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VICTORY: ABC Cancels Anti-Christian Show

admin — Tue, 15 May 2012 15:50:02 +0000

Last year we exposed ABC television network’s wicked plans to air an offensive new show entitled Good Christian B*****. The show portrayed Christian women as mean-spirited antagonists who maliciously conspire against a new woman in town.

From its very first episode the show was demeaning to both women and Christians. Can you imagine them attacking Jews or Muslims this way?

So we called on you to put pressure the show’s advertisers and it worked. Many of the sponsors dropped out. Now, because of your faithful prayers and hard work, ABC announced they would be canceling the show.

Thank God for this victory, but we must remain diligent to stop the Christian bashing.

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Obama Perverts Christ to Affirm Homosexual “Marriage”

admin — Thu, 10 May 2012 16:47:29 +0000

In a very predictable announcement this week President Obama endorsed homosexual "marriage." He claims his position was “evolving” when it actually devolved back to a pre-Christian pagan view of human sexuality. This is not surprising to everyone who knew he was lying to begin with when he said he opposed gay "marriage." What is galling is the way in which Obama invokes Christ to try to justify his anti-Christ position.

“In the end the values that I care most deeply about and she [Michelle] cares most deeply about is how we treat other people and, you know, I, you know, we are both practicing Christians and obviously this position may be considered to put us at odds with the views of others but, you know, when we think about our faith, the thing at root that we think about is, not only Christ sacrificing himself on our behalf, but it’s also the Golden Rule, you know, treat others the way you would want to be treated,” Obama said. “And I think that’s what we try to impart to our kids and that’s what motivates me as president and I figure the most consistent I can be in being true to those precepts, the better I’ll be as a as a dad and a husband and hopefully the better I’ll be as president.”

While this may sound very noble, it is in fact very pernicious and ends up turning the Bible on its head. The Bible is very clear about homosexual acts being a very evil thing. Some of the strongest censures in the Bible are reserved for this particular sin. So how can a person in the name of Christ endorse precisely what Christ has condemned?

Some argue that Christ never said anything about homosexuality and it is only condemned in the Old Testament. But Jesus affirmed all that the Old Testament taught (Matthew 5:17) and condemned the leaders of his day who made God’s law of no effect by their own man-made traditions and ideas (Mark 7:13). Christ’s inspired Apostles followed his example and affirmed the Old Testament (Romans 3:31) and condemned homosexual sin consistently and explicitly in the New Testament. (I Cor. 6:9-11; I Tim 1:9-11; Jude 6)

Jesus did speak on the matter of homosexual sin. Since Jesus is God and the Bible is God’s Word, logic dictates that whatever the Bible says about homosexuality is Jesus speaking on the topic. This is exactly what the Apostle Peter tells us. The prophets in the Old Testament spoke in the name of God by “the Spirit of Christ who was in them...” (1 Peter 1:11) Whatever the Bible says is the Word of Christ.

Are we supposed to treat everyone the way they want to be treated? No. We don’t because we have to uphold moral standards to honor God, preserve society and protect our children. Certain actions are intrinsically sinful and people who engage in them ought to be discouraged in their rebellion, not celebrated and affirmed. Their eternal soul and our society is on the line. Remember, God is not mocked and there will be consequences for man's open, flagrant sin, both individually and corporately. The most loving thing to do for homosexuals is to call them to repentance and to turn to Christ to be forgiven and restored.

You may be offended by this position, but it is the biblical and historic position of God’s Word and His people. If you disagree and think your position is more wise, just and loving than God’s, then at least have the courage to say so. But STOP invoking Christ to oppose Christ. This is at best hypocritical, but is in reality nothing less that rank, bald-faced apostasy.

Jeremiah 8:8-9 "How can you say, 'We are wise, And the law of the Lord is with us'? Look, the false pen of the scribe certainly works falsehood. 9 The wise men are ashamed, They are dismayed and taken. Behold, they have rejected the word of the Lord; So what wisdom do they have?"

A BIBLICAL PRAYER:

Psalm 119:126, "It is time for You to act, O Lord, For they have regarded Your law as void."

NEWEST VIDEO: Obama’s Radical Supreme Court Judges

admin — Thu, 03 May 2012 16:43:33 +0000

There's an old saying that "personnel is policy." Taking a look at President Obama's appointments to the Supreme Court only reveals his anti-Christian agenda. Both Sonia Sotomayor and Elana Kagan hold extreme ideologies and have a history of supporting or engaging in judicial activism.

Watch our latest video below, "Reason #4 Why Barack Obama is NOT a Christian." In it we document Obama's Supreme Court nominations and why they are a danger to your liberties.

Mitt Romney’s Racist Mormon Skeletons

admin — Wed, 02 May 2012 17:12:19 +0000

Cries of, “You’re a racist!” interrupted Mitt Romney’s photo op with former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani in front of a NYC firehouse yesterday. What was planned to be a show of Republican unity was interrupted by charges that will haunt Mitt Romney and may derail his chances to become the Republican nominee at the Republican Convention in August.

It's ironic that a political party who has President Abraham Lincoln, the emancipator of Blacks, as its most enduring leader, will possibly have as its nominee a man who has served in a leadership position in an historically racist religion.

Mormonism taught that blacks have black skin because they are cursed by God. See the quotes from Brigham Young and other prominent Mormon leaders below. This has embarrassed the Mormon Church and since 1978 they have tried to distance themselves from this position. But Mitt Romney and Mormons are painted into a corner. In order to deny they are racists they have to disagree with their “prophets” and their own “scriptures.”

Prior to 1978, the Book of Mormon and their other “scriptures” were used by the church leaders to justify their racist views. The problem for Mormons is they believe their scriptures and their “prophets” can’t be allowed by God to lead the Mormon Church astray. So who is right? Is it the pre-1978 racist Mormon “prophets” or their new position?

If the pre-1978 “prophets” were wrong about Blacks, then what else are they wrong about? This is why Romney and Mormons can’t renounce the historic racism in Mormonism. To admit the older founders and leaders of Mormonism can err undermines the entire authority structure of the Mormon Church.

The current Mormon strategy is to lie and pretend not to know why the older “prophets” and their “scriptures” called blacks cursed and ineligible for the Mormon priesthood. "For a time in the Church there was a restriction on the priesthood for male members of African descent. It is not known precisely why, how, or when this restriction began in the Church but what is clear is that it ended decades ago.” (http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/racial-remarks-in-washington-post-article)

Mormons can’t deny what has been written. Neither will they renounce their “prophets” or “scriptures.” So they pretend to not know why the previous prophets taught Blacks were cursed. Below are the explicit teachings of the Mormon Church. The stated reasons are very clear. This attempt to mislead the public is very transparent and demonstrates the length Mormons will go to deceive.

Is it fair to charge Romney with racism? Only God knows the heart. Romney’s refusal to distance himself from teachings and practices of Mormonism has brought this on. Biblical Christianity affirms all people are equal and created in the image and likeness of God and form one human race. The strange, heterodox teachings of Mormonism will be an ongoing issue for the Romney campaign.

The Historic Mormon Teaching on Why Blacks are Banned from the Mormon Priesthood

Gordon B Hinckley (15th President of the Mormon Church); “I remind you that no man who makes disparaging remarks concerning those of another race can consider himself a true disciple of Christ.” (Gordon B. Hinckley, “The Need for Greater Kindness,” Ensign (Conference Edition), May 2005, p.58).

Do the following remarks by Mormon leaders qualify as disparaging remarks?

Brigham Young (Second President); “Why are so many of the inhabitants of the earth cursed with a sin of blackness? It comes in consequence of their fathers rejecting the power of the Holy Priesthood, and the law of God. They will go down to death. And when all the rest of the children have received their blessings in the Holy Priesthood, then that curse will be removed from the seed of Cain, and they will then come up and possess the priesthood, and receive all the blessings which we now are entitled to. The volition of the creature is free; this is a law of their existence, and the Lord cannot violate his own law; were he to do that, he would cease to be God” (August 19, 1866, Journal of Discourses 11:272)

Brigham Young; “Shall I tell you the law of God in regard to the African race? If the white man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of Cain, the penalty, under the law of God, is death on the spot. This will always be so.” (Brigham Young, March 8, 1863: a conference talk in the Tabernacle, Journal of Discourses 10:110).

Brigham Young; “Now then, in the kingdom of God on the earth, a man who has the African blood in him cannot hold one jot nor tittle of Priesthood; Why? Because they are the true eternal principals the Lord Almighty has ordained, and who can help it − men cannot, the angels cannot, and all the powers of Earth and Hell cannot take it off, but thus saith the Eternal, ‘I am, what I am, I take it off at My pleasure’, and not one particle of power can that posterity of Cain have, until the time comes the [Lord] says He will have it taken away. That time will come, when they will have the privilege of all we have the privilege of, and more. In the Kingdom of God on the Earth the Africans cannot hold one particle of power in Government” (Vol. 3 1852-1854, Fred C. Collier, ed., p. 43. Speech given to the Joint Session of the Legislature in Salt Lake City, on Thursday, February 5, 1852. Brackets in original).

Brigham Young; “How long is that race to endure the dreadful curse that is upon them? That curse will remain upon them, and they never can hold the Priesthood or share in it until all the other descendants of Adam have received the promises and enjoyed the blessings of the Priesthood and the keys thereof. Until the last ones of the residue of Adam's children are brought up to that favourable position, the children of Cain cannot receive the first ordinances of the Priesthood. They were the first that were cursed, and they will be the last from whom the curse will be removed. When the residue of the family of Adam come up and receive their blessings, then the curse will be removed from the seed of Cain, and they will receive blessings in like proportion” (Brigham Young, October 9, 1859, Journal of Discourses 7:290-291).

John Taylor (Third President); “And after the flood we are told that the curse that had been pronounced upon Cain was continued through Ham’s wife, as he had married a wife of that seed. And why did it pass through the flood? Because it was necessary that the devil should have a representation upon the earth as well as God” (John Taylor, August 28th, 1881, Journal of Discourses 22:304. See also Latter-day Prophets Speak: Selections from the Sermons and Writings of Church Presidents, p.157, Daniel H. Ludlow, ed.). (B. 1808; D. 1887)

John Taylor; “Why is it, in fact, that we should have a devil? Why did not the Lord kill him long ago? Because he could not do without him. He needed the devil and a great many of those who do his bidding just to keep men straight, that we may learn to place our dependence upon God, and trust in Him, and to observe his laws and keep his commandments. When he destroyed the inhabitants of the antediluvian world, he suffered a descendant of Cain to come through the flood in order that he might be properly represented upon the earth” (John Taylor, October 29, 1882, Journal of Discourses 23:336).

David O. McKay (Ninth Mormon President); "I know of no scriptural basis for denying the Priesthood to Negroes other than one verse in the Book of Abraham (1:26); however, I believe, as you suggest, that the real reason dates back to our pre-existent life.” (Letter dated November 3, 1947)

Joseph Fielding Smith (Tenth President); “That the negro race, for instance, have been placed under restrictions because of their attitude in the world of spirits, few will doubt. It cannot be looked upon as just that they should be deprived of the power of the Priesthood without it being a punishment for some act, or acts, performed before they were born. Yet, like all other spirits who come into this world, they come innocent before God so far as mortal existence is concerned, and here, under certain restrictions, they may work out their second estate. If they prove faithful in this estate, without doubt, our Eternal Father, who is just and true, will reward them accordingly and there will be in store for them some blessings of exaltation” (The Way To Perfection, p.43; Smith the tenth president of the Mormon Church until 1972, the son of Joseph F. Smith, the sixth president. Founder Joseph Smith, Jr., was Joseph Fielding's great-uncle.

Joseph Fielding Smith; “There is a reason why one man is born black and with other disadvantages, while another is born white with great advantages. The reason is that we once had an estate before we came here, and were obedient; more or less, to the laws that were given us there. Those who were faithful in all things there received greater blessings here, and those who were not faithful received less” (Doctrines of Salvation 1:61. Italics in original).

Joseph Fielding Smith; “NO NEUTRALS IN HEAVEN. There were no neutrals in the war in heaven. All took sides either with Christ or with Satan. Every man had his agency there, and men receive rewards here based upon their actions there, just as they will receive rewards hereafter for deeds done in the body. The Negro, evidently, is receiving the reward he merits”(Doctrines of Salvation 1:65-66. Italics in original)

Joseph Fielding Smith; “Not only was Cain called upon to suffer, but because of his wickedness he became the father of an inferior race. A curse was placed upon him and that curse has been continued through his lineage and must do so while time endures. Millions of souls have come into this world cursed with a black skin and have been denied the privilege of Priesthood and the fullness of the blessings of the Gospel. These are the descendants of Cain. Moreover, they have been made to feel their inferiority and have been separated from the rest of mankind from the beginning” (Joseph Fielding Smith, The Way to Perfection, p.101).

Joseph Fielding Smith; “The Latter-day Saints, so commonly called ‘Mormons,’ have no animosity towards the Negro, Neither have they described him as belonging to an ‘inferior race’” (Joseph Fielding Smith, Answers to Gospel Questions 4:170).

Joseph Fielding Smith; "Since Cain slew his brother Abel in order to obtain all the rights of priesthood to descend through his lineage, the Lord decreed that the children of Cain should not have the privilege of bearing the priesthood until Abel had posterity who could have the priesthood and that will have to be in the far distant future. When this is accomplished on some other world, then the restrictions will be removed from the children of Cain who have been true in this ‘second’ estate” (Joseph Fielding Smith, Answers to Gospel Questions 2:188).

Harold B. Lee (Eleventh President); “There is no truth more plainly taught in the Gospel than that our condition in the next world will depend upon the kind of lives we live here. ‘All that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth; they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.’ (John 5:28-29.) Is it not just as reasonable to suppose that the conditions in which we now live have been determined by the kind of lives we lived in the pre-existent world of spirits? That the apostles understood this principle is indicated by their question to the Master when the man who was blind from his birth was healed of his blindness, ‘Master, who did sin, this man or his parents that he was born blind?’ (John 9:2.) Now perhaps you will have a partial answer to some of your questions as to why, if God is a just Father, that some of his children are born of an enlightened race and in a time when the Gospel is upon the earth, while others are born of a heathen parentage in a benighted, backward country; and still others are born to parents who have the mark of a black skin with which the seed of Cain were cursed and whose descendants were to be denied the rights of the priesthood of God” (Decisions for Successful Living, pp.164-165). Lee was the 11th President of the Church until 1973.

Ezra Taft Benson (Thirteenth President); “The arm of flesh may not approve nor understand why God has not bestowed the priesthood on women or the seed of Cain, but God's ways are not man's ways” (Ezra Taft Benson, Conference Reports, October 1967, p.34).

Apostle Melvin J. Ballard; “Why is it in this Church we do not grant the priesthood to the Negroes? It is alleged that the Prophet Joseph said--and I have no reason to dispute it--that it is because of some act committed by them before they came into this life. It is alleged that they were neutral, standing neither for Christ nor the devil. But, I am convinced it is because of some things they did before they came into this life that they have been denied the privilege. The races of today are very largely reaping the consequences of a previous life” (Sermons and Missionary Service of [Apostle] Melvin J. Ballard, p.248). (B.1873; D. 1939) Melvin J. Ballard is the grandfather of M. Russell Ballard who currently serves as a Mormon apostle.

Apostle George F. Richards; “The Negro race have been forbidden the priesthood, and the higher temple blessings, presumably because of their not having been valiant while in the spirit. It does not pay to be anything but valiant” (Apostle George F. Richards, Conference Reports, October 1947, p.57).( B.1861; D. 1950)

Alvin R. Dyer; “The reason that spirits are born into Negro bodies is because those spirits rejected the priesthood of God in the Pre-existence. This is the reason why you have Negroes on the earth. …All of this is according to a well worked-out plan, that these millions and billions of spirits awaiting birth in the pre-existence would be born through a channel or race of people. Consequently, the cursed were to be born through Ham. . . . This is why you have colored people, why you have dark people and why you have white people” (Alvin R. Dyer (at the time was an Assistant to the Twelve, later to be 1st Presidency under McKay); “For What Purpose?” March 18, 1961)

Mark E. Petersen; “We cannot escape the conclusion that because of performance in the pre-existence some of us are born as Chinese, some as Japanese, some as Indians, some as Negroes, some as Americans, some as Latter-day Saints. These are rewards and punishments, fully in harmony with His established policy in dealing with sinners and saints, rewarding all according to their deeds” (Mark E. Petersen, “Race Problems – as they affect the church,” August 27, 1954, p.11). (B.1900; D. 1984) Member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1944-1984. Managing editor of the Church-owned Deseret News in 1935 and editor in 1941.

Apostle Mark Petersen; “In spite of all he did in the pre-existent life, the Lord is willing, if the Negro accepts the gospel with real, sincere faith, and is really converted, to give him the blessings of baptism and the gift of the Holy Ghost. If that Negro is faithful all his days, he can and will enter the celestial kingdom. He will go there as a servant, but he will get a celestial resurrection. He will get a place in the celestial glory. He will not go then with even the honorable men of the earth to the terrestrial glory, nor with the ones spoken of as being without law.” (Mark E. Petersen, “Race Problems – as they affect the church,” August 27, 1954, p.17).

The First Presidency is the highest ranking priesthood quorum of the Mormon Church.

“The attitude of the Church with reference to the Negroes remains as it has always stood. It is not a matter of the declaration of a policy but of direct commandment from the Lord, on which is founded the doctrine of the Church from the days of its organization, to the effect that Negroes may become members of the Church but that they are not entitled to the Priesthood at the present time. The prophets of the Lord have made several statements as to the operation of the principle. President Brigham Young said, ‘Why are so many of the inhabitants of the earth cursed with a skin of blackness? It comes in consequence of their father’s rejecting the power of the Holy Priesthood, and the law of God.’ They will go down to death. And when all the rest of the children have received their blessings in the Holy Priesthood, then that curse will be removed from the seed of Cain, and receive all the blessings we are entitled to.’” (Official statement of the First Presidency to BYU President Ernest L. Wilkinson, dated August 17, 1951, quoted in John Lewis Lund, The Church and the Negro, p.89).

“The position of the Church regarding the Negro may be understood when another doctrine of the Church is kept in mind; namely, that the conduct of spirits in the pre-mortal existence has some determining effect upon the conditions and circumstances under which these spirits take on mortality, and that while the details of the principle have not been made known, the principle itself indicates that the coming to this earth and taking on mortality is a privilege that is given to those who maintain their first estate; and that the worth of the principle is so great that spirits are willing to come to earth and take on bodies no matter what the handicap may be as to the kind of bodies they are to secure; and that among the handicaps, failure of the right to enjoy in mortality the blessings of the priesthood, is a handicap which spirits are willing to assume in order that they might come to earth. Under this principle there is no injustice whatsoever involved in this deprivation as to the holding of the Priesthood by Negroes.” (Official statement of the First Presidency to BYU President Ernest L. Wilkinson, dated August 17, 1951, quoted in Hyrum L. Andrus, Doctrinal Commentary on the Pearl of Great Price, 1967, pp.406- 407).

For a more complete treatment of this topic and to learn more about Mormonism visit www.mrm.org.

Gay Anti-Bullying Activist Bullies Christian Teens

admin — Tue, 01 May 2012 16:58:49 +0000

Disturbing video has emerged of radical homosexual activist, Dan Savage, making crude insults towards Christian students. This is very troubling since Savage became famous for producing an anti-bullying campaign that featured President Obama. The campaign encouraged young people to come out as homosexuals, falsely assuring them that life as a homosexual somehow gets better over time.

Savage's anti-bullying hypocrisy couldn’t be more glaring. Savage repeatedly insulted Christian students attending a conference for high school students sponsored by the National Scholastic Press Association and the Journalism Education Association. As Christians began walking out during Savage's anti-Christian, Bible-bashing diatribe, he began hurling invectives and insults.

So you can bully Christians, but not others?

Both the National Scholastic Press Association and the Journalism Education Association have apologized for Dan Savages bullying. Savage apologized for calling the students “pansy**ssed,” but stood behind his remarks that the Bible is “bullsh**.”

Help us make sure that Savage is never invited to bully high school students again.

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Obama Celebrates His Radical Pro-Homosexual Accomplishments

admin — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:47:16 +0000

This week President Obama continued revealing his true anti-Christian colors by touting his accomplishments on behalf of the homosexual community. His campaign has labeled him the most pro-homosexual President in history, followed by a timeline of his radical affirmation of the homosexual agenda since taking office.

Barack Obama is an unabashed supporter of special privileges for homosexuals, a stand that flies in the face of the biblical prohibition on homosexual sodomy. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus affirmed that every “jot and tittle” of the Bible is true, including the parts that condemn homosexuality.

Obama has dismissed as “obscure,” the clear and definitive teaching of the Apostle Paul in Romans 1 that calls homosexual acts “indecent” and “perverse.” When it comes to homosexuality, Obama opposes the traditional, biblical and historic standards of the Christian faith.

Read Dr. Cass' in-depth look at homosexuality and the Bible, Twisted Scripture: Overcoming the Lies of Homosexuality

During his 2008 campaign, DefendChristians.org worked to expose Obama’s radical agenda to stop supporting the Federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and reverse “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” from the US military. Each of these has come true, and much more.

Watch the video below and donate online today to help DefendChristians.org continue our video series exposing the truth to voters that Barack Obama is NOT a Christian.

In Memory of Chuck Colson, a Hero of the Faith

admin — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 23:45:30 +0000

It was bitter sweet to learn of the passing of our dear brother Chuck Colson. While we are saddened we know Chuck is experiencing joy unspeakable and full of glory in the presence of his Lord.

After playing a major part in the Watergate scandal, Chuck found Christ while in federal prison. Chuck then used his life to proclaim the gospel and founded Prison Fellowship a ministry to prison inmates, some of the most forgotten individuals in our society. Chuck also urged Christians to get informed with a Christian Worldview and engage the culture for Christ.

Now we are more committed to taking up the cause of Christ with a renewed sense of urgency knowing that Chuck has joined that great cloud of witnesses watching us run our Christian race. May God bless and comfort the Colson family.

High School Outreach to Alma Mater of Journalist Killed by Terrorists

admin — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 22:57:09 +0000

Los Angeles, California - Birmingham High School outreach, home to alumni Daniel Pearl. Pearl was the Wall Street Journal reporter who was kidnapped and beheaded by terrorist in Pakistan for being an American Jew.

Yesterday, hundreds of Daniel Pearl’s current high school fellows attending his high school alma mater saw the shocking and aweing truth of Mohammed and his Islamic law, Sharia.

With only 6 people under the protecting wing of 3 Los Angeles Police Officers – the students reached out repeatedly to take the flyers telling the TRUTH about Islam. They were instantly shocked and opened to the TRUTH about Mohammed having sex with his 6 year old wife, Aisha.

We held in our hands proof of the Legal Decree, called a Fatwa in Islam, in Arabic and English, that the Muslim Legal Hierarchy acknowledge that Mohammed’s wife, Aisha, was only 6 years old when he had sex with her.

This STUNNED the students and the police when they asked to see the flyers.

We INSTANTLY proved Mohammed had sex with his six year old wife and INSTANTLY proved under Islamic Law, Sharia, that this action of Mohammed was used by Ayatollah Khomeini to legitimize him having sex all night long with a 4 year old girl: What Would Mohammed Do? If Mohammed had sex with a 6 year old girl, then any Muslim man is permitted to have sex with a 4 year old girl.

As Shocking as this is it is the basis of ethics under Islam – it is the bases of Islamic Law, known as Sharia. See https://defendchristians.org/take-action/order-ebook/

The several hundred high school students of Daniel Pearl's Birmingham HS were absolutely shocked and awed and move. They quickly learned through their natural curiosity that their school, as all U.S. Public Schools are doing – lie about Islamic law.

9-11 Defend Our Students and Concerned Citizens for the First Amendment ACTING to make a difference – to bring High School Students out of the Political Correctness fog brainwashing them in their Public Schools with the help of Administrators, Teachers and the Teachers’ Union.

City to Reconsider Anti-Bible Study Law

admin — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:27:48 +0000

For eighteen years people met for a home Bible study at the Fromm's in San Juan Capistrano, California. But the study was shut down and fined by the city because it gathered without a permit in violation of the public safety code.

Christians throughout the country were outraged by this interference with religious liberty. A search of police records showed no public safety incidents ever occurred as a result of the Fromms' meetings.

After intense pressure was placed upon the City Council, they decided to reimburse the fines paid by the Fromm's and are in the process of re-examining their ordinance.

Currently the ordinance says that all religious, fraternal or nonprofit organizations need to obtain a conditional use-permit for hosting meetings, including home Bible studies. In the next thirty days the City Council is expected to decide to fate of this city code.

Help us place pressure on the City Council to protect the religious freedom of its residents and allow home Bible studies.

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Contact the San Juan Capistrano City Council and urge that they reform this city code and stop harassing peaceful house churches. Email the city council today:

- Mayor Sam Allevato: sallevato@sanjuancapistrano.org
- Larry Kramer: lkramer@sanjuancapistrano.org
- Laura Freese: lfreese@sanjuancapistrano.org
- Derek Reeve: dreeve@sanjuancapistrano.org
- John Taylor: jtaylor@sanjuancapistrano.org

Mormon Bishop Mitt Romney’s Anti-Christian Religion

admin — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:17:59 +0000

Many naive Americans believe that Mormonism is merely another branch of protestant Christianity. Well that’s not what the founders and leaders of Mormonism believed.

According to its founder, Joseph Smith, and Brigham Young, Smith’s successor, Mormons are the only true people of God on the earth. All non-Mormons and their religions are “wrong, an abomination, blind, damned, of the devil, whores, not Christians, groveling in darkness, heathens, ignorant, devoid of fact, pagan and hatched in Hell.”

When Romney made a speech about his religion in 2008 he refused to distance himself from his faith and fully affirmed his Mormonism. Responding to critics, Romney said,

"They would prefer it if I would simply distance myself from my religion, say that it is more a tradition than my personal conviction, or disavow one or another of its precepts. That I will not do. I believe in my Mormon faith and I endeavor to live by it. My faith is the faith of my fathers - I will be true to them and to my beliefs."

Romney, the father of homosexual marriage in America and abortion funding Romney Care in Massachusetts, flip-flops on virtually every issue, but he is adamant about his anti-Christian Mormonism. Romney needs the vote of Christians to win election, but he refuses to “disavow one or another of its precepts.”

Nor can anyone think Romney is merely a casual or cultural Mormon who just happened to be born Mormon. He is an active Bishop in the Mormon church hierarchy. He cannot pretend to be ignorant of the teaching of Joseph Smith and the other “prophets” of Mormonism.

Below is a list of quotes from Mormon leaders and official publications starting with Joseph Smith down to our day. The message is consistent and clear.

WARNING: Beware the deceitful tactic of Mormons when they say they don’t criticize other churches or religions. You may want to keep this list handy next time the Mormons come knocking at your door.

Joseph Smith (Mormonism's founder)*

Joseph Smith claimed that he had seen both God the Father and Jesus Christ and asked these personages which church he should join. He claimed he was told to join none of them, "for they were all wrong; and the Personage who addressed me said that all their creeds were an abomination in his sight" (Joseph Smith History 1:19).

When asked "Will all be damned but Mormons?" Smith replied, "Yes, and a great portion of them unless they repent and work righteousness" (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, pg. 119).

"Behold there are save two churches only; the one is the church of the Lamb of God, and the other is the church of the devil; wherefore, whoso belongeth not to the church of the Lamb of God belongeth to that great church, which is the mother of abominations; and she is the whore of all the earth" (Book of Mormon, 1 Nephi 14:10).

The Doctrine and Covenants (1:30) leaves no doubt to the Mormon teaching of exclusivity when it says the LDS church is, "the only true and living church upon the face of the whole earth, with which I, the Lord, am well pleased ...."

Brigham Young (Mormonism's Second President)

"Should you ask why we differ from other Christians, as they are called, it is simply because they are not Christians as the New Testament defines Christianity" (Journal of Discourses 10:230).

"When the light came to me I saw that all the so-called Christian world was grovelling in darkness" (Journal of Discourses 5:73).

"The Christian world, so-called, are heathens as to the knowledge of the salvation of God" (Journal of Discourses 8:171).

"With a regard to true theology, a more ignorant people never lived than the present so-called Christian world" (Journal of Discourses 8:199).

"The religion of God embraces every fact that exists in all the wide arena of nature, while the religions of men consist of theory devoid of fact, or of any true principle of guidance; hence the professing Christian world are like a ship upon a boisterous ocean without rudder, compass, or pilot, and are tossed hither and thither by every wind of doctrine" (Journal of Discourses 10:265).

"... the time came when Paganism was engrafted into Christianity, and at last Christianity was converted into Paganism rather than converting the Pagans" (Journal of Discourses 22:44).

"Brother Taylor has just said that the religions of the day were hatched in hell. The eggs were laid in hell, hatched on its borders, and kicked on to the earth" (Journal of Discourses 6:176).

John Taylor (Mormonism's 3rd President)

"We talk about Christianity, but it is a perfect pack of nonsense ...the devil could not invent a better engine to spread his work than the Christianity of the nineteenth century" (Journal of Discourses 6:167).

"What! Are Christians ignorant? Yes, as ignorant of the things of God as the brute beast." (Journal of Discourses 6:25).

"What does the Christian world know about God? Nothing ...Why so far as the things of God are concerned, they are the veriest of fools; they know neither God nor the things of God" (Journal of Discourses 13:225).

"And who is there that acknowledges [God's] hand? ...You may wander east, west, north, and south, and you cannot find it in any church or government on the earth, except the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" (Journal of Discourses 6:24).

Daniel H. Wells (Mormon Apostle)

"The whole system of Christianity is a failure so far as stemming the tide of wickedness and corruption is concerned, or turning men from their evil ways to living lives of righteousness before God our Heavenly Father. I would rather preach the Gospel to a people who have not got any religion than I would to a people who have got a great deal of religion. You take the Catholic world. What impression can the truths of the Gospel make upon them as a people? Scarcely any impression at all. Why? Because they are satisfied with what they have got, which we know is an error, and which is not calculated to stem the tide of wickedness and corruption which floods the world. It never will convert the world to God or His Kingdom, or convey a knowledge of God unto the children of men, and it is life eternal to know Him, the living and true God. The Christianity of the period will never make the people acquainted with God in the world. It will never bring them to eternal life as spoken of in the Scriptures. It is an utter impossibility. In the first place they do not know anything about God, and in the second place, they apparently don't want to know anything about Him. They have reared a superstructure in the earth which is false. It is and has been a tremendous imposture to the children of men. Some have come out of it, to a certain extent, seeing its incongruity, and yet they have floundered in the dark, not knowing what was right; not having that knowledge of God which is necessary to obtain eternal life, they have been tossed to and fro and carried about by every wind of doctrine, without being able to find the truth. Many who have thus been foundering are honest people; but the so-called system of Christianity is not only an error and a snare, but is a monstrous iniquity fastened upon the children of men throughout the earth. No wonder that people become infidel. The inconsistent and incongruous nature of the system is enough to make any being who reasons infidel. It was time the truth should be revealed; it was time for the Lord to restore the everlasting Gospel, for men were blind. Darkness covered the earth, even gross darkness the minds of the people in regard to religious subjects. Perhaps a darker time was never known since the earth began its revolutions around the sun. From what I have read and from what experience I have had in life, and the intelligence I possess, I make bold to give my testimony that the darkest period the world ever saw was when this work first commenced, when it was made known from heaven to Joseph Smith. It was no darker here, perhaps, than in any other part of the world; but it was just as dark in Christian countries as in any Pagan country, so far as true religion and the light of heaven were concerned" (Journal of Discourses 24:321-322).

Orson Pratt (Mormon Apostle)

"Q. After the Church of Christ fled from the earth to heaven, what was left?

"A. A set of wicked Apostates, murderers, and idolaters, who ...left to follow the wicked imaginations of their own corrupt hearts, and to build up churches by human authority..." (The Seer, pg.205).

“The sooner the present generation loses all reverence and respect for modern ‘Christianity,’ with all its powerless forms and solemn mockeries, the sooner they will be prepared to receive the kingdom of God" (Parley P. Pratt, The Key to the Science of Theology, 1978, p.68).

"...all other churches are entirely destitute of all authority from God; and any person who receives Baptism or the Lord's supper from their hands highly offend God, for he looks upon them as the most corrupt of all people ...The only persons among all nations, kindreds, tongues, and people who have authority from Jesus Christ to administer any gospel ordinance are those called and authorized among the Latter-day Saints" (The Seer, pg. 255).

"This class of men, calling themselves Christian, uniting with the various forms of the pagan religion, adopting many of their ceremonies and institutions, became very popular, and finally some of the pagans embraced Christianity and were placed, as it were, upon the throne, and what they termed Christianity became very popular indeed. How long has this order of things existed, this dreadful apostasy, this class of people that pronounced themselves Zion, or Christians, without any of the characteristics of Zion? It has existed for some sixteen or seventeen centuries. It has spread itself and grown and gone into the four quarters of the earth. It is the great ecclesiastical power that is spoken of by the revelator John, and called by him the most corrupt and most wicked of all the powers of the earth, under the name of spiritual Babylon, or in other words Babel, which signifies confusion. This great and corrupt power is also represented by John as presenting a golden cup to the nations, full of all manner of filthiness and abominations" (Journal of Discourses 14:346).

"This great apostasy commenced about the close of the first century of the Christian era, and it has been waxing worse and worse from then until now" (Journal of Discourses 18:44).

"But as there has been no Christian Church on the earth for a great many centuries past, until the present century, the people have lost sight of the pattern that God has given according to which the Christian Church should be established, and they have denominated a great variety of people Christian Churches, because they profess to be ...But there has been a long apostasy, during which the nations have been cursed with apostate churches in great abundance, and they are represented in the revelations of St. John as a woman sitting upon a scarlet colored beast, having a golden cup in her hand, full of filthiness and abominations, full of the wine of the wrath of her fornication; that in her forehead there was a name written - `Mystery, Babylon the Great, the mother of harlots'" (Journal of Discourses 18:172).

"Who is Babylon? I have already explained that Babylon is a great power that should be in the earth under the name of a church, a woman - that generally represents a church - full of blasphemy ...These churches are scattered over the wide face of the earth, and this is called Babylon. Another angel is to follow the one that brings the Gospel, after it has been sufficiently preached, and proclaim the downfall of this great and corrupt power in the earth" (Journal of Discourses 18:179).

"The worshipers of Baal were far more consistent than apostate Christendom; for they had a faint hope that Baal would hear and answer them; but modern divines have no expectation that their God will say anything to them or to their followers. Baal's followers cried from morning until evening for him to give unto them a miraculous manifestation, in the presence of Elijah; but to even expect a supernatural manifestation or revelation now is considered, by modern religionists, as the greatest absurdity. Baal's worshipers, therefore, with all their absurdities, approached nearer the religion of heaven, in some of their expectations, than those who falsely call themselves Christians" (Divine Authenticity of the Book of Mormon, No. 1 (1850), pp.12-13).

"We have already proved in the previous numbers of this series that immediately after the first century the whole earth became corrupted by the great "Mother of Harlots," that apostasy and wickedness succeeded Christianity, that for the want of new revelation, all legal succession to the apostleship was discontinued that the gifts and powers of the Holy Spirit ceased and that the Church was no longer to be found on the earth: this being the case, all nations must have been destitute of the everlasting gospel for many generations - not destitute of its history as it was once preached and enjoyed but destitute of its blessings, of its powers, of its gifts, of its priesthood, of its ordinances administered by legal authority" (Divine Authenticity of the Book of Mormon, No.6 (1851), pg.82).

Heber C. Kimball (First Counselor to Brigham Young)

"Christians - those poor, miserable priests Brother Brigham was speaking about - some of them are the biggest whoremasters there are on the earth ..." (Journal of Discourses 5:89).

George Q. Cannon (Counselor to presidents Young, Taylor, Woodruff and Snow)

"I do not wish to say anything in relation to other forms of religion; I do not know that it is necessary that I should do so; but no thinking man can admit that Christianity so-called - I call it a false Christianity, untrue to its name - satisfies the wants of humanity at the present time. It is not a religion that satisfies" (Journal of Discourses 24:185).

"After the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized, there were only two churches upon the earth. They were known respectively as the Church of the Lamb of God and Babylon. The various organizations which are called churches throughout Christendom, though differing in their creeds and organizations, have one common origin. They all belong to Babylon" (Gospel Truth, pg.324).

Wilford Woodruff (4th LDS President)

"I said then, and I say now, may the Lord give me such periods of darkness as were enjoyed by the Apostles and Saints of old, in preference to the Gospel blaze of modern Christianity. The ancient doctrine and power will unlock the mysteries of heaven, and pour forth that Gospel light, knowledge, and truth, of which the heavens are full, and which has been poured out in every generation when Prophets appeared among the children of men. But the Gospel of modern Christendom shuts up the Lord, and stops all communication with Him. I want nothing to do with such a Gospel, I would rather prefer the Gospel of the dark ages, so called" (Journal of Discourses 2:196).

Erastus Snow (LDS Apostle)

"There is a theory in the human mind - I will say with a certain school of modern philosophers - to satisfy themselves and justify their infidelity; the bent and tendency of their inclinations is that way. But it is probable that the crude, undefined devices and erroneous notions and ideas of modern Christianity touching the Deity leads to this infidelity, as much as anything else. The advocates of Christianity are in a great measure to blame. When we begin to scan the teachings and enquire into the views of the leading divines of modern times, and examine their articles of faith and their discipline, the teachings of different Christian denominations on the subject of the Deity, we do not wonder that the reflecting, careful thinker, should repudiate their crude notions" (Journal of Discourses 19:268).

B.H. Roberts (LDS Seventy and Historian)

"Nothing less than a complete apostasy from the Christian religion would warrant the establishment of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" (Introduction to the History of the Church 1:XL).

"This view of God as an incorporeal, immaterial, bodiless, partless, passionless being is now and has been from the days of the great apostasy from God and Christ, in the second and third centuries, the doctrine of Deity generally accepted by apostate Christendom. The simple doctrine of the Christian Godhead, set forth in the New Testament is corrupted by the meaningless jargon of these creeds, and their explanations; and the learned who profess a belief in them are wandering in the darkness of the mysticisms of the old pagan philosophies" (History of the Church, 1:LXXXV).

Parley P. Pratt (Mormon Apostle)

"The false and corrupt institutions, and still more corrupt practices of `Christendom,' have had a downward tendency in the generations of man for many centuries ...The overthrow of those ancient degenerate races is a type of that which now awaits the nations called `Christian,' or in other words, `the great whore that sitteth upon many waters" (Key to the Science of Theology, 1978 ed., pg.106).

James Talmage ( LDS Apostle)

"A self-suggesting interpretation of history indicates that there has been a great departure from the way of salvation as laid down by the Savior, a universal apostasy from the Church of Christ ...From the facts already stated it is evident that the Church was literally driven from the earth; in the first ten centuries immediately following the ministry of Christ the authority of the Holy Priesthood was lost among men, and no human power could restore it" (The Articles of Faith, pp.200,203).

"The significance and importance of the great apostasy, as a condition precedent to the re-establishment of the Church in modern times, is obvious. If the alleged apostasy of the primitive Church was not a reality, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is not the divine institution its name proclaims" (The Great Apostasy, preface).

Joseph Fielding Smith (10th LDS President)

"For hundreds of years the world was wrapped in a veil of spiritual darkness, until there was not one fundamental truth belonging to the place of salvation that was not, in the year 1820, so obscured by false tradition and ceremonies, borrowed from paganism, as to make it unrecognizable; or else it was entirely denied ...Joseph Smith declared that in the year 1820 the Lord revealed to him that all the 'Christian' churches were in error, teaching for commandments the doctrines of men" (Doctrines of Salvation 3:282).

Spencer W. Kimball (12th LDS President)

"This is the only true church ...This is not a church. This is the Church of Jesus Christ. There are churches of men all over the land and they have great cathedrals, synagogues, and other houses of worship running into the hundreds of millions of dollars. They are churches of men. They teach the doctrines of men, combined with the philosophies and ethics and other ideas and ideals that men have partly developed and partly found in sacred places and interpreted for themselves" (Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, pg.421).

"Presumptuous and blasphemous are they who purport to baptize, bless, marry, or perform other sacraments in the name of the Lord while in fact lacking the specific authorization" (The Miracle of Forgiveness, pg.55).

Bruce McConkie (Mormon Apostle)

"The traditions of the elders - as is also the case with the traditions of an apostate Christendom - are wholly devoid of the least scintilla of inspiration. They are, as Jesus said, 'the commandments of men'" (The Mortal Messiah, Vol.2, FOOTNOTES, Pg.412).

"What of seventies? Who are they, and how do they fit into the eternal scheme of things? That their mission and ministry is unknown among the cults of Christendom is one of the great evidences of the apostate darkness that engulfs those who call themselves by the name of Him who called seventies to stand as especial witnesses of that very name" (The Mortal Messiah, 3:99-100).

"Thus the signs of the times include the prevailing apostate darkness in the sects of Christendom and in the religious world in general. False churches, false prophets, false worship - breeding as they do a way of life that runs counter to the divine will - all these are signs of the times" (The Millennial Messiah, pg.403).

"What is the church of the devil in our day, and where is the seat of her power? ...It is all of the systems, both Christian and non-Christian, that perverted the pure and perfect gospel ...It is communism; it is Islam; it is Buddhism; it is modern Christianity in all its parts" (The Millennial Messiah, pp.54-55).

"As with other doctrines and ordinances, apostate substitutes of the real thing are found both among pagans and supposed Christians" (Mormon Doctrine, pg.72).

"When inquiring and scientific minds delve into the narrow and bigoted creeds of the apostate sects of Christendom it is not surprising that they rebel against those dogmas falsely set forth as the tenets of true religion" (Mormon Doctrine, pg.107).

"Christianity is the religion of the Christians. Hence, true and acceptable Christianity is found among the saints who have the fullness of the gospel, and a perverted Christianity holds sway among the so-called Christians of apostate Christendom" (Mormon Doctrine, pg.132).

"The only real superiority of the apostate sects of Christendom over their more openly pagan counterparts is the fact that the Christian sects (though rejecting the doctrines, ordinances, and powers of the gospel) have nonetheless preserved many of the ethical teachings of Christ and the apostles" (Mormon Doctrine, pg.240).

"And virtually all the millions of apostate Christendom have abased themselves before the mythical throne of a mythical Christ whom they vainly suppose to be a spirit essence who is incorporeal uncreated, immaterial and three-in-one with the Father and Holy Spirit" (Mormon Doctrine, pg.269).

"Gnosticism is one of the great pagan philosophies which antedated Christ and the Christian Era and which was later commingled with pure Christianity to form the apostate religion that has prevailed in the world since the early days of that era." (Mormon Doctrine, pg.316).

"In large part the worship of apostate Christendom is performed in ignorance, as much so as was the worship of the Athenians who bowed before the Unknown God, and to whom Paul said: "Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you" (Mormon Doctrine, pg. 374).

"For instance: The creeds of apostate Christendom teach untruths about God, and the scriptures say that those who accept these creeds 'have inherited lies.' (Jer. 16:16-21.) Those who accept any of the doctrines of the apostate churches are said to 'believe a lie.' (2 Thess. 2:1-12.) The process of apostasy consists in changing 'the truth of God into a lie.'" (Mormon Doctrine pg. 440).

"Pagan tribal gods were the creation of the imaginations of apostate peoples, just as the creeds and apostate views of God which prevail in modern Christendom are the result of forsaking the truth" (Mormon Doctrine, pg. 511).

"Mormonism is Christianity; Christianity is Mormonism; they are one and the same, and they are not to be distinguished from each other in the minutest detail ...Mormons are true Christians; their worship is the pure, unadulterated Christianity authored by Christ and accepted by Peter, James, and John and all the ancient saints" (Mormon Doctrine, pg.513). "The gods of Christendom, for instance, are gods who were created by men in the creeds of an apostate people. There is little profit or peace in serving them, and certainly there is no salvation available through them" (A New Witness for the Articles of Faith, pg.545).

Misc.

“To say that Satan sits in the place of God in Christianity after the time of the Apostles is not to say that all that is in it is satanic…Still, ‘the power of God unto salvation’ (Rom. 1:16) is absent from all but the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which the Lord himself has proclaimed to be ‘the only true and living church upon the face of the whole earth (D&C 1:30). Satan’s goal of hindering many of God’s children from returning to their Father’s glory is thus realized.” (BYU Professor Kent P. Jackson, “Early Signs of the Apostasy,” Ensign, December 1984, p. 9)

“The period of time when the true Church no longer existed on earth is called the Great Apostasy. Soon pagan beliefs dominated the thinking of those called Christians. The Roman emperor adopted this false Christianity as the state religion. The church was very different from the Church Jesus organized. It taught that God was a being without substance" (Correlated LDS manual Gospel Principles, 2009, p.92).

*Special thanks to our Advisory Board Member, Bill McKeever, of Mormonism Research Ministries, for compiling this list.