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Go with WK, of course. See How premarital sex damages a woman’s ability to be in a relationship. Better yet, just see what the Bible has to say and then don’t be surprised when the logical consequences of fornication are destructive beyond measure.
Then again, via Planned Parenthood Tells Teens Nothing Wrong With Multiple Sex Partners:
Alex the “expert,” pronounced through Planned Parenthood’s Tumblr: “Since the number of sexual partners you’ve had doesn’t say anything about your character, your morals, or your personality – or about anything at all really– there’s nothing bad or unhealthy about having a big number of sexual partners.”
And you can totally trust Planned Parenthood. I mean, just because they kill babies for a living, systematically hide rape, incest and sex trafficking, encourage kids to have all sorts of out-of-wedlock sex and pretend that it can be done without risks, would rather destroy a breast cancer charity than part ways amicably, commit Medicaid fraud, teach kids the joys of BDSM, and so much more, they are still worthy of receiving hundreds of millions of $ in taxpayer funds, right?
Radical pro-abortionist and false teacher Chuck “Jesus is not the only way but He sure is a bigot” Currie of the UCC (Unitarians Counterfeiting Christ) took a break from taking little girls to gay pride parades to do some race-baiting: Remarks at The Oregon League Of Minority Voters Dinner
For all the gifts of our democracy, however, we are a nation not fully free. A broken system allowed the loser of the popular vote to take the presidency in 2001. Our political system has never fully recovered.
That’s not a broken system, it operated as designed. He’s just a sore loser. And it is common knowledge that the Leftist media calling the election early for Gore sent countless Republicans home. The popular vote would have been different otherwise. Chuck’s first lie was an old one, but designed to drive conflict and destroy peace.
Since then we have given corporations the rights of people and taken away from certain people the right to freely vote.
Another lie. While the Left steals more and more elections with illegal aliens and other non-citizens voting, asking people to show ID is the most obvious solution ever. His audience should have been insulted that he thinks they are too stupid to get an ID.
The United States keeps company with nations like Russia in incarcerating large numbers of our fellow citizens, and in America those jailings are disproportionally based on skin color and not on crime.
Yet another lie. His native tongue!
We are not fully free in Missouri or New York or California or Oregon when unarmed African-Americans are killed by uniformed police officers and we know the process of investigation will be neither fair nor balanced.
The evidence shows that the intoxicated thug who just assaulted someone and stole from a convenience store was not shot as the Left claims. More lies. But Chuck & Co. don’t let that get in the way of the narrative. Their theme is, “Stay on the plantation!”
“Ours is a disconnected reality. We live in an age where an African-American can be elected president of the United States. We live in an age where a Latino can serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. We live in an age where a lesbian woman can serve as the Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives. All of these people serve based on the content of their character.”
No, that’s the irony. They were affirmative action elections and appointments, not based on their character or accomplishments.
. . .Neither political party pays enough attention to poverty and economic inequity but the harshest judgment must rest with those who have fought investments in jobs, expansion in health care…and with those who have simply turned a blind eye to the people Jesus called the least of these.
No, the harshest judgment is for pro-abortion extremists like Currie who fight to increase the rate of abortions in the black community even higher than the current rate of 3-to-1 over whites. Those are the “least of these” from the passage Currie blasphemously abuses.
The crisis of Ferguson is not an isolated incident but indicative of larger social ills that infect the whole body of our nation.
We agree on that. The Leftists caused these ills by subsidizing fornication and out of wedlock births, which destroyed the black family (and now the white family) and swelled our prisons.
Only when we recognize the common humanity that we all share will we all be free.
How ironic for a radical pro-abortion extremists to appeal to our common humanity!
We cannot treat one another as if we can do without the other. . . .We are not fully free because we do not treat the “other” as necessary, as integral, when there is no one, not a soul, that can be left behind. If we do not love neighbor as ourselves, we have no hope.
Yeah, no one like this or this.
Race-baiting Leftists are a disgrace — even more so when posing as Christians. Note how Currie wears his collar (seems odd for a UCC “pastor”). Almost as if he is in a Halloween costume!
Via The Democrats’ Degradation of Women.
They take them for granted the same way they do with blacks. Mercifully, the tide appears to be turning.
More people leaving the plantation! I’m encouraged to see more of these coming out.
Radical pro-abortionist and false teacher Chuck “Jesus is not the only way but He sure is a bigot” Currie of the UCC (Unitarians Counterfeiting Christ) took a break from taking little girls to gay pride parades to do some race-baiting: Remarks at The Oregon League Of Minority Voters Dinner
For all the gifts of our democracy, however, we are a nation not fully free. A broken system allowed the loser of the popular vote to take the presidency in 2001. Our political system has never fully recovered.
That’s not a broken system, it operated as designed. He’s just a sore loser. And it is common knowledge that the Leftist media calling the election early for Gore sent countless Republicans home. The popular vote would have been different otherwise. Chuck’s first lie was an old one, but designed to drive conflict and destroy peace.
Since then we have given corporations the rights of people and taken away from certain people the right to freely vote.
Another lie. While the Left steals more and more elections with illegal aliens and other non-citizens voting, asking people to show ID is the most obvious solution ever. His audience should have been insulted that he thinks they are too stupid to get an ID.
The United States keeps company with nations like Russia in incarcerating large numbers of our fellow citizens, and in America those jailings are disproportionally based on skin color and not on crime.
Yet another lie. His native tongue!
We are not fully free in Missouri or New York or California or Oregon when unarmed African-Americans are killed by uniformed police officers and we know the process of investigation will be neither fair nor balanced.
The evidence shows that the intoxicated thug who just assaulted someone and stole from a convenience store was not shot as the Left claims. More lies. But Chuck & Co. don’t let that get in the way of the narrative. Their theme is, “Stay on the plantation!”
“Ours is a disconnected reality. We live in an age where an African-American can be elected president of the United States. We live in an age where a Latino can serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. We live in an age where a lesbian woman can serve as the Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives. All of these people serve based on the content of their character.”
No, that’s the irony. They were affirmative action elections and appointments, not based on their character or accomplishments.
. . .Neither political party pays enough attention to poverty and economic inequity but the harshest judgment must rest with those who have fought investments in jobs, expansion in health care…and with those who have simply turned a blind eye to the people Jesus called the least of these.
No, the harshest judgment is for pro-abortion extremists like Currie who fight to increase the rate of abortions in the black community even higher than the current rate of 3-to-1 over whites. Those are the “least of these” from the passage Currie blasphemously abuses.
The crisis of Ferguson is not an isolated incident but indicative of larger social ills that infect the whole body of our nation.
We agree on that. The Leftists caused these ills by subsidizing fornication and out of wedlock births, which destroyed the black family (and now the white family) and swelled our prisons.
Only when we recognize the common humanity that we all share will we all be free.
How ironic for a radical pro-abortion extremists to appeal to our common humanity!
We cannot treat one another as if we can do without the other. . . .We are not fully free because we do not treat the “other” as necessary, as integral, when there is no one, not a soul, that can be left behind. If we do not love neighbor as ourselves, we have no hope.
Yeah, no one like this or this.
Race-baiting Leftists are a disgrace — even more so when posing as Christians. Note how Currie wears his collar (seems odd for a UCC “pastor”). Almost as if he is in a Halloween costume!
But here’s good news: More people leaving the plantation! I’m encouraged to see more of these coming out all the time. Currie et al must be scared that blacks are wising up to them.
Forbes magazine had a leadership article on their online site and discussed how Bart Campolo, son of “red letter Christian” Tony Campolo, had left the church. Via Bart Campolo’s heretical and liberating leadership journey:
Once in a while, an apple falls from its tree … and then won’t stop rolling away of its own accord. Bart Campolo comes to mind.
For years, he was a spiritual leader who carried the distinction of being the son of evangelical pastor and social-justice champion Tony Campolo.
That’s one of the many problems of nepotism. The guy wasn’t even a Christian but he had a leadership role!
Today, Bart is the humanist chaplain at the University of Southern California, a job he has held for a little over a month. [Disclosure: USC is my alma mater and primary employer.]
In one sense, he is the same person he has always been, fighting for the welfare of the sick and the poor. But he is now agnostic, in stark contrast to his legendary father.
In his new role, he will offer encouragement to many like-minded people seeking meaning and purpose; and he will outrage or scare the pants off millions of people with whom he no longer shares a religious identity.
Scared? Who would be scared? He was just another wolf who took the sheep’s clothing off. And the outrage isn’t for him, but for the churches who made him so comfortable as a non-believer and made him a leader.
The younger Campolo’s journey reveals the process by which leaders discover who they are and what they’ll fight for; and the process by which they come, often painfully, to discover their unique, authentic voice.
“We’ve got chaplains on our campus representing 90 specific religious and spiritual traditions, but Bart’s our first humanist chaplain,” says Varun Soni, USC’s dean of Religious Life. “I think he’s a crucial addition, because I think there’s a hunger for an engaged and active secular humanist community. I think the future is going to be less about traditional doctrines and practices and more about people wrestling together with things like significance, identity and how to contribute to society. It’s a broader definition of religion, faith and spirituality.”
Oh, its humanist, all right! Making gods in their own images.
Campolo’s own path would seem to suggest there is truth to Soni’s hunch. “When people ask me when I started to ‘lose faith,’” Bart tells me, “I usually say, ‘Within about 15 minutes of becoming a Christian.’”
Of course, we know from 1 John 2:19 that if he has left to be a humanist “chaplain” that he never was a Christian. He was done a disservice by those in the church. 1 John 2:19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us.
. . . And he would go on to create inner-city ministries around the nation designed to rescue suffering people from unemployment, addiction, sex slavery and other ills.
If those organizations helped people, that’s great.
Yet that faith, from its nascence, was tested on various fronts. Theodicy (the theological attempts to justify why God allows evil) would exhaust him when he would encounter actual victims of gang rape or other forms of cruelty. Gay roommates would challenge his notions of what it meant to love others unconditionally. A severe bike accident a few years ago brought him to a conviction that he wasn’t a soul in a body, but rather a finite, manipulable mass of cells and neurons that would one day be entirely gone.
Theodicy is an interesting topic, of course, but it always amusing that people like Campolo weren’t concerned about evil until they knew someone personally who suffered, as if the countless evil acts to date didn’t count. And he’s yet another Leftist who sits in judgment of God’s creation of sexual morality.
And he isn’t a very clear thinker if he believes we aren’t souls as well as bodies. If his worldview is true then he has no grounding for any moral claims.
All along, a sense of intellectual honesty would suggest to him that everyone of religious faith, himself included, played games with scriptures. “We’d underline the parts we like and ignore the parts we didn’t like,” Campolo says. “I underlined some verses about a loving, all-inclusive, God and ignored some other verses.”
I’m glad he admitted how Leftists ignore verses they don’t like!
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Today, Bart Campolo is as animated by his social-justice values as ever. But he no longer sees a religious narrative as the source of those values. He relishes the explanations and speculations of empirical science about the origin and nature of things: “To me, science’s story is even more amazing than any religion’s creation story,” he tells me.
That begs the question. The real God is sovereign over science as well. It is all his story.
“And Neil deGrasse Tyson is as inspiring as any preacher I’ve heard.”
Tyson’s speaking (and penchant for making up quotes) is meaningless as to the truth of his worldview.
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What meaning does he draw from that scientific narrative? “The universe is wonderful,” he says. “And life is to be cherished.”
Yes, because God wrote that on our hearts. But his godless worldview can’t ground that.
He sees in that narrative real evidence that nature selects, in a Darwinian sense, for the values that he holds—indeed, that the mystical concept of “love” itself is rigged into the system, selecting for altruism, community, self-sacrifice, gratitude, compassion and forgiveness.
No, Darwinian evolution would support survival of the fittest, sex trafficking, slavery, etc.
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Campolo notes that many longtime, active members of churches confide to him that they share his skepticism—maybe even his outright unbelief. But they often stay there, silently assenting to what they don’t believe, because they need the identity, the support and the belonging that comes from their existing community.
In the famous parable of the weeds in Matthew’s gospel, Jesus warns that the good wheat in a farmer’s field might have among it bad weeds that were sown by an “enemy.” It was a caution about the presence of “false” members within the church. It also reflects the dilemma of many so-called weeds, who may stay in the church while muffling their own convictions and dissensions.
In that sense, Bart Campolo may be helping lead the planting of a new, humanistic church where the weeds can finally grow free, without apology.
That’s an excellent point, albeit a bit ironic. You just need to take the quotes off of enemy and weeds, and keep reading to find out what happens to the weeds for eternity. For in Campolo’s made-up religion, we’re just masses of cells with no ultimate accountability to a creator. There will be no justice for any evil — ours or those that commit it against us. That view is not only false but pathetic. What kind of community gathers to celebrate that?
This is one of the feel-good stories of the decade. Increasing domestic energy production by over 50% the last few years has saved hundreds of billions on energy costs, provided countless jobs and increased tax revenues, increased our independence as a country and stuck it to our enemies. Enjoy the benefits of supply and demand! Via The True Reason Gas Prices are Falling (Hint: It’s Not Because of Green Energy).
At present levels, these lower oil and gas prices are the equivalent of a $200 billion cost saving to American consumers and businesses. That’s $200 billion a year we don’t have to send to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and other foreign nations. Now that’s an economic stimulus par excellence.
There are many global reasons why gas prices are falling, but the major one isn’t being widely reported. America has become in the last several years an energy-producing powerhouse. And sorry, Mr. President, I’m not talking about the niche “green energy” sources you are so weirdly fixated with.
Oil prices are falling because of changes in world supply and world demand. Demand has slowed because Europe is an economic wreck. But since 2008 the U.S. has increased our domestic supply by a gigantic 50 percent. This is a result of the astounding shale oil and gas revolution made possible by made-in-America technologies like hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling. Already thanks to these inventions, the U.S. has become the number one producer of natural gas. But oil production in states like Oklahoma, Texas and North Dakota has doubled in just six years.
Without this energy blitz, the U.S. economy would barely have recovered from the recession of 2008-09. From the beginning of 2008 through the end of 2013 the oil and gas extraction industry created more than 100,000 jobs while the overall job market shrank by 970,000.
When the radical greens carry around signs saying “No to Fracking,” they couldn’t be promoting a more anti-America message. It would be like Nebraska not growing corn.
We are just skimming the surface of our super-abundant oil and gas resources. New fields have been discovered in Texas and North Dakota that could contain hundreds of years of shale oil and gas supplies.
Here’s another reason to love the oil and gas bonanza in America. It’s breaking the back of OPEC. Saudi Arabia is deluging the world with oil right now, which is driving the world price relentlessly lower. The Arabs understand–as too few in Washington do–that shale energy boom is no short term fad. It could make energy cheaper for decades to come. As American drillers get better at perfecting the technologies of cracking through shale rock to get to the near infinite treasure chest supplies of energy locked inside, we will soon overtake Saudi Arabia as the dominant player in world energy markets.
Get This Prayer App — Seriously, prayer apps are extremely useful. I don’t use that one, but it sounds really good. I use one called Prayer Notebook.
The River Of God — Great analysis and message from a father to his children — and anyone else who will listen.
New York Times Editorial Calls for Moving Toward Normalization of Pedophilia — Of course! Right on schedule. In a few years they will be demanding that you approve of pedophiles the same way the insist that you approve of the rest of the LGBTQX alphabet soup of rebellion against God.
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I enjoyed being able to do early voting here in Texas. The only minor surprise was that the Democrats’ nominee for governor was listed as Wendy “Abortion Barbie” Davis. Just kidding! Probably! It was fun to vote for Abbott.
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5 Ways To Lose the Battle Against Sin — great reminders!
Transanity of the week: Dan Ennis Changes Sex Three Times, Gets Canned by ABC News — The first change was cheered, of course. They were so proud of him! But after three times it apparently got old. Maybe they figured out what normal people knew all along: This is one confused husband and father of three.
Cosmologist Luke Barnes answers 11 objections to the fine-tuning argument
Decrypting Bitcoin — If you’ve wondered what Bitcoin is, this is a good overview. No plans to invest in it, though!
9 Things You Should Know About Down Syndrome — Key thing: 2/3 of people with Down Syndrome are murdered because of it. That should not be.
The Logical Consequence of Treating Your Base Like Garbage — Yep. I’d never donate to the national Republicans. They support too many RINOs and demonize conservatives.
Dutch euthanasia law a huge success — Of course they mean it is successful in terms of killing lots of people, just as designed. This is creepy, evil and entirely predictable.
The good news is that the Netherlands is still capable of creating something other than Muslim extremists. The bad news is that what they are producing is the state sanctioned killing of the sick and elderly by medical professionals.
Pregnant Abortionist Feels Her Baby Kick As She Tears Off Leg in an Abortion — That’s what they do.
An Acts 8 Outlook — Great points, as always, by Stan.
So remember Acts 8. Stephen did the right thing and died for it. Doing the right thing spawned persecution. Persecution scattered the Christians. As a result of persecution, then, they “went everywhere preaching the word”, and “Philip went down to the city of Samaria and proclaimed to them the Christ.” That’s a good thing. That is, confidence in a Sovereign God to take the evil intentions of rebels around you to use their evils for your good and His glory is a good thing. A really good thing.
Moses was ‘Barbaric, Schizophrenic,’ Says ‘Exodus: Gods and Kings’ Actor Christian Bale — “Bale admitted that he was not knowledgeable about the Bible and had to do some significant research for the role.” Indeed! This article is one more reason I avoid [allegedly] Bible-based movies.Why would you expect pagans to get anything right? It is in their job description to mock or distort the word of God! Romans 1:18–20 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
CNN Makes a Mockery of the Worst Moment of Bristol Palin’s Life, She Responds — Nothing to see here, folks. Just more Leftist media hypocrisy.
Bristol Palin was pushed to the ground. She was dragged across the grass. She was called a “slut.” She was robbed.
CNN’s Carol Costello thought that was hilarious.
In what was perhaps the worst moment of Bristol’s life, the media treated her as a laughingstock. Outlets couldn’t wait to report on the “Palin family brawl” or the “thrilla in Wasilla” that occurred at a party in Anchorage, Alaska, and turn it into a TMZ segment. Heck, it was probably even on the verge of becoming a Saturday Night Live skit. MSNBC’s Joy Reid referred to it as a “stunt” and said John McCain should apologize for putting Sarah Palin on the ballot in 2008. But, the worst “report” of all, had to be this insensitive segment from CNN’s Costello.
CNN obtained the audio from the unfortunate incident. In the clip, an exhausted and shaken Bristol describes how a stranger pushed her sister Willow, then assaulted her. To make matters worse, Bristol had her five-year-old son Tripp in the car and she was clearly concerned for his safety as well. It is this audio clip that Costella told her viewers to “sit back and enjoy:”
When the Ray Rice scandal broke and that terrifying video surfaced of the football player knocking his fiancé to the ground and dragging her out of an elevator, Costello slammed Fox News for supposedly making light of it. She also made sure to inform her viewers about the very real dangers of domestic assault. Here she is reading off a few statistics, for instance, that 1 in 4 women experience domestic violence and women 20 to 24-years-old are at greatest risk.
Fast forward a month later, Costello is openly mocking Bristol Palin for…being a victim of physical assault. You’d think she’d change her mind about making jokes about the encounter after listening to the troubling clip, but at the end, she merely says, “You can thank me later.”
What did Jesus think of the Old Testament? — A recent comment on an old post said this:
Isaac Asimov once said, “Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.”
My response:
Thanks, that’s a great example of the foolishness of people who rebel against God. Deep down he knew that Christianity was the real, authentic religion. Otherwise, he’d never say something so stupid as that, pretending that if one religion was false then they all must be. As J. Budziszewski, atheist-turned-Christian philosophy professor from the University of Texas say, “Though it always comes as a surprise to intellectuals, there are some forms of stupidity that you must be highly intelligent and educated to commit. God keeps them in His arsenal to pull down mulish pride, and I discovered them all.”
But the Bible is truly the word of God and carries the good news of how to be reconciled to him — even rebels who currently agree with Asimov.
Romans 1:18–20 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
The media embargo on “the B word” — No, not that one. They’ll gladly say that. They won’t say black. Apparently it is too racist to note the most obvious descriptor of a person.
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Don’t miss this response to the silly and evil video with little girls swearing (I didn’t watch the evil one, but this one is dead on).
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Great video on the 2nd Amendment. Watch then save!
Leftists often remind me of Homer Simpson, when he says things like this.
To Alcohol! The cause of… and solution to… all of life’s problems.
Why? Because they put policies in place that cause problems (just like alcohol can) then they think they have the solution to the problems as well — even though they are just more of the same and/or new things that make the situation deteriorate further.
Example: False teacher Mark Sandlin was lamenting the size of U.S. prison populations in If You Only See One Video This Week, It Should Be This One. I share his concern, but he thinks the solution is to just watch a video and care more about it. I’d rather actually do something!
My comment there:
I wonder how many people cheering this video do prison ministry? I’ve been going into prisons with the love and truth of Christ for 8 years and have found it to be very rewarding and effective. Of course, we take the real Gospel and not Leftist theology, which is why it works so well. Not only does it transform lives, families and the prison culture (which is why wardens love the ministry), it dramatically REDUCES RECIDIVISM. That means less broken families, less victims, less costs to society, etc.
As I tell my white friends, we as black people, we’re never going to be successful, not because of you white people, but because of other black people. When you’re black, you have to deal with so much crap in your life from other black people. It’s a—It’s a dirty, dark secret; I’m glad it’s coming out. It comes out every few years. I wrote a big chapter in my book about it, to be honest with you.
I said, you know, when young black kids, you know, when they do well in school, the loser kids tell them, ‘Oh, you’re acting white.’ The kids who speak intelligently—
They tell them, ‘You’re acting white.’ So it’s a dirty, dark secret in the black community.
One of the reasons we’re never going to be successful as a whole, because of other black people. And for some reason we are brainwashed to think, if you’re not a thug or an idiot, you’re not black enough. If you go to school, make good grades, speak intelligent, and don’t break the law, you’re not a good black person. And it’s a dirty, dark secret, Anthony.
Most, I—I heard Stephen A. [Smith] talkin about it, and it, listen, I hate to bring white people into our crap, but as a black person, we all go through it when you’re successful. Uh, you know it’s like one of the reasons, you know, one of the reasons a lot of black players go broke is because when you’re successful your friends say to you, ‘Oh, you ain’t cool. You ain’t down with us anymore.’
And you end up giving up all your money to these damn losers, and you end up broke again.
But it’s a dirty, dark secret in the black community. There are a lot of black people who are unintelligent, who don’t have, uh, success. It’s best to knock a successful black person down because they’re intelligent, they speak well, they do well in school, and they’re successful. And they don’t..if you think about it—
Anthony Gargano: Well it’s crabs in a barrel, right?
It’s crabs in a barrel. The thing that’s hap—we’re the only race that tell people if you don’t have street cred, with like, that means you been arrested—
Like, like that’s a compliment. We’re the only ethnic group who say, ‘Hey, if you go to jail, it gives you street cred.’ It’s just typical BS that goes on when you’re black, man. But don’t waste a lot of time on it please.
Those are great, but politically incorrect, points by Barkley. He’ll be labeled an Uncle Tom and worse, of course, for speaking the truth. This should be must-reading/watching in public schools. Why don’t false teachers and people like Obama say things like this? It’s obvious: They’d be out of jobs if blacks followed the advice of Barkley instead of the race-baiters. Hacks like Jim Wallis are too busy profiting from the deaths of Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin to care about the facts or to actually help black people.
Eternity Matters 