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The Mind of Brent » Life

8/17/2009

Did You Hear About The Christian Principle Who Punched a Student for Converting to Another Religion?

I can guarantee you WOULD HAVE, had it happened. But when a principle of another religion does it... all you hear is crickets chirping.


Christian Coached Canned After Evangelizing Muslim

Legendary Christian coach canned after student converts [Excerpts]; Muslim principal allegedly irate that wrestler left Islam to be baptized

A high school hall-of-fame and Christian wrestling coach in Dearborn, Mich., claims he was muscled out of his long-tenured coaching job by the school's principal, a devout Muslim, because the administrator was furious over a student wrestler who had converted to Christianity from Islam.

Gerald Marsazalek has coached wrestling for 35 years at Dearborn Public Schools, amassing more than 450 wins and, in addition to being added to the Michigan High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame, was named "Sportsman of the Year" by the All-American Athletic Association.

Despite Marsazalek's success, however, Principal Imad Fadlallah of Dearborn's Fordson High School ordered the administration not to renew the coach's contract, allegedly in retaliation over the student's conversion and to continue a campaign of flushing Christianity out of the school.

"We are getting a glimpse of what happens when Muslims who refuse to accept American values and principles gain political power in an American community," said Richard Thompson, president and chief counsel of the Thomas More Law Center, which is representing Marsazalek. "Failure to renew coach Marszalek's contract had nothing to do with wrestling and everything to do with religion."

Marsazalek is suing both the principal and the school in the U.S. District Court of Eastern Michigan, seeking back pay, injunctive and declaratory relief, damages, and to be reinstated as coach of the wrestling team.

According to lawsuit documents, Principal Fadlallah's retribution against the Christian coaches serving Fordson High began in 2005, after Marsazalek's volunteer assistant coach, Trey Hancock, led a non-school sanctioned and independent summer wrestling camp. Hancock, who is also pastor of the Dearborn Assembly of God and parent to one of the wrestlers, reportedly shared his beliefs at the camp and baptized a Muslim Fordson student into the Christian faith.

That fall, Fadlallah fired Hancock and ordered the volunteer coach not to have further contact with the student wrestlers.

"Subsequently, in full view of students and faculty," the lawsuit states, "Fadlallah approached the young Fordson student who had chosen to be baptized a Christian at Hancock's summer wrestling camp, punched the student and advised the student he had 'disgraced his family' by converting to Christianity from Islam."

According to a statement from the Thomas More Law Center, Dearborn is one of the most densely populated Muslim communities in the United States. An estimated 30,000 of its 98,000 residents are Muslims, and roughly 80 percent of the student population of Fordson High School is Arabic, many of whom are also Muslims.

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=105227


Once again, we clearly see that it is OPEN SEASON on all things Christian in America, whether in the name of "tolerance", "civil rights" or the fallacy of "separation of church and state". If a Christian school teacher or administrator so much as MENTIONS Christianity or even speaks personally of its benefits in their own personal life, you never hear the end of the offense and danger of it.

Ironically, the very people screaming "equal rights" and "separation" would gladly (and WILL some day when they are majority) complete deny all Christians their rights and freedom. They fail to see that they are killing freedom for all when they kill freedom for one. The next majority will come along and take away THEIR "freedom".

America is imploding and Christians, as history clearly shows, will have a bullseye painted on their backs and be the target of blame, persecution and violence. It's already happening and will only get worse. Are you prepared?

  
   ~ Brent

 


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The Mind of Brent » Life

8/15/2009

Pray and Risk Jail Time - Yes, In America Where In God We No Longer Trust

A principle and an Athletic Director are looking at a possible 6 months in jail over a meal time prayer. In China... just kidding. Pakistan... sorry, that's not right either. Uh... oh, yeah... Venezuala. Shoot! That's wrong too!

In America!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Read the excepts of this story:


Students, teachers and local pastors are protesting over a court case involving a northern Florida school principal and an athletic director who are facing criminal charges and up to six months in jail over their offer of a mealtime prayer.

"I have been defending religious freedom issues for 22 years, and I've never had to defend somebody who has been charged criminally for praying," said Mathew Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel, the Orlando-based legal group that is defending the two school officials.

The district also agreed to forbid senior class President Mary Allen from speaking at the school's May 30 graduation ceremony on the chance that the young woman, a known Christian, might say something religious.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/aug/14/criminal-prayer-case-stirs-protests/?feat=home_headlines


Is that what we've come to?

You can say any profane, vulgar, anti-authority, anti-Christian, anti-God, pagan, occultic, false, inflammatory and ridiculous thing you want in school (and other "public" places) but GOD IS OFF LIMITS. You might "offend" someone.

We can teach, study, preach, and present ANYTHING in schools unless its even remotely Christian related. We can indoctrinate with false religions, abominable lifestyles, scientific hoaxes and all manner of anti-freedom politics... but don't bow your head and say "God bless America" or you might go to jail for "violating the civil rights" of someone who doesn't even deserve them in the first place, given how they trample on the very God who grants those rights, and empowers a just government to ensure them.

Remember this? ..."endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights". Let me ask all you offended little petty God-hating people this: if God hasn't granted you those "rights" that have been "violated", who has? Obama? Government? What happens when they change their mind and take away some "right" you think you should have? Who you going to appeal to then? You want "freedom" to believe the way you want, but you are helping to remove this freedom FROM ALL when you rejoice and participate in removing from one.

Yeah, I'm a little fed up with all this.

I know we pray all the time that God would save America and "turn" her back from this disaster, but I'm not sure anymore that God's judgment is not the only thing that is called for at this point.

It's getting harder to see it any other way.

  
   ~ Brent

 


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The daily messages and advice by Brent are given in a sober, precise manner. They truly give a practical guide in the way we ought to live and relate to people in every day life. I must say since making a habit of reading Brent's material, my life has truly changed for the better, I am more aware of the importance of my spiritual health and the importance of my relationships with others in this life.   - Mercy Katini

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The Mind of Brent » Life

8/13/2009

Forget Fact, Legislate & Take Power by Feeling

Here is the mentality of your leaders in Washington who only want to grow government, increase taxes and centralize all power on America... FACTS don't matter. Just agendas and "feelings".


Posted by Henry Payne(The Detroit News) on Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 12:17 AM

Sen. Debbie Stabenow, Energy Leader (National Review, 08.10.09)

Detroit, Mich. - Michigan just experienced its coldest July on record; global temperatures haven't risen in more than a decade; Great Lakes water levels have resumed their 30-year cyclical rise (contrary to a decade of media scare stories that they were drying up due to global warming), and polls show that climate change doesn't even make a list of Michigan voters' top-ten concerns.

Yet in an interview with the Detroit News Monday, Senator Debbie Stabenow (D., Mich.) - recently appointed to the Senate Energy Committee - made clear that fighting the climate crisis is her top priority.

"Climate change is very real," she confessed as she embraced cap and trade's massive tax increase on Michigan industry - at the same time claiming, against all the evidence, that it would not lead to an increase in manufacturing costs or energy prices. "Global warming creates volatility. I feel it when I'm flying. The storms are more volatile. We are paying the price in more hurricanes and tornadoes."

And there are sea monsters in Lake Michigan. I can feel them when I'm boating.



Folks, global cooling was a hoax in the '70's. Global warming was a hoax in the '90's.  "Climate change" is an all encompassing hoax now (you don't even have to pick "warm" or "cold"; blame ALL bad weather on " evil mankind").

It has always been, and continues to be, about a minority of special interests and politicians destroying the American way of life to bring about a "utopian" Statism. It will come in the form of... wait a minute... I feel it.... people like the current President and Congress who are mortgaging our future for generations to come in the name of HUGE government handouts and entitlements (and we have even gotten to healthcare yet), of which "climate change" is a primary key to securing massive amounts of power and wealth in Washington.

This "green" nonsense has always been just that: NONSENSE. Almost everything "green" thrown at us (like electric cars) have MORE "carbon footprint" than their evil counterparts. And yet Americans are so indoctrinated in it, that everyone considers it a virtue. CONSERVATIONISM  is a virtue (responsibly taking care of the earth and its resources  and environment). "GREEN" is indoctrination.

"GREEN" is a change in our language to the "man is killing the earth, climate change, global warming, global cooling, acid rain, nuclear winter" nonsense that is meant to literally change your thinking. It is nothing more than quack science and political power grabs.

Time to wake up and quit using THEIR vocabulary. That's why I hate the word "green". It does nothing but help the people who hate American and want to see it torn down, perpetuate the LIE.

Don't use "green" vocabulary. Use words like conservationism, stewardship of resources, responsible environmental practices, etc. Words that actually have meaning and don't perpetuate the hoax of "climate change".
  
   ~ Brent

 


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I look forward to reading Brent's teachings every single day. I work in a business that is cutthroat and competitive, and reading your column/advice helps me through the day, and reminds me of what really matters at the end. Your daily wisdom inspires me to be a better person. It is encouraging to know that there are people like you taking the time to help others.   - Ivette Merino - FL

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The Mind of Brent » Life

8/10/2009

And They Became Slaves to Pharoah

In the Bible, we have a story from 3000 years ago how the Israelites became slaves to Egypt when they traded their possessions and freedom for Government care.

Imagine with me 3000 years in the future... and the American "Bible" is being read by our ancestors. It is full of stories about the mythical "Land of the Free" which has long since ceased to exist. Imagine they find the New Obama Modern English Version “Bible” of American history and they open to:

Genesis 47:13-27 (New Obama Modern English Version)

Barack Deals with the American Economy

13 Now there was much less consumer spending in all the land; for the recession was very severe, so that the “land of the much less free” and the “home of the previously brave” languished because of unemployment, layoffs and a cutback in available consumer credit.

14 And Barack gathered up all the money that was found in the land of America and in the land of private business for the government bailouts and programs which they bought; and Barack brought the money into Congress’s house.

15 So when the money ran out in the land of America and private enterprise, all the Americans came to Barack and said, “Give us more programs like healthcare and welfare, for why should we do without or have to take personal responsibility as long as you are President? For the private sector has failed us and does not take from producers and redistribute the wealth.” And the media helped Barack by repeating whatever he wanted said to the land of America.

16 Then Barack said, “Give your freedom and independence to me, and I will give you healthcare, cash for clunkers, stimulus and all manners of government handouts, for the will to make your own money and provide for yourself is gone.”

17 So they brought their freedom and gave up their personal responsibility to Barack, and Barack gave them government checks, welfare credit cards and many new government programs in exchange for the productivity, freedom, security, independence, individualism and most of their income because of the new taxes needed for government. Thus Barack gave them everything they needed in life, from healthcare to food to jobs, in exchange for all their freedom and independence.

18 When the recession did not end and became even worse, the people came to Barack and said to him, “We will not hide from our lord that our money is gone; and our lord also has our possessions to which are now leveraged for taxes and bad credit. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord but our bodies and our private property.

19 Why should we continue to live a lower lifestyle before your eyes, both we and our land? We will trade our very lives and private property in exchange for government protection, security, jobs and healthcare. Take our lives and private property for guaranteed food and health, and we and our land will be slaves to Barack; give us government care, that we may live and not die, that the people may not have to be responsible for their own destiny.”

20 Then Barack bought all the land for Congress; for every man of America sold his freedom, because the liberal media propaganda and elitist academic indoctrination was severe upon them. So the land became the Governments.

21 And as for the people, Barack set up Government programs and monitoring to control them, from one end of the borders of America to the other end.

22 Only the land of the trial lawyers, teachers unions and labor unions he did not control; for the lawyers and unions had given the money to get Barack elected, and Barack would do nothing to risk losing their election contributions and votes. Thus no law or program was passed to reform lawyers, teachers or union, instead, many new laws and programs were created to protect and benefit them.

23 Then Barack said to the people, “Indeed I have bought you into Government servitude and your freedom this day belongs to Congress and Government. Look, here are your benefits, your healthcare and your government jobs. Isn’t America great now?

24 And it shall come to pass when you make any income for yourself that you shall give 80% to Government. Twenty percent shall be your own, for you to spend on yourself but even then you will pay sales taxes, property taxes, embedded taxes and be required to purchase what we tell you to purchase at the prices we tell you it will cost, and you will pay for Government permits, licenses and fees for many of the things you do… both you, your household and the generations to come.”

25 So the people said and the liberal Democrat controlled media reported, “Barack has saved our lives; let us find favor in the sight of our lord Barack, and we will be Government servants because we no longer have to worry about taking care of our own lives.”

26 And Barack made it a law over the land of America to this day, that the Government should have 80% of all income, except for the liberal special interest groups, which got many tax breaks and exceptions to ensure they voted Democrat in the next election.

27 So America was no longer land of the free, but land of the Government; and the Government slowly took control of all possessions and grew and multiplied exceedingly.

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Far fetched? What makes people today any different from people then?

We are trading our security, freedom and personal responsibility for promises of Government provision. Result? Slavery to government. The formula works every time as history proves.

Feel free to put this in an email and pass this on to every freedom loving American you know. Maybe we can start waking people up before we sell out America and turn the Land of the Free into the Home of the Government.

Brent Riggs
www.brentriggs.com

  
   ~ Brent

 


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The Mind of Brent » Life

8/7/2009

Open Season Friday

Every Friday, I do "Open Season" where I take all your questions. Here are the blogs, and which types of answers will go on that blog:

  • Riggs Family Blog (www.riggsfamilyblog.com) - our family, personal stuff
  • Brent Riggs Blog (www.brentriggs.com/blog/) - professional topics (graphics, web development, writing), family, marriage, mentoring, ethics, teens, parenting, etc.
  • SeriousFaith.com (www.seriousfaith.com) - Christian and Bible related
  • MckLinky Blog (www.mcklinkyblog.com) - blogging, search engines, online business, blog improvement, blog graphic, blog photography, blog traffic, etc.
I'm using the same entry form and list on all the blogs, so it doesn't matter from which blog you enter the question. We try to answer as many as we can. If we didn't get to a previous question, feel free to post it up again.I will spread out the answers on the appropriate blog throughout the week, so make sure you are subscribed to any blog you want to see answers from.Ask your question using the form below. Ask us anything you want. Here's some suggested topics:

  • our family, our life, adoption, cancer, parenting, marriage, marriage, family
  • blogging, building traffic, growing your blog... anything about making your blog better
  • photography, technology, graphic design
  • writing, communication, brainstorming topics, how to improve your writing
  • marketing, personal finance
  • the Bible
  • business, marketing, online business
  • ask for advice, counsel or wisdom for a personal or professional situation
  • WHATEVER.... hey, it's OPEN SEASON!!
  
   ~ Brent

 


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Brent is a gifted artist, creative entrepreneur, passionate mentor and a powerful communicator. He is a visionary with a contagious enthusiasm and energy that he uses to encourage and motivate others. Brent is a respected colleague and a trusted friend.   - Jason Cox - Long Beach, CA

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The Mind of Brent » Life

8/4/2009

Obama's Own Words: Eliminate Private Health Insurance in a Decade or So

Don't believe the "right wing conspiracy"? Well how about Obama's very own words?

"Single payer" is code for "government is the only payer". "Public option" is bureaucrat lingo for "government health insurance". "Universal healthcare" is code for "government run health care".

Here's your President and prominent politcians, IN THEIR OWN WORDS, plainly telling you that they want GOVERMENT to control your healthcare, period.

Wake up folks. Whover controls your HEALTH, controls your LIFE, every aspect of it. The government can already take your money and your freedom at the point of a gun (taxes and law enforcement). Once they can leverage your "loyalty" by controlling your healthcare options, that's pretty much the whole game.

Not to mention you are going to be taxed INTO OBLIVION to pay for it.

Listen closely for the President saying, "I don’t think we’re going to be able to eliminate employer coverage immediately. There’s going to be, potentially, some transition process: I can envision a decade out, or 15 years out, or 20 years out.”

Eliminate! That's the real intention. Now GET READY for the spin machine to go into overdrive at the White House repeating ad nauseum "the President was taken out of context", "that's not what he really meant", "here's what he was really saying...".

Friends, it was already plain enough, but here are the actual words from the actual mouths. But of course... like dozens of other times, the "hate mongers" are misconstruing the plain words of these politicians.

Time to wake up and see the disaster that is coming.



Here's the truth about American Healthcare that the media and the power hungry politicians won't tell you:

This is for all of your liberal friends who are convinced that a single-payer, government healthcare system is going to "save" our healthcare system.

   
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1. Americans have better survival rates than Europeans for common cancers.

2. Americans have lower cancer mortality rates than Canadians.

3. Americans have better access to treatment for chronic diseases than patients in other developed countries.

4. Americans have better access to preventive cancer screening than Canadians.

5. Lower-income Americans are in better health than comparable Canadians.

6. Americans spend less time waiting for care than patients in Canada and the United Kingdom.

7. People in countries with more government control of health care are highly dissatisfied and believe reform is needed.

8. Americans are more satisfied with the care they receive than Canadians.

9. Americans have better access to important new technologies such as medical imaging than do patients in Canada or Britain.

10. Americans are responsible for the vast majority of all health care innovations.

Read the entire report here.   
   ~ Brent

 


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