Title:  Humanism and destroying love

   We must destroy love. Love promotes vulnerability, dependence, possessiveness, susceptibility to pain, and prevents the full development of woman's human potential by directing all her energies outward in the interest of others.

   -- Women's Liberation, Notes from the Second Year

   No deity will save us, we must save ourselves. Promises of immortal salvation or fear of eternal damnation are both illusory and harmful.

   -- Humanist Manifesto II, signed by Betty Friedan, Founder of National Organization Humanist Manifest I and II, Prometheus Books, 1973.

See:  Rom 1:22

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Title:  Feminism in the 70's

   The ERA has become both symbol and substance for the whole of the modern women's movement for equality.... I am convinced if we lose this struggle we will have little hope in our own life time of saving our right to abortion...."

   -- Betty Friedan, NOW-ERA Fund Raising Letter, March 1978.

   Marriage has existed for the benefit of men and has been a legally sanctioned method of control over women... the end of the institution of marriage is a necessary condition for the liberation of women. Therefore, it is important for us to encourage women to leave their husbands and not to live individually with men... we must work to destroy it (marriage).

   -- "Declaration of Feminism"

See:  1 Cor 3:19

Title:  Signs of the Times

   I recently went with my wife to her 20 year high school reunion. In the front of the memory book, were these words:

   In 1969....
   A CRACK was a wise remark made to a teacher
   The only AIDS we knew about were Band, Kool and First
   BAD was not good
   A QUEER was simply an odd person
   A SMOKE was a cigarette
   POT was in the bathroom
   SWINGERS were either cool or sat on their porch
   We got HIGH on music, good times and good friends
   COKE came in a red and white can
   A SNORT was something you did when you had a head cold
   SPACE CADETS were future astronauts working for NASA

See:  Gen 6:12

Title:  Ways to Fight Terrorism

   In times of crisis like the hijacking of Flight 847, the temptation is to concentrate on solving the immediate problem of freeing hostages, then to fall back in exhaustion. But if terrorism is to be curbed, the civilized world must take advantage of the breathing spells between terrorist attacks to invent stronger ways to protect itself. None of the available countermeasures is guaranteed to succeed; few of them are easy, and some involve moral and political adjustments that are sure to be controversial. But from interviews with top Reagan administration officials, key players in past U.S. governments, pilots, airline authorities and other terrorism experts around the world, Newsweek has compiled an agenda for making a start -- 10 ways for striking back:

    1) Crack down on unsafe airports.
    2) Tighten airport security.
    3) Protect terrorist targets.
    4) Expand intelligence gathering.
    5) Train for trouble.
    6) Improve international cooperation.
    7) Negotiate flexibly.
    8) Don't rule out rescues.
    9) Lean on terrorist allies.
  10) Order selective reprisals.

   Is it too naive for the Christian to pray....
     11) The Gospel be preached and heard around the world?

   -- Newsweek, July 1, 1985.

See:  Jer 8:15

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Title:  The Disintegration of our Culture

   Sociologist and historian Carle Zimmerman, in his 1947 book Family and Civilization, recorded his keen observations as he compared the disintegration of various cultures with the parallel decline of family life in those cultures. Eight specific patterns of domestic behavior typified the downward spiral of each culture Zimmerman studied.

 * Marriage loses its sacredness; is frequently broken by divorce.
 * Traditional meaning of the marriage ceremony is lost.
 * Feminist movements abound.
 * Increased public disrespect for parents and authority in general.
 * Acceleration of juvenile delinquency, promiscuity, and rebellion.
 * Refusal of people with traditional marriages to accept family  responsibilities.
 * Growing desire for and acceptance of adultery.
 * Increasing interest in and spread of sexual perversions and sex related crimes.

See:  1 Sam 3:13; Prov 29:15; Matt 24:12; 2 Tim 3:2

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Title:  Shootings in US Schools

April 20, 1999 LITTLETON, Colorado:  Two high school juniors, members of the "trench coat mafia" enter and proceed on a killing spree of jocks, blacks, and others who ridiculed them.  Pipe Bombs and weapons were fired off leaving 15 dead including the two shooters and an equal number wounded.

April 16, 1999 NOTUS, Idaho: A high school sophomore fires two shotgun blasts in a school hallway. No one injured.

June 15, 1998 RICHMOND, Va.: A 14-year-old student opened fire with a pistol in the hallway of a high school as students took final exams, wounding a basketball coach and a volunteer aide.

May 21, 1998 SPRINGFIELD, Ore.: Kip Kinkel, a 15-year-old freshman, opens fire in a cafeteria, killing two and wounding 22. Kinkel's parents were later found dead at their home.

May 19, 1998 FAYETTEVILLE, Tenn.: A high school senior shot and killed a student in a school parking lot. They had apparently argued about a girl.

April 24, 1998 EDINBORO, Pa.: Teacher John Gillette is shot dead at a school dance, allegedly by Andrew Wurst, 14. Two students and another teacher are wounded.

March 24, 1998 JONESBORO, Ark.: Mitchell Johnson, 13, and Andrew Golden, 11, allegedly fake a fire alarm and open fire on students and teachers at Westside Middle School. Four female students and a teacher are killed. Both boys are charged as juveniles with five counts of capital murder and 10 counts of battery.

Dec. 15, 1997 STAMPS, Ark.: Joseph "Colt" Todd, 14, is arrested in the sniper shooting of two students outside their high school. The students recovered; Todd, who faces trial later this year, said he was tired of being picked on.

Dec. 1, 1997 PADUCAH, Ky.: Michael Carneal, 14, entered his high school and headed for a prayer meeting where he shot eight students, killing three.

Oct. 22, 1997 NORWALK, Calif.: Khoa Truc "Robert" Dang, 21, fatally shot his 16-year-old ex-girlfriend on her high school campus.

Oct. 1, 1997 PEARL, Miss.: Luke Woodham, 16, opened fire on his classmates, killing two and wounding seven more in the school cafeteria.

Feb. 19, 1997 BETHEL, Alaska: After making multiple threats, Evan Ramsey, 16, fatally gunned down his high school principal and one of his classmates.

Jan. 27, 1997 WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.: Tronneal Mangum, 13, shot and killed another student on the sidewalk in front of his middle school.

Oct. 31, 1996 ST. LOUIS: A student with a gun critically wounded another student in a school hallway.

Sept. 25, 1996 ATLANTA: David Dubose Jr., 16, shot and killed a teacher in a school hallway.

July 26, 1996 LOS ANGELES: High school junior Yohao Albert Rivas, 18, shot and wounded two classmates in a stairwell on campus.

Feb. 29, 1996 ST. LOUIS: Mark Boyd, 30, fired into a school bus after its doors swung open, killing a pregnant 15-year-old and wounding the driver.

Feb. 2, 1996 MOSES LAKE, Wash.: Barry Loukaitas, 14, killed his teacher, fatally wounded two teen-age boys and wounded a girl.

Oct. 30, 1995 RICHMOND, Va.: Edward Earl Spellman, 18, shot and wounded four students outside their high school.

Jan. 18, 1993 GRAYSON, Ky.: Scott Pennington, 17, walked into Deanna McDavid's seventh-period English class at East Carter High School and shot her in the head. He then shot janitor Marvin Hicks in the abdomen. Pennington was sentenced to life without parole for 25 years.

May 1, 1992 OLIVEHUST, Calif.: Eric Houston, 20, killed four people and wounded 10 in an armed siege at his former high school. Prosecutors said the attack was in retribution for a failing grade. Houston was convicted and was given a death sentence.

Source: MSNBC research
Edited by Shelton Cole

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