If the U.S. had just 100 people, 89 would believe in God

If the U.S. had just 100 people, 89 would believe in God https://t.co/6Ae7aakSkQ pic.twitter.com/rN3sD8f5VL

— Pew Research Fact Tank (@FactTank) December 29, 2017

What sets Christianity apart as a faith?

Charlie Daniels: Christ Has Risen Indeed! - What sets Christianity apart as a faith? https://t.co/zpFp8Uaw0Z

— CNSNews.com (@cnsnews) April 14, 2017

Today was Christopher Hitchens' birthday. He left a warning before he died. pic.twitter.com/eeSvLCFGzy

— Jason C. (@CounterMoonbat) April 14, 2017

Kentucky Clerk Refusing To Issue Marriage Licenses Isn’t A Republican

MORE: Defiant county clerk remains jailed, deputy clerks to issue marriage licenses: http://t.co/XQR2MYwpsi

— The Associated Press (@AP) September 3, 2015

JUST IN: Kentucky clerk jailed for refusal to issue marriage licenses to gay couples http://t.co/ebrrauW9HA

— New York Post (@nypost) September 3, 2015

Kentucky Clerk Refusing To Issue Marriage Licenses Isn’t A Republican http://t.co/AM3GiDlmwB via @youngcons @Democrats #UniteBlue

— Karen S (@ksdvm86) September 3, 2015

JUST IN: Kentucky clerk who refused marriage licenses for gay couples taken into custody http://t.co/20WzJQVzXm pic.twitter.com/xOIIhhGOMR

— NBC News (@NBCNews) September 3, 2015

Davis, a registered Democrat, had worked as a deputy clerk for 27 years before voters in Rowan County elected her as clerk last November.

Jailed. For breaking the law and discriminating, defying a judge's order. Birds of a feather, really. pic.twitter.com/gADAVJoPA2

— Jacob Payne (@cattleprod) September 3, 2015

So sanctuary city mayors are being jailed this afternoon? Tomorrow? https://t.co/HWB7xL0jIb

— Renna (@RennaW) September 3, 2015

If Kim Davis had refused to enforce immigration laws she wouldn't be in jail, she'd be the Democrats' candidate for Senate in 2016.

— Gov. Bobby Jindal (@BobbyJindal) September 4, 2015

Jeb Bush at Liberty University: Stand up for faith against 'small-minded, intolerant' federal authorities

Byron York: Jeb Bush at Liberty University: Stand up for faith against 'small-minded, intolerant' federal authorities http://t.co/9BIcnuyzkb

— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) May 9, 2015

Jeb Bush: 'Fed authorities are demanding obedience, in complete disregard of religious conscience. And in a free society, the answer is No.'

— Byron York (@ByronYork) May 9, 2015

Humboldt Mayors' Prayer Breakfast March 5

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A full breakfast will be served at 6:30 with prayers offered on behalf of the needs of our communities, state and country from 7-8 a.m. Are you planning to attend the Humboldt Mayors' Prayer Breakfast? Tickets are available now or at the door next Thursday, 3/5/15 - to help us plan, please indicate whether or not you're planning to attend!

Tickets are $15, Available on the KINS Shopping Show Saturday morning (2/28), Or Broese's Uniform, Faith Center or call 633-5581.

FOR MORE INFO CALL: Karen Brooks 707 498-1010

Obama revealed his true colors at Prayer Breakfast, and true ignorance of history

◼ Obama once again attempted to lecture us and failed miserably. - Allen West

There is grave danger in statements supporting moral equivalency and religious relativism. What happens is horrific behavior is excused because you have a certain recalcitrance in admitting the existence of evil.

President Barack Obama had the chance to affirm our Judeo-Christian faith heritage at the National Prayer Breakfast just days after the world was exposed to the savage and barbaric actions of ISIS in the burning to death of the captured Jordanian fighter pilot. But he did not....

Now, being a simple student of history, I’d like to share a simple analysis — and please, I ask all the Islamapologists reading this to sit down and take a deep breath.... KEEP READING

◼ Rev. Graham to Obama: Unlike Christ, Mohammed ‘Killed Many Innocent People' - His 'True Followers' Emulate Him - CNS News

Franklin Graham, who heads the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA), said on his Facebook page shortly after the president’s remarks, “Today at the National Prayer Breakfast, the President implied that what ISIS is doing is equivalent to what happened over 1,000 years ago during the Crusades and the Inquisition...."

“Mr. President--Many people in history have used the name of Jesus Christ to accomplish evil things for their own desires,” said Rev. Graham. “But Jesus taught peace, love and forgiveness. He came to give His life for the sins of mankind, not to take life.”

◼ "He cannot adjust to or accept the calamities it is causing." - Roger L Simon/PJMedia

Many faiths could be cited, including communism, obviously, also a kind of religion that was responsible for exponentially more deaths — via Stalin’s Gulag, Mao’s Cultural Revolution and Great Leap Forward, the killing fields of Cambodia, etc. — than all other belief systems combined, although none of them are doing it now. Right now it’s Islamic radicalism that just the other day placed a human being in a cage and burned him alive, an act not, to my knowledge, even performed by Dr. Mengele. And it was done in the name of Allah.

And yet Obama saw fit to lecture his audience on the Crusades and slavery, done “in the name of Christ,” subjects of which his audience was undoubtedly well aware and, needless to say, did not approve in the slightest. Yet still the president felt he had to hector them. Why?

To begin with, we can find some the answer in his criticism of ISIS, which Obama described as ”a brutal vicious death cult that in the name of religion carries out unspeakable acts of barbarism, claiming the mantle of religious authority for such actions.” Note the now unsurprising use of the word “religion,” not “Islam,” or the even more telling “Mohammed,” a warlord who married a little girl and a figure, one can safely say, not very much like Christ. Nevertheless, Obama can blacken Christians and name them in a speech, but not Muslims.

The reason is not complicated. Obama is not a religious person. He rarely appears in church, except for political purposes. He is titularly a Christian, but identifies emotionally, from his youth in Indonesian madrassas and from his ideological predisposition, with Third World Muslims. But now he is confronted with those same Muslims behaving like barbarians across Africa and the Middle East and sometimes into Europe and America.

What would be his reaction to that? Pretty much what it is for most throughout the Islamic world — shame. As many have noted, Islam is a shame culture (the kind of society that will go berserk over cartoons) and, like it or not, our president is part of it culturally. That does not mean he is stoning adulterers or cutting off the hands of thieves or treating women like chattel, but it does mean he is genuinely and quite deeply ashamed of the religion he, in part, came from. He cannot adjust to or accept the calamities it is causing. Unlike the president of Egypt, he cannot name it.... KEEP READING

Yazidi Sex Slaves Begged their Muslim Captors to Kill Them Instead: Here’s what Obama should have spoken about... http://t.co/4Ezdd2M7QL

— Pamela Geller (@PamelaGeller) February 6, 2015

Prominent Protestant Pastors Vow To No Longer Perform Government Marriages

◼ Two Protestant pastors, concerned about rapidly-changing government definitions of marriage, have started a movement encouraging priests and ministers to refuse to perform civil marriages. - Daily Caller

Christopher Seitz and Ephraim Radner, Episcopal and Anglican pastors respectively, launched “The Marriage Pledge” at the conservative religious journal First Things on Tuesday.

“As Christian ministers we must bear clear witness,” it reads. “This is a perilous time. Divorce and co-­habitation have weakened marriage. We have been too complacent in our responses to these trends. Now marriage is being fundamentally redefined, and we are ­being tested yet again. If we fail to take clear action, we risk falsifying God’s Word.”

The Pope: “Corruption Is a Greater Evil than Sin”

◼ In an address to a delegation of the International Association of Penal Law this morning, Francis commented on a variety of troubling international legal issues, including the widespread problem of corruption, which he called “a greater evil than sin.” - Breitbart

“Some of them have left for Sweden or Germany. Who does [ISIS] think it is to drive out our fellow countrymen?”

◼ AN Iraqi TV host has sobbed on live television over the treatment of Christians by ISIS, saying “they are our own flesh and blood”. - news.com.au

...The video translated and posted online by the Middle East Media Research Institute shows Mahdi announcing that he wants to “take to task” the government and the people of Mosul, where extremists continue to wage war over the Mosul Dam, and civilians are caught up in the violence.

“They must take immediate measures to help these people,” he said. “Our country is like a rose, and its petals are the Christians, the Arabs, the Kurds, the Sabians, the Shabak people ... These are our countrymen. I don’t know what to say about this.”...

Reddit user Bleunt commented: “Not only is he a more sensitive, emotional and compassionate man than I am for crying over the treatment of Christians in Iraq, he is also a tougher, braver and ballsier man than I am for attacking ISIS in public.”

Another user, Possumz, added: “It’s disheartening when we only see the extremists on the media, because people develop one single image of a whole group of people based on that one extreme position.”...

]Others, however, claimed MEMRI had a history of manipulating footage to push a certain line, with the organisation having links to the Israeli and US governments.

Just how cool is the Pope? Wayward millennials flocking to church

◼ Since Francis’ election in March, the previously littleknown Argentine cardinal has catapulted to international rock-star status: He has more than 3 million Twitter followers, he just topped Facebook’s trending topics of 2013 list, and yesterday, Time magazine named him Person of the Year (following in the footsteps of Pope John Paul II in 1994 and Pope John XXIII in 1962). - NY Post

Unlike his aloof predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Francis lives in the Vatican guesthouse (as opposed to the lavish papal apartment) and drives himself around in a 1984 Renault (instead of being chauffeured). In a September interview with a Jesuit publication, he broke with conservative church positions on a number of issues, including homosexuality. And most recently, he admitted that before he became a priest, he worked as a bouncer while attending college in Buenos Aires.

“He’s made Catholicism cool in 2013,” says Domenick Canale, a 32-year-old Bronx resident who attended the Mass at St. Pat’s.

"I will not be a part, however small, in any campaign against Israel. No Christian who knows how the Church largely stood silent during the Holocaust should be."

◼ Anti-semitism and the shame of the PCUSA - Hugh Hewitt/Washington Examiner

Prominently featured at the website of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is an "An Open Letter of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) to our American Jewish Interfaith Partners" which is signed by the denomination's three senior officials...

Read the whole thing at pcusa.org. It is gibberish, nonsense of the worst sort: deeply disingenuous double talk intended to skim over the biased proceedings which produced it. Now the PCUSA, as its members call it, has taken an official position against Israel and so I, as an elder in the PCUSA -- no longer a "ruling" elder in my congregation, having wrapped up my second such stint last year -- have to take a position for or against the PCUSA based on it....

The PCUSA has raised its hand against Israel. So now either my congregation must depart the PCUSA or I must depart my congregation. I will not be a part, however small, in any campaign against Israel. No Christian who knows how the Church largely stood silent during the Holocaust should be. No thinking person who reads beyond the fringes of the Left would reason as this letter does. If a denomination insists on being ruled by a majority of ill-educated posers, it deserves the withering that has already set in and will now accelerate.

Just in Time For Easter, Dr. Ben Carson Bridges Gap Between Religion and Science

◼ Many progressives often try to pit science against religion, but this excerpt from Dr. Carson’s latest piece at ◼ American CurrentSee gives a little more insight into how many Christians view science with respect to religion. - IJ REVIEW

In many ways, Carson’s words echo Einstein’s famous quote: “Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”

I have personally experienced so many godly interventions in my life that I would never entertain doubts about His existence and importance. My knowledge of neuroscience and the complexity of the human brain makes it difficult for me to believe that such an amazing organ system could be the result of random mutations of a substance that appeared out of nowhere. The order of our solar system and the universe is so precise that we can predict the occurrence of meteorological and planetary events 70 years in the future. To believe that all of that order just happened requires more faith than I can muster.

DR. BEN CARSON: The separation clause of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution is being abused. "Progressives" have twisted the original intent. Will “we the people” accept this defeat?

◼ Secular progressives can’t keep God out of public life - ben Carson/Washington Times

We used to characterize the Soviet Union as a godless, evil empire. Like many societies before them that were based on communism or socialism, the Soviets had seen fit to minimize the importance of God and, in many cases, wreaked unimaginable persecution on religious people.

Why is faith in God anathema to such states? It’s because they need to remove any authority beside themselves as the arbiter of right and wrong.

Interestingly, last year Russian President Vladimir Putin criticized Euro-Atlantic countries, including the United States, of becoming godless and moving away from Christian values.

Some may bristle at such an accusation, but when you now consider that many Americans are hesitant to even mention God or Jesus in public, there may be some validity to his claim....

Loss of Father Eric Freed -- pastor, friend, father figure -- touches us all

◼ - John Chiv/My Word Times-Standard

Biblical films' Hollywood comeback

Mary Mother of Christ, whose title character will be played by Odeya Rush Photo: Rex Features

◼ Superheroes are being elbowed out by Noah and Mary as Hollywood makes 2014 year of the biblical epic - The Telegraph (image source)

Studio executives who have spent the past few years releasing superhero and zombie films have, it seems, had an epiphany....

“For years Hollywood bent over backwards to reach special interest groups, be it feminists or environmentalists. It has finally realised that there are 91  million evangelical Christians in America.”

For their part, studio executives have taken something of a leap of faith that films in which religious figures save the world will bring big box office receipts.

That faith is based in no small part on the success of The Bible, a television mini-series shown on the History channel earlier this year, which averaged 11.4 million viewers and became America’s most watched cable show of 2013.

“It made the Bible cool to talk about again,” said Mr Cooke. “The separation of church and state in America is so strong that people had become afraid to talk about God, at work or at school. Suddenly, these Bible stories were water cooler conversation again.”

Homeless Man Joins Carlos Whittaker for a Very Moving Performance

◼ When a Homeless Man Joins Your Music Video and Does Something Wonderful Like This–Just Go with It - FaithIt

DR. BEN CARSON FIRES BACK AT CRITICS: ‘SOMEBODY HAS TO BE COURAGEOUS ENOUGH TO STAND UP TO THE BULLIES’

◼ Dr. Benjamin Carson won over conservatives when he railed against many of the big government policies endorsed by President Barack Obama during the National Prayer Breakfast last week, at which the president was in attendance. - Jason Howerton/The Blaze

However, the newly discovered conservative hero is also getting his first taste of criticism from the left who say his speech was inappropriate and even offensive. On Monday, he appeared on Fox News’ “Your World” with Neil Cavuto to respond to his critics.

“What we need to do is we need to be able to discuss intelligent ways of solving the multitude of problems that threatens to destroy our nation. And there are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everybody go along to get along, but that’s not going to be very helpful for us in the long run,” Carson said.

“Somebody has to be courageous enough to stand up to the bullies,” he added.

When asked why he took it upon himself to go “beyond medical policy” and address issues like tax policy, Carson went back to the Declaration of Independence to make his point.

“One of the things I also said during the speech, there will be some people who will say, but you’re a doctor and you’re a surgeon. You should be sticking to that,” Carson explained. “And I mentioned the fact that five physicians signed the Declaration of Independence and were involved in the framing of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and several other things.”

He continued: “There’s absolutely no reason at all that physicians, scientists, shouldn’t be involved in things that affect all of us. We’re people who’ve learned how to make decisions based on facts, empirical data, rather than on ideology. And one of the geniuses — one of the real things that made us a great nation — is that we brought people from all backgrounds into the legislative process.”

◼ Bob Beckel v. Benjamin Carson - Jonah Goldberg/National Review Online

◼ What the GOP Can Learn from Dr. Benjamin Carson - Political Outcast

We live in an age of disbelief, in which citizens increasingly do not believe what their government says or, for that matter, what is accepted as true by popular culture.

◼ Do We Believe Anymore? - Victor Davis Hanson/PJM

When I heard the president in the last debate, I thought I was in Cloud Cuckoo Land: he seemed to be running for office as a fresh challenger — with the same future tenses and subjunctive moods of “I will” and “I would” as he long ago used against Bobby Rush, Alan Keyes, Hillary Clinton, and John McCain, when he was the perennial potential office-holder. In other words, the president sounded as if he does not have a record to run on, only a speculative one about which to offer hypotheses. Note how Obama slept through four years and only comes alive in a campaign where he loves his own speeches, likes to accuse and belittle, and feeds off the frenzy of crowds — in comparison to all that, intelligence briefings and debate prep are a “drag.”

If Barack Obama loses the election — despite incumbency, despite the media, despite the October surprises to come, despite his mellifluous teleprompted rhetoric — it is because a growing number simply do not believe anymore what they hear. It is all bottled piety without truth.

Happy Birthday Bella

◼ Sunday is an important day in the Santorum house. On May 13th, we’ll be celebrating a birthday. My little sister, Bella, is turning four. - Elizabeth Santorum at HotAir

Bella has opened our eyes to many things: the importance of treasuring each day, how to hope even in the darkest of circumstances, that faith is our foundation, and most importantly, what pure, unselfish love looks like...

BARTON CALLS OBAMA ‘AMERICA’S MOST BIBLICALLY-HOSTILE U.S. PRESIDENT

◼ (F)or Barton, the situation transcends the current discussion about religious freedom and the Catholic Church - Billy Hallowell/The Blaze

When one observes President Obama’s unwillingness to accommodate America’s four-century long religious conscience protection through his attempts to require Catholics to go against their own doctrines and beliefs, one is tempted to say that he is anti-Catholic. But that characterization would not be correct. Although he has recently singled out Catholics, he has equally targeted traditional Protestant beliefs over the past four years. So since he has attacked Catholics and Protestants, one is tempted to say that he is anti-Christian. But that, too, would be inaccurate. He has been equally disrespectful in his appalling treatment of religious Jews in general and Israel in particular. So perhaps the most accurate description of his antipathy toward Catholics, Protestants, religious Jews, and the Jewish nation would be to characterize him as anti-Biblical. And then when his hostility toward Biblical people of faith is contrasted with his preferential treatment of Muslims and Muslim nations, it further strengthens the accuracy of the anti-Biblical descriptor. In fact, there have been numerous clearly documented times when his pro-Islam positions have been the cause of his anti-Biblical actions.

◼ America’s Most Biblically-Hostile U. S. President - David Barton/Wallbuilders