Check out this informative video:

http://www.storyofstuff.com/

It’s a little lengthy… but wow… talk about informative.

A couple of weeks back we were able to see the movie, Expelled, in the theatres. If they had a large turn-out they would continue to run the filml; so I made it a date with Aaron to help ensure they would continue the film. The theatre was packed!!! We had to sit like way up close. But it was definitely worth it. The film was incredibly well done. Ben Stein’s digging and researching was so adequately well displayed and explained that it was hard to walk away from the film unchanged by the blatant truth he had uncovered in our school systems, as well as the scientific professions. The people who are totally against creationism were interviewed with incredibly frankness. They had even said themselves that they were being very upfront and forward and are not always so. I read some review that said they thought they were being interviewed for a totally different film. Of course, if they had known for what purpose they were really being interviewed, they probably wouldn’t have been so honest. At any rate, I am glad that someone is getting the truth out there about our loss of freedoms in the country and its connection to atheism and evolution.

At any rate, Voddi Baucham wrote a wonderful review. CHECK IT OUT HERE.

I have been wanting to do a research on Walt Disney, from its onset to the present day company and track its anti-Christian themes and secular slants. I always found it most disturbing that this company, who seemed to act as the voice of American families, is no where near what a Christian-minded family truly is in the Biblical sense.

 Anyways, my favorite people, Vision Forum, have put together a critique on Disney before I got around to it. I found the summary article very much echoing my own thoughts on this pervasive, “seemingly innocent” company. So, here’s their take ( I am thinking of getting the dvd set, as soon as we finish with the other educational series we have:)

Go to Doug’s Blog here: http://www.visionforum.com/hottopics/blogs/dwp/ to read the full article.

Oh yes, I have yet another film for you all to watch:)

 http://www.getexpelled.com/

 This one is about the hostile discrimination that is going on in the scientific, educational, and political world when it comes to the intelligent design and the evolution debate. Ben Stein documents this factual and highly disturbing evidence of the fight people are putting up with Neo-Darwinism. Anyone who questions this theory in the scientific field, political arena, or educational area is marked and discredited. They are not only shunned, but defamed and their reputation ruined.

Anyways, check it out. Funny how we are suppose to have free speech in every area of life, but not this one.

Okay, so today is get involved day…

 But seriously, we watched The Business of Being Born last night on netflix. It’s crazy, because I knew like the tip of the iceberg when it came to the state of the billion dollar birthing industry we have in America; but this documentary went further. It went to the roots of where this all came from and where it is trying to take us, if we let it. I am disgusted with the false amount of information American women are being fed; and also disheartened to know that we digest it without doing our own research, or checking up on things.

Even if you are done having children, or too young, this documentary really should be seen by all Americans. This is our children and our lives that are being harmed, put in danger.  Our way of life and all its natural principles, put into place by God, have been altered to fit an industrialized country since the 1920’s. We have not progressed as a nation, but rather have digressed. We have put the good of nation-building before God, before family, and before the health and well-being of children and mothers. 

As I have been researching and listening to various films about this and other issues regarding homeschooling, and even entrepreneurial avenues, I am finding that our country took a serious nose-dive for the worst when it began its nation-building during the early 1900’s. It was at that time that our country really lost its focus. No longer was the family, freedom, God, or biblical principles the lead, but instead it was power,money, and greed of the few “most important”.  “Social efficiency” became the accepted philosophy of the day - and has continued since.

Family businesses were discouraged and the spirit of independent thinking and the entrepreneurial spirit was broken as “bigger” businesses became the thing to do. Public schooling was introduced and enforced as the corporate powers realized that if you can control the mind of the youth, you can control the mind of the nation. Evolution and other philosophies were placed into the curriculum that directly challenge God and biblical teaching.

Hospitals were introduced as the “safe” place to give birth. In 1900 almost all births were done at home (like over 80%). By 1955 only 1% were at home. What happened? And since that time our country has become second in the world for the highest number of infant deaths. The philosophy that “professionals” are smarter, better qualified, and better equipped to handle the issues of life was largely promoted through propaganda. Ads portraying scary looking, backwards, “old-world” looking, uneducated, unintelligent type of women as midwives were shoved down every American’s throat as the hospital and medical field went out to convince people that birth was a medical procedure to be handled by “trained professionals”, of whom, not one had actually witnessed a human birth.

America has been on a slippery slope since that time. That was also the time where the government illegally slipped in the 16th Ammendment  that would create income tax for all Americans, since they were all employees now of the large industries that were coming into power… Our constitution was being thrown out even then, and has been snowballing ever since.

I find that I cannot just sit on false information. Especially information that I once believed and now am coming to terms that we have been lied to over and over again. We are in a spiritual battle. I do not believe that any one person is to blame for what has happened to our country; but I do believe that the devil is trying his best to destroy a country who started its journey because they wanted to worship God the way He was leading them to.

The battle is not over. And if you read the back of the book, we win. I am determined to fight this good fight of faith until God sees fit to move me out of the way. When our world gets the darkest, now it is when our Lights will shine the brightest. It is not time to cower back in fear, or retreat to our own little corners of the earth, but it is a time to stand boldly for all that is holy, true, and right in the strength and power of the One who created the heavens and this earth. 

For those who have not already listened to this broadcast, if you are a parent or are thinking of being one someday, then this pertains to you.

 The homeschooling ruling in CA is not just about homeschooling. It is about the government’s attempt to rule the lives of families and take the place as the main authority in the home instead of parents. I was completely outraged by this decision. The lame reasoning that oh well, this world is going down, anyways, is a very depressing and completely unbiblical. We are commanded to train up our children. We are commanded to proclaim the truth. I do not believe that the only truth we are to proclaim is that Jesus is King, we have a duty to proclaim the truth in all areas of life. The very heart of all this should be the family. The family was created by God and He has very specific and special plans for each family.

I cannot just sit back and let someone tell me that I am not capable of educating my children. These were gifts God gave me and I will be accountable for how I raised them. We live in a country where we do have a choice. We do not have to let our country be run by secular, anti-Chrisitian people. If we sit back and say nothing, then the voice of truth and righteousness and Biblical principles will not have a witness.

Anyways, this struck a very personal chord with me. I pray that every Christian parent will listen to this and take action against this - whether it be to sign the petitions going around, writing letters to the legislators, or to pray sincerely and earnestly about these situations. We are at a pivitol point in our American history. I am praying that God will open the eyes, soften hearts, and bring repentance to our nation, especially in the church, the family, and our governmental leaders.

http://www.oneplace.com/ministries/Focus_on_the_Family/archives.asp?bcd=2008-3-7

In his 1828 version of the American dictionary, he prefaces it with this quote:

In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed…No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people

Under his definition of education he wrote:

The bringing up, as of a child, instruction; formation of manners. Education comprehends all that series of instruction and discipline which is intended to enlighten the understanding, correct the temper, and form the manners and habits of youth, and fit them for usefulness in their future stations. To give children a good education in manners, arts and science, is important; to give them a religious education is indispensable; and an immense responsibility rests on parents and guardians who neglect these duties.

I find it so terribly sad that our government and nation has drifted so far from the pioneers who worked so hard to ensure our freedom here.

I am sure that I could blog for an hour on it… but I think Mr. Webster’s words are more than sufficient.

 If you want to see the 1828 version of the American dictionary, click here.

At least I haven’t since I turned 18. Why? I didn’t think there was anything worth voting for, or I guess I figured that our government was going to do what they wanted to do, no matter what I thought…

BUT this next year I am voting. Though I don’t believe in putting my faith in a man, I do believe in supporting someone with integrity, honesty, and a real vision for what our country was founded for from the get-go.

But don’t take my word for it… you have got to check him out for yourself:

http://www.ronpaul2008.com/

This is a book to counteract the negativity and shallowness that Hollywood has to show for what God intended to be a joyful and amazing role.

http://www.visionforum.com/hottopics/blogs/dwp/2007/10/3032.aspx

From the reviews, it sounds like something I would have written. I used to support the feminist movement, until God touched my heart and showed me what it was really all about and what it was doing to our children. I am thankful for those who stand up against the trends of the media-centered culture we live in. Thank God for people who are led to find Scriptural, Christ-centered guidelines and models for us to build our lives upon!