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God and Country by Dan Gilgoff

Interview: Anti-Christian-Right Crusader Norman Lear on Becoming a 'Born-Again American'

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Another article about religion

Is there an Easter….Virginia?

For many years, for several centuries Jewish people have been wrongfully accused of being the cause for the death of a man named Jesus. However, now the real truth is finally being told by a book called Jesus Is No Excuse. This remarkable book is a true God fearing book that explains why Jesus was born, why Jesus was crucified and that he did not resurrect back onto this earth. This is a book that was written to educate mainly Christians as it explains to them that Jesus is not an Excuse for you to use when you sin, and that he did not die for anyone’s sins. However, it is a great book for Jewish people because it proved that they were right all alone when they chose not to follow Jesus. For the first Commandment given by God was...Thy shall not have any other God before Me!

Was Jesus a savior or just a test sent by God to find out who truly believed in him?

This outstanding book is a new horizon and a long awaited freedom from crude wrongful unjustified prosecution and slander of the Jewish people. Mainly for American Jewish followers who have bit their tongue for years in silence as they were ostracized mainly because they were a small minority. When it came to religion especially in this majority Christian country, they were not equally given the true freedom of speech. This book speaks for all of God’s people and explains that Jesus fate was not in the hands of the Romans or the Jews, but only in God’s hands and Jesus, as all of us will do, reaped what he sowed. No man can serve two masters, for if he loves one, he must hate the other.

This remarkable book of words and verses explains a lot of things about God and what he expects from us. This book deals with facts and explains why God allowed Jesus to be crucified because God sent Jesus to lead the people to him, but Jesus allowed fame and vanity to cause him to lead the people to himself instead of God.

It shows how Jesus first stated that there are none Good but my Father in Heaven (GOD). He himself told the people that no man can serve two masters. The book, Jesus Is No Excuse, explains how Jesus was obedient to God and fulfilling his wishes, until he went up on that mountain top! Later after Satan took him up on the mountain and tempted him with being glorified like God. Even though he told Satan to get behind him, he later failed God just like Adam, as he allowed the people to praise him. God’s first commandment was not that Thy shall not Kill, but Thy Shall Have No Other Gods Before Me. The New Testament tells that Jesus told the people that he was the way and the light and should be honored like God. Yet, the New Testament also tell us that before Satan persuaded him, He himself told the people that no man can serve two masters. For if you are to love one, you must hate the other.

This book will finally tell the real truth and the cause for the crucifixion and what took

place after the crucifixion. If Jesus rose then why was his body missing and why did his body never appear again. A stranger claimed to be him, but who was this stranger? For surely if his body rose up, then he would of still been in the same body. The book tells of Satan’s revenge as he took the form of man (not looking anything like Jesus) and tried to get the people to praise him. As he tried to destroy them by tricking them into believing that he was Jesus and telling them to pick up snakes and drink deadly things in order to destroy them.

This is an extraordinary book that explains the bible like no one has ever explained it.

It explains so much of what no one before could understand or comprehend. The book

was written by an atheist that God chose to confine in. God came to him in dreams

and had him write this book for all religions and non- religious people alike, so that

all God’s people could understand his words.

This book is entitled “Jesus Is No Excuse” and will open up the eyes of not only of

Christians but the entire world to learn the real truth so that all mankind will be able

to say…I once was blind, but now I see.

Sincerely

Greg Mundy Agency (GMA)

E-Book Time, LLC

www.jesusisnoexcuse.com

The real threat to freedom

The real threat to our constitutional rights and freedom comes from politicians who trade patriotism for power and favers for votes. Equally threatning are ideologues who try to silence opposing views and demonize those who voice other opinions. We need honest debate on all important issues without left or right wing vitrolic criticism, just the facts. Facts the forgotten foundation for all worth while descustion.

Question.

The million dollar question: Will you go to Heaven when you die? Here's a quick test. Have you ever told a lie, stolen anything, or used God's name in vain? Jesus said, "Whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart." Have you looked with lust? Will you be guilty on Judgment Day? If you have done those things, God sees you as a lying, thieving, blasphemous, adulterer at heart. The Bible warns that if you are guilty you will end up in Hell. That's not God's will. He sent His Son to suffer and die on the cross for you. You broke God's Law, but Jesus paid your fine. That means He can legally dismiss your case. He can commute your death sentence: "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life." Then He rose from the dead and defeated death. Please, repent (turn from sin) today and trust in Jesus alone, and God will grant you the gift of everlasting life. Then read your Bible daily and obey it.

what's most important

whutz goin on!!! I have a question to ask you! how many people die everyday? an estimated 155000 people die everyday. that means that all of us who live in the U.S. have a 1in 155000 chance of dying before the clock strikes midnight.the truth is, as all of you know, that ten out of ten people die.I have a few more questions to ask you. How many of you believe in God? how many of you believe in Heaven and Hell? The truth is whether you believe in God or not, He exists and there is a real place called Heaven (where God is) and Hell ( a place of everlasting torment and seperation from God). what do you think a person has to do in order to make it to heaven? do you think you have to do good things and be a good person? do you think you meet the criteria of a good person? if you do, can you remember the ten commandments? if so name as many as you can to yourself before you continue. have you ever told a lie before? (that makes you a liar no matter how you spin it) have you ever stolen anything no matter what your age was, and no matter what the size and and quantity? (that makes you a thief) heres the one that got me and gets everyone, Jesus said, "You have heard that it was said, Do not commit adultery. But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart" (Matthew 5:27) have you ever looked at someone with lust? have you ever taken the LORD's name in vain. that one's blasphemy (that's when you acknowledge that God gave you life and food and family etc... and you take his Holy name-which is to be praised forever, and use it in conjunction with a four letter curse word expressing His name as a term of disgust) that's very serious in His eyes and He says that he will hold no one guiltless who takes His name in vain. if you died right now answering yes to just four of the ten commandments you will stand before Holy God as a lying thieving blasphemous adulterer at heart.please note that breaking only one of the commandments is the same as breaking them all. if God judged you by the ten commandments do you think you will be innocent or guilty? you would surely be guilty and in danger of the fires of Hell. this is true not just for you but for everyone. However, there is Hope!!! God loves you so much that He gave his one and only Son Jesus Christ to die on the cross for you and I. he took every sin we have ever committed on himself and the very wrath we so deserve that whosoever would Repent of their sins (turning away from them hating them as God hates them and turning unto God in broken humility) asking God to forgive them of their sins and placing all their faith and trust in Christ Jesus who died for all asking Him to save their soul from the wrath to come that they would not perish, but have everlasting life. "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him." (John 3:16-17) think about this guys and act on it. go to God in prayer now.Repent and believe in Jesus Christ asking Him to save you from the wrath to come. God is saying now " Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts." (Psalm 95:7-8). if you have any questions please write me back. I'll be glad to answer every question! have a blessed day!!!

Born Again American

I love it. It has NOTHING to do with the new prez. It is bipartisan and it is how we all should feel. If this is to promote Obama. .. won't work with me, but if it is to promote AMERICA then YES!!!!

Unintended Consequences:

Whatever Lear's intentions, whatever the interviewer's pov, the American People are seeing something else in this production. What resonates is the song's advocacy for smaller government and the unity we should have and experience as Americans and in our individual and sovereign liberties, whatever our faith or lack thereof. It isn't about religion. It isn't about Secular Humanism. It isn't about Obama. It isn't about Republican or Democrat. It's about the freedom to live our lives as guaranteed in The Constitution.

It's about liberty...and what it actually means to be free...without government interference.

Last Stand

I think Lear is aware that this is the last possible stand for America and is trying to find the most common ground.

The religious aspects do not bother me, and I really have deep doubts about the existance of God as defined by the church.

The problems we face and the threats to our society are very real and very dangerous. The sooner we hold those in power accountable for IGNORING the clearly stated desires of their constituents, the better off we ALL will be...catholic, jewish, agnostic, athiest...

Imagine No Religion

Imagine No Religion...then we would only have to deal with political partie...but then again religion is just another political party to deal with. Thnak goodiness that Norman Lear started People for the American Way.

Lear is a hypocrite

Didn't Lear's group support efforts to take Jimmy Swaggart to court, and demand that he pay taxes on all the religious products sold by his ministry?

Apparently, Lear only supports the "seperation of church and State" when it inconviences the church. When the State is inconvienced by it (by not being able to collect taxes), suddenly the "seperation" ain't very important to him.

I am a born-again Christian who opposes today's "religious right" as well. However, I question Lear's motives

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Dan Gilgoff covers religion for U.S. News & World Report. He is the author of The Jesus Machine: How James Dobson, Focus on the Family, and Evangelical America are Winning the Culture War, and is a former politics editor at beliefnet. E-mail Dan at godandcountry@usnews.com.

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