What Does Progressive Christianity Smell Like? Marxist Infiltration?

Christians are careful, afraid to call a spade a spade, often accused by present day progressive “cultural Marxist” ‘Critical Theory’ of “being judgmental”, so we often have to walk on eggs. So Alisa Childers unpacks very carefully this new trend in Western Christianity that took over the torch from the ‘Emergent Church’ which kind of petered out.

This MUST WATCH interview is well done. The interviewer asks the right questions, and
Alisa Childers answers them thoroughly, based on her own experiences in a “progressive church”. If you want to know if YOUR church is going down this subtle garden path, make sure to watch it, so you can get some discernment to recognise the little snakes in the grass.

“Progressive Christianity is Dangerous”

What is a “church” or the Church Anyway?

Did you ever realise that in the entire Bible it doesn’t say anywhere “to go to church on Sunday?” But Jesus DID give some other very direct commandments that are kind of ignored by those who stress church attendance, like “GO into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature.” The church in the WORD is not a building, nor an organisation or denomination, but “church’ comes from the Greek word “Ekklesia” which in those Greek old days meant something like a council of people selected out of the populace to serve the community.and that is the term the Gospel writers chose for the early groups of scattered & persecuted first Christians.

Others say the Church (Capital C) is the body of ALL born again saved believers in Christ, no matter where they are or what they belong to, and Jesus is the Head of the Church in Heaven. The Early Church was a collection of house or home churches that shared all things and were engaged in the spreading of the Gospel. And it seems that we are again going back to those difficult days with the increasing worldwide persecution. Many church buildings and church congregations are being attacked, burned, ransacked, and even members hurt and killed all over the world. Look at France for example.

SO The early churches were not places of worship to congregate once a week to listen to a preacher and a worship band to squint their eyes and wave their arms in the air for an hour. No, they lived and banded together to live active Christian lives to change the world and culture around them with Love and the Gospel from the Word of God. That is quite a different picture. They didn’t “forsake the assembling together” for they loved each other and lived and worked together in sowing and reaping the harvest together. As Jesus said, “Hereby shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love one to another.”

Now that is a church that is not “progressive” but one that makes progress and spreads the Gospel everywhere and makes disciples of all nations. And mind you, then – in that first century – there was no other kind of church than that. In the consequent centuries they stopped living together and took over the pagan temples, threw out the idols and gathered once a week for services or mass.

In fact our service only begins when we leave the buildings when we go out and reach others with the Gospel, as Jesus Himself did hoofing it on the hot dusty Galilean roads preaching everywhere. As He said to His disciples who just returned from buying bread in town, “I have food to eat you don’t know about”. They said, “Has anyone given him bread to eat?”
Jesus answered, “My food is to do the will of my Father. Don’t say, there are yet 4 months and then comes harvest, for I say unto you, lift up your eyes and look on the field, for they are already white unto harvest”.

For at that very moment the woman that Jesus had witnessed to before at the well, was returning from town with all her men friends whom she had told about the Messiah! And Jesus saw the white clad crowd coming from afar, and knew that he wouldn’t be able to finish his bite of bread before they arrived and had to start talking with them. As a result they were invited to stay for 2 days in that town, Sychar, where they were wined and dined.

Jesus also said that they would enter into His labor of sowing the seed and that they would be reaping together and enjoying the harvest and wages for their work. Read it for your self in Gospel of John chapter 4. THAT is a picture of a real PROGRESSIVE church, one that makes progress in reaching and taking over the world for the Kingdom of God! Is that the kind of church you belong to? I hope so. Go ye into ALL the world and preach the Gospel to every creature. They that believe and are baptised will be saved,…” Mark 16:15,16.

If you like to be that kind of church member, you are welcome to download our tracts from our site and print them yourself and venture out into your town or city and share them with everyone you meet on your journey. And if they are interested they will ask you questions and ask for the reason of your faith, and then you can share your testimony with them and invite them to pray the Sinners’ prayer…

Dear Jesus, I believe in you, I am a sinner, please forgive me my sins, and please come into my heart and give me your free gift of Eternal Life. In Jesus’ Name I pray, Amen.” And help them thus join the REAL progressive worldwide catholic (universal) Church and Body of Christ and His born again believers.

Archbishop Viganò’s Powerful Letter to President Trump

Eternal Struggle between Good and Evil Playing out Right Now!

Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò warns the president that the current crises over the coronavirus pandemic and the George Floyd riots are a part of the eternal spiritual struggle between the forces of good and evil. We at Paradisepostblog are not Catholic, but there are many Children of God in the Catholic Church as well as in many other churches. This man  Carlo Maria Viganò sounds like one for sure. God bless him for standing up against the present false pope and for God’s Kingdom! This is a MUST READ! DISCLAIMER: We do not promote President Trump. But pray for him and the USA. If the USA goes, FREEDOM will disappear completely, except for the grace of God!

By Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò  Jun 6, 2020

Editor’s note: Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has released this powerful letter today to President Trump warning him that the current crises over the coronavirus pandemic and the George Floyd riots are a part of the eternal spiritual struggle between the forces of good and evil. He encourages the president to continue the fight on behalf of the “children of light.” Read the letter in PDF form here.

[Ed Noor says: This is a very brave man. That is all I can say.  However, the struggle we are involved in today is much older than he mentions: a fact I am sure of which the good Archbishop is aware. This has been brewing for thousands of years, IMHO back to the days of Atlantis. Same forces arranged against us once again. This is not humanity’s first rodeo with these demons but it could be our last if we don’t take action fast. This IS all about spirits and souls no matter what else might be planned for us.]

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June 7, 2020  Holy Trinity Sunday

Mr. President,

In recent months we have been witnessing the formation of two opposing sides that I would call Biblical: the children of light and the children of darkness.

The children of light constitute the most conspicuous part of humanity, while the children of darkness represent an absolute minority.

And yet the former are the object of a sort of discrimination which places them in a situation of moral inferiority with respect to their adversaries, who often hold strategic positions in government, in politics, in the economy and in the media.

In an apparently inexplicable way, the good are held hostage by the wicked and by those who help them either out of self-interest or fearfulness.

These two sides, which have a Biblical nature, follow the clear separation between the offspring of the Woman and the offspring of the Serpent. On the one hand there are those who, although they have a thousand defects and weaknesses, are motivated by the desire to do good, to be honest, to raise a family, to engage in work, to give prosperity to their homeland, to help the needy, and, in obedience to the Law of God, to merit the Kingdom of Heaven.

On the other hand, there are those who serve themselves, who do not hold any moral principles, who want to demolish the family and the nation, exploit workers to make themselves unduly wealthy, foment internal divisions and wars, and accumulate power and money: for them the fallacious illusion of temporal well-being will one day ~ if they do not repent ~ yield to the terrible fate that awaits them, far from God, in eternal damnation.

In society, Mr. President, these two opposing realities co-exist as eternal enemies, just as God and Satan are eternal enemies. And it appears that the children of darkness ~ whom we may easily identify with the deep state which you wisely oppose and which is fiercely waging war against you in these days ~ have decided to show their cards, so to speak, by now revealing their plans. They seem to be so certain of already having everything under control that they have laid aside that circumspection that until now had at least partially concealed their true intentions.

The investigations already under way will reveal the true responsibility of those who managed the Covid emergency not only in the area of health care but also in politics, the economy, and the media.

We will probably find that in this colossal operation of social engineering there are people who have decided the fate of humanity, arrogating to themselves the right to act against the will of citizens and their representatives in the governments of nations.

We will also discover that the riots in these days were provoked by those who, seeing that the virus is inevitably fading and that the social alarm of the pandemic is waning, necessarily have had to provoke civil disturbances, because they would be followed by repression which, although legitimate, could be condemned as an unjustified aggression against the population.

The same thing is also happening in Europe, in perfect synchrony.

It is quite clear that the use of street protests is instrumental to the purposes of those who would like to see someone elected in the upcoming presidential elections who embodies the goals of the deep state and who expresses those goals faithfully and with conviction. It will not be surprising if, in a few months, we learn once again that hidden behind these acts of vandalism and violence there are those who hope to profit from the dissolution of the social order so as to build a world without freedom: Solve et Coagula, as the Masonic adage teaches.

Although it may seem disconcerting, the opposing alignments I have described are also found in religious circles. There are faithful Shepherds who care for the flock of Christ, but there are also mercenary infidels who seek to scatter the flock and hand the sheep over to be devoured by ravenous wolves.

It is not surprising that these mercenaries are allies of the children of darkness and hate the children of light: just as there is a deep state, there is also a deep church that betrays its duties and forswears its proper commitments before God. Thus the Invisible Enemy, whom good rulers fight against in public affairs, is also fought against by good shepherds in the ecclesiastical sphere. It is a spiritual battle, which I spoke about in my recent Appeal which was published on May 8.

(ED Noor: The letter referred to can be found here:

APPEAL FOR THE CHURCH AND THE WORLD to Catholics and all people of good will)

For the first time, the United States has in you a President who courageously defends the right to life, who is not ashamed to denounce the persecution of Christians throughout the world, who speaks of Jesus Christ and the right of citizens to freedom of worship.

Your participation in the March for Life, and more recently your proclamation of the month of April as National Child Abuse Prevention Month, are actions that confirm which side you wish to fight on. And I dare to believe that both of us are on the same side in this battle, albeit with different weapons.

For this reason, I believe that the attack to which you were subjected after your visit to the National Shrine of Saint John Paul II is part of the orchestrated media narrative which seeks not to fight racism and bring social order, but to aggravate dispositions; not to bring justice, but to legitimize violence and crime; not to serve the truth, but to favor one political faction.

It is disconcerting that there are Bishops ~ such as those whom I recently denounced ~ who, by their words, prove that they are aligned on the opposing side. They are subservient to the deep state, to globalism, to aligned thought, to the New World Order which they invoke ever more frequently in the name of a universal brotherhood which has nothing Christian about it, but which evokes the Masonic ideals of those want to dominate the world by driving God out of the courts, out of schools, out of families, and perhaps even out of churches.

The American people are mature and have now understood how much the mainstream media does not want to spread the truth but seeks to silence and distort it, spreading the lie that is useful for the purposes of their masters.

However, it is important that the good ~ who are the majority ~ wake up from their sluggishness and do not accept being deceived by a minority of dishonest people with unavowable purposes.

It is necessary that the good, the children of light, come together and make their voices heard.

What more effective way is there to do this, Mr. President, than by prayer, asking the Lord to protect you, the United States, and all of humanity from this enormous attack of the Enemy? Before the power of prayer, the deceptions of the children of darkness will collapse, their plots will be revealed, their betrayal will be shown, their frightening power will end in nothing, brought to light and exposed for what it is: an infernal deception.

Mr. President, my prayer is constantly turned to the beloved American nation, where I had the privilege and honor of being sent by Pope Benedict XVI as Apostolic Nuncio. In this dramatic and decisive hour for all of humanity, I am praying for you and also for all those who are at your side in the government of the United States. I trust that the American people are united with me and you in prayer to Almighty God.

United against the Invisible Enemy of all humanity, I bless you and the First Lady, the beloved American nation, and all men and women of good will.

+ Carlo Maria Viganò

Titular Archbishop of Ulpiana

Former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States of America

More:     German bishops reject COVID-19 ‘conspiracy theories’ by prominent clergy

谁是国际特赦组织的幕后黑手？Who is behind – Qui est derrière – Wer ist hinter – Amnesty International ?

谁是国际特赦组织的幕后黑手？ (ENGLISH, FRENCH, GERMAN TRANSLATIONS BELOW)
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谁是国际特赦组织的幕后黑手？

“大赦国际主要由其公共捐款和捐赠提供资金。 各国政府没有要求或接受任何资金来调查和打击侵犯人权行为。 大赦国际独立于任何政府、政治意识形态、经济利益或宗教。 »

据大赦国际称，它是世界上最有影响力的人权组织之一。 与此同时，该组织2015年的官方财务报告指出了捐助者，如乔治*索罗斯（George Soros）的开放社会基金会或福特基金会的结构。

美国国家民主基金会（NED）由美国国会通过美国国际开发署（USAID）的预算正式资助，也在2008至2010的前几份报告中提到。

有趣的是，当媒体开始越来越多地谈论国际特赦组织的参与时，该组织的官方收入报告和前几年的报告开始从互联网上消失。 现在，很难找到确认AI曾经为NED的利益而工作，NED是一个积极支持阿拉伯青年运动的组织，后来在中东和北非国家发生的一系列”色彩革命”中积极参与。

US Christian who refuses to pay taxes until abortion is defunded has first big win in court

Calvin Freiburger – Life Site News April 18, 2018

Like 60% of Americans, Michael Bowman opposes taxpayer funding of abortion. Unlike most Americans, he is currently squaring off against the Internal Revenue Service to avoid doing so.

Bowman is a 53-year-old Christian and contract engineer in Columbia City, Oregon. He has refused to file a tax return or pay taxes since 1999, The Oregonian reports, citing the federal government’s funding of the abortion industry.

“I’m not a tax protester. I love my country,” he told the paper. “I have a duty to my country. I have a duty to my conscience.”

The IRS has sent him numerous warnings over unpaid taxes from 2002 to 2014, and in 2012 the Oregon Department of Revenue began garnishing money from Bowman’s bank account. In response, he started cashing out his paychecks and leaving only a minimum balance in his account.

This, federal prosecutors say, constituted “remov[ing] his income from the reach of taxing authorities.” They indicted him for felony tax evasion in the amount of $356,857, as well as four misdemeanor counts of willful failure to file tax returns.

Bowman’s attorney, Matthew Schindler, argued that his client was fully transparent every step of the way, from disclosing all of his paychecks to cashing them at his own bank, under his own name.

“Like a player collapsing as they lose Twister, the government has reached too far forward and stretched way too far back,” his motion to dismiss read.

Last week, US District Judge Michael Mosman sided with Bowman on the felony charge, ruling that the feds failed to show he attempted to conceal income or deceive the government. Prosecutors remain free to re-introduce the charge in the future and are currently weighing whether to do so.

On Tuesday, Bowman elaborated on his stand in an interview with CBN News.

“First, I would love to pay taxes so as to have a normal life, however, our government is using the tax dollars to fund Planned Parenthood; which commits abortions – the death of the innocent,” Bowman said. “Apparently, a woman has the right to choose, but evidently, I do not.”

A Syrian Christian Reveals What is Really Happening in Syria

James Perloff — jamesperloff.com March 30, 2018

“H” was born in Damascus, and legally immigrated to the United States from Syria more than 20 years ago, long before the current war began. She became a U.S. citizen and earned a doctor’s degree from an American university. She is completely fluent in both English and Arabic. She recently returned from a trip back to Syria, where she has many family members and friends who keep her apprised of the situation there. She is also one of the kindest and most devoted Christians I have ever met. I am keeping H’s name confidential, as I do not wish this interview to in any way jeopardize her family’s safety in Syria, or the status of her professional work in the U.S.

I originally anticipated that our discussion would be two-part; first I would give her a short primer on the back story of American politics. When we sat down, I told H that I have been a journalist since 1985. I began to explain that America is run by an oligarchy that conceals itself behind a façade of two-party democracy, that Presidential candidates have long been pre-selected, that Americans have been repeatedly deceived into wars, and that our press is controlled by the same establishment that controls the politicians. H was smiling, and I could swiftly tell that nothing I said was news to her. And so it was affirmed that what famed commentator “Syrian Girl” (whose Facebook and YouTube accounts have been censored) said is true: Syrians are well informed about the New World Order. Indeed, Syrians know more about the realities of American geopolitics than most Americans do. So, after about four minutes, I laughed and told H that my “lecture” was over. I now asked her to tell me the truth about Syria. My questions are in normal font, her replies in bold. For this post, I have inserted some pictures and video that correlate with her comments.

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JP: First of all, tell me about Bashar al-Assad. The American media and many politicians here portray him as an evil dictator who is oppressing the people of Syria, and who must be overthrown in one of our never-ending “regime changes.” How do the people of Syria themselves feel about Assad? Especially, I’d like you to tell my readers how Syria’s Christians regard him.

H: They love him. The Christians adore him. He respects all religions. Many Americans have the misconception that Syria is a Muslim state. It is not. It is a secular state, although the Christians are in the minority.

California Gender Bill May Ban the Sale of Bibles

Democrats [read Marxists!] in the alt-left state of California have passed a bill in the Assembly that would ban the sale of books that express Christian beliefs about sexual morality, quite possibly extending to printed texts such as the Bible.

No surprise there, after all this is the same party that once tried to abolish God from their official political platform … three times.

Assembly Bill 2943, which passed by a vote of 50-18, seeks to eliminate the “sale or lease of goods or services to any consumer” that promote “sexual orientation change efforts with an individual.”

Those efforts are subsequently defined as “efforts to change behaviors or gender expressions, or to eliminate or reduce sexual or romantic attractions or feelings toward individuals of the same sex.”

The Bible instills sex as an act meant for marriage between a man and a woman. In other words, its teachings seek to ‘reduce sexual attractions towards individuals of the same sex.’

If you have any sort of natural ability at anything, you can set your own rules.

In the last hundred years we have witnessed the greatest top-down control of art since Medieval times.
And since the definition of fascism is top-down control, this period has been fascist. Modernism is Fascism. The hired writers have tried to flip that, selling it as progressive, but Modernism has never been the least bit progressive.
The mainstream now admits art has been under the control of the CIA since the 1940s, and I have proved it was controlled by the same entities long before that. And who was the CIA controlled by: the wealthiest families, who were controlling society for their own profit. Again, fascism, by definition.
These people weren’t controlling art to combat decadence, as we are told the Nazis were. No, just the opposite. They were controlling art to promote decadence, and they were promoting decadence and confusion in order to spread chaos and misery. Chaos, like war, is wildly profitable. This, too, is now admitted. See Project Chaos and Project Cointelpro, which have been partially declassified. These were, and are, heavily funded premier projects of CIA and FBI, explicitly created to foment and spread chaos. Modernism has been a central stone in that architecture from the beginning. Art has been used as a frontline tool in Project Chaos back to the 19th century. Articles like these at New York magazine are simply a continuation and acceleration of that project, and everyone involved are witting agents. They may or may not have actual cubicles at Langley, but they are on the payroll one way or the other.

“Godlessness: the reason 60 million Russians were swallowed up” – Solzhenitsyn’s Prophetic 1983 Warning

“The West has yet to experience a Communist invasion; religion here remains free. But the West’s own historical evolution has been such that today it too is experiencing a drying up of religious consciousness…. the tide of secularism that, from the late Middle Ages onward, has progressively inundated the West. This gradual sapping of strength from within is a threat to faith that is perhaps even more dangerous than any attempt to assault religion violently from without.”

This article originally appeared on a new site about the Christian renaissance in Russia, called Russian Faith. Their introductory video is at end of this article.

Introduction by Chris Banescu

As a survivor of the Communist Holocaust I am horrified to witness how my beloved America, my adopted country, is gradually being transformed into a secularist and atheistic utopia, where communist ideals are glorified and promoted, while Judeo-Christian values and morality are ridiculed and increasingly eradicated from the public and social consciousness of our nation.

Under the decades-long assault and militant radicalism of many so-called “liberal” and “progressive” elites, God has been progressively erased from our public and educational institutions, to be replaced with all manner of delusion, perversion, corruption, violence, decadence, and insanity.

The Atheist Illusion & Delusion!

Pretty good movie about the nonsense of Atheism, (though I don’t support Ray Comfort’s holiness salvation doctrine). ALL you have to do to be saved is say, like the thief on the cross, “Lord remember me when you come into your kingdom?” Jesus answered, “Today you will be with me in Paradise!” Free gift for all of us sinners. Must watch!