400-408 – • CBS News (8/6/2012) Shooter Identified As Former US Military Member.
• Diffen, Christianity vs Sikhism. Essentials: Founded by Nanak in 1469 in Punjab, Pakistan. 30 million followers. "Sikh" means disciple or student in Persian-Punjabi. Scriptures are Nanak's writings plus the writings of 9 subsequent Gurus, the 10th Guru said in 1708 there's no longer a need for a living guru. Monotheism, all religions are "equal" and worship the same one god. People are essentially good (rejects depravity). Sin is ignorance. Salvation is through baptism, good works, and after 8.4 million reincarnations, perhaps arriving at god. Oneness with god at the end of the reincarnation cycle is very vague, sounding pantheistic. Most Sikhs reject hell. Male-female equality, no caste system. Monogamy, arranged marriages, no premarital sex, no intoxicants. Followers are identified by five symbols, the 5 K's: Kesh (uncut hair), Kanga (a wooden comb), Kara (a metal bracelet), Kachera (cotton underwear), and Kirpan (ceremonial sword or dagger).
• Billy Hallowell (8/6/2012, Blaze) WHO ARE 'SIKHS' AND WHAT DO THEY BELIEVE? WE EXPLAIN.
• Washington Post (8/6/2012) Some answers about the history of the Sikh religion in India.
• Apologetics Index, Sikhism.
413-423 – Calls – Caller Pamela. Do you know any Sikhs? Did you too believe in reincarnation? Do you know so-called "Christians" who believe in reincarnation too?
LINER – Go to kkla.com and be one of the first 300 people to register for free tickets to our private KKLA pre-screening of "2016: Obama's America" this Thursday night, August 9th, at 7pm at the Edwards theater in old downtown Brea. I'll be doing our show from there, and then I'll welcome everyone at the beginning of this controversial and insightful documentary by best selling author Dinesh D'Souza, and Gerald Molen, producer of Schindler's list. The movie explains why he is reducing America's place in the world, and replacing the American dream with a dream from his father. Why is he working to redistribute wealth and power away from America and toward the rest of the world. And why he wants to remake America by unmaking America. Remember, there's only 300 seats available, they're all free, and you can only get them at kkla.com. And there's a max of only two tickets per registration.
428-438 – Calls – Do you know any Sikhs? Did you too believe in reincarnation? Do you know so-called "Christians" who believe in reincarnation too?
443-452 – Calls – Do you know any Sikhs? Did you too believe in reincarnation? Do you know so-called "Christians" who believe in reincarnation too?
458-508 – Fr. Bob Spitzer, is the Founder and President of the Magis Center of Reason and Faith (magisreasonfaith.org) and the Spitzer Center for Ethical Leadership, both in Irvine. Magis is "dedicated to showing the close connection between faith and reason in contemporary astrophysics, philosophy, and the historical study of the New Testament." Personally, Fr. Bob is "dedicated to personal and cultural transformation that supports principle-based ethics and leads to noble and enduring success."
• Check out their Online Encyclopedia of Reason and Faith at magiswiki.org.
• He was born and raised in Hawaii before going on to earn four graduate degrees: an M.A. in Philosophy from St. Louis University, an M. Div. in Theology from Gregorian University in Rome, a Th.M. in Theology from Cambridge, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Catholic University. He joined the Jesuits in 1974, at the age of 22, and has been ordained since 1983. He's published 5 books, numerous scholarly articles, started 6 national institutes, and from 1998 to 2009 was the President of Gonzaga University (pdf bio).
• Academic Specialties – Philosophy of Science (space-time theory and the big bang), Metaphysics (time and the philosophy of God), and Organizational Ethics (especially with regard to personal and cultural transformation).
• Books – Spirit of Leadership: Optimizing Creativity and Change in Organizations (2000); Healing the Culture: A Commonsense Philosophy of Happiness, Freedom and the Life Issues (2000); Five Pillars of the Spiritual Life: A Practical Guide to Prayer for Active People (2007); New Proofs for the Existence of God: Contributions of Contemporary Physics and Philosophy (2010); and Ten Universal Principles: A Brief Philosophy of the Life Issues (2011), which has been put in curriculum form at healingtheculture.com.
512-523 – Fr. Bob Spitzer, Calls – Your questions on catholicism?
528-539 – Fr. Bob Spitzer, Calls – Your questions on catholicism?
544-554 – Fr. Bob Spitzer, Calls – Your questions on catholicism?
558-608 – Wesley J. Smith, an attorney, bioethicist, and Co-Director of the Center on Human Exceptionalism at the Discovery Institute (discovery.org/che). His blog, Secondhand Smoke: Your 24/7 Seminar on Bioethics and the Importance of Being Human, runs at First Things (firstthings.com/blogs/secondhandsmoke). His latest book is Consumer's Guide to a Brave New World (2010) (Amazon), and among his earlier books are A Rat is a Pig is a Dog is a Boy: The Human Cost of Animal Rights (2009) (Amazon); Forced Exit: Euthanasia, Assisted Suicide and the New Duty to Die (2006) (Amazon); and Culture of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America (2002) (Amazon). Wesley and his wife, Debra Saunders, are Eastern Orthodox.
• Nearly every time he's on, we get updates on the latest in wacko environmentalism news, like what's going on with ecocides, the "rights of nature" movement, and crimes against other plants, like the decapitation of a dandelion. And, with regards to animal life, the latest on speciesism, PETA, transhumanism, machicide, PAS, euthanasia, eugenics, cryogenics, wrongful birth lawsuits, after-birth abortion, and other efforts to minimize human exceptionalism. See this wacky site eradicatingecocide.com/the-trial.
If your intellectual starting blocks are atheism, philosophical naturalism, and macro-evolution, you will eventually arrive at scientism, speciesism, and transhumanism. Once you lose "in the beginning God," and "God created man in his image," you will eventually lose human exceptionalism. A new religion will emerge, a nexus of science, philosophy, and theology, along with choruses of nice sounding moral platitudes about oneness, unity and peace. But the evil in men's hearts will soon morph this utopian drive to deliver a Brave New World into a hall of horrors. Nietsche's will to power will manifest, the Uberman will give way to the Last Man, and the result will be the hell of state-sponsored eugenics.
To bring it all together… if the state has the right to force you to pay for things that violate your conscience, and national healthcare will be distributing limited resources, you have the situation where the state will be telling you not only how to live but who should live. If you think it's wrong to take the money for grandpa's heart transplant and give it to a young worker's sex transplant, then too bad. If the state decides it's in it's interest to do so, you're not only going to lose the argument, you're going to pay for it.
• Today, we start with what Wesley calls "biological colonialism," and a subset of it called "Biological Gestational Colonialism." It works like an international "rent-a-womb," where people are sending embryos to India to be gestated for a price. If "colonialism" was taking the natural resources of a poor country, now it's in the biological realm – we're taking their organs or renting their organs. There's a related story – the international black market in kidneys is estimated at about 10,000 per year. In China, prisoners are murdered so their organs can be harvested. (There's a book tied to this entitled "Larry's Kidney.")
• Wesley J. Smith (8/13/2012, Weekly Standard) A Religious Freedom Election: A court case in Colorado shows what's at stake this fall.
612-623 – Wesley J. Smith,
628-639 – Wesley J. Smith,
644-656 – Wesley J. Smith,
LINER – Go to kkla.com and be one of the first 300 people to register for free tickets to our private KKLA pre-screening of "2016: Obama's America" this Thursday night, August 9th, at 7pm at the Edwards theater in old downtown Brea. I'll be doing our show from there, and then I'll welcome everyone at the beginning of this controversial and insightful documentary by best selling author Dinesh D'Souza, and Gerald Molen, producer of Schindler's list. The movie explains why he is reducing America's place in the world, and replacing the American dream with a dream from his father. Why is he working to redistribute wealth and power away from America and toward the rest of the world. And why he wants to remake America by unmaking America. Remember, there's only 300 seats available, they're all free, and you can only get them at kkla.com. And there's a max of only two tickets per registration.
• Fox News (8/5/2012) Arizona man sent to jail for holding Bible studies in his home.
