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A two-week Fox News investigation, however, has uncovered where Wright will be spending a good deal of his time in retirement, and it is a far cry from the impoverished Chicago streets where the preacher led his ministry for 36 years. Fox News has uncovered documents that indicate Wright is about to move to a 10,340-square-foot, four-bedroom home in suburban Chicago, currently under construction in a gated community.” The price of the home is 1.6 million dollars.

You have to love these liberals. You have the Obama’s out telling the rest of us we have to sacrifice, while their tax records show they give very little of their own income to charity. You have Michelle Obama telling voters not to go for the big money, while she and her husband have become millionaires. And you have the anti-America, anti-rich pastor Jeremiah Wright about to move into a $1.6 million home. So while these liberals are out trashing America and capitalism, America and capitalism have been very good to them.

A French voice recording from 1860 predates Edison’s first recording by 17 years.

Last Friday, I had the opportunity to watch The Pianist — a 2002 film about a Polish Jew named W?adys?aw Szpilman, who spent several years hiding from the Nazis in Warsaw during World War II. Szpilman was a piano player whose memoir provides the basis of the film. I’ve never read the actual memoir, but from what I have read about Szpilman’s trials, the movie stays pretty close to the actual story. At any rate, The Pianist is one of the best Holocaust-related movies I have ever seen — right up there with Schindler’s List. The things European Jews did to stay alive during that time, and the risks non-Jews took in saving what Jews they could, never stop amazing me.

This woman absolutely hates the country that enabled her and her husband to get rich. And yet Senator Obama is supposed to unite the country that his wife is out there trashing, asking if we are ready for “change.” If “change” means we can get rid of rich liberals who trash the country and the system that enabled them to become rich, then I’m certainly ready for it.

I am a subscriber to Answers magazine, which is published by the Christian organization Answers in Genesis — the same organization that built the Creation Museum near Cincinnati which opened last year. I found in my most recent Answers publication that AiG has an online journal, containing more technical, peer-reviewed articles, called Answers Research Journal that is an excellent resource on the goings-on in the discipline of creation science.

You can watch Ken Ham begin to explain where God came from in the video (part 1 of 11) below, with an introduction by the late, great Jerry Falwell.

There is a movement afoot within the Southern Baptist Convention to buy into the global warming hoax. Last year, the SBC adopted a resolution stating that efforts to regulate greenhouse gas emissions were dangerous and that there was not enough scientific evidence to support the idea of global warming. That was a good approach.

But this year, some of the most influential leaders within the SBC have put forth “A Southern Baptist Declaration on the Environment and Climate Change” to call for Christians to take care of the planet.

Craig Christina, who pastors the First Baptist Church in Jackson, Tennessee, recognizes that it’s a risk to take a stand in favor of global warming because of the SBC’s relationship with the GOP.

“But it’s a matter of conscience. It doesn’t really matter what either party believes. What matters is that we’re to be good stewards of God’s creation.”

More than 40 pastors, professors, and others signed the declaration, calling for a “unified moral voice.” It also asked believers to remember that to leave the problem to the secular world is to “shirk from our responsibility to be salt and light. The time for timidity regarding God’s creation is no more.”

Ugh.

There are at least three reasons why the SBC would be making a grave error by jumping onboard the global warming hoax. First, the apostle Paul instructed believers in Romans 12:2 to “Be not conformed to this world….” By this, Paul warned against getting caught up in the desires of the secular culture, and to instead focus on the eternal. The late Glenn Weekley, who pastored the First Baptist Church of Hendersonville, Tennessee, once warned his congregation about the “whim of false doctrine” that comes and goes with great regularity. This is exactly what global warming is.

Second, by signing onto the global warming hoax, the SBC would unwittingly align itself with those who buy into evolutionary thinking, where temperatures are “pre-cast” hundreds of thousands or even millions of years ago, even though a literal reading of Genesis places the age of the earth at just a few thousand years. Indeed, most who have bought into global warming also buy into evolution. Both global warming and evolution are bad science that require some measure of religious faith to accept, because factual analyses destroy them.

Third, and perhaps most important, signing onto global warming and reducing carbon emissions in order to be good stewards of the planet reveals a complete misunderstanding of global warming. Global warming has nothing to do with taking care of the planet. Global warming is simply a means the left is using to grow government, raise taxes, and take away many of our freedoms.

For example, last month it was revealed by the four major global temperature tracking outlets (Hadley, NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, the University of Alabama-Huntsville, and Remote Sensing Systems) that over the past year, global temperatures have cooled by 0.65C to 0.75C — a value large enough to wipe out most of the warming recorded over the past 100 years — all in one year’s time. For all four sources, it’s the single fastest temperature change ever recorded, either up or down.

If global warming were really about saving the planet, such news would have been welcomed by people like Al Gore. But this inconvenient truth has been ignored, and the prophets of global warming are still preaching it. Global warming long ago ceased to be scientifically-motivated — if ever it was — and is now nothing more than a tool used by liberals to spread liberalism — a set of ideas that is anathema to Christianity.

Those who espouse global warming do so with religious-like zeal, and even refer to their cause as a moral and spiritual issue. After all, global warming has all the components of a religion. It has a Garden of Eden (the world before the combustible engine), sin (excessive energy use), churches (public schools and halls of government), a high priest and prophet (Al Gore), sales of indulgences (carbon credits), plagues (future floods, droughts, and other catastrophes), prophecy (100-year weather forecasts), and a path to salvation (the Kyoto Treaty), just to name a few.

In other words, global warming is a false religion, where man is god, because man is supposedly capable of modifying the weather and wreaking catastrophes that have heretofore been relegated as “acts of God.” The worst thing the Bible-believing people at the SBC could do is to align themselves with these hucksters.

According to the highly trustworthy Associated Press, “Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign said she ‘misspoke’ last week when saying she had landed under sniper fire during a trip to Bosnia as first lady in March 1996. She later characterized the episode as a ‘misstatement’ and a ‘minor blip.’”

How about “she lied.”

Lila Rose, a pro-life student and reporter at UCLA, recently conducted an undercover investigation designed to expose Planned Parenthood. With the help of an actor, she contacted Planned Parenthood clinics in seven states, asking if they would be willing to accept a monetary donation specifically for the abortion of black children.

Every single clinic agreed. Not one Planned Parenthood employee objected to or even questioned the offer, even when the actor insisted that the purpose was to “lower the number of black people” in America. When he telephoned an Ohio branch, he was told that Planned Parenthood “will accept the money for whatever reason.”

A portion of the transcript from the actor’s telephone call to the Idaho clinic follows:

Actor: …I really faced trouble with affirmative action, and I don’t want my kids to be disadvantaged against black kids.

Planned Parenthood: Yes, absolutely.

Actor: And we don’t, you know, we just think the less black kids out there the better.

Planned Parenthood: (Laughs) Understandable, understandable… This is the first time I’ve had a donor call and make this kind of request, so I’m excited and want to make sure I don’t leave anything out.

This is not as surprising as one might think. Planned Parenthood has a history of devaluing human life that has been ingrained since its earliest days. Margaret Sanger, who founded Planned Parenthood in 1921, advanced the concept of “race hygiene” through “negative eugenics” — an attempt to reduce the fertility of “dysgenic” groups. She considered the unchecked multiplication of the “unfit” to be “the greatest present menace to civilization.”

Planned Parenthood’s diabolical mission runs even deeper than racism, however. The nation’s largest abortion provider simply views unborn human life as disposable, and profits from the killing of the most defenseless among us. It does so under the guise of “choice” and “women’s health.”

Abortion has a number of physical and psychological effects on women that the left pushes under the rug. For example, medical research has indicated that induced abortion can adversely affect a woman’s future risk of breast cancer. It has also been clearly shown that induced abortion in young women causes the loss of a protective effect from a first, full-term pregnancy which, when followed by a delay in child bearing, has the net effect of an increased risk for breast cancer.

Also, a “pro-choice” research team in New Zealand, analyzing data from a 25-year period, found that abortion in young women is associated with increased risks of major depression, anxiety disorder, suicidal behaviors, and substance dependence.

For another illustration that abortion-rights advocates really don’t care about women’s health, one has to look no further than the U.S. Senate. Last week, the Democrat-led upper chamber rejected an amendment that would have included pregnant women and their unborn children in the SCHIP program. Now, Democrats turning down a social program is the equivalent of conservative Republicans turning down a tax cut, especially since Democrats are all about women’s health. But with Democrats, the health of women who choose life is apparently of little value.

What about the argument of aborting pregnancies that result from rape, incest, or to save the life/health of the mother? According to Tennessee Right to Life, 93% of abortions are performed as a means of birth control, 1% are the result of rape or incest, 3% for fetal abnormality, and 3% to save the life/health of the mother. So when abortion-rights advocates claim that abortion MUST remain legal for cases of rape, incest, or the life/health of the mother, remember that 96% of abortions are performed for OTHER reasons than these.

It is worth mentioning that Planned Parenthood receives some $300 million in federal funding as a part of Title X family planning services. Planned Parenthood is prohibited by law from using Title X money to provide abortions, but it can also be argued that receiving taxpayer funding frees up other money to provide abortions. At any rate, the American taxpayer is subsidizing the nation’s largest abortion provider — the same organization that went to court to try and stop Tennesseans from using our own money to support pro-life causes through the sale of “Choose Life” license plates.

Forget about the concept of “choice,” and even the noble cause of protecting women’s health. There’s nothing healthy about abortion, for the unborn or the mother. Aside from the health and psychological risks associated with abortion, 96% of all abortions are performed as a matter of convenience. And when women’s health is considered, it’s only the health of women who choose abortion that the left pretends to champion.

Political catchwords such as “choice” and “women’s health” are only employed to make abortion seem palatable. When you peel away the political language, however, you can see abortion for what it really is: a callous disregard for the most defenseless human beings — the unborn. As conservative columnist Peggy Noonan once wrote, “No party can long endure, or could possibly flourish, with the unfettered killing of young humans as the thing that holds it together. … Someday years from now we will see abortion’s final victim, and it will turn out to be the once-great Democratic Party….”