...There is nothing more damning and destructive to America's youth today than the Godless public school system! I thank God for the Bill of Rights. I thank God for the wisdom of our founding fathers. I thank God for the the First Amendment which gives us the legal right to freedom of speech, press, religion, and the right to peaceably assemble and protest. I am exercising my God-given freedom, by publishing this desperately needed article about the Godless and heathen public school system. There is no evil today like the Communist, humanistic, sexually immoral public school system. I detest the public school system! It is destructive to the faith of children! Sex Education Program in Our Public Schools: What Is Behind It? Perhaps you are asking, "What is so wrong with the public school system? In a word, EVERYTHING! Perhaps a better question is: What is right about the public school system? The truth is intolerant my friend. 1 + 1 = 2. Now you can ignorantly claim that 1 + 1 = 3; but you'd be wrong (and probably a product of the public school system). Children are robbed of faith in God in public schools. Instead, children are taught that they evolved from "stardust" which somehow formed into a planet, and then life just happened. Children are taught that humans are animals. If this is true, then bestiality is acceptable, right? This is what the evolutionists teach is it not? A good Christian family is a bulwark for good morals, the soil for the planting of good character, the...
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...Ethical Judgments ! Utilitarianism ! An Introduction to the Moral Theories of Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill Ethical philosophy differs from the sciences because it is normative or prescriptive, rather than descriptive. In other words, ethics tell us how we ought to act or what we should do, while the sciences are more likely to observe how things are in nature or society. Making Ethical Judgments Areas of Emphasis in Making Moral Judgments Purpose or Act Rule Act, Rule, Motive or Maxim Results or Consequences Making Ethical Judgments in Utilitarianism ! ! ! Utilitarianism says that the Result or the Consequence of an Act is the real measure of whether it is good or bad. This theory emphasizes Ends over Means. Theories, like this one, that emphasize the results or consequences are called teleological or consequentialist. Bentham’s Formulation of Utilitarianism ! ! ! Jeremy Bentham Man is under two great masters, pain and pleasure. The great good that we should seek is happiness. (a hedonistic perspective) Those actions whose results increase happiness or diminish pain are good. They have “utility.” 1 Jeremy Bentham’s Hedonistic Calculus ! Four Theses of Utilitarianism ! ! ! In determining the quantity of happiness that might be produced by an action, we evaluate the possible consequences by p q y applying several values: Intensity, duration, certainty or uncertainty, propinquity or remoteness, fecundity, purity,...
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...God in several aspects of life. The church and schools in Russia were condemned to being persecuted, sent to prison camps, or even put to death. Religious leaders were slaughtered for no sane reason. This is due to the fact, as he states,” Militant atheism is not merely incidental or marginal to Communist policy; it is not a side effect, but the central pivot.” (Solzhenitsyn, 2004, p. 147) World War I brought about more violence and deaths at the hands, of what could only be considered as, godless men. The crimes against man were immense. There was poisonous gases being used, and there were people bombing innocent people for the sake of land and religious views. Military vehicles such as tanks were first implemented as well, wreaking more havoc in their wake. World War II, if it could have even been comprehended at the time, became even more violent and inconceivable by any stretch of the imagination. Hitler and his concentration camps were a foul and vile display of how twisted godless men can be toward each other. As, Solzhenitsyn states in his address, “The same kind of defect, the flaw of a consciousness lacking all divine dimension, was manifested after World War II when the West yielded to the satanic temptation of the...
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...THE HELP is one of the most thought-provoking movies in a long time. It's based on a best-selling book that I'm ashamed to admit I haven't read all the way through. That put me at a big disadvantage in the theater. I went to an afternoon show with my wife (who had read it), and theater was packed with women's reading groups that had loved the book. The consensus: The long film was faithful to the book, but only to a point. Much was left out. That's easy to believe, because the film was packed with fascinating characters, each of whom seemed insufficiently fleshed out. I've peeked a bit at the book, just to confirm some of my suspicions about the movie. But, as usual, I'm basically letting the movie stand on its own. In terms of visual detail, this has to one of the best movies ever made. You're convinced that this is exactly what Jackson, Mississippi was like in 1963. The middle-class parts of that city were pretty much like the rest of the country, except for three significant details. Every middle-class family had African American “help,” a maid who who was lot more than a mere maid. So the white women, like their more aristocratic ancestors, didn't have to work. And there was extreme racial segregation, segregation that was, you might say, still in the process of being perfected.The middle-class white women are so horrible you start to feel sorry for them. Their lives are pointless. Their aesthetically unimpresive houses are run and their children are raised by “the help...
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...Fitzgerald uses the symbol of the great eyes of doctor TJ Eckleburg to represent the judgement of god in a godless society. The eyes sit over the valley of ashes, “brood[ing] on over the solemn dumping ground”. And yet the inhibitors of new York appear oblivious to any judgement of god, leading morally corrupt lives, absent of commitment. Tom has his two flowers, Daisy, his wife and Myrtle his mistress. Whilst Daisy happily spends many days with Gatsby, cheating herself. Jordan notes that she “thought everybody knew”, regarding Toms’ affair, Fitzgerald using the instance to highlight the total acceptance of a lack of commitment by the entire society. Commitment, in The Great Gatsby, is so often not present in relationships were it naturally should...
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...resolved disputes, stamped them into ground, smashed them with our boots and throw our glass to them!” “Forget it, my friend. Times have changed. All they ask now is same selfish, questions. How can you fatten yourself at our expense? Us, the Roma.” The Magyar throws an expansive hand into the air and pounds another vodka down, nursing a pickle after he’s swallowed the liquid. With a hint of melancholy in his dark eyes, her father studies the Magyar. “We are not our fathers, my friend. Mine never drank tea with Gypsy.” He stares at the dirt floor of the Magyar's home and stands up. At that moment, he steadies himself on a chair before raising his palms in the air and throwing them down in dismissal. “Gypsies are godless people! Godless!” Her father’s protests are not unfounded. For the past year, villagers’ lives, continually interrupted by Russian tanks and Stalinist commissioners who bring thick-jawed Red Army gunners -- the “Goy” and the “Gadjo” -- and their cadre of grain-seizing inspectors to the Mezőség Valley, are unbearable. Terrorizing independent farmers and interrupting the closed village coterie, of her village of Tasani. His face grows dark as Németh faces the concept of collective farming; something foreign to the lengthy co-existence of Jews and Gypsies in the village, dividing both groups once united as brothers. Ava studies her father, looks at the clock on the wall and imagines the next morning, when her father wakes up reeling with...
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...conflicts expanded the American territory from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans, along with, assuring that the full Union would be preserved, rather than be divided as two separate nations across the North/South, Mason/Dixon Line. God’s selection of Abraham Lincoln became His set-apart spiritual leader during this Civil War; a series of brutal battles that claimed 600,000 lives. Again, just like the Revolutionary War when paired with the War of 1812 gave us a nation committed to individual and socio/political freedoms, so too God chose the Wars of Manifest Destiny paired with the American Civil War to create a large and powerful set-apart nation, America, capable of defeating the future enemies on two fronts. The repulsive, hideous, godless, macabre evil soon-to-be during the Modern Age of Human Carnage (1930-1945) threatened the very survival of Humankind. Clearly, God was thinking ahead when the eradication and extinction of freedom and justice were at stake. Isaiah tells us…. My purpose will stand…What I have planned that I will do. President James Madison told us… Only the people who govern themselves using the 10-Commandments will retain their liberties. In the year 1860 the Congressional House was divided North/South. This nation could not possibly stand intact. Soon Abraham Lincoln was elected President causing the South to dismiss the notion that the political conflicts between the North and South might be resolved in...
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...Cryptic Command Linvala, Keeper of Silence Karn Liberated Twilight Mire Horizon Canopy Flooded Grove Cascade Bluffs Azusa, Lost but Seeking Sword of Light and Shadow Sword of Feast and Famine Sword of War and Peace Threads of Disloyalty Scapeshift Thoughtseize Ensnaring Bridge Arcbound Ravager Spellskite Sunken Ruins Voice of Resurgence Splinter Twin Blood Mo0n Batterskull Primeval Titan Elspeth,Sun's Champion bitterblossom Remand Liliana of the veil Nexumoth Nexus Blinkmoth Nexus Snapcaster Mage Phyrexian Obliterator geist of saint traft Chalice of the Void Kikj-Jiki, Mirror Breaker Steam Vents Sacred Foundry Temple Garden Overgrown Tomb Breeding Pool Blood crypt Godless Shrine Hallowed Fountain Tarmogoyf Imperial Recruiter Gaea's Cradle Rishadan Port Force of Will Jace, the mind Sculptor Lion's Eye Diamond Dark Confidant Wasteland City of Traitors Vendilion Clique x Show and Tell Sneak Attack Stifle Liliana of the Veil Mox Opal Kozilek, Butcher of Truth Sword of Fire and Ice Damnation Flusterstorm Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre Fulminator Mage Emrakul, the Aeons Torn Crucible of Worlds Umezawa's Jittle Grove of the Burnwillows Mox Diamond Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite Sinkhole Sensei's Divining Top Glimpse of Nature Iona, Shield of Emerie Leyline of Sanctity Stoneforge Mystic Entomb Goblin Guide AEther Vial True-Name Nemesis Natural Oeder ...
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...Shakespeare uses the motive of corruption throughout the entire play. It starts with Claudius Hamlet’s uncle calling Hamlet’s mourning for his father a crime against heaven further tainting it with egocentric selfishness and pride. Throwing the guilt trip at Hamlet, demanding that he think about him as his new father. Corruption again reveals itself in the chat between Ophelia and her brother Laertes. He asking her to refrain from falling for the seductive ways of Hamlet. Acknowledging g his good advice she reminds him of his sinful debouched lifestyle frolicking with the court’s virgins. Polonius Ophelia’s father makes matters worse as he in his misguided corrupted perception of who Hamlet is and does his worst to destroy Ophelia’s and Hamlets...
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...So where does that leave us as Christians? In a word it leaves us at the crossroads of choice to participate in the celebration of Halloween as the rest of the world does in my opinion is no place for the Christian I've tried to accommodate it on various levels as a parent and also as a pastor but I have never ever been successful. Sooner or later compromise is the end result C.S. Lewis once said "No clever arrangement of bad eggs would make a good omelette." You can not synchronize the gospel of Christ and a godless event and come out with something successful. Technically it's syncretism that's the word and it effects us today syncretism is the attempt to blend the good elementsof different religions with each other to make something balance...
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...SARTRE AND DENNETT ARGUMENTS AGAINST GOD NAME: INSTITUTION: Sartre arguments In the first phase, the philosophical career of Jean Paul Sartre lays emphasis on the construction of a philosophy of existence known as existentialism. Existentialism considers human nature condition as a critical philosophical problem and in which this problem can be shared through ontology (Douglas, & George, 2003). Sartre’s philosophy is explained through his ontology in which he defines two types of reality, which lie beyond our conscious experience: the being of the object of consciousness and that of consciousness itself. He argued that the object of consciousness exists in a non-rational and independent way as in-itself while consciousness is the consciousness of something concerning something else, and it is nigh possible to understand it within one's conscious experience: it exists as "for-itself." A fundamental feature of consciousness is its negative power that human experience nothing less and in which this power is also at work on the self (Douglas, & George, 2003). According to Sartre Jean-Paul (2003), God does not exist and does not exist neither on logical or rational grounds. Be it one believes His existence or not largely depends on the strength of his argument. Many scholars and philosophers commonly feel that Sartre Jean-Paul existentialism is an irrational counterpoint to the enlightenment. Sartre Jean-Paul, at least, gave reasons for his conclusions. He argued that...
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...since the attack of the World Trade Center in New York, in 2001, Islam has been associated with terrorism and violence. Ossama Bin Laden, Al Qaida’s leader, claimed and stated that this was the beginning of a “war for Islam and against infidels […] therefore against the United States”(Course Pack, Bernard Lewis, p 193). Of course they do not represent Islam in any ways but due to massive media coverage and the fact that the media emphasizes the bad aspects of some muslims created a distorted vision about this religion and culture. Ever since Westerners have a biased opinion about Islam and especially radical Islam and are frightened by idea of religious fundamentalism. Indeed a lot of Muslims fundamentalists perceive Western society as godless and blasphemous, but on top of all they’re against the imperialism that some Western countries apply in the middle east especially America. It is true, though, that the USA used its influence and money to “control” countries and leaders in the middle east, which created a lot of tensions and unfortunate deaths among Muslims. Ayatollah Khomeini, an extreme radical and fundamentalist spiritual leader...
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...Philippians The Book of Philippians is of epistle genre. Paul tells the people of Philippi that he is thankful that they believe in Jesus. Paul tells them that they are in his prayers. Paul tells the Philippians that because of his imprisonment, the gospel has spread. He states that he is “in chains for Christ.” (1:13) Paul advises the people of Philippi to have the same attitudes of Jesus: humility, love, compassion. Paul talks about Timothy visiting Philippi. He then talks about Epaphroditus, the messenger. Paul states the Epaphroditus was ill and almost died, but feeling better will return to Philippi. Paul gives the Philippians a warning of men who do evil. He urges them to press on towards the gospel of Jesus Christ. Paul ends his letter with a thanks for the Philippians’ gifts and then his final greetings. Colossians The Book of Colossians is epistle genre. Paul opens his letter to the people of Colosse with a thanksgiving and prayer. Paul emphasizes the gospel of Christ. Paul relates his labors and struggles for the gospel. Paul advises the Colossians that through a life with Christ, they are filled with strength and thankfulness. Paul warns of deceptive human traditions, false humility, and worship of angels. Paul advises the people of Colosse to not set their minds on earthly things. He also advises against sexual immorality, greed and idolatry. Paul gives some commands for husbands, wives, children, fathers, slaves and masters. Paul then advises the Colossians...
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...Alienation and Dehumanization within The Road The novel The Road is about the United States being in a dystopian setting in which the main character, Man, has to pass through desolate land with his son, Boy, and learning through the trials of survival on a path to the coast. Man and Boy are living on bare supplies as they travel across different places to reach a safer place fighting for food and shelter which brings Man and Boy having to see and be lowered within the standards of humans being alienated. Man and Boy try their hardest to bring light in the situation as there is no way to run from the world. Throughout the novel humans are cornered into dehumanization for survival and also by choice. The isolation in the novel symbolically...
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...Benefits of Fascism Fascism is a type of governance where the government controls politics, social behavior and economy. Under fascism political system, the individual rights of the people are greatly minimized, with the nation being glorified. Citizens are supposed to only work for the government and it is a system that promotes dictatorship. Below are key benefits of fascism. 1. Enhances security The military plays a vital role in a fascist system since it is required for protecting national security as well as fighting enemies. Most of the nation’s resources are given to the military in spite of domestic problems and policies. Fascism gives more significance to the state in contrast to the citizens’ rights and thus military productivity is a vital state interest. This leads to a better military, thereby increasing security. 2. Promotes patriotism Fascism is essential concerned with the protection of national agendas. Individual rights normally take second place, while national policies are provided first priority. Since patriotic symbols, flags and slogans can be seen everywhere, fascism encourages patriotism. The citizens will thereby be united so as to eliminate any perceived threat to the state. 3. Limits media Sometimes media are credited with reporting biased news that causes conflicts amongst the population. In the fascist system, the government has great control over mass media. There are very strict polices placed on media and the government typically...
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