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

Posted by :Susan D. Harris On : August 13, 2022

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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

Posted by :Susan D. Harris On : April 16, 2018

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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 Bible s, 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?

A dead nun, Katy Perry, and the sicko Humanist experiment that happened in THAT SAME CONVENT leaving radical lesbians and disillusioned nuns in its wake!

Posted by :Susan D. Harris On : March 12, 2018

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You don’t get courtroom scenes more dramatic than this, even in a Perry Mason novel:

A nun involved in a years-long legal dispute with pop star Katy Perry over a sprawling 8-acre former convent died in court Friday[.]

According to a 2002 BBC documentary, the convent at the heart of the heart of the “nuns vs. Katy Perry” scandal was once ground zero for a creepy psychological experiment conducted by New Age humanistic psychologists Drs. Carl Rogers and William Coulson.

Despite the fact that she was 89 years old, the death of Sister Catherine Rose Holzman in the courtroom – as she fought singer-celebrity Katy Perry’s purchase of the spectacular Los Feliz convent – was still a shock. Sister Catherine fought Perry’s quest for the property literally right down to her last breath – a sacrifice that should be treated with the reverence of a deathbed confession. After all, there aren’t too many of us who will die in a courtroom fighting for what we believe in. Maybe the world would be a better place if we did.

The convent, the former home of the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, has become famous for being at the center of scandal since 2015, but this isn’t the first scandal it was embroiled in. I found countless articles, like this one from LAist.com, that don’t even give an accurate history of the property, and certainly don’t mention what happened there in the late 1960s. (The current sisters claim to have purchased the property in 1972. The details of occupancy and ownership do remain confusing.)

Dr. Carl Rogers, associated with the Esalen Institute and a follower of Abraham Maslow’s humanism, set out to “create new autonomous beings, free of social condition.” In the 2002 BBC Adam Curtis documentary Century of Self, the narrator says, “[T]o the [ideological] left, defeated in the wake of Chicago, it was an enormously attractive idea[.] … [T]echniques could be used to unleash a new powerful ‘self’ strong enough to overthrow the old order.”

The end of the 1960s saw thousands of people flocking to the Esalen Institute to “transform themselves” in what was known as the “human potential movement.” Within a few years, there were about 200 centers across America filled with people looking to “find themselves,” looking for liberation from whatever they – or others – interpreted as impediments to their freedom.

The documentary explains:

It took on a big political agenda. You could not separate personal transformation from social transformation; the two go together.

The leaders of Esalen tried to use their techniques to solve social problems like racism, but it was a massive failure – according to a leader, “the blacks all got together and attacked the whites, and they just let us have it.” When this failed, the human potential movement went to the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in the hills of Los Feliz – to the building that Katy Perry is eager to own.

The group of radical psychotherapists approached the convent intent on using their techniques for “personal liberation” on “individuals whose identities were defined by a series of external rules which they deeply internalized. The convent, anxious to appear modern, agreed to the experiment.”

The therapists held “encounter workshops” for several hundred Immaculate Heart nuns. Nuns who were “reserved” were told not to be so reserved, to “let it all out. You’re a good person. You can afford to be who you really are. You don’t need to play the role of a nun. You don’t need to keep downcast eyes. Prudence is an oversold virtue.” (One can’t help but be befuddled why the therapists acted as though the nuns were being kept there against their will and had not made voluntary decisions according to their faith.)

Soon the nuns voted to discard their habits in exchange for normal clothes. Not surprisingly, the leaders of the experiment claimed they had also “awoken other forces.”

One of the things we released was sexual energy; the kind of thing that the church had been very good at restraining was no longer to be restrained. One sister who was a member…she got the idea that she could be freer than she had been before and then she seduced one of her classmates and then seduced the Mistress of Novices, and an older very reserved nun. And her program of freeing this older woman was sexual…she leaned over and gave her a big kiss on the lips, and thereafter sister, who had probably never been kissed before, was ready for more.

The documentary describes the effect on the convent overall as “cataclysmic.” Within a year, over 300 disillusioned nuns, more than half, had petitioned the Vatican to be released from their vows. It’s reported that six months later, the convent closed its doors, and all that was a left was “a small group of nuns” who had become “radical lesbians.” The rest gave up the religious life. The interviewer in the documentary asks Dr. William Coulson, leader of the experiment, “They gave up being nuns?” He responds with a smile, “They did. They became persons.”

Coulson even admits that he and Rogers were “probably anti-Catholic” at the time and had a “bias against hierarchy.” He then boasts of the experiment, “We overcame their traditions, we overcame their faith.”

I don’t care if you’re Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, or Hindu; even a layperson can see that ripping someone’s faith out from under her and leaving her with nothing is not only gut-wrenchingly sad, but an obvious threat to one’s mental health.

Katy Perry, of course, has become famous for her controversy as much as her singing. Ten years ago, she kissed a girl, she liked it, and the whole world knew it. It propelled her to stardom:

You’re my experimental game
Just human nature
It’s not what good girls do
Not how they should behave
My head gets so confused
Hard to obey (lyrics to “I Kissed a Girl”)

Never being one to believe in coincidences, I can’t help but believe that Katy Perry knows exactly why she wants that particular piece of property, that it holds some kind of sick symbolism for her.

Over three hundred women in one convent left the Church not because they suddenly realized they’d made the wrong decision; that’s almost statistically impossible. It’s downright scary to realize that these women were used as pawns in a social experiment – and lost their faith because of it.

Though Perry is said to have sung “Oh Happy Day” for the nuns, and “showed them a ‘Jesus’ tattoo on her wrist area,” it wasn’t enough to win them over to sell her the convent. Holzman, the nun who collapsed dead, summed up her feelings in an interview with Billboard magazine: “Katy Perry represents everything we don’t believe in[.] … It would be a sin to sell to her.”

Katy Perry claims she needs the property to “find herself” – strangely reflecting the language of the “human potential” movement. At this point, if Perry successfully purchases the property, she should perhaps turn it into a clinic for those affected by the opioid epidemic in L.A and surrounding areas – something the sisters couldn’t even afford to do. Something good should come from so much suffering and chaos. Somehow, I don’t think that’s the plan.

Originally published at: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/03/a_dead_nun_katy_perry_and_a_social_experiment_gone_awry.html#ixzz59Zc3YnWC

Caveat: I am not defending the Catholic Church here. I am defending these sad, vulnerable people who are on the wrong path to Christianity. However, since they identify as Christians, I will defend them as brothers and sisters in the faith, because when “they” come for the Catholics, they will come for the Protestants next. I’m just sorry they have to be so messed up as to get the rest of us in trouble all the time (i.e. vows of chastity resulting in sex scandals, teachings on purgatory and volumes of made up rules in an imagined hierarchy that exists just to create fun for the boys in the clubhouse.) Truthfully, it is my belief that the Occult practices of the Catholic Church, combined with the social justice that IS their catechism – leave them extremely vulnerable to the demonic influence. I do NOT recognize the authority of the Pope, and see his existence – since they invented the position – as a necessary tool for the coming Antichrist. Catholics characterize (and hate) people like me as “Me and Jesus” messed up Protestants. So be it; and I’m PROUD to carry that designation. The spread of Catholicism in America has helped destroy this country…and Satan is oh-so-happy with his worshipers of the ‘queen of heaven.’ Still, I’ll take a Catholic over an atheist or occultist any day.

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On Finding Warnings for America from Rev. Billy Graham

Posted by :Susan D. Harris On : February 25, 2018

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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

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Another Day, Another Apology to Muslims

Posted by :Susan D. Harris On : May 3, 2017

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By Susan D. Harris

“Don’t listen to liberals, because the Muslims will cut your heads off.” That’s the comment that warranted the KRQE headline, “Parents accuse Belen priest of making discriminatory comments against Muslims.” Apparently no one had a problem with the “don’t listen to liberals” part. Instead, being well trained in political correctness, it was the moment Fr. Jonas Romea, a priest in Belen, New Mexico, told a group of pre-K to eighth grade Catholic kids that there were Muslims terrorists that caused the problem. Specifically mentioning Muslims cutting “heads off” was when parents became terribly offended on behalf of Islam. The next thing you know, a reporter at KOAT Action News was asking Fr. Romea if he didn’t think his remarks were “Islamophobia?” Fr. Romea said that he denied that label, and strengthened his point by saying: “Recent reports out of the Middle East show that Catholics around the world are under attack. The news pieces that we get…from there tell us that actually, Christians are being slaughtered.”

KRQE reported that after receiving complaints about Fr. Romea’s remarks (made during a homily to students at Our Lady of Belen Church,) the “Archdiocese of Santa Fe sent out a letter to parents saying the homily didn’t fully embrace the message of Jesus Christ.”

Later, Fr. Romea sparred with KOAT reporter David Carl asking, “Are all people burglars? No, not all people are burglars. But my next question is, do you lock your doors at night?”

Carl responds, “I do. I do. So are you lumping in Muslims as burglars? Are you making an equivalency there?” Carl knows better, but with progressively tweaked critical thinking techniques designed to disarm traditional reasoning, Fr. Romea is easily mocked, then easily silenced with a craftily edited interview. By this time, he has been so intimidated — by someone or some governing body — that he will not even name “that religion that he mentioned” — Islam.

The original story aired March 30^th. By April 12^th, Fr. Romea issued what some local people told me they believed to be a “coerced apology” which can be read here; and by April 28^th he found himself terminated from the diocese. (This fact was told me by someone who had spoken directly with Fr. Romea himself, and was also present during the April 30^th mass where Fr. Romea’s departure was discussed. There has been no official statement from the diocese.)

Romea’s apology contained the sentence: “I have come to realize that the Islamic Faith is not to be equated with terrorism and vice-versa.”

Sadly, 84-year-old French Priest Jacques Hamel didn’t get a chance to concur with that statement, having had his throat slit by ISIS militants less than a year ago during a quiet morning Mass. One has to wonder what kind of internal spiritual struggles these Catholic Christian leaders are suffering as the world keeps forcing them to the ground — symbolically or literally — to grovel toward Mecca.

In New Mexico, the incident took on an overtly political tone when former Senator Michael Sanchez reportedly shone a spotlight on it by Tweeting what happened “wasn’t right” and that he “stands with Muslims.”

Stories of priests being silenced as they try to speak against Islam aren’t new, but aren’t abating either. Earlier this month, the diocese of Orlando, Florida reprimanded a priest for teaching his students about Muhammed from the writings of Catholic Saint John Bosco. The story, not surprisingly unearthed by the Huffington Post’s Documenting Hate Project, ended with the Orlando diocese stating “the information provided in the sixth grade class is not consistent with the teachings of the Catholic Church.”

This past February, The Rev. Peter West, pastor of St. John’s Catholic Church in Orange, NJ made news calling moderate Islam “a myth” and openly supported President Trump’s travel ban, (though its characteristics changed over time.) A spokesman for that diocese said, “…we are concerned about Father West’s comments and actions, and will be addressing them according to the protocols of the Church.”

Journalist Mark Mueller, writing for NJ.com, told his readers:

(Father West’s) attacks, while popular with many of his 7,300 Facebook followers from around the country, run counter to the statements and philosophies of his own leader, Newark Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin, and his ultimate boss, Pope Francis.

What is really happening in small Catholic diocese across the country, one can only guess; but you can be sure the politically correct thought police are on duty everywhere.

Looking beyond our borders, we see precedents in places like Germany — where a Catholic priest was banned from preaching after speaking at an anti-Islamization protest; and a priest arrested in France for being “too hard” on Islam, and having his website shut down.

It is the greatest irony that while there is no known Catholic priest, nor adherent of Catholicism, that has been charged with beheading a Muslim in modern times, that those who warn against Islam are the targets of censure and ridicule by their own societies. Instead of shouting “never again” to the ideological/religious perpetrators of such violence, Americans robotically repeat “not every Muslim is an extremist!” Strangely, this phrase seems to have been beaten into us harder than the sharp edge of every reported “radical Muslim” sword that has slaughtered man, woman and child around the globe.

Published on American Thinker at:

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/05/another_day_another_apology_to_muslims.html

Preterists in Sheep’s Clothing: The Growing Plague of End Times Deception

Posted by :Susan D. Harris On : August 20, 2015

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

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

How the Gods of Globalism Slit the Throat of Assimilation

By Susan D. Harris

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.

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.

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

Google

General Mills

Intel

Dow Chemical

Aetna

Keurig Green Mountain

(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.)

(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:

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.

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.

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:

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.

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.

“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.

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.

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.”

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.

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

Another Day, Another Apology to Muslims

Preterists in Sheep’s Clothing: The Growing Plague of End Times Deception

Archives for : Christianity

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

By Susan D. Harris

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.

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.

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.)

(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:

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.

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.

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:

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.

By Susan D. Harris

NOTE: There are numerous embedded links in this article. Just scroll over a word or phrase to see if there is anything connected to it.

You don’t get courtroom scenes more dramatic than this, even in a Perry Mason novel:

A nun involved in a years-long legal dispute with pop star Katy Perry over a sprawling 8-acre former convent died in court Friday[.]

According to a 2002 BBC documentary, the convent at the heart of the heart of the “nuns vs. Katy Perry” scandal was once ground zero for a creepy psychological experiment conducted by New Age humanistic psychologists Drs. Carl Rogers and William Coulson.

The documentary explains:

It took on a big political agenda. You could not separate personal transformation from social transformation; the two go together.

Soon the nuns voted to discard their habits in exchange for normal clothes. Not surprisingly, the leaders of the experiment claimed they had also “awoken other forces.”

Coulson even admits that he and Rogers were “probably anti-Catholic” at the time and had a “bias against hierarchy.” He then boasts of the experiment, “We overcame their traditions, we overcame their faith.”

I don’t care if you’re Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, or Hindu; even a layperson can see that ripping someone’s faith out from under her and leaving her with nothing is not only gut-wrenchingly sad, but an obvious threat to one’s mental health.

Katy Perry, of course, has become famous for her controversy as much as her singing. Ten years ago, she kissed a girl, she liked it, and the whole world knew it. It propelled her to stardom:

You’re my experimental game Just human nature It’s not what good girls do Not how they should behave My head gets so confused Hard to obey (lyrics to “I Kissed a Girl”)

Never being one to believe in coincidences, I can’t help but believe that Katy Perry knows exactly why she wants that particular piece of property, that it holds some kind of sick symbolism for her.

Over three hundred women in one convent left the Church not because they suddenly realized they’d made the wrong decision; that’s almost statistically impossible. It’s downright scary to realize that these women were used as pawns in a social experiment – and lost their faith because of it.

Originally published at: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/03/a_dead_nun_katy_perry_and_a_social_experiment_gone_awry.html#ixzz59Zc3YnWC

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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.

“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.

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.

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.”

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.

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

You’re my experimental game
Just human nature
It’s not what good girls do
Not how they should behave
My head gets so confused
Hard to obey (lyrics to “I Kissed a Girl”)