imagine?
·
The Christians who founded
the hospital movement.
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The Christians who founded
the library movement.
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The Christians who founded
the orphanage movement.
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The Christians who founded
education.
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The Christians, who have and
continue to feed the hungry, clothe the naked and care for the needy.
·
The Christians who
sacrificed and continue to sacrifice in following the role model of their
Savior who gave His all on a cross to save them. How can they say that
Christians are likened to the Taliban?
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The Taliban who shoot women
in the head at close range in soccer stadiums.
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The Taliban who bury people
alive for their sins and misdemeanors.
·
The Taliban who stone women
to death for mere accusations.
My concern is that the very truth that can set them free is the
truth they attack. I know why they attack it—because it feels like hell to
them. It is condemning. However, my heart is not to condemn them but to pray to
God to open their blind eyes, just like He opened mine, so that they may see
the truth before it is too late for them.
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This amendment to the Constitution granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed.
Under
current law, U.S.-born children of unauthorized immigrants are automatically
considered U.S. citizens. Select states and certain Federal lawmakers are
hoping to change that. In an effort to end birthright citizenship – which has its origins in English
common law – for
children of unauthorized immigrants born in the United States, state and
federal lawmakers have proposed everything from state-level legislation to a
constitutional amendment. They claim that by repealing birthright citizenship,
the United States will deter immigrants from coming to the United States and
giving birth to what they term "anchor babies" through whom
unauthorized family members allegedly then obtain legal status. Proponents for a
repeal of birthright citizenship are drafting state-level legislation to deny
privileges of U.S. citizenship to the U.S.-born children of unauthorized
aliens. Because citizenship is within the purview of the federal government,
and not the states, the proponents hope that doing so will ultimately trigger a
Supreme Court review of the law.
Position of the Catholic Church
To
address legitimate concerns surrounding immigration law enforcement in the
United States, the Catholic Church believes that our country must pass
immigration reform laws to ensure the rule of law, while simultaneously
ensuring that the laws that rule are rooted in the reunification of family and
respectful of the human dignity of the immigrants in our midst. The Church
opposes the repeal of birthright citizenship because it would render innocent
children stateless, depriving them of the ability to thrive in their
communities and reach their full potential. The Church believes that a repeal
of birthright citizenship would create a permanent underclass in U.S. society,
contravening U.S. democratic tradition; undermining the human dignity of
innocent children who would be punished though they did nothing wrong; and
ultimately weakening the family. Because of this, the Church opposes efforts
underway for its repeal.
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