Driving to work this morning viewing the effects of the terrible thunderstorms that spared my neighborhood but hard hit the one right next to mine, I was listening to Christian radio. Out of the blue comes TD Jakes’ booming voice. In it, he first speaks of how much he loves America and so forth. I immediately thought of Jakes doing this to exploit anger over Barack Hussein Obama, Michelle Obama, and Jeremiah Wright’s considerably less than jingoistic statements and actions. Then he went into his exhortation spiel for people to register and get out to vote.
First, I see Lifeway Bookstores, owned by the Southern Baptist Convention, selling TD Jakes’ doctrinal error (oneness pentecostalism and the Word of Faith/prosperity doctrine are but a few of his MANY problems) and now the National Religious Broadcasters are using this guy. I had been using the NRB as a sort of a refuge from the blatant charismania that you will find on The Word Network, Trinity Broadcasting Network, Daystar, etc. So I just ignored the heavy Pat Robertson presence on the channel, as well as their “white Europeans are the descendants of the children of Israel … the Danube River is so named because of the tribe of Dan” show that comes on early in the morning. I also ignored their embrace of the Ellen White Seventh Day Adventist cult. So I suppose that I cannot cast NRB aside on Jakes’ account, since the ones that I just named are hardly better - if anything some might be worse - or else I would be reacting out of a personal dislike for Jakes rather than on principle. (On the other hand, Slice of Laodicea has criticized NRB, albeit for different reasons, such as this post stating that not one red cent of NRB’s $5 BILLION IN ASSETS is being used to defend the faith from Oprah Winfrey.)
Incidentally, speaking of TD Jakes and PR spots, he has another one out (I did not catch the sponsor!) promoting single sex education, saying that “boys need their own schools so that they will be able to, you know, romp and stuff (his choice of words not mine!) and that boys learn differently from girls and needed their own classrooms in order to be accommodated. So … it looks like Jakes is not that far removed from Jeremiah Wright’s separatist doctrines after all?
I have to be honest, back when I was part of the religious right and allowing my worldview to be shaped by the Washington Times and the National Review, I was in full agreement. But now … I just recall reading about this inner city public school that went all male. Sure, the discipline problems decreased and the test scores went up. But when they interviewed the boys that attended the school, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM WANTED THEM TO BRING THE GIRLS BACK! Why? Because, er … BOYS LIKE GIRLS! Or at least they are supposed to anyway. Perhaps now that T.D. Jakes is on board with the new world order’s gay rights agenda (and yes this is relevant … perhaps due to his son) he thinks it is OK. To me, the whole single sex education thing … who wants it? Certainly not the kids. Not the administrators or teachers. Parents go for it only because they are desperate for any hook or angle to improve the failing school systems that the government is ruining on purpose. Not even the old fashioned religious sorts - of which I am one - think that it is a good idea anymore, where you were supposed to keep boys and girls separate in their little boarding or finishing schools (where they were supposed to look OH SO CUTE in their little uniforms I guess) UNTIL GRADUATION DAY WHEN YOU MARRY THEM OFF.
Sorry people, but society has changed. Not all of the changes have been for the good, but methinks that one of the most important things for a boy to learn from school is how to treat a lady and how to behave yourself in their presence. For some of us guys, those things do not come naturally, and you only learn them through trial and error. Especially error. (If you don’t learn to handle competition and rejection in junior high and high school, how on earth are you supposed to handle being turned down for jobs, promotions, college choices, etc. later in life?) So … HOW ON EARTH ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO LEARN THOSE THINGS IF THERE ARE NO GIRLS AROUND TO LEARN THEM FROM?
Like I said, TD Jakes may have his own reasons for wanting to turn your local public school into Morehouse College or similar, and whatever they are I oppose them 100%. All the more reason why the Southern Baptist Convention should not be selling this guy’s books and NRB shouldn’t be using him for their get out the vote campaign. But I suppose that this oneness anti - Trinitarian heretic is just too good at making money and moving public opinion for these people to pass up. That is, unless they are actually along with Jakes, on his side. After all, the Southern Baptists refuse to do anything about the likes of New Age heretic Erwin McManus and Council on Foreign Relations worker Rick Warren (and Richard Land too?), and as stated earlier, Al Sharpton Al Gore global warming propagandist partner Pat Robertson is a major partner with the NRB.
When I first started this website, I enthusiastically endorsed Jesus camps, thinking that they were an excellent way to turn children into spiritual warriors - as it WAS initially a charismatic spiritual warfare site - from an early age. Well … WOW WAS I WRONG! Jesus camps use the evil combination of spiritually seductive charismatic slain in the spirit frenzy and dominion theology politics. Instead of teaching children to pray for their enemies, to show kindness to the poor and elderly people, to interpret the Bible and discern doctrines, to worship and praise the Lord in a dignified manner becoming His glory, and to exhibit the fruits of the Holy Spirit, these folks are feeding these children false Christian doctrines and fascist notions of merging church, state, culture, etc. that will makes any of them that internalize this spiritual evil easy pickings for the anti - Christ and moreover very willing workers in the plot to create the climate where the man of sin will take power. The more things like this come out, as well as things with the Jesus Seminar, Mike Huckabee, Jeremiah Wright … Bible believing Christians have to start speaking out. There is something seriously wrong with both the religious right and the religious left, and we have to start boldly opposing it with the Word of God.
In this election, National Right to Life proves itself to be simply a political arm of the Republican Party. It is one thing to state that John McCain is better on the abortion issue than Bosnian sniper fire dodger Hillary Clinton and Barack HUSSEIN Obama, who are both such radical abortion absolutists that among the first bills that either of them would introduce upon becoming president would be laws that would repeal “conscience clauses” that allow doctors and pharmacists to opt out of performing the procedure in their practice or in medical school, or in prescribing RU - 486, and their universal healthcare plans would require all state and private healthcare plans to pay for abortions (after the $50 abortion plan signed by Mormon Mitt Romney in Massachusetts) and RU - 486. But it is another to give the guy that told the San Francisco Chronicle that he opposed overturning Roe v. Wade because it would return women to getting unsafe back alley abortions (the typical argument used to justify opposing laws designed to restrain evil such as murder … that evil is going to happen anyway) a perfect rating.
Now this is not about the issue of embryonic stem cells for research in and of itself, which pro - lifers can debate and perhaps even disagree on in good conscience. (In my opinion those that support it are wrong, but I can at least see room for debate.) This is about how politically motivated and hence morally and spiritually useless these interest groups are, whether conservative or liberal. National Right to Life is giving John McCain a rating that his public statements and record does not deserve simply to maximize turnout. They know that evangelicals are skeptical, so they are giving him a rating that he can use on the campaign trail from the leading (unfortunately) pro - life POLITICAL group in order to get Christians out of their pews and into the polls, because they are hoping that his rating will cause people to ignore his record or not research it.
National Right To Life is yet another group that has exposed itself as being all about winning and getting their guy and their side into office so they can hold onto their power. They are not about life, whether of the innocent unborn in this life or eternal life with Jesus Christ in the next!
Which means that he is actually the backup plan of whoever is behind Oprah Winfrey (the Council on Foreign Relations)! Now there are two interesting anecdotes about the race between Booker and his entrenched corrupt incompetent opponent Sharpe James in 2002.
1) His opponent defeated him by claiming that he wasn’t black enough, by sending police officers to harass Booker’s supporters and even close down their businesses, and claiming that Booker was homosexual.
2) At the time, Booker was supported by the local and national Republican Party as the pro - big business candidate. The Republican Party leadership of New Jersey endorsed him and gave him significant financial support, and the national neoconservative magazines talked up his candidacy and encouraged people to send him contributions. There was actually this minor racial controversy where black supporters of Sharpe James physically confronted the white female daughter of a high ranking New Jersey Republican official because she was on the streets campaigning for Booker, and ripped the things that she was holding pertaining to Booker out of her hands. The neoconservatives claimed that by virtue of his elite college education and pro - business approach, Booker was part of the new breed of black leaders that would save the black community. Oh yes, I almost forgot: CORY BOOKER SUPPORTS SCHOOL VOUCHERS! (By the way, the new governor of New York, David Paterson, also supports school vouchers).
Keep in mind: Booker’s loss in that 2002 mayor’s race was portrayed as a huge setback to BOTH the NEOCONSERVATIVE cause AND the cause of the “postracial progressive liberals”, the old Gary Hart crowd, that now backs Obama. It is said that the primary flaw of the old Gary Hart coalition (which includes George McGovern and Bill Bradley) was their inability to attract black voters. Well, their recruiting Barack HUSSEIN Obama - and people like him including but not limited to Booker - took care of that, didn’t it? Further, former Gary Hart trainee Martin O’Malley recognized this weakness and went to Baltimore, where he ultimately became mayor of that city and now governor of Maryland.
But as much progress as the Gary Hart crowd is now making, it is difficult to imagine their doing so without complicity from the GOP. Neoconservatives gave Obama rapturous praise exceeding that given to Obama by the DEMOCRATS based on his DNC speech in 2002 back when the fellow was a candidate that they were SUPPOSED to be trying to beat in a key Senate race in a vital state! Had the GOP begun tarring Obama as just another black Chicago Democrat back then (or basically … at any point since then) there is NO WAY the guy would be the leading candidate for the Democratic nomination right now.
And consider John McCain. The primary reason why he is the GOP nominee is because of the almost unqualified praise that he has received from THE LEFT since 2000. The very people who were SUPPOSED to be trying to BEAT John McCain are the very ones who basically REFUSE to talk about certain things in the fellow’s background that voters should care about. Just like these same people refused to report George W. Bush’s long history of supporting abortion rights. It is amazing that the New York Times give a little space on their page suggesting that blacks would vote for John McCain if Obama did not win the nomination (an idea that I first heard floated on the Atlanta black political talk radi station using the logic that it would be OK to use John McCain, “a moderate Republican that wasn’t really that bad”, to pay back the Democrats). How many blacks would feel this way if they knew about McCain’s race - baiting Goldwater wannabe days?
Folks, we really are reaching a situation not unlike the ending of the George Orwell book “Animal Farm.” Put the neoconservatives and the neoliberals in the same room, and you increasingly cannot tell one from the other. And as a final shot: Muslim congressman Keith Ellison, former Million Man March organizer and Farrakhan supporter before joining “mainstream Islam”? He is part of the same Gary Hart “progressive” coalition as Obama. See his progressive states network Youtube video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=htPE_VCxP1M
