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Building a mosque near the site of defeated enemies is a symbol of conquest for Islam. "We need to consider the facts of history!"

There is mysterious funding ($$$) to pay for construction of this.
Who are the people behind the cash? The money trail ends abruptly.

The real issue behind the controversy to build a 15-story mosque a few yards from Ground Zero is not only about the mysterious funding behind the Cordoba Center initiative. It is primarily about Muslims across the world who would view the site as a victory of the greatest Muslim attack on U.S. soil.

The symbolism could not be clearer. If the Cordoba's House supporters
win the day they are unwittingly declaring their acceptance of Muslim rule.

There is a long cultural history of mosque-building following Muslim military victories. The building of the Cordoba House on Ground Zero will be seen in the same light as the Muslim conquests of Mecca, Jerusalem, and Constantinople. Islam followers will see it as a first step towards the decline of America.

This is what it is all about people. Wake-up!
A church dedicated to "John the Baptist" in 705, fell to Islam rule!

This would not be read in the Muslim world as a sign of the West's tolerance, but of its weakness. In its very long history Islam has converted the sacred shrines of its enemies into mosques. Many were churches or former houses of worships of defeated enemies. Islam is
not a tolerant religion and it's goal is worldwide domination. Death or
jail to anyone who opposes the teachings of Islam.

Islam's most sacred site, al-Kaaba, in Mecca was a pagan shrine that predated Islam by hundreds of years. Mohamed himself, after his army's conquest of Mecca in 630, destroyed hundreds of idols, proclaiming the truth of his new religion, and, since, it has become the hub of the annual Muslim pilgrimage, hajj, and a core pillar of Islam.

Following the Muslim conquest of Jerusalem, the Ummayad Caliphate proceeded to build the Dome of the Rock, the Masjid Qubat al-Sakhra, on top of the Jewish Temple Mount in 689.

Inscribed on the inner walls of the shrine are clear warnings to Christianity, professing Islamic supremacy. Sprawled on the inner octagonal arcade, flowing counterclockwise, the dedication warns Christians and Jews to "not exaggerate in your religion nor utter aught concerning God save the truth" and threatens the Christian Trinity by insisting that "The Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, was only a Messenger of God, and His Word which He conveyed unto Mary, and a spirit from Him.

Having defeated their Christian enemies, the Umayyads built a grand mosque on top of Judaism's most sacred site that contained a clear declaration of Muslim supremacy over their brother Abraham, and all religions.

A church dedicated to John the Baptist in 705, fell to Islam rule.

The Grand Mosque of Damascus, also known as the Umayyad Mosque, was converted from a church dedicated to John the Baptist in 705.

The world-renown Hagia Sophia in Istanbul was a thousand year-old Christian church before being transformed into a mosque following the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453. It was only converted into a museum in 1935 by ultra-secularist and Turkish founding father Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.

Over the long history of Muslim territorial advance, thousands of mosques, from Spain to India, were built on sites of important religious or political value.

Islam is a violent religion.



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"An Arab group was fined for a Holocaust cartoon." A Dutch appeals court convicted an Arab cultural group Thursday of hate speech for placing a cartoon on its website questioning the Holocaust.

The court said in a written judgment the cartoon "is insulting to a group of people, the Jews, because of their race."

The cartoon shows two apparently Jewish men poking a pile of skeletons and discussing whether they can count non-Jews to increase the Holocaust death toll.

Arnhem Appeals Court fined the Dutch arm of the Arab European League $3,210 after overturning a lower court's acquittal of the group.

Islam religious clerics are taking advantage of the freedom found in other nations. They are getting more organized in their approach to
legal issues and are beginning to use the courts to advance their own culture and Islamic laws.

In a reaction on its website, the center welcomed the conviction, saying that the Arab group's anger over Muhammad cartoons "may in no way lead to insulting comments about Jews. It is clear this cartoon had no other aim than to be unnecessarily hurtful to Jews."

Hate speech prosecutions are rare in the Netherlands, but the Arab European League case is one of several high-profile ones to come to court recently.

Lawmaker Geert Wilders, who has become one of the country's most popular politicians on an anti-Islam platform, is facing criminal prosecution later this year for alleged hate speech violations.

Wilders has called for the Quran to be banned and compared it to Hitler's Mein Kampf, and has branded Islam a violent religion."

Islamic censorship enforced by individuals is bad enough, but when the state gets involved, freedom of thought is threatened on an entirely new scale. That's what has happened in several majority-Muslim countries, including Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

All three have implemented anti-blasphemy laws to prevent any criticism of religion.

Saudi Arabia treats blasphemy as apostasy, which it claims is punishable by death.

Afghanistan has historically leveraged its blasphemy law to silence any opposition to public law, with life imprisonment or death as punishment. even sentencing students and journalists to life imprisonment or the death penalty.

The death penalty is their answer to enforce Islamic religion.

In Pakistan, too, anyone even indirectly insinuating an insult to the prophet Mohammed can be sentenced to death or life imprisonment.

When countries endorse such punishments for blasphemy, it follows that millions upon millions of people are exposed to such raw-tortured thinking.

And, the intolerance spreads. This is an abuse of religion by all the political figures and the politics in intolerant countries, which then spreads and infects the minds of Muslim youth in other nations.

Is it any wonder how 3 middle class, college educated dentists could suddenly plan, attack & bomb England's rail-tunnels? These were men who did not grow-up in any of the Islamic motherlands.

They felt compelled to strike-out against innocent civilians in England
to show support for Islam. It was a terrible deadly attack for what?

Islam: A violent religion intolerant to all others.

Clearly, there can be no doubt about it!
Stableman



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The men told investigators they tried to connect with Islamist militant groups in Pakistan and were intending to cross the border into Afghanistan and fight U.S. troops. These men were born and raised in America with all the schooling everyone gets in the USA, etc. “These are America citizens in the news.”

All were reported missing a week ago after one of them left behind a note of militaristic farewell. “It was a video saying Muslims must be defended.” Think about this for a good moment before you write it off. This behavior is driven by the “religious fever” that all of the Muslim community is now being known for. “All the Muslims,” yes I said all of them.

England suffered some recent terrible, “bomb attacks” in the subways of high-traffic areas where citizens were completely defenseless, etc. The Muslims who planned the attacks were doctors and physicians. They also pleaded, “Muslims must be defended.”

This is not just a verbal statement of connection to Islamic values and beliefs. It is a direct connection to the Muslim faith itself.

A “faith based value judgment” they were ready to murder for.

When any violence is committed in the name of Islam, the perpetrators often say that Muslims were never meant to enjoy good relations with followers of other religions, specifically Jews and Christians. They invariably quote verses from the Quran which they argue prove that, “Jews and Christians” are inherently hostile to Muslims.

A Muslim’s “faith based” motivations in life should scare you!

The Islamic Muslim’s monotheistic system founded in Arabia in the 7th century and based on the teachings of Muhammad as laid down in the Koran; "Islam is a complete way of life, not a Sunday religion" etc.

“Any other religion is offensive to Muslims.”

Islam; an Arabic word which, since Mohammed's time, has acquired a religious and technical significance denoting the religion of Mohammed and of the Koran, just as Christianity denotes that of Jesus and of the Gospels, or Judaism that of Moses, the Prophets, and of the Old Testament.

Koran; (The Holy Qur'an) the sacred writings of Islam revealed by God to the prophet Muhammad during his life at Mecca and Medina. It is the sacred text of Islam, divided into 114 chapters, or suras: revered as the word of God, dictated to Muhammad by the archangel Gabriel, and accepted as the foundation of Islamic law, religion, culture, and politics. Muslims believe the Qur'an, in its original Arabic, to be the literal word of God that was revealed to Muhammad over a period of twenty-three years until his death.

Muhammad; Arab prophet of Islam. At the age of 40 he began to preach as God's prophet of the true religion. Muhammad established a theocratic state at Medina after 622 and began to convert Arabia to Islam. Born in 570 in the Arabian city of Mecca he was orphaned at a young age and brought up under the care of his uncle Abu Talib. He later worked mostly as a merchant, as well as a shepherd, and was first married by age 25. Discontented with life in Mecca, he retreated to a cave in the surrounding mountains for meditation and reflection.

According to Islamic beliefs it was here, at age 40, in the month of Ramadan, where he claimed to receive his first revelation from God.
By the time of his death, most of the Arabian Peninsula had converted to Islam; and he united the tribes of Arabia into a single Muslim religious polity.

The revelations (or Ayat, lit. "Signs of God")—which Muhammad reported receiving until his death—form the verses of the Qur'an, regarded by Muslims as the “Word of God” and around which the religion is based.
Besides the Qur'an, Muhammad’s life (sira) and traditions (sunnah) are also upheld by Muslims. They discuss Muhammad and other prophets of Islam with reverence, adding the phrase peace be upon him whenever their names are mentioned.

There are no terrorists. There are only scattered Muslim’s doing what is expected of them. This is a "religious fever" not reported.

Wake-Up! The Muslim community does not correct or attempt to punish the
ones who kill and perform terrorist acts on us everywhere, etc. They do
watch silently, hoping to go unnoticed in their daily lives because in all of them lives the Islamic fundamental ideas of their religion.

We cannot even begin to understand, "brain washing" in comparison to what Islam does to a Muslim follower. Mothers who send children with bombs, fathers who kill daughters and many more horrible acts in the name of Islamic fundamental religion.

Can we educate them without destroying a sacred part of their life?

Sadly, it seems we must wait until another Muslim want to do jihad. It is a scary notion to consider all the possible ramifications but where do we start?

A "religious fever" not reported is like a camp fire in the woods.]]>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:59:41 PST1260554381
If you haven't already seen him, please welcome Steve Anderson, the newer hate monger and hate-crime wannabe, and possibly a future martyr, regretfully:



Link

From Anderson's church's Web site: Pastor Anderson holds no college degree but has well over 100 chapters of the Bible committed to memory, including almost half of the New Testament. source

The one thing that you can give Anderson credit for, if it's a credit at all (especially at this point), is taking the bible literally. How seriously dangerous it is that he takes things so literally, as he preaches to kill abortionists? In my view, just dangerous enough to question whether or not Anderson does in fact have slaves, among other things---

You may also purchase the children of such resident foreigners, including those who have been born in your land. You may treat them as your property, passing them on to your children as a permanent inheritance. (Leviticus 25:44-46 NLT)

When the LORD your God hands it over to you, kill every man in the town. But you may keep for yourselves all the women, children, livestock, and other plunder. You may enjoy the spoils of your enemies that the LORD your God has given you. (Deuteronomy 20:10-14)

Is Anderson buying daughters these days also?

When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at the end of six years as the men are. If she does not please the man who bought her, he may allow her to be bought back again. But he is not allowed to sell her to foreigners, since he is the one who broke the contract with her. (Exodus 21:7-11 NLT)

Enough is enough. The fact that this pastor's congregation has not fled just reminds me of the Waco, Texas, massacre.

I hold firm to my points that 1) religion can in fact be VERY dangerous and 2) a religious speech is NOT a guaranteed privilege, especially not at graduations, and anyone that thinks otherwise may need to take a zealot test or admit to propagating anarchy by suggesting all religions can peacefully impose on the public's ear.

Read what one of Anderson's followers has to say, and here's the gun he's toting:



Here's a blurb from Anderson's Web site, and surely he couldn't have gotten it wrong (I'm being sarcastic here):

Pastor Anderson was sent out by a totally independent Baptist church to start it the old-fashioned way by knocking doors and winning souls to Christ. This is the scriptural method.

A quick question before ending this article---Tell me, if one of Anderson's disciples were set to give a graduation speech, would it be in the best interest for the school administrators to allow this speech to resume and the diverse viewing audience to be forced to endure it?

Me personally, I think not, and that's a logical decision, not bias or right-restricting. Give Anderson's followers their free speech, sure, in his strip-mall church, but keep that garbage the hell away from those that didn't ask for it, be it a graduation audience, an employee meeting, or the public airwaves----with one exception... Feel free to direct the message towards the secret service, just in case it happens to be a hate/murder-inciting speech (or llano, since s/he is open to all speeches anytime, even if delivered at the same time or wrong time).]]>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:24:22 PDT1252452262
Before you start lighting candles, I personally have nothing against religion, as long as a person isn't brainwashed and makes their own decisions regarding it. The 4 major religions all have good morals and examples in them, but all they are are stories, the same types of myths that belong in Greek or Roman mythology. Good stories but people this is the 21st century, we don't need myths to help us in our lives.

It seems to me that if in almost 20 years, the number of people with no religious affiliation has nearly doubled, that says a lot about what direction our country is headed. Namely Americans are getting tired of these hypocritical religious leaders, and all the bullshit and contradictions of religion itself. Now I know there are a lot of people who without religion would be sad and empty because they are so close minded that cannot tolerate any other thoughts but their own brainwashed views that some priest or pastor or whatever has been shoving down their throats for ever, and probably molesting little kids in the process. That really bothers me, how so many people could continue to follow a religion that sweeps scandals under the rug. Anyone that follows the advice of a religion that covers up child molesting, there is something wrong with them and you.
Islam is as bad if not worse. The use of terror under the pretext of God is so wrong, I don't even know where to begin. it is hardly surprising, Islam like Christianity was spread by the sword and it's followers are as warped as Christians. Look at the way it treats women for starters, your telling me that God (call him Allah, Jehovah,Krishna, it's all the same) doesn't see men and woman as equals? Sounds like the middle ages to me. Religious Fundamentalism is wrong, there is no honor in abusing the name of God.
Finally, I think the main point that survey was trying to make is that, at least in America, there is a great number of people who are doing the best they can in this life, are concerned what they an get done now, not in some promised after life. You only get one life, why spend it in devotion to something that nobody knows will come true of not. Lack of Faith? for sure! Myself and others have faith in ourselves. Besides, which, the survey doesn't ask if people are spiritual, merely if they are religious or not. Being spiritual is not the same as being religious, it just means your a open minded person who has no use for ancient dogmas that are used to keep people in line.
God is dying, his followers are killing him/her with their lies, deceit, and cover ups. Not to mention the thousands of years of persecution of people who didn't see it the way those in charge wanted it. As for me, I'm proud of the fact I belong in that 15% group.

Peace and love always,
Ryan the Great


]]>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 09:08:58 PDT1249402138 Plastic, you and I work together and have known each other for two years now. To start with, I am reminded of the saying, “The enemy of my enemy is my friend,” Sun Tzu.

Your remarks hit a cord with me. You wrote a very strong and dismissive retort to a conversation that was more about Sept 11th then about the Obama election. Humor is an excellent way to cut into a person’s argument, like a sharp knife cuts into a great steak. Just reference SNL and its treatment of McCain and Palin, then you will see the importance of humor. SNL shows the importance of humor in ridiculing and dismissing a person as not worthy of further consideration for anything. It is almost as effective as calling some one a racist, thereby removing them from having any future respect, importance, and showing that person as having a lack of knowledge thereby shutting them up.
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“Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”--George Santayana

Your comment was, “a co-worker decided to try and dispense some paranoid dribble”. Here is some “paranoid dribble” for you, “Neville Chamberlain believed that if he gave Hitler what he needed, Hitler would not go to war. But by signing the Munich agreement, he put Hitler’s Werhmacht within a day’s distance of the industrial and economic center of Czechoslovakia. Chamberlain declared that it was “peace in our time.”” Any one who protested were “paranoid”, ridiculed, dismissed".

“Never again”, Israel lives these words almost every day fighting the Islamic Terrorists that are supported by Iran. The same Iran that believes a “Holy War” is coming very soon. Iran has a leader who thinks this “Holy War” will end Israel, and the Great Satan, America. “Paranoid dribble” or “peace in our time”, think long and hard. Time for humor, or time to speak of “racism”, this will silence a great many on this and many other issues. Using humor and being called a racist can be effective for a short period of time.

“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.” Abraham Lincoln.

“Religious Bigotry”, is any one in favor of it? These days it appears to be acceptable to ridicule, dismiss and lower the value of “People with Faith”. I do believe in God. Why do I have to defend my belief in God? Why are people with no faith, no belief in a Higher Being considered smarter then some one who believes in God?

“I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the Promised Land.” Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it." ABRAHAM LINCOLN

“The Hand of providence has been so conspicuous in all this, that he must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith, and more than wicked, that has not gratitude enough to acknowledge his obligations(to God).” George Washington

“'Do none enter the Garden of Bliss save by God's mercy?' Muhammad said, 'No. None enter save through God's favor.' 'You also, O Messenger of God! Will you not enter Paradise save by God's compassion?' Muhammad put his hand on his head and said thrice, 'I shall not enter unless God cover me with His mercy.'” Muhammad

Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Jesus of Nazareth

“Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.” Jesus of Nazareth

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Many religions have teachings about angels or similar beings. In some primitive religions, legends tell of bright, powerful spirits that appear in dreams and visions to protect people. In Hinduism and Buddhism, many major gods are accompanied by a band or court of spiritual beings.

Judaism, Christianity, and Islam developed the most elaborate doctrines about angels.

Christian doctrine regarding angels reached full development during the 1100's and 1200's A.D., especially in the teachings of Saint Thomas Aquinas. He taught that countless numbers of angels existed and that they were immortal. According to Aquinas, angels know everything except what depended on human 'free well' and that is known only to God.

Hindu dharma accepts the existence of several Gods or deities; it accepts only one God, the Supreme.

Brahma, Vishnu and Siva. Are not three independent and separate deities, but three different aspects of the same Supreme God, while engaged in the processes of creation, sustenance and destruction of the universe, in that order. It is similar to the role played by the same person as the mother at home, as the boss in the office and as a customer in a shop. Other deities also should be considered in the same light, as different aspects of the Supreme God, manifesting themselves for specific purposes.

The powers of these deities which are inseparable from them, just as the power of fire to burn cannot be separated from fire itself. This power is conceived in the form of their consorts, Sarasvati, Parvati (or Sakti) and Lakshmi.

This is not to say that these deities are imaginary creations. All of them, without exception, are different modes and aspects of Paramatman, the Supreme Self or God.

Ganesh: This God of knowledge and the remover of obstacles is also the older son of Lord Shiva. Lord Ganesha is also called Vinayak (knowledgeable) or Vighneshwer (god to remove obstacles). He is worshipped, or at least remembered, in the beginning of any auspicious performance for blessings and auspiciousness.

Ganesh has four hands, elephant's head and a big belly. His vehicle is a tiny mouse. In his hands he carries a rope (to carry devotees to the truth), an axe (to cut devotees' attachments), and a sweet dessert ball-laddoo (to reward devotees for spiritual activity). His fourth hand's palm is always extended to bless people.

A unique combination of his elephant like head and a quick moving tiny mouse vehicle represents tremendous wisdom, intelligence, and presence of mind.

For the last few years an unexplainable phenomena has been taking place that involves the god Ganesh. The statues of this Hindu god have been drinking milk. It started in New Delhi, India and has moved around the world to Hindu Temples all over the world. Is Ganesh giving us knowledge and removing obstacles from our path?

Hanuman is a monkey god. He is a noble hero and great devotee of Lord Rama of the Ramayana.

This deity is a provider of courage, hope, knowledge, intellect and devotion. He is pictured as a robust monkey holding a mace (gada), which is a sign of bravery, and having a picture of Lord Rama tattooed on his chest, which is a sign of his devotion to Lord Rama.

He is also called Mahaveera (the great hero) or Pavan-suta (son of air) or Bajarangbali.

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On January 12th, 1970 a Miami, Florida Fire departments crew was called to a fire in Hialeah. Kenneth Carter, and his fellow fire fighters, had been sent to fight a fire at a local club called Pandora’s Box. Ken and another fire fighter carried a hose inside to fight the fire. Ken’s partner was being over come by the heat and smoke so he left, Ken stayed. A short time after, Ken’s warning buzzer went off telling Ken it was time for him to leave also. He was a few short minutes from running out of air himself.

Ken started the standard procedures to extricate himself from the building. He picked up the hose and was following it backwards to get to the door. The hose was twisted and all knotted up making it hard to follow. Ken said the hose was like spaghetti. It was taking him to long to get out. Ken became disoriented. He was running out of air. Very soon he took a breath of air and the mask collapsed on his face! He was out of air! He fell to his knees, removing his mask, hoping to find move breathable air lower down, below the raising smoke. He was choking and was about to pass out.

Ken said a small prayer asking for divine intervention. Out of the corner of his eyes he saw a blue light, he turned his head toward that light. The light grow larger and he saw a woman bathed in that blue light. The woman did not speak to him. He believed that he was already dead. He spoke to her at that point, “If you are here to take me I am ready, but if you are here to help me show me the way out now.” The woman raised her arm and pointed. Ken went the way she had pointed. He bumped up against a wall; he shoved and fell out a door into the fresh clean air. He was saved. He was in the club’s parking lot.

After the fire was out he entered the building again. He returned to the room. He had no idea what he would find. A blue pole was in the very spot the blue woman had been standing. It was bathed in blue light. Ken took off his glove and touched that pole. Blue light encircled his hand. The rest of the room was still hot from the fire but the pole was strangely cold to the touch.

He is not able to explain what happened to him. He believes it was divine intervention. Shortly after this he was transferred to the Hialeah Fire and Rescue. He has saved many lives. Some believe we are here to perform duties here on earth. They think if these duties are not accomplished we are helped to stay here until these duties are finished.

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On October 7th, 1986 in Mesa, Arizona a heavy set bearded man wearing a baseball cap abducted Sarah Skidmore. Rhonda Skidmore had gone into Roberts, her five year olds, school and left her and two other children in her car. After two days the search for Sarah moved to the dessert. Extreme heat and cold is the trademark for Arizona at this time of year. On Thursday a bad storm moved through the area. It was cold and windy. Every one believed that if Sarah was out there alone she was not going to make it.

Zane Bingham was hunting for quail in the dessert on October 10th, not looking for Sarah. He looked across the wash and saw her standing there. She had been abandoned in the dessert on the day of the abduction. He spoke to her and realized she had been in the dessert awhile. She was walking without shoes and her feet were “tore up” cut and bleeding. Sarah was calm but not walking very well so he asked if he could carry her, she said yes.

Sarah was rushed to the hospital. When her parents saw her she told them “I saw Heather playing.” Mark Skidmore reported this to the press and was asked what Sarah had meant, he did not know at the time. Later Sarah told a story about being afraid. She was hungry and thirsty. Then she saw her sister Heather playing. It was not possible for her to see Heather. Heather was only two years old and at home. Sarah felt like Heather was telling her it would be all right. She followed the little girl. She described the girl as having blonde hair and blues eyes and did not walk but appeared to float above the ground.

The next year her younger sister Jessica was born. When Jessica turned three Sarah said it was Jessica she saw in the dessert and not Heather.

Some think there are “pre-born spirits.”

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On October 21st, 1984, in Barstow, California, little two-year-old Ricci Enriquez was playing in her home. Her mother and two sisters only took their eyes off her for a second. A few moments were all it would take for the unthinkable to take place. She was gone! Her mother ran though the house looking for her, calling her name. She was nowhere to be found.

Linda Enriquez, “I ran through the hall and I knew something was wrong when I found her floating face down in the pool.”

Sara Enriquez, “ My mom pulled her out, and she screamed for help, and there was nothing my sister and I could do.”

The family called 911 and the paramedics arrived.

Peter Beltz, paramedic, “She was lifeless. There was no life in the child whatsoever. It was such a difficult call because the parents, of the child, were very good friends of mine.”

After working on her lifeless little body, they had very little response. They transported little Ricci to the ER. They did not expect her to live. No one did.

Dr. Lawrence Jelliner, Ricci’s Emergency Care Physician, “When she first presented to the emergency department, I was almost sure she would not survive.”

Little Ricci was paralyzed and in a coma. During this time, she relates later, she was standing in a tunnel. “It was a really florescent tunnel. It had really bright colored bricks around it and it had really an almost blinding light at the end. I looked behind me and saw a guardian angel. She had flowing golden color hair and she was wearing a white dress. She grabbed my hand and we started to walk down the tunnel. When we got toward the end she asked me if I wanted to go thought the light with her or if I wanted to go back and I told her I had to go back and tell my mom where I was going. And I remember her walking me back and telling me not to be afraid.”

Linda, “It was approximately a month after she came home from the hospital, and I had taken her shopping with me. We went into a bookstore and maybe five minutes into the shopping she grabbed my hand and squeezed and started screaming and yelling in the store, ‘Momma momma that’s my angel!’ And I didn’t know what she was talking about. I looked around and there was a poster, it was on the wall, and it was a guardian angel.”

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June 28th, 1980, Acton, Indiana, Bob Davidson, Former Volunteer Fireman, was riding his motorcycle on I-74. A storm was coming up and raindrops were striking Bob’s face. It was stinging like needles hitting him all over. He pulled over to put on some rain gear. The moment he stopped and put his foot on the pavement, lightning came out of the sky and struck him, over one million volts of electricity hit his body.

A man in a passing truck saw what had happened and called Fire and Rescue. It was several minutes before the Paramedics arrived. Three paramedics showed up to help.

Kim Cobb, Acton Volunteer Fire Department, “When we got there the man was gray. No sign of life whatsoever.”

The Paramedics called for a medical life flight helicopter, but it could not take off in the torrential down pouring rain. They were all alone with the imposable job of bring him back to life. Attempts at CPR where failing.

Kim Cobb, “When I got there and saw this man, where the lightning struck, it was actually smoldering. You could actually see it. It looked like steam coming out of the wound.”

The stem to his late fathers watch, he was wearing, was welded to the case. His shoes where blown off his feet. He had no pulse.

Randy Neibert, Acton Volunteer Fire Department, “In the back of all fire fighters minds, we’re all saying a small prayer. I was at the time.”

Richard Neibert, Acton Volunteer Fire Department, “The Ambulance was almost new but just then it suffered complete power failure.”

Kim Cobb, “Out of the clear blue sky a lady in black came in. She had a bible in her hands and I was in awe at this woman.”

The paramedics at the scene recall that the woman seemed to be from another era.

She insisted on touching Bob and the ground at the same time.

Randy Neibert, “That’s when I said, ‘Let her do what she has to do,’ without even thinking about it the words just came out of my mouth.”

The woman in black began pounding Bob’s chest with her bible. She was speaking in a language the Paramedics did not understand. The emergency team watched in silence as the rain poured down on them all.

Randy Neibert, “Even with the rain falling, everybody was soaked, she was not. She was not remotely wet.”

Then the gray limp body, of the man with no pulse, began to show signs of life.

Randy Neibert, “She looked me right in the eyes and smiled. Not a word said. She stood up walked around my sister and walked away.”

As suddenly and inexplicably as she had come the woman in black was gone. But the legacy of her visit remained.

Randy Neibert, “It was almost like the sky was parting back. Everything was clearing up.”

Kim Cobb, “It’s weird, his blood pressure started coming back up, they got a pulse on him, color started coming back into him and no one knows where this lady came from or where she went. It is truly a miracle. There’s no other words to describe it. It’s an out right miracle.”

But it would take more then one miracle to save Bob Davidson. Bob Davidson was still in deep shock.

Dorie Hanes, Bob’s daughter, “They didn’t think he would make it thought the first night. Then ever day after that, that he made it, it was wow this guys still hanging on.”

Bob was in a coma for seven weeks and it was during that time Bob believes he met his dead father.

Bob Davidson, “I can still see him sitting under this tree. And it’s the most beautiful place you ever seen. I’ve never seen anything like it on this earth.”

Dorie Hanes, “And that makes you stop and think. Well, was he there with him? When dad was in a coma and was not really here himself.”

Bob Davidson, “Evidently it must be heaven or something to that effect. I know if that’s the place you go when you die I want to go there.”

But who was the mysterious woman in black?

Sylvia Hendricks, Acton, Indiana, Historian, just may have the answer to this question. “Acton was a spiritual center, started in 1859, it was a religious retreat started by missionaries. It was a place of relaxation, reflection and worship. It was a generation that believed in, may be more then we do now, the spiritual power.”

Forty-six years after its start it ended abruptly. It was a day in November 1905, a spark from the railroad tracks, a windy day and no equipment to fight the fires furry.

Sylvia Hendricks, “The fire went so quickly that they did not have a real opportunity to stop it even though they tried.”

Is there a connection between Actons spiritual past and the woman in black? It’s a question no one can answer. However look at the displays in the Acton Museum and you will see a bible and a turn of the century dress identical to the one Paramedics say an angel ware on June 28th, 1980.

END


Cokeville, Wyoming, 1987, a madman took the children and teaches of the local elementary school hostage, all 153 of them, and then detonated a bomb. What happened? What were his reasons? He offered up a small piece of paper, one that appears to be the work of a deranged and tormented soul.

At 11:00 AM in the morning David Young and his wife Doris, walked into the Secretary’s Office of the Cokeville Elementary School. Christine Cook was the secretary at the time.

Christine Cook, “I said to them, ‘Is there something I can do to help you sir?’ He said ‘Yes Mam, there certainly is. This is a revolution. Your school has been taken hostage, consider yourself a hostage.’ If you’d have looked in David Young’s eyes you knew it was no joke. I never ever looked into any ones eyes that were so cold and so emotionless. It was just this big void, there was nothing there.”

David Young was a walking arsenal. In addition to automatic rifles his body was wired to a bomb that could be detonated with the wave of his hand.

Christine Cook, “He said the bomb was capable of blowing up the entire building. He said it would level this whole building and everyone in it.”

“The hardest part of the whole thing was that I had started out in this thing alone and I couldn’t warn anyone.”

Christine was forced to lead David and Doris Young to the schools first grade classroom. David Young made this his command center and forced all 153 teachers and students of the Cokeville Elementary School into the small room. He then demanded a 2 million dollar ransom for each hostage.

Cynthia Hartley (age 9 at the time of the bombing), “He said this is a revolution and I’m holding you hostage and one of the girls in my class went hysterical."

Young gave each of the teachers a copy of his manifesto. (The one below is not a true copy.)

O is OO}, This is True
if drugs aren’t the answer they do
assist in the direction of said ANSWER
They are also another excuse to feel.
I’m closer to giving it all away.
It wipes existence OUT.
Little excuse to fail
There is no reason!
There is nothing!
The world & life are as big
As you make them
(2) FREEDOM
ANYTHING YOU FIND
DON’T BE AFRAID
OF IT
It’s relative alright
I AM GOD.
ANYTHING.
) Relativeness is ignorance
We are children for no excuse
Relativeness a part of

Christine Cook, “He said, ‘God equals infinity, infinity equals zero, therefore God does not exist.’”

David Young was insane, incoherent and unreasonable. He was a human bomb with a hair trigger.

Christine Cook, “The ultimate plan was after he got the money, blow the building, the children, the adults, his wife and himself up everything he was going to blow up. And take us to this place he called the ‘Brave New World.’”

While the local police and the FBI waited outside, along with most of the other 340 towns people, the panic inside the classroom mounted.

Christine Cook, “We had children sick to their stomachs, crying, and asking their teachers when can we go home, I want to go home.”

Young became more agitated; he taped off an area in the middle of the room where he and Doris sat. He told every one else if they stepped inside the square he would blow the bomb up. Strangely with the Young’s inside the square the children felt safer.

Amy Bagaso (age 11 at the time of the bombing), “It was like this total peace and a comforting feeling just touched every body.”

Ryan Taylor (age 7 at the time of the bombing), “It was a feeling to be relaxed not to worry. You’ll make it though it.”

Cynthia Hartley, “I just can explain it as peace. Always knew that nothing could happen to us.”

The peace of the hostages was fleeting. Without warning the bomb went off.

Christine Cook, “The room was almost instantaneous black. And we had teachers over there that were grabbing kids and trying to get them out through the classroom windows.”

Cynthia Hartley, “This lady grabbed my hand and she pushed me out the window. And I don’t know if I was going to make it out ‘cause I was to afraid to move.”

Amy Bagaso, “That was the most frightening experience not knowing how many are left, if any of my classmates.”

“And I heard Mr. More and a whole bunch of people yelling ‘We’re all here. We’re all accounted for.’ And that’s when every body in the town started yelling, you know, that every body was there and it was a great moment even though we were sad, kids were burned, kids were hurt. We were very happy we were all alive.”

Miraculously the only two people who died that day were David and Doris Young. Every one outside the so-called magic square survived.

Glenna Walker, parent, “and I could see my youngest daughter Katie sitting on the ground I ran to her and embraced her and she stood and told me ‘Mommy the angels saved us’ In the chaos and everything that was happening I think that may be I did not take them literally.”

Katie wasn’t the only child that talked about angels in the classroom. As the town struggled to recover from their shared trauma, other children began quietly admitting that angels had helped them too.

Katie Walker (age 7 at the time of the bombing), “I just kinda looked up and I saw this woman. And she told me to listen to my brother and everything would be ok. And I looked up again and she wasn’t there any more. And then my brother came over and told me to stay by the window. And everything would be ok. And he walked back across the room and that’s when the bomb went off.”

A few weeks later Katie saw the face of her angel again, she stared out at her from the locket her mother ware. It was her maternal grandmother who had died when her mother was just 15 and ½ years old. Six years before Katie was born. She described her as if she knew her all her life.

Katie Walker, “When I saw the photo and they told me she was died I came to the realization she was my guardian angel and was sent to help me.”

In the days that followed trauma councilors heard from many children who had seen they own guardian angel but not every parent believed what children were telling them.

Ron Hartley, parent and Investigating Detective, “I did not want my own son flesh and blood going around saying he saw an angel.”

Ron Hartley had four children inside Cokeville Elementary when the bomb went off, but he was also the police detective in charge of the investigation. When his own son Nathaniel insisted he had seen an angel, Hartley tried to be a cop first and a dad second.

Ron Hartley, “I just interviewed and interrogated my son. He said that he was sitting there and all of a sudden these angels came down through the ceiling and one of them came up to him and basically said Nathaniel I am your great grandmother and what David and Doris are doing is wrong. And that the bombs going to go off.” And I said, what was her name Nathaniel, and he said I think it was grandma Miester. And I though I had something there I could use to straighten him out cause his grandma Meister was still alive. So I resorted back to another cop technique, which is, bring out the mug shots. We were thumping though it, and all of a sudden there was a picture of both his grandmothers sitting there. And he just immediately put his little hand on the page so I couldn’t turn it he says, “That’s her.” He says, “That’s my guardian angel.” He pointed to my grandma Elliot who was sitting next to grandma Miester. I say “Nathaniel why didn’t you tell us this before?” And he said, “Dad you wouldn’t believe me.”

Whether or not there were angels in the room, is something that will never be proven. Investigators at the scene say the bomb was functional and should have been deadly.

Richard Haskell, Bomb technician, Sweetwater, County, “There should have been 160 people died. The bomb should have been much more destructive. From where this window is down here to the north every thing on this side should have been gone. This wall should have been laying down on the grass, the brick and every thing it shouldn’t have been here. It should have been gone.”

In a police videotape of the bombed out classroom an image is clearly visible on the southeast wall. Another photo of the area captures what looks like the outline of an angelic figure. Is this where an angel stood? The children say it is.

Amy Bagaso, “That was a sign showing us you know that yes this was a miracle. Be grateful.”

Katie Walker, “I think there probable were angels in that room when the bomb went off. And so like the image was impacted on the wall.”

Ryan Taylor, “There was an angel for every body watching over them for that day.”

Cynthia Hartley, “There’s absolutely no way we could have made it through that without some kind of help.”

Angels of Cokeville, a profound experience. Seeing is a profound experience.

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Beliefnet]]>Wed, 06 May 2009 02:20:25 PDT1241601625God was not created by man, therefore, God can not be killed by Men.

"Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal."

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

As Barack Hussein Obama II engaged in his tour of Europe, he told audiences in Turkey that the United State of America is not a Christian nation. “We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation,” Mr. Obama said on April 6. This echoes his statement in 2007 when Mr. Obama told CBN, “whatever we once were, we’re no longer just a Christian nation.”

Before his election Mr. Barack Hussein Obama II seemed to admit that we might have “once” been a Christian nation but are no longer “just” a Christian nation. But now he seems to be saying that we “don’t” consider ourselves Christian. Why did he feel compelled to quantify, before his election win, his now openly admitted belief that we just ain't Christians, living in a free nation. I like the word ain't here because it rhymes with hate, 'we just hate Christians here'.

Whatever his goal is, his sentiment is a popular one with Americans that sport left-wing, anti-religious ideology, people who look to Obama as their leader, their 'Messiah'.

“The First Continental Congress made its first act a prayer — the beginning of a great tradition. We have then, a lesson from the founders of our land, those giants of soul and intellect who’s courageous pledge of life and fortune and sacred honor, and whose ‘firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence,’ have ever guided and inspired Americans and all who would fan freedom’s mighty flames and live in ‘freedom’s holy light.’ That lesson is clear: That in the winning of freedom and in the living of life, the first step is prayer.” Ronald Reagan, 1988. Reagan's knowledge of history was one feature that made him the 'great communicator.' Reagan's understanding that the Founders of this country, nearly to a man, were Christians, was a corner stone in his faith and ability to lead. Even the Founders who were against organized religion believed in a God. A God that put us here and gave us certain rights as put forth in the Declaration of Independence.

“The belief in a God All Powerful wise and good, is so essential to the moral order of the world and to the happiness of man, that arguments which enforce it cannot be drawn from too many sources nor adapted with too much solicitude to the different characters and capacities impressed with it.” James Madison.

“Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals.” Samuel Adams.

A) “Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.”

B) “Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports.”

C) “And now, Almighty Father, if it is Thy holy will that we shall obtain a place and name among the nations of the earth, grant that we may be enabled to show our gratitude for Thy goodness by our endeavors to fear and obey Thee.” George Washington.

“It is the duty of mankind on all suitable occasions to acknowledge their dependence on the Divine being.” Ben Franklin.

”I proceed…to inquire what mode of education we shall adopt so as to secure to the state all the advantages that are to be derived from the proper instruction of youth; and here I beg leave to remark, that the only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments.” Benjamin Rush.

The Founding Fathers, created our country, its moral attitudes, its principles and procedures, based this countries foundations on the Christian God and His Commandments. They felt this foundation to be absolutely necessary to the stability of this government. They warned that to do away with them would be our countries downward spiral.

But today, civil Libertarians fight to remake the United States of America into a Godless and amoral society based upon an if-it-feels-right-do-it way of thinking. The Democrat Party tries to replace religion with Government-ism and Socialism. Even Republicans distance themselves from the question of the religious ethics of Christianity, as if it is a backward ideal that would best be forgotten.

Benjamin Rush had it right when he said that without religion “… there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments.”

Whether you like it or not, we are founded on Christian fundamentals and if we cast off our Christian Foundations, we will no longer be the United States of America, we will no longer have in us what made us the leader of the free world.

"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.


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9 Principles

1. America Is Good.
2. I believe in God and He is the Center of my Life.
God “The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the external rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained.” from George Washington’s first Inaugural address.
3. I must always try to be a more honest person than I was yesterday. Honesty “I hope that I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider to be the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.” George Washington
4. The family is sacred. My spouse and I are the ultimate authority, not the government. Marriage/Family “It is in the love of one’s family only that heartfelt happiness is known. By a law of our nature, we cannot be happy without the endearing connections of a family.” Thomas Jefferson
5. If you break the law you pay the penalty. Justice is blind and no one is above it. Justice “I deem one of the essential principles of our government… equal and exact justice to all men of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political.” Thomas Jefferson
6. I have a right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, but there is no guarantee of equal results. Life, Liberty, & The Pursuit of Happiness “Everyone has a natural right to choose that vocation in life which he thinks most likely to give him comfortable subsistence.” Thomas Jefferson
7. I work hard for what I have and I will share it with who I want to. Government cannot force me to be charitable. Charity “It is not everyone who asketh that deserveth charity; all however, are worth of the inquiry or the deserving may suffer.” George Washington
8. It is not un-American for me to disagree with authority or to share my personal opinion. On your right to disagree “In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude; every man will speak as he thinks, or more properly without thinking.” George Washington
9. The government works for me. I do not answer to them, they answer to me. Who works for whom? “I consider the people who constitute a society or a nation as the source of all authority in that nation.” Thomas Jefferson

12 Values

Honesty
Reverence
Hope
Thrift
Humility
Charity
Sincerity
Moderation
Hard Work
Courage
Personal Responsibility
Gratitude
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