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The Church and most religious institutions are behind in marketing and branding campaigns. Spreading their message is critical to the fabric of their cause but the medium through which you share it, is critical for people to hear your message.
But this one takes the cake.
Story by Huffington Post
Kirk Cameron decided to market towards 50,000 (or 100,000 if they get the needed donations) universities. He has no relationship with them. He isn’t formally telling these universities about his “book dump” on Darwin’s 150 b-day. He’s just spamming them. Spam is an interrupted message you receive without prior approval. I doubt these universities will be happy about receiving these altered books and it’s probably going to cause a lot of controversy via the media.
Even if he nicely shared what he’s doing…does he have an ‘opt-out’ option? I doubt it. He thinks he’s being revolutionary with spamming universities with a new book. Content doesn’t matter when it’s medium is forceful. If no permission was given by the receiver, then the person doesn’t want to hear your good/bad message.
His book might have valid points. Science isn’t beyond reproach/question. It embraces questions and then disproves them with physical data. But, even if his book has valid points, I doubt anyone (maybe 1-2 brave souls) will even read it. Because of the flawed medium which he is about to do.
Kirk will have wasted all that money, time, trees, because his strategy is inherently flawed.
What if some evolution-believing people sent 50k-100k to churches? What would happen? There would be outrage. And I’m very confident that the church would bitch louder. Yea. I said bitch…
Good luck. But I already know the outcome Kirk. You’re going to do yourself (and your cause) a dis-service by doing this. Find a way to get people’s permission and people might hear you but this won’t change anything.
FYI, if you watch the spoof. I almost agree with everything she said. It explains a lot about the issues the church is facing with bringing people to their idea of faith.
Over a month ago, I spent some extensive time watching videos on Masonry and the foundations of America. Most of them seem to have serious biases in their videos. Some try to tie Masonry into a secret Satanic cult that is trying to rule the world, which I’m not totally against, but these groups tend to twist everything into a conspiracy. Others try to say everything that ‘they say’ is fact, when thats almost impossible because your talking about a secret society.
A Christian Nation?
My Christian friends, try to say ‘It’s a Christian nation‘. To which, I’d ask “Is Democracy what God commanded?” And if they say yes, surely they haven’t read the bible. The bible states God wanted* a Theocracy as a government. This is where the people just simply obeyed God. Instead, the people of God decided they wanted to be like the other nations and asked the Prophet Samuel for a King. Which, in truth, is an act of their rejection of God.
Not only that, the New Testament Scripture states we (Christians) should submit to our governing authorities, except if that means denying our faith and/or encouraging wrongful acts (these are the only outliers to obeying that Scripture). [For Scriptural reference just read the Book of Acts, it's full of the Apostles disobeying the governing leaders for the pursuit of faith/truth].
A Masonic Nation?
Based on different movies and articles, I think we aren’t a Masonic nation but we do have a significant impact from the Masonic teachings and beliefs. Where you can blend all religions, where people of different religious beliefs can co-habit. Also, looking at the architecture of many of our (America) monuments you can see the significant impact Masonry has had on the US.
A Jewish Nation?
Look at the back of the dollar, on the right side you’ll see the eagle. Above the eagle you will see stars together. That shape. What is it? The star of David. The sign for Jews.
In addition to this, I had a substitute teacher who seriously knew like 20 languages. I’m not sure exactly how he got his conclusion but it was thought provoking. He dissected the word “America”. First, he split the word to “Amer” and “rica”. Somehow, Amer (translated like twice) means ‘Jerusalem’ and rica means ‘New’. Meaning America=New Jerusalem. Trippy huh? Well, the guy knew his stuff and I doubt I’ll ever see someone who literally knows 20+ languages (latin, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, German, French, English, Spanish, etc). He did some other twisting to get ‘New Jerusalem’ but it was nuts watching it.
Conclusion
You decide because it’s past. We can debate all we want, but neither you, nor I, was there. We can dig up artifacts but that only gives us bits and pieces of information. Where ‘fact’ is proven. Each case has their points and their aspects of the truth. I remain to say, “American was founded on a blended group of people, Christian, Jewish, Masonic, etc, who knew that the human is flawed. Therefore, created a system where no one person had absolute power.” Again, you decide. (Don’t forget to vote on Tuesday either)
If you have time: I encourage you to watch these called ‘Riddles in Stone 1 of 21‘ on YouTube, it’s a video series in a “History Channel” like fashion (letting you decide at the end).
*These terms are used loosely because they open up a can of worms. God is sovereign but describing His plan, purpose in the present is very difficult, without causing more questions. (E.g. ‘if God wanted something, why doesn’t He will it?’ etc etc. :D) So, please, just take it for what it is, and go on your own spiritual journey.