Charlie Johnston.

Wow not THE Charlie Johnston from Colorado!

What a pleasure and a reassurance to have you here on the forum at this time Charlie.

Love your avatar. I have to go to work, chat later. I have so many questions I don't quite know where to start...

 

Welcome Charlie,

In the past week you have become one of my favourite writers - don't want to give you a big head but love your blogs

 

Welcome for sure!

 

Ditto!

Forward in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary!

 

Welcome Charlie! Nice to have you in Our Mother's family room! I am the Andy that you kindly responded to my Facebook message about adding your messages to the Facebook group Heavenstillspeaks.

Your blog has been a wonderful and timely find and many on the group are wowed as I am about what you have to say.

 

Welcome Charlie!

God blessings!

 

Thank you, kindly, all for the welcome. Those who know me know one of my two biggest dictums is to urge people to be a sign of hope. It makes me happy to people here finding hope in my sometimes stark comments. God bless all of you.

 

[13] And now there remain faith, hope, and love, these three: but the greatest of these is love.

God is all three but most of all God is love. We must have strong faith and Godly hope but most of all we must too be love in the times ahead and be a beacon of light with this love in a world of ever growing darkness and a world that will lose their hope when the world around them crumbles. Many have put their faith and hope in the world and not God and when you put your hope and faith in things that can be taken from you, one will fall. We must put our faith and hope only in God who can never fall and we must help our dear brothers and sisters to learn to do so as well as we once had to learn this ourselves.

 

It's wonderful that you are now a member of this forum.

It's your writings that i'm thinking could be 'the intro' i've been looking for to offer to a relative that i so wish to have some form of warning that things are going to be changing so soon.

May I ask how you 'discovered' this forum.

 

Welcome Charlie! Thank you so much for joining us. I hope it's not rude of me to ask a question so soon but i do have one i'd like to ask. I realize this country's (USA) infrastructure has been systematically disassembled. We are very vulnerable, as a people, and especially as Christians. We know the enemy is targeting us and our Church. Do you believe our rights as Christians will be slowly removed or that there will be a major event resulting in our immediate persecution?

 

If the US would only do what Our Lady of America requested all would probably go much better for us but sadly our Bishops have not completed the task:

http://www.ewtn.com/library/BISHOPS/burkeolamer.htm

http://www.ourladyofamerica.org/explanation.php

 

Welcome Charlie I have to say your blog is intriguing looking forward to your contribution on the forum.

 

Sorry to be skeptical Charlie but how do we know the person signed up here is really the same person? Of course you have nothing to prove and it will likely become obvious with your posts but I tend to be cautious. And don't take this the wrong way but I find your stand with Israel picture a bit one sided and off putting. As Israel bombs hospitals and innocent people including childen into tiny bits under the laughable excuse of self defence that line ties itself to these actions. The Charlie I have read quite a bit lately doesn't strike me as a take sides type person since he sees things from a blessed perpective.

No offence intended in any of this. All the best. Mark

 

No offense taken, but you could ascertain it is me by checking my Facebook Acct.,, which is linked here and see that I am the owner of the Abraham's Journey Page.

I do take sides in matters of good and evil - and always have. I try to be diplomatic and careful on The Next Right Step (my blog), but I am completely a supporter of Israel in their struggle. Islam is a satanic deception. It has been a very effective one, and has deceived many very good people. I have been very careful about that because our duty is similar to that of St. Juan Diego. He was called not to crush the Aztecs, despite their bloodthirsty ways, but to crush the bloody cult of Qexlcoatl in order to rescue those same Aztecs from the deception that was killing them.

I take the atrocities of Islam personally in another way. Mohammed claimed Gabriel gave him these instructions. Gabriel has been my primary guide, instructor and friend. He is a kind, good angel who is cares tenderly for those of us here; NOT some bloodthirsty savage seeking to foment rape, torture and murder. I loathe Islam for its atrocities, for the horrific damage to the souls it has deceived, and for the vicious slander against Gabriel that it is. That latter particularly pleases the satan.

Some are disappointed to discover I have a rather martial spirit. My third primary duty is to Defend the Faithful. That is not just a figure of speech and I have always known it is not. The Israeli's ARE engaged in self-defense. If you expect me to develop sympathy for the murderous death cult that has targeted Israel for extinction - and that names streets and parks after cowardly brutes that murder Jewish babies in their sleep - you really have me pegged completely wrong.

 

"Laughable excuse of self defense" really??

 

No one wants to see any innocent people suffer, but to say that Israel is the aggressor when they are surrounded by enemies who have publicly stated they want to annihilate them is very misleading. I think the opinion piece below is spot on. Again, I need to come back to the lack of leadership exhibited by Obama as a main cause for what is happening around the world right now. His policies IMO have created a moral and ethical vacuum in the world that is being filled by those designed to commit evil acts.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...dabe0c-0de4-11e4-8c9a-923ecc0c7d23_story.html

 

Miker,

Thank you for that piece by Charles Krauthammer. I agree that Israel does show restraint. That is good, though far from perfect. When the USA invaded Iraq, the stated motivation was to dispose a tyrant in possession of WMD. Saddam was disposed but no such weapons were found. Israel has gone to war against Gaza and it is lopsided, to say the least. Sadly, war in the last 100 years has always resulted in civilian casualties; this one is no exception. I do believe Israel has a right to protect itself, and unlike the Iraqi war, the threat is obvious and concrete.

Forward in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary!

 

We all need to stand with our brothers and sisters in Israel who are under assault from evil that wants to extinguish them.

 

Thanks for your quick responce and insight. I respect your thoughts and position. I don't disagree with your opinion on Islam. There are radicals from all religions too though including Jews and Christians. I do disagree that the Israeli political leaders and military are NOT following the commandments of God at all. (i'm not talking about jewish people in general and I am no anti-semite, anyone that critizes Israel gets this label) Even not accepting Jesus as saviour "yet", God didn't say Thou Shall Not Kill unless someone tries to kill you then you can kill their entire village, take out a hospital and kill some kids for good measure. Satan's influence is clear in Israel too. I would relate this action to living in a house with 4 middle eastern families living on each side. All are good people just wanting to live in peace except one. This one attempts to harm you and you kill all people from the 4 houses. This is what Israel does basically and I don't support it one bit. All Islamic people are part of a murderous death cult? Are these kids of no value to God? Sorry maybe best we agree to disagree. I have tremendous respect and admiration for you, your blessed position and your effective, heaven sent writings. I didn't come here to stir trouble or get you or anyone upset. All killing is wrong. Not believing the saviour has come yet is also a deception.

 

Hey Mario, one of the things that has astounded me as the Storm has approached over the last few decades is how false tropes become conventional wisdom - usually because of a media that is both ignorant and willfully misinforms people.

The source always cited for the definitive absence of large quantities of WMDs in Iraq is the Duelfer Report. The actual source is the New York Times (NYT) story on the Duelfer Report. The problem is the NYT story bears scant resemblance to the actual Report. I like to read actual documents, because I lost my confidence in the media's ability to report even basic facts accurately over two decades ago. Duelfer did report that, at the time of invasion, there were no large quantities of WMD in Iraq - which is about the only part of the Report the NYT wrote about.

Duelfer ALSO reported that there had been massive quantities of WMDs in Iraq shortly before tensions rose. The investigation showed that the WMDs were moved out of the country during the months of diplomatic maneuvering before invasion - probably to Syria. Several nations - including France, Germany and probably Russia - had promised Saddam that, in exchange for oil contracts, they would force the lifting of sanctions at the UN and block any authorization of invasion. During this period, politicians in several of these countries enriched themselves through corrupt abuse of the 'Oil for Food' program - the largest scandal in U.N. history - and probably the largest financial scandal in world history. You never heard a lot about it because it was almost entirely perpetrated by 'progressives,' you know, the people who consider God, America and Western Civilization to be history's great villains. Duelfer reported that Saddam had put in place protocols so that, within 30-60 days of the final veto of an invasion plans and the lifting of sanctions, he would be able to reconstitute his WMD program, bringing back the materials he had hidden in terror-friendly countries and be fully operational.

The Duelfer Report's conclusion is a delicious irony, for it completely contradicts the spin the media put on it from the start and has been the conventional wisdom ever since. Duelfer's conclusion? That Iraq presented a clear and present danger - and that The United States must invade if it were to prevent potentially massive casualties. Interestingly, if those corrupt countries enabling Saddam had instead stood firm on sanctions and WMDs, Saddam would have found it much harder to set up the reconstitution protocols and it is much more likely we would never have had to go to war at all.