Part2
Militant Atheism
One of the chief devils – or evils – at large in the world today is militant atheism, presenting itself as a philosophy or teaching suitable as a foundation for government and society, and organized to propagate itself and destroy religion. It is improbable that the propaganda of organized militant atheism has impressed itself to any great extent upon the minds of my listeners in this audience, but the very prominence which the teaching claims to occupy in world thought furnishes us a useful challenge to examine our own beliefs and conclusions and to find and eliminate from our own lives any lurking elements of atheism or its wretched relations, agnosticism and idolatry.
The atheistic individual claims there is no God; the agnostic says there may be a God, but you cannot know Him for sure; the idolater entertains false concepts of God and worships falsity in the name of truth. Christian Science comes to all types of human thinking, as the Apostle Paul once went before the citizens of Athens, bearing the same God-inspired message, "Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you" (Acts 17:23).
A great many people do not need to be convinced that there is a God; to others the fact of a Supreme Being is not so apparent – they wish to be shown. Such an attitude is permissible; it may even be commendable when honestly held. But how is the nonbeliever to be convinced of the reality of God? How is the doubter or skeptic to be enlightened?
Learning of God
In considering the question how mortals may learn of God, suppose we ask: "How do we learn anything?
How does a practical and successful individual arrive at reliable conclusions in whatever activity he engages?" Mrs. Eddy writes in the textbook (p. 199), "The devotion of thought to an honest achievement makes the achievement possible." Successful results in business, advances in scientific discovery, improvements in government, in society, and in individual well-being, these all come about through the exercise of intelligent thought, through observation, reason, experience, revelation, and proof.
May we not, then, expect to achieve right conclusions in matters of religion by the same practical process? Is not true intelligence able to penetrate the vast realm of spiritual knowledge and to reveal God's nature and man's relation to Him? Is knowledge of material things to become more and more important while at the same time we are limited to blind belief, speculation, and chance in the far more important matters of holiness, eternal salvation, and God's kingdom on earth?
One recognizes the truth of a new idea by its consistency with other ideas which he already knows, and has proved, to be true. So one may learn to know the true God as the divine origin and Principle of the spiritual good which he already claims and practices. Universe and Creator
In our efforts to discover the nature or character of God as the creator and ruler of the universe, let us consider first the nature of the universe we are trying to account for. Suppose one looks about him and notes the earth, sky, and people, and says to himself: "Here I am, a corporeal mortal, living in a material body, subject to material conditions, and dependent upon them to preserve me.
Where did it all start? Who or what is responsible?" Conceiving the universe to be material, he is obliged to find a material cause for it, and such material cause must be held responsible for all the disasters to which the material world seems subject – earthquake, famines, disease, cruelty, and death. Such a concept of primal cause or God is blindly worshiped by pagans through rituals designed to placate His vengeance. This is pantheism, the opposite of Christianity.
But, instead of starting with earth, sky, and people, suppose one considers the charity and love which he feels in his heart, the wisdom and intelligence he sees expressed around him, the hope, faith, joy, and courage so vital to human life, so present and real to him who appreciates them. Now let him ask himself: "Where do these things originate? How is it that men are capable of such grand and noble ideals? What is it that will cause people to turn away wrath with gentleness, meet hatred with love, sacrifice themselves to help others, and face danger with confidence?" The only way to account for these spiritual higher manifestations is to attribute them to a primal spiritual cause; so here we have the Christian or true concept of God as pure Spirit, the all-knowing divine Mind, the origin of all spiritual reality.
Belief and Conduct
We have, in our society today, a large number of men and women who seldom go to church; they make no profession of religion. If you were to ask them about God or the things of God they would probably say, "I don't know." And yet these people are honest in business; they are good citizens and good neighbors; they are intelligent and worthy. Why do they reject religion? One reason is that while they conduct their daily lives and achieve whatever success comes to them through reason and intelligence, if they go to church on Sunday it seems to them they are asked to put aside reason and intelligence and blindly believe without understanding what they are told about God. Their honesty makes them rebel against such inconsistency; so they let the religion go.
Many people of this sort have found the Christian Science explanations of God, man, and universe completely satisfying and convincing, for human reason rightly directed and divine revelation are here seen to coincide. Such people who have turned to Christian Science find no conflict between their everyday duties and their service to God. On the contrary, they understand and prove that the teachings of pure Christianity, revealed and demonstrated today in Christian Science, are entirely practical and able to meet legitimate human needs in matters of health and work and in dealings with other men.
Sunday, 4 August 2019
Christian Science: Its Triumph Over Atheism and Idolatry - 1958
It has been a while since I've posted, but I will post this even though Christian Science does not believe in the existance of Satan per se; it does believe in the evil of atheism and opposes it.
Atheism is in deed evil and is used in the service of Moloch.
Part1
Christian Science: Its Triumph Over Atheism and Idolatry - 1958
Robert S. Van Atta, C.S., of Rochester, New York
Member of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts
The free world can triumph over aggressive atheism by living the teachings of Christ Jesus more
honestly, Robert S. Van Atta of Rochester, New York, told an audience here Tuesday evening, Nov. 4th.
He said that the questions facing modern thinkers demand answers which go far beyond the confines of human wisdom, that the spiritual understanding of God, and man's relation to Him – put into daily practice – is "the world's hope for freedom from uncertainty, terror and ignorance." The impact of such understanding on world thinking should never be underestimated, he added.
Currently on an extended tour as a member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship, Mr. Van Atta spoke under the auspices of First Church of Christ, Scientist in their Church edifice at Spring Lane and Engle street. The lecturer was introduced by Mrs. Lorena Oberman of Tenafly, a former Reader in a Christian Science branch church.
The lecturer spoke substantially as follows:
The broadcast powers of evil, so conspicuous today, are challenging the forces of Christianity in a bid for final supremacy. We live in the midst of a mighty revolution. The complacency of the nineteenth century has been succeeded by the turmoil of the twentieth. Long-established values in morals and ethics have been discarded; widely accepted religious beliefs have been abandoned; physical science and medicine are being revolutionized; government, business, and matrimony are dragging their anchors.
These great changes are felt all over the world; they affect the life of every individual. There are none so lowly as to escape, none so remote as not to feel the turbulence of these times. In isolated corners of Africa – no longer the dark and unenlightened continent it used to be called – across the vast stretches of Asia, in the skyscrapers of American business and the centuries-old capitals of Europe, everywhere there is disturbance, discontent, and turmoil.
Jesus' Remedy
Christ Jesus foresaw this violent upheaval in human affairs. He spoke of strife and warfare between nations, of hatred and infidelity between men; he foretold famine, pestilence, and disaster; be warned that iniquity would abound and the love of many wax cold; false prophets would arise showing great signs and wonders, so as to deceive, if possible, the very elect. But in his great wisdom and love for mankind he also pointed out the protective action his followers are to take when this deluge threatens to engulf the world: "When these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh" (Luke 21:28).
The fact is that the rule for protection from all danger and the remedy for every evil situation have been available to the world for many centuries through the inspired Word of the Bible, and particularly through the teaching and example of Christ Jesus. Why, then, have men not used the remedy and prevented the evils? Because the Bible teachings have not been interpreted and understood in their spiritual import. Surely so great a teacher as Jesus would not mean that we could expect protection and redemption merely by lifting up our heads literally. He must have referred to the need for lifting up our thinking to a higher spiritual and moral plane in order to understand God's power to redeem men from the famines of material sense, the pestilences of immorality, and the earth-shaking impact of revolutionary changes in human society.
"The People's Idea of God"
First of all, the need is to know God. Human life is the expression of the human beliefs about God.
Someone has written, "The gods men worship write their names on their foreheads." Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, explains this action of human belief throughout her writings. Many years ago she delivered a sermon in Boston entitled, "The People's Idea of God; Its Effect on Health and Christianity." The very title is thought-provoking, and in the sermon this theme is developed and explained with great variety of treatment and in beautiful and dynamic prose. Near the end she states, "Thus it is that our ideas of divinity form our models of humanity" (The People's Idea of God, p. 14). In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," the Christian Science textbook, she writes (p. 94), "The eastern empires and nations owe their false government to the misconceptions of Deity there prevalent." Of herself she declares that her illnesses before she discovered Christian Science were due to the misinterpretation of God's Word taught her in childhood (see Miscellaneous Writings 169:6-10).
Referring further to Mrs. Eddy's sermon, we read (The People's Idea of God, pp. 6, 7), "Periods and peoples are characterized by their highest or their lowest ideals, by their God and their devil." The present period and its peoples have been wonderfully blessed by the revelation of the true nature of Deity through the discovery of Christian Science. This teaching comes to the world as the "Comforter" promised by Christ Jesus, which will lead mankind into all truth. It reveals God as infinite Love, never hateful or revengeful; as divine Mind or intelligence, conceiving or creating all that is real and good and nothing that is evil; as perfect Principle, not a changeable person; as self-existent and self-sustaining Life, not subject to disease or death: as all-inclusive Truth, whose light dispels error; as all-pervading Spirit excluding matter as unreal; as the one infinite Soul, unconfined in space, the life-giving center of all creation as the divine Father and Mother of man and the universe, always present to guide, guard, protect, and preserve His children.
The impact of these higher ideas of God upon the minds of men has been tremendous! The spiritual and perfect ideal of God and man, revealed to human consciousness, has healed all types of disease, reformed sinners, lessened the expectation of death, and increased longevity. It has also stirred up latent beliefs in evil and brought them to the surface to be destroyed, as a muddy river bed is stirred to purify the stream. Thus we find the present age is characterized, not only by the higher idea of God, but also by more aggressive and subtle forms of evil.
Atheism is in deed evil and is used in the service of Moloch.
Part1
Christian Science: Its Triumph Over Atheism and Idolatry - 1958
Robert S. Van Atta, C.S., of Rochester, New York
Member of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts
The free world can triumph over aggressive atheism by living the teachings of Christ Jesus more
honestly, Robert S. Van Atta of Rochester, New York, told an audience here Tuesday evening, Nov. 4th.
He said that the questions facing modern thinkers demand answers which go far beyond the confines of human wisdom, that the spiritual understanding of God, and man's relation to Him – put into daily practice – is "the world's hope for freedom from uncertainty, terror and ignorance." The impact of such understanding on world thinking should never be underestimated, he added.
Currently on an extended tour as a member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship, Mr. Van Atta spoke under the auspices of First Church of Christ, Scientist in their Church edifice at Spring Lane and Engle street. The lecturer was introduced by Mrs. Lorena Oberman of Tenafly, a former Reader in a Christian Science branch church.
The lecturer spoke substantially as follows:
The broadcast powers of evil, so conspicuous today, are challenging the forces of Christianity in a bid for final supremacy. We live in the midst of a mighty revolution. The complacency of the nineteenth century has been succeeded by the turmoil of the twentieth. Long-established values in morals and ethics have been discarded; widely accepted religious beliefs have been abandoned; physical science and medicine are being revolutionized; government, business, and matrimony are dragging their anchors.
These great changes are felt all over the world; they affect the life of every individual. There are none so lowly as to escape, none so remote as not to feel the turbulence of these times. In isolated corners of Africa – no longer the dark and unenlightened continent it used to be called – across the vast stretches of Asia, in the skyscrapers of American business and the centuries-old capitals of Europe, everywhere there is disturbance, discontent, and turmoil.
Jesus' Remedy
Christ Jesus foresaw this violent upheaval in human affairs. He spoke of strife and warfare between nations, of hatred and infidelity between men; he foretold famine, pestilence, and disaster; be warned that iniquity would abound and the love of many wax cold; false prophets would arise showing great signs and wonders, so as to deceive, if possible, the very elect. But in his great wisdom and love for mankind he also pointed out the protective action his followers are to take when this deluge threatens to engulf the world: "When these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh" (Luke 21:28).
The fact is that the rule for protection from all danger and the remedy for every evil situation have been available to the world for many centuries through the inspired Word of the Bible, and particularly through the teaching and example of Christ Jesus. Why, then, have men not used the remedy and prevented the evils? Because the Bible teachings have not been interpreted and understood in their spiritual import. Surely so great a teacher as Jesus would not mean that we could expect protection and redemption merely by lifting up our heads literally. He must have referred to the need for lifting up our thinking to a higher spiritual and moral plane in order to understand God's power to redeem men from the famines of material sense, the pestilences of immorality, and the earth-shaking impact of revolutionary changes in human society.
"The People's Idea of God"
First of all, the need is to know God. Human life is the expression of the human beliefs about God.
Someone has written, "The gods men worship write their names on their foreheads." Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, explains this action of human belief throughout her writings. Many years ago she delivered a sermon in Boston entitled, "The People's Idea of God; Its Effect on Health and Christianity." The very title is thought-provoking, and in the sermon this theme is developed and explained with great variety of treatment and in beautiful and dynamic prose. Near the end she states, "Thus it is that our ideas of divinity form our models of humanity" (The People's Idea of God, p. 14). In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," the Christian Science textbook, she writes (p. 94), "The eastern empires and nations owe their false government to the misconceptions of Deity there prevalent." Of herself she declares that her illnesses before she discovered Christian Science were due to the misinterpretation of God's Word taught her in childhood (see Miscellaneous Writings 169:6-10).
Referring further to Mrs. Eddy's sermon, we read (The People's Idea of God, pp. 6, 7), "Periods and peoples are characterized by their highest or their lowest ideals, by their God and their devil." The present period and its peoples have been wonderfully blessed by the revelation of the true nature of Deity through the discovery of Christian Science. This teaching comes to the world as the "Comforter" promised by Christ Jesus, which will lead mankind into all truth. It reveals God as infinite Love, never hateful or revengeful; as divine Mind or intelligence, conceiving or creating all that is real and good and nothing that is evil; as perfect Principle, not a changeable person; as self-existent and self-sustaining Life, not subject to disease or death: as all-inclusive Truth, whose light dispels error; as all-pervading Spirit excluding matter as unreal; as the one infinite Soul, unconfined in space, the life-giving center of all creation as the divine Father and Mother of man and the universe, always present to guide, guard, protect, and preserve His children.
The impact of these higher ideas of God upon the minds of men has been tremendous! The spiritual and perfect ideal of God and man, revealed to human consciousness, has healed all types of disease, reformed sinners, lessened the expectation of death, and increased longevity. It has also stirred up latent beliefs in evil and brought them to the surface to be destroyed, as a muddy river bed is stirred to purify the stream. Thus we find the present age is characterized, not only by the higher idea of God, but also by more aggressive and subtle forms of evil.
Friday, 25 January 2019
Sunday, 20 January 2019
Antifa 2019 - part 4a
Oh oh.... looks like the tribe has taken issue....
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Jan 19, 2019, 6:34 AM (1 day ago)
to me
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No idea what the legal issue is.....
well....... see it in case it 'disappears'
Oh well its been punted..........
YouTube <accounts-noreply@youtube.com>
Jan 19, 2019, 6:34 AM (1 day ago)
to me
Regarding your account: Leon Fortayne
We have received a legal complaint regarding your video. After review, the following video: Antifa 2019 - part 4a has been blocked from view on the following YouTube country site(s):
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Cyprus, Czechia, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Spain, Finland, France, United Kingdom, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Greece, Croatia, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Martinique, Malta, New Caledonia, Netherlands, French Polynesia, Poland, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Portugal, Reunion, Romania, Sweden, Slovenia, Slovakia, French Southern Territories, Wallis and Futuna, Mayotte
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No idea what the legal issue is.....
well....... see it in case it 'disappears'
Oh well its been punted..........
Sunday, 6 January 2019
Ban Maryam Namazie from Australia
This is a petition I came across on change.org, I support it.
https://www.change.org/p/senator-cory-bernardi-ban-maryam-namazie-from-visiting-australia
Maryam Namazie is a marxist and committed atheist, she is the public face of the Worker Communist Party of Iran (WCPI) which is outlawed by Iran. It is a terrorist organization along with the likes of the Mujahedin E Khalq (which Namazie is suspected to be involved with). It is also strongly suspected she receives money from various Saudi royals (said to be $2 million a year but I am more suspect of Israel), her priorities are to spread atheism, marxism and destroy Shia Islam as well as every other religious belief. This woman is a Rosa Luxemburg wannabe and a pervert, she should never ever be allowed to visit Australia again.
You can sign the petition if you wish (though 'signing' internet petitions is purely symbolic and I heard that change.org sells email addresses it harvests, plus the fact it 'erases' numbers off petitions which are not blatantly politically correct aka marxist). When I checked on the petition about 3 days ago it had 13 'signatures' now it only has 5.
https://www.change.org/p/senator-cory-bernardi-ban-maryam-namazie-from-visiting-australia
Maryam Namazie is a marxist and committed atheist, she is the public face of the Worker Communist Party of Iran (WCPI) which is outlawed by Iran. It is a terrorist organization along with the likes of the Mujahedin E Khalq (which Namazie is suspected to be involved with). It is also strongly suspected she receives money from various Saudi royals (said to be $2 million a year but I am more suspect of Israel), her priorities are to spread atheism, marxism and destroy Shia Islam as well as every other religious belief. This woman is a Rosa Luxemburg wannabe and a pervert, she should never ever be allowed to visit Australia again.
You can sign the petition if you wish (though 'signing' internet petitions is purely symbolic and I heard that change.org sells email addresses it harvests, plus the fact it 'erases' numbers off petitions which are not blatantly politically correct aka marxist). When I checked on the petition about 3 days ago it had 13 'signatures' now it only has 5.
Ban her!
Saturday, 5 January 2019
Antifa 2019
Im doing a series on Antifa with YouTube clips, this year 2019 is important to them. It will be 100 years since Rosa Luxemburg was killed, and it is fair to say that she was and is 'The Grandmother of Antifa'. The facts are that both Marx and Luxemburg were jews and had physical ailments which required them to use narcotics in order to get relief. I believe that their 'revolutionary' thoughts are a combination from theories from the Enlightenment, their rewording of Enlightenment thoughts, and from the Talmud.
Antifa came about as a result of the Bolshevik revolution which was meant to take all of Europe and not just the old Russian empire. The main push for Antifa was the takeover of Italy by Mussolini (who was a revolutionary socialist and atheist), which was compounded later by the rise of Adolf Hitler. Both Hitler and Mussolini were national socialists as opposed to the likes of the Bolsheviks who were, and still are international socialists. World war 2 was really just a civil war within the psychotic rantings of Marx and Luxemburg, but their rantings were that of Jewish supremacists who believed that 'Israel' referred to the entire world as taught in Judaism.
Antifa 2019 - part 3
Antifa 2019 - part 4a
Antifa came about as a result of the Bolshevik revolution which was meant to take all of Europe and not just the old Russian empire. The main push for Antifa was the takeover of Italy by Mussolini (who was a revolutionary socialist and atheist), which was compounded later by the rise of Adolf Hitler. Both Hitler and Mussolini were national socialists as opposed to the likes of the Bolsheviks who were, and still are international socialists. World war 2 was really just a civil war within the psychotic rantings of Marx and Luxemburg, but their rantings were that of Jewish supremacists who believed that 'Israel' referred to the entire world as taught in Judaism.
Antifa 2019 - part 1
Antifa 2019 - part 2
Antifa 2019 - part 3
Antifa 2019 - part 4a
Sunday, 28 October 2018
Twitter snowflakes
Sometimes I like to burn CDs with clips from YouTube (mine and others) and place them in public areas where people can either take them or ignore them, pretty simple really. A day or 3 afterwards I check my YouTube views and see if there is extra traffic resulting from the clips on the CDs. Well I kicked over a snowflake nest about a week ago...
https://twitter.com/thegreenrat/status/1054618655403606016
So I did some checking on who had 'thegreenrat' account and what I found was the worst stereotype snowflake.
She is...
A lesbian
Studying law at UNSW and seems to be planning to be a 'refugee lawyer'
All for open borders
Has a heap of little dogs
Is a karate fanatic
Is aged 30-35 (just a guess based on her pics, if she is younger then I suspect meth)
Lives with her parents
A compulsive picture taker, usually to do with rubbish at public bins
Comes from the inner city
She lives up to every stereotype of a snowflake, anyway I did a clip concerning her and indeed twitter censorship (I was 'temporarily suspended' or something like that about 24 hours of getting a twitter account - my 1st one...whoohoo!). They want my phone number and I aint giving it to them.
Anyway a pic of her is in the clip and I have a bit of a laugh at her, actually before my account was suspended I tweeted her direct and asked if she was triggered... got no response.
https://twitter.com/thegreenrat/status/1054618655403606016
So I did some checking on who had 'thegreenrat' account and what I found was the worst stereotype snowflake.
She is...
A lesbian
Studying law at UNSW and seems to be planning to be a 'refugee lawyer'
All for open borders
Has a heap of little dogs
Is a karate fanatic
Is aged 30-35 (just a guess based on her pics, if she is younger then I suspect meth)
Lives with her parents
A compulsive picture taker, usually to do with rubbish at public bins
Comes from the inner city
She lives up to every stereotype of a snowflake, anyway I did a clip concerning her and indeed twitter censorship (I was 'temporarily suspended' or something like that about 24 hours of getting a twitter account - my 1st one...whoohoo!). They want my phone number and I aint giving it to them.
Anyway a pic of her is in the clip and I have a bit of a laugh at her, actually before my account was suspended I tweeted her direct and asked if she was triggered... got no response.
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