Fowl Workers - "Christian" Homosexual Activists

This group is represented most distinctly by overtly offensive organizations like The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.  The Sisters are not without friends in sheep's shepherd's clothing who reserve seats in their churches for these unrepentant blasphemers. Let us not forget their supporters in high places, who claim to be followers of Christ, and their 'cities of refuge' which promote the degradation of living souls.

This group is also represented by professional ministers and seminarians who worship at the bloodless altar (Joshua 22) of feminine churchianity.  These men wear soft raiment and hire themselves out as preachers. Their love for mammon hinders them from taking a firm stand against popular sins.

Homosexuality is soundly condemned as sin in the Holy Bible. Immoral heterosexuality, sex outside of marriage, is also condemned as a sin.

Well-meaning Christians turn a blind eye to the blasphemes of homosexual writers, especially and particularly their attempts to homosexualize Jesus Christ. Many so-called Christians feel content to deny the authority and reliability of the Bible in calling for a permissive attitude toward homosexuality in churches.

The push to legitimize homosexuality has been so strong on a denominational level that church organizations have ordained active and openly homosexual clergy in violation of their own denominational doctrines against adultery. The result of this overt contradiction of faith and practice has been schism.

Christians are yielding to political correctness, instead of standing on the Word of God.

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Fowl Workers - The Emerging church

The Emerging church is a postmodern group that functions as a deconstructionist movement with the trappings of nominal-Christianity. Their method is to turn the traditional church on it's head embrace all heresies as authentic belief.

Emergers are reported to congregate in bars and house churches when no established church will host them.  They trade traditional communion for house parties, and some of their members report widespread use of hallucinogenic drugs within their ranks.

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Fowl Workers - Westboro Baptist Church

The Westboro Baptist Church is a small congregation in Topeka, Kansas. They have made a name for themselves by staging protests at funerals. The congregation is pastored by Fred Phelps Sr. and consists mostly of his extended family.

The Phelps family is notorious for traveling far and wide throughout the United States to stage protests and seek media attention. Their methods are incongruous with the message of the Gospel, over-emphasizing judgment. They also appear to take pleasure in the misfortunes of others, which is decidedly unchristian.

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Fowl Workers - Kersey Graves

The author of The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors, Kersey Graves (1813-1883) was a former Quaker. His book is widely acknowledged as stealing much from Sir Godfrey Higgins (1782-1833) and his book, Anacalypsis.  Graves denied his plagiarism, but cited very few sources in his work.  So much for scholarship, Mr. Graves!

Graves often detours from his presentation of "facts" to state his aim of destroying Christianity. Graves claimed to be a champion of Freethought. But like most self-proclaimed free thinkers, he couldn't tolerate religion in general and Christianity in particular. So much for free thinking, Mr. Graves!

I examined the sixteen characters from Chapter 16 of Graves' book, The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors. I rated each character on ten criteria that Graves acknowledged as being characteristics attributed to Jesus Christ. The list of criteria I choose are not mentioned by Graves as comprehensive standard, though he did spend the previous 15 chapters of his book trying to convince the reader that many mythological characters met at least one of them. In building up a case upon which to present his list of 16 gods, Graves subscribes to the notion that a savior like Christ much meet many criteria. I chose a subset of the criteria that Graves implicitly claims that a savior like Christ should meet.

My findings are that Graves and his work are fraudulent. None of the characters from Chapter 16 met half of the criteria. Fifteen of them were not crucified, and the one that I gave credit for crucifixion was persecuted and crucified by another pagan god. In short, none of Graves savior met half of the ten criteria that Graves attributes to Christ. So Graves fails to present one character as a forerunner of Christ, and hence fails to make the case that Christ was a myth built upon sixteen crucified saviors that preceded him by centuries.

In building his case to refute the claims of Christ, Grave constructs a noose on which he is hung. For the reader who likes what Graves has to say, he makes a seemingly compelling case for rejecting Jesus Christ.  For the reader who will try to verify Graves work though independent historical and religious sources, Graves is a fraud.