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n the United States today, there are very ¦ An open air preacher in Illinois was
few words that provoke as much recently threatened with arrest for ‘scaring
Ioutrage as the Name of Jesus. It is being people’ with the message of the Gospel.
banned from graduation ceremonies, ¦ A high school track team was disqualified
chaplains all over America are being earlier this year because one of the runners
forbidden from using His Name in their ‘made a gesture thanking God’ once he had
prayers, and many school officials all over crossed the finish line.
the nation have become absolutely ¦ Volunteer chaplains for the Charlotte-
fanatical about eliminating every trace of Mecklenburg Police Department have been
Christian expression from their schools. banned from using the Name of Jesus in
One elementary school in North Carolina their public prayers.
even ordered a little six-year-old girl to ¦ Sadly, this is not an isolated incident.
remove the word “God” from a poem that Chaplains all over the nation are now being
she had written to honour her grand- banned from using the Name of Jesus.
fathers. ¦ Christian prayers were banned at the
funeral services for veterans at Houston's
Political correctness is spreading like a National Cemetery.
cancer in this country, and our “freedom ¦ City officials prohibited senior citizens
of
religion” is rapidly being transformed into from praying over their meals, listening to
a guarantee of “freedom from religion” for religious messages or singing gospel
those that hate the Christian faith. Without songs at a senior activities centre.”
a doubt, there is a war on the Christian
faith in America today. It is being waged in Will America be able to stand if we continue
classrooms, courtrooms and churches all to try to push every shred of the Christian
over the nation. faith out of public life?

The following is an excerpt from a speech In recent months, daredevil Nik Wallenda
that Rand Paul (Randal Howard Paul, the has walked a tightrope across Niagara
junior United States Senator for Kentucky) Falls [see photo below] and has walked a
gave earlier this year: tightrope across the Grand Canyon, and
yet both times the mainstream media has
“There is a war on Christianity, not just gone out of their way to keep the Name of
from liberal elites here at home, but Jesus out of news reports.
worldwide. And your government, or more
correctly, you, the taxpayer, are funding it. Despite Nik Wallenda's frequent mention-
Evidence of this war on Christianity is ing God the Father and Jesus during his
everywhere these days. The following are high-wire crossing of Niagara Falls, an
just a few examples: ABC News blog documenting virtually
every moment of the achievement makes
¦ The Ohio Statehouse banned Christian no mention of his verbal thanks to the
pastors from using the Name of Jesus Creator.
when they open the daily sessions with
prayer. Wallenda, 33, the great grandson of
¦ The use of the Name of Jesus was also legendary tightrope walker Karl Wallenda,
forbidden in all prayer opening sessions of walked across Niagara Falls on a high wire,
the North Carolina State House. as hundreds watched on TV at a block party
¦ Last year, a Federal Appeal Court ruled in his Florida hometown of Sarasota and
that prayers before commission meetings millions of others tuned in for ABC
in Forsyth County, North Carolina that television coverage.
included the Name of Jesus were
unconstitutional. Wallenda was fitted with a microphone
¦ Earlier this year, a Florida Atlantic during his tension-filled, 25-minute
University student that refused to stomp saunter at 200 feet high, and he could be
on the Name of Jesus was banned from heard praising God numerous times as he
class. walked the length of four football fields
¦ A student at Sonoma State University from New York to Canada.
was ordered to take off a cross that she
was wearing because someone ‘could be http://endoftheamericandream.com
offended’.
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