The young woman learned that she was pregnant. Her fiancée was upset as he knew that he was not the father; and so he wanted to break off the engagement.
It was not what Mary and Joseph had planned for their lives. It was not the normal pattern of existence. But this unplanned pregnancy became the greatest single birth in the history of the world, the birth of the Redeemer of all mankind.
In fact, it was not really so unplanned, was it? From the human perspective it was, yes, but from God’s perspective it had been planned before the foundation of the world.
It is a lie from Satan that every pregnancy needs to be planned by the parents in order to be good. God is the one who opens the womb, and every child, no matter the parents’ circumstances, is a blessing and a heritage from the Lord. Let us remember that message at this time and rejoice.
Merry Christmas and good will towards men! Thank you for all you do in support of Life!
Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD:
and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
Don’t help support the bad guys. Just wait and rent it on DVD. Don’t let your kids sit through three hours of this blatant propaganda. Population control is Eugenics is Avatar.
It was refreshing to see this honest review in the mainstream media. Maybe they are figuring it out now?
Blue In the Face
James Cameron delivers dumb escapism with his expensive special effects in ‘Avatar’
By Armond White
Avatar
Directed by James Cameron
Runtime: 162 min.
James Cameron’s love of technology is enough to sell Avatar to fans awaiting his first techno-feat since 1997’s Titanic. But will they understand the awful thing he’s done with it? Avatar’s highly-touted special effects depict an army from Earth traveling to Pandora, a moon in the Alpha Centuri-A star system, to mine rare ore from under its inhabitants, tall, blue-skinned creatures with tails called the Na’vi. These F/X show Cameron’s ex-Marine hero, Jake Sully (the great everyman Sam Worthington), taking part in a quasi-military program where he enters the alien society via a hybrid body (an avatar) made from human and Na’vi DNA. Cameron’s “fully immersive” 3-D technology is irritating to watch for nearly three hours. And then there’s his underlying purpose: Avatar is the corniest movie ever made about the white man’s need to lose his identity and assuage racial, political, sexual and historical guilt.
Only children—including adult-children—will see Avatar as simply an adventure film; their own love of technology has co-opted their ability to comprehend narrative detail. Cameron offers sci-fi dazzle, yet bungles the good part: the meaning. His undeniably pretty Pandora—a phosphorescent Maxfield Parrish paradise with bird-like lizards, moving plant life and floating mountains—distracts from the inherent contradiction of a reported $300-$500 million Hollywood enterprise that casually berates America’s industrial complex.
Cameron’s superficial B-movie tropes pretend philosophical significance. His story’s rampant imperialism and manifest destiny (Giovanni Ribisi plays the heartless industrialist) recalls Vietnam-era revisionist westerns like Soldier Blue, but it’s essentially a sentimental cartoon with a pacifist, naturalist message. Avatar condemns mankind’s plundering and ruin of a metaphorical planet’s ecology and the aboriginals’ way of life. Cameron fashionably denounces the same economic and military system that make his technological extravaganza possible. It’s like condemning NASA—yet joyriding on the Mars Exploration Rover.
While technically impressive, Avatar’s basically a daft version of the Transformer movies’ sci-fi, techno fantasy. Michael Bay’s extraordinary gift for flashy spectacle found perfect expression in the gargantuan slapstick comedy of technology run amok; his teenage characters’ rapport with cars and machines showed an ambivalent relationship with the things that expedite human activities yet threaten our peace and our history. Avatar, however, invents an alternate world to make the airy-fairy pronouncement: “There’s a network of energy that flows through all living things.” Alien-girl Neytiri (Zoe Saldana) teaches Sully how to bond with a tie-dyed, eagle-like creature by docking his wriggly tail into it. “Feel her!” Neytiri urges, and Cameron emulates the boy-plus-car symbiosis of Transformers—but with pulsing loins, veins and orifices. Better than Titanic’s kitschy romanticism, it is Cameron’s most sensual incident since the husband-wife airlift of True Lies yet, strangely, this sexualized conquest suggests latent fascism in his style.
Bay’s exultant technological thrills climaxed with Transformers 2’s war metaphor, where mankind’s historical continuity was at stake. But Cameron gets sappy and hypocritical. Set in the near future, Avatar is a throwback to the hippie naiveté of Kevin Costner’s production Rapa Nui (directed by Kevin Reynolds). While prattling about man’s threat to environmental harmony, Cameron’s really into the powie-zowie factor: destructive combat and the deployment of technological force. At first, Sully, a “warrior and dreamwalker” like The Matrix’s Neo, is shown as a fierce, sculpted meathead with a wounded look in his wide eyes. Cameron lights Worthington superbly in tremendous, empathetic close-ups, yet when Sully’s involvement with the avatar project increases—as hair and beard grow in—his humanity becomes nondescript and he identifies with the Na’vi. (It’s disappointing that the great Worthington only appears in a quarter of the film; most of the time Sully is a Smurf.) Going native allows Cameron to move on to the violent technology he really loves—though never scrutinizing Sully’s new bond with an angry red dragon or how Sully’s temperament becomes dangerously enflamed.
Here’s the hypocrisy: As Sully helps the beleaguered, virtuous aliens fight back and conquer the human invaders, Avatar puts forth a simple-minded anti-industrial critique. Despite Avatar’s 12-year gestation, Cameron’s obviously commenting on the Iraq War—though not like his hawkish Aliens. Appealing to Iraq War disenchantment, he evokes 9/11 when the military topples the Na’vi’s sacred, towering Tree of Souls. The imagery implies that the World Trade Center was also an altar (of U.S. capitalism), yet this berserk analogy exposes Cameron’s contradictory thinking. It triggers the offensive battle scenes where American soldiers get vengefully decimated—scored to the rousing clichés of Carmina Burana.
The fantasy of Sully giving up the impediment of his (American) humanity is a guilt-ridden 9/11 death wish. References to “fight terror with terror” and “shock-and-awe campaign” don’t belong in this 3-D Rapa Nui with its blather about the Na’vi’s “direct line to their ancestors.” Once again, villainous Americans exhibit no direct communication with ancestors. That’s Cameron’s fanboy zeal turned into fatuous politics. He misrepresents the facts of militarism, capitalism, imperialism—and their comforts.
Cameron’s seditious hero cheapens Neveldine/Taylor’s timely concept in Gamer, where modern characters took responsibility even for their avatars’ misdeeds. Invested in his own techie legend, Cameron never risks Neveldine/Taylor’s honest critique of our technological dependency—which would be to examine national values. Cameron’s deep failing as a pop artist lies in the fact that, unlike the avant-garde Neveldine/Taylor team, he’s a techno-geek who conflates mindless sentimentality with meaning.
Avatar’s going-native F/X fantasy infantilizes Cameron’s technology-infatuated audience; they’ve never read Joseph Conrad on colonialism or feel any compunction about balancing politics and fantasy. There’s even a Busby Berkeley-style tribal dance to divert them. Also, Avatar’s techno-exoticism involves blue cartoon creatures, not brown, black, red, yellow real-world people. It’s the easiest, dumbest escapism imaginable.
Wounded Knee- Pocahantus type of movie, pure propaganda, UN wants a global Gaia Religion, anti-imperialism, Shaman ceremonies, aliens fighting evil war mongers, Scientists take over after the war mongers are dethroned, You are hero if you like what they are doing, then you join their environmental movement, Natives are moved to reservations then forced sterilized, anti human, anti development
“James Cameron is a useful idiot of the Eugenicists.”
–Alex Jones
No mistake that this movie was timed to come out NOW AFTER THE COPENHAGEN GLOBAL WARMING SCAM SUMMIT.
Good to know now….lol. Guess I know what to expect again, next time around. I’ve had hypo-thyroidism since 6th grade! No wonder I had such a bad case of Eclampsia.
My thyroid gland issues, however, are what allows me to morph into very different body shapes in little time. It’s a curse, yet a blessing…. (Like everything else in life, I believe)
As if getting in between us and our doctors wasn’t enough, promoters of socialized medicine have added a bit of unintended comedy to the bloated and unconstitutional health bill.
Via Politico:
For critics of the Democrats’ $849 billion health care bill, this may be the ultimate irony: millions of dollars set aside so the government can help teach citizens how to handle their own money better. The funding is part of a broader, $375 million program aimed at promoting responsible lifestyles – a five-year plan to fund state efforts to educate adolescents on abstinence, contraception and other “adult preparation subjects” such as healthy relationships, increased child-parent communication and “financial literacy.” More…
If it weren’t so dangerous, it would actually be funnier. But this sort of thing is no laughing matter, this whole bill needs to fail.
This is my mission. I am trying to make a short and simple letter or video that we can give to our church leaders. The other side is fighting harder and the new religion is climate change. It’s not like they aren’t known to infiltrate before….
“The most successful, educational appeal to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their rebellious members.”
Any good ideas, I could use them. What is important to you? What won you over to care? These Christians below make me proud to be a Christian.
“First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak out for me.”
—Pastor Martin Niemöller
Contact: Dave Mohel
dave@advocacyink.com
Christian Leaders Urge Immediate Passage of Tough Sanctions on Iran
Pat Robertson, Chuck Colson, Southern Baptist Leadership, Focus on the Family, Megachurch Pastors Send Letter To Congress Leaders representing millions of Evangelicals and Roman Catholics call for immediate passage of sanctions
As the House of Representatives prepares to vote on the matter next week, Christian leaders representing millions of evangelicals, Roman Catholics, and other Christians have sent a letter to leaders in the House of Representatives today urging immediate passage of tough sanctions on Iran intended to prevent that rogue regime from obtaining nuclear weapons. “Now that supermajorities in the House and Senate have made their support for sanctions known, and now that the Iranian regime has made its increasing defiance clear to the world, the time for Congress to act has arrived,” according to Dr. Richard Land, of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. The letter urges the House to pass, at a minimum, a cut-off of exports of refined petroleum products, including gasoline, as a firm yet peaceful measure against the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism.
After repeated efforts to persuade Iran to comply with its international obligations and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has recently reported to its member nations that its diplomatic efforts with the Iranian regime have come to a “dead end.” Since then, defiant Iranian officials have announced plans to begin building additional nuclear facilities.
The leaders point out that at the onset of his diplomatic effort with Iran this spring, President Obama said that “by the end of the year we should have some sense whether or not these discussions are starting to yield significant benefits,” and specifically held out the prospect of sanctions against Tehran “to ensure that Iran understands we are serious.” That deadline is mere days away, and just as President Obama said, Tehran needs proof we are serious.
The Leaders include Pat Robertson of Christian Broadcasting Network, Chuck Colson, Richard Land of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, Bill Donohue of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights,Dr. James Merritt of Cross Pointe Church, Wendy Wright of Concerned Women for America, Gary Bauer of American Values, Tom Minnery of Focus on the Family, and Dr.John Hagee of the Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, and Jordan Sekulow of the American Center for Law and Justice.
The leaders urge Congress to take advantage of the overwhelming bipartisan majority in both the House and the Senate and bring legislation implementing sanctions to a vote immediately.
The letter is an initiative of Christian Leaders for a Nuclear-Free Iran, an ad hoc coalition of evangelical, Roman Catholic and other faith leaders who have come together as a united, ecumenical voice that is reaching out to policy makers and opinion leaders calling for urgent action to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. The coalition argues that Iran’s nuclear weapons program will destabilize the Middle East, lead to an arms race in a volatile part of the world, and threaten the United States and its allies in Europe.
• Hon. Nancy Pelosi
Speaker of the House of Representatives
• Hon. John A. Boehner
House Minority Leader
• Hon. Howard L. Berman
Chairman, House Foreign Relations Committee
From God’s arms to my arms to yours If you choose to tell her,
If she wants to know,
How the one who gave her life
Could bear to let her go.
Just tell her there were sleepless nights
I prayed and paced the floors,
And knew the only peace I'd find,
Was if this child was yours.And maybe, you could tell your baby, When u love her so,how she's been loved before
By someone, who delivered her from,
God's arms, to my arms, to yours.
This may not be the answer,
For another girl like me.
But I'm not on a soapbox,
Saying how we all should be.
I'm just trusting in my feelings,
And I'm trusting God above,
And I'm trusting you can give this baby
Both her mother's love.
"Adoption Healing ...a path to recovery" is a book that deals with truth -- not the way people would prefer to see it, but exactly the way it is. Not only does it validate those feelings of doubt, fear, anxiety and loss that so many adoptees and birth mothers feel, but it gives you ways and exercises to help you deal with those feelings. I strongly suggest that everyone read it. It will help you to understand yourself, your sister or brother, your child, your partner or spouse."
Be the kind of woman that when your feet hit the floor each morning, the Devil says "Oh crap, she's up!"
The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.
"Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it." -- Joseph Goebbels
It is the willingness to do things differently
that allows the human race to progress."
-- Isabel Parlett
“Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.
“War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is. Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.”
"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much."
Mother Teresa
"Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it." Hebrews 13:2 (NIV)
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