Dear Loser

Robert Lewis Dear

Christmas came early this year for leftists when Robert Lewis Dear, an oddball loner from North Carolina, shot up a Planned Parenthood Clinic located in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Dear killed three people including a police officer before he finally surrendered.

Why was Dear's shooting rampage a gift to leftists? Because it provided them with valuable ammunition in their ideological war against conservative Christians. Leftists hate Christians, especially the conservative type, and they consider them more dangerous than Islamic terrorists who are committing murder and mayhem all over the planet.

Whether Dear claims to be a Christian or not is irrelevant. For leftists, he fits their stereotype of the typical conservative Christian; brutish, crude, stupid, violent, backwards and uneducated. Dear's the type of guy that Barack Obama had in mind during the 2008 presidential campaign when Obama maligned conservative Christians as ignorant bible-believers who cling to their guns and religion during difficult times.

That wasn't a slip of the tongue. That's how Obama feels about conservatives and he's done nothing to dispel that position since he's been in the White House. Conservative Christians have been the frequent targets of his wrath. If you doubt that, then you've already forgotten about the IRS scandal.

Why did Dear shoot up the Colorado Springs abortion clinic? He told the police that he was incensed about Planned Parenthood's trafficking of the body parts of aborted babies. He had a right to be incensed about that because that's repugnant. In fact, that's even worse than repugnant--it's evil.

However, Dear had absolutely no right to do what he did. Maybe he's a nut. But more likely, he's probably someone who knows nothing about Christianity and merely uses it as an excuse to justify his hatred of godless secularists. And that's dead wrong. Because all he did was provide leftists with an excuse to find moral equivalence between conservative Christians and Islamic terrorists.

Since leftists control the popular culture in America, they'll use the media to portray Dear as your typical Christian. And while Islamic terrorists commit murder, rape and violence throughout the world, the media will paint conservative Christianity as just another "strain" of terrorism. 

That's how Obama defines jihadists who commit murder in the name of Allah. He calls them a strain that perverts the true peaceful message of Islam. Anyone who truly knows Islam understands that it isn't a peaceful religion. Nor has it ever been. It's holy book the Quran contains over 100 war verses that encourage Muslims to conquer the world via the sword. And murder has historically been one of Islam's proselytizing tools.

There is no moral equivalence between Islam and Christianity. When Muslims commit violence in the name of their religion, they're being obedient to what Muhammad taught. When Christians commit violence in the name of their faith, they're being disobedient to what Jesus Christ taught. 

Here's what Christ told Peter after Peter planned to fight off a crowd sent by the rabbis to arrest Jesus: "Put your sword back in its place," Jesus said to him, "for all who draw the sword will die by the sword. Do you think I cannot call on my Father, and he will at once put at my disposal more than twelve legions of angels? But how then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that say it must happen in this way?" (Matthew 26:52-54)

And here's what Christ told His disciples concerning those who reject the Gospel: "If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, leave that home or town and shake the dust off your feet. Truly I tell you, it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town." (Matthew 10:14-15)

Christ never told His followers to murder those who refuse the Gospel. He never told them to cut off the hands, feet and heads of those who reject Christianity. He never told them to kidnap non-Christian women and rape them and sell them off as sex slaves to other Christians. And He never told them to go throughout the world and commit violence against those who resist the Gospel. 

That's what Islam teaches. And it doesn't matter if 95 percent of the Quran contains peaceful scriptures. As long as the Quran contains scriptures that encourage murder and mayhem as a means to spread Islam, it stands alone as a violent religion that has no equal.

Climate Fascism

While France has been in the news a lot lately since the recent terrorist attacks that killed 130 people in Paris, something else just occurred in that nation that was barely noticed by the global media.

And it should've received much more attention than it did because it's something that's likely going to be repeated across the world as we head toward a global government.

What happened in France? The French government decided to silence the voices of people who have serious doubts about climate change. From theguardian.com: At least 24 climate activists have been put under house arrest by French police, accused of flouting a ban on organizing protests during next week’s Paris climate summit. French authorities did not respond to requests for comment but lawyers said that the warrants were issued under state of emergency laws, imposed after the terror attacks that killed 130 people earlier this month.

In the not too distant past, that sort of thing was the modus operandi of dictators and fascist governments. But France? How does that happen in supposedly one of the freest and most liberal nations on earth? How? Because it turns out that France, like a lot of western nations these days, isn't so free after all.

One of the people arrested in France's crackdown on free speech was an activist named Joel Domenjoud who was shocked to find the police swarming his residence when they came to place him under house arrest: I feel angry about it because I think they made a big mistake. They weren’t looking for people like us activists – or if they were, it shows that they can target people for no reason at all and our civil liberties are in danger.

Indeed. Domenjoud likened his arrest to a raid, not unlike the type of raids that the police typically conduct at drug houses or suspected terrorist hideouts. But climate deniers? Many people will laugh at France's crackdown, and they'll quickly forget about it.

However, if you value your freedom of thought and speech, you should be more than merely appalled at such government encroachment of individual rights; you should be alarmed. If a nation such as France can silence the dissent of climate change critics, then any nation can, including the United States.

Certainly, the U.S. hasn't gotten to where France is, just yet. But make no mistake about this: global elites and their political puppets such as Barack Obama, Francois Hollande, David Cameron, Justin Trudeau and Angela Merkel want absolutely no dissent when it comes to climate change.

Why? Because the facts speak otherwise. Climate change isn't happening and the world isn't getting any warmer. And when you don't have the facts on your side, you use the power of the state to silence your critics. And the global elites--many of whom are scheduled to attend the Paris 2015 COP21 climate conference on Dec. 7-8--don't want to be embarrassed by street rabble such as Joel Domenjoud who come equipped with the facts.

And so, the elites will use police muscle to shut up their critics while they churn out the propaganda through their media sycophants that the world is doomed unless all the nations band together and come up with a solution. And what solution is that? In the short term, that "solution" involves capping fossil emissions in industrialized nations and transferring billions of dollars to developing third world nations.

Capping fossil emissions means that coal plants that produce electricity will close resulting in higher energy costs. It also means that costly regulations will be imposed on heavy industries that depend on fossil energy such as coal and crude oil. That will drive up the cost of products; eliminate jobs and encourage manufacturers to move to the third world where they'll find cheap labor and fewer costly climate regulations.

In the long term, the "solution" involves creating a world government that will have the absolute power and authority over every nation and person on the planet. That government will use its authority to radically lower the earth's population because the greatest source of greenhouse emissions that environmentalists claim is threatening the planet is human beings. Every time a person exhales, they exhale CO2. Thus, less people means less CO2. You don't have to be a brain surgeon to figure out what the climate change agenda is truly about.

One of the biggest proponents of the environmental agenda is none other than Pope Francis who's firmly on the climate change bandwagon: It is an opportunity to address inequality; for powerful people and nations to acknowledge that their environmental well-being, their security and sustainability, is dependent on the well-being, security and sustainability of others. To acknowledge our inter-dependence, and the strengths and vulnerabilities we share.

If we “carry on as usual”, there may not be another opportunity...It’s a simple equation, really. Agree on mechanisms to enforce adherence to environmental justice, or consciously embrace injustice and add fuel to the fire of human division and pain. We know that the only answer is to reduce carbon emissions, and the only way we can do that is by reducing our dependency on carbon fuels.

That's code-speak for a world government. And we know that a world government is coming. Biblical prophecy revealed an end time world government as far back as the 8th century B.C. (Isaiah 10:13-14) And this government will be a killing machine.

Nearly 2,600 years ago, the prophet Daniel received an allegorical vision of this tyrannical government: "After that, in my vision at night I looked, and there before me was a fourth beast--terrifying and frightening and very powerful. It had large iron teeth; it crushed and devoured its victims and trampled underfoot whatever was left. It was different from all the former beasts, and it had ten horns." (Daniel 7:7)

Concerning the dreaded tyranny of a world government, Jesus Christ said this: "For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now—and never to be equaled again. If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened." (Matthew 24:21-22)

Understand what the global environmental movement is really all about. It's about creating a one-world government and nothing else. And when you see the police coming for those who openly oppose the climate change ruse, then understand how close we are to the end.

World War III?

Fighter-jet in trouble: A Russian SU24 shot down by Turkey

The world's beginning to learn that it's unwise to cross Russian President Vladimir Putin. After Turkey recently shot down a Russian SU-24 fighter-jet when the plane allegedly violated Turkish airspace, Putin vented his anger at Turkey and threatened repercussions.

Putin called Turkey's action "a stab in the back by accomplices of terrorism." Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan responded that if the Russians continue to violate Turkish airspace, there will be "serious consequences." Thus, the war of words began between the two, and it's likely that Putin will respond against Turkey with more than just words at some point in the future.

Russia has been bombing ISIS fighters in the Latakia region of Syria which is in close proximity to Turkey's southern border. While the Russians claim that they've been careful to avoid Turkish airspace, the Turks claim otherwise. To compound matters, Turkey is a NATO member and a predominantly Muslim nation. 

And so, Putin believes that Turkey is using its NATO status as a shield to support ISIS terrorists. Putin sees NATO as a giant serpent with the United States at the head and nations such as Turkey as part of the serpent's long tail. 

Remember that Putin blames the United States--and specifically the Obama administration--for trying to coerce the Ukraine into NATO in 2014 so the U.S. and NATO could exert political and economic pressure on the Bear. Putin believes that the U.S. was behind the Euromaidan Revolution that ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych who was a de facto Russian puppet. 

It's no secret that the U.S. wanted to cutoff Putin's power by admitting the Ukraine into NATO. Why? Because the U.S. believes that Putin has a vision to create a new Russian empire in the eastern world on the ashes of the old Soviet Union. That's a legitimate concern because Putin indeed wants to build an empire to counter and ultimately put an end to American hegemony. 

Although Putin certainly isn't a nice guy, he's not the crazed, power-hungry madman that the west's media hacks who masquerade as journalists portray him. He's a pragmatist who's concerned about the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in the eastern world and the west's desire to build a one-world government behind the ruse of global warming-climate change. 

Putin wants to drive Islam out of the eastern world, and he needs a coalition of nations to do that. He understands that unless Islam goes, Europe, Africa and Asia will be conquered by Islam. And he needs a coalition to protect the eastern world from being coerced into a one-world government. 

Make no mistake about this: the climate agenda has absolutely nothing to do with the environment and everything to do with a one world government. And Putin knows that better than anyone. He doesn't want Russia being dragged into a world government that would have absolute authority over every nation on earth. 

Thus, Russia's involvement with Syria in its war against ISIS and American-backed Syrian rebels trying to oust Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is literally the beginning of a new world war between the eastern world and the west. Remember that Syria's civil war is the handiwork of the Obama administration that armed the rebels and abetted ISIS by pulling American troops out of Iraq while leaving military hardware and weapons behind for the terrorists to inherit. 

Putin knows that if Assad falls, then nothing will prevent ISIS from marching into Russia. Russia sits to the northeast of Syria and is separated by several nations that are all Islamic and would offer little defense against the burgeoning caliphate. The U.S. wants to see Assad fall because that could eventually lead to Russia's downfall.

And so, Russia's fight against ISIS in Syria is not only a fight against a terrorist organization, but it's also a fight against the west and the U.S. that made that fight possible. And don't think for a second that Putin's not aware of that.

How does this fit into biblical prophecy? The Bible reveals that Russia is eventually going to prevail and build its dreaded political-economic-military coalition that will dominate the world. (Daniel 11, Ezekiel 38-39) That will take several years because Russia currently doesn't have the economic resources to expand its fight beyond Syria into Turkey and other NATO nations. 

While Putin recognizes that the west has become weak and is dominated by pacifists such as Barack Obama and David Cameron, the west still possesses a lot of military firepower and might use it against Russia if necessary. Thus, the time for Russia's big move in the east hasn't yet arrived.

But it's coming. Realize that Russia has a wealthy ally in China, its southern neighbor. And realize that Russia possesses a lot of energy in natural gas, oil and coal that China needs to fuel its growing heavy industries. The Russians need money while the Chinese need energy. Certainly, the Chinese buy energy from other sources, particularly America. But the Chinese hate the U.S. almost as much as the Russians do, and the Chinese will eventually stop buying American energy and buy more from their northern neighbors in order to hurt the U.S.

China will help finance Russia's expansion into the dreaded monster that the Bible warns us is coming in the very last days directly preceding the return of Jesus Christ. The Bible identifies that monster as "Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshek and Tubal." (Ezekiel 38:1) The Bible identifies the other members as Persia, Cush and Put. Persia is now Iran; Cush is now Ethiopia, and Put is now Morocco. These nations will be joined by many Asian, African, eastern and western European nations.

Who is Gog? Gog was one of the ancient names for the Caucasian tribe of Rosh that many modern Russians are descended from. And Meshek and Tubal? They were part of what is now modern Turkey. Thus, Russia's current problems with Turkey aren't going to last.

And the U.S. and NATO aren't going to last either. The U.S. is going to collapse as a superpower and NATO is going to disappear. We're seeing the beginning of the fulfillment of biblical prophecy concerning Russia's rise to world dominance in the last days. It will take time--perhaps many years. But it's coming. 

When the World Will Be as One

The Interfaith Movement: Unity without truth

Though the late rocker John Lennon never considered himself to be a prophet, his song, Imagine that was released in 1971 has since turned out to be quite prophetic.

Like many agnostics and atheists, Lennon attributed much of the world's ills to organized religion. He believed that global peace and tranquility would never be achieved until the world did away with religion. 

That belief was reflected in the lyrics of his song: "Imagine there's no heaven. It's easy if you try. No hell below us. Above us only sky. Imagine all the people living for today. Imagine there's no countries. It isn't hard to do. Nothing to kill or die for. And no religion too."

And of course, Lennon's creative imagination dreamed that a world without religion would beat its swords into plowshares and live together as one. Certainly, with Islam causing serious trouble throughout the world, many people would love to see Lennon's prophetic song fulfilled.

And indeed, it will be fulfilled--to an extent. The world will live as one, but with only one religion instead of the myriad of religions that currently encompass the planet. What will that religion be? It certainly won't be Islam because Islam is eventually going away. And for good. 

Many nations are finally realizing that there will never be peace in the world as long as Islam exists. Islam is a violent religion that can't coexist peacefully with anyone, anywhere. Thus, either Islam goes, or the free world will eventually be subjugated to Islam. Since we can find no reference to Islam and the coming one-world government in the last days preceding the return of Jesus Christ, we have to conclude that Islam will be going away for good.

For many folks, that sounds like good news. However, what comes after Islam is going to be much worse than Islam ever was. Why? Because it will be partnered with a global government. That means that everyone will either follow the one-world religion, or they'll be going away. But to where? To the graveyard.

What is this coming religion? It will be a counterfeit form of Christianity that will be headed by the Antichrist himself. The Antichrist will be an elaborate counterfeit of Jesus Christ who will gain the world's attention through the supernatural. The apostle Paul wrote: "The coming of the lawless one (Antichrist) will be in accordance with the work of Satan displayed in all kinds of counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders, and in every sort of evil that deceives those who are perishing." (2 Thessalonians 2:9-10)

When this begins happening, the world will embrace this man as divine. However, he will be backed by Satan and he will be invincible. The apostle John wrote: "The dragon (Satan) gave the beast his power and his throne and great authority." (Revelation 13:2) And then John revealed this: "He was given power to wage war against God’s holy people and to conquer them. And he was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation. All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written in the Lamb’s book of life, the Lamb (Jesus Christ) who was slain from the creation of the world." (Revelation 13:7-8)

John revealed that this man will force the world to worship him as God. Those who refuse will be killed. John wrote: "He also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name." (Revelation 13:16-17)

When the Antichrist appears and begins performing incredible miracles, the world will be convinced that it's finally achieved global peace and tranquility, just as Lennon dreamed of with Imagine back in 1971. However, it won't last long. Paul warned: "While people are saying, 'Peace and safety,' destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape." (1 Thessalonians 5:3)

Concerning that dreaded time, Christ issued this caveat: "For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now—and never to be equaled again. If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened." (Matthew 24:21-22)

There will never be true peace and unity on earth until the real Prince of Peace Jesus Christ lives in the hearts of all human beings. That's the only way peace will come. It'll never come through political alliances, interfaith movements or the utopian dreams of songwriters such as John Lennon. 

Immorality and Eternal Damnation

A prostitute bargains with a potential customer

The Bible tells us plainly that all sin is bad and separates us from the Holy God who created us in His image (Genesis 1:26) to have fellowship with.

That's why God sent His Son Jesus Christ into the world to pay the price for our sins that we could never pay ourselves. As the apostle John so aptly wrote: "And the blood of Jesus, His Son, purifies us from all sin." (1 John 1:7)

Unless we're cleansed of our sins, we have no hope of eternal life. All those who die in their sins are condemned by God to the spiritual prison that's called Hades or hell. And they'll stay there until Judgement Day when they'll stand before Christ and have to explain why they treated His laws and commandments with contempt. I sincerely doubt that apologies will prevent them from being condemned to the eternal lake of fire (Isaiah 66:24, Revelation 20:15).

How can we avoid such a terrible fate? By repenting of our rebellion against God; confessing our sins to Christ and dedicating the rest of our lives to serving God and Christ. Nothing else will do. Sadly, many people foolishly believe that they can please God by wearing religious clothing, (crucifixes, crosses, pendants, scapulars, yarmulkes etc.) and attending churches, mosques or synagogues on a regular basis. That's delusion of the worst sort. 

I'm occasionally asked what sins I believe put us in the greatest danger of hell and eternal damnation. Though most folks believe that murder is the worst sin, it isn't. Certainly, murder is a heinous act that unlawfully robs another human being of his or her life. 

However, murder is often--but not always--committed under the influence of evil passion. It isn't always premeditated as other sins. Such as? Such as sexual immorality that encompasses adultery, fornication, bestiality, pedophilia, incest, rape and homosexuality. While sexual sin certainly involves passion, it's almost always premeditated. In other words, it's planned and conducted, usually in violation of a person's conscience.

And sexual sin begins in a person's heart. Christ explained: "You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart." (Matthew 5:27-28) 

That means that in God's eyes, a person who looks at another person lustfully has committed the sin of adultery. Now you can understand why it was necessary for Christ to come into the world and die for our sins on the cross. If He hadn't, we'd all be doomed, "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." (Romans 3:23)

The apostle Paul expressively warned Christians to stay out of sin, especially sexual sin that he declared the worst of all sins. Here's what he wrote: "But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God’s holy people. Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving. For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person—such a person is an idolater—has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things God’s wrath comes on those who are disobedient. Therefore do not be partners with them." (Ephesians 5:3-7)

To the early church in Corinth, Paul issued this caveat: "Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God." (1 Corinthians 6:9-11)

Paul didn't issue his own opinions. His writings came directly from God via the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Through Paul, God warned the early Christians that even though they confessed Christ as Lord and attended church, they would never gain eternal life if they willfully violated His laws and commandments. And Paul's warnings debunk the heretical eternal security doctrine that's preached in many churches.

And so, if you're living in sexual immorality, you need to repent of this sin immediately. If you've ever divorced and remarried, you may have committed that sin. Christ said this: "But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, makes her the victim of adultery, and anyone who marries a divorced woman commits adultery." (Matthew 5:32) 

Why is sexual immorality so detestable to God? Because it's the worst expression of debauchery and unfaithfulness. The spiritual equivalent of sexual immorality is idolatry and the worship of false gods. That's why God punished ancient Israel because the Jewish nation violated the covenant He established with Israel by corporately turning her back on Him to worship the false gods of the surrounding pagan nations.

Thus, when a person cheats on their spouse, or engages in any sort of sexual activity outside of marriage, they're guilty of the same sin of unfaithfulness that ancient Israel committed against God. And that brings judgment against everyone who commits sexual sin.

If you don't believe that, then just wait and see what's going to happen to you. I guarantee that you will live--and die--to regret it.  

Bullshoi Islam

The Religion of Peace?

Imam Azam Akram of Chicago's Al-Sadiq Mosque wants to educate those who believe that his religion teaches anything but peace, brotherhood and tranquility.

At a recent forum (Dispelling Myths about Islam) that was held at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn Il., he said this: We condemn any act of violence and any act of terrorism. And I as an Imam condemn these recent attacks in Paris and in Beirut and in Nigeria and all over the world that are supposedly done in the name of name of Islam that are absolutely wrong.

Dr. Kaleem Malik of Burr Ridge Il., who's affiliated with Ahmadiyya, an Islamic sect that follows the teachings of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835–1908), said this at the forum: It would be wonderful for the West to rise and say, 'We've read a little about Islam, and your teachings don't say that.' 

Unfortunately for Dr. Malik, Islam does "say that," meaning that his religion implores its followers to go out and conquer the world by the sword. Certainly, you can find scriptures in the Quran that encourage Muslims to spread Islam peacefully. But those scriptures are usually found in the early Medinan scriptures. When Muhammad later moved to Mecca, he recorded his famous war verses that have been used by jihadists for centuries to foment terror all over the world. 

Imam Akram and Dr. Malik are certainly familiar with those 164 war verses that are contained in the Meccan verses of the Quran. And they probably don't teach them to their followers. Like millions of Muslims worldwide, they likely encourage their followers to live peacefully with members of other faiths.

But it's irrelevant whether they believe in peace or not because their holy book encourages Muslims to commit violence against those who resist their founding prophet. And that's something that Imam Akram and Dr. Malik can't deny.

For example: Therefore let those fight in the way of Allah, who sell this world's life for the hereafter; and whoever fights in the way of Allah, then be he slain or be he victorious, We shall grant him a mighty reward. (Sura 4:74) 

Here's another war verse: Those who believe fight in the way of Allah, and those who disbelieve fight in the way of the Satan. Fight therefore against the friends of the Satan. (Sura 4:76)

And another: Fight with them until there is no more persecution and religion should be only for Allah. (Sura 8:39) And still another: Fight those who do not believe in Allah, nor follow the religion of truth, out of those who have been given the Book, until they pay the tax in acknowledgment of superiority and they are in a state of subjection. (Sura 9:29)

Finally, there's this one: Fight and slay the unbelievers wherever you find them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem of war. But if they repent, and establish regular prayers and practice regular charity, then open the way for them. (Sura 9:5)

We could go on and on. Islam isn't a religion of peace. Nor has it ever been. It's a violent religion that's littered the world with millions of corpses since its inception in the 7th century A.D. To claim otherwise, or to attribute its violent theology to a small group of radicals who follow a perverted form of that religion is the worst kind of dishonesty.

There will never be peace as long as Islam exists. And Islam can't be reformed as Christianity was about 500 years ago. Christianity became corrupt when the church--specifically the Catholic Church--strayed far from the Bible to follow the teachings and traditions of men. The Protestant Reformation, launched by Martin Luther in the 16th century, helped bring the church back to the Bible as God's sole authority for the church.

Though leftists love to find moral equivalence in Islamic terrorism and Christianity concerning the historic atrocities committed by the church (Crusades, Inquisitions etc.), those atrocities were committed in opposition to what Jesus Christ taught. That's what necessitated the Reformation.

When Christ sent His followers in to the world to preach the Gospel, he told them this: "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age." (Matthew 28:18-20) 

Christ never commanded them to use violence as a means to spread the Gospel. In fact, He warned: "For all who live by the sword will die by the sword." (Matthew 26:52)

In order for Islam to be reformed, several verses would have to be erased from the Quran. Muslims would consider that sacrilege of the worst sort. Muslims--and sadly, even many professing Christians--believe that the Quran was revealed directly to Muhammad by God. Therefore, the Quran cannot be changed and Islam cannot be reformed.

Thus, as long as Islam exists, there will never be peace. The sooner the world wakes up from its politically correct coma and realizes that, the better. It may be true that only hardcore fundamentalists commit jihad in the name of their religion.

However, as long as Islam exists, hardcore fundamentalists will continue to exist and commit violence wherever they exist. That's reality.

The World After Islam

Remains of a destroyed mosque: A portent of the future

Though Islam's causing a lot of serious trouble across the planet, biblical prophecy reveals that another religion is going to dominate the world in the days directly preceding the return of Jesus Christ.

In fact, there are few prophetic scriptures in the Bible that even hint of Islam. One of them was this caveat that Christ issued shortly before He was crucified: "...in fact, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God." (John 16:2) Many Muslims believe they are offering a service to Allah by murdering infidels, of which Jews and Christians are considered among the worst. 

In the Old Testament, we find God's declaration of judgment upon the many nations that persecuted Israel and claimed that land for their own. 

For example, here are God's own words spoken to the prophet Ezekiel in the 6th century B.C.: "In my burning zeal I have spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, for with glee and with malice in their hearts they made my land their own possession so that they might plunder its pastureland.’ Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel and say to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I speak in my jealous wrath because you have suffered the scorn of the nations. Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I swear with uplifted hand that the nations around you will also suffer scorn." (Ezekiel 36:5-7)

Ancient Edom is now Jordan, a nation that was created as Transjordan in 1922 by the League of Nations and later became known as Jordan in 1946. After the United Nations declared Israel a sovereign nation in 1948, Jordan was designated as a homeland for Arabs, Egyptians, Turks, Persians, Bedouins, Assyrians etc. who didn't want to live in the Jewish nation. 

Of course, for political reasons, many of those people later began identifying as Palestinians and claimed that Israel stole their land. Though that land had been known as Palestine for over 1,800 years, it was given that name by Roman Emperor Hadrian in 130 A.D. when he voided Israel as a nation after his army crushed the Bar Kochba rebellion that sought to win Israel's independence from Rome.

Thus, Palestine was created by the ancient Roman Empire. Modern "Palestine" was the creation of arch-terrorist Yasser Arafat, himself an Egyptian, and the Soviet Union that wanted to evict the Jewish nation from the Middle East because it was politically tethered to the United States. Arafat wanted to destroy Israel because as a Muslim, he considered the Jewish nation to be an abomination in the midst of Islamic countries.

However, Islam rather than Israel has no future in the world. What will spell the end of Islam? Terror attacks such as the recent one in Paris that killed over 100 people, and the bombing of a Russian jetliner over Egypt on October 31 that killed 224 people. 

The world is finally going to realize that either Islam goes, or the rest of the free world will go. Though political leaders such as Barack Obama, French President Francois Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister David Cameron steadfastly refuse to acknowledge that Islam is a violent religion that encourages terrorism, leaders such as Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping know otherwise. And they don't want Islam.

And as nations such as China, Russia, India and South Korea continue to grow and strengthen, they'll begin to use force to drive Islam out of their countries and the eastern world. Islam will then settle in the west until the rising eastern powers take control of the west and eradicate Islam.

What will be the global religion after Islam? It will be a counterfeit form of Christianity that will eventually lead to the dreaded Antichrist. And just how will it spread across the world? Through the supernatural. The apostle Paul revealed this: "The coming of the lawless one (Antichrist) will be in accordance with the work of Satan displayed in all kinds of counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders, and in every sort of evil that deceives those who are perishing." (2 Thessalonians 2:9-10)

Christ warned: "For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. See, I have told you ahead of time." (Matthew 24:24-25)

Where will this global religion be centered? It will be located in Rome. (Revelation 17:9) But how can we be sure of that? The apostle John, who recorded the Revelation in about 90 A.D. was given an allegorical vision of a garishly dressed harlot that sat atop a scarlet beast with seven heads and 10 horns. The beast represents the coming global government that will feature 10 regions ruled by seven kings who'll answer to a supreme world ruler, the Antichrist. 

And the mysterious woman who rides the beast? John described her location as a city surrounded by seven hills. Only two cities fit that description; Rio de Janeiro that's located in Brazil and Rome that's located in Italy. The Vatican is located in Rome and is the world headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church. When John recorded the Revelation, the Catholic Church didn't exist and wouldn't come into existence for another 250 years.

Is that a coincidence? No, that's prophetic. And that's the global religion that's coming. It will feature a partnership of government and religion with the Antichrist as its leader. If you thought Islam was bad, then you'd better hope you're not around when this government-religion assumes power.

This is Islam

Murder in Paris: The victims of the latest ISIS attack

French President Francois Hollande has promised to crush the Islamic State (ISIS) after the terror organization committed mass murder in his nation with a series of attacks on Friday (November 13). The attacks killed over 100 people and wounded several hundred more.

Here's what Hollande said: It is an act of war that was committed by a terrorist army, a jihadist army, Daesh (ISIS), against France. It is an act of war that was prepared, organized and planned from abroad, with complicity from the inside, which the investigation will help establish.

France is participating in the war against ISIS going on in Syria. Because of that, ISIS struck the European nation, just as it struck Russia on October 31 by blowing up a Russian passenger jet over Egypt, killing 224 people. ISIS has warned that every nation fighting against the Islamic State will be targeted for attacks.

In response to that threat, Hollande and even the sleepy Barack Obama promised to step up the military campaign in Syria against the Islamic State. That's a typical response to a much bigger problem that isn't confined to Syria and other Islamic enclaves in the Middle East, Asia and Northern Africa.

And that's a predictable response from pansified western leaders who are either too ignorant or unwilling--or both--to recognize that ISIS is merely one of many heads of the Islamic hydra. Getting rid of ISIS may calm things down in the short term. But the monster will just grow another head and start trouble somewhere else. 

Remember Osama Bin Laden? Al Qaeda was supposed to be toast after U.S. Navy Seals caught up to him in Pakistan four years ago and blew him away. Obama, ever the court-jester, even bragged at the time that al Qaeda was dead and General Motors the auto manufacturer (who Obama bailed out) was alive.

Like ISIS, al Qaeda's very much alive and is promising catastrophic attacks against the U.S. and other western targets. If either the Islamic State or al Qaeda successfully pulls that off in the U.S., it will make Obama look like the incompetent fool that he is to the entire world rather than just to his enemies. That's something he dreads worse than an attack on U.S. soil because he possesses a gargantuan ego. In Obama's mind, he's perfect in all of his ways and incapable of mistakes.

However, the western world continues to commit the mistake of believing that Islam is a religion of peace that's been hijacked by a small group of hardcore radicals. Islam isn't a religion of peace and it's never been since its inception in the 7th century. 

It's founding prophet Muhammad was a violent man who commanded his followers to spread his new religion by force, if necessary. Though most Muslims eschew violence because they're cultural Muslims who don't take the Quran literally, the nexus of their religion commands violence and bloodshed as essential proselytizing tools. 

If you doubt that, then here are some examples taken directly from Islam's holy book. Here's a verse that ISIS likely used to justify its attacks on France and Russia: Retaliation is prescribed for you in the matter of the slain. There is life for you in (the law of) retaliation, O men of understanding, that you may guard yourselves. (Sura 2:178-179)

Here's another example: Fight in the way of Allah with those who fight with you. And kill them wherever you find them, and drive them out from whence they drove you out, and persecution is severer than slaughter, and do not fight with them at the Sacred Mosque until they fight with you in it, but if they do fight you, then slay them; such is the recompense of the unbelievers. (Sura 2:190-191)

Here are two more: Those who believe fight in the way of Allah, and those who disbelieve fight in the way of Satan. Fight therefore against the friends of Satan; surely the strategy of Satan is weak. (Sura 4:77) The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His apostle and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides or they should be imprisoned. This shall be as a disgrace for them in this world, and in the hereafter they shall have a grievous chastisement. (Sura 5:33)

And so, if President Hollande and other western leaders truly want to eliminate terrorism, then they can start by outlawing Islam and cutting out the politically-correct claptrap that Islam is a religion of peace. They can close down mosques, ban the Quran and outlaw all public expressions of that faith. And they can give Muslims the choice of either assimilating into their cultures or emigrating to Islamic nations. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin said it best two years ago when he spoke before the Russian Duma: We will not tolerate disrespect of our Russian culture. We had better learn from the suicides of America, England, Holland and France, if we are to survive as a nation. The Muslims are taking over those countries and they will not take over Russia. The Russian customs and traditions are not compatible with the lack of culture or the primitive ways of Sharia Law and Muslims. When this honorable legislative body thinks of creating new laws, it should have in mind the Russian national interest first, observing that the Muslim minorities are not Russians.  

Is it harsh to suggest that Islam must be outlawed and banned from the world? Then go ahead and stick your head back in the sand or wherever else the sun doesn't shine. Wherever Islam exists, there will be trouble. If you're okay with bloody corpses strewn about cafes and blown up buses and young girls brutally raped and child-brides and beheaded children, then you're okay with Islam.

And please don't blame Israel or occupied territories or western imperialism or Crusaders or something the Roman Catholic Church did 1,000 years ago. If you want to understand what the real problem is, then pick up a copy of the Quran and the Hadith and read them. They're available in English.  

And if you still don't see a problem after you've read them, then go stand in front of a mirror. Then you'll see the real problem.

The Holocaust Agenda

Agenda 21: Agenda for a global holocaust

What's Agenda 21 and why is it so dangerous? Agenda 21 is a plan concocted by the United Nations to create a one-world government that will have absolute power and authority over every human being on earth.

Is that necessarily a bad thing? Yes it is because a global government that possesses absolute authority will use that authority to eliminate millions--if not billions--of people from the planet. But why? Because those who are pursuing a world government are convinced that too many people inhabit the planet that causes poverty, increases crime, depletes the earth's natural resources, contaminates the environment and leads to wars.

Former Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev wants to see the world's population radically reduced: The ecological crisis, in short, is the population crisis. Cut the population by 90 percent and there aren't enough people left to do a great deal of ecological damage. 

Author Dan Brown (Inferno) is another man who's on board with a massive global population reduction: Ozone depletion, lack of water, and pollution are not the disease—they are the symptoms. The disease is overpopulation. And unless we face world population head-on, we are doing nothing more than sticking a Band-Aid on a fast-growing cancerous tumor.

Therefore, in the name of prosperity and environmentalism, a significant number of people must be eliminated from the world. And the only way that can be achieved is through a totalitarian government that has absolute, unlimited power.

If that sounds like a crazy conspiracy theory, then consider this quote from Initiative for the United Nations, Eco 92 Earth Charter: The present vast overpopulation, now far beyond the world carrying capacity cannot be answered by future reductions in the birth rate due to contraception, sterilization and abortion, but must be met in the present by the reduction in the numbers presently existing. This must be done by whatever means necessary.

Whatever means necessary? That sounds like mass murder. Certainly, few people can even begin to comprehend that an international movement exists that wants to decrease the world's population by up to 90 percent. That sounds so ridiculous that no one would believe that except simpletons and conspiracy nuts. But that movement indeed exists.

Consider this quote from the Club of Rome, one of many influential groups affiliated with the U.N. that is actively working toward a world government: The common enemy of humanity is man. In searching for a new enemy to unite us we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All these dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome. The real enemy then is humanity itself.

How does the U.N. and it affiliated groups plan to create a one-world government? Through the global warming-climate change scheme that's designed to coerce the world's 193 nations to forgo their sovereignty for the security of a global government. But specifically how? Through money distributed to thousands of media and grass roots organizations that will implement the climate agenda. And through the gradual transfer of economic and political power from individual nations to the U.N.

A significant part of the climate agenda entails creating an international panic by warning the world that unless action is taken--and soon--the earth and all of its life forms are doomed. From the theeconomiccollapseblog.com: The UN is not asking permission, but issuing a command that the entire planet will commit to 17 sustainable development goals and 169 sustainable development targets designed to radically transform our world by 2030. The UN 2030 plan promoted by the Pope (Francis) will advance Agenda 21 on steroids. Through a controlled media the mass populations will be told that this is all about saving the environment and "ending poverty." But that is not the true agenda of Agenda 21. The true agenda of Agenda 21 is to establish a global government, global economic system, and global religion. When UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon spoke of "a dream of a world of peace and dignity for all" this is no different than when the Communists promised the people a "workers paradise."

The prophet Daniel, who lived about 2,600 years ago, received a metaphorical vision from God concerning four world empires depicted as beasts that would rise and fall before the end of time and the return of Jesus Christ. Concerning the final empire, Daniel wrote this: "After that, in my vision at night I looked, and there before me was a fourth beast—terrifying and frightening and very powerful. It had large iron teeth; it crushed and devoured its victims and trampled underfoot whatever was left. It was different from all the former beasts, and it had ten horns." (Daniel 7:7)

The apostle John, who lived about 600 years later, received a similar vision from the Lord while in exile from Rome on the island of Patmos. Here's what he described: "And I saw a beast coming out of the sea. It had ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns on its horns, and on each head a blasphemous name. (Revelation 13:1) 

Daniel's fourth beast and the beast that John saw are one and the same. They represent the coming world government. The 10 horns represent the 10 regions or nation groups that will be ruled by seven kings. Daniel described this beast as extremely powerful and frightening. According to the prophet, this beast will crush and devour its victims, indicating that this government will commit mass murder on a global scale. 

Furthermore, John's vision revealed that this government will be ferocious and spread rapidly across the world: "The beast I saw resembled a leopard, but had feet like those of a bear and a mouth like that of a lion." (Revelation 13:2)  The leopard is a predatory animal that's extremely fast. The bear is one of the strongest animals on earth and the lion is extremely fierce. The analogies that describe the attributes of this government can't be underestimated.

When will this government arise? The U.N. would like to see it in place by 2030. That's just 15 years away. Whether that happens in 2030 or not remains to be seen.

But when--and not if--it happens, this government will institute a global holocaust. It will decide who stays and who goes in the name of environmental stewardship. Those who are considered too old, infirm, mentally deficient or belonging to an inferior race will be eliminated. Remember Adolf Hitler's contemptuous crack about wanting to eliminate "useless eaters?" This government will carry that out.

Concerning that dreaded time, Christ warned: "For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now—and never to be equaled again. If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect (Christians) those days will be shortened." (Matthew 24:21-22)

So when you hear influential folks peddling the hysteria of climate change-global warming, understand what that's about. And understand what it leads to.

Judgment and The Last Days

Get ready for some nasty weather

I'm occasionally asked this question: If your blog's about prophecy, then where is it? All you seem to do is focus on what's in the Bible.

Well, that's where it is concerning the unique time in history that we're living in. And I focus on that because it's time for many folks--and this includes professing Christians--to wake up and pay attention because all of the signs the Bible reveals concerning the end times are now happening.

For example, we're seeing an increase in earthquakes and famines (Matthew 24:7),  an explosion of crime, violence and moral decadence (Matthew 24:12, 2 Timothy 3:1-5), the collapse of the church (Matthew 24:10) and the increase in wars and rumors of war (Matthew 24:6).

While all of these events have existed since the dawn of history, they're rapidly increasing in our time. That clearly indicates that we're living in the prophetic last days. Furthermore, we're living in a global society. You couldn't say that 100 years ago. You can now communicate with people anywhere on earth in an instant. 

And we're moving rapidly toward a fully electronic economic system that will do away with cash, coins, checks, credit and debit cards. This was first revealed by the apostle John in about 90 A.D. when he recorded the Bible's final book, the Revelation. (Revelation 13:16-17) 

We're also moving toward a global government that will possess tyrannical power. Concerning a global government, John described the metaphorical vision he received from God that detailed this government: "And I saw a beast coming out of the sea. It had ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns on its horns, and on each head a blasphemous name. The beast I saw resembled a leopard, but had feet like those of a bear and a mouth like that of a lion." (Revelation 13:1-2)

The allegorical beast that John saw in his vision represents the coming world government that will feature 10 regions ruled by seven kings who will eventually be under the authority of a diabolical ruler the Bible identifies as the Antichrist.

Furthermore, the Antichrist will also be a religious figure as well as a political ruler. And he will be worshiped as Jesus Christ when he appears. What religion will he identify with? John saw this: "Then the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. There I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns. The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and was glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls. She held a golden cup in her hand, filled with abominable things and the filth of her adulteries." (Revelation 17:3-4)

The woman represents the coming global religion. And John revealed her earthly location; a city surrounded by seven hills. (Revelation 17:9) There are only two cities in the world surrounded by seven hills; Rio de Janeiro that's located in Brazil and Rome that's located in Italy.

The Vatican is located in Rome and is the world headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church. When John recorded the Revelation, the Catholic Church didn't exist and wouldn't come into existence for another 250 years. And so, the coming global religion will be headed by the Catholic Church. And not surprisingly, Pope Francis, who's become the most liberal pontiff in history, is actively promoting a world government. Is that a coincidence? That's extremely unlikely.

But before that happens many things are going to take place. There'll be harsh judgment upon the earth. Destructive earthquakes are going to increase across the world, and some are going to strike the United States. Those who live on the west coast should be particularly concerned because something big is going to happen there. When? I don't know when. But it will be significant.

Parts of Europe are going to be flooded with torrential rains, and significant blizzards and extreme cold weather are going to strike in Eastern Europe. In the United States, the Mid-Atlantic states along the upper east coast are going to be slammed with flooding rains, heavy snowstorms and nor'easters. The plain states and the central U.S. are going experience violent cyclones and damaging tornadoes.

Concerning Africa, extreme heatwaves and droughts are going to plague much of the northern and central portions of that continent. And portions of Asia are going to be inundated with heavy floods brought on by torrential rains. And concerning Japan, that nation's going to experience a devastating earthquake that will do significant damage to the northern part of that nation.

But why is all of this going to happen? Consider abortion and the millions of babies that are being butchered in the name of "choice." Consider the persecution of Christians that has now reached into North America. Consider anti-Semitism that is spreading around the world again like a deadly malignancy. Consider the codification of same-sex marriage. And consider the worship of demons, false gods and idols that has even spread into the Christian church.

Consider all of that. And consider what's coming. You asked for prophecy? You've been answered.

Patricia Columbo II

Patricia Columbo arrested for murder in 1976

For some reason, an article I posted about Patricia Columbo back in June (Bad Decisions and Ruined Lives) has elicited some rather sharp responses from those who obviously still loathe Patricia all these many years later.

Here's a sample from someone named Janis Shipley:

1. You need to do a little more homework. You have painted a picture of an impressionable girl who was a victim. She was far from a victim & was actually the stronger personality of the duo. She was & probably still is a habitual liar & until very recently never even took responsibility for what she had done. I repeat.....your synopsis is all wrong. You sincerely need to do more research & write this again. BTW...she will never get out on parole unless she lives to be 100!!! And might I remind you that she stabbed her 13 year old brother 87 times with a pair of scissors. Nobody coerced her to do that. She made that evil decision all on her own!!!!

Who's Patricia Columbo? She was a young Italian-Irish diva who murdered her parents and her 13-year-old brother in 1976 with the help of her much older boyfriend, a man named Frank Deluca. Columbo became romantically involved with Deluca while she worked as a waitress in a restaurant near the Walgreens drug store that Deluca managed. 

When Deluca met and seduced Columbo, he was married man with five kids. He also had a history of philandering and he was especially fond of young girls such as Columbo who could easily be conned by older, suave hustlers like himself. When he turned on his charm, Columbo fell in love with him. But for Deluca, all he wanted was sex. 

Certainly, Columbo wasn't an angel. She was snotty, loud, arrogant, promiscuous and rebellious. She had trouble with authority and she knew how to manipulate people to get what she wanted. And when she didn't get it, she became quite nasty. 

When she met Deluca, she saw Frank as her ticket to ride from her strict, authoritarian parents who kept her on a very short leash. For Deluca, Columbo was just another piece of tush to satisfy his ravenous libido. And so, Columbo needed Deluca a lot more than he needed her.

That was until Frank's wife found out about her husband's latest affair. When she subsequently served Frank with divorce papers, he knew that he was facing a financial disaster in alimony and child support payments. 

And so, in Patricia, he found his answer to his financial problems. They would kill her family and she would collect the family inheritance. And then they would get married. And then? An then Patricia would likely go the way of Drew Peterson's fourth wife Stacy and never be heard from or seen again. And then Frank would get the inheritance and solve his financial problems and he would be free to find himself more young, gullible girls he could seduce.

Columbo and Deluca subsequently murdered her family, intending to make it look like a mob hit. But it was a brutal, amateur job unbecoming of a professional hit and they were eventually caught. Patty had tried to hire outsiders to do the job with offers of money and sex, but she failed. And so, she and Frank did it themselves. Ironically, unbeknownst to her and Frank, her parents had cut her out of the family will because of her relationship with Deluca.

The rest is history. Both Columbo and Deluca have been in prison for nearly 40 years. Both have been eligible for parole several times and both have been rejected. They're unlikely to get out until they're dead. 

When I wrote my original article on Columbo back in June, I had no intention of painting her as an innocent victim of an older, conniving sexual predator, although you could certainly make a strong case for that. Columbo was a bad girl who met a bad person and together they committed a heinous crime that still haunts many people all these many years later. And it should. 

But she's not the same person she was 40 years ago, although some people aren't convinced. She's grown up in prison and she's found the Lord Jesus Christ. I know; a lot of people claim to find Jesus Christ in prison, only to fall back into their old ways when they gain their freedom. But I think Patty's conversion is genuine and not phony.

Should she be paroled? I think so. But why? Number one; she's changed. Number two; she poses no threat to anyone. And besides; there are many people a lot more deserving of a jail cell these days than Patricia Columbo. But reality tells us that she's unlikely to ever be free again.

For those who are unforgiving and continue to condemn Patricia for what she did a long time ago, you're advised to read these words written by the apostle John: "Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates a brother or sister is still in the darkness. Anyone who loves their brother and sister lives in the light, and there is nothing in them to make them stumble. But anyone who hates a brother or sister is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness. They do not know where they are going, because the darkness has blinded them." (1 John 2:9-11)

No matter what evil someone has committed, we must be willing to forgive them. That doesn't absolve them of their wrongdoing. They must be punished for their crimes. But if they truly repent and confess their sins to Christ, and devote their lives to serving Him, He'll forgive them. And they'll inherit eternal life. Even Patricia Columbo. 

The Great Falling Away

The chart says it all

Indeed, we're living in prophetic times. In what way? The Christian church has been losing members by the tens of thousands over the last several years, particularly in the western world where secularism is replacing Christianity as the dominant belief system. And the collapse of the end time church was foretold by Jesus Christ 2,000 years ago.

Here's what Christ said concerning the last days on earth directly preceding His return: "At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people." (Matthew 24:10-11)

Many young people see Christianity as the outdated belief system of their parents and grandparents. To them, any belief in a holy, sovereign God who created the physical universe in six literal days is considered primitive superstition. 

Orianna O'Neill, 21, a student at Beloit College in Wisconsin offered the typical opinion of millennials who've been taught that religion is for old-fashioned, simple-minded folks, but not for young hipsters: The idea of (conservatives) not believing in global warming is contributing to the notion that religious people are not intelligent.  

According to a recent Pew Research poll conducted of people who profess to believe in God, 89 percent of Americans still profess some belief which is down slightly from 92 percent in 2007. However, those who claim to believe in God "with absolute certainty" dropped to 63 percent from 71 percent in 2007. 

The trend is most pronounced among young adults, with only half of those born from 1990 to 1996 absolutely certain of their belief in God, compared to 71 percent of the "silent generation," or those born from 1928 to 1945. 

Why are so many young people turning to atheism? Because they've been indoctrinated into godless humanism from the time they entered kindergarten. For decades, many people have been taught in public and even private schools that life is nothing but the product of random evolutionary forces that began in a primordial mud pond millions of years ago.

If that's true--and it isn't--then God doesn't exist. And if God doesn't exist, then the 10 Commandments, the Bible and God's transcendent moral laws are nothing but human constructs that are meaningless. And that means that there's no moral accountability to a heavenly authority and no judgment at death for one's behavior during their lifetime in this world.

The effects of godless humanism upon society are staggering. Crime, violence and moral depravity have exploded across much of the world over the past 60 years. The traditional family unit, the moral foundation of a strong civilization is crumbling. Marriage, except for the newly created version of same-sex marriage, is becoming extinct. More babies are born out of wedlock in western society than at any other time in history.

In the late 1930s, only about two percent of babies were born out of wedlock in the United States. And today? Jordan Weissman of slate.com wrote this: Americans, having children outside of marriage is very much “the new normal,” as the New York Times once put it. In a study tracking the first wave of millennials to become parents, a team from Johns Hopkins University recently found that 64 percent of mothers gave birth at least once out of wedlock. Almost one-half had all of their children without ever exchanging vows.

The blame for the moral decay that's ruining western civilization can be traced to the Christian church that stopped contending for the faith back in the 19th century. But why? Because many theologians began to doubt the inspiration and inerrancy of the Bible. Instead, they foolishly believed that all world religions offered truth and the Bible was just one of many truths. And they began to teach that.

Christianity degenerated from "the Way and the Truth and the Life" (John 14:6) to just another religion, no different than Buddhism, Hinduism or Sikhism. And as Christianity's moral influence began to fade, moral relativism took over. Such things as abortion, homosexuality and same-sex marriage that were considered abominations for centuries were now considered virtuous. And those who opposed them were now considered bigots and racists to be shunned and scorned.

Concerning the world's prophetic descent into darkness and depravity in the last days, the apostle Paul wrote this: "But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God—having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people." (2 Timothy 3:1-5)

That's a direct result of the church's declining influence upon the world. When people no longer believe in God, they fall into depravity. That results in escalating crime, violence, high out-of-wedlock birthrates, poverty, suicide rates, drug and alcohol additions etc. 

Nearly 3,000 years ago, King Solomon wrote something simple and yet profound: "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. But fools despise wisdom and discipline." (Proverbs 1:7) Certainly, fools reject moral authority because they hate rules and accountability. 

But the church also has its share of fools. And those fools planted the seeds of the moral destruction of western civilization in the 19th century that have come to fruition in our modern times.