| The Hand That Rocks the Cradle | | Posted by Diane on Tuesday, February 23, 2010 at 8:01am | The following is a letter to the Editor which appeared in the Cape May County (NJ) Herald Feb. 17. It is reprinted here with the permission of its author, Cathy Driscoll of Villas, NJ.
To The Editor: “The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world” wrote William Ross Wallace back in 1865. When committed, loving parents rock the cradle, freedom flourishes. When the state is allowed to rock that cradle, evil follows. Tyrants need thugs and wimps. This “ideal” population is produced by controlling the rearing of children. George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” illustrates the brutal way the sheep dog is robbed of her puppies. Once confiscated, the puppies become trained bullies and useful enforcers.
Hitler saw children as “clean slates” on which barbarism could be written, but only if they are removed from the influences of their parents. Kitty Werthmann, a living witness to life under the Nazi boot, describes how pre-Hitler Austria abounded with compassionate and respectful youth. Post Hitler brought hideous changes. Public school teachers encouraged the children to disregard their parents' “fuddy-duddy” ways. Mandatory Youth Day was designated on Sundays at the time of Catholic Mass. Parents who took their children to church instead of youth day faced capital punishment. By firmly holding the children in their hands, Nazis successfully paved the road to the Holocaust.
What has happened here in the last several decades? Parents are afraid to discipline their children in public. Records are withheld from parents because of “privacy rights.” My husband was at the doctor recently and he was not allowed to be in the examination room with our own child without a doctor or nurse present. We were at a swim meet back in November and parents were actually barred from going to the changing rooms with their own children. My husband and I questioned those in charge of the meet on this policy. These officials reasoned that children needed to learn to be on their own. These adults took it upon themselves to disregard the authority of the parents.
Step by step our government has morphed from respecting parents’ rights to dismantling them. Do you want this to continue turning from a snowball into an avalanche?
Let’s say that you think that you won’t be affected by this trend; you don’t plan to ever have children or you have raised your children and are done with this job. First of all, are you so bereft of compassion that you can stand by and allow your fellow citizens to face the forced loss of their children? Secondly, if society is full of parentless thugs, who do we think will come to our rescue when we are old and helpless?
The Parental Rights Amendment, if ratified, will seal protections for parents. It states the following: Section 1: The liberty of parents to direct the upbringing and education of their children is a fundamental right. Section 2: Neither the United States nor any state shall infringe upon this right without demonstrating that its governmental interest as applied to the person is of the highest order and not otherwise served. Section 3: No treaty may be adopted nor shall any source of international law be employed to supersede, modify, interpret, or apply to the rights guaranteed by this article.
Action Item
Visit http:www.parentalrights.org. Once armed with the proper knowledge, take this case to your congressmen, senators and even your governor, mayor and local and state legislators. [Find your lawmakers by clicking on your State at Parentalrights.org/States.]
| | | | | The Bible, the Beast, the UN, and Haiti | | Posted by Diane on Friday, February 12, 2010 at 7:34am | Throughout the Bible, God portrays various world powers as “beasts.” A beast symbolizes power without conscience. God has given the power of the sword to governments for the purpose of condoning good and punishing evil. However, when a State no longer knows the difference between good and evil, it uses the sword against its own people. The State is the earthly institution that represents the kingdoms of this world, i.e. the kingdom of Satan. The Church is the earthly institution that represents the kingdom of Jesus Christ. The two are constantly at war. When the Church is winning, the State comes under the Lordship of Christ. A State that does not submit to Christ becomes a beast. It destroys the weak and helpless within its borders. Abortion is just the beginning. The State controls the children who survive the womb by indoctrinating them through education, thus insuring their loyalty to the State’s (now global) worldview.
The pagan State competes with Jesus Christ for supremacy and control of its people. Jesus Christ says the children of believers belong to him. The State says all children belong to the State. So far, the United Nations has forced every participating nation except the United States to sign a treaty called the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Most people think this treaty is about protecting the rights of children, because this is how it is portrayed by the UN. However, this treaty is not about protecting children’s rights, it is about transferring the ownership of children from parents to the State, which in this case is the United Nations. In countries that have signed this treaty, Christian parents have been declared unfit. Those who refuse State education are imprisoned and their children are taken as wards of the State—wards of the beast.
Haiti is the perfect of example of what I am talking about. It turns out that the UN, through UNICEF (the world’s largest abortion promoter), has put immense pressure on the Haitian government to keep the Haitian children within the country. This pressure has “incentives” attached. The reason for this is because of the overwhelming response of Americans to adopt these children. Since we have not yet signed the UNCRC treaty, these children will no longer be the property of the government. Furthermore, if these children come under the influence of Christian Americans, either by coming to the U.S. or by going to Christian orphanages in other countries, they could adopt a worldview that is hostile to the worldview of the United Nations. The UN would rather see these children dead than saved. As of now, only three Haitian children have been allowed to leave the country. Many are dying. The whole business about the fear of human trafficking is a lie and a distraction.
The missionaries from the U.S. who are imprisoned in Haiti are not in jail because they are suspected of human trafficking; they are in jail because they dared to challenge the Beast. Christianity is all about defending the weak and helping widows and orphans. Satan detests that, and he is raising up an army to wipe Christianity off the face of the earth. Our own president has adopted this global worldview and his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been working toward signing the UNCRC treaty. The only thing that has stopped them so far is the fact that tens of thousands of Christians have written and called their congressman to sponsor a bill which would add an amendment to the Constitution of the United States. It is called the Parental Rights Amendment, and you can sign a petition for this amendment at http://www.parentalrights.org. If you have not done this, please do it now.
I have a gut feeling that the UN will come to the U.S. with a proposal that if we would only sign the UNCRC treaty, then we could adopt Haitian orphans. If this happens, do not be fooled by it. You would be giving your own children to this beast, and ultimately saving no one. This is not about protecting children’s rights. It is about ownership of the children. Parents and grandparents of America, please WAKE UP before it is too late.
The kings and the rulers of the earth have declared war on Jesus Christ and his followers (Psalm 2:1-2). If you are on their side, do nothing. Jesus said, “He who is not for Me is against Me.” If you are on the side of Jesus Christ, then stand up and fight. Sign the petition. Call your senators and congressmen. (Get your own children out of the public schools!) If we can pass this amendment, then America will be the only country in the UN where children still have the right to be brought up by the people who love them, even if our government signs the treaty. Please do not be one of those pathetic Christians who have abandoned the fight because you believe that “these things are supposed to happen.” Fight for the children! Jesus said, “Whatsoever you did for the least of these my brethren, you did it unto Me.”
| | | | | It's All About the Kids | | Posted by Diane on Wednesday, February 3, 2010 at 3:54pm | When I began writing my book Two Trees of Knowledge, I spoke to many Christian parents about why they wanted to send their children to public school. These are the answers I heard:
My kids want to be with their friends.
My son wants to play football.
My daughter wants to be in drama.
My kids can be in the gifted program in the public schools.
We would never be able to afford private school.
Translated, the last one means “We refuse to lower our standard of living.” In nearly every case, the parents’ goal is to please the children. It is all about what the kids want. Is it any wonder that we have raised generations of adults who have a sense of entitlement? Eli’s sons also felt they were entitled.
Eli was a judge in the Old Testament whose family was put under a curse by God because of his evil sons, Hophni and Phineas. They were priests who were so thoroughly wicked that they treated the offerings with contempt, stealing what belonged to God, and prostituting themselves with the women who served at the entrance to the tent of meeting. The people complained to Eli, and he rebuked his sons, but what was he going to do? They were having fun. God then sent a prophet to warn him about the curses that would befall his family if he didn’t restrain his sons. Eli did nothing. Finally God sent Samuel to pronounce the curse. It makes me shudder to even write this curse, but here it is:
1 Samuel 3:11-14 (New International Version)
11 And the LORD said to Samuel: "See, I am about to do something in Israel that will make the ears of everyone who hears of it tingle. 12 At that time I will carry out against Eli everything I spoke against his family—from beginning to end. 13 For I told him that I would judge his family forever because of the sin he knew about; his sons made themselves contemptible, and he failed to restrain them. 14 Therefore, I swore to the house of Eli, 'The guilt of Eli's house will never be atoned for by sacrifice or offering.' "
Christian parents are given a command by God to teach their children from morning until evening throughout the day (Deut. 6:6-9). Jewish children were in the custody of their parents until the age of thirteen, (the age of Bar Mitzvah) when a child was formally recognized as a productive member of society. Scientists in our culture have determined that it takes around twelve years to formulate a worldview. In the Jewish (biblical) culture, the parents were expected to protect the purity of the child’s worldview until it was completely formed. Christian parents promise to do the same thing when they baptize their infants and bring them into the church family. They promise to do everything in their power to indoctrinate the children in Scripture and to protect them from learning the ways of the world.
In reality, the majority of parents do not even have custody of their children for 35-plus hours a week. Most have turned the custody of their children over to the government. The government then chooses the children’s teachers, playmates, and curriculum. It provides counseling which can be done without parental consent. The parents effectually become dorm-keepers, providing meals and a place to sleep. Any indoctrination in Scripture becomes the church’s responsibility, for an hour a week. The question God poses to Eli could be asked of parents today. “Why do you honor your sons more than me?”
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| | | | | Avatar: An Opportunity for Christians to Engage the Culture | | Posted by Diane on Wednesday, January 20, 2010 at 11:23am | I saw Avatar yesterday in 3D. I did not become euphoric or depressed, but I can understand why people are reportedly depressed after viewing this movie. James Cameron gives us portrayal of humanity that illustrates the biblical doctrine of the depravity of man. Even a little truth can shine a light into a dark heart and become a mirror for the soul. Surprisingly, the message of this film undercuts the humanist mantra that men are basically good. It shows us a view of humanity in which even the best intentions of the best men are tainted by selfish ambition and greed. The following review contains spoilers:
Humans come to the planet Pandora to mine a mineral called Unobtanium which will make them wealthy. These men and women have no regard for beauty, no respect for life, and no compassion for the natives who live there—the Na’vi. They destroy the environment, killing anyone who gets in their way. When indigenous people try to defend themselves, the humans decide to “fight terror with terror” by making a “pre-emptive strike” and showing them some “shock and awe.” (This language is no doubt intended to identify them as evil Americans.)
Jake Sully, a former marine and a paraplegic has the job of gaining the trust of the Na’vi, so he can manipulate them into getting out of the way. He does this in return for the cost of surgery to get back the use of his legs. Problems begin when he falls in love with the first Na’vi he meets—Neytiri. His divided loyalties create a problem, but because he is a man, we already know where this is going to go. He will join forces with the Na’vi to marry the girl. There are no principles of right and wrong here, just men going after what they want.
Then there is Dr. Grace Augustine (interesting name!), a scientist who “likes plants better than people.” She also sides with the Na’vi, but she too has ulterior motives. She has discovered that the trees contain wisdom, a biological database complete with a network of neurons, and the natives know how to access the wisdom in the trees. (Excuse me if I have a moment of déjà vu, but I believe I’ve read a story before about a woman who wanted wisdom from a tree…) Anyway, Grace wants to save the people so she can use them to get her greedy scientific hands on the database. She is intent on mining knowledge.
Eywa, the goddess of Pandora, dwells in the Hometree, but she is not a goddess who protects the people. Her only concern is the balance of nature on the planet. During the battle, Grace is mortally wounded and she is brought to the Tree of Souls, where Eywa will decide whether Grace can be permanently transformed into a Na’vi or die. Grace sees Eywa and lives only long enough to tell Jake that Eywa is real. Then she dies, so the price for her new-found wisdom is death. (More déjà vu.)
James Cameron gives us an excellent picture of the hopelessness of men without a personal God. The impersonal goddess of nature cannot be counted on to redeem men of any race. Grace dies (no pun intended), but Jake lives on as a Na’vi only to preserve the balance of nature. The premise of the film is the antithesis of what most people believe about human nature, but if they reflect on the nature of their own hearts and see their own greed and selfish ambition, then this epiphany could cause depression and feelings of hopelessness. Some people who say they contemplate suicide after watching the movie give two reasons: 1) the hopelessness of living on a dying planet with evil men, and 2) the hope that death will bring them to Pandora or a place like it. A smart Christian will use this film as an opportunity to engage the culture in a dialogue about the true nature of man and the hope we have in Jesus Christ. We will inherit a new earth someday, and no evil will be allowed to exist there. We have a message that people are apparently ready to hear. The harvest is ripe.
Movies | | | | | The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil and the Mark of the Beast | | Posted by Diane on Thursday, January 7, 2010 at 8:03am | Did you ever notice that the tree of the knowledge of good and evil contained good? It was pleasing to the eye, it was good for food, and good for attaining wisdom. Satan is a master counterfeiter, and he uses truth to deceive. He knew that he did not need to completely corrupt Eve’s mind to own her soul. He just had to dilute her worldview enough so she could no longer differentiate between good and evil.
In the battle for souls, children are the trophies because their worldviews are still malleable until around the age of twelve. If the gatekeepers to a child’s mind can be corrupted by polluting them, Satan will succeed in making the child unable to differentiate between good and evil. In the book of Revelation, the beasts (powerful, but no conscience) represent governments that war against Christ for sovereignty over his people. Governments are the earthly institutions that represent the kingdoms of this world. The church is the earthly institution that represents the Kingdom of Christ. They are constantly at war, each fighting for dominion over the other. This is precisely why God has forbidden the State to educate his children. The one who educates children is the one who puts his mark on their foreheads, the one who establishes the gatekeepers of children’s minds. A child who eats the good (truth) at home and the evil (lies) at school eats from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The resulting (double-minded) worldview is the mark of the beast and it is poison to the soul.
When the State educates children, the Church becomes corrupt. When the Church educates children, the State comes under the sovereign rule of Christ--it is that simple. When the State takes over education, it claims children as its own. The State decides who the children’s teachers will be, who their companions will be, what their curriculum will be, and what medical treatments a child must have. The State that is not submissive to the rule and authority of Jesus Christ is under the rule of Satan. In the Netherlands, doctors working for the State can euthanize a child under the age of two if they believe that child’s quality of life is compromised. Parents have no say in the matter. The child belongs to the State. If Helen Keller were an 18-month old living there today, she would be euthanized.
God is angry with Christian parents who partner with his enemies to educate his children, because their education predisposes them to receive the mark of the beast. Hosea 4:6 says,
my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge.
"Because you have rejected knowledge,
I also reject you as my priests;
because you have ignored the law of your God,
I also will ignore your children.
Christian parents take heed: if you partner with the State to educate your child, God has no obligation to keep his part of his covenant. He may ultimately save your child, but it will not be because of you, it will be in spite of you.
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