Here is a link to the website for Revolution Church (one in Downey and one in Lakewood, CA) where the services for the month of July are totally focused on sex. This seems to be one of the main components of the emerging church. They crave sensuality. This goes way beyond the church having a healty view of sex and into excessive tittilation. I believe that this is the reason many liberal Christian pastors had such affection for Bill Clinton. He was the embodiment of their fantasies. Is this going to bring the unsaved into this church so that the gospel of salvation through repentance can be preached to them?

This tiny article from the Wall Street Journal brings to mind the current trend of some emerging pastors to flaunt vugarities in the name of Christ.  I couldn’t say it better:

“If you turn on the TV and hear the word “f—” or “s—”, said Daniel Henninger, don’t be surprised.  A federal appeals court recently ruled that the FCC could not punish TV networks for broadcasting profanity blurted out during awards shows and other “live” programming.  After the ruling, left-leaning editorialists and columnists applauded the court’s modern sensibility, and mocked the “moralists” and “language police” at the FCC.  But something was missing from these commentaries:  None actually used the four-letter words in question, resorting instead to “f—” and “s—” or various euphemisms.  I found this omission quite curious-and telling.  Could it be that “deep in the primeaval corner of the editorial soul sits the sense that somehow there really is something not quite right with promoting verbal f’ng and s’ng in public?”  Vulgarities debase language, and express nothing but the speaker’s lack of imagination and self-control.  They offend.  They’re in bad taste.  That’s why the FCC sought to hold networks accountable for airing “f—” and its crude bretheren, and that’s why the gleeful hypocrites in the print media still won’t print them.”

Source:  The Week Magazine - June 29, 2007

“Truth is so obscure in these days and falsehood so established that unless we LOVE the truth we can never know it.” ~ Blaise Pascal.

The gospel of Satan is not a system of revolutionary principles, nor yet a program of anarchy. It does not promote strife and war, but aims at peace and unity. It seeks not to set the mother against her daughter nor the father against his son, but fosters the fraternal spirit whereby the human race is regarded as one great ‘brotherhood.’ It does not seek to drag down the natural man, but to improve and uplift him. It advocates education and cultivation and appeals to ‘the best that is within us.’ It aims to make this world such a comfortable and congenial habitat that Christ’s absence from it will not be felt and God will not be needed.

–A.W. Pink

While I respect the field of scientific research, this story just exhibits where so much of research is today. It seems to me that if one desires to understand child development one would look at a real child rather than a robotic poor representation of one. But when you have government or grant money to spend, you come up with something to do with that money, no matter how ridiculous.

“A group of scientists in Japan have developed a humanoid that acts like a toddler to better understand child development.

The Child-Robot with Biomimetic Body, or CB2, was developed by a team of researchers at Osaka University in western Japan and is designed to move just like a real child aged between one and three years old.

CB2, 4.3 feet tall and weighing 73 pounds, changes facial expressions and crawls on the floor.

The robot’s movements are smooth fitted with 56 actuators in lieu of muscle. It has 197 sensors for touch, small cameras working as eyes, and an audio sensor.

CB2 can also speak using an artificial vocal cord.

When it stands on its feet, the robot wobbles like a child who is learning how to walk.

Minoru Asada, a professor at Osaka University who leads the project, said the robot was developed to learn more about child development.

“Our goal is to study human recognition development such as how the child learns a language, recognizes objects and learns to communicate with his father and mother,” he said.”