Second Mass Shooter Supported Elizabeth Warren, Socialism & Gun Control

How about the mainstream media, which includes Fox News? I found nary a word about the beliefs of this maniac. But does this surprise me? That’s rhetorical.

Politicizing mass shootings is a hallmark tactic of the Left. These people are still not over the shock of 2016 when they were certain that their darling, Hillary Clinton, was a shoe-in. I believe that the Democrats are seriously frightened because they have no viable candidate to run in 2020.

That is glaringly obvious to everyone.

Rahm Emanuel’s quote pretty much sums up the Left’s actions after a tragedy:

“Never let a serious crisis go to waste.”

I wonder if that quote is framed and hangs on the office walls of Leftist politicians. It’s despicable.

From frontpagemag.com

The pattern here is that there is no pattern.

The media keeps popularizing mass shootings, encouraging likeminded losers to pick up guns and open fire. Their motives vary, from purely personal to ideological. But ideology for mass shooters tends to be a cover for the same sort of personal dysfunction.

The media jumped on the narrative of  Patrick Crusius, the first mass shooter in El Paso, Texas, for being an anti-immigration environmentalist. (It was much more interested in the first part of that than the second part of it.)

It’s paying much less attention to Connor Betts. An Elizabeth Warren supporter.

Connor Betts, the Dayton, Ohio, mass shooter, was a self-described “leftist” who wrote that he would happily vote for Democrat Elizabeth Warren, praised Satan, was upset about the 2016 presidential election results, and added, “I want socialism, and I’ll not wait for the idiots to finally come round to understanding.”

On Nov. 2, 2018, he wrote: “Vote blue for gods sake.”

On Feb. 14, 2018, he tweeted this at Sen. Rob Portman: “@robportman hey rob. How much did they pay you to look the other way? 17 kids are dead. If not now, when?” That was the date of the mass shooting at a school in Parkland, Florida.

Authorities now say that Betts, 24, of Bellbrook, Ohio, donned body armor and a mask before shooting and killing 9 people outside a Dayton bar, including his own sister. At least 27 people were injured. Police say the motive is unclear.

On the Twitter page, Connor Betts indicated he’d vote for Elizabeth Warren for president but not Kamala Harris, responding to a person’s tweet suggesting they be co-presidents. “Nahh, but only cuz Harris is a cop – Warren I’d happily vote for,” he wrote.

He shared an article that criticized Democratic leaders like Nancy Pelosi for not supporting Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and Ayanna Pressley. “Read it,” he wrote.

Motive?

I’m going to go with another mentally unstable product of a broken society whose political views stem from obvious cultural affinities, but who throbbed with anger, wanted to break things, and eventually killed a bunch of people.

That psychological profile could just as easily describe any number of these mass shooters. source

Mental health and Psychotropic Drugs and Their Link to Mass Murders

There’s a common thread that runs through the lives of most of American history’s mass shooters. It’s not political. It’s not racist. It has nothing to do with so-called White supremacy.

It has everything to do with doctors pushing depression drugs on their patients – especially young adults. It is a known fact that Zoloft and Prozac and the rest of this class of drugs is dangerous for the young adult. In many cases, depression drugs affect older people in much the same way; but it is documented with a warning on the insert of these medications that depression drugs are not suitable for young people because it causes Suicidal and Homicidal thoughts.

Here is an article and video about this with documentation of past mass shooters and the depression meds they took:

Please note that this video is from 2018:

From truthinmedia.com

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Mass Shootings and Psychiatric Drugs   <click to watch

When it comes to the debate over mass shootings in America, why does the discussion always go toward tougher gun laws?

And yet, we are not talking about the role of antidepressants and other psychiatric medication.

The truth? The connection between mass shooters and these medications is stunning.

Let’s give it a Reality Check you won’t get anywhere else.

The response to the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, has been call after call for tougher gun laws, but seems to ignore the issues once again surrounding antidepressants.

Without question, Nikolas Cruz, the 19-year-old man who killed 17 students and wounded more than a dozen that afternoon of February 14, had for years exhibited signs of mental health problems. We talked about it on Reality Check a few episodes back.

Here’s what we know about Cruz:

Cruz’s adoptive father Roger Cruz died more than a decade ago, and his adoptive mother Lynda Cruz reportedly struggled with her son and his brother Zachary until her death in November 2017.

Barbara Kumbatovich, a former sister-in-law, told the Miami Herald that Lynda Cruz “did the best she could,” and that Nikolas and Zachary “were adopted and had some emotional issues.”

Kumbatovich told the publication that she believed Nikolas was on medication to deal with those issues and that Lynda “was struggling with Nikolas the last couple years.”

In addition to Kumbatovich’s statements, records show that police were called to the Cruz residence as many as 45 times since 2008, according to Buzzfeed News.

Between reports that Cruz had previously pulled a gun on his brother and mother, and an anonymous FBI tip from January that Cruz had been suicidal but then decided “he wants to kill people” and that he was “going to explode”… all evidence is indicating a clearly unstable young man with numerous documented concerns from those who knew him.

We still don’t know what, if any, medications Cruz might have been on. But we do know that the number of high-profile mass shootings over the past 30 years, and the link to psychiatric medication, is deeply concerning.

In 1989, 47-year-old Joseph T. Wesbecker shot 20 workers in a Louisville, Kentucky, factory, killing nine people… just a month after he began taking Prozac. The drug maker, Eli Lilly and Company, later settled a lawsuit brought by survivors.

1998: 15-year-old Oregon school shooter Kip Kinkel, who opened fire in his school cafeteria, was on Prozac.

1999: Columbine killer Eric Harris was taking Luvox, another antidepressant.

An important fact about Luvox. According to author David Kupelian from his book, How Evil Works, “Luvox manufacturer Solvay Pharmaceuticals concedes that, during short-term controlled clinical trials, 4 percent of children and youth taking Luvox — that’s one in 25 — developed mania, a dangerous and violence-prone mental derangement characterized by extreme excitement and delusion.”

In 2005, 16-year-old Jeff Weise, living on Minnesota’s Red Lake Indian Reservation, shot and killed nine people and wounded five others before killing himself. Weise had been taking Prozac.

2007: Virginia Tech shooter Seung-Hui Cho shot and killed 32 people. Officials found prescription medicine “related to the treatment of psychological problems” among his personal belongings, according to the New York Times.

2012: Colorado theater shooter James Holmes was reportedly prescribed the antidepressant Zoloft.

2013: Navy Yard shooter Aaron Alexis sprayed bullets at office workers and in a cafeteria, killing 13 people including himself. Alexis had been prescribed Trazodone by his Veterans Affairs doctor.

2014: Elliot Rodger, the Isla Vista, California killer who went on a shooting spree after stabbing three men to death, had been prescribed psychotropic drugs, according to The Los Angeles Times.

2017: Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock, according to the Las Vegas Review Journal, had been prescribed diazepam.

Known by its brand name Valium, “a sedative-hypnotic drug in the class of drugs known as benzodiazepines, which studies have shown can trigger aggressive behavior.”

Paddock received the prescription in June 2017. That October, he carried out the deadliest shooting in modern American history.

And there are dozens of other examples. To be clear, we’re not saying that prescription drugs are to blame for mass shootings.

The underlying issues of mental health that these shooters seem to all have, however, are alarming. And knowing that the majority of them were prescribed antidepressants, you have to consider this…

Some of the most alarming side effects of Prozac include suicidal thoughts, self-mutilation and manic behavior.

Zoloft can cause hallucinations, agitation and memory problems. 

For Valium, it’s also hallucinations, depression, and thoughts of suicide.

These are dangers that drug makers themselves are required to disclose.

The use of these antidepressants in America has skyrocketed. As of 2013, 12 percent of Americans were filling prescriptions for them. And while millions of people do not suffer violent episodes, the drug makers warn that some people may… and do.

You’ve heard some of those warnings in the commercials those pharmaceutical companies pay to run on mainstream media networks. According to the New York Times, “771,368 such ads were shown in 2016 … an increase of almost 65 percent over 2012.”

Pharmaceutical companies were estimated to spend $6.4 billion on direct-to-consumer advertising in 2016, according to USA Today.

Further, Open Secrets reports that in the 2016 election cycle, pharmaceutical companies contributed $12.4 million to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, another $1.5 million to former Republican Gov. Jeb Bush, more than $812,805 to Sen. Ted Cruz, $446,400 to Chris Christie, $388,706 to Donald Trump, and $280,408 to Bernie Sanders.

So, what you need to know is that correlation does not always equal causation. We do not know that the reason for these mass shootings is because of any one drug or any number of drugs. Nor do we know how much of a role these drugs may have played at all… but the question is, why is that?

Why are politicians and mainstream media pushing so many discussions about guns and virtually no discussion of whether or not antidepressants are playing a role? Because the numbers are compelling and beg a question that deserves an answer. source

Violent Video Games Cause Children to Lack Compassion for Mass Murders

I will just touch on this subject; I don’t want the reader to have overload of information – but I think that this is important:

From bits.blogs.nytimes.com

Looking at Link Between Violent Video Games and Lack of Empathy

The sound of machine guns rattled through the building as explosions shook the walls.

No, I wasn’t at a weapons convention or shooting range or in an impromptu war. I was at the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo here, also known as E3.

With shootings happening with alarming frequency in schools, malls, movie theaters and streets across America, people are again asking if video games contribute to gun violence. And do so-called first-person shooter games have a particular impact on people — usually young men — who suffer from the types of mental illnesses that make them more prone to violent behavior?

In the halls of E3, where toy guns are everywhere and fantasy mayhem is encouraged, such questions are unavoidable.

A first-person shooter is a game in which you, the player, carry a weapon into some sort of video game conflict. It can be a simulation of a battlefield, like the beaches of Normandy on D-Day. It can be a simulation of violent city streets. And sometimes you get to be the villain, targeting police or the unfortunate workers in a bank that is about to be robbed.

The mass shootings in recent years in Newtown, Conn., and Aurora, Colo., were both committed by young men who had regularly played first-person shooters. But of course, tens of millions of young men play these games and never commit acts of violence.

Studies on the impact of video game violence by research institutes, universities and psychologists have been inconclusive. For seemingly every report that says video games lead to real-world shootings, there have been others rebutting those claims.

But new psychological studies are finding that as violent games become more realistic, constantly playing them can lead to a desensitization toward real violence.

“The research is getting clearer that over the long term, people with more exposure to violent video games have demonstrated things like lower empathy to violence,” said Dr. Jeanne Brockmyer, a clinical child psychologist and professor emeritus at the University of Toledo. “Initially, people are horrified by things they see, but we can’t maintain that level of arousal. Everyone gets desensitized to things.”

Ms. Brockmyer has written a paper, set to be published later this summer, that will show how areas of the brain responsible for empathy become muted by violent images when teens are exposed to them over long periods of time.

The paper comes on the heels of a study from Canada’s Brock University, published in February, which found that when children play violent video games for significant lengths of time, they are not as morally mature as other children their age. Researchers believe that the constant flood of violent images takes away a child’s ability to feel empathy for people who have been through similar situations in real life.

But while the study found evidence of slowed moral growth in teens who play games, it was unable to determine if these effects happen to people who play first-person shooter games for two hours a day, once or a week, or any other specific amount of time.

At video game conferences, asking the game-violence questions some psychologists are trying to answer is considered unacceptable. When I approached attendees and developers at E3 and asked if there was any evidence tying video game violence to real violence, or even if we should be talking about such a link, most people simply scoffed.

“Ha — umm, no,” one young man said snidely, rolling his eyes at me before returning to the first-person shooter he was playing.

People noted that mass shootings happened before there were video games. And guns and violence have been a part of video games since the mid-1970s when Gun Fight, an early, very pixelated, two-player shooter was released in arcades.

But it is hard to argue that there isn’t some level of desensitization after a day spent at E3. At the main entrance of the Los Angeles Convention Center where the conference was held, people lined up to play the new game Payday 2. In this game, you team up with friends to rob a bank. Killing police is a big part of succeeding.

As I watched people picking off cops and security guards with sniper rifles and handguns, news broke that a real-life shooting in Las Vegas had resulted in the death of two police officers and three civilians (including the two shooters).

I asked Almir Listo, manager of investor relations at Starbreeze Studios, which makes Payday 2, if he felt in any way uncomfortable about making a game that promotes shooting police.

“If you look hard enough, you can find an excuse for everything; I don’t think there is a correlation,” he said. “In Sweden, where I am from, you don’t see that stuff happen, and we play the same video games there.”

After the Sandy Hook shootings in Connecticut, when it became clear that Adam Lanza was a fan of first-person shooters, including the popular military game Call of Duty, President Obama said Congress should find out once and for all if there was a connection between games and gun violence.

“Congress should fund research on the effects violent video games have on young minds,” he said. “We don’t benefit from ignorance. We don’t benefit from not knowing the science.” Yet more than a year later, we don’t conclusively know if there is a link.

And gun violence in the real world — and the gaming world — goes on. source

Conclusion

Brethren, I felt strongly that we need a clearer understanding of the factors which affect Mass Shooters.  It’s not cut and dry, and it’s certainly not Political as the Left would try to have you believe!!

I know that there is a lot of information in this piece. I pray that there are people who will read this and will make changes in dealing with depressed young people in their families.

As a believer, I feel that leading them to Jesus is the best and most effective way of dealing with their depression! We must pray for the families who are in the midst of dealing with young people acting out and displaying erratic behavior.

It does seem like the world is going crazy. But don’t forget:

“But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,  unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good,  traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!  For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth” (2 Timothy 2:1-7).

How Can I Be Saved?

Shalom b’Yeshua

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Thinking back, I have always been a Christian activist. I never prayed for God to make me like this. I just realized that I was a daughter of the King of the Universe; so stepping out in faith – even in the face of adversity – came very naturally to me.

Was I a bit nervous? Of course! But that feeling would finally dissipate when I realized that the Lord was with me – strengthening me.

Our kids grew up in the 1980’s. Public schools were not as bad as they are now, but they were certainly not welcoming to anything “Christian.” I remember the day that a notice came home from school in November.

The notice said: “Parents – we would like to extend the opportunity for you to come and share the spirit of your holiday.” I immediately discerned that they were not speaking of Christmas. They were opening the way for other religions to speak to the children about their holidays…like Ramadan.

A thought came to me (I’m certain that this was the Lord) that they could not discriminate against me if I wanted to share what Christmas meant to me and my family. What a perfect opportunity to share the true meaning of Christmas, not Frosty the Snowman or Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer!

I filled out the form and said that I would like to come into school and share my holiday – Christmas – and what it meant to me. The principal and some of the teachers knew that I was pretty outspoken. I had to chuckle when I pictured them opening my form. I could just see the rolling eyes.

The principal called me and asked what I had in mind. I told her that to a true Christian, the holiday was not secular. I told her that we were celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ. She asked what I would be doing. I told her that I would be singing some Christmas carols with the children and would talk about the true meaning of Christmas. This lady was not thrilled with me – I didn’t expect her to be – but she did give me a date that was open. I told her that I would be there.

The Christmas presentation

The day arrived for me to come into school. I was a soloist in church, so I had many accompaniment tapes for Christmas songs. I brought a tape for a medley by Sandi Patty. I also brought in our Nativity Set. I did notice a couple of teachers giving me what could be described as “the evil eye” as I set up the Nativity, but I just smiled and let it roll off. I mean, how could I explain the true meaning of Christmas without the Nativity with the baby Jesus?

There were about three or four classes assembled. Little faces looking up at me from the floor – I prayed in my head that the Lord would touch these children, and that they would never forget this day. I told the kids that I wanted to explain to them what Christmas meant to a true Christian. I told them that the holiday was about the birth of Jesus Christ, who was our Savior.

I put on the accompaniment tape and sang the medley, telling the kids that if they knew the songs to feel free to sing with me. I again saw a couple of adults shoot me an evil eye. I just smiled….

After the music, I turned to the Nativity scene. I had brought my Bible with me and had planned to read the Christmas story from Luke. I opened the Bible and began to read, when suddenly one of the teachers took the Bible from my hands! She leaned over to whisper to me: “I’m sorry, but our principal says that you cannot read from the Bible in school.”

I turned to the kids and said, “Well, I can’t read to you from my Bible, but that’s okay – I know this story by heart! And I began to tell them all about Mary and Joseph and their trip to Bethlehem.

I told them that they had to stay in a stable because there was no room for them at the inn. I told them that an angel appeared to shepherds who were in the fields, and that they were very afraid; but the angel told them not to be afraid because this night was born to them the Savior of the world – Christ the Lord!

You could have heard a pin drop as I told the children about the host of angels praising God, and how the shepherds had been told where to find the baby Jesus. I said that the shepherds were so excited and said, “Let’s go and see this for ourselves.” The eyes of the kids were like silver dollars! It was then that I realized that the Lord had intended for me to tell the story and not read it.

The four little girls

I had brought little candy canes for the children, and as I was handing them out, four girls began to ask questions about Jesus and heaven. I saw the group of teachers along with the principal heading my way, so I quickly told the girls to find Bibles and they could read for themselves all about Jesus. They were so excited!

The children were all taken into their classrooms as I cleaned up and got ready to leave. I felt that this day had been straight from the Lord. I thanked Him and prayed for all of the children. I prayed especially for the four little girls who had been so excited.

God Opens Doors

When I got home, I realized that God had opened that door for me to have that time with these children. I could have looked at the invitation which had come home, and thought to myself, “They would never allow me to do this.” It had to be the Holy Spirit who gave me the idea of writing back and asking if I could share the spirit of my holiday.

I know that the principal and some of the teachers were not thrilled with my presentation. But seeds were planted that day. It was a day I will never forget.

Writing a Rebuttal to a Front-Page Article praising WICCA

“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”  ~Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Since I was born-again in 1983, I have been a Christian activist. It certainly wasn’t something I aspired to be. But as time passed, it became evident that God had planned to use me in this way.

It began with writing letters to the editor on moral issues. I had a wonderful mentor, an older brother in Christ whom I had met at church. He had been writing letters to the editor for years and took me under his wing. He is now with our Lord Jesus.

I wrote a lot about the horrors of abortion. I wrote about God being taken out of schools. One day, my mentor showed me his hometown newspaper, and on the front page was a story about WICCA. It spoke of WICCA in a way that seemed to glorify it. I called the editor of that paper and told him that I was disappointed that a small-town paper would print such a thing. I told him that I was a Christian, and asked if he would ever publish a similar story about being Christian.

The editor said that if I wished to write a rebuttal to the piece on Wicca, that he would publish it on the Op/Ed section of the paper – not as a letter to the editor, but as a stand-alone article along with my picture. I agreed and he sent out his photographer.

I prayed for the Lord to help me write this article. I wrote that Wicca promotes worship of the earth. I said that born-again Christians worship the Creator of the earth and that we have a relationship with Him.

I wrote that worshiping the earth was like going into an art museum and seeing a magnificent painting, only to praise the piece itself, never seeking out the artist who painted it. Not only do Christians know who created the earth, but we love and worship Him, and know Him because of His Word in the Bible which He left for us. Needless to say, that article caused a firestorm of rebuttals, condemning Christianity and exalting Wicca.

I shared the Gospel in that article. Untold number of people read how they could be saved in their hometown newspaper!

SASSY MAGAZINE

This happened in 1986:

One night at choir practice, my writing mentor dropped a magazine in my lap. He said, “You’ll know what to do.” When I got home, I read through the magazine and was horrified. The name of the magazine was Sassy. I read that this magazine was marketed to girls ages 12-15. Being a Christian woman, I cannot write here what I read in Sassy. I will say that it was pornographic and so very disgusting.

I received James Dobson’s Focus on the Family magazine, and was surprised to read that there were Christian women in various parts of the country actively exposing Sassy as pornography for our young girls. I realized that in my part of the country, no one was doing this—not yet!

The Mass Mail-Out

I prayed that God would show me what to do. First, I found out where Sassy was being sold. Then I typed up a cover letter to each of these stores, and made copies of the most offensive pornographic material to send with the letter. The letter read:

Dear Marketing Manager,
I want you to be aware of a magazine that is being sold in your stores. I am quite certain that you are unaware of the pornographic content in this magazine, which is marketed to girls ages 12-15. If you had known, surely you would have rejected Sassy magazine.

I did a mass mailing out to the stores. After about a week, I received a phone call from Sassy magazine in New York! I was very surprised that they had my name and my number. The woman told me that they had lost distribution in most of the larger retailers in our area. She said that Sassy was told that I had done this.

She asked me if I was affiliated with Jerry Falwell. I told her I was not, but that I was affiliated with God.

There was a long silence on her end.

Then she went on to say that they were getting push back in many parts of the country. I asked her why that should surprise her. She had no answer.

The woman said that Sassy originated in Australia, and did not receive such criticism in that country. I told her that she was in America, not Australia, and that her magazine was smut. Once again, she asked me with whom I was affiliated. I told her that one person following God is like an army.

Again, she had no response.

About a week later, she called once again. This time, she told me that she and the owners of Sassy realized that the format of their magazine had to change. She said that they had compiled the first new edition and wondered if I would look through it and give them my feedback. I told her that would be fine. In a few days, it came in the mail. (I have it to this day.)

I read all the way through it. It was vastly different – more like Seventeen magazine. I didn’t love that magazine either, but it was in no way pornographic. I received another call from the lady from Sassy, asking if I received the new and improved Sassy, and what did I think of it. I told her that it was acceptable to me; still not wholesome, but certainly not smut.

The Question I did not expect

Then she asked me a question that I did not see coming. She had the audacity to ask if I could write to the stores from where I had Sassy removed, and ask them to please reinstate it.

I’m sure that she did not expect my response to her as well. I told her that she and her staff had gotten themselves into this mess, and they would have to figure out how to market Sassy again without my help.

SASSY is gone

Sassy folded in 1994. Now if that isn’t a testimony of how one person can change things, I don’t know what is!

A SCHOOL PROGRAM CHANGED BY GOD

When my kids were young, I did in-home daycare to help with the finances. When I interviewed prospective parents, I told them up front that their child would hear about Jesus. I told them that I read Bible stories to the kids, and that we pray together. I asked if that would be a problem, and only one set of parents declined using my services because of this.

One day in late November of 1987, Jason, one of my daycare kids, told me that they practiced singing their songs for the “Winter” concert. Back when political correctness did not reign, these concerts were called “Christmas concerts.”

Jason wanted me to see the words of a song. He was troubled by them. The song was called, “The Twelve Days After Christmas.” Here are some of the lyrics:

“On the first day after Christmas, my true love and I had a fight
So I chopped the pear tree down, and burned it just for spite
Then with a single cartridge, I shot that blasted partridge
My true love, my true love, my true love gave to me.

The second day after Christmas
I pulled on the old rubber gloves
And very gently wrung the necks
Of both the turtle doves
My true love, my true love,
My true love gave to me.”

The song went on and on in like manner, and was to be sung by third graders. I asked Jason if I could see the other songs they would sing. As I looked through the list, it became obvious to me that the Lord wanted to use me once again to effect change.

There were four Chanukah songs, and five secular holiday songs, like Jingle Bells and Frosty the Snowman, etc. There was not even ONE sacred Christmas song.

The next day, I called the Board of Education for our county. I asked to speak with the supervisor of music for the entire county. As I began to speak with this man, I realized that he was a bit on the edgy side, and was not happy with my call. Exactly what I expected.

I began to tell him about the inappropriate song for the age of the children, reading him some of the lyrics. I told him that perhaps high school students would get a laugh from a song like that, but that it was definitely NOT for young, impressionable children.

He told me that he would get a panel of educators together, and if I would come in, the panel would hear me out. I told him that was fair, and that I would come in any time this was scheduled.

But then I asked him about the other music. I told him about the Chanukah songs, and that there were only secular Christmas songs—not even one sacred song about the birth of Jesus. I told him that I loved Chanukah, and that I was a Jewish Christian.

There was a long pause on his end, but then he said “Well, that’s interesting.” I went on that since the children were singing about Chanukah (The Festival of Lights) and the miracle of the oil burning for eight days when there was only enough oil for one, then there also should be sacred songs about Christmas (with the birth of Jesus in the lyrics).

Surprisingly, he agreed. He said that he always asked his music teachers to be fair about the music at this time of the year. He asked me to call the school and request a meeting with the music teacher. He then asked me to get back to him with the outcome.

I called my children’s school and got the music teacher on the phone. After asking for a meeting, the teacher told me that her time was limited because of the concert, and asked if we could speak by phone. I told her that I was concerned about the music program because not even one sacred Christmas song was part of it. I said that I noticed that Chanukah was well-represented in the list of songs.

I distinctly heard a sigh. Then the teacher explained to me why she did not put any sacred Christmas songs into the program. She said that in her first year of teaching in this school, she did choose three sacred Christmas songs. She said that the Jewish teachers blasted her so badly, and said that this was not allowed. She said the pressure from the other teachers was intolerable, so she just decided to cooperate with them.

I told her that I was a Jewish Christian, and that I felt that it was wrong to discriminate against the Christians, because of some Jewish teachers. She said she was very sorry, but that she could not endure another year like her first.

I called the Supervisor back to let him know how things went. He said he was not surprised, and he thanked me for doing my part.

He said, “Now I will visit this teacher, and I will tell her that both Chanukah and Christmas should be represented in the music.” He went on, “And one or two secular Christmas songs are fine, but there should also be sacred Christmas songs about the birth of Jesus.”

He told me that if the Jewish teachers came against her, then she would be able to say that she had no choice; that the Supervisor of music for the county directed her to make this change.

I was so grateful to this man. I knew that the Lord had really placed this on my heart, and this was the outcome. Before we got off the phone, he told me that it wouldn’t be necessary for me to come in about the other song. He took the song to a few of his peers, and they immediately said that it was not age appropriate. That song was banned in all elementary schools in my county.

The Winter concert was a lovely mix of Chanukah songs and Frosty the Snowman-type songs, but also “Silent Night,” “Let’s Run to the Stable” and “Away in a Manger” were sung!

Brethren, these things were changed back in the 1980’s. I’m not saying that it would be impossible to do this today. But I will say that because of the silence of Christians in the face of evil for so many decades, the enemy has stood his ground, and, in many cases, has taken it away from us.

It’s Never Too Late to Start

I hear it said that it is just too late to even try to battle the enemy in America. How do we know that? How do we know that God will not open doors if enough of His people begin to show up at public schools and libraries?

Perhaps some of us might go to jail.  

Brethren, it would be SO worth it if God would just use us to speak of His righteousness to an unbelieving world!

Trust HIM and step out in faith!

How Can I Be Saved

A Sermon For Sunday

Shalom b’Yeshua

MARANATHA!!

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