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The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
–Romans 1:18-20 (NIV)–

Now they are blacker than soot;
    they are not recognized in the streets.
Their skin has shriveled on their bones;
    it has become as dry as a stick.
–Lamentations 4:8 (NIV)–

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Union of Soviet SOCIALIST

Republics


(USSR)

was the name of the communist

government of Russia.



Nationalsozialistische Deutsche


Arbeiterpartei (National


SOCIALIST


German Workers’ Party)

was the name of the

Nazi government of Germany.

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Too much information
Well I said you’re good for nothin’
Come on to the back
I said your needles count for somethin’
Guess I’d better sell you now
Guess I’d better be around

Singin’ for your questions
But you’ve stolen all of my answers
Too much entertainment drove
And that’s not all the colour
Tell me that you’ve seen a ghost
I’ll tell you what to fear the most

Stop!
I said it’s happenin’ again!
We’re all wastin’ away!
We’re all wastin’ away!

Too much information
Well I said you’re good for nothin’
Stitch your part of counterfeit
I said your far out here
Takin’ at the roads
Where you’re taken for the simple codes

Swimmin’ with the fishes
While the serpent waves his tongue
With a belly full of splinters
Now you see that I’m the one
Tell me that you’ve seen a ghost
I’ll tell you what to fear the most

Stop!
I said it’s happenin’ again!
We’re all wastin’ away!
We’re all wastin’ away!

–Kasabian, “Empire”–

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Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler watched movies a lot. While gangster films were a big deal in the early 1930s, academics have been able to conclude that Stalin drew heavy inspiration from a Russian civil war movie called Chapaev (1934), which idealized communism and socialism. He watched it over 30 times (Catriona Kelly, Soviet Art House, Oxford UP, p. 3). Hitler was apparently inspired by Viva Villa! (1934), which was about a gangster named Pancho Villa in Mexico, who caused a revolution and became a political leader–Hitler identified with this character (Bill Niven, Hitler and Film, Yale UP, 2018). The film Doctor Zhivago (1965) shows how Antifa-like demonstrations led to the communist takeover of Russia.

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CMI, “Darwinism and the Nazi Race Holocaust.”

Lewis had deep respect for the pagan myths
Jesus said no man comes to the Father but by Him
Lewis said pedophiles aren’t really all that bad
Jesus said they’ll be drowned in the lake of fire

Sproul said that there is no lake of fire
Jesus said the hateful are in danger of hell fire
MacArthur said he never felt the presence of God
Jesus said the Holy Ghost’ll come upon you

Warren said don’t preach the Bible to the unchurched
Jesus read Isaiah about preachin’ deliverance to ’em
Piper said Warren’s brilliant, pursue your pleasure
Jesus said the pleasures of this life’ll choke your faith

Sproul said that there is no lake of fire
Jesus said the hateful are in danger of hell fire
MacArthur said he never felt the presence of God
Jesus said the Holy Ghost’ll come upon you

Aslan said he saved Narnia with his deep magic
Jesus warned against false christs and miracles
Aslan is an animatronic puppet on BBC
Jesus is the Son of the Living God!

All our righteousnesses are as filthy rags.
–Isaiah 64:6 (KJV)–

I am the way, the truth, and the life:
no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
–Jesus Christ in John 14:6 (KJV)–

Whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me,
it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck,
and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
–Jesus Christ in Matthew 18:6 (KJV)–

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I HAVE THE DEEPEST RESPECT EVEN FOR PAGAN MYTHS,
STILL MORE FOR MYTHS IN THE HOLY SCRIPTURE.
–C. S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain, p. 66–

I CANNOT GIVE PEDERASTY (PEDOPHILIA) 
ANYTHING LIKE A FIRST PLACE AMONG THE EVILS…
I THINK THAT OF VERY LITTLE RELEVANCE TO MORAL JUDGMENT.
–C. S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy, p. 109–

That which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth,
and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life,
and bring no fruit to perfection.
–Luke 8:14 (KJV)–

I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions,
in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
–2 Corinthians 12:10 (KJV)–

Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God,
than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season.
–Hebrews 11:25 (KJV)–

Foolish, disobedient, deceived,
serving divers lusts and pleasures.
–Titus 3:3 (KJV)–

Heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures
more than lovers of God.
–2 Timothy 3:4 (KJV)–

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I have invited Rick Warren to come to the Desiring God National Conference this Fall and he’s coming…I do think he’s deeply theological, he’s a brilliant man…at root I think he is theological, and doctrinal, and sound.
–John Piper–

My call to you now, in the name of God Almighty, is that you might make it your eternal vocation to pursue your pleasure with all the might that God mightily inspires within you.
—John Piper–

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Gary Gilley, This Little Church Went to Market (Evangelical Press, 2005), ch. 10: “The Gospel According to Warren.”

Fight the good fight of faith.
–1 Timothy 6:12 (KJV)–

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Dr. A. M. Hills, Homiletics and Pastoral Theology (Schmul, 1976).

—. Fundamental Christian Theology (Schmul, 1980).