From today’s TFN News Clips:
“[Y]ou need to know that for our opponents, nothing makes sense except in the light of evolution. The great story coming out of Texas is that their spell has been broken. We have ended the dogmatic teaching of evolution, and we have restored the founders’ idea of a Creator.”
— Outgoing Texas State Board of Education member Don McLeroy, R-College Station, offering his take on the state board’s work on public school curriculum standards over the past two years. McLeroy lost his bid for re-election this year.
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I notice that the Texas Tribune article refers to TFN as a “liberal watchdog group.”
TFN, do you agree with the “liberal” part? I don’t think of you as liberal simply for battling the religious right.
Ben,
As we see it, supporting public education, opposing the politicization of classrooms, and defending religious freedom and civil liberties aren’t, and shouldn’t be, solely liberal or conservative positions. One example: fundamentalist Christians and Republicans at one time were strong supporters of church-state separation. Many true conservatives, as well as liberals, still are because they realize that separation is a critical and fundamental constitutional protection for religious freedom. Those who seek to mix government and religion are radicals who seek to do what the founders clearly opposed. There’s nothing conservative about that.
That is correct. Also, to me, nothing makes sense on earth except in the light of sunlight, gravity, physics, etc.
That teapot is cracked.
Don McLeroy said:
“[Y]ou need to know that for our opponents, nothing makes sense except in the light of evolution. The great story coming out of Texas is that their spell has been broken. We have ended the dogmatic teaching of evolution, and we have restored the founders’ idea of a Creator.”
That’s odd. During the great debates, Don said that his Texas SBOE curriculum work was all to do with science and had nothing to do with religion. Now he is saying that it was all about religion. That’s what I take from the above statement. So, does that mean Don was lying?
Here is a little Biblical roundup hereby attributed and credited to Mr. Richard Anthony). Show me which one says it is okay to lie if you believe you are doing it for God:
“Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour” (Exodus 20:16, the eighth Commandment).
“…true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth” (John 4:23-24).
Leviticus 6:1-4, “And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and lie unto his neighbour…or hath deceived his neighbour…and lieth concerning it, and sweareth falsely; in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein: Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty,”
Leviticus 19:11, “Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.”
Job 11:3,5, “Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed? But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee;”
Job 13:4, “But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.”
Job 24:25, “…who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?”
Psalms 24:4-5, “He…who hath not…sworn deceitfully. He shall receive the blessing from the LORD,”
Psalms 31:6, “I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.”
Psalms 31:18, “Let the lying lips be put to silence;”
Psalms 40:4, “Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.”
Psalms 52:2-4, “Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah. Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.”
Psalms 58:3, “The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.”
Psalms 59:12, “For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.”
Psalms 62:3-4, “… ye shall be slain all of you…they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly.”
Psalms 63:11, “…the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.”
Psalms 101:7, “He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.”
Psalms 109:2, “For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.”
Psalms 119:29, “Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.”
Psalms 119:69, “The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.”
Psalms 119:163, “I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love.”
Psalms 120:2, “Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.”
Proverbs 6:16-19, “These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.”
Proverbs 8:7, “For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.”
Proverbs 10:18, “He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.”
Proverbs 12:19, “The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.”
Proverbs 12:22, “Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight.”
Proverbs 13:5, “A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.”
Proverbs 14:5, “A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies.”
Proverbs 14:25, “A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful witness speaketh lies.”
Proverbs 17:4, “A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.”
Proverbs 17:7, “Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.”
Proverbs 19:5, “A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape.”
Proverbs 19:9, “A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish.”
Proverbs 19:22, “The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar.”
Proverbs 21:6, “The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.”
Proverbs 26:28, “A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.”
Proverbs 29:12, “If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked.”
Proverbs 30:6, “Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.”
Proverbs 30:8, “Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:”
Isaiah 28:15,17, “Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement;…for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:…the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.”
Isaiah 30:9, “That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:”
Isaiah 32:7, “The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.”
Isaiah 44:24-25, “…I am the LORD…That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad;”
Isaiah 59:2-4, “But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear. For…your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness…they trust in vanity, and speak lies; ”
Isaiah 59:12-13, “For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them; In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.”
Isaiah 63:8, “For he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie: so he was their Saviour.”
Jeremiah 7:4, “Trust ye not in lying words,”
Jeremiah 7:8-9, “Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit. Will ye…swear falsely…and walk after other gods…?”
Jeremiah 9:3, “And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.”
Jeremiah 9:5, “And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.”
Jeremiah 14:14, “Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart.”
Jeremiah 15:18, “Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?”
Jeremiah 16:19, “…Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.”
Jeremiah 23:14, “I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies:”
Jeremiah 23:26, “How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart;”
Jeremiah 23:32, “Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the LORD.”
Jeremiah 27:10, “For they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from your land; and that I should drive you out, and ye should perish.”
Jeremiah 29:23, “Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours’ wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and am a witness, saith the LORD.”
Ezekiel 13:8, “Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have spoken vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, saith the Lord GOD.”
Ezekiel 13:19, “And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear your lies?”
Ezekiel 13:22-23, “Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life: Therefore ye shall see no more vanity, nor divine divinations: for I will deliver my people out of your hand: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.”
Ezekiel 22:28, “And her prophets have daubed them with untempered morter, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken.”
Ezekiel 24:12, “She hath wearied herself with lies, and her great scum went not forth out of her: her scum shall be in the fire.”
Daniel 11:27, “…and they shall speak lies at one table; but it shall not prosper:”
Hosea 4:2, “By swearing, and lying…they break out and blood toucheth blood.”
Hosea 7:3, “They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.”
Hosea 10:13, “Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men.”
Jonah 2:8, “They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.”
Micah 6:12-13, “…the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth. Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins.”
Nahum 3:1, “Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies”
Zephaniah 3:13, “The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth:”
Zechariah 8:16, “These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour;”
Zechariah 13:3, “…Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of the LORD: ”
Malachi 2:6, “The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips:”
Matthew 15:19, “For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts…false witness…These are the things which defile a man: ”
John 8:44, “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.”
Acts 5:3, “…why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, ”
Acts 26:25, “But he [Paul] said, I am not mad, most noble Festus; but speak forth the words of truth and soberness.”
Romans 1:24-25, “…through the lusts of their own hearts…Who changed the truth of God into a lie,”
Romans 9:1, “I say the truth in Christ, I lie not,”
2 Corinthians 11:31, “The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.”
Galatians 1:20, “Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not.”
Ephesians 4:25, “Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.”
Colossians 3:9, “Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;”
1 Timothy 1:9-10, “…the law is not made for a righteous man, but…for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;”
1 Timothy 2:7, “Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not)”
1 Timothy 4:2, “Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;”
James 3:14, “But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.”
Titus 1:2, “…God…cannot lie, ”
Hebrews 6:18, “…in which it was impossible for God to lie, ”
1 John 1:6, “If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:”
1 John 2:4, “He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.”
1 John 2:21, “I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.”
1 John 2:22, “Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.”
1 John 2:27, “But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.”
1 John 4:20, “If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?”
Revelation 2:2, “…thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:”
Revelation 3:9, “Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which…do lie;”
Revelation 21:8, “…and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone:”
Revelation 21:27, “And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life.”
Revelation 22:14-15, “Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. For without are…whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.”
Judgment
In the New Testament books, there is an example of two people lying, Ananias and his wife Sapphira. Both of their lives were taken away by the Lord for lying. We should take to heart this example and understand how much God hates lying.
Acts 5:1-11, “But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, And kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles’ feet. But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land? Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God. And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost: and great fear came on all them that heard these things. And the young men arose, wound him up, and carried him out, and buried him. And it was about the space of three hours after, when his wife, not knowing what was done, came in. And Peter answered unto her, Tell me whether ye sold the land for so much? And she said, Yea, for so much. Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out. Then fell she down straightway at his feet, and yielded up the ghost: and the young men came in, and found her dead, and, carrying her forth, buried her by her husband. And great fear came upon all the church, and upon as many as heard these things.”
Now, here are the two clinchers:
Proverbs 6:16-19, “These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an ABOMINATION unto him: A proud look, A LYING TONGUE, and hands that shed innocent blood, An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.”
Zechariah 13:3, “…Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of the LORD: ”
Just like the Christian fundamentalists, conservative evangelicals, and Christian Neo- Fundamentalists say with regard to practicing homosexuals, lying is an abomination before the Lord, and those who lie in God’s name are deserving of death.
Questions?
Dang, Charles, you pretty well covered that subject. We should present Don with a leatherbound copy on parchment as a going away present.
Charles, Sure there are THOSE. But outside of those, you’ve got nothing. Admit it!