The Left Dominates Wikipedia Too

I more ore less knew that anyway, so I don't use it for political information. Even the information I do get from them is probably biased but at least not to the extent I'd expect political issues to be biased. I apprecaite Wikipedia a great deal for the availabilty of all kinds of information that's easy to find there, so I always send them a few dollars whenever their fundraising pleas come up.

Maybe I shouldn't though. Maybe I'll rethink that policy because of this article in the Epoch Times:

Wikiipedia Co-founder Warns: ‘Wikipedia Is More One-Sided Than Ever’ BY JACK PHILLIPS July 5, 2021 Updated: July 6, 2021 biggersmaller Print Larry Sanger, a co-founder of Wikipedia, warned that the online encyclopedia is “more one-sided than ever” in light of the website’s entries for Black Lives Matter, the 2020 election, former President Donald Trump’s two impeachments, and other contentious topics.

Sanger, in particular, took issue with how some Wikipedia entries are sourced.

“In short, and with few exceptions, only globalist, progressive mainstream sources—and sources friendly to globalist progressivism—are permitted,” he wrote in an article on his website.

The article continues at:
https//www.theepochtimes.com/wikipedia-co-founder-warns-wikipedia-is-more-one-sided-than-ever_3887650.html?utm_source=pushengage

The End Times Antichrist, Mystery: Babylon the Great, and the Revived Roman Empire, Probably Not What the Premillennialists Think

I listen to the premillennialist prophecy people who are expecting the Rapture at any time followed by the Great Tribulation, or Day of the LORD, of seven years before the second coming of Jesus. I'm generally persuaded of this end times point of view, but I do have some problems with it.

As they understand the Antichrist who is to come and reign over the whole earth in the Tribulation period, he is someone who will not be revealed until after the Rapture so he is a mystery to us now. This is how they understand what Paul said about him in 2 thessalonians 2:7-9:

For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders

Or according to other translations, he who restrains will restrain until he is taken out of the way. This is interpreted to mean that this wicked one, or the Antichrist, will not be revealed until this one who restrains is taken out of the way, and that one is interpreted to be the Holy Spirit who would not be present after the Church is raptured. So, after the Rapture then the identity of the Antichrist can be known.

The final Antichrist is understood to be the beast that rises out of the sea in Revelation 13,

The beast of Revelation 13 has the features of three of the beasts in the vision described in Daniel 7, a lion, a bear and a leopard. The beast of Revelation 13 has the characteristics of all three. Daneil 7:8 describes the "little horn" that rises up among the ten horns of the fourth beast of his vision:

I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.

The beast of Revelation 13 also "speaks great things:"

(Revelation 13:5) And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months

So we have a potrait of the Antichrist first foreshadowed in the little horn of the fourth beast of Daniel's vision, the fourth beast being understood to be the Roman Empire yet far in the future from Daniel's time, and that portrait shows up in Revelation 13 in slightly different form, one beast with the characteristics of all the beasts in Daniel's vision, and the mouth that speaks great things. The beasts of Daneil's vision clearly represent the succession of kingdoms from Babylon, the lion with eagle's wings, through Medo-Persia, the bear risen up on one side, through Greece under Alexander the Great that splitgs into four under four of his generals, the leopard with four heads. The fourth beast is "great and terrible" with iron teeth, devouring the whole world, and that has to be the Roman Empire which followewd the Hellenistic empire of Alexander the Great. The final Antichrist represented by the beast in Revelation 13 represents the final or fourth empire, the Roman empire which dominated the world in the time of Christ and didn't come to its end until 476 AD.

In 606 AD the Bishop of Rome was made Universal Bishop by the Byantine emperer Phocas, displacing three other bishops of the Christian church of the day, and this elevantion prompted Pope Gregory to recognize him as the Antichrist. After that elevation hundreds of others also recognized him as the Antichrist, and finally so did Luther and the other Protestant Reformers. I have a post listing many of those who recognized the Pope as Antichrist even before the Reformation. a list I got from Chris Pinto's ministry. I'll try to find it and post the link.

I wasn't expecting to include so much background information in this post but it seems necessary to be clear about where we get the idea of a coming Antichrist and other parts of the picture that add up to the whole end times scenario anticipated by the premillennialists. . Luther and the other Protestant Reformers understood Paul in 2 Thessalonians to be speaking of the rise of he rise of the papacy in 606 AD, and the Pope to be the Antichrist. All the Popes, but the very last Pope would be the final Antichrist of Revelation 13. They understood Paul's statement to refer to the fulfillment of the prophet Daniel's prophecy of the "little horn" that would rise up out of the Roman Empire. They also understood the description of the Antichrist as presenting himself in the temple of God as God himself, to be fulfilled in his claim to be the Vicar of Christ who sits among the people of God, who are called the Temple of God in the New Testament. The premillennialists are expecting that to happen during the Tribulation too, a literal sitting in the literal rebuilt physical temple in Jerusalem. I'm not saying that couldn't yet ALSO happen, but the Reformers' interpretation is sufficient without that.

If the Reformers's view is accepted, there is no reason to think of the Antichrist as yet to be revealed after the Rapture. In fact the idea that the Holy Spirit would be the Restrainer who is taken out of the way in order for him to be revealed doesn't really make sense. Both Paul and Jesus used cryptic language to talk about the coming of the Antichrist, suggesting some danger in revealing his identity at that time. If he is the Pope who rose to head a new version of the Roman Empire after the end of the line of Caesars, then it makes sense that it was Caesar who restrained his revelation and had to be taken out of the way first. Which is what the Reformers understood to be the case. There is no reason for his identity to be withheld by the Holy Spirit that I can think of. But if the Antichrist is a Pope he has been revealed over and over by many Protestants already. That knowledge has been suppressed again in the last century unfortunatly, but there was one very interesting event when pastor Ian Paisley stood up in the parliament of the European Union to denounce Pope John Paul as the Antichrist when the Pope was speaking there. Few there are these days who are willing -- or knowledgeable enough -- to take such a stand.

WHAT IS "MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT?

This is another piece of the puzzle that premillennialists may have wrong. This is the title on the forehead of the Harlot in Revelation 17. There are all sorts of speculations about what Babylon the Great means, some thinking it even refers to the United States, or maybe New York City. Jan Markell and her recent guest pastor ark Hitchcock, think it refers to the original ancient Babylon as the mother of all the false religions in the world. I think this is true too but I think what they miss is that the Roman Church is today's Babylon the Great, having inherited many of its superstitious religious practices from there. Nimrod was the first Antichrist and the religion that grew up ar4ound him and his mother Semiramis passed into many of the pagan religions of the world, ending up particularly embodied in the Roman Catholic Church. All this is spelled out in Alexander Hislop's book "The Two Babylons." There is every reason to associate the Harlot of the book of Revelation with the Roman Church and her title that also associates her with Babylon connects the two.

REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE
The premillennialists are also looking to a Revived Roman Empire to fulfill the end time prophecies, which they talk about as a revival of the empire of the Caesars which has been dead since the fifth century.

Just as they overlook the rise of the papacy as fulfillment of the prophecies of the Antichrist, they overlook the fact that the Pope became the religious head of a revived Roman Empire in the Middle Ages, known as the Holy Roman Empire which lasted a thousand years from the coronation of Charlemagne in 800 AD to the end of Emperor Napoleon in 1806. it wasn't a particularly cohesive organization but cohesive enough to be called an empire in which all its various kingdomes were all headed by Roman Catholic kings. I ran across a quote from Voltaire somewhere who said it wasn't an empire, wasn't Roman and certainly wasn't holy. Nevertheless it had that title and the Roman Chruch insisted on that designation:

From the Wikipedia article on "The Holy Roman Empire" -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Roman_Empire#Formation_of_the_Holy_Roman_Empire --

The Empire was considered by the Roman Catholic Church to be the only legal successor of the Roman Empire during the Middle Ages and the early modern period. Since Charlemagne, the realm was merely referred to as the Roman Empire.[23] The term sacrum ("holy", in the sense of "consecrated") in connection with the medieval Roman Empire was used beginning in 1157 under Frederick I Barbarossa ("Holy Empire"): the term was added to reflect Frederick's ambition to dominate Italy and the Papacy.[24] The form "Holy Roman Empire" is attested from 1254 onward.[25] In a decree following the Diet of Cologne in 1512, the name was changed to the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (German: Heiliges Römisches Reich Deutscher Nat

As scripture says about the Roman Empire of the last days, it is to be "diverse" or different from other empires or kingdoms, which seems to be a reasonable way to describe the Holy Roman Empire. It wasn't exactly an empire and it was presided over by a religious figure, the Pope, and since the Roman Chruch continues even after the death of Napoleon, there is a sense in which the end times Roman Empire continues to exist, and good reason to think the Roman Empire of the Tribulation period will be the resumption of the Holy Roman Empire with the Pope/Antichrist at its head, wielding a powerful Inquisition against all who refuse to submit to it.

It does seem to me that the Pope's credentials for the role of Antichrist are impeccable, but on the other hand there have been Antichrist precursors who were political leaders who had a messianic religious aura about them. Hitler* was one, but there was also Antioches Epiphanes who was a king of the Seleucids that rose out of Alexander the Great's Greece and persecuted the Jews, desecrating their temple. He is also propesied in the vision of Daniel 7. He and Hitler both are Antichrist figures and there are no doubt others but they stand out. The Pope is also a political leader since the Vatican is a sovereign state in its own right, but the current Pope is elderly and hard to fit into the scenario of a political or military leader. Nevertheless, not only is the papacy well identified as the Antichrist in many ways, including the number 666 which his title as Vicar of Christ in Latin adds up to (Vicarivs Filii Dei) and this current Pope took office amid some very interesting signs that seem to give him a special status among the Popes. I have a post on it I'll link if I can find it.

For the most part I accept the premillennial eschatology, the Rapture coming first followed by the seven year Tribulation period followedc by Jesus' second coming, then the Millennium, before the final Eternal state. So far I haven't found a reason to challenge that basic scenario. But I do continue to disagree with their view of the Antichrist and the Revived Roman Empire. It hink one of the big errors of today's Protestant churches is that they aren't Protestant any more, and many of them embrace the Roman church as just another denomination, which is the same thing as embracing the Antichrist. Not that there aren't many Catholics who have nothing to do with that, but they too need to wake up and "Come out of her, My people" as the Lord says to them.

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*The title "Third Reich" is a claim to the title of Holy Roman Empire. ========================================================== This post could have been three times as long but I can't go that long in one sitting these days and I hate leaving a long post unfinished for later because that usually means I'll never get it finished. I wanted to get into more about the Third Reich, and I wanted to get into the statue of Nebuchadnezzar's dream in Daniel 2 which is also about the four empires starting with Babylon. Also more on Hislop's study of the Two Babylons, and a section on the European Uniobn which is the latest attempt to revive the Roman Empire and probably the one that will be in place during the Tribulation. Guess I can only do what i can do.

The Genocidal Insanity and/or Stupidity of Critical Race Theory

James Lindsay, probably the one with the most knowledge on Critical Race Theory today, gives its history and an an analysis if CRT and Wokeness.

Dealing with the Dangers of the Vaccines; and Dr. Zelenko Needs to Change His Diet to Cure His Cancer

Most of my sources on COVID, the vaccines, antivirals and so on, are now scattered all over the internet, some in pieces, and I'm not going to get them all together for some time. I can name the participants at least so others can track them down. Dr. Peter McCullough, Dr. Pierre Kory, Dr. Robert Malone, Dr. Steve Kirsch, Dr. Richard Fleming, Dr. Vladimir Zelenko. There are others.Most of these are warning about the vaccines and objecting to the suppression of information about their dangers and about the efficacy of treatments such as HCQ and Ivermectin.

In this post I'm mainly reacting to a long interview of Dr. Zelenko by Dr. Mercola. The whole thing is interesting in my opinion, but probably the most imporant part is the advice for people who have had the vaccines, to protect against possible health problems as a result. That's discussed from roughly about 41 for the next fifteen or so minutes. The same protocols recommended for prevention of the virus itself and for early treatment of it are also effective for this purpose: HCQ or Ivermectin and if you can't get those then at least get zinc, quercetin, vitamin C and Vitamin D3.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/HrBxKWxB8dkZ

Since I like to follow some of the health gurus online, although I can't say I'm good at taking their advice -- at least I pretty much know what their advice is -- I get a bit upset hearing that Dr. Zelenko has been suffering from cancer and has had a recent recurrence and all he does is the standard treatment of chemo and what4ever else is recommended. He's lost a lung to the cancer already. At least he continues to survive and is grateful to God, but oh how I wish HE paid attention to these health gurus because I am convinced that the right diet can cure cancer. A totally plant-based mostly raw diet.

At least a quart and a half of carrot juice every day, plus lots of raw fruits and veggies, tons of greens, plus nuts and seeds. There's a lot more but that's the basics and probably in most cases enough. (Check out "Chris Beat Cancer.")

American Liberty Versus Marxist Tyranny: Who's Winning?

I was still half asleep from my afternoon's long nap -- can't sleep at night much any more so the daytime gets wiped out as I sleep through most of it -- anyway I woke up in time to hear Mark Levin reading from his book that's due out on the 13th, "American Marxism." He read from various drafts of the Declaration of Independence and from various state constitutions, all of which used different language to say the same thing that ended up in the Declaration. It really helps to give a perspective when you hear the different ways of saying the same thing. He also read from Paine's "Common Sense." Knowing more about these thigns should improve our understanding of what the founding of America was really all about.

Then he read from some early American Marxists. Scary stuff. Aggressive intent to overthrow the American government, denigration of the framers, promotion of the utopian dream that has murdered hundreds of millions, and yet people are still attracted to this stuff. Right now the country is already undergoing the first phases of a Marxist revolution, pushed by the Democratic Party and not very well opposed by most on the conservative side either. We're a bunch of ignoramuses about all these things.

I've still got the words of a friend going around in my head from a few months ago, when I asked her opinion of the censorship of conservatives on the social media. Well I don't remember her exact words but the gist of her answer was that she doesn't think "misinformation" should be given a public platform. Something like that. About that same time she asked me if I'm a white supremacist which was a real punch in the stomach, knocked the bottom out of our friendship. I forgave her, I tried hard for the next few weeks to keep the friendship intact, but I couldn't overcome the effect of her remarks. The friendship had died and there was nothing I could do about it.

She was just echoing the leftist propaganda which has been pumped into liberal minds for years now. They don't even know it's Marxism and radically opposed to everything America was meant to be. Ideas have consequences and Marxism is the most pernicious ideology in force right now, bringing down everything good in this country. And they think they are doing a good thing apparently. When all the conservatives are gone they'll think utopia can now thrive? it will kill them too because they don't understand what it is, they have no idea what they are doing.

Marx's thinking was influenced by an important Jesuit in his time, a connection that is common but hardly ever noticed in the lives of Marxists. Chris Pinto is the one I'm aware of who has the most to say about this kind of connection. The Roman Church is behind the world class murderous doctrines of the last century, all the genoicdes, which I've pointed out here and there in my posts.* Mark Levin can trace the Marxist indoctrination behind them, but Pinto gets beneath that to the Jesuits. The average Catholic knows nothing about all this so they can keep up their false Christian facade, but the papacy is still waiting for its chance to bring back the Inquisition, which is what all the political genoides have been based on. it will certainly be the centerpiece of the seven-year Tribulation period that will follow the Rapture, or disappearance of the Church.

We know Who wins in the end but getting there is going to hurt those who have to go through it. <

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* The Roman Catholic connection to the genocides. I put up a list of books on my Roman Catholicism blog, some of which have titles directly related to this claim. "Hitler's Pope" for instance. I've mentioned the role of a Catholic Bishop whose radio talks incited the Hutus to slaughter the Tutsis in Rwanda by calling the Tutsis "cockroaches" and generally using the same kind of propaganda against them that Hitler used against the Jews. Character assassination is the main Marxist modus operandi but obviously that includes all forms of fascism which could be shown to have the same ideological root. That's what they are doing to conservatives in America, calling us racists and white supremacists and xenophobes and so on and so forth, just because they don't like our politics and want us silenced so their politcs can control everybody. That's what they did to Donald Trump from the moment he declared his candidacy, and are still doing to him, not one iota of which he deserves.

Other clues to this connection include the use of the dunce cap in Mao's takeover of China, to humiliate dissenters. I didn't know it but found out that the dunce cap originated with the Inqauisition. Another connection was the use of a version of the iron maiden torture device that was used against dissenters in Ceaucescu's Romania. This was shown in the film about the imprisonment of Richard Wurmbrand I saw recently, Tortured for Christ, based on Wurmbrand's book. He was held in an underground prison for fourteen years for the crime of being a Christian. Anyway, the film pointed out the use of a wooden box about the size of a casket in which prisoners were forced to stand for hours trying to avoid being punctured by the hundreds of nails that line the inside of the box. The iron maiden was a torture tool of the Inquisition. That connection wasn't mentioned in the film, it's just something most of us know and one source of this information is the ex Catholic priest richard Bennett, whose website is still up as far as I know.

The COVID Gulag Again.

Saw my Primary Care person yesterday. She rather snapped at me about keeping my mask up since I'm not vaccinated (it's hard to breathe in that thing and I'd dropped it to my chin while there was nobody in the room but me). We went through the reasons I was there, she put through an order for lab work. She didn't push the vaccine on me exactly but she did say it 100% "prevents death." Huh? I'm not good at thinking fast in conversation --that's why I write -- or I might have pointed out that 6000 deaths due to the vaccines have been reported to the official NIH site by medical people, and that must be just a drop in the bucket of the real number. Not to mention the injuries from it which can be pretty debilitating, including convulsions.

But I did say I would like to be prescribed Ivermectin because I am convinced it both prevents COVID and treats it effectively and should be regarded as just as good as being vaccinated as far as protection of self and others goes. She said she's read the studies and it's not very effective. My answer to that should have been, Well we know it's safe and can't hurt because of decades of use on billions of people and I can point you to many doctors who have used it very successfully. I don't know about those studies but there were so many stupid studies of HCQ this must be the same sort of thing. Doctors who USE the drug KNOW it works and studies are often based on misusing it, prescribing it too late to help or in the wrong dosage, and so on.

I've now heard MANY doctors testifying to its effectiveness and the criminality of its suppression. And of course those testimonies have been censored by nonmedical politically motivated watchdogs who must have some sort of vested interest in vaccines and against effective treatments. Killing us off perhaps? Sometimes these testimonies get moved to less restrictive sites but I've been finding it hard to navigate those other sites. What I find is often just parts of a program, not the whole thing. I don't know why, seems odd if the site is supposed to be a freer source of information.

I'd like to get some Ivermectin and I do have some possible sources so maybe I will. But because of my eyes I do need help navigating application forms and that sort of thing. However, two things: what I take should be pretty effective anyway, the zinc-quercetin combo plus some immune-boosting vitamins, AND I think I may have had COVID. Yes, although I've been pretty totally isolated for a long time, seeing only my brother who does my shopping and takes out the garbage once a week, who has not been sick and is now vaccinated, I got a mild "cold" a few months ago, no idea how I coujld have but I did, very mild, just a runny nose basically, the usual week, but what makes me think it might have been COVID is that I absolutely could not taste the dill weed I put on a cucumber salad. I didn't make the connection at the time and I didn't notice if other foods didn't have much taste, only that one because dill weed is a pretty strong flavor and I couldn't taste it at all though I kept adding more and more of it. I thought maybe the cold interfered with tasting it which I guess can happen, but not to that extent. Was it old and dead or what? No, because I'd been using it for weeks and could taste it fine. Funny it didn't occur to me at the time that it could have been COVID. It was some time afterward that it occurred to me.

I forgot to mention it to my Primary Care lady. Alas.

There have been two or three discussions about ivermectin and the problem of censorship that I thought I'd eventually post here, that have disappeared. This stuff is scary. Do liberals care if the liberal social media censor us conservatives or the doctors who object to vaccines and believe HCQ and Ivermectin could have saved lives? If my Primary person is so heavily propagandzied I know most people out there are too. Sad state of affairds. The country is disintegrating before our eyes. Shouldn't even the liberals care or are they really into having a Communist revolution and destroying the Constitution and everything that made America great?

O happy happy.

The Evils of Evolutionary Theory

Talk given at an Intelligent Design conference on the horrible effects of evolutionary theory in history, from racial genocie to abortion to anti-humanity movements.



Fact is, all these evils do logically follow from the ToE even if everybody wants to deny them today.

I'm not a fan of Intelligent Design although I think their arguments for the necessity of design in nature are good. Of course I like my own arguments which are more in the biblical Creationist camp.