This is a post I responded with for an excelent article on BreakPoint (a website I highly recomend) about LGBT rights and Religious Freedom. Here is the URL for that article: http://www.breakpoint.org/bpcommentaries/entry/13/29787

“And one side, at least, sees it as a total war.” It is a war going on in America, and it is time we Christians start seeing it that way. While biblical references concerning war in the bible are about battling our own flesh, we are still American citizens, and letting a few gay activists run over us using fallacious arguments is not wise. Lech Walesa from Poland was a wise man. He got tired of the leftist government in Poland running over the workers, and organized a strike. That strike was the spark that ended communism in eastern Europe. Maybe its time we Christians in America start fighting back in the same way. If we just roll over and let the same type of leftists here in America persecute us the same way that leftists persecuted workers in Poland, we will lose the ability to “bring(ing) relief to the suffering” like the Baptist church did in Louisiana. I think it is time to call people like Gushee a Judas, and work to free ourselves from persecution by a few selfish and evil people, so that we can continue the good work of “educat(ing) the young, heal(ing) the sick, feed(ing) the hungry, preach(ing) the Gospel.” You don’t see Christians in the middle east doing that….because most of them are so severely persecuted that they are just able to thank God they are still alive.

From the KJB (Timothy 6:20):

O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:

From the NKJB (Timothy 6:20):

O Timothy! Guard what was committed to your trust, avoiding the profane and idle babblings and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge

Paul, writing through the Holy Spirit, warned Timothy about “profane and idle babblings” and “contradictions” falsely calling themselves “knowledge” aka “science”. The Holy Spirit understands the problem we have today, where what we think is knowledge or science is actually not really knowledge. Knowledge is only really “knowledge” when it is proven true. Science today relies on theories that are composed of evidence, but no established facts. Paul via the Holy Spirit urges us to avoid it, perhaps because the Holy Spirit knew that eventually these profane and idle babblings and contradictions would be used against the knowlege of God and the validity of the Bible.

If you look up the word “profane” you will see that it is used to describe the nature of the attack:

Sinfulness or sacrilege, acts which violate the sacred or the good. (Wikipedia)

Science certainly has been used in this manner.

The next word that is interesting is the word “idle” or “vain”. The use of this word implies that the people using Science are doing because they think they have nothing better to do (ie. doing what one is paid to do) or for vain reasons, to enhance their own social standing.

The last word used is “contradictions”. This implies that this “knowledge” frequently contradicts itself. Proponents will simply say that this is the normal progression of science as it is performed over a period of time. The fact is, that these contradictions are simply evidence that what is being offered as “knowledge” is actually really NOT knowledge, because knowledge does not contradict itself.

Lastly I would conclude that we as Christians are to recognise this false “knowledge” for what it is, seeing the contradictions, the vanity and the profane nature of the “knowledge”. By recognizing it, we can avoid it, and not allow it to shipwreck our faith!

Today it was revealed by Julien Assange that the person who leaked emails from the DNC was none other than DNC staffer Seth Rich. Seth Rich was murdered on July 8th while walking around at 4am. In all my long years of watching the news in America, this story left me absolutely gobsmacked. In fact I seem to be gobsmaked a lot recently. There was the story about the IRS delaying the tax exemptions of conservative tea party groups. Then, there were the missing emails from “Fast and Furious” gun running scandal, that just happened to go missing because of a server crash. There was President Obama’s bald-faced lie about “if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor”. There was Hilary Clinton claiming “no classified emails were on her server”, but the FBI directory said there were. There was also the mysterious afixiation death of Anton Scalia who was found with his CPAP machine turned off (which he had with him to prevent this kind of death). The last time anything like this happened in Washington was when Nixon had his staffers break into the DNC headquarters at the Watergate hotel. While the media went nuts with the Watergate story over 40 years ago, they seem reluctant to make a big issue about these incidents, perhaps because they involve Democrats instead of Republicans.

It used to be that we here in America only heard about such things in 3rd world countries. In my humble opinion, this kind of corruption occurs when a society abandons Christianity. After you abandon an established and fair moral code (which is what the Judeo – Christian ethic is), I guess anything goes!