Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Caring
for the
wonderful
older
Generation
By Angela Piper
Angela Piper (right), a young The choices are plain
Christian nurse, reflects on the and simple to our older
blessings and the privilege of generation, simply
because they’ve
caring for “these wonderful literally been there
people – the older generation” and done that.
They have the blessing of having life-long ball - the greatest cricket player of all time.
W E ARE SO BLESSED TO
have an older generation in
Australia. In many third world
countries, where the life expectancy is
so young, they miss out on experiencing
friends. Illustrated by many pictures,
they’ve either got close friendships with
those their own age, friendships with their
own children and grandchildren to spoil and
They saw the Great Depression, World
War II, and Vietnam. They saw the
formation of the Flying Doctor Service.
They saw the opening of the Opera House.
teach. They’ve learned what it takes to They saw Australia’s first satellite being
all these great aspects of aging. have good relationships with people, and launched. Just think – all the exciting stories
Think about it. So many young people are they put those lessons into practice. They we read about in our history books – they’re
inexperienced. Even in my own life, I have know how to love people, and know how the people who experienced it – made it
so many insecurities, so many uncertainties. to empathize but not sympathize. They happen! And just think. We as nurses have
I don’t have a track record – I haven’t know how to care without interfering the privilege of caring for these wonderful
faced so many situations, and often am (often!) and they have learned to people – the Older Generation!!
unsure of which course to take. We make appreciate people.
mistakes because we either don’t think They have the blessing of time! So many
about the consequences of our actions, younger people these days have “no time”.
or are too young to care what happens They’re so busy rushing here and there
to us, thinking we are invincible. that they are too busy to stop and smell
But look at our older generation!! As an the roses. Too busy to spend time with little
older person (65 years and above), imagine children, to make cookies and teach how
having all this experience – they learned to build a bird house. Too busy to sit and
what to look for in a marriage partner. They have a cup of tea and cake with a friend
know the tricks of their job. They know who’s feeling lonely. Too many places to
how to deal with people in a way that many go and things to do that they miss the small
of the younger generation wouldn’t things that make life worth living – friends,
understand. They’ve learned how to be nature, education, faith in God, and just
faithful, to themselves and to others. having fun.
They’ve learned to work hard and reap the They’ve lived in such an exciting time. Just
rewards of their labour. So many people in imagine. They saw the Harbour Bridge
this generation don’t have a clue about any being joined together. They saw Shirley
of these things. Temple make her first film. They
That’s why I chose the colours black and experienced ‘The Sound of Music’, ‘Mary
white. So often, our life ahead is so foggy Poppins’, and ‘Singing in the Rain.’ They
and unclear. They’ve been there, done that. saw Donald Bradman hit ball after ball after
GOOD REPORT ISSUE 42 2009 3
The Greatest Cause dissolution of civil government...” Court and other Federal Courts becomes
(Holdsworth “History of English Law” Vol 8 pp increasingly important with a Bill of Rights,
of Injustice in this 410-416) particularly as judges are not elected and
World is from Our rights are present unless specifically therefore lose their accountability. Many in
denied through legislation. To live in a the Unites States of America feel their
instrumentalities Supreme Court has become a tyrant.
Common Law country is in itself a guarantee
of Government. of the rights of the individual. Australia has lost its sovereignty through
Sir Robert Menzies in his book “Central many of the UN Declarations and
The price of liberty International Covenants with the loophole
Power in the Australian Commonwealth”
is eternal vigilance, and states “except for our inheritance of British in the Australian Constitution 51- xxix.
remember complacency kills! institutions and the principles of Common We are now accountable to these external
Law we have not felt the need of formality committees with members from some
The English Bill of Rights in 1689 as well as and definitions”. countries with very few human rights with
many other Laws and Statutes including the He further states: “I am glad that the Bill of Rights. Now with the proposed Bill
Magna Carta of 1215 make up English draftsmen of the Australian Constitution of Rights there is a risk of a proposed non
Common Law. though they gave close and learned study elected group in Australia becoming
Our Parliamentary process in Australia has to the American Constitution and its tyrannical and manipulative, with the
been based on a Constitutional Monarchy Amendments made little or no attempt to possibility of providing employment for their
with a Westminster Parliamentary system and define individual liberties. They knew that social engineering friends. The greatest
law based on the heritage of the English to define human rights is either to limit cause of injustice in this world is from
speaking peoples, notably the Common Law them, for in the long run words must be government instrumentalitities, one of which
intrinsically linked to the Christian faith, with given some meaning, or to express them we believe this ‘Bill of Rights’ is proposing.
one Chief Justice stating: so broadly that the discipline which is For these and many other reasons we are
“Christianity is parcel of the Common Law inherent in all government and ordered opposed to the introduction of a Bill that
of England, and therefore to be protected by society becomes impossible”. will erode our Rights gained through
it; now whatever strikes at the very root of The appointment of Judges to the High centuries of vigorous conflict
Christianity, tends manifestly to the
(Editorial Continued from page 2)
child in their care enrolled in their church’s anyone can repent is to accept God’s law
Adults choose their homosexual ‘lifestyle’, Christian school. However they were is right and acknowledge that breaking His
but to force a child (a baby or young children flexible about that. They were not in a cult. law is sin. If a person who has been involved
have no choice in who adopts them) to be This was a Baptist church and school. Yet in sodomy confesses this sin and all his sins
subject to a life with homosexual parents they were rejected as being ‘too religious’. and trusts in the Lord Jesus Christ - in His
would be unscrupulous and against the will death on the cross for all sinners - he will
So if those who apply to foster and adopt
of many Australians who believe that a child be forgiven and saved eternally, just like any
are rejected for their Christian lifestyle due
should be brought up by a mother and sinner will be. For all have sinned, and
to DoCS not being able to “match” children
father. To intentionally deprive a child of a come short of the glory of God.” (Rom. 3:23)
that would “fit in” with them, how are they
female and male role model - mum and dad, Churches are made up of people who have
going to match children that will fit in with
would be cruel and not at all necessary. confessed their sin and been pardoned. .And
the homosexual lifestyle? Will the birth
Thirdly, if a women who is considering parents who are putting their children up such were some of you: but ye are washed,
putting a child from an unwanted pregnancy for adoption or fostering be allowed to say but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in
up for adoption holds to a religious belief they do not wish their children to be put in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit
that does not approve of homosexuality, the a home with homosexuals? of our God. (1Co 6:11) So once we
possibility of putting her child at risk of a acknowledge our sin, whether it be sodomy,
Last but not least, Members of Parliament
homosexual or lesbian couple adopting her fornication (sex outside marriage), stealing
submit to God and the Bible when they are
baby, may cause her to instead either abort or lying, we need to call out to the Lord to
sworn into office. It would therefore be
or keep the child, resulting in even less babies forgive us and cleanse us from our sin, For
hypocritical to go against God’s law by
becoming available for adoption. whosoever shall call upon the name of the
subjecting a child to adults who are
So on the one hand government is Lord shall be saved. (Rom 10:13)
practising without shame, but instead pride,
considering allowing those who openly live those acts that God calls an abomination. Thank you for supporting the Good Report
contrary to God’s law to adopt children and may our God and Saviour Jesus Christ
THE GOOD NEWS is that God’s holy laws,
while on the other hand those - who by “guide you into all truth” (John 16:13)
including the laws against sodomy, were
God’s grace - openly live in obedience to Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true,
not written to condemn anyone but to bring
God’s law are hindered from adopting and whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever
such to repentance. “The Lord is ... not
even fostering. We know of couples who things are just, whatsoever things are pure,
willing that any should perish, but that all
sought to adopt who were rejected because whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever
should come to repentance.” (2 Pet 3:9).
of their Christian lifestyle. In one situation, things are of good report; if there be any
Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to
the wife worked as a secretary for the virtue, and if there be any praise, think on
bring us unto Christ, that we might be
church. They were planning to have the these things. (Philipians 4:8)
justified by faith. (Gal 3:24). The only way
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HE EDUCATION WRITER FOR choice. A woman considering abortion
the Sydney Daily Telegraph, needs to know all the possible ramifications,
Maralyn Parker, wrote a vitriolic in order to make a choice with which she
article about the Choices of Life interactive can live for the rest of her life.
schools program, which promotes the If there were no adverse consequences Where is the media hype about these two
value of every human life. from abortion, why have so many women monumental reversals in attitude? When
formed coalitions such as “Operation these women were pro-abortion, they were
This program especially focuses on the
Outcry” and “Silent No More” to raise promoted by the media, held up on national
value of unborn life, by emphasizing the
awareness of how their abortion has television as heroes. Now that they are older,
humanity of the fetus. The writer
damaged them both physically and wiser and regretful, they get no publicity
complained that the program is anti-
psychologically? from those same media outlets.
abortion, pro-abstinence and promotes
Christianity. However, if all public Why has Norma McCorvey, otherwise With regard to the issue of whether a public
schools promoted such good values, known as Jane Roe, openly recanted her school should teach anything that derives
there may be many Christian parents involvement with the Roe vs Wade case from a religious viewpoint, there needs to be
who would not have removed their in the USA? With deepest regret and an honest realization that secular does not
children from the public school system. sorrow of heart, she wishes she could take mean neutral. Everything is determined by
her name off the statute books which a worldview. Reason would say that we
There are a number of points to be need information and evidence for different
considered in this matter of which values allowed abortion on demand. She wishes
she could erase from her memory the faces worldviews to determine which one makes
should be promoted. In the last census, the most sense to each person.Why is there
72% of people claimed to be Christians. of the aborted fetuses as they lay
motionless in plastic bags in the clinic such blatant and hostile discrimination
The Choices of Life program may be against a view that has shaped the destiny
more in harmony with their views than refrigerator. She wishes she could forget
the memory of the many women whose of Australia?
hard-line feminist, anti-family, anti-
fingers dug deep into her wrists, as they Historically, Australia has not been anti-
Christian propaganda which is currently
underwent their harrowing operation. Christian. Its greatest advances in education,
being pushed at tax-payers’ expense.
Remember this lady was a very strong and medicine and health care have often been
One of the aims of Choices of Life is to vocal supporter of abortion rights! Sandra achieved by churches and by individual
inform young people of all the issues Cano, the Doe in Doe vs Bolton, companion Christians fulfilling the commands of Jesus
involved in such a major life decision as to case to roe vs Wade, has also publicly Christ. In these areas and many others,
whether to have an abortion. When people recanted her involvement in this case. Australia as a nation owes a lot to our
Christian forbears. It is an ungrateful and
ignorant attitude not to acknowledge the
heritage left to us by those who were
followers of Jesus Christ.
A generation that is not given the knowledge
of Jesus Christ is a generation deprived of
true education, i.e. true knowledge, wisdom
and understanding. Perhaps that explains why
statistics show that 50% of Australian young
people aged between 18 and 25 cannot read
properly. This is simply the natural outcome
of censoring truth out of a system.
We need to pray for Bruce Coleman (below),
President of ‘The Choices of Life’ and others
To arrange a ‘The Choices of Life’ presentation in their continued fight for the rights of the
at your Church, school or group unborn. May the Lord give
them success in bringing this
Please contact: issue to the young generation
of Australians who deserve
The Choices of Life Inc to know that life begins at
PO Box 459 conception and that “A
person is a person, no
Gordon NSW 2072 matter how small.”
Tel: 02 9499 5108
May Australia
www.choicesoflife.com.au choose life!!——-
GOOD REPORT ISSUE 42 2009 11
By Russell Grigg
The choir boy who read the ‘notorious for the savagery of their
Psalms, Darwin, and Marx customs, medieval pedagoguery, and law
Young Soso had a beautiful of the fist’. The one at Tiflis was
singing voice, coupled with a nicknamed the Stone Sack. ‘All the vices
grand style of performance. He sang in the banned by the Holy Scriptures flourished
RAINEE PRIEST,
T revolutionary bank robber,
and murderous dictator Josef Stalin
began life as Iosif Vissarionovich
church choir and was often hired to sing at
weddings, which he did from the pulpit,
wearing his surplice. In his younger years
he was so devout that he barely missed a
in this hotbed of piety.’7,8
Biographer Montefiore comments, ‘The
Seminary was to pull off the singular
achievement of supplying the Russian
Djugashvili. He was born in Gori, Georgia, mass. A schoolfellow, A. Chelidze, Revolution with some of its most ruthless
in the Russian Empire of 1878.1,2 His remembers, ‘He not only performed the radicals.’7 One of Stalin’s fellow students
mother’s pet name for him was ‘Soso’, rites but always reminded us of their wrote, ‘No secular school produced as
the diminutive of ‘Joseph’. He himself significance.’ He was the best reader of many atheists as the Tiflis Seminary.’7
used many names during his later secret Psalms in the church. The Church School Soso developed a thirst for the writings of
life, but in 1913, he adopted the name Stalin, presented him with David’s Book of Psalms revolutionaries, such as Victor Hugo, Emile
meaning in Russian ‘man of steel’. inscribed ‘To Josef Djugashvili … for Zola, Marx and Engels, all authors whose
excellent progress, behaviour and excellent books were banned by the Seminary. He
Introduction to violence recitation and singing of the Psalter.’4 appears to have spent much of his time
His father, Vissiaron, or ‘Beso’, An avid reader, Soso
was a violent alcoholic who beat acquired a copy of Darwin’s
his son for the least or no Origin of Species, when he
provocation. Once he threw was about 13.5 One day, he
Soso to the floor so hard that and some friends were
there was blood in the boy’s urine talking about the injustice of
for days. Soso was terrified of there being rich and poor.
the drunken Beso. A friend Soso amazed them all by
wrote, ‘Undeserved beatings saying, ‘God’s not unjust, he
made the boy as hard and doesn’t actually exist.
heartless as the father himself’, We’ve been deceived. If
and it was thus through his father God existed, he’d have
that ‘he learned to hate people’.3 made the world more just.
In 1888, at age 10, Soso was one I’ll lend you a book and
of 150 boys enrolled at Gori’s you’ll see.’ He handed one
excellent Church School. His of them a copy of Darwin’s
mother wanted him to become book.6 (left) Carl Marx &
a bishop, but the school was At age 15, Soso, now an Joseph Engels
accepting only the children of outstanding student, won a
priests. A priest solved this problem by scholarship to be a trainee priest at the reading banned
stating that Soso’s father was a deacon. Georgian Orthodox Seminary at Tiflis books and being
Soso excelled in Gori’s three main (Tbilisi), regarded as the best religious detained in the
diversions—town brawls, wrestling educational establishment in the southern punishment cell for
tournaments for all ages, and schoolboy Russian Empire. However, according to having done so.
gang-warfare. fellow revolutionist (and later enemy) This was mainly
Josef Stalin
Trotsky, the Empire’s seminaries were due to the vendetta in his youth
of one teacher
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Here is one example of how Soviet authorities “photoshopped” their photo-chronicles without even using the popular Adobe software.
And the whole word got those images as true and authentic. On the photo above you can see Stalin and a comrade going for
a walk, on the image to the right there are three people and to the left, four. Look how they managed to recreate the
background. The right photo was published officially. The short man next to Stalin, who is missing, was executed.
whom Soso nicknamed ‘the Black Spot’, Nicholas II, he rose rapidly through the were executed (for either political or criminal
who spied on Soso and regularly searched ranks of the Communist Party. Following offences) under Stalin, while about 1.7 million
his possessions. Black Spot taught the the death of Lenin in 1924, he progressively died in the Gulag (penal labour camps16) and
young Stalin ‘exactly the repressive ousted his rivals, and became Supreme some 389,000 perished during ‘ethnic cleansing’
tactics—“surveillance, spying, invasion of Leader of the Soviet Union. of various groups to ‘internal exile’ in central
inner life, violation of feelings”, in Stalin’s Devotees called him the ‘hope of the future Asia and Siberia before, during and after World
own words—that he would recreate in his for the workers and peasants of the world’. War II. Most history researchers regard these
Soviet police state’.9 However, the confiscations of grain and figures as far too low. Montefiore says,
In his fifth year, at the end of term, Soso other food by Soviet authorities under ‘Perhaps 20 million had been killed; 28 million
failed to return. The Seminary Journal Stalin’s orders contributed to a famine that deported, of whom 18 million had slaved in
reported that he had declared himself an by 1937 resulted in the death of several the Gulags.’17
atheist, and in May 1899 simply noted that million Soviet peasants. Why?
he had been ‘expelled … for non-
appearance at examinations’.
Mass murderer How and why did the choir-boy-turned-trainee-
In the late 1930s, Stalin consolidated priest become one of the greatest mass murderers
Revolutionary, Bolshevist, and bank-robber, in history,18 one for whom killing a million people
absolute power for himself by several
Soso now became a streetfighter, gang- was no different from mowing grass?
campaigns known as the Great Purge or
leader, and professional revolutionary
the Great Terror, to dispose of all political Undoubtedly a huge part of the answer goes
against the Russian monarchy. In 1903, he
opponents and anyone he suspected might back to his reading Darwin at the tender age
joined the Bolshevik
threaten his position. He had grasped well of 13. This gave him the ‘justification’ his
Party10 and became a
‘the convenience of death as the simplest mind needed to reject the concept of God and
specialist in bank
and most effective political tool’.12 hence the authority of the Bible in his life.
robbery and extortion
to fund Bolshevik Those purged were members of the It also paved the way for him to accept the
activities. In 1907, in Communist Party (both opponents and atheistic revolutionism of Marx, and to remove
the town square at former comrades), the Red Army, and any restraint he might have had to killing off his
Tiflis, he indeed every segment of society, including opponents, i.e. the ruthless elimination of the
masterminded the over 100,000 priests, monks and nuns of ‘unfit’; perhaps, in the process, wreaking
armed hold-up of a the Russian orthodox church. 13 unconscious vengeance for some of his
Treasury coach Montefiore says, ‘During 1937–38 around childhood pain.
carrying roubles to the one and a half million people were shot. The seminary he attended obviously had no
local Imperial Bank, Stalin personally signed death-lists for adequate answer for his claims of atheism.
which netted the almost 39,000 people, many of them old And whatever truth it taught was not helped
today-equivalent of acquaintances.’14 by the un-Christlike behaviour of its teachers.
about US$3.4 million Following Stalin’s death, Nikita Khrushchev Then, having rejected God and His Word, the
for the Bolsheviks.11 emerged as leader of the Soviet Union. In teenage Stalin filled the spiritual vacuum in
Ten bombs were 1956, he famously denounced Stalin’s his mind with the thoughts and beliefs of
used. Forty people crimes in a speech to the 20 th Party revolutionaries. The rest is history.
were killed. Lenin is reported to have said Congress. He said that the purges had
Epilogue
that this ‘is exactly the sort of person I need’. ‘resulted in enormous harm to the country’,
and that ‘many of the victims were innocent Well, not quite all. There is still one chapter to
In 1913, Soso changed his name to Stalin. come. The Bible says: ‘It is appointed for men
Although repeatedly arrested and and were convicted on the basis of false
confessions extracted by torture’.15 once to die, and after this the judgment’
imprisoned, he often escaped, but then was (Hebrews 9:27); ‘all that are in the graves … shall
exiled to Siberia until 1917. After the In 1991, Soviet archives became available. come forth; … they that have done evil, unto
Revolution of that year against Tsar These record that about 800,000 prisoners the resurrection of damnation’ (John 5:28–29)
(Continued page 27)
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Great Britain employers to appoint an applicant to a role when we heard that the Chinese People’s
who is broadly the ‘best person’ for the job— Army shot its own people.” he explained.
Muslim - BBC Head of Religion
if the candidate’s religion is ignored, that is. However as a direct result of that bloody
The reaction of many to the appointment This applies to every role, except where
of Muslim, Aaqil Ahmed to the post of massacre, Fu came to the Lord and was
there is a ‘genuine and determining born again. The government investigated Fu
Head of Religion and Ethics at the BBC occupational requirement’ that they should
must be—“How is this possible”? Until for his role in the protests, and eventually
be of a particular religion. he managed to flee to the United States,
now, our public national broadcaster has
been charged with reflecting our Country’s According to The Guardian, Jana Bennett, where he founded China Aid to promote
Christian heritage and ethos. Aaqil Ahmed’s director of BBC Vision, said that the areas religious freedom and respect for human
appointment is controversial because his of broadcasting that the ‘Knowledge’ jobs dignity in China.
background and previous work at Channel commission (such as religion and ethics) ‘go The Tiananmen Square massacre resulted
4 has revealed a noticeable bias towards to the very heart of the BBC’s public in a revival of interest in the Christian faith.
Islam and multiculturalism purposes’. Clearly, the BBC did not think “God brought redemption from that
that the Head of religion and ethics in our tragedy,” Fu explained. “After 1989, the
According to The Daily Telegraph, senior country where 70% of the population still
bishops wrote to the BBC’s Director Gospel in China reached many Chinese
align themselves with Christianity needed to intellectuals, students, professors, writers
General Mark Thompson when it was be a Christian.
envisaged that Mr. Ahmed might be and lawyers. Hundreds of thousands of
appointed, to question the BBC’s The Lord Jesus said that if the eye is single Chinese intellectuals came to know Christ
commitment to Britain’s Christian audience. the whole body will be full of light. He went after the student movement. Even today, the
The Archbishop of Canterbury had also on to warn that if the light becomes darkness revival continues in the urban areas and the
raised concerns with Mr. Thompson that how great will be that darkness (Matt 6:22- universities in China,” said Fu.
the ‘Christian voice is being sidelined’ after 3). When Christianity is no longer the light Today, every university in China has a Bible
Mr. Ahmed was first connected to the role. of a nation then the nation becomes full of study group - sometimes even hundreds of
darkness. Christianity is the only way by Bible study groups, Fu said. However,
The appointment could be seen as the which man may know God. What is required
inevitable result of our multicultural society, Chinese Christians still suffer from severe
today is for Christians in this country to stand persecution.
in which all religions are viewed as of equal up for the Faith and act on what they
value. This is the secularist point of view— “Pray for continued protection for hundreds
believe—that Jesus Christ is indeed the way,
that religion should be confined to the home of Christian pastors and 100,000 political
the truth and the life for all that live in 21st
and the church and excluded from the prisoners who are still in jail, labor camps
century Britain. - Christian Concern for our Nation
public square and the workplace. A cursory and Chinese gulag. Pray for their family
survey of the Christian Legal Centre’s CHINA members and continuing spiritual revival in
website (www.christianlegalcentre.com) Massacre Caused Christian Revival China.” Fu requested. “So many churches
will reveal the increasing intolerance of this are still being raided and persecuted”.
4 June, 2009 marked the twentieth
ideology as far as Christians are concerned. anniversary of the Tiananmen Square “Prayer transcends politics and nationalities.
It could also be seen as another sign that massacre, when the Chinese military killed On 20th anniversary of the Massacre, a
our country is in danger of becoming an estimated 3,000 peaceful demonstrators. historic international prayer gathering called
Islamised, alongside, for example, the fact for repentance for apathy and silence before
“20 years ago, hundreds of Chinese peaceful
that under pressure from Muslims, the injustice, for reconciliation and re-formation
protesters, students and citizens in Beijing,
Qur’an is now placed on a higher shelf for a higher calling,” Fu said.
were massacred by the Chinese military for
than the Bible in courtrooms, or the fact their peaceful protest for anti-corruption, Christians are called to repent of apathy
that Shari’ah Law is used to judge disputes democracy, and human rights,” said Bob Fu, toward the massacre and seek the truth
in Muslim Arbitration Tribunals (now president of China Aid Association. about what happened. It also calls on the
officially part of the English Legal System). Chinese government to take responsibility
Our Government appears to make Although the Chinese government claimed
for its actions, repent, compensate the
concessions to the Muslim community, in that only 200-300 people died in the “June
victims, and allow exiles to return to China.
contrast to its marginalisation of Christianity 4 th Incident,” the Chinese Red Cross
Fu said that Christians should pray for
and the rights of Christians in recent years. estimated that about 2,000-3,000 people
China. “China is really at a crossroads,” he
died. Many more people escaped China or
Another interpretation is that the said. “They can either...become a more hard-
went to prison. The government also
appointment is the result of the European line dictatorship - led by atheists who
executed over 10,000 people for their
Directive of 2000, which was implemented worship the dragon, and threaten world
involvement in the protests.
in the UK by the Employment Equality peace, or become a nation that worships
(Religion or Belief) Regulations 2003. Bob Fu was a junior in his college years in the Lamb - the Lord - and be a peacemaker
These ‘equalitarian’ provisions force 1989. “I was very disappointed and shocked to the world.” (MNN)
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Christians loved one another like these mortgage debt that could take their life time through with many sorrows. 11 But thou, O
parents loved their son, Christians could set to pay off? A debt which may result in them man of God, flee these things; and follow
up an interest free loan system. Muslims concluding that they cannot afford children after righteousness, godliness, faith, love,
have done that! for who knows how many years? Despite patience, meekness. (Titus 6:9-11)
But instead God’s people are going into God’s command to married people to be Even the common sense on the bumper
slavery to ‘Egypt’ - the world - by fruitful and multiply (Gen.). What has more sticker on the back of the old car which
borrowing hundreds of thousands of dollars, worth in God’s eyes as revealed in His says, “At least I own it!” is more in line
which often end up being over a million Word? Husband at work, and wife at home with God’s way than many Christian
dollars once usury/interest is added. Not to looking after a quiver full of children (Ps families where mum sings as she kisses her
mention the foolishness of falling into the 127:5) being brought up in the nurture and chidren goodbye, “I owe, I owe, it’s off to
most wicked banking system trap of all - admonition of the Lord (Eph 6:4), all living work I go”. Is this provoked by the
variable interest rates. In the 1980’s when in a rented home, as Paul did in Acts 28:30 preaching of the ‘prosperity gospel’? The
Mr Keating (Labor) was treasurer, interest or a husband and wife working full time in tragedy of this is that when we say God
rates went from 6% to 18% in just a couple order to pay a huge mortgage to the bank says something He doesn’t say, it’s
of years. This could happen again. One triple what the house is worth, who cannot blasphemy and when we believe God is
reason people, including Christians, afford even one child and maybe if the something He isn’t, it’s idolatry. If we want
subject themselves to such cruel masters body clock stops before they can; miss to avoid the destruction, the blasphemy and
is often because they wish to appear more out all together? 9 Or those that manage to the idolatry that comes from ignorance, we
wealthy than they really are! Others have children drop them off in worldly should study and obey God’s Word, Yea, if
believe it is just wise business. But is it child care centres to be brought up on thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up
God’s way? What does the Bible say: 6But anti-Christian philosophy while mum and thy voice for understanding; 4 If thou seekest
godliness with contentment is great gain. dad slave away at the factory all day. But her as silver, and searchest for her as for
7
For we brought nothing into this world, they that will be rich fall into temptation hid treasures; 5 Then shalt thou understand
and it is certain we can carry nothing out. and a snare, and into many foolish and the fear of the LORD, and find the
8
And having food and raiment let us be hurtful lusts, which drown men in knowledge of God. 6 For the LORD giveth
therewith content. (Titus 6:6-8) destruction and perdition. 10 For the love wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge
of money is the root of all evil: which and understanding. (Proverbs 2:3-6)
Did the Bible command the young married
while some coveted after, they have erred
References and notes 16. GULag is an acronym for Glavnoye responded with a polite ‘thank you’ letter,
1. This article is based on a new biography of Upravleniye Lagerei (Chief Camp but apparently never read the book, as most
Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore, Young Administration) that came to be applied to the of the pages are uncut.2
Stalin, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2007. camps themselves. The horrors were revealed However, it is an urban myth that Marx
2. As a young man, Stalin generally used 6 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in The Gulag
wanted to dedicate his book to Darwin.
December 1878 as his birthday. In 1913, a Gori Archipelago, 1918–56. 17. Ref. 12, p. 571.
Rather, the request for dedication came from
police officer friend helped him avoid military 18. A title variously attributed to Stalin, Hitler Marx’s daughter’s lover, Edward Aveling.3
service by changing this to 21 December 1879. and Mao Zedong.
In 1925, Stalin ordered his secretary, Marx and Darwin References and notes
Tovstukha, to formalize this latter date. Source: Karl Marx read Darwin’s Origin of Species 1.Wikipedia <en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
ref. 1, pp. 18 and 70 notes. 3.Josef Iremashvili, soon after its publication in 1859 in England. Evolutionary_theory_and_the_political_left>,
ref. 1, p. 23. 4. Ref. 1, p. 35. 5. Darwin’s Origin 13 November 2007.
This provided what Marx believed was a
of Species was translated into Russian in 1865. scientific rationale to deny creation and, by 2.Gould, S.J., Ever Since Darwin: Reflections
6. Ref. 1, p. 40. 7.Ref. 1, p. 46. 8. See also B. extension, to deny God. He immediately in Natural History, Penguin Books,
Woolley, The Darwin-Trotsky connection, Middlesex, England, p. 26, 1977. Books in
believed that it supported his worldview that
Creation 23(2):54–55, 2001; those days were sent with many pages joined
the major ‘struggle for existence’ among
<creationontheweb.com/trotsky>. from printing on larger sheets; it was left to
humans occurred between the social classes the reader to cut them. Gould added: ‘Darwin
9. Ref. 1, p. 62. 10. A majority faction of the (classes being likened to species). In 1861,
Marxist Russian Social Democrat Labour Party, was no devotee of the German language.’
he wrote to his friend Ferdinand Lassalle, 3.Email from Richard Weikart of the
which split in 1903 and ultimately became the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The
‘Darwin’s work is most important and suits Department of History, California State
Bolsheviks were professional revolutionaries my purpose in that it provides a basis in University, Stanislaus, to Jerry Bergman, 14
who, led by Lenin, seized power in Russia natural science for the historical class June 2004. CREDITS: Wikipedia
during the October Revolution of 1917 and struggle.’1
Acknowledgement: This article was
founded the Soviet Union. 11. Ref. 1, p. 10. In 1873, Karl Marx sent Darwin a copy of reproduced by permission from Creation
12. Montefiore, S.S, Stalin: The Court of the his own book Das Kapital with a personal magazine, CreationOnTheWeb.com.
Red Tsar, Wiedenfield & Nicolson, London, p. inscription. Harvard evolutionist and
Photo below: Stalin & crowd: This is a photo of
28, 2003. 13. Wikipedia, Joseph Stalin Marxist, the late Stephen Jay Gould,
Lenin reading his speech on the city square.
<en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin> 20 corroborates this by reporting that he saw People who published it decided there were too
November 2007. 14. Ref. 1, p. 319. this volume (in Darwin’s library at Down few people listening to him to impress newspaper
15. Wikipedia, Great Purge, <en.wikipedia.org/ House), in which Marx calls himself ‘a readers in Russia and all over the world, so they
wiki/Great_Purge>, 20 November 2007. sincere admirer’ of Darwin. Darwin ‘artistically added’ several thousand more.