Monday, June 24, 2024

Mark McClosky at OCPAC Foundation

Published Monday, June 24, 2024

OKLAHOMA HISTORY CENTER

800 Nazih Zuhdi Drive, OKC, OK


THIS WEDNESDAY

In 2020, BLM and other self-proclaimed communist organizations were conducting terrorist operations in the United States.


Toward the end of his three-year ministry, Jesus told his disciples to be sure to purchase an assault weapon if they did not already own one. (Luke 22:35, 36)*


The 18th Century Lutheran Preacher, Peter Muhlenberg, saw the sword as having a vital role in the defense of liberty.


Mark and Patricia McCloskey discovered the 21st century application of the Luke's Gospel passage as they defended their home and their family against rioters.


They were met by an onslaught of people intent on destroying elements of fiscal and civic responsibility by penetrating wealthy neighborhoods with their chaotic presence.


The McCloskeys were prosecuted and convicted for their actions in the defense of their home, though they never left the inner circle of their property.


Their unjust conviction led to a pardon by the Missouri Governor. Better yet, just last week, the misdemeanor convictions were overturned by Judge Joseph P. Whyte.


They will be with us this Wednesday to tell their harrowing story of confronting an angry and lawless mob and the media frenzy which followed.


* Jesus said to them, "Let the one who has no sword sell his clock and buy one."

~Luke 22:36

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The Fight for America's Soul

In April of this year Tulsi Gabbard published For Love of Country for the purpose of exposing the Democrat Party’s thirst for power. She suggests a national focus on the God of our founding.

Certainly, Tulsi Gabbard is not the same person who ran in 2020 for the nomination of the Democrat Party for President of the United States.


After leaving the U.S. Congress on January 3, 2021, her positions on transgender rights, abortion, foreign policy, and border security have transitioned to conservative.


She has left the Democrat Party.

She opens her book stating:


I can no longer remain in a party that abuses its power by leveraging the national security state and law enforcement against their opponents, undermining the rule of law and turning our democracy into a banana republic.


She closes the book by asking her readers to help restore America.  She says:


Join me in choosing to end the downward spiral into darkness that the Democrat elite have imposed on us and our nation.

The more important pages of her book are contained in the fourth chapter.  In it, she speaks to the fundamental source of the cancer eroding the American people.


She states:


Those in control of today’s Democrat Party are actively undermining our religious freedom, trying to erase the presence of God from every facet of public life, and are openly hostile toward people of faith and spirituality.


Those who want to amass greater power and control over the people see that their first task must be to undermine our trust in God and convince us that we must place our faith in them instead of God.


This is the reason why the Democrat elite are so hell-bent on removing God from every facet of our lives. Their goal is to amass greater power and control over us.


They are envious of God and see Him as their primary competition their desire to become the Supreme Controllers.


This is why they have a vested interest in trying to erase any mention of God in our public life.  They want to sideline God because they want to be God.

Our founders understood clearly that the stability of a nation is in its Christian foundation.  As a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, Patrick Henry, in 1784, wrote legislation with the statement:


The wide diffusion of Christian knowledge has a natural tendency to correct the morals of men, restrain their vices, and preserve the peace of society.

Our founders had the advantage of ministers who understood that their responsibilities extended beyond the pulpits to the government as well.


Rev Thomas Reese, graduate of Princeton and a presbyterian minister, in 1788, wrote this about the fundamental importance of our national identity being tied to the adherence to Christianity:


Morality, independent of religion, never existed.

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Tulsi Gabbard ties our national identity to the God our founders looked to. She states that restoring God as the center of our national conscience is vital to our national health.

"To be antagonistic toward God is to

be antagonistic toward the foundation of

the freedoms enshrined in our Constitution."

~Tulsi Gabbard, For Love of Country

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We are working to remove this antagonism

from our education in Oklahoma.


The Chairman of the OCPAC Foundation, Fr. Stephen Hamilton, wrote these sentiments to Governor Stitt on June 6, 2024.  Fr. Hamilton is the chairman of the Oklahoma Advisory Committee on Founding Principles.


He writes:


In March 2023, the Oklahoma Advisory Committee on Founding Principles (OACPF) formed itself to offer advice to the Oklahoma State Department of Education (OSDE) on the general topic of promoting the founding principles and culture of this great nation in our schools.


It is entirely uncontroversial to acknowledge that the founding principles of the United States of America have established and enshrined a land of hope and freedom based upon Judeo-Christian values. It is a historical observation. It is also not controversial to promote fidelity to that founding. What’s more, to encourage knowledge about this founding and gratitude for it need not be seen as anything other than historical fact, rather than a zealous religious campaign seeking converts. It is good, healthy, and productive to promote gratitude for the founding principles that guide our country still. Enshrined in those founding principles is the relationship of faith leading to virtue leading to freedom, all of which together helps create a citizenry capable of self-governance.


The Declaration of Foundational Values is a profound and necessary step. It acknowledges that education is not just about academic proficiency but about shaping individuals who pursue truth, goodness, and beauty—universal virtues rooted in our Creator's design. By emphasizing that these virtues are objective and attainable, Superintendent Walters is championing a vision of education that forms the mind and touches the soul. This approach aligns perfectly with the ethos of our founding documents, which invoke divine guidance and recognize the inherent dignity of people.

When the 2020 candidate for the Democrat nomination for President of the United States writes a book to ask Democrats to awaken to the ruthless power-hungry nature of the party’s core and to articulate the fundamental essential need for a return to God as our national identity, perhaps God is moving to restore the nation's spiritual foundations.


I am reminded of the words of our January speaker, Xi Van Fleet, who suffered at the hands of Mao before finding her way to America.  She eventually realized that Mao’s revolution had come to America.

She is emphatic that America’s great need is a return to her Christian roots.  It is not conservatism or morality which will defeat communism.  She states emphatically that only Christianity will defeat communism.


America’s healing will come as

its people abandon secularism and

re-establish a national allegiance to God.


Our speaker this week made national news by doing something Christian.  He employed a weapon to fend off a threat to his home and property.  He was not being an antagonistic brute.  He was honoring his family and his home.


We must all take our place as active participants in a society that without our voice is drifting from God into a chaotic struggle for political power.


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Speaking of a spiritual resurgence in our midst:


On the heels of the 4th straight National Softball Championship led by the devout Christian, Patti Gasso, was last week's World Championship won by the Boston Celtics. They are led by the outspoken Christian head coach, Joe Mazzulla.


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JULY 31, 2024

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Watch Ricky's comments at our last meeting regarding his coming presentation.


Find it here.

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WORLD CHAMPS!

Led by Outspoken Christian

Head Coach Joe Mazzulla

I encourage each of you to support our mission.


To get started, we are suggesting:


The Century Club


To join, mail a cancelled check to:


OCPAC FOUNDATION

P.O. Box 721212

Norman, OK 73070


Your $100 per month donation will help support the development of the Foundation’s work to widen our audience and outreach capabilities with quality meetings and enhanced educational video content.


Our beginning financial goals will allow us to secure the initial permanent staff positions necessary to the function of a foundation with ambitions to change the world.

We are in desperate need of returning

our nation and our state to Biblical foundations.


Thank you for your activism.

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TRUTH IN ACADEMIA

Published Monday, June 17, 2024

NO MEETING THIS WEEK

NEXT MEETING June 26

MARK McCLOSKY

BOB LINN

Pressing forTruth in Academia

TRIUMPH


The most profoundly important message of last Wednesday’s meeting was that the earth is a theater of victory for the Church.


More than thirty years ago, George Soros initiated a well-funded strategy to capture the mind of the Evangelical Church. He sought them as a partner in his politically-based climate movement's hysteria.

The faithfulness of one man, Cal Beisner, employed the power of the pen to bring the Soros mission to its knees.


Dr. Beisner, a theologian with a Ph.D. in history, teamed with seventy of the world’s leading climatologists, natural scientists, economists, philosophers, theologians, and policy experts to address the hard science of climate.

The men above, proponents of truth and human flourishing, are part of a much larger team who have known the victory which all God's people should learn to expect.


They are a model for us.


The globalists in search of power lost the control they sought for the church's support of their political agenda.


See the report they wrote regarding

their failure to penetrate the church here.

Dr. Beisner is mentioned prominently especially on page six.

The climate posture of the World Economic Forum (WEF), the United Nations (UN), the White House, and our Oklahoma public schools are indefensible in the face of scholarship.


Last week, I wrote about Dr. Patrick Brown, who stated publicly that he removed much of the important research from his submission to Nature Magazine so that it would appear to comply with the publication's political posture of a soon-coming climate catastrophe.


In the same article, I noted the famous article by Dr. John Ioannidis of Stanford titled:


Why Most Published Research Findings Are False.


DR. JULIAN SIMON

Challenging Disinformation in Academia


In 1995, Dr. Julian Simon mused about the widespread disinformation at all levels of academia, government, and the media regarding planetary issues.

He often challenged the doomsayers of eschatological tragedy to wager on their dark forecasts versus his optimistic ones.


Because they would never wager, he asked:


Do they really believe the dire forecasts they make, or do they just make statements they don’t believe in order to scare the public and mobilize the government to do their will?


See his book, The State of Humanity.

 

THE FAILED ANALYSIS OF THE

1980 GLOBAL REPORT TO THE

PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

RONALD REAGAN

Page one of the 1980 Global Report 2000 to the President stated, in part, that:


The world in 2000 will be more crowded, more polluted, less stable ecologically, and more vulnerable to disruption than the world we live in now.  Life for most people on earth will be more precarious in 2000 than it is now.


Dr. Julian Simon and Dr. Herman Kahn in their book, The Resourceful Earth, A Response to Global 2000, (1984) restated that paragraph, contradicting each point as follows:


The world in 2000 will be LESS crowded (though more populated), LESS polluted, MORE stable ecologically, and LESS vulnerable to disruption than the world we live in now.  Life for most people on earth will be LESS precarious in 2000 than it is now.  The world’s people will be richer in most ways than they are today.


A decade later (1995), Dr. Simon published his nearly 700-page The State of Humanity. Dr. Calvin Beisner was the managing editor.

In the book, Dr. Simon reflects on the contrast of the doomsday report given to President Reagan in 2000 and the optimism of his own:


The years have been kind to our forecasts – more importantly, the years have been good for humanity.  Our species is better off in just about every measurable way.  There is stronger reason than ever to believe that these progressive trends will continue indefinitely.


The complete failure of the dire forecasts of the doomsayers, starting in the 1960s and continuing through the 1980 Global 2000 Report until now should confer credibility to our optimism.  Regrettably, however, the doomsayer’s failure has not reduced the frequency of forecasts of doom or sapped the reputations or influence of forecasters.


They all have an equally atrocious record.


Speaking of climate issues, he states:


The record of the doomsayers in forecasting such matters is atrocious.  Remember that only a decade or so before the global warning scare got going – in the middle 1970s-the very persons and institutions that now scold us about taking action to reduce global warming were raising the alarm about global cooling.  That is, it took only about a decade for the switch from one scenario of doom to the opposite.

The worriers about cooling included Science, the most influential scientific journal in the world, quoting an official of the World Meteorological Organization; the National Academy of Sciences worrying about the onset of a 10,000 year ice age; Newsweek, warning that food production could be adversely affected within a decade; the New York Times quoting an official of the National Center for Atmospheric Research; and Science Digest, the science periodical with the largest circulation, writing that:


“The world’s climatologists are agreed on only two things: That we do not have a comfortable distance of tens of thousands of years to prepare for the next ice age, and that how carefully we monitor our atmospheric pollution will have a direct bearing on the arrival and nature of this weather crisis.  The sooner man confronts these facts, these scientists say, the safer he’ll be.  Once the freeze starts, it will be too late.”

Now, ask yourself: How reliable could the evidence for the cooling alarm have been?  And in connection with that answer, how reliable could be the evidence for the warming alarm of the 1990s, given that it is mostly composed of exactly the same records over many centuries that made up the evidence for the earlier cooling alarm?


During times of universal deceit, telling

the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

~ George Orwell.


As Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn said, "Don't live by lies."


God bless.

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GOVERNOR KEVIN STITT VETO

On the last day of session, Speaker Charles McCall and Mark McBride promoted a bill that removed from Ryan Walters the authority over federal funding of education.


Section 15 of the legislation (SB1122) placed that authority not under the legislature, but under the Speaker of the House and the Pro Temp of the Senate.


Section 16 of SB1122 placed restrictions on Ryan Walter's ability to communicate with the public. Restrictions non-existent on any other state agency including the Oklahoma Legislature itself.


This concern over Ryan's public presence in spite of the fact that the expenditures for public communication under Ryan Walters is $200,000 per year compared to the $800,000 Joy Hofmeister spent in her last year in that same office.


Last Friday morning, the Governor vetoed both sections.


You may see the Governor's comments in his letter here.

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TINKER FEDERAL CREDIT UNION

IS SHOWING ITS VALUES

Ryan Walters and the State Department of Education do not mesh with the cultural values Tinker Federal Credit Union (TFCU) wishes to support, so they are removing their support of the upcoming INSPIREOK event.


Like the National Teachers Association (NEA/OEA), TFCU values lie elsewhere.

IF YOU MISSED LAST WEEK . . .

DR. CAL BEISNER

Watch Dr. Beisner speak here.


Watch the entire meeting here.

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JUNE 26, 2024

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Father Stephen Hamilton, Bob Linn, and Gaylene Stupic.

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I encourage each of you to support our mission.


To get started, we are suggesting:


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To join, mail a cancelled check to:


OCPAC FOUNDATION

P.O. Box 721212

Norman, OK 73070


Your $100 per month donation will help support the development of the Foundation’s work to widen our audience and outreach capabilities with quality meetings and enhanced educational video content.


Our beginning financial goals will allow us to secure the initial permanent staff positions necessary to the function of a foundation with ambitions to change the world.

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