"Christian Consolation For Those Affected By The Journal News Gun Map Controversy" By Rev. Barbara Sexton Dear Ones Healing Ministry

CHRISTIAN CONSOLATION FOR THOSE AFFECTED BY THE JOURNAL NEWS GUN MAP CONTROVERSY

by Rev. Barbara Sexton

Stamford, CT

Dear Ones Healing Ministry

www.DearOnesHealingMinistry.blogspot.com

Jan. 5, 2013

 Dear Ones:
     The next time someone asks if you, a Christian, are a gun-owner, I want you to repeat after me and say:
     "YOU BET I AM ARMED!"
     And say this 'loud and proud'...because you ARE!
     In this day and age, where pundits think nothing of pejoratively taunting Christians with 'well-what-would-'your'-Jesus-do?' queries falling off their tongues, we need to pay heed to old advice which is as valid today as it was over 2000 years ago.
      Make no mistake about it; when Jesus sent out the twelve, he warned them that it would be no picnic.
     In fact, what he said shocked and astonished them with his dire predictions!
 ³⁴ “Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. ³⁵ For I have come to turn
“‘a man against his father,
    a daughter against her mother,
a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law—
³⁶     a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.’^[c]                                                                                                Matthew 10:34-36  (NIV)
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+10&version=NIV

     Yes, certainly we gasp at the thought of Christian believers being told that their Lord and Savior promises them not 'peace', but quite the opposite.  The going was rough and it's going to be rough, for us.
     So Christian brothers and sisters reading this today, take heed!:

Jesus continued (to his disciples):
     ¹⁶ “I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves. ¹⁷ Be on your guard; you will be handed over to the local councils and be flogged in the synagogues. ¹⁸ On my account you will be brought before governors and kings as witnesses to them and to the Gentiles. ¹⁹ But when they arrest you, do not worry about what to say or how to say it. At that time you will be given what to say, ²⁰ for it will not be you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you."
                                                                                  Matthew 10:16-20  (NIV)
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+10&version=NIV  

     The above is sometimes misinterpreted by those who seek to justify 'violence-in-Christ'.  We look to the Crusades as an example of this.
     The fact is that while there may be times when 'violence' IS justified' for a Christian in/from the United States today (such as for those in law enforcement, the military, etc.), this is not commonly the case for civilian Christian Americans living stateside.
     Unless they have the misfortune of encountering a mentally ill, drug-crazed, criminally-oriented violent individual of some kind, that is.
     Jesus clearly did not send out a bunch of 'wimps'.  And he is quite clear that when violence is 'necessary', such as when a defenseless person is being attacked, it is never to be 'glorified'.
     In fact, when read in the context of other Scripture, Jesus's tough words above clearly emphasize that 'the sword' (or, more appropriately today, 'the firearm') is to be used sparingly and only in the most dire of circumstances in self-defense.
     He even counseled his disciples to flee rather than face potentially threatening people, advice which holds its wisdom today.

^"12 As you enter the home, give it your greeting. ¹³ If the home is deserving, let your peace rest on it; if it is not, let your peace return to you. ¹⁴ If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, leave that home or town and shake the dust off your feet."                                           Matthew 10:12-14  (NIV)
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+10&version=NIV 

     Tragically, we cannot always 'flee' when we must.  Nancy Lanza could not and was killed by her son.  And the blessed little Sandy Hook Elementary precious children and their teachers and protectors could not escape that very same madman.
     Yet...we were 'generically warned': 

²¹ “Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death. ²² You will be hated by everyone because of me, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved. ²³ When you are persecuted in one place, flee to another.
                                                                               Matthew 10:21-23  (NIV)
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+10&version=NIV
     Every so often in the modern U.S., Christians attempt to use some passage in the Bible to justify their own violence.
     But we have the beautiful and fiercely-worded advice from Jesus himself to his disciples whom he loved so much, just as he does us!
     Christ prepared them, as he prepares us, for what they and we will undoubtedly encounter.  He was 'hardening' them verbally, guiding them and emboldening them.  This much is certain--we will suffer, but (and this is a big one) true Believers will be fortified, protected and filled with the Holy Spirit.
     In a word, we will be 'armed', yes, with a 'sword' (or a gun in today's parlance), but also with much more.
     Challenges about 'gun control' vs. gun/Second Amendment rights and opportunists seeking to take advantage of a progressive liberal newspaper's indiscretions are not the only 'challenges' we have.
     We have a challenge not to 'hate' Peter Lanza.  We have a challenge to not hate 'journalists'.  We have a challenge to not 'hate' those who paint with a 'broad brush'--be they liberal or conservative.

²⁶ “So do not be afraid of them, for there is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known. ²⁷ What I tell you in the dark, speak in the daylight; what is whispered in your ear, proclaim from the roofs. ²⁸ Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
                                                                                              Matthew 10:26-28  (NIV)
     As Christians, we realize that the physical body is perishable and will not endure.  Morally and ethically, we are challenged to live the best lives that we can. So...
     We WILL have difficult times..
     We WILL have difficult decisions...
     We WILL be treated unfairly...and sometimes 'cruelly', if recent 'The Journal News' rhetoric is something to judge by.
     I know that my words here do not apply to those Christians--especially here in progressive-liberal Connecticut--who do not agree that the Second Amendment is worth fighting for.
     I understand that opinions vary, and that tempers may fly. But mark this:  If we Christians properly tow the line, we will see God.
     We will see God and then we can ask him 'why?' for the many sorrowful sorrows that we must witness.
     Until then, I pray that your days are wonderful, your nights restorative and that everything in your life be blessed and fully vetted to the Will of God, our Father through our Christ Jesus.

God Bless you,
Rev. Barbara Sexton
Dear Ones Healing Ministry
www.DearOnesHealingMinistry.blogspot.com

  

"FRC Shooter Floyd Lee Corkins II Plan To Leave A 'Chick-fil-A' Bag By Each Body?" By Rev. Barbara Sexton Dear Ones Healing Ministry

 photo courtesy http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=136337
Dear Ones:
     Have you wondered AT ALL as to just 'why' the Family Research Council shooter Floyd Lee Corkins II was carrying 15 'Chick-fil-A's' in his backpack?
     I have.
     And I had to plumb the depths of my mind to see if I could determine all the possibilities of why he would do so.
     The reasons I came up with were 'one crazier than the other'...and all very unsavory.
     Our reflections on this Christian-hating Corkins is complicated, of course, by the fact that he is a 'complex' individual (I'm trying to be polite here).
     A Progressive liberal 'zealot' of the first order, Floyd Lee Corkings is, among other things, the latest enthusiastic contributor to a burgeoning wave of 'left wing violence' against conservatives...and against Christians, in particular.

"The Washington Post quoted Allan P. Chan, a former George Mason student, as saying he lifted weights and socialized with Corkins. Chan said Corkins was secretive and somewhat odd, and displayed an intense interest in the 19th-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, according to the Post."

LINK:  http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/16/justice/dc-shooting-suspect/index.html
     What of Nietzsche, you might ask?

"Militant atheism may also be a factor in the shooter’s motives. Nietzsche is the well-known atheist philosopher who decried the “slave morality” of Christianity and proclaimed “God is dead”. The shooter in the Garielle Giffords case (Jared Lee Loughner) was a militant atheist. Militant atheists like Richard Dawkins and the American Atheists group have even called for the eradication of Christianity. But the vast majority of atheists are not violent."

LINK:  http://winteryknight.wordpress.com/2012/08/16/fbi-floyd-lee-corkins-ii-is-left-winger-and-admired-atheist-philosopher-nietzche/
     Thus far, we can 'understand' Corkins apparent hatred for the conservative establishment and the church in terms of his 'militant atheism', but what of those pesky Chick-fil-A sandwiches he had on his person, all fifteen of them?
     Well, the answer suggested by a commenter 'Tacitus Talk" is sickening and truly frightening:

"An eye-witness was interviewed on another news outlet. He was screaming that he was going to kill as many as he could and leave a Chick-Fil-A bag at the body."

LINK:  http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/16/justice/dc-shooting-suspect/index.html
     What kind of 'mind' comes up with that kind of plan?
     Is it 'evil, demented or both'?
     I'd say, 'Heaven knows'...but in this case, I suspect 'hell' knows, also.
     We wonder -- is there much 'active support' for LGBT activist Corkins by his 'fellows'?
     If there is, how is the public going to deal with it?  Similarly, how will the law enforcement community deal with it?
     I wish I had some answers for you.  Lacking them, at least we are 'forewarned'.
     We can be alert and aware of our surroundings, while always remembering that the last thing our Lord wants is for us to reply-in-kind to those who seek to harm us.
God Bless You
Rev. Barbara Sexton
"The Biblical Biochemist-Where Science Meets the Cross"
www.DearOnesHealingMinistry.blogspot.com

courtesy http://witnessed.wordpress.com/

"Rabbi Bill Rudolph (Also Of Temple Beth El) 'Pays Homage' To Hammerman's Hammering Of Tim Tebow--Christianophobia Is Contagious!" By Rev. Barbara Sexton Dear Ones Healing Ministry

 

Rabbi Bill Rudolph of Temple Beth El, MD--'CLONE' of Rabbi Joshua Hammerman of Stamford's Temple Beth El?

LINK: http://www.bethelmc.org/Clergy/RabbiBillRudolph/tabid/115/Default.aspx

Looks like Rabbi Joshua Hammerman of Temple Beth El, CT, has a BIG FAN of his own in like-minded Rabbi Bill Rudolph ALSO of (a) Temple Beth El (in MD)...who says..., 

"But, truth be told, I find myself half-consciously rooting for Tebow to fail. I cheer for the blitzing linebacker as he is about to HAMMER Tebow into the ground, hoping I guess that evangelical Christianity will taste some humble pie in the process."

 (OUCH!!!--Don't these guys (er...'men of the cloth') have any inner 'controls'? or do they just 'blurt' the first thing that comes to their minds?)

LINK: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=308818902489712 

LINK: http://www.bethelmc.org/Clergy/RabbiBillRudolph/ItsWednesday/tabid/363/Default.aspx Check out the Jan 11 & 18, 2012 entries (ABOVE LINK) for more anti-Tebow, anti-Christian remarks.  You won't believe how these Rabbis talk!

Will this never END?  WE GET IT!  So, why don't you fellas do us ALL a favor and 'talk amongst yourselves' from now on?  I'll send you each other's emails and you can be 'pen-pals', or have you been?--But ENOUGH with the 'hammermanning' of poor Tim Tebow, already.

See ya at the next 'interfaith event', of course.

PEACE OUT,

Rev. Barb

Rev. Barbara Sexton

"The Biblical Biochemist-Where Science Meets the Cross"

www.DearOnes HealingMinistry.blogspot.com

 courtesy www.jellymuffin.com

"Rabbi Hammerman's Religious Intolerance Of Christians: What Do We Teach Our Kids & Grandkids?" By Rev. Barbara Sexton Dear Ones Healing Ministry

ABOVE:  Temple Beth El's Rabbi Joshua Hammerman and his son Ethan

LINK: http://joshuahammerman.blogspot.com/2009_06_01_archive.html

Dear Ones:
     Today was an interesting day.  My 16 year-old Catholic granddaughter slept over and we had an opportunity to have a refreshing and fun breakfast together before 'Grandma' got busy on the serious work 'of the day'.
     It's Sunday, you see, and what I thought would be a perfect opportunity to inform and prepare my granddaughter for what she may well be exposed to in the coming week regarding one paranoid Rabbi Joshua Hammerman and his unbridled attack on all things Christian.
LINK: http://dearoneshealingministry.blogspot.com/2012/01/original-text-archived-screen-shot-of.html 
     I told her how about the many who 'stood mute' about all of this.
LINK:  http://dearoneshealingministry.blogspot.com/2012/01/inconvenient-truth-for-rev-kate.html
     I described things beforehand, told her of Hammerman's 'apologists' (The Interfaith Council of SW CT and many at Temple Beth El) and how they not only don't 'defend Christians', but instead, call Hammerman the 'victim'.
LINK: http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/Attacks-on-rabbi-are-not-justified-2968055.php
     Then I read her lengthy passages of Hammerman's and my own writings.  (She doesn't like you for this, Josh, and I don't blame her!)
     I told her that Rabbi Josh says she is likely to 'burn mosques, bash gays and trash immigrants'.
LINK: http://dearoneshealingministry.blogspot.com/2012/01/christianophobe-stamford-rabbi-josh.html 
     "Rabbi Josh 'knows' and speaks for a lot of Jews.  Rabbi Josh knows exactly how 'we Christians' will react to any given situation, you see", I told her.
     After she read a bit, I solicited her opinion about things, asking, specifically, if all this brouhaha seems like the mere 'ramblings' of a Rabbi who 'misspoke' on the spur of the moment, 'clumsily' and so on and so forth.
     The answer was, "NO".
     Well now.  My granddaughter is one 'smart cookie'!
     Clearly, she feels as I do, which is, that Rabbi Josh, Temple Beth El, his 'apologists' and, most of all The Interfaith Council of SW CT are taking us for FOOLS!
     This entire interaction was no small accomplishment for a 'mere' Sunday morning, if I do say so myself.

     I concluded with the admonition that 'what Grandma Barb writes on the Internet will be around for a long time and I just wanted her to hear about all of this in context, so that she can understand what is truly happening right now.'
     But in reality, there is more than this.
     I included a warning to my granddaughter that in Progressive Liberal Connecticut, there are those who would bring destruction upon the 'Christian' way of life.  Even more, I elaborated, the Rabbi Hammermans of the world seem to single out Catholics in particular as a target for their repellent 'invectives'.  This is a 'thing' that they 'do' even in their phoney 'apologies' for transgressions against Christians, in fact:
     I showed my granddaughter the piece where Temple Beth El's Rabbi Hammerman essentially categorizes all Catholic clergy as those who are 'into' the 'raping of little boys'.
LINK:  http://dearoneshealingministry.blogspot.com/2012/02/on-raping-little-boys-another-anti.html
     "WHAT???"
     Now my granddaughter (and daughter and all the young, middle-aged and elderly people in my life) is/are informed that not everyone is enchanted with our 'Christian way of life'.
     Now we know to beware of Rabbi Joshua Hammerman, the powers-that-be at Temple Beth El, the Stamford press who has chosen to 'ignore' all of this and, most especially, The Rev. Katie Hechler and The Interfaith Council of SW CT.  Here's her letter of support for Hammerman:
LINK: http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/Attacks-on-rabbi-are-not-justified-2968055.php
     These are not people who will support our God-given and United States law 'protected' right to freedom of religion!
     But those I counsel are wiser now...more educated and aware.  I tell them I'm 'grateful for the warning' let loose by Hammerman's 'hate-writings'.
     Never again will any of us in this Progressive Liberal area of the country take our religious rights for granted--well, not as long as Rabbi Joshua Hammerman and his apologists hold sway, at least.
     And that was what transpired at breakfast this morning, for me and my Catholic granddaughter.
     We had a quiet meal punctuated only by the rancid exclusivity put forth by those claiming to be 'open, inclusive and affirming' and we saw right through it!
     Like many breakfasts, it turned out to be 'same stuff, different day', except that one I love is now empowered and will be able to 'deal with' those who would profer forth 'Hammerman Eugencs'.
     Then in an effort to embolden and uplift my granddaughter, I reminded her of all the 'good' in the world and of all the 'good people' around us--Christian and Jew and otherwise--including one brave Sheldon Katz who is a congregant of Temple Beth El.
LINK: http://www.facebook.com/sheldon.katz
LINK: http://www.thehour.com/story/518352/my-rabbi-hammerman-problem
LINK: http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/Discontent-over-rabbi-s-Tebow-column-2696498.php
     And there is also this encouraging letter from Maria Zlotnick, also of Temple Beth El:
LINK:  http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/articleComments/Paper-has-ignored-religious-bigotry-2879718.php 
     With these true words of encouragement, I am hopeful that those who promote intolerance will not prevail in Stamford, in Connecticut or anywhere in the world.
     Still, I can't help but wonder just what proud 'Papa' Josh is telling his son Ethan about all this, if anything?
LINK: http://dearoneshealingministry.blogspot.com/2012/02/rabbi-hammermans-eugenics-solution.html 
     Has he even mentioned it?
     I wonder if he is as 'open' with his son Ethan as I am with my granddaughter?
     Does the Rabbi 'teach eugenics' to his son in his anti-Christian zeal as a solution to rid the world of Christians?
     I pray not.
God Bless You
Rev. Barbara Sexton
"The Biblical Biochemist-Where Science Meets the Cross"
www.DearOnesHealingMinistry.blogspot.com

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"God Has A Plan" By Rev. Barbara Sexton Dear Ones Healing Ministry

above courtesy of www.GospelGifs.com

God Bless You Jim Sutton & thank you for your ever-faithful testimony!  Love, Rev. Barb

"Faith, Hope & Love: The Greatest Of These Is Love" By Rev. Barbara Sexton Dear Ones Healing Ministry

courtesy: www.GospelGifs.com

God Bless You, Jim Sutton!

     As Christians, we know the following 1 Corinthians 13 passage from the many wedding ceremonies we have been witness to.

     Why not take a moment now to reflect upon this passage in it's 'entirety'?

Love, Rev. Barb

" ¹ If I speak in the tongues^[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. ² If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. ³ If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,^[b] but do not have love, I gain nothing.  

⁴ Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. ⁵ It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. ⁶ Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. ⁷ It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

 ⁸ Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. ⁹ For we know in part and we prophesy in part, ¹⁰ but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. ¹¹ When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. ¹² For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

 ¹³ And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."
                                                                                                   1 Corinthians 13:1-13  (NIV)

LINK: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+13&version=NIV
     Our God is a WONDERFUL God and He (not 'She'!), is God of us all...Christian and Jew, alike.
With Love in Christ!
Rev. Barbara Sexton
"The Biblical Biochemist-Where Science Meets the Cross"
www.DearOnesHealingMinistry.blogspot.comwww.DearOnesHealingMinistry.blogspot.com 

"On 'Raping Little Boys': Another Anti-Christian Zinger By Rabbi Joshua Hammerman" By Rev. Barbara Sexton Dear Ones Healing Ministry

 Rabbi Joshua Hammerman (ABOVE)  on praying before, during & after an elective abortion:
LINK: http://joshuahammerman.blogspot.com/search/label/abortion
Q:  When is an apology NOT an apology?

A:   When it is a fatuous, disingenuous, paranoid one from Rabbi Hammerman and it DISAPPEARS!!

     Such is the case with a now-expunged so-called 'apology' Rabbi Joshua Hammerman put forth at one time.  I feel that it bears re-publication here, again, since the Interfaith Council of SW CT has unanimously decided to DEFEND and PLAY APOLOGIST for this errant Rabbi.

LINK: http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/articleComments/Attacks-on-rabbi-are-not-justified-2968055.php 

     The Interfaith Council of SW CT has deemed it proper to deem the attacks on Rabbi Hammerman as unjustified.

     I don't think so.

     Even worse, The Interfaith Council of SW CT has deemed it proper to posit Hammerman as the 'victim' while choosing to excuse the massive amount of writing the not-so-good Rabbi has published in his zealous anti-Christian bigotry as a true Christianophobe.

     The original 'apology' disappeared because Rabbi Hammerman obliterated his 'blog'.  (Wonder why?)  In fact, the entire 'Hammerman-Tebow' thing flared up mid-December 2011, when 'sleepy Stamford' was in the midst of holiday preparations and celebrations...And while the pall of a terrible Christmas fire tragedy hung heavily on all our hearts.

     Sure enough, while the world noticed, we here only recently learned of Hammerman's anti-Christian campaign.  But, rest assured, thanks to the marvels of the modern internet, here is this faux-apology and more, in toto.

     As you read it with fresh eyes, note the 'cheap shot' Hammerman takes with his 'raping little boys comment'.  I guess verbiage like this is just 'second-nature' for the Progressive Liberal religious sector around here.

      But, while Rev. Katie Hechler and her Interfaith Council of SW CT may deem this perfectly acceptable rhetoric from a member of the clergy, I certainly do not and even Hammerman's so-called 'apology' offends.

     It's important that Rabbi Hammerman understand that not all Christians, evangelical or otherwise, seek to 'convert him', myself included.  This is a matter of 'discernment'.

     And somebody should remind the Rabbi that here in the United States of America, he must respect the right of all to practice the religion of their choice, and that it is the LAW!

     Though clearly Hammerman is not a friend of Christians, surely G-d can change his heart.

     G-d can assure that Hammerman learns to live with those who are different from himself, and to do so without feeling 'threatened'...here in Connecticut or wherever in the world he may be.  But this can only happen if the Rabbi has an 'epiphany'.

     Perhaps a miracle will occur and G-d will impel Hammerman to change his ways.

     I hopeful, but I'm also a realist.

     I know that to allow Rabbi Joshua Hammerman's words, sentiments and actions and those of his apologists to go 'unchecked' in the very city where all this anti-Christian hate talk originated is very, very wrong.

     It is just not right to repeatedly attempt to sweep unclean things under the proverbial rug.

Herewith is Hammerman's 'apology':     

“My Tebow piece is generating the expected outrage from the evangelical right (cant’ wait for Jews to begin chiming in!)”

“I was careful in my comments not to accuse Tebow himself of potentially destructive acts but to suggest that a perceived divine mandate for Tebow could inspire mischief among the zealous evangelical right. Unfortunately, mosque burnings have already occurred in this country (and a notable Quran burning too). All it takes is one crazy person.”

“As for Tebow, he has done extraordinary things. His love for people is unbounded. His entire life’s work is also predicated on saving my soul for Jesus. He’s not alone in this. Tebow has been affiliated with the Southern Baptists, who spend millions to convert Jews, often deceptively.”

“I personally don’t consider that exemplary behavior. Is it better than raping little boys? Absolutely. But is it admirable? I have issues with anyone determined to save my soul, be that person Christian or Jewish. And when they are going after the souls of our kids on college campuses, with a multimillion dollar budget that puts the Jewish community’s education budgets to shame, I do think it is cause for concern. See for example -http://www.jewsonfirst.org/evangelizing.php”

“Some Jews prefer to turn a blind eye to these practices, as evangelicals are very supportive of Israel (granted, with end-time conversions in mind). My ideal person of faith is a pluralist, one who accepts the legitimacy of my faith. Tebow does not. I do not find that admirable. ”

LINK:  the one that doesn't work (any longer) 

http://joshuahammerman.blogspot.com/2011/12/my-tim-tebow-problem-jewish-week.html

LINK:  one that does work:

http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/2011/12/13/rabbi-joshua-hammerman-predicts-that-if-tebow-wins-the-super-bowl-emboldened-christians-will-be-burning-mosques-bashing-gays-and-indiscriminately-banishing-immigrants/
     As for myself, I will continue to reveal and fight against the type of religious intolerance Rabbi Hammerman so thoroughly manifests.  The Rabbi's 'apologists' aside, clearly this is a man who spends a great deal of time pondering, writing, publishing, editing, redacting and sometimes 'deleting' that which is dear to his heart.
     This is a man who 'lives to write' and he will undoubtedly keep on writing, come what may.
     There are no 'mere slips of the pen' or 'clumsy words and actions' for Rabbi Joshua Hammerman, for he writes what he believes...
     As do I.
May G-d Keep Us All Accountable & True To Him Alone 

Rev. Barbara Sexton

"The Biblical Biochemist-Where Science Meets the Cross"

www.DearOnesHealingMinistry.blogspot.com

³ Set a guard over my mouth, LORD;
   keep watch over the door of my lips.
⁴ Do not let my heart be drawn to what is evil
   so that I take part in wicked deeds
along with those who are evildoers;
   do not let me eat their delicacies.

Psalm 141:3-4  (NIV)

LINK: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+141&version=NIV

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"Rabbi Hammerman's Eugenics Solution Regarding The Christians He Hates: Interfaith Council of SW CT Turns A Blind Eye" By Rev. Barbara Sexton Dear Ones Healing Ministry

courtesy www.GospelGifs.com

The ABOVE appeared in 'The Jewish Week' Dec. 12, 2011

Eugenics

"The practices engaged in by eugenicists involving violations of privacy, attacks on reputation, violations of the right to life, to found a family, to freedom from discrimination are all today classified as violations of human rights. The practice of negative racial aspects of eugenics, after World War II, fell within the definition of the new international crime of genocide, set out in the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.^[17]"

LINK: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics

 Dear Readers:
     Recently, a Stamford, CT Rabbi Joshua Hammerman received worldwide attention for his long-winded Christianophobic rant against, of all people, the Denver Bronco's QB Tim Tebow.
     It seems that Rabbi Hammerman has such an intense hatred for Tebow, and for Tebow's evangelical Christian faith in particular, that the only solution Hammerman can think of is to suggest that Tebow's mom should have killed her son in utero.
     Yes, you read that right.
     Abortion advocate Hammerman goes on at length in his twisted piece, opining on Tebow's mom's pregnancy with Tim and finally giving her some truly hateful 'advice'.  Obviously he has given this a great deal of thought and spent a great amount of time writing what he did. (ABOVE)
     Apparently Tebow's mom's decision really bothers Rabbi Josh Hammerman, who says:
"Tebow's mother, a Baptist missionary, became comatose during her pregnancy, and was saved by drugs that nearly killed the fetus.  Doctors anticipated a stillbirth and recommended termination to protect her life, but Tim's mother refused to abort.  Trumpeting that decision, mother and son appeared in commercials for 'Focus On The Family' during this past season's Super Bowl." (ABOVE)
     Hammerman then reveals the real reason why he hates Mrs. Tebow's refusal to abort her son Tim:

"Now Tiny Tim has grown and is on track to appear in this season's Super Bowl-on the field-and that is what scares me."  (ABOVE)

     To add insult to injury, Hammerman caps his phobic rhetoric with the almost unspeakable by suggesting that Tim would have been better off 'exterminated' in his mother's womb, so that he (Hammerman) would not have to be subjected to the 'Tim Tebows' of the world:

"His mom's decision to risk her own life rather than abort her fetus flies against my own-and Judaism's-values, but neither am I pro-choice in all cases."

     Is it me, or is this just plain 'creepy' coming from a paranoid Rabbi?  I've stated before how repugnant I think Rabbi Hammerman's pontification towards a pregnant Christian woman is.  I'm amazed it even got 'approved' at all by editors at 'The Jewish Week' (though they might be trying to tell us something).
     But this suggestion that it is 'better that Christians kill their fetuses' before they are even born is downright evil.
     Someone needs to, first of all, remind Hammerman of the right to freedom of religion we all enjoy here in the United States of America.  Maybe that would help him take a 'chill pill' on this subject once and for all.
     Also, someone needs to 'counsel' this warped Rabbi and his 'eugenics solution' for evangelical Christians and give him a 'morality' check, but good.
     Yes, Hammerman has a right to vent in this manner, I suppose.  But, no, he does not have the right to go unchallenged by those such as myself.
     For now, Rabbi Joshua Hammerman is apparently receiving tremendous majority support (except for the few of us) by not only his congregation at Temple Beth El in Stamford, CT...but by the Stamford community, itself.  Perhaps there is even a certain degree of 'ignorance of the facts' about Hammerman's hate-speech, which he originally published in the midst of the holidays while Stamford's attention was focused on other things, including a tragic Christmas fire where lives were lost.
     But it is also possible that most will 'go along with' the unanimous, unconditional support of The Rev. Katie Hechler and The (progressive liberal) Interfaith Council of SW CT.
LINK: http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/articleComments/Attacks-on-rabbi-are-not-justified-2968055.php  
     So be it.  At least we are 'warned'.
     Sure there are lots of 'apologetics' here for this renegade Rabbi who are sanctifying all of Rabbi Hammerman's anti-Christian bigotry as nothing more than a 'slip of the pen' and a 'momentary lapse of proper word usage'.
     But as for me...I'm not buying it, nor his 'phony apology', either.
     Stay tuned for my article on that, too!
Graphic above courtesy of www.GospelGifs.com

"Original Text: Archived Screen-Shot Of Rabbi Hammerman's Anti-Christian Rant On Tim Tebow--In Case You Missed It" By Rev. Barbara Sexton Dear Ones Healing Ministry

Source (one of many) : http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=48171
Dear Ones:
     CLICK ON THE LINK ABOVE TO ENLARGE THIS PIECE OF CHRISTIANOPHOBIC hatred.
     I've written a number of pieces already on this and will be addressing Rabbi Hammerman's unhealthy and cruel obsession with Tim Tebow's mother and her apparently 'at-risk' pregnancy.
     I have a strong stomach, but Rabbi Josh's 'spiritual commentary' (as if he had a prayer) for Tim Tebow's mom chills me to the bone.
     How dare a man...let alone a Jewish clergyman...'pontificate' to a Christian woman who is carrying and already in love with her unborn child, about whether or not her child is worth 'saving'?
     I have a friend whose mother was told in the eighth month of pregnancy that her child 'had a big, boxy head'.  His mother was inclined to follow 'doctors' orders and have a late-term abortion.
     Fortunately for my friend, his Aunt (his mother's sister) intervened and my friend was born...
     And, yes, with a 'big, boxy head'.  But he is alive and is a wonderful, able and super intelligent person!
     For now, focus on the Rabbi's Christianophobia, which alone is cause for concern.  But as you read about this burgeoning story, please remember what you have read here and that those who intend to do 'evil' are attempting to purge all this from the Internet.
     Who can blame them?  But I, for one, don't want to see that happen.

     No doubt about it.  This is one case where no ministry IN THE WORLD can begin any healing before the repugnant pimple of prejudice is 'popped', cleared, cleaned and prevented from 're-appearing'.
     I know in my heart that Jews in Stamford and CT don't hate Christians as much as Rabbi Hammerman would have us believe.
     But for those who so obviously support exactly this sort of anti-Christian bigotry BY YOUR SILENCE (take note Interfaith Council of SW CT, of whom Rabbi Hammerman is a stalwart member)...
     We are not about to sit by silently, complacently and acquiescently, for any of this.
     Rabbi Hammerman's quick and stealthy 'retraction' and pseudo-apology tells us all we need to be aware of what is and what may come.
"Peace On Earth, Goodwill To Men On Whom God's Favor Rests" (the real quote)
Rev. Barbara Sexton
"The Biblical Biochemist-Where Science Meets the Cross"
www.DearOnesHealingMinistry.blogspot.com

"An Inconvenient Truth For Rev. Kate Heichler & The Interfaith Council Of SW CT: Christianophobia In Their Midst" By Rev. Barbara Sexton Dear Ones Healing Ministry

 Rev. Kate Heichler (photo http://interfaithcouncil.net/books.aspx )
     The amazing silence of the Interfaith Council of SW CT on Rabbi Joshua Hammerman's (Temple Beth El) shenanigans.  What say you, Council 'Steering Committee' listed below?  Your silence is deafening!
 The Rev. Kate Heichler,The Rev. Michael Hyman, Rabbi Joshua Hammerman, Mr. Duane Hill, The Rev. Cari Jackson (formerly Sr. Pastor of FCC Stamford, suddenly 'gone'), The Rev. Tommie Jackson, Ms. Debra Katz,The Rev. Mark Lingle, The Rev. Douglas McArthur, The Rev. Juan Paniagua,The Rev. LeRoy Parker, Ms. Marie Orsini Rosen,Ms. Eileen Swerdlick, The Rev. Mary Thies
LINK:  http://interfaithcouncil.net/books.aspx :


     Have you anything to say about THIS?  Read "Anti-Christian Bigotry Is Still Bigotry"
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/12/14/anti-christian-bigotry-joshua-hammerman/  
     Won't you speak up about Christianophobia?
     Won't you stand up against anti-Christian bigotry?
Rev. Barbara Sexton
www.DearOnesHealingMinistry.blogspot.com 

"Christianophobe Stamford Rabbi Josh Hammerman Apologizes For His Anti-Christian Bigotry" By Rev. Barbara Sexton Dear Ones Healing Ministry

http://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Members-of-all-faiths-gather-in-support-of-Islam-630355.php
Dear Ones:
     This is upsetting, yes, but it is hardly surprising in liberal Stamford, CT that this type of thing should originate here.
     But, Rabbi Joshua Hammerman of Temple Beth El recently 'went off', as many Progressive Libs are wont to do as if it is their birthright.  He raled on 'those not like himself'...and on those who do not hold to 'his particular social justice values'.
     The Rabbi's blog is called, ironically, 'On One Foot: Joshua Hammerman's Blog.  Unfortunately Rabbi Josh, you don't have a FOOT to stand on with your anti-Christian rant.
LINK: http://joshuahammerman.blogspot.com
     I am very used to hearing from religious leaders with Rabbi Hammerman's mindset, especially ever since he played a major role in some ill-conceived interfaith shenanigans in the 'interfaith community'.
LINK: http://dearoneshealingministry.blogspot.com/2010/08/shariah-law-preached-from-stamford.html 
     But recently, Rabbi Hammerman's blew it bigtime!  Even I was surprised when he decided to zero in on all moderate/conservative CHRISTIANS in a very unkind (and weird) way by saying,

"If Tebow wins the Super Bowl, against all odds, it will buoy his faithful, and emboldened faithful can do insane things, like burning mosques, bashing gays and indiscriminately banishing immigrants."
     WHAT IN HEAVEN'S NAME ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT, RABBI JOSH HAMMERMAN?  HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MIND? 
     Not surprisingly, 'Jewish Week' pulled Rabbi Hammerman's article and the good Rabbi offered an 'apology'.
LINK:  http://content.usatoday.com/communities/gameon/post/2011/12/jewish-week-apologizes-for-anti-tebow-column-by-rabbi-tim-tebow-denver-broncos-rabbi-joshua-hammerman/1 
not because they wanted to, but because they had to.
     Popular outrage saw to that.
     Be that as it may, it is worthwhile for people of ALL faiths (as well as for all atheists/agnostics) to educate themselves about the anti-Christian/anti-religion bigotry that is running rampant today.
     I, myself,  never realized that Rabbi Josh was such a Christianophobe.  He certainly successfully hid it from me in the 22+ years I have been acquainted with him via the faith community.
     But do draw your own conclusions.  May God grant us the ability to live together peaceably, if it is at all possible.
     To my fellow Christians, I say learn and be wiser.  Then do as Jesus would do.  
     Be smart about those who intend us harm and be as agreeable and understanding as possible with those who are 'different than ourselves'.
     Forgive Rabbi Josh Hammerman and sin not as he has in thought, mind, word and deed.
With Love In Christ
Rev. Barbara Sexton
"The Biblical Biochemist-Where Science Meets the Cross"
www.DearOnesHealingMinistry.blogspot.com
See: http://joshuahammerman.blogspot.com/
See also: http://biggovernment.com/jdunetz/2011/12/14/the-tim-tebow-hating-rabbi-and-progressive-bigotry/

HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY APRIL 12, 2010 By Rev Barbara Sexton www.DearOnesHealingMinistry.blogspot.com

12 "This is what the LORD Almighty says: 'In this place, desolate and without men or animals—in all its towns there will again be pastures for shepherds to rest their flocks. 13 In the towns of the hill country, of the western foothills and of the Negev, in the territory of Benjamin, in the villages around Jerusalem and in the towns of Judah, flocks will again pass under the hand of the one who counts them,' says the LORD.

14 " 'The days are coming,' declares the LORD, 'when I will fulfill the gracious promise I made to the house of Israel and to the house of Judah.

15 " 'In those days and at that time
I will make a righteous Branch sprout from David's line;
he will do what is just and right in the land.

16 In those days Judah will be saved
and Jerusalem will live in safety.
This is the name by which it [a] will be called:
The LORD Our Righteousness.'                 Jeremiah 33:12-16 (NIV)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lays a wreath during a ceremony marking the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem, April 12, 2010

Sirens wailed across Israel Monday morning, as Israelis stood in silence in memory of the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust.

Israeli officials, Holocaust survivors and foreign dignitaries are in Jerusalem for solemn ceremonies in observance of Holocaust Remembrance Day. This year's theme at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial is the "Voices of the Survivors."

All across Israel, flags are flying at half-staff, places of entertainment are closed, and radio and television broadcasts are dedicated to remembering the Holocaust.

More than 200,000 Holocaust survivors currently live in Israel.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at the opening ceremonies Sunday evening that free societies should have learned from the Holocaust the danger of remaining quiet in the face of evil.

U.S. President Barack Obama recognized Holocaust Remembrance Day by saying the "hateful stereotypes and prejudice" against Jewish people must not be tolerated.

Some information for this report was provided by AP and AFPhttp://www1.voanews.com/english/news/middle-east/Israel-Observes-Holocaust-Remembrance-Day-90613399.html
Lord, G-d, may all your people stay strong and finally live freely and in peace.
AMEN
Rev Barbara Sexton
"The Biblical Biochemist-Where Science Meets the Cross"
www.DearOnesHealingMinistry.blogspot.com

PRESIDENT OBAMA NO FAN OF GAY MARRIAGE? By Rev. Barbara Sexton "The Biblical Biochemist-Where Science Meets the Cross"

UPDATE: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/12/samuel-l-jackson-obama-vote-black_n_1271797.html
Dear Ones:
     Here is an article which claims that President Obama opposes gay marriage for religious reasons. 
     My question: DOES HE OR DOESN'T HE? You decide and if you figure it out, PLEASE LET ME KNOW!  Thank you
Blessings to you,
Rev Barb
Obama elusive on about-face on same-sex marriage

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/02/16/MN591BSS44.DTL
Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
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President Obama says he opposes same-sex marriage for religious reasons. Fourteen years ago, however, while a churchgoing Christian and a state legislative candidate, he endorsed the right of gays and lesbians to marry.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sponsors of Proposition 8, California's ban on same-sex marriage, cited Obama's current position in their 2008 campaign and have quoted him in their defense of the measure during a federal court trial in San Francisco. Gay rights groups, noting that Obama actually opposed Prop. 8, have urged him to take a stance on the lawsuit, without success.
What has received much less attention is Obama's unexplained reversal of the position he once held backing same-sex marriage - the position still held by the church he attended for most of his adult life.
Obama was running for the Illinois state Senate in Chicago in February 1996 when he answered a questionnaire from a gay-oriented newspaper, Outlines, on gay rights issues. One of his answers was, "I favor legalizing same-sex marriage, and would fight efforts to prohibit such marriages."
The Windy City Times, which later acquired Outlines, said it interviewed Obama in 2004, when he was a state legislator running for the U.S. Senate. In a January 2009 article recapping the interview, the newspaper quoted him as saying he no longer supported same-sex marriage "primarily just as a strategic issue," and not because he had changed his philosophy.
Religious connotation
"I think that marriage, in the minds of a lot of voters, has a religious connotation," Obama said, according to the article. "I know that's true in the African American community, for example." Instead, he endorsed civil unions, a designation that did not exist in 1996.
Obama takes the same stance today - yes on equal rights and civil unions, no on same-sex marriage - but attributes the distinction to his religious convictions.
As he put it in an August 2008 presidential candidates' forum, "I believe that marriage is the union between a man and a woman. Now, for me as a Christian ... it is also a sacred union. God's in the mix."
He is far from unique among presidents in changing positions he held before his election. But presidents usually attribute their turnabouts to external events or congressional resistance.
Differs with Obama's church
Obama's reference to his religious convictions about marriage also contrasts with the position of the
denomination with which he has been most closely associated, the United Church of Christ.
Obama attended the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago for 20 years and has said he found his faith there. He resigned in May 2008 during an uproar over the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's sermons that labeled the United States a racist, warmongering nation......
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/02/16/MN591BSS44.DTL#ixzz0fwUCo3Wa
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Reverend Barbara Sexton "The Biblical Biochemist-Where Science Meets the Cross"