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Banned Article: Former Climate Alarmist Refutes Climate Alarmism (Here Is the Story Forbes Censored, Exploding Myth Of Climate Crisis Alarmism)
Banned Article: Former Climate Alarmist Refutes Climate Alarmism (Here Is the Story Forbes Censored, Exploding Myth Of Climate Crisis Alarmism)
 Excerpt (emphases added): For a few short hours, Forbes dared to publish a story that challenged the end-of-the-world narrative championed by the likes of AOC and Greta to bully us into accepting their vision of drastic environmental change. One environmentalist, who was himself part of that movement, started to question how the issues were being used to drive global panic, with little or no regard to the relevant scientific facts. For a few short hours, Forbes ran his story. And then they pulled it. There are, apparently, some 'personal truths' the Left will not tolerate: ... We were originally going to just summarize some of his key points, but since his message is being actively suppressed, we have made the decision to post his letter in its entirety, leaving our readers to judge it on its merits. What follows is the entirety of his censored article: On Behalf Of Environmentalists, I Apologize For The Climate Scare. Read more at https://clashdaily.com/2020/06/here-is-the-story-forbes-censored-exploding-myth-of-climate-crisis-alarmism/
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Junk Science: Joe Biden Says "We Only Have 9 Years Left" to Stop Global Warming (VIDEO)
Green New Deal Is a Revamped Communist Manifesto
 Excerpt (emphases added): A few years ago at the height of the global warming scare I wrote a book which set out to answer one of the key questions of our time: if climate change isn't really a problem why do so many people act as though it is?
The answer, I discovered, is that environmentalism is just a fashionable mask for the usual leftist obsessions with state control and wealth redistribution. That's why I called the book .Watermelons: green on the outside, red on the inside. Not everyone who believes in man-made climate change is a full on Commie. Some are merely useful idiots. But whatever reason people may have for supporting the scam - greed, stupidity, virtue-signalling, idiot leftist teachers - the net result is the same: bigger government, higher taxes, more regulation, lower standards of living. Exactly like you'd get under communism, in fact
So color me completely unshocked by the Green New Deal. It looks like a revamped Communist Manifesto because that's exactly what it is. If implemented, the size of government would increase to levels never before seen in a Western economy. The state's control of everything from wage levels to how businesses are run to your personal freedoms would be total. There's no mention of gulags or political prisoners or secret police but of course those would inevitably follow because how else would the state have a hope of enforcing measures which freedom loving Americans would naturally resist? The only surprise about the Green New Deal for me is that its proponents are so "You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs," Communists are fond of saying. The Green New Deal will involve an awful lot of egg breaking.
States Welcome Back Single-Use Plastic Bags to Avoid Contamination
Excerpt (emphases added): Similarly, Just Facts produced a video (see below this excerpt at the page linked here - ed.) in August demonstrating that plastic bags are actually better for the environment than paper and reusable bags. "The bottom line is, the current crisis has revealed the misguided nature of plastic bag bans, and now cities and states must move quickly to prevent these bans from exacerbating the coronavirus pandemic," Stepman observed
In Era of Coronavirus, Banning Plastic Bags Could Be Lethal Because Reusable Grocery Bag Can Spread Disease
Excerpt (emphases added): Outlawing plastic bags is a way to spread diseases; lack of plastic bags ready to go is inconvenient for both cashier and customer; and so far, because of thicker plastic bag replacements, there is four times as much plastic being used than before the ban. Forcing people to bring their own bags into stores and forcing cashiers to touch those bags from many different customers all day long, and then touching the next customers merchandise, can spread diseases. Even if all the customer bags were 100% clean, and if we all wore gloves, cashiers would still be spreading germs from customer to customer by touching all their bags as well as their groceries. Given the prevalence of more common diseases like influenza, it is likely that there already have been some avoidable deaths because of the Oregon bag ban. Influenza only stays viable on a person's skin for 15 minutes, but on inanimate objects, this virus can exist from an hour to a few days, depending on variables such as the composition of the surface, temperature and humidity. Bringing bags into stores increases the risk of disease for all customers and store employees. ... If you think that you're saving the whales by reducing plastic, I'm sorry to disappoint you - not only are plastic grocery bags a very minor part of the plastic being used, but we are now using more plastic than we were before. ... Right now, there is a pandemic of the coronavirus disease spreading all over the world, and despite our president's efforts to keep it at bay, this disease has managed to creep into the U.S. ... Oregon's plastic bag rule (and others like it in other states) has the potential to spread this disease as well as any other disease. Making cashiers and customers go through this inconvenience is completely unnecessary, especially when we're actually using more plastic than we were before! But plastic is not a problem. It's a substance that's very easy to dispose of. It can be burned for electricity, and it is biodegradable. The plastic in the ocean is eaten up by microorganisms, and the only trash that survives is some close to the shore that gets washed up, which is what the leftists use to say that "plastic is destroying the earth." Also see the chart: THE BAN ON PLASTIC BAGS HAS RESULTED IN A FOUR-FOLD INCREASE IN THE USE OF PLASTIC IN BAGS.
 Q. 67. Which is the sixth commandment? A. The sixth commandment is, Thou shalt not kill. [a] [a]. Ex. 20:13; Deut. 5:17
Q. 68. What is required in the sixth commandment? A. The sixth commandment requireth all lawful endeavors to preserve our own life, and the life of others [a]. [a]. Eph. 5:28-29
Q. 69. What is forbidden in the sixth commandment? A. The sixth commandment forbiddeth the taking away of our own life, or the life of our neighbour, unjustly, or whatsoever tendeth thereunto[a]. [a]. Gen. 9:6; Matt. 5:22; 1 John 3:15
- Westminster Shorter Catechism
 Sinclair said the contamination cycle often began right after shoppers entered the store and placed their bags in the bottom or the baby carrier of a shopping cart, two places notorious for germs. "The baby carrier portion of the grocery cart is the most contaminated public surface you ever come in contact with," he said.  Joe Biden Quotes Mao Zedong; Senior Biden Adviser Called Mao "Favorite Political Philosopher"
 Joe Biden Quotes Mao Zedong; Senior Biden Adviser Called Mao "Favorite Political Philosopher"Cuban Immigrant To Leftist Protesters, "Don't Be Useful Idiots" (Video)
"The problem of Communism is not an economic problem. The problem of Communism is the problem of atheism." - Dostoyevsky, cited in "Witness", p. 712, 50th Anniversary Edition
The Greatest Killer (Humanism/Atheism/Communism) The 20th Century was the bloodiest century in all of history. And humanism has proven to be the most destructive religion of all time. Far more people have been killed in the name of Atheism than by all other religions combined.
The Heart & Soul of Karl Marx (Communism)
Why God Hates Atheism and How Atheism Leads the Breakdown Of All Levels Of Society, Police States, Unbiblical Science, the Occult, God's Judgment and Hell (For Unbelievers), Etc., By Jim Dodson (Free MP3) -- and Other Free Reformed MP3s By Greg Price
I Survived Communism. Now, It's Back, Veiled as "Environmentalism"
Marx (Ideas Have Consequences) by Dr. R.C. Sproul (Ligonier Ministries)
Dr. R.C. Sproul discusses Marxism and the disastrous effects it has left in it wake.
 Democrat Party Platform Fully Embraces Planned Parenthood and Abortion (the Murder of Pre-Born Children)
Socialism Ruins Economies, Even Worse -- Socialism KILLS!
Excerpt: During the 20th-century communism (which is a form of socialism) and socialist governments have murdered at least 94 million people. Per a detailed analysis in The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression (which should be required reading by every student in America) the number of deaths caused by socialist governments was estimated at 94,360,000, broken down as follows: USSR - 20 million  China - 65 million Vietnam - 1 million North Korea - 2 million Cambodia - 2 million Eastern Europe - 1 million Latin America - 150,000 Africa - 1.7 million Afghanistan - 1.5 million Communist and Socialist movements, parties not in power - 10,000
A King's Obligation to Jehovah (4 Free SWRB MP3s) The Biblical, Reformation & Covenanter Doctrine Of Civil Government by Dr. Steven Dilday
The Biblical View Church and State by the Westminster Divines, Bannerman, Owen, Cunningham, Gillespie, Symington, Smeaton, M'Crie, Price, Dilday, Barrow and Shaw (Free MP3s)
 Jesus is God! By Dr. C. Matthew McMahon The purpose of this article is to demonstrate the undeniable Biblical witness to the historical fact that Jesus Christ, the only Redeemer of men, is God. He alone made the claims, and the Biblical record makes this known repeatedly.
 This may very well be the best series of sermons ever preached on this topic!
And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King Of Kings, And Lord Of Lords. - Revelation 19:15-16, KJV
All Civil Rulers Are Obligated To Submit To The Sovereignty and Kingship of the Lord Jesus Christ According To the Bible (Free MP3s and Books)
The nations are bound to recognize the Bible as the supreme law of the land; as the standard of civil legislation. God's law as recorded in the Bible, reaches all the possible relations of humanity; extends to every duty that can be performed, and fastens its claims on associated bodies of men, as well as upon individual persons. Were this not true, we should have this monstrous anomaly in Jehovah's government, that while men, as individuals, are bound by the laws recorded in the Bible, in their congregated capacities, they may set these laws at defiance, and even contemn as citizens, what as Christians they are bound to honor and obey. ... The nations are bound to evince their subjection to the Son of God, by filling all their official stations with upright, godly and able men. ... In all their political institutions the nations are bound to subserve the interests of the church of God, and promote, truth and godliness. ... In all their civil, criminal, and international concerns, the kingdoms should have a supreme regard to the glory of God. - The Subjection of Kings and Nations to Messiah (1820) by James R. Willson on the Puritan Hard Drive
The Subjection of Kings and Nations to Messiah (1 of 2) (Christ's Sovereignty, Kingship, Authority, And Rule Over All Countries) by James R. Willson (Free MP3)
The Subjection of Kings and Nations to Messiah (2 of 2) (Christ's Sovereignty, Kingship, Authority, And Rule Over All Countries) by James R. Willson (Free MP3)
The following quote speaks of John Calvin's mature thinking about resistance to illegitimate civil rulers. "One factor behind this rising tension was that Huguenot political rhetoric had required a decidedly anti-royalist tone during the second and third civil wars. While Calvin's Institution of the Christian Religion seemed to suggest that private citizens owed their obedience even to an ungodly king -- only lesser magistrates could legally oppose the authority of a wicked king -- his biblical commentaries published late in his life offered more intriguing possibilities. In his Readings on the Prophet Daniel first published in 1561, Calvin argued that when Daniel refused to obey King Darius, 'he committed no sin', since whenever rulers disobeyed God, 'they automatically abdicate their worldly power'. Calvin went even further in his Sermons on the Last Eight Chapters of the Book of Daniel published posthumously in 1565. Describing the same biblical incident, Calvin argued that when Kings defy God, 'they are no longer worthy to be counted as princes... [And] when they raise themselves up against God... it is necessary that they should in turn be laid low'." - Mack P. Holt, The French Wars of Religion 1562-1629, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995, 2005), p. 78. Much by John Calvin is on the Puritan Hard Drive. The Biblical View Church and State by the Westminster Divines, Bannerman, Owen, Cunningham, Gillespie, Symington, Smeaton, M'Crie, Price, Dilday, Barrow and Shaw (Free MP3s)  Maybe now you can understand why the national reformations that took place in the OT always included the recognition and national confession of the sins of the fathers - for those sins brought God's wrath upon the nation (2 Chr. 34:21, 2 Chr. 29:6-7, 2 Chron. 30:7-9, Ezra 9:6-10:2, Neh. 9:2-37). Previous attainments and obligations continue to bind the national moral person (for more on the "moral person" of nations and churches see Scott's Distinctive Principles of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, pp. 61, 70, 195f., 285f., and Robert's The Reformed Presbyterian Catechism, p. 150). Moreover, these teachings formed the biblical basis as to why the Reformers (especially during the second Reformation) were always eager to seek out the causes of God's wrath, and repent of these, whether individual, ecclesiastical or national. The best Reformers did not try to gather together all manner of infidels, idolaters, sectarians, etc. and form some kind of general, moralistic, conservative crusade to uplift the nation - never! (Cf. Gillespie's Another Most Useful Case of Conscience Discussed and Resolved, Concerning Associations and Confederacies With Idolaters, Infidels, Heretics, or Any Other Known Enemies of Truth and Godliness in his "Treatise of Miscellany Questions", Works, volume two). They aimed at purifying and unifying the church, state and family on the basis of a covenanted uniformity - always seeking to be faithful to Christ's Crown and Covenant and shunning all suggestions of humanly based solutions to the problems of the day! They looked first to God's mercy and grace (after recognition and confession of sin of course) in their individual lives; and they weren't about to start to build on a resurrected covenant of works, after having faithfully begun building on the covenant of grace, in the civil or ecclesiastical realms either - when dealing with the reformation of church and state. This is why the Reformations under Asa, Hezekiah, Josiah, Ezra and Nehemiah all involved the biblical aspects listed below. They sought to: 1. Nationally eradicate idolatry and false religion (with iconoclastic zeal) (cf. 2 Chron. 34:3-7; 2 Chron. 31:1; 2 Chron. 15:8; 2 Chron. 15:16, etc.). 2. Nationally promote the true worship, discipline, and doctrine of the church of Christ (2 Chron. 29:11-30:6; 2 Chron. 30:12-27; Ezra 10:10vv.; Neh. 10:31-32, etc.). 3. Nationally establish the one true religion and church (cf. 2 Chron. 34:8- 17; 2 Chron. 29:3-5; 2 Chron. 31:2-3; 2 Chron. 31:20-21; 2 Chron. 32:12, etc.). 4. Nationally confess their own sins and the sins of their fathers (2 Chron. 34:21; 2 Chron. 29:6-7; 2 Chron. 30:7-9; Ezra 9:6-10:2; Neh. 9:2-37, etc.). 5. Nationally publish the truth (2 Chron. 34:30; Ezra 10:7-8, etc.). 6. Nationally renew covenant with God (with specific regard to the present testimony) and set the state upon a fully covenanted biblical pattern, agreeing to nationally obey the law of God (2 Chron. 34:31; 2 Chron. 29:10; 2 Chron. 15:12-15; Ezra 10:3-4; Neh. 9:38-10:31, etc.). 7. Nationally cause (by civil power) the inhabitants of the nation to stand to the covenant (2 Chron. 34:32-33; 2 Chron. 15:12-13; Ezra 10:5, etc.). - Dr. Reg Barrow, A Contemporary Covenanting Debate; Or, Covenanting Redivivus (Dr. Reg Barrow Debates Joe Bell, a Christian Reconstructionist), free online book. 
A Free Disputation Against Pretended Liberty of Conscience... by Samuel Rutherford (1649) on the Puritan Hard Drive The Lord Jesus Christ exercises, as Mediator, the offices of prophet, priest and King. The church bore ample testimony to his prophetic office, in the early ages of Christianity, in the writings of the Fathers, in their suffering to the death for holding the truth of the Bible, to be a revelation from heaven.  To the doctrine of his priestly office, his servants bore witness in the 16th century, when justification through faith, without the works of the law, was taught and illustrated. The conflict then was between the heresies of the Papists respecting pardon by indulgences, penances, pilgrimages and purity, on the one side; and the meritorious offering of the son of God for sinners on the other. Then was the second great article of the church's creed settled. For the truth of the priesthood of Christ, many thousand of saints laid down their lives, not counting them dear. The witnesses must finish their testimony, by bearing witness, and dying to seal it, for the princely honor and glory of him who "is Lord of lords, and Prince of the kings of the earth." To the headship of the Mediator over the church as her only Lord, in opposition to that of the Pope or of any earthly potentate, our Fathers in Great Britain, nobly bore testimony in the pulpit, by the press, on the scaffold, at the stake of the martyr, and in the field of battle at Airsmoss and Bothwell Bridge.
By the arguments which have been conducted in Europe and America against the despotic governments of the former, and the infidel regime of the latter, the church has been asserting the claims of her glorious Lord, to the homage of the commonwealths of the nations. Tyrants are yet on their thrones, and unholy republics refuse to acknowledge Him as "Lord of all." The saints know this, mourn over it, and continue to plead with the nations, that Messiah's claims may no longer be set aside. To this topic, the following pages are consecrated. O Lord Jesus, by thy word and Spirit aid the writer, that he may ably, faithfully and successfully plead for the glory of thy kingdom that ruleth over all! ... Prince Messiah, then, is appointed to rule as Mediator over the whole of Jehovah's dominions; he is well qualified for the kingly office; he administers the kingdom in power and righteousness; he makes the kingdom of Providence to subserve the interest of the church; for the good of Zion, the lordship of the nations is subjected to him, and all the nations commanded, by the high and holy authority of the eternal, to acknowledge him, formally, as 'Lord of all to the glory of God the Father'." - James R. Willson, "Essay One: The Bible Claims Of Messiah To Authority Over All Governments" in Prince Messiah's Claims To Dominion Over All Governments: And The Disregard Of His Authority By The United States, In The Federal Constitution", free online book, emphases added.  Civil Government: An Exposition of Romans 13:1-7 by James M. Willson and Other Books and MP3s Defending the Classic Reformation Position on Civil Government (Free MP3 Audio Books, Free Online Books and Other Formats) The Westminster Confession of Faith is completely Biblical. "For fidelity to Scripture, for 'logical fearlessness and power,' for 'theological comprehensiveness, and intellectual grandeur,' it is second to none" (Tallach 1980). Unfortunately, this paper is not the place to go into a comparative Biblical analysis of various creeds and confessions. However, those who investigate the matter seeking to please the Lord alone, will find that the Westminster Confession is the most Biblical. For expositions of the Confession, see Shaw ([1845] 1980) and Williamson (1964). Interestingly, the Assembly that wrote the Confession was called together by a civil government for the express purpose of composing a creed that would be used not only by the church, but also by the state. For more information on this see Hetherington's History of the Westminster Assembly of Divines ([1856] 1991, 122ff). - Dr. Michael Wagner, A PRESBYTERIAN POLITICAL MANIFESTO: PRESBYTERIANISM AND CIVIL GOVERNMENT, free online book. Godless Civil Rulers Exposed and Rebuked From Scripture by Greg Price (Free MP3)
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Major Prophets, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Eschatology and Covenanting (Biblical Prophecy and Postmillennialism #3) by Jim Dodson (Free MP3 and PDF)
Major Prophets, Isaiah, Ezekiel and Covenanting
Another instance in which posterity is recognized in covenant obligation is found in Joshua 9:15. This covenant was made between the children of Israel and the Gibeonites. Between four and five hundred years after that time, the children of Israel are visited with a very severe famine, in the days of David. 2 Sam. 21:1. And it is expressly declared by the Lord that, 'It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.' And at the same time, v. 2, that very covenant is recognized, and the breach of it is stated, as being the formal reason of the divine displeasure. Now, had it not been for this covenant, the extirpation of the Gibeonites would not have been imputed to Israel as a thing criminal; for they were comprehended in Canaanitish nations, which God had commanded them to root out. - William L. Roberts, The Reformed Presbyterian Catechism (1853, emphases added), pp. 139-140, on the Puritan Hard Drive.
Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a man's covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto. - Gal. 3:15, KJV
Christ Crushes His Enemies, Converts Nations (and the Jews Are Converted), the Millennium Begins, Etc., by Jim Dodson (Free SWRB MP3 and PDF) Christ Crushes His Enemies, Converts Nations (and the Jews Are Converted), the Millennium Begins, Etc., by Jim Dodson (Free SWRB MP3 and PDF) 
Christ Will Completely Destroy Islam As Prophesied In The Bible, In the Book Of Revelation (Free MP3) by Dr. Steven Dilday Biblical Prophecy & Postmillennialism 33, Revelation 11, Fall Of the Papacy & Islam by Jim Dodson (Free MP3 and PDF) Christ Converting Nations In the Future (Biblical Prophecy and Postmillennialism #17, Synoptic Gospels) by Jim Dodson (Free MP3 and PDF) Perfect Historical Fulfillments Of Prophecies, In the Book of Revelation, Regarding the Rise, Expansion and Fall Of Islam Islam in Revelation: An Historic Look at Protestant Eschatological Thought on the Rise and Fall of Islam by E. B. Elliott, Alexander M'Leod, David Steele et al.
It does seem that the fourth iron kingdom was in fact both the pre-Papal and the pre-Islamic undivided Pagan Roman Empire, as well as the later Western-Roman Papal and the contemporaneous Eastern-Roman Islamic Empire into which it then subdivided. Indeed, both 'Mahomet' and 'the Pope' -- as we have already seen -- Dr. Calvin called 'the two horns of Antichrist.' Thus they correspond to the two legs of the later Roman Empire - Islam and the Papacy. - Dr. Francis Nigel Lee, Calvin on Islam (2000), emphases added
To the Very Hour! God's Omnipotence, Omniscience, Omnisapience, Etc., On Display In the Perfect Historical Fulfillments Of Prophecies, In Revelation, Regarding the Rise, Expansion and Fall Of Islam and the Papal Antichrist, and Much More, By Dr. Steven Dilday, Jonathan Edwards, Charles Spurgeon, W.J. Mencarow, John Owen, Greg Price, John Calvin, George Gillespie (Westminster Divine), J.A. Wylie, Richard Bennett, John Foxe, David Steele and Others (Free Reformed MP3s, Videos and Books)
FREE MP3: Christ Will Completely Destroy Islam As Prophesied In The Bible, In the Book Of Revelation by Dr. Steven Dilday
In fact, when the classic historicist position is studied, the fulfillment in the case of Islam and Revelation chapter nine is seen to be so striking and well attested that 'even advocates of other approaches who are adamant in their rejection of the historicist system of interpretation have admitted the convincing nature of this particular identification'" - Steve Gregg, commenting on Revelation 9:1-6 in Revelation: Four Views: A Parallel Commentary, p. 176, emphases added).
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The Antichrist, Man Of Sin, In Our Midst, Classic Reformed Eschatology & Prophecy by Richard Bennett, W.J. Mencarow, Greg Price, et al. (Free Videos, MP3s, PDFs, etc.)
I am trying to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Jesus: "I am ready to accept Jesus as the great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God." That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic - on a level with the man who says he is a boiled egg - or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. - C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, emphases added
"Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father (God - ed.), but by me."- John 14:, KJV
"Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day. Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?" - John 11:24-26, KJV
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