THE EMMAUS WALK:

What man gives, he can also take away--and believe history, people will take away your rights if they can to increase their own power over you! The U.S. Congress once acknowledged the Bible as the foundation of our Christian nation and its values--but no more! They have rejected the Bible in the U.S. Congress, and the Senate Majority leader, Harry Reid, last week had a Hindu chaplain come from Reno, Nevada and give the opening prayer in the names of his Hindu gods!

The secular humanist Congress in charge now has retracted the U.S. Congress's former praiseworthy, truthful endorsement of Christian faith and the Bible as the cornerstone of our American nation, government, and way of life. With the Democrats in Congress leading, the Congress of our country is now busy throwing out God, the Bible, and Christian values! If you, as a Christian and citizen, know about pending bills in Congress (not to mention many state legislatures), you will know that we are in grave danger of losing our most fundamental rights and liberties. In the following Article 1 (which was adopted to be the First Amendment of the Constitution), we are told what they are:

Article 1, Bill of Rights:

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press; or of the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."

Congress now is breaking this Article, which is the Cornerstone of our freedoms and liberties under law in this land. Congress is purposely respecting the establishment of a religion, which it has declared secularist humanism to be, favoring this religion above all other religions. This is the religion presently dominant in the schools, courts, and even the government--supplanting Christian faith and religion. This is undeniable--as Evolutionary Theory, Tolerance, Diversity, Separation of Church and State, Multiculturalism, are some main tenets of its creed. These are all being preached and promoted and forced on the whole society with funding by tax monies.

Second, Congress is prohibiting the free exercise of religion, namely the Christian religion, by many laws or adherence to unconstitutional court rulings or actively hostile government interference and harrassment by government agencies, such as the IRS (which is a favored punitive arm of certain known presidential administrations and the White House against dissenters and critics in the Christian churches).

Third, Congress has greviously trampled on Article 1 by abridging the freedom of speech by passing and considering many bills against Christian observances and traditions in public spheres, that are known to be an integral part of our nation's founding and a cause of its unparalleled blessing by Almighty God.

Fourth, Congress is jeopardizing the freedom of the people peaceably to assemble, as it allows the enforcement of laws governing the peace to be continually usurped by special interest groups and activists for special rights for homosexuals vis a vis the Christian community and the Christian churches. The peaceable assemblies of Christians are often disturbed, while the perpetrators of disruption are not punished by the officers of the law but allowed to disturb the public peace outside the church doors while advising the church members to remain quiet, closeted and sequestered, in effect, while their assaulters enjoy free rein.

Fifth, Article 1, to be upheld, must allow for the Christians to petition Congress to make full redress of their grievances. Yet Congress routinely, cavalierly, ignores Christians, its Senators and Representatives passing bills that defame, belittle, marginalize, and otherwise disenfranchise and separate Christians from the mainstream of society and government circles, while favoring and granting special privileges to secular humanists, or atheists, and Muslims, at the expense of Christians, who cannot find any similar favor at the hands of Congress, simply because they are Christians.

For these reasons, we hold Congress to be acting in defiance of the First Article of the Bill of Rights, through badly conceived laws, and through purposed new bills proscribing so-called "hate speech," particularly through laws prohibiting the free exercise of pastors and teachers in the Christian churches, through laws making it a crime to read certain portions of the Holy Scriptures, the Bible, which particularly identify and condemn homosexuality as immorality, a perversion which God states in His Word the Bible that He hates and abominates, and which no Christian who reveres the Bible can approve or justify, no matter how much government approves or justifies it.

Whereas the First Article has been broken by Congress most greviously and deliberately and repeatedly, we hold the Senate, the House, and the Speaker of the House altogether responsible for the conscious, deliberate abrogation and destruction of Article 1, and charge these high government bodies, with all their members, to cease and decist immediately from this wrongful behavior.

Not merely this, but Congress must retract, withdraw, annul all its laws that are unconstitutional, which, purposely or not purposely, make the First Article of the Bill of Rights null and void or, at the least, compromise its meanings.

Not only this, but Congress must apologize, publicly, in a body, to the American people for its crimes against the rights of the people of America, as it has pursued a treacherous, dangerous path of wreaking havoc with the meaning, intention, observance, and enforcement of the First Article in innumerable acts, bills, lack of enforcement, neglect, disdain, and pride.

We charge the Congress with all these serious crimes against the Bill of Rights and the Constitution and the American People, not to mention the members of the historic Christian faith, because this Article speaks to our most cherished and treasured and fundamental liberties, the very ones for which the Pilgrim Fathers and the Puritan Fathers of this our nation journeyed with great hazard by ship, sacrificing property and even their lives, to gain a new life in this land, so that, utilizing that new life, they might be free to worship and preach the inerrant Word of God, the Holy Bible, according to their Christian faith and the dictates of their consciences, without government interference or the interference and intimidation of any other bodies, religious or governmental.

In conclusion, the gross dereliction of Congress and its hostility toward the Christian faith can be explained by pointing out its basic misunderstanding and belittling and slighting of the central, foundational ground of being and focus of the Christian religion--to wit, traditional and historic Christianity has always meant, not a religion or any philosophy, but a real, living Person, namely, Jesus Christ. To outlaw the naming of Jesus Christ in the prayers of military chaplains, for example, through military regulations (as in the case of Chaplain Gordon James Klingenschmitt, given below in a following note), or even government laws and regulations, is to annihilate Christianity, to pass sentence of death on Christian faith. All the other aspects are trappings, and are expendable, but Christ the Lord, Jesus, cannot be given up, and His Name is the Same as His Person--He cannot be separated from his Name, by using the generic word, "God" or "Deity," for that is shown to be a specious, false handling of the Christian God, if you forbid or proscribe the use of Jesus Christ, Who as the Second Person of the Trinity is God. Besides all this, Scripture teaches that His Name is above all other names in heaven and earth. To defy the Christian faith by forbidding or limiting the use of the name, Jesus Christ, which is a name of God, Congress or the military is committing an act of war against the Christian Faith, its practicioners, and also an act of war against Jesus Christ Who is God, the great I Am. This act of war is born of an anti-Christ spirit and is most grevious to God, who will defend His Son, Jesus, Who is rightfully the Supreme Power in rule over all the inhabitants, nations, and governments and rulers of earth. This must be repented of if this U.S. Congress is to avert the wrath of Almighty God, and the imminent destruction of this nation that such an act will inevitably incur.

As Chaplain Klingenschmitt (on right) states in his joint letter with Alan Keyes and Rick Scarborough, June 29, 2007: "I lost everything when the Navy convicted and then ousted me from mhy career of military service for the crime of praying in Jesus' Name."

If you want to join your part to the efforts to save America, check out this grass roots Christian group which Scarborough, Keyes, and Klingenschmitt are raising up to restore this nation back to its Christian roots and Christian foundations before it is too late and too much damage has been done:

The Christians United For Israel (CUFI) founded by Pastor John Hagee of Cornerstone Church and John Hagee Ministries, San Antonio, Texas, has just had a magnificent gathering in Washington, D.C. Today the participants are scheduled to go by the thousands to the Capitol and meet with every single member of Congress in promotion of the values that made our nation great, strong, and free.

Thank God for Pastor Hagee for making this brave stand for Israel, our fine and loyal ally, in a time when anti-Semitism is rising and is rampant in Europe and even now rearing its ugly head in America, in the State Department, and the media, in the universities funded by Arab petro-dollars, and now in the infamous book just issued by former President Jimmy Carter, who has denounced Israel in the most sickening, false way as an "apartheid state" [see the picture and caption below of this anti-Semite Nobel Peace Prize winner and former president].

A large portion of the assembly with speakers' messages was broadcast by Daystar Television; you can access this very intense, exciting, thrilling broadcast by going to Daystar's website. It is possible the program will be featured again. CUFI Founder John Hagee, together with a San Antonio rabbi, Rod Parsley, and the Israeli ambassador to the U.S. were among the main speakers. Former Israeli P.M. Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on a video to the assembly of thousands. Israeli Ambassador Dore gave a tremendous speech, which detailed the greatest threat to Israel, Europe, and America is a nuclear-armed, Islamofascist Iran, whose leader has called for the destruction of Israel, calling Israel "the Little Satan" and America "the Great Satan", with missiles also aimed at European capitals "the Medium-Sized Satan".

America, Ambassador Dore said, will have to move against Iran soon, or we will lose the opportunity to stop Iran's fanatic, Hitler-like ruler before he unleashes nuclear Holocaust on Israel, the U.S. and also Europe the decadent appeaser of dictators. 1938 is being repeated, we were told a number of times, when Britain's prime minister, Neville Chamberlain, seeking peace at any price, gave the crocodile, Hitler, the free nation of Czechoslovakia, which wasn't enough to satisfy him but only whetted his appetite for the rest of Europe.

Neville Chamberlain, the fatally duped fool who trusted crocodiles, went to his grave bemoaning Hitler's failure to live up to his gentleman's agreement, by his breaking of Chamberlain's treaty with him, which he had solemnly believed would keep a crocodile from acting like a crocodile.

Neville Chamberlain did not live in the real world, obviously. He thought: Feed the crocodile one little country, and he would leave the rest of Europe alone! Who cared about Czechoslavakia, a small Eastern European country, so why not sacrifice one country for the good of all?

How mistaken he was! That naive appeasement program of Chamberlain's cost fifty million people their lives, not to mention the lives of 400,000 U.S. soldiers (contrasting with the 3,000 or so U.S. soldiers in the second Iraq War) and hundreds of billions of dollars that could have fed and housed everybody on earth, all squandered for bombs and warfare and later the reconstruction of an almost totally ruined Europe.

What cost a few months of phony peace? Thanks to Chamberlain's stupidity and gross miscalculation of his enemy Hitler nearly cost Britain its very existence as a free country.

This political form of Russian roulette played by Chamberlain with Hitler's gun (sign this treaty with our foe and see if no Nazi bullet is discharged into our skulls!) is paralleled with the current, vociferous, anti-Iraq war bills promoted by Harry Reid, Hillary Clinton, Boxer, Feinstein, Adam Smith, Maria Cantwell, and other arch-liberal Democratic appeasers in the U.S. Congress who seek to pull out of Iraq precipitously, leaving Iraq to disintegrate into a bloodbath of sectarian genocide and also to become an incubator for even greater than 9/11 attacks of terrorists upon our homeland.

Just as will happen to us in America if we appease our foes to gain "peace" with them, Britain was nearly made a footnote in history, appended to the history of Nazi German's fascist slave empire. Back in World War II we too could have fallen and become slaves, with millions of Americans thrown into death camps and exterminated if we hadn't been able to overwhelm German's war machine with more bombers and tanks than Hitler could produce. He was working on the A-bomb, at least in its initial phases. What if he had gotten one first? He had the jet, and had developed various experimental prototypes that worked and far surpassed anything we had. He also had a transcontinental missile in development for a time, but scrapped it because it wouldn't come on-line in time. If he had only had more time! Hitler had a list all drawn up of British people to be liquidated after he invaded and conquered the country, so there is no reason why he would not have done the same to us in turn if he had won the war.

Neville Chamberlain's stupendous failure to discern how best to handle a ravenous crocodile such as Herr Hitler nearly destroyed Western Civilization.

Today we have many such men and women as Neville Chamberlain in the U.S. Congress and the U.S. State Department, who have stepped into his shoes and picked up his umbrella, to go and appease the crocodiles of Islam, one after the other--PLO, Fatah, Hamas, Hezbollah, Al Aksa, Al Qaida--the list goes on an on as the Islamic crocodile mutates and proliferates in the stagnant swamps of Islamic states and also secular humanist societies.

We will pay with our freedom, with our national sovereignty, with our future, with our very lives, and the lives of the children, if we do not stop this failed policy of appeasement and do whatever needs to be done economically and, if need be militarily, to crush this mad President of Iran and his program of world-wide terrorism as well as the other forces of Islamic Jehad.