Radical Feminism: Women Enslaving Themselves In the Name of Liberation
by Shaun Willcock
The Bible teaches that women are equal to men as human beings, albeit with different roles to play in the home and in society, and with different strengths. Man, having been made stronger than woman by the Creator, has been made by Him to be the provider and the protector. To husbands the Lord commands: “giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life” (1 Pet. 3:7); and, “Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it.... So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies” (Eph. 5:25-28). No man should ever treat a woman with contempt, or abuse her in any way. All women should be treated with respect and gentleness by men.
In heathen societies untouched by Gospel influence to any great degree, for thousands of years women were, and still are, treated with contempt, as virtual slaves, existing merely for the service and pleasure of men, without equality before the law, possessions to be owned rather than precious human beings to be treasured. It was, in fact, only the influence of Christianity in certain societies that elevated the status of women, and caused men to treat them with dignity and respect. This can be seen in the gentlemanly attitude of men to women in those western countries deeply influenced by Christianity in the past, i.e. particularly in western Protestant countries. In such lands, women were viewed as weaker human beings, who should be protected, and treated with courtesy and kindness. This produced the kind of manners that once characterised men in much of western society: standing up when a woman entered the room, opening the door for her, pulling out a chair for her, taking off or tipping one’s hat to her, etc. And these societies were the better for it.
And it was also in societies and countries influenced to a large extent by Christianity, that women were given many freedoms of which their sisters in other lands knew nothing. For in these societies men realised that it was simply not right to treat women as second-class citizens. And so they uplifted the status of women more and more.
But then came the feminist movement.
Certain women decided to become far more radical and to make unreasonable and ridiculous demands, in a militantly aggressive fashion. And thus the radical feminist movement was born. And what many fail to understand is that as this sinister movement promotes the view that women in Western society have been and still are enslaved by men, and that men, and the family structure, are evils from which women need to be emancipated, it is in fact nothing less than a branch of Marxism with the sinister objective of destroying the very concept and structure of the family!
A Militant Agenda Against Men
Radical feminists are anti-family by being anti-men, anti-husbands, anti-fathers, and anti-gender-roles that have been in place since God created man and woman and that have been practiced for 6000 years. They have a militant agenda, and in pursuit of it they want to eradicate the two-parent family. And the reason they want to destroy it is this: “According to their Marxist view of things, the family is a repository of gender-oppression. Men are bourgeois; women are proletariat. Such notions, however contrived and unoriginal, took academia by storm in the 1980s and even more so in the 1990s.”
Radical feminism is an entire worldview: they view all aspects of life through the lens of gender. These radicals are absurd in their theories, but deadly serious. For example, they attack true science simply because there are (and always have been) far more men in scientific fields than women. One radical feminist claimed that the ideas of Newton and Bacon about scientific method were a “rape manual”, because they spoke of “penetrating” nature’s secrets. A radical feminist named Catherine A. MacKinnon made the astounding claim that voluntary sexual intercourse could be compared with rape, because in a male-dominated, patriarchal, heterosexist society, the line between voluntary consent and coercion is blurred. Radical feminists have even claimed that Beethoven composed his masterpiece, “Ode to Joy”, to induce men into a sexual frenzy. This is the kind of “academic contribution” the world can do without, being utterly insane; yet radical feminists take this garbage seriously, the chips on their shoulders are so huge.
Truly, “feminism is a secular religion with its own high priestesses, dogmas, and initiation rituals. Its creation myth holds that on the first day Goddess created Eve, and all was right with the world. But that idyllic state was shattered when first patriarch Adam stumbled into the Garden, pounded on the table, and demanded his apple.” Yes, for these bitter and twisted women, men are the root of all evil. They constantly harp on and on about society being “male-dominated” and “patriarchal”. They hate this, and fight against it with all their might. And woe betide anyone who dares to disagree with them. In their extreme, hate-filled and militant radicalism, they have been dubbed “feminazis”.
The feminist movement has declared war on men. “All manner of unpleasant things that happen to women are blamed on those linear-thinking, knuckle-dragging males.” Men, who fight wars to protect women, who go out into the workplace and by the sweat of their brows earn money to feed their families, are now viewed as uncouth monsters, women-oppressors, holding women back from “achieving their full potential”, interested only in abusing women and enslaving them. “The feminist jihad”, author Carey Roberts notes, has “indicted the entire male species for Crimes against Womankind.”
Their “litany of grievances”, as Roberts points out, is never-ending. For example, one of their pet grievances is that husbands are considered the head of the family. As he humorously puts it, “Sometimes these men are known to actually encourage their wives to stay within the credit card limit and to stay out of cat fights. Yes, silly, that’s what leadership is all about.” Another grievance is that men don’t listen to their wives. “And considering all the women who rant and rave about patriarchal oppression, maybe they’re not worth listening to.”
The fact is, the man is the head of the family. This fact is a very stubborn one – it just won’t go away, despite the concerted efforts of the radical feminist movement. It is clearly laid out in Holy Scripture. “But I would have you know, that... the head of the woman is the man” (1 Cor. 11:3). “For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing” (Eph. 5:23,24). “Unto the woman he said... thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee” (Gen. 3:16). The man has been the head of the family since the world began, by the appointment of the Creator, and it’s not going to change now just because some female hotheads with an axe to grind try to overturn the biblical order and 6000 years of human history.
And the fact is, most of the world is patriarchal. This fact, too, is a very stubborn one, and it won’t go away. The world is led by males. It always has been. This is in accordance with the will of God. From the very beginning, men have been the primary breadwinners, the government-creators, the thinkers and the muscle behind the advance of civilization. These are the facts, and facts are very stubborn things. This is not by any means to say that women have contributed nothing, or that they are incapable of contributing anything. There have been great women throughout history. But women in leadership positions have always been in the minority, not because they are dumber than men (they certainly are not), and not because they have been held back in many societies: the truth is that most women, even today in this age of “women’s liberation”, do not want to be in positions of great leadership. Their ambitions lie elsewhere, for the most part, and let us be ever thankful that this is so, for in this way men and women complement each other, just as the Lord God intended (Gen. 3:16-19). Throughout history it has been primarily men who have governed, men who have provided, men who have led. The man is the breadwinner and protector, the woman is the homemaker.
This is why women do not make good soldiers. For 6000 years, men have been the soldiers. This is as it should be. God made man to be the protector, not woman. This is not her role. She should not be wielding a gun on the border to defend the folks back home. It’s not her place, and she’s not equipped by the Creator for it. The man is. Period. She is not as physically strong, and she cannot do what a male soldier can do. Western countries have been caving in to the militant feminist agenda, and filling soldiers’ barracks with women. But to do this, they have to lower the standards for women soldiers, and in the process lower the combat capability and readiness of the army itself.
What’s more, most men do not want to be protected by women. It goes against the natural order of things, the divine order, and they are intensely uncomfortable with it because deep down they know it’s not the way things ought to be. Speaking personally, as an African who loves to spend time in the wild African bush, I would feel intensely uncomfortable if I was on a hike through a game park that was led by, and under the protection of, a female game ranger with a high-powered rifle slung over her shoulder. I simply do not want my life to be in the hands of a lady with a gun if we were to be charged by a lion or an elephant. Nothing against ladies with firearms – I believe they should know how to defend themselves. But I am extremely uncomfortable with the idea of standing there helplessly while a woman, whom by upbringing and conviction I believe I should be protecting and not the other way around, shoves me and any other hikers behind her for protection as she prepares to do battle with whatever dangerous animal erupts from the bush. Call me old-fashioned, but some things just ought not to be. And if they were honest and their feminist womenfolk gave them permission to say what they really felt, most men would agree with me.
As Carey Roberts put it, again with some humour: “Men provided the raw muscle power and ingenuity that became the engine for a booming economy. Patriarchs, also known as primary breadwinners, provided sustenance and stability to their families. And male leadership enabled our country [this is said of the USA, but true of many other western, Protestant-influenced countries as well] to prevail through two World Wars and the Great Depression. These events left an indelible mark on the men who pulled us through those terrible times. These brave souls can be forgiven if they sometimes burp without covering their mouth or find it hard to talk about their feelings.” Precisely. Feminists may want men to be more feminine (and I’ll have more to say about that a little later), to “get in touch with their feminine side” (as if they have one), and to have better manners; but men are men and women are women, and in many ways “ne’er the twain shall meet”.
For the fact is, men and women are different. Another stubborn fact that just won’t go away, no matter how hard the feminists try. The sexes are not the same. Men excel in some fields, women in others. Women can conceive and give birth to babies. Men cannot do this. Women love to claim that they can do two or more things at once, which men can’t. Perhaps they’re right about this. If they are, this is another area where women and men are not the same. And this is good. The Lord did not make them the same!
When the Lord created woman, He provided man with a lovely creature who would teach man, by her very presence no less than by her words, to give thought to such things as manners, kindness, gentleness, consideration for others, etc. As such, she has been an immense blessing to man. But to feminise men? To turn them into carbon copies of women? Their roles on this earth are different. Men are designed by the Creator to be masculine, rougher around the edges, tougher than women. The old children’s verse has a lot of truth in it: “What are little boys made of? Snakes and snails and puppy dogs’ tails. And what are little girls made of? Sugar and spice and all things nice.” True, both men and women are depraved sinners; but in their general deportment and conduct women have generally been softer, gentler. And this is how it should be. This is of the Lord.
Let us consider the effects of radical feminism on women; on men; and on boys.
The Effects of Radical Feminism on Women
Although women’s libbers think they’re now “free”, in truth the very opposite is the case: they are in fact enslaved to feminism itself. And it is a hard taskmaster indeed. Consider the facts:
Has feminism actually helped women? Truly helped them? Have their lives been made better? Many would argue that it has – they can now go into the workplace, and do virtually any job a man can do; etc., etc. But in reality, are women’s lives truly better, as regards quality of life? The answer is a decided No. In the words of Nancy Levant, author of The Cultural Devastation of American Women, “why are American women, whose culture and males allowed them to have freedom from gender bondage, so incredibly stupid with their freedom?” She is right, and it’s true not only of American women. Yes, women are now free – but in what ways? Just think about the so-called “freedoms” western women now have:
Levant writes: “We are free to take vanity to bizarre standards and measures – those created by the beauty, health, and media industries – that mandate skeletal thinness, life-long photo-youth looks, tanning bed skin color, Botox shots in the face, fake breasts, fake fingernails”. Is this true freedom? Surely not. Women are not free, they are now enslaved to the fashion industry.
“We are also free,” writes Levant, “to become useless in our homes. We now hire maid services, landscapers, pool cleaners, painters, interior decorators, cooks, nannies, teachers and tutors, caterers, therapists, party planners, massage therapists, laundry services, etc., while losing every intuitive instinct of our female natures.” Supposedly “liberated” women now hire people to do all the things every woman once did for herself in her own home – and very competently, too. And now, having nothing to do except join their men in the rat-race of the workplace or mooch around bored in their own homes because all domestic duties are taken care of by others, they turn to extra-marital affairs and increasingly bizarre behaviour. Is this true freedom? No – they are enslaved to the workplace, and yet think they are free to “pursue their careers”. Millions of men have always bemoaned the drudgery of having to go out and earn their bread in the sweat of their brows, in accordance with the curse of the Lord God upon man when he sinned (Gen. 3:17-19); and now women are joining them in that difficult existence. Desiring to escape the curse upon the woman (Gen. 3:16), the daughters of Eve have mistakenly thought that the curse upon the man was somehow a lighter one to bear. They are learning, to their cost, that it is not so. They have lost the art of homemaking as they have rushed to voluntarily place themselves under the man’s curse. How foolish and how heartbreakingly tragic.
This is not to say that women must never work! Throughout history, all around the world, women have worked, sometimes because they wanted to and often because they had to. There is nothing wrong with this. The Bible contains examples of women who worked at secular employment. But first and foremost, a woman is called to be a homemaker and a homekeeper. If she works because she wants to, and yet is a wife and mother, her first and foremost duty is to her husband, her children, and her home. So many of today’s “liberated” women, however, don’t know how to take care of a home, raise their children, or create the kind of environment that a husband would love to come home to. They pursue their careers at the expense of their families, enchaining themselves to their work desks as if their jobs are the reason for their existence; as if they are somehow incomplete as human beings unless they can “show everyone that they can do anything a man can do.” What a waste.
Women are now “free” to have multiple male sexual partners. Feminism promoted the idea that women don’t need men to be complete – so large numbers of women made their careers their everything, not marriage. Nowadays they are referring to “arrangements” with men rather than relationships. “Steering clear of what they define as ‘sticky, mushy relationships’ these girls prefer to schedule their men in when they have time to see them!”
They are now “free” to prevent pregnancies by popping abortifacient pills, or, if they happen to fall pregnant, they are now “free” to jettison the human results of their promiscuity via abortion. Society is now full of women secretly carrying the terrible guilt for what they have done to their unborn children. Pro-abortion doctors try to convince everyone that abortion is not murder, but deep down most people know that it is. If not before the abortion, then often afterwards.
Not all have abortions, of course; but because they mock the institution of marriage, and sleep around with multiple partners, they usually end up having children out of wedlock – children all too often unwanted and unloved. So, after a long day’s work at the office, these women return home to a house without a man, but a house in which there are children they can hardly handle because they never really see them. They are being raised by others. All this leads to stress, and utter exhaustion for women, and of course is devastating to the children. They grow up without fathers, in State-controlled educational centres, being indoctrinated into the new world order.
As Levant puts it: “We are free to have extra-marital affairs, multiple lovers, to abort children... to use men like ATMs... and to take thousands upon thousands of family dollars for personal use in our missions to look like (and act like) teenagers.
“We are free to have children with as many men as we choose, and to bankrupt multiple men with mandatory child support payments. We are then free to ignore children by paying far more attention to maid-cleaned, spotless, and magazine-cover homes, where no cooking is achieved, no family memories are created, and no shoes are allowed to be worn on the white carpets.... We are free to give our children computer software to keep them addictively occupied for YEARS, and then complain about their lack of social skills.
“We are free to completely ignore the FACT that our children are SUFFERING with mean-spirited and incompetent mothers – children who are hungry, starved for attention, and mistreated by non-stop extracurricular sports regimens, drive-thru bags of dangerous food, teachers and public school indoctrination camps, completely ignored spiritual needs, and disrespect and contempt of their children’s fathers.”
Summarising all this, she states: “So another question begs – what does liberation mean to American women? [and not just American women! – S.W.]. Does it mean the freedom to vote? Freedom from historical gender bondage? Freedom from ownership? I don’t think so. Today’s American female is free to be an idiot – a shallow, self-involved, pathologically vain, completely incompetent, and angry person – angry to the tune of making the anti-depressant industry the largest profit maker, bar none, for big pharma. Stupid is what stupid does.” Exactly.
I would add another question: why is it that these things are discerned by the journalists and writers quoted here, but not by so many professing Christian women (and men)? It seems that professing “Christians” are so caught up in making money, having fun, and living selfishly, that they are blind to the terrible reality that’s staring them in the face every time they return home to their children. They are just so busy: busy going to the beauty salon, busy soaking up the soapies on TV, busy making money. Are these the fruits of true salvation?
There is no true freedom without freedom to dissent. And you can’t disagree with these feminazis! They are arrogant, rude, crude, militantly organised, and they expect every woman – and man – on the planet to agree with them and support their cause and agenda. And those who don’t are insulted, sometimes assaulted, shouted down, ridiculed, and ostracised. Thus women, who naively think they have been “liberated” from “slavery” to men, have in fact been enslaved by the very movement that claims to have liberated them! They are not free to differ with these radical fanatics. They must go along with the agenda – or else.
In another article Nancy Levant writes: “I suggest to you that the ‘liberation’ you [i.e. women] have achieved through the misguidance of the feminist movement is false. I suggest that Westernized women are often miserable, overworked, and suffering due to separation from their children. Think of it this way – the feminist movement actually believed they could change the fundamental meaning and purpose of womanhood, biological and instinctual gendering, and that they could culturally remove children from mothers, and call it ‘liberation.’ You are equally liberated to destroy any children that you don’t want. Wow. I guess that means that you have a great deal of power. Congratulations. It is far greater to be a drugged laborer than a mother. Let us thank the feminist movement for making this clear to us dim-witted females.”
This is not liberation, it’s bondage! It’s bondage to the movement itself, bondage to the drudgery of the workplace, and most of all, bondage to sin. But they don’t see it. They think they’re free! “I’m free to do as I please with my body.” “I’m free to go to work, earn my own money, live as I like.” “I’m free to live with any man I like, marry and divorce as I please.” “I’m free to abort my baby, or hand him over to the State to raise in the State’s image.”
The Effects of Radical Feminism on Men
The feminisation of society is having a hugely negative impact on men. It has turned men into effeminate weaklings! They are not allowed to be truly masculine, as such masculinity is seen to be “assertiveness” over women; they are not even allowed to have the manners of earlier generations of “gentlemen”, as this is seen as condescending to women. And thus we have this new, feminised, androgynous creature called the “metrosexual”, who shaves off his chest hair and is supposedly “in touch with his feminine side”. Even paints his toe nails at times.
A man cannot be allowed to be masculine anymore; yet “liberated” women, supposedly as tough as men, their attitude being “I can do anything a man can do”, are now supposed to demonstrate masculine qualities! Truly, it’s an upside-down world.
There are of course many reasons for the breakdown of the institution of marriage in society today, but this is certainly one of them: feminism has made men shy away from the commitment of marriage, or even from the very attempt to find a woman to marry; for if a man shows any interest whatsoever in a woman, she is liable to slap him with a “sexual harassment” lawsuit even for the most innocent of conversations, and this will ruin his life – even if he’s eventually found innocent.
Then too, there is the fear of getting married, and then at some point having the wife take the husband to the divorce court over some small matter and being so favoured by the women-friendly judicial system that the financial settlement of the courts leaves him with next to nothing. Women are now using their new-found favouritism in the courts to their advantage, making life utterly miserable for their men while knowing that the men cannot do anything about it, or they will be in trouble with the law. Women openly admit to using emotional blackmail to get their way, knowing that the law is all on the woman’s side and men are increasingly too afraid to do anything about it. They demand equal rights, but do not want to have equal responsibilities. Instead, whenever anything goes wrong, it can conveniently be blamed on the man; and courts are supporting this. Women are seen as “victims” who have done no wrong; it’s all the man’s fault.
As one South African man put it: “Women feel superior to us men because of the rights that have been given to them and they often misinterpret their rights to mean that they have the right to do anything and men should not oppose them.”
And thus the God-created order has been overturned: women are now in charge, and men have been turned into their obedient, apologetic servants. And in the process, the God-ordained institution of marriage has been cast aside. Even in many marriage vows nowadays, the woman no longer promises to “obey” her husband. This is seen as old-fashioned and oppressive. And so-called “churches” are content to buckle to society’s pressures and go along with this!
And yet the irony is, astoundingly, that even though the feminist movement is so rabidly anti-male, all the freedoms and privileges women presently enjoy in society were granted to them by men! Just ponder this fact for a minute. Women did not win these things by their own efforts. They did not stage a revolution or fight a war against men to gain them. They are not physically strong enough to win a war against men, or for that matter to force men to do anything.
Feminists can jubilantly and triumphantly scream and shout all they like about “girl power” and “sisters doin’ it for themselves”, but it’s all hogwash. They did not beat men into submission and force them to grant them their present freedoms and equality. Men decided to give them these things. If men had not voluntarily decided to do so, women would not be able to enjoy a single one of them. That’s a fact. And yet feminists hate men, they hate the very ones who voluntarily gave women all the freedoms they presently enjoy in western society! Freedoms, let it be said, which are utterly unknown to women in many other societies of the world. These bitter radical feminists have been very successful in convincing society that they are “persecuted” and “discriminated against” and all the rest, in this “male-dominated, patriarchal” society. Well, it might have been such a society once (and the world was a better one for it), but it certainly isn’t so today: in almost every sphere in western society today, men are in retreat, and women are being favoured, promoted, advantaged. But instead of gratitude to western men who turned the tables in their favour, they are bitter, angry, and vindictive.
Women in the west have more “rights”, more freedoms, than any other women in the world, past or present – and yet still these female fanatics whine and complain and demand more and still more. If they want to know what real oppression and drudgery and suffering is, they should live for a while in a Middle Eastern society, or in certain African or Asian societies. But no – they would rather stay in their comfortable western lands, with all their freedoms and conveniences, and whine about being “oppressed” and “held back” in their “male-dominated, patriarchal” society. The very same “male-dominated, patriarchal” society, let it be noted, that has provided them with the highest standard of living, and the greatest freedoms, that any society anywhere in the world has ever enjoyed since the world began.
The Effects of Radical Feminism on Boys
What about the effects of feminism on boys? The feminisation of men starts with the feminisation of young boys. This has been well-put in an article by Carey Roberts. Ponder his words:
“Forty years ago the National Organization for Women was founded. That marked the beginning of an unholy jihad to deconstruct masculinity. Now, a low-level hostility to all things macho pervades our culture.
“A toddler is warned that pointing his finger in the shape of a gun will earn him 10 minutes of time-out. No dump trucks or military figures sully the serenity of his play area. ‘Go play with your Ken-and-Barbie set,’ his gender-enlightened parents console him.
“Want to come out and play Cops and Robbers? Forget it, little boy!...
“During the Saturday morning cartoons, he’ll marvel at Wonder Woman and Firestar who easily vanquish their male assailants...
“At school, junior is informed that tag was banned because it promotes competition and aggressiveness, and recess may be coming next.
“In history class he learns memorable facts such as the West was won by brave teenage girls, Sacagawea led the Lewis and Clark expedition, and Mary Todd Lincoln endured great hardships during the Civil War.
“If our aspiring man wants to play high school sports, he may be enlightened, ‘Sorry, but not enough girls signed up for field hockey this year.’ If he mentions the sex bias of Take Your Daughter to Work Day, the female principal is likely to take him aside and warn him those remarks are creating a hostile environment for the girls.”
Larry Pratt, director of Gun Owners of America, said: “One reason so many feminists are such angry sourpusses is that God made boys and girls different, and while feminist meddling can have a negative impact, it cannot rewire what the Creator has made. For example, it really enrages these angry gals when boys are given dolls to play with and they turn around and use the doll’s arm as a gun ‘Bang!’ Conversely, girls take that Tonka Truck and make a crib for their baby doll in the bed of the truck. Aaaargh! Normal people (non-feminists) tend to react to these ingrained behavior patterns with a ‘Duh!’”
Yes, boys and girls are different. The Lord has made them different, and He has done so for a reason. From childhood already, these differences become very readily apparent. But thanks to the feminist movement, little boys are now being turned into effeminate creatures. They are growing up to believe that girls and women rule the world – and moreover that this is how it should be. They are being taught that males have brought nothing but misery to the world, that the true history of females has been suppressed but is at last coming to the fore as the history books are being rewritten, and that the role of boys and men in society is to live in perpetual guilt for being males. Society is being re-programmed in the image of Woman.
It is vitally important for Christian parents to fight back against this radical feminisation of society. They need to teach their boys to be boys, and their girls to be girls. They must teach their boys to be masculine and their girls to be feminine. They must teach them about the God-ordained roles of men and women.
Remember the days when boys used to take risks, play cops and robbers, play hunters in the woods, shoot pellet guns, go fishing, and come home with their knees scraped and all covered in dirt? This is what little boys are made of! And it’s all excellent training for adult life. Now look around you: where are such boys today? They’re sitting inside with their eyes glued to the TV or to dumb computer games, their brains in neutral, and if they go outside at all they are first kitted out with more protective wear than a soldier going to war.
The Destruction of the Family in Accordance with Marxist Objectives
So: what has feminism achieved?
It has destroyed the concept of different roles for each member of the family, based on biblical truth. The husband is no longer seen as the head of the home – the pushy, bossy woman is in charge, the effeminate husband has no backbone, and the children are out of control, disrespectful, lazy, undisciplined, with no sense of responsibility and a huge sense of entitlement. And that’s in the homes where a husband still exists. Feminism, quite simply, has destroyed the family. It has achieved what it set out to do. And most women and men are so conditioned, so brainwashed by their television sets, that they don’t even know what has happened, or why.
And all of this plays into the hands of the Communistic one-worlders behind the scenes. For in their ceaseless quest for a Marxist world, they know that the family unit must be wiped out. They want to destroy the family, they want children to grow up without that God-ordained support structure, and in a State-controlled educational facility, and they want people to grow old all alone, without the loving companionship of a spouse or the care of their children – so that they can be more easily manipulated and controlled! It’s all about people control. It is Marxism at work. And it is working extremely well.
This was admitted by someone in the Rockefeller clan, which is a major player amongst those seeking to create a one-world government. When Aaron Russo, author of America: Freedom to Fascism, spoke in support of the women’s movement to this person, the reply was: “We...created the women’s movement, and we promote it. And it’s not about equal opportunity. It’s designed to get both parents out of the home and into the workforce, where they will pay taxes. And then we can decide how the children will be raised and educated.”
Another vital part of the one-worlders’ plan is population control. And this explains their fanatical support for abortion the world over. This is why the feminist movement is so intent upon promoting abortion worldwide, under the guise of “a woman’s right to do as she pleases with her own body”. Calling it “Planned Parenthood” is a cover. If they were honest, it would be called “Planned Population Reduction”.
Foolish western women who blithely, and blindly follow the utterances of the high priestesses of the feminist movement are nothing but useful idiots for the one-worlder’s cause! “If American women [and indeed, western women in general! – S.W.] weren’t so glued to their mirrors, anti-depressants, angers, and ill health due to life-long diets, they might realize that massive population reduction, and its connection to global politics and the pharmaceutical and ‘health’ industries, is MANDATED. The feminist movement has been pushing depopulation under the guises of ‘women’s rights’ for decades.
Now, ladies, it’s not so much of a stretch to understand the connection between abortion ‘rights,’ reproductive legislation, and the mental health movement, which specifically targets women and children, to realize that other ‘agendas’ are afoot and off and running. When you are talking about massive global population reduction, you are, in fact, talking about the control of women, their bodies, their unalienable and biological rights to pregnancies and babies, and marriage.”
All this drove Levant to write: “And to the world’s feminists – I say this: You are the dumbest women who have ever walked on the face of the Earth. Week by week, day by day, you are losing every right you thought you invented.
You fell hook, line, and sinker into the dialectic, and you are nothing but dictator pawns to the larger mission of total control over people and freedom. What a shame when arrogance literally beats brains useless. What a crime and a shame when you brutally victimize the very people you claim to represent – much like all other destroyers of human freedom.”
Yes, the irony of it all is that the feminist movement, while purporting to be all about freeing women from “bondage” to men, has in fact brought women into bondage to the feminist movement, which is itself nothing but a puppet of the advocates of global people-control. Women have become slaves, in the name of freedom! The plan has been diabolically clever: keep women (and men) so engrossed in themselves, and in entertainment, that they don’t see what is happening to themselves and their families; fill their every waking moment with careers, and beauty treatments, and entertainment, so that they have no time in the day to truly think and are too exhausted at night to be able to read and think and see through the smokescreen; keep them so busy, tired and unhappy that they feel they can’t cope and must attend “therapy” sessions with some so-called “expert”, who’s really as mixed-up and confused as they are but who has the authority to dope them up with medication that perpetuates their zombie-like state and thus keeps them from ever thinking for themselves, or reading for themselves, and thus figuring out what’s actually going on.
Keep their children away from them as much as possible, via State educational facilities and after-care facilities, and hours of homework, and sports, and hours of TV and musical entertainment, so that although they pass each other in the same house, parents and children are really leading separate lives and are essentially strangers to each other.
And to top it all, call all this “women’s liberation”, the freedom to do as she pleases, to live her life the way she wants to!
Conclusion
Radical feminism is rebellion, plain and simple. Rebellion against the God-given order. It is a rebellion that is destroying western society. And it is a trap into which even professing Christians are liable to fall, if they are not on their guard. The crying need of the times is for Christians to be well taught about what the Word of God says about the roles of husbands, wives, and children, and to put it into practice; to understand what true womanhood and true manhood is all about. Remember the commandment of Holy Scripture: “Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil” (Exod. 23:2). Go against the grain! Swim against the tide! Let your own life, and your family structure, be a reflection of the biblical pattern! “Be not conformed to this world” (Rom. 12:2)!
Human nature being what it is, we just never get the right balance. Not wanting women to be the virtual slaves they are in various Middle Eastern countries, western society has swung the pendulum so far in the other direction that “freedom” for women means licence to live lower than animals if they want. Which would we rather have? Women as virtual slaves, or women fornicating, aborting their children, and using their acquired power to grind men underfoot? Frankly, I don’t want either extreme. The unregenerate are destined to always swing from one extreme to the other. Only in Christ is the right balance set out, and maintained: the husband as the head of the home, the provider and protector; the wife as the homemaker; the children in their proper place, under parental care and guidance until they are adults. This alone is the God-ordained pattern, and the only key to true and lasting happiness.
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ENDNOTES:
.Radical Feminists: Useful Idiots, by Steven Yates, August 1, 2006. NewsWithViews.com.
.Blame It On the Patriarchy, by Carey Roberts, August 12, 2006. NewsWithViews.com.
.Winner of the Coveted 2006 Award for Political Incorrectness, by Carey Roberts, December 31, 2006. NewsWithViews.com.
.Blame It On the Patriarchy.
.Blame It On the Patriarchy.
.Blame It On the Patriarchy.
.The Cultural Devastation of American Women, by Nancy Levant, August 22, 2006. NewsWithViews.com.
.Weekend Witness, August 12, 2006.
.The Cultural Devastation of American Women.
.Feminism and the Control of Womanhood, by Nancy Levant, January 9, 2007. NewsWithViews.com.
.Echo [Witness supplement], August 10, 2006.
.With Feminized Men, Who Will Fight the War on Terror? by Carey Roberts, August 26, 2006. NewsWithViews.com.
.Feminism’s Assault on Self Defense, by Larry Pratt, January 19, 2007. NewsWithViews.com.
.Radical Feminists: Useful Idiots.
.Female Hypocrisy, a Feminist Condition, by Nancy Levant, September 5, 2006. NewsWithViews.com.
.Feminism and the Control of Womanhood.
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Tuesday, 18 May 2010
Monday, 17 May 2010
Is the Ugandan Anglican Church a cave for Political Thieves?
Is the Ugandan Anglican Church a cave for Political Thieves?
The on-going Mukono by-elections has revealed so many things which transcend political bounds, namely, the sole motive of and lacunas that are inherent in the Anglican church. Reverand Bakalubba’s candidature to run for Mukono North constituency is more revealing to the fact that the Anglican Church is no more interested in the character and spiritual concerns of its followers and leaders but only their money and political fame. Its quite ridiculous that no spiritual action was taken by the church against Reverand Peter Bakalubba Mukasa after the Supreme court and the law of the land caught him red handedly and confirmed (and Himself agreed ) that he was a THIEF on Tuesday, 30th March, 2010.
Bakaluba still goes around Mukono District soliciting for votes un shamingly wearing the Anglican church cassock . Theft is a sin in the Bible. Ex 20: 15 explicitly states that “Though shalt not steal”. Theft, whether political, economical, social, spiritual is a sin. Let Bakalubba’s thinking not exhibit a young mind which only knows that theft involves only taking your mothers sauce in her absence. Bakalubba and the Anglican church should instead know that stealing is a sin which carries the same weight as other sins. If Bakalubba can steal and the Anglican church keeps quite how sure are we that Bakalubba and the Anglican church cannot commit adultery, engage in child sacrifice, corruption, rape and all other evils that’s carries the same weight as theft?
Everyday that passesby reveals that the Anglican church is becoming more political than spiritual. The church feels more contented when its members amass political fame than spiritual fame. How dare the Anglican church allow Reverend Peter Bakalubba Mukasa to continue his candidature of running for Mukono North Parliementary seat without any disciplinary action taken against him? The church did not even issue a statement on his character! Not even forcing him to publicly repent and/or saying sorry for the wrongs he committed (I say publicly because Bakalubba stole public goods, namely public votes) not only against humanity and the state but also the church and the Bible teachings which are a central pillar to the entire Christian life? What a hell that through Bakalubba’s wrong doing the Protestant church has in hesitantly allowed to reveal the real motives of its founders, that’s to say, to protest against the RIGHT Doctrine and fight it to its death!
Recently the Catholic pope was forced to apologise to the whole world for the wrongs that the Catholic fathers had committed elsewhere in the world and he did. Why doesn’t Archibishop Oruko Orombi guide his leaders to apologetic living? Why only hear Orombi encourage his followers to engage in politics but not guide them on what right politics is! I have now understood why the person who has raped Uganda’s constitution un shamingly belongs to the Anglican church. Mr Archibishop that is Spiritual hypocrisy which only leaves all intelligent Ugandans wondering whether the Anglican church is not a cave for political thieves!!!
SSONKO FELSTER
ssonkofel@yahoo.com
The on-going Mukono by-elections has revealed so many things which transcend political bounds, namely, the sole motive of and lacunas that are inherent in the Anglican church. Reverand Bakalubba’s candidature to run for Mukono North constituency is more revealing to the fact that the Anglican Church is no more interested in the character and spiritual concerns of its followers and leaders but only their money and political fame. Its quite ridiculous that no spiritual action was taken by the church against Reverand Peter Bakalubba Mukasa after the Supreme court and the law of the land caught him red handedly and confirmed (and Himself agreed ) that he was a THIEF on Tuesday, 30th March, 2010.
Bakaluba still goes around Mukono District soliciting for votes un shamingly wearing the Anglican church cassock . Theft is a sin in the Bible. Ex 20: 15 explicitly states that “Though shalt not steal”. Theft, whether political, economical, social, spiritual is a sin. Let Bakalubba’s thinking not exhibit a young mind which only knows that theft involves only taking your mothers sauce in her absence. Bakalubba and the Anglican church should instead know that stealing is a sin which carries the same weight as other sins. If Bakalubba can steal and the Anglican church keeps quite how sure are we that Bakalubba and the Anglican church cannot commit adultery, engage in child sacrifice, corruption, rape and all other evils that’s carries the same weight as theft?
Everyday that passesby reveals that the Anglican church is becoming more political than spiritual. The church feels more contented when its members amass political fame than spiritual fame. How dare the Anglican church allow Reverend Peter Bakalubba Mukasa to continue his candidature of running for Mukono North Parliementary seat without any disciplinary action taken against him? The church did not even issue a statement on his character! Not even forcing him to publicly repent and/or saying sorry for the wrongs he committed (I say publicly because Bakalubba stole public goods, namely public votes) not only against humanity and the state but also the church and the Bible teachings which are a central pillar to the entire Christian life? What a hell that through Bakalubba’s wrong doing the Protestant church has in hesitantly allowed to reveal the real motives of its founders, that’s to say, to protest against the RIGHT Doctrine and fight it to its death!
Recently the Catholic pope was forced to apologise to the whole world for the wrongs that the Catholic fathers had committed elsewhere in the world and he did. Why doesn’t Archibishop Oruko Orombi guide his leaders to apologetic living? Why only hear Orombi encourage his followers to engage in politics but not guide them on what right politics is! I have now understood why the person who has raped Uganda’s constitution un shamingly belongs to the Anglican church. Mr Archibishop that is Spiritual hypocrisy which only leaves all intelligent Ugandans wondering whether the Anglican church is not a cave for political thieves!!!
SSONKO FELSTER
ssonkofel@yahoo.com
Thursday, 13 May 2010
Pentecostal churches in Uganda face closure by NEMA over noise
The National Environment Management Authority(NEMA) has directed the Town Clerk of Kampala City council, Ruth Kijjambu to close the bars and churches that pollute the environment by making noise. The churches include:Victoria Church , Ndeeba, Gospel Healing Church International , Ntinda, Healing ministries , Mulago, Centre of Grace Ministries , Katanga -Wandegeya, Living Water Church , Najjanankumbi , Kisaasi Fire Centre Church Hope of Glory ministries , Grace Healing Centre, Bethel Church , Tabernacle Church , Munyonyo and Christ Witness Church e Kisaasi.
NEMA efulumizza amakanisa n’amabaala ag’okuggalwa
http://www.bukedde.co.ug/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23293:nema-efulumizza-amakanisa-namabaala-agokuggalwa&catid=29:amawulire&Itemid=572
Bya Hannington Nkalubo
Thursday, 13 May 2010 13:29
EKITONGOLE kya NEMA kiragidde KCC eggalewo ebbaala 33 n’ekkanisa z’Abalokole 10 lwa kuwogganyiza bidongo mu bitundu gye ziri. Akulira ekitongole kino Henry Mugisha Aryamanya yafulumizza olukalala okuli ebbaala zino n’amakanisa n’aluweerezza Town Clerk Ruth Kijjambu ng’alagira asazeemu layisinsi z’ebifo ebyo era ziggalwe.
Olukalala era lwaweerezeddwa ne mu ofiisi endala okuli ey’omuduumizi wa Poliisi Kale Kayihula, RDC Alice Muwanguzi, akulira obutonde bw’ensi mu Kampala ne meeya Ntege Sebaggala.
Olukalala luno kuliko ekkanisa ya Vitoria Church e Ndeeba, Gospel Healing Church International e Ntinda, Healing ministries e Mulago, Centre of Grace Ministries e Katanga -Wandegeya, Living Water Church e Najjanankumbi , Kisaasi Fire Centre Church Hope of Glory ministries , Grace Healing Centre, Bethel Church , Tabernacle Church e Munyonyo ne Christ Witness Church e Kisaasi.
Ate ebbaala kuliko eya M/S Ssebo Green Recreation centre e Muyenga, Gazana bar and restaurant, Rons pub e Kisaasi, Chogm Pork joint Namuwongo, Mambo Jambo e Mengo, Dallas pork joint e Kisaasi, Machame health and Leisure Club e Naggulu ne City Control Sound e Nakawa.
Ebifo ebirala kuliko Beach house event e Ggaba, The Zone club e Bukoto, V8 bar e Wakaliga, Wallet club e Kabuusu , Best Hotel e Nateete, Green fields Gardens e Kanyanya , Soberz bar and Night club e Ntinda , ne Vee’s club Discotheque Bakuli.
Ku lukalala era kuliko Gentleman’s Club Bugoloobi, Ground Zero Wandegeya, Zanzi bar and pork joint Kiwatule, Dallas bar and night club Kisaasi, Vanessa Club Kitintale , Obama club ne blue Mango e Mutungo.
Ate Victoria park e Bunga, Club –x e Kabalagala , Bonanza Club e Ktintale , Daido wonders e Makindye, A-Y Club e Makindye, DV8 Luzira, After 6 e Luzira ,Club 2000 e Mkindye ne Jomica e Kawaala.
Ebbaluwa ya NEMA eragira KCC eggale ebbaala zino kubanga ziremeddwa okuzimba ebitangira amaloboozi obutafuluma nnyo bweru kutataaganya batuuze abasula okumpi nazo.
NEMA efulumizza amakanisa n’amabaala ag’okuggalwa
http://www.bukedde.co.ug/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23293:nema-efulumizza-amakanisa-namabaala-agokuggalwa&catid=29:amawulire&Itemid=572
Bya Hannington Nkalubo
Thursday, 13 May 2010 13:29
EKITONGOLE kya NEMA kiragidde KCC eggalewo ebbaala 33 n’ekkanisa z’Abalokole 10 lwa kuwogganyiza bidongo mu bitundu gye ziri. Akulira ekitongole kino Henry Mugisha Aryamanya yafulumizza olukalala okuli ebbaala zino n’amakanisa n’aluweerezza Town Clerk Ruth Kijjambu ng’alagira asazeemu layisinsi z’ebifo ebyo era ziggalwe.
Olukalala era lwaweerezeddwa ne mu ofiisi endala okuli ey’omuduumizi wa Poliisi Kale Kayihula, RDC Alice Muwanguzi, akulira obutonde bw’ensi mu Kampala ne meeya Ntege Sebaggala.
Olukalala luno kuliko ekkanisa ya Vitoria Church e Ndeeba, Gospel Healing Church International e Ntinda, Healing ministries e Mulago, Centre of Grace Ministries e Katanga -Wandegeya, Living Water Church e Najjanankumbi , Kisaasi Fire Centre Church Hope of Glory ministries , Grace Healing Centre, Bethel Church , Tabernacle Church e Munyonyo ne Christ Witness Church e Kisaasi.
Ate ebbaala kuliko eya M/S Ssebo Green Recreation centre e Muyenga, Gazana bar and restaurant, Rons pub e Kisaasi, Chogm Pork joint Namuwongo, Mambo Jambo e Mengo, Dallas pork joint e Kisaasi, Machame health and Leisure Club e Naggulu ne City Control Sound e Nakawa.
Ebifo ebirala kuliko Beach house event e Ggaba, The Zone club e Bukoto, V8 bar e Wakaliga, Wallet club e Kabuusu , Best Hotel e Nateete, Green fields Gardens e Kanyanya , Soberz bar and Night club e Ntinda , ne Vee’s club Discotheque Bakuli.
Ku lukalala era kuliko Gentleman’s Club Bugoloobi, Ground Zero Wandegeya, Zanzi bar and pork joint Kiwatule, Dallas bar and night club Kisaasi, Vanessa Club Kitintale , Obama club ne blue Mango e Mutungo.
Ate Victoria park e Bunga, Club –x e Kabalagala , Bonanza Club e Ktintale , Daido wonders e Makindye, A-Y Club e Makindye, DV8 Luzira, After 6 e Luzira ,Club 2000 e Mkindye ne Jomica e Kawaala.
Ebbaluwa ya NEMA eragira KCC eggale ebbaala zino kubanga ziremeddwa okuzimba ebitangira amaloboozi obutafuluma nnyo bweru kutataaganya batuuze abasula okumpi nazo.
Mityana born-again church closed
Mityana born-again church closed
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/19/709500/Mityana
Monday, 8th February, 2010
By Luke Kagiri
THE Police and local leaders in Lweyo, Bulera sub-county in Mityana district have closed a born-again church following allegations that it was operating illegally.
The local leaders had earlier complained to the Police that people were being starved and the sick prevented from seeking medical help by the Miracle Healing Church.
The officer in charge of Namutamba Police post, Charles Wagabaza, and the local leaders closed the church on Tuesday.
About 10 people were found at the church, which is located on a two-acre piece of land. The pastor, George Rwalinda, was not at the premises.
A man identified as David Dayari said Rwalinda had gone to Busoga.
“Rwalinda left us with instructions to pray all the time. I lost all my riches but I am sure my prayers and his blessings will restore the riches,” Dayari said.
A woman, who claimed to be a teacher, said: “I have been with HIV/AIDS for over 20 years. I was on ARVs, but since I came here in October, I am getting well. I have now stopped taking the drugs.”
The Police, however, ordered the people to vacate the premises.
“We cannot leave these people here. They should go as we continue with investigations,” Wagabaza said.
“We have written to the pastor several times stopping him from running this church until he presents clear documents about it, but he refused to stop,” said the area secretary for security, Aloysius Katamba. He said most of the believers were suffering from AIDS.
He added that they usually fast for over three days, taking only water.
In the same village, a three-month-old baby was recovered from a house in a critical condition. He looked malnourished.
Residents said the baby’s mother, Joyce Mutezi, refused to take him to hospital, saying prayers would heal him.
The district Police commander, Ben Mubangizi, said they had launched investigations into the matter.
Probe healers, pastors – doctors
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/19/700073/Mityana
The New Vision, Wednesday, 4th November, 2009
By Abdulkarim SsengendoM
Private health practitioners have asked the health ministry to investigate traditional healers and pastors over what they called misleading the public by claiming that they can cure diseases, including HIV/AIDS.
This was during a one-day workshop organised by the Uganda Health Marketing Group at Lake View Hotel in Entebbe on Friday.
Dr. Yoramu Muhwezi, the owner of Hope clinics in Mbarara district said: “Traditional healers claim they check blood. I wonder why the Government is quiet on this,” he said.
The group also said pastors who claim to heal diseases with prayer should be arrested.
“They have discouraged people from taking ARVs and other drugs,” said Dr. Davis Beinganiza from Kyenjojo.
The workshop was attended by over 130 doctors from Gulu, Mbarara, Kasese, Bushenyi, Mityana, Isingiro, Ibanda, Kasese, Kyenjojo and Masaka districts.
Emily Katarikawe, the managing director of the Uganda Marketing Group, urged the Government to make policies to stop false claims by traditional healers and churches.
Dr. Grace Nambatya, the director of the Research Natural Chemotherapeutics Laboratory, told participants that Uganda had many policies that are not implemented, citing the polythene ban.
Nambatya said the Government was aware of churches and traditional healers misleading the public and said a legal frame work would be designed to stop them.
She said the health ministry did not have resources to facilitate the implementation of policies.
Nambatya called on the stakeholders to join in the fight against such characters and to sensitise the communities on the dangers of such claims.
Issues raised by private health practitioners included the need to provide cheep mental health drugs, discouraging advertisement by traditional healers and the provision of free ARVs to private organisations who can help to distribute them to hard-to-reach areas.
Pastor held over wetland in Mityana
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/19/708155/Mityana
Tuesday, 26th January, 2010
By Luke Kagiri
THE Police in Mityana district recently summoned and interrogated a born-again pastor over accusations of encroaching on a wetland.
Pastor Mike Kalembe of Kikonge Church was accused of farming, dumping marram and constructing a church, in Kamira Ntumbwe wetland, located 10 miles on the Mityana-Kampala highway.
The accusation was made in a report issued by the district environment officer, Yassin Bbira.
Bbira informed the police that he had written to the pastor stopping him from using the wetland but Kalembe ignored the order.
“We agreed that he would demolish the structures and destroy the garden immediately. His church would remain since it is not taking up much of the wetland,” Bbira added.
He explained that he turned to the Police because he had summoned Kalembe in vain.
Kalembe said he got permission to put up the church but admitted he was not allowed to cultivate in the wetland.
Police detectives went to the scene and ordered Kalembe to report to the Police station for further investigation.
“This should serve as a warning to all people encroaching on the wetlands. they should stop,” Bbira cautioned.
Bishops attacked over shrine
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/13/703534/Mityana
Monday, 7th December, 2009
Kagugube and an area resident guarding their shrine at Mutetema
Kagugube and an area resident guarding their shrine at Mutetema
By Luke Kagiri
Three Anglican bishops and five clergy members on Friday survived being lynched by a mob in Mityana district when they attempted to destroy a traditional shrine.
The Mityana bishop, Dr. Samuel Kaziimba, who was in the company of retired bishops, George Ssinabulya and Wilson Mutebi, had gone to Mutetema village in Bulera sub-county to destroy shrines.
The shrines reportedly belonged to Christians who had become born-again. Christians regard shrines as an aspect of witchcraft.
Others with the bishiops included Can. Ddungu, Can. Kalanzi, Rev. Michael Lubowa, and a lay Christian, Henry Kasozi, who claimed ownership of the shrine that was to be destroyed.
Information of the clergys’ visit had circulated among the residents on Thursday and they mobilised to block them.
“Family members and villagers were sleeping near the home, waiting for anybody who would come to torch the shrine,” one of the residents, who preferred anonymity, said.
On Friday morning, the residents staged roadblocks along the Mityana-Mutetema road to stop the bishops from traveling to the shrine.
However, the bishops, who were in a convoy of over four vehicles, used another route to reach the shrine.
When the bishops’ delegation arrived at the home, Godfrey Kagugube, one of the family members, immediately handed them a letter from the Police post, stopping them from accessing the home.
The bishops, realising that an angry crowd was gathering, drove off immediately.
Kagugube said Kasozi, who brought the religious leaders, is their uncle and had no control over the shrine.
“Our late father, Kopliano Lubega, built the shrine when our family was facing problems. The problems were all solved and we are living happily. Where did he get powers to burn our shrine?” Kagugube wondered.
Kasozi, described the incident as ‘unfortunate’.
“I am very happy because everybody has known that I am no longer concerned with their witchcraft,” he said.
Families banished over witchcraft
The New Vision, Wednesday, 7th October, 2009
By Luke Kagiri
Angry residents attacked two families in Mubende and Mityana district after accusing them of practicing witchcraft. A mob almost lynched the family of Yozefu Walakira on Sunday night at Bulyamagunju village in Myanzi sub-county.
A day earlier, in a separate incident, Betty Nakyobe was chased from Kityokya centre in Bulera sub-county. In the Sunday incident, Walakira’s property was destroyed, but security operatives came in time to rescue the family.
The sub-county internal security officer, Godfrey Kabiito, confirmed the attack. “Some goats, pigs and chicken were killed. The banana and coffee plantations were cut down and Walakira was assaulted,” he said.
The mob accused Walakira’s wife, Deziranta Namatovu, of terrorising the village with witchcraft, he explained.
“One of the complainants is Simon Bugembe, his neighbour, who claims that Namatovu bewitched her daughter.” The Police said the hunt for the perpetrators was still going on.
In the other incident, Nakyobe was chased from the trading centre after she was seen digging up the graveyard of George Nsamba resident.
“They arrested her and took her to the Police. The Police called the owner of the graveyard and Nakyobe agreed to repair the graves,” said Jane Namukasa, the defence secretary.
“When she was released to implement the agreement, the residents held a meeting and resolved to send her away from the village.”
Another area leader, Emma Sakos, said the residents attacked Nakyobe on Saturday morning before she left her house and ordered her to leave the village.
“The LC officials and the Police intervened and she was not assaulted. She immediately left the village. The property which she left behind was burnt,” Sakos said.
The acting district Police commander, Nathan Matovu, said the case was being investigated.
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/19/709500/Mityana
Monday, 8th February, 2010
By Luke Kagiri
THE Police and local leaders in Lweyo, Bulera sub-county in Mityana district have closed a born-again church following allegations that it was operating illegally.
The local leaders had earlier complained to the Police that people were being starved and the sick prevented from seeking medical help by the Miracle Healing Church.
The officer in charge of Namutamba Police post, Charles Wagabaza, and the local leaders closed the church on Tuesday.
About 10 people were found at the church, which is located on a two-acre piece of land. The pastor, George Rwalinda, was not at the premises.
A man identified as David Dayari said Rwalinda had gone to Busoga.
“Rwalinda left us with instructions to pray all the time. I lost all my riches but I am sure my prayers and his blessings will restore the riches,” Dayari said.
A woman, who claimed to be a teacher, said: “I have been with HIV/AIDS for over 20 years. I was on ARVs, but since I came here in October, I am getting well. I have now stopped taking the drugs.”
The Police, however, ordered the people to vacate the premises.
“We cannot leave these people here. They should go as we continue with investigations,” Wagabaza said.
“We have written to the pastor several times stopping him from running this church until he presents clear documents about it, but he refused to stop,” said the area secretary for security, Aloysius Katamba. He said most of the believers were suffering from AIDS.
He added that they usually fast for over three days, taking only water.
In the same village, a three-month-old baby was recovered from a house in a critical condition. He looked malnourished.
Residents said the baby’s mother, Joyce Mutezi, refused to take him to hospital, saying prayers would heal him.
The district Police commander, Ben Mubangizi, said they had launched investigations into the matter.
Probe healers, pastors – doctors
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/19/700073/Mityana
The New Vision, Wednesday, 4th November, 2009
By Abdulkarim SsengendoM
Private health practitioners have asked the health ministry to investigate traditional healers and pastors over what they called misleading the public by claiming that they can cure diseases, including HIV/AIDS.
This was during a one-day workshop organised by the Uganda Health Marketing Group at Lake View Hotel in Entebbe on Friday.
Dr. Yoramu Muhwezi, the owner of Hope clinics in Mbarara district said: “Traditional healers claim they check blood. I wonder why the Government is quiet on this,” he said.
The group also said pastors who claim to heal diseases with prayer should be arrested.
“They have discouraged people from taking ARVs and other drugs,” said Dr. Davis Beinganiza from Kyenjojo.
The workshop was attended by over 130 doctors from Gulu, Mbarara, Kasese, Bushenyi, Mityana, Isingiro, Ibanda, Kasese, Kyenjojo and Masaka districts.
Emily Katarikawe, the managing director of the Uganda Marketing Group, urged the Government to make policies to stop false claims by traditional healers and churches.
Dr. Grace Nambatya, the director of the Research Natural Chemotherapeutics Laboratory, told participants that Uganda had many policies that are not implemented, citing the polythene ban.
Nambatya said the Government was aware of churches and traditional healers misleading the public and said a legal frame work would be designed to stop them.
She said the health ministry did not have resources to facilitate the implementation of policies.
Nambatya called on the stakeholders to join in the fight against such characters and to sensitise the communities on the dangers of such claims.
Issues raised by private health practitioners included the need to provide cheep mental health drugs, discouraging advertisement by traditional healers and the provision of free ARVs to private organisations who can help to distribute them to hard-to-reach areas.
Pastor held over wetland in Mityana
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/19/708155/Mityana
Tuesday, 26th January, 2010
By Luke Kagiri
THE Police in Mityana district recently summoned and interrogated a born-again pastor over accusations of encroaching on a wetland.
Pastor Mike Kalembe of Kikonge Church was accused of farming, dumping marram and constructing a church, in Kamira Ntumbwe wetland, located 10 miles on the Mityana-Kampala highway.
The accusation was made in a report issued by the district environment officer, Yassin Bbira.
Bbira informed the police that he had written to the pastor stopping him from using the wetland but Kalembe ignored the order.
“We agreed that he would demolish the structures and destroy the garden immediately. His church would remain since it is not taking up much of the wetland,” Bbira added.
He explained that he turned to the Police because he had summoned Kalembe in vain.
Kalembe said he got permission to put up the church but admitted he was not allowed to cultivate in the wetland.
Police detectives went to the scene and ordered Kalembe to report to the Police station for further investigation.
“This should serve as a warning to all people encroaching on the wetlands. they should stop,” Bbira cautioned.
Bishops attacked over shrine
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/13/703534/Mityana
Monday, 7th December, 2009
Kagugube and an area resident guarding their shrine at Mutetema
Kagugube and an area resident guarding their shrine at Mutetema
By Luke Kagiri
Three Anglican bishops and five clergy members on Friday survived being lynched by a mob in Mityana district when they attempted to destroy a traditional shrine.
The Mityana bishop, Dr. Samuel Kaziimba, who was in the company of retired bishops, George Ssinabulya and Wilson Mutebi, had gone to Mutetema village in Bulera sub-county to destroy shrines.
The shrines reportedly belonged to Christians who had become born-again. Christians regard shrines as an aspect of witchcraft.
Others with the bishiops included Can. Ddungu, Can. Kalanzi, Rev. Michael Lubowa, and a lay Christian, Henry Kasozi, who claimed ownership of the shrine that was to be destroyed.
Information of the clergys’ visit had circulated among the residents on Thursday and they mobilised to block them.
“Family members and villagers were sleeping near the home, waiting for anybody who would come to torch the shrine,” one of the residents, who preferred anonymity, said.
On Friday morning, the residents staged roadblocks along the Mityana-Mutetema road to stop the bishops from traveling to the shrine.
However, the bishops, who were in a convoy of over four vehicles, used another route to reach the shrine.
When the bishops’ delegation arrived at the home, Godfrey Kagugube, one of the family members, immediately handed them a letter from the Police post, stopping them from accessing the home.
The bishops, realising that an angry crowd was gathering, drove off immediately.
Kagugube said Kasozi, who brought the religious leaders, is their uncle and had no control over the shrine.
“Our late father, Kopliano Lubega, built the shrine when our family was facing problems. The problems were all solved and we are living happily. Where did he get powers to burn our shrine?” Kagugube wondered.
Kasozi, described the incident as ‘unfortunate’.
“I am very happy because everybody has known that I am no longer concerned with their witchcraft,” he said.
Families banished over witchcraft
The New Vision, Wednesday, 7th October, 2009
By Luke Kagiri
Angry residents attacked two families in Mubende and Mityana district after accusing them of practicing witchcraft. A mob almost lynched the family of Yozefu Walakira on Sunday night at Bulyamagunju village in Myanzi sub-county.
A day earlier, in a separate incident, Betty Nakyobe was chased from Kityokya centre in Bulera sub-county. In the Sunday incident, Walakira’s property was destroyed, but security operatives came in time to rescue the family.
The sub-county internal security officer, Godfrey Kabiito, confirmed the attack. “Some goats, pigs and chicken were killed. The banana and coffee plantations were cut down and Walakira was assaulted,” he said.
The mob accused Walakira’s wife, Deziranta Namatovu, of terrorising the village with witchcraft, he explained.
“One of the complainants is Simon Bugembe, his neighbour, who claims that Namatovu bewitched her daughter.” The Police said the hunt for the perpetrators was still going on.
In the other incident, Nakyobe was chased from the trading centre after she was seen digging up the graveyard of George Nsamba resident.
“They arrested her and took her to the Police. The Police called the owner of the graveyard and Nakyobe agreed to repair the graves,” said Jane Namukasa, the defence secretary.
“When she was released to implement the agreement, the residents held a meeting and resolved to send her away from the village.”
Another area leader, Emma Sakos, said the residents attacked Nakyobe on Saturday morning before she left her house and ordered her to leave the village.
“The LC officials and the Police intervened and she was not assaulted. She immediately left the village. The property which she left behind was burnt,” Sakos said.
The acting district Police commander, Nathan Matovu, said the case was being investigated.
POPE BENEDICT AND THE CATHOLIC SEX SCANDAL: GOD HAS EXPOSED THE FOOLISHNESS OF BUILDING A CHURCH ON MERE MEN
FIRST READ: As the Priestly Sex Abuse Scandal Grows...Is the Pope of Rome Guilty?
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2010/04/priestly-sex-abuse-scandal-is-pope-of.html
http://www.biblebasedministries.co.uk/2010/05/05/is-the-pope-of-rome-guilty/
The Catholic Church, Pedophilia, and Lessons for Ugandan Evangelicals
http://www.yesumulungi.com/index.php/apostasy-watch/412-the-catholic-church-pedophilia-and-lessons-for-ugandan-evangelicals.html
The New Testament Church, Who Owns It?
http://www.yesumulungi.com/index.php/discernment/415-the-new-testament-church-who-owns-it.html
Despite centuries of covering the rot in the Catholic Church, the truth has finally been exposed. You see God said in his word that there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed(Luke 12:2). He also emphasizes that heaven and earth will pass away but his word abides forever (Matt. 24:35). We should also not forget that God stresses that he has magnified his word even above his name ( Psa. 138:2).One of the fundamental doctrines of the Catholic Church is that Peter is the rock of the church. The word of God categorically exposes the foolishness of this doctrine.
In his holy word, God says categorically that cursed is he who trusts in man(Jere 17:5). God also says that the heart of man is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked( Jere.17:9). Therefore God could not be so foolish to build his church on Peter, a man. In Matthew 16:18 Jesus said, ‘’And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it’’. The catholic church uses this verse to argue that Peter is the rock Jesus was referring to.
What Jesus said in simple terms is; you are petra(stone) but upon this petros(rock-Jesus) I will build my church. If Jesus had declared Peter to be the rock of the church, he would be foolish to call the ‘’rock’’ Satan just a few verses after(Matt.16:23). In addition it is amazing that the so called rock of the church is rebuked by Apostle Paul in Galatians 2 for ignorance of the fact that circumcision of the heart was superior to the circumcision of the flesh.How could the rock of the church be so carnal to cut off some one’s ear during Jesus’ arrest? Do you see any rockness in timid Peter who denied Jesus? If you were Jesus would you be so foolish to build your church on this fellow?
God has further exposed the lie that the Pope is a descendant of saint Peter, the rock of the church by exposing the hypocrisy of Pope Benedict who directly knew the sexual abuse of children by catholic priests and kept munk. How can a descendant of the rock of the church(‘’holy father’’) cover sin and then apologize after being exposed. Our God is God of truth, he can never contradict his word. His word cuts through the lies of men and renders them foolishness. Amen.
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2010/04/priestly-sex-abuse-scandal-is-pope-of.html
http://www.biblebasedministries.co.uk/2010/05/05/is-the-pope-of-rome-guilty/
The Catholic Church, Pedophilia, and Lessons for Ugandan Evangelicals
http://www.yesumulungi.com/index.php/apostasy-watch/412-the-catholic-church-pedophilia-and-lessons-for-ugandan-evangelicals.html
The New Testament Church, Who Owns It?
http://www.yesumulungi.com/index.php/discernment/415-the-new-testament-church-who-owns-it.html
Despite centuries of covering the rot in the Catholic Church, the truth has finally been exposed. You see God said in his word that there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed(Luke 12:2). He also emphasizes that heaven and earth will pass away but his word abides forever (Matt. 24:35). We should also not forget that God stresses that he has magnified his word even above his name ( Psa. 138:2).One of the fundamental doctrines of the Catholic Church is that Peter is the rock of the church. The word of God categorically exposes the foolishness of this doctrine.
In his holy word, God says categorically that cursed is he who trusts in man(Jere 17:5). God also says that the heart of man is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked( Jere.17:9). Therefore God could not be so foolish to build his church on Peter, a man. In Matthew 16:18 Jesus said, ‘’And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it’’. The catholic church uses this verse to argue that Peter is the rock Jesus was referring to.
What Jesus said in simple terms is; you are petra(stone) but upon this petros(rock-Jesus) I will build my church. If Jesus had declared Peter to be the rock of the church, he would be foolish to call the ‘’rock’’ Satan just a few verses after(Matt.16:23). In addition it is amazing that the so called rock of the church is rebuked by Apostle Paul in Galatians 2 for ignorance of the fact that circumcision of the heart was superior to the circumcision of the flesh.How could the rock of the church be so carnal to cut off some one’s ear during Jesus’ arrest? Do you see any rockness in timid Peter who denied Jesus? If you were Jesus would you be so foolish to build your church on this fellow?
God has further exposed the lie that the Pope is a descendant of saint Peter, the rock of the church by exposing the hypocrisy of Pope Benedict who directly knew the sexual abuse of children by catholic priests and kept munk. How can a descendant of the rock of the church(‘’holy father’’) cover sin and then apologize after being exposed. Our God is God of truth, he can never contradict his word. His word cuts through the lies of men and renders them foolishness. Amen.
Pray the rosary everyday so that we can have peace in the world. Oh! Really, it is amazing that the rosary could not stop catholic sodomy
Pray the rosary everyday so that we can have peace in the world. Oh! Really, it is amazing that the rosary could not even stop pedophilia and sodomy in the catholic church
…thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name. (Psalm 138:2)
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; (1 Timothy 2:5 )
..if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them (Isaiah 8:20)
Inside the Catholic Catechism
http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/cat-ndx.html
http://www.cuttingedge.org/articles/catechism.cfm
ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH PUTS MARY ON THE CROSS
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2010/04/roman-catholic-church-puts-mary-on.html
As the Priestly Sex Abuse Scandal Grows...Is the Pope of Rome Guilty?
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2010/04/priestly-sex-abuse-scandal-is-pope-of.html
YOU ARE SIMPLY WRONG ABOUT THE CATHOLICS: OH! REALLY
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2009/07/you-are-simply-wrong-about-catholics-oh.html
THE AGONY OF DECEIT: EXPOSING THE CATHOLIC LEADERSHIP MAGAZINE’S SALVATION BY WORKS
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2009/09/agony-of-deceit-exposing-catholic.html
Analysis
As I write this thread thousands of e-mails are being sent to faithful catholics reminding them to pray the rosary everyday so that we can have peace in the world. You, see I was my self a catholic for over 20 years before the Lord Jesus Christ saved me from catholic witchcraft. I always look back and laugh at the things we believed. I’m always amazed at how the Catholic Church controlled us to believe in men instead of the word of God. The word of God says that they were first called Christians at Antioch (Acts 17:26), so the first Christians in the bible are the ones in the books of Acts. These men and women of God never prayed using beads; the word rosary is not in the bible. Even Peter the so called first pope never prayed the rosary. So, the doctrine of the Rosary has no scriptural basis. Look at the following so called scriptural defense of the rosary from the global catholic net work:
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you.
Luke 1:28 "And coming to her, he said, "Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with you."
The Greek kecharitomene means favored by grace, graced. Its tense suggests a permanent state of being "highly favored," thus full of grace. Charity, the divine love within us, comes from the same root. God is infinite Goodness, infinite Love. Mary is perfect created goodness, filled to the limit of her finite being with grace or charity.
Blessed art thou among women
Luke 1:41-42a "When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the infant leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth, filled with the holy Spirit, cried out in a loud voice and said, "Most blessed are you among women..."
Luke 1:48 "For he has looked upon his handmaid's lowliness; behold, from now on will all ages call me blessed."
Among all women is a way to say the highest/greatest etc. of a group in Semitic languages (these words would likely have been spoken in Aramaic). Mary is being called the greatest of all women, greater than Ruth, greater than Sarah, greater than EVE! Since Eve was created immaculate (without original sin), Mary must have been conceived immaculate. And, although Eve fell into sin by her own free will, Mary must have corresponded to God's grace and remained sinless. She could not otherwise be greater than Eve. Thus, as the Fathers of the Church unanimously assert, Mary is the New Eve who restores womanhood to God's original intention and cooperates with the New Adam, her Son, for the Redemption of the world.
They are arguing that Luke 1:28 and 1:41-42a are scriptural proofs of the rosary. What they are not telling you is that these scriptures do not instruct Christians to prayer beads and recite them in adoration of Mary. MARY is definitely blessed among women. That is all. There is no scripture instructing Christians to recite the rosary so that Mary can bring peace to the world. There is no scripture stating that Mary was sinless and a perpetual virgin.Even the Apostles never recited the rosary. Look at this interesting statements from the Global catholic net work,’’ Mary must have been conceived immaculate. And, although Eve fell into sin by her own free will, Mary must have corresponded to God's grace and remained sinless. She could not otherwise be greater than Eve’’. This shows that they are not sure about what they are saying. The whole thing is based on guess work and therefore nonsensical.
Look at this also’’Thus, as the Fathers of the Church unanimously assert, Mary is the New Eve who restores womanhood to God's original intention and cooperates with the New Adam, her Son, for the Redemption of the world’’. Do you see how authority is shifted from the word of God to mere men. We can not believe something because men say so. God says cursed is he who trusts in man(Jeremiah 17;5), God the Almighty also says that he has magnified his word even above his name(Psalms 138:2).
LOOk at the Catholic ridiculous defense of the Rosary
http://www.ewtn.com/devotionals/prayers/rosary/
Why pray the Rosary today? Certainly, to grow in holiness and in one's prayer life. The following are a few others reasons why the rosary should be prayed often, even daily:
• "Among all the devotions approved by the Church none has been so favored by so many miracles as the devotion of the Most Holy Rosary" (Pope Pius IX).
• "Say the Rosary every day to obtain peace for the world" (Our Lady of Fátima).
• "There is no surer means of calling down God's blessings upon the family . . . than the daily recitation of the Rosary" (Pope Pius XII).
• "We do not hesitate to affirm again publicly that we put great confidence in the Holy Rosary for the healing of evils of our times" (Pope Pius XII).
• "No one can live continually in sin and continue to say the Rosary: either they will give up sin or they will give up the Rosary" (Bishop Hugh Doyle).
• "The Rosary is a magnificent and universal prayer for the needs of the Church, the nations and the entire world" (Pope John XXIII).
• "The Rosary is the compendium of the entire Gospel" (Pope Paul VI quoting Pope Pius XII).
• "Meditation on the mysteries of the Rosary . . . can be an excellent preparation for the celebration of those same mysteries in the liturgical actions [i.e. the Mass] and can also become a continuing echo thereof" (Pope Paul VI).
• "My impression is that the Rosary is of the greatest value not only according to the words of Our Lady at Fátima, but according to the effects of the Rosary one sees throughout history. My impression is that Our Lady wanted to give ordinary people, who might not know how to pray, this simple method of getting closer to God" (Sister Lucia, one of the seers of Fátima).
• "How beautiful is the family that recites the Rosary every evening" (Pope John Paul II).
• Pope John Paul II has called the Rosary his "favorite prayer," after the Mass and the Liturgy of the Hours.
• St. Louis de Montfort warns us against both the ignorant and scholars who regard the Rosary as something of little importance..."the Rosary is a priceless treasure inspired by God."
The Rosary and Sacred Scripture
http://www.ewtn.com/devotionals/prayers/rosary/scripture.htm
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you.
Luke 1:28 "And coming to her, he said, "Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with you."
The Greek kecharitomene means favored by grace, graced. Its tense suggests a permanent state of being "highly favored," thus full of grace. Charity, the divine love within us, comes from the same root. God is infinite Goodness, infinite Love. Mary is perfect created goodness, filled to the limit of her finite being with grace or charity.
Blessed art thou among women
Luke 1:41-42a "When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the infant leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth, filled with the holy Spirit, cried out in a loud voice and said, "Most blessed are you among women..."
Luke 1:48 "For he has looked upon his handmaid's lowliness; behold, from now on will all ages call me blessed."
Among all women is a way to say the highest/greatest etc. of a group in Semitic languages (these words would likely have been spoken in Aramaic). Mary is being called the greatest of all women, greater than Ruth, greater than Sarah, greater than EVE! Since Eve was created immaculate (without original sin), Mary must have been conceived immaculate. And, although Eve fell into sin by her own free will, Mary must have corresponded to God's grace and remained sinless. She could not otherwise be greater than Eve. Thus, as the Fathers of the Church unanimously assert, Mary is the New Eve who restores womanhood to God's original intention and cooperates with the New Adam, her Son, for the Redemption of the world.
Blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus
Luke 1:42b "and blessed is the fruit of your womb."
Jesus is Mary's fruit. Good fruit does not come from anything but a good tree (Mt. 7:17-18)! The all-holy Son of God could not be the fruit of any other tree than the Immaculate Virgin.
Holy Mary, Mother of God
Luke 1:43 "And how does this happen to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?
Kyrios is the Greek word used by the Jews in the Septuagint Bible (Greek translation) for Yhwh, the Divine Name of God. In her greeting of Mary, Elizabeth is saying: "How is it that the mother of my God should come to me." Against the heresies of the 4th and 5th centuries which tried to split the Person of Jesus into two, divine and human, denying one or the other, the Council of Ephesus in 431 AD proclaimed Mary Theotokos (God-bearer, i.e. mother of God). Jesus is a single Person, a Divine Person, the 2nd Person of the Most Holy Trinity. To be mother of the Person Jesus is to be mother of a Person who is God. Mary's title protects this truth against errors which emphasize or deny, either the divinity or humanity of the Lord.
Pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
Luke 2:35 "...and you yourself a sword will pierce so that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed."
John 2:5 "His mother said to the servers, "Do whatever he tells you."
Mary sees a need and appeals to Her Son to satisfy it. He does. We turn to Mary to ask her to intercede with her Son in our daily spiritual and material needs, but especially at the hour of our death. At that moment our salvation hangs in the balance as the devil makes his final foray to deter us from the path to God (Rev. 2:10). It is not surprising, therefore, that both the Hail Mary and the Our Father conclude with an appeal to be delivered from the evil one.
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The Power of Intercessory Prayer:
Intercessory prayer proceeds from faith in God that holy men and women who have died are as alive today as they were on earth (Luke 20:38). If the prayer of the just man avails much, how much more the prayer of the one made perfect (Rev. 21:27) and living with God in heaven (the patriarchs, apostles and other holy men and women).
James 5:16b "the fervent prayer of a righteous man is very powerful."
Rev. 5:8 "When he took it, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each of the elders held a harp and gold bowls filled with incense, which are the prayers of the holy ones.
The angels, too, mediate our prayers. This is taught explicitly in the Jewish book of Tobit (Tob. 12:12), accepted by Christians as inspired until Luther on his own authority rejected it. It remains part of the Catholic Bible.
Tobit 12:12 I can now tell you that when you, Tobit, and Sarah prayed, it was I who presented and read the record of your prayer before the Glory of the Lord; and I did the same thing when you used to bury the dead.
Rev. 8:3 "Another angel came and stood at the altar, holding a gold censer. He was given a great quantity of incense to offer, along with the prayers of all the holy ones, on the gold altar that was before the throne."
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Is the rosary mindless babbling?
The purpose of the different beads on the rosary is to count the various prayers as they are said. Unlike the Moslem prayer beads and the mantras of Buddhism, the prayers of the rosary are meant to occupy our whole being, body and soul, while meditating on the truths of the Faith. Any prayer is vain, however, if said mechanically without devotion. Simply to repeat prayers is not the vain repetition condemned by Christ (Mt 6:7), since He Himself repeats His prayer in the Garden three times (Mt 26:39, 42, 44) and the Psalms (inspired by the Holy Spirit) are often very repetitive (Ps 119 has 176 verses and Ps. 136 repeats the same phrase 26 times).
Matthew 6:7 In praying, do not babble like the pagans, who think that they will be heard because of their many words.
Psalm 136:1-26
Praise the LORD, who is so good;
God's love endures forever;
Praise the God of gods;
God's love endures forever;
. . . Praise the God of heaven,
God's love endures forever.
Matthew 26:39 He advanced a little and fell prostrate in prayer, saying, "My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me; yet, not as I will, but as you will."
Matthew 26:42 Withdrawing a second time, he prayed again, "My Father, if it is not possible that this cup pass without my drinking it, your will be done!"
Matthew 26:44 He left them and withdrew again and prayed a third time, saying the same thing again.
The Church believes that it is necessary for a Christian to meditate (prayerfully think about) the will of God, the life and teachings of Jesus, the price He paid for our salvation, and so on. Unless we do this we will begin to take these great gifts for granted and ultimately fall away from the Lord. Every Christian must meditate in some way in order to preserve the gift of salvation (James 1:22-25). Many Catholic and non-Catholic Christians prayerfully read and apply Scripture to their lives, that is, meditate on them. With the rosary this can be done virtually anywhere and anytime.
…thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name. (Psalm 138:2)
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; (1 Timothy 2:5 )
..if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them (Isaiah 8:20)
Inside the Catholic Catechism
http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/cat-ndx.html
http://www.cuttingedge.org/articles/catechism.cfm
ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH PUTS MARY ON THE CROSS
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2010/04/roman-catholic-church-puts-mary-on.html
As the Priestly Sex Abuse Scandal Grows...Is the Pope of Rome Guilty?
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2010/04/priestly-sex-abuse-scandal-is-pope-of.html
YOU ARE SIMPLY WRONG ABOUT THE CATHOLICS: OH! REALLY
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2009/07/you-are-simply-wrong-about-catholics-oh.html
THE AGONY OF DECEIT: EXPOSING THE CATHOLIC LEADERSHIP MAGAZINE’S SALVATION BY WORKS
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2009/09/agony-of-deceit-exposing-catholic.html
Analysis
As I write this thread thousands of e-mails are being sent to faithful catholics reminding them to pray the rosary everyday so that we can have peace in the world. You, see I was my self a catholic for over 20 years before the Lord Jesus Christ saved me from catholic witchcraft. I always look back and laugh at the things we believed. I’m always amazed at how the Catholic Church controlled us to believe in men instead of the word of God. The word of God says that they were first called Christians at Antioch (Acts 17:26), so the first Christians in the bible are the ones in the books of Acts. These men and women of God never prayed using beads; the word rosary is not in the bible. Even Peter the so called first pope never prayed the rosary. So, the doctrine of the Rosary has no scriptural basis. Look at the following so called scriptural defense of the rosary from the global catholic net work:
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you.
Luke 1:28 "And coming to her, he said, "Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with you."
The Greek kecharitomene means favored by grace, graced. Its tense suggests a permanent state of being "highly favored," thus full of grace. Charity, the divine love within us, comes from the same root. God is infinite Goodness, infinite Love. Mary is perfect created goodness, filled to the limit of her finite being with grace or charity.
Blessed art thou among women
Luke 1:41-42a "When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the infant leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth, filled with the holy Spirit, cried out in a loud voice and said, "Most blessed are you among women..."
Luke 1:48 "For he has looked upon his handmaid's lowliness; behold, from now on will all ages call me blessed."
Among all women is a way to say the highest/greatest etc. of a group in Semitic languages (these words would likely have been spoken in Aramaic). Mary is being called the greatest of all women, greater than Ruth, greater than Sarah, greater than EVE! Since Eve was created immaculate (without original sin), Mary must have been conceived immaculate. And, although Eve fell into sin by her own free will, Mary must have corresponded to God's grace and remained sinless. She could not otherwise be greater than Eve. Thus, as the Fathers of the Church unanimously assert, Mary is the New Eve who restores womanhood to God's original intention and cooperates with the New Adam, her Son, for the Redemption of the world.
They are arguing that Luke 1:28 and 1:41-42a are scriptural proofs of the rosary. What they are not telling you is that these scriptures do not instruct Christians to prayer beads and recite them in adoration of Mary. MARY is definitely blessed among women. That is all. There is no scripture instructing Christians to recite the rosary so that Mary can bring peace to the world. There is no scripture stating that Mary was sinless and a perpetual virgin.Even the Apostles never recited the rosary. Look at this interesting statements from the Global catholic net work,’’ Mary must have been conceived immaculate. And, although Eve fell into sin by her own free will, Mary must have corresponded to God's grace and remained sinless. She could not otherwise be greater than Eve’’. This shows that they are not sure about what they are saying. The whole thing is based on guess work and therefore nonsensical.
Look at this also’’Thus, as the Fathers of the Church unanimously assert, Mary is the New Eve who restores womanhood to God's original intention and cooperates with the New Adam, her Son, for the Redemption of the world’’. Do you see how authority is shifted from the word of God to mere men. We can not believe something because men say so. God says cursed is he who trusts in man(Jeremiah 17;5), God the Almighty also says that he has magnified his word even above his name(Psalms 138:2).
LOOk at the Catholic ridiculous defense of the Rosary
http://www.ewtn.com/devotionals/prayers/rosary/
Why pray the Rosary today? Certainly, to grow in holiness and in one's prayer life. The following are a few others reasons why the rosary should be prayed often, even daily:
• "Among all the devotions approved by the Church none has been so favored by so many miracles as the devotion of the Most Holy Rosary" (Pope Pius IX).
• "Say the Rosary every day to obtain peace for the world" (Our Lady of Fátima).
• "There is no surer means of calling down God's blessings upon the family . . . than the daily recitation of the Rosary" (Pope Pius XII).
• "We do not hesitate to affirm again publicly that we put great confidence in the Holy Rosary for the healing of evils of our times" (Pope Pius XII).
• "No one can live continually in sin and continue to say the Rosary: either they will give up sin or they will give up the Rosary" (Bishop Hugh Doyle).
• "The Rosary is a magnificent and universal prayer for the needs of the Church, the nations and the entire world" (Pope John XXIII).
• "The Rosary is the compendium of the entire Gospel" (Pope Paul VI quoting Pope Pius XII).
• "Meditation on the mysteries of the Rosary . . . can be an excellent preparation for the celebration of those same mysteries in the liturgical actions [i.e. the Mass] and can also become a continuing echo thereof" (Pope Paul VI).
• "My impression is that the Rosary is of the greatest value not only according to the words of Our Lady at Fátima, but according to the effects of the Rosary one sees throughout history. My impression is that Our Lady wanted to give ordinary people, who might not know how to pray, this simple method of getting closer to God" (Sister Lucia, one of the seers of Fátima).
• "How beautiful is the family that recites the Rosary every evening" (Pope John Paul II).
• Pope John Paul II has called the Rosary his "favorite prayer," after the Mass and the Liturgy of the Hours.
• St. Louis de Montfort warns us against both the ignorant and scholars who regard the Rosary as something of little importance..."the Rosary is a priceless treasure inspired by God."
The Rosary and Sacred Scripture
http://www.ewtn.com/devotionals/prayers/rosary/scripture.htm
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you.
Luke 1:28 "And coming to her, he said, "Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with you."
The Greek kecharitomene means favored by grace, graced. Its tense suggests a permanent state of being "highly favored," thus full of grace. Charity, the divine love within us, comes from the same root. God is infinite Goodness, infinite Love. Mary is perfect created goodness, filled to the limit of her finite being with grace or charity.
Blessed art thou among women
Luke 1:41-42a "When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the infant leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth, filled with the holy Spirit, cried out in a loud voice and said, "Most blessed are you among women..."
Luke 1:48 "For he has looked upon his handmaid's lowliness; behold, from now on will all ages call me blessed."
Among all women is a way to say the highest/greatest etc. of a group in Semitic languages (these words would likely have been spoken in Aramaic). Mary is being called the greatest of all women, greater than Ruth, greater than Sarah, greater than EVE! Since Eve was created immaculate (without original sin), Mary must have been conceived immaculate. And, although Eve fell into sin by her own free will, Mary must have corresponded to God's grace and remained sinless. She could not otherwise be greater than Eve. Thus, as the Fathers of the Church unanimously assert, Mary is the New Eve who restores womanhood to God's original intention and cooperates with the New Adam, her Son, for the Redemption of the world.
Blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus
Luke 1:42b "and blessed is the fruit of your womb."
Jesus is Mary's fruit. Good fruit does not come from anything but a good tree (Mt. 7:17-18)! The all-holy Son of God could not be the fruit of any other tree than the Immaculate Virgin.
Holy Mary, Mother of God
Luke 1:43 "And how does this happen to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?
Kyrios is the Greek word used by the Jews in the Septuagint Bible (Greek translation) for Yhwh, the Divine Name of God. In her greeting of Mary, Elizabeth is saying: "How is it that the mother of my God should come to me." Against the heresies of the 4th and 5th centuries which tried to split the Person of Jesus into two, divine and human, denying one or the other, the Council of Ephesus in 431 AD proclaimed Mary Theotokos (God-bearer, i.e. mother of God). Jesus is a single Person, a Divine Person, the 2nd Person of the Most Holy Trinity. To be mother of the Person Jesus is to be mother of a Person who is God. Mary's title protects this truth against errors which emphasize or deny, either the divinity or humanity of the Lord.
Pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
Luke 2:35 "...and you yourself a sword will pierce so that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed."
John 2:5 "His mother said to the servers, "Do whatever he tells you."
Mary sees a need and appeals to Her Son to satisfy it. He does. We turn to Mary to ask her to intercede with her Son in our daily spiritual and material needs, but especially at the hour of our death. At that moment our salvation hangs in the balance as the devil makes his final foray to deter us from the path to God (Rev. 2:10). It is not surprising, therefore, that both the Hail Mary and the Our Father conclude with an appeal to be delivered from the evil one.
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The Power of Intercessory Prayer:
Intercessory prayer proceeds from faith in God that holy men and women who have died are as alive today as they were on earth (Luke 20:38). If the prayer of the just man avails much, how much more the prayer of the one made perfect (Rev. 21:27) and living with God in heaven (the patriarchs, apostles and other holy men and women).
James 5:16b "the fervent prayer of a righteous man is very powerful."
Rev. 5:8 "When he took it, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each of the elders held a harp and gold bowls filled with incense, which are the prayers of the holy ones.
The angels, too, mediate our prayers. This is taught explicitly in the Jewish book of Tobit (Tob. 12:12), accepted by Christians as inspired until Luther on his own authority rejected it. It remains part of the Catholic Bible.
Tobit 12:12 I can now tell you that when you, Tobit, and Sarah prayed, it was I who presented and read the record of your prayer before the Glory of the Lord; and I did the same thing when you used to bury the dead.
Rev. 8:3 "Another angel came and stood at the altar, holding a gold censer. He was given a great quantity of incense to offer, along with the prayers of all the holy ones, on the gold altar that was before the throne."
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Is the rosary mindless babbling?
The purpose of the different beads on the rosary is to count the various prayers as they are said. Unlike the Moslem prayer beads and the mantras of Buddhism, the prayers of the rosary are meant to occupy our whole being, body and soul, while meditating on the truths of the Faith. Any prayer is vain, however, if said mechanically without devotion. Simply to repeat prayers is not the vain repetition condemned by Christ (Mt 6:7), since He Himself repeats His prayer in the Garden three times (Mt 26:39, 42, 44) and the Psalms (inspired by the Holy Spirit) are often very repetitive (Ps 119 has 176 verses and Ps. 136 repeats the same phrase 26 times).
Matthew 6:7 In praying, do not babble like the pagans, who think that they will be heard because of their many words.
Psalm 136:1-26
Praise the LORD, who is so good;
God's love endures forever;
Praise the God of gods;
God's love endures forever;
. . . Praise the God of heaven,
God's love endures forever.
Matthew 26:39 He advanced a little and fell prostrate in prayer, saying, "My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me; yet, not as I will, but as you will."
Matthew 26:42 Withdrawing a second time, he prayed again, "My Father, if it is not possible that this cup pass without my drinking it, your will be done!"
Matthew 26:44 He left them and withdrew again and prayed a third time, saying the same thing again.
The Church believes that it is necessary for a Christian to meditate (prayerfully think about) the will of God, the life and teachings of Jesus, the price He paid for our salvation, and so on. Unless we do this we will begin to take these great gifts for granted and ultimately fall away from the Lord. Every Christian must meditate in some way in order to preserve the gift of salvation (James 1:22-25). Many Catholic and non-Catholic Christians prayerfully read and apply Scripture to their lives, that is, meditate on them. With the rosary this can be done virtually anywhere and anytime.
Monday, 10 May 2010
Happy Science New Age Occult Religion invades Uganda: Uganda Broadcasting Corporation gives it air space
FIRST READ: The Influence of Eastern Mysticism By Dave Hunt(Occult Invasion
http://www.ankerberg.com/Articles/_PDFArchives/new-age/NA2W0802.pdf.
WHAT IS THE NEW AGE MOVEMENT ABOUT?
http://www3.telus.net/thegoodnews/newage.htm
Exposing the Africa Yoga project : Yoga and Children in War Ravaged Northern Uganda
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2009/12/exposing-africa-yoga-project-yoga-and.html
NEW AGE HUMANISM INVADES AFRICA
http://www.yesumulungi.com/index.php/apostasy-watch/367-secular-humanism-invades-uganda-and-africa.html
New Age medicine Invades Africa: Be ware of Reflexology, Acupuncture and other so called Alternative medicine
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2010/04/new-age-in-health-care-enlarged.html
Happy Science religion amasses followers in Uganda
http://chronicle.augusta.com/life/your-faith/2012-07-13/happy-science-religion-amasses-followers-uganda
Happy Science New Age Occult Religion invades Uganda: Uganda Broadcasting Corporation gives it air space
Happy Science Uganda
http://www.happyscience-uganda.org/
Happy Science is a universal religion open to people of all religious, cultural and ethnic backgrounds. At the Uganda Temple, we provide our members a space to study the universal teachings of El Cantare.
Becoming A Member
Happy Science welcomes everyone, and becoming a member is very easy. To join there is an application form, and a short welcoming ceremony in which you will be asked, “Do you believe in the Lord?” All will receive the prayer book, “The Dharma of the Right Mind.”
Happy Science is an organization of people who aim to achieve true happiness by deepening and widening their love, and reaching a higher level of enlightenment, based on the teachings (the Truth) taught by Master Ryuho Okawa. By building a wonderful life, we spread our happiness to those around and to society, with the aim of creating an ideal world on earth.
What is Happy Science?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Science
Happy Science (幸福の科学 Kōfuku-no-Kagaku?) is a new religious and spiritual movement founded in Japan in October 1986 by Ryuho Okawa. In February 2008, the official English name for the group was changed from the Romanized Japanese Kofuku-no-Kagaku, to the English rendering "Happy Science".
The basic teachings of Happy Science are "Exploration of the Right Mind" and "Principles of Happiness". The latter consists modern Fourfold Path (Love, Wisdom, Self-Reflection, and Progress). Leader Okawa claims to channeled the spirits of Muhammad, Christ, Buddha, and Confucius and claims to be the incarnation of a supreme spiritual being called 'El Cantare' from the 9th dimension of "the spirit world".
Although its teachings are based on the Buddhist foundations of reflection and keeping "Right Mind", it also incorporates modern day prosperity and development in order to improve oneself and society. The teachings, given by founder Ryuho Okawa are said to be "universal" and center on the pluralistic belief that all major religions originated from one source'.
According to Okawa, in order to obtain happiness one must practice the four principles of happiness (Love, Knowledge, Self Reflection and Progress.) Another way obtain enlightenment is through meditation of The Noble Eightfold Path. The only requirement to join Happy Science is that applicants must have "the aspiration and vision to seek the way and contribute to the realization of love, peace and happiness on earth".
HAPPY SCIENCE
http://www.happyscience-uganda.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=69
Happy Science was established in Tokyo Japan in 1986 and is one of the most influential movements in the 21st century. Our modern and universal teachings has a great and positive influence that reaches all areas of life and society .People from all backgrounds , cultures, professionals and faiths, whether Christian,Buddhist,Jewish,Muslim,Hindu or others , have been attracted to our open movement and unique teachings –Studying together in joy ,harmony and deep-found respect .HappyScience can resolve all the world conflicts and bring love,peace,happiness,and prosperity to the world.
HAPPY SCIENCE CHARITY
http://www.happyscience-uganda.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=69
Life is full of suffering and hardships.HappyScience is always seeking ways to alleviate these problems through the power of truth. For example we have been conducting and supporting Charity Activities in Uganda.
HappyScience has donated Mosquito nets to schools, Hospitals in Africa (Uganda) to help prevent people from Malaria
Happy Science has donated scholastic materials to school children in Uganda such as books and pens.
Happy science has donated improved seeds of beans and maize to farmers in Uganda districts of Kiboga, Masaka and Mpiji.Happy Science also is passionate about supporting the youth .There is The Golden Age Scholarship to help students financially, so that they can nurture their talents and contribute to a happier world.
The Influence of Eastern MysticisBy Dave Hunt (Occult Invasion, Harvest House, 1998)
http://www.ankerberg.com/Articles/_PDFArchives/new-age/NA2W0802.pdf
There is a growing missionary spirit in Hinduism.... A small army of yoga missionaries isready to go to the West. They may not call themselves Hindu, but Hindus know where yogacame from and where it goes. — (From an editorial in Hinduism Today titled “An OpenLetter to Evangelicals,” by its editor, Reverend Palaniswami, a Hindu monk 1)In 1974, Stanford Research Institute (now SRI), with funds from the Charles F. KetteringFoundation, undertook a study to determine how Western man could be deliberately turnedinto an Eastern mystic/psychic. Directed by Willis W. Harman (who later became presidentof Edgar Mitchell’s Institute of Noetic Sciences), the project was called Changing Images ofMan.
The scientists involved sincerely believed that a turn to Eastern mysticism was theonly hope for human survival. 2The task of persuading the public to accept this new direction fell to one of Dr. Harman’sfriends and admirers, Marilyn Ferguson. She fulfilled her assignment with the publication in1980 of her groundbreaking bestseller, The Aquarian Conspiracy. In it she said:A great, shuddering irrevocable shift is overtaking us... a new mind, a turnabout inconsciousness in critical numbers of individuals, a network powerful enough to bringabout radical change in our culture.
This network—the Aquarian Conspiracy—has already enlisted the minds, heartsand resources of some of our most advanced thinkers, including Nobel laureatescientists, philosophers, statesmen, celebrities... who are working to create adifferent kind of society....The [Eastern mystical] technologies for expanding and transforming personalconsciousness, once the secret of an elite, are now generating massive change inevery cultural institution—medicine, politics, business, education, religion, and thefamily. 3Eastern mysticism has penetrated every area of Western society.
Children’s comicbooks that once offered Charles Atlas courses in body building now advertise courses inmind power, which teach how to control the minds of others. Movies such as the Star Warsand Star Trek series, TV series such as “Kung Fu,” “Highway to Heaven,” and “Touched byan Angel,” and TV cartoons by the dozens (“Mutant Ninja Turtles,” “Power Rangers, Mas-ters of the Universe,” etc.) have made Eastern mysticism the normal way of thinking.Across America, YMCAs offer classes in yoga, and churches of all denominations followthe trend.
According to Palaniswami, the editor of Hinduism Today, yoga and other forms ofEastern meditation “were too sophisticated for public consumption 30 years ago, but todaythey’re the hottest item on the shelf.” 4Universities now offer courses in Yoga Psychology; Metaphysics, Hatha Yoga, TheOrigins of Salem Witchcraft, Eckankar, Tarot Card Workshops, Psychic Development andTechniques, Astrology, Self-Awareness Through Self-Hypnosis, and similar subjects. AWashington Post article about a Maryland grammar school was titled “Meditation Comes tothe Classroom,” 5 while the Seattle Times reported that inmates at Walla Walla State Peni-tentiary were learning “stress management” through the regular practice of Hatha Yoga. 6 Anationally syndicated columnist wrote:
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2Instead of singing hymns, they’re sitting in the lotus position chanting “omm” atAmerica’s oldest school of theology [Harvard Divinity School].The Nave’s [school paper] calendar reminds students that March 20 is... “a specialtime to listen to the Buddha and meditate on the perfection of enlightenment....”There’s no mention of Palm Sunday or Passover, reflecting their insignificance at aninstitution where all is venerated, save Western religion....Harvard… is an elite institution, training the next generation of mainline churchleadership. Its degrees are passports to power in the Protestant establishment....Will the last graduating Christian please collect the Bibles and turn out the lights?7The Evangelists of Eastern MysticismHow did this transformation overtake a “Christian” America? The drug movement in the’60s and ’70s opened the West to the cosmic gospel of the invading Eastern gurus. MostWesterners find it difficult to think of these smiling and bowing yogis, swamis, and lamas asmissionaries determined to win us with their mystic gospel.
It comes as a great surprisethat the largest missionary organization in the world is not Christian but Hindu—India’sVishva Hindu Parishad (VHP).Yes, missionary organization. Twenty years ago, in January 1979, at the VHP-spon-sored second “World Congress on Hinduism” in Allahabad, India (attended by about 60,000delegates from around the world), a speaker declared, “Our mission in the West has beencrowned with fantastic success. Hinduism is becoming the dominant world religion and theend of Christianity has come near.” By law, no Christian missionary activity is allowedamong Hindus in India, but Hindus aggressively evangelize the West, and with great suc-cess.
Among the primary goals listed in VHP’s constitution are the following:To establish an order of missionaries, both lay and initiate, [for] the purpose ofpropagating dynamic Hinduism representing... various faiths and denominations,including Buddhists, Jains, Sikhs, Lingayats, etc. and to open, manage or assistseminaries or centers for spiritual principles and practices of Hinduism... in all partsof the world…. 8Interestingly, the 1979 World Hindu Conference was chaired by the Dalai Lama, whopublicly proclaims tolerance for all religions.
Hinduism and Buddhism infiltrate our society,government, and even public schools as science, while Christianity is banned as a religion.Of all the gurus who have come to the West, none has done more to establish the cred-ibility of Eastern mysticism than Tenzin Gyatso, the Dalai Lama, spiritual leader in exile ofTibet’s Gelugpa, or Yellow sect, of Mahayana Buddhism. He claims to be the fourteenthreincarnation of the original Dalai Lama, a god on earth with the power to initiate others intotheir own godhood. Here we have again the persistent occult theme of human deificationechoing the serpent’s lie in the Garden of Eden.A Worldwide DeceitAs part of the most massive missionary effort in history—aimed directly against Chris-tianity—every guru who has come to the West (from Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to BhagwanShri Rajneesh to Baba Muktananda) was sent here by his guru specifically to win convertsto the Hindu/Buddhist pantheistic faith. Yogananda, for example, founder of the Self-Real-ization Fellowship (SRF) and one of the forerunners of this massive evangelism campaign,
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3personally initiated more than 100,000 disciples into kriya yoga. Maharishi has initiatedmillions into his TM brand of yoga. Yet the missionaries from the East all protest that theyare teaching the science of yoga, health, and higher states of consciousness, not religion.We can register no legitimate complaint against those who seek to persuade others ofwhat they sincerely believe to be important truth. However, they should not lie about theirproduct or their purpose. And that is exactly what the gurus from the East have done.“Yoga” is a Sanskrit word meaning to “yoke,” and its aim is to yoke with the Hindu conceptof God through self-realization: to achieve the enlightenment of realizing that atman, theindividual soul, is identical with Brahman, the universal soul—i.e., that one’s true self isGod.
Yet yoga instructors solemnly swear that yoga has nothing to do with religion, when infact it is the very heart of Hinduism.The magnitude of the deceit is comparable to the Pope claiming that, instead of headinga church, he represents a group of nonreligious scientists. India has banned foreign mis-sionaries since shortly after it gained independence. All the while, India’s missionariestravel the world converting millions to Hinduism and Buddhism while protesting their toler-ance for all religions and denying the religious nature of their mission.There has been much criticism, some of it no doubt justified, of Western missionarieswho have gone to Africa, China, and India with the gospel of Jesus Christ and attempted towesternize other cultures. That goal cannot be justified.
Western culture is not Christianity.In fairness, however, we must ask why there has been little or no criticism of Buddhist,Hindu, and Muslim missionaries who have aggressively pushed their religion and way oflife upon an unsuspecting Western world?Notes:1. Cited in Christianity Today, April 8, 1991, p. 64.2. Copy of confidential report on file.3. Marilyn Ferguson, The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the1980s (J. P. Tarcher, 1980), inside jacket.4. Cited in Christianity Today, April 8, 1991, p. 64.5. Washington Post, May 10, 1990.6. Seattle Times, April 29, 1990.7. Don Feder, “’Omm’ echoes from Harvard,” in Washington Times, April 4, 1994.8. Johannes Aagaard, “Hinduism’s World Mission,” in Update, September 1992.2NAHunt0802
PROPHET SSEBAKIJJE H. JEREMIAH’S WORLD ANSWERS CHURCH AND THE KAKANDE- JOHN OBILI YEBOAH OCCULT ANOINTING
FIRST READ: John Obiri Yeboah spirit and the Pentecostal movement in Uganda
http://www.yesumulungi.com/index.php/apostasy-watch/328-why-pastor-solomon-male-was-disowned-by-pastor-joseph-sserwada-and-pharisees-inc.html
The Discretion of my kingdom
www.newvision.co.ug/D/120/126/134692
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2009/06/kakande-ministries-prophet-samuel.html
Prophet Ssebakijje H. Jeremiah’s Biography
http://thejeremiahministries.org/index.php?view=article&id=46%3Aabout-the-prophet&format=pdf&option=com_content&Itemid=61
MENTORED by Prophet Samuel Kakande, Prophet Jeremiah started ascending levels in different dimensions after being given his prophecy in 1997. The man of God told himthat; “G od has given you a very big Ministry. If you do good; it will come to pass but if you do bad, it will not be fulfilled”. Beginnings Prophet Ssebakijje H. Jeremiah was born on 10th March, 1975 to Mr. Edward F. Mayanja and Mrs. Sarah Nakimbugwe by then of Bukoto, Nakawa East Division, where the family was residing at that time.
They now set up their permanent residence at Abaita Ababiri village, on Entebbe Road, Wakiso District, in Uganda. Prophet Jeremiah is indebted to his father, Mr. Edward Mayanja, who used to sow in church in different programmes for all his children; and also to his maternal grandmother who diligently served in Prophet John Obili Yeboah’s Ministry as an usher. The anointing Prophet now has; he says, originated from those people’s diligence in supporting God’s works. IN 2002, the Ministry started humbly in his living room in Masajja, a suburb of Kampala Uganda, with about 15 people, while renting in a home of a tablique Moslem by the name Ismail Ssembogga prayed for.
. He never aspired to start a Ministry but people started approaching him to be
Since then, the church has tremendously grown in terms of members and property It now has about 1,500 permanent acquisition. believers and already acquired 5 acres of land at Seguku- Katale, comprised in Busiro Block 37 plot 118 and is in preparations of constructing God’s house.
At the beginning, the Tablique man rose against the ministry being started in his compound. At one instance, by the power of the Holy Ghost, God revealed through Prophet Jeremiah the secrets of this man. Prophet prophesied unto him about his planned illegal mission of smuggling in which all those involved would perish.
About the prophet
This prophecy overwhelmed the man because he was sure no one else knew that information. As had been planned, the following morning his three (3) colleagues came for him so that they could start on their journey.
He decided to cancel the plan, basing on the prophecy but his 3 colleagues went and were all killed in the act. That became a turning point in Mr. Ssembogga’s life and thereafter accepted Jesus Christ and believed in Him, together with his wife. They both went ahead to surrender all their fetishes and witchcraft, and confessed their sins.
His wife is now one of the ministers in the ministry. The name - World Answers Church International (WACI): True, Jesus Christ is the answer for the world today. People who come seeking for answers after failing to get them from different medical doctors, professional counselors and even witchdoctors become devastated but find them at “World Answers Church International”.
The answer to your problem is also here! If Jesus Christ is the answer, it means that “
He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.”
Hebrews 13:8
Prophet Jeremiah: A Seer, Preacher, Teacher, Pastor, Counselor, a Parent and a Miracle
worker.
Friday, 7 May 2010
Politicised clergy or politician: Who will take the prize home?
Politicised clergy or politician: Who will take the prize home?
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/20/718691
Thursday, 6th May, 2010
An East African perspective
Jerry Okungu
IT is official. The clergy of Kenya has declared war on the new constitution. Kenyans must, therefore, brace themselves for a titanic battle to keep their country secular.
The battle may not be on the streets, but it will certainly get there with time, depending on how things go in the next 30 days. With cash dollars allegedly pouring in from evangelical anti-abortionists across the Atlantic, very little is left to our imagination of what will happen next.
For the first time in the history of Kenya, some Christian preachers have chosen to take the moral high ground and delve in a matter that is purely secular.
Their mission is specific. They have vowed to scuttle the new constitution that Kenyans have died and sacrificed for, for the last 30 years just because this new document provides for minority Muslims to enjoy certain cultural and religious rights.
The other falsehood they are peddling to derail the constitution is the clause that explicitly prohibits abortion except in cases where the life of the mother of the unborn child is in grave danger. To them, that exception is an authority for anybody who wants to terminate a pregnancy to do so.
These pastors claim to be talking for millions of their followers. They even claim that when they talk, the entire 20 million of their flock will obey their voices. In other words, to these priests, we are but a mere brainless flock of sheep that cannot think except with guidance from some pastor.
In matters of religion or any body of knowledge, science and technology have simplified many things for believers and non believers of the 21st century. In this day and age, any information I want is at my fingertips, on my computer.
I, therefore, chose to consult Wikipedia and my good old Webster dictionary to be educated on the meaning of the Church. I wanted to know who or what the church really is; whether it is the clergy, the congregation or both. And if either, who had control over the other. In other words, between me and my pastor, who depends on who for a living or the survival of that particular church?
In trying to understand the meaning of the church, Wikipedia informed me that the Christian church which in Greek means a thing belonging to the Lord or an assembly in Latin, is actually used to describe an association of people of faith and their place of worship. And the world is full of such associations or assemblies that call themselves the body of Christ.
In the New Testament, the term church or assembly is used to mean a local community of worshippers and in a universal sense, it means all believers in Christ.
The first reference to the term church is found in the gospel according to St.Mathew 16:18, where Jesus is quoted to have said to Simon Peter “... and upon this rock I will build my church”.
With this pronouncement, Christ inaugurated a faith-based entity that has evolved into what we now know as the church, the House of the Lord, the Lord’s congregation or the whole body of the faithful of Christ. If this is the case, then what authority do these pastors, mere believers just like the congregation, have over their so called voting flock? At what point did Jesus Christ give explicit powers to our pastors to have absolute authority over us? What constitutes a church in the minds of our latter day men of cloth? Is it the building, place of worship or the congregation?
Assuming that they were anointed by the founder of the Christian church to guide us on matters that are secular in our lives like the constitution, have they consulted us ordinary believers before taking a stand on such an important issue? When they decide to be confrontational in local politics, are they doing so on our behalf or on their behalf? Has the Christian pastor in Kenya faithfully followed the teachings of Christ or does he have a version of the Bible that serves his vested interests?
Now that pastors have declared war against Kenya’s proposed constitution, will the men of cloth manage the violent political campaign that Kenya is known for? If violence breaks out in churches and mosques, will we still look up to the clergy to calm things down?
If they start preaching hatred against the Committee of Experts and institutions of government in their pulpits throughout the country for the next 30 days, what will stop Muslim clerics from preaching against Christians in mosques all over the country? Are these pastors advertently stoking the fires of civil strife in Kenya?
As a good Christian that I am, this is the first time I must differ with my pastor and tell him to his face that he is wrong and that I will, this time, follow my conscience. I will vote ‘yes’ for my country’s new constitution.
jerry@jerryokungu.com
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/20/718691
Thursday, 6th May, 2010
An East African perspective
Jerry Okungu
IT is official. The clergy of Kenya has declared war on the new constitution. Kenyans must, therefore, brace themselves for a titanic battle to keep their country secular.
The battle may not be on the streets, but it will certainly get there with time, depending on how things go in the next 30 days. With cash dollars allegedly pouring in from evangelical anti-abortionists across the Atlantic, very little is left to our imagination of what will happen next.
For the first time in the history of Kenya, some Christian preachers have chosen to take the moral high ground and delve in a matter that is purely secular.
Their mission is specific. They have vowed to scuttle the new constitution that Kenyans have died and sacrificed for, for the last 30 years just because this new document provides for minority Muslims to enjoy certain cultural and religious rights.
The other falsehood they are peddling to derail the constitution is the clause that explicitly prohibits abortion except in cases where the life of the mother of the unborn child is in grave danger. To them, that exception is an authority for anybody who wants to terminate a pregnancy to do so.
These pastors claim to be talking for millions of their followers. They even claim that when they talk, the entire 20 million of their flock will obey their voices. In other words, to these priests, we are but a mere brainless flock of sheep that cannot think except with guidance from some pastor.
In matters of religion or any body of knowledge, science and technology have simplified many things for believers and non believers of the 21st century. In this day and age, any information I want is at my fingertips, on my computer.
I, therefore, chose to consult Wikipedia and my good old Webster dictionary to be educated on the meaning of the Church. I wanted to know who or what the church really is; whether it is the clergy, the congregation or both. And if either, who had control over the other. In other words, between me and my pastor, who depends on who for a living or the survival of that particular church?
In trying to understand the meaning of the church, Wikipedia informed me that the Christian church which in Greek means a thing belonging to the Lord or an assembly in Latin, is actually used to describe an association of people of faith and their place of worship. And the world is full of such associations or assemblies that call themselves the body of Christ.
In the New Testament, the term church or assembly is used to mean a local community of worshippers and in a universal sense, it means all believers in Christ.
The first reference to the term church is found in the gospel according to St.Mathew 16:18, where Jesus is quoted to have said to Simon Peter “... and upon this rock I will build my church”.
With this pronouncement, Christ inaugurated a faith-based entity that has evolved into what we now know as the church, the House of the Lord, the Lord’s congregation or the whole body of the faithful of Christ. If this is the case, then what authority do these pastors, mere believers just like the congregation, have over their so called voting flock? At what point did Jesus Christ give explicit powers to our pastors to have absolute authority over us? What constitutes a church in the minds of our latter day men of cloth? Is it the building, place of worship or the congregation?
Assuming that they were anointed by the founder of the Christian church to guide us on matters that are secular in our lives like the constitution, have they consulted us ordinary believers before taking a stand on such an important issue? When they decide to be confrontational in local politics, are they doing so on our behalf or on their behalf? Has the Christian pastor in Kenya faithfully followed the teachings of Christ or does he have a version of the Bible that serves his vested interests?
Now that pastors have declared war against Kenya’s proposed constitution, will the men of cloth manage the violent political campaign that Kenya is known for? If violence breaks out in churches and mosques, will we still look up to the clergy to calm things down?
If they start preaching hatred against the Committee of Experts and institutions of government in their pulpits throughout the country for the next 30 days, what will stop Muslim clerics from preaching against Christians in mosques all over the country? Are these pastors advertently stoking the fires of civil strife in Kenya?
As a good Christian that I am, this is the first time I must differ with my pastor and tell him to his face that he is wrong and that I will, this time, follow my conscience. I will vote ‘yes’ for my country’s new constitution.
jerry@jerryokungu.com
The New Testament Church, Who Owns It?
The New Testament Church, Who Owns It?
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Kato Mivule | April 26, 2010
Is the Church of Jesus Christ a building, an organization, an empire, or a people separate and consecrated to Him? Man has tried to turn the Church of Jesus Christ into an institution but we take a look at some scriptures that speak about the Church in the New Testament.
Interestingly in His first statement or 'first mention' about the term 'Church' Jesus Christ refers to the Church as “my Church”...
Mat 16:18 KJV And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
We find the word 'Church' first mentioned by Jesus Christ in the Book of Matthew and interestingly Jesus Christ refers to the Church as HIS CHURCH and not man's church. Right at the time that Jesus Christ introduces the concept, the idea, and the construct of the term 'Church', He establishes His Authority over it and total ownership by calling the Church, “My Church”.
This is a very important concept to understand as many folks throughout the centuries have tried effortless to exert human authority and ownership over the Church of Jesus Christ, from prophet, priest, and politician, all have worked and still work at establish themselves at head of the Church.
The result of disregarding who owns The Church has been the birth of churches that belong to men and not Christ and it is being proven today that such churches that claim to be headed by Jesus Christ yet deny His authority and ownership are being predominated increasingly by, fleshly ideologies, worldliness, sin – the very gates of hell.
Men have built churches that are not the Church of Jesus Christ but churches of mere men in which flesh and blood prevail rather than The Holy Spirit - The Spirit of Truth. A number of commentaries do not even attempt mention to whom the Church belongs but rather pat much attention to the functionality of the Church, which is not a bad thing but the question remains as who governs the functionality of the Church and from where does the Church get its marching orders from.
Yet the very Church of Jesus Christ will be victorious and the very gates of hell will not prevail against it. This does not mean that the Church of Jesus Christ will not face challenges, in fact the Church of Jesus Christ will face enormous challenges and in that the very gates of hell will launch onslaughts against her but will not prevail because she is built on this Rock – Jesus Christ is the Son of the Living God.
A look at some Bible Dictionaries with a historical perspective give us an insight on the meaning of the term “Church” and the emphasis on its meaning of “called out”...
“...Although ekklesia soon became a distinctively Christian word, it has its own pre-Christian history; and to those, whether Jews or Greeks, who first heard it applied to the Christian society it would come with suggestions of familiar things. Throughout the Greek world and right down to New Testament times (compare Acts 19:39), ekklesia was the designation of the regular assembly of the whole body of citizens in a free city-state, "called out" (Greek ek, "out," and kalein, "to call") by the herald for the discussion and decision of public business....” “...According to Mt 16:18 the name ekklesia was first applied to the Christian society by Jesus Himself, the occasion being that of His benediction of Peter at Caesarea Philippi. The authenticity of the utterance has been called in question by certain critics, but on grounds that have no textual support and are made up of quite arbitrary presuppositions as to the composition of the First Gospel. It is true that Jesus had hitherto described the society He came to found as the "kingdom of God" or the "kingdom of heaven," a designation which had its roots in Old Testament teaching and which the Messianic expectations of Israel had already made familiar. But now when it was clear that He was to be rejected by the Jewish people (compare Mt 16:21), and that His society must move on independent lines of its own, it was natural that He should employ a new name for this new body which He was about to create, and thus should say to Peter, on the ground of the apostle's believing confession, "Upon this rock I will build my church."...” [1]
The Church therefore has to do with a people who are 'called out' and separate from worldliness, sin, and evil, including the religious traditions of men that suppose to act as intermediaries between man and God.
Interestingly I found Fausset's Bible definition and commentary on the term 'Church' as one of the few that ascribe ownership and headship of the Church as to Jesus Christ...
“...From the Greek kuriakee, "house of the Lord," a word which passed to the Gothic tongue; the Goths being the first of the northern hordes converted to Christianity, adopted the word from the Greek Christians of Constantinople, and so it came to us Anglo-Saxons (Trench, Study of Words). But Lipsius, from circus, from whence kirk, a circle, because the oldest temples, as the Druid ones, were circular in form. Ekkleesia in the New Testament never means the building or house of assembly, because church buildings were built long AFTER the apostolic age. It means an organized body, whose unity does not depend on its being met together in one place; not an assemblage of atoms, but members in their several places united to the One Head, Christ, and forming one organic living whole (1 Corinthians 12)...” [2]
There is very good reason as to why we refer to her as “The Church of Jesus Christ”, this is because she belongs entirely to Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ owns her, Jesus Christ exercises His Full Authority over His Church. This means that His Word, His Name, His Power, His Lifestyle, His Will, His Teachings and Doctrines constitute His authority and therefore cannot be discarded in any terms by those who claim to lead or any form of stewardship in The Church of Jesus Christ.
Further more Strong's Dictionary gives us a more powerful definition of the Church of Jesus Christ...
G1577
ἐκκλησία |ekklēsia |ek-klay-see'-ah
From a compound of G1537 and a derivative of G2564; a calling out, that is, (concretely) a popular meeting, especially a religious congregation (Jewish synagogue, or Christian community of members on earth or saints in heaven or both): - assembly, church. [3]
From Strong's definition we see that the Greek term for Church that Jesus Christ used in the text is 'ekklesia' meaning a calling out, an assembly of saints called out...
So, the question is being called out from what? Of course called out and separate from sin, worldliness, religion, and traditions and philosophies of men. So, called out to do what? We are called out to follow Jesus Christ, walking that narrow and difficult path, following in the footsteps of Jesus Christ to Heaven. Interestingly the Roman Catholic Church is locally refereed to as the 'ekelezia' in Uganda were I come from.
Therefore we see that The Church of Jesus Christ is not a building, not simply a gathering of folks singing church songs, not a fellowship to simply socialize but it is an assembly of saints who have been called out...the ekklessia – the called out ones...called to follow in the footsteps of Jesus Christ as the head of His Church.
The question then is what type of assembly are you attending? Is Jesus Christ Head over that assembly or is it men who have rejected the authority of Christ for the sake of traditions of men? Have you accepted the call to be 'called out' from worldliness, sin, evil, and traditions of men? Or is your assembly still embroiled in the traditions of men, worldliness and sin?
To be continued...
Notes
[1] Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Definition for 'CHURCH'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". bible-history.com - ISBE; 1915.
[2] Fausset, Andrew Robert M.A., D.D., "Definition for 'Church' Fausset's Bible Dictionary". bible-history.com - Fausset's; 1878.
[3] Strong's Concordance, Number G1577
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Kato Mivule | April 26, 2010
Is the Church of Jesus Christ a building, an organization, an empire, or a people separate and consecrated to Him? Man has tried to turn the Church of Jesus Christ into an institution but we take a look at some scriptures that speak about the Church in the New Testament.
Interestingly in His first statement or 'first mention' about the term 'Church' Jesus Christ refers to the Church as “my Church”...
Mat 16:18 KJV And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
We find the word 'Church' first mentioned by Jesus Christ in the Book of Matthew and interestingly Jesus Christ refers to the Church as HIS CHURCH and not man's church. Right at the time that Jesus Christ introduces the concept, the idea, and the construct of the term 'Church', He establishes His Authority over it and total ownership by calling the Church, “My Church”.
This is a very important concept to understand as many folks throughout the centuries have tried effortless to exert human authority and ownership over the Church of Jesus Christ, from prophet, priest, and politician, all have worked and still work at establish themselves at head of the Church.
The result of disregarding who owns The Church has been the birth of churches that belong to men and not Christ and it is being proven today that such churches that claim to be headed by Jesus Christ yet deny His authority and ownership are being predominated increasingly by, fleshly ideologies, worldliness, sin – the very gates of hell.
Men have built churches that are not the Church of Jesus Christ but churches of mere men in which flesh and blood prevail rather than The Holy Spirit - The Spirit of Truth. A number of commentaries do not even attempt mention to whom the Church belongs but rather pat much attention to the functionality of the Church, which is not a bad thing but the question remains as who governs the functionality of the Church and from where does the Church get its marching orders from.
Yet the very Church of Jesus Christ will be victorious and the very gates of hell will not prevail against it. This does not mean that the Church of Jesus Christ will not face challenges, in fact the Church of Jesus Christ will face enormous challenges and in that the very gates of hell will launch onslaughts against her but will not prevail because she is built on this Rock – Jesus Christ is the Son of the Living God.
A look at some Bible Dictionaries with a historical perspective give us an insight on the meaning of the term “Church” and the emphasis on its meaning of “called out”...
“...Although ekklesia soon became a distinctively Christian word, it has its own pre-Christian history; and to those, whether Jews or Greeks, who first heard it applied to the Christian society it would come with suggestions of familiar things. Throughout the Greek world and right down to New Testament times (compare Acts 19:39), ekklesia was the designation of the regular assembly of the whole body of citizens in a free city-state, "called out" (Greek ek, "out," and kalein, "to call") by the herald for the discussion and decision of public business....” “...According to Mt 16:18 the name ekklesia was first applied to the Christian society by Jesus Himself, the occasion being that of His benediction of Peter at Caesarea Philippi. The authenticity of the utterance has been called in question by certain critics, but on grounds that have no textual support and are made up of quite arbitrary presuppositions as to the composition of the First Gospel. It is true that Jesus had hitherto described the society He came to found as the "kingdom of God" or the "kingdom of heaven," a designation which had its roots in Old Testament teaching and which the Messianic expectations of Israel had already made familiar. But now when it was clear that He was to be rejected by the Jewish people (compare Mt 16:21), and that His society must move on independent lines of its own, it was natural that He should employ a new name for this new body which He was about to create, and thus should say to Peter, on the ground of the apostle's believing confession, "Upon this rock I will build my church."...” [1]
The Church therefore has to do with a people who are 'called out' and separate from worldliness, sin, and evil, including the religious traditions of men that suppose to act as intermediaries between man and God.
Interestingly I found Fausset's Bible definition and commentary on the term 'Church' as one of the few that ascribe ownership and headship of the Church as to Jesus Christ...
“...From the Greek kuriakee, "house of the Lord," a word which passed to the Gothic tongue; the Goths being the first of the northern hordes converted to Christianity, adopted the word from the Greek Christians of Constantinople, and so it came to us Anglo-Saxons (Trench, Study of Words). But Lipsius, from circus, from whence kirk, a circle, because the oldest temples, as the Druid ones, were circular in form. Ekkleesia in the New Testament never means the building or house of assembly, because church buildings were built long AFTER the apostolic age. It means an organized body, whose unity does not depend on its being met together in one place; not an assemblage of atoms, but members in their several places united to the One Head, Christ, and forming one organic living whole (1 Corinthians 12)...” [2]
There is very good reason as to why we refer to her as “The Church of Jesus Christ”, this is because she belongs entirely to Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ owns her, Jesus Christ exercises His Full Authority over His Church. This means that His Word, His Name, His Power, His Lifestyle, His Will, His Teachings and Doctrines constitute His authority and therefore cannot be discarded in any terms by those who claim to lead or any form of stewardship in The Church of Jesus Christ.
Further more Strong's Dictionary gives us a more powerful definition of the Church of Jesus Christ...
G1577
ἐκκλησία |ekklēsia |ek-klay-see'-ah
From a compound of G1537 and a derivative of G2564; a calling out, that is, (concretely) a popular meeting, especially a religious congregation (Jewish synagogue, or Christian community of members on earth or saints in heaven or both): - assembly, church. [3]
From Strong's definition we see that the Greek term for Church that Jesus Christ used in the text is 'ekklesia' meaning a calling out, an assembly of saints called out...
So, the question is being called out from what? Of course called out and separate from sin, worldliness, religion, and traditions and philosophies of men. So, called out to do what? We are called out to follow Jesus Christ, walking that narrow and difficult path, following in the footsteps of Jesus Christ to Heaven. Interestingly the Roman Catholic Church is locally refereed to as the 'ekelezia' in Uganda were I come from.
Therefore we see that The Church of Jesus Christ is not a building, not simply a gathering of folks singing church songs, not a fellowship to simply socialize but it is an assembly of saints who have been called out...the ekklessia – the called out ones...called to follow in the footsteps of Jesus Christ as the head of His Church.
The question then is what type of assembly are you attending? Is Jesus Christ Head over that assembly or is it men who have rejected the authority of Christ for the sake of traditions of men? Have you accepted the call to be 'called out' from worldliness, sin, evil, and traditions of men? Or is your assembly still embroiled in the traditions of men, worldliness and sin?
To be continued...
Notes
[1] Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Definition for 'CHURCH'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". bible-history.com - ISBE; 1915.
[2] Fausset, Andrew Robert M.A., D.D., "Definition for 'Church' Fausset's Bible Dictionary". bible-history.com - Fausset's; 1878.
[3] Strong's Concordance, Number G1577
State orders arrest of catholic priest over rape
State orders arrest of priest over rape
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/12/718748
Thursday, 6th May, 2010
By Steven Candia
THE Director of Public Prosecution, Richard Butera, has ordered the arrest of a Catholic priest in Nebbi district who allegedly defiled two girls, and possibly infected them with HIV.
Butera yesterday said evidence was sufficient to charge the Rev. Fr. Santos Constatino Wapokura. “That matter is clear: He should be charged,” Butera said in an interview.
He explained that the resident state attorney had already been instructed to charge the priest.
“He should have appeared in court and if he has not, I wonder why,” he said. In an earlier interview, the head of criminal investigations, Edward Ochom, ruled out settling the matter out of court, saying the offence was capital.
“We can afford to do that for chicken thieves, but not for a matter like this. He should be charged,” Ochom said.
The directive, Ochom said, had been communicated to the Police upcountry. It was unthinkable for a suspect on such a charge, he said, to be let off the hook out-of-court.
However, despite Ochom’s and Butera’s orders, the priest had not yet been re-arrested by press time.
Asked about the matter, the district Police commander, Alex Wabwire, in turn asked: “What is your interest in the case?”
The release of the priest had shocked the nation. Women rights activists in Nebbi are planning a demonstration over the matter.
Wapokura, 45, the parish priest of Pakwach, is accused of defiling a 14-year-old girl who was serving in the church. Wapokura had been in Police custody twice over the same allegations. His latest release was ordered by the resident state attorney, Innocent Obale, purportedly to allow the parties resolve the matter out of court.
Upon his arrest last month, the Police said the clergyman tested positive for HIV and upgraded his offence to aggravated defilement. He will be hanged if convicted. The priest dismissed the allegations as a ploy to taint his name.
One of the complainants told the Police that Wapokura would often ask her to go to his house, where he would follow her and force her into sex. On another occasion, the girl alleged, she was at the priest’s home with other visitors when Wapokura sexually assaulted her after sending away the other people.
Wapokura’s woes add to the long list of accusations of sexual misconduct by Catholic priests, which have rocked the Church lately. Another Catholic priest was arrested and charged with defilement in Gulu recently.
Worldwide, the church has been forced to pay out millions of dollars to victims.
Additional reporting by Frank Mugabi
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/12/718748
Thursday, 6th May, 2010
By Steven Candia
THE Director of Public Prosecution, Richard Butera, has ordered the arrest of a Catholic priest in Nebbi district who allegedly defiled two girls, and possibly infected them with HIV.
Butera yesterday said evidence was sufficient to charge the Rev. Fr. Santos Constatino Wapokura. “That matter is clear: He should be charged,” Butera said in an interview.
He explained that the resident state attorney had already been instructed to charge the priest.
“He should have appeared in court and if he has not, I wonder why,” he said. In an earlier interview, the head of criminal investigations, Edward Ochom, ruled out settling the matter out of court, saying the offence was capital.
“We can afford to do that for chicken thieves, but not for a matter like this. He should be charged,” Ochom said.
The directive, Ochom said, had been communicated to the Police upcountry. It was unthinkable for a suspect on such a charge, he said, to be let off the hook out-of-court.
However, despite Ochom’s and Butera’s orders, the priest had not yet been re-arrested by press time.
Asked about the matter, the district Police commander, Alex Wabwire, in turn asked: “What is your interest in the case?”
The release of the priest had shocked the nation. Women rights activists in Nebbi are planning a demonstration over the matter.
Wapokura, 45, the parish priest of Pakwach, is accused of defiling a 14-year-old girl who was serving in the church. Wapokura had been in Police custody twice over the same allegations. His latest release was ordered by the resident state attorney, Innocent Obale, purportedly to allow the parties resolve the matter out of court.
Upon his arrest last month, the Police said the clergyman tested positive for HIV and upgraded his offence to aggravated defilement. He will be hanged if convicted. The priest dismissed the allegations as a ploy to taint his name.
One of the complainants told the Police that Wapokura would often ask her to go to his house, where he would follow her and force her into sex. On another occasion, the girl alleged, she was at the priest’s home with other visitors when Wapokura sexually assaulted her after sending away the other people.
Wapokura’s woes add to the long list of accusations of sexual misconduct by Catholic priests, which have rocked the Church lately. Another Catholic priest was arrested and charged with defilement in Gulu recently.
Worldwide, the church has been forced to pay out millions of dollars to victims.
Additional reporting by Frank Mugabi
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