Truth, Lies, & Politics 

Churches

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This is a very sensitive area but its needs to be addressed. Most of the so-called “mainstream”  denominations no longer support the American way of life.  The three big mainstream protestant churches -- Evangelical Lutheran Church, Presbyterian Church, USA, and the United Methodist Church – and a large sector of the Catholic Church, are on the front lines of pushing the liberal agenda in concert with the leftist political movement.

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The reason why much of organized religion has drifted leftward dates back to the beginning of organized religion.  At least 200 years after the death of Christ, mankind, on his own initiative, created a massive church hierarchy and appointed leaders to whom it ascribed divine-like status too.  This type of church structure was never mentioned in the Bible; in fact, quite the contrary. The Bible clearly lays out how each local group of Christians are to be led by Elders and even describes the qualifications for being an elder.  At no point does the Bible discuss any hierarchy above the local elders.

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Nor is there any biblical evidence for the notion that priests and pastors should lead a church as it makes clear the Elders are in charge of each local congregation. Nonetheless, over the last 2000 years, mankind has created massive church hierarchies  in the way of dioceses, stakes, bishops, archbishops, etc., etc. While I believe all of this was well intentioned, none of this is supported by scripture.

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What’s interesting is that the Protestant reformation was a revolt against the established church of the time (what we now called the Catholic Church), and one of the main areas of dispute was the hierarchy of the Catholic Church, which the reformers charged interfered with the relationship between believers and God.  However, within years of the reformation, the Protestant denominations it created ended up developing church hierarchies that mirrored, in many ways, the Catholic hierarchy it had criticized in the past.

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The political implications of this are enormous. All the left has had to do to corrupt organized  religion is to take control of its national  hierarchy.  And this has been accomplished with many denominations.  If churches were organized at the local level as the Bible instructs,  the ongoing  movement by the left to take over organized religion would not have been successful since they would have had to take over every local church.

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To give you an idea of how the left has corrupted the large “mainstream” denominations and the Catholic Church, let me throw out a few examples.  In the 1980’s, these churches supported the nuclear freeze movement, which was a Soviet- initiated movement to freeze America’s nukes so that the USSR could surpass us and use their strategic superiority to blackmail us.  Had President Reagan not ignored this propaganda, we would all be speaking Russian right now. Instead, Reagan modernized and installed new nuclear missiles and not too long after that, the USSR fell apart as did the entire communist bloc of nations.

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Hundreds of millions of people were freed from communist slavery and millions were released from brutal concentration camps.  But this would not have occurred had the mainstream denominations got their way in blocking the effort by Reagan to keep our nuclear arsenal intact.  Reagan’s “Peace thru Strength” strategy worked and we defeated the greatest abuser of human rights in the world – communism.    I have personal knowledge of disarmament meetings that occurred which involved many church representatives and Soviet intelligence officers sitting in the same room discussing how best to disarm the USA. In an earlier era, we would call this “treason.”  Needless the say, had the USSR prevailed and the USA became communist, all believers would have been sent to concentration camps.

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Then there’s the support given by the large protestant denominations and a large segment of the Catholic Church to the radical homosexual movement.  This movement has undermined the traditional family unit in many different ways and has resulted today in legislation that would force Christian businesses,  churches, and Christian schools to abandoned biblical teaching on sexuality by forcing them to hire transgenders and homosexuals and to allow biological males to use women’s bathroom and showers.

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Indeed, this legislation is purely designed to force Christianity to drop its teachings about sexuality. The left cannot tolerate dissent and is using the gay agenda to stamp out biblical teaching regarding marriage and sexuality and is using a large sector of organized religion to essentially destroy our religious freedom.  I would also argue that the scandals involving the Catholic Church and even some Protestant denominations involving the molestations of thousands of boys is a direct consequence of their abandonment of biblical teaching on traditional male-female marriage and sexuality in general. 

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Moving on to immigration, nowhere in the Bible does it support the concept of “open borders” and yet, the liberal Protestant churches and even the Pope himself, have led the charge to attack the concept of citizenship and secure borders by calling upon our leaders to essentially allow into the USA anyone who wants to enter.  Of course, to do so would result in 300 million Third World people flooding into America destroying the economic viability of the country, but liberal Christians don’t seem to care about that.

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Then, or course, there’s the issue of socialism, which many leaders of the mainstream denominations openly support today.  This is due to the notion propagated by the left that the purpose of government is to take care of everyone from birth to death.   But the Bible says nothing about that and if fact, all scripture referring to compassion is about INDIVIDUALS having compassion for the less fortunate.  The Bible does indeed, instruct us to help others, but there is absolutely nothing about government assuming this role.  Indeed, as the government increasingly takes control of all aspects of our society, it destroys the work ethic, individual accountability and even crowds out the concept of personal compassion.  Socialism always destroys the soul.

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If anyone still believes in the notion that our church leaders somehow represent the will of God, you need to disabuse yourself of that notion. Church leaders are human, not divine, and are as subject to propaganda and disinformation as anyone else is.   America is been the most charitable nation in world history and it is always us who has come to the rescue when other nations are in need. But much of organized religion today in America has been working furiously to destroy America and that will not help America nor the rest of the world.

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Let me make clear. I am not advocating abandoning one’s faith. I am saying that we need to abandoned churches that are no longer true to biblical Christianity.  I am advocating that we do the research necessary to determine if the churches we belong to are financing the left.  

So what’s the solution?  Well, for starters, as a member of a church, you have the right to ask about what national denomination the church belongs do and how much money they send to it. If they won’t share that info with you, that’s a red flag.  Then you should also find out what causes/charities the national denomination supports because, let me assure you, all the mainstream protestant denominations and the Catholic Church give millions to liberal causes.

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Of course, there still remains some strong conservative protestant denominations such as the Southern Baptist Church,  Assemblies of God, Church of the Nazarene, Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod, Presbyterian Church in America, Church of God and the Churches of Christ.  So far, I have yet to find evidence that their national entities fund the left.  As far as organized religion goes, these denominations are the best of the lot and do not assault our conservative culture or political values.

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Nevertheless, they always need to be scrutinized.  Indeed, I know of battles ongoing today between conservatives and “moderates” within the Southern Baptist Church and between various Church of Christ factions.  My point is that organized religion has always been a target of the left and as such, we have to always assume that there are efforts underway to compromise every denomination.

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The most well-known liberal  denominations are the United Methodist Church, Churches of God in Christ,  Unitarian Universalist, National Baptist Conference, United Church of Christ, Episcopal Church, 7th Day Adventist, Presbyterian Church USA and the Evangelical Lutheran Church.  All of these denominations give moral support and often funding to the left.

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There are conservative Catholic communities but they are becoming rare in the USA.    Moreover, unlike Protestantism, it is much more difficult to form independent Catholic communities without getting in trouble with its hierarchy.  The left used to hate the fact that Catholicism allowed little dissent, but now that they control much of the church, they use the power of the hierarchy to push for the transformation of America into a socialist country. 

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If you tire of organized religion altogether, there are many independent conservative churches that exist that do not belong to any denomination whatsoever.  Most of these tend to be of the evangelical protestant variety.  Then there’s the “home church” route.  In recent years, millions of people have  joined what is called the “home churched  ” movement, whereby they create their own church and meet in people’s homes.  Indeed, this is how Christians worshiped in the 1st century AD.  Archeologists have confirmed that many of the early churches met in homes and again, there is absolutely nothing unbiblical about NOT belonging to a church controlled by a world-wide hierarchy.

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Indeed, when Christians were persecuted in ancient days, the fish symbol was often used to indicate to other believers that a home was used for worship.  Even some conservative Catholics are now forming their own home churches and while such groups are not recognized by their hierarchy, it appears that many of them are now questioning the biblical basis for a hierarchy that won’t approve of home worship but supports far left causes such as open borders.

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I do think that all Christians, regardless if they’re  Protestant or Catholic, need to acknowledge that our religious leaders are not perfect nor are they even divine-like and that our covenant with God is not controlled by church hierarchies but by our personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Given that, one should not feel compelled to belong to a church that gives moral support or funding to those who wish to destroy a country founded upon Christian principles.     

 

Youth Groups

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The Boy Scouts of America (BSA)

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Sadly, this group is on the way out.   The left hates the existence of a youth group that taught manly skills like camping and navigation and was founded on Christian principles, so they set out to destroy it.  I watched it happen as a State Assemblyman.   Bill after bill was introduced  with the intent of forcing the Scouts to comply with the liberal agenda. This happened in State legislatures all over the country beginning in the 1990’s.  Unfortunately, the Scouts did not want to fight back and responded meekly by compromising with the left.  First, they dropped all prayer and  Christian symbols.  Then they allowed gay scout leaders. Then gay Scouts.   Then came the wave after wave of child molestation scandals, created by all the homosexual pedophiles the Scouts allowed in to appease the left.  Then girls were allowed to be Boy Scouts.  Then they dropped the word “Boy” from its name.  And on and on.  The Boy Scouts is a classic case of how the left destroys our institutions.

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Based on court records obtained through the  “discovery” process as a result of dozens of lawsuits brought by the parents of molested boys, we now know that thousands of Scouts were molested in the last 50 years. Incredibly,  Media accounts state there are currently 80,000 lawsuits based on molestation.  And those are just the ones that were reported.  As sexual assault investigators will tell you, for every victim reported, there are many others never reported to the Scout leadership.  It is not unrealistic to think there are 2-3 times more  molestation victims than this.

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The avalanche of molestation lawsuits has drained the Scouts of its funds and they may soon go under.  Let them.  We have fought for decades to preserve the Scouts but ultimately, its own leadership lost this battle by refusing to stand for its founding principles.    Most of the major churches that sponsored Scout units have withdrawn.  The BSA, which was founded to "aim for the practice of Christianity in their everyday life and dealings” will soon be no longer. Its leadership compromised so much in the last few decades, they ended up standing for nothing at all.

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The Girl Scouts

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The Girl Scouts are not far behind as evidence by  a number of  books that have been published detailing how lesbian leaders have promoted lesbianism to the girls, not to mentioned the promotion of all kinds of liberal causes like global warming, accepting boys who think they’re girls  and supporting gay rights and abortion.    In other words, the Girl Scouts are teaching girls not to think for themselves and to just parrot whatever the liberal line is.   

 

Thankfully, there are conservative alternatives to the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts.  You can find them online but here are two big ones here,  here and here.    Indeed, I encourage all conservatives and Christian families with kids to get involved with these alternatives.  The left has destroyed our culture and it’s up to us to rebuild it, group by group and institution by institution.

 

Pro Sports

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Pro-sports have become very political with the NFL, NBA, and MLB allowing players to kneel during the national anthem.  Incredibly, these pampered players, who earn millions of dollars, are promoting the false narrative that America is a racist country. I guess the millions of Africans on waiting lists trying to immigrate here never got that memo.  This says a lot about the education level of pro athletes who seem to be unable to see through such simplistic propaganda.  

This disgraceful behavior has caused millions of Americans to no longer watch or attend professional sports games and to instead focus on college sports.  If millions of Americans stop patronizing these spoiled athletes, perhaps they will eventually wake up and realize they are being used by the left. 

 

Education 

 

Colleges

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We all need to understand that a traditional 4 year college degree is no longer as valuable as it once was.  Our colleges are so politicized today that much of what a person learns in college is just pure propaganda.  And what colleges do offer worthwhile can usually be found on-line or by taking specialized courses at a community college or by taking courses offered by the various industry associations.

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For example, one doesn’t need a college degree to work in financial advising or real estate but can instead take private courses that prepare one to pass the very difficult Series 7  and Real Estate licensing tests required to work in these professions.  Same goes for many other professions.  Aside from thousands of entities that offer courses in every field one can think of, there are also networks of “adult” colleges that offer specialized courses for adults without all the propaganda and the political correctness than so dominates universities today.   National University is one such chain.

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And there are some conservative colleges still out there, mostly operated by various Christian  denominations, but let me warn you that just because it’s a private Christian college, it  doesn’t mean it is politically and culturally conservative.  In fact, many of the most liberal schools today were founded as Christian schools but long ago drifted away from their founding  principles.  For example, many colleges operated by the conservative Lutheran Church -- Missouri Synod  and by the Church of the Nazarene, have become liberal colleges with very few conservative professors.

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Nevertheless, there are a few dozen private colleges out there who have maintained their original vision.  You can find lists of conservative colleges on-line  but these lists are usually compiled by liberals who have no idea what they’re talking about.  The aforementioned list, for example, lists several schools which are no longer conservative, such as Pepperdine, whose undergraduate faculty has been dominated by liberals for the last decade.  The leading conservative college in the country, in my view, is Hillsdale College, a non-denominational  private college in Michigan.  The bottom line is that one needs to do their research to determine if a college is really conservative.

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Regarding blue collar jobs, this is what trade schools are for.  Indeed, many blue collar occupations, such a plumbing and electrical work, often pay more than the average college graduate earns.    I have met and worked with many people without a college degree who had far more knowledge about their profession than those with degrees.  Conservatives need to ditch the “you-have-to-have-a-college-degree” mindset as a basis for hiring someone  and understand that today there are many other options to obtain knowledge without the indoctrination that comes with most college educations.

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K-12 Schools

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In the last few decades we have witnessed a complete takeover of our K-12 schools. Liberals know that if order to transform America to a socialist police state, they must mold the next generation of children to conform to their values.   Even conservative board members in conservative areas have been unable to stop the avalanche of mandates, rules and regulations that enforce the leftist agenda in our K-12 schools.

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Conservatives need to understand that local public schools are not really controlled locally anymore as thousands of Federal and state regulations now dictate policies on everything regarding curricula, sex ed, reading methodology, academic standards, hiring, special ed, and on and on.  And what’s left over is controlled  by the teacher’s union.  Local elected school board members have very little power to alter anything of substance.   I know this for a fact as I am the only conservative to chair the California Assembly Education Committee in the last 60 years. 

Indeed, I will argue that our K-12 public schools are probably doing more damage than good.  The  sex ed curricula promotes a “have-sex-with-anyone-for-any-purpose” philosophy and despite the health risks  of abnormal lifestyles, transgenderism and homosexuality are taught as perfectly normal.  Reading is usually taught using the “whole-language” approach and math is taught using the “new new math” approach,  both unsound approaches that account for why American students are near the bottom of the barrel in worldwide education comparisons.    Even drug education in our schools is usually taught from a moral relativist approach that has had no impact on drug use by our children.

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If you want to read more about the nightmare our public schools have become, read From Crayons to Condoms, the Ugly Truth About America’s Public Schools,  by yours truly.  And no, I no longer receive any proceeds from the sale of this book.  But conservatives do have options.

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Homeschools 

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Millions of families now homeschool their children and even families with both parents working often find other alternatives like forming a group of homeschool families and rotating the duties among all the parents. Homeschoolers outperform public school kids in every category and they create networks all over the country that organize activities for homeschool kids so they are socialized with other children of like-minded values.  Remember, most of our founding fathers were homeschooled and universal public schools were not a reality in America until many decades after its founding.  Almost all education in America’s early years was performed  by churches and private groups.  While the government has tried to ban  homeschooling in the past, they have no right to do so, but they have tried to impose regulations on homeschoolers in some states.  To find out more about homeschool  regulations in your state, contact the Home School Legal Defense Fund or one of the many home school support groups that exist online. 

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Private schools

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Private schools go back to America’s founding and were mostly operated by churches.  It is a shame today that so many churches today are NOT involved with operating schools.  With empty facilities Monday thru Friday and typically, a reservoir of adults with the knowledge to teach, every conservative church should be involved with operating a school.   If your church isn’t, find out why not.  There is nothing more important than training the next generation.  If a church is too small or feels it doesn’t have the resources to undertake such a project, then approach a few other like-minded churches nearby about working together to create a school.  

Eventually, as the school grows, buildings may need to be added and funds raised, but almost any church today can start a private school given their existing facilities.  Many families have avoided sending their children to private schools due to the sports programs offered by public  high schools, but bear in mind that many private religious schools are now allowed to join public school athletic conferences.  Indeed, in same states, homeschool students are allowed to join sports teams at the public high school near them since, after all, homeschool families pay taxes.  But this policy differs from area to area, depending on whether judges and state legislators have engaged in unconstitutional actions to block homeschoolers from participating in public school sports.  There are many groups on line that offer assistance to those wanting to start private schools here and here.