Tyranny of the minority
By Hal Lindsey
Posted: December 23, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern
2004 WorldNetDaily.com
To secularists and scoffers, a Christian is somebody who believes in
fairytales. A Christian who regularly goes to church has the added burden of
having to be able to check his brains at the door. The disdain with which the
secularists view Christians is nowhere more apparent than in the rantings of
the liberal left about the "red states" and their simple-minded philosophy of
being for God and guns, but against gays (the "God, guns and gays" formula as
articulated by Howard Dean before he lost the nomination).
After the election, some brilliant satirist drew up a map that joined the blue
states to Canada and labeled the red states as "JesusLand." It is unclear
whether it was intended as an insult or a compliment, so I chose to take it as
the latter.
But a new study shows that not all Christians are simple-minded folks who check
their brains at the door each Sunday morning.
A national study of 1,100 physicians in New York City found that the majority
doctors don't just believe in God, they believe in miracles. And remember, New
York City has never been considered "JesusLand." According to the study,
conducted by HCD Research and reported in BusinessWire, three-quarters of the
doctors queried believe miracles have occurred in the past and that they can
occur today.
In addition, the survey found that 58 percent of doctors join the rest of the
addled masses in checking their brains at the door at least one Sunday a month.
Forty-six percent of them rely on prayer, saying it is "very important" in
their own lives.
According to BusinessWire:
Often, religious conviction, especially a belief in the miraculous, declines as
level of education increases. This does not appear to hold true for physicians.
Perhaps because of their frequent involvement with matters of life and death,
physicians show significant openness to religion.
It reported that 58 percent of physicians believed the Bible is divinely
inspired, while 55 percent agreed that medical practice should be guided by its
teachings.
And a majority of doctors claim they have seen miracles occur during their
practice. Fifty-five percent of them said they've seen treatment results that
they consider miraculous, and 67 percent of physicians report they encourage
their patients to pray.
Despite BusinessWeek's condescending contention that "religious conviction
declines as the level of education increases," doctors are only slightly more
religious than scientists.
A survey of American scientists conducted in 1997 found that 40 percent
believed in a personal God who reveals Himself and answers prayer. This is the
same number that was found in similar surveys conducted in 1914 and 1933,
according to the Scientific American. (And let us not forget to mention
Michelangelo, Newton, Copernicus, Galileo, etc., who all believed in God.)
According to the Harris Poll, 89 percent of Americans believe in God and 80
percent believe in the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Seventy-seven percent
believe in the virgin birth.
Considering that 80 percent of Americans believe in the resurrection, one might
assume that, at best, non-Christians account for less than a quarter of the
population. So what's the deal about Christmas?
How is it that a small minority can dictate terms to the vast majority in the
name of "diversity"? If over three-quarters of us are at least culturally
Christians, then the other 23 percent or so represent all the other religions,
together with the agnostics and atheists.
How is it then that President Bush caused such a scandal when it was discovered
that his Christmas cards contained a Bible verse (gasp!) from the Book of
Psalms?
Why are most of our schools forbidding students to use the word "Christmas"?
Why have they gone to the ridiculous extreme of banning any Christian
references to the very holiday that celebrates the birth of Christ?
Why are retail stores that have depended on Christmas shopping to carry them
through the rest of the year now banning employees from wishing their customers
a "Merry Christmas" out of fear they might offend somebody by addressing the
holiday by its name? This, I remind you, is being done as part of some
orgiastic celebration of diversity!
This is not a war against a state-sponsored religion or a rigid adherence to
the First Amendment. It is a precise and targeted violation of the First
Amendment that promises freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
Wake up Christians! This is a war against Jesus Christ and against His
followers. We need to bombard our Congressmen with demands to stop this
"tyranny of the minority."
This country was founded as a Christian-based society. Though all religions are
welcome and may freely practice their religion, this government never intended
for them to dictate the removal of the very essence of what we are historically
– a Christian-based nation. And certainly our Constitution was never set up
to allow agnostics and atheists to drive Christianity out of the public forum.
The First Amendment declares, "... [Government] shall make no laws restricting
the free exercise thereof [of religion]." In the context of the historical
period in which this was written, "religion" primarily meant Christianity.
It is time for Christian lawmakers to force a stop to the "tyranny of the
minority" and to the No. 1 agency for its cause, the American Civil Liberties
Union.
God gave us a promise through the prophet Isaiah that we should claim: "When
the enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard
against him." (Isaiah 59:19)
The anti-Christian minority has made great strides in its strategy to remove
Christianity from the public arena. But it is not too late to turn it around if
the Christian majority wakes up and fights. May God significantly reverse this
trend before next year.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
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25 Dec 2004 01:56:27 PM |
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TonyZ2001 wrote:
Tyranny of the minority
By Hal Lindsey
Posted: December 23, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern
2004 WorldNetDaily.com
To secularists and scoffers, a Christian is somebody who believes in
fairytales. A Christian who regularly goes to church has the added burden of
having to be able to check his brains at the door. The disdain with which the
secularists view Christians is nowhere more apparent than in the rantings of
the liberal left about the "red states" and their simple-minded philosophy of
being for God and guns, but against gays (the "God, guns and gays" formula as
articulated by Howard Dean before he lost the nomination).
After the election, some brilliant satirist drew up a map that joined the blue
states to Canada and labeled the red states as "JesusLand." It is unclear
whether it was intended as an insult or a compliment, so I chose to take it as
the latter.
Poor old Hal. Can't seel the End of the World books anymore, now he's
shilling for WorldNutDaily. What a comedown! (If he'd bothered to pay
attention, he'd know that most of the supposed "Anti-Christians" are
Christians who are "anti-FUNDIE" - which is, ironically, exactly what
fundie Christians yap about not happening in the Muslim community. )
Woods
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26 Dec 2004 03:32:34 PM |
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I'm left handed and gay. Does that make me a tyrant?
Tangents are infinite in all of nature in
all universes constantly and at random.
* D OUOSVAVV M *
*PUBLIUS ENIGMA*
Oh Joy!
Tom
The Psychedelic Pope
Patron Saint of the Internet
http://www.apple2.org.za/gswv/me/
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28 Dec 2004 05:39:49 AM |
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Woods wrote:
TonyZ2001 wrote:
Tyranny of the minority
By Hal Lindsey
Posted: December 23, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern
2004 WorldNetDaily.com
To secularists and scoffers, a Christian is somebody who believes in
fairytales. A Christian who regularly goes to church has the added burden of
having to be able to check his brains at the door. The disdain with which the
secularists view Christians is nowhere more apparent than in the rantings of
the liberal left about the "red states" and their simple-minded philosophy of
being for God and guns, but against gays (the "God, guns and gays" formula as
articulated by Howard Dean before he lost the nomination).
After the election, some brilliant satirist drew up a map that joined the blue
states to Canada and labeled the red states as "JesusLand." It is unclear
whether it was intended as an insult or a compliment, so I chose to take it as
the latter.
Poor old Hal. Can't seel the End of the World books anymore, now he's
shilling for WorldNutDaily. What a comedown! (If he'd bothered to pay
attention, he'd know that most of the supposed "Anti-Christians" are
Christians who are "anti-FUNDIE" - which is, ironically, exactly what
fundie Christians yap about not happening in the Muslim community. )
Woods
I think, by definition, you can't have a tyrany of the majority. Poor Hal, still
fixated on the Rupture Before fallacy. Classic denial syndrom. He can't bring
himself to admit that it's not Europe, but the US, and the Rupture was invented in
the 1840s by a guy from England.
Charly
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