SIGNS OF THE TIMES: Ephemeral links by their common ancestry!

The CRIB's periodically fugacious ...

• Speaking of Catholics, it seems they have a better grasp on the signs of the times ... and yet they are self-critical of their own voice in today's culture. [LifeSiteNews; h/t Black Kettle]
  

• "A Canadian student association has voted to drop cystic fibrosis research as a charity. On the grounds that the disease isn’t 'inclusive' enough, as it mainly affects whites, and men." [ACE]

• This will not be the problem; one day the Al Aqsa mosque will be. [Christian Post]

• This kind of behavior is bizarre in any era, but today it is a sign of the times. [FOX News]


• BREAKING NEWS: Terrorists take over Lego product facility ... demand release of Muhammad [FOX News]


• UPDATE: Forces (lawyers and the MSM) opposed to those behind the above rallied to take Muhammad by force if necessary. A full Lego Battalion has be formed to move on the rogue facility. [Money Times (In.); h/t Europe News]


• Hedonism in a culture of society has always spiked just before God's judgment; vanity surgeries are a sure sign of this godless, self-obsessed philosophy. [FOXNews]


• Here are 20 celebrity hedonists who went too far. [CG Blog]


• BREAKING: The United States of America started the Pacific part of WWII. [Maggies Farm via Dan Ford] tb = http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/comment.php?type=trackback&entry_id=10051
  


• Christ must be cringing ...

  With sport-utility vehicles at the altar and auto workers in the pews, one of Detroit's largest churches on Sunday offered up prayers for Congress to bail out the struggling auto industry.

  [Reuters; h/t Brutally Honest]

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PROPHETIC VOICE: A sinister wind from three perspectives!

A foul and sinister wind blows through our alleys and walkways ... though still in it's infancy, the unseen stench, a specter from ancient times, is biting to the nostrils of our soul and heavy on the beating of our heart.

Like the trade winds and the ocean tides, above and below our individual hardscape, the currents of corporate experience and personal opinion ebb and flow around us all. This wind is being seen from three perspectives.

The first perspective or view is the understandable yet irrational euphoria related to the election of America's first president of color.

The second relates to a genuine fear and foreboding which has descended upon nearly half of our adult neighbors ... this dread has nothing to do with skin color (though most of the other half accuses the other of just such an evil).

The third (my personal perspective), involves about a quarter of our population, authentic Christians who are eschatologically informed (see here for definition) ... sensitive to the signs of the times. [see here also]

If the election of Barrack Hussein Obama is being globally credited as proof of an evil country overcoming its racism, why the overdose on Obama's black roots? And why do we hear so quickly from so many blacks that this proves nothing and doesn't settle any supposed debt?

In a 2004 questionnaire, [Obama] told the NAACP, “I fear that reparations would be an excuse for some to say, ‘We’ve paid our debt,’ and to avoid the much harder work.” [African American History Channel]

In other words, we are being told that the debt will continue to be owed as long as a black fiddler can continue to play the tune.

The euphoria we are witnessing is irrational in that it is not related to issues or context; it is however deeply rooted in emotion, resentment, and duplicity.

This non-specific joy will fade with the advent of reality, but will morph into hate and animas ... whites, especially conservative whites, will become the target of a confused and frustrated black rage.

My head involuntarily recoils at the smell of what is to come, when "African-Americans" finally realize in their desperate search for an enemy that the enemy is them.

But of more immediate and national importance is the burden many of us feel when we realize those radical SOBs from the 60s are now running the country, having finally gathered together the most gullible and easily manipulated majority of voters in history.

A generation of middle aged anarchistic, iconoclastic, anti-establishmentarianists has technologically knit together a non-violent revolutionary army of mush-brained young adults, godless self-absorbed urbanites, entitlement dependent minorities, and gimme ignoramuses to pull off a bloodless coup in the greatest nation on earth and in history.

But I don't despair, for I know in whom I believe and trust. He is faithful to be with me even to the end of time, and has never made a promise He has not or will not keep.

A South African friend delivered a radio message this week in which he tells the story of president-elect Obama's visit to his country two years ago as "Just Another Senator" from America.

He goes on to remind us all that officials of the government refused to meet with him and pawned him off to a low level bureaucrat. They now regret their short-sighted offense since they were told of Obama's aspirations. But it is now too late.

My friend then reminds us of another leader who is coming, who we have been warned is coming, and who, if we snub Him, will ensure our regret for all eternity. That Leader is the King of kings, the Lord of lords, the Son of God.

Come Lord Jesus.

Christianity, Jesus, Obama, Politics,
Prophecy, Religion, Second Coming

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OBAMA: May not be a Muslim but ... !

My Muslim Faith | Snopes
Obama: I have a deep faith | CHICAGO SUN-TIMES | Cathleen Falsani
HT - Obama: Never a Christian | WND
HT - Barack Obama: Never a Christian | BLACK KETTLE

... he is ALSO NOT "a Christian ... in the Christian tradition."

The CRIB is not saying Senator Obama does not have the right to say he is a Christian in the mistaken belief that he is ... as thousands of others do every day ... but that if he does, he should expect those who know differently to call him out on that false claim.

That's where Snopes, Obama, and the MSM apparently fail; they don't adequately understand orthodoxy and so do not discern the difference between those who are saying he is a Muslim and those who are saying he is not a Christian.

The following is the text of my critical email to Snopes' Urban Legends regarding their seemingly deliberate twisting of the context and interpretation of the now infamous Obama misstatement of his faith in an interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos.

A quick reading of the Snopes piece might help: please go there and read it!

The CRIB welcomes critical comments on our analysis but will delete diatribes and DNC talking points or position paper quotes ...

Thank you for your excellent Internet site and service; I've found it meaningful and useful in my blogging for a number of years now. Your readership numbers are well deserved.

However, your redaction of and spinning of "my Muslim faith" is inconsistent with your usually non-partisan commentary on controversial items.

Also, one can argue about the video and your redaction until hell freezes over and not accomplish anything ... but whether or not Senator Obama is a Christian or not is another question; the question should be left up to those who profess an "orthodox" theology ... as would be true with all faith communities. [NOTE: a fair way to address this would have been to quote from a handful of critics of his theology.]

Certainly the Senator might run down a runway with outstretched arms, making jet noises, but that would not make him a jet airplane.

Here is Obama's Christian testimony as given in a 2004 Chicago Sun-Times interview:

Asked by the reporter what he believes, Obama said: "I am a Christian. I'm rooted in the Christian tradition. I believe that there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people. That there are values that transcend race or culture, that move us forward, and there's an obligation for all of us individually as well as collectively to take responsibility to make those values lived."

Herein lies the problem with his claims: all roads, according to "the Christian tradition," DO NOT lead to eternal life!

One must call Jesus a liar in order for this to be true; it's the antithesis of Jesus' own words," [John 14:6 - "Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me."]

The reporter even commented on this deviation from "the Christian tradition": "It's perhaps an unlikely theological position for someone who places his faith squarely at the feet of Jesus to take, saying essentially that all people of faith -- Christians, Jews, Muslims, animists, everyone -- know the same God."

It was clear to Cathleen Falsani, the reporter, what he was saying. Even more condemning is the following:

"'The difficult thing about any religion, including Christianity, is that at some level there is a call to evangelize and proselytize. There's the belief, certainly in some quarters, that if people haven't embraced Jesus Christ as their personal savior, they're going to hell.'

"Obama doesn't believe he, or anyone else, will go to hell.

"But he's not sure if he'll be going to heaven, either.

"'I don't presume to have knowledge of what happens after I die," he says. "When I tuck in my daughters at night, and I feel like I've been a good father to them, and I see in them that I am transferring values that I got from my mother and that they're kind people and that they're honest people, and they're curious people, that's a little piece of heaven.'"

Snopes shouldn't presume to report conclusively concerning this issue.

What is true and not "false" is that he DID slip and DID say what he said. Your spin doesn't assist in the search for truth.

SPECIFIC DISTORTIONS IN YOUR REPORT:

"When the subject of the interview turned to Senator Obama's assertion that Republicans were attempting to scare voters by suggesting he is not Christian" -- you offer no evidence to support his claim, nor did you indicate that those who have questioned his faith were doing so on the basis of strong orthodox tenets AND his own testimony.

"... John McCain had not specifically promulgated the false rumor that he (Obama) was a Muslim." -- once again you fail to differentiate between those making the claim he is a stealth Muslim and those who are making the claim that he cannot be a Christian "in the Christian tradition" based on his own testimony.

"... George Stephanopoulos - apparently not understanding the context of Senator Obama's response" -- mistakenly attempted to correct him ... " -- one presuppositional statement ["apparently not understanding"] cannot be used to authenticate another ["mistakenly"]; the whole paragraph is fallacious because of this ethical error. This is not reporting; it is commentary but without the disclaimer.

"This non sequitur briefly threw Senator Obama off track; he repeated the words 'my Christian faith' and then returned to the point he was trying to make." -- this has the forensic smell of a DNC talking points memo and NOT something normally found at Urban Legends. What astounds me is your "non sequitur" above leading into a defense against another which you cannot prove since it is based on a mindset that only Senator Obama can verify.

This email will appear on my blog this morning, you may, if you wish, respond in the comments.

Some of Obama's comments are so unorthodox (e.g., "I don't presume to have knowledge of what happens after I die") that it calls into question the twenty years of teaching and preaching of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

Scripture is clear: "And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment ... " [Hebrews 9:27; see also Matthew 25:46]

Remember, the issue is not to prove he is a stealth Muslim, but rather show that he is NOT "a Christian ... in the Christian tradition."

The Bible tells us [those of us who hold to the orthodox doctrine of the inspiration of the Scriptures] "you will know them by their fruits" and that "out of the mouth come the things of the heart."

Many will say to Me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?' "And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.'

Matthew 7:22-23

Christianity, Election 2008,
False religion, Obama, Orthodoxy,
Politics, Religion, Snopes

JESUS: A Community Organizer and a racist!

For you always have the poor with you; but you do not always have Me.

Matthew 26:11

Using the current DNC Dictionary for Contemporary Political Dialog by Saul Alinsky we now know that Jesus was not only a community organizer but a bigoted racist as well, indifferent to the plight of the poor.

Alinsky, Christianity, Election 2008,
Jesus, Poor, Politics, Socialism