From: spur17@frontiernet.net   
      
   Why won't they even consider these five little questions?   
      
      
      
   CNN World Headquarters   
      
   Attn: Susan M. Bunda   
      
   Senior Vice President of News of CNN/U.S.   
      
   Atlanta, GA 30303   
      
      
      
   This is a followup to a letter sent to you on April 26, 2006, several   
   letters sent to CNN producers, and two recent news segment (one from Prime   
   News with Erica Hill and one on BBC World News). It is also a request for   
   official response from CNN on this topic.   
      
   On July 25, 2006, Prime News with Erica Hill did a short segment entitled   
   "End of the World". On July 28, 2006, BBC News broadcast a segment entitled   
   "End of Time". The primary topic of both show segments was the Christian   
   belief in the Book of Revelations, the second coming of Christ, the belief   
   among many Christians that the events predicted in the Book of Revelations   
   is being played out in current events, and that the end of world as we know   
   it is close at hand.   
      
   Similar segments have been advertised for CNN Sunday to appear on July 30,   
   2006, and for Paula Zahn Now (Countdown to Armageddon) July 31, 2006.   
      
   The basic end of time scenario calls for all true believers to be taken up   
   to be with Christ during The Rapture, leaving the rest of humanity to suffer   
   The Tribulation, and The Battle of Armageddon. Following the final battle   
   between good and evil, Christ will establish his kingdom on earth.   
      
   The letters I sent on to CNN executives on April 28, and the letters I have   
   sent to various show producers have all had to do with the Christian end of   
   time scenario and challenging the extremist Christian philosophy that has   
   driving American Politics since 1980. If you ask any Christian who believes   
   in the end of time scenario what will trigger The Rapture and signal the   
   second coming of Christ, they will tell you they do not know. The Martyr's   
   Challenge is the triggering event, and The Rapture is God's response to the   
   Martyr's Challenge. In a Martyr's Challenge, it does not matter whether God   
   takes two martyr's home, or one hundred million. The Challenging Martyr is   
   the check and balance of the Martyr's Challenge if you will. God taking the   
   Challenging Martyr home, is the proof that God exists, that God's will has   
   been done, God has answered the prayers of a humanity, and the Martyr's   
   Challenge has ended. If the Christians who believe in The Rapture are   
   correct and five hundred million Christians offer themselves to God as   
   Defending Martyr's, five hundred million Christians would simply disappear.   
   That is by definition The Rapture.   
      
   If the Christian belief in the 'End of Time' scenario is news, any event   
   which may trigger The Rapture is also news. My main request of the media   
   since I first began to consider a Martyr's Challenge in 2002, and wrote the   
   my first Martyr's Prayer, has been to examine the possibility and what   
   effect a Martyr's Challenge would have on current events and religious   
   dogma.   
      
   1. Does God answer prayers?   
      
   2. Would God respond to the following Martyr's Challenge?   
      
   3. What effect would a 30 day Martyr's Challenge, with a call for cease fire   
   and prayer for God's answer to the challenge have on the War on Terrorism   
   and future of the human race?   
      
   4. I God did respond, what would the impact on the human race be?   
      
   5. If he did not respond, what would the impact on the human race be?   
      
   I the April 26, 2006 letters to CNN executives, I requested that they   
   consider the topic of a Martyr's Challenge, and for CNN to broadcast a 29   
   Day Martyr's Challenge during August and September 2006. It is clearly to   
   late for that to happen, and the expansion of this religious war that we are   
   fighting has already taken place. A Martyr's Challenge would have reduced   
   the level of violence, and would have prevented this expansion of this war.   
   There will be another major expansion of this war in the coming year. It is   
   not to late to stop that expansion, end the religious violence, and the   
   affect religious beliefs and religious dogma currently has on world   
   politics.   
      
   We live on a planet that is overpopulated and running out of resources. The   
   biggest problem this war causes for all humanity is that it is diverting   
   attention away from the real problems that we face as a species and a much   
   bigger war that looms on the horizon. That war, if it is not stopped, will   
   be nuclear, and will be over dwindling resources and human greed. All sides   
   in this war believe they are following God's plan. All sides in this war   
   believe God will intervene and save humanity.   
      
   All I am asking you to do now, is examine the possibility that God will   
   intervene if asked. If this is all a part of God's plan, and if God has   
   already determined what the destiny of the human race is, isn't it time to   
   ask God to reveal what that destiny is? If God does not intervene, and I don't   
   believe he will, what does that mean for the human race, and can we change   
   course before it is too late and we have destroyed our environment,   
   destroyed our world, and destroyed ourselves?   
      
   Is there any possibility of a followup to these news segments covering the   
   concept of a Martyr's Challenge? Is there any possibility of including the   
   concept of a Martyr's Challenge in any future news segments on the Christian   
   End of Time/End of the World/Final Days/Return of Christ beliefs?   
      
      
      
      
      
   Sincerely,   
      
      
      
   Russell V. Scudder   
      
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   A Martyr's Challenge   
      
   This is a direct challenge to all would be martyr's in the world, no matter   
   where you live or what your faith my be. This is a direct challenge to all   
   true believers in the world, no matter where you live, or what your faith   
   may be. If you believe in God, that God listens to your prayers, and that   
   God cares about humanity, I challenge you to come forth and defend those   
   beliefs as a Defending Martyr offering your life to God for an answer from   
   God.   
      
   This is a Martyr's Challenge, and I am a challenging martyr offering my life   
   to God so that all of humanity may know God's will.   
      
   Lord please hear my plea for I come before you as a challenging martyr,   
   seeking answers which only you can provide. The human race has been besieged   
   on all sides by false prophets, perverting the word of God for their own   
   personal glorification and gain. All of these prophets claim a special   
   connection with you, and special insight into your design and your plans for   
   our future. They move amongst us creating confusion and unrest wherever they   
   go. They turn brother against brother generating suspicion and fear which   
   inevitable leads to violence and war.   
      
   Our planet is now divided by over a half dozen major religions whose   
      
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