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Don’t Abandon Trump Because You Have a DeSantis in your Back Pocket

BY Susan D. Harris

~ PLUS: THE SKEWED HATRED OF ROD DREHER – adopted grand theologian of orthodox churches across America

At this writing, a Fox News subheading reads, “EXCLUSIVE: FBI found classified documents during search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence.”  Did they think this would bowl me over? I’m disappointed in Fox for feeding me this completely predictable propaganda couched as original material.  Former Trump advisor Kash Patel told Breitbart News back in May that Trump was in possession of documents he himself had declassified.  Of course I would expect the FBI to be claiming these are their smoking gun.  Calling it “gaffe-davit” late Friday, Greg Gutfeld expressed what many of us were thinking:  “It sounds like every hoax we’ve heard before.”

At this point, it looks as though Fox News may jump on the bandwagon to pummel Trump with more allegations from the liberal hit machine.  Stories that may pan out to be as meaningless as all the other “shocking” anti-Trump exclusives the media has been throwing at us since 2015.

In a recent broadcast, Glenn Beck said, “I don’t think there’s anyone in American history…ever been a politician or anyone in the public view…that has gone through what he’s gone through.”  Beck then reviewed the onslaught of lawsuits they’ve racked up against Trump that most people aren’t even aware of.

That said, I regret to report that among my own supposedly conservative acquaintances, I’ve begun to hear a plan of cowardly back door escape.  “Well, we have to admit he is emotionally unhinged,” a man from my church told me.  “I’d rather have DeSantis anyway.” He then repeated “unhinged” numerous times while discussing Trump as though he were reading the Democrat’s talking points.

His “unhinged” tirade came on a 9 a.m. phone call while I was receiving an antibody infusion for covid.  I was nervous to begin with, after all, I’d chosen not to be vaccinated because of numerous allergic reactions throughout my life.  Now I was sitting in a doctor’s office hooked up to an IV, a blood pressure monitor, and an O2 sensor listening to a new strain of Trump Derangement Syndrome coming through my phone.  My normally low blood pressure was elevated, and I had to embarrassingly tell the nurse it was from a phone call I shouldn’t have taken.  (Thankfully my covid was like a mild flu, and I was no worse for the wear.)

Another subject of that phone call, and I suspect the real reason this man was unhappy with me, was that I’d recently called his attention to Rod Dreher’s long history of attacks on Trump and his supporters.  Dreher had been invited to an upcoming event with our church primarily because of his 2017 book, The Benedict Option.  It was this book, largely, that carved Dreher a niche market as a pseudo-theologian.  A polarizing political pundit, I did not think he was a proper speaker to invite to an important church event.

The thing is, if you push back hard enough, the masks begin to come off.  The man from the church wasn’t critical of Dreher because he had secretly agreed with his politics.

Despite hardcore conservatives continuing to support Trump, like those voting in the CPAC straw poll, Dreher and his ilk keep trumpeting the “drama mantra”:

I’m sick of the craziness of Trump, and just want a conservative president who believes what Trump believes (or said he did), but who can be counted on to be a damn grown-up, and spare us the drama.

(I can only hope we can get a candidate with a personality Dreher approves of.)

Of course, to be taken seriously and stay in the game, Dreher has to push DeSantis to the forefront.  We, the “ordinary people” (his words) have been so caught up with Trump “the messiah” that we can’t think for ourselves, thus we need to listen to people who sell books – – like Dreher.

So it was that another friend of mine texted me, the night of the raid on Mar-a-Lago, that she preferred DeSantis over Trump anyway because if Trump gets in again it “will be four more years of hatred and fighting and he won’t be able to get anything done.  It will tear the country apart.”

“What makes you think they won’t do the exact same thing to DeSantis?” I asked. “Oh no,” she said, “He has a stellar record , they can’t!”

Do you not think that the haters can spin lies as easily about any Republican candidate as they did about Trump?

They can and they will.

It seems like some folks are willing to throw Trump to the wolves because we have a DeSantis in our back pocket that we hope will both serve our needs AND placate the liberals.

But if the liberals completely destroy the man I voted for president; if they can stop him from running for public office again or dare I say arrest, imprison him or worse, nothing else matters.  I believe if we do not stand up and speak out to defend this one man who has sacrificed so much for our Republic, we’re no longer the kind of people who deserve a Republic.

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How the Gods of Globalism Slit the Throat of Assimilation

By Susan D. Harris

The multiculturalist army, the interfaith fighters and the soldiers of diversity have been an unchecked scourge; slitting the throat of assimilation in every country they’ve invaded.  Most importantly, here in the U.S., they’ve been knife-gutting everything we hold dear.  The abortion activists are killing the babies and the gays are killing traditional marriage and procreation.  Illegal immigrants are bleeding us financially, filling our prisons, turning us into drug addicts, gang members, encouraging jihad and saying there is “no need to assimilate.”  While we were grimacing over our shoulders at Karl Marx, blaming an old ideology for our current woes, a new generation of Globalists were paying the back taxes and buying the farm right out from under us.

There are a million Globalist organizations running this country right now, right down to the Google Earth crosshairs on your home.  You might be able to identify them by the New Age drivel on their websites, but you probably don’t comprehend that they’re not only having a direct impact on your community, schools, friends and family; they are your community leaders and school board; they are your friends and family.

If you want to know how many interfaith organizations there are, do an internet search for the name of your town (or a nearby town), then add the word “interfaith.”  You’ll soon find a vast army at the disposal of the Globalists.  From those interfaith websites, read what other organizations they’re involved with; who’s funding them.

This new Globalism has blended various political, economic and religious ideologies into a massive tsunami of Western destruction.  It’s not even George Soros’ Open Society anymore…it has become its own Frankenstein; but I think the mad doctor is happy with his monster.

Its head is the interfaith movement, its torso multiculturalism, its arms diversity and its legs pluralism.  Its feet are climate change lies that will walk us into the lions’ mouth.  Within each of these are thousands more organizations like Auburn Seminary who are ready for “such a time as this.”  Revolution, cultural change, social upheaval — they state their goals with the calmness of a PowerPoint presentation at a board meeting.

Much of the immediate change is coming from community embedded interfaith organizations.  There’s a partial list of them sitting over on the Harvard website under something called the “Pluralism Project.”  The project, funded by the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, was formerly headed by feminist Wiccan Grove Harris, who wrote extensively for the “Paganism” section of a project titled “On Common Ground: World Religions in America.”  A book written about the Interfaith Youth Movement, states that Harris “writes about how imagery in her Wiccan faith contributes to how she manages the most important research project on religious diversity in the U.S., and the Pluralism Project at Harvard…”

Diane Eck is currently listed as “founder and director” of the Pluralism Project.  Like Goldie Hawn’s vast Mindfulness movement, Eck’s entire life education centers around the “divine” and “sacred” of eastern mysticism.

Before I comment any further on Eck, let me prove the mindfulness movement is indeed “vast.”  It’s an important point because this godless, New Age knockoff of Transcendental Meditation is part and parcel of the multicultural/interfaith/diversity/pluralism movements.  And yes — it’s even part of the climate change movement.  In other words, it’s another part of the Globalist monster.

Employees at the following companies are being “trained” in it; and more than one has told me it is “required.”

(There are thousands of smaller companies participating under the Mindfulness umbrella; you might be participating in your workplace; or your child might be learning it at school.)

But let’s get back to Diana Eck at the Pluralism Project who seems to be everything to everybody.  Here she is quoted as a “Methodist scholar of religion” in a book about the “spiritual discipline” of Mindfulness.  In reality, her resume reflects the perfect global citizen:  At Harvard, she’s a professor of Religion and Indian studies, law, and Psychiatry in Society; she has a B.A. in religion; an M.A. in South Asian History; and a Ph.D. from Harvard in Comparative Study of Religion.  Apparently no matter what your background, she can make you doubt everything your parents taught you, and probably convince you that you never had parents.

 (At this point, one has to recall William F. Buckley Jr.’s quote:   “I am obliged to confess I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.”)

The ideas trumpeted by the likes of Diana Eck and Grove Harris about religions “being on common ground” actually exhibit just the opposite of assimilation.  What Globalism wants from us is the total acceptance of everyone else’s world view and culture — at the cost of forfeiting our own.

Without getting too deep into political theory…one can read Nathan Glazer’s 1993 article, “Is Assimilation Dead?” and The Brookings Institutes, “Do We Really Want Immigrants to Assimilate?”  And I’ll only scratch the surface of the Chegg Study which said:

Sociologists commonly distinguish between forced and unforced assimilation. In forced assimilation, a person or group is compelled to take on the practices of another culture, such as by adopting that culture’s language and religious traditions. In unforced assimilation, a person takes on the practices of another culture but is not forcibly compelled to do so.

Yes, the United States had a kind of forced assimilation and that’s what made the melting pot work.  People had to learn English to conduct business, but they were never penalized beyond that for not doing so.  We required everyone to follow the established laws of our society — laws that had their roots in the Ten Commandments.  Conversely however, we did not “force” anyone to adhere to the religion that birthed those laws.  We were so careful not to do so that we wrote, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”  Of course we hoped Christianity would stay the predominant religion, because it was the only religion in the world that was capable of maintaining an order where all other religions could live side by side.

Make no mistake; multiculturalists, interfaith practitioners, diversity proponents and fake pluralists completely reject the idea of the American “melting pot” that assimilation originally created. 

To them, the melting pot is a bad, smelly concoction otherwise known as “Americanism” that diminishes all other cultures and countries; it forces little American flags into unsympathetic foreign fingers who take our hospitality and handouts then spit at us behind our backs.

Coexistence with no messy melting is the greater goal.  The kind of coexistence that means you respect a guy’s right to steal and slaughter horses for his Santeria ritual, while he respects your right to practice Islamic female genital mutilation so your daughter can remain chaste and your wife doesn’t wander.

Assimilation is out — Globalism is in; and the code words are pretty easy if you’re paying attention and not buying into the “throw your gun in the trash and give us a group hug” candlelight vigils.

Knowing the code words lets you know who, what and where to avoid.  Consider if you will the largest Baptist church in my city.  It’s no longer “obviously” a Baptist church.  Many churches have decided to shed “negative perceptions” of churches (i.e. they buckled to secular millennials) and “rebranded” themselves; so this church changed its name to (something similar to) “The Happy Meeting Rooms.”  The Happy Rooms website proudly displays the New Age code words. The pastor’s bio oddly states he is interested in “multiculturalism” and “race issues” like he’s placing an ad on a dating website.  He stressed the Happy Rooms were a place for “all nations” because they were “international” and practiced “inclusivity.”  (Note: Let’s not forget the LGBT agenda falls under nearly all of these code words…here’s one of the top 12 Hospitals and Health Systems in the nation ranked by DiversityInc for “diversity and inclusion” because it’s “an ally of the LGBTQ community.”)

Jesus Christ made it clear that no one on earth could come to know God unless they believed that he, Jesus Christ, was the son of God; but he also made it clear that his message was open to every living person.  (That belief is best explained here, though I do not know the website well enough to endorse it entirely.)  Jesus also preached what our forefathers eventually memorialized with the words:  “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights…”

So why would a church go out of their way to tell people they are “multicultural;” that they’re for “all nations” and “honor inclusivity?”  I decided to email the pastor asking just that. Surprisingly, he didn’t respond; but he did add a sentence to his website saying they “celebrated diversity in classes, cultures and colors.”  I don’t know how many more Globalist code words he could work in, but it’s clear he’s happy to be in a sanctuary city sponsoring community barbeques at the local mosques.

Surely one of the planned goals of the interfaith movement is the stifling of the “great commission.”  For 2000 years Christians have set out to witness for Jesus Christ; that is to say their goal was/is to win souls for Christ.  It’s a dirty word now…dare I say they want to convert people to their faith in order to save them from what the Christian bible teaches is eternal damnation.  Most believed they were required to do this in part due to a passage from Ezekiel.  It seems to be a boasting achievement of Globalism that Christians are being forced to shut down their “offensive” version of Jesus being the “only way;” set aside their antiquated Bibles, and listen to the greater faiths of the world…or abandon religion altogether.  In other words, “Stop causing trouble so you can come join the party.”

What have they really done when they’ve swept away Christianity, or relegated it’s “former” interpretation to the ash heap of history?

Michael Savage probably answered that best when he spoke as a guest on his own radio show March 30.  Originally coming on air to greet his listeners for Good Friday and the beginning of Passover, he ended up giving an informal, but very poignant speech:

Let’s never forget, that while there are other religions in this country, and so many non-believers; without Christianity, there would be no America…because all the founding fathers — they were not Buddhist, they were not Muslim, they were not Hindus, they were devout Christians.  They came to the new world to practice their religion in peace, and they opened their doors to all other religions, so they could practice their religions in peace.  And it worked pretty well until now.  Now we have people coming in…that adhere to a total alien god, not the god of the West…I said ‘This country cannot survive.”  Freedom of religion is not freedom to kill in the name of your religion…not license to hate those of other religions…it does not give you the right to spit on our flag.  You’ve got children being brought into this country…from…the Middle East…Africa…from nations where there’s nothing but bloodshed and mayhem and hatred.  And they come here like my grandfather did to find peace and harmony and a new life…and yet you have some of them being told by the ACLU, by George Soros’ front groups, to tell that teacher that you find the American flag…the National Anthem…offensive.  In the name of these malcontents, these fronts, we’re supposed to take our flags down and stop (singing) the National Anthem and saying the Pledge of Allegiance?  That’s what has been happening in this nation…I’ve just got to say, this country cannot survive its traitors and its subversives.  The only way this country can survive is if we all wake up to the fact they’re much more organized than we are.  There are too many of them, and they’re tearing the country apart, starting with the littlest school room and ending up with the streets themselves.

The Globalists are anti-Christ, anti-America, and anti-family.  And don’t buy the red herring propaganda that “Globalist” is an anti-Semitic slur; Globalists would like to see the Jewish people run off their land and handed to the Muslims.

It seems inevitable that one masterful force will grab all these loose reins; that some person, country or institution will harness the incredible, hateful energy now surreptitiously slithering through America and the world.  The question becomes:  What will they do with us when they finally get us where they want us?

RELATED LINKS WITHIN THIS ARTICLE:

Related links: Jesus Message Open to Everybody: https://www.ucg.org/bible-study-tools…

United Nations wants to STOMP OUT opponents to Cultural Diversity: https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelop…

Fiscal Burden of Illegal Immigration: https://fairus.org/issue/publications…

Illegal Immigration Filling our Prisons: https://www.heritage.org/immigration/…

Immigration and Drugs from our Border: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/05/25/…

MS-13 Gang Surge: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/…

Liberal Linda Sarsour “Fighting Trump is JIHAD…Muslims have “NO need to assimilate” : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThJdM…

Don’t UNDERESTIMATE the global activists at Auburn Seminary: http://auburnseminary.org/ Auburn Seminary “Such a Time As This” http://auburnseminary.org/?gclid=CjwK…

Harvard University’s Pluralism Project: http://pluralism.org/interfaith/report/

Feminist Wiccan Grove Harris who headed the Pluralism Project: http://pluralism.org/affiliate/grove-…

Book about How Grove Harris WICCAN “faith” influences her work on INTERFAITHISM IN AMERICA! https://books.google.com/books?id=OdS…

Globalist YOUTH ORGANIZATION: https://www.ifyc.org/

Ideologically dangerous Diana Eck – current head of INTERFAITH STUDIES THAT AFFECTS INTERFAITH MOVEMENTS ACROSS AMERICA: http://pluralism.org/about/who-we-are…

Diane Eck comments on the MINDFULNESS MOVEMENT (It’s ALL RELATED!) http://themindfulnessmovement.com/

What you need to know about the Mindfulness Movement: https://www.americanthinker.com/artic…

“Climate Change and Mindfulness are More Related Than You Think” – the secular article that admits it! http://ghi.wisc.edu/mindfulness-and-c…

Mindfulness at Google: https://siyli.org/

Mindfulness at General Mills: https://siyli.org/

Mindfulness at Intel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZYVk…

Mindfulness at Dow Chemical: https://www.dow.com/en-us/about-dow/o…

Mindfulness at Aetna: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A87X…

Mindfulness at Keurig Green Mountain: http://mindfulnessarts.org/blog/perso…

Nathan Glazer’s 1993 Article, “Is Assimilation Dead?” http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/1…

Brookings Institute: “Do We Really Want Immigrants to Assimilate?” https://www.brookings.edu/articles/do…

Horses Killed For Santeria Ritual: http://dailycaller.com/2018/01/11/wom…

Islam and the Rise of Female Genital Mutilation: https://www.dailywire.com/news/16729/…

DIVERSITYINC recognizes health care system for it’s LGBTQ devotion: https://jobs.northwell.edu/blog/2017/…

On Finding Warnings for America from Rev. Billy Graham

By Susan D. Harris

The old dresser holds my prized possessions; no jewels or money or a key to a safe deposit box…just simple things that hold a place in my heart.

Today I’ve opened its weathered drawers to look for an old dress pattern — a memory that was jogged by a conversation with my elderly mother.  I opened the drawer and carefully started sifting through the contents — a 45rpm of John Lennon’s “(Just Like) Starting Over” I’d bought before he was killed; a personal letter from Phyllis Schlafly on being Conservative; People magazine’s tribute on the death of Sir Lawrence Olivier, “Goodnight Sweet Prince.”  Then I pulled out a theater program for “Camelot” signed by Richard Harris; a paperback titled, “Dark Shadows;” and the last issue of George magazine published before John F. Kennedy Jr. flew through the clouds to eternity.

“Ah,” I always say with a smile — one of my favorite old snapshots of me posing in the lobby of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in front of their giant “Gone with the Wind”/Margaret Mitchell exhibit.  I don’t think they could even have that on display today without threats or protests.

Then I ran across it.  Something I didn’t even remember:  A copy of Billy Graham’s Decision magazine from March, 1976.  The subscription was actually in my name — I was a small but precocious child.  Why I saved this particular issue, I’ll never know…or maybe it explained itself.

It’s the day after the death of Rev. Graham, and I feel like I’ve run across this for a reason.  Though he was 99, his death felt like the passing of an era; and as I’d told my mother the news the day before, she began to cry.  My father and she had been married for 62 years; she was a widow now.  The summer they married, they’d driven to one of Billy Graham’s largest crusades and rededicated their lives to God. What a different world we live in — most young people don’t even bother to get married anymore, let alone go to revival meetings!

Decision wasn’t even really a magazine yet; it was more of a glossy newspaper format.  A small side banner read, “Two Billy Graham TV Specials from Rio de Janeiro and Brussels: consult your newspaper for times and channels.”  Back then it seemed like everyone in America tuned in for a Billy Graham Crusade.  The front cover began an article by Graham himself titled, “The Shaping of America.”  In it, Graham critiques Life magazine’s “100 Events that Shaped America.”  Graham notes that only one or two of the events mentioned by Life could be considered “religious” in any way;  certainly not Sigmund Freud’s visit to the U.S., nor Babe Ruth and the introduction of big-money sports.  Instead, Graham has his own ideas of what should have made the list.

He begins with the Mayflower Compact, which began with the words, “In the name of God, Amen.” (The document goes on to say the pilgrim’s voyage to this new world was in large part “for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith.”)  Graham argues that document set the course for the entire colonial period, and that the ensuing immigrants from Europe fleeing religious persecution “were influenced by the pattern of religious self-government under God, established in the Mayflower Compact.”

Next he mentions the birth of the American Bible Society in 1816 that facilitated millions of copies of said holy book being distributed around the world.

He continues by mentioning the publication of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” which had, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica in 1976, “probably made the greatest single contribution toward arousing antislavery opinion in the United States.”  It was well-known that the author, Harriet Beecher Stowe, was inspired by her family’s Christian faith, abolitionist writings and personal experiences.

Graham then points to the founding of our greatest universities:  “Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia and Dartmouth” and “many other schools …established to train students for Christian leadership in America.”

He explores the 1806 “Haystack Prayer Meeting” in which five Williams College students, seeking shelter from rain, dove under a haystack and there prayed and conceptualized the “first documented resolution ever made by Americans to begin foreign missionary work.”  (One of those students was Samuel Mills, who also “played a role in the founding of the American Bible Society and the United Foreign Missionary Society.”)  Graham contends that Christian missions had done “as much as anything else to bring about the emerging ‘third world.’”  An African prime minister had recently told him that missionary outreach had largely contributed to the “struggle for freedom that has come to fruition in Africa (over) the past two decades.”

The many Biblical references to the disciples “speaking with boldness” are, according to some Biblical authorities, translated to “freedom of speech.”  With this point, Graham’s article seems to make it clear that Christianity was instrumental not only to our country, but to America’s global influence for freedom and democracy.  That’s not the kind of democracy Any Rand or George Soros want to hear about — but it’s the only kind of democracy that can truly flourish — democracy with a Christian soul.

Also of interest is the paper’s editorial titled, “1984.”  It warns that the nations of the West must change their ways or they will lose their freedoms including, “freedom of speech, of religion, of the press, of movement; economic freedom, ballot box freedom — everything.  It will all be swept away with the trash; and a lot of people will be glad about it!  Yes, they will say, ‘Thank God, decency has come back.’ And it may so appear, but the democratic experiment will be over.”  Predicting the loss of freedoms was one thing, but predicting the death of freedom as something that would be hailed and celebrated — that was spine-tingling.  Few people in 1976 envisioned the kind of world we live in today where the death of freedom is openly threatened or begged for.

One entire page of Decision was dedicated to a man’s struggle with drug addiction.  It could have easily been a message for 2018.

This magazine came out 23 years after my parents attended a Billy Graham crusade, and 21 years after his historic crusades at Madison Square Garden where nearly 2 ½ million flocked to hear him preach over a 16-week period.

For nearly 70 years, Billy Graham seemed to have his finger on the pulse of America.  Of course, his legacy will live on through his son, the Rev. Franklin Graham, and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association; but there is a deep, almost mysterious foreboding that lingers after news of his passing.  The man who preached Jesus Christ and biblical principles to more live audiences than anyone else in history is dead.  That should give us pause.

For those who believe in ‘no God’ or the ‘new god’ the world has created that loves everyone and judges nothing — everything still feels okay.   For the rest of us believers, there is a palpable sense that whether the Christian Second Coming is near or not, the world is well overdue for a good sound Judgement Day thrashing; we can run from our sins no more.  A small gasp escapes as we’re overcome with the uneasy feeling that mankind’s day of atonement has passed — along with Rev. Billy Graham.

Published in American Thinker at https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/02/on_finding_warnings_for_america_from_rev_billy_graham.html

Photos Courtesy of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association

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