news Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 For people in the West it is hard to understand why perfectly normal teen-agers or young adults who grew up in England, Germany or the US would leave such privileged lives and places to travel to what seems a repressive backwater filled with harshness and cruelty. They exchange comfortable lives for danger, combat and an […] The post From Waco to ISIS: What Is So Appealing About ISIS? appeared first on Jon Paulien's Blog. View the full article Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeb Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 I disagree with this guy's ideas. The reason these young people accept ISIS is because the gospel is no longer taught in the power of the Holy Spirit. The reason for that is all the sophistry that exists in the media and our overall culture about what Christianity really is. Truth has been made into something that is different for every person when nothing could be further from the truth. Why is that true? You can believe with all your heart that 2 + 2 = 5 but that doesn't make it so. Truth is very stubborn that way. It insists that it is the only possible way, and it is correct. However, the world's educational system teaches anything but that. Quote Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.Alexis de Tocqueville Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted January 23, 2016 Members Share Posted January 23, 2016 Excellent article, once again. Quote phkrause By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near. {5T 451.1} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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