Atheists have long criticised devout followers of faith. But now it seems Atheism is stealing from that very religious tradition by erecting a temple of worship.

Author Alain de Botton announced plans to build an Atheist temple in the U.K., reports DeZeenmagazine.

A collaboration with Tom Greenall Architects, the structure will be built in the City of London.

Dedicated to the idea of perspective, the black tower will scale 46 meters (150 ft), with each centimeterhonoring earth’s age of 4.6 billion years, notes Wired. [source]

As one facebooker said…An Interesting revelation, are the purported Atheists actually Gaia Pantheists?
One of the things worth remarking about the “Progressives” is the view of Wholism, seeing individuals, groups, animals, plants and the environment as one living whole.

This is in line with the totalitarian view of Ecology, Green versions of Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and of course the Bahais, the planet is a Collectivity where its parts ‘us’ submit to. This is the religious view on the Singularity of Transhumanists.
The Earth in Balance is Homeostasis of the scientific Systems Theory. 

If you’ve got your eye on a new cell phone purchase in 2012, chances are, it will be equipped with a technology called Near Field Communication (NFC).  NFC is technology’s next giant leap forward.

It’s not too risky to say that your cell phone is going to replace your computer and your Internet service.  You’ll know it the moment you activate an NFC-enabled device.  From it will emerge a new generation officially known as the Internet of Things (IoT).

To describe IoT is to understand that every object around us will take on its own digital description and geospatial location – added or edited by anyone.  Know a good burger joint?  Just write it up, give it a geo-location by pointing your camera at it, snap and upload.  That image just became a Thing on the IoT.

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We have improved our possibilities for relating to each other beyond the limits of direct physical relations.  We can go beyond the anthropological limit of 150 people with whom we can keep in direct contact.  The Internet of Things will make it possible for objects to get information about their position in the world, to interact with other objects and to have access to comparative information for data gathered in their vicinity.

With this unbridled power of IoT and Augmented Reality there is a real threat that this new capability could destabilize governments, or worse, governments could usurp the freedoms of people if they tried to own control over it.

Welcome to 2012.  It’s going to be an interesting year ahead. [source]

The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) new emergency preparedness campaign has received support from pastors who advise others to be ready for anything.

Israeli officials told visiting USS Chief Joint of Staffs Martin Dempsey that it would give President Barack Obama no more than 12 hours notice if and when it attacks Iran, The LondonTimes reported Sunday.

The Netanyahu government also will not coordinate with the United Statesan attack on the Islamic Republic, according to the report, the latest in a number of suposed scenarios concerning cooperation or lack of it between Jerusalem and Washington. [source]

Something is stirring for sure. It’s time we took notice of these thing as the chess pieces are all in place for an all out war. Time to pray, and to get right with God!

George Soros is no stranger to Blaze readers. The billionaire currency speculator and philanthropist has long been in the news, especially since the fateful day in 1992 when he helped crash England’s economy. In fact, since that day, he has been commonly referred to as “the man who broke the bank of England.”

Soros is shrewd, he has a keen eye for investments, and he knows how to play the markets. Therefore, when he makes a prediction, it might be safe to say it’s worth a listen. After all, his predictions (among other things) have made him the multi-billionaire he is today.

So you might want to pay attention to a recent story from The Daily Beast that claims George Soros is nervous about the future of the global economy and that he warns of dark things to come.

“At times like these, survival is the most important thing,” Soros said.

As he sees it, the world faces one of the most dangerous periods of modern history—a period of “evil,” writes the Beasts’ John Arlidge. “Europe is confronting a descent into chaos and conflict. In America [Soros] predicts riots in the streets that will lead to a brutal clampdown that will dramatically curtail civil liberties [emphases added]. The global economic system could even collapse altogether.” [source]

Speaking of brutal clampdown… I have a post coming up for all of you that I want you to read. It will be about something that has long been considered a conspiracy, but I just want to share a few links and quotes with you so that you can make up your own mind on the matter.

Watch this space!

He was tempted in every way, just as we are…yet was without sin. Hebrews 4:15. Therefore in all of our sorrows we have his sympathy. He knows them all….temptations, pain weakness, weariness, poverty…for He has felt them all. He in His Holiness past the test of temptation. His way was much rougher and darker than mine. Did Christ, my dear lord, suffer? Should I still whine? [John Newton]. Jesus came to earth to identify with us in our humanity so we could identify with him in his holiness. He came as 100% human so we could identify with Him, and He came 100% as God, so that we could know Holiness.

Then they asked why would God punish us when we do wrong if He is so loving. The answer is this. He is a Father. A good Father would rather discipline his children and raise them in a way that is better and more righteous. Would you rather be with children who have never been disciplined? Don’t those children end up being self absorbed, me, me, me…. kids who have no idea of consequences or responsibility.

Anyway, in the book, people are bred not in the woman’s womb, but in some kind of techno-womb… Natural reproduction has been done away with and children are created, ‘decanted’ and raised in Hatcheries and Conditioning Centres, where they are divided into five castes (which are further split into ‘Plus’ and ‘Minus’ members) and designed to fulfill predetermined positions within the social and economic strata of the World State. [wikipedia]

As technology progresses, answers to ethical questions cannot keep up. We have scientists talking about transhumanism, this topic is so vast that I don’t want to get into that discussion in this post. But, if you have never heard of this before just check out this link. Even “Creation Ministries International” have touched on this subject!

The Technocrats

During the Great Depression (early 1930s) a social movement called Technocracy became highly popular in the USA for a brief period. The Technocrats proposed dealing with the crisis of the Great Depression by replacing politicians with scientists and engineers who supposedly had the technical expertise to manage the economy.

The Technocracy movement may be traced to the progressive engineers of the early twentieth century such as the writings of Frederick W. Taylor (who introduced the concept of scientific management). Although there were a variety of Technocratic groups and organisations in a number of countries, its most visible figurehead in the US was Howard Scott, who popularised the writings of Technocrats like Thorstein Veblen, a professor and published economist.

And what was at the root of the concepts championed by Veblen? As Geoffrey M. Hodgson (Research Professor in Business Studies at the University of Hertfordshire) made clear in his article Thorstein Veblen and Darwinism:

“ … Thorstein Veblen understood and applied Darwinian principles to his analysis of the evolution of socio-economic institutions. … Veblen knowingly applied the Darwinian principles of variation, inheritance and selection to institutional evolution.”

Great 21 century thinkers, such as Thomas Sowell has said that when you have intellectuals  influencing policies that that is a dangerous mix.

The influence of intellectuals is not only greater than in previous eras but also takes a very different form from that envisioned by those like Machiavelli and others who have wanted to directly influence rulers. It has not been by shaping the opinions or directing the actions of the holders of power that modern intellectuals have most influenced the course of events, but by shaping public opinion in ways that affect the actions of power holders in democratic societies, whether or not those power holders accept the general vision or the particular policies favored by intellectuals. Even government leaders with disdain or contempt for intellectuals have had to bend to the climate of opinion shaped by those intellectuals. [Intellectuals and Society - by Thomas Sowell]

If you want to hear Thomas Sowell explain this in further detail there is a 30 minute video that you can watch HERE. I have also bought the book about this, and it is a real eye opener at how the world is quickly changing because of science and the belief in our evolutionary process which can only march forward if we are to embrace science and all that it offers.

Dystopian societies feature different kinds of repressive social control systems, various forms of active and passive coercion. Ideas and works about dystopian societies often explore the concept of humans abusing technology and humans individually and collectively coping, or not being able to properly cope with technology that has progressed far more rapidly than humanity’s spiritual evolution. [wikipedia]

It is obvious to me that science is amoral and this raises ethical questions which are not being answered because of our post-modern, pluralistic society.

Now, if this all seems a little too far fetched, here is a news article about extreme feminist who says that babies should NOT be born from woman, but instead from artificial wombs…

NORWICH, U.K., January 23, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In remarks that critics have said are disturbingly reminiscent of Aldous Huxley’s famous dystopian novel “Brave New World,” a UK ethicist has argued that since pregnancy causes “natural inequality” between the sexes, women must be liberated from the “burdens and risks of pregnancy” through the use of “ectogenesis”, or artificial wombs. [source]

We know live within a society that is fast approaching a very different reality. The interesting thing about this is when I investigated a bit further I found out about a theory called “Cyborg theory”…

Cyborgs not only disrupt orderly power structures and fixed interests but also signify a challenge to settled politics, which assumes that binary oppositions or identities are natural distinctions. Actually those oppositions are cultural constructions. Haraway underlines the critical function of the cyborg concept, especially for feminist politics. The current dualistic thinking involves a “logic of dominance” because the parts of the dualisms are not equivalent. Thus, the logic produces hierarchies that legitimize men dominating women, whites dominating blacks, and humans dominating animals. Instead, Haraway suggests that people should undermine these hierarchies by actively exploring and mobilizing the blurring of borders.^[3]

Donna Haraway’s cyborg is an attempt to break away from Oedipal narratives and Christian origin doctrines like Genesis; the concept of the cyborg is a rejection of rigid boundaries, notably those separating “human” from “animal” and “human” from “machine.” In the Cyborg Manifesto, she writes: “The cyborg does not dream of community on the model of the organic family, this time without the oedipal project. The cyborg would not recognize the Garden of Eden; it is not made of mud and cannot dream of returning to dust.” [source]

As one Facebooker said concerning all of this…

New Feminism can be traced to the writings of certain intellectuals behind the Cyborg Manifesto, equal rights are not the rationale behind Progressive Politics as such, but outsourcing human reproduction to produce eugenic humans by the State. The goal is to perfect humans into gods through science. Yes In-vitro kids was the beginning under the guise of helping sterile couples, there is more.

More indeed! It is Satan’s lie to mankind. That we can become gods! The lie is that we are now able to mess with the natural balance that God intended for us. That as God is our creator and He is a triune God, we will soon be able to upset that balance of Male, Female and child, which as a perfect picture of the family unit, one made up of three. His image is being messed with because of so called scientific progressives — the technocrats!

We are entering into NOT a Brave new world, but a very SCARY one that is dictated by an amoral scientific movement that is influencing social and political policies.

I realise this is a long post, and a lot to take in. But this isn’t science-fiction any more. These possibilities are being discussed all over the world. Just the other day on the radio, I heard a neuroscientist state that… in the next 10-20 years we will be able to grow a copy of your brain in a vat and add to it all wonderful possibilities that only geniuses have had in the past. You can be anything you want. You will be able to literally change who you are (though not the essence of who you are, you will still be you, but an enhanced you) in ways that are incomprehensible, this possibility is not outside of the realms of a scientific reality. Humankind is on the path of a huge evolutionary leap, towards a singularity!

It seems to me that in a world without absolutes, Satan’s lie is quite enticing to those who see a confused messed up world. I see this everyday on Facebook, with those who deny God and with those who have fallen for the Zeitgeist movement. This path is a dangerous one, that will lead the world towards something very close to what Aldous Huxley wrote about. A world where science was God.  As in the book… Henry Ford, become a messianic figure to The World State. “Our Ford” is used in place of “Our Lord”, as a credit to popularizing the use of the assembly line.

And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins [ Rudyard Kipling's 1919 poem The Gods of the Copybook Headings]

Now we have left wing political domination in most of the Western countries that just want everyone to get along, which in itself is not a bad thing. But, the reality is just not well… a reality. We will always have fundamentalists within the many religions. I wonder at how many bible believing Christians will hold to the biblical teaching that Jesus is the ONLY path as this interfaith movement increases in size. I wonder what will become of those who will not bow to a religious system that is so tied in within a political/governmental system that takes away your freedom to disagree with other faiths respectfully. The good news is: God has made a way. God has paid the price, and God offers life. But God offers it on His terms!

Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I [am] God, and [there is] none else. Isaiah 45:22

let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead—by this name this man stands here before you in good health. “He is the STONE WHICH WAS REJECTED by you, THE BUILDERS, but WHICH BECAME THE CHIEF CORNER stone. “And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved.” Acts 4:1

The Holy Spirit will dwell in the believers (John 7:38; cf. 14:17) and will guide the disciples into all truth, the Holy Spirit (16:13), teaching them “all things” and bringing them “to remembrance of all that [Jesus] said” to them (14:26). The Holy Spirit will testify about Jesus, as the disciples must also testify (John 15:26-27).

I for one pray that I will never stray from that fundamental truth that salvation can only be found in Jesus. I pray that the Holy Spirit helps me to remain strong against such political and religious utopian moves that has become apparent in every day news.

The following is just a small example of what is happening to the apostate church…

The Church Ministry should be renamed in order to accommodate the growing population of Muslims in Denmark. This is the wish of the left wing of the Parliamentary Church Committee, said TV2 News.

Instead, Church Ministry should be renamed to Ministry of Philosophy of Life. [source]

My prayer for you us all, is that we persevere in the Truth and that we not be deceived.

Anyway, I was just going through some of my blog readers and came across some pagan traditions that this WHORE church still practice.

Pope Pius XII was the last Pope in Rome that was carried into the Vatican on the shoulders of his faithful.

The whole arrangement of this Papal ceremony is a true copy of pagan king adoration found on ancient wall paintings in Egypt.

One of the ministers of this blog raised this question:  Are the Roman Catholics motives behind copying paganism, a bid to make it easier for pagans to convert?

The Pope acts like a copy-cat of Egyptian pagan kings « News that matters.

And how about this lovely practice...

The principal celebrant at the Solemn Liturgy on Divine Mercy Sunday came bearing a special gift for the Marians of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

“It’s a finger from his right hand from which he often gave a blessing to St. Faustina,” explained Br. Andrew R. Maczynski, MIC, general promoter of the Association of Marian Helpers.

The relic, which came encased in a golden monstrance, is about 5 centimeters long. It will be placed in the National Shrine, which is administered by the Marians.

I find it absolutely fascinating that the more the Roman Catholics tried to kill the protestants, the more people would come out of that whore church. We can thank the blood of Christ and the blood of such martyrs that we now have the written Word and the freedom to worship as we please and to have a personal walk with our Messiah.

Just read one small testimony…

And so they carried him to the filthy common prison of the town of Cadiz where he remained in irons fourteen days amongst thieves. All which time he so instructed the poor prisoners in the Word of God, according to the good talent which God had given him in that behalf, and also in the Spanish tongue to utter the same, that in that short space he had well reclaimed several of those superstitiuous and ignorant Spaniards to embrace the Word of God, and to reject their popish traditions. [Foxe's Book of Martyrs]