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As Christians we must face the fact that we have been handing radical atheists a lot of help with the false doctrine we promote. Not uncommon among Christians is the idea that Adam’s transgression cheated humanity out of the chance to live a carefree life in the Garden of Eden.

Well, the Mormons know better. In the Book of Mormon, 2 Nephi 2:22-25 we have:.
    22) “And now, behold, if Adam had not transgressed he would not have fallen, but he would have remained in the garden of Eden. And all things which were created must have remained in the same state in which they were after they were created; and they must have remained forever, and had no end.
    23) And they would have had no children; wherefore they would have remained in a state of innocence, having no joy, for they knew no misery; doing no good, for they knew no sin.
    24) But behold, all things have been done in the wisdom of him who knoweth all things.
    25) Adam fell that men might be; and men are, that they might have joy.”

The entitlement mentality feeds on the idea that someone owes us a free ride, or at least an easy life. Latter-Day Saints have an excellent work ethic and well-known passages like the above found in the Book of Mormon deserve much of the credit. Some Christian churches don’t go as far as the Latter-Day Saints in thinking that they have responsibility for their members. Instead, they want the government to perform their Christian duty with regards to their own families and fellow church members. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints enjoys phenomenal success in obtaining volunteer help for the needy and tithes and offerings from its members. Teaching the members of the church to envy the rich, to feel picked on and resentful, or to feel cheated or isolated is not part of the program. All such things are involved in the radicle atheist program for cultural warfare.

Historically popular Christian notions of heaven and hell must also take some of the credit for the growth of atheist priorities. The idea that all of the billions of people who have lived on earth without learning about Jesus will suffer in hell makes God appear to be an arbitrary and harsh tyrant in the extreme. Why should Communist schemes which include collateral damage (you must break a few eggs to make an omelette) cause any concern when, according to some Christians, our God sends so many people to hell merely because they were born in the wrong time and place where they had no opportunity to accept Jesus as their savior.

God’s plans for us are hidden in plain sight in the Holy Scriptures. Jesus made it clear that the highly educated corrupt leaders of the Jews would receive harsher punishment than would ordinary sinners. Jesus explained that His kingdom was not of this world so punishment for sins against God would be dealt out in the hereafter. The Jews had a theocracy so the Law of Moses dished out punishment for sins against God and our fellow mortal beings. This has led some theologians and philosophers to conclude that the God of the Old Testament was a harsh God and the God of the New Testament was a kind loving grandfather figure. With regard to punishment the difference between the Old and New Testaments was the timeliness of punishment under the Law of Moses. This misunderstanding was used to help justify the Left’s effort to weaken our system of justice and expect less of some peoples. The wicked who are living when Jesus returns to punish the ungodly will not have to wait for their punishment to start as terrible things are prophesied. The destruction associated with the Lord’s return has ominous overtones, such as the “abomination of desolation”.

Abomination: Something which is strongly hated.
Desolate: Depopulated, left alone.

The scriptures have many references to “The abomination of desolation”. Some of them refer to specific times and places. There are a very few places wherein the phrase “the abomination that makes desolate” is found. This phrase has been especially useful in developing the current article. Many things are considered abominable by the Lord which might motivate Him to depopulate an area, but there is one set of abominable behaviors which in and of themselves lessen the population. When a people becomes so opposed to having children that their birthrate becomes so low as to make the population of their society unsustainable, that becomes the very definition of an abomination that makes desolate without God intervening. Abortion in this article is about the practice of abortion merely for the sake of personal convenience. I will not be sidetracked by a discussion of which if any criteria for abortions are justified. The practice of so-called “partial birth abortion” merely for the purpose of personal convenience seems to me to be especially fitting to be called an abomination. When the practice was popular in some circles the occasion would sometimes  arise that a baby was born too fast for the doctor to puncture the skull and scramble the baby’s brains as its head was emerging from the birth canal. It sometimes happened that in such circumstances the baby would be tossed aside to die of neglect. It happened often enough that some state legislatures attempted to make it illegal. When President Obama was a state senator he voted against the effort to make it illegal to let such babies die of neglect. We shouldn’t be surprised that the ambassador to Libya was left to be murdered in Benghazi with the military waiting for the order to be inserted for a rescue, an order that never came.

That the term “partial birth abortion” was allowed to be used should make all of us lower our heads in shame. When a baby is being born and an abortionist doctor thinks that he can legally kill it as soon as its head starts to emerge, that has to reflect on the news media, law enforcement, the clergy, and the medical profession. Clearly, it should have been referred to as “partial birth murder”, or better yet just plain murder. Truly, we are living in a time when “the wisdom of the wise shall perish”. In the 4th chapter of Malachi the Lord tells of a day when the wicked shall be burned. In Chapter three He lists the offenders he will witness against as sorcerers, adulterers, false swearers, those that oppress not only the hireling in his wages, but also oppress widows, and the fatherless, and those that turn aside the stranger from his right. If He will witness against such offenders, how do you think He feels about murderers? We, like sheep have gone astray, but we have had some help in that the watchmen (the news media) have failed to warn us.

Unless we are deaf and blind we should be aware of the fact that President Obama is flooding our country with Moslems, many of them who believe in Sharia, even though he has fundamentally changed America in ways which do not appeal to Islam. The government now promotes same sex marriage which is considered an abomination by Islam. If our Left wing college professors hadn’t already given Islamic terrorists sufficient reason to hate America, Obama’s America certainly does. Those Moslems who don’t believe in Sharia come here to escape the culture of blood in their homelands. Moslems who believe in Sharia come here with the hope of changing America to make it fit in with Islam’s Sharia. If Moslems do take over America radical atheists should be forewarned that the Koran is friendly toward Conservative Christianity, but not towards the immorality of Hollywood and radical atheists. Those who contracted same sex marriages will be wanting to get rid of the records of those marriages. With so many Moslems already in our country and our government and so many more being brought here by Obama, our political Left ought to be worried about what the President is up to. I know I am and I don’t believe in things that Moslems view as abominable. If the Left had the power they would be just as dangerous to America as is radical Islam. Think about what the Left did in China, Cambodia, North Korea, the USSR, etc.

During the twentieth century radical atheists came to prominence after centuries of rule by monarchy, theocracy and monarchies with state religions. America had a different genesis allowing citizens to hold onto their religion while guaranteeing that the government would not interfere with their religion or God-given liberty. Radical atheists made great headway taking over much of the world with communist governments. They eventually realized that they would not fare well politically in America with its freedom, upwardly mobile society (thanks to capitalism), and two-party system. The answer would be to take over one of the two parties. They eventually managed to get the leadership of the Democratic Party to accept radical atheist priorities as their own. It was a four pronged attack as  the Left also used the mainstream news media, the liberal arts departments of our public colleges and universities, and some of the Christian denominations to attack the family. Some Republicans also foolishly support radical atheist priorities.

Appearances became reality in the minds of the indoctrinated as a public relations battle for the moral high ground weakened the traditional family in American society. The family was not just a random choice. The basic radical atheist agenda was to attack every Biblical priority. God established the family and the family was the key to promoting traditional Biblical values. By mid to late 1900s adultery  and other immoral sex acts between consenting adults were decriminalized in most states after decades of demands to view them as victimless crimes. Promoting the innocence of children by the public schools and news and entertainment media was abandoned in favor of telling children that their sexual behavior was none of their parents business as they made condoms available and suggested that sex between children with the use of a condom was merely a rite of passage. If the availability of condoms failed to prevent pregnancy, free abortions were made available without the consent of parents. Those who were older teenagers could have the baby and welfare programs would make it possible for unwed mothers to be supported by the government. Thus, teenage girls who wanted to escape their parents’ supervision could be setup as single parents in a home of their own. This was devastating to the impoverished whatever their ethnicity, as the number of single parent homes without fathers became epidemic in the ghetto and not uncommon in the suburbs.

God told us to “be fruitful, and multiply and replenish the earth, and subdue it”. The Left said “legalize abortion and same sex marriage”. The Bible says that God created us male and female. The Left says that gender is whatever we think it is. Obama mandates that boys who feel like girls must be allowed to shower with girls in public schools. The Bible says that the time is coming when God will come to burn the wicked. The Left says that the earth is getting warmer because of man’s use of fossil fuels. The Lord gave us the Ten Commandments. The Left said that there are no black and white standards of right and wrong, only shades of gray.

Early on the Left said that everyone is the same whatever their gender, with differences due to environmental factors. Eventually genetic differences were called on to justify equal treatment for differences in behavior. Government agencies were used to promote equality of results and outcomes for differences in success and accomplishment. This required lowering of standards and expectations when determining eligibility for jobs or help. In the meantime the Bible had always recognized diversity. That the natural man is an enemy to God was a major theme in the Bible, but Paul also noted in the 2nd chapter of Romans that some Gentiles do by nature the things written in the Law, having the Law written in their hearts. So we vary in our propensity to do evil and do good. In the parable of the talents, Jesus showed that those who do well will receive more responsibility from the Lord, meaning that we will have different amounts of responsibility on earth and in Heaven, based on our performance during mortality. In the parable of the laborers, all were paid the same whether called to serve early in the day or midday or late in the day. This is about Jesus buying us with a price by being crucified and killed on the cross. Being punished for our sins is the price He paid for us. Though communists made an issue of paying equal wages to the workers, The Soviet Union had seventeen different pay levels for its equal citizens, according to Tim Tzouliadis, author of The Forsaken.

The gospel is about sinners overcoming their sinful ways and being raised up to a higher way of life wherein we live the Golden Rule and the Ten Commandments as we provide for our own needs and help the needy. Communism is about sufficient genocide to inflict the Stockholm Syndrome on the survivors. God wants us to choose to serve Him and leaves us free to make the choice. Communists and fascists wish to give us the choice at the point of a gun when they have the power. At this stage of their cultural warfare they merely call our disagreements with them "hate speech".