Addis Ethiopia Weblog

Ethiopia's World / የኢትዮጵያ ዓለም

  • March 2023
    M T W T F S S
     12345
    6789101112
    13141516171819
    20212223242526
    2728293031  
  • Archives

  • Categories

  • Recent Posts

Posts Tagged ‘anti-Christian Agenda’

Britain Didn’t Accept a Single Christian Refugee, Accepted Muslims Only

Posted by addisethiopia / አዲስ ኢትዮጵያ on July 29, 2018

No Christians among 1,112 Syrian refugees resettled in UK

The Home Office has admitted that not a single Christian was among the 1,112 Syrian refugees resettled in the UK in the first three months of this year.

The four Christians out of 1,358 Syrian refugees recommended by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), for resettlement in the UK were rejected. Only Muslim refugees from the war-torn country were granted permission to resettle.

The information came to light following a freedom of information request by the Barnabas Fund – a charity that supports persecuted Christians.

In a statement, the charity said: “As Barnabas Fund recently reported, of the 7,060 Syrian refugees the UNHCR recommended to the UK in 2017 only 25 were Christians (0.35 per cent). However, the Home Office only accepted eleven of these – meaning that Christians made up only 0.23 per cent of Syrian refugees resettled in the UK last year.”

The charity explained it had to “go to considerable lengths to obtain these figures in the face of what appeared to be a sustained attempt by Home Office officials to avoid their release”.

The information was provided following the charity taking the “extreme step of obtaining an order from the Information Commissioner’s Office threatening the Home Office with contempt of court proceedings in the High Court”.

The statement went on to say: “It is widely accepted that Christians, who constituted around 10 per cent of Syria’s pre-war population, were specifically targeted by jihadi rebels and continue to be at risk.

“As last year’s statistics more than amply demonstrate, this is not a statistical blip. It shows a pattern of underrepresentation and significant prima facie evidence of discrimination that the government has a legal duty to take concrete steps to address.”

Syria marked the seventh anniversary in March this year of the popular uprising that sparked the country’s vicious war.

Half a million Syrians have been killed and 6.1 million have been internally displaced, according to the United Nations.

Responding to the revealed figure, the Home Office said in a statement: “The vulnerable person resettlement scheme prioritises the most vulnerable refugees who have fled the Syrian conflict, regardless of race, religion or ethnicity.

“We are working with the UNHCR and other partners to reach groups that might be reluctant to register for the scheme for fear of discrimination and unaware of the options available to them.”

Source

______

Posted in Ethiopia, Faith, Infos | Tagged: , , , , , , , | Leave a Comment »

Europe ‘Reeling From Effects of Unassimilated Muslims in Their Midst’

Posted by addisethiopia / አዲስ ኢትዮጵያ on March 16, 2017

Center for Security Policy President Frank Gaffney looked at the growing conflict between Turkey, Germany, and the Netherlands on Wednesday’s Breitbart News Daily with SiriusXM host Alex Marlow.

You have not just large numbers of Turks, but you have, of course, Moroccans and others from the Arab world, the Muslim world most especially, who are making up a larger part of the population of not just the Netherlands, but, of course, of countries across Europe,” Gaffney explained.

He said this was “thanks in part to the hijrah, if you will – the migration, the invasion some would call it,” adding, “The colonization, I think, is sort of the traditional way of thinking of it in the historical terms of Islam.”

This infusion of well over a million people in just the last two years has exacerbated the situation to the point where people like those you’ve been discussing – Geert Wilders in the Netherlands, Marine le Pen in France, and others elsewhere across the continent – are finding large numbers of people who are part of the native population of their countries wanting change, wanting resistance to the mutation of their countries,” Gaffney said.

At this very moment, in the immediate run-up to the election in which Wilders is making a very strong showing for sure, if not actually going to become the leading party of his country, you have this president of Turkey – a jihadist by the name of Recep Tayyip Erdogan – who is in the process of, again speaking of mutation, morphing his country from one that has traditionally, since the end of World War I, been more or less a secular democratic nation, and importantly, since the end of World War II, an important part of the Western alliance against the Soviet Union. He’s turning it into the next Islamic republic, which is to say an authoritarian regime governing by sharia a population that will, to varying degrees, not be happy with it, but will, nonetheless, be suppressed,” he warned.

To do that, Alex, he needs to get the Constitution formally changed,” Gaffney said. “I think the people in Turkey have proven to be somewhat resistant to this idea, thank God. So he’s canvassing for votes among the unassimilated Turkish populations in Europe. He’s been sending emissaries in to try to whip them up, to get them to vote as expatriates in the internal election of Turkey.”

He explained that the government of the Netherlands, after “accommodating the Islamists at every turn until now,” is cynically attempting to blunt the Geert Wilders movement by taking a “very hard line” against Erdogan’s effort, denying Turkish officials permission to address rallies of Turkish expatriates. The Turkish government has retaliated with diplomatic sanctions and insulting rhetoric against the Netherlands.

At the end of the day, this is about the challenge that Geert Wilders and others like him are making to the status quo, making to the people who have contributed so much to the real threat from within to Western civilization that the Turks at the moment are simply epitomizing,” Gaffney said.

Marlow brought up efforts to ban veils and hijabs in the European Union, including a “hotly debated” ban on headscarves in the workplace.

This reminds me of that old line about a conservative being a liberal who was mugged by reality,” said Gaffney. “The EU, and particularly some of the countries that we’ve just mentioned – Germany should be in that mix, Sweden, as well – are reeling from the effects of unassimilated Muslims in their midst: the people who are, to varying degrees, embracing or hail from nations where it is understood to be the necessary, the obligatory duty of Muslims to try to impose these repressive, and misogynistic, and totalitarian facts, and tendencies, and practices of sharia upon everybody else.”

What you’re seeing is kind of a spasmodic response – symptomatic, to say the least, to that reality. They’re seeing their cities now inhabited by people who are wearing not just the hijab, but the full burqa. They’re seeing that as kind of the leading edge, a symptom of a much larger problem – which is not so much the women, frankly, but the men, many of them military-age young men. Unaccompanied military-age young men, at that, that really do constitute, potentially, a violent invading force. They want some kind of pushback, and so there are these votes. The Swiss voted to ban the building of minarets a few years back. The French banned the burqa. This debate now in the EU is, I think, just the latest manifestation of a profound concern,” he said.

Gaffney said one of the EU’s primary concerns is the number of countries seeking separation from it, following the Brexit vote. He thought the “crazy policies and borderless invasion routes” imposed by the EU and social policies such as the suppression of free speech, are one of the driving forces behind the disintegration of the European Union. From that perspective, initiatives such as the burqa and hijab bans can be seen as last-ditch efforts to keep nervous populations from voting for separation.

He argued that one reason for the immigration-related tensions in Europe is the reluctance of recent Muslim arrivals to fully integrate into their host societies.

That’s the crux of the matter, and, again, whether it’s the hijab or whether it’s the burqa, or it’s the calls to prayer, or it’s the halal foods, or it’s all of the other demands that are now being imperiously made, often by people who have been welcomed in as refugees and put on the dole of these nations,” Gaffney observed.

People are, as I say, feeling mugged by reality – feeling as though the indulgence that they’ve been encouraged to give such people is simply not sustainable for their countries, which brings us to the crux of the matter here. I would argue that this is exactly the same trajectory that we’re on. We’re just not as far along with it at this point,” he argued.

We have, thanks in particular to the Obama administration, been bringing in large numbers of people who have many of these same qualities. Donald Trump has said you shouldn’t be coming into this country unless you share our values. People who are sharia supremacists do not share our values. In fact, they believe it’s God’s will that their values are going to be supreme over those of the land here in this country: our Constitution, our form of government, our freedoms, including freedom of speech,” he warned.

For all these reasons, I think we must look closely at what’s happening in Europe because it is simply a foretaste of what, if left unchecked, we will face in this country as well. By some estimates, there have been close to two million Muslims brought into the United States since 9/11,” he noted. “Again, I hasten to add, not all of them are a problem, and those that do not want to live under sharia any more than we do I think can be, at least in principle, welcomed in to be part of the American Dream.”

It’s the fact that large numbers of them actually do embrace this program, do think they should impose it on everybody else, and are joining – substantial numbers of them – the infrastructure the Muslim Brotherhood has created in our country. That gives rise to a very serious problem here that will manifest itself, I think, in ways like we’re seeing in Europe today,” Gaffney predicted.

Source

 


-Hawaii Obama Judge Rules Muslim Imam Has Special Constitutional Rights to Bring Anyone from Terror Countries into America

 

___

Posted in Conspiracies, Faith | Tagged: , , , , | Leave a Comment »

War on Christians: How the Cross Taunts ISIS

Posted by addisethiopia / አዲስ ኢትዮጵያ on February 27, 2015

Still image from video shows men purported to be Egyptian Christians held captive by the Islamic State kneeling in front of armed men along a beach said to be near Tripoli

Last week, the attention of the world was riveted to a deserted beach in northern Libya, where a group of twenty one Coptic Christians were brutally beheaded by masked operatives of the ISIS movement.

In the wake of the executions, ISIS released a gruesome video entitled “A Message in Blood to the Nation of the Cross.” I suppose that for the ISIS murderers the reference to “the Nation of the Cross” had little sense beyond a generic designation for Christianity. Sadly for most Christians, too, the cross has become little more than an anodyne, a harmless symbol, a pious decoration.

I would like to take the awful event on that Libyan beach, as well as the ISIS message concerning it, as an occasion to reflect on the still startling distinctiveness of the cross.

In the time of Jesus, the cross was a brutal and very effective sign of Roman power. Imperial authorities effectively said, “If you cross us (pun intended), we will affix you to a dreadful instrument of torture and leave you to writhe in agonizing, literally excruciating (ex cruce, from the cross) pain until you die. Then we will make sure that your body hangs on that gibbet until it is eaten away by scavenging animals.”

The cross was, basically, state-sponsored terrorism, and it did indeed terrify people. The great Roman statesman and philosopher Cicero once described a crucifixion but only through a convoluted circumlocution, for he couldn’t bring himself to characterize it directly. After putting down the great slave uprising of Spartacus, the Roman government lined the Appian Way with hundreds of crosses so as to dissuade any other would-be revolutionaries. Pontius Pilate had much the same intention when he nailed dozens of Jewish rebels to the walls of Jerusalem. That same Pilate arranged for Jesus to be crucified on Calvary Hill, a promontory situated close to one of the gates of ancient Jerusalem, guaranteeing that his horrific death would not be missed by the large Passover crowds moving in and out of the city.

From the crucified Jesus, all of the disciples, save John, fled, precisely because they wanted with all their hearts to avoid his dreadful fate. After Good Friday, the friends of Jesus huddled in terror in the Upper Room, petrified that they might be nailed up on Calvary as well. The disciples on the road to Emmaus were, understandably, heading out of Jerusalem, away from danger, and they were utterly convinced that Jesus’s movement had come to naught. In a word, the cross meant the victory of the world, and the annihilation of Jesus and what he stood for.

And this is why it is surpassing strange that one of the earliest Apostles and missionaries of the Christian religion could write, “I preach one thing, Christ and him crucified!” How could Paul — the passage is taken from his first letter to the Corinthians — possibly present the dreadful cross as the centerpiece of his proclamation? He could do so only because he knew that God had raised the crucified Jesus from the dead, proving thereby that God’s love and forgiveness are greater than anything in the world. This is why his exaltation of the cross is a sort of taunt to Rome and all of its brutal descendants down through the ages: “You think that scares us? God has conquered that!” And this is why, to this day, Christians boldly hold up an image of the humiliated, tortured Jesus to the world. What they are saying is, “We are not afraid.”

How wonderful this is, by the way, in light of the Charlie Hebdo tragedy and the controversy over the Dutch cartoonist’s mocking depictions of the prophet Muhammad. Christians don’t fuss particularly about insults to Jesus, for we reverence a depiction of the insulted Christ as our most sacred icon. We can say, with Paul, “I am certain that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, neither height nor depth, nor any other creature will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Rom. 8:38-39), for we know that the world killed Jesus but God raised him from the dead.

Just before their throats were cut, many of the murdered Coptic Christians could be seen mouthing the words “Jesus Christ” and “Jesus is Lord.” The first of those phrases is a rendering of the Aramaic Ieshouah Maschiach, which means “Jesus the anointed one” and which hearkens back to King David, the paradigmatic anointed figure of the Old Testament. The second phrase is one that can be traced to St. Paul’s kerygmatic cry Iesous Kyrios (Jesus Lord!), which was intended to trump a watchword of the time, Kaiser Kyrios (Caesar is Lord). In short, both declarations assert the kingship of Jesus, but what a strange kingship! The new David reigns, not from a throne, but from a cross; the one who trumps Caesar doesn’t lead an army, but embodies the divine forgiveness.

The ISIS barbarians were actually quite right in entitling their video “A Message Written in Blood.” Up and down the centuries, tyrants and their lackeys have thought that they could wipe out the followers of Jesus through acts of violence.

But as Tertullian observed long ago, the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church. And they were furthermore right in sending their message to “the Nation of the Cross.” But they should know that the cross taunts them.

Source

The Lord’s Prayer in Aramaic

__

Posted in Faith, Infos | Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a Comment »

ANTI-CHRISTIAN BIGOTRY MAP

Posted by addisethiopia / አዲስ ኢትዮጵያ on February 27, 2015

261DE58300000578-0-image-m-4_1424959256973261E923C00000578-2970433-image-m-19_1424962287852

A prominent fundamentalist organization is making headlines after creating an “anti-Christian bigotry map” which includes lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) advocacy groups. 

The American Family Association’s interactive map, […] breaks down groups into four categories: anti-Christian, humanist, atheist and those with a “homosexual agenda.”

Among the groups classified as those with a “homosexual agenda” include the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network, or GLSEN.

“These groups are deeply intolerant towards the Christian religion. Their objectives are to silence Christians and to remove all public displays of Christian heritage and faith in America,” AFA officials note on their site. “Some members or supporters of these groups have committed violent crimes against Christians and faith-based groups. Physical and profane verbal assaults against Christians are methods frequently exercised in their angry methods of intimidation.”

Source

__

Posted in Faith, Infos | Tagged: , , , | Leave a Comment »

Humanist Agenda – When Man Became Godless

Posted by addisethiopia / አዲስ ኢትዮጵያ on October 26, 2014

elijah-mount-carmel-600

All cultures and civilizations throughout history have one thing in common: they all have belief systems called “religion.” All peoples regardless of time, location, or race understood the mysterious act of Creation as a consequence of divine inspiration or intervention; either by a Supreme Being or by a pantheon of lesser powers acting co-operatively. No culture or civilization regardless of time, location or race has believed man to be alone or unsupervised in the Cosmos: that was until the present day. Beginning with the Renaissance humanists, west European intellectuals have slowly but inexorably stripped away every authority possessed by organized religion in its claim to be the proper government of society. The attack by science upon the tenets of Christianity, based upon the revealed Word of God and the Church’s claim to be the voice or vehicle of God on earth, was devastating. Very powerful dark spiritual forces energized the intellects of the Enlightenment to initiate a devastating attack on the ancient belief in a divine being that was God. That is, an age-old belief in a Prime Mover and Creator, that had existed eternally and of necessity, who is the Cause of Himself and whose Essence is to exist: who is all-knowing, all-powerful and all-good, and who is the First Cause of everything. 

The burgeoning rational capacity, then taking hold of the human psyche, was directed to destroy the Christian conception of God the Unmoved Mover who takes a personal interest in His Creation, who had become a person, in flesh and blood, in the figure of Jesus Christ. Moreover, that in the person of Jesus Christ, God bridged the otherwise impassable barrier between the phenomenal and transcendental world of our belief. The humanists did this by proceeding to “prove” that God, in fact, did not exist and therefore, by inference, religion was superstitious nonsense. That is, the Renaissance savants sought to describe religious feeling as ghostly residues arising from our primitive past. The humanists achieved this fateful pyrrhic victory by using a rational and logical system of analysis called The Theory of Scientific Method.

This method of analysis was a powerful tool used to great effect by rationalists who employed it diligently in their efforts to extract the secrets of the phenomenal world from Nature. The Scientific Method was used to such effect by the intellectual elite that its results provided wonderful theories of apparent usefulness as well as novel labour saving inventions. Science’s success became a very persuasive argument for a materialistic explanation of reality in direct opposition to the Divine Creation Principle held by all world religions. Yet a great change was required in the human constitution to allow the nurturing of the rational faculty in the psyche of man that would produce the intellectual marvels necessary to transform Nature.

In the tumultuous era commonly called the Renaissance, theologians and men of reason tried valiantly to reconcile the estrangement of Church and Science and produce a new synthesis in the manner of Aquinas. These attempts at reconciliation were heartfelt and at times desperate. However, something profound was happening at this time that irrevocably changed the way in which man viewed the world; and, by necessity, how he saw himself in relation to Nature who was beginning to yield her secrets and was becoming less and less mysterious. Nature was prostrated and subjected to exhaustive mathematical treatment through the activity of measurement by science experimentalis, first promulgated by Roger Bacon (1220-92), whereby laws of nature are determined. That is, knowledge of Nature apprehended by scientific experimentation and quantifiable by figure, laws and formulae. Such scientific laws were conceived as number as function-related, and expressed in the dynamic principle of cause-and-effect. These nature-laws were achieved not from divine revelation but by careful observation and experiment. In short: a world full of causes and effects was posited and understood by reasoned observation and experiment.

The medieval monks and book-men began to intellectually penetrate the secrets of Nature not out of idle interest but with an ultimate aim to extract useful knowledge with practical application. And to serve this great desire for practical solutions and therefore command over Nature, the purpose and function of “theory” was redefined. The Schoolmen understood that any theory they developed was judged not as putative attempts to explain Nature per se but by its utility as a working tool. Thus every theory was from the outset a working hypothesis, and thus it did not have to be “correct” it was only required to be practical. It aims, not at embracing or unveiling the secrets of the world, but at making them serviceable to definite ends. Moreover, “theory” was also understood to be a disposable commodity with only temporary utility. If it provided some truths that were durable or appeared absolutely true then that was fine, these could be incorporated in the new theory but belief in ‘the theory’ never developed into a creed.

Bacon’s scientia experimentalis was an expression of a peculiar mind that perceived Nature as prey to be hunted remorselessly and apprehended by the intellectual hunter using his weapons of rational thought, theory and experiment. The great medieval theorists, using the stratagem of intellectual beasts of prey, “experimentum enim solum certificat” as Albertus Magnus put it, which was nothing less than the interrogation of nature under torture with rack, lever, and screw. The medieval theorists of Europe not only concerned themselves with the task of wresting the enigmatic secrets from Nature, but they also cherished a dream whereby the invention and wit of the researcher would eventually wrest the creative mantle from Nature. Enslaving and harnessing Nature’s very own forces, so as to multiply man’s own strength, would achieve this vaunting ambition. This gargantuan task was conceptualised in the search for “perpetual motion.”

The great philosopher of history, Oswald Spengler (1880-1936) understood the character of scientific experimentation and its shallow treatment of Nature. Thus, with regard to the urge to conquer the motion problem he tells us that:

“… for its success would mean the final victory over ”God or Nature” (Deus sive Natura ), a small world of one’s own creation moving like the great world, in virtue of its own forces and obeying the hand of man alone. To build a world oneself, to be oneself God – that is the [Western] inventor’s dream, and from it has sprung all our designing and re-designing of machine to approximate as nearly as possible to the unattainable limit of perpetual motion.

This Will, possessed by the Western savants, to apprehend Nature by measurement and thus control her is what Spengler called the “passion of the third dimension.”

Past civilisations had attempted some degree of control over the forces of nature but their attempts were concerned with small victories over local problems. Western medieval culture and its burgeoning science concerned itself with the grand victory over the big problems with global possibilities. The rapacity shown by Western scientists in their desire to utterly command Nature, and to regard her (in her entirety, complete with her secret of force) as booty to be hauled away as spoil, is the root cause of the antagonism towards science. Such a mind-set would have shocked the pious natural scientists of antiquity and it is also the reason why the new nature investigators were called heretics by more enlightened contemporaries. The religious pagan saw the scientists’ lust for power and their attempts at humbling the great goddess Nature as nothing less than devilish.

Throughout Renaissance Europe men were formulating a codified system of rational investigation by which they could interrogate Nature and extract her secrets. A new breed of book-men, the intellectual, promulgated this rational methodology, and foremost amongst these was Francis Bacon who dismissed the collective works of the ancients, such as Plato, Aristotle and Homer, as so much “contentious learning.” Bacon taught that fluffy clouds of metaphysical speculation obscure any substantive truths contained in the works of these ancient authors. He thus advocated a revolutionary rational method based upon objective knowledge and experiment thereby avoiding the deficiencies in the Aristotelian Theory of Procedure and from which substantive knowledge of the world can be gained.

Bacon was the leading propagandist of a rational methodology called Objectivism or more popularly the Theory of Scientific Method. The adoption of this powerful rational method by the radical intellects of Europe was the major destabilizing blow aimed at the established Christian Worldview. Another crushing blow to the established order came when the scientific proofs were produced that indicated that the Earth was not the centre of the Universe, as demanded by the Aquinas Synthesis, but merely a very small and apparently insignificant planet orbiting a relatively obscure star. Although the Church responded savagely to this theory the work of rationalists such as Copernicus, Galileo, Brahe and Kepler eventually dissolved the Medieval Christian Worldview as a coherent and comprehensible whole. Geocentricism, which was central to both Aristotelian doctrine and Scripture, was ridiculed by the heretical heliocentric theory. 

The promotion of the heliocentric theory created a severe intellectual dilemma. Not only was it a staggering blow to theological dogma and that it also rejected the common-sense view that the heavens seemed to revolve around the Earth, more importantly, it also confounded the spiritual-sense that each individual was the centre of his universe. And the simple statement made by Melancthon in 1549 that “the eyes are witness that the heavens revolve in the space of twenty-four hours” no longer appeared to hold true. Henceforth, the great divide thus created between the intellect and spirit created a void in the soul of European Man. The dichotomy between religion based on unquestioning faith and the natural philosophy of the Baroque geniuses offered an opportunity for the free thinking radicals, with their skeptical Humanist Agenda, to finally break away from the intellectually stultifying influence of the Church. Rationalists exploited this opportunity and eagerly replaced, one by one, Church doctrines and dogmas with their own freethinking, practical reproducible proofs.

God suffered attack in the Renaissance, the Baroque and early Victorian periods from three sorts of critic:

  • Those who hated the Theistic proofs and argued that there were no good reasons for believing God exist.
  • Exponents of the problem of Evil who argued that there were no good reasons for believing that God does not exist.
  • Positivists who claimed it equally meaningless to assert or to deny the existence of God.

The rationalists and humanists that were part of this conspiracy to immolate God from rational discourse and civil society and replace him with human constructs did not yet have the temerity to declare Him dead. This was for a later time: when Darwinism had arrived, when foolish and wicked men worked to remove God from the field of human endeavor and public concern. And when a man, the son of a Protestant minister and the grandson of two, who with eloquent anti-Christian polemics, a man who was eventually driven insane by his inner demons, declared: “God is dead.” Of course God is not dead, but foolish people wriggling out of their obligation to their Creator would do and believe anything that absolved them from this sacred duty. Wicked evil people who knew better used such formulations to attack the God they hated. And the powerful secret cabal of evil men who control the temporal affairs of this world give support and succor to this pernicious philosophy. For, this secret cabal of men are the human agents of Evil that are part of the Great Conspiracy against God, which is orchestrated by the Dark Gods who are Ahriman and Lucifer and who are the truly Overlords of Chaos.

Read the full text here

__

Posted in Curiosity, Faith, Infos, Life | Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a Comment »

Atheist Group to Distribute Pamphlets in Schools of Cartoon Bible Sexually Assaulting Woman

Posted by addisethiopia / አዲስ ኢትዮጵያ on October 26, 2014

But that is how society begins to fall apart. But these creatures would be the first to holler for help when they are in need and who comes to their rescue but those who believe. Remember the blacks would still be in slavery if it were not for believers. It wasn’t the atheists who were .the first abolitionists, It wasn’t the atheists ho hid the Jews from the Nazis. It wasn’t the atheists who went over to help the Ebola victims. They contribute nothing to this world. They are empty people who only believe in themselves. Which is fine as long as they leave believers alone.

An atheist group is planning to distribute a pamphlet in several Florida public high schools that depicts an illustration of a cartoon Bible sexually assaulting a young woman.

According to a report by Brittany Hughes at CNSNews.com, the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) plans to hand out a pamphlet entitled “An X-Rated Book: Sex and Obscenity in the Bible,” with a front cover that is illustrated with an animated Bible with arms, legs, salacious facial expression, and salivating mouth, with its hand aggressively extended up the dress of a screaming woman, who is attempting to run away from it.

On its website, FFRF states that its free speech lawsuit filed last year against the Orange County School District was dismissed by Judge Kendall Sharp of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, since the school district had agreed to allow FFRF to distribute all the literature it had initially prohibited. FFRF says it filed a free speech suit after the school district allowed an evangelical Christian group to distribute Bibles.

This is a victory. The court has acknowledged that the school district is allowing all the materials that were initially prohibited,” said Dan Barker, FFRF co-president. “We disagree with how the court and the school district chose to handle this clear-cut discrimination, so we’re planning to appeal on some issues, but overall, it’s a win.”

In its motion to dismiss the case, the U.S. District Court did agree, however, with a previous Florida court ruling relating to materials outside groups may distribute in public schools.

Indeed, Defendant may lawfully prohibit outside groups from distributing materials that are not appropriate for distribution in a school setting with the aim of controlling student conduct in the schools,” said the court. “This includes dissemination of content that is sexually explicit, indecent, lewd, or offensive in [sic] such would ‘undermine the school’s basic educational mission.’”

The memo, dated April 22, 2013, and referencing “passive distribution of atheist materials,” provided the following list of “approved materials” that FFRF and Central Florida Freethought Community (CFFC), FFRF’s local chapter, may “passively distribute” on May 2, 2013, in schools:

  1. The Age of Reason
  2. What They Said About Religion
  3. Ten Common Myths About Atheists
  4. What is Wrong with the Ten Commandments?
  5. What is an Atheist?
  6. Nontheistic Students in Your School
  7. Humanist of the Year Award

The memo also stated, “NO OTHER MATERIALS MAY BE DISTRIBUTED.”

High school principals are instructed in the memo, “You must have a member of your staff ensure that only the materials identified above are on the tables to be passively distributed.”

Continue reading the Comments

__

Posted in Faith, Infos, Life | Tagged: , , , , | Leave a Comment »

Does Secretary Kerry Hate Ethiopian Christians?

Posted by addisethiopia / አዲስ ኢትዮጵያ on May 7, 2014

Secretary of State John Kerry, stopping in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to visit with U.S. Embassy staff, implied that religious tenets created two thousand years ago were inappropriate for modern society.
 
Mr. Kerry said:
 
This is a time here in Africa where there are a number of different cross-currents of modernity that are coming together to make things even more challenging. Some people believe that people ought to be able to only do what they say they ought to do, or to believe what they say they ought to believe, or live by their interpretation of something that was written down a thousand plus, two thousand years ago. That’s not the way I think most people want to live.
 
LA  la-oe-0323-kapya-kaomaMr. Kerry is certainly provoking, arguably, the first Christian nation in the world, Ethiopia. He used this visit to pursue the ongoing anti-Christian agenda of the global elite. How disrespectful, shallow, arrogant and dangerous! Would Mr. Kerry make similar statements during his frequent visits in the apartheid state of Saudi Arabia? Imagine the uproar, if the foreign minister of Ethiopia came to Washington D.C to tell Americans, “ Some people believe that people ought to be able to only do what they say they ought to do, or to believe what they say they ought to believe, or live by their interpretation of something that was written down three hundred years ago by the founding fathers of the United States.
 
Well, let me end by quoting The Good Book that was written two thousand years ago:
 
The fear of the Lord is seen in hating evil: pride, a high opinion of oneself, the evil way, and the false tongue, are unpleasing to me. [Prov 8:13]

__

 

Posted in Ethiopia, Faith, Infos | Tagged: , , , | Leave a Comment »

BBC-Darling & The Most Trusted Man in Britain Says “Starve Ethiopians!”

Posted by addisethiopia / አዲስ ኢትዮጵያ on December 21, 2013

And if you had been from the world, the world would have loved its own; but you are not from the world, but I have chosen you from the world; because of this the world hates you.” [ John 15:19]

Speaking to the BBC Radio 4 Today programme,  Sir. David Attenborough said:

”If you were living in Ethiopia, you might be justified in thinking that the natural world is already stopping it by starvation.”

AnthonyHThis guy obviously is Ethiophobic. Everytime he opens his mouth he reveals his hatred for Christians and Ethiopians. Everything he says is absolutely crass in its callousness!

The highly decorated psychopath, David Attenborough, who last year described humans (Ethiopians) as a ‘plague on Earth’, has now gone on record this Christmas season in calling for rich nations of the world to stop sending food aid to starving nations in order to reduce the population of the world.

According to him, rich nations should start with starving poorer nations that have already been decimated by first world global powers (and could be fed with about a week or so of military spending). The problem, Attenborough says, however, comes down to numerous “huge sensitivities” that continue to block the goal of massive population reduction.

Perhaps the most alarming thing to note here is that this evil who justifies his genocide with faulty reasoning is considered a ‘national treasure’ in Britain. Better yet, Attenborough also has 31 honorary degrees from British universities, which is more than any other person. This is in addition to his numerous ‘royal’ titles.

Truly, Attenborough’s comments being met with mainstream media attention in a positive light shows just how far gone the media world is. Ultimately, there is a war on our right to not only have a family and basic necessities, but life itself.

Almost all the people who are obsessed about population – and the ‘naturalists’ and environmentalists who sound off about big families, belong to the class – white, middle class, anguished liberals – who are themselves least likely to have children to excess or to have children at all.

So, actually, Attenborough and the current global elites are the true “plagues”. They know who they are, all of them. They know how millions of Ethiopians have been exterminated through the wars, diseases and famines they’ve created. They sense it their time here on is up Earth, in their advanced ages, they can feel what is awaiting them in the afterlife.

Besides, people are finally waking up to see through the illusion we have been living in for centuries. These evils realize now they can no longer convince the masses to kill ourselves in the wars, the diseases, the famines they constantly create. In their greed and lust for total control they will do what ever they must to get what they want and are revealing the evil they are to the world. The wider world will soon learn that starving our countries has been a plan of long standing. What has happened to Ethiopia in the 1970/1980s, what’s going in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic and South Sudan are all part of this diabolic plan of theirs. All mineral rich, jungle abundant (Oxygen bank for Europe) and predominantly Christian countries.

These dark entities are so intoxicated on power and control they are oblivious to the transparency of their lies and corruption. They believe their lives are more worthy than ours. These sick animals are who humanity will be fighting in the near future.

In a rational and humane world, these cowards should also be charged on grounds of racism and genocide when they make it so abundantly clear that they are singling out Ethiopians and other Africans as undeserving of survival.

Mind you, Attenborough never ever opened his mouth to blame Muslims for overpopulation. He can’t spot the islamic scavengers who are breeding fast to feed on the spiritually dying children of the once Great Britain. The Muslims who are abusing and raping his daughters and murdering his soldiers in the streets of London and Bristol. Isn’t it ironic, the British are now being colonized by the very same people they once colonized?

[Psalms 58:1-2]

Do you really speak what is right when silent? Do you judge fairly the children of humankind? No, in your heart you plan injustices; in the land you weigh out the violence of your hands.

BBC Criticised For Giving Extremist Preacher Airtime

The BBC is fast becoming a national disgrace and even a danger to the well-being of the nation

BBCBi

BBC criticised over its “extraordinary” decision to give extremist preacher Anjem Choudary a platform to attack “British values” during discussion about the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby.

The BBC is facing a backlash after allowing Anjem Choudary, an extremist preacher, air-time on one of its flagship programmes to discuss the murder of Lee Rigby.

Mr Choudary refused to condemn the killers of the soldier when asked on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, and said the cause of the murder was “David Cameron and his foreign policy.”

The corporation came under fierce criticism for giving Mr Choudary a platform to air his views, which included him saying consequences of British foreign policy were being seen on the streets of London and that he didn’t believe in democracy.

Continue reading…

__

Posted in Ethiopia, Infos, Media & Journalism | Tagged: , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment »

In The Information Age Disinformation/Misinformation Reign

Posted by addisethiopia / አዲስ ኢትዮጵያ on November 17, 2013

My Note: In a rational world one could ask these days why governments, the united nations, the so-called humanitarian organizations and the mainstream media (including RT who made this report) are all involved in a conspiracy of silence concerning the ongoing cruel and inhuman treatment of poor Ethiopian immigrants by the Saudis. In a normal world, one would wonder why and how Saudi Arabia, one of the world’s ‘most flagrant human-rights abusers, is set to join the UN Human Rights Council. You would at least expect the weather report from ‘rainy’ Riyadh. Well, of course, we no longer live in a rational and normal world.

Thousands Protest Press Credibility in March Against Mainstream Media

MediaLiesThousands of people in the UK and US united in their rejection of mainstream media in a mass protest. Protesters targeted the headquarters of media giants like Fox News, the BBC and NBS, decrying their narrow coverage of world affairs.

The March Against Mainstream Media (MAMM) organized the international protest via social media and challenged the established media to cover it.

In a statement posted on the MAMM website, the organization said big media outlets had two options: “report on the fact that thousands of people are currently protesting outside of their buildings because they are keeping important news from the public’s eyes,” or ignore them.

Across America people turned out brandishing banners, condemning established news channels.

“Boycott the media!” one banner read in High Point California, while in Kansas city supporters of the movement wearing Anonymous masks delivered the message “America deserves the truth!”

A recurrent theme that cropped up a number of times in the US protests was the media’s coverage of the stricken nuclear plants in Fukushima Japan that were damaged in the 2010 earthquake-triggered tsunami.

“The radiation from that plant is going to reach us and affect us, not just in California but worldwide.  How is it going to affect us, how is it going to affect our water, our food supply, and our way of life?” said one protester to KMPH Fox 24.

Meanwhile in London, supporters of the anti-establishment movement gathered outside the offices of the BBC in a sit-in-style protest.

Confidence in US mainstream media has been declining sharply over the past couple of years with only 44 percent of Americans trusting mass media, according to a Gallup poll in September. The figures for this year are a slight improvement on 2012 when the survey saw trust in the media fall to a record low of 40 percent.

However, a large amount of Americans (46 percent) believe media has become too liberal, compared to only 13 percent who regard mainstream news coverage as overly conservative.

Source

The BBC’s Christian Persecution Denial

BiaBBCWhile it is no secret that the so-called mainstream media habitually fails to report on the international phenomenon of Christian persecution, few are aware that they sometimes actively work to undermine the efforts of those who do expose it.

Consider a new report by the BBC titled “Are there really 100,000 new Christian martyrs every year?” by Ruth Alexander.

Regarding the all-important question of how many Christians around the world are killed, Alexander herself later quotes another source saying “there is no scientific number at the moment. It has not been researched and all experts in this area are very hesitant to give a figure.”

And this seems to be the real point.  Of all the questions and aspects of Christian persecution that objective researchers and reporters can explore and expose, why did the BBC pick the very one that 1) cannot be answered and 2) is ultimately irrelevant—at best academic, at worst cold and callous?

(The issue is less whether 100,000 Christians around the world are killed annually for their faith, but rather that any Christian, any human—even Alexander’s “paltry” 7,000—is being killed for their faith.)

The BBC naturally picked this “numbers” question because it best serves to minimize the specter of Christian persecution, specifically by prompting the casual reader to conclude, “Oh, well, things are certainly nowhere near as bad as I thought for Christian minorities outside the West—indeed, they’re 93% better!”

More importantly—and here we reach BBC policy—this number-crunching approach serves to exonerate the chief persecutor of Christians, the Islamic world, or, as Alexander is quick to conclude: “[t]his means we can say right away that the internet rumours of Muslims being behind the killing of 100,000 Christian martyrs are nonsense.” (Meanwhile, there’s this ongoing monthly series to deal with.)

Incidentally, since when do numbers matter to the supposedly “humanitarian-conscious” BBC and other “liberal” media where one life (provided it’s the “right” life) often gets nonstop coverage?  Would the BBC ever write a report dedicated to trying to show that the number of Palestinians killed in the conflict with Israel is actually 93% lower than widely believed?

Of course not. When it comes to the Arab-Israeli conflict, far from minimizing anything, the BBC regularly exaggerates to demonize Israel.

And therein lies the main lesson.  The BBC is not in the business of reporting facts but rather creating smokescreens, building and knocking down straw men, and chasing red herrings—all to further its narratives, in this case, that “only” 7,000-8,000 Christians are killed annually for their faith, and that the Islamic world is largely innocent—so what’s all the fuss about?

Continue reading…

__

Posted in Ethiopia, Faith, Media & Journalism | Tagged: , , , , , , | Leave a Comment »

Christians In Britain Denied to Wear The Christian Cross

Posted by addisethiopia / አዲስ ኢትዮጵያ on January 14, 2013

AntiChristChristians face judgement day in Strasbourg ‘right to wear the cross’ case

Judges at Strasbourg will rule on Tuesday whether four Christians were discriminated against at work, including two women who claim they were forced out of their jobs for wearing the cross.

The British government is fighting the cases, arguing that because crosses are not a “requirement” of the Christian faith, employers can forbid the wearing of such symbols and sack workers who insist on doing so.

Continue reading…

Christians’ rights: Martyred on a cross of secular liberalism

Since the Harry Hammond case just over a decade ago, the British courts have become a battleground for the clash of secular and Christian viewpoints.

The battle has been almost universally one way as the rights of Christians, in terms of the ability to practise their faith in the public sphere, have been eroded to the point where they have virtually no protection.

The cases that I have been instructed in are alarming- and it’s not just the “little people”: health workers or junior civil servants.

It’s also the top accountant being told he’s lost his job because a public authority disapproves of his church’s website.

And it’s not just people’s jobs that are at stake. Even the right to worship is under threat with Christians being prosecuted for singing hymns at church on a Sunday because they’re too noisy.

Continue reading…

__

Posted in Curiosity, Faith | Tagged: , , , , , , | 1 Comment »

 
%d bloggers like this: