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		<title>The Truth About The New Supreme Court Decision</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Supreme Court has just issued a decision which is going to further push Christian groups on college campuses into the background.  In a 5 to 4 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that a state law school can refuse to recognize a Christian student group that "discriminates" against gay students and other non-Christians.  While this [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2F&amp;tag=shatteparadi-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-559" title="United States Supreme Court" src="http://thetruthwins.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/United-States-Supreme-Court-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a>The U.S. Supreme Court has just issued a decision which is going to further push Christian groups on college campuses into the background.  In a 5 to 4 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that a state law school can refuse to recognize a Christian student group that "discriminates" against gay students and other non-Christians.  While this decision is not going to change that much in the short-term, the truth is that it sets the stage for some earth-shattering legal decisions in the future.  For example, the Supreme Court could use the same reasoning to rule that any church that "discriminates" against homosexuals should not receive an income tax exemption because it does not comply with anti-discrimination laws.  Also, localities across the country could decide to start refusing to give building permits to churches because they openly "discriminate" again homosexuals and it looks like the U.S. Supreme Court is going to back them up.  The truth is that the implications of this decision are absolutely staggering.</p>
<p>So exactly what were the facts of this case?   </p>
<p>Well, this case had originally been brought by the Christian Legal Society at the University of California-Hastings College of Law.</p>
<p>School officials had refused to recognize the Christian Legal Society and grant it student-activity funding, meeting space and other privileges because they said that the group "discriminated" against gays students.</p>
<p>But the group did not specifically "discriminate" against homosexuals.  What they did was require that group members adhere to standards of Christian morality which included not being involved in sexual immorality.</p>
<p>But today if you insist on sexual morality that means that you are a bigot.</p>
<p>This is what America is turning into.</p>
<p>Dissenting from the Supreme Court decision were Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.</p>
<p>Writing for the dissenters, Alito states that this new decision, "arms public educational institutions with a handy weapon for suppressing the speech of unpopular groups."</p>
<p>Indeed it does.</p>
<p>Christian groups all over the United States are now going to be pushed off campus.</p>
<p>But that is only the beginning.</p>
<p>Eventually churches and Christian organizations across the United States are going to lose their tax exemptions because they supposedly "discriminate" against gay people.</p>
<p>That is where things are headed.</p>
<p>Taking a stand on sexual immorality is going to increasingly get Christians into trouble in the years ahead. </p>
<p>So decide right now where you are going to stand.  Because things are not going to get any easier.</p>
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		<title>Mass Exodus: Staggering Numbers Of America&#8217;s Young People Are Rejecting The Christian Faith</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:43:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For decades, the United States has been thought of as a "Christian nation" around the globe.  But today that is dramatically changing - especially among America's young people.  The truth is that all of the recent polls tell us that Americans under 30 years of age are rejecting the Christian faith in unprecedented numbers.  In [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://thetruthwins.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Mass-Exodus-Staggering-Numbers-Of-American-Young-People-Are-Rejecting-The-Christian-Faith.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-523" title="Mass Exodus Staggering Numbers Of American Young People Are Rejecting The Christian Faith" src="http://thetruthwins.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Mass-Exodus-Staggering-Numbers-Of-American-Young-People-Are-Rejecting-The-Christian-Faith-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a>For decades, the United States has been thought of as a "Christian nation" around the globe.  But today that is dramatically changing - especially among America's young people.  The truth is that all of the recent polls tell us that Americans under 30 years of age are rejecting the Christian faith in unprecedented numbers.  In fact, what the numbers reveal is not a slow move away from the Christian faith.  Rather, they clearly portray a massive wave of young Americans running away from traditional Christianity as fast as they can.   </p>
<p>For example, <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2010-04-27-1Amillfaith27_ST_N.htm">a shocking new survey by LifeWay Christian Resources</a> shows that the vast majority of young adults in America today do not go to church, do not pray and do not read the Bible.</p>
<p>Just consider a few of the results from this incredibly troubling survey of 18 to 29 year old Americans....</p>
<p>•65% rarely or never pray with others, and 38% almost never pray by themselves either.</p>
<p>•65% rarely or never attend worship services of any kind.</p>
<p>•67% don't read the Bible or any other religious texts on a regular basis.</p>
<p>That is a solid two-thirds of American young adults who don't even have the slightest connection to traditional Christianity.</p>
<p>Thom Rainer, the president of LifeWay Christian Resources, says that if the current trends continue, <em><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2010-04-27-1Amillfaith27_ST_N.htm">"the Millennial generation will see churches closing as quickly as GM dealerships."</a></em></p>
<p>The survey did find that 65% of those surveyed did call themselves "Christian", but among that 65%, "many are either mushy Christians or Christians in name only," <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2010-04-27-1Amillfaith27_ST_N.htm">Rainer says</a>. "Most are just indifferent. The more precisely you try to measure their Christianity, the fewer you find committed to the faith."</p>
<p>But it just isn't this latest survey that is showing a mass exodus from the Christian faith by America's young people.</p>
<p><a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/www.christianpost.com');" href="http://www.christianpost.com/article/20090629/survey-churches-losing-youths-long-before-college/index.html">According to a recent survey by America's Research Group</a>, 95 percent of 20 to 29 year old evangelical Christians attended church regularly during their elementary school and middle school years. However, only 55 percent of those young evangelical Christians still attended church regularly during high school, and only 11 percent of them were still regularly attending church when they went to college.</p>
<p>Only 11 percent.</p>
<p>And that was among self-identified evangelical Christians.</p>
<p>But the most recent American Religious Identification Survey conducted by the Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society &amp; Culture at Trinity College was perhaps even more shocking.</p>
<p><a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/adage.com');" href="http://adage.com/article?article_id=136541">According to that survey</a>, 15% of Americans now say they have "no religion" - which is up from 8% in 1990.  However, what was much more disturbing was that <strong>46%</strong> of Americans between the ages of 18 to 34 indicated that they had no religion in the survey.</p>
<p>46 percent.</p>
<p>That is not just a trend.</p>
<p>That is not just a landslide.</p>
<p>That is a mass exodus.</p>
<p>Today there is a mass exodus of America's young people from the traditional Christian faith.  There is simply no getting around it.</p>
<p>Another recent by the Barna group showed that <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/www.christianpost.com');" href="http://www.christianpost.com/Society/Polls_reports/2009/03/survey-less-than-1-percent-of-young-adults-hold-biblical-worldview-10/index.html">less than 1 percent</a> of all Americans between the ages of 18 and 23 hold a Biblical worldview.</p>
<p>So what is a Biblical worldview?</p>
<p>Well, the Barna survey defined someone as holding "a Biblical worldview" if they agreed to the following six key beliefs:</p>
<p>1) Believing that absolute moral truth exists.<br />
2) Believing that the Bible is completely accurate in all of the principles it teaches.<br />
3) Believing that Satan is considered to be a real being or force, not merely symbolic.<br />
4) Believing that a person cannot earn their way into Heaven by trying to be good or by doing good works.<br />
5) Believing that Jesus Christ lived a sinless life on earth.<br />
6) Believing that God is the all-knowing, all-powerful creator of the world who still rules the universe today.</p>
<p>Using those six criteria, less than 1 percent of Americans between the ages of 18 and 23 hold a Biblical worldview.</p>
<p>The implications of this are staggering.</p>
<p>The truth is that the United States is quickly becoming a highly secularized nation.  Europe has already been down this road, and now America is rapidly following.</p>
<p>Hundreds (perhaps thousands) of churches will close as people simply quit going.  Large numbers of Christian ministries, radio stations, television shows and book stores will have to shut their doors because there will not be nearly enough people to support them.</p>
<p>But the most frightening thing of all is that we are losing almost an entire generation to the world.  Never before in U.S history has an entire generation rejected the gospel as much as this one has. </p>
<p>America's young people are rejecting the Christian faith, and yet the Christian establishment keeps running around and telling everyone that everything is fine.</p>
<p>Everything is <strong>NOT</strong> fine. </p>
<p>The Church in America is broken.  It is very rare to find a church where authentic Christianity is being practiced anymore.  Our young people are not stupid.  They know what is real and what is not.  If the Church in America would repent and turn back to real, authentic Christianity at least we would have a chance of capturing the attention of those young Americans who are honestly looking for the truth.</p>
<p>But it is not all the fault of the Church.  The truth is that we have created a society where children are taught that Christianity is not important.  Our public schools teach our children day after day after day that they evolved from monkeys, that abortion, sex before marriage and homosexuality are perfectly moral and that anyone who disagrees is a bigot.  Then they go home and they are surrounded by entertainment for the rest of the day (television, radio, video games, Internet, movies) and the overwhelming message regarding the Christian faith in these forms of entertainment is that either Christianity is irrelevant, not true or should be openly mocked.</p>
<p>So should we be surprised when the overwhelming majority of them reject the Christian faith?  Should we expect anything else?</p>
<p>We have raised our children in the godless society that we have constructed and now we are so surprised that they are godless.</p>
<p>But nobody should be surprised.</p>
<p>We are just reaping what we have sown.</p>
<p>For those who have read this article and are wondering what in the world Biblical Christianity is all about, we encourage you to check out this article....</p>
<p><a href="http://whatdoesthebiblesayabout.com/archives/what-does-the-bible-say-about-salvation">What Does The Bible Say About Salvation?</a></p>
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		<title>Best Buy Bans Merry Christmas But Wishes Customers A Happy Eid al-Adha In A National Advertisement</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Consumer electronics retailer Best Buy has completely banned the words "Merry Christmas" from its advertising, but it apparently has absolutely no problem at all running a national ad which wishes their customers a "Happy Eid al-Adha" - an important Muslim holiday. A full size picture of this stunning advertisement is posted below. The message wishing [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-377" title="Best Buy Happy Eid al-Adha" src="http://thetruthwins.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Best-Buy-Happy-Eid-al-Adha-150x150.jpg" alt="Best Buy Happy Eid al-Adha" width="150" height="150" />Consumer electronics retailer Best Buy has completely banned the words "Merry Christmas" from its advertising, but it apparently has absolutely no problem at all running a national ad which wishes their customers a "Happy Eid al-Adha" - an important Muslim holiday. A full size picture of this stunning advertisement is posted below. The message wishing their customers a "Happy Eid al-Adha" is circled in red in the lower left hand corner. This advertising circular was reportedly included in Sunday newspapers throughout the United States - including the Seattle Times. This truth is that Best Buy has been caught red-handed in a blatant form of politically-correct hypocrisy.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-377" title="Best Buy Happy Eid al-Adha" src="http://thetruthwins.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Best-Buy-Happy-Eid-al-Adha.jpg" alt="Best Buy Happy Eid al-Adha" width="450" height="540" /></p>
<p>So just what is Eid al-Adha?</p>
<p>Well, Wikipedia defines the Islamic festival of Eid al-Adha in this manner....</p>
<p><strong>"Festival of Sacrifice" or "Greater Eid" is a holiday celebrated by Muslims (including the Druze) worldwide to commemorate the willingness of Ibrahim to sacrifice his son Ismael as an act of obedience to God.</strong></p>
<p>So Best Buy has no problem openly wish Muslims a Happy Eid al-Adha when they have been at the forefront of the war on Christmas?</p>
<p>If you will recall, way back in 2006, Dawn Bryant, a spokeswoman for Best Buy, made the following statement regarding Best Buy's decision to ban the word "Christmas"....</p>
<p><strong>"We are going to continue to use the term holiday because there are several holidays throughout that time period, and we certainly need to be respectful of all of them."</strong></p>
<p>Since that time Best Buy has decided that they can use the word "Christmas" but they continue to ban all uses of the term "Merry Christmas".</p>
<p>The truth is that Best Buy should feel free to acknowledge all holidays if they wish, but when they openly discriminate against Christian holidays that is not acceptable.</p>
<p>Please get this out to everyone that you know.  Perhaps when thousands of people express their outrage Best Buy will reconsider their hypocritical approach to religious holidays.</p>
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