Liar, liar, repent before being cast into eternal hell fire
Tuesday, June 21st, 2022
by Ken Pullen
NOTE: There are 3 relevant articles found below my comments that directly tie into what I’m about to write. Along with related links.
Math was not my strongest subject in school but even I know when numbers and percentages are given do not add up. Such is the case regarding the percentage of people in America professing to be Christian yet at odds with the percentage of blatant beliefs going against God and Scripture that do not add up.
We are a nation of liars.
Not a nation of true Bible-believing, Bible-centered, disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ, children of God.
If this is disturbing to you it’s meant to be. It ought to rock whatever sensibilities reside within. Wake each person up. Cease the delusion. Abandon the nonsense of not discerning and judging wisely, rightly dividing the Word of God, and kick folks in the seat of their pants to finally become objective, not fear speaking or writing the truth, using their eyes, their ears, the brain that God blessed them with in order to discern all that is before them.
It is impossible, downright impossible no matter how it might be ignored or lied about, how it might be presented to wrangle numbers to have in the most recent surveys and polls a little over 60% of the people in America making the claim they are Christian, while also having that same percentage claiming that the premeditated murder of children is okay, moral and lawful imitating Moloch rather than Christ, and the similar percentage exalting, approving, applauding the abomination of sexual depravity and perversion taking place in America.
No matter how hard you may try folks the numbers don’t add up.
We’re a nation of pretenders. Liars. Deceiving ourselves and attempting to deceive others.
As if this somehow escapes the heart and mind of God?
Do you believe? Really?
What do you believe? Really.
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
1 Corinthians 6:9-11 — English Standard Version
“But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
Revelation 21:8 — English Standard Version
It appears there are more Marie Antionette’s in America than those truly believing, truly living to imitate Christ, truly taking up their cross daily, truly with their hearts and eyes on Jesus, on God, on heavenly matters living as a light unto the world so that those who see them see the Father in them and give glory to God.
If this were not so? Our nation, our people would reflect this.
We are not light and truth and the Lord’s for the greater part we lie we are.
We are darkness, evil, and Satan’s for the greater part we are, in truth.
Deception, pretending, outward appearance, lies, delusion, illusion, confusing the truth with the lie leads those to the second death. Not to heaven to abide with the Father, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, and all the faithful that endured and fought the good fight not wavering or falling — not lying about what was really within their hearts, Who or who truly resided within their spirits, minds, and hearts.
Repent while the Good Lord blesses with each breath and heartbeat. Not our own doing. For the Lord by His will and mercy provides each breath, each heartbeat, each morsel of food and blessings. None of our own doing. Yet we lie and surely will die the second death unless true repentance occurs and the heart, the mind, the spirit, and the daily life of the individual falls prone before the Lord asking for mercy to stand up boldly and finally live the life, know the life of being a true disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ, a true child of God rather than being a true disciple of Satan and a true child of disobedience.
Might fool some folks. Might even at times fool yourself by listening to Satan tell you how wonderful and good you are, but no one pulls anything over on God, on Jesus, on the Holy Spirit.
No one can add to or remove anything in the Word of God, which is now what most do foolishly believe they can do this without dire eternal consequences.
Do you believe? Really?
What and who or Who do you believe? Really.
Pew poll: Number of Americans who identify as Christian further declines
December 14, 2021
Reprinted from UPI & Pew Research Center
Dec. 14 (UPI) — The percentage of Americans who identify as Christian dropped 15% over the past 14 years, while those who consider themselves religiously unaffiliated increased by 14%, a Pew study released Tuesday indicates.
Pew’s National Public Opinion Reference Survey found that the majority of Americans — 63% — consider themselves Christian, down from 78% in 2007. Meanwhile, 29% of adults list their religion as “none,” meaning they consider themselves atheist, agnostic or “nothing in particular.” That figure has increased since 2007, when 16% said they have no religion.
Six percent of Americans identify with other religions, up from 5% in 2007.
With the growing shift away from Christianity and toward no particular religion, Christians outnumber the latter by two-to-one, down from five-to-one in 2007.
Among Christians, the largest decline has taken place within protestantism. Forty percent consider themselves to be protestant, down from 52%. Those who identify as Catholic make up 21% of Christians, down from 24%. Those who are Orthodox Christian and Mormon remained unchanged from 2007 at 1% and 2%, respectively.
Daily prayer has also been on the decline, according to the poll. In 2021, 45% of respondents said they pray daily, down from 58% in 2007. Thirty-two percent say they pray weekly or monthly and 22% say they pray seldom or never.
The poll found that 41% of Americans consider religion “very important” in their lives, down from 56% in 2007. Pew said this figure has had a sharper decline over the past 10 years when Pew switched to a self-administered survey from interviewer-administered surveys. Thirty-three percent of Americans said religion isn’t too, or is not at all, important to them, while 26% say it’s somewhat important to them.
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About six-in-ten Americans say abortion should be legal in all or most cases
June 13, 2021
Reprinted from Pew Research Center
Abortion has long been a contentious issue in the United States, and it is one that sharply divides Americans along partisan, ideological and religious lines.
Today, a 61% majority of U.S. adults say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, while 37% think abortion should be illegal in all or most cases. These views are relatively unchanged in the past few years. The latest Pew Research Center survey, conducted March 7 to 13, finds deep disagreement between – and within – the parties over abortion. In fact, the partisan divide on abortion is far wider than it was two decades ago.
Related: Explore an interactive look at Americans’ attitudes on abortion.
In the latest survey, Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents are 42 percentage points more likely than Republicans and Republican leaners to say abortion should be legal in all or most cases (80% vs. 38%). This gap is little changed over the last few years, but the current divide is wider than it was in the past. For instance, as recently as 2016, there was a 33-point gap between the shares of Democrats (72%) and Republicans (39%) who supported legal abortion in all or most cases.
This wider gap is mostly attributable to a steady increase in support for legal abortion among Democrats. In 2007, roughly two-thirds of Democrats and Democratic leaners (63%) said abortion should be legal in all or most cases. Support among Democrats has risen by nearly 20 points since then, and 80% now say abortion should be legal in all or most cases.
Views among Republicans have remained relatively steady during this period. In 2007, around four-in-ten Republicans (39%) said abortion should be legal in all or most cases; today, 38% say this.
There are ideological differences within both parties over abortion, though the divide is starker within the GOP. Among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents, 60% of moderates and liberals say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, compared with just 27% of conservative Republicans.
While liberal Democrats are 18 percentage points more likely than conservative and moderate Democrats to say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, wide majorities of both groups (90% and 72%, respectively) say this.
Support for legal abortion varies by race and ethnicity, education and religious affiliation.
Majorities of adults across racial and ethnic groups say abortion should be legal in all or most cases. White adults and Hispanic adults, however, are slightly less likely to say this than Black and Asian adults. Roughly six-in-ten White (59%) and Hispanic adults (60%) say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, compared with larger majorities of Black (68%) and Asian (74%) adults.
Support for legal abortion is greater among those with higher levels of education. While majorities of those with a postgraduate degree (69%), bachelor’s degree (64%) and those with some college experience (63%) say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, adults with no more than a high school education are more divided on the issue: 54% say abortion should be legal in at least most cases, while 44% say abortion should be illegal in all or most cases.
White evangelical Protestants continue to be opposed to abortion in all or most cases. Nearly three-quarters of White evangelicals (74%) say it should be illegal in all or most cases, while 24% say it should be legal in at least most cases. In contrast, a majority of White Protestants who are not evangelical (60%) say abortion should be legal in all or most cases. Religious “nones” – those who are religiously unaffiliated – overwhelmingly support legal abortion. Over eight-in-ten (84%) say it should be legal in all or most cases, while just 15% say it should be illegal.
Among the public overall, there is a modest gender divide in views of whether abortion should be legal: 58% of men and 63% of women say it should be legal in at least most cases. Within both parties, the views of men and women are largely aligned. Among Democrats, 80% of both men and women say abortion should be legal in all or most cases. Similarly, 36% of Republican men and 39% of Republican women say the same.
Note: This is an update of a post originally published July 17, 2017. Here are the questions used for this report, along with responses, and its methodology.
A closer look at Republicans who favor legal abortion and Democrats who oppose it
June 17, 2022
Reprinted from Pew Research Center
The Republican Party platform states that “the unborn child has a fundamental right to life which cannot be infringed,” while the Democratic equivalent supports access to “safe and legal abortion.” But support for these positions is far from universal among Americans who identify with or lean toward each party, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey.
That raises the question: Who are the Republicans who support legal abortion and the Democrats who oppose it, and how else do they differ from their fellow partisans? One major difference involves religion. Republicans who favor legal abortion are far less religious than abortion opponents in the GOP, while Democrats who say abortion should be illegal in all or most cases are much more religious than Democrats who say it should be legal.
Instead of looking at the percentage of U.S. adults who support or oppose legal abortion, this analysis takes the opposite approach, examining the composition of supporters and opponents of legal abortion, including within each party. For instance, among Republicans who support legal abortion, what percentage are evangelicals, women or young people?
Among Republicans and independents who lean toward the Republican Party who say abortion should be illegal in all or most cases, a large majority (78%) identify as conservative. But that is not the case among Republicans who support legal abortion, 53% of whom describe their political ideology as moderate or liberal. Republicans who say abortion generally should be legal also are less likely to live in the South and more likely to live in the Northeast and West – parts of the country with higher levels of support for legal abortion in general.
The religious divide on abortion is strongly apparent within the GOP. Among Republicans who generally oppose legal abortion, 62% are Protestants, including around four-in-ten (39%) who are White evangelical Protestants. And about four-in-ten Republicans who generally oppose legal abortion (39%) are highly religious, according to a scale of religious commitment based on attendance at religious services, frequency of prayer and the importance of religion in respondents’ lives. By contrast, among Republicans who say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, just 35% are Protestants and a roughly equal share are religiously unaffiliated (34%); only 6% are highly religious.
There is a similar split within the Democratic Party when it comes to abortion and political ideology. Half of Democrats and Democratic leaners who say abortion should be legal in all or most cases identify as liberal, compared with 22% among Democrats who generally oppose legal abortion.
There also are differences among Democrats by race. A majority of Democrats who favor legal abortion (56%) are White, compared with 37% among Democrats who say abortion should be mostly or entirely illegal. About half of Democrats who say abortion should be mostly or entirely illegal are either Black (23%) or Hispanic (30%). (It is worth noting, however, that most Democrats in all racial/ethnic categories say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, including 86% of White Democrats, 75% of Black Democrats, 70% of Hispanic Democrats and 81% of Asian Democrats.)
Black and Hispanic Democrats tend to be more religious than White Democrats, and indeed, Democrats who oppose legal abortion are much more likely than those who support it to be highly religious and to identify as Christian (both Catholic and Protestant). Meanwhile, 43% of Democrats who favor legal abortion are religiously unaffiliated.
Among both Republicans and Democrats, people who support legal abortion skew somewhat younger than those who oppose it.
Examining the broader composition of legal abortion supporters, opponents in the U.S.
Overall, Democrats account for about two-thirds (68%) of U.S. adults who say abortion should be legal in all or most cases. That figure almost perfectly mirrors the Republican share of abortion opponents – 69% of those who say abortion should be illegal in all or most cases identify with or lean toward the Republican Party. At the same time, about one-in-four in each group buck this partisan pattern: 26% of those who favor legal abortion are Republicans, while 25% of abortion opponents are Democrats.
Those who say abortion should be legal in all cases, without exception, are considerably more likely to be Democrats than those who say it should be legal in most cases (81% vs. 62%). However, those who say abortion should be illegal in all cases are no more likely to be Republicans than those who say it should be illegal in most cases (67% vs. 69%).
A slim majority (57%) of those who say abortion should always be legal are women. At the other end of the spectrum, however, 55% of adults who say abortion should be illegal in all cases, with no exceptions, also are women.
Most supporters of legal abortion – including about two-thirds of those who say abortion should always be legal, with no exceptions – are under the age of 50. By comparison, Americans who say abortion should be mostly or entirely illegal are older, with 54% ages 50 or older.
A large majority of people who say abortion should be illegal in all or most cases are Christian, including 57% who are Protestant, 23% who are Catholic and 3% who are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as Mormons. And on a scale designed to measure religious commitment based on attendance at religious services, prayer frequency and the importance of religion in one’s life, the vast majority in this group have either “high” (36%) or “medium” (56%) religious commitment; just 8% are “low” on the scale. And looking only at those who say abortion should be illegal in all cases with no exceptions, a clear majority (57%) are highly religious by this measure.
Meanwhile, nearly half of Americans who say abortion should be legal in all cases (47%) are low on the religious commitment scale, while just 4% are highly religious. About half of people at this end of the spectrum (52%) are religiously unaffiliated, including 14% who identify as atheist and 12% who are agnostic. Still, nearly four-in-ten in this group identify as Christian.
Note: Here are the questions used for this analysis, along with responses, and its methodology.
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