Transgender Man Says He is 6 yr Girl

If men can claim they are women...and women can claim they are men....then why can't a man claim he is actually a 6 year old little girl?

"Hey everyone!  I'm not a man!  I'm a little girl and I demand to use the little girl's room in the elementary schools and also demand that I be treated as a little girl!  If you disagree with me then you are all CHILDPHOBES!!"

A Canadian man who was married, with seven kids, has left his family in order to fulfill his true identity - as a six-year-old girl.

In an emotional video with gay news site The Daily Xtra in collaboration with The Transgender Project, Stefonknee (pronounced ‘Stef-on-knee’) Wolscht, 52, of Toronto, says she realized she was transgender - rather that simply a cross-dresser - at age 46, and split from her wife, Maria, after she told her husband to 'stop being trans or leave'.

Now, Stefonknee lives with friends who she cans her 'adoptive mommy and daddy' as a six-year-old girl, dressing in children's clothing and spending her time playing and coloring with her adoptive parents' grandchildren.

Stefonknee says her 'adoptive' family, which consists of an older couple and their children and young grandchildren, are completely accepting of her identifying as a little girl.

She says she's living as a six-year-old girl because it's something she could never do when was in grade school.

'I can’t deny I was married. I can’t deny I have children,' she says in the video. 'But I’ve moved forward now and I’ve gone back to being a child. I don’t want to be an adult right now.' 

Stefonknee further adds: 'I have a mommy and a daddy - an adopted mommy and daddy - who are totally comfortable with me being a little girl. And their children and their grandchildren are totally supportive.'

She says she previously lived as an eight-year-old girl, until the couple's granddaughter asked her to be the younger sister instead. 

'A year ago I was eight and she was seven. And she said to me: "I want you to be the little sister, so I’ll be nine." I said: "Well, I don’t mind going to six." So I’ve been six ever since.'

In the winter, Stefonknee earns money by plowing snow, and when she's at home with her adoptive family, they color and 'do kid's stuff'. 

'It’s called play therapy. No medication, no suicide thoughts. And I just get to play,' she shares. 

Here;  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3356084/I-ve-gone-child-Husband-father-seven-52-leaves-wife-kids-live-transgender-SIX-YEAR-OLD-girl-named-Stefonknee.html

Up is down, down us up, right is wrong and wrong is right, good will be called evil and evil will be called good.

The liberals are SO LOST in their deluded thinking they will have NO CHOICE but to go along with this nut-job and refer to him as a little girl...even though he plows snow in a real truck to earn money.

Hey...wait a second....if he's only a 6 year old little girl...how can he possibly have a driver's license?

I'm so confused.....

Now What is the Pope Saying?

Silly Pope!  Don't you realize that the world will NEVER know peace until the Prince of Peace comes?

How much clearer can Jesus get when He says, "There WILL BE WARS and RUMORS of war...."  "If those days were not cut short (by His return) NO FLESH would survive."

But yet the liberals wag their fingers, hang their heads and can't figure out for the life of them why so many "religious fanatics" (they can't say Muslim) and world leaders won't hop on the peace train?

Pope Francis has declared in a sermon that Christmas this year will be a “charade” because “the whole world is at war”.

The pontiff’s speech at the Vatican came after terrorist attacks in France claimed the lives of 129 people; a Russian plane was bombed and dozens of people were killed in a double suicide attack in Lebanon.

Speaking during Mass at the Casa Santa Maria, he said: “We are close to Christmas. There will be lights, there will be parties, bright trees, even Nativity scenes – all decked out – while the world continues to wage war.”

“It’s all a charade. The world has not understood the way of peace. The whole world is at war.”

Here;  http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/the-pope-says-this-christmas-is-a-charade-and-that-for-some-people-it-may-be-their-last

Is the Pope suggesting that WWIII may be just around the corner?

And how exactly, Mr. Pope, was the world supposed to understand the "way of peace"?  Did Baby Jesus bring it to the manger in Bethlehem?  Did Jacob and Esau bring it?  Maybe Isaac and Ishmael? The Canaanites, Jebusites or Hittites?  Did Mohummad bring it?  WHO EXACTLY WAS IT, MR POPE, THAT BROUGHT THE PEACE WE HAVE NOT UNDERSTOOD??

Of course most of my readers know the whole story that Jesus (the creator of the universe) first came to Bethlehem in the most staggering display of humility that the universe will ever see, to suffer and die as atonement for all repentant sinners.  But HE DID NOT COME TO BRING PEACE BETWEEN MEN!  He ONLY came to bring PEACE between God and men!!  Those who accept Christ have peace with God and His coming wrath IS FOREVER REMOVED!!

Matthew 10:34-36 
“Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to turn “‘a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law— a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.’

Mr Pope....do you even read your Bible?....or are you here for another more nefarious purpose?

When you are in church this Christmas season the hymn JOY TO THE WORLD will most likely be sung....but please remember this hymn is NOT about Jesus coming as a baby to fulfill the role of suffering servant...no...it's about His return as the KING of the world.  Only then will there be peace on earth.

Joy to the world!  The Lord is Come!!  Let earth receive her King!

Miss Puerto Rico Suspended for Dissing Allah

Poor Miss Puerto Rico!  She's in trouble now for saying Muslims don't worship the same god as Christians.

There's nothing pretty about this beauty queen's comments.

Miss Puerto Rico Destiny Velez has been suspended indefinitely from Miss America competition after she fired off a series of vicious anti-Muslim tweets in response to the "We Are All Muslim" protests led by director Michael Moore.

The 20-year-old Velez directed her angry tweets at the film director — who created a buzz last week when he held up a sign reading "We Are All Muslim" outside of Trump Tower and shared an open letter online claiming that, unlike Trump, "we are not a country of angry white guys."

Velez's remarks prompted the Miss Puerto Rico Organization to issue a statement calling her comments a poor representation of "the integrity and esteem of our program."

Velez's remarks prompted the Miss Puerto Rico Organization to issue a statement calling her comments a poor representation of "the integrity and esteem of our program."
In her tweets, Velez said, "Muslims use our constitution to terrorize USA & plant gas stations," before later adding that Muslims "terrorize this country & many others."

She Tweeted, "Islamic god is NOT the same god of the Christians and Jews."  "There is no comparison between Jews, Christians and Muslims. Jews nor Christians have terrorizing agendas in their sacred books."

"Miss Velez's actions were in contradiction to the organization, and therefore as a consequence of her actions, she has been suspended indefinitely," the statement read. "The Miss Puerto Rico Organization will not tolerate any actions or behavior contrary to the Miss Puerto Rico Organization."

Velez apologized for her comments shortly after with a statement of her own.

"I stand up against bullying," she said. "The last thing I wanted to do was to bully anyone."

"I apologize to anyone who felt offended with my words."

Here;  http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/puerto-rico-suspended-anti-muslim-rant-article-1.2472115

You just can't say that Miss Puerto Rico!  The liberals simply won't allow it!  According to them EVERYONE worships the same god because they are all equally valid and all equally worthy of worship so thereby must all be the same thing!

Soon it will be illegal for ANYONE to say that Muslims don't worship the same god as Christians. And certainly it will be illegal for anyone to say the the Muslim god, and his prophet Muhammad, are so full of lies that they MUST come from the Father of Lies, Satan.

John 8:44 
You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

There's a passage in Daniel 8 that speaks of the time on earth when the Antichrist will take over a large part of planet earth.

It prospered in everything it did, and truth was thrown to the ground.

As you read more and more about the people who are silenced for suggesting anything "hurtful" towards Islam, it makes one wonder if this is more foreshadowing of this coming prophecy when TRUTH will be thrown to the ground?

Anti-Gun Groups Claim Suicides in Statistics

If you find yourself defending our rights to bear arms at the water cooler someday, you may want to have this statistic sitting in your brain to fend of the liberals who believe that guns are bad.

The anti-gun liberals ALWAYS quote these huge number of deaths and says they are part of "gun violence" in America.  IN REALITY, 2/3 of the deaths claimed are from suicide.

The shooting tragedies at Sandy Hook Elementary and in Aurora, Colo. have reignited a serious gun debate in the United States. Many have called for, and our nation deserves, an honest, fact-based, and logical discussion.

However, accurate citation of facts is a prerequisite to genuinely having that discussion. Unfortunately many politicians, major news media outlets, and gun-control advocacy organizations are less than fully honest and selectively present information. Worse, some of their information is fabricated, half-truths, or outright lies.

Recently, several major news outlets have invoked images of the Sandy Hook or Aurora massacres and cited that each year 30,000 Americans die from “gun-related deaths” or “gun violence.” The truth is that two-thirds of these deaths are self-inflicted suicides that do not have any true connection to either mass-murder shootings (which make up a fraction of 1% of homicides), or “regular,” non-mass shootings (which make up the vast majority of homicides). Suicide is a genuine public-health issue that should demand our collective attention, but its causes are wholly different from those of crime. As such, any policy that might have an impact on suicide is likely to be very different from policies meant to address crime and homicide. We ought to be honest about keeping crime data separate from suicides.

Here;  http://2ndamendmentfight.com/suicide-stats-are-irrelevant-disingenuous-to-gun-control-policy/

Is suicide a sad deal?  You bet it is!  But should it really enter into the discussion about gun violence the fact that lots of folks use a gun to kill themselves?

NO!!

If all the suicidal folks decided to use rope to hang themselves, would that silence the "Guns are bad" liberals?

Maybe....but we doubt it.

The desire to disarm America most likely has some deep, evil roots...and most likely has something to do with the fact that Satan wants the people of planet earth disarmed so his dude, the Antichrist, may have a lot easier time getting folks to comply with his ideas AFTER THE RAPTURE.

Hijab-Wearing Wheaton Professor

Last week we posted about the hijab-wearing professor at Wheaton College and how she was suspended by the college.

Today we found Franklin Graham weighing in on the matter.

The Rev. Franklin Graham criticized the recently suspended Wheaton College professor who decided to wear a hijab to show solidarity with Muslims and who suggested Christians and Muslims worship the same God.

"Can you believe this Wheaton College professor who says she's going to wear a hijab for the holidays this year to show solidarity with Islam? Shame on her! She said that Muslims and Christians worship the same God. Well she is absolutely wrong — she obviously doesn't know her Bible and she doesn't know Islam," Graham wrote on his Facebook page on Wednesday.

Tenured political science professor Larycia Hawkins was suspended earlier this week following a much-debated post on her Facebook page where she said that she would be wearing a hijab throughout the Advent to show solidarity with Muslims as a sign of fellowship.

"I stand in religious solidarity with Muslims because they, like me, a Christian, are people of the book. And as Pope Francis stated last week, we worship the same God," Hawkins wrote at the time.

In a later interview with The Christian Post, Hawkins argued that her post, which was criticized by some Christians and supported by others, was being misunderstood.

"There is pushback on the idea that we worship the same god but taking that a step farther to assume that I am conflating Jesus and Muhammad, the prophet. That is where the pushback has come primarily," Hawkins told CP.

Hawkins has defended her position, arguing that many Christians have long believed that Muslims worship the same God as they do.

"Whether or not you find this position, one held for centuries by countless Christians (church fathers, saints, and regular Christian folk like), to be valid, I trust that we can peacefully disagree on theological points and affirm others like the Triune God (albeit there are differences here as well — Athanasian Creed, anyone?), the virgin birth (or Immaculate Conception depending on your persuasion), and the Resurrection," the tenured professor added. "Let there be unity in our diversity of views about all of the above."

Graham argued in his post on Wednesday, however, that Muslims do not believe that God has a Son named Jesus Christ, which makes all the difference.

"The God of the Bible sent His Son to earth to die in our place and save us from our sins. The god of Islam requires you to die for him to be sure that you're going to heaven. That's a huge difference — and there are many more examples," the evangelical leader added.

He also thanked Wheaton College for placing the professor on administrative leave, calling it "one of the premier evangelical universities in this country."

Here;  http://www.christianpost.com/news/franklin-graham-hijab-wheaton-prof-god-christians-muslims-152775/

Good for Franklin!  Yes!  Jesus makes all the difference!  To Christians, Jesus is the Creator of the Universe and is God who came in flesh named Jesus/Emmanuel to die.  To Muslims, Allah has no helpers and Jesus was just a good man.

Just with that easy explanation it is VERY CLEAR that Jesus/God/Holy Spirit IS NOT the same entity that hundreds of millions of Muslims bow to in prayer every day.

Stay strong Wheaton!  The Truth is going to come under more frontal assaults as the Last Days come upon us.

AIDS...The Gay Man's Disease

Do you remember when AIDS first hit the world 30 years ago?  It seemed the media was trying desperately to make this awful disease 'every ones disease" by showing little kids who got aids via a blood transfusion or interviewing women who had transacted the disease usually from their bi-sexual boyfriend.  But in reality, if you look at the statistics today, AIDS is a gay man's disease.

Today we are learning that the FDA will now take blood donations from gay men...but check out what the stipulation is!

The United States government on Monday overturned its 30-year ban on blood donations by gay men, saying they can now donate 12 months after their last sexual contact with another man.

The Food and Drug Administration said its decision to reverse the policy was based on an examination of the latest science which shows that an indefinite ban is not necessary to prevent transmission of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

"Ultimately, the 12-month deferral window is supported by the best available scientific evidence, at this point in time, relevant to the U.S. population," Dr. Peter Marks, deputy director of the FDA's biologics division, said in a statement.

The move brings the United States in line with countries such as the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand which also have 12-month deferment periods.

Gay rights advocates said the updated policy remains discriminatory.

"It is ridiculous and counter to the public health that a married gay man in a monogamous relationship can't give blood, but a promiscuous straight man who has had hundreds of opposite sex partners in the last year can," said Jared Polis, a Democratic congressman and co-chair of the Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus, a caucus of openly gay members of Congress.

The FDA said it has worked with other government agencies and considered input from outside advisory bodies, and has "carefully examined the most recent available scientific evidence to support the current policy revision."

Here;  http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fda-hiv-idUSKBN0U423Y20151221

And yes, of course, the gay rights folks are still angry.  Why can a straight man who has had "hundreds of opposite sex partners in the past year" give blood but a married gay man can't?

First off, Mr. Polis, how many men in America do you think there are that have had sex with hundreds of different women in the past year?  I'm gonna say.....five.  With 365 days in a year....I doubt there are that many guys who have the time or money to have sex with hundreds of different women.

On the other hand...how many monogamous gay men do you think there are in America.....I'm gonna say five.

If you peel back the layers of gay sex between gay men....you would be disgusted to learn what activities that they engage in.

The Bible warns that sexual sins are particularly bad because they act against the body.

1 Corinthians 6
18 Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body.

As you reflect on the whole AIDS disease and the millions of men who have died...it makes one wonder if Romans 1 was speaking to this coming event?

Romans 1
Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

Hmmmmm.....'received IN THEMSELVES the due penalty for their perversion."??

If you go to the U.S. Statistics page, they will confirm that gay perversion is the cause of MOST new AIDS cases.

HIV Incidence (new infections): The estimated incidence of HIV has remained stable overall in recent years, at about 50,000 new HIV infections per year. Within the overall estimates, however, some groups are affected more than others. MSM (MEN HAVING SEX WITH MEN) continue to bear the greatest burden of HIV infection, and among races/ethnicities, African Americans continue to be disproportionately affected.

Although MSM (MEN HAVING SEX WITH MEN) represent about 4% of the male population in the United States, in 2010, MSM accounted for 78% of new HIV infections among males and 63% of all new infections. MSM accounted for 54% of all people living with HIV infection in 2011, the most recent year these data are available.

Wait....so MEN HAVING SEX WITH MEN only accounts for about 4% of American men....but of that tiny group of men they account for almost 63% of all new AIDS cases?

Wow...it really is a gay-man's disease.

Hey friends, did you know that if follow the rules and warnings that the Bible suggests for sexual intercourse and you stay a virgin until you are married and then after marriage ONLY have sex with your spouse....YOU ARE GUARANTEED to NEVER get AIDS through sexual transmission!  Even if you have sex with each other HUNDREDS of times per year.

"Devil's Drug" Is Driving Florida Insane

The Bible tells us that in the Last Days people will be using drugs and will refuse to give them up even when The Great Tribulation starts raining the wrath of God onto them.

Check out the most heinous drug law enforcement has EVER seen in Florida.

An emergency room doctor calls it as "five-dollar insanity." A rehab director says it's the "devil's drug."

On the street, it's known as flakka — a synthetic crystal imported from China that is wreaking havoc in South Florida and threatening to spread its misery and profits across the country.

It's cheap, crazily addictive and terrifying. A single dose smoked, swallowed or snorted can give a user a potent but fleeting rush — or turn them into a paranoid zombie with superhuman strength and off-the-charts vital signs.

In the 14 months since the epidemic began in Broward County, 60 people have died. Hospitals are getting dozens of patients a day. And some nights, half the calls to police are flakka-related emergencies.

Homeland Security has a Florida unit devoted to the drug, and United Way of Broward County launched a multi-agency task force to crack down on the scourge.

"If we don't get it right here, it's going to explode," United Way chief executive Kathleen Cannon said.

Floridians say it's the worst drug crisis they have seen since the crack-cocaine epidemic of the 1980s. First responders describe nightmarish scenes with users running naked into traffic or impaling themselves on fences.

A 37-year-old old mother of two named Stephanie told NBC News about her first experience with flakka, which she unwittingly smoked during a drug binge.

A quick blast of euphoria was followed by a sickening fear. As the drug deregulated her autonomic nervous system, she began hallucinating that she was being chased and took off running.

Her body temperature spiked and she tore off some of her clothes and jumped three stories off a bridge into the Intercoastal Waterway.

"I just remember being in the water and feeling like I could breathe under water," she said.

"It's one of the most addictive drugs we've ever seen…and because it's so inexpensive, for something like $5, addicts can get high for a couple of days. And then when they start to withdraw, they crave it. The body has an obsession for it."

"We're calling it the devil's drug," Rapaglia said. "I've never seen anything like it. It is by far worse than crack."

"I talk to patrol and they say it's every other call some nights…just one after the other, all flakka-related calls," said Capt. Dana Swisher of the Fort Lauderdale Police Department.

"Anytime we respond to a flakka-related call from patrol, we're gonna require at last three to four officers to respond."

Dr. Nabil El Sanadi, chief executive of Broward Health and an ER doctor, said his hospitals first started seeing flakka patients in September 2014. Now they get 25 to 30 a day.

When they arrive, their heart rate is often between 150 and 200 beats per minute, with blood pressure at "near-lethal" levels like 230/160. They may have been injured struggling with rescue workers and sometimes their kidneys are already failing.

"They come in hot, crazy, insane, out of their mind and then on top of that, fast heart rate and high blood pressure," he said.

"I would say of all the drugs I've seen — cocaine, amphetamines, heroin, Oxycontin — this is the absolute worst."

"It's five-dollar insanity," he added.

The damage can be permanent. Paranoia and attention deficits can linger for months. Hall said some drug treatment sessions can only be 20 minutes long because that's all a flakka survivor can stay focused.

Here;  http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/devils-drug-flakka-driving-florida-insane-n471531

Wow!  Satan REALLY came up with a good one here!  Worst drug ever seen!  Most highly addictive EVER seen!  Damage can be PERMANENT!

Friends, how many of the flakka users do you suppose have health insurance?  None?  So who do you suppose pays for their health needs caused by their drug induced frenzy?  How much do you suppose it costs a city to send out 4-5 officers to try and handle a flakka user and get him arrested? How much do you suppose it will cost our society to have thousands and thousands of flakka users permanently disabled because of their use of this drug?  Do you REALLY believe that Homeland Security is going to stop the spread of this drug all through America?

Meanwhile, here in America we are busy announcing to all that the WAR ON DRUGS simply didn't work!  We spent billions of dollars and got nothing in return. Heroin deaths have now surpassed auto-accident deaths in 36 states!

So what's the answer since we can't win the war on drugs?....LET'S LEGALIZE MARIJUANA!!

Why don't you take a WILD GUESS at what drug most teens start doing that leads them to look for other drugs that are stronger and have bigger highs?

Yep!  It's marijuana..

This nation is going to collapse friends.  The writing is already on the wall. I believe that GOD'S MERCY is the only reason we haven't collapsed already.  God must still have some use for America as a nation....maybe for Israel's purpose?  Maybe for the purpose that we are still supporting so many evangelists who ARE telling the TRUTH of Jesus Christ?

But when He is done with America, have no false illusions, she could unravel so fast it will make your head spin.

Deuteronomy 8:20
Like the nations the Lord destroyed before you, so you will be destroyed for not obeying the Lord your God. (Yes, yes...I know this is for Israel, but God NEVER CHANGES)

Job 12:23 
He makes nations great, and destroys them; he enlarges nations, and disperses them.

A Scary Event For These Non-Muslims

While most of us were napping off our lunch in front of a football game yesterday...other folks were having to face about the most terrifying thing one can imagine.

Muslims in a bus in northern Kenyan helped dress non-Muslims passengers in Islamic garb, to prevent Islamic extremists from identifying them for slaughter, witnesses said Monday.

Two people died in the attacks in northern Mandera County when gunmen believed to be Somalia's al-Shabab rebels shot at a bus and truck headed for Mandera town, North Eastern Regional Coordinator Mohamud Saleh said.

The bus was from travelling from the capital city, Nairobi, with 60 passengers when it was stopped at Papa City by a group of Islamic militants who shot the windscreen, witnesses said.

Abdrirahman Hussien, a 28-year-old teacher, said some of the Muslim passengers gave non-Muslims head scarfs to try and conceal their identities when the bus stopped, probably remembering a previous attack in the same region last year when al-Shabab gunmen killed 28 non-Muslims from a bus.

An extremist entered the bus and ordered everyone to get out and form two separate groups of non-Muslims and Muslims, said Hussein. One person, a non-Muslim decided to run and was shot in the back and died, he said. He said several non-Muslims managed to group with the Muslims.

A police official who insisted on anonymity because he is not authorized to give information to the media said that before the rebels could take action on the non-Muslims, a brave Muslim man fooled the attackers by saying that a truck full of police officers that was escorting bus was not far behind.

The officer said the lie about the police escort prompted the extremists to order everyone back on the bus and told them to drive off. The extremists, ambushed a truck on the same road and asked the driver whether he had seen a truck full of police officers, the officer said. They shot the passenger, a non-Muslim off-duty police officer who had hitchhiked when he tried to run away, the officer said.

Kenya has experienced a wave of retaliatory attacks by al-Shabab, which is linked to al-Qaida, since it sent troops to Somalia to fight the extremists in 2011.

Mandera has carried the brunt of the attacks recently. Last week al-Shabab militants carried out three attacks on security forces in Mandera.

Al-Shabab separated non-Muslims from Muslims on a bus on Nov 22, 2014, and killed 28 non-Muslims. That December, 36 non-Muslim quarry workers were killed. In July 14 quarry workers were killed.

Here:  http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/official-extremists-attack-cars-killing-kenyas-north-35882757

Can you imagine anything more capable of making your blood run cold?  A Muslim extremist gets on the bus and tells everyone to get off and form two lines....one line of Muslims and one of non-Muslims.  You pretty much KNOW you are going to get shot in the head in just a few minutes.  You know this is the end of the line for you.  Will you scream?  Will you beg for you life?  Will you promise to worship Allah and become a Muslim if they let you live?  Does your wife know where you are?  Have you told your kids you love them recently?  Are your TRULY ready to meet your maker?

And no doubt it's "good" news that some of the Muslims on the bus helped the non-Muslims avoid detection.  It would have been easy for them to just hand the non-Muslims over to the murderers and just stay on the bus.

Satan is alive and well folks....you can see him in the daily headlines coming from the dozens of Muslim extremist stories all over the world.

Why These Americans Are "Done" With Church But Not With God

I think most of my readers are familiar with the statistics that show that the vast majority of 20-30 year old young adults want nothing to do with church.  The organs, pews and hymns just don't "do it" for them anymore.  So according to this article in Christian Science Monitor a lot of them have their own ideas on how to be "spiritual"...and it doesn't include church.

Kyle Rice pretty much stopped going to church a few years ago.

But the marriage and family therapist in Torrington, Wyo., has hardly abandoned his Christian faith – or his deep longing to share it with others and experience God’s love within a community of believers. Mr. Rice, who is in his late 20s, has simply found that what he calls “the Sunday morning experience” – that is, the traditional institutions of Christianity – no longer works for him.

The reasons he feels this way are as complex as any individual’s earnest spiritual journey. But one reason he stopped attending church, he says, is that it came to hinder many of the meaningful relationships in his life – especially when sharing himself and his faith, and connecting with those who may not believe as he does.

“I didn’t want to invite the people that I was first exploring a conversation of spirituality with to church anymore,” says Rice, who was raised in a fundamentalist Baptist home, then pursued a life in full-time ministry, and still maintains his mostly conservative, evangelical faith. “I didn’t want them to see walking with God as a relationship of jumping through hoops – that it was about behavioral management or sin management.”

“You know, the places where I had seen God move the most were in places like on a river while fly-fishing, or backpacking with a group of teens, or sitting at a pub with a group of guys from the UK and South Africa, talking about life,” he adds.

Rice’s frustrations are at the crux of a growing disconnect between historical religious institutions and an increasingly pluralistic society. While much of this has to do with the stormy and publicly vivid politics of abortion and same-sex marriage, scholars see deeper tensions, even among those who want to remain faithful.

Many are uneasy with the exclusivity that their conservative traditions lay claim to – in which the denominations assert that they have the right interpretation of Scripture and the prescription for obtaining salvation. Many are also uneasy with how this exclusivity translates into treatment of those outside the fold – what can feel like a critical judging of “others.”

For those grappling with these issues, religious institutions have a rigidity that just isn’t jibing with the increasing diversity of America. And so they’re leaving the institutions, although they still want to be on a spiritual journey with others.

These people see faith not as being about rituals and doctrine, but as about individuals coming together and enjoying an honest exchange of views.

As tens of millions leave the “Sunday morning experience,” “many of them are getting together and finding other ways to do life and community together, and they are not so hung up on, do you believe what I believe?” says Josh Packard, a sociologist of religion at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley.

According to both scholars and pollsters, the American religious landscape has been simmering with change over the past decade. There’s been the dramatic rise of the so-called nones – those who no longer subscribe to any religious tradition, and who include increasing numbers of those who label themselves atheists and agnostics. This diverse group now includes nearly 1 in 4 American adults and 35 percent of Millennials, researchers say.

Here;  http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2015/1219/Why-these-Americans-are-done-with-church-but-not-with-God

Oh puke.....

"Many are uneasy about the exclusivity that their conservative traditions lay claim to.", says the article above.

Oh, you mean like when Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life.  NO MAN COMES to the Father except through me."...you mean like that type of exclusivity?

"Yes, like that!  We want to have conversations in coffee houses and learn what all people believe!  Maybe the Muslims have a good way?  Maybe the Naturalists have some good ideas?  And this whole idea of sin, sin, sin....quite honestly it just grows tiresome!  I mean really....is anyone a sinner that deserves judgment for eternity from some invisible man in the sky?"

Joe, the sociologist of religion, goes on to say that tens of millions are getting together and finding ways to 'do life and community together and they are not so hung up on do you believe what I believe'?

Hey Frank?  Do you still believe that we by ingesting mushrooms and meditating on your inner soul that you can see into your previous lives?  Wow that's cool!  I don't believe that but if you do then that's really cool for you!  Let's all just have discussions about all the different ways we can be spiritual!!!  It doesn't really matter if ANY of them are true...because really, what is truth?  Truth is what happens when your brain agrees with itself that something really if factual...right?

Friends, if you can't see that we are are in SERIOUS SINKING SAND in this nation....you are simply in denial.

ALL HAVE SINNED!!  ALL are separated from God/Jesus BECAUSE of their sin!  ALL are born with a sin nature that is leading them to eternal destruction!  ALL need a savior!  Jesus IS THAT savior!  ALL need to repent of their sin!  ALL need to accept the ONLY path to eternal life through Jesus!

Does it REALLY MATTER what you believe?  You bet your eternal soul that it does!

John 8
Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. 32 Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

"But Dennis, I don't really like all this talk about doctrine and beliefs...it's boring...I just want to be spiritual."

Yep...and the Bible has a warning for those who would come in the Last Days saying that garbage....

1 Timothy 4:1 
The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons.

Think about it....Jesus said HE IS THE ONLY WAY.  Satan comes along and says, "Don't listen to that intolerant crap....there are many ways!  You just need to have conversations and arrive at all of your own beliefs!  Listen to the good in your spirits that you were all born with!"

Matthew 7
13 “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.

Christians Who Love the Koran

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