Monday, July 23, 2012

Quotes for Thought

John Adams, 2nd president
If you are like me, then there are probably times you struggle with getting past the funny hair and garb of our Founding Fathers to understand who they really were.

What they stood for. What their life stories were like.

I find the best way to answer these questions is through hearing from the founding Fathers themselves!

So, I officially decided to share some Founding Fathers' quotes once a week.


Sunday, July 22, 2012

Truth Twisters

Those familiar with the Tea Party activists will know them to be a decent sort of folk. Not rowdy, like the Occupiers at Wall Street. Rather, their sole desire is to get our government back to the way the Founders set it up: to be limited, and under the protective chains of our constitution.

So, if you were to hear about a Tea Party activist who was a deranged killer, that would certainly catch your attention, now wouldn't it?

This was the intent of Brian Ross, news reporter of ABC news: to catch your attention. Unfortunately his story was just a twisted truth to make the Right-wing Tea Party activists look bad.

The story of the shootings in an Aurora, Colorado movie theater last Thursday was devastating to all. As "Batman: Dark Knight Rises" screened on the opening night, the seats were packed. Suddenly, one man identified as James Holmes got up, set off a gas bomb, then fired at random with multiple guns killing 14 people and injuring many more. (To hear more of this account visit this Fox News video)

The tragedy caused people across the states to ask a lot of questions, the first and foremost being: who is this horrid terrorist, James Holmes? The media jumped for answers, and that's when the trouble began for ABC news reporter, Brian Ross.

Watch the video below to see what he said:



Aha! Did you catch that? Listen to how he words that report:


“There is a Jim Holmes of Aurora, Colorado, page on the Colorado Tea Party site as well, talking about him joining the tea party last year. Now, we don’t know if this is the same Jim Holmes – but this is Jim Holmes of Aurora, Colorado.”

That is a big no-no in reporting! Implying someone could possibly be affiliated with a group like the Tea Party (who most the reporter is probably biased against) before it has been factually proven! This cost Brian Ross big time--because it turned out he was WRONG.

In Politico's article, Brian Ross of ABC Take Heat for Another Blunder, ABC apologized in a statement saying:

“An earlier ABC News broadcast report suggested that a Jim Holmes of a Colorado Tea Party organization might be the suspect, but that report was incorrect. ABC News and Brian Ross apologize for the mistake, and for disseminating that information before it was properly vetted.”

This blunder only reiterates two points:
 
1) Be careful about what you listen to on the media.

Many reporters have a history of similar blunders! Everybody has bias which they will play up in their reporting. They won't tell the whole story all the time, or look into the necessary details. It is usually a game of making the party they are against look bad, while making their party look good.

I once heard it said "beware of the sound of one hand clapping," meaning you should try to get a balanced idea of both sides of an issue. The right and left, in this case.
 
*But even then, I would caution against listening to too much liberal news. They have a record for truth-twisting, and being in favor of many ideologies that go against Christian belief. Read up on our Constitution, and American history for the best information.

2) We live in fallen world where truth suppressed.

Ever since the serpent questioned God's Word in the garden of Eden, we have been at war with the Father of Lies. We see his workings in all the little half-truths, and story spinning going on today. “Did God actually say..." were the opening words of the serpent's speech to defy God's truth (Genesis 3:1), and now in big and small ways the ultimate Truth we cling to is being rallied against.

From crazy killers who act upon the lies they believe--like taking innocent human lives is right, to news reporters that paint Tea Party-ers in favor of restoring our country as crazy killers; it's ALL a result of Satan's deception.


Yet it is good to know that amidst this world of lying we have something to remind us what we really believe! Yes, Satan, we know what God actually says because we have His Word!

Don't abandon the Word, don't abandon truth! "For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths." (2 Tim. 4:3)

It is so easy to "turn away" when you choose to no longer stay informed. Don't let this happen to you.

Stay plugged into truth before your own ideologies are twisted.

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Our Generation, the LEAST American?

If you are between the age of 18-29, then you are a part of Generation Millennial. Sounds cool, doesn't it? Do you realize that our generation is supposedly the "most educated generation in American history"?

At least, the studies done by Pew Research seem to be making this case. Yet I find that hard to believe when examining the statistics closer. If we are "smart," then we have lost something greater: wisdom. Generation Millenial, while you may be the "most educated," you are undoubtedly the LEAST American.






Here's the facts:

In the study by Pew Research, compared to older adults, Generation Millennial is:

-less religious
-less likely to have served in the military
-less skeptical of government
and...
-believes government should do more to solve problems* 


*in other words, they want the government to have more programs that would cause us to have greater debt and be controlled by it even more

Here's a quote from Pew Research's article The Millennials: Confident, Connected, Open to Change:

"To be sure, Millennials remain the most likely of any generation to self-identify as liberals; they are less supportive than their elders of an assertive national security policy and more supportive of a progressive domestic social agenda. They are still more likely than any other age group to identify as Democrats."

More supportive of a progressive social agenda? Like socialism? Yikes! How did this play out in election of 2008?

"Politically, Millennials were among Barack Obama's strongest supporters in 2008, backing him for president by more than a two-to-one ratio (66% to 32%) while older adults were giving just 50% of their votes to the Democratic nominee. This was the largest disparity between younger and older voters recorded in four decades of modern election day exit polling."

Uh-oh....we've been DUPED. Taken in by the agenda of those in support of a very anti-American, and anti-Christian vision: the progressive, socialist liberals!

My big question is: where were the young Christian adults last election? Were we too wrapped up in Facebook? Celebrities? The latest movies, music, and so on to take notice?

We should have dug deeper to see what our political leaders were actually about instead of listening to the twisted tales the liberal press spits out.

Now we have in office a man who:

-supports abortion
-supports homosexuals
-passed a law regulate government subsidized healthcare (aka Obamacare)
-let our debt increase to $4 trillion
-supports the idea of big government, or a one-world government (this is socialism!)

And much more! (But we will get into more of that in a later post).

Are these things that we as Christians should be supporting? No! Are they Constitutional, and promote a limited government like our founders intended? No! But unfortunately our generation has supported them by voting liberal, and backing the same things as our president, Barrack Obama.

So, are we better educated? Perhaps. But educated by whom? Mostly the anti-Christian, socialist left.

This my friends is called INDOCTRINATION. Watch the video below to better understand what I'm talking about.






Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Welcome to the Blog

Welcome to Speak Truth.

The Goal:

To proclaim truth on this site that young Christian adults need to be more aware of. Covering topics from scripture passages to our nation's government, Speak Truth will examine all matters from a Biblical worldview.

Thank you for visiting. Your prayers for God's guidance are gratefully accepted. I hope that all posts on this site will be edifying to young Christian individuals, and glorify our Lord Jesus Christ.

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