A group of atheists who are angry the chancellor of Troy University sent an e-mail that says democracy works in America because people know “they’re accountable to God” are demanding an apology.
“Atheists are overwhelmingly ethical and upstanding people. It is not true that religion is necessary to keep people from becoming criminals,” wrote Americans Atheists’ President David Silverman in an open letter sent to Jack Hawkins Jr. on New Year’s Eve. “In fact, in the United States, in states with the highest percentages of atheists, the murder rate is lower than average. In the most-religious states, the murder rate is higher than average.”
The message from Chancellor Jack Hawkins Jr. read: “As we approach a new year I am reminded of the blessings we enjoy within a democracy which is the envy of the world,” wrote Hawkins. “For your pleasure — and as a reminder — I am sharing with you a 90 second video which speaks to America’s greatness and its vulnerability.”
The video link was Harvard Business School professor Clay Christensen saying a visiting Chinese scholar told him about the importance he saw of religion in American democracy and life.
A spokesman for Troy University sent a statement to the Christian Post about the email.
“The purpose of this email was to spur introspection and encourage thoughtful discussion as we transition from the challenges of 2014 to the opportunities ahead in 2015,” read the statement. “This message and video were shared to provide the university community with information and insights for healthy consideration and debate about our country’s democracy, the role it plays in the world and the challenges America faces going forward.”
If you were to check the top video on social media networks in Palestine, you would find the top video is step by step instructions to kill a Jew.
A group that calls themselves resisters of occupation in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem produced the video called “How To Stab A Jew”. The report in the Jewish Press says that video shows two men in attire that was made popular by the late Yasser Arafat.
The “teacher” in the video then instructs the viewer on how to walk up to a Jew and stab them in the most efficient manner to kill them.
The video’s discovery comes after a wave of stabbing attacks against Jews in Israel by Palestinians.
This is not the first production by Palestinians aimed at encouraging or teaching Arabs how to murder Jews. A video game was released in October called “The Liberation of Palestine” that encourages users to “liberate Palestine” through violence rather than diplomacy.
“The language of weapons is the most effective with the Israelis,” the game’s creator said.
The video of Islamic terrorist group ISIS beheading a second American is much harder to find on the internet thanks to a secret coalition of the biggest social media and streaming video outlets.
An anonymous source revealed to the Times of Israel that Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and others agreed to work together to keep the video from being uploaded and spread throughout the world on their systems. Copies of the video uploaded to YouTube were deleted within seconds of their upload so other sites could not link them.
“It’s been very interesting, with this second beheading, how very little of those images have been passed around,” said Family Online Safety Institute CEO Stephen Balkam, who serves on Facebook’s safety advisory board. “It’s very difficult to find them unless you know of some darker places on the web.”
The Times of Israel also reported that after the first beheading video the social outlets decided to take a stand against the terrorists spreading their hate online.
The networks involved refused to give media interviews although YouTube released a statement saying they have clear policies to remove videos aimed at inciting violence.
Online privacy advocates said the censoring of the video could be a very dangerous precedent although most would endorse a way to keep the video from the internet if the discussion of the incident could continue to freely flow.
A woman who posted a video online that she said was aimed at “stopping the stigma” on abortion is now being questioned after the former actress’s video has been shown to have inconsistencies.
Emily Letts posted the video showing her smiling and praising her abortion procedure as part of a contest organized by pro-abortions groups, including one that advocates for underage girls to have abortions without parental consent.
Since the video was posted, it’s been released that the clinic where Letts works as a counselor paid to settle a malpractice lawsuit in 2003 after their abortionist performed on an underage girl without parental consent. The Cherry Hill Women’s Center also falsified the underage girls’ records.
The Christian Post tried to contact Letts about the situation but the Center would not return CP’s calls.
Pro-life organization Live Action took apart the video and noted what they called “many red flags.” Live Action said it was unlikely the baby was the age claimed based on the procedure and that one of the people shooting the video was behind the overall pro-abortion campaign.
But the possibility of the video being false is only part of the problem.
“Certainly it’s good to call into question the factors of the video and whether or not it was an actual video of her undergoing the procedure. But I think the most shocking aspect that makes it surreal and lacks reality is that women do not go into abortions with smiles on their faces,” Live Action head Lila Rose explained. “And when she’s having the abortion, we never actually get to see the victim of the abortion or the violent aspects of it, and how this is killing a person. The fact that she shielded that from view, whether it’s because it never actually happened and the whole thing is a hoax, or if it’s because it’s part of her propaganda, either way, the viewer doesn’t see the reality.”
