• Constitutional Issues, Encouragement, Politics, Rob Robinson, Schools, Spiritual Heritage, The Last Days, Understanding acts of violence, Weapons

    Posted on December 16th, 2012

    Written by Rob Robinson

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    The Cure For Gun Violence

    The Cure For Gun Violence

    After a tragedy such as the mass murder of 2o children at Sandy Hook school in Newtown Connecticut, the discussion over banning automatic weapons inevitably comes up. For some people who do not understand the nature of gun violence, they often blame the availability of certain weapons, or all guns, for the violence that often results from people killing others with firearms.

    Outlawing certain guns, or all guns, would not stop a person who is seeking to kill another with a firearm. There are currently over 320 million licensed firearms in the United States. Even if we banned the sale of all new weapons tomorrow, how are we going to control the 320 million guns that are already legally owned?

    The old adage “guns don’t kill people, people kill people”, is absolutely true.

    Studies have shown that in places where there are a high number of good citizens with firearms for their personal protection, the incidents of gun violence by bad people, is very low.

  • America In Prophecy, Schools, Signs on the Earth, The Last Days

    Posted on August 30th, 2010

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    Signs of the Last Days: Teens Becoming ‘Fake Christians’

    Signs of the Last Days: Teens Becoming ‘Fake Christians’

    If you’re the parent of a Christian teenager, Kenda Creasy Dean has this warning: Your child is following a “mutant” form of Christianity, and you may be responsible. Dean says more American teenagers are embracing what she calls “moralistic therapeutic deism.” Translation: It’s a watered-down faith that portrays God as a “divine therapist” whose chief goal is to boost people’s self-esteem. Dean is a minister, a professor at Princeton Theological Seminary and the author of “Almost Christian,” a new book that argues that many parents and pastors are unwittingly passing on this self-serving strain of Christianity. She says this “imposter” faith is one reason teenagers abandon churches. “If this is the God they’re seeing in church, they are right to leave us in the dust,” Dean says. “Churches don’t give them enough to be passionate about.”

  • Freedom of Speech and Religion, Schools

    Posted on June 7th, 2010

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    American History Expert on New Textbook Curriculum

    American History Expert on New Textbook Curriculum

    An American history expert says the social studies curriculum recently approved by the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) is the best he’s seen since before World War II.Defenders of the new social studies standards just passed by the Texas SBOE say it will encourage students to go back to the Constitution and First Amendment to learn about religious freedom. WallBuilders founder and president David Barton was among the six advisers the Board brought in to help rewrite the standards. “You should present history has it happened — the good, the bad, the ugly; the right, the left, the center; the anything else that is out there,” argues the Christian historian. “And I think that’s the final product that we got, despite all the media clamor to the otherwise. When you just read the standards, they’re extremely balanced, extremely fair, and extremely thorough.”