Church: Cultural Marxism by Voddie Baucham

Video [1 Hour]

Founders’ Description

Voddie Baucham has spoken of the unbiblical ideology imbedded in Cultural Marxism. In this address, he unpacks Cultural Marxism identifying how it is incompatible with the Christian faith that has once for all been delivered to the saints.

In recent years we have a growing concern about “social justice.” What is meant by that phrase, however, varies widely among those who use and promote it. What is too often missing—even in the calls for “social justice” coming from Christian leaders—is a clear understanding of biblical justice. Justice exists because God is just and righteous. He is the One who defines justice and He has revealed what true justice is in the Bible. For more resources on these topics, you can visit www.founders.org.

This presentation was given by Voddie Baucham on January 3, 2019 at the Southeast Founders "Do Justice, Love Kindness, Walk Humbly" regional conference in Cape Coral, Florida.

Referenced Topic Links

1. Antonio Gramsci - 1900’s Italian Marxists

2. Balint Vazsonyi - Hungarian immigrated to America and author of the book, America’s 30 Years War: Who is Winning?

3. Frankfurt School - 1900’s Social Theory School

4. Hegemony - Term to describe how control over another happens

5. Karl Marx - 1800’s German philosopher, economist, etc. advocated socialistic values and socialist revolution

6. LAPD Rampart Division - 1960’s Police Division of the Los Angeles Police Department

Life: 'I Murdered More People Than Ted Bundy': Former Abortionist Reflects on Painful Past by CBN News [VIDEO]

Books Mentioned:

1. Evidence that Demands a Verdict by Josh McDowell and Sean McDowell

2. Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

Life: Dr. Kathi Aultman's Conversion Story: From Abortion Provider to Pro-Life Advocate from Pro-Life Utah [VIDEO]

Here’s some quotes from the video:

I 'm Dr. Kathi Aultman.

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I am a retired OBGYN, and I used to be an abortionist.

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And I'd like to tell you the story of how I went from being someone who aborted babies

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to someone who now tries to save babies.

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After college I took a year off to make money to go to medical school.

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During that time I met my future husband and I got pregnant.

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And decided that abortion was the best option for me.

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Later I regretted that decision, but at the time, I thought that was the best thing I

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should do.

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When I entered medical school, I truly believed that abortion was a woman's right to choose,

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and I was very adamant about it.

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I wanted to help women.

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During my training, I learned how to do D&C; with suction abortions, and then I sought

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out extra training to be able to do D&E; abortions, or dismemberment abortions.

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After getting my medical license I was able to start moonlighting doing abortions at a

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clinic in a nearby city.

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I got pregnant during the last year of my residency, and during that time, I still continued

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to do abortions.

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And really didn't have any qualms about it.

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I felt that my baby was wanted, their babies were not, I didn't see any problem with that.

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What did change my mind, was when I went back to the clinic after delivering my baby.

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I ran into three patients that changed my life.

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With the first patient, I realized that I had done three of her previous abortions.

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And when I objected, and didn't want to do it, staff told me that I didn't have that

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right.

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That it was her right to choose.

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Even if she wanted to use abortion as her birth control.

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She had the abortion, I talked to her there afterwards.

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She still did not want to use birth control.

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And wanted to use abortion as her backup.

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The second patient came in with a friend.

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And oftentimes the patients did want to see the tissue.

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The friend asked her, "Do you want to see the tissue?"

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And she snapped at her and said, "I don't want to see it, I just want to kill it."

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And I wanted to say, "What did this baby ever do to you?"

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The last patient had four children already, and she and her husband felt that they just

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couldn't afford another child.

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So, she cried throughout the whole time at the clinic.

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It just broke my heart.

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It was at that point that somehow, I made the baby/fetus connection.

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And the fact that the baby was not wanted, was no longer enough for me to do the abortion.

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I never did another abortion.

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The only time I had any qualms other than that, was when I did my neonatal intensive

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care unit rotation.

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And I realized that some of the babies I was trying to save, were the same gestation as

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babies that I had aborted.

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The problem is, that I still believed that a women had the right to choose abortion.

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I still believed in abortion.

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And I still referred patients for an abortion.

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As I began my practice though, I noticed that there were women who kept their unwanted pregnancies,

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even very young girls, and they seemed to do fine.

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And then I was seeing other women who had abortions, who were coming in with psychological

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problems, and being extremely distressed.

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I was also seeing complications of abortion.

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And this didn't jive with the feminist rhetoric that I had so closely embraced.

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So I began to be a little uncomfortable.

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What finally changed me, was a very loving friend gave me an article.

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Said, "Would you consider reading this?

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I know what your position on abortion is, but could you just read this?"

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It was an article that compared abortion to the Holocaust.

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Suddenly I realized that I was no different from the German doctors who did horrible experiments

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on people.

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Or the Nazis who exterminated so many.

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I suddenly understood why they could do what they did.

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Because, I could do what I did.

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I did not see the fetus as a human being.

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Just like the Germans did not see the Jews as human beings.

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When you don't see someone as human, you can do whatever you want to them, and not feel

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bad about it.

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That was the point where I became pro-life.

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And after that, it took a lot of prayer, and a lot of counseling, for me to get past the

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fact that I was basically a mass murderer.

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And to get over the fact that I had aborted my own child, as well as so many others.

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You know, I always love to meet people that I delivered.

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But it's bittersweet, because I know there are so many that I will never meet, because

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I aborted them.

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The thing to remember, is that although we can't see who these little people are, they

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ARE people.

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They're still in the womb, but they are people.

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And we don't know what they are going to be, or who they are going to become.

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But we need to give them a chance.

Education: Has Science Buried God? by John Lennox [VIDEO]

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Eric Metaxas interviews (mainly at minute 6 on the video) John Lennox at the Colson Center in Washingon D.C. in summary form regarding the topic question, “Has Science Buried God?” The interview might just be best for a helpful introduction to Lennox and to discover more of what he has authored and argued, especially in debates with high profile atheist (20th-21st century version) professors and scientists. Dr. Lennox provides a lot of helpful statements and introductory level direction in how to think and find more answers. Many of the statements are also challenging modern day assumptions, decades old under-toe current, and now seemingly tsunami wave of people’s ‘anti-belief’ in God. Below the video are quotes/statements written out from the interview for reference also.

Metaxas allow 3 questions from the audience at the end, which starts about 1 hour 5 minutes that addresses: 1) Mathematical proofs; 2) Abortion; and 3) What would Lennox say before God in heaven upon death?

From Socrates in the City youtube video (1 hour 19 minutes) description:

“Host Eric Metaxas and Oxford professor John Lennox explore the question, "Has science buried God?" -- discussing the fine-tuned universe, evolution, logic, history, and more! "It's like we're an old Vaudeville team" says Metaxas, who eggs the legendary Lennox into retelling his equally legendary roast chicken anecdote. The interview was hosted by the Colson Center and took place in Washington D.C., in May 2019.“

Video

Dr. Lennox provides statements like:

1. “There are a myth in our culture: 1) Science is the only way to truth. 2) The position is logically incoherent … That statement (science is the only way to truth) cannot be true since it does not come from science.”

2. “Science can bury atheism.“

3. “It was the belief in God that drove science.”

4. “They got the wrong concept of God.”

5. “The more he understood of how it worked, the more he admired the genius of the God [of the Bible] who did it that way.”

6. “There’s a mind behind what’s up there … not mindless, unguided processes.“

7. “Our faith increases [in God when learning the world and science].“

8. “Kids can understand but professors cannot. The scientific explanation tells you how it works. The personal explanation works also … the two explanations do not compete but compliments.”

9. “[The why question] is an important question.”

10. “Something came from something, not nothing.”

11. “Science can bury atheism.“

12. “We have been miseducated by atheists that there’s science there and there’s faith here.”

13. “Atheism followed to its logical conclusion destroys rationality.”

14. “The Bible is putting the finger on what is really profound.“

15. “The universe is word based … not that the universe came from nothing and created itself.”

16. “And God said … The idea of God speaking is such a powerful one. The Bible has been talking about it for a millennia.”

17. “Nobody can get rid of the idea of creation. So reject God and end up with a self-creating universal and that’s a contradiction in terms … leads to nonsense.“

18. “It is a mistake to think that only Christians are a people of faith.”

19. “Every school in our country is a faith school.”

20. “They don’t realize that their atheism is a belief system [don’t you believe in your atheistic beliefs].

21. “We are people who believe in Christ, and provide why we believe what we believe.“

22. “[Put Christianity and truth in the public space] We need a lot of courage to do that, otherwise we all will be silenced.“

23. “Evolution only addresses when there is life and not how life came about.”

24. “Our culture is faced of a raw choice between God and nothing.”

Topics (mentioned or addressed):

1. Literature

2. Theology

3. Languages

4. Classics

5. God

6. Word

7. Universe

8. Life

9. Creation

10. History

11. Science

12. Evolution

13. Atheism (20th/21st century version)

14. Galileo

15. Kepler

16. Christopher Hitchens

17. Richard Dawkins

18. Stephen Hawking

19. Carl Sagan

20. Peter Singer

21. Reductionism

22. Ontological Reductionists

23. DNA

24. Fine-tuning

25. Chance, necessity, and laws of nature

26. Abiogenesis

27. Philosophy

28. Physics

29. Mathematics

30. The Bible

31. Biblical Revelation

32. John’s Gospel

33. Living Word, Jesus

34. Isaac Newton

35. C.S. Lewis

36. Logic

37. Rationale

38. Gravity

39. Energy

40. Education

41. Schools

42. What to say at death and before the Lord Jesus Christ?

Life: What You Need to Know About Planned Parenthood by PragerU

We are thankful for people and information like this to help others understand the truthful reality of real life issues and organizations, such as abortions and Planned Parenthood.

PragerU's video description:
"What does Planned Parenthood really do? What do they actually stand for? President and founder of Live Action, Lila Rose, lays out everything you need to know about Planned Parenthood."

Life: Star Parker Congressional Testimony Comparing Abortion to Slavery

The below is accessible and quoted from Star Parker's YouTube video description.

Hearing on H.R. 490, the Heartbeat Protection Act of 2017
For Submission to the Committee on the Judiciary’s Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice

My name is Star Parker. I am the founder and president of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education based here in Washington, DC and I want to thank you Mr. Chairman for this opportunity to declare my support of H.R. 490, the Heartbeat Protection Act of 2017.

The abortion industry all across America, and in particularly in our most distressed communities, is preying on our nation’s most vulnerable, brutally dismembering their offspring: and yet there is no federal protection that the women considering abortion receive full disclosure about the human being growing within her.

Recently a famous rapper name Nicki Minaj told Rolling Stone magazine that an abortion of her youth still haunts her: a heart wrenching story being told by many thousands of distraught men and women in hundreds of communities all across our great country.

I was one such woman: when years ago, lost in sexual recklessness, had four abortions; without any counsel nor information from the abortion providers about the distinct humanity of the life that was
growing within me.

I heard all the propaganda of the abortion peddlers, in school, in media, from community and political leaders - yet I heard nothing of infant development in the womb nor any information about their
morality.

Perhaps then, one might argue that little was known about the development or mortality of an embryo or fetus: very few instruments were available to medically or scientifically detect heartbeat.

But today, due to modern technology, this is not an argument that can be made, in particular with the advent of ultrasound where we can now hear and measure a heartbeat within the womb.

Need for H.R. 490, the Heartbeat Protection Act of 2017
To illustrate the humanity of the life in a womb and express the great need for this Heartbeat Protection Act of 2017, H.R. 490, I want to share stories I have heard over and over again in State after State about the impact of abortion on their personal lives.

1. Texas: This man had deep regret of an abortion in his youth after discovery of information on fetal development upon his wife’s first pregnancy and he ended up in counseling for depression. When he saw the heartbeat of their expectant offspring on sonogram, his heart rushed with panic of the abortion he had a decade earlier with a girlfriend.

2. North Carolina: This couple talked themselves into an abortion for financial reasons and then couldn’t look at each other again after thinking about fetal development and thus ended their marriage.

3. Alaska: This pastor found out his minor daughter had had an abortion without consent after she was in agonizing pain in that she was carrying twins and the abortionist only killed one. The survivor of this botched abortion is now an adult and speaking out against abortion.

Interestingly and for the record, all three of these stories were told to me by men.