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The Seen and Unseen

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Frederic Bastiat answered that question in his famous 1850 essay, “What is Seen and What is Not Seen.” There the economist and member of the French parliament pointed out that law “produces not only one effect, but a series of effects. Of these effects, the first alone is immediate; it appears simultaneously with its cause; it is seen. The other effects emerge only subsequently; they are not seen; we are fortunate if we foresee them.” Bastiat further noted that “[t]here is only one difference between a bad economist and a good one: The bad economist confines himself to the visible effect; the good economist takes into account both the effect that can be seen and those effects that must be foreseen.”

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June 2nd, 2009 at 8:07 am

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Dan Ariely is brilliant

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May 23rd, 2009 at 8:59 pm

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Time for mainline churches to make a stand

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And here is the reason why:

In general, COE churches also do not have indoctrinations lists for the quarter for cell-church leaders or use Hillsong A/G recordings and other “Christian contemporary” artists in their hymnal or specific promotion of “health and wealth” gospel including sections on “maintaining your healing”. (The latter is, shall we say, unique–apparently failures of faith-healing can literally be blamed on “thinking negative thoughts” and thus “opening doorways to Satan”.)

In other words–we are dealing with something not unlike what happened with Holy Temple Bradenton in the UK–the church that is the originator of the “bait and switch evangelism” Alpha Course. Namely, the church seems itself to have been steeplejacked by NAR promoters from a completely different denomination–in HTB’s case, by a Vineyard-linked “cuckoo church”.

And in tracing the possible influences on Church Of Our Saviour, all roads lead–disturbingly–to Hillsong and to the Denomination Formerly Known As The Australian Assemblies of God.

You may think that these people are united with you on the issue of homosexuality, but in reality it is merely used as a wedge issue in order to take over your church. If you are not militant, hardline and confrontational, then you are not a “real Christian”.

Not only does FCC promote cells openly, but they promote within “women’s cells” a particularly horrific religiously motivated child abuse program (namely the Ezzo’s “Growing Kids God’s Way”, linked starvation deaths and hospitalisations of children and which is essentially a program of religiously motivated child abuse and neglect). In addition, they are quite explicitly NAR in promoting the “fivefold ministry” concept as well as cells and the very Alpha Course invented by the steeplejacked Holy Temple Bradenton.

These are facts that have been reported in Australia and beyond. Is this what you are willing to let happen to your church? They WILL come for you.

Additionally, take note: these cults are virulently anti-Catholic. There are a number of anti-Catholic sites online which are banned in Singapore, and they are all run by these cults which claim to be “Christian”.

Time to make a stand. For the sake of your own faiths.

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April 29th, 2009 at 4:44 pm

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