One of the more powerful tools in the hands of those waging war against Christianity is "Hate."
“If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. Remember the words I spoke to you: ‘No servant is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also. They will treat you this way because of my name, for they do not know the One who sent me. [John 15:18-21]
Hate is something that Bible believers understand will become more prevelant in our world as we near the end of times. Indeed, as John 15:18-21 pointed out, it is something Christians should not be surprised at as non-believers scramble to try to erase the knowledge of sin in their lives.
“Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me. At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other..." [Matt. 24:9-10]
What the Church is experiencing today might be the preparations being made to fulfill Matthew 24:9 as we draw near to the end. It is a process being refined by those that reject God and will likely be perfected in the hands of the antichrist (Rev. 13:16).
The first step in the progression toward persecution of persons is identification. The second is marginalization; the third, vilification; the fourth, criminalization; and finally, persecution. This was the tactic Germany used against the Jews, and it is now the same tactic being used by liberals in America against the Christian church.
IDENTIFICATION
On April 23, 1990, Republican President George Bush signed the "Hate Crimes Statistics Act" into law. The legislation
mandates that the Department of Justice compile and publish "hate crimes" data
as part of the Federal Uniform Crime Reports.
Later, when attorney
General Janet Reno released FBI statistics showing thousands of hate crimes in
America during 1996, she pulled the classic hat trick - cook up a crisis,
expand its scope, and call for expansive federal solutions.
First,
the definition of what constitutes a "hate crime" is murky. Over half of the
"hate crimes" reported were either "intimidation," or "simple assault," neither
of which necessarily involves even being touched. Even the FBI report concedes
that "hate crime is by its very nature often difficult to identify."
Still, Reno wanted to expand the scope, if not the clarity, of the definition
to include sexual orientation - potentially making public disapproval of sodomy
a crime. She also called for expanded federal powers to accompany the newly
expanded definition of a "hate crime." This included 93 new "hate crime
coordinators" nationwide whose jobs will depend on hyping the "hate crime"
crisis.
Why expend resources on "crime" that is difficult even to
identify? Real crimes involving violence, credible threat, or vandalism are
already covered by state and local law enforcement, and identifying them is
easy enough.
But, as we know from John 15:18-21, crime is NOT really
the issue. What these anti-God people want is an efficient way to tell the
difference between those who follow the teachings of the Bible and those who
don't.
In the report, "Hate Crimes Today: An Age-Old Foe in Modern
Dress," published by the
American
Psychological Association, Dr. Jack McDevitt stated, "Hate crimes are message crimes. They are different from other
crimes in that the offender is sending a message to members of a certain group
that they are unwelcome."
MARGINALIZATION
President Clinton dialed into a radio call-in program from Air Force
One in June 1994 and unleashed an unusually bitter, 23-minute attack on the
press, the Rev. Jerry Falwell, conservative radio talk show hosts in general
and Rush Limbaugh in particular.
Clinton portrayed the nation's
airwaves as being filled with a "constant, unremitting drumbeat of negativism
and cynicism." "I think there is too much cynicism and too much intolerance,"
he said. "But if you look at the information they get, if you look at how much
more negative the news reports are, how much more editorial they are and how
much less direct they are, if you look at how much of talk radio is just a
constant, unremitting drumbeat of negativism and cynicism, you can't - I don't
think the American people are cynical, but you can't blame them for responding
that way."
Clinton and his liberal comrades have their sights on
conservatives when they use the word "hate." Dateline NBC reported that
the White House routinely refers to conservative and/or Christian talk shows as
"hate-talk radio." (Washington Watch, January 1998)
VILIFICATION
A free and Christian America is the single greatest obstacle to
Satan's establishment of a one-world
government. Is it any wonder, then, that at a time when the occult is
receiving public acceptance in the corporate, political and educational arenas,
the new dirty word in American society has become "right-wing
fundamentalists?
U.S. Representative Pat Williams of Montana said at a
public hearing, "To paraphrase an old saying, there are
lies, damn lies, and right-wing religious zealots..." [Breaking Counterfeit Religion, Charisma, September 1990]
One part of the political agenda of the homosexual movement is the
strategy to paint themselves as disadvantaged in need of protection and the
target of extremist Christian "hate" groups. Anyone who disagrees with liberals
and sodomites today are labeled "hate mongers" and their speech is labeled
"hate speech."
It's not fighting or violence they are necessarily
trying to stop... it's ALL opposition to their sinful lifestyle they want to
stop. Despite the fact that the Jeremiah Project has never called for or
condoned violence toward sodomites or any group, I regularly receive hateful
tirades from homosexuals calling my writing, "hateful."
Read it yourself.
In opposition to
everything America has stood for, politicans and judges today are defining new
inequities in the law. All crimes are hate crimes. But, hate crimes legislation
being proposed suggests unequal protection under the law.
Are not ALL
crimes somehow motivated by hate? To allow sodomites in Washington to delineate
various levels of hate with some crimes carrying stiffer penalties than others
is to diminish the ultimate power of the law. The entire "hate crimes" debate
rings of Naziism and reminds me of George Orwell's book, "Animal Farm."
In fact, the hate crimes bills debated in Congress really have nothing at
all to do with "hate." They are all designed to advance the pro-homosexual
agenda of Bill Clinton, Edward Kennedy, and Barny Frank. Hate crime legislation
does not and will not eliminate hate, but will in effect intensify the hatred
that is present within people. To advance the cause of something God calls an
abomination (Leviticus 18:22; Romans 1:18-32) is to risk the punishment of God
- "Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light
and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter." (Isaiah
5:20)
As heinous as Wyoming college student Matthew Shepard's murder
was, the murder of an 8-year-old Wyoming girl, Christian Lamb, was at least as
horrific. It would be a travesty if we allowed the government to treat the
little girl's murder as less serious than the 'gay' college student's." But,
that's exactly what the Hate Crimes legislation does.
CRIMINALIZATION
President Clinton signed the Hate Crimes Sentencing Enhancement
Act in 1994 which requires stiffer sentences for so-called hate crimes.
In May, 1998, President Clinton bypassed Congress and the American people
by signing an Executive Order that placed homosexuals, bisexuals, and the
"transgendered" in a specially protected category for consideration in federal
government jobs and promotions. This was basically an alternative way for the
president to implement, without congressional approval, the so-called Employment Non-Discrimination
Act.
President Clinton directed the Justice Department
and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to vigorously prosecute those
who discriminate against people with AIDS, prosecuting cases against health
care providers and facilities violating the Americans with Disabilities
Act.
Congress has been trying to pass a Hate Crimes Prevention
Act for years that includes sexual orientation, disability and gender to
existing federal "hate crimes" laws expanding federal intervention and
establish unequal justice under the law.
HCPA would add "sexual
orientation," gender and disability to the existing federal hate crimes law,
which enhances penalties for crimes committed against a person because of his
race, religion, ethnicity, or color. HCPA would also expand federal authority
to include more cases. Currently, the law extends only to crimes committed
during government- protected activities such as voting or attending school.
The Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2005,
passed in the House on Sept. 14, 2005 as an amendment to H.R. 3132, the
Children's Safety Act of 2005, expands the definition of hate crimes to include
offenses involving actual or perceived religion, national origin, gender,
sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability.
Homosexual
activists are making progress for their agenda in nearly every state of the
nation. They are competing to see who can make inroads in their territory
first. Cities and counties are competing to determine who can beat Congress in
passing their own hate crimes laws.
In conjunction with the hate
crimes bill, is the Employment Nondiscrimination Act (ENDA). If passed, ENDA
will immediately evoke thousands of lawsuits by homosexuals and lesbians
against present and former employers. Recently a San Francisco law firm filed a
$5 million suit against family friendly Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., alleging
discrimination, harassment and wrongful termination of a homosexual employee.
The suit seeks compensation for "emotional distress, lost wages, statutory
penalties, attorney's fees and punitive damages."
PERSECUTION
Liberals claim they want to somehow abolish prejudice, yet, they really need the power of the law to use against those who violate "politically correct thinking." The first victim of hate crimes legislation will be freedom of speech. Undoubtedly sodomites will use the law to persecute pastors who speak out from the pulpit calling homosexuality a sin. Similar laws in other nations have already resulted in the conviction of so-called "bigots."
- A Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission information officer has conceded that a broadcast that calls homosexuality an 'abomination' would be considered to have crossed the line, especially if it warned those who engaged in homosexual acts would be damned to eternal perdition."
- In Sweden, an evangelical pastor served a four-week jail sentence for violating a Swedish anti-hate statute which protects homosexuals and other groups from embarrassing "verbal violence." He had preached a sermon about Sodom, Gomorrah, and the biblical consequences for disobedience. ["Hate Literature Laws Sweep the U.S. and Other Western Democracies," The Christian World Report (April, 1989), pg.1.]
HATE CRIMES IN WACO
The revelations in the media about
the governments attack on Branch Davidians in Waco Texas is not news to myself
and many others. We have been saying all along that the federal government
overstepped reasonable bounds when they launched an all out attack on the
Branch Davidian compound resulting in the killing of eighty-six men, women and
children.
What motivated the government to launch the attack in the
first place? At the time, they said it was because of reports of child abuse.
When that contention was disproved, they said it was because the Davidians were
amassing illegal guns. Even that accusation was never proved. I would suggest
they stormed the compound because they clearly had serious political and
philosophical differences with David Koresh and his followers. As the events
played out over the following weeks, the government brought to bear its full
psychological and military weapons in a futile attempt to gain Koresh's
surrender. Ultimately the decision was made by someone in the government (and
Janet Reno took responsibility for it) to force the situation with an FBI led
assault using grenade launchers that ended in the firey deaths of most of the
occupants. If that is not a hate crime, I wonder what is?
It is
becoming painstakingly clear that liberals in our government are attempting to
persuade the American people that any action that conflicts with their
socialist policies will be labeled a "hate crime" and punishable by the federal
government. All the while, they promote the very "hate" they say they are
combating. Are they being successful? Well, after the shootings at Columbine
High in Colorado where 13 students were killed, there was a huge public outcry
that something be done... but when 24 children were murdered in Waco, there was
hardly a whimper from the public. Why is that?
Hate Crimes legislation would criminalize thoughts rather than
actions. Wherever people cross the line from thought or speech to violent
action, they should be prosecuted and the courts have traditionally only
stepped in when someone did cross that line. Today, however, they are trying to
move that line to encompass your feelings, thoughts and beliefs.
This
philosophy is straight out of George Orwell's 1984. The "Thought Police" are
going to determine what is in your head and heart. If you fail the test your
crime becomes a "hate crime".
Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of
2007
In Oct, 2007, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that
criminalizes American citizens who exercise their Constitutional right of
dissent by a huge majority. The vote was held under a suspension of the rules
to cut debate short and pass the bill, needing a two-thirds majority. The
totals were 404 Ayes, 6 Nays, 22 Present/Not Voting.
A House Homeland Security Subcommittee hearing on "Terrorism and the
Internet" broadcast on C-Span, featured a panel of "experts", including
representatives formerly of the RAND Corporation and the Simon Wiesenthal
Center who presented 9/11
truth websites sites alongside sites that celebrate the attacks and offer
training in terrorist tactics. The hearing was chaired by Democratic Rep. Jane
Harman, and ranking Republican, Rep. Dave Reichert. It was supposed to focus on
the use of the internet by "home grown terrorist recruiters" yet in a shocking
move it blatantly related the 9/11 truth movement with so called radical
"jihadists".
Over recent months we have witnessed a growth in this
disturbing trend to attempt to equate peaceful 9/11 researchers and truth
activists with violence and extremism. The prime culprits have been
establishment "news" hacks who are raising the same talking point ad infinitum,
dubbing the global truth movement "anarchists" and violent individuals who may
be aiding terrorists. Talking heads such as Fox News Bill O'Reilly and Glenn
Beck over on CNN, have specifically targeted 9/11 truthers in segments designed
to portray the movement as dangerous and sow the seed in the minds of what
viewers they have left that peaceful truth seekers are actually in league with
violent terrorists.
The Violent Radicalization and Homegrown
Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007 reference to how "The Internet has aided in
facilitating violent radicalization, ideologically based violence, and the
homegrown terrorism process in the United States by providing access to broad
and constant streams of terrorist-related propaganda to United States
citizens," is shocking. Remember, the bill is not aimed at "Al-Qaeda" websites
or arabic forums that post alleged Bin Laden video tapes, it is aimed at
American citizens using American based websites, like the very one you're
reading now.
I
read some of the hate mail and they are just proving your point. This country
is in great danger and headed for certain destruction. I love God, my family
and my country. I only pray our nation will wake up and smell the brimstone! My
heart breaks for those people who just don't get it. I wish the scales would
fall from their eyes. But these are the signs of the times. 
