Biblical Patriarchy

Via: NaturalNews

The U.S. Congress has just voted to categorize tobacco as a drug, handing the FDA regulatory authority to control the advertising, marketing and sales of cigarettes. This hilarious move, if approved by the Senate and signed by the President, would put the FDA in the position of approving the sale of a “drug” that the entire medical community openly admits kills millions of people. According to the CDC, tobacco kills 438,000 people each year in the United States alone (1). Now, thanks to the U.S. Congress, the FDA could soon be the government office responsible for allowing these 438,000 deaths each year!

Think about it: Right now, FDA-approved drugs kill around 100,000 Americans a year, and that’s if you believe the conservative figures from the American Medical Association (the real numbers are at least double that). Add tobacco deaths to that list, and you come to the startling realization that if tobacco is considered an FDA-approved “drug,” then FDA-approved drugs will kill well over half a million Americans each year! (538,000 fatalities a year due to FDA-approved drugs, using government statistics.)

That’s a level of fatalities that terrorists haven’t even come close to approaching.

Why the FDA doesn’t want to regulate tobacco
Obviously, the FDA does not want to find itself in this position, because if regulatory authority over tobacco is shoved onto the FDA, it would be forced to declare tobacco an unapproved, unsafe drug and ban its sale.

Why? Because there have been no clinical studies whatsoever supporting the use of tobacco as a medicine. And if it’s considered a drug, then the FDA must apply the same rules to tobacco that it applies to other substances. And there’s absolutely no way a series of clinical trials could show tobacco to be safe or effective at treating disease. (Unless, of course, Big Tobacco funds the studies, in which case cigarette smoke could be made to look like it CURES cancer, thanks to fraudulent science and corrupt researchers…)

Thus, if the FDA were to follow its own rules, it would have to ban tobacco outright, considering it an “unapproved drug” and raid all the tobacco companies, confiscating their inventory and dragging them into court just like the FDA does with diet pills companies or cherry growers.

Of course, the FDA could decide to selectively NOT enforce its own rules against tobacco companies, but that puts the agency in an even worse position of making an exception on its drug enforcement policy, singling out the most dangerous “drug” ever created as one that suspiciously escapes regulatory action. That would make the FDA look like even more of a regulatory failure than it does already, calling into question whether the FDA simply bases its regulatory decisions on the size and influence of the corporation affected rather than genuine public safety.

Because, let’s face it: Cigarettes will kill you. There’s no debate anymore. Even the doctors — who are the slowest people in the world to accept new ideas — are on board with this one. Sure, it took them a few decades to stop running Big Tobacco ads in the Journal of the American Medical Association, and doctors used to take money from the tobacco companies to say cigarettes are “Recommended by doctors,” but those days are long gone. Today, virtually everyone agrees smoking cigarettes is one of the most dangerous activities a consumer can engage in when it comes to health.

So how on Earth, then, could the FDA allow cigarettes to continue to be sold at all? If it enforces its own rules, it would simply have to ban cigarettes altogether.

And I say banning cigarettes outright is a huge mistake. Here’s why:

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Source: wnd.com

A new Harvard study suggests men who eat higher amounts of soy-based foods become “feminized” – confirming a series of reports documented by longtime WND columnist Jim Rutz and drawing outraged protests from the soy food industry.

According to a report from Reuters, the study was done by Jorge Chavarro of the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, whose work appeared in the journal Human Reproduction.

It reportedly is the largest study of humans to look at the relationship between semen quality and a plant form of the female sex hormone estrogen known as phytoestrogen, which is plentiful in soy-rich foods.

“What we found was men that consume the highest amounts of soy foods in this study had a lower sperm concentration compared to those who did not consume soy foods,” Chavarro told Reuters.

“It was a relatively large difference,” he said.

The researcher said animal studies already have linked eating the plant-derived estrogens called isoflavones with infertility, but that’s not evident in humans yet.

The researchers looked at 99 men who went to a fertility clinic between 2000 and 2006, and their intake of soy-based foods, including tofu, tempeh, soy sausages, bacon or burgers, soy milk, cheese and yogurt.

Chavarro reported men in the highest intake category had 41 million sperm-per-milliliter fewer than men who ate no soy foods, prompting him to suggest soy has a “deleterious effect” on the reproductive system.

Consider this:

“ALL ACROSS THE GLOBE the family as a social unit is disintegrating and everywhere the breakdown is causing economic dislocation and a trail of social malaise. Barbados is no exception.

The role of parent is now being assumed by institutions. Very recently in England, a prominent education leader warned that the demise of the traditional family was breeding a generation of children who are increasingly relying on teachers to become surrogate parents.”

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Google news alerts are a great tool for keeping track of what goes on in the world. I set up an alert for “biblical patriarchy” quite some time ago, and have watched with great interest what is is that people have to say, in blogs as well as in the news. Very little of what anyone has to say is of a positive nature. Patriarchy is what’s wrong with the world, according to many people. I, however, rely on Scripture to provide the answer as to what is wrong with the world. Scripture says:

The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the LORD was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart. Gen 6:5-6

Well, with the assistance of Google alerts I am more than fully aware of the fact that this website -Biblical-Patriarchy.com is the very thing that causes so much concern, and generates so much animosity in the world, especially amongst the feminist crowd I make no apologies for this site, and am rather pleased to be following God’s Word, to the fullest degree to which I am able. Incidentally, My wife likes the site to.

Luk 6:26  Woe to you, when all people speak well of you, for so their fathers did to the false prophets.

Well, Google alerts strongly indicate that the heathen does indeed rage still…always has, and always will.

Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD and against his anointed, saying,
“Let us burst their bonds apart and cast away their cords from us.”
He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord holds them in derision. Psa 2:1-4

And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD and unbind the hair of the woman’s head and place in her hands the grain offering of remembrance, which is the grain offering of jealousy. And in his hand the priest shall have the water of bitterness that brings the curse. Then the priest shall make her take an oath, saying, ‘If no man has lain with you, and if you have not turned aside to uncleanness while you were under your husband’s authority, be free from this water of bitterness that brings the curse. But if you have gone astray, though you are under your husband’s authority, and if you have defiled yourself, and some man other than your husband has lain with you, then’ (let the priest make the woman take the oath of the curse, and say to the woman) ‘the LORD make you a curse and an oath among your people, when the LORD makes your thigh fall away and your body swell. Numbers 5:18-21

As is plainly visible, the wife is under the authority of the husband…not a minister, preacher, pastor, elder, bishop, deacon, employer! or anyone else. This is further strengthened by the following:

But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God. 1 Corinthians 11:3

Gregorian 2004/2011 or Hebrew 5764/5771- All holidays begin at sundown of the preceding day and end at nightfall of the final day of observance.

God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. Gen 1:5

Passover (Pesach)

• April 20, 2008 (15th of Nisan, 5768)
• April 09, 2009 (15th of Nisan, 5769)
• March 30, 2010 (15th of Nisan, 5770)
• April 19, 2011 (15th of Nisan, 5771)

Pentecost (Shavuot)

• June 09, 2008 (6th of Sivan, 5768)
• May 29, 2009 (6th of Sivan, 5769)
• May 19, 2010 (6th of Sivan, 5770)
• June 08, 2011 (6th of Sivan, 5771)

Trumpets (Rosh Hashana)

• September 30, 2008 (1st of Tishrei, 5769)
• September 19, 2009 (1st of Tishrei, 5770)
• September 09, 2010 (1st of Tishrei, 5771)
• September 29, 2011 (1st of Tishrei, 5772)

Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur)

• October 09, 2008 (10th of Tishrei, 5769)
• September 28, 2009 (10th of Tishrei, 5770)
• September 18, 2010 (10th of Tishrei, 5771)

Tabernacles (Sukkot)

• October 14, 2008 (15th of Tishrei, 5769)
• October 03, 2009 (15th of Tishrei, 5770)
• September 23, 2010 (15th of Tishrei, 5771)

Hanukkah (Chanukah) Begins

• December 22, 2008 (24th of Kislev, 5769)
• December 12, 2009 (24th of Kislev, 5770)
• December 22, 2010 (24th of Kislev, 5771)

Purim

• March 21, 2008 (14th of Adar, 5768)
• March 10, 2009 (14th of Adar, 5769)
• February 28, 2010 (14th of Adar, 5770)

What is this site all about, you may ask. Initially, I was simply going to say that this site is concerned with the issues of “being a man.” However, let us further clarify by…well, let’s just say that this site is about being a biblical patriarch in today’s modern world, and leave it at that for now, with the possibility for exploring further just around the corner, Lord willing. I hope you enjoy your visit.

There are a few main aspects that will call for certain consideration.

1. Dominion- What it is, and who be getting it, and who are we to even ask such questions!
2. God’s Law- What it is, what it is not, what’s it good for.
3. Social Relationships- Husbandry and Fatherhood, Citizenry
4. Economics- Work and Industry, Stewardship, Debt