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Last Days News - October
11, 2010
Most Americans Uninformed About Religions, Survey Says...
"You will, My children, pray for your bishops and your clergy. Pray for those who have still a small flicker of faith in their hearts that they may re-kindle their faith and stand up and be counted." - Our Lady, May 29, 1976
Pittsburg Post-Gazette reported on September 28, 2010:
Atheists/agnostics, Jews and Mormons scored best in a national quiz on religious knowledge, getting about 20 out of 32 questions right, according to a survey from the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.
Mid-level performers were white evangelicals, white Catholics and white mainline Protestants, while those who said they were "nothing in particular," black Protestants and Hispanic Catholics scored lowest.
While most Americans claim religion is very important to them, "large numbers of Americans are uninformed about the tenets, practices, history and leading figures of major faith traditions -- including their own. Most people also think the constitutional restrictions on religion in public schools are stricter than they really are," according to "The U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey."
The bilingual survey interviewed 3,412 adults. Most questions were multiple choice. The average score was 16 of 32.
The highest number of people, 89 percent, knew that public school teachers can't lead classroom prayers. But only 23 percent knew that public school teachers can read from the Bible as an example of literature.
Among other high scores: 85 percent knew that atheists don't believe in God, 82 percent knew that Mother Teresa was Catholic and 71 percent knew that Jesus was born in Bethlehem.
About half knew that the Quran is the Islamic holy book, that Joseph Smith was Mormon and that the Jewish Sabbath begins on Friday. Less than one-third knew that most people in Indonesia are Muslim or that salvation through faith alone is a classic Protestant doctrine. The worst score was on whether the medieval theologian Maimonides was Jewish, Catholic, Buddhist, Hindu or Mormon. Just 8 percent of the public -- but 57 percent of Jews -- knew he was Jewish.
The survey was inspired by Stephen Prothero's 2007 book, "Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know -- and Doesn't." Dr. Prothero, professor of religion at Boston University, was an adviser on the survey.
"We have a weird kind of Christianity in America if Christians don't even know what Christianity is," he said.
Religious ignorance hobbles politics and foreign policy because so many movements are rooted in faith, he said.
Americans keep asking for Muslims "who don't believe that there is a fundamental clash of civilizations between Christianity and Islam, who want to bring Islam into the modern world and who are as opposed to terrorism as everyone in the U.S. is," he said. "There are 200 million of them in Indonesia. But we don't know that because we think Indonesia is a Buddhist country."
Scores were tied to education. Those with a graduate degree averaged 22 questions right while high school drop-outs got 11.
"Education is the most powerful predictor in shaping people's overall level of religious knowledge," said Greg Smith, the senior researcher.
But even when education was removed as a factor, atheists/agnostics, Jews and Mormons still finished on top. The same analysis found mainline Protestants, Catholics and the "nothing in particulars" at the bottom.
Most people answered at least half the seven Bible questions correctly. Mormons and white evangelicals scored highest with six and five right answers, respectively.
There weren't enough Muslims in the study to score their results, but Americans know more about Islam than Buddhism or Hinduism. Still, just 52 percent knew Ramadan was the Islamic holy month.
Atheists/agnostics and Jews topped the scores because they did best on questions about religions other than Christianity.
David Balint, a past officer of the nontheistic Center for Inquiry in Pittsburgh, attributed that to the process of becoming a nonbeliever.
"We've taken time to examine the claims those religions and spiritual entities have talked about. But we reject them," he said.
Evan Stoddard, a Mormon bishop and associate dean of Duquesne University's McAnulty School of Liberal Arts, said that Mormons are encouraged to study the Bible and the Book of Mormon from the age of 18 months on up.
When he joins missionaries on home visits, he sees a contrast with those raised as Mormons.
"They don't know the most basic Bible stories. For the most part they don't think about religious matters. Often their personal ideas about God, the purpose of life, salvation and so forth do not fit in the least with the teachings of their professed churches, about which they know very little," he said.
The Rev. David Poecking, director of the office of continuing education for clergy of the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh, said the survey confirms the Catholic church's own findings that many adult Catholics are ill-informed about doctrine. Just 55 percent of Catholics knew the church teaches that consecrated bread and wine is the actual body and blood of Jesus. Most of the rest thought the communion elements were symbols.
"We've discovered that it's hard to learn the intangibles of faith without first learning the tangibles," he said, citing diocesan efforts to raise knowledge.
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"Man shall not condone evil or rationalize sin. Homosexuality is an abomination in the eyes of God and man! The Creator condemns those who do not repent of this sin." - Our Lady of the Roses, August 5, 1977
"Are you so blind that you do not recognize the acceleration of sin among you? Murders abound, thievery, all manner of carnage, destruction of young souls, abortion, homosexuality, condemned from the beginning of time by the Eternal Father. Yet sin has become a way of life. Sin is condoned now, even unto the highest judge of your land and your lands throughout the world. As you have sown so shall you reap. Sin is death, not only of the spirit, but of the body. Wars are a punishment for man's sin, his greed, his avarice." - Our Lady of the Roses, August 14, 1981
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SIN IS INSANITY
"I have told you, counseled you in the past, that sin is insanity. Your
world and its people are involved--they walk as on a treadmill, seeking power
and money and material goods and pleasure. And they go round and about, never
stopping as the world plunges faster to the abyss.” – Our Lady, August 4,
1979
FREE WILL
"I say unto you, as your God, I bring not your destruction. You will bring about
your own destruction, for I leave you, as your God, to the exercise of your free
will. In your free will, if you reject your God and the plan for man's
redemption as given from the beginning of time, I say unto you, you will destroy
yourselves.
"Sin is insanity; insanity shall be loosed upon your world. There will come
a time, if you continue on your present path, so vile and evil upon mankind that
those who are living will envy the dead.” – Jesus, May 18, 1977
THE GREAT FOUNDATION
"Pray constantly your Rosary, your beads of prayer to Heaven. Remain unified in
your family lives. The institution of your country--the great foundation is
based on family life. Destroy the family and you destroy your country. The
enemies--the enemy is already within your country. Watch and pray well, My
children." - Our Lady, June 18, 1980
READ YOUR BIBLES
"Your word of homosexuality can be explained by
the story of Sodom and Gomorrah. Read in your Bibles or consult your clergy.
Find yourselves, My children, a humble, pious clergy. Many have fallen away
from the Faith." Our Lady, October 6, 1992
PASTORS HELD RESPONSIBLE
"We hold the pastors of My Son's House, We hold
them as being responsible for the fall of the children. Be ye warned now, My
children, that woe to the man who has this responsibility upon his conscience
and his soul. Scandals have been brought into the lives of your children.
Perversion, homosexuality, immorality, perverted sex, My children-where shall
you stop but at the abyss!" Our Lady, December 7, 1977
AN ABOMINATION
"Man shall not condone evil or rationalize sin.
Homosexuality is an abomination in the eyes of God and man! The Creator condemns
those who do not repent of this sin." Our Lady, August 5, 1977
BLACK CLOUD OVER AMERICA
"In the days of Sodom, so too were men giving
themselves over to all the pleasures of the flesh: eating, drinking, marrying,
giving in marriage. All manner of sinful lusts are being committed. Men shameful
with men, women casting aside their role of motherhood and lusting after women.
As it was in the days of Sodom, so now is this black cloud over America."
Our Lady, July 14, 1979
SODOM: "WE DESTROYED IT"
"And the great issue now of homosexuality in your
country, that shall be on the balance that Michael holds. Unless this balance
is evened by removing this evil from your country and bringing in just laws to
prevent the spread of homosexuality, you cannot be saved; your country cannot be
saved. Because I repeat again, as I have repeated in the past: When a country
has given itself over to immorality and all pleasures of the flesh, and
abominations of the flesh, then that country will fall! If you do not believe
Me, My children, I say: You will read your history books, and you will find out
that there was a Sodom and Gomorrah. And what did We do to that abominable
city, Sodom? We destroyed it! And what did We do to Gomorrah? We destroyed
it! And We destroyed all who did not follow the plan for their redemption."
Jesus, November 1, 1985
SIN:
FORERUNNER OF WAR
"For sin is always a forerunner for war, My
children: murders, persecutions, robberies, all manners of sins of the flesh,
homosexuality, lesbianism, perversion, sodomy. Sodom and Gomorrah fell for less
sins than you have committed now upon your earth. Noah took to the ark and the
world was in a better state spiritually than your world now; for you have
accepted a sophisticated manner of sin, based on man's reasoning and not God's
truth." Our Lady, October 2, 1979
ANY COUNTRY
"Any country that allows homosexuals to roam and
to seduce the young shall be destroyed." Our Lady, June 30, 1984
Directives from Heaven... https://www.tldm.org/directives/directives.htm
D167 - The Family - Part 1
D168 - The Family - Part 2
D174 - Homosexuality, Part 2
D175 - Defilement of the Young
D176 - Sodom and Gomorrah
D181 - Mind Control & Indoctrination
Articles…
Homosexuality a disorder:
"Homosexuality is not hardwired," concludes head of the Human Genome Project
https://www.tldm.org/News10/HomosexualityNotHardwired.htmExpert research finds homosexuality more dangerous than smoking
https://www.tldm.org/News10/HomosexualityMoreDangerousThanSmoking.htmWhat the Saints say about the sin of homosexuality
https://www.tldm.org/news7/homosexualitySaints.htmPope Benedict: homosexuals destroy themselves
https://www.tldm.org/News9/PopeHomosexualsDestroyThemselves.htmPope Benedict blasts 'dismal theories' on gays
https://www.tldm.org/News9/homosexualityPopeDismalTheories.htmU.S. sexuality survey shows homosexuals 107% more likely to engage in criminal activities
https://www.tldm.org/News8/homosexualityCriminalActivity.htmGreat Britain study says 43% of gays, lesbians, and bisexuals have a mental disorder
https://www.tldm.org/news7/GayMentalDisorder.htmSpanish Archbishop refers to homosexuality as an "epidemic" and a "fount of psychological problems and painful frustrations"
https://www.tldm.org/News7/homosexualityArchbishopSebastian.htmCanadian Bishop: The State must curtail homosexuality for the common good
https://www.tldm.org/News7/homosexualityBishopHenry.htmHomosexuality and Hope: excerpts taken from a document by the Catholic Medical Association
https://www.tldm.org/news6/ssa.htmGhana bans homosexual conference, says its "culture, morality and heritage totally abhor homosexual and lesbian practices"
https://www.tldm.org/News9/homosexualityGhana.htmGay marriage:
Vatican: Gay marriage evil
https://www.tldm.org/News10/AbortionTerrorismWithAHumanFace.htmJohn Paul II calls gay marriage part of "ideology of evil"
https://www.tldm.org/news7/homosexualMarriageIdeologyOfEvil.htmTop Vatican Cardinal: gay marriage is "a crime which represents the destruction of the world"
https://www.tldm.org/News8/homosexualityCardinalTrujillo.htmCanadian Cardinal warns Senate of impending anti-Christian prosecution with gay 'marriage'
https://www.tldm.org/News8/homosexualityAnti-ChristianProsecution.htmMaryland Catholic bishops identify "coordinated effort" in homosexual war on the family
https://www.tldm.org/News8/HomosexualWarOnFamily.htmAmerica: Slouching towards Gomorrah
https://www.tldm.org/news5/gomorrah.htmJohn Paul II urges authorities to stop gay marriages
https://www.tldm.org/News6/homosexuality10.htmReversible:
NARTH psychiatrist says study claiming biological basis for homosexuality "absolute rubbish"
https://www.tldm.org/News9/homosexualityBiologicalBasisRubbish.htmEx-gays protest APA claim that homosexuality is irreversible
https://www.tldm.org/News9/homosexualityNotIrreversible.htmPsychiatrist who maintained that homosexuality is a curable disorder dies at age 83
https://www.tldm.org/News8/homosexualitySocarides.htmStudy finds new evidence that childhood family factors influence sexual orientation
https://www.tldm.org/News9/homosexualityChildhoodFactors.htm"Homosexuality is not hardwired," concludes head of the Human Genome Project
https://www.tldm.org/News10/HomosexualityNotHardwired.htmAIDS:
Pope Benedict: Church has "the only failsafe way to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS"
https://www.tldm.org/News8/PopeBenedictAIDS.htm
Links...
Catholic Medical Association: Homosexuality and Hope
http://www.cathmed.org/publications/homosexuality.html
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Place a Crucifix on the
outside of your front and back door... The only real
protection against terrorists...
Jesus - "Pray and wear your sacramentals. And, also, My
children, I ask you again to place a crucifix upon your door. Both front and
back doors must have a crucifix. I say this to you because there will be carnage
within your areas, and this will pass you by if you keep your crucifix upon your
doors." (6-30-84)
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protect your children and your households. Learn the use every day of holy water
throughout your household. Insist even with obstructions, insist that your
children always wear a sacramental. One day they will understand that they will
repel the demons."
On February 1, 1974, Our Lady said, "My children, know the value of these
sacramentals. Guard your children well. You must awaken to the knowledge that
you will not be protected without the sacramentals. Guard your children's souls.
They must be surrounded with an aura of purity. Remove them if necessary from
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The sin of omission... "The sin of omission shall condemn many to hell, be they layman or Hierarchy. I repeat: not the sin of commission, but the sin of omission will commit many to hell." - Our Lady of the Roses, October 6, 1980
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