I hope that whether you loved, hated, or felt indifferent to this review, that you get this movie and see it for yourself. Packed with American history, Church history, and discussing hot, controversial topics, Birth control: How did we get here? will leave an impression with you that you will not soon forget.
“‘I will multiply on you man and beast; and they will increase and be fruitful; and I will cause you to be inhabited as you were formerly and will treat you better than at the first. Thus you will know that I am the LORD.” (Eze 36:11 NAS95)
“37 ‘Thus says the lord GOD, "This also I will let the house of Israel ask me to do for them: I will increase their men like a flock. 38 "Like the flock for sacrifices, like the flock at Jerusalem during her appointed feasts, so will the waste cities be filled with flocks of men. Then they will know that I am the LORD."’"” (Eze 36:37-38 NAS95)
Ezekiel prophesies to the land of Israel, that it will no longer be a grave for its former wicked possessors, but rather a place where the righteous remnant will return and “be fruitful and multiply.” Ezekiel looks forward to a period of many children born in the nation.
We appreciate the Duggar Family appearing in our second film, BIRTH CONTROL: Is It Up To Us?. Daughter Jill Duggar has announced her engagement to Derick Dillard. This young couple has determined to wait until marriage for any physical activity and are leaving it to God to give them “as many children” as He desires.
abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/jill-duggar-derick-dillard-kiss-marriage/story?id=23263776
abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/jill-duggar-derick-dillard-kids-god-give-us/story?id=23273359
It is telling to see the public reaction to such statements. Some even ridicule this commitment (which is actually the historic norm)… as if promiscuity and birth control are “rights”. Legally in the U.S., they have become rights. But, there is a higher law.
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Friday April 4 at 9am in Workshop 4 in Spartanburg, hear Scott Matthew Dix of the BIRTH CONTROL Movie Project bring a fast-paced overview of the “Biblical Case for Christian Life without Birth Control.”
Does the Bible speak to the topic of birth control and family planning? How might the Scripture be applied to this area of Christian life? What about financial hardship and other pressing life circumstances that cause pressure on family size? Are you expecting and need Biblical encouragement for your role as a woman? Come and find out the answers to these questions and more at Teach Them Diligently Spartanburg. Click Here for the schedule.
Born March 7, 1844 in New Canaan, Connecticut, Anthony Comstock went on to become America’s most successful Christian social reformer. Read his courageous life story in “Outlawed! How Anthony Comstock Fought and Won the Purity of a Nation” and our new comic book, “Anthony Comstock, Fighter” due to be released later this month.
Here is an excerpt from “Outlawed!” Available in our store in book, ebook and audio mp3.
[Mr. Comstock's] love for children is not “academic” or in the abstract; it has a basis that nothing can ever take from him. A friend … recently had an interesting experience with Mr. Comstock on this side of his nature. He writes about it as follows:
I called at his office and introduced myself … It was twenty minutes before he came in, and then he was just from a legal battle, and with his mind full of two other pressing cases. Twice he interrupted our brief conversation to speak to an assistant about them, and I could not but know that I had chosen an inopportune time to break in upon him. Yet he was courteous, determinedly so, and made me stay when I quite insisted upon leaving.
The impression he made upon me was of a man of dominating, dictatorial, fighting spirit, but resolutely subduing his harshnesses, because he recognized his limitations and fought himself as fiercely as he fought any other adversary. A man, moreover, to whom religion was a very real thing. A man who would have fought well in Cromwell’s Ironsides, singing hymns as he marched to battle.
But now mark how my impression of him was enlarged:
I chanced to show him the pictures of my little girls … and instantly, with bewildering suddenness, at sight of their little faces all the storm and stress of which he was the center seemed to fall away. For a moment he studied the pictures delightedly; then impulsively drew out his note-book, handed me a little snapshot of himself, told me the circumstances under which it had been taken, and added: “When you get home, give that to your little girls, and tell them it is ‘Uncle Tony.’”
At home I wrote him a brief note, which Grace and Muriel signed, telling him that two little girls in Illinois thanked their “Uncle Tony” for the picture he had sent. With that I supposed the incident closed; but in about ten days there came to them a letter (two closely typewritten pages) and a half-dozen colored post-cards, which this harassed and busy man had taken the time to send them. By way of acknowledgment Muriel sent him at Christmas time a little pin ball, of her own making, and a letter. A few days later there came to them another letter and a large and excellent photograph which hangs now, framed, in “the play corner.” They know it only as “Uncle Tony,” and that he is a friend and protector to all little children; but when they are older I shall tell them more about him and teach them to associate with that picture the lines of Bayard Taylor: “The bravest are the tenderest, The loving are the daring.”
Just think, I was in his presence less than twenty minutes!
We're proud to announce: Best Documentary at Kingdomwood Christian Film Festival, October 6th 2013 in Atlanta Georgia. Thank you Kingdomwood for the Gold Metal Award!
The BIRTH CONTROL Movie Project traveled to Australia to premiere our first documentary, BIRTH CONTROL: How Did We Get Here?. Watch never before seen film footage followed by a panel discussion with Producer Scott Matthew Dix, Director Kevin Peeples, and Historian Allan Carlson, PhD.
Shot on location in Sydney, Australia from the recent World Congress of Families 7 in June 2013.
See today's BREAKPOINT commentary where John Stonestreet asks "Hard Questions" about Marriage, Same-Sex Marriage, and Birth Control.Mr. Stonestreet urges Christians to realize that "we have chosen to embrace [birth control] on the same terms of our hyper-sexualized culture. In light of the rush to completely divorce sex from marriage, hard thinking about contraception is long overdue. Let’s get started." He also says that historically, "marriage and procreation" were connected and that the modern "disconnection has become one of our culture’s default settings. How this came to be is the subject of a MUST-SEE FILM entitled “Birth Control: How Did We Get Here?” The film is the first in a two-part series, and nearly all of the people appearing in it are evangelical leaders."See the full commentary at http://www.breakpoint.org/bpcommentaries/entry/13/22333
Check out our recent review by Ted Baehr on MOVIEGUIDE® of our first documentary, BIRTH CONTROL: How Did We Get Here?
(CCC, BBB) Very strong Christian, moral worldview refuting Margaret Sanger and the Communists, socialists, and others who have attacked faith and family; and, nothing objectionable.
BIRTH CONTROL: HOW DID WE GET HERE? is a documentary that presents the truth and the blessing of God’s Creation mandate. It reveals the evil history of birth control and its destructive impact on the church, religion, and family.
The movie opens by noting that up until the 20th Century the church took seriously the Creation mandate in Genesis to be fruitful and multiply, and, therefore, prospered. Families are the Gospel in action. Then, the movie asks, how did we get to this place in history where society has turned against its future?
In a fascinating expose, the movie traces the impact of Margaret Sanger, the neo-fascist founder of Planned Parenthood, from her early years of rebellion through her sexual feminism to her full-fledged Communist commitments where she notes she is vehemently Anti-Christian and anti-capitalism. Slowly but surely, Sanger re-defined the issues, playing upon the lust of the eyes and the lust of the flesh, and turned the world from family friendly to self-destruction.
In this regard, this movie is must watching. The fall first of the Anglican Church and finally the evangelicals, the fall of the courts and the government, and the destruction of Christian, western culture is carefully revealed.
Like any documentary, there are too many talking heads; whereas a movie should show, not tell. Therefore, the movie is more didactic than necessary. Also, the music sometimes strains too much to sustain the viewer’s interest.
It would have also been nice to have some of those who have been most hurt by Margaret Sanger, the African Americans who have been devastated by her genocidal eugenics, to voice their position. As it is, however, BIRTH CONTROL: HOW DID WE GET HERE? does an important job of revealing a truth that everyone needs to learn.
BIRTH CONTROL: HOW DID WE GET HERE? is a worthwhile documentary. It opens by noting that, up until the 20th Century, the church took seriously the Creation mandate in Genesis, and, therefore, prospered. The movie asks: how did we get to this place in history where society has turned against its future? In a fascinating expose, the movie traces the impact of Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood. Slowly but surely, Sanger re-defined the issues and turned the world from child-friendly to a slaughter of the innocents.
BIRTH CONTROL: HOW DID WE GET HERE? presents the truth and the blessing of God’s Creation mandate. It reveals the evil history of birth control and its destructive impact on the church, religion, and family, especially poor and minority families. Like any documentary, there are many talking heads. A movie should show, not tell. Therefore, the movie is more didactic than necessary. Also, the music sometimes strains to sustain the viewer’s interest. As it is, however, BIRTH CONTROL: HOW DID WE GET HERE? does reveal a truth everyone needs to learn.
Interested in a sneak peek of an upcoming product of ours? Make your way over to http://scottbrownonline.com/when-contraception-was-outlawed to hear what Scott Brown of the NCFIC has to say about our new book, Outlawed! How Anthony Comstock Fought and Won the Purity of a Nation.
Today, March 2, 2013, we have finished work on a biography about Anthony Comstock. It was exactly 140 years ago today, on the eve of the passage of the Comstock Act, which was brought to the U.S. House floor on Saturday and passed on the Sabbath, that Comstock stressfully departed just after midnight out of a desire to honor God through obedience to the Fourth Commandment. After a restless night, he left it to the Lord and found out later that day, March 3, 1873, that the Postal Act of 1873 was written into law. This act outlawed obscenity, contraception and abortion. The Comstock era fully came to an end 100 years later with the passage of Roe v Wade and Doe v Bolton in 1973.
See last year’s blog post for more about this incredible story.
We’re excited to announce that we were honored to be chosen as the Best Sanctity of Life Runner-Up film at this years San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival. R.C. Sproul, Jr. said, “The Sanctity of Life Jubilee Award goes to that film which practiced true religion most faithfully and passionately defends the life given by the Lord and to all those who bear His image.”
Runner up: The Birth Control Movie
Winner: The Drop Box
Brian Ivie, the Director of The Drop Box, said, “I became a Christian while making this movie.” We’re so proud of Brian and his work on the Drop Box. He really deserved to win and we want to thank the judges for honoring our film during the February ceremonies in San Antonio.
It was one year ago this month, that 3 men met over lunch to review a film treatment and associated budget and discuss funding and next steps for the The Birth Control Movie Project. Before February ended, the following things happened:
The last year has been both one of hard work, and one of great blessing. We are grateful to the Lord for the support and encouragement we have received this past year, and for the many kind and helpful comments from friends who believe in this project.
Here is short article jam-packed with non-Biblical advice.
Two statements worth noting:
One of the principal goals of the pro-life movement is the end of abortion, and most within the movement recognize the necessity and desirability of strategies that seek to outlaw abortion alongside those that seek to reduce the demand for it.
Many remain ambivalent, however, about the use of contraceptives, even going so far as to accept or support policies that use contraceptives as a means of reducing the number of abortions.
This is misguided. Contraceptives are the cause of abortion. In fact, if we did not have contraceptives in this country, we would not have anywhere near the abortion rate we do now. I know this is counter-intuitive, but it is only so because Planned Parenthood and other population control entities have been successful in spreading misinformation for so long.
Read More at http://www.cfmpl.org/blog/2011/04/04/facts-on-abortion-why-you-cant-be-pro-life-and-pro-contraception/
By Robert C. Baker
Celebrated around the world, Mother’s Day is a holiday devoted to honoring motherhood in general and one’s own mother in particular. This Mother’s Day, mothers and grandmothers will receive cards, letters, flowers, candy, telephone calls, and even text messages from their children and grandchildren, who will shower them with love and affection. Mothers, after all, are those who have given us birth or who have adopted us and loved us as one of their own. However, this year’s Mother’s Day takes on a different hue and cast: it coincides with an anniversary devoted not to being a mother. May 9, 2010, you see, is also the fiftieth anniversary of the FDA’s approval of the oral contraceptive commonly known as “the Pill”—now the most frequently prescribed drug worldwide.
Read more at http://www.hausvater.org/articles/214-medicating-against-motherhood.html
The signs of a nation in collapse are exposed when the people appreciate what is despicable. They call evil good and good evil (Is. 5:20). The TIME 20 list includes many who are haters of God and haters of good. But this one person, Margaret Sanger, has been reincarnated for death hundreds of millions of times – death of live babies; death of babies to be; death of marriages; death of bodies and minds through STD’s and other curses of licentiousness. The heartache, the suicides, and the scalding and dismemberment of real humans is ignored for the idol of freedom to choose.
Read more at http://scottbrownonline.com/death-mistress-margaret-sanger-makes-time-magazines-top-20-americans/
As a physician specializing in women’s health issues I’m strongly opposed to advising women to take synthetic hormones for most of their adult menstruating years as a means to prevent cancer. While there may be some truth to claims that the pill could play a role in preventing certain types of cancer in some women, it also appears to increase risks of other cancers, and it has many undesirable potential side effects—including some that are life-threatening….
Read more at http://www.wellnesstimes.com/articles/real-risks-birth-control-pills?_mid=42212&_rid=42212.24707.282183
CAUTION: This article is somewhat graphic:
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/04/03/worst-birth-control-mistakes/?intcmp=features
COMMENTS: Note the worldly mindset of this article.
