tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82907152220689326192024-03-19T01:46:20.638-07:00Faith's WindowFaith-based musings from a decidedly Biblical Protestant point of view, on just about everything, including Bogus Bibles, New Age Deceptions, Corrupt Politics and other signs of the Last Days before the World ends.Faith http://www.blogger.com/profile/00064746447414555577noreply@blogger.comBlogger1237125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290715222068932619.post-6431597214984473792024-02-14T10:30:00.000-08:002024-02-16T04:27:16.729-08:00You Must Be Born Again<p> Unless a man be born again he cnnot see the Kingdom of God. Said Jesus in John Three. Which he restated a verse or two later Verily verily I say unto you, unless ye be born of water and the aspirit ye cannot enter into the Kingdom of God. Can't see, can't enter in, to the Kingdom of God. And he goes on about how you can't see the Holy Spirit but can see its effects, and that is the way it is with those who are born again of the Spirit. And after that we get into the familiar verse about how God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whoesoever believeth on Him should not perish but have everlasting life. A line or two before that He says that the Son of Man must be lifted up just as the serpoent was lifted up in Moses' day so that whoever looked upon it would be healed of the bite of the serpent. Born again of the Spirit in order to e see and enter into the Kingdom of God, believing on the Son of Man as lifted up on the cross in odrder toe receive eternal life.</p><p>And what is eternal life, He says in chapter tseventeen, but that they know YOu, the only true living God. </p><p>It isn't said in so many words anywhere in scripture that I fcan think of, but what else can it be saying but that we can only know god if we are born again. And only those are born again who believe in Christ. the only people on the planet, in this world, who can know God are those who are born again of the spirt. And this first with the interpretation of the Fall as the occasion of our losing our faculty of knowing God, or the spiritual faculty itself by which Adam and Even had Known god personally. What died first at the Fall was this faculty, and it is this faculty which is reborn as it were when we come to believe in Jesus' sacrifice for our salvation. The restoration of our original connection with God. And only those who do come to this belief have this resotred connection. the rest of humanity is fallen humanity, humanity wihich is "but flesh" not having the spirit. We are boall born into the flesh alone when we are born into this life. It must be the "born of water" Jesus is talking abourt, all born of water, but only those who believe are also born of the spirit. </p><p>There is some dispute about what Jesus means by the word "water" which He contrasts with the Spirit, some even claiming it means baptism so that being born aagain is associated with that rite. But because He goes on to the contrast between flesh and spirit it seems pretty clear to me that this is the actual meaning of the previous phrase, so that the water is a word that stands for the flesh. Perhaps the water that breaks before a baby is born. That is the wonly water I can think of that is connected with the birth of us into this fallen world. So we are born of water and spirit or flesh and spirit and that is what it means to be born again. </p><p>Fallen humanity clearly does not know God. In our fallen state we may be taught about God and come to believe in His existence in one form or another, but wqe can't know Him unless we are born again which is the effect of believing in His death for our salvation. And \\\\ Whis means rthat Jews and Muslims who believe in he one God cannot actually know Him personally because they don't believe in Jesus' death ofr their sins, and the other reliegions of the world don't even have a clear sense of a one true God at all, but many lesser Gods, some three hundred or so in India for instance. Demons who present themselves as gods.</p><p>Post in progress.</p><p>Later.</p><p>It used to be more or less generally understood when the country was still culturally Christian that this is a feallen world. What that means may not have been grasped beyond the main outlines of its being a less than perfect place full of evil as well as good things with sufferings and joys all intermingled according to the notion of the Fall has having been the coveting of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. That is, although it was accepted as the right biblical view of things there was probably not much real concern to live as if it were a reality. Even in the Christian west people live in this world as THE world, as the normal world, the only possible world. Not the broken imperfect devious world brought about by the Fall, the first disobeidnece of God by the human race.</p><p>For he last couple of years I finally had a more definite idea that in fact I really am living in a fallen world. I've mentioned it before as stemming from a period in which Hell had become a reality for me. So did the fallen world. I really do now thinki of this as not the normal world God created but a broekn deamaged world. I think of it as transitory, I mean I pretty much FELL it to be transitory as well as broekn and battered and dangerous in a way I hadn't before. Subtly I suppose but in reality, it is a different world I've been living in for the last two years than I had lived in before. Oh I always thought of this as a fallen world because of the biblical account of it, but in that way I desribe above, of being aware of it because it was been revealed to be that, but not by experience or feeling. That is what is different. I FEEL it to be a different place, and by using the word subtle I just mean to say ithat it's not a big dramatic thing=, but it is definitely a change, a coloration at least but more than that, a real change in how the world feels to me. It's no longer THE world, it's a way station.</p><p>A proving ground in a sense. But nobody could have an inkling of this who is not a Christian. Even Christians don't, except in that theoretical sense, or if some do I have no idea how many might. For me it has been a real change in perspective and I suppose I can't be allone in this but I can't guess how many others might share it.</p><p>The main thing it has done is make me aware of the plight of those who don't believe in anything like it, who reject Christianity outright in some scases, or rject it tacitly or don't even reject it in any clear way but simply treat it was some idea they heard from womsomewhere or other that toher people seem to be a part of but which doesn't interest them at all.</p><p>Yet I know it to be the actual true history of the world. To say so would get me only a dismissal as taking my own beliefs too seriously as a sort of arrogance. There are many other religions in the world after all and Christianity is only one of the many. They have no reason to prefer it to any of the obhters. In fact Buddhism in particular in some cases, or Taoism, etc. seem to them to be superior in every way to Christianity. Far more sophsitcated, full of deep wisdom, CHristianity seeming to them to be some kind of picky morality or the world of all those hypocrites that supposedly dominate it.</p><p>So I can't prove it to anyone that in fact it is the true history of Planet Earth and much eyhond, I just have to suffer the knowledge quietly to myself. And the reason I'm now breringing up the need to be born again is that a fallen world sneeds a solution . It isn't normal, it's a problem to be solved. If by the Fall we were made inheritors of Hell, then what we need is a redemption from Hell. And this is of coruse what Christianityh claims to offer. And that is what being born again is all about. It is onlyh when we are born again that we are reinstated to the original spiritual state of Adam and Eve, and ebeyond that become the inheritors of an even better inheritance through Jesus, an inheritance the Bible doesn'[t present in any great detail but is more or less hinted at as something much better than the lot of our first preearents. </p><p>The other religions can't know God because you have to be born again of the spirit to know God. We're all fallen we're all but flesh until we are born agains of the spirti and recover the faculty that can know God. Which occurs either as a result of or as concomitant with the belief that Jesus died on the cross to pay for the sins that keep us in the fallen state and destine us for Hell.</p><p>U;I'v now formed the habit of hearing and seeing the fallenness in humanity. I answer wquestions that come from that fallennness through my prervasive awareness of the difference between fallenness and the redeemed state in to which we are born again. So for instance when someone suggests that maybe Near Death experiences aren't all about the demonic realm as I have usually thought of it, my answer is But you have to be born again to see the kingdom of God, otherwise all you can see is the demonic realms. I don't think it's a sufficne t answer to that to point out that sometimes people come back from an NDE to become a Christian because they don't know the difference between the apparently supernatural world of the demonic realms and the kingdom of God. People who have NDEs usually think they've encountered God Himsrelf, or many of them do. Jesus, God, they think they've talked with them. But they can't have, and not just because they can't be in the kingdom of God but because there are many contradicitons with what the Bible says with that idea.</p><p>NDEs do show that the soul is a reality and not just a metaphor to explain our experience of consciousness. This soul is a separate entity that can detach from the body and float above it and see things in the room where the body is lying and even see and hear things that are really going aon in that room while being under anesthesia or in some cases dead without functioning heart or brain. Many such NDEs occur in this sort of state. The perceiving self is vividly aware during this astate and has observations that can be verified by the epopel in the room observed and so on. This is real proof that there is such a thing as a soul, a real living entity that is attached to the bodyh but not synonymous with it.</p><p>I doubtg that anyohne who is born again could have an NDE or ever has at any rate. The experience could in taht case include the realm of God, but none of the acocunts I've heard suggest anything more than the sort of illusions demons ofare capable of creating. </p><p><br /></p><p>Post in Progress</p><p>It goes something like this: Instead of taking this world for granted as THE world in which we all live and then die, which means we just no longer live in this world, we are gone, we were there and then we are gone, now I've begun to think of people as born into a testing ground that they don't know anything about, they will live as if it were THE world and die just as described above, simply disappearing from the company of the rest who are still living, when in reality they are accumulating the elements that will determine an everlasting existence when they die. A Christian should see it this way all along but we don'[t. I had to have an encounter with the real possibility of Hell to start to see things this way. We aren't taugjt this. Or notbody I know was ever taught it. People live their lives heedlessly, maybe striving for good thnings, doing good to others perhnaps., a life they considere to be consequential and well lived, but this Heaven or hell thing is not part of the picture. xcept now and then and if it is at all in the picture it isn't more than a vague possibility that nobody knows wherther to believe is real or not.</p><p>And if you're not a Christian at all, even cultrually, then none of this is going to enter into your understanding of life at all anyway. TYour own cultural framework may or may not have an afterlife to look forward to but it won't be the Christian adfterlife or built on Christian morality.</p><p>So I listen to a podcast, well no it was a talk of some sort at a gathering for somes sort, by a David Brooks, recommended by a friend, and he has bvery high ideals about the life we could or should be living . A talk titled The Road to Depth. He is Jewish burt quotes a lot of the Christian bible. At the end of it I wonder what the point of it was. I can't see m to keep it in mind. But whatever his point was it doesn't seem to include anything about the transitoriness of life or any notion of something to come after this life. And in any case he has no notiong as far as I can gtell that to qualify for the Christian Heaven or Kingdom of God you must be born again, that is, you need to acquire a faculty none of us is born with the first time around as we endter into this fallen world. Nbody has any such idea except those who ARE Christians and ARE borna agin, or so I think must be the case. But it's the life that matters to every human being born into this world and nobody knows anything about it except the very few who achieve it.</p><p>Though it is a gift and not a n achievement so let's be clear about that much. Still, what is the point of living at all if this is the truth about it, that at the end there is only heaven or hell and although it does have to do with how good a life you live morally speaking, in the end you have to recognize thta you can't deal with your own sin nature at all, yoyu ra stuck with it even if you live the best moral life you can, and you need a Savior from it. then if you embrace the Savior, receiving the eternal life of knowing that He paid for your sins, then you are born again and can see and enter into the Kingdom of God. And not otherwise.</p><p>It may sound like I'm complaining about how God aranged thisgs but I'm not. I'm sjust scared for people. I want them to know and I know they don't. </p><p>And I know a lot of them wouldn't no mater how hard tI worldk to confvince them of it. </p><p>People think they are spiritual when they are not. You can't be spiritual if you can't see or enter into the Kingdom of God and the kind of spiroituality people think is spirituality doesn't do that at all. It may lead into spuupernatural experiences of one sort or another, Near Death Experiences in some cases, ghosts and voices and apparitioins and so on, but all that is just the outskirts of this fallen life and not true spirituality. And it's demonic. It's the realm of the fallen angels. Sometimes theyu teach nice things, like being good to other people. That's a big one in Near death Expereinces. But they never teah the gospel. they never teach that you need to be saved. Theymjust lull people into thinking everything is jut fine, they have no more rfear of tdeath etc etc.</p><p> listening to some audio books of old classics lately, mostly Jane Austen and a bit of Bronte's Wuthering Heights. Withering Heights is a gothis madness and it teaches a view of the afterlife that is not at all Christian. Emily Bronte grew up in an Anglican parsonable, why doesn't she have a Chtidyian Vhtidyisn birCHristian fview of the afterlife? She's got demonic impersonations she treats as dead humans. but scripture is clear. Huamns doen't come back to this life. Ghosts and all that are demonic imperosonalitions of people.</p><p>Jane Austen also grew up in a Christian home but there's not a world in anything she wrote to suggest that life is anything more than get through it on its own terms here. I noted a couple of places where a charatcer mentions religion as something to get involved in beyond the orgdinary as a sort of alternative to the normal means of life, but nothing is said about what that might mean, and one character is shown with his head down on a tabletop with the suggestion that he's probably praying. And that's all. In four of her books so far.</p><p>What good is Christian culture if it doesn't each the basics about ewhat human olife is all about?</p><p>You can't see god or know god because you were born without the facultty for knowing od. So Buddhists don't beleive there is a God and Tthey are even rather arrogant about their supposed superiority in this sophisticated understanding, since to them it's just an anthropomorphism to believe in God when all there is is all that can be reached by either the senses or by deep meditation. That is supposed to reveal the whole of reality. The idea that there is anything outside the reach of those mental experiences just can't occur because that's the limit of experience from their point of view, that's all that humanity can do to known anything. That's the end of it. But we're born without a faculty. No way would that enter into the thought aof any fallen bcreature without the revelation of God, and trhat revelation, the Bible, is scorned by them. Fairy tale or some such.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Faith http://www.blogger.com/profile/00064746447414555577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290715222068932619.post-5585514391751210392024-02-07T07:23:00.000-08:002024-02-07T07:24:40.840-08:00jUST ANOTHER LEFTIST LIE: tRUMP SMEARED AS USUAL.<p> tHIS DRIVES ME CRAZY. aS DO MANY OTHER SIMILAR THINGS THESE DAYS OF COURSE. bUT WHAT i'M TALKING ABOUT HERE IS THAT THEY KEEP DESCRIBING tRUMP AS SEEKING TO "OVERTURN THE ELECTION" WHICH IS NUTS ON TOP OF NUTS. tRUMP BELIEVED THE ELECTION WAS FRAUDULENT. wHETHER HE IS RIGHT OR WRONG ABOUT THAT, IT IS NOT THE SAME THING AS SEEKING TO "OVERTURN" IT, THAT'S JUST ONE OF THOSE LEFTIST GARBAGE WORDS THEY USE TO DISCREDIT THEIR OPPONENTS. yOU HAVE TO REGARD THE ELECTION AS LEGITIMATE IN ORDER TO TRY TO "OVERTURN" IT. iF YOU DON'T REGARD IT AS LEGITIMATE THEN YOU ARE PROTESTING ITS LEGITIMATCY NOT TRYING TO OVERTURN IT. wHAT IS THE MATTER WITH EVERYBODY THESE DAYS? oH, CORRUPTION. yEAH, CORRUPTION.</p><p><br /></p><p>iT'S REALLY AMAZING HOW THE lEFT MANAGEDS TO INSERT ITS POLITICAL WILL INTO EVERYTHING WHICH IS SUPPOSED TO BE OBJECTIVE AND NEUTRAL.</p>Faith http://www.blogger.com/profile/00064746447414555577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290715222068932619.post-32023762635180299452024-02-07T05:01:00.000-08:002024-02-08T00:49:05.101-08:00hYDROXYCHLOROPQUINE AND THE nEW iRON cURTAIN<p> tHIS FRUSTRATING SITUATION BETWEEN LIBERAL AND CONSERVATIVE IS SOMETHING THAT COULD NEVER HAVE ENTERED MY IND BEFORE IT ACTUALLY BECAME A REALITY. wHO COULD EVER IMAGINE SUCH A SITUATION? tHAT YOU CAN'T EXPECT TO HAVE A DISCUSSION WITH PEOPLE WHO ORDINARILY ESILY HAVE DISCUSSIONS WITH YOU WHTHER FRIENDS OR EVEN JUST PEOPLE YOU'VE MET? oN PERSONAL SUBJECTS MAYBE IT WOULD MAKE SOME SENSE, BUT THEN IT WOULD BE EASILY UNDDRSTOOD WHY DISCUSSION WAS IMPOSSIBLE. bUT THESE ARE GENERAL TOPICS, POLITICAL TOPICSNOT PERSONAL ONES. wHO COULD EVER HAVE IMAGINED IT?</p><p><br /></p><p>i JUST HEARD OF SOMEONE WHO IS AN "ANTI tRUMPER" BUT i CAN'T ASK WHETHER HE'S THAT BECAUSE HE HAS BELIEVED THE LONG LIST OF LIES ABOUT tRUMP OR BECAUSE HE DOESN'T LIKE HIS PERSONALITY OR WHATEVER. i CAN'T ASK BECAUSE IT WAS A LITERAL WHO MENTIONED IT TO ME, IN THE USUAL CONTEXT OF GIVING INFORMATION i'M NOT ASK ABOUT. jUST FOR MY INFORMATION SORT OF THING. sO i WON'T BE SURPRISED TO DISCUOVER IT MYSELF. bUT MIGHT NEVERTHELESS LIKE THE MAN'S OPINION ON OTHER THIHNGS. wELL, IT TURNS OUT i DO LIKE THE MAN'S OPINION ON MANY THINGS WHICH MAKES ME SUSPECT THAT IF HE IS AN ANTI tRUMPER IT COULD VERY WELL BE BECAUSE HE BELIEVES SOME OF THOSE LIES ABOUT tRUMP, WO THAT IF SOMEONE DISABUSED HIM OF THE LIES HE MIGHT NOT BE AN ANTI tRUMPER. oH SURE HEMIGHT. bUT HE MIGHT NOWT. sOMEPEOPLE ARE AGAINST tTRUMP BECAUSE THEY DO BELIEVE THOSE LIES.</p><p><br /></p><p>jUST HEARD A CLIP OF kAMALA hARRIS, i SUPPOSE A RECENT CLIP, ON bEN sHAPIRO'S PROGRAM i THINK, IN WHICH SHE GOES ON AND ON ABOUT HOW tRUMP IS THE CAUSE OF EVERYTHING HORRIBLE, PROMOTES HATRED, RACISM OH i CAN'T REMEMBER ALL O FIT, JUST SUCH A BAD MAN IT'S AMAZING THAT HALF THE COUNTRY LIKE HIM. gUESS WE ARE ALL SUCH BAD PEOPLE THEN. bUT MY MAIN POINT WAS THAT SHE PRPOMOTIED THE USUAL LIE ABOUT tRUMP'S SUPPOSED APPROVAL OF THE nEOnAZIS AT cHARLOTTESEVILLE. gOOD GRIEF, EVEN THE SPEECH ITSELF FROM WHICH THAT INSANE LIE WAS TAKEN DEOUNCED THE NEO nAZIS AS PRECISELY THOSE HE WAS not TALKING ABOUT. tHAT SAME SPEECH. aND THERE ARE OTHER OCCASIONS ON WHICH HE DENOUNCED THEM. yET THE LIE LIVES ON, AND i DON'T KNOW IF THE PEOPLE WHO ARE PROMOTING IT BELIEVE IT OR ARE ALSO TAKEN IN BY IT. kAMALA hARRIS? aLL YOU'D HAVE TO DO IS LISTEN TO THAT SPEECH. </p><p><br /></p><p>aND THEN i NCOUNTERED ANOTHER FAMILIAR CASE OF A LIE THAT PERSISTS AND PERSISTS NO MATTER WHAT IS SAID ABOUT HOW WRONG IT IS BY THE PEOPLE SHOE WHO BELIEVE THE LIE WILL NOT LISTEN TO. tHAT WHOLE covid cOLLECTION OF lIES. tHAT'S AN INTERESTING STUDY IN ITSELF. sTARTING WITH THE EARLY DISCOVERY OF hYDROXYCHLOROQUINE AS A USEFUL ANTIVIRAL THERAPEUTIC IN ITS TREATMENT, WHICH i STARTED HEARING ABOUT WITHOUIN A FEW MONTHS OF THE FIRST MENTIONS OF THE NEW VIRUS. sOMEONE i KNOW HAD A CASE OF covid AND i VENTURED TO SUGGEST THAT hcl WAS STILL A GOOD ANTIVIRAL RECOMMENDATION IF IT'S POSSIBLE TO STIOLL GET IT, BUT THE PERSON IS A LIBERAL AND JUST SDISMISSED IT WITH AN INDIGNANT TONE OF VOICE AS IF i'D PROPOSED SHE DRINK BLEACH OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. </p><p><br /></p><p>tHERE'S JUST NO WAY TO GET A LIBERAL TO TAKE THE TIME TO HEAR AOUT THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST WHATEVER IT IS THEY ARE SO CONVINCED OF. sHE'S HEARD THAT THERE ARE ALL THESE STUDIES THAT PROVED hcl WAS INEFFECTIVE AGAINST covid. tHAT IS TO HER MIND WHAT sCIENCE CONCLUDES ON THE SUBJECT AND SHE HADS NO INTEREST IN HEARING WHAT A cONSPIRACY THINKER WHICH IS WHAT i SUPPOSE SHE PRIVATELY CONSIDERES ME TO BE, WOULD HAVE TO SAY ON THE SUBJECT. tHERE'S AHTAT IRONCLAD HERMETICALLY SEALED PBARRIER IN ONE OF ITS MANY FORMS AGAINST COMMUNICATION THAT COULD CONCEIVABLY CHANGE A LIBERAL'S MIND. </p><p><br /></p><p>sO SHE DOESN'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT HOW hcl BECAME THE DRUG OF CHOICE IN THOSE EARLY DAYS, SHE'S CONTENT WIHTH THE "NARRATIVE. bUT TWO MEN, SOMEBODY rAOUL IN fRANCE, AND dR. zEV zELENKO IN nEW yORK STATE WHO WAS DOCTOR TO A COMMUNJITY OF ORTHJODOX jEWS, BOTH DISOVERED hcl AS A POSSIBLE THERAPEUTIC ABOUT THE SAME TIME. from studying the medical literature ON THE SUBJECT OF rREPURP rEPRPOSED dRUGS THAT MIGHT BE USEFUL IN TREATING A VIRUS. hcl WAS LISTED AS EFFECTIVE AS AN ANTIVIRUS, THOUGH USED FOR DECADES FOR OTHER CONDITIONS SUCH AS LUPUS, MALARIA AND RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS. a PERFECTLY RESPECTABLE WELL TESTED DRUG, PERFECTLY SAFE AND KNOWN TO HAVE ANTIVIRAL PROPERTIES. zEV ZELECKO DISOCVERED THIS IN THE LIBTERATURE AND SO DID dR. rAOUL IN fRANCE ABOUT THE SAME TIME, AND EACH OF THEM DISCOVERECD UPON USING IT WITH THEIR OWN PATIENTS THAT IT PREVENTED THE DISEACSE FROM GETTING SEVERE AND SAVED ALL OF RTHEM FROM DEATH. i THINK ALL, PERHAPS ALL BUT ONE OR TWO OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT BUT i THINK ALL, AND BOTHE DOCTORS HAD THOUSANDS OF PATEINCTS. zELENKO HAD TWO PATIENTS DIE OF covid BEFORFE HE DISCOVERED hcl AND AFTER HE STARTED APPLYING IT HE HAD NO MORE DEATHS. tHAT'S HOW i RMEEMBER THE ACCOUNT. aND THEN HE SENT THE INFORMATION OTO pRESIDENT tRUMP WHO MADE IT PUBLIC, AT WHICH POINT THE EVIL ANTItRUMPERS ALL SET ABOUT DEBUNKING IT JUST BECAUSE IT WAS tRUMP WHO SAID IT. aND THEN THERE WERE SOME STUDIES THAT SEEMED TO CORROBORATE THE ASSESSMENT OF THE DRUG AS INEFFECTIVE AND THAT WAS THE END OF THAT.</p><p><br /></p><p>aS i PRESENTED WHAT i KNEW IN PREVIOUS POSTS AT THE TIME, THE STUDIES WERE BADLY DONE. aLL OF THEM. aPPRARENTLY zEWLEKNKO AND TOERHS WHO TRIED IT GOT THE RIGHT IDEA, USED IT IN THE RIGHT DOSE WITH THE RIGHT POPULATION AT THE RIGHT TIE IN THE SMBOM PICTURE TO SAVE THEIR PATIENTS. bUT THE STUDIES WERE ALL OVER THE PLACE. gIVEN TO THE WRONG AGE GROUP TOO LATE IN THE SYMBTOM PCITURE TO BE OF USE, AND OFTEN WITHOUT INK C WHICH IS ESSENTIAL TO ITS EFFECTIVENEESS. iT HAS TO BE GIVEN IN THE FIRST FEW DAYS OF THE FIRST SYPTOMS BECAUSE BEYOND THAT THE VIRUS HAS ACCUMULATED TOO MUCH PRESENCE IN THE BODY FOR THE TREATMENT TO BE OF USE. aND THERE IS NO POINT IN GIVING IT TO A YOUNG POPULATION WHO SURVIVE covid WITHOUT ANY TREATMENT, YET IT WAS GIVEN TO THEM ALONG WITH EVERYBODY ELSE WHICH MADE THE FINDINGS TOO CONFUSED TO BE USEFUL. iT WAS USUALLY GIVEN WITHOUT ZINC, BUT IT IS THE ZINC THAT KILLS THE VIRUS, THE hecl BEING THE INGREDIENT THAT MAKES THE ZINC AVAILABLE FOR THE PURPOSE. qUERCETIN FORWORKS THE SAME WAYH, TO OPEN THE CELL FOR THE ENTRANCE OF THE ZINC WHICH THEN ATTACKS THE VIRUS. mANY PEOPLE DIED OF covid BECAUSE THE hcl WAS GIVEN TOO LATE TO BE EFFECTIVE, BECAUSE IT WAS NJOT GIVEN WITH ZINC AND SO ON AND SO FORTH. oNE OF THE STUDIES, ONE DONE IN bRAZIL, DID NOT USE hcl BUT cHLORQUINE, A PRECURSOR FORM OF THE DRUG WHICH IS LETHAL AT HIGHER DOSES, WHICH WERE IVEN TO PATIENTS IN THEIR STUDYH SO MATHAT MANY DIED OF THE DRUG RATHER THAN OF dovid OR AT LEAST THAT'S PROBABLY THE CASE. hcl GOT A BAD NAME BECAUSE OF A LOT OF BAD STUDIES. aND THEN THERE WAS ONE STUDY WHICH WAS A COMPLETE AND TOTAL FRAUD, A COMPLETE INVENTION THAT SOMEHOW GOT PUBLISHED IN A PRESTIGUIOUS MEDIAL JOURNAL, THE lANCET. a LIE FROM BEGINNING TO END IN THAT CASE.</p><p><br /></p><p>wAS THIS ALL ABOUT MONEY? bIG pHARMA? hcl IS A CHEAP DRUG BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN USED FOR DECADES. nOBODY MAKES MONEY OFF IT. oTHER DRUGS WERE BEING RECOMMENDED WHICH HAD NO EFFICACY OR LITTLE EFFICACY BUT COST A LOT MORE. sO WAS THE MOTIVE FOR ALLY THIS LYING MONEY? wHAT HAS HAPPENED TO OUR MEDICAL PROFESSION IF SO?</p><p><br /></p><p>i CAN CERTAINLY UNDERSTAND BEING SKEPITAL UPON HEARING ABOUT ALL THIS. wE ARE USED TO TRUSTING OUR CREDENTIALED LDEADRERS IN ANY FIELD. bUT THE TURTH IS OUT THERE AND NOBODY ESEEMS TO BE TAKING THE TROUPLE TO FIND OUT ABOUT IT. dOCTORS AND NURSES STILL BEELIVE THE LIES. tHEY BELIEVE WHATEVER THEIR SUPERIORS TELL THEM. yES UNDER ORDINARY CONDITIONS THAT'S THE RIGHT THIJGNG TO DO. bUT THERE ARE RED FLAPGS ALL OVER THE PLACE IN THIS SITUATION. kNOWN HIGHOLY REPUTABLE DOCTORS WERE GETTING SILENCED IF THEY SAID ANYTNING DIFFERENT FROM THE CHOISEN NARRATIVE. sILENCED. sINCE WHEN DOES aMERICA SILENCE DISEENTING OPINIONS? bUT IT WAS HAPPENING ALL THE TIME DURING THE PERIOD OF THE PANDEMMIC. iT WAS CALLSD "MISINFORMATION" AS IF POLITICALLY MOTIVATED SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGERS WERE QUALIFIED TO MAKE SUCH A DTERMINATION. oR IF ANYONE COUJLD OR SHOULD IN ANY CASE EVER. tHIS IS aMERICA. wE LET PEOPLE SPEAK. dON'T WE? oH YOU COULD HEAR IT ALL BUT YOU'D HAVE TO GOV TO OTHER PLACES TO HEAR IT THAN THE SUUAL SOCIAL MEDIA OR STANDARD NEWS SOURCES. iT'S OUT THERE BUT IT'S BEHIND THAT WALL, THAT BARRIER THAT DIVIDES THE NATION SO THAT AT LEAST HAVLF THE NATION BELIEVES THELIE AND THERE IS NO MAY TO GET THE TRUTH TO THEM.</p><p><br /></p><p>iRON cURTAIN. yES, IRT'S REALLY LIKE THE OLD IRON CURTAIN, ONLY IN THIS CASE IT DIVIDES ONE SINGLE NATION RATHER THAN SIMPLY CLOSING OFF A NATION FROM THE REST OF THE WORLD. aMAZING. </p><p><br /></p><p>nOW AND THEN PEOPLE LAMENT THIS DIVISION BETWEEN US AND TRY TO COME UP WITH WAYS TO OPEN THINGS UP TO DISCUSSION BUT IT NEVER WORKS. tHERE'S SOMETHING NAIVE ABOUT THE EFFORT i SUPPOSE. i STILL WRACK MY BRAIN FOR WAYS TO ACCOMPLISH THIS. bUT NOTHING WORLKS. tHE NEWS MEDIA ARE SEALED OFF, THE SOCIAL MEDIA ARE SEALED OFF, BUT INDIVIDUALS THEMSELVES ARE SEALED OFF. pART OF THE NAIVETE IS SOME VAUGE IDEA THAT IT'S ALL JUST A BIG MISTAKE AND WE CAN OALL JUST OVER COME OUR SILLY PREJUDICES AND EMBRACE ONE ANOTHER AND FIND COMMON GROUND OR LEARN TO APPRECIATE OUR DIFFERENCES OF OPINION. bUT THAT'S NOT POSSIBLE WHEN ONE SIDE IS FED BY LIES. yOU HAVE TO BE EILLINGOTO CONDSIDER SOMETHING THAT WOULD QUESTION YOUR WHOLE FRAME OF REFERENCE. mOST PEOPLE ARE NOT WILLING TO DO THAT EASILY AND ALL THE INFORMATION THEY ARE FRECEIVING ON THE LEFT WORKS AGAINST THEIR MAKING THE EFFORT. NAMECALLING, BRANDING THE rIGHT AS CONSPIRACY THINKERS OR FASCISTS OR WHATNOT, THAT'S ALL IT TAKES. kEEP CALLING US NAMES OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND NOBODY WANTS TO HEAR A THING WE HAVE TO SAY. eVEN IF ON THE SURFACE THEY REMAIN FIRENDS WITH US. wHAT A STRANGE SITUATION. </p><p><br /></p><p>correction?: : i DON'T KNOW WHY i KEPT WRITING hcl FOR hYDROXYCHLOROQUINE. iT SHOULD BE hcq. i HOPE i GOT THAT RITGHT SINCE i CAN'T SEE IT. hcq. iS THAT CLEARER? i DON'T KNOW BUT AT LEAST IT PROBABLY ISN'T hcl</p>Faith http://www.blogger.com/profile/00064746447414555577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290715222068932619.post-37109965288697379992024-02-02T22:21:00.000-08:002024-02-03T21:27:22.456-08:00hEY, i fOUND jvk'S sPEECH aBOUT hOW tAX cUTS pROMOTE pROSPERITY<p>hE\</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEdXrfIMdiU">Income Tax Cut, JFK Hopes To Spur Economy 1962/8/13 (youtube.com)</a></p><p>kIND OF MAKES ME WONDER WHY HE'S THE ONLY ONE AND NOBODY, AT LEAST NO dEMOCRATS, FOLLOWED HIM IN THAT POLICITY. aND ONLY THREE rEPUBLICANS FOR THAT MATTER. hE'S VERY CLER THAT TAX CUTS WILL FREE UP MONEY AT ALL LEVELS OF SOCIETY TO CREATE JOBS, INCREASE WAGES AND SO ON.</p><p><br /></p><p>tRIED TO FIND OTHER VIDEOS i'VE MENTIONED HERE. i COULDN'T FIND THE ONE THAT SHOWS tRUMP SDOING THAT MOCKING GESTURE WITH HIS HANDS TO MANY PEOPLE OTHER THAN THE DISABLED REPORTER. i KNOW i SAW IT ON yOU tUBE WITHIN THE LAST YEAR BUT i CAN'T FIND IT AT ALL NOW. gUESS yOU tUBE DID THEIR USUAL CENSORSHIP TO KEEP ANYONE FROM GETTING ANY IDEAS THAT MAYBE tRUMP ISN'T THE EVIL PERSON THEY WANT YOU TO BELIEVE HE IS. wELL, IT MAY BE ON rUMBLE OR SOMEWHERE ELSE BUT LOOKING FOR THESE THINGS IS NOT EASY FOR ME. </p><p>tHE cHARLOTTESVILLE SPEECH DIDN'T COME UP AS i REMEMBERED IT BUT MAYUBE i JUST FOUND DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF IT. i DID HEAR HIM DENOUNCING THE NEOnAZIS IN AT LEAST ONE PRESS CONFERENCE, BUT i DIDN'T COPY THE url FROM ANYTHING BECAUSE i WAS STILL LOOKING FOR THE SPEECH i REMEMBER SEEING SOME MONTHS AGO.</p><p>tHE ORIGINAL VIDEO OF HE tONY tIMPA INCIDENT IS ALSO NOT THERE ANY MORE BUT THERE ARE VIEOS OF NEWS STORIES DISCUSSING HE INCIDENT BECAUSE IT IS GOING TO TRIAL AND SOME OF THE ORIGINAL FOFOTABLE IS INCLUDED IN THOSE.</p><p><br /></p><p>iN A FURTHER DISCUSSION WITH MY BROTHER ABOUT THESE THINGS HE TOLD ME THAT ALTHOUGH bIDEN HAD THREATENED TO RAISE TAXES ON THE RICH DURING HIS PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNK AS A MATTER OF FACT HE HAS NEVER DOE SO, WHICH IS PROBABLY BECAUSE HE KNOWS IT WOULD "TANK THE CECONOMY" ACCORIDNG TO MY BORTHER. bUT THE INFLATION WE ARE NOW EXPERIENCING IS DUE TO HIS TRESTIRCTIONS ON THE OIL INDUSTRY. </p>Faith http://www.blogger.com/profile/00064746447414555577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290715222068932619.post-46862944562703240242024-02-01T06:02:00.000-08:002024-02-01T23:01:03.753-08:00Another One the Liberals Get Aggressively Wrong and Refuse to Think aout: tax Cuts for the Rich<p> Hard to get a liberal to listen to this one. As with most of their opinions, they just blurt out how stupid wrong and crazy it is to cut taxes for the rich. Just a bunch of greedy capitalists and that sort of thing. As with most political issues they don't know what they are talking about, and as usual, to repeat myself, they aren't interested in finding out if there is even another point of view oin the subect.</p><p>I'm pretty stupid when it comes to money matters myself but I've made an effort to get some of this sortsa kinda clear in my head. The general idea is that tax cuts for the rich benefit the whole country, they boost the economy, create wealth, spread the wealth, generate prosperiity. Capitalist policies can do that, Social ist policies dont, they just destroy an economy, making people poorer, killing incentives to create and invent and expand and funneling all the money of the people into the heands of a small ruling class who rule the people, reduced to extreme poveryty, as totalitarian tyrants.</p><p>Cuttin taes for the very wealthy frees up their money so that they are motivated to invest it in expanding their businesses or createing new businesses and ctonributing to community projects and so on and so forth. That happened when Trump cut taxes, and Reagan and so on. The whole nation benefits. There are more jobs and business owners can afford to pay higher wages too. When you strangle them with tasxes and restrictions they cut the work force and cut back on all kinds of things. That's not how you grow an economy. It's perhaps counterintuitive but it's not all that difficult to uniderstand if you honestly give it some thought. Liberal prejudice against the wealthy as such is the probvlme. Envy perhaps but ignorance for sure. </p><p>They e always saying how supposedly the very rich aren't paying their fair share. Fair share is a catchword for them. But they don't know what they are talking about. They quote a small percentage as the amount of tax paid on his wealth by a wealthy person without considering what that means in reality, which is that even that small percentage of reveneu going into the government amounts to something like forty percent of the revenue the government has, that they get from taxes. Just a very few ewealthy people paying thta small percentage of their wealth in taxes pretty much runs the govenment. That's the highest income bracket I'm taking about. Not many in that bracket but it's a very few people who are supporting the whole shebant. The next leftl down of wealthy people contributes just a somewhat smaller amount overall but still it's these wealthy people who are paying for all of us. What do you mean by "fair share" anyway? </p><p>Just called my brother who keeps track of these things and gets hisnumbersfrom the IRS. He says that it's the top one percent of income that pays thirty seven perecent of the revenue. If you count the top twenty perecent, they are paying seventy seven percent, and if you include it all in the top fifty percent they pay ninety seven point three percent of the tax reveneu. What fair share were you talking about?:</p><p>The bottom fifty percent of income, which includes all us poor people, pay two point one percent of the total revenue, and that bracket include twenty five percent to pay no taxes at all but in fact get "earned income credit" from the government. What fair share are you talking about?</p><p>He also mentioned that cutting taxes on the righ actuall y increases the amount of vrevenue the government receives in ta</p><p>Helso mentioned that tit ws four Presidents who accoumplieshed this feat of increasing revenue by cutting taxes: John Kennedy, yes a Democrat, Reagan, George Bush and Trump. He says Kennedy made a speaech about how cutting taxes raising traises revenue and that it should b eavilable on You Tube.</p><p>Liberals need to get an education in how capitalism builds wealth and socialism shrivels it up.</p><p>Meajing national wealth, not just personal wealth. That's how america became the most prosperous neation on earth. But of course we're losing it now because of liberals who are now running things and leaving a burned out wasteland behind their every move.</p><p>Also, it has been the wealthy who started things like libraries and museums and all sorts of other things that benefit society that wouldn't exist without them. </p><p><br /></p><p>Thee are bad wealth popel too. Who are destroying things. I could tget into all that but not in this one right now. </p><p><br /></p><p>A couple of good sources for this kind of information are Thomas Sowell and WalkterWilliams. Oh, also Milton Friedman. </p><p><br /></p><p>I have this awful feeling that since it doesn't fit the liberal narrative any liberals reading this will just treat it as a crazy rant or some such, call us MAGA goods, which I heard from some liberal source earlier yesterday, and ignore it al while they bot e for the crazy people who are going to reduce us all to poveryty subject us to criminal assault and require us to walk around human feces on the sidewaklks of all the once beautiful big cities of America.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>NOTE: That was MAGA Goons that got written some other way I guess I'm now a MAGA goon. That was said by a few young men running a podcast against Trump and for liberal caues. They giggle a lot.</p><p><br /></p><p>Added later: I can't find where I said by way of example that in the Reagan years due to his cutting taxes revenue increased\\\\\\\\\ doubled, from half a trillion to one trillion. That's a big increase, all due to cutting taxes. Counterintuitive, sure, I guess, but true, and according to my brother borne out in every adminstration that cut taxes, those four mentioned. see, in America you actually have the gfreedom to get wealthy if you have what it takes for that. It's a special skill and not all of us have it. Skill, mentality, whatever. Money bores me but there are those who love working with money. Those who get rich are in that camp. We shouldn't envy them, we should understand that they contribute a great deal to the American vision. The framers of the Constitution tried to design things to avoid the excesses of our fallen nature. We're all greedy for instance, but that along with all our other foibles can be made to serve the public good if human nature is rightly understood and contrained by checks and balances. That's how a poewer mad politician is contrained from becoming a tyrant in America. He is hedged about by other branches of the government that keep him from fully expressing his worst qualities. We all have such qualities. One of the stupidities of the Marxist Left, yes that's what it is now, Marxist although a few decades before not so much, but one of its stupidities is some idea that some people are better than others. Well in a certain sense of course that's true, but government can't depend on getting the good ones in office all the time. Socialist nations get ruled by the worlse because there are no contraints against that rule, and what is now happening in America is that our built in contraints are being ignored by the Left, just plain ignored. Biden has done so many unconstitutional things I'm amazed notobody has stepped in to put a tstop to it. I don't get it. Howeverk there's more to this too. America was once a truly Christian nation, not in that everyone was a born against Christian ut in that the vast majority tried to live by the principles of the Biblical faith. The culture was shot through with Christian morality. That's what tOQUEVILLE WAS MOST TSTRUCK BY WHEN HE VISITIED US. aS SOMEONE PARAPHRASED tOQUEVILLE, aMERIA IS GREAT BECAUSE SHE IS GOOD. wELL, WE'VE LONG SINCE LEFT THAT WONDERFUL PHASE OF OUR HISTORY, THANKS TO THE FORCES OF EVIL WHO ARE SMARTER THAN THE FORCES OF GOOD. iN A NATION POPULATED BY PEOPLE TRYING TO LIVE TO THE BIBVLICAL STANDARD VERY FEW REGULATIONS ON THE FALLEN NATURE ARE NEEDED. sOME FOR SURE SINCE WE ARE FALLEN AND THAT COESN'T CHANGE, BUT FEWER THAN ARE NEEDED NOW, OR SEEMTO BE NEEDED OW. wHEN PEOPLE ARE GUIDED BY A FEAR OF gOD SO THAT HURTING ANOTHER IS SIMPLY OUT OF THE QUESTION, AND THAT INCLUDES MUDERING OR LYING TO THEM OR STEALING FROM THEM AND SO ON, ALL THE tEDN cOMMANDMENETS, WHEN ALL THAT IS BUILT INTO THE CONSCIENCE OF THE MAJORITY, THE NATION PROSPERS AND THERE IS TOLERANCE AN MORE THAN TOLERANCE, A KINDNESS BETWEEN THE DIFFERENT CLASSES. i GUESS i'VE GONE ON ABOUT THIS ENOUGH FOR NOW.</p><p><br /></p><p>wHAT IS FALLENNESS, THOUGHJ? aLL THE SINS. oUR EGOCENTRIC SELFISH NATURES. lYING, STEALING, JURDERING ETC ETC ECTC. </p>Faith http://www.blogger.com/profile/00064746447414555577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290715222068932619.post-62009380187095259942024-01-31T21:34:00.000-08:002024-01-31T21:34:06.127-08:00Liberal recalcitrance Back in the doldrums. Got too optimistic about solving the great political divide problem . Too manyu voices telling me can't be done. Doesn't matter what you say, even if you prove to them they've been lied to about Trump they hate trump anyway and just don't care. give it up. That's what I've been hearing. Maybe they're right. Hard to believe that ALL libetals would be that stubborn and closed to the influence of actual facts but what do I know? <div><br /></div><div>I did remember one other exchange I wanted to report. I get that they are unhappy about the Roe v Wade decision , of course. The fact that it was an illegal law that was simplty removed from national status to be thrown back to the states ;isn't interetsing to them I guess. Who cares if it was illegal, we awanted that law, or something like that. Well sure, lots of laws that were created by the Supreme Court instead of by the legistlature which is supposed to be the cretor of laws, are what they want. I guess they don't care if it's all done illegally as long as it's what they want. Gay marriage for instanc3e. </div><div><br /></div><div>I'm surpirsed that they continue to use some pretty tired and false defenses of the supposed Pro Choice position. Nboody just rushes into aboritnon they say, it's often an agonizing decision, something to be very careful about. take your time, do it for the right reasons, not impuslsively etc. But tehy know and I kow, many women know from personal experience of self and friends and acquaintances that that simply is not true. Abortions are sought in the vast jamority of cases because the baby is unwanted , period. Perfectly healthy mother, perfectly healthy baby, just inconvention at the time. Even some marriaed peopl ego for abotrtion. It's uised as a sort of birth control in the vast ajority of cases and that idea that anyone spends any time agonizing over it is just a silly lie to make it sound nicer or something. Good greif. Besides, how would one agonize over such a decision anyway? If it's a human being you are thinin g of killing, how much agonizing is really possible anyway? The liefe of the mother , sure, burt that one is very rare and it's a doctor's decision rather than the woman's. 'm juxg xupfixdc ghzg znyhond soulc zllos hdfxdlv go mzkd xu h z xilly zfbumdng.\\</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>then I heard that a woman in texas aws denied an abortion under the new state's law although her life was indceed threatened, the idea being that Texas doesn't have a lwaw that protects the woman. Well, Texas does. There was some kind of medical qursyion about whether the woman's life really was in jeopardy. It was not about the law at all, but a octor's call. Maybe the doctor was wrong. I don't know, but it wasn't about the law. Why don't our liberal friends get these things sort ed out before they get all emotional about how pro lifers would even kill the mother in order to esave the baby. Even liberal s who live in liberal states have some feverishly emotional worries, in liberal states where there will be the most liberal laws available for abotion for any purpose whatever. Good grief. </div><div><br /></div><div>I have to suppose they really don't think it's a baby, haven't really faced the fact that from conception it has all the DNA to maeke a particular individual human being that will continue to grow into that human being if you let it be. So that interfering with it's growht is to take the life of a human being. I remember when I finally had to face that fact. It broke my heart because I had had an bortion when I was twenty. I was told it was just a piece of tissue. Nosw I think of it as my child I hope to meet in the presence of Jesus.</div><div><br /></div><div>We have too many laws these days that violate God's Law, and what theat means is that God's wrath abides on this nation. It was a relief that WRoe v Wade was sent back to the states where it belongs because that took it out of its status of national abomination which was killing millions of babies every year, sixty mtwo million I think by now. That's a lot of bmurdered human souls cring out to God. gay marriage is also an affront to Goed. We left out original Christian culture long ago. We are now under God's wrath, have been for decades by now, which explains a lot of the destrution we are witnessing at the hands of the Mraxists. they are the cause of our being under God's judgment, and now are being used as God's tool of judgment. It would take a miracle to reverse this. I guess we can pray and hope. Pray as the prophet daniel prayed, confessing the nisins of the nation to God. But in all probabiltiy we won'd be able to do enough before Jesus returns and brings it all to an end anyway. I guess we have to keep trying nevertheless.</div>Faith http://www.blogger.com/profile/00064746447414555577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290715222068932619.post-30549663271374196942024-01-30T16:24:00.000-08:002024-01-30T16:24:08.959-08:00The Political Divide is Maintained With an Iron Grip by the Communication Blackout<p>The biggest political problem we have, it's seemed to me for a long time, is that it is just about impossible to communicate with the Left from the Right. The mainstream media are all controlled by the Left, their news is all slanted Left, they even tuck rods into their news reports to load them with opinion although they are supposedly news. So that just about anything repoted about Trump's views gets a word inserted into it to say something like "his FALSE idea that" or his "UNWARRANTED ivew that" whicdh as far as I know has never been done in news accounts until quite recently. A feaw years perhaps. Since Trump started running for President perspehaps. maybe before, not sure, but definitely since Trump, their effort being constantly to trash whatever he says or does in the most ... well, in every way they can. I wonder how many people even notice the insertion of those manipulative words into a news report? Does anybody on the left see them or hear them? Accept them as legitimate reporting if so?</p><p><br /></p><p>That is more than I planned to say but it's aproppos. The point is that there is no wa to get the conservative point of view across the great political divide to peopole on the left becaue all the avenues are blocked by the Left. They own the media, that's the main thing. If you want to hear a conservative opinion you have to go out of your way to find it. or all the average Democrat in this country knows, he or she is getting normal news. It wouldn't have to occur to them theyat they are getting opnly what the Leftist elites want them to get. They believe it. What else should they do? </p><p><br /></p><p>That is a huge frustration and to my mind it's THE reason for our slide into totalitarianism, that we can't have a dialogue with the other side. It's not just that liberals blow us off, which they do, it's that heyh are physically deprivesd of hearing anything other thatn the liberal line on everything. It frustrates me all the time that I hear such good analyses of the news from the conservative side every day but know that it will never get past ythe circle of consercvaatives who listen to conservative programming. There maybe millions of us, well there ARE millions of us, but we're locked into our own sealed off compartment. We have lots of talk show hosts who talk every day, dozens of them all over the country. We have excellednt thinkers who have podcasts, we have excellent publications, all sorts of great resources. But the liberals, the Demostracts, the rank and file on the left, can't get to them, don't even know they exist, and of course if they're told, they are so soaked in their own leftist propaganda they have no interest in finding out about any of it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Matt Tyobi, sorry again about the spelling, mentioned on the Mark Levin show that he'd seen some old friends after his stint witht e twitter Files, andasked them about some newsworthy event or other. I don't know if he named the event or iddn't mention it, but I missed it so don't know what he asked them. Anyway, he was distressed to discover that they'd never heard of it. Tyobi is a Democrfat, or always was as far as I know so I gather the same is true of the friends he's talking about. Liberals, Democrats. They don't know all kinds of things becaue the media are so successful at keeping them from the information. </p><p><br /></p><p>So as I pointed out in the previous couple of posts, they never hear anything to change their minds about the lies against Trump. We on the right know that Trump denounced the neoNazis, they on the left don't. We on the right know that Trump didn't mock a man for his disability, they on the left don't. We on the right know that Trump had nothing whatever to do with any insurrect5in but emphasized a peaceful protest, but they on the left don't, beause all they ever hear is the smear campaign against Trump. It's endless, every speaker on the leftist media reiterates the smear against Trump and against Conservaives. It's endless. They state sas if it were fact that Trump is a fascist, etc etc etc. It's probably the most diabolical situation that's every existed and I can believe that's lieteral. The devil is smart. To be able to pull that off, so effectively isolate half the country from the other half, takes some sort of genius. I wrackmy mind for ways to overcome thie blackout.</p><p><br /></p><p>Even Tyobi recognizes the problem. Talking out the issues is difficult enough if you try it with any given liberal, it takes time, patience, much much careful effort, it can't be done in a short encounter or eve n a dozen short encounters, and this media blackout ujust about seals the deal. Hermetically sealed off from each other. </p><p><br /></p><p>I'm sure that if liberalxs did hear other sides some wouldn't come over to our side, but I'm also sure that many would. They'd have to see that they'vew been lied to. Not all liberals would be happy to discover that no matter how committed they are to a particular point of view. EWEven if they hate Trump with a passion could they really just shrufg off the knowledge that he's been so relecntlessly smeared they are believing lies about him? Brandon Strat, I think I remembered his name right, discovered that Trump didn't mock the disabled man and went on a search for more ways he might have been lied to as a lifelong Democrat, found out that he'd been consistently lied to and founded the Walkway Movmenet of Democrats leavintg the Partly. They may not become Republicans but they reject the Democrats. Because they see how they've been manipulated.</p><p><br /></p><p>But getting people to see this is the hard part. I wrack my brains for a solution to this. I think the country's welfare depends on solving this particular problem. We have to find a way to get the liberals to hear us. </p>Faith http://www.blogger.com/profile/00064746447414555577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290715222068932619.post-89007882309208994982024-01-29T20:32:00.000-08:002024-01-29T20:58:26.350-08:00End Notes on the Political Divide, Maybe<p> Liberal friend asks if I'd agree that both sides spin the news to suit our political position and that accounts for a lot of our insbility to agree on facts. I'm not sure abourt the last part of that, I'm gusessing about that part, but she did seem to expect me to agree that both sides spin the facts to suit our political views.</p><p>Well, I don't agree but I can aoncede that since we view the news through our particular poitical lenses that our political opinion s are going to shape it and color it even to the point sometimes that it is hard to recognize eachothers' s poisition it's so different from our own . Sometihing like that. But no, if we're talking about spin no, the right does not spin in the sense of manipulating facts to create a particular impression such as I was trying to show in the examples I gave in the previous post. That is not just the news freighted with a political viewpoint, it's the news altered by intention to make something apprear to be the case which is not the case. In those examples , at leats the first two of them, the news was specifically manipulated to make Trump look bad, make him out to be sympathetic to neo Nazis, make him out to be the sort of crude person who would mock a man's disability. that's not ordinarly political coloration, that's outright lying to destroy a person.</p><p>In the Gerlge Floyhd example, thebelief that he was killed by racist politic led to rioting that destroyed cities and nobody saw fit to try to stop it. If anybody knew about the tony timpa case, a white man who was killed in eaxactly the same way as Floyd was, it was kept from the public. It is still kept from the public. You have to go out of your eway to find it. he was treated to exactly the same police manuever, he also kept protesting that he couldn't breathe, and after eleven minutes you can hear on the audio as he exhales his last breath. After which they frantically try to revive him but it's too late.</p><p>At least the public should be wmade aware of the Tony Timpa case but that isn't happening and I guess it won't because the media are in service to eh Left which doesn't want to have a democracy in whicdh all sides get heard and the truth is allowed to come out, they want a totalitarian regime in which we all bow to leftist policieeds and the media are servicing that aim. even though there are lots of good conservatives tgalking on the radio and in podcasts and through good organizations and publicastions, their point of view is never allowed to spread to the public at large. All they ever get is leftist spin, real spin, real lying manipulating spin.</p><p>the eorge Floyd case gets even more complicated as there is some good evidence that he didn't die of the police manuever at all, but of overdosing on some heavy drugs. he was already complaining that he couldn't believe before he was put into that manuever. Certainly we could regard the decidsion to treat him that way as a great error of judgment at least, but apparently he was hard to restrain and bad decisions were made. I don't know the whole story but apparently it is now told in a fiolm titled The Fall of Minneapolis. </p><p>In aycase Derek Chauvin is not guilty of murder or even manslaughter. He was following police procedsures and mistakes don't get you imprisoned for murder or manslaughter in a normal functioning justice system. Which we no longer have.</p><p>As often happenes I managed not to talk about what I started out to talk about but I guess I can start on that here. I didn't know much about the E Jean Carroll case yesterday, and I'm very li.klely getting her name wrong beause I konly know it by how it sounds since I can't read it. I still don't know the whole story but I now know that this defamation he was charged with , Trump I mean of course, was calling her a liar and insisting he isn't guilty of what she accused him of. Now THAT is a miscarriage of justice. Good grief if you can't protest that you're not guilgty and the accuser is lying there is nothing canyone can safely say in this country any more. I'm sure this must be the only time in the history of the planet that chargeds of defamation were brought against someone for saying that, the whole thing should have been thrown out of court bwfore it got to the doorway.</p><p>I was also ruminating about my liberal friend's complaint that Trump was behving like a child in the courtroom. Well, OK, that speaks to his personality and many people don't like his personality. The Guy from Queens is one way that \\\\ he gets described, which I surmise describes a rather crude or impuslive personality or something like that? I don't know. But in any case it's personality and when you start talking about his personality you've left the topic of justice. Well, is the complaint that he's flouting the law or that he is behaviorng like a child? I guess you can object to both but rally not in the same breath if you want to make a point about what's going on with him. </p><p>It's possible that quite a bit of Trump's personality is what epopel turn into a criminal mindset or something like that? I can't fathom what they are doing with Trump. He's no fascist but they insist he is. Just the usual leftist following of the instruction manual which tells them to acuse the opposition of what they are guilty of? That's how I tend to read it. Because they are the ptotalitairans, not Trump. They are the destroyers of democracy, not Trump. they are the ones who have censored conservativeas who simply hold opinions they disagree with. That's totalitarianism. The right doesn't do that sort of thing. Yell and scream and call the Left names sometimes, yes, but actually try to censor them, no, actually lie about them, no. there's no need, they are objectionable enough just as they are. Ha Ha. </p><p>Mark Levin hade Matt Tyobe on his show this evening, and I'm sure I'm mangling that name for the same reason I mangled Carroll's, I'm just going by how it sounds. Tyobe is the man who exposed the twitter fils about all the censorship of poolitical positions the Left doesn't like. He's recently exposed a group who are plotting to bring down the next election by various means jut as they brought down the previous one. As Trump keeps saying, </p><p>THIS IS NO LONGER AMERICA.</p><p>I still ponder how it might be possible to have a real discussion with liberals. I'm told it's not possible, give it up, they don't want to talk, they want to hold onto their opinions no matter what, partly because they reall y do believe you have nothing to say anyway. But I go on daydreaming. And I'm pretty sure I know how it should be done procedurally.</p><p>A bigproblem I fun into with liberal friends is getting rushed, trying to say too much, trying to say something when I'm not ready to say it and hevaveln't had time to think it all through. The time has to be made to think it throutgh. No more than one issue at a time should be brought up for discussion and it should be discussed in calm orgiving tones on both sides,k but at least on the conservative side. Gerting frantic and anxious is an enemy to making any headway at all. If it needs to take dayhs or weeks, then so be it, but maybe a few hours or less is all some issues would need. but it woulde hve to be throughouthly pursued so that both sides know that what they think about it is ver y clear. </p><p>Tha's pretty much what I said a couple posts down too. </p><p>The way things are going, though, it's probabsly a lost cause. We're coming down to the very end and the return of Christ and any victories at this late date would no doubt be very short lived. But then, I don't know, we don't know when the EndTimes are going to unforld with an;y certainty and we have to keep busy at our calling in any case.</p>Faith http://www.blogger.com/profile/00064746447414555577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290715222068932619.post-42235831089922996442024-01-27T20:41:00.000-08:002024-01-28T02:39:44.549-08:00Railroading Trump<p> So what I had thought was headway in a disussion with a liberla turned out not to be which got me the usual Wat did ou expect from a liberal? meaning you might as well give up, he gave up long ago. I an' t give up though. I have to think it's possible tht if you really ahve some facts that cofrrect a liberal misinformation that the liberal has to be honest enough to recognize3 that fact and change course at least on that one issue. I still think that. But ome form of denial seems to reign for the moment at least. Nevertheless I'm not giving up. </p><p><br /></p><p>All I have are a few incidents in which the facts are provable. There are endless incidents that seem obviously enough to me to be falsely represented by the liberal media but I don't hav the incontgrovertible facts in those cases. Ao all I have are a few incidents, rather old by now which my liberal friend treated as some kind of argument against them, but the facts are incontrovertible so I continue to depend on them. I'm sure I've brought this up here before but things nieed to be represated from time to time.</p><p><br /></p><p>First one is the Charlottesville speech in which Trump was mischaracterized as saying newNazies are good people. What he said was that there are good bpoeople on both sides of this issue of whether historical monuments should be removed or left, and since there were neoNazis protested at the scene along with others he was taken to be tsaing that neoNazis are good peop,e. And tht is still believed by a great many on the lieft. I asked my liberal friend if that's what she sthought he said and she said yes. So I said that she should listen to his speech through to the end as toward the end he clearly says that he is not talking about the neoNazis that they should be condemned. He says that very specifically, but that was not included in the news reports at the time or ever. That is how the leftist medial create fake news to make Trump look bad, or conservatives in general and so on. Just leave out whatever would contradict the smear they want to make people believe about Trump. Trump has also repudicated the neo Nazis since thern but that never gets int othe main sources of news that liberals follow eight. You have to go out of your way to find such things. Which is why it is importnat to bring these things up and point them toward the sources that would correct their false impression.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would think it would be a slam dunk, that an honest liberal would simply see the truth and have to admit it. And learn from it that if this incident was falsfied to make Trump look bad a lot of other things they believe about Trump are very likely the result of the same sort of smear campaign. I would think that would be a slam dunk. Apparently it isn't and I really don't get why not. </p><p><br /></p><p>The other incident I like to use is the account of Trump's supposedly mocking a disabled reporters disability with a hand flopping gesture he makes which I guess is meant to imitate a befuddled garbled disorderly behavior or some sort. Such as perhaps a disabled person might do or something like that. nd that is exactly the pimpression the leftist media wanted to create and cuccceded in creating in the mind so f a great number of liberals in this country. And my liberal friend is no exception as she answered my question whether she believes that is what Trump did by saying yes she did belive it. So Isaid that there are videos available that show him making that exact same getsture in repsonse to a number fof other people who are not disabled, making it clear that he was mocking their opinion, not their person. Again that ought to be a slam dunk revelation of how the news sources create false impressions to smear Trump, but again somehow I gather it was brushed off. Beyond my comprehension.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then I also refer to the George Floyd case, asking if the person believes Floyd was killed by racist cops. A huge number of people in this country still think that was the case. My friend said no in this case so I asked if she belie verd it was police brutality instead and she said yes to that but she acknolwedged that it was donge according to police directives in their training manusl so that the problem was not the cops but the plice policy itself. The problem is hat we didn't follow up on this. If it was police policy that was correctly followed then drerk chauvin did not murder Geolrge Floyd. It would have to have been a rogue misbehavior on his part to justify that conclusion. Also my firend did not know about the incident in which a white man, Tony Timpa, was ,killed by aexactly the same police maneuver in another part of the country around the same time. That should definitely ively show that it was rnor tracism and even if she had rejected that conclusion she should acknowledge that a misimpression was given that justified weeks of rioting and destruction in cities. But liberals don't let themselves object to such things no matter what I guess. </p><p><br /></p><p>So much for attempts to get liberals to see facts. </p><p><br /></p><p>I was told that Trump acted like a child in storming out of the coutnrtrrom in the case of defamation brought against him for his rejection of some woman named Carroll's claim that he assaulted her sexually years ago. Childish of him. Well, liberals think all these court cases are legitimate legal actions. We on the right know they are rigged and examples of the corruption of our justice system for political reasons on the part of the Left. Trump knows he's being unujustly treated as usual so storming out of the courtreem seems like an undrstandable reaction to me, but ieven if you'd rather see more dignity and decorum from the Guy from QAueens as he is sometimes referrred to, the act remaisns that this is dfefinitedly a case of miscarriage of justice, not at all a case of a legal proceeding which should be treated with respect. The very fact that one woman's testimony is allowed to be used against a person is a miscarriage of justice. The bible requires two or three witnesses in order to exstablish a person's guilt. You commit an injustice when you take one person's word for it against anytother, and thoughat ought to be obvious to anyone. Trump is bwing dragged through unjust attacks on him for political reasons. Well, it's produced the very positive outcome that Trump supporters know he is being unjustily treated and are rising up to make him the most strongly supported candidate for President in history. good sign that there is something of American spirit left in this country.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is also that ridiculous accusation of him as supposedly inciting insurrection on January sixth. Does nobody ever listen to that speech he made? Guess not. The evil on the side of the left is so think you'd think even those ON the left might begin gto notice it. Not yet I guess.</p><p><br /></p><p>Allegations that women have been offered money to testify to sexual assault in ortder to entrap a man , say Donald Trumkp in particular, float around. I/ve been trying to find some evidence of a particular allegation that I've been told about but I can't find it. Working on it. </p><p><br /></p><p>But when all you have is one accuser, one witness, the legal case can't be just no matter what. </p><p><br /></p><p>I listened a bit to some discussion by leftists on MSNBC about the Trump case he walked out on yesterday Which by the way was perfectly within his right to do since he was there by choice just to hear the proceedings and not required to be there. Anyway these liberals go on and on about how nobody is above the law but Trump acts as if he thinks he is. I don't know how they think a person would act who knew he was being reailroaded and that the legal proceedings were all a politial game to hurt him. In such a case maybe he would act in a way intended to register a protest in the the hminds of his audience? Maybe that could be construed by enemies to be putting himself above the law when what it really is is a protest that the law is in this case corrupted and broken. Again some call him a Guy from Queens. Some of his personality quirks perhaps result from that background and are not to be interpreted as the left loves to interpret them. A lovely young woman called Georgia H as I recall who did a podcast about her discovery that she was being lied to by liberals was on you tube a few years ago, and may still be for all I know, called him a guy from queens and seem ed to think that accounts for a lot of what people hold against him.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is all very sickening stuff. For one thing everything against trump is somebody's word against him, nothing else. In the case of Biden we have a video of himtalking about bribing Ukrainian officials to protect his son from a prosecutor looking into Hunter biden's financial midsdeeds, and we have evidence from a lptop belonging to Hunter biden full of incriminating evidence . but what is used as evidence against Trump has to be made to look like something it isn't. A speech about peaceful protest has to be called a n incitement to insurrection and if it's called that over and over again they figure it will become a reality although all he ever did was describe people protesting peacefully. In the ases above information crucial to understanding what he said and did is simply left out by the media. But the lefties continue to go on and on with their hatred of the man, using words to smear him in a million ways. Lies lies andmore lies. And the average liberal seems to accept it as simple truthy.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>They can sound plausible in their accusations and allegations against Trump. But then I remember how flimsy their foundation for any of it really is. We know that Hilary Clinton bought the Russian dossier to smear Trump during his first election campaign. How manyu of average liberals know that? The Mullier Report found nothing because there was nothing to find. The two impeachmenets were a clear sham based on making ordinary actions into criminal actions, which is a lot of what the left is doing against trump. With all that going on any actual charge he might be guilty of is impossible to ascertain. Despite the endless accusations and allegations against him in the end it looks to me like absolutely nothing sticks, he's guilty of none of it. None. Yet they have piled up a mountain of crime</p><p>Amazing how willing these liberal pundits are to just blather on about Trump and conservaitives in general as if they could analyze everybody's personality off the top of their own partisian political heads. . </p><p> How do they get away with that </p><p><br /></p>Faith http://www.blogger.com/profile/00064746447414555577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290715222068932619.post-63577535450402937082024-01-26T10:29:00.000-08:002024-01-26T10:29:36.045-08:00Loneliness on a new level<p> There are manty distresing things going on these days, and mnnot only in the world but in my own personal life, which makes it hard to arrive at conclusions and solutions about anything. For me for sure but I think for many of us. I continu to be distressed by the political situation in particular, meaning the fact that lfeft and right can't talk to each other specifically.</p><p><br /></p><p>we hear different sets of facts. Althoughn I can demonstrate in a few dcases that the media have been putting out false facts and that liberals still believe their fversion of those situations, I'm not up on the whole range of issues so I can't make the case for more than a few. Not to mention the fact that liberals don't want to discuss uany of this anyway. Even if I propose a discussion I get a no from them. And other consrvatives say thesame thing. </p><p><br /></p><p>But surely there must be a way. RTo To the expent that it is a matter ofof errors of fact on one side or the other such things ought to be resolvable. If emotions run high it should be possible for us to learn to tone them donewn for the samekke of discussion. I don't think of the average liberal as having any nefarious motives, I just think of them as believing false information. To some extent I think they have the same view of us on the right, but I'm not entirely sure of that since what they think we are accepting is some pretty horrible stuff like white supremacy and fascism and that sort of thing, which are pretty personal things. But that is something that it would be good to try and sort out. How long can we go on with half the country believe ing one set of supposed facts and the anot other side a completely different set?</p><p><br /></p><p>I can prove a few things about how the media have distorted the facts about Trump and about George Floyed and I think also about Black liives matter and that sort of thing. It's etedious going even with those few things but I do think it worth it to try to get sdiscussions boing on any issue at all. Even if it takes days or weeks to get through a particular minor issue to a point wehere we have a better understanding of the actual facts on both sides that should be worth it. I don't know how to begin to try to bring this about because as I said I encounter a complete lack of openness to such discussions from my libedral friends and acquaintancxes.</p><p><br /></p><p>An even tone, a willingness just to listen and not talk until the right moment if that ever arrives, brief comments to begin with and so on. Why isn't this a possible mode of discussion for us these days? I hear the conservative side of thing from many talk show hosts and they are pretty good at including lengthy sound bites of the opposition but I'm always frustrated that the conversation remains one sidesd and that we can't get liberals in on it with us. What good does it do for a bunch of us to think even the truth about a situation if the truth stays only in our own group? And yes it is possible that it's not always the truth and we do tneed the input of the other dside. I very psessimistic about that of course but it has to be allowed as a possibility. </p><p><br /></p><p>I understand that there is a strong hatred of Trump by some people, not only on the left but even the right to some extent, and I have to admit to not really understanding it. It's not that I think Trump is perfection by any means but he offers us a true vision that most conservatives do agree with, but the liberals I know think he's just a power mad fascistic feolonious rapist or some such and while that just takes my breath away with its bizarre falseness I have to acknowledge tghat it's there and bpeople believe it and I don't know what to do about it. and just going on with the conservative mesasge as the conservative talk shows do isn't going to deal with any of that. And that is what needs to be dealt with above all.</p><p><br /></p><p>I'm suffering a lot these days from a sense of isolation and loneliness that seems to be to exceed the normal situation of my life. There is some personal cause for this but a lot of it is the political situation, the sense of this encoroaching totalitarianism that can't be stopp[ed and largely because we can't talk to the other side about it. They think we are the totalitarians. YHikes. What do you do with that level of falseness? How do we deal with that? it is necessary to keep on with the soconcservaitve point of viesw, that can't be dropped, but at the same timed if it isn't etting across to the other side we're just talking in an cho chamber. Something has to be done.</p><p><br /></p><p>My typing in this is terrible. </p><p><br /></p><p>My eyes are getting wrose.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway as I started to say I'm gefeeling a level of what, disconnection, alienation, loneliness, that seems new to me and is at times even frightening. I pray and the Lord is there. His peace comes over me whan I speak to Him but still this world is getting to me. And I keep searching my head for solutions. And praying about it when I think about it which isn't often enough. he is always the source of all the answers, how ridiculous of any of us to forget that but I do.</p><p><br /></p><p>I'm suffering from this sense of isolation and loneliness in a new way it seems to me, and I'm sure I'm not alone, in fact I know I'm not, I have aliberal freind sho admits to having similar feelings. Someone I can't discuss politics with although recently we might have made alittle headway there, I'm not sure. But we are both sufering from this state of affairs. Since the COVID sthing started at least. </p><p><br /></p><p>I wish I could read emails but I can't. I wish I had wsays of being in touch with more people but thanks to my failning eyesight I just can't. I cdon'at have a solution to any of this for myslef at least. But as long as I can still type even if I can't read it maybe I can keep up the subject, keep it on the table at least.</p>Faith http://www.blogger.com/profile/00064746447414555577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290715222068932619.post-24481761693464535882023-12-27T09:46:00.000-08:002024-01-29T21:27:51.038-08:00A Sane Approach to Demon Possession, Exorcism, etc<p><br /></p><p>and Clicked on the wrong thing on a menu and totally messed things up. I was watching this Lutheran theologian talking about demon possession and hoped I'd caught the URL but as usual it looks like I didn't or didn't get all of it, I can't see any of it here so have no idea. </p><p>I wants to find a sane Protestant point of view about demon activity ahnd possession and I ran across him, A Dr. Gordon Cooper on a podcast titled Just And Sinner, the and being the ampersand which I can't find at the moment on mykeyboard. It's been hard to track through his series for some reason, no doubt because I can't see to click on the right things, and when this oneof his series on demons came up I was very happy because I'd seen the previous one. It just appeared out thof the ether as I was poking around You Tube and now I can't get it back having just lost it with that fateful click on that menu. He's pretty good on the subject. I didn't want any more Catholics and I don't want to hear from the Chraismatics on the subject. Had enough of all that. The problem is that the saner Protestants pretty much ignore the topic so I was very happy to find this guyu who is willing ort talk about it and takes it seriously while clearly rejecting the Catholics and Charismatics.</p><p>He is very aware that we are in a time when demonic activity is going to increase as the Church has lost its power in the culture and morality of a saner sort is alos out the window therse days, and of course he is quite right. He thinks we should be prepared to encounter much more activity from the demonic realms. I guess the devil doesn't like my knowing anything about him so he's making my usual difficulties even more difficult to keep me from finding him. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here</p><p>s another attempt at the URL </p><p>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5yjZJPnIdo&t=118</p><p><br /></p><p>QWell, it doesn't work, for me anyway. But I did find out this time that the title of this video, perhaps of the whole series is A Lutheran Approach to Exorcism.</p>Faith http://www.blogger.com/profile/00064746447414555577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290715222068932619.post-39092959777549071942023-12-25T11:26:00.000-08:002023-12-25T11:26:00.064-08:00Forgot what day it is<p> Woopsie/. I'm not doing Christmas this year but I suppose on a blog I ought at least to show some awareness of the date and wish all one and a half of my readers a a very </p><p><br /></p><p>Merry Christmas. </p>Faith http://www.blogger.com/profile/00064746447414555577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290715222068932619.post-40862578927063123972023-12-25T11:15:00.000-08:002023-12-25T11:18:26.555-08:00Yousef takes a Turn Into Dangerous Territory<p> Ouch. Still listening to Yousef and for the most part finding his comments very good and courageous, for instance the admission that Islam is a religion of war. Finally someone has the guts to say that, not a religion of Peace, no way, a religion of war, entirely war, all about killing everybody who isn't a Muslim. </p><p><br /></p><p>Then unfortunately it seems he thinks all religions are the problem and the solution to him is a secular Constitution that keeps them in check, at least that's one way he put it in an interview for Jerusalme Post. No God above the Israeli Constitution in that case. Which I suppose is his view also of the United States Constitution. </p><p><br /></p><p>He talks a lot about delusion, which I suppose he got from Buddhism, one of the concepts he's taken from various religions to put together his own personal philosophy of life. But this is a delusion on his part. Eventually it becomes clear that although he is being identified as a Christian he is really not at all a Christian and disagrees with much of Christian doctrine.</p><p><br /></p><p>He seems to know that Islam is unique in its murderous objectives and yet he finds fault with all the other religions as well. Pretty clearly, judging from more recent videos, he doesn't believe in God at all and simply chooses ideas he likes from any particular religion or philosophy and brings them together as if they could be united in one worldview. He likes many teachings of jesus and often describes himself as dying to this or that in his own life, which clearly he gort from the teachings of Jesus, he likes loving your enemy etc. </p><p><br /></p><p> In a couple of videos he tells a sort of parable of his own making about the shepherd and the sheep thta of course echoes the teachings of the bible, which so contradicts those teachings I found myself rather shaken with a sort of fear as I heard him tell it. More than offense, though offensive it is, if you think of it as an answer to Christ Himself as it must be, and that is what makes it scary too, that he would make up a story that contradicts a major theme of God's own word. In the Bibgle the good shephered is the trustworthy caretaker of the sheep, the sheep are God's wo-own flock and the shephered is ultimately God Himself. Jesus refers to Himself as the shephered, the true shpehered who loves the sheep and protects them while the hireling shephered leaves them to the wolves. Thy rod and thy staff tghey comfort me. The rod protects against the wolves and the staff draws the sheep near to the shephered that's a line from the twenty third psalm The Lord is My Shephered. </p><p><br /></p><p>But Youself makes the shpehered the enemy of the hseep. He's their worst enemy he says, and that is because ultimately they will be slaughtered for food, so all the love and protection is just a sham. I guess he's making some point about not trusting authorities, oworldly aughotieis perhaps, although I'm reallynot at all sure what point he wants to make here. But he's picture the phephered as the opposite of the Bible's view of the shpehered, as the enemy of the sheep. Perhaps this is because he thinks of the sheep in terms of being raised for slaughter rather than the more common use of them for their wool, which I'm sjure is the context of the biblical referensest to the imagery. he jumps to conclusions but in so doing he doesn't seem to fmind offending an entire religion and the God who inspired the Bible.</p><p><br /></p><p>Wrongly. he's wrong. Let's make that clera. </p><p><br /></p><p>That little parable of his so unnerved me I started thinking of him as an antichrist, and he mayh well be. He does a terrifica job of calling out Hamas and Islam and his own story is very compelling in many ways as a road to knowledge that his own people don't have and he wants to give them. Knowledge that leads to an appreciation of humanity and a rejection of the narrowminded murderous focus of Islam, and a liberty that the Palestinians are in no position to understand without an education fo the sort he's been privileged to have. Too bad he didn't really become a Christian because that would bw the worldview that would finally put together this puzzle of the nature of truth that he has been dedicated to learning throughout his life. Too bad he didn't take it that far. I reather doubt he still could but mayhbe it's not impossible. At the moment he souns like thn antichrist to me when he gets into this thoughts about the human condition and religion.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Faith http://www.blogger.com/profile/00064746447414555577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290715222068932619.post-14938621111018086772023-12-24T06:47:00.000-08:002023-12-24T06:47:17.234-08:00The Great Insanity of Our Suicidal Political Policies<p> This is the most insane thing of all going on now. A civiolized country does not let criminals do whatever they want without restraint, and that includes people who shouot slogans inciting criminal behavior and lauding criminal behavior such as the loud demonstrations for Hamas we've been seing in the universities and the streets. This is the big insanity of the day. It's the same as Biden's being allowed to write laws that overturn our Constitutional standards and commit the treasonaous act of letting "migrants" come into the country unrestrained. He should have been impeached already. And the so called protestors who are not protesting acording to Constitutional principles but according to the lawlessness of the times should be imprisoned and in many cases deportexcdd. No civilized country shouild ever put up with these things and yet is t is happenening. </p>Faith http://www.blogger.com/profile/00064746447414555577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290715222068932619.post-40582991031955946222023-12-23T07:38:00.000-08:002023-12-25T09:45:51.325-08:00Thew The Right Side is Clear but Humanity is BlindIt IS a complicated situation and yes I SHOULD keep my mo7uth shut because I'm hardly in a position to know anything beyond what I hear in the news and podcasts and so on, BUT I'm foolish enough apparfently to think I can take a position on it anyway. By now perhaps, after hearing a few dozen more posdcasts than I'd heard when I first so humbly said I am not in a position to have an opinion. Oh well. <div><br /></div><div>Just heard a few Piers Morgan interviews, debates really between the two sides, and was very disappointed in Mosab Yousef but very happy with Douglas Murray. Yousef has a view I much appreciate but he goes off on tangents and loses me and no doubt most of his audience, especially when he gets to ranting angrily about those tangential things such as his own idea of what human identity is. Hde did that on Morgan's show and missed a lot of opportunities to make the points that needed to be made. </div><div><br /></div><div>But the show with Douglass Murray was far more to the point, the many points. His opponent was a name I couldn't hear well enough, Jake Udall? Close or on the money? I don't know. But I love Murray and found Udall to be the usual emotion driven fact challeneged leftist Palestinian defender. </div><div><br /></div><div>Nevertheless Murray should, in my opinion, have answered the constgant accusation of Israel that they are indiscriminately killing civilizans. Yousef has from time to time done a good job on that one but he missed it this time, and so did Murray. Murray did say that those deaths are the fault of Hamas and that's the whole point but it needed to be driven home and he didn't do that. </div><div><br /></div><div>Israel is not committing genocide, they are defending themselves. Hamas are committing genocide and most of the Palestinian civilians support them.</div><div><br /></div><div>Israel's occupation of the West Bank was forced on them and must be maintained for their own security. How nice it would be if Hamas disappeared and the whole ideology of hatred of the Jews disappeared and then there could be peace in the region. Otherwise that is never going to happen. Ever.</div><div><br /></div><div>The charge of colonialism is ridiculous when Israel was legally established and had fairly bought any land they acquired from others already there. Besides which a colony is an offshoot of an established nation, which of course the Jews don't have anywhere else in the world. The whole point of their being in the land of Palestine is to have such a home base. I could afrgue for their biblical right to the land which I regard as ultimately their legitimacy but in this fallen world you have to start with the case for more proximate claims.</div><div><br /></div><div>The deaths in Gaza are the fault of Hamas and nobody else. Period. </div><div>The lack of a Palestinian state is the doing of the Palestinians thesmelves and not Israel.</div><div>Etc.</div><div>Nboody has a solution to this problem because Islam is devoted to the murder of Jews and theJewish state and that's on their books and there is no doing waaway with that under the current public opinion that believes the Palestinian propaganda and blames everything on Israel. </div><div><br /></div><div>I daydream a lot about this sort of thing and one of my daydreams is that the Church is the solution. Well, it's the solution oto everything but it hardly ever takes that God given role in this world as it should. Salt and light, ha!</div><div><br /></div><div>If the Church united behind Israel for all the right reasons, which they could discover by just learning more about the situation, they sholuld all stand up, WE should all stand up and declare it plainlty, even in the teeth of ridiculous and ammalevolent Arab opinion and UN opinion and all the rest of it. Stand up and declare that righteousness is on the soide of Israel. As Yousef does when he hasn't let his tangential rantings get the better of him. He's not a Christian but he is enomored of Jesus teacings and likes to make use of them in this cause. But I'd rather the Church did it.</div><div><br /></div><div>Bombard the world with righteous enunciations of Islam, argue forecefully that there is a better view of things and that the Palestinians should give up Islam as their worse t enemy. That IS their worst enemy. Islam is the enemy. Of all the Arab nations based on it for that matter. Hammer the teachings of Christ into the heads of the Palestinians with ceaseless propaganda campaigns. Wake them up. They don't need to become Christians so much as they enneed to see th e falseness of Islam and how it is keeping them enslaved to poverty and abuse by their leaders and ignorance and so on. Information blitze. </div><div><br /></div><div>Oh well.</div><div><br /></div><div>Piers Morgan gets carried away with all the deaths in Gaza and loses sight of tghe fact that they are the inevitable produce of a war that is legimate and of the evil lies and manipulations of the media by the Palestinians. He gets all carried away with the idea of proportionality as if that ever figured in any war ever before the forces of evil made it a factor to be used as a weapon against Israel. That's the whole point of it. Nobody wants babies killed bu that's the fault of Hamas and that needs to be shown to the world without letting up. If the whole world did what they should do and condemned Hamas, or indeed Islam itself, instead of Israel, the whole thing would have a solution in no time.</div><div><br /></div><div>But we're on course for the End now aren't we, and that just isn't going to happen. Evil is going to grow worse and worlse all the way through the Great Tribulation and Armageddom and then Jesus will return and that will be the whoonly way the thing ends. Because houmanity is lind, blind fallen corrupted untable to choose righteousness.</div><div><br /></div><div>The only way we have of knowing the truth in this world is God's own revelation to us through His Word both the Bible and His Son Jesus Christ. That's it. And even many of us who have that great privilege of knowing these things midss it. But it's there and even if no perfect in most of our presentations it's there and it's the truth and if enough of us say it it would make THE difference.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>They try to say that Israel's attack on gaza is the same as terrorism. good grief the world has gone mad. We US attacks on Dreesden terrorism? Was there a question of proportionality inovlved in that? how about Hiroshima? No, war is war and it's aimed, in the hands of the US anyway, at peace, not conquest, and the ame is true of israel's attachks on Gaza. AWar is not terrorism, at least not a defenseive war which is what I'm talking about. The making of equalivalences between good and evil is today's biggest confusion. Same for insrtance with peopel</div><div>'</div><div>s inability to tell the differnece between the death pena to a criminal murderer and the killing of innocent babies in the womb, or the murder committed by the murderer himself.</div><div><br /></div><div>------------------------</div><div><br /></div><div>People can't tell the difference between innocent and guilty. I pointed out to a friend that the Bible syas those who kill human beings are to be killed by human beings in return because human beings bear the image of God. Her answer was that therefore even the murderer should be allowed to live because he also bears the image of God. Good grielf people ar econfused. There is no right and wrong, no good versus evil, no innocent versus Guilty. And ofcourse we see it in the prosecution of Trump who is innocent of ninety nine person of the charges against him as well as the accusations that are treated as charges that have never acrtually beeen brought against him such as the accusation of inciting insurrectgion which he did not do, and prosecuting all those peopole who were just standing around in the building as insurrectionists who happened to support Trump olitically, while real criminals are set free. We're certainly set up for the End.Some deaths are ritghteous and som are criminal. Some enforce justice, some take innocent lives. The Palestiinian defenders are trying to claim that Israel is out to take innocent lives just becfuawe innocent lives are being taken. Can't think straight. Don't want to think straight. Partian self interest.l</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>The hardest thing to accept about the fallen wrold is that there is no way to cure it with any righrteous reasoning or any blitz of truth, we just hav eot do our betst to minimize it and even those methods are being compromised these days. even in the Millennium which is also the fallen world though Stan won't be around to make it as bad as it can possib ly be, even then it will deteriorate after the thousand years into a slough of uhnrighteousness such as we are now seeing at the end of this world.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Maybe if Mosab Yousef can curb his love of his own philosophical musings he could finally get back to the taksk at hand sand continue to offer some strong truths to the war in Palestine. He appreciates the struggle for trtuth and the work of self discipline and of dying to self, maybe he can bring it to bear now on tghe problem of his liking his own musings on the nature of reality too much.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Oh well, I keep finding things to respond to. Two pro Palestinian guess on Piers Morgan and thewn Douglass Murray came on for a while. At the end one of the first two I don't know wtheir names, refused to answer Morgan's question whether October seventh was a terrorist attack. I don't know why he couldn't just say no because that's what he obviously believes. he thinks it was justified by israel's supposed colonialit occupation and aggression so it's not terrorism even tbhough it targeted women and children and civilizans in general and that is the main part of the definition of terrorism which Murray made clear. It's the TARGETING of civilizans that makes it terrorism, but Israel is not targeting civilizians despite tthere being many civilizan casualties in the war on Gaza. Why are these guys even allowed to speak at all. Murray is right epopele who hodl such veiws whould be sent back where they came from they do not belong in the West where they oppose our very foundations. But Britain is supoipidly leftist and so ins the US getting there along with all the rest of Europe. The world has gone stupidly and dangerously leftist and that's going to be the end of it all.</div><div><br /></div><div>Evil for good and good for evil says Isaiah. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>https:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9dLBLCR4a0</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCyA5LmLPhM">JPost News, Son of Hamas: 'Time to expose Muhammad' (youtube.com)</a></div><div><br /></div>Faith http://www.blogger.com/profile/00064746447414555577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290715222068932619.post-48560122224473443782023-12-21T08:20:00.000-08:002023-12-22T08:45:19.713-08:00The Green Prince Mosab Yousef Who Spied for Israel and Now Defends Her against Hamas<p> The man's name that I wrote as "Jusef" in a previous post is really Mosab Hassan Yousef, a Palestinian Arab who grew up in the West Bank as the first son of one of the leaders of Hamas, not just leader but its actual founder. He was of course indoctrinated in its tenets and worked for the movement himself. Until at the age of eighteen he was in an Israeli prison and saw the brutality of Palestinian inmaes against other Palestinians, which raised doubt in his mind that bore fruit over time as the Israelis sought to recruit him to their cause. Eventually they won him over and he worked for them as a spy for ten years and is now a staunch defender of Israel against Hamas escpailly in this latest war that started on October seventh with the sadistic slaughter of Israelis by Hamas.</p><p>As I've listened to him through many interviews and talks he's given both in the past and now during this current conflict I've found him to be a very intriguing pesonality. I binge on personalities I find intriguign . At first he seems to be an unusually attractive gentle quitet humble character who is very likeable and it seemed to me almost angelic in his demeanor and thinking. Later he's acquiringed a harder edge on him, in one talk at least using roufht langugage, crude language I don't like. this after his living in America for years so I guess I can blame it on American culture. </p><p>And he's acquired a philsophical turn tht I find to be false in most respects, a religious mix of many religions and philsophies that to my mind ends up predominantly New Age although with his own personal stamp on it. Christ Consciousness for instance, Yoga for instance, Karma for instance. For a while he was considered to be a Christian but his views are not orthodox and eventually he objected to the efforts of the orthodox to change his mind and stopped goinmg to church. I don'tkinow if he even knows the orthodox salvation message.</p><p>But as a spokesman at this time for the iside of Israel he's mjuch needed it seems to me. He has a powerfully passionate loyalty to Israel and a true understanding of the political and historical situation there. He has come out speaking against the demonstrations in America on behalf of Hamas with a lot of anger and a grasp of the meaning of American freedom of Speech and our Constitution that I find impressive.</p><p>He aswers the charge that Israel is an apartheid state. how could it be with a million and a half Arabs as part of its citizenry who all share equal civil rights with the Jews and all the other minorities? They occupy all the offices of Israel. Apartheid is a lie. </p><p><br /></p><p>To be continued</p><p><br /></p><p>Ah well, I may yet add to this, or I may not, but I've continued watching videos of Mosab and although I haven't been able to capture the URLs I want to identify at least two of them I think are very good an informative:</p><p>An interview by Chris Cuomo, very thorough.</p><p>A talk he gave at a Jerusalem Post confeence. This should be enough information to be able to search and find it.</p><p>And thank you, Mosab, for making it so clear in this last talk I mention above that the problem is Islam itself, because that is so often glossed over while political interests and other more worldly things are put in its place. But no, as you make clear, it is never any of those things that is the rpbolem, the cause of the conflicts, it is Islam itself. It is Islam that dictates the hatred of the jews and of all "infidenls" and all nonMuslims, it is Islam that is our enemy not the people of any particular trible.</p><p><br /></p><p>He's particularly fiery at another one whose URL I can't get hold of. I think the title starts with Son of Hamas and the host is something like Jordan Harbinger. I hope it works.</p><p><br /></p><p>This may or may not be the UROL to the Jordan harbinger show I mentioned</p><p>://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyqKTuqzKWs</p><p>Mosab seems to have rejected orthodox Christianity and therefore salvation through the death of Christ as well, which is sad and I cn only hope that eventually I might come to it. He wants truth, and this is truth. And in fact this is the only truth, the ultimate truth. I hope he will eentually come to it.</p><p>Nevertheless he has some interesting ways of putting together his view of the world that sort of almost embrace a Chrstian view of things. Sort of only. He has a sense of the imperfection of the world and of all human beings which makes him tolerant andforgiving and generqaous toward everyone, which is wonderful. And this without having any notion of the Fall or Original Sin which the Bible reveals to be the foujndation of all our ills and imperfections. But he sees the imperfections and from that vantage point he can oppose the ridiculous utopian visions of the totalitarians whose self righteousness imagines an impossible perfection to which human beings can aspire. No way is that ever going to happen and I'm glad to see that plain old common sense can see how ridiuclouis such ideas are.</p><p><br /></p><p>He also appreciates the freedoms of the West, democracies such as Israel and the US, the Constitutuion ofthe US in particular, and that is also commendable. He doesn't ave the most accurate historical context for these things, whicfh would come through the Christian perspedctive but he recognizes their importance and their potential as the only liberating forces in the political world. Based on a recognition of impers=fection. That.s what it's all about. This is a flawed world, an imperfect world, a fallen world, and the whole point of the US Constitution as the framers saw it was to make provision against the tendensies to totalitarianism, to domination, in the human spirit in a fallen world. That's the best we can do in a fallen world, preent the worldst in human nature from taking over. And it works as long as we hold to the rules. Unfortunately what is happening now is that the forces of totalitarianism are learning how to just ignore it and impose their will in spirte of it. Yep, the Left. </p>Faith http://www.blogger.com/profile/00064746447414555577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290715222068932619.post-83975379264585880962023-12-13T06:58:00.000-08:002023-12-18T12:41:25.273-08:00History of the Situation in Palestine by an Israeli Observer<p>Monday December 18 UPDATE: It has been so encouraging, so hopeful, so comforting, to see the Arab voices I have been linking to in this and the previous post. Jusef, I think that is his name but I can't read so I don't know for sure, what a wonderful human being, first son of t one of the founders of Hamas who finally fled from it after years of its violence and following his own conscience to help Israel, and in one interview I saw be identified as a Christian. I hope that is true but it only came up in that one interview. Sophia who was interviewed through Prager U, and J TV's interview with Mr. Achmad. All names I could only partially digest. I would nlove ot see the film based on Son of Hamas but I can't see my way through the pages at Amazon. Even with the magnifier. Maybe my eyes will be better on some other day and I can find it. We'll see. but it gives me such hope that people can follow their own God given conscience even when they've been raised and heavily indoctrinated in a sataonic evil violent murderous culture. </p><p>***</p><p>SSome of my URLs work and some don't, because I can't see to get the tholwhole thing copied in some cases. One I want to mention since it doesn't seem to be working is the talk he gave at the University of Michigan followed by a q and a so maybe it can be found with that information.</p><p>**At <ocjogam je cpmde,ms tje [rp [a;estomoam [rptests as odoptoc amd es[ecoa;;u ca;;omg Osrae; am a[artjeod state/ Tjos giu jas giuts amd je lmpws wjat je os ta;lomg abpit/ O wosj O jad doscisvered jo, a ;pmg to,e agp/</p><p><br /></p><p>At MichSome of Forgot to mention, that movie is titled The Greeen Prince, which was his code name as an Israeli spy.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjOEJumoABg">Son of Hamas Co-Founder De</a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpnvUIcvNUE">'Son of Hamas' Tackles University Antisemitism, Exposes Hamas 'Holy War' to Wipe Out Jews (youtube.com)</a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjOEJumoABg">nounces Group at UN, Exposes 'Savage' Indoctrination of Palestinian Kids (youtube.com)</a></p><p>w.youtube.com/watch?v=pjOEJumoABg</p><p>UPDATE: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjOEJumoABg">Son of Hamas Co-Founder Denounces Group at UN, Exposes 'Savage' Indoctrination of Palestinian Kids (youtube.com)</a>Here's an interview wih the son of a Ja,as ;eader"</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0JP76-uE-c">on of Hamas Reveals Shocking Details About Hamas and the Israel-Palestine Conflict (youtube.com)</a></p><p>\\//www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjOEJumoABg</p><p><br /></p><p> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNf40sBcvKk">Free Palestine? No thanks! (The Israeli perspective) Français / Español / русский / Deutsch / عربي (youtube.com)</a></p><p>is URL seems to work to take you to that podcast with the Israeli man talking about the history of the Israel Palestine situation.</p><p><br /></p><p>Added a fesw hours later: I've very glad to have been able to post the URL to that talk because he is very good on the subject of the history of Israel. He is, however, a liberal, as are both the Arabs I linked to in the previous post. Overall I like their liberalism and don't see any diference between their beliefs and my own. Certainly not on the subjects they are addresssing. But this liberal ... well, back up a big...</p><p><br /></p><p>Thids video rolls over into another made by the same Israeli man and again I dn'tknow his name. I don't know if he's said it anf I missed it or it's merely written somewhere below the video in which case I simply can't see it to read it. Anyway, this is also a good video presentation of the historical situation so I was glad to see it turn up. BUT he says a few things from his listeral point of view that annoy me, characterizing conservatives as fascists for instance. Yikes that is REALLY annoying. That is crazy ande false. And as with most ordinary people he thinks the wars between the Protestants and Catholics were just religious wars of the usual sort that we don't need to bother to know more about, which provides another YHikes from me although in this case I can hardly blame him for an opiniohn that comes out of very vague politics and has no current life to it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then the video rolls over again this time to a video by Coleman Hughes, one of the current crop of black intellectuals, a very young guy who is probably not a conservative although I usually like a lot of his opinions. It opens with his challeneging his guest for evading a question, in which he says it is clear thatg it was the Palestinian side that startecd the war in njineteen forty seven. His guest, one of those reallyh really irritating ignorant liberals who have bought all the Palestinian propaganda, saying that the Jews started the war simply by being Zionists which is apparently an act of war to his mjuddled mind, by whicfh they dispolaced the native Palestinians from their homeland. Oh groan. Will we never get the facts straight. Probably not. There was never a Palestinian Arab people, EVER. The Arabs in the region had scome there to work within the last few decades, they are wnot native to the region but ame from other Arab countries. This is a malicious fiction that has turned them into native Palestinians. </p><p>I'm listening to this guy, name I failed to get, bewing interviewed by Colleman Hughes, and I'm rapidly developing an ulcer. As it were. An ulcer of themind anyway. Hi thinks the "Palestinians" are a real people who really did live on the liand before the Jews began settling it and then became a state, that they wree ousted from their homseland and that was the real beginning of the violence accoreding to him. As the Israeli in the previous post I linked said, you can identify the origina of the Arabs by their hnames. There is no such thing as a Palestinian name. Their names show their origina in other states such as Syria or Egypt or wherever they came from THEY ARE NOT PALESTINIANS> That is a fiction comjpletelyo invented out of whole cloth for the purpose of discrediting Israel. Period. STOP THE LIES.</p><p>Hughe also said something I think is wrong but I don't know for sure. He said that Israel deported the Arabs they regarded as a fifth columen when the war started in forty seven, but I'd always heard that it was the Arab nameions that warned them to leave, and that was the origina of the refugees. In any case they were certainly not native Palestinians being osusted by Israel.</p><p>This guy thinks it's racist to say that there is something about Muslime as such that makes it impossible for them to live in peace with other groups. Well golly gee, how about their religious texts thaty tell them to kill everybody who doesn't agree with them or worship their god? Golly gee the liberals are naive. </p><p>s usual it seems that secular minds simply can't process information about religion and the Muslim side is driven by their religion. they are not driven by all the po.l,itical interests the Left thingsks they should be driven by, that other groups are driven by. It is NOT about land or political rules AT ALL, it is ONLY about what their religion tells them to do. WBut this guy can't get that.</p><p>Sophia, the Arab Israeli in the previous post, thinks it is possible to be a peaceful Muslim. I'll take her word for it that there is such a thing but what does she do with the calls to murder the invidel in their own holy books? What does she do with that?</p><p>My religion is also the foundation of how I want to live my own life, buty my religion tells me to love my neighbor as myself, even to godo good to my enemies and to die to myself rather than seek to preserve myself and so on. I find all this very hard to obey but nevertheless it is what I am called to. There is not a shred of a call to any kind of violence inmy relgion. But their is in Islam. And in Roman Catholicism I might add, since they don't stick tot he Bible b ut traditions as well which often contradict the bible. The average Catholic tries to follow Jesus, or at least a lot of them do. But the hierarchy has a different agenda which is at present muted because they are not in power.</p><p> Islam too behaves according to whether or not it is in power and when they are not they seem pretty benighn, but at the moment the world is on their side and their true colors are flying.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv8F4NLr4E0">2023.07 Expand Background Checks 2 (youtube.com)</a></p><p>I keep listening and this is just hopeless. Trhis supposed Palestinian is just promoting all the Palestinian propaganda and Coleman Hughes apparently has no way to object to the propagandistic version of history, accepts that the Palestinains were in fact ousted from their ho,meleand by the zionists. This is the fundamental problem in this discussion. This is hopeless and my stomach hurts listening to it.</p><p><br /></p><p>The URL pasted just above the previous paragraph is in the wrong place because it belongs to a different video podcast by Hughts and for some reason I haven't been able to geet it to post beneath that paragraph. </p><p>That URL goes to an interview he did with Benny Morris about the history of the same area.</p><p>This interview does give a somewhat different angle on events in the area. For the first time I gather that the people who got called the Palestinians were the Arabs who were in fact living there while the Jewish state was getting started. According to both Morris and the Israeli of the previous post there were some seven hundred thousand of them at the end of the secdond world war, now grown to seven mill9ions. In the early part of the twentith century the Jewish population int e region was maybe ten percent of the whole according to Morris. </p><p>I have to ponder his remarks more but I do want to respond to Hughes saying that the origin of America was ugly with racism and I guess also attacks on the native population. Balderdash. That makes me angry. What racism? Are you talking about the Plymouth Colony? What are you talking about? Get some perspective.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do have to admit that I'm getting a clearer picture of the situation from Hughes' discussions than I'd had, however. I'd thought tht "occupation" just meant being on the land at all which the Arabs regard as their own, but now I understand that it means what happened as a result of the six day war in which Iareal gained control over the West Bank, an n area I now have a clearer picture of as well than I'd had before. They are in fact militarily occupying that piece of land, and as the discussions have unfolded it's clear that giving it up would be very risky for Israel so even if they might want to do that they really can't. </p><p><br /></p><p>In any case I'm seeing more problewms in this situation than I'd seen before, and now what I'd really like to see is a protracted sidiscussion between many people on both sides untkil I get a really clear picture of the whole thing. </p><p><br /></p><p>Well, a few posts ago I said this situation was too complicated for me to dare commenting on it and I should have listened to myself. I'm stopping now after seeing way too many podcasts on this subject, though I know I'm going t o watch more.</p>Faith http://www.blogger.com/profile/00064746447414555577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290715222068932619.post-52338982259153458402023-12-12T04:44:00.000-08:002023-12-12T06:17:23.648-08:00C Couple of Lovely Arab Voices on the subject of COctober Seventh<p> This is so frustrating. I want to recommend a couple of interviews I just listened to on You Tube but both eyes and ears are defeating me. I may yet try again to copy the URL for them but my eyes are particularly bad today so I probably won't be able to.</p><p>All I can do is describe them and not very satisfactoritytly. One is an Arab woman named Sophia who is being interviewed by a blond woman and the word Prager U shows up on the first screen before the interview. That's really all I kow. The arab woman is young, early thirties I think. The blond woman is interviewing her about having grown up in Israel and her opinions about the conflict between Jews and Arabs. </p><p>She gives a very positive view of her life in Israel, says she had many opportunities wshe wouldn't have had an a purely Arab setting, encouraged to go to school for instance where she ended up with an engineering degree. She denies the accusation of Israel as an apartheid state and says it is in the Arab towns where the most separation is the case between the Arabs and the Jews while in the Jewish towns Arabs are not segregated out. </p><p>The other intereview is by a young man at a podcast called J TV or something like that. The first name of the interviewee I couldn't make out but his last name is something like Achmad. he's an Arab who grew up learning to hate Jews and all infidels and eventually followed his own conscience out of that hatred and now opposes the Islamic jihad he once embraced and supports the Israeli poing of view. I didn't catch the name of the interviewer.</p><p>After posting this I put J TV Achmad into the search line at You tube and the interview I am talking about came up. Hooray for that much.</p><p>And another hooray. Also on the search line at You Tube I put in Prager U Sophia Arab Israeli and got that interview as well. </p><p><br /></p><p>Ah well, I do have a complaint about the Arab man who explains hatred of the Jews in terms of envy by Islamists and the Left and the Right. The exammple of hatred of the Jews by the Right that he gives is our objection ... and I am on the Right so I do say "our" objection ... is to the liberal Jews for their commmunist influence and I do share that objection . I t has nothing to do with envy, it's a complainjt about liberal Jews, not about jews as such. conservative Jews, especially religionus Jews are on our side. There is no complaint there. In any case objections to the liberals who were a strong influence in the sixties in particular for Cultural Marxism whichch no w dominates our politics have nothing whatever to do with envy and the idea is absurd. Cultural Marxism has been a massive destructive force in Amerca and the west and the Left hnow embraces it. And yes it did come from the liberal Jews. But that is by no means all Jews and the idea is absurd and the idea that it's envy is absurd.Ironically, you could say, it's this liberal influecne in the culture, or should I say Leftist, that is behind the preo Hamas protests on the college campuses.</p><p><br /></p><p>Well, now I'm into responding to this guy. Ir t wasn't envy for the politlcal left either although as applied to the supposed Oppressed class of the poor and disadvantaged it is likely envy that fuels it. </p><p>Next point is that he says something absurd about how religion can change biology, givin gthe example of p[riests and monks who are celibate thus defying their beiology, but boy is that a problematic stew of an issue since it is most likely that enforced celbacy on the part of Romanist priests that powered the rampant sexual misconduct over the centuries with mistresses and even monks and nuns having liasons, but also the growth in gay priests and their own sexual misbehavior which is now the huge controversy we're been hearing about for the last few decades.</p><p>I do think he's right to point out that Nietsche was not saying that God is dead in a triumphant sort of way but perhaps even lamnting it. I think he was objeserving it as the reason for the development of vatrious ills in society and he trumpeted the coming Antichrist in an ironic way. And I'm glad Achma poijnted that out.</p>Faith http://www.blogger.com/profile/00064746447414555577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290715222068932619.post-11242308626027135672023-12-11T08:27:00.000-08:002023-12-11T09:34:40.190-08:00Lowry and McWhorter, Israel and George Floyd. Yeah a mishmash I guess<p> www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNf40sBcvKk</p><p>I have no idea what that line above says, sorry, I can't read it. I thought I was copying it from the address line at the top of the page I wanted to link here but after I copied it and posted it I found I was unable to click on it so I have no idea what it is or if it might take you to the page I hoped it would. </p><p>the page I wanted to link is an Israeli guy talking about the history of the situation in Palestine. I don't know his name and the only words I can make out of the tittle to the video at the top of the screen are "Free Palestine. There are more wrods after that but I can't read them even with my wonderful new magnified r from the Services for the blind.</p><p>So I'leaving the top line in case it contains usful information. If not maybe you can still find the video I have in mind with the information I've added. I originally searched for history of the Israel situation and found thta one two or three down from the top. I hope you can find it because he does a very good job of laying it all out.</p><p>I wanted to post something fairly comprehensive because I just heard Glenn Lowry and John McWhorter discussing the recent events there with two guys that were irritatingly liberal in their outlook and utterly historically obtuse. As papparently so are Lowry and McWhorter. Which is understandable ssince most people who aren't particularly interested in that part of the world just go by what they hear and what they hear is all filtered through the Leftt which is mired in "Palestinian" propaganda. I would love it if Lowery and McWhorter got themselveas educated on this topic because they do a good job of exposing the trusth about things when they know what's really going on.</p><p>As they did in a recent podcast about the George Floyd incident. a documentary came out recently titled the Fall of Minneapolis which shows veryconvincingly according to Lowry that Floyd did not die as a result of asphyxiation due to the actions of Derek Chauven but due to being overdoesed on meth and Fentanuyul. I already knew the incident wasn't racist because of the similar dedath of a whity guy named Tony Timpa, but I didn't know that the police technique had nothing to do with it. Their talk on this subject is titled the Truth About George Floyd's Death. </p><p><br /></p><p>The Israeli guy is wearing a light blue pullover knit shurt, just to help identify him better,and there are shifting scenes behind him.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Jews are not occupying anyone else's land and they did not steal it. This Israeli covers all that and more. There was no Palestinian people in the nineteenth century, they were invented in the mid twentieth century for political leverage against Israeel. theyh are poor because their leaders keep them poor and abuse them viciously. And they are not to be distinguished from their leaders because they share the same ideology, the religion that commands the killing of Jews and other "infidels." but particularly Jews. This is a religious war, the poltical stuff is completely invented. They couldn't care less about those issues the Left makes up on their behalf, they simply want to obey their "god" and kill the infidel.</p>Faith http://www.blogger.com/profile/00064746447414555577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290715222068932619.post-80359669086304793002023-12-09T02:33:00.000-08:002023-12-09T02:43:32.633-08:00The Meaning of Gaslighting<p> OK I just heard one too many talk show hosts get it wrong about the meanjing of the term gaslighting. No it is not just some specially egregious degree of lying.When </p><p>When the term started to be used frequently a few years ago I didn't know what it meant so I looked it up and found out that it comes from an old movie titled Gaslight. I found the movie at Amazon and watched it. Ingrid BBergman and Charles Boyer are the stars. He marries her knowing that there is a fabulous treasure of gemstones hidden somewhere in her family home which he wants access to. They move into the house and he explores the part of it where he suspects the jewels are hidden. He goes out every night letting her think he is going somewhere else but doubles back ahnd enters the room he wants to explore for the treasure. The whole point is that he doesn't want her to know he is looking for it. </p><p> this is back in the days before electricity and the house is lit by gas that runs through pipes from fixture to fixture in thevarious rooms. When he turns on the light in the room he is exploring it causes the lights in the rest of the house to dim slightly and she notices that and wonders what could be causing it since she believes he has left the house and there is only herself and the housekeeper there. The housekeeper is in on the plot by her husband and denies that the lights are going dim, as doeas her husband ewhen she tells him about it. It is this deniial of an inconvenient truth that is the meaning of gaslighting. He alsmost succeeds in driving her completely crazy with this particular denial of her</p><p> perceptions but many others he has been concocking for the same purpose.</p><p>Of course it's about lies but the point of it is to make someone feel he or she is out of his mind by causing him to doubt his own perceptions/.</p><p><br /></p><p>There you go.</p>Faith http://www.blogger.com/profile/00064746447414555577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290715222068932619.post-27774007697057402802023-12-08T06:28:00.000-08:002023-12-08T07:33:24.464-08:00Come soonb, Lord jesusGod said Jerusalem would become the center of world agitation at the very end and here we are, all of a sudden, seeing Israel surrounded by the most vicious hate from all directions of the blobe. All of a sudden, completely unexpected. Yes we've seen a rise in anti semitism over the last decade or so but nothing like this, a sudden gigantic emergence of virulent hatred directed qat Jews. The source is no surprise, Islam is dedicated to eradicating Israel and the jews, it's on their books and taught to all tgheir children, but for the world to chime in as it has, including crowds in the US, THAT is shocking.<div><br /></div><div>But God said Jerusalem would become a cup of trembling for the world at the lastand, here we are. A stumbling stone for the nations. All nations. Led by Satan of course, who is the ruler of this fallen world and always busy stirring people up against God and whatever god is doing, and Israel is a major representative of God on this earth. Christians should be as well, but we have no specific geography. Israel is a piece of real estate, a place, a location, and the Jews are known as the people of the Old testament, chosen by God, so getting rid of them is a prime objective of God's arch enemy. </div><div><br /></div><div>Jan Markell has et another program on this theme this week. Whatever questions I still have about the specifics of the Pre Trib Rapture scenario don't keep me from seeing the role of Israel in this end times countdown. And it does make sense that Israel would be the focus of the Antichrist just waiting to be catapulted to center stage. Yes I am sure of his identity but that isn't terribly important except that it changes the timing of things somewhat from the usual pre trib schedule. A covenant with Israel is to launch the Seventieth Week of Daniel as prophesied inj Daniel ...9 I think, but I'm often getting the chapter wrong.This coventnat is n't mentioned in the Book of Revelation, only in Daneil, but the Antichrist is represented in revelation in Chapter Thirteen by the beast from the sea and it has emblems that identity it with the fourth besast of Daneil's vision so we know it's the same person. </div><div><br /></div><div>Jan's guests talk about how some churches avoid mentioning these things and suggest that it's just cowardice, fear of losing church members. I hope not but it could be. This is no time for Christians to be owards, if there eever could be such a time. Aren't we told we are to lose our lives for His sake? Clinging to any kind of worldly securty is disoedience. The greats of the faith listen in Hebrews Eleven even lived in caves in order to protect their faith. this is no time to be depending on worldlyh comforts. Hey, I'm no paragon of courage, believe me, but I recognize my fear and am trying to pray against it and beg God to give me the strengrth to risk everythinjg.</div><div><br /></div><div>I'm worn out. I wish it were over. The good for evil and evil for good fallen world is exhausting. And it's all finally comning to the point of disintegration with no going back and a lot of us are falling apart. A lot of unbelievers for sure. </div><div><br /></div><div>Should add to this a strong recommendation to listen to this week's Understanding the times radio show from Jan Markell's Olive Tree Views webside. It's also at You tube at least for now. It covers the history of the situation pretty well for those who know little about it. There is a short section between the first and second parts of the show where the history of the idea of a Palestinian people is tra ced whowing that such a people never existed but was invented as a weapon against Israel inj the sixties. Israel's existence on that land is legtimate from every possible point fo ivew from the biblical foundation going all the way back to Abraham to the fact that the land was not occupied by any people of any identity whatever and in fact was a wasteland according to mark twain who vicited the area in the late ninettenth century, and the fact that they purchased land where necessary as well. That loand belongs to Israel, they are not occupying any body else's land. This history has been bured under Leftist and Islamic lies.</div><div><br /></div><div>As the radio show also makes clear, it needs to be understood that this is no ordinary pollitical conflict going on between Israel and the Palestinians or the whole Arab world for that matter, or the whole world for that matter by now, Islam itself prescribes the muder of the Jews and of all "infidenls" this is no reaction to a supposed occupationm or any kind of pollitical oppression by anybody, this is engineered from the official supposedly sacred writings of Islam itself. If Mustlims exist who do not follow all that , great, but that's because they either don't know about it or reject it, not because it isn't there if they ever decided to go back to their religious roots. When they do they learn that they are ordered by what they supposed to be God himself to kill the Jews. That is what makes all this so impregnable to reason. There are no political solutions to this. Two states would only give Islam more access to murdering Jews. They HAVE two states, or did, in Gaza, but they didn't use it as a Paolestinain state in the sense of building it up to prosperty and success for the people, they gave it over too Hamas, they voted for Hamas, they show their allegiance to their religion and there is no way you will ever talk them out of that. If God is telling them to take this position how are you going to get them to reject it? But the Left continyues to spread the lies that it's just an ordinary political conflict, the have nots at the mercy of the haves, when they have had the means to become prosperous for a long timeand don't use it, they use it to try to destroy Israel because that is the whole meaning of their religion. No sign the world is going to be waking up to this any time soon though. \\</div><div><br /></div><div>Well, I guess it makes sense that Satan gets his day in the end. Not the VERY end at least, but the end of life on this fallen planet before He returns.</div><div><br /></div><div>There is no earthly solution to any of this. The only solution is salvation through faith in Jesus Christ. That's all there is. And it's a lot. It's the whole point of v3eing here in this miserable world.</div>Faith http://www.blogger.com/profile/00064746447414555577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290715222068932619.post-91267489217022688392023-11-24T08:30:00.000-08:002023-11-24T08:45:56.734-08:00<p> I must be extraordinarily obtuse about this premill pretrib way of thinking. Often Jan Markell's program makes a big effort to clarify it and still I don't get it, don't get something or other and don't know what it is I'm not getting or why. This latest program makes the same attempt and by fifteen mintues into the show I'm more confused than ever. It goes by very fast for one thing and I guess I can go back and slow it down to tr to get the points I'm missing, whichI hope I'll be up to doing, but all I ever get out of these things is hearing the story repeated again. And again. </p><p>I gather there is more to this idea of Replacement Theology than I've understood. Okay that's a start. I keep thinking it's not replacement theoogy beause it's about fulfilling the messianic promises and those promises were fulfilled in the Church. Yes? No? That leaves plenty of room ofor further dealings God is to make with ethnic or unsaved israel. But "true Israel" as Paul uses the term, I understand to apply to believing Israel, which includes Gentile believers. Ethnic Israel is a different lvel of things. And ethnic Israel is what is dealt with in the seventieth week of Daniel, the great tribulation and all that. Ethnic Israel is not replaced, because it remains to be dealt with, and True Israel is not replaced because it is the fulfillment of the messianic promises and is a separate level of the story. Or seomthing like that. What am I not Getting?</p><p>However, apparently there are those who see the whole history of Israel as having come to an end entirely with God's divorcing them for their adulteries against Him. That's a different element of things I wasn't taking into account and it doesn't make sense to me because ... well I'm sure there are scriptural reasons but I'm thinking of the historical reasons and the unfulfilemt prophecy of the seventieth week. Historically the return of Israel to the land and statehood is jawdroppingly sidnificant and I can't see how anyone cojuld dismiss that as a Big Nothing as apparently some do. The fact that Israel is the center of so much turmoil in the world in itself points to it as God's own piece of real estate which gathers all the forces of evil abgainst it. Cup of trembling scripture calls it. How can that be ignored?</p><p>Scripturally I think of the prophecy of Hosea in which God makes it clear that His adulterous wife is nevertheless loved by Him and invited back. I don't see a total abandonment there.</p><p>I think I'll stop there. I still have a million questions about other facets of the premill pretrib scenario but I'll leave those this time.</p>Faith http://www.blogger.com/profile/00064746447414555577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290715222068932619.post-14738482527466182762023-11-17T17:08:00.000-08:002023-11-17T17:08:55.053-08:00Something \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\We Turned a Corner Didn't We? <p> Yes, now it does feel like it is all over, we're never going back to anything like what we used to think of as normal. I suppose I'll go on hoping and grasping at straws for a while nevertheless, but it's hard to avoid the impression that October seventh changed things in such a fundamental way it will be hard to grasp at straws for long. In itself it was horrific, but the finality of it comes with the reactions to it by the forces of evil, the increase in threats and claims by the bad guys when one would ordinarily expect a loud reaction against it all. As I talk about in the previous post too. </p><p>Jan Markll's weekly radio show Understaning the Times is all about this sense of finality and never going back that is felt by many of us. This isn't a This Too Shall Pass moment, it's got to be the irreversible beginning of the End. Part of her show was someone reporting on ... well no, giving a warning to Jews traveling anywhere in the world to be on the alert because they are now targets in a way thaey haven't been before because it's all out in the open and stated baldly that their enemies are out to get them. Warning to avoid their usual ways of dressing that identify them as Jewish and so on, and to keep alert as never before. Travelers going all over the world. ALL Jews everywhere. Unprecedented.</p><p>Yes I'llhope and grasp a straws for a while, but recovery is looking about as improbable as ... well impossible really.</p>Faith http://www.blogger.com/profile/00064746447414555577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290715222068932619.post-82327438673108222632023-11-16T11:18:00.000-08:002023-11-16T11:18:07.864-08:00The Explanation of Absolutely EverythingThe radical truth is that Christianity isn't just one of many relgioins, it is TH#E truth that explains everything. I didn't choose Christianity because I liked it but because I believe that it explains everything, and of course it is wrong to speak of choosing it at all since from beginning to end it shows that God does all the choosing. That theme is made very sharp and clear in the Bible although in our own lives it may not seem to be quite so clear. I can see my own situation as having grown to appreciate this or that fact about Christianity without recognizing that God was doing the choosing of me by leading me that way. But scripture is very clear that God chose Abraham and guided his life to the promised land despite Abraham's many excursions off the path of God's leading. God also chose Moses when He appeared in the burning bush and called him to rescue His people from Egypt. God called Joshua to take over from Moses, then alcalled all the Judges to lead the people in their various situations. He chose Samuel the prophet, then David the King and so on and so forth. We may be under the illusion that we had some kind of role in our own embracing of Christianity but we're wrong and the sooner we get it straightened out the stronger our faith will be.<div><br /></div><div>But also God is in charge of everything that happens on Earth to everybody. Thinking of God as able to change His mind makes it seem as if He could make things happen some other way than they do but that really isn't possible if you understand at least a litte about the nature of God and the Moral Law. Scripture says here and there that God repents of this or that plan, but it also says that God cannot change and if He is in fact perfection itself, which He is, how could He change? the only thing that makes it seem as if He can change is our own mental inadequacy for understanding the nature of God. Scripture uses language that takes our mental inadequacy into account so that we aren't overwhelmed with concepts so far out of our realm of thought we'd lose interet in trying to understand any of it.</div><div><br /></div><div>So I'mm watching with knots in my stomach the way things are going in this world, which do seem to me to be unprecedented expreassions of sheer evil tghat couldn't possibily have ever existed before, but of course I don't have the ability toknow that and could be wrong. But I know I am among millions of others who are experiencing things pretty much as I'm experiencing them. This is what makes us believe the End is very close of course. But our sense of history may be far enough off that we're wrong and it's not so close. Ther'es no way to know. We just feel it is very very close.</div><div><br /></div><div>I don't want things to keep going in the direction they are going, and know I'm not alone in this either. I don't want things to get THAT bad as fast as they seem to be getting that bad. I keep hoping we'll get a repreieve, that God will turn it back again, that the good guys will vanquish the bad guys once again as happened in the second world war, return us to a ormal way of life. What a relief that would be. But even as any of us thinks that it must be that most of us know it isn't going to happen, it really is going to keep going in this direction whether we are able to handle it or not. Maybe believers will be raptures off the planet raptureD, let's get that d in there, beofore it all happens but there are lots of people who will suffer terribly after we're gone and I hurt for them and don't want them to go through it, let alone end up in Hell at the end of all of it.</div><div><br /></div><div>But look how things are going. Good and evil are being reversed to a breathtaking degre these days, more than everybefore in history or so it seems from here. Evil ideologies lead to evil acts but then instead of the good guys rising up to defeat them the evil ideologies only flourish and grown stronger. Surelyh Nine Eleven should have led to the vanquiaing o fht bad guys but it didn't. They only grew stronger in inflouence and popularity. Surely the evil that was done against Israel by Hamas on October seventh would result in Israel's pusing them back into a position of inability to continue with such attacks, but no, there is this uprising of the evil position against Israel with enough power behind it to suppress Israel's atempts to defend itself. Has this ever happened before? Anything like this?</div><div><br /></div><div>The evil ideologies are the work of Satah. Of course the vast majoirity ty of people dn't believe in Satan, and even CHristians or Bible believers who do believe in Satan wmaynot believe he is a real being but more of a principle and so defang the concept in that way. But heis presented as a being, a person, in scripture and a bible believer should khnow that he is a person from that fact. In any case Satan is winning the Great Battle between good and evil at this point in history, beyhond anthing I can imagine ever happened, or know from my general overview of history ever happened. The hardest part to take is knowing that people who ordinarily seem normal and resonble are taking the side of Satan's evil and jjustifying it as good. This does involved their being ignorant of facts at least so that if they really know the truth about what led to pre present moment one can belive they wouldn't accept it all so readily. Can hope they wsoldn't . If they knew the truth history of the Israeli Paelestinian situation could they really side with Hamas aainst Israel as so mahy are doing? Could they? Well Ikeep hoping they couldn't.</div><div><br /></div><div>Marxism appears to be Satan's most powerful weapon againt good these days, succeeding beyond anything I could ever have imagined. I've seen it coming in slips and moments since the sixtiies but never imagined it could get this far and there are plenty who haven't seen it coming and only see it in its fullblown manifestation that seems to have come about almost overnight, a matter of a few years. What can they make of it? Ig you fifn'y see it coming for decades already how could you know what to make of it?</div><div><br /></div><div>And since the Left has always embraced it in its earlier stages how are they going to re cognize that it's their own favored ideology that is responsible for the evil that is comingdown on us now? It all seems to them to be a matter of comjpassion triumphing over authoritarianism or the self interest of a ruling class of Oppressors. How could that end up in the evil we are mired in now?</div><div><br /></div><div>As usual they make it the fault of the designated Oppressor of course. Today it's the White Race and even the Hamas position seems to some of them to be just an expression of a racial minority against thie evil whiteness. Even the Jews are classes as whites although historically they were no doubt one of the brownigsh groups of the Middle East. As of course would Jesus have been, just to answer that ridiculous idea that we all think He wsas whtie. No, every culture makes Jesus into whatever fits their own image.</div><div><br /></div><div>But some of us have been carried above our own tribal identities by the rising tide of civilization over the last couple of milllennia in the West. That civilization that is about to go under thank sot the satanic Marxism that is calling the shots these days.</div><div><br /></div><div>Islam is not just another religion, it is Satan's masterpiece of evil, murder set in religious terminology. Marxism isn't just another philoszophical mistake, it's Satan's masterpiece of a wrecking ball against Christian civilization.</div><div><br /></div><div>That is what the White Race seems to stand for in this context too I think, and I'm not the onlyh one who thinks it. The whole racial mess that has been building up steam for decades now has finally reached its real goal in the vilification of the White RRace as responsible for all the evil on the earth. That's because historically the whtie race has been the main carrier of Christianity. It's not that Christianity is a racial thing at all, ikt's not, ub thistorically it was carried most successfully in Europe and spread through the English speaking world in particular. This allows some to identify it wilth the white race although it's just a meaningless flueke that there is any connection at all. Christianity is catholic, meaning universal, it has no skin color. </div><div><br /></div><div>But because it is associated with the white race, however unconsciously in many cases, an attack on the white race serves Satan nicely as the outer shell as it were of his real target which is biblical religion and the Biblbicfal God. the Jews are the first line of representation of this true God but the White Race represents it more fullyyu. It's really God and Christ Satan wants to wipe off the face of the Earth.</div><div><br /></div><div>\\Unbeleivers aren't in a position to see things from this perspective, and even many Christians don't put the whole big picture together. But this is the raidical fact of Christianity that it is THE truth and explains ALL of history. There is a real battle between Good and Evil that has been going on since the Fall in Eden and will continue until Jesus returns but most people are confusedc because they aren't looking at it for a wide ehough angle to see it as it really is. they think Christianity, especially Protestant Christianity as they think of it, is just a sectarian expression of religion while Islam is just another relition and so is Catholicism. I don't wse any way at this late date to get the truth out to enough people to make a difference. it really is going to take the return of Jesus to do that.</div>Faith http://www.blogger.com/profile/00064746447414555577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290715222068932619.post-240284616661858162023-11-07T14:24:00.004-08:002023-11-07T14:24:41.048-08:00Rohr's ArroganceThere's so much scary going on in the world these days you'd think I wouldn't rate Richard Rohr so high on that scale but I do. He's really really scary to me, that rewriting of the entire meaning of Christianity. And I've been thinking about how arrogant that is, supremely arrogant, and he thinks he's so humblae and he calls traditional Christians arrogant, but that just makes him all the more arrogant it seems to me. The arrogance it takes to rewrite the entire corpus of Christaint doctrine, even Catholic doctrine whichis bad enough it iteself, but true Christian doctrine. How arrogant can you get? And say it so dogmaticallyu that this is the truth, what hethinks is the truth and tradition is all wrong. How arrogant can you get? But he calls the rest of us arrogant. Oh well it may not have been wroth a new post but there it is.Faith http://www.blogger.com/profile/00064746447414555577noreply@blogger.com0