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@5656abdul That verse is talking about Jesus.
Where is your verse indicating it is about Mohammed?
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There is no disagreement that Islam (submission to God) is the right way.
The disagreement is that Mohammed did not die on the cross to atone for the sins of all men . . . and Jesus the Messiah did.
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"Now after six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John, and led them up on a high mountain apart by themselves; and He was transfigured before them. His clothes became shining, exceedingly white, like snow, such as no launderer on earth can whiten them. And Elijah appeared to them with Moses, and they were talking with Jesus. Then Peter answered and said to Jesus, “Rabbi, it is good for us to be here; and let us make three tabernacles: one for You, one for Moses, and one for Elijah”— because he did not know what to say, for they were greatly afraid.
And a cloud came and overshadowed them; and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is My beloved Son. Hear Him!”
Holy Bible Mark 9:2
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@KDC9385
"Then Moses said to God, “Indeed, when I come to the children of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they say to me, ‘What is His name?’ what shall I say to them?”
And God said to Moses, “I AM THAT I AM.” And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’ ”
Moreover God said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel:
‘The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is My name forever, and this is My memorial to all generations."
Exodus 3:14
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"Then the Jews answered and said to Him, “Do we not say rightly that You are a Samaritan and have a demon?”
"Jesus answered, “I do not have a demon; but I honor My Father, and you dishonor Me. And I do not seek My own glory; there is One who seeks and judges. Most assuredly, I say to you, if anyone keeps My word he shall never see death.”
Then the Jews said to Him, “Now we know that You have a demon!
Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and You say, ‘If anyone keeps My word he shall never taste death.’
Are You greater than our father Abraham, who is dead? And the prophets are dead. Who do You make Yourself out to be?”
Jesus answered, “If I honor Myself, My honor is nothing. It is My Father who honors Me, of whom you say that He is your God. Yet you have not known Him, but I know Him. And if I say, ‘I do not know Him,’ I shall be a liar like you; but I do know Him and keep His word.
"Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it and was glad.”
Then the Jews said to Him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have You seen Abraham?”
Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM.”
John 8:56
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“When the Lord your God brings you [Israelites] into the land which you go to possess, and has cast out many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you, and when the Lord your God delivers them over to you, you shall conquer them and utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them nor show mercy to them. Nor shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to their son, nor take their daughter for your son. For they will turn your sons away from following Me, to serve other gods; so the anger of the Lord will be aroused against you and destroy you suddenly.
But thus you shall deal with them: you shall destroy their altars, and break down their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden images, and burn their carved images with fire."
From a speech by Prophet Moses
Torah\Holy Bible book of Deuteronomy chapter 7
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"The United States announced Monday it will send nearly $64 million in humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, a day after the United Nations issued an emergency call for $600 million to prevent famine and a public health crisis.
The U.S. was spending an estimated $300 million a day on the war in Afghanistan before its military withdrawal in recent weeks.
The Biden administration has yet to officially recognize the Taliban as Afghanistan's government since the militant group swiftly took power following the U.S. exit.
The funding will come from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the U.S. State Department and will be distributed through the U.N. and independent aid groups. The latest donation brings U.S. humanitarian spending in Afghanistan to $330 million this year, making it the largest foreign donor, USAID said.
In addition to these funds, USAID has also created a Disaster Assistance Response Team based outside Afghanistan to run the U.S. government's response to the unfolding humanitarian crisis, the release said.
As part of today's announcement of aid, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged Afghanistan's neighbors to keep their borders open to Afghan refugees and promised to work to ensure that the Taliban does not hinder humanitarian assistance, especially to vulnerable groups like women and girls.
"We will continue to press for the Taliban to respect the rights and freedoms of women and girls, and are committed to preserving the gains Afghans, especially women, have made in the past 20 years," Blinken said in a statement on Monday.
This announcement comes after the U.N. reported last week that millions in Afghanistan was beginning to run out of basic aid supplies and food."
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@5656abdul Logic is for this material, physical world that we live in here. When you start getting into spiritual realms and other dimensions, the type of logic that we use does not apply to those realms.
The Holy Bible says that Jesus the Messiah is the Son of God -- the Quran says He is not. This is from God so that each man may make his own choice -- whether he wants to have a Savior or he does not want to have a savior. Mankind must choose either what the Holy Bible says or must choose what the Quran says. Logic does not allow for both. One is right -- one is wrong. This is the great dividing line that God has placed upon the whole Earth.
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"whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven. But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven."
-- Jesus --
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“Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword. For I have come to ‘set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law’; and ‘a man’s enemies will be those of his own household.’ He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it."
-- Jesus --
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"Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in My Father’s name, they bear witness of Me. But you do not believe, because you are not of My sheep, as I said to you. My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father’s hand.
-- Jesus --
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" I and My Father are one.”
-- Jesus --
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@user-zj5kj4tc8e Sorry, but there was no Palestine in the first century. Jesus was born in Bethlehem, Judea:
"Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem,"
Matthew 2:1
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The visiting Greeks from Greece who called the Jews "iουδαῖος" in the Greek language (ioudaios) (yi-oo-dah'-yos).
The native Jews used "Yehudi" after the Israeli tribe of Yehudah (Judah), the Son of Israel.
Jew (Yew) is a derivative of Yehudi.
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"The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham:
2 Abraham begot Isaac, Isaac begot Jacob [Israel] and Jacob begot JUDAH and his brothers. 3 Judah begot Perez and Zerah by Tamar, Perez begot Hezron, and Hezron begot Ram. 4 Ram begot Amminadab, Amminadab begot Nahshon, and Nahshon begot Salmon. 5 Salmon begot Boaz by Rahab, Boaz begot Obed by Ruth, Obed begot Jesse, 6 and Jesse begot David the king.
David the king begot Solomon by her who had been the wife of Uriah. 7 Solomon begot Rehoboam, Rehoboam begot Abijah, and Abijah begot Asa. 8 Asa begot Jehoshaphat, Jehoshaphat begot Joram, and Joram begot Uzziah. 9 Uzziah begot Jotham, Jotham begot Ahaz, and Ahaz begot Hezekiah. 10 Hezekiah begot Manasseh, Manasseh begot Amon, and Amon begot Josiah. 11 Josiah begot Jeconiah and his brothers about the time they were carried away to Babylon.
12 And after they were brought to Babylon, Jeconiah begot Shealtiel, and Shealtiel begot Zerubbabel. 13 Zerubbabel begot Abiud, Abiud begot Eliakim, and Eliakim begot Azor. 14 Azor begot Zadok, Zadok begot Achim, and Achim begot Eliud. 15 Eliud begot Eleazar, Eleazar begot Matthan, and Matthan begot Jacob. 16 And Jacob begot Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus who is called Christ.
Matthew chapter 1
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@Nonononono209 Dude, you are talking having no education.
Jesus lived 2000 years ago and there is no physical description of Jesus.
Jesus is the Son of God who was born into the Earth by a Jewish virgin girl called Mary. She was a virgin, but his "supposed" father was also Jewish.
He was the Jewish Messiah who came to Earth to die on a Roman cross to atone for the sins of all humanity.
While on Earth, He taught people as a Jewish Rabbi.
After He was crucified and buried in a tomb, on the third day, He resurrected Himself from the dead.
A few days later, He ascended Himself, including His body, into Heaven.
Where He currently sits on the right hand of the Father on His throne, interceding for you and me.
He never married or had any children or descendants.
Those are the facts. You can ask any Christian or Muslim and they will all tell you that Jesus ascended into Heaven without having any children.
If you want to say He lived in the same area that is called Palestine today, fine. But He was not Palestinian -- He was Jewish.
Now I have to block you for using filthy language in my ear. So take this up with someone else.
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"The United States announced Monday it will send nearly $64 million in humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, a day after the United Nations issued an emergency call for $600 million to prevent famine and a public health crisis.
The U.S. was spending an estimated $300 million a day on the war in Afghanistan before its military withdrawal in recent weeks.
The Biden administration has yet to officially recognize the Taliban as Afghanistan's government since the militant group swiftly took power following the U.S. exit.
The funding will come from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the U.S. State Department and will be distributed through the U.N. and independent aid groups. The latest donation brings U.S. humanitarian spending in Afghanistan to $330 million this year, making it the largest foreign donor, USAID said.
In addition to these funds, USAID has also created a Disaster Assistance Response Team based outside Afghanistan to run the U.S. government's response to the unfolding humanitarian crisis, the release said.
As part of today's announcement of aid, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged Afghanistan's neighbors to keep their borders open to Afghan refugees and promised to work to ensure that the Taliban does not hinder humanitarian assistance, especially to vulnerable groups like women and girls.
"We will continue to press for the Taliban to respect the rights and freedoms of women and girls, and are committed to preserving the gains Afghans, especially women, have made in the past 20 years," Blinken said in a statement on Monday.
This announcement comes after the U.N. reported last week that millions in Afghanistan was beginning to run out of basic aid supplies and food."
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@Dr_Manhattan_Phd
Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin. But I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. 46 This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you and take your head from you. And this day I will give the carcasses of the camp of the Philistines to the birds of the air and the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. 47 Then all this assembly shall know that the Lord does not save with sword and spear; for the battle is the Lord’s, and He will give you into our hands.”
48 So it was, when the Philistine arose and came and drew near to meet David, that David hurried and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine. 49 Then David put his hand in his bag and took out a stone; and he slung it and struck the Philistine in his forehead, so that the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the earth
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@mouthman_ Here in the United States, the heavy traffic is when people are driving to work in the morning and when they are driving home from work when they get off work. The streets empty out by 6:30. They look like a race track.
That is when you would go pick up a bottle of milk if you need one. The roads are wide open for driving. You will be at the grocery store in 7 minutes.
And in case you did not know this, in the United States, you can buy milk at any gas station or pharmacy or dollar store. You would most likely take that option, in which, you will be driving about 2 minutes to get there.
Also, the problem that you put forth is fake anyway:
Americans never need to go buy just a bottle of milk. An American pantry has enough food in it for the whole family to live for 6 weeks. There is plenty to choose from. We can drink Coke, Sprite, 7-up, fruit drink, fruit juice, coffee or tea.
Americans have a grocery list tacked to the refrigerator with a magnet, and when we use an item, we write it on the list. Then we take that list IN OUR CAR to the grocery store and check the items off as we put them in the cart. Milk comes in gallon jugs, and it goes in the cart. We do not run out of milk or anything else in the middle of the week.
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@geofreyssenteza591 Thanks but you are not smart enough to help me and no I will not "trust you" that these 3 wars were fought for cosmetic reasons -- you must give some proof or that statement falls flat.
1. The Iraq war was not a NATO war. The Iraq war was a United Nations war. 44 nations conducted the Iraq war, including Georgia, Honduras, Iceland, Singapore, and Kazakhstan.
This was not a NATO war -- I asked for a NATO war.
2. Afghan war was not a NATO war. It was a United Nations war. 51 countries were actively involved in the Afghan War, including Iran, Russia, India, New Zealand, Turkey and El Salvador.
This was not a NATO war -- I asked for a NATO war.
3. Libya war was not a NATO war. There are 2 Libyan civil wars: The first was to overthrow Muammar Gadaffi. The United Nations enforced a no-fly zone over Libya during that conflict.
The second Libyan civil war was over a failed election. It was also supported by United Nations.
Both of these are internal civil wars.
These are not NATO wars -- I asked for a NATO war.
Further, the war in Afghanistan was a war against terrorists who attacked the United States World Trade Center. There was NO ECONOMIC BENEFIT. It costs BILLIONS OF DOLLARS to fight a war.
The Iraq war cost the U.S. $20 billion dollars.
I ask for an example of NATO starting a war and you give me 2 United Nations wars and one civil war. I am still waiting for someone to name a NATO war in which NATO started the war. 🤷♀️ 🤷♂️
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You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.
20 years ago Afghanistan was a third-world nation. It is clear that 20 years of allied nation-building in Afghanistan has raised it to a second-world country.
Besides the governmental structure assistance and the military assistance, the U.S. alone has been donating $4.86 million in humanitarian aid to Afghanistan every year for the last 20 years.
And the other Western Powers have contributed to humanitarian aid also.😎👍🇺🇸 ✝️
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"The United States announced Monday it will send nearly $64 million in humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, a day after the United Nations issued an emergency call for $600 million to prevent famine and a public health crisis.
The U.S. was spending an estimated $300 million a day on the war in Afghanistan before its military withdrawal in recent weeks.
The Biden administration has yet to officially recognize the Taliban as Afghanistan's government since the militant group swiftly took power following the U.S. exit.
The funding will come from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the U.S. State Department and will be distributed through the U.N. and independent aid groups. The latest donation brings U.S. humanitarian spending in Afghanistan to $330 million this year, making it the largest foreign donor, USAID said.
In addition to these funds, USAID has also created a Disaster Assistance Response Team based outside Afghanistan to run the U.S. government's response to the unfolding humanitarian crisis, the release said.
As part of today's announcement of aid, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged Afghanistan's neighbors to keep their borders open to Afghan refugees and promised to work to ensure that the Taliban does not hinder humanitarian assistance, especially to vulnerable groups like women and girls.
"We will continue to press for the Taliban to respect the rights and freedoms of women and girls, and are committed to preserving the gains Afghans, especially women, have made in the past 20 years," Blinken said in a statement on Monday.
This announcement comes after the U.N. reported last week that millions in Afghanistan was beginning to run out of basic aid supplies and food."
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@jpphua602
"Belshazzar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his lords, and drank wine in the presence of the thousand. While he tasted the wine, Belshazzar gave the command to bring the gold and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple which had been in Jerusalem, that the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them. Then they brought the gold vessels that had been taken from the temple of the house of God which had been in Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines drank from them. They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone.
In the same hour the fingers of a man’s hand appeared and wrote opposite the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace; and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. Then the king’s countenance changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his hips were loosened and his knees knocked against each other. The king cried [b]aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. The king spoke, saying to the wise men of Babylon, “Whoever reads this writing, and tells me its interpretation, shall be clothed with purple and have a chain of gold around his neck; and he shall be the third ruler in the kingdom
“And this is the inscription that was written:
MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.
Then Daniel said:
"This is the interpretation of each word.
MENE: God has numbered your kingdom, and finished it;
TEKEL: You have been weighed in the balances, and found wanting;
PERES: Your kingdom has been divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.”
Then Belshazzar gave the command, and they clothed Daniel with purple and put a chain of gold around his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.
That very night Belshazzar, king of the Chaldeans, was slain. And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old."
Book of Daniel chapter 5
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@calvinblue894 The United States has about 500,000 ranked as homeless. Out of the 500,000, 313,000 live with friends, family members, or in shelters, leaving 187,000 as "true homeless."
The main reason that the homeless are homeless is they are not able to work due to mental health disability, physical health disability, alcohol addiction or drug addiction.
It is not due to high housing prices. They are welcome to say whatever they want to say. But if housing prices were lower, they still could not work.
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@HighSpeedForLives
"Ukraine has a century-long history of oil and gas production and possesses substantial conventional and unconventional hydrocarbon reserves, estimated at 9 billion tonnes of oil equivalent (Btoe). Natural gas reserves are estimated at 5.4 trillion cubic metres (tcm), with proven reserves of 1.1 tcm of natural gas, more than 400 million tonnes (Mt) of gas condensate and 850 Mt of oil reserves. The loss of jurisdiction over Crimea, whose significant offshore gas resources are no longer accessible to Ukraine, means natural gas reserve estimates must be revised downwards.
Hydrocarbon resources in Ukraine are concentrated in three regions: the Carpathian region in the west; the Dnieper-Donetsk region in the east; and the Black Sea-Sea of Azov region in the south. The Dnieper-Donetsk region accounts for 80% of proven reserves and approximately 90% of gas production, and the Carpathian region has 13% of proven reserves and 6% of production. The remaining 6% of proven reserves are in the southern region, where production is conducted both onshore and offshore on the shallow shelves of the Black and Azov seas. The aggregate production in this region is 5% of Ukraine’s total oil and gas production
Because Ukraine’s refinery system dates to the Soviet era, total refinery capacity exceeds oil product demand by several times, and Ukraine has to meet most of its oil demand through imports. According to the 2018 energy balance compiled by Ukrstat, total final consumption of oil products was 10 599 thousand tonnes of oil equivalent (ktoe) while oil product imports were 10 365 ktoe. The State Fiscal Service (SFS) estimated the cost of oil product imports at USD 5.5 billion in 2018. SFS data also indicate that 38.7% of oil products were imported from Belarus, 37.3% from Russia, 10.3% from Lithuania and 14.2% from other countries in 2018. Given that Belarusian refineries depend on crude oil from Russia, Ukraine’s current oil product import mix puts the country at significant risk of an oil product supply shortage if Russia decides to provoke a crisis in the Ukrainian oil market."
- International Energy Association -
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There are more White homeless in the United States than Black homeless. And everyone who is in jail is there because they committed a crime. You cannot be arrested in the United States for critizing the government or its leader or saying, "free Hong Kong" or calling a "special operation" a war.
"African Americans and other minority groups are more likely to experience homelessness than white people in the United States, and this disparity has not improved over time. In 2022, there were an estimated 291,395 white people experiencing homelessness, compared to 217,366 African Americans. However, African Americans make up only 13% of the general population, while accounting for more than 40% of the homeless population. African Americans are also more likely to be homeless families with children, making up more than 50% of those families."
It is not "an attempt to increase the prison population." What a stupid idea. American tax dollars pay $65,000 a year to house ONE criminal.
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@theflame5919 Sounds like you need to have a historian help you, pal.
The land of Caanan predates the Greeks, Romans, and Arabs.
If was settled by descendents of Noah shortly after Noah's flood around 2600 bc. They migrated to Caanan from Mount Ararat in Turkey.
The original settlers in Caanan were called Amorites, Amelekites, Pereizzites, Hivites, Girgishites, and Jebusites. Each subrace of Caananites belonged to one or more city-kingdoms in what you currently call Palestine. The Jebusites ruled Jerusalem. There was also a subrace called the Philistines. The Philistines were the city-kingdom of Gaza.
All of these subraces of Canaan grew to be the race that you currently call Palestinians.
They Israelites invaded Canaan around 1800 bc. and in the Jewish wars, killed most of them and took over and of what is currently called Israel, the West Bank, and Jordan. The Israelites built a great kingdom there called the Kingdom of Jewdah and ruled the area for thousands of years. But they did not mix with the original Caananites. Both races grew up there together but separate.
By the time Rome conquered Jewdah, the kingdom had diminished in power and the name was just Jewdea. Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Jewdea. The Romans did not bring a lot of Romans to settle in Jewdea. It remained Israelites and Caananites.
The Greeks were traders who came to Jewdea to trade and in the first century ad, there were a lot of Greeks living in the area. However, the Greeks kept themselves separate.
The Greeks, Jews, and Caananites did not mix until they all started becoming Christians and by the fall of the Roman Empire (500 ad.), the entire area had become Christian and it was hard to find anyone who wasn't. Jewdea was renamed to Palestine by the Roman government in 132 ad.
Once the Jews, Greeks, and original Caananites became Christians, they did all drop their racial separations and randomly mix together. They became the modern day Palestinians.
Now most of the Jews were holdouts against Christianity and remained Jews. But the Roman Empire fought against Jewdea in 70 ad and again in 132 ad and the result was the Jewish diaspora where the Jews got dispersed into all of the nations. But there has always remained a remnant of Jews living in Palestine as God had promised the Jews He would do thousands of years ago.
Then, moving to the seventh century, the Arabs invaded and forced everyone to convert to Islam. But the Arabs did not settle the area.
Let me know if you have any more history questions.
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@vladimirnikolskiy
Mikoyan was established on 8 December 1939 as the Pilot Design Department of the Aviation Plant #1 and headed by Artem Mikoyan and Mikhail Gurevich. It was later renamed "Experimental Design Bureau named after A.I. Mikoyan" otherwise known as the Mikoyan Design Bureau or Mikoyan OKB.[5] In 1964 Gurevich retired, and Mikoyan died in 1970. He was succeeded by Rostislav A. Belyakov, and in 1978 the enterprise was named after Mikoyan.[6]
In 1995, Mikoyan OKB was merged with two production facilities to form the Moscow Aviation Production Association "MiG" (MAPO-MiG).[5] In the 1990s MiG began developing Mikoyan Project 1.44, a fifth-generation jet fighter, but the project was hampered by a lack of funding and was eventually canceled.[7]
In December 1999, Nikolai Nikitin was appointed the corporation's General Director and General Designer. Nikitin focused most of the company's resources on the development of the Tu-334 passenger aircraft at the expense of military programs.[5] This prompted the resignation in December 1999 of many of its leading military aircraft designers, including the chief designers and their deputies for the MiG-29 and MiG-31 programs.[5]
Nikitin was replaced by Valery Toryanin in November 2003, who was in turn replaced by Alexey Fedorov in September 2004.[8] In 2006, the Russian government merged 100% of Mikoyan shares with Ilyushin, Irkut, Sukhoi, Tupolev, and Yakovlev as a new company named United Aircraft Corporation.[4] Specifically, Mikoyan and Sukhoi were placed within the same operating unit.[9]
MiG failed to win any major aircraft tenders in the post-Soviet era, falling behind its Russian rival Sukhoi.[10] According to press reports, the company was shedding hundreds of employees in late 2017 due to a shortage of orders.
As of 2015 the company's business offering consists mostly of modernized MiG-29 aircraft.[10] MiG was developing a 4++ fighter, the MiG-35, with the first deliveries expected in late 2019. Mikoyan is set to fly the PAK DP aka MiG-41 their first stealth interceptor in 2025.[11][12]
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I am not sure what to say about this film, except to just say that it is false on several levels.
The film takes a number of ideas that are true and then ties those ideas together with fake cords. i.e. it is a conspiracy theory.
A couple of mistakes the film makes:
1. The narrator says that Envangelical Christians WANT to have a war that is Christians against the whole world.
That is not true. We do not WANT war. We are saying that there is going to be a war.
2. A Christian pastor is quoted in the film as saying that the battle of Armageddon will be Christians against the rest of the world and the narrator reinforces him. That one is wrong.
The battle of Armageddon that is written about in the Bible was written by a prophet before Jesus was born. There were no Christians when it was written. The passage says that the battle will be the whole world against the Jews. This is the Bible passage:
“Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of drunkenness to all the surrounding peoples, when they lay siege against Judah and Jerusalem. And it shall happen in that day that I will make Jerusalem a very heavy stone for all peoples; all who would heave it away will surely be cut in pieces, though all nations of the earth are gathered against it . . .
. . . In that day the Lord will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; the one who is feeble among them in that day shall be like David, and the house of David shall be like God, like the Angel of the Lord before them. It shall be in that day that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem."
Prophet Zekariah chapter 12
As you can see this passage is all about Jerusalem and says nothing about Christians. There is a second mention of this battle in the Christian prophecy of Revelation. It says this:
"Then the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, so that the way of the kings from the east might be prepared. And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs coming out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are spirits of demons, performing signs, which go out to the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty . . .
. . . and they gathered them together to the place called in Hebrew, Armageddon."
Revelation chapter 16
Again, this prophecy is located near the Euprates River and Mount Megiddo in Israel. This battle described by both prophets is the whole world against Israel and nothing is said at all about Christians.
To say that Christians use these two passages to WANT a war between them and anybody is just a remarkably exagerrated conspiracy theory.
3. The narrator claims the president of the United States can unilaterally launch nuclear missiles. THAT is untrue. Both Russia and the United States have laws on their books that determine under what circumstances nuclear missiles can be launched and neither president can arbitrarily launch.
4. The war you describe in this film is supposedly between Christians and the rest of the world and suggests that it is America against whomever using America's massive weapons arsenal.
But that idea overlooks that only a small percentage of Christians live in the United States. A Christian army would include Russia, Brazil, Canada, Venezuela, Argentina, all of Europe, all of Central and South America, a large part of Africa, Korea and the Phillipines. Having the United States fighting the rest of the world would pit Christians against Christians. Particularly, you would have two Christian nations nuking each othe: Russia, the United States.
So you see when the true facts are examined, the tenet that this film is making is not even possible.
What we have here is a film that is a radically exagerrated conspiracy theory and Al Jazeera has just falsely told the whole world that American Evangelical Christians are war-mongers.
Al Jazeera with this film has done more to advance the prophecies of Zechariah than John Hagee has. Al Jazeera has created it own self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Because of this:
Now it shall come to pass, when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, and you [a]call them to mind among all the nations where the Lord your God drives you, 2 and you return to the Lord your God and obey His voice, according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart and with all your soul, 3 that the Lord your God will bring you back from captivity, and have compassion on you, and gather you again from all the nations where the Lord your God has scattered you. 4 If any of you are driven out to the farthest parts under heaven, from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there He will bring you. 5 Then the Lord your God will bring you to the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it. He will prosper you and multiply you more than your fathers. 6 And the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.
Deuteronomy chapter 30
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@peacefulvalleyliving
27 “But I say to you who hear: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, 28 bless those who curse you, and pray for those who spitefully use you. 29 To him who strikes you on the one cheek, offer the other also. And from him who takes away your cloak, do not withhold your tunic either. 30 Give to everyone who asks of you. And from him who takes away your goods do not ask them back. 31 And just as you want men to do to you, you also do to them likewise.
32 “But if you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. 33 And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same. 34 And if you lend to those from whom you hope to receive back, what credit is that to you? For even sinners lend to sinners to receive as much back. 35 But love your enemies, do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High. For He is kind to the unthankful and evil. 36 Therefore be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful.
37 “Judge not, and you shall not be judged. Condemn not, and you shall not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven. 38 Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you.”
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@COURRUPTIONCOIN
"54 When they heard these things they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth. 55 But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God, 56 and said, “Look! I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”
57 Then they cried out with a loud voice, stopped their ears, and ran at him with one accord; 58 and they cast him out of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul. 59 And they stoned Stephen as he was calling on God and saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.” 60 Then he knelt down and cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not charge them with this sin.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep."
Acts 7:54
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Guy. Jesus is Yeshua.
Yeshua is Hebrew language.
Jesus is English language.
It is the same name in a different language.
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@tomlaureys1734
Why does America go to war?
Afghanistan:
America did NOT attack Afghanistan:
America was attacked by terrorists harboring in Afghanistan and the intent was to get to the terrorists hiding in the Afghan mountains. Afghan government refused to hand over the terrorists. U.S. ignored the Afghan government and went after the terrorist hiding in their country.
Bosnia
America did not "attack" Bosnia:
This was a civil war in Yugoslavia following breakup of Soviet Union. Pakistan violated an agreement not to supply weapons and NATO got involved and stopped Pakistan.
Cambodia:
America did NOT attack Cambodia:
Cambodia was a civil war between communist uprising Khmer Rouge against the established government. North Korea got involved ans attacked Cambodia. The United States drove North Korea out of Cambodia.
China:
America did NOT attack China:
China was a civil by a communist uprising against the established government. The United States assisted the Chinese government.
Congo:
America did NOT attack Congo:
At the end of colonial rule, Congo erupted into civil war between Blacks and Whites. Belgium sent troops to protect Whites. The U.N. sent peacekeepers. Soviet Union sent support to the wrong side (as usual).
Cuba:
America did NOT attack Cuba:
A communist revolution occurred in Cuba wherein many Cubans were driven out of their homeland into the United States. The exiled Cubans attempted to retake their own county. The United States supplied the boats.
El Salvador:
America did NOT attack El Salvador:
El Salvador had a 12-year civil war. The United States assisted the established government.
Korea:
America did NOT attack Korea:
Communist North Korea attacked democratic South Korea. The United States drove North Korea iut of South Korea.
Guatemala:
America did NOT attack Guatemala:
Guatemala had a civil war with leftist insurgents attacking the Guatemalan government. America supported the government of Guatemala.
Indonesia:
America did NOT attack Indonesia:
Indonesia had a civil war when some army generals broke from the established government. The United States supported the generals with military support. Later in the war, the CIA bombed some areas in Indonesia in DIRECT VIOLATION of president Eisenhower's order not to do it.
Laos:
America did NOT attack Laos:
The war in Laos was an extension of the Vietnam war and had to do with the North Vietnamese invading and controlling part of Laos.
Grenada:
America did NOT attack Grenada:
In Grenada, a rebel group attacked the government and executed the prime minister. The United States, in combination with 6 other countries went in to Grenada and restored order.
Iraq:
Saddam Hussein gassed and killed 3000 Iraqi citizens (Kurds). He had previously started a war with Kuwait which the United States had to solve militarily. He was stone-walling the United Nations inspectors and would not let them see his nuclear weapons development. We told him to remove himself from office or we would come remove him (which we did).
It was NOT a NATO operation -- it was a U.N. operation.
Iran:
America did NOT attack Iran:
Iran was an 8 year long full-scale war that started with revolutionaries taking over Iran. Iraq attacked Iran to prevent the spread of the revolution. Later in the war, the United States supported Iraq against the revolution.
Kuwait:
America did NOT attack Kuwait:
Saddam Hussein in Iraq attacked Kuwait because he wanted their oil fields. The United States drove Iraq out of Kuwait.
Lebanon:
America did NOT attack Lebanon:
Lebanon had a civil war going on and there were both French and American peace-keeping forces in the area. They were both bombed by an Islamic Jihad.
Libya:
America did NOT attack Libya:
Libyan agents bombed "La Belle" nightclub in West Berlin, killing three people, including a U.S. serviceman,[9] and injuring 229 people. The United States punished Libya by bombing them.
Nicaragua:
America did NOT attack Nicaragua:
In Nicaragua, some rebels overthrew the established government. The the people from the government side started fighting to get their country back. The United States supported them.
Pakistan:
The United States has never fought in Pakistan.
Palestine:
The United States has never fought in Israel.
Panama:
America did NOT attack Panama:
General Manuel Noriega was wanted by the United States for racketeering and drug trafficking. The United States arrested him.
Peru:
America did NOT attack Peru:
Peru has had a very long ongoing communist revolution. The United States backed the established Peruvian government.
Somalia:
America did NOT attack Somalia:
Somalia has a very long ongoing insurgency/civil war. The United States backs the established government.
Sudan:
America did NOT attack Sudan:
Sudan had a 23 year long insurgency/civil war. The United States backs the legitimate government but is not involved in the war.
Syria:
America did NOT attack Syria:
Syria had an on-going insurgency/civil war. The United States led a United Nation attack against ISIL which is a world-wide terrorist organization.
Vietnam:
America did NOT attack Vietnam:
Communist North Vietnam attacked democratic South Vietnam. The United States went over there and pushed the communists back up to the North.
Yemen:
America did NOT attack Yemen:
In 2002, the United States killed a handful of terrorists who were operating inside Yemen.
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You just listed 26 countries and FALSELY claimed that America attacked them. In only ONE case did America attack another country and it was part of an approved United Nations action coordinated with 44 other countries.
After telling 25 lies, you have the gall to tell me that I do not think critically? 🤷♀️ 🤷♂️
Frankly, Americans are fed up to here with hearing scum like you tell lies about our country. 😎👎🇺🇸 ✝️
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We do not have to prove that the current Jews are descended from the ancient Jews because anywhere the Jews have gone the Jews have always kept themselves separate from society and their culture and customs proves it. The Jews know who they are. Also this Bible prophecy proves it:
“Now it shall come to pass, when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the Lord your God drives you, and you return to the Lord your God and obey His voice, according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart and with all your soul, that the Lord your God will bring you back from captivity, and have compassion on you, and gather you again from all the nations where the Lord your God has scattered you. If any of you are driven out to the farthest parts under heaven, from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there He will bring you. Then the Lord your God will bring you to the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it. He will prosper you and multiply you more than your fathers. And the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live."
Deuteronomy 30
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@GraveyardGrog We do not believe in forcing our beliefs on others. But let me remind you that if you are not a Christian, by definition, you cannot be an American and therefore do not have any rights here:
The United States of America was founded to be a Christian nation and is still, according to our founding documents, a Christian nation.
The Declaration of Independence says this:
"We believe that all men are created . . . "
Who believes that?
Americans believe it.
So you can substitute the word "Americans" for the word "we" like this:
"Americans (we) believe that all men are created . . . "
So you can see from our founding documents that all Americans believe in a Creator -- and anyone who does not believe in a Creator is not an American.
So by definition of this clause, as given in the Declaration of Independence, no atheist, Buddhist, Hindu, spiritist, animist, satanist, or humanist can be an American. The Declaration of Independence states specifically that you have to believe in a CREATOR GOD in order to be an American.
Americans do not believe in the theory of evolution -- anyone who believes in the theory of evolution is NOT an American. As clearly stated in the Declaration of Independence, Americans believe that "God created."
This example is from the Declaration of Independence. But there are many additional founding documents that tighten this concept up to be that only Christians can be Americans -- that is what our founding documents say.
Our National Song and National Motto:
Our national motto, "In God Is Our Trust" was penned by Francis Scott Key in the year 1814. It occurs in the fourth stanza of our national anthem: The Star Spangled Banner.
If you are not putting your trust in God, DO NOT sing our national anthem -- it was not written for you. If you cannot sing "in God is our trust" with sincerity, do not sing it at all.
Our national motto was added to the two-cent coin in 1864 as "In God We Trust." Since then it has been added to all of our currency. This serves as a daily reminder that all Americans put their trust in God.
In addition to containing our National Motto, our National Anthem contains this phrase:
"O thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war's desolation.
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the Heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!"
So you can see that Americans believe that:
● Heaven rescued our land (War of 1812)
● God made our nation and continually preserves our nation.
● It is incumbent upon Americans to praise God for making and protecting us.
Pledge of Allegiance:
Here in the United States of America we have a national pledge that we recite that affirms our faith and allegiance to our basic founding principles: our freedom and liberty for all. This is the pledge:
""I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
The original framework was penned by Francis Bellamy in 1892.
In 1923, the words, "the Flag of the United States of America" were added.
Then in 1954 the United States Congress added the phrase "under God" to bring the Pledge of Allegiance in line with what we believe as Americans.
Our Pledge of Allegiance declares that the United States of America is a nation that operates under the guidance and protection of Almighty God. If you do not believe that, DO NOT recite our Pledge of Allegiance. You should not recite pledges with insincerity.
Over the years, some people have tried to say that the First Amendment to the Constitution creates a "wall of separation between church and state . . . . It doesn't. This is a misinterpretation of what is called "the establishment clause" which says, "Congress shall make no law regarding an establishment of religion."
These errant people mistakenly read the clause as saying, "Congress shall not establish a religion."
The clause does not say that and to falsely interpret it that way is wrong. The easy way to conceptualize what the clause is saying is to substitute an easier word for "establishment of religion." What is an establishment of religion?
An establishment of religion would be for example, a church, or a synagogue, or a mosque. So to make the meaning clear, you could say:
Congress shall make no law regarding a church.
Congress shall make no law regarding a synagogue.
Congress shall make no law regarding a mosque.
So you can see through substitution that the purpose of the establishment clause is not to create a "wall of separation between church and state," but to prevent the government from meddling in church affairs. Perhaps Thomas Jefferson said it best when he said:
"I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This results not only from the provision that no law shall be made respecting the establishment or free exercise of religion, but from that also which reserves to the states the powers not delegated to the United States. Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise or to assume authority in religious discipline has been delegated to the General Government. It must then rest with the states, as far as it can be in any human authority."
And the followup clause [or prohibiting the free exercise thereof] makes it clear that the government cannot inhibit or prohibit the free exercise of "an establishment of religion" and cannot prevent exercise of public faith, personal prayer, or the spreading of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, any place, any time, including on public property.
(With the obvious exception that order must be maintained in society.)
Articles of Confederation
Many people are not aware that the Constitution that we currently use is actually the SECOND constitution of the United States and that there is a previous one. It is called The Articles of Confederation.
What is telling about the Articles of Confederation is that they happen to speak of America's institutional faith in God. The Articles of Confederation contain this phrase:
"And Whereas it hath pleased the Great Governor of the World to incline the hearts of the legislatures we respectively represent in congress, to approve of, and to authorize us to ratify the said articles of confederation . . . "
So we can understand from this phrase that it was the belief of the Continental Congress that God had "inclined the hearts" of the government legislatures of the 13 colonies to come together and create a new country. Forming our nation was no accident -- God told them to do it. That is what our founding documents say.
It should be obvious to anyone with a thinking brain that when God tells someone to form a new government, He would not want them forming a completely secular government where He Himself would be personally excluded.
The exact same Continental Congress who wrote our Constitution also wrote the Article of Confederation (only about a year apart). So we can see from studying the Articles of Confederation that the Continental Congress had no intention for the First Amendment of the second Constitution to create a "wall of separation" between God and His new government for the colonies.
At the age when our nation was founded, the population of the 13 colonies was about 99% protestant Christian. This country was founded by Christians who were (through prayer) working out a fair way that Christians could establish a government body for them to govern themselves under the guiding light and principles of Almighty God.
At the time that these things were being done, there were no atheists to speak of in the colonies, and there was no consideration whatsoever given to what atheists might think about the document. The Constitution of the United States of America is a document created by Christians for Christians as means of governing the body of their several Christian communities. It is a Christian document.
If you are not a Christian, you are not an American -- you have no part and parcel in what we are doing here and your opinion on the various phrases of the Constitution is meaningless. It is not your document -- it is our document.
Our founding documents say that America is a Christian nation and that no non-christian can be an American.
America is a nation created by Christians for Christians and there was never any intention for any non-christians to come and get involved in what we are doing here. If you are not a Christian, if you do not believe in God, if you do not want to have a country that operates under the guidance and protection of God, we would appreciate it if you would go someplace and start your own country and stop trying to interfere with ours. 😎👍🇺🇸 ✝️
Author: Matthew Rae Loutner
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@cs0345 Wrong. Our nation was founded upon Christianity:
The United States of America was founded to be a Christian nation and is still, according to our founding documents, a Christian nation.
The Declaration of Independence says this:
"We believe that all men are created . . . "
Who believes that?
Americans believe it.
So you can substitute the word "Americans" for the word "we" like this:
"Americans (we) believe that all men are created . . . "
So you can see from our founding documents that all Americans believe in a Creator -- and anyone who does not believe in a Creator is not an American.
So by definition of this clause, as given in the Declaration of Independence, no atheist, Buddhist, Hindu, spiritist, animist, satanist, or humanist can be an American. The Declaration of Independence states specifically that you have to believe in a CREATOR GOD in order to be an American.
Americans do not believe in the theory of evolution -- anyone who believes in the theory of evolution is NOT an American. As clearly stated in the Declaration of Independence, Americans believe that "God created."
This example is from the Declaration of Independence. But there are many additional founding documents that tighten this concept up to be that only Christians can be Americans -- that is what our founding documents say.
Our National Song and National Motto:
Our national motto, "In God Is Our Trust" was penned by Francis Scott Key in the year 1814. It occurs in the fourth stanza of our national anthem: The Star Spangled Banner.
If you are not putting your trust in God, DO NOT sing our national anthem -- it was not written for you. If you cannot sing "in God is our trust" with sincerity, do not sing it at all.
Our national motto was added to the two-cent coin in 1864 as "In God We Trust." Since then it has been added to all of our currency. This serves as a daily reminder that all Americans put their trust in God.
In addition to containing our National Motto, our National Anthem contains this phrase:
"O thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war's desolation.
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the Heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!"
So you can see that Americans believe that:
● Heaven rescued our land (War of 1812)
● God made our nation and continually preserves our nation.
● It is incumbent upon Americans to praise God for making and protecting us.
Pledge of Allegiance:
Here in the United States of America we have a national pledge that we recite that affirms our faith and allegiance to our basic founding principles: our freedom and liberty for all. This is the pledge:
""I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
The original framework was penned by Francis Bellamy in 1892.
In 1923, the words, "the Flag of the United States of America" were added.
Then in 1954 the United States Congress added the phrase "under God" to bring the Pledge of Allegiance in line with what we believe as Americans.
Our Pledge of Allegiance declares that the United States of America is a nation that operates under the guidance and protection of Almighty God. If you do not believe that, DO NOT recite our Pledge of Allegiance. You should not recite pledges with insincerity.
Over the years, some people have tried to say that the First Amendment to the Constitution creates a "wall of separation between church and state . . . . It doesn't. This is a misinterpretation of what is called "the establishment clause" which says, "Congress shall make no law regarding an establishment of religion."
These errant people mistakenly read the clause as saying, "Congress shall not establish a religion."
The clause does not say that and to falsely interpret it that way is wrong. The easy way to conceptualize what the clause is saying is to substitute an easier word for "establishment of religion." What is an establishment of religion?
An establishment of religion would be for example, a church, or a synagogue, or a mosque. So to make the meaning clear, you could say:
Congress shall make no law regarding a church.
Congress shall make no law regarding a synagogue.
Congress shall make no law regarding a mosque.
So you can see through substitution that the purpose of the establishment clause is not to create a "wall of separation between church and state," but to prevent the government from meddling in church affairs. Perhaps Thomas Jefferson said it best when he said:
"I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This results not only from the provision that no law shall be made respecting the establishment or free exercise of religion, but from that also which reserves to the states the powers not delegated to the United States. Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise or to assume authority in religious discipline has been delegated to the General Government. It must then rest with the states, as far as it can be in any human authority."
And the followup clause [or prohibiting the free exercise thereof] makes it clear that the government cannot inhibit or prohibit the free exercise of "an establishment of religion" and cannot prevent exercise of public faith, personal prayer, or the spreading of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, any place, any time, including on public property.
(With the obvious exception that order must be maintained in society.)
Articles of Confederation
Many people are not aware that the Constitution that we currently use is actually the SECOND constitution of the United States and that there is a previous one. It is called The Articles of Confederation.
What is telling about the Articles of Confederation is that they happen to speak of America's institutional faith in God. The Articles of Confederation contain this phrase:
"And Whereas it hath pleased the Great Governor of the World to incline the hearts of the legislatures we respectively represent in congress, to approve of, and to authorize us to ratify the said articles of confederation . . . "
So we can understand from this phrase that it was the belief of the Continental Congress that God had "inclined the hearts" of the government legislatures of the 13 colonies to come together and create a new country. Forming our nation was no accident -- God told them to do it. That is what our founding documents say.
It should be obvious to anyone with a thinking brain that when God tells someone to form a new government, He would not want them forming a completely secular government where He Himself would be personally excluded.
The exact same Continental Congress who wrote our Constitution also wrote the Article of Confederation (only about a year apart). So we can see from studying the Articles of Confederation that the Continental Congress had no intention for the First Amendment of the second Constitution to create a "wall of separation" between God and His new government for the colonies.
At the age when our nation was founded, the population of the 13 colonies was about 99% protestant Christian. This country was founded by Christians who were (through prayer) working out a fair way that Christians could establish a government body for them to govern themselves under the guiding light and principles of Almighty God.
At the time that these things were being done, there were no atheists to speak of in the colonies, and there was no consideration whatsoever given to what atheists might think about the document. The Constitution of the United States of America is a document created by Christians for Christians as means of governing the body of their several Christian communities. It is a Christian document.
If you are not a Christian, you are not an American -- you have no part and parcel in what we are doing here and your opinion on the various phrases of the Constitution is meaningless. It is not your document -- it is our document.
Our founding documents say that America is a Christian nation and that no non-christian can be an American.
America is a nation created by Christians for Christians and there was never any intention for any non-christians to come and get involved in what we are doing here. If you are not a Christian, if you do not believe in God, if you do not want to have a country that operates under the guidance and protection of God, we would appreciate it if you would go someplace and start your own country and stop trying to interfere with ours. 😎👍🇺🇸 ✝️
Author: Matthew Rae Loutner
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@theleminin2198
Total foreign-born population: 7,502,450
Country of origin:
England 967,390
India 710,380
China 595,630
New Zealand 559,980
Philippines 310,620
Vietnam 268,170
South Africa 201,930
Malaysia 172,250
Italy 171,520
Sri Lanka 145,790
Scotland 130,060
Nepal 129,870
United States 109,450
Germany 107,940
South Korea 106,560
Hong Kong 104,990
Greece 100,650
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Okay. Well, his first paragraph defining stupidity is very accurate. But in the second paragraph, he goes completely off course by creating a basis that "stupidity is not congenital."
He is wrong about that. Stupidity is congentital. Having a misunderstanding of the cause of stupidity is a serious error.
He attributes it to social influence, and that is only half of the equation. Not everyone is influenced by social circumstances. There are people who are "congenitally smart," and that group cannot be confused by the circumstances around them. They see the truth and nothing but the truth . . . and there is absolutely no way to confuse them because they can see through anything.
Basically, I am saying that he has half of a theory here, but left out the other half of it. So his conclusions are distorted.
Additionally, the theory needs additional development regarding percentages of the population who can be easily confused, and development on how this affects leadership, and so on.
He is commended for coming up with the basis of an idea, but it needs a lot of corrections and follow through.
Further, he only addresses the social aspects of stupidity and ignores how it applies to relationaships, education, and every day life.
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@omarlittle-hales8237 Shalom and peace to you.
A couple of corrections:
1. The Trinity is ONE GOD manifesting Himself in 3 different forms.
2. The New Testament books of the Bible are thought by scholars to have been written in Greek.
3. There is nothing anywhere in the Bible foretelling the coming of Muhammed.
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We have 4 books by 4 different writers. 2 of the writers walked with Jesus and talked with Him and recorded His life, times, and teachings. We know from eye-witnesses who Jesus was, what He did and what He said.
These 4 books record the following:
1. The miraculous birth of Jesus.
2. Angels singing when He is born.
3. People spontaneously prophesying when He was born.
4. His life fulfilling various Old Testament prophecies that would come into the world and save His people from their sins.
5. He was found in the temple teaching Jewish scholars at the age of 12.
6. He brought whole new concepts to the Earth that no prophet or holy man had ever said:
a. Do not hate your enemies -- love your enemies.
b. I am here to build the Kingdom of God.
c. A man must be BORN AGAIN.
d. If you believe in Me you will be saved -- if you reject Me, you will be lost.
e. My blood will be shed and it has the power to forgive sins.
f. Jesus predicting He will die and 3 days later will resurrect Himself.
7. A 3 year description of his life, teaching, healing people and miracles.
8. His death on the cross, with the sky darkening for 3 hours, an earthquake that rent the veil in the temple from top to bottom. (not from bottom to top).
(The veil in the temple is highly significant, as it separated the room the that only priests could enter from the common assembly room.)
8. While on the cross, he forgives the sins of the thief next to Him and says, "Today, you will be with Me in paradise.
9. On Sunday morning 3 days later, his tomb is empty, the grave clothes are folded, and an angel says, He is not here. He has risen from the dead.
10. Thomas says, "I do not believe it."
Jesus shows up alive and shows Thomas the nailprints in his hands and the swordwound in his side.
11. Thomas says, "My Lord and my God!" Then worships Jesus.
Jesus does not stop Thomas from worshipping Him.
12. Jesus says to Peter, "I will build My church."
13. Jesus calls His disciples together and says:
"All authority in Heaven and Earth has been given unto me. Go into all the Earth and preach the Good News to every creature. He who believes and is baptized shall be saved, but whomever does not believe shall be condemned."
14. Jesus was seen alive after His death by over 500 witnesses.
15. Then Jesus ascends into Heaven and an angel appears saying, "In the same way you just saw Him leave, He will return.
15. In acts chapter 2, the Holy Spirit descends upon the believers and gives POWER to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
16. It is recorded in the book of Acts that the followers of the Lord Jesus Christ are called Christians.
All of these things are recorded by the witnesses who were there and any book that comes along later and denies them is fake.
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@omarlittle-hales8237 Trinity is ONE GOD.
The name of Jesus in the Hebrew language is Yeshua. Translated into English it means:
I-am-salvation
"Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows:
After His mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Spirit. Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not wanting to make her a public example, was minded to put her away secretly. But while he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying,
“Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take to you Mary your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus, for HE WILL SAVE HIS PEOPLE FROM THEIR SINS.”
Holy Bible book of Matthew chapter 1
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"Now after the Sabbath, as the first day of the week began to dawn, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb. And behold, there was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat on it. His countenance was like lightning, and his clothing as white as snow. And the guards shook for fear of him, and became like dead men.
But the angel answered and said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus WHO WAS CRUCIFIED. He is not here; for
HE IS RISEN, AS HE SAID.
Come, see the place where the Lord lay. And go quickly and tell His disciples that HE IS RISEN FROM THE DEAD, and indeed He is going before you into Galilee; there you will see Him. Behold, I have told you.”
So they went out quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, and ran to bring His disciples word."
Holy Bible book of Matthew chapter 28
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@PolarisMidnightSoldierLux WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT??
We are AHEAD of the rest of the world in transportation flexibility.
And if you know ANYTHING about America, you know that there is public transportation to EVERYWHERE and disabled and carless people use it every day. What kind of lame gaslight question is that???
And you should know that disabled people have friends, relatives, and church members who drive them everywhere. They are not exactly stranded at home.
And WHO said things are too spread out???
How ridiculous. I can walk to Walmart, McDonald's, KFC, Taco Bell, Wendy's, Sonic, my local hardware store, my laundromat, Dollar Tree, Family Dollar, Dominoes, General Dollar, the Post Office, and numerous pharmacies and gas stations.
Too spread out??? 🤣
How ridiculous!!!
And our cities were not built by bulldozing anything. They are built on previously used farmland that developers bought.
I certainly hope in the future, you can present some REAL arguments.
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@saydie6646
Quran sura 9:29
"Fight those who do not believe in Allah and the Last Day, nor comply with what Allah and His Messenger have forbidden, nor embrace the religion of truth from among those who were given the Scripture, until they pay the tax, willingly submitting, fully humbled."
Quran sura 5:33
"Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and spread mischief in the land is death, crucifixion, cutting off their hands and feet on opposite sides, or exile from the land. This ˹penalty˺ is a disgrace for them in this world, and they will suffer a tremendous punishment in the Hereafter."
Who is ignorant?
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@sufmeister786 What do you mean "no historical context" ?
The Bible is FILLED with historical context.
There is no "changed text" and there is no "distorted text."
God watches over His Word to perform it.
There is no evidence to suggest that anything in the Torah has been distorted or changed. If you do not have some evidence, it has not been distorted or changed.
This is a summary of what it says:
Abraham was born and raised in Ur of the Chaldees.
God spoke to Abraham in Ur and told him to move to Canaan (Canaan being Palestine).
Abraham lived somewhere close to the Dead Sea.
Abraham had 2 sons:
Issac from his wife, Sarah.
Ishmael from his wife's maid, Hagar.
An angel appeared to Abraham's wife's maid and said that Ishmael will have an uncountable number of descendents, but her son will be a wild man, constantly fighting with everyone.
This son of Abraham became the Ishmaelites and populated Palestine. There is no known connection to the bedoin Arabs of the Levante. The Ishmaelites are Palestinians.
That is all that is said about the Ishmaelites.
Abraham's other son Isaac had a son named Jacob, who was also named Israel. Israel had 12 sons. These are their names:
Jewdah
Reuben
Simeon
Levi
Zebulun
Issachar
Dan
Gad
Asher
Naphtali
Joseph
Benjamin
These are called the 12 tribes of Israel. The Jews are the tribe of Jewdah. They can be called Israelites or Jews. All 12 sons of Israel were born in Canaan. Then they pilgrimaged in Egypt for 400 years. Then they returned to Canaan and conquered the Ishmaelites and took over control of Canaan.
All of these details are the inspired Word of God and are accurate and sure.
Without the Biblical account, you would not know of any of this. The Bible is the ONLY record of it. Without the Bible, you would not know who Abraham was or who Ismael was. So do not knock it.
Everything happened in Canaan. There is no written connection to the bedoin Arabs of the Levante.
Abraham was not Jewish because Abraham is the great-grandfather of Jewdah. Jewdah is the very first Jew and begins the Jewish line. Abraham is Semitic or Hebrew.
At a certain point, the history just stops talking about Ismael, and nothing more is said about him. He is never called a prophet and there is no reference of him ever hearing from God. But Abraham, and Israel both have direct physical encounters with God. In fact, Jesus says this about them:
"There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and yourselves thrust out."
Luke 13:28
Ishmael is the forefather of the Palestinians. But there is no evidence of him being a prophet.
You seem to have an objection to the fact that the Jewish PROPHETS recorded all of this accurate history. But did anyone else write down this history?
No one but the Jewish PROPHETS wrote any of it down. So this one is it.
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@clarice6656 Interesting book report, but filled with errors. I will give you a couple:
1. At one time, when the Israelites first settled Canaan, it was a fully United single Kingdom and remained a united Kingdom for a couple of hundred years. It was called the Kingdom of Israel and covered all of modern Israel, Gaza, The West Bank, and half of Jordan. There is a land deed recorded in the Bible that defines the borders.
2. At the time of conquering Canaan, it is estimated that there were about 3 million Israelites (which obviously increased).
3. The Israelites are 12 tribes who are all descended from 12 brothers. Their father was named Israel. Jewdah was one of the brothers. Calling the Jews either Jews or calling them Israelites is considered an equality, and the number of times each occurs in the Bible has no meaning.
4. Even during the time of 2 kingdoms, both kingdoms were inhabited by blood relatives who all considered themselves brothers from one forefather, Israel. They never cease to be Israelites. Calling the twin kingdoms Jewdah and Samaria does not change them from all being Israelites.
5. Jesus was a descendant of Jewdah and was of the Jewish tribe and claimed to be Jewish, but He lived in Nazareth, which is the Northern kingdom, Samaria.
6. It is well-known that during the First century Roman occupation the twin kingdoms were fully inhabited by the Israelites and the southern Kingdom was stilled called Jewdea at that time.
I am not going to address them all. But the book is obviously full of errors and a general misunderstanding of what was going on in Canaan during those times. The book appears to be trying to make a case that the Israelites were not a big deal in Canaan and therefore have no historical claim to the land. Nothing could be further from the truth. The kingdom of Israel was a huge well-populated kingdom that had kings traveling from other countries just to view the wealth and majesty of the kingdom of Israel
What I would like to address is the Biblical prophecy about the return of the Jews to their homeland. Please give me an explanation of how this prophecy spoken by Moses in the 18th century bc could be coming true in the 20th century ad :
“Now it shall come to pass, when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the Lord your God drives you, and you return to the Lord your God and obey His voice, according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart and with all your soul, that the Lord your God will bring you back from captivity, and have compassion on you, and gather you again from all the nations where the Lord your God has scattered you. If any of you are driven out to the farthest parts under heaven, from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there He will bring you. Then the Lord your God will bring you to the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it."
Deuteronomy chapter 30
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"The United States announced Monday it will send nearly $64 million in humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, a day after the United Nations issued an emergency call for $600 million to prevent famine and a public health crisis.
The U.S. was spending an estimated $300 million a day on the war in Afghanistan before its military withdrawal in recent weeks.
The Biden administration has yet to officially recognize the Taliban as Afghanistan's government since the militant group swiftly took power following the U.S. exit.
The funding will come from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the U.S. State Department and will be distributed through the U.N. and independent aid groups. The latest donation brings U.S. humanitarian spending in Afghanistan to $330 million this year, making it the largest foreign donor, USAID said.
In addition to these funds, USAID has also created a Disaster Assistance Response Team based outside Afghanistan to run the U.S. government's response to the unfolding humanitarian crisis, the release said.
As part of today's announcement of aid, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged Afghanistan's neighbors to keep their borders open to Afghan refugees and promised to work to ensure that the Taliban does not hinder humanitarian assistance, especially to vulnerable groups like women and girls.
"We will continue to press for the Taliban to respect the rights and freedoms of women and girls, and are committed to preserving the gains Afghans, especially women, have made in the past 20 years," Blinken said in a statement on Monday.
This announcement comes after the U.N. reported last week that millions in Afghanistan was beginning to run out of basic aid supplies and food."
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@annfrancis6287 Very well. Now YOU please continue to read Deuteronomy because all of God's Word applies and not just the part that fits your agenda:
“Now it shall come to pass, when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, and you [a]call them to mind among all the nations where the Lord your God drives you, 2 and you return to the Lord your God and obey His voice, according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart and with all your soul, 3 that the Lord your God will bring you back from captivity, and have compassion on you, and gather you again from all the nations where the Lord your God has scattered you. 4 If any of you are driven out to the farthest parts under heaven, from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there He will bring you. 5 Then the Lord your God will bring you to the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it. He will prosper you and multiply you more than your fathers. 6 And the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live."
Deuteronomy 30
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@squeaky206 I thought you would know the answer to this. The person just behind you @Bonnie Bucks Bar picked the right document. The document that declares where rights come from is The Declaration of Independence. The Declaration of Independence, signed on The Fourth of July, 1776 is a letter from the United States, written to the king of England, explaining to him what Americans believe and why we believe we have the right to separate from England. Here are the first two paragraphs:
"The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America:
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. . . . "
The official position of the United States government is that our human rights are bestowed upon us by the Creator.
That is the official position of the United States of America.
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@lesahenderson7365 For starters, you are completely out of line telling your elders to "grow up.'
Now I will tell you what happened in Iraq:
Iraq has a very checkered history of internal wars that you have never heard of. During those internal wars, Saddam Hussein and his government used a WMD called mustard gas on tens of thousands of his own citizens who were a minority group called Kurds.
The United Nations ordered him to destroy his WMDs or face sanctions.
Then Saddam Hussein claimed that Kuwait was stealing Iraqi oil and invaded Kuwait. Then the allies went to war against Iraq. That was in 1991.
After that war, the United Nations inspectors tried to do their inspection to see if Iraq still had the WMDs. But the Iraqi government was playing cat and mouse with the UN inspectors and the UN inspectors could not do their job.
At this point it is instructive to note that Saddam had previously built a nuclear reactor, but had dismantled it. But the UN inspectors could not verify things because of the cat and mouse game.
Following on the heels of that background, a top-level Iraqi scientist defected to Germany. The Iraqi scientist told German intelligence that he had personally worked in Iraq's WMD program and he gave long, lengthy descriptions of all of the WMDs that Iraq was currently developing and that he had worked on to German intelligence.
On the basis of what German intelligence had, Iraq was invaded.
The only one who lied here was, apparently, the Iraqi scientist/defector.
In Syria, the Syrian Democratic Force is trying to overthrow the dictator there. The United States is rendering assistance.
Now I will give you some advice about "growing up" :
1. You will be more "grown up, if you do your research, know your facts, and have your facts straight before accusing someone of lying.
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@kwasiasamani6806 Sorry. I did not think to give you the Bible prophecy involved. This is from a speech that Moses made to the Jews somewhere around 1800 bc. There are several prophecies that say this same thing, but separated by hundreds of years and slightly different wording.
“Now it shall come to pass, when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the Lord your God drives you, and you return to the Lord your God and obey His voice, according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart and with all your soul, that the Lord your God will bring you back from captivity, and have compassion on you, and gather you again from all the nations where the Lord your God has scattered you.
If any of you are driven out to the farthest parts under heaven, from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there He will bring you.
Then the Lord your God will bring you to the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it. He will prosper you and multiply you more than your fathers. And the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live."
Holy Bible book of Deuteronomy chapter 30
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@gearboxworks My advice is not to make assumptions about people you do not know. You ended up being wrong on almost everything you said.
For starters, I knew about covid when it first existed in China before anyone in the United States had even heard about it, and I was online with people in Hong Kong advising them what kind of mask to wear when covid reached Hong Kong. So you could not be more wrong.
Secondly, I see no problem at all with the government doing quarantines or requiring vaccines, as long as there is an exception for people where it violates their religious beliefs.
However, the MRNA vaccines are not traditional vaccines. They are new untested, unproven, experimental vaccines. And I hope that you would be against the government experimenting on Americans as if they are guinea pigs.
Thirdly, I am not against the government giving a TEMPORARY financial boost to the economy in an EMERGENCY SITUATION to prevent an economic depression.
Fourthly, I attended public school, and I support the idea of public schools as long as public schools are not used by the enemy to indoctrinate our children with false religious teachings.
Fifth, conservatives are strongly against any government interference in your personal life whatsoever. But obviously, that would not include murdering your own children. I should not have to explain something so obvious. 🤷
Sixth, your calling murder a "safety net" is just an outright lie. People go to Hell 🌅 for lying.
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@riceball4u172 Nice try. But you do not know the United States or economics.
The Americans are the richest people in the world and they are HUGE, HUGE consumers. It is consumer culture in America. They buy houses, cars, motorcycles, boats, recreational vehicles, watches, jewelry, clothes, shoes, new furniture for the house, buy a house at the beach, get a pickup truck, buy a riding lawnmower, trade the car for a bigger car, build a 4-car garage, sell the house and buy a bigger house with an attached garage, buy some land in the country, build a house there, build a barn, get some horses, go on vacation . . .
American life can be exhausting because it is buy, buy, buy . . . spend, spend spend. All day . . every day.
The median American income is $50,000.
The median Chinese income is $13,000.
There is no comparison.
On the other hand, only 400 million people are in the Chinese consumer economy. One billion Chinese people are sideline. They live in poverty and do not have money to spend.
China has 400 million consumers.
America has 346 million consumers.
And American consumers have 4 times more money to spend.
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This is the truth surrounding the Cuban issue:
There is no blockade around Cuba. 192 countries are free to visit and trade with Cuba anytime they like and invest in Cuban prosperity. The president of Brazil said himself that he has visited Cuba many times.
Cuba's problem is that they have an inefficient communist form of economy. Their own economic ideology is crushing them.
Cuba has sent their military to fight in Yemen, Algeria, Iraq, Syria, and . . .
. . . they also sent military to fight in Nicaragua, Bolivia, Panama, Dominica, Angola, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire), Angola and Ethiopia.
If they can send their military all over the world, they can afford to start feeding their people. 🤷♂️
Cuba's economic problems stem from the fact that their country has no industrialization.
None. Zilch. Nada. Zero. 👌
No industrialization.
The reason companies will not invest in Cuba is because in the Cuba communist revolution, the crooked communist government nationalized all of businesses and took over all of the businesses, buildings, and land in Cuba. It ALL belongs to the communist Cuban government now and all of the companies that were there lost everything. Now no companies will take the risk to go back and invest into Cuba.
And they could not do it if they wanted to because EVERYTHING belongs to the Cuban government. 🤷♀️
There is no avenue open to go invest in Cuba.
It is not the minor American embargo crushing the Cuban economy. The stupid communists have already crushed it.
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Sure we travel. On holidays like Thanksgiving or Christmas, we may drive hundreds or thousands of miles so that the entire extended family can get together at Grandma's house.
The United States is a very mobile country as we follow our jobs or careers, we move all over our country and the average home resale time is about 4 years.
I personally have lived in Indianapolis, Logansport, Greenwood, Indiana;
Houston, Texas, Presidio, Texas; Phoenix, Arizona;
San Diego, California;
West Helena, Arkansas.
Then most jobs offer 2 weeks of paid vacation and people travel across several states on vacation (depending).
And we can visit a family member or a state park closer to us on the weekend.
I will give you the names of some parks and you can look them up on the internet:
Big Bend National Park.
Yellowstone National Park
Grand Canyon National Park
Niagra Falls
Redwood National Park
Here are some state parks as they would be closer to our home:
Spring Mill State Park
Turkey Run State Park
McCormick's Creek State Park
Brown County State Park
Clifty Falls State Park
Dunes State Park
Here are some state forests:
Yellowood State Forest
Martin County State Forest
Spencer County State Forest
Pike State Forest
Of course having said all of this, when you have a city of over a million people, you cannot expect them all to behave the same way. And I am sure they are some people who never leave one city there entire lives. But that is not my culture.
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Arun Sathyan You are not the proof. You are what we call "hearsay evidence." Do you think I could go to Amnesty International and say, "Hey Amnesty International, some guy living in Donbass claims his mother's human rights are being violated. Do something."
What do you think Amnesty International is going to say to me?
1. They are going to say you are only one person with your own viewpoint, which may be right or wrong. Your opinion could be biased or you may be misinterpreting what you saw.
2. They are going to say that there are 2 sides to every story and they need to hear your attacker's side of the story to get a complete picture of what actually happened.
3. They are going to want to know the historical context of the attack to see what events led up to your attack to see WHO STARTED IT in the first place and which side is on the right and which side is on the wrong.
4. They are going to want to know if any laws were broken and who broke the law.
5. They are going to want to see some kind of hard evidence, such as photographs, news reports, coroner's statements, or medical reports, and multiple eye witness accounts from both sides.
You saying, "I lived in that neighborhood and it was a bad time to live there," does not prove anything. You did not even specify a single event that you eye-witnessed. As far as we know at this time, everything you know, you heard from some neighbor, rumor, or gossip. That is not proof.
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The fire in Odessa:
1. Was accidental.
The Left-Sector and the Right-Sector were in the streets fighting, shooting guns, throwing bricks at each other and throwing molotov cocktails. The people from the Left ran into the building to escape from the people on the Right. The building caught on fire from the molotov cocktails and they got trapped inside the burning building.
2. It was entirely done by PRIVATE CITIZENS. There were no government people involved and the Ukraine government did not authorize it and was not involved in any way.
After the fire, the local police arrested and charged 22 people who were involved.
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This is not an example of Ukraine government oppression against the Russian-speaking population.
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A useful way to understanding what is happening and who is responsible is to go back to the very first event and see who started the whole problem. I got this statement off of the internet:
"On 3 March 2014, 200–500 demonstrators with Russian flags attempted to seize the Odesa Oblast Council building(Russian: ОГА).
They demanded that a referendum on the establishment of an "Odesa Autonomous Republic" be held."
It seems that the Russian-speaking population started the whole problem by attempting to seize the local government and start their own country.
Am I right or am I missing something?
Did the Russian-speaking population start the whole problem?
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@halimj7 We have 4 books by 4 different writers. 2 of the writers walked with Jesus and talked with Him and recorded His life, times, and teachings. We know from eye-witnesses who Jesus was, what He did and what He said.
These 4 books record the following:
1. The miraculous birth of Jesus.
2. Angels singing when He is born.
3. People spontaneously prophesying when He was born.
4. Magi from Persia see his star and travel to Judea bearing gifts and WORSHIP Him.
5. An angel appears to Joseph and tells him that Jesus "Will save your people from their sins."
6. His life fulfilling various Old Testament prophecies that a messiah would come into the world and save the nation of Israel.
7. He was found in the temple teaching Jewish scholars at the age of 12.
8. He brought whole new concepts to the Earth that no prophet or holy man had ever said:
a. Do not hate your enemies -- love your enemies.
b. I am here to build the Kingdom of God.
c. A man must be BORN AGAIN.
d. If you believe in Me you will be saved -- if you reject Me, you will be lost.
e. My blood will be shed and it has the power to forgive sins.
f. Jesus predicting He will die and 3 days later will resurrect Himself.
9. A 3 year description of his life, teaching, healing people and miracles.
10. His death on the cross, with the sky darkening for 3 hours, an earthquake that rent the veil in the temple from top to bottom. (not from bottom to top).
(The veil in the temple is highly significant, as it separated the room the that only priests could enter from the common assembly room.)
11. While on the cross, he forgives the sins of the thief next to Him and says, "Today, you will be with Me in paradise."
12. While on the cross, you have Jesus speaking to both His mother and the prophet John saying, "John, take care of my mother."
13. On Sunday morning 3 days later, his tomb is empty, the grave clothes are folded.
An angel says, He is not here. He has risen from the dead.
14. Thomas tells the other prophets, "I do not believe it."
Jesus shows up alive and shows Thomas the nailprints in his hands and the swordwound in his side.
15. Thomas says, "My Lord and my God!" Then worships Jesus.
Jesus does not stop Thomas from worshiping Him.
16. Jesus says to Peter, "I will build My church."
17. Jesus calls His disciples together and says:
"All authority in Heaven and Earth has been given unto me. Go into all the Earth and preach the Good News to every creature. He who believes and is baptized shall be saved, but whoever does not believe shall be condemned."
18. Jesus was seen alive after His death by over 500 witnesses.
19. Then Jesus ascends into Heaven and an angel appears saying, "In the same way you just saw Him leave, He will return.
20. In acts chapter 2, the Holy Spirit descends upon the believers and gives POWER to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
21. It is recorded in the book of Acts that the followers of the Lord Jesus Christ are called Christians.
That is the story. We have it recorded by eye witnesses who actually lived in the first century and walked and talked with Jesus and personally witnessed everything that happened and any book that comes along later and tries to alter the story is fake.
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@halimj7 When you call the prophet Paul and the other church leaders "anonymous sources" you are lying.
Those people all have names and are no more anonymous than Muhammed, Isaiah, or Cleopatra.
Why do you feel comfortable lying to prove your point?
Some of prophet Paul's letters even say, "I am Paul and I am writing this letter to such and such church. Greetings in the name of the Lord."
That is NOT an "anonymous" letter.
We also have the whole life story of prophet Paul as told by Luke, the investigative writer and historian.
If you want to talk anonymous sources, we should be talking Genesis and Exodus. The writer of either is never named. And everything we know about Adam, Eve, Cain, Abel, Noah and his 3 sons, Abraham, Sarah, Israel, Isaac, Jacob, Esau, Joseph, Noah, and Moses comes from anonymous sources. None of it can be proven to have even really happened. Everything we know about those events come from a solo anonymous writer.
In the future, I would like to see your arguments more forthright, fair, and honest.
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@CharlesDane Did NAZI Germany or Italy have a rule that people could not leave the country?
Also, you are wrong. There are very strict controls on who may leave China and for what reason. A citizen has to apply for an exit visa from the government and they have to approve the reason for leaving. Generally your reason for leaving has to be somehow beneficial to promoting China (you will bring some useful information back when you come).
Fascism definition wikipedia:
Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, ultranationlist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation and race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.
(Some other definitions mention that it has a one-party system of government that runs the country.)
By the way:
Beijing rejected support to Evergrande because they do not have the money to do it. There is no way the CCP would let a million Chinese citizens lose their new home investments if they could prevent it.
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@Bryan.Hernandez Explain why Governor Newsom of California can answer the question, but Dr.Fakey can't.
"Governor Newsom said 87 percent of the state’s population currently falls into the purple category. San Diego and San Francisco both are rated red, which is lower risk than purple. That means they can open indoor theaters with these modifications: 25 percent capacity or 100 people, whichever is fewer.
Orange County also seems to be close to moving into red. These numbers are only 7 day averages, but the test positivity rate is 5.6 percent. It only has to be under 8 percent. The number of cases per 100,000 has to be under 25. Orange County is currently at 82.4 over 7 days. So they make the cut by one measure, but not another. That could change soonish.
Los Angeles County is on the border between purple and red. The region’s 7-day test average positivity rate is 5.6 percent, which falls below the state’s limit of 8 percent. But that average is only over 7 days. The state now requires a 21-day average below the 8 percent mark. It is unclear from the county’s COVID-19 dashboard if that is the case.
As for the other determinative metric, new COVID cases per 100,000, that number is supposed to be under 7 for three weeks in order for a county to reopen. L.A.’s number of cases per 100,000 over the past two weeks is far above that, at 13.1. Again, from a look at the county’s data web site, it is unclear what L.A.’s three-week number per 100,000 is. That would be the number state officials look at."
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@sarahgrun261 Resolution 3743 is 30 paragraphs long and most of the paragraphs are about Africa. It condemns apartheid and colonialism in Africa. These are the paragraphs about Palestine:
"Considering that the denial of the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people to self-determination, sovereignty, independence and return to Palestine and the repeated acts of aggression by Israel against the peoples of the region constitute a serious threat to international PEACE and security,
12. Strongly condemns the continued violations of the human rights of the peoples still under colonial and foreign domination and alien subjugation, the continuation of the illegal occupation of Namibia, and South Africa's attempts to dismember its Territory, the perpetuation of the racist minority régime in southern Africa and the denial to the Palestinian people of their inalienable national rights;
18. Strongly condemns those Governments that do not recognize the right to self-determination and independence of all peoples still under colonial and foreign domination and alien subjugation, notably the peoples of Africa and the Palestinian people;
21. Strongly condemns the expansionist activities of Israel in the Middle East and the continual bombing of Palestinian civilians, which constitute a serious obstacle to the realization of the self-determination and independence of the Palestinian people;
23. Urges all States, competent organizations of the United Nations system, specialized agencies and other international organizations to extend their support to the Palestinian people through its sole and legitimate representative, the Palestine Liberation Organization, in its struggle to regain its right to self-determination and independence in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations;"
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It does not say anywhere that the Palestinians should use "arms struggles" or employ terrorist techniques.
Also, it says nothing at all about Hamas and Gaza -- it is about Palestine.
And it never suggests that Hamas should fire 2500 missiles into Israel without stating their reason or objective.
Speaking as an American . . .
My forebears were forced to overthrow colonialism. And we are dead set against any type of colonialism, monarchies, fascists or dictatorship.
We support sovereignty, democracy, self-determination, human rights, dignity and independence of all peoples.
Having said that we are against terrorist attacks as a solution because they break the law, hurt innocent people, create an atmosphere of fear among both populaces and never accomplish their objective. Terrorist attacks destroy people's lives and accomplish nothing.
And . . . I am PARTICULARLY AGAINST any country starting a war that it knows it cannot win.
WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?!? 🤷♀️🤷♂️
Hamas had no right or reason to attack Israel and Israel has every right to settle this so as to make sure that it does not happen again.
Now the UN resolution implores everyone to support the PLO. So I support the PLO.
The Palestinians are foreigners, invaders, and squatters in a land that has never belonged to them. So anytime the PLO wants to get constructively involved in moving all of the invading Palestinians out of Israeli territory and resettling them in any Muslim country . . . I support the PLO in doing that.
In the meantime . . . the Palestinians are currently living in someone else's country and they need to learn how to get along PEACEFULLY and productively in someone else's country and PEACEFULLY obey all the laws of the land.
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@anon7264 3 sides.
Inside. Outside. Hell.
United States Congressional Record--Appendix, pp. A34-A35 January 10, 1963
EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, January 10, 1963
Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America.
At Mrs. Nordman's request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following "Current Communist Goals," which she identifies as an excerpt from "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen:
From "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen
CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament by the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use "united force" to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems]. Give the World Court jurisdiction over nations and individuals alike.
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@marisol7792 Try this one:
"When the Lord your God brings you [Israelites] into the land which you go to possess, and has cast out many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you, and when the Lord your God delivers them over to you, you shall conquer them and utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them nor show mercy to them. Nor shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to their son, nor take their daughter for your son. For they will turn your sons away from following Me, to serve other gods; so the anger of the Lord will be aroused against you and destroy you suddenly.
But thus you shall deal with them: you shall destroy their altars, and break down their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden images, and burn their carved images with fire."
Deuteronomy 7
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@dogsbestfriend8988 I am a Levite:
"When Moses approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, his anger burned and he threw the tablets out of his hands, breaking them to pieces at the foot of the mountain.
And he took the calf the people had made and burned it in the fire; then he ground it to powder, scattered it on the water and made the Israelites drink it.
He said to Aaron, “What did these people do to you, that you led them into such great sin?”
“Do not be angry, my lord,” Aaron answered. “You know how prone these people are to evil. They said to me, ‘Make us gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don’t know what has happened to him.’
So I told them, ‘Whoever has any gold jewelry, take it off.’ Then they gave me the gold, and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf!”
Moses saw that the people were running wild and that Aaron had let them get out of control and so become a laughingstock to their enemies. So he stood at the entrance to the camp and said,
“Whoever is for the Lord, come to me.” And all the Levites rallied to him.
Then he said to them, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘Each man strap a sword to his side. Go back and forth through the camp from one end to the other, each killing his brother and friend and neighbor.’”
The Levites did as Moses commanded, and that day about three thousand of the people died.
Then Moses said, “You have been set apart to the Lord today, for you were against your own sons and brothers, and He has blessed you this day."
Exodus chapter 32
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“When the Lord your God brings you [Israelites] into the land which you go to possess, and has cast out many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you, and when the Lord your God delivers them over to you, you shall conquer them and utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them nor show mercy to them. Nor shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to their son, nor take their daughter for your son. For they will turn your sons away from following Me, to serve other gods; so the anger of the Lord will be aroused against you and destroy you suddenly.
But thus you shall deal with them: you shall destroy their altars, and break down their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden images, and burn their carved images with fire.
For you are a holy people to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has CHOSEN YOU to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth.
The Lord did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any other people, for you were the least of all peoples; but because the Lord loves you, and because He would keep the oath which He swore to your fathers. The Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
Therefore know that the Lord your God, He is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments; and He repays those who hate Him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be slack with him who hates Him; He will repay him to his face. Therefore you shall keep the commandment, the statutes, and the judgments which I command you today, to observe them.
Then it shall come to pass, because you listen to these judgments, and keep and do them, that the Lord your God will keep with you the covenant and the mercy which He swore to your fathers. And He will love you and bless you and multiply you; He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flock, in the land of which He swore to your fathers to give you.
You shall be blessed above all peoples; there shall not be a male or female barren among you or among your livestock. And the Lord will take away from you all sickness, and will afflict you with none of the terrible diseases of Egypt which you have known, but will lay them on all those who hate you. Also you shall destroy all the peoples whom the Lord your God delivers over to you; your eye shall have no pity on them; nor shall you serve their gods, for that will be a snare to you."
Torah \ Holy Bible book of Deuteronomy chapter 7
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@ibrahimjoel6080 Well to be more specific:
Arms manufacturers sell more weapons and benefit that way, and it keeps their employees working, so their employees benefit.
But who pays for all of the weapons?
American taxpayers pay.
Who pays for all of the extra fuel the military uses?
American taxpayers pay.
Who pays for the logistics to bring food, medicine, doctors, and hospitals half-way around the world?
American taxpayers do.
Whose sons, brothers, uncles and fathers come home in body bags?
The sons, brothers, uncles, and fathers of American citizens.
The United States does not benefit from ANY war -- and the same is for anyone else who wages war. 😎👍🇺🇸 ✝️
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@kpokpojiji It is not okay with me that anyone gets shot. But since no one cares to address the real causes, that is out of my hands.
There are no statistics on how many school children got shot. But it does say this:
"An “alarming” 80 per cent increase in sexual violence in Somalia, as documented in two recent reports by the Secretary-General, has been described as “appalling” by two UN Special Representatives.
“We urge all parties to the conflict in Somalia to immediately cease these violations”, the Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, Virginia Gamba, and the Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Pramila Patten said in a statement.
The reports (the Report of the Secretary-General on Children and Armed Conflict and the Report of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict.) documented that in 2020, 400 civilians, primarily girls, were victims of rape and other forms of sexual violence.
This represented an almost 80 per cent increase compared to 2019.
More than 100 cases of sexual violence against girls were verified by the UN in the first quarter of 2021. Perpetrators often exploited the vulnerability of displaced girls, targeting them when they left camps to perform domestic chores, the reports noted. "
Cases of sexual violence attributed to Al-Shabaab has doubled, the report found, describing how the Islamist militant group continues to use sexual violence and forced marriage to dominate areas under their de facto control.
Violations carried out by clan militia has also almost tripled over the past year. These have been linked to a PROLIFERATION OF SMALL ARMS AND LIGHT WEAPONS.
In the vast majority of cases, the culprits remain unidentified, which perpetuates the cycle of impunity.
The two senior UN experts also expressed serious concern that over 15 per cent of all cases of sexual violence verified, were attributed to the Government security forces.
Both the Somali National Army and the Somali Police Force, as well as regional forces, committed acts of rape and other forms of sexual violence against women and children.
(Note: Somalia has a 100% ban on civilian-owned guns and the United Nations has a ban on selling any guns whatsoever to Somalia)
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United States Congressional Record--Appendix, pp. A34-A35 January 10, 1963
EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, January 10, 1963
Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America.
At Mrs. Nordman's request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following "Current Communist Goals," which she identifies as an excerpt from "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen:
From "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen
CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament by the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use "united force" to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems]. Give the World Court jurisdiction over nations and individuals alike.
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Claiming that the United States "was built on the backs of Black slaves" is a common cultural lie in America that a lot of Black people believe. But the facts are that the slaves worked in tobacco and cotton fields in the southern states, and those states were (and are) the poverty-stricken states that contribute the least to the U.S. economy. It was the FREE industrialized North that brought in all of the money, and inventions, and made America the powerhouse that it is today.
Yet, you heard him say, "Everybody knows this." And then go on to say something that is not close to true.
Slavery ended in 1863 before the industrial age. The slaves did not contribute to American industry at all.
When the industrial age started, it was concentrated in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan. This where we produced steel in steel mills and built the cars, and railroads.
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@shadowmoon9785
United States Congressional Record--Appendix, pp. A34-A35 January 10, 1963
EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, January 10, 1963
Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America.
At Mrs. Nordman's request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following "Current Communist Goals," which she identifies as an excerpt from "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen:
From "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen
CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament by the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use "united force" to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems]. Give the World Court jurisdiction over nations and individuals alike.
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This is brainwashing. You have already been brainwashed. But this is special brainwashing just for the Muslims:
XINING, China — The Dongguan Mosque has adopted some very different looks in its nearly 700 years in China's northwestern city of Xining. Built in the style of a Chinese imperial palace, with tiled roofs and no domes, and adorned with Buddhist symbols, the mosque was nearly destroyed by neglect during political tumult in the early 20th century. In the 1990s, authorities replaced the original ceramic tiles on the roof and minarets with green domes.
This year, provincial authorities lopped off those domes.
"The government says they want us to 'sinify' our mosques, so they look more like Beijing's Tiananmen Square," says Ali, a Muslim farmer selling pomegranates outside the mosque. He requested that NPR use only his first name because residents have been ordered not to speak about the dome removals. "I think the mosque looks good either way, but what say do we have anyways?"
China is removing the domes and minarets from thousands of mosques across the country. Authorities say the domes are evidence of foreign religious influence and are taking down overtly Islamic architecture as part of a push to sinicize historically Muslim ethnic groups — to make them more traditionally Chinese.
The campaign comes amid rising Islamophobia in China and growing religious restrictions, touching off a discussion across the country among scholars, ethnic policy regulators and historically Muslim Chinese communities about what exactly should be considered "Chinese" to begin with.
China's ethnic policy is directly modeled on the Soviet approach, classifying citizens into 55 distinct ethnic minority groups, each of which, in theory, is granted limited cultural autonomy within its territory. But experts say the Communist Party under Xi Jinping's rule has shifted to a new approach, one that favors integration and assimilation — a process dubbed "sinicization" in official speeches and documents.
"A very liberal or positive view of all this [sinicization] is just basically to compare it to, say, what's it like to become an American citizen? You accommodate and people adjust," says Dru Gladney, an expert on Islam in China at Pomona College.
After more than 1,300 years of living and intermarrying in China, Hui Muslims — who number about 10.5 million, less than 1% of China's population — have adjusted by becoming culturally and linguistically Chinese. They even made their version of Islam accessible to Confucians and Daoists — trying to show it as inherently Chinese and not a foreign influence — by adopting spiritual concepts and terms found in ancient Chinese philosophy to explain Islamic precepts.
Various Hui sects have also incorporated Chinese religious practices into their worship, such as burning incense at religious ceremonies. Hui communities in central Henan province are even known for their female-only and female-led mosques, believed to be a uniquely long tradition in China.
The problem from Chinese authorities' perspective, says Gladney, is that the Hui are not Chinese in the way sinicization proponents want: "When people make this one-way argument of sinicization, I think they're confusing that with Han-isization" — in other words, making Chinese Muslims more like China's Han ethnic majority.
Beijing has a much narrower understanding of what being "Chinese" means – adhering to Communist Party values, speaking only Mandarin Chinese and rejecting all foreign influence, say scholars.
"The Communists nowadays try to culturally rule China," says Ma Haiyun, an associate history professor at Frostburg University.
The streets of Xining city in China's Qinghai province are redolent with reminders of China's historically multiethnic and co-religious composition. Many people wear the white cap or scarf favored by Hui Muslims, and visitors are equally likely to hear Mandarin Chinese as the Tibetan spoken by about a fifth of Qinhai's population. Roughly one-sixth of the province's population belongs to ethnic groups China classifies as Muslim.
At the heart of the city's hustle and bustle is the Dongguan Mosque, Xining's largest. In restaurants that crowd the alleyways around the mosque, vendors hand-pull halal beef soup noodles. Carts piled with dates and almonds cluster under brick archways.
But missing are the big green domes that once crowned its minarets and prayer hall. Under the slogan of "removing Saudi and Arabic influence," authorities have torn down the domes from most mosques across China's northwest as part of a national removal campaign that began in earnest in 2018
Xi first called for sinicization in 2016. In August, he gave a speech saying religious and ethnic groups should "hold high the banner of Chinese unity" — meaning they should put Chinese culture ahead of ethnic differences.
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@shadowmoon9785 We do not want to shoot down your space station -- we want to have "shared future for mankind."
Back in the 1950s and the 1960s the Soviet Union and the United States were engaged in a contest called "The Space Race." Each country wanted to prove that it was technologically superior to the other. The Space Race was not only about competition between countries, but each country wanted to prove that their economic system was better, with the USSR competing on behalf of the communist economic/social system and the USA competing for the capitalist system.
In 1957 the Soviet Union put the first satellite in orbit called Sputnik. It was a test satellite that sent a radio signal back to earth for 3 weeks before the batteries died. It was a big deal worldwide because the Soviets proved that they could do it first.
In 1962 the United States put the first active telecommunications satellite in orbit called Telstar.
In 1969, the United States put the first man on the moon. It was a crew of 3 -- Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins. They walked around on the moon's surface, drove around on the moon in an electric dune-buggy called the Lunar Rover and planted an American flag on the moon.
Neil Armstrong was the first man out of the space capsule and when he put foot on the moon, he made this world-renowned statement:
"One small step for man -- one giant leap for mankind."
The mission was called Apollo 11.
The Apollo 11 mission ended the Space Race because having your men actually walk on the moon was the crowning achievement.
The next thing up was the United States wanted to put a scientific research lab into orbit so they could do scientific research under zero gravity conditions.
In 1973 the United States put a research lab into orbit called Skylab. It was viable from until 1979 and the United States sent several teams of scientists up to do research.
During those years, NASA invented many new inventions, including solar panels and aluminum foil.
However, the United States had been sending men up in non-reusable rocketships (which was expensive). So they saw the need to develop a bus that could go up into space and come back. So in 1981 the United States fielded the Space Shuttle. The Space Shuttle is a reusable space airplane with wings that can go up into space like a rocket, but return to Earth like an airplane.
In 1971 Russia put a space station up called Salyut 1, but it was only viable for 6 months then fell back to Earth.
In 1972 Russia attempted to put a space station called DOS-2, but it was lost on launch.
In 1973 the Soviets put up a space station called Salyut 2, but it failed and returned to Earth 54 days later.
In 1973 the Russians launched another Space Station called Kosmos 557. It lasted 11 days.
In 1974 the Russians put up a space station called Salyut 3. It was billed as a civilian space station by the Russians, but secretly it was a military space station. It came down in 1975.
Also in 1974 Russia put up a space station called Salyut 4. It was their first successful space station and remained in orbit until 1977.
In 1976 the Russians put up another military space station called Salyut 5. It was up 412 days.
In 1977 the Russians put up a space station called Salyut 6. It stayed up until 1982.
1982 the Russians put up a space station called Salyut 7 until 1991.
1986 to 2001 the Soviet Union (and later Russia) operated a full-size zero gravity scientific research space station called Mir.
2011 to 2018 China operated a viable research space station called Tiangong-1.
2016 to 2019 China operated a test space station called Tiangong-2.
2021 China put up the current Tiangong space station. It is a fully viable scientific research space station able to a crew of 6.
The well-known International Space Station is a joint venture by five space agencies: the United States, Russia, Japan, Europe and Canada. It was launched in 1998.
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@shadowmoon9785 And how would you expect the protesters to respond after the PLA shot them with rifles and ran over them with tanks? They were both enraged by their government's actions and DEFENDING THEMSELVES.
What happened in China was a home-grown democracy movement that had been growing for years and I can guarantee you that the CIA was not involved in any way shape or form. It was entirely Chinese.
There was no "color revolution." In fact, there was no "revolution" at all. It was an entirely PEACEFUL protest where the students were peacefully requesting DIALOGUE with the government (and their own government murdered them for requesting dialogue). (i.e. blocking the square)
The CIA did not inspire the Democracy Movement. But AFTER June 4th, the CIA was involved in helping certain wanted students flee the country.
However, anytime the CIA wants to run a color revolution against the SCOURGE OF COMMUNISM, I will be first in line to donate to the CIA.
That entire week there were reporters from all over the world in Beijing because they were covering the Sino-Soviet Summit and Gorbachev came to Tiananmen Square. Therefore . . .
The whole event was broadcast live to television networks around the world. I personally watched it live and we (the world) still have all of the videos from television stations from around the world.
Some of the videos are posted on utube. You can look them up and see for yourself.
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And yes you do have a fifty-cent army. Why do I know about it when you don't?
And one thing you seem to be failing to get is that the United States government does not tell us ANYTHING. It is an American form of government -- not a communist one. If you know so much about American history why don't you know that our government never tells us anything?
It was not my government who told me China censures June 4th -- MAINLAND Chinese people told me that. My government has never even mentioned it. I asked you the question because we actually had a foreign exchange student here from China and when the professor started teaching on Tiananmen Square, the Chinese student got very upset and claimed she was making it all up and lying.
Our government has no control over what goes into our history books and no control over what the media says. That non-interference concept is foundational to the democratic form of government. You should know that.
(and no . . . having our government NOT try to influence me does not scare me)
What scares me is the way your government brainwashes you. You are so accustomed to your government telling you everything and brainwashing you daily that it is all you know. You cannot even conceive of a western-style government that just quietly does the job they were elected to do and obeys the wishes of the people.
And the PLA (probably) blew up the pipeline. Who has the most to gain from damaging European economy?
CHINA!
And we shot down the "weather balloon" because it was spying on U.S. missile bases and that was confirmed before we killed it.
Also . . .
You could not possibly know "every part" of our history -- that is not even possible. It is hard enough for me to know it all.
And if you know so much about American history, why did you ask me the space station question? If you knew American history, you would know about our space station.
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To make sure you clearly understand what happened on June 4th, I am giving you one specific video. In this video, you can see the students capture a PLA soldier and when one of the students starts to hit him, the other students stop him. And you can see that it was a peaceful protest. It is in this video.
I am blocked from doing links on utube. So I will give you the title of the video. Put the title in the utube search box and the video will come up. This is the title:
Tiananmen Square Massacre: Black Night In June (2019)
This other video is a documentary produced by a private company. You can watch this video and it is obvious that there is no "color revolution" going on. This is the title to the video:
Footage shows what really happened in lead-up to Tiananmen Square massacre | Four Corners
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@shadowmoon9785 Your mistake here is believing that the 2 videos show the same incident. They are not of the same incident.
The American media published their video first. But the CCP does not like to have anything bad said about China:
So after the American media published the video, the Chinese government dug through their old videos files and audio files to find some older incidents and put together the second propaganda video.
Now in the American video, the American pilot believed that the Chinese pilot made an unsafe maneuver. As a professional, when the pilot returns to base he writes a report and turns that report into his commander. Then his base commander sends a report to the Pentagon. Then the Pentagon makes the video public to the media. Then the media shows the video publicly.
You can see the text at the bottom of the video says the Pentagon is the source of the report.
The media did not lie -- the media reported exactly what the Pentagon told them. Reporting what the Pentagon tells you is not lying.
The pilot believed that the maneuver was unsafe and reported his belief. When you report your true belief about anything, you are not lying because it is your true belief.
The Pentagon has professionals who can look at the video and decide if the maneuver was unsafe, and those professional made the right judgement -- the Chinese plane was too close.
Now in the Chinese video (the propaganda video), the video is showing 2 separate (older) incidences:
The first incidence is involving 1 airplane only (and shows a picture of an unrelated ship); the second incidence is involving 2 airplanes.
In the first incidence, the Chinese pilot says: you are APPROACHING Chinese airspace and the American pilot responds by saying, "I am on the right course."
The American aircraft was flying in INTERNATIONAL AIRSPACE and was NOT "playing chicken."
In the second video, the ship says you are too close and the American pilot says, "I am not too close and I will be careful."
That is NOT "playing chicken."
What you may not be aware is that this happens almost every day between various countries.
Almost every day, Chinese jet fighters fly too close to Tawain and Tawain says, "You are too close."
In Alaska, Russian jetfighters fly too close to American jets and the American jet says, "You are too close."
Near Alaska, Russian jets get too close to American ships and they get warned off.
It also happens a lot in the Baltics and near the UK, where Russian jets fly too close to American jets.
It also happens near Japan where Chinese jets fly too close to the Japanese islands.
This event happens almost every day somewhere around the world where a jet from some country APPROACHES another country's airspace and are told they are too close and the other country warns them. It happens a lot in the Suez Canal.
And it is NOT "playing chicken" -- it is standard military procedure.
Now you need to look closer at the Chinese propaganda video because it does not show what you are claiming it shows.
The Chinese propaganda video is a patchwork of several different incidents and the audio does not even match the pictures.
In the video that claims that the American plane is APPROACHING Chinese airspace, you never actually see a picture of the American plane . . . Do you?
What you do see is a video getting closer and closer to the ship that was taken with a CHINESE camera. There is NO American airplane shown at all. 🤷♀️ 🤷♂️
That is all fake -- it is propaganda.
The second part of the Chinese propaganda video actually patches together a couple of different plane incidents and the audio is from some other incident altogether. It is not a contiguous video.
The facts are that the Chinese video is a fake propaganda video patched together from several previous incidents in an attempt to show the American pilots "playing chicken."
Anyone can see that the Chinese propaganda video is fake and (as usual) the CCP is lying.
Your government is counting on your people believing their fake propaganda video because for the last 70 years, they have limited your access to real-world information. They have made the Chinese people into simple-minded creatures who do not have the necessary information or the critical thinking skills to analyze a simple fake video.
That is brainwashing.
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Boy are you mixed up:
1. The United States is on excellent terms with China. China has "most favored nation" trading status with the United States. China is the United States' number 1 trading partner – the United States is China's number 1 trading partner. These 2 countries do more trade than any other 2 countries in the world.
One million Chinese foreign exchange students study in American universities every year.
2. NATO was created to secure peace in Europe, to promote cooperation among its members and to GUARD THEIR FREEDOM – all of this in the context of countering the THREAT posed at the time by the Soviet Union.
(Taken from NATO's website.)
3. Russia has never submitted an application to join NATO.
4. No one ever promised that NATO would not expand.
5. "Starting on July 11, tens of thousands of Cubans in dozens of cities and towns throughout their country took to the streets to peacefully demand respect for their fundamental freedoms and a better future. In response, the Cuban regime violently repressed the protests, arresting hundreds of demonstrators simply for exercising their human rights of freedom of expression and peaceful assembly. The actions of Cuban security forces and violent mobs mobilized by Cuban Communist Party First Secretary Miguel Diaz-Canel lay bare the regime’s fear of its own people and unwillingness to meet their basic needs and aspirations.
Today, the United States is imposing sanctions on Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cuba Álvaro López Miera and the Cuban Ministry of the Interior’s Special National Brigade or “Boinas Negras” (Black Berets). López Miera and the Special National Brigade have been involved in suppressing the protests, including through physical violence and intimidation. We take this action pursuant to Executive Order 13818, which builds upon and implements the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act.
WE STAND WITH EVERY CUBAN seeking a government that respects the HUMAN RIGHTS and DIGNITY of the Cuban people. We will continue to take action to promote accountability for the Cuban government’s HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES, including through additional sanctions pursuant to Global Magnitsky, as appropriate."
* Official United States government document July 22, 2021 *
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@shadowmoon9785 Your video does NOT say Iran and Saudi Arabia are "becoming friends again." It says they had to find some way to get along in order to avoid killing each other.
It also says that "America is the big guarantor of peace in the region." Without the Americans guaranteeing the peace, it would be much more difficult for these two countries to come together. You should give us some credit for being the guarantor of peace.
Technically, countries cannot be "friends" like people can, but let's look at the facts:
The United States has diplomatic relations with every country in the world except, Bhutan, Iran, North Korea and Syria.
The United States was once at war with the U.K. but has become friends.
The United States was once at war with Spain but has become friends.
The United States was once at war with Mexico but has become friends.
The United States was once at war with Germany but has become friends.
The United States was once at war with Italy but has become friends.
The United States was once at war with Japan but has become friends, spending 7 years rebuilding Japan after the war.
(We dropped 2 atom bombs on Japan and STILL we were able to become friends.)
The United States fought a war with Iraq and has now become friends.
The United States fought a war in Afghanistan and then spent 20 years building schools, roads, and bridges and helped them set up a democratic government. Last year alone, the United States gave $775 million in humanitarian aid to Afghanistan.
The United States resolved the Cold War with Russia and became friends.
At a time when Chinese were living in abject poverty and no one in the world would have any dealings at all with China because they were communist (except Russia), the United States government sent a team of Ping Pong players to play Ping Pong with the Chinese Ping Pong team and to meet with Mao Zedong.
After opening the door to relations with China through the Ping Pong tournament, President Nixon traveled to Beijing and signed the Shanghai Communiqué that said that the United States and China would begin working together to normalize relations and learn to be friends. That meeting was the start of China's rise and we have worked with China and helped China every step of the way.
I would say that the United States is the WORLD CHAMPION at friend-making.
And what really gets me is how you can be so critical of the United States after we single-handedly built China into what it is today -- I can only guess that it is your brainwashing and you have been blocked from knowing the U.S. contributions to China.
Dude! We CREATED your industrial age!
The United States rebuilt China from nothing and your explanation is that it only happened because "it was meant to be."
SHEESH! 🤷♀️
What gratitude! 🤷♂️
Shadowmoon . . . . You do not have the humility of Confucius -- you have the arrogance of the Hun.
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And war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought with the dragon; and the dragon and his angels fought, but they did not prevail, nor was a place found for them in heaven any longer. So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years; and he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal on him, so that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were finished.
Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea. Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.”
And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the middle of its street, and on either side of the river, was the tree of life, which bore twelve fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. And there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall serve Him. They shall see His face, and His name shall be on their foreheads. There shall be no night there: They need no lamp nor light of the sun, for the Lord God gives them light. And they shall reign forever and ever.
Selected Passages from the Book of Revelation
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@DiogoJ1
"And Adah bore Jabal. He was the father of those who dwell in tents and have livestock.
His brother’s name was Jubal. He was the father of all those who play the harp and flute.
And as for Zillah, she also bore Tubal-Cain, an instructor of every craftsman in bronze and iron."
Genesis 4:20
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"Behold, I Myself have taken your brethren the Levites from among the children of Israel; they are a gift to you, given by the Lord, to do the work of the tabernacle of meeting. Therefore you and your sons with you shall attend to your priesthood for everything at the altar and behind the veil; and you shall serve. I give your priesthood to you as a gift for service, but the outsider who comes near shall be put to death.”
Numbers 18:6
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" So Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done to him.
Then he said:
“Cursed be Canaan;
A servant of servants
He shall be to his brethren.”
And he said:
“Blessed be the Lord,
The God of Shem,
And may Canaan be his servant.
May God enlarge Japheth,
And may he dwell in the tents of Shem;
And may Canaan be his servant.”
Genesis 9:24
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@nbomb12 I never assume anything.
The information I gave you does not include the Delta variant because there is not enough information to talk about it. So I did not include that.
If a person with lung damage so bad that they cannot speak recovers . . . they have survived.
If a person has to mortgage their house to pay their bills, they have survived and have a long time to work it off and recover financially.
Do think everybody should just have everything easy??
You are talking to a guy who lives in a tent. I would LOVE to have a mortgage for the rest of my life . . but I do not qualify for one.
We all have different tribulations and challenges in our lives to overcome. That is a normal part of life.
I personally have an unknown illness that causes daily migraines and vomiting in the middle of the night and has caused me to be bedridden, jobless, and homeless for many years. Do you hear me complaining?
That is not the same thing as dying -- dying is at a whole nother level.
When I was in high school, I had a fever of 105° and was delirious for a day and my mother had to put ice on me to keep me alive -- that is a normal part of life . . but I did not die.
My mother missed 8 months of high school because she was sick in bed and they had to send her schoolwork home everyday and she did it in bed. That is normal life . . . but she did not die.
A lot of illnesses are tough, but dying is a whole different level of consideration.
When the Supreme Court makes a judgment of balance, they will take into account whether the disease is a deadly disease or not. If it is a deadly disease, the weight will go more to one side. But if it is not a deadly disease, it will go more to the other side.
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Also, I think your judgment is biased because of your profession. That is why I do not think health departments should be allowed to make laws. They have a biased judgment, and may not realize that the decision they make "based on the science" is a decision that will cause people to lose their job and become homeless.
When you make a decision like that to save the quality of one person's life, it affects the quality of someone else's life.
Politicians have more rounded judgment and consider the larger picture. So they should make the laws.
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@SarahBaker-q9k
3 Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian. And he led the flock to the back of the desert, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. 2 And the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of a bush. So he looked, and behold, the bush was burning with fire, but the bush was not consumed. 3 Then Moses said, “I will now turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush does not burn.”
4 So when the Lord saw that he turned aside to look, God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, “Moses, Moses!”
And he said, “Here I am.”
5 Then He said, “Do not draw near this place. Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground.” 6 Moreover He said, “I am the God of your father—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look upon God."
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@lobstermash French fries without the ketchup.
McDonald's breakfast: Bacon, ham, eggs, cheese, hashbrowns
Taco Bell using corn tortillas
KFC: Corn, Green Beans, Mashed Potatoes, a tiny bit of flour on the chicken
Baked potato with sour cream at Wendy's.
Ceasar salad with ranch dressing.
A tiny bit of flour on Onion Rings
You can get a hamburger, chicken sandwich, fish sandwich, or Egg McMuffin and toss the bun.
Lots, actually.
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@vinista256 You are living in denial imagination in your head.
It is not "theory" that we have Black presidents, vice presidents, military generals, congress people, senator, governors, mayors, sports stars, movie stars, rock & roll singers, college professors, attorneys, restaurant owners, store owners, and more, who have all been raised up out of slavery.
It is reality.
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“When the Lord your God brings you [Israelites] into the land which you go to possess, and has cast out many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you, and when the Lord your God delivers them over to you, you shall conquer them and utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them nor show mercy to them. Nor shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to their son, nor take their daughter for your son. For they will turn your sons away from following Me, to serve other gods; so the anger of the Lord will be aroused against you and destroy you suddenly.
But thus you shall deal with them: you shall destroy their altars, and break down their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden images, and burn their carved images with fire."
From a speech by Prophet Moses
Torah\Holy Bible book of Deuteronomy chapter 7
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@soniahemmati2372
The Jews did it. Pontius Pilate was in no position to say no to an angry mob:
"Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head. They clothed him in a purple robe and went up to him again and again, saying, “Hail, king of the Jews!” And they slapped him in the face.
Once more Pilate came out and said to the Jews gathered there, “Look, I am bringing him out to you to let you know that I find no basis for a charge against him.” When Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, Pilate said to them, “Here is the man!”
As soon as the chief priests and their officials saw him, they shouted, “Crucify! Crucify!”
But Pilate answered, “You take him and crucify him. As for me, I find no basis for a charge against him.”
The Jewish leaders insisted, “We have a law, and according to that law he must die, because he claimed to be the Son of God.”
When Pilate heard this, he was even more afraid, and he went back inside the palace. “Where do you come from?” he asked Jesus, but Jesus gave him no answer. “Do you refuse to speak to me?” Pilate said. “Don’t you realize I have power either to free you or to crucify you?”
Jesus answered, “You would have no power over me if it were not given to you from above. Therefore the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin.”
From then on, Pilate tried to set Jesus free, but the Jewish leaders kept shouting, “If you let this man go, you are no friend of Caesar. Anyone who claims to be a king opposes Caesar.”
When Pilate heard this, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judge’s seat at a place known as the Stone Pavement (which in Aramaic is Gabbatha). It was the day of Preparation of the Passover; it was about noon.
“Here is your king,” Pilate said to the Jews.
But they shouted, “Take him away! Take him away! Crucify him!”
“Shall I crucify your king?” Pilate asked.
“We have no king but Caesar,” the chief priests answered.
Finally Pilate handed him over to them to be crucified."
John chapter 19
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Jesus' message of salvation was not for the Jews only. It is an offer to all people of the world to join the Kingdom of God:
“I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me— just as the Father knows me and I know the Father—and I lay down my life for the sheep. I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd. The reason my Father loves me is that I lay down my life—only to take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father.”
John chapter 10
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"Later Jesus appeared to the Eleven as they were eating; he rebuked them for their lack of faith and their stubborn refusal to believe those who had seen him after he had risen.
He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned."
Mark chapter 16
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@dalhaw6760
" Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?
2 Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
3 Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?
4 Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?
5 Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?
6 Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?
7 Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?
8 Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.
9 Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?
10 None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?
11 Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.
12 I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion.
13 Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to him with his double bridle?
14 Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.
15 His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.
16 One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.
17 They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.
18 By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
19 Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.
20 Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.
21 His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.
22 In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him.
23 The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.
24 His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.
25 When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves.
26 The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.
27 He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.
28 The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble.
29 Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.
30 Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.
31 He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.
32 He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary.
33 Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.
34 He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride."
Holy Bible; Job chapter 41
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@truxton1000 Canada is going into deep recession over their tariffs, UK is crushed due to Brexit, Germany is in trouble because their manufactung is facing double LNG prices, Russia's economy is way down, Japan is in stagnation.
China's economy has been deflating for 3 years. They never recovered from covid, their massive real estate balloon is punctured, all of the factories in China have been offshoring to neighboring countries since the 2018 Trump tariffs. China has been drawing down their treasures since the 2008 crash and using the money to prop up the yuan. They CBOC was forced to relax banking reserves, and Chinese banks are running with 3 to 4% reserves on hand.
Africa is broke and having rolling blackouts due to government mismanagement of their economy.
America is the number one trading partner of China, India, Canada, Mexico, Korea, European and other countries. When the United States goes into recession, everybody does.
The United States is implementing retaliatory tariffs on all of those countries. All of those countries are implementing retaliatory tariffs back onto the United States.
Consumers cannot pay that. All trading is going to stop. The world economy is going to collapse, just like during covid. But there will be no way out.
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United States Congressional Record--Appendix, pp. A34-A35 January 10, 1963
EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, January 10, 1963
Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America.
At Mrs. Nordman's request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following "Current Communist Goals," which she identifies as an excerpt from "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen:
From "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen
CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament by the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use "united force" to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems]. Give the World Court jurisdiction over nations and individuals alike.
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Ali abbas Mosafari
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
Constitution of the United States of America -- amendment 14.
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Employer Practices
"It shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer -
(1) to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual, or otherwise to discriminate against any individual with respect to his compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because of such individual's race, color, religion, sex, or national origin; or
(2) to limit, segregate, or classify his employees or applicants for employment in any way which would deprive or tend to deprive any individual of employment opportunities or otherwise adversely affect his status as an employee, because of such individual's race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
United States Law Title VII
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Housing Practices
"As made applicable by section 803 of this title and except as exempted by sections 803(b) and 807 of this title, it shall be unlawful--
(a) To refuse to sell or rent after the making of a bona fide offer, or to refuse to negotiate for the sale or rental of, or otherwise make unavailable or deny, a dwelling to any person because of race, color, religion, sex, familial status, or national origin.
(b) To discriminate against any person in the terms, conditions, or privileges of sale or rental of a dwelling, or in the provision of services or facilities in connection therewith, because of race, color, religion, sex, familial status, or national origin.
(c) To make, print, or publish, or cause to be made, printed, or published any notice, statement, or advertisement, with respect to the sale or rental of a dwelling that indicates any preference, limitation, or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin, or an intention to make any such preference, limitation, or discrimination.
(d) To represent to any person because of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin that any dwelling is not available for inspection, sale, or rental when such dwelling is in fact so available.
(e) For profit, to induce or attempt to induce any person to sell or rent any dwelling by representations regarding the entry or prospective entry into the neighborhood of a person or persons of a particular race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin."
United States Law Title 42
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Then [a]I stood on the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast rising up out of the sea, having [b]seven heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns, and on his heads a blasphemous name. 2 Now the beast which I saw was like a leopard, his feet were like the feet of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. The dragon gave him his power, his throne, and great authority. 3 And I saw one of his heads as if it had been mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed. And all the world marveled and followed the beast. 4 So THEY WORSHIPPED THE DRAGON who gave authority to the beast; and THEY WORSHIPPED THE BEAST, saying, “Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?”
5 And he was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and he was given authority to [c]continue for forty-two months. 6 Then he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name, His tabernacle, and those who dwell in heaven. 7 It was granted to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them. And authority was given him over every [d]tribe, tongue, and nation. 8 ALL WHO DWELL ON THE EARTH will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
9 If anyone has an ear, let him hear. 10 He who leads into captivity shall go into captivity; he who kills with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the [e]patience and the faith of the saints.
11 Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon. 12 And he exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence, and causes the earth and those who dwell in it to WORSHIP THE FIRST BEAST, whose deadly wound was healed. 13 He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men. 14 And he deceives [f]those who dwell on the earth by those signs which he was granted to do in the sight of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword and lived. 15 He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not WORSHIP THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST to be KILLED. 16 He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, 17 and that no one may buy or sell except one who has [g]the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name
Revelation chapter 13
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The Romans did not kill Jesus -- the Jews did. Study your Bible and stop believing quickly put together videos by Hindus that do not know European history.
"So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. And the soldiers twisted a crown of thorns and put it on His head, and they put on Him a purple robe. Then they said, “Hail, King of the Jews!” And they struck Him with their hands.
Pilate then went out again, and said to them, “Behold, I am bringing Him out to you, that you may know that I find no fault in Him.”
Then Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. And Pilate said to them,
“Behold the Man!”
Therefore, when the chief priests and officers saw Him, they cried out, saying,
“Crucify Him, crucify Him!”
Pilate said to them,
“You take Him and crucify Him, for I find no fault in Him.”
The Jews answered him,
“We have a law, and according to our law He ought to die, because He made Himself the Son of God.”
Therefore, when Pilate heard that saying, he was the more afraid and went again into the Praetorium, and said to Jesus,
“Where are You from?”
But Jesus gave him no answer.
Then Pilate said to Him,
“Are You not speaking to me? Do You not know that I have power to crucify You, and power to release You?”
Jesus answered,
“You could have no power at all against Me unless it had been given you from above. Therefore the one who delivered Me to you has the greater sin.”
From then on Pilate sought to release Him, but the Jews cried out, saying,
“If you let this Man go, you are not Caesar’s friend. Whoever makes himself a king speaks against Caesar.”
When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Jesus out and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called The Pavement, but in Hebrew, Gabbatha. Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, and about the sixth hour. And he said to the Jews,
“Behold your King!”
But they cried out,
“Away with Him, away with Him! Crucify Him!”
Pilate said to them,
“Shall I crucify your King?”
The chief priests answered,
“We have no king but Caesar!”
Then HE DELIVERED HIM TO THEM to be crucified. Then they took Jesus and led Him away
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@megatramlan I am not wrong about that.
There is no way to reduce your food intake. You would lose weight and eventually starve to death. You need 1800 calories a day to stay alive.
There is no way to "adapt" to the level of American productions. You would need all of the American machines, all of the American mechanics, all of the factories that produce spare parts, all of the chemicals and fertilizers . . . and all of the American engineering and know how to use all of that stuff and make it all run together synergistically.
Additionally, you would need to operate all of the trucks, trains, and ports that support the farming. And you would need to operate the oilfield and the oil refineries.
Without the actual Americans who have the smarts to do all of that stuff, the whole system is going to shut down. Chinese people are smart. They already operate trains and ports. They would do a reasonably good job at getting some of it going. But they could not do the whole picture. They were not raised in America and do not see all of it together. They would implement standard Chinese techniques.
Without Americans in the picture, the combines would be shut down in the fields and rust away. Then the world would be using the equipment from the 1950s, and the whole world would revert to second world, and in many places, drop from second world to third world. If BRICKS 🧱 wins, this is how life will be.
Also the western banking systems will go down.
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@Jerry-k4n I did not forget anything.
We did not lose in Vietnam . . . and Vietnam did not win. We were not even fighting against "Vietnam." There was no "Vietnam." We were fighting against communist North Vietnam. And we pushed them back into their own territory in the North, and signed an agreement that they would stay there. Then we went home. That is not "losing."
We did not lose in Afghanistan. We won the war in Afghanistan in 3 months. The war was over in 2001.
AFTER THE WAR, we spent 20 years in Afghanistan rebuilding the bridges, hospitals, schools, banking system, elections and so on.
At the end of 20 years of rebuilding Afghanistan, President Trump decided that it was time to stop and come home. Then during our withdrawal from the country, the Taliban came down from their mountain hideouts and took over where we had pulled out.
The scene at the airport has nothing to do with who won or lost. We did not "lose."
And you trying to think you can learn history from a few images shown on television is quite immature.
We did not lose in Libya. Your supposed "progressive leader" was not building the schools and hospitals that he claimed. He and his extended family were stealing millions of dollars from the government treasury. And there was a housing shortage because he did not build the housing he had promised, and a popular rebellion against him started due to not building the housing, and his own citizens started a war with his government and drove them out of the city. We gave the citizens a hand in their revolution by doing some limited bombing. But we were not fighting in Libya, and we did not lose. The dictator lost, and the citizens won. Who actually killed Gadaffi is up for debate. But he is obviously in Hell now for his crimes against the Libyan people. So it doesn't matter.
The map shows that the Ukrainian side controls 85% of the land. No one "loses" until one side controls 100%.
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@scottrobinson529 House Bill 344?
34-1113. IDENTIFICATION AT THE POLLS:
All voters shall be required to provide personal identification before voting at the polls or at absent electors polling places. The personal identification that may be presented shall be one of the following: An Idaho driver's license or identification card issued by the Idaho transportation department; A passport or an identification card, including a photograph, issued by an agency of the United States government; A tribal identification card, including a photograph; A current student identification card, including a photograph, issued by a high school or an accredited institution of higher education, including a university, college or technical school, located within the state of Idaho; or A license to carry concealed weapons.
If a voter is not able to present personal identification as required, the voter may complete an affidavit in lieu of the personal identification if he assents to having his photograph taken at the polls by an election judge or clerk. The affidavit shall be on a form prescribed by the secretary of state and shall require the voter to provide the voter's name and address. The voter shall sign the affidavit, and the election judge or clerk shall affix the photograph to the signed affidavit.
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House Bill 88?
A person may not knowingly collect or convey a voter's voted or unvoted ballot.
This section does not apply to:
An election official in the performance of his official duties;
A United States postal service worker or other individual specifically authorized by law to transmit United States mail in the performance of his official duties;
An employee or contractor of a parcel delivery business that receives and delivers parcels in all states within the United States in the performance of his official duties;
or a family member authorized by the voter.
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“When the Lord your God brings you [Israelites] into the land which you go to possess, and has cast out many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you, and when the Lord your God delivers them over to you, you shall conquer them and utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them nor show mercy to them. Nor shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to their son, nor take their daughter for your son. For they will turn your sons away from following Me, to serve other gods; so the anger of the Lord will be aroused against you and destroy you suddenly.
But thus you shall deal with them: you shall destroy their altars, and break down their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden images, and burn their carved images with fire.
For you are a holy people to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has CHOSEN YOU to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth.
-- Moses --
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“When the Lord your God brings you [Israelites] into the land which you go to possess, and has cast out many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you, and when the Lord your God delivers them over to you, you shall conquer them and utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them nor show mercy to them. Nor shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to their son, nor take their daughter for your son. For they will turn your sons away from following Me, to serve other gods; so the anger of the Lord will be aroused against you and destroy you suddenly.
But thus you shall deal with them: you shall destroy their altars, and break down their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden images, and burn their carved images with fire.
For you are a holy people to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has CHOSEN YOU to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth.
Deuteronomy chapter 7
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@oxysz They support Israel because the Bible says that Israel are God's chosen people:
“When the Lord your God brings you [Israelites] into the land which you go to possess, and has cast out many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you, and when the Lord your God delivers them over to you, you shall conquer them and utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them nor show mercy to them. Nor shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to their son, nor take their daughter for your son. For they will turn your sons away from following Me, to serve other gods; so the anger of the Lord will be aroused against you and destroy you suddenly.
But thus you shall deal with them: you shall destroy their altars, and break down their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden images, and burn their carved images with fire.
For you are a holy people to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has CHOSEN YOU to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth.
The Lord did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any other people, for you were the least of all peoples; but because the Lord loves you, and because He would keep the oath which He swore to your fathers. The Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
Therefore know that the Lord your God, He is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments; and He repays those who hate Him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be slack with him who hates Him; He will repay him to his face. Therefore you shall keep the commandment, the statutes, and the judgments which I command you today, to observe them.
Then it shall come to pass, because you listen to these judgments, and keep and do them, that the Lord your God will keep with you the covenant and the mercy which He swore to your fathers. And He will love you and bless you and multiply you; He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flock, in the land of which He swore to your fathers to give you.
You shall be blessed above all peoples; there shall not be a male or female barren among you or among your livestock. And the Lord will take away from you all sickness, and will afflict you with none of the terrible diseases of Egypt which you have known, but will lay them on all those who hate you. Also you shall destroy all the peoples whom the Lord your God delivers over to you; your eye shall have no pity on them; nor shall you serve their gods, for that will be a snare to you."
Torah \ Holy Bible book of Deuteronomy chapter 7
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This is the truth surrounding the Cuban issue:
There is no blockade around Cuba. 192 countries are free to visit and trade with Cuba anytime they like and invest in Cuban prosperity. The president of Brazil said himself that he has visited Cuba many times.
Cuba's problem is that they have an inefficient communist form of economy. Their own economic ideology is crushing them.
Cuba has sent their military to fight in Yemen, Algeria, Iraq, Syria, and . . .
. . . they also sent military to fight in Nicaragua, Bolivia, Panama, Dominica, Angola, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire), Angola and Ethiopia.
If they can send their military all over the world, they can afford to start feeding their people. 🤷♂️
Cuba's economic problems stem from the fact that their country has no industrialization.
None. Zilch. Nada. Zero. 👌
No industrialization.
The reason companies will not invest in Cuba is because in the Cuba communist revolution, the crooked communist government nationalized all of businesses and took over all of the businesses, buildings, and land in Cuba. It ALL belongs to the communist Cuban government now and all of the companies that were there lost everything. Now no companies will take the risk to go back and invest into Cuba.
And they could not do it if they wanted to because EVERYTHING belongs to the Cuban government. 🤷♀️
There is no avenue open to go invest in Cuba.
It is not the minor American embargo crushing the Cuban economy. The stupid communists have already crushed it.
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@coachrj2651
33 But when he had turned about and looked on his disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee behind me, Satan: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but the things that be of men.
34 And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
35 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it.
36 For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
37 Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
-- Jesus --
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@wolfc8755 You do way too much thinking and rationalizing.
They did stone people to be good. They stoned people who committed adultry. That is stoning people to be good.
Everyone knows that adultry is wrong -- so that is stoning people to be good.
Further, that was a CIVIL LAW -- not a religious law. It was to maintain order in society. We have civil laws today, so that should not be difficult to understand.
There are some places today where they cut off people's hand for stealing. That is cutting off someone's hand to force them to be good. Forcing people to be good is not about religion. It is about maintaining order in society.
Even the famous Muslim law about women wearing headscarves is a civil law -- not a religious law. It was enacted to maintain order in society. That makes it a civil law.
You are getting civil laws criss-crossed with religion -- they are not the same thing.
Now about people being lost if they had never had a chance to hear of Jesus:
That is not what the Bible says happens. It says:
"for when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do the things in the law, these, although not having the law, are a law to themselves, who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and between themselves their thoughts accusing or else excusing them) in the day when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel."
Roman's 2:15
That is to say that people know in their hearts what is right and wrong and will be judged accordingly. There is nothing unfair about God's judgment -- He is perfectly fair and never makes mistakes.
Now about waking up in darkness:
That is not going to happen. Your spirit cannot die. When your body dies your spirit slips out of your body like a hand slipping out of a glove. It is as dark as the room around you because you can still see just like before.
While you are hovering there, you can see the doctors and nurses trying to resuscitate you and you can hear your relatives talking about you.
Then, while you are still floating around the room, either you will be met by demons or an angel and they will escort you to the place where you will be staying.
This is easily confirmed by reviewing the HUNDREDS of accounts of people who died and come back to tell what they saw.
There are hundreds of videos on uTube and books written about it. It is easy to find out. They call them "near-death experiences" and you can look them up if you choose.
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@wolfc8755 You are radically overexaggerating on your adultery description.
On the adultery thing and the hand thing, whether you think it is fair or right or not has nothing to do with this discussion. So they have a completely different view of society than we do? That is not our discussion. That fact is that those are laws made to maintain social order in their society.
Now you are right that there are some instances where religious rules and civil laws overlap -- that is when you live a theocracy. For example, Afghanistan, Iran, or the Jewish State -- those are all theocracies.
But even so, laws are made to maintain social order. An example of a purely religious law would be a law requiring the entire citizenry to go to church every Sunday morning. That would be a religious law and they rarely exist in the real world.
The way the headscarf maintains social order is this:
Arab women are so beautiful that when Arab men see their beautiful faces, they have difficulty with their own thoughts and behavior -- which leads to fornication, adultry, and problem pregnencies.
Because Arab women are so beautiful, they cover their faces, heads, and bodies so the men can control themselves.
Most westerners would jump in and say that is the man's problem -- not the women's. But that is not our discussion. The fact is that the practice was started to maintain social order.
Now what I told you (and what the Bible says) about how gentiles can be saved by obeying their conscience . .
That only applies if you have never heard of Jesus as the Messiah. If you hear about Him and understand His message clearly, that makes you fall under a completely different rule. If you still reject Him at that point . . . You are condemned. As Jesus clearly said here:
"For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God."
John chapter 3
Now your final statement about near-death experiences is just plain propaganda on your part. What do you mean, "It is well known"??
Whenever a person uses that phrase with me, I automatically know they are about to tell me something that is not true.
In philosophy, we call that "calling an unknown witness."
It is one of several types of false logic.
What you stated after using that phrase is not "well-known" at all. In fact, it is not even true. It is gobbledygook and it is just your convenient way of explaining away the facts.
At any rate, I do not want to argue with you over NDEs. I have listened to hundreds of them and I have my opinion and you are certainly welcome to have yours. I only brought them up for your benefit.
See you in Hell. 🌅
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@wolfc8755 You can explain away the sun, the, moon, and all of the planets if you choose. But your explaining them away will not make them any less real.
My brother believes the Earth is flat and he can explain it -- but it is still a globe. His explanation does not change the shape of the Earth.
People born into religious families, have a conversion somewhere in their family past. You do not get from 12 to 2.5 billion without having a few conversions.
Now Christianity is about finding out about Jesus and making your own personal decision whether you believe in Him or not. One cannot be born into Christianity by being born into a certain family or social group.
If they do that, they are not saved.
They have to make their OWN choice.
And again, you are trying to explain away something when you do not know what is really going on out there (you do a lot of that) because all children of Christians reach a point in their lives where they are REQUIRED to consider carefully and make a final choice either for or against Christ.
Why do you think our churches are emptying out and when you go to church you only see elderly people there? It is because many of the young people have chosen to leave (but they will be back).
The 2.5 billion figure is the ones who have decided for themselves -- without undue influence -- that it is where they need to be.
The very best thing that could happen with the societies which you grieve for is that we send Christian missionaries into all of those countries. Faith in Christ is the ONLY THING that will turn that situation around.
My viewpoint is that if there is no afterlife, your life has no meaning at all. It is like turning off the television. Once it is off it no longer matters what it once said and there is no enduring meaning to life.
There is no "waste of human life" as you say because life has no meaning anyway.
But if there is an afterlife, your good works (and bad works) follow you and remain alive. If your good works remain alive forever, they have enduring meaning.
Also if mankind just evolved, there is no real morality. People can do just whatever they choose and it is right. That system works just fine for the animal kingdom . . . Right?
So if humans are just evolved animals, then they go by an evolved instinct and nothing is really right or wrong. Survival of the fittest is morally right -- everything else is morally wrong.
On the near-death experiences, (which you have never researched them as I suggested) I was not talking about the "momentary" ones. I was talking about the ones where the person was dead for at least 20 minutes and generally 2 to 4 hours. And I know of one where the person was dead for 2 days.
Those would not exactly be explained as a "last gasp of oxygen" would they??
Those are the ones that would really tell you something (if you would listen to them, but you will not).
Now I know you are going to Hell because you told me so.
You said you do not believe in God and the story of Jesus is a fairy tale.
This is not rocket science.
If you accept Christ as your Savior, you are going to Heaven. 🌌
But if you reject Christ as your Savior, you are going to Hell. 🌅
Get it?
Do not complicate it.
I am just saying exactly what Jesus said in the verse I quoted you.
You reject Christ . . so you are going to Hell. 🌅
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@wolfc8755 If you believe in the fake theory of evolution, there is no such thing as "good works." Good is whatever each individual decides is good for themselves.
Actually, you are explaining away the moon, sun, and stars.
The events of Christ are not a "myth" as you call them -- they are a real event that happened in history. Trying to explain away real events that took place in human history is equivalent to explaining away the moon, sun, and, stars. You are a revisionist attempting to rewrite human history to suit yourself.
I know that and you know that. You are faking.
I really do not think Christianity is "fear-based" at all. And I do not think we use the emotion of fear to keep people in line.
The Holy Bible has about 1260 pages and in all of those pages the fires of Hell are only mentioned twice. Once in a parable of Jesus and once at the end of Revelation.
If it was supposed to be fear-based, Hell would appear in the Book much more often.
Christianity is about understanding and choosing to follow the words of love that Jesus Christ taught, appreciating that God loves us enough to die for our sins, and about wanting to be included in the Kingdom that He is building.
As part of joining the Kingdom, one must acknowledge and repent of their sins. For people who do it, it tends to give them a great relief and release of emotional burdens that they were carrying.
I am sure that having a clear understanding of the existence of Hell encourages people to consider what their spiritual position is. But once you have been saved, you cannot go there. So they cannot really hang that over your head to force you to be good . . can they?
So how could they use the concept of fear to force people to be good (or whatever it is that you are trying to say in your comment)?
I already explained to you that saying you are going to Hell is not judging. Look at it this way:
You are riding on a train. I walk up to you and say, "You are going to New Orleans."
Did I judge you?
No. I stated your destination.
That is not judging -- why do you keep saying that stating someone's destination is "judging"?
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@wolfc8755 You did not answer my question. The question was . . .
When someone states your destination, why do you say they are "judging"?
Myself and yourself and most of the people you know all know that you are on the train to Hell, right?
You bought a ticket for the Hell train . . you boarded the Hell train . . you know you are on the Hell train . . and you do not hide it . . right?
So that would be the same as everyone knowing that you are on the train to New Orleans.
Why is saying it "judging"?
Rock carvings are neolithic and paleolithic. Why would we be looking for rock carvings in 1st century Rome? All writing was done on paper in the 1st century. And paper does not really last 2000 years that well.
They cannot find much because Jerusalem is built on top of several meters of rubble.
The Jesus movement was not really that significant. There was a crowd of 5000 at one time. But most of them turned back when He said some things that were difficult to take. On the day of Pentecost, there were only 100 believers in the upper room. So archeologists do not really expect to find anything about Jesus and are surprised when they do.
But why are you saying there is NO archeological proof that Jesus ever lived? Of course there is.
This is from Science Daily:
"The archaeological examination by robotic camera of an intact first century tomb in Jerusalem has revealed a set of limestone Jewish ossuaries or "bone boxes" that are engraved with a rare Greek inscription and a unique iconographic image that the scholars involved identify as distinctly Christian.
The four-line Greek inscription on one ossuary refers to God "raising up" someone and a carved image found on an adjacent ossuary shows what appears to be a large fish with a human stick figure in its mouth, interpreted by the excavation team to be an image evoking the biblical story of Jonah.
In the earliest gospel materials the "sign of Jonah," as mentioned by Jesus, has been interpreted as a symbol of his resurrection. Jonah images in later "early" Christian art, such as images found in the Roman catacombs, are the most common motif found on tombs as a symbol of Christian resurrection hope. In contrast, the story of Jonah is not depicted in any first century Jewish art and iconographic images on ossuaries are extremely rare, given the PROHIBITION WITHIN JUDAISM OF MAKING IMAGES of people or animals.
The tomb in question is dated prior to 70 CE, when ossuary use in Jerusalem ceased due to the Roman destruction of the city. Accordingly, if the markings are Christian as the scholars involved believe, the engravings represent -- by several centuries -- the earliest archaeological record of Christians ever found. The engravings were most likely made by some of Jesus' earliest followers, within decades of his death. Together, the inscription and the Jonah image testify to early Christian faith in resurrection. The tomb record thus predates the writing of the gospels.
"If anyone had claimed to find either a statement about resurrection or a Jonah image in a Jewish tomb of this period I would have said impossible -- until now," Tabor said. "Our team was in a kind of ecstatic disbelief, but the evidence was clearly before our eyes, causing us to revise our prior assumptions."
The findings and their interpretation are likely to be controversial, since most scholars are skeptical of any Christian archaeological remains from so early a period. Adding to the controversy is the tomb's close proximity to a second tomb, discovered in 1980. This tomb, dubbed by some "The Jesus Family Tomb," contained inscribed ossuaries that some scholars associate with Jesus and his family, including one that reads "Jesus, son of Joseph."
"Context is everything in archaeology," Tabor pointed out. "These two tombs, less than 200 feet apart, were part of an ancient estate, likely related to a rich family of the time. We chose to investigate this tomb because of its proximity to the so-called 'Jesus tomb,' not knowing if it would yield anything unusual."
The tomb containing the new discoveries is a modest sized, carefully carved rock cut cave tomb typical of Jerusalem in the period from 20 BCE until 70 CE.
The tomb was exposed in 1981 by builders and is currently several meters under the basement level of a modern condominium building in East Talpiot, a neighborhood of Jerusalem less than two miles south of the Old City. Archaeologists entered the tomb at the time, were able to briefly examine it and its ossuaries, take preliminary photographs, and remove one pot and an ossuary, before they were forced to leave by Orthodox religious groups who oppose excavation of Jewish tombs.
The ossuary taken, that of a child, is now in the Israel State Collection. It is decorated but has no inscriptions. The archaeologists mention "two Greek names" but did not notice either the newly discovered Greek inscription or the Jonah image before they were forced to leave. The tomb was re-sealed and buried beneath the condominium complex on what is now Don Gruner Street in East Talpiot.
The adjacent "Jesus tomb," was uncovered by the same construction company in 1980, just one year earlier. It was thoroughly excavated and its contents removed by the Israel Antiquities Authority. This tomb's controversial ossuaries with their unusual cluster of names (that some have associated with Jesus and his family) are now part of the Israel State Collection and have been on display in various venues, including the Israel Museum. These ossuaries will be in an exhibit running from late February through April 15 at Discovery Times Square.
Because of its physical location under a modern building (making direct access nearly impossible), along with the threat of Orthodox Jewish groups that would protest any such excavation, Tabor's team determined to employ a minimally invasive procedure in examining the tomb.
Funding for the excavation was provided by the Discovery Channel/Vision Television/Associated Producers. Jacobovici's team at the Toronto based Associated Producers developed a sophisticated robotic arm to carry high definition cameras, donated by General Electric. The robotic arm and a second "snake camera" were inserted through two drill holes in the basement floor of the building above the tomb. The probe was successful and the team was able to reach all the ossuaries and photograph them on all sides, thus revealing the new inscriptions.
Beyond the possible Christian connection, Tabor noted that the tomb's assemblage of ossuaries stands out as clearly extraordinary in the context of other previously explored tombs in Jerusalem.
"Everything in this tomb seems unusual when contrasted with what one normally finds inscribed on ossuaries in Jewish tombs of this period," Tabor said. "Of the seven ossuaries remaining in the tomb, four of them have unusual features."
There are engravings on five of the seven ossuaries: an enigmatic symbol on ossuary 2 (possibly reading Yod Heh Vav Heh or "Yahweh" in stylized letters that can be read as Greek or Hebrew, though the team is uncertain); an inscription reading "MARA" in Greek letters (which Tabor translates as the feminine form of "lord" or "master" in Aramaic) on ossuary 3; an indecipherable word in Greek letters on ossuary 4 (possibly a name beginning with "JO…"); the remarkable four-line Greek inscription on ossuary 5; and finally, and most importantly, a series of images on ossuary 6, including the large image of a fish with a figure seeming to come out of its mouth.
Among the approximately 2000 ossuaries that have been recovered by the Israel Antiquities Authority, only 650 have any inscriptions on them, and none have inscriptions comparable to those on ossuaries 5 and 6.
Less than a dozen ossuaries from the period have epitaphs but, according to Tabor, these inscribed messages usually have to do with warnings not to disturb the bones of the dead. In contrast, the four-line Greek inscription contains some kind of statement of resurrection faith.
Tabor noted that the epitaph's complete and final translation is uncertain. The first three lines are clear, but the last line, consisting of three Greek letters, is less sure, yielding several possible translations: "O Divine Jehovah, raise up, raise up," or "The Divine Jehovah raises up to the Holy Place," or "The Divine Jehovah raises up from [the dead]."
"This inscription has something to do with resurrection of the dead, either of the deceased in the ossuary, or perhaps, given the Jonah image nearby, an expression of faith in Jesus' resurrection," Tabor said.
The ossuary with the image that Tabor and his team understand to be representing Jonah also has other interesting engravings. These also may be connected to resurrection, Tabor notes. On one side is the tail of a fish disappearing off the edge of the box, as if it is diving into the water. There are small fish images around its border on the front facing, and on the other side is the image of a cross-like gate or entrance -- which Tabor interprets as the notion of entering the "bars" of death, which are mentioned in the Jonah story in the Bible.
"This Jonah ossuary is most fascinating," Tabor remarked. "It seems to represent a pictorial story with the fish diving under the water on one end, the bars or gates of death, the bones inside, and the image of the great fish spitting out a man representing, based on the words of Jesus, the 'sign of Jonah' -- the 'sign' that he would escape the bonds of death."
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@wolfc8755
Okay. So your most important thought here is this:
"Personally, if I had to invent a God, he would be a great guy. Loving, kind, thoughtful, helpful. Maybe he would magically clean my house for me once in a blue moon, just to surprise me and make me really, really happy. There'd certainly not be any war, or poverty, or children going hungry (let alone being shot and bombed and starved to death)."
You just described Jesus.
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"On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Now both Jesus and His disciples were invited to the wedding. And when they ran out of wine, the mother of Jesus said to Him, “They have no wine.”
Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does your concern have to do with Me? My hour has not yet come.”
His mother said to the servants, “Whatever He says to you, do it.”
Now there were set there six waterpots of stone, according to the manner of purification of the Jews, containing twenty or thirty gallons apiece.
Jesus said to them, “Fill the waterpots with water.”
And they filled them up to the brim.
And He said to them, “Draw some out now, and take it to the master of the feast.”
And they took it. When the master of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and did not know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom.
And he said to him, “Every man at the beginning sets out the good wine, and when the guests have well drunk, then the inferior. You have kept the good wine until now!”
John chapter 2
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Excuse me?
The tribe of Jewdah was Jewish.
15 Immediately, in the morning, the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council; and they bound Jesus, led Him away, and delivered Him to Pilate. 2 Then Pilate asked Him, “Are You the King of the Jews?”
He answered and said to him, “It is as you say.”
3 And the chief priests accused Him of many things, but He answered nothing. 4 Then Pilate asked Him again, saying, “Do You answer nothing? See how many things [a]they testify against You!” 5 But Jesus still answered nothing, so that Pilate marveled.
6 Now at the feast he was accustomed to releasing one prisoner to them, whomever they requested. 7 And there was one named Barabbas, who was chained with his fellow rebels; they had committed murder in the rebellion. 8 Then the multitude, [b]crying aloud, began to ask him to do just as he had always done for them. 9 But Pilate answered them, saying, “Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?” 10 For he knew that the chief priests had handed Him over because of envy.
11 But the chief priests stirred up the crowd, so that he should rather release Barabbas to them. 12 Pilate answered and said to them again, “What then do you want me to do with Him whom you call the King of the Jews?”
13 So they cried out again, “Crucify Him!”
14 Then Pilate said to them, “Why, what evil has He done?”
But they cried out all the more, “Crucify Him!”
15 So Pilate, wanting to gratify the crowd, released Barabbas to them; and he delivered Jesus, after he had scourged Him, to be crucified.
16 Then the soldiers led Him away into the hall called [c]Praetorium, and they called together the whole garrison. 17 And they clothed Him with purple; and they twisted a crown of thorns, put it on His head, 18 and began to salute Him, “Hail, King of the Jews!” 19 Then they struck Him on the head with a reed and spat on Him; and bowing the knee, they worshiped Him. 20 And when they had mocked Him, they took the purple off Him, put His own clothes on Him, and led Him out to crucify Him.
21 Then they compelled a certain man, Simon a Cyrenian, the father of Alexander and Rufus, as he was coming out of the country and passing by, to bear His cross. 22 And they brought Him to the place Golgotha, which is translated, Place of a Skull. 23 Then they gave Him wine mingled with myrrh to drink, but He did not take it. 24 And when they crucified Him, they divided His garments, casting lots for them to determine what every man should take.
25 Now it was the third hour, and they crucified Him. 26 And the inscription of His [d]accusation was written above:
THE KING OF THE JEWS.
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@nyizzle4533 Sounds to me that everything you wrote is pure drizzle:
"Sudden cardiac arrest can occur after a heart attack, or during recovery. Heart attacks increase the risk for sudden cardiac arrest. Most heart attacks do not lead to sudden cardiac arrest. But when sudden cardiac arrest occurs, heart attack is a common cause. Other heart conditions may also disrupt the heart’s rhythm and lead to sudden cardiac arrest. These include a thickened heart muscle (cardiomyopathy), heart failure, arrhythmias, particularly ventricular fibrillation, and long Q-T syndrome."
I looked all of this stuff up last year as it was happening and if you are a professional, you are a very sorry one. You are completely wrong about the neck pressure stuff.
This is what the Hennepin County Medical Examiner has to say about George Floyd's health:
"Other significant conditions: Arteriosclerotic and hypertensive heart disease;
fentanyl intoxication; recent methamphetamine use"
It does not mention asphyxiation at all.
He overlooked that George Floyd had Covid-19.
(which has killed 400,000 Americans . . . Right?)
In this case the examiner could not possibly be right about cause of death without doing a test for Covid.
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"A heart attack causes the lungs to become congested and in its most severe form, acute pulmonary edema, there could be frothing at the mouth and the patient literally chokes to death on his own secretions. A less severe form of this symptom could occur while one is at rest or doing very minimal activities."
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It happens that George Floyd was in the police car and he said he was claustrophobic and asked the police to let him get out and lie on the ground. He was handcuffed and voluntarily lying on the ground. No one was restraining him.
From one of the camera angles, you can see that his knee was not even touching George Floyd's neck.
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@On_The_Piss Not certain, but they probably fine the company who violates the law. That is the usual way.
I am surprised you are not more concerned about the North Koreans. They are way more worse off than the Cubans.
The Cubans live in poverty, but they are not starving to death and they have some advantages.
The Cuban government and economic system is communist, meaning that the government owns all of the real estate. Housing in Cuba is free -- there is no rent or bank mortgage -- you get your house for free and everybody has one.
In addition to free housing, they get free healthcare, and a government food subsidy to help pay for their food.
It is not a perfect life. The buildings downtown are crumbling and falling into disrepair, some Cubans own cars, but they are 1950's cars and they have to be inventive to keep them running. There are also shortages on staple foods, such as cheese and milk. But it is not because individuals cannot pay for it -- it is due to supply chain problems at the government level.
The Cubans are dirt poor, but they are not starving and losing weight.
On the other hand, if you stand a North Korean beside a Cuban, the difference is obvious. The North Korean is all skin and bones and the Cuban is normal weight.
North Korea is abject poverty. No one has a car. They walk miles to bring drinking water to their house. The soldiers do not always get paid and will steal from the public. The mountains in North Korea are barren because the people ate every edible plant and cut down all of the trees and bushes to get firewood for home heating and cooking.
I would worry about North Korea.
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America was founded to be a Christian nation and is still, according to our founding documents, a Christian nation.
The Declaration of Independence says this:
"We believe that all men are created . . . "
Who believes that?
Americans believe it.
So you can substitute the word "Americans" for the word "we" like this:
"Americans (we) believe that all men are created . . . "
So you can see from our founding documents that all Americans believe in a Creator -- and anyone who does not believe in a Creator is not an American.
So by definition of this clause, as given in the Declaration of Independence, no atheist, Buddhist, Hindu, spiritist, animist, satanist, or humanist can be an American. The Declaration of Independence states specifically that you have to believe in a CREATOR GOD in order to be an American.
Americans do not believe in the theory of evolution -- anyone who believes in the theory of evolution is NOT an American. As clearly stated in the Declaration of Independence, Americans believe that "God created."
This example is from the Declaration of Independence. But there are many additional founding documents that tighten this concept up to be that only Christians can be Americans -- that is what our founding documents say.
Our founding documents say that America is a Christian nation and that no non-christian can be an American.
America is a nation created by Christians for Christians and there was never any intention for any non-christians to come and get involved in what we are doing here. 😎👍🇺🇸 ✝️
Author: Matthew Rae Loutner
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@Ardashir The Great Dude. Anyone who claims that the basic elements are earth, air, fire and water did NOT invent chemistry:
Around 420 BC, Empedocles stated that all matter is made up of four elemental substances: earth, fire, air and water. The early theory of atomism can be traced back to ancient Greece and ancient India. Greek atomism was made popular by the Greek philosopher Democritus, who declared that matter is composed of indivisible and indestructible particles called "atomos" around 380 BC. Earlier, Leucippus also declared that atoms were the most indivisible part of matter. This coincided with a similar declaration by the Indian philosopher Kanada in his Vaisheshika sutras around the same time period. Aristotle opposed the existence of atoms in 330 BC. A Greek text attributed to Polybus the physician (ca. 380 BC) argued that the human body is composed of four humours instead. Epicurus (fl. 300 BC) postulated a universe of indestructible atoms in which man himself is responsible for achieving a balanced life.
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The elemental system used in medieval alchemy was developed primarily by the Persian-Arab alchemist Jābir ibn Hayyān and was rooted in the classical elements of Greek tradition. His system consisted of the four Aristotelian elements of AIR, EARTH, FIRE and WATER in addition to two philosophical elements: sulphur, characterizing the principle of combustibility, "the stone which burns"; and mercury, characterizing the principle of metallic properties. They were seen by early alchemists as idealized expressions of irreducible components of the universe and are of larger consideration[clarification needed] within philosophical alchemy.
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Boyle is also credited for his landmark publication The Sceptical Chymist (1661), which advocated for a rigorous approach to experimentation among chemists. In the work, Boyle questioned some commonly held alchemical theories and argued for practitioners to be more “philosophical” and less commercially focused. He REJECTED the classical four elements of EARTH, AIR, FIRE, and WATER and proposed a mechanistic alternative of ATOMS and CHEMICAL REACTIONS that could be subject to rigorous experiment.
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A Swedish chemist and disciple of Dalton, Jöns Jacob Berzelius embarked on a systematic program to try to make accurate and precise quantitative measurements and to ensure the purity of chemicals. Along with Lavoisier, Boyle, and Dalton, Berzelius is known as THE FATHER OF MODERN CHEMISTRY. In 1828 he compiled a table of relative atomic weights, where oxygen was used as a standard, with its weight set at 100, and which included all of the elements known at the time. This work provided evidence in favor of Dalton's atomic theory – that inorganic chemical compounds are composed of atoms combined in whole number amounts. He determined the exact elementary constituents of a large number of compounds; the results strongly supported Proust's Law of Definite Proportions. In discovering that atomic weights are not integer multiples of the weight of hydrogen, Berzelius also disproved Prout's hypothesis that elements are built up from atoms of hydrogen.
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@davidthompson4383 I see what you are saying.
Well, I was 100% correct on everything and your information is woefully inaccurate. The "Brits" are not even in the picture:
The internet was invented by DARPA, which is a branch of the United States military. It was specifically invented so that our military would be able to get their data moved around the country in case a war disabled some phone lines. Originally, it was not invented for domestic consumer use.
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Prior to the nineteenth century, petroleum was known and utilized in various fashions in Babylon, Egypt, China, Philippines, Rome and Azerbaijan. However, the modern history of the petroleum industry is said to have begun in 1846 when Abraham Gessner of Nova Scotia, Canada devised a process to produce kerosene from coal. Shortly thereafter, in 1854, Ignacy Łukasiewicz began producing kerosene from hand-dug oil wells near the town of Krosno, Poland.
In North America, the first oil well was drilled in 1858 by James Miller Williams in Oil Springs, Ontario, Canada. In the United States, the petroleum industry began in 1859 when Edwin Drake found oil near Titusville, Pennsylvania. The industry grew slowly in the 1800s, primarily producing kerosene for oil lamps. In the early twentieth century, the introduction of the internal combustion engine and its use in automobiles created a market for gasoline that was the impetus for fairly rapid growth of the petroleum industry. The early finds of petroleum like those in Ontario and Pennsylvania were soon outstripped by large oil "booms" in Oklahoma, Texas and California.
Samuel Kier established America's first oil refinery in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on Seventh Avenue near Grant Street, in
1853.
Polish pharmacist and inventor Ignacy Łukasiewicz established an oil refinery in Jasło, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (now in Poland) in 1854. The first large refinery opened at Ploiești, Romania, in 1856–1857. After being taken over by Nazi Germany, the Ploiești refineries were bombed in Operation Tidal Wave by the Allies during the Oil Campaign of World War II. Another close contender for the title of hosting the world's oldest oil refinery is Salzbergen in Lower Saxony, Germany. Salzbergen's refinery was opened in 1860.
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Samuel Martin Kier
By the 1840s, Kier's salt wells were becoming fouled with petroleum. At first, Kier simply dumped the useless oil into the nearby Pennsylvania Main Line Canal, but after an oil slick caught fire, he saw a way to profit from this otherwise worthless byproduct. With no formal training in science or chemistry, he began experimenting with several distillates of the crude oil along with a chemist from eastern Pennsylvania. He developed a substance he named "Rock Oil" and later "Seneca Oil". In 1848, he began packaging the substance as a patent medicine charging $0.50 per bottle. He also produced petroleum butter (petroleum jelly) and sold it as a topical ointment. Neither product proved to be a commercial success.
After further experimenting, he discovered an economical way to produce kerosene. Kerosene had been known for some time but was not widely produced and was considered to have little economic value. But at the time whale oil, the principal fuel for lamps in America, was becoming increasingly scarce and expensive.
Kier began selling the kerosene, named "Carbon Oil", to local miners in 1851. He also invented a new lamp to burn his product. Kier never obtained a patent for his developments and many other inventors and businessmen would go on to improve upon his work yielding huge fortunes. Even so, Kier's income at the time exceeded US$40,000 per year, a huge sum for the time.
Kier established America's first oil refinery in Pittsburgh on Seventh avenue near Grant Street, in 1853.
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Abraham Gessner
In 1846, Gessner a Canadian figured out a way to refine kerosene from crude oil.
In early 1853, Gesner and his family moved to New York City, where he had earlier exhibited his kerosene and amassed significant publicity.
In March 1853 Gessner founded the North American Kerosene Company at Newtown Creek, Long Island, New York City -- UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 😎👍🇺🇸 ✝️
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@grdev3066 uummm . .
. . . poor boy . . .
99.99 % of America's scientists are BORN HERE.
America is practically a nation of scientists:
The United States patent office has over 3.35 MILLION registered patents of AMERICAN inventions on file.
We have THE BEST scientific and technological education system in the world and that is not going to change anytime soon:
“Now it shall come to pass, if you diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments which I command you today, that the Lord your
GOD WILL SET YOU HIGH ABOVE ALL THE NATIONS OF THE EARTH.
And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, because you obey the voice of the Lord your God:
“Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the country.
“Blessed shall be the fruit of your body, the produce of your ground and the increase of your herds, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks.
“Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.
“Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.
“The Lord will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before your face; they shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways.
“The Lord will command the blessing on you in your storehouses and in all to which you set your hand, and He will bless you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
“The Lord will establish you as a HOLY PEOPLE to Himself, just as He has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the Lord your God and walk in His ways. Then
ALL OF THE PEOPLES OF THE EARTH SHALL SEE
that you are called by the name of the Lord, and they shall be afraid of you.
And the Lord will grant you plenty of goods, in the fruit of your body, in the increase of your livestock, and in the produce of your ground, in the land of which the Lord swore to your fathers to give you.
The Lord will open to you His good treasure, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand.
You shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.
And the Lord will make you the head and not the tail; you shall be above only, and not be beneath
if you heed the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you today, and are careful to observe them. So you shall not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right or the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
Deuteronomy chapter 28
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@@ardashirshah7786
I am not deluded at all – you are the one who is deluded. Now let me explain for you why those guys in India and Iran do not get any credit by the West:
Do you know what "historic relevancy" is?
Historic relevancy means that a person or event changed the course of history:
Genghis Khan altered the course of history – he is historically relevant.
Alexander the Great altered the course of history – he is historically relevant.
Adolph Hitler altered the course of history – he is historically relevant.
Putin is historically relevant.
When we teach about history, we teach about kings, emperors, countries, philosopers, religious leaders, scientists and mathematicians. But their actions and/or discoveries MUST BE historically relevant. For example:
If you come up with an idea that will create clean drinking water – that is a good idea. But it has to GO INTO PRACTICE to be relevant to history. If you just write your idea in your notebook and no one uses your idea . . it is nothing.
On the other hand . . .
If someone else comes up with your same idea for creating clean drinking water and he advertises his idea and visits governments around the world, the countries can implement his idea and bring clean drinking water to many people.
His idea altered history – your EQUAL idea did not alter history. So HE gets the credit for the idea (even if you were first).
Now when we teach history, we are looking to explain to students HOW the world came to be the way it is now.
We are looking for a LINE OF PROGRESSION. We start with primitive history. Then pass throught the bc era. Then starting with the Roman Empire, modern history focuses on WESTERN history. Why?
Because WESTERN history is RELEVANT to how the world is today.
We start with the Roman Empire and the origin of Christianity.
Then the fall of the Roman Empire around 500 ad.
Then from 500 ad until 1500 ad there is 1000 years that we call "the dark ages" and basically nothing happened.
Then around 1500 ad, EVERYTHING starts happening. It starts with the invention of the
PRINTING PRESS
PRINTING PRESS
PRINTING PRESS
PRINTING PRESS
PRINTING PRESS
The invention of the PRINTING PRESS changed the course of all humanity.
For the first time in history, books could be mass produced and sold so that the common man could read everything the scholars were reading.
The PRINTING PRESS marks the first time the common man could read the Bible.
The PRINTING PRESS marks the first time the common man could read the Quran.
The PRINTING PRESS marks the first time the common man could read Confuscious and Bhudda.
The PRINTING PRESS marks the first time the common man could study math and science.
The PRINTING PRESS marks the first time the common man could get involved in politics.
Having the ability for EVERYONE who wanted to get involved in studying math and science CHANGED EVERYTHING and accelerated science into warp drive.
This is when your Western philosophers begin occurring, your economists, your theorists, your engineers, and your scientists.
We call this era "the age of enlightenment."
It is the end of kings and monarchies and the beginning of the republics.
This all happened in the West because the PRINTING PRESS was invented in GERMANY.
Again . . . when we teach history we are teaching people HOW the world became as it is today.
Around 450 ad, Bhaskaracharya discovered the law of gravity and explained that the planets orbit because of gravity. But he wrote his discovery in a book and did nothing with it. No one invented anything due to his discovery. Because no one invented anything due to his discovery, he is NOT HISTORICALLY RELEVANT.
Bhaskaracharya is just a candle 🕯 lit in the darkness for a while and then his light went out. We call that "being ahead of your time."
In 1687 ad, Sir Isaac Newton discovered the same law of gravity and explained that the planets orbit because of gravity. Because of Sir Isaac Nrwton's discovery, the world now has telecommunications satellites in orbit around the Earth.
Sir Isaac Newton lit up the ENTIRE PLANET. 💡🌍💡🌎💡🌏💡
Sir Isaac Newton is HISTORICALLY RELEVANT.
Two men made the same scientific discovery. One man changed the world – the other man did not change anything.
See the difference?
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Wars where Russia invaded other countries:
978 – Vladimir the Great king of Novgorod [Russia] invaded Chervin
981 – Vladimir the Great king of Novgorod [Russia] invaded Polotsk, Smolensk, and Kiev.
983 – Vladimir the Great king of Novgorod [Russia] invaded the Yatvingians
984 – Vladimir the Great king of Novgorod [Russia] invaded the Radimichs
985 – Vladimir the Great king of Novgorod [Russia] invaded the Volga Bulgars
985 – Vladimir the Great king of Novgorod [Russia] invaded the Greek town of Korsun' in Crimea and Chersonesus [Sevastopol]
1132 – Mstislav the Great dies and Kievan Rus goes into decline
1136 – Novgorod revolted against Kiev, and became independent (up until this time Novgorod and Kieven Rus had been two states united and sharing kings back and forth. The wars launched from Kieven Rus are not in the list because the list is Russia.)
1186 – Vyshata Vasilyevich of Novgorod [Russia] attacked Yem [we do not know for sure who Yem is – but is probably Turku, Finland.]
1191 – Novgorod [Russia] attacked Yem (again)
1198 – Novgorod [Russia] attacks Turku [Finland]
1222 - 1227 – Novgorod [Russia] attacked Estonia, Yem [Finland] and Karelia
1268– Novgorod [Russia] attacks Danish Estonia
1300, Moscow seized the city of Kolomna
1311 – Novgorod [Russia] attacks central Finland,
1318 – Novgorod [Russia] attacks Turku, Finland
1377 – Novgorod [Russia] attacked a Swedish castle
In the late 14th century, the Novgorodians [Russians] set up the fiefs of Korela, Oreshek, Koporye, Luga, and Ladoga as a sort of BUFFER STATE between their core dominions and Sweden.
1376 – The Moscow-Nizhny Novgorod combined army attacked Volga Bulgaria ( Note: This was a defensive war having to do with Mongul raids)
1469 – Russia attacks Kazan
1487 – Russia attacks Kazan (again)
1506 – Russia attacks Kazan (again)
1524 – Russia attacks Kazan (again)
1530 – Russia attacks Kazan (again)
1552 – Russia FINALLY takes Kazan and that is settled
1556 – Russia takes Astrakhan
1558 – Russia attacks Livonia
1580 – 1778 in a long series of wars Russia takes over Siberia
1590 – Russia attacks Sweden
1632 – Russia attacks Smolensk (again)
1652 - 1689 a bunch of wars involving Qing Chinese and N. Korea started by Russia trying to expand Siberia
1654 – Russia attacks Poland
1656 – Russia attacks Sweden
1700 – Russia attacks Sweden
1717 – Russia attacks Location
Khiva (present-day west Uzbekistan), Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan over GOLD
1722 – Russia attacks Iran
1769 – Russia attacks the Ottoman Empire
1798 – Russia (and the allies) attack France in order to defeat democracy and restore the monarch
1808 – Russia attacked Finland
1828 – Russia attacks the Ottoman Empire (again)
1783 – Russia invaded and annexed Crimea
1817 - 1895 – Russia conquers Soviet Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan)
1853 – The Crimean War – Russia trying to expand again
1900 – Russia invaded Manchuria
1911 – Russia invaded Tabris
1914 – Russia invaded East Prussia
1918– Russia invaded the newly-formed Ukrainian State
1921 – Russia invaded Georgia
1921 – Russia attacked the newly-formed state United Mountain Dwellers of the North Caucasus [composed of Ingushetia, Chechnya, Dagestan] and forced them to join the Soviet Union
1939 – Russia invaded Poland
1939 – Russia invaded Finland
1944 – Russia invaded Hungary
1944 – Chechens and Ingush were FALSELY ACCUSED OF BEING NAZI supporters and entire nations were deported during Operation Lentil to the Kazakh SSR (later Kazakhstan) near the end of World War II where over 60% of Chechen and Ingush populations perished.
1968 – Russia invaded Czechoslovakia
1979 – Russia invaded Afghanistan
1994 – Russia invaded Chechnya
1999 – Russia invaded Chechnya (again)
2008 – Russia invaded Georgia
2014 – Russia invaded Ukraine
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Anna, have you ever seen this document?
It was read into the United States Library of Congress in 1963.
"Communist Goals
Congressional Record--Appendix, pp. A34-A35 January 10, 1963
Current Communist Goals
EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, January 10, 1963
Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America.
At Mrs. Nordman's request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following "Current Communist Goals," which she identifies as an excerpt from "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen:
[From "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen]
CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use ["]united force["] to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.
😎👍🇺🇸 ✝️
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@sneakytacos773 Under the 1948 U.N. resolution, Israel is supposed to declare themselves a state and The Palestinians were supposed to declare themselves a state. That is called the two-state solution. In the U.N. resolution there is map defining the borders of each state. If things had gone as proposed, Israel would currently be a sovereign nation with defined borders running their own affairs and Palestine would be their own sovereign nation with its own borders and running their own affairs.
But what was suggested did not take place:
Israel stepped forward and declared themselves a state and accepted their offered borders.
The Palestinians did not like the offer and rejected the deal. So they did not become a sovereign nation handling their own affairs.
However the offer was never removed from the table. Anytime the Palestinians decide to declare themselves a sovereign state with defined sovereign borders, Israel will lose all legal right to administer Palestine and Palestine will handle all of their own affairs.
Also you have some errors:
Palestinians are allowed to work and farm and get an education. In fact, before Oct 7, there were people living in Gaza who traveled every day into Israel and worked all day and returned to Gaza after work. Those people lost their jobs on Oct 7.
Before the war, Palestine had a functioning economy. There are farms and businesses in Gaza and international trade. How did think you 2 million people have been eating for the last 75 years, if they could not work and did not have farms?
How did you think all of those apartment buildings and hospitals got built if they could not work?
Did you see the cars, motorbikes, ambulances, and tractors removing rubble?
That stuff all belongs to the Gazans.
(Also, when someone says to me "I could go on" that just tells me that they have run out of examples.)
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@1czechit1 Nope. Still wrong:
Israel was renamed to Palestine by the Roman Empire in 132 ad. The name comes from the Philistines in the Bible who fought against the Israelites and are famous for fielding a giant named Goliath against a Jewish youth named David. David won. The Philistines at that time lived where Gaza is today. When Rome defeated the Jews in 132 ad, they named the whole area Palestine after the Philistines. In 1500s bc Gaza was called Philististia.
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"More than 75 years after Israel declared statehood, its borders are yet to be entirely settled. Wars, treaties and occupation mean the shape of the Jewish state has changed over time, and in parts is still undefined.
The land which would become Israel was for centuries part of the Turkish-ruled Ottoman Empire. After World War One and the collapse of the empire, territory known as Palestine - the portion of which west of the River Jordan was also known as the land of Israel by Jews - was marked out and assigned to Britain TO ADMINISTER by the victorious allied powers (soon after endorsed by the League of Nations).
The terms of the mandate entrusted Britain with establishing in Palestine "a national home for the Jewish people", so long as doing so did not prejudice the civil and religious rights of non-Jewish communities there.
The rise of Palestinian Arab nationalism coupled with the rapid growth of Palestine's smaller Jewish population - especially after the advent of Nazism in the 1930s - saw an escalation in Arab-Jewish violence in Palestine.
BRITAIN HANDED THE PROBLEM to the United Nations, which in 1947 proposed partitioning Palestine into two states - one Jewish, one Arab - with the Jerusalem-Bethlehem area to become an international city. The plan was accepted by Palestine's Jewish leadership but rejected by Arab leaders.
The Jewish leadership in Palestine declared the establishment of the State of Israel on 14 May 1948, the moment the British mandate terminated, though without announcing its borders.
The following day Israel was invaded by five Arab armies, marking the start of Israel's War of Independence. The fighting ended in 1949 with a series of ceasefires, producing armistice lines along Israel's frontiers with neighbouring states, and creating the boundaries of what became known as the Gaza Strip (occupied by Egypt) and East Jerusalem and the West Bank (occupied by Jordan).
The surrounding Arab states refused to recognise Israel, meaning its borders remained unset.
The biggest change to Israel's frontiers came in 1967, when the conflict known as the Six Day War left Israel IN OCCUPATION of the Sinai peninsula, the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, East Jerusalem and most of the Syrian Golan Heights - effectively tripling the size of territory under Israel's control. Israel effectively annexed East Jerusalem - claiming the whole of the city as its capital - and the Golan Heights.
THESE MOVES WERE NOT RECOGNIZED by the international community, until the US changed its official position on the matter under the Trump administration, becoming the first major power to do so. Overwhelmingly, international opinion continues to consider East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights as occupied territory.
One of Israel's land borders was formalised for the first time in 1979, when Egypt became the first Arab country to recognise the Jewish state. Under the treaty, Israel's border with Egypt was set and Israel withdrew all its forces and settlers from the Sinai, a process which was completed in 1982.
That left Israel in OCCUPATION of the Gaza Strip, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, with its frontiers (excluding that of Egypt) STILL DELINEATED BY THE 1949 ARMISTACE LINES.
In 1994, Jordan became the second Arab state to recognise Israel, formalising its long border with the Jewish state in the process. While there has not yet been a peace treaty between Israel and Lebanon, the two countries' 1949 armistice line serves as Israel's de facto northern border, while Israel's border with Syria remains unsettled.
Similarly, Israel has had A DEFACTO BORDER WITH GAZA since it PULLED ITS TROOPS AND SETTLERS OUT in 2005, but Gaza and the West Bank are considered a single OCCUPIED ENTITY by the UN, and THE OFFICIAL BORDERS HAVE NOT YET BEEN DETERMINED.
The FINAL STATUS and contours of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem are STILL TO BE DECIDED in negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians living there under ISRAELI OCCUPATION, but decades of on-off talks have so far proved fruitless."
Source: BBC October 11, 2023
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@acelibrarian
My whole extended family from way back are conservative. We believe that certain things work and certain things do not work, and we base our politics on that idea.
We are all Christians (protestant) and we believe that, in order to go to Heaven, one must know Jesus as their Savior and live as the Bible says. We attend church at least on Sunday morning and as often as possible on Sunday night and Wednesday night. We say grace before every meal, thanking God for His provisions. We talk with God about our day before going to sleep at night.
We believe that this is the best way to live and that everyone in the world should live this way (voluntarily). We believe that if everyone in America trusted God and lived a godly life, (voluntarily) this would be a beautiful, fantastic country.
We are against teaching the theory of evolution because it is unscientific and simply wrong. It mistakenly leads people to give up their belief in God and choose Hell. 🌅
We are against LBG because the Bible says it is a sin that sends people to Hell. 🌅
Additionally, the Bible says that God destroyed 7 cities with fire from the sky ☄️ for their illicit activities. We do not want America destroyed with fire from the sky ☄️ so we want LBG eradicated from our country (voluntarily).
We believe that God creates every human child and that killing a child is a great offense to God. And God will punish the country that allows wanton murder. So we want child-murder gone from America, so God does not punish America (done by law because, obviously, murder is illegal everywhere).
Leaving basic religious beliefs aside:
We are against big invasive government that tries to stick it's nose in your business and solve all of your problems for you.
We want the government to cut back on spending and balance the budget. We were against the Inflation Reduction Act because we cannot afford it. Same with the school loan thing. The government cannot afford just any good idea. Living on borrowed money is not fiscally responsible.
We believe that free-market economics is the best because it is the most efficient, has less waste, and makes less mistakes.
We believe that anyone entering the country must do so according to U.S. immigration law. If we need a fence or wall to implement that and enforce the law, then we need a fence or a wall.
Strong police forces who are tough on criminals and long effective jail terms.
We support oil-drilling because it makes America financially strong. Most of my family members do not believe global warming is a real thing (but I do). They think we are being hoaxed.
We believe in a strong military to keep America free, so that we can always do the things listed above.
Those are our basic fundamental beliefs and we support the political party that agrees with us.
After all of that, we support the candidate who can best implement the party platform.
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@xjarheadjohnson
Massachusetts:
Constitution of Massachusetts:
Peamble:
" . . . We, therefore, the people of Massachusetts, acknowledging, with grateful hearts, the goodness of the great Legislator of the universe, in affording us, in the course of His providence, an opportunity, deliberately and peaceably, without fraud, violence or surprise, of entering into an original, explicit, and solemn compact with each other; and of forming a new constitution of civil government, for ourselves and posterity; and devoutly imploring His direction in so interesting a design, do agree upon, ordain and establish the following Declaration of Rights, and Frame of Government, as the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts."
Part I.
Article II.
"It is the right as well as the duty of all men in society, publicly, and at stated seasons to worship the Supreme Being, the great Creator and Preserver of the universe. And no subject shall be hurt, molested, or restrained, in his person, liberty, or estate, for worshipping God in the manner and season most agreeable to the dictates of his own conscience; or for his religious profession or sentiments . . ."
Article III.
As the happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend upon piety, religion and morality; and as these cannot be generally diffused through a community, but by the institution of the public worship of God, and of public instructions in piety, religion and morality: Therefore, to promote their happiness and to secure the good order and preservation of their government, the people of this commonwealth have a right to invest their legislature with power to authorize and require, and the legislature shall, from time to time, authorize and require, the several towns, parishes, precincts, and other bodies politic, or religious societies, to make suitable provision, at their own expense, for the institution of the public worship of God, and for the support and maintenance of public Protestant teachers of piety, religion and morality, in all cases where such provision shall not be made voluntarily.
And the people of this commonwealth have also a right to, and do, invest their legislature with authority to enjoin upon all the subjects an attendance upon the instructions of the public teachers aforesaid, at stated times and seasons, if there be any on whose instructions they can conscientiously and conveniently attend.
Provided, notwithstanding, that the several towns, parishes, precincts, and other bodies politic, or religious societies, shall, at all times, have the exclusive right of electing their public teachers, and of contracting with them for their support and maintenance. . .
. . . Any every denomination of Christians, demeaning themselves peaceably, and as good subjects of the commonwealth, shall be equally under the protection of the law: and no subordination of any one sect or denomination to another shall ever be established by law.] [Art. XI of the Amendments substituted for this].
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@xjarheadjohnson
Massachusetts:
Constitution of Massachusetts:
Peamble:
" . . . We, therefore, the people of Massachusetts, acknowledging, with grateful hearts, the goodness of the great Legislator of the universe, in affording us, in the course of His providence, an opportunity, deliberately and peaceably, without fraud, violence or surprise, of entering into an original, explicit, and solemn compact with each other; and of forming a new constitution of civil government, for ourselves and posterity; and devoutly imploring His direction in so interesting a design, do agree upon, ordain and establish the following Declaration of Rights, and Frame of Government, as the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts."
Part I.
Article II.
"It is the right as well as the duty of all men in society, publicly, and at stated seasons to worship the Supreme Being, the great Creator and Preserver of the universe. And no subject shall be hurt, molested, or restrained, in his person, liberty, or estate, for worshipping God in the manner and season most agreeable to the dictates of his own conscience; or for his religious profession or sentiments . . ."
Article III.
As the happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend upon piety, religion and morality; and as these cannot be generally diffused through a community, but by the institution of the public worship of God, and of public instructions in piety, religion and morality: Therefore, to promote their happiness and to secure the good order and preservation of their government, the people of this commonwealth have a right to invest their legislature with power to authorize and require, and the legislature shall, from time to time, authorize and require, the several towns, parishes, precincts, and other bodies politic, or religious societies, to make suitable provision, at their own expense, for the institution of the public worship of God, and for the support and maintenance of public Protestant teachers of piety, religion and morality, in all cases where such provision shall not be made voluntarily.
And the people of this commonwealth have also a right to, and do, invest their legislature with authority to enjoin upon all the subjects an attendance upon the instructions of the public teachers aforesaid, at stated times and seasons, if there be any on whose instructions they can conscientiously and conveniently attend.
Provided, notwithstanding, that the several towns, parishes, precincts, and other bodies politic, or religious societies, shall, at all times, have the exclusive right of electing their public teachers, and of contracting with them for their support and maintenance. . .
. . . Any every denomination of Christians, demeaning themselves peaceably, and as good subjects of the commonwealth, shall be equally under the protection of the law: and no subordination of any one sect or denomination to another shall ever be established by law.] [Art. XI of the Amendments substituted for this].
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@xjarheadjohnson
First Prayer of the Continental Congress, 1774
“O Lord our Heavenly Father, high and mighty King of kings, and Lord of lords, who dost from thy throne behold all the dwellers on earth and reignest with power supreme and uncontrolled over all the Kingdoms, Empires and Governments; look down in mercy, we beseech Thee, on these our American States, who have fled to Thee from the rod of the oppressor and thrown themselves on Thy gracious protection, desiring to be henceforth dependent only on Thee. To Thee have they appealed for the righteousness of their cause; to Thee do they now look up for that countenance and support, which Thou alone canst give. Take them, therefore, Heavenly Father, under Thy nurturing care; give them wisdom in Council and valor in the field; defeat the malicious designs of our cruel adversaries; convince them of the unrighteousness of their Cause and if they persist in their sanguinary purposes, of own unerring justice, sounding in their hearts, constrain them to drop the weapons of war from their unnerved hands in the day of battle!
Be Thou present, O God of wisdom, and direct the councils of this honorable assembly; enable them to settle things on the best and surest foundation. That the scene of blood may be speedily closed; that order, harmony and peace may be effectually restored, and truth and justice, religion and piety, prevail and flourish amongst the people. Preserve the health of their bodies and vigor of their minds; shower down on them and the millions they here represent, such temporal blessings as Thou seest expedient for them in this world and crown them with everlasting glory in the world to come. All this we ask in the name and through the merits of Jesus Christ, Thy Son and our Savior.
Amen.
Reverend Jacob Duché
Rector of Christ Church of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
September 7, 1774, 9 o’clock a.m.
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@xjarheadjohnson
First Prayer of the Continental Congress, 1774
“O Lord our Heavenly Father, high and mighty King of kings, and Lord of lords, who dost from thy throne behold all the dwellers on earth and reignest with power supreme and uncontrolled over all the Kingdoms, Empires and Governments; look down in mercy, we beseech Thee, on these our American States, who have fled to Thee from the rod of the oppressor and thrown themselves on Thy gracious protection, desiring to be henceforth dependent only on Thee. To Thee have they appealed for the righteousness of their cause; to Thee do they now look up for that countenance and support, which Thou alone canst give. Take them, therefore, Heavenly Father, under Thy nurturing care; give them wisdom in Council and valor in the field; defeat the malicious designs of our cruel adversaries; convince them of the unrighteousness of their Cause and if they persist in their sanguinary purposes, of own unerring justice, sounding in their hearts, constrain them to drop the weapons of war from their unnerved hands in the day of battle!
Be Thou present, O God of wisdom, and direct the councils of this honorable assembly; enable them to settle things on the best and surest foundation. That the scene of blood may be speedily closed; that order, harmony and peace may be effectually restored, and truth and justice, religion and piety, prevail and flourish amongst the people. Preserve the health of their bodies and vigor of their minds; shower down on them and the millions they here represent, such temporal blessings as Thou seest expedient for them in this world and crown them with everlasting glory in the world to come. All this we ask in the name and through the merits of Jesus Christ, Thy Son and our Savior.
Amen.
Reverend Jacob Duché
Rector of Christ Church of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
September 7, 1774, 9 o’clock a.m.
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@pluribus_unum
First Prayer of the Continental Congress, 1774
“O Lord our Heavenly Father, high and mighty King of kings, and Lord of lords, who dost from thy throne behold all the dwellers on earth and reignest with power supreme and uncontrolled over all the Kingdoms, Empires and Governments; look down in mercy, we beseech Thee, on these our American States, who have fled to Thee from the rod of the oppressor and thrown themselves on Thy gracious protection, desiring to be henceforth dependent only on Thee. To Thee have they appealed for the righteousness of their cause; to Thee do they now look up for that countenance and support, which Thou alone canst give. Take them, therefore, Heavenly Father, under Thy nurturing care; give them wisdom in Council and valor in the field; defeat the malicious designs of our cruel adversaries; convince them of the unrighteousness of their Cause and if they persist in their sanguinary purposes, of own unerring justice, sounding in their hearts, constrain them to drop the weapons of war from their unnerved hands in the day of battle!
Be Thou present, O God of wisdom, and direct the councils of this honorable assembly; enable them to settle things on the best and surest foundation. That the scene of blood may be speedily closed; that order, harmony and peace may be effectually restored, and truth and justice, religion and piety, prevail and flourish amongst the people. Preserve the health of their bodies and vigor of their minds; shower down on them and the millions they here represent, such temporal blessings as Thou seest expedient for them in this world and crown them with everlasting glory in the world to come. All this we ask in the name and through the merits of Jesus Christ, Thy Son and our Savior.
Amen.
Reverend Jacob Duché
Rector of Christ Church of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
September 7, 1774, 9 o’clock a.m.
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@pluribus_unum
First Prayer of the Continental Congress, 1774
“O Lord our Heavenly Father, high and mighty King of kings, and Lord of lords, who dost from thy throne behold all the dwellers on earth and reignest with power supreme and uncontrolled over all the Kingdoms, Empires and Governments; look down in mercy, we beseech Thee, on these our American States, who have fled to Thee from the rod of the oppressor and thrown themselves on Thy gracious protection, desiring to be henceforth dependent only on Thee. To Thee have they appealed for the righteousness of their cause; to Thee do they now look up for that countenance and support, which Thou alone canst give. Take them, therefore, Heavenly Father, under Thy nurturing care; give them wisdom in Council and valor in the field; defeat the malicious designs of our cruel adversaries; convince them of the unrighteousness of their Cause and if they persist in their sanguinary purposes, of own unerring justice, sounding in their hearts, constrain them to drop the weapons of war from their unnerved hands in the day of battle!
Be Thou present, O God of wisdom, and direct the councils of this honorable assembly; enable them to settle things on the best and surest foundation. That the scene of blood may be speedily closed; that order, harmony and peace may be effectually restored, and truth and justice, religion and piety, prevail and flourish amongst the people. Preserve the health of their bodies and vigor of their minds; shower down on them and the millions they here represent, such temporal blessings as Thou seest expedient for them in this world and crown them with everlasting glory in the world to come. All this we ask in the name and through the merits of Jesus Christ, Thy Son and our Savior.
Amen.
Reverend Jacob Duché
Rector of Christ Church of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
September 7, 1774, 9 o’clock a.m.
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@lameetcalice3845
First Prayer of the Continental Congress, 1774
“O Lord our Heavenly Father, high and mighty King of kings, and Lord of lords, who dost from thy throne behold all the dwellers on earth and reignest with power supreme and uncontrolled over all the Kingdoms, Empires and Governments; look down in mercy, we beseech Thee, on these our American States, who have fled to Thee from the rod of the oppressor and thrown themselves on Thy gracious protection, desiring to be henceforth dependent only on Thee. To Thee have they appealed for the righteousness of their cause; to Thee do they now look up for that countenance and support, which Thou alone canst give. Take them, therefore, Heavenly Father, under Thy nurturing care; give them wisdom in Council and valor in the field; defeat the malicious designs of our cruel adversaries; convince them of the unrighteousness of their Cause and if they persist in their sanguinary purposes, of own unerring justice, sounding in their hearts, constrain them to drop the weapons of war from their unnerved hands in the day of battle!
Be Thou present, O God of wisdom, and direct the councils of this honorable assembly; enable them to settle things on the best and surest foundation. That the scene of blood may be speedily closed; that order, harmony and peace may be effectually restored, and truth and justice, religion and piety, prevail and flourish amongst the people. Preserve the health of their bodies and vigor of their minds; shower down on them and the millions they here represent, such temporal blessings as Thou seest expedient for them in this world and crown them with everlasting glory in the world to come. All this we ask in the name and through the merits of Jesus Christ, Thy Son and our Savior.
Amen.
Reverend Jacob Duché
Rector of Christ Church of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
September 7, 1774, 9 o’clock a.m.
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@mariecait
First Prayer of the Continental Congress, 1774
“O Lord our Heavenly Father, high and mighty King of kings, and Lord of lords, who dost from thy throne behold all the dwellers on earth and reignest with power supreme and uncontrolled over all the Kingdoms, Empires and Governments; look down in mercy, we beseech Thee, on these our American States, who have fled to Thee from the rod of the oppressor and thrown themselves on Thy gracious protection, desiring to be henceforth dependent only on Thee. To Thee have they appealed for the righteousness of their cause; to Thee do they now look up for that countenance and support, which Thou alone canst give. Take them, therefore, Heavenly Father, under Thy nurturing care; give them wisdom in Council and valor in the field; defeat the malicious designs of our cruel adversaries; convince them of the unrighteousness of their Cause and if they persist in their sanguinary purposes, of own unerring justice, sounding in their hearts, constrain them to drop the weapons of war from their unnerved hands in the day of battle!
Be Thou present, O God of wisdom, and direct the councils of this honorable assembly; enable them to settle things on the best and surest foundation. That the scene of blood may be speedily closed; that order, harmony and peace may be effectually restored, and truth and justice, religion and piety, prevail and flourish amongst the people. Preserve the health of their bodies and vigor of their minds; shower down on them and the millions they here represent, such temporal blessings as Thou seest expedient for them in this world and crown them with everlasting glory in the world to come. All this we ask in the name and through the merits of Jesus Christ, Thy Son and our Savior.
Amen.
Reverend Jacob Duché
Rector of Christ Church of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
September 7, 1774, 9 o’clock a.m.
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@mariecait
First Prayer of the Continental Congress, 1774
“O Lord our Heavenly Father, high and mighty King of kings, and Lord of lords, who dost from thy throne behold all the dwellers on earth and reignest with power supreme and uncontrolled over all the Kingdoms, Empires and Governments; look down in mercy, we beseech Thee, on these our American States, who have fled to Thee from the rod of the oppressor and thrown themselves on Thy gracious protection, desiring to be henceforth dependent only on Thee. To Thee have they appealed for the righteousness of their cause; to Thee do they now look up for that countenance and support, which Thou alone canst give. Take them, therefore, Heavenly Father, under Thy nurturing care; give them wisdom in Council and valor in the field; defeat the malicious designs of our cruel adversaries; convince them of the unrighteousness of their Cause and if they persist in their sanguinary purposes, of own unerring justice, sounding in their hearts, constrain them to drop the weapons of war from their unnerved hands in the day of battle!
Be Thou present, O God of wisdom, and direct the councils of this honorable assembly; enable them to settle things on the best and surest foundation. That the scene of blood may be speedily closed; that order, harmony and peace may be effectually restored, and truth and justice, religion and piety, prevail and flourish amongst the people. Preserve the health of their bodies and vigor of their minds; shower down on them and the millions they here represent, such temporal blessings as Thou seest expedient for them in this world and crown them with everlasting glory in the world to come. All this we ask in the name and through the merits of Jesus Christ, Thy Son and our Savior.
Amen.
Reverend Jacob Duché
Rector of Christ Church of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
September 7, 1774, 9 o’clock a.m.
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@Marco90731 Guess they don't:
“When the Lord your God brings you [Israelites] into the land which you go to possess, and has cast out many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you, and when the Lord your God delivers them over to you, you shall conquer them and utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them nor show mercy to them. Nor shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to their son, nor take their daughter for your son. For they will turn your sons away from following Me, to serve other gods; so the anger of the Lord will be aroused against you and destroy you suddenly.
But thus you shall deal with them: you shall destroy their altars, and break down their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden images, and burn their carved images with fire.
For you are a holy people to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has CHOSEN YOU to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth.
The Lord did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any other people, for you were the least of all peoples; but because the Lord loves you, and because He would keep the oath which He swore to your fathers. The Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
Therefore know that the Lord your God, He is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments; and He repays those who hate Him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be slack with him who hates Him; He will repay him to his face. Therefore you shall keep the commandment, the statutes, and the judgments which I command you today, to observe them.
Then it shall come to pass, because you listen to these judgments, and keep and do them, that the Lord your God will keep with you the covenant and the mercy which He swore to your fathers. And He will love you and bless you and multiply you; He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flock, in the land of which He swore to your fathers to give you.
You shall be blessed above all peoples; there shall not be a male or female barren among you or among your livestock. And the Lord will take away from you all sickness, and will afflict you with none of the terrible diseases of Egypt which you have known, but will lay them on all those who hate you. Also you shall destroy all the peoples whom the Lord your God delivers over to you; your eye shall have no pity on them; nor shall you serve their gods, for that will be a snare to you."
Torah \ Holy Bible book of Deuteronomy chapter 7
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@Marco90731 Guess they don't:
"So the people shouted when the priests blew the trumpets. And it happened when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat. Then the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city. 21 And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, ox and sheep and donkey, with the edge of the sword."
Joshua 6:20
"And it came to pass when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness where they pursued them, and when they all had fallen by the edge of the sword until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned to Ai and struck it with the edge of the sword. 25 So it was that all who fell that day, both men and women, were twelve thousand—all the people of Ai. 26 For Joshua did not draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai. 27 Only the livestock and the spoil of that city Israel took as booty for themselves, according to the word of the Lord which He had commanded Joshua. 28 So Joshua burned Ai and made it a heap forever, a desolation to this day."
Joshua 8:24
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@zumurudlilit I see. So what you are saying is that you have a Big Brother, fascist, communist, dictator government who has made an uncounted number of laws regulating every aspect of life. Telling you when to wake, when to go to sleep, when to change your clothes, what you can eat, watch to watch on television, how to brush your teeth. You are such poor and misery children that you cannot do or decide anything on your own. Big Bother has to tie your shoes. You are not a slave to your car -- but you are a slave to your government.
We fought to make you free in 1945, but you failed to get the meaning of it, and 50 years later voluntarily submitted yourself to the same kind of dictatorship government that we liberated you from. 🤷♂️
Does that make any sense? 🤷
Why should any government tell me that I cannot eat pizza???
Or any food???
I happen to like many kinds of American processed foods, and if you do not like it, no one is asking you to eat it. But at least I have CHOICES in my life.
The "You will be shot" signs are a joke. And I understand that Polish people do not have a sense of humor, and do not get jokes. But they are supposed to be laughed at.
(And I am not fat.)
Enjoy living in your little government-controlled box.
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@jewellui I live in an American subdivision and I wrote this in the past and saved it:
1. I believe that humans were meant to be connected to nature. They need grass, trees, rocks, flowers, and naturally flowing water all around them. They need clean-smelling fresh air to breathe and and to wake up hearing the birds singing in the morning.
It is my fundamental belief that without this natural environmental connection and stimulation, a human cannot be physically, emotionally, or spiritually healthy.
My fundamental belief in human health is my primary driver and I will not waver on these human needs.
I will not support anything like a concrete jungle that isolates people from their native environment.
The yards and greenery in a subdivision provides for these basic needs.
2. A subdivision is a SAFE PLACE. There is no traffic inside the subdivision. It has an atmosphere of a large park. Crime is almost non-existent. Children can play safely in the street or ride a bicycle safely anyplace inside the subdivision.
It is also a great place for children to meet other children. You have a square mile of houses that is a safe space where children can roam all around on their own and meet other children. They cannot do that in a walkability area. It would not be safe to leave them on their own.
3. A subdivision is a great place to raise a family because it has a backyard and a front yard for family activities:
All of the neighbor children can come and play in your front yard. Then they go play in another front yard.
In the back yard you can set up a swimming pool for the children.
In the back yard you can have a family barbecue on the barbecue grill.
In the back yard you can have swingsets and playground equipment.
In the back yard the children can put on swimming suits and run through the sprinklers.
A back yard is a good place to keep a family dog.
And most importantly, you can have a garden and grow your own fresh vegetables in a back yard (and your children can learn farming).
You can also plant fruit and nut trees.
4. I believe in "pride of ownership" as a fundamental human need. Owning your house with its yard and defined borders gives you something that you own and can take care of and be proud of. You can paint your house in your choice of colors and you can plant your own flowers 🌹🥀🌱⚘️🪻🌷🌻that you picked out yourself anywhere you want to plant them.
5. A subdivision is a great place for adults to come together and get to know each other. It is an easy place to walk out into your front yard and wave at your neighbor and say, "good morning." Then later, you plan get togethers with all of the neighbors.
6. Your house and back yard is a place for get togethers and gatherings (either extended family members or friends from church).
You can easily invite 30 people over and throw a cookout. I know of at least one couple who held a wedding 🌺 in their backyard.
You have never been more wrong than when you called my subdivision "a badly designed place."
Where do people spend MOST of their time?
a. Coffee shop
b. In their own home
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@liljepolak8565 American suburbs have "mixed use." What I mean by that is on the outside of the suburbs on the corners and faster streets is where we put the commercial stuff. You can walk to it, but no one does. This is why I prefer suburbs, and would never live in this mall:
1. I believe that humans were meant to be connected to nature. They need grass, trees, rocks, flowers, and naturally flowing water all around them. They need clean-smelling fresh air to breathe and and to wake up hearing the birds singing in the morning.
It is my fundamental belief that without this natural environmental connection and stimulation, a human cannot be physically, emotionally, or spiritually healthy.
My fundamental belief in human health is my primary driver and I will not waver on these human needs.
I will not support anything like a concrete jungle that isolates people from their native environment.
The yards and greenery in a subdivision provides for these basic needs.
2. A subdivision is a SAFE PLACE. There is no traffic inside the subdivision. It has an atmosphere of a large park. Crime is almost non-existent. Children can play safely in the street or ride a bicycle safely anyplace inside the subdivision.
It is also a great place for children to meet other children. You have a square mile of houses that is a safe space where children can roam all around on their own and meet other children. They cannot do that in a walkability area. It would not be safe to leave them on their own.
3. A subdivision is a great place to raise a family because it has a backyard and a front yard for family activities:
All of the neighbor children can come and play in your front yard. Then they go play in another front yard.
In the back yard you can set up a swimming pool for the children.
In the back yard you can have a family barbecue on the barbecue grill.
In the back yard you can have swingsets and playground equipment.
In the back yard the children can put on swimming suits and run through the sprinklers.
A back yard is a good place to keep a family dog.
And most importantly, you can have a garden and grow your own fresh vegetables in a back yard (and your children can learn farming).
You can also plant fruit and nut trees.
4. I believe in "pride of ownership" as a fundamental human need. Owning your house with its yard and defined borders gives you something that you own and can take care of and be proud of. You can paint your house in your choice of colors and you can plant your own flowers 🌹🥀🌱⚘️🪻🌷🌻that you picked out yourself anywhere you want to plant them.
5. A subdivision is a great place for adults to come together and get to know each other. It is an easy place to walk out into your front yard and wave at your neighbor and say, "good morning." Then later, you plan get togethers with all of the neighbors.
6. Your house and back yard is a place for get togethers and gatherings (either extended family members or friends from church).
You can easily invite 30 people over and throw a cookout. I know of at least one couple who held a wedding 🌺 in their backyard.
You have never been more wrong than when you called my subdivision "a badly designed place."
Where do people spend MOST of their time?
a. Coffee shop
b. In their own home
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@logan-v6y Well your conclusion is wrong. Being 15th out of 193 countries is really very, very good, and shows that Americans are very, very happy.
But you have to take those studies with a grain of salt because they may contain parameters that I may not agree are justifiable parameters. I am very certain that we rank higher than 15 in happiness. But 15 is fine.
When Americans step into a car, they know there is a chance they may not arrive, but they choose to drive anyway because doing so makes them HAPPY.
So, yes, the people who are killed made their choice, and they are happy with their choice.
You are free to quote statistics all day long, but the facts are that Americans CHOOSE to drive knowing the risks involved. If your SUBJECTIVE OPINION is that it is a "terrible system" that is just your subjective opinion, and you have been outvoted by the majority of Americans who feel otherwise.
As far as free time and other parameters . . .
We have things set up the way we want them to be.
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"The United States announced Monday it will send nearly $64 million in humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, a day after the United Nations issued an emergency call for $600 million to prevent famine and a public health crisis.
The U.S. was spending an estimated $300 million a day on the war in Afghanistan before its military withdrawal in recent weeks.
The Biden administration has yet to officially recognize the Taliban as Afghanistan's government since the militant group swiftly took power following the U.S. exit.
The funding will come from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the U.S. State Department and will be distributed through the U.N. and independent aid groups. The latest donation brings U.S. humanitarian spending in Afghanistan to $330 million this year, making it the largest foreign donor, USAID said.
In addition to these funds, USAID has also created a Disaster Assistance Response Team based outside Afghanistan to run the U.S. government's response to the unfolding humanitarian crisis, the release said.
As part of today's announcement of aid, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged Afghanistan's neighbors to keep their borders open to Afghan refugees and promised to work to ensure that the Taliban does not hinder humanitarian assistance, especially to vulnerable groups like women and girls.
"We will continue to press for the Taliban to respect the rights and freedoms of women and girls, and are committed to preserving the gains Afghans, especially women, have made in the past 20 years," Blinken said in a statement on Monday.
This announcement comes after the U.N. reported last week that millions in Afghanistan was beginning to run out of basic aid supplies and food."
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@srichander2641 The problem with your understanding is that . . .
1. You are blaming a person who is living in the present for a crime that someone committed in the past.
2. You are blaming some people living in Canada for a crime of someone living in India.
3. You are blaming the entire group for a crime that a subset of the group committed.
4. You are blaming the group in Canada for a crime that you suspect they may commit in the future. Yet you have no proof that they will commit a crime in the future.
All 4 of those thoughts of yours are against the blaming rules.
That fact is . . that group in Canada has not committed any crimes and until they both commit crimes and are convicted in a court of those crimes, the government cannot restrict their rights.
We do not put all of the members of a political group in jail because of the crimes of 6 members. Each individual of the group is individually responsible for their own actions.
Dumb Trudeau is allowed to make a public statement condemning any VIOLENCE of the group -- he is not allowed to take away or restrict any of their God-given rights unless they break the law. It is also a violation of Canadian law for him to do that and would be considered an illegal oppressive government crackdown on people who are expressing their viewpoint. He only has the right to condemn the what the group is saying -- he cannot stop them from saying it.
That is the rights rule and the answer he gave in his speech was precisely according to standard rights rules and explaining the rights rule to the Indian population was the right thing for him to do.
And he SPECIFICALLY SAID that they cannot use any violence to achieve their objective. (You did not hear that part, did you?)
Now if those people take any violent action, the Canadian government is ready to support India the same way they are supporting Ukraine.
(And it would not hurt for him to say that in his speech.)
I am certain that you love your country. But we cannot be solving problems the same way that the communist party solves problems. We have to respect the God-given rights of all parties involved.
And you need to think about:
You want Canada to defend India against people who would violently break apart their country. but in a similar situation, India is not supporting Ukraine against violent people who are trying to break apart their country?!? 🤷♀️ 🤷♂️
And just out of curiosity:
Does India support those violent extremist Americans (and their nearly unlimited guns) balkanizing the British Empire?
I am pretty sure that the British felt that the brash Americans were destroying their beloved country and were highly offended.
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Now consider this:
If a person is planning to kill you and he says, "I am going to kill you," what does that statement give you?
You would be warned. It gives you an opportunity to go buy a gun and be ready for him when he shows up at your door.
Doesn't it?
But if the government makes it illegal for him to tell you in advance that he is coming to kill you, how does that turn out?
He cannot tell you in advance that he is coming to kill you and therefore, when he shows up at your door, it is a complete surprise to you. He is now armed, but you did not know that you needed to go buy a gun. Now he has the advantage in the situation.
Right?
Your only chance to live is to use your words against his gun.
And the government put you in that untenable position when they made a law against free speech. They did not only take away his right to free speech. The same law when it was passed, took away your right to defend your own life.
These rules are well thought out by the world's brightest minds and we have them for a reason.
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American proverb:
"To be fore warned is to be fore armed."
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@amg5656 Well I am not specifically familiar with the laws of New York. But I do know that New York is a very strange place. So it is possible that they have some odd, unusual, and non-standard laws.
However . . .
In the NORMAL WORLD the definition of fraud is that you defraud someone out of their MONEY. In the NORMAL WORLD he did not commit fraud and I am sticking by the NORMAL DEFiNITION of the word fraud and he did not commit fraud.
Also, no property has a specific value or price tag on it. If I say my house is worth $52,000 and I can talk someone into buying it for $52,000 then it is worth $52,000. Houses rarely sell for the listing price and price of anything is negotiable. There is no specific value of anything and it is very common for a homeowner to start by listing the house at a price that is higher than they actually believe the house is worth, hoping to get the most that they can get. Is that practice illegal in New York???
The value of the house is finalized on title day when the buyer and seller meet at the title office, sign the papers, the money changes hands and the sale is made. That establishes the value of the house. Up until that moment, the house has no specific value and no one really knows what the house is actually worth. AFTER THE SALE, the sale price is used as a "comp" in order to GUESS what other houses in the area might sell for.
A house is worth what someone will pay for it. Even 2 state certified appraisors will come up with different values for a house (and the day that I sell it for more, they are both proven wrong). It would be problematic to say that someone misrepresented the value of their property when no property has an actual value. New York cannot have a law against value misrepresentation based upon VARYING OPINIONS of what something is worth. And if they do have a law like that, the validity of that law itself should be challenged.
I do not believe that having a high opinion of yourself and your property is a crime. Everyone knows that President Trump has a high value of his own worth and that is not a crime or fraud.
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@eragon666s Wrong. He did not encourage it at all. So he is innocent of the charge of incitement.
Possibly he could have made stronger statements to stop it sooner -- I grant you that, but it does not make him guilty of incitement. It may mean he is either negligent or has general bad judgement (we already know he has bad judgment . . . Right?). But we do not know about the whole thing because we were not with him during those hours and we do not know who was advising him, were he was, or what he was doing. For example, Did the Secret Service rush him off to a basement somewhere?
Unless you have enough evidence to charge him in court with the crime of negligence, he is innocent (which would be problematic because negligent is not a criminal charge -- it is a civil charge).
Also negligence cannot be an error in judgment. It requires something obvious that they knew they should have done, but just left it undone (like leaving a garden rake lying on the sidewalk).
Basically, you are saying that because he did not handle the situation the way you think you would have handled it, he is negligent. I cannot go with that logic because you were not on the scene.
They are beautiful people because they thought they were defending the United States public from a fake election. Their hearts are in the right place, so they are beautiful. Mankind looks at the outward appearance, but God looks on the heart.
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@Ronnysunshine The winner is "he who overcomes"
"Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea. Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying,
“Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.”
Then He who sat on the throne said,
"Behold, I make all things new.”
And He said to me,
“Write. For these words are true and faithful.”
And He said to me,
“It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give of the fountain of the water of life freely to him who thirsts. He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be My son."
Revelation 21
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@anuragsinha2013
1) The native Americans attacked the new settlers and continued attacking and starting ongoing wars. : No
2) Nuking Japan saved tens of thousands of lives. Not "excessive" and not "a criminal act.": No
3) Napalm is to burn away the UNINHABITED jungle so that you can get into it. : No
4) Defending South Vietnam from an attacking army is not a "criminal act." : No
5) Actions in Iraq were not a "war crime." : No
6) American actions in Cuba, Venezuela, Chile, Indonesia, East Timor, Guatemala, Korea, South America, Middle East are not dark cynical politics. : No
7)Many necessary police actions lead to "catastrophic consequences" and cannot be avoided. : No
8)Americans do not elevate Dictators and criminal. Henry Kisinger is not a criminal. : No
9)Qatar is a peaceful neutral country. Saudi Arabia is a peaceful neutral country. American does not support ISIS anywhere. : No
10) America does not support dictators around the world, but only works with them because that is a political reality for that country. : No
11) America is not "hypocritical" and that is not even possible. Only an individual can be hypocritical. A group of any kind cannot be hypocritical. : No
12)America is not governed by liars, crooks, thugs, and murderers. All American politicians are promoted and elected from the general population. The crooks and murderers are kept in jail in America. : No
How does it feel to make a list of 12 points and be wrong on every single point?
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@LuisRMendoza94 Well you probably could not understand that stuff from Jesus because Jesus did not believe that and never taught anything remotely resembling that.
But Satan did teach that:
"Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and YE SHALL BE AS GODS knowing good and evil."
Genesis chapter 3
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@LuisRMendoza94 I studied science. Let me explain something to you about science:
1. Science deals with the physical world around us. Science investigates our world through the 5 senses: taste, touch, sight, hearing, and smell. This is science.
Science does not investigate or claim to know anything about anything that cannot be investigated by the 5 senses. Science does not know anything about parallel universes and metaphysical things, past lives, future events, spirit beings or the spirit realm, including God, angels, demons, ghosts, souls, sin and forgiveness of sin, Heaven, Hell and other unknown places.
You are welcome to claim that Hinduism is science. But it can only be science when it can be seen, heard, touched, smelt, or felt by the physical senses.
2. Science is reproducible in the lab.
A scientist in one country can do an experiment in the lab. Another scientist in another country can reproduce that same experiment in his lab. Until that experiment has been peered reviewed and reproduced by other scientists according to standardized scientific nethods it is not proven science.
It is possible for science to postulate theories. But until those theories are reproduced more than once in a science lab, they remain unproven theories and are not scientifically proven.
This is why the theory of evolution is always referred to as a theory -- it cannot be duplicated in a science lab to prove that it really works according to theory.
Some people BELIEVE that the theory of evolution took place . . . some people DO NOT BELIEVE that the theory of evolution took place. It is not a scientific fact -- it is a matter of BELIEVING in the theory as a whole.
Your "telling me" that Hinduism is science does not make it science. It is science when you can prove it in the science lab.
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😎👍🇺🇸✝️
A few points of clarification on this idea that 25% of Americans are hungry:
That statement is completely false. In the United States, we do not even have enough "real" hunger to bother tracking it. What the United States has is "food insecurity." This article from the United States Department of Agriculture explains it:
"Food Security Status of U.S. Households in 2021
Food secure—These households had access, at all times, to enough food for an active, healthy life for all household members.
89.8 percent (118.5 million) of U.S. households were food secure throughout 2021.
Food insecure—At times during the year, these households were uncertain of having or unable to acquire enough food to meet the needs of all their members because they had insufficient money or other resources for food. Food-insecure households include those with low food security and very low food security.
10.2 percent (13.5 million) of U.S. households were food insecure at some time during 2021.
Low food security—These food-insecure households obtained enough food to avoid substantially disrupting their eating patterns or reducing food intake by using a variety of coping strategies, such as eating less varied diets, participating in Federal food assistance programs, or getting food from community food pantries.
6.4 percent (8.4 million) of U.S. households had low food security in 2021.
Very low food security—In these food-insecure households, normal eating patterns of one or more household members were disrupted and food intake was reduced at times during the year because they had insufficient money or other resources for food.
3.8 percent (5.1 million) of U.S. households had very low food security at some time during 2021.
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For people whose income falls below a certain level, the United States government provides food stamps that allows you to buy food at the store.
For one person, they give you $214 usd per month. Which is very low, but if you spend cautiously, it can last you all month.
If the girl eating buns every day lived in the state of Arkansas, she could go to a Human Services office today and in an hour, walk out with her $214 food stamp card.
In fact, in the United States, every unemployed person in this video qualifies for a food stamp card.
For families in a higher income , we have food banks that are run by churches, local charities, and NGOs.
It is not impossible to go hungry in the United States on a temporary basis . . . but you would really have to work at it.
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@Frugal_fitchic The United States Constitution says it does:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment or religion, or PROHIBITING THE FREE EXERCISE thereof."
Laws that prohibit the free exercise of religion cannot be made in the United States.
So it is not that our religion actually "trumps the law" -- it is that the local law itself, in this case, is unconstitutional, and therefore void.
However, in addition to that, God Himself created this world and everyone and everything in it, and His Word is above EVERYTHING, including law. So even if there were no constitution to protect our religious rights, our religion does trump law, and we still have a God-given right and responsibility to ignore that law and feed the hungry.
God's law is the highest law.
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@dennisaskeland7603 A mall is a superstore . . .
The houses and businesses in the U.S. are all built where it is best to build them on an economic basis. That is how we have always done it and want it. When a business builds in the most economical location, they have the best chance of succeeding and not going bankrupt. We want them to succeed. And if the business is built in the most economical location, they can offer the lowest prices on their wares.
Houses are built in subdivisions by building companies and they build them where they are able to buy cheap land, but close enough to amenities and jobs that people will want to buy the house. That keeps the builder from going bankrupt and it also make the home sale price as low as possible.
After the subdivision is built and people start moving into the new houses, followup businesses will start putting new businesses in between your new house and your job and fill in all of that empty space. Having families living in the new houses makes it economical to put new businesses out that way.
These companies do market studies called "feasibility studies" before building to determine where the business has the best chance of success.
Using this method makes it easy for consumers to get to the stores they need to go to because a market planning engineer has thought it all out in advance.
We do not have much government planning. Market engineers do most of the planning.
I personally am against putting cities on the plains because we grow wheat on the plains. I am against putting cities on any farmland. I would like to see all cities put in the deserts or mountains.
But they always do everything the most economical way and economics rules everything here.
At or near a mall, you are likely to find KFC, White Castle, Burger King, Arby's, McDonald's, Olive Garden, Denny's and Steak and Shake all within walking distance of each other. But Americans will drive from one parking lot to the next.
You figure out that one.
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@zg9946
And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel.”
Exodus 19:6
20 Then the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel; and He said, “Because this nation has transgressed My covenant which I commanded their fathers, and has not heeded My voice, 21 I also will no longer drive out before them any of the nations which Joshua left when he died, 22 so that through them I may test Israel, whether they will keep the ways of the Lord, to walk in them as their fathers kept them, or not.” 23 Therefore the Lord left those nations, without driving them out immediately; nor did He deliver them into the hand of Joshua.
Joshua 2:20
And who is like Your people, like Israel, the one nation on the earth whom God went to redeem for Himself as a people, to make for Himself a name—and to do for Yourself great and awesome deeds for Your land—before Your people whom You redeemed for Yourself from Egypt, the nations, and their gods?
II Samuel 7:23
They have said, “Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, That the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”
Psalm 83:4
He will set up a banner for the nations, And will assemble the outcasts of Israel, And gather together the dispersed of Judah From the four corners of the earth.
Isaiah 11:12
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@sahinozkan199 2600 bc:
6 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
3 And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
6 And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
7 And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.
and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
17 And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
18 And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.
19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.
21 And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:
22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
23 And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.
3 And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
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@NF-we4kp This is NOT "peaceful protesting:"
"The first protest took place on 30 March 2018, during the Land Day. Some 30,000 Palestinians took part in the protests, which were launched from five tent camps that were set up 500 to 700 metres (1,600 to 2,300 ft) from the Israel–Gaza barrier, near the 300 metres (980 ft) no-go zone imposed by Israel. The majority of the demonstrators in the encampments were away from the border security and did not engage in violence.
Hundreds of young Palestinians, however, ignored warnings issued by the organizers and the Israeli military to avoid the border zone. When some Palestinians began throwing stones and Molotov cocktails, Israel responded by declaring the Gaza border zone a closed military zone and opening fire at them. The events of the day were some of the most violent in recent years. In one incident, two Palestinian gunmen approached the fence, armed with AK-47 assault rifles and hand grenades, and exchanged fire with IDF soldiers. They were killed and their bodies were recovered by the IDF."
"The IDF published a video from an observance camera, showing the man walking slowly towards the fence, holding what appears to be an assault rifle. The army also said he was equipped with grenades and a suicide vest."
"On the evening of 8 April, according to the IDF, three Palestinians infiltrated the fence in the Northern Gaza strip, planted two explosive devices, and then quickly returned to Gaza."
"On the morning of 11 April, Palestinians set off a bomb near an Israeli construction vehicle adjacent to the Gaza fence. The IDF fired tank shells at positions that it said belonged to Hamas."
"The IDF estimated that 10,000 people protested on 13 April. Palestinians attempted to breach the border fence, hurled molotov cocktails and explosive devices, and attempted to fly firebomb kites into Israeli territory."
"On 14 April, four Palestinians were killed in a blast near one of the protest camps, the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine said that they were members of the organization and that they died during "preparations".
Several kites with firebombs attached were flown by Palestinians into Israeli territory, sparking several fires, with at least 3 fire bomb kites located on 14 April. No injuries were caused.
On 15 April, the IDF said it destroyed a tunnel that crossed the Gaza-Israel border.
On 16 April, additional fire bomb kites were flown from the Gaza strip. One kite started a fire that burned a wheat field on the Israeli side of the border."
It is warfare. 🤷♂️
In this situation, military rules would apply -- not civilian rules.
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@av8r195 Wrong answer. In 1967 both Syria and Jordan attacked Israel leading to the Palestinians losing a bunch of their land:
"The Six-Day War (Hebrew: מִלְחֶמֶת שֵׁשֶׁת הַיָּמִים, Milḥemet Šešet HaYamim; Arabic: النكسة, an-Naksah, lit. 'The Setback' or حرب 1967, Ḥarb 1967, 'War of 1967') or June War, also known as the 1967 Arab–Israeli War or Third Arab–Israeli War, was fought between Israel and a coalition of Arab states (primarily Egypt, Syria, and Jordan) from 5 to 10 June 1967.
Military hostilities broke out amid poor relations between Israel and its Arab neighbours, who had been observing the 1949 Armistice Agreements signed at the end of the First Arab–Israeli War. Earlier, in 1956, regional tensions over the Straits of Tiran escalated in what became known as the Suez Crisis, when Israel invaded Egypt over the Egyptian closure of maritime passageways to Israeli shipping, ultimately resulting in the re-opening of the Straits of Tiran to Israel as well as the deployment of the United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) along the Egypt–Israel border.
In the months prior to the outbreak of the Six-Day War in June 1967, tensions again became dangerously heightened: Israel reiterated its post-1956 position that ANOTHER EGYPTIAN CLOSURE of the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping WOULD BE A DEFINITE CASUS BELLI."
(Now do you know what a casus belli is or do I need to explain it for you?
It is legally considered an ACT OF WAR.)
"May 1967, Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser announced that the Straits of Tiran would again be closed to Israeli vessels. He subsequently MOBILIZED THE EGYPTIAN MILITARY INTO DEFENSIVE LINES ALONG THE BORDER WITH ISRAEL and ordered the IMMEDIATE WITHDRAWAL OF UNEF PERSONNEL.
On 5 June 1967, as the UNEF was in the process of leaving the zone, Israel launched a series of PREEMPTIVE airstrikes against Egyptian airfields and other facilities."
(Now do you know what "preemptive aistrike" means or do I need to define it for you???
It means that the enemy has their military all lined up on your border and any minute is going to attack you.) [Russia/Ukraine]
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"Jordan, which had entered into a defense pact with Egypt just a week before the war began, did not take on an all-out offensive role against Israel. However, the Jordanians did LAUNCH ATTACKS against Israeli forces to slow Israel's advance."
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"On the fifth day, Syria joined the war by SHELLING ISRAELI POSITIONS in the north."
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"Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. And she had an Egyptian maidservant whose name was Hagar.
So Sarai said to Abram, “See now, the Lord has restrained me from bearing children. Please, go in to my maid; perhaps I shall obtain children by her.”
And Abram heeded the voice of Sarai.
Then Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar her maid, the Egyptian, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan.
So he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress became despised in her eyes.
Then Sarai said to Abram, “My wrong be upon you! I gave my maid into your embrace; and when she saw that she had conceived, I became despised in her eyes. The Lord judge between you and me.”
So Abram said to Sarai, “Indeed your maid is in your hand; do to her as you please.”
And when Sarai dealt harshly with her, she fled from her presence.
Now the Angel of the Lord found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring on the way to Shur.
And He said, “Hagar, Sarai’s maid, where have you come from, and where are you going?”
She said, “I am fleeing from the presence of my mistress Sarai.”
The Angel of the Lord said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hand.”
Then the Angel of the Lord said to her, “I will multiply your descendants exceedingly, so that they shall not be counted for multitude.”
And the Angel of the Lord said to her: “Behold, you are with child and you shall bear a son.
You shall call his name Ishmael, because the Lord has heard your affliction.
He shall be a wild man;
His hand shall be against every man,
And every man’s hand against him.
And he shall dwell in the presence of his brethren."
Holy Bible book Genesis chapter 12
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@AnupBhatt The movies tend to show certain specific things about America, but leave other things completely out. Hollywood sits right on the Pacific coast and those people tend to be out of touch with other parts of America. And all movies are fictional. So the producers chooses the kind of food that works into his story.
Almost every American meal is built around a "main dish." The main dish is always some type of meat: steak, roasted beef, corned beef, meatloaf, pork chops, fried chicken, turkey, sliced ham, bacon, eggs, hamburgers, baked salmon, fried salmon patties, sausage, spaghetti with meatballs (Italian).
The vegetables are "side dishes." You get 2 side dishes and a salad, with some type of bread or roll.
All vegetables are rotated around and they are not always mushy. As a side dish or salad, you can get mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, green beans, shelled corn, corn on the cob, tomatoes, dry beans boiled, lentils, peas, carrots, beats, lettuce, spinach, squash, brocolli, brussel sprouts, cabbage, sauer kraut, eggplant, celery, cantaloupe, watermelon, pears, peaches, cottage cheese, macaroni in cheese, tuna salad, egg salad, potato salad (or about anything).
Casseroles are popular, where you throw a bunch of this stuff into a baking dish and bake it all together.
We like Mexican-style rice which is flavored with tomatoes. We like rice with steak gravy poured on top. We like chicken stir-fried rice or vegetable stir-fried rice.
We do not have rice for breakfast every day. Sometimes we have a bowl of milk and cereal made with wheat, rice, or corn grains processed.
A favorite breakfast is hot biscuits covered in sausage gravy.
Scrambled eggs.
Omelettes.
Two fried eggs with bacon and toast.
Coffee and orange juice.
Our population is international. So one day we may order Italian, another day order Mexican, another day order Thai, another day Chinese, another day hamburger and fries, another day traditional American (european).
It is quite a blessing to have so many different cuisine options. 😎👍🇺🇸 ✝️
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There is not enough information availble to do a video on Ham. I can give you everything we know here:
"On the very same day Noah and Noah’s sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark—"
Genesis 7:13
"Now the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham was the father of Canaan. These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was populated.
And Noah began to be a farmer, and he planted a vineyard. Then he drank of the wine and was drunk, and became uncovered in his tent.
And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.
But Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders, and went backward and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were turned away, and they did not see their father’s nakedness.
So Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done to him. Then he said:
“Cursed be Canaan;
A servant of servants
He shall be to his brethren.”
And he said:
“Blessed be the Lord,
The God of Shem,
And may Canaan be his servant.
May God enlarge Japheth,
And may he dwell in the tents of Shem;
And may Canaan be his servant."
Genesis 9:18
The sons of Ham were Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. The sons of Cush were Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabtechah; and the sons of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan.
Cush begot Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one on the earth.
He was a mighty hunter before the Lord; therefore it is said, “Like Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.”
And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
From that land he went to Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah, and Resen between Nineveh and Calah (that is the principal city).
Mizraim begot Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim, Pathrusim, and Casluhim (from whom came the Philistines and Caphtorim).
Canaan begot Sidon his firstborn, and Heth; the Jebusite, the Amorite, and the Girgashite; the Hivite, the Arkite, and the Sinite; the Arvadite, the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. Afterward the families of the Canaanites were dispersed. And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon as you go toward Gerar, as far as Gaza; then as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha. These were the sons of Ham, according to their families, according to their languages, in their lands and in their nations."
Genesis 10:6
I do not know all of these cities.
Assyria would be Syria.
The Jebusites probably lived in Jerusalem.
Cush is thought to be Ethiopia.
Put may be Egypt.
Babel is probably Babylon, Iraq.
It is thought the Sodom and Gomorrah may be buried under the Dead Sea.
The Philistines are the Palestinians in Palestine.
The Canaanites settled where Israel is now. But they were decimated when the Jews took over Israel around 1800 bc. and we do not know if any are left alive.
The curse of Noah makes Shem the landowners, Japeth the renters, and Ham the servants.
(Which incidentally is racism at its height.)
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@KingForever-zu5jl Those are good quotes, but somewhat incorrect:
In the first century, southern Isreal was called Jewdea, and Northern Israel was called Samaria.
Then, after the Jewish revolt of 132 ad, the Roman Empire officially renamed Israel to Syria-Palestina, and it remained that way for a couple of hundred years.
After that, the Ottoman Turkish maps have it labeled as just Syria.
But the British maps of the 19th century have it labeled as just Palestine.
The Brits named it Palestine. However, it was a nearly uninhabited patch of desertland and swampland in the 19th century. The total population was under 500,00 and it was never considered a state -- only a region.
The current Arabs who are trying to call themselves "Palestinians" are, in reality Arab immigrants (colonizers) from Arabia.
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"The United States announced Monday it will send nearly $64 million in humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, a day after the United Nations issued an emergency call for $600 million to prevent famine and a public health crisis.
The U.S. was spending an estimated $300 million a day on the war in Afghanistan before its military withdrawal in recent weeks.
The Biden administration has yet to officially recognize the Taliban as Afghanistan's government since the militant group swiftly took power following the U.S. exit.
The funding will come from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the U.S. State Department and will be distributed through the U.N. and independent aid groups. The latest donation brings U.S. humanitarian spending in Afghanistan to $330 million this year, making it the largest foreign donor, USAID said.
In addition to these funds, USAID has also created a Disaster Assistance Response Team based outside Afghanistan to run the U.S. government's response to the unfolding humanitarian crisis, the release said.
As part of today's announcement of aid, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged Afghanistan's neighbors to keep their borders open to Afghan refugees and promised to work to ensure that the Taliban does not hinder humanitarian assistance, especially to vulnerable groups like women and girls.
"We will continue to press for the Taliban to respect the rights and freedoms of women and girls, and are committed to preserving the gains Afghans, especially women, have made in the past 20 years," Blinken said in a statement on Monday.
This announcement comes after the U.N. reported last week that millions in Afghanistan was beginning to run out of basic aid supplies and food."
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@cosmosheiress9816
"In the 19th century, people who were mixed-race and blacks often entered into conflicts and called on foreign intervention. According to historian Hans Schmidt, the US Navy sent ships to Haiti 19 times between 1857 and 1913 to "protect American lives and property" until the United States finally occupied Haiti in 1915.
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"Political insecurity and the failure of Haiti's governments to invest in developing the country's natural and human resources has contributed significantly to the country's current state of underdevelopment. U.S. efforts to strengthen democracy and help build the foundation for economic growth aim to rectify this condition. The U.S. has been Haiti's largest donor since 1973. Between FY 1995 and FY 2003, the U.S. contributed more than $850 million in assistance to Haiti. Since 2004, the U.S. has provided over $600 million for improving governance, security, the rule of law, economic recovery, and critical human needs. The President's budget request for FY 2007 was $198 million. U.S. Government funds have been used to support programs that have addressed a variety of problems.
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"The largest earthquake ever recorded in Haiti's history occurred on January 12, 2010 and registered 7.0 on the Richter scale. The quake centered 15 miles southwest of Port-au-Prince and caused catastrophic damage. U.S. Ambassador to Haiti Kenneth H. Merten issued a disaster declaration and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) became the lead agency for the U.S. government's response to the disaster. USAID authorized $50,000 for the initial implementation of an emergency response program. The U.S. government also established an interagency task force to coordinate search and rescue efforts, logistics and infrastructure support, provision of assistance, and conducting needs assessments.
Recent reporting suggests that some in-kind humanitarian aid from the United States has disrupted some of Haiti's internal markets, including the rice supply chain.
Although the State Department and Defense Department have set aside $98.5 million to remove 1.2 million cubic yards of debris, efforts are hampered however by lack of equipment and resources
On January 14 the Obama administration announced $100 million in humanitarian assistance to Haiti to meet its immediate needs, in addition to pre-existing funding appropriated for Haiti. USAID's Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) sent a 32-member Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART).
U.S. military response:
U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) oversaw the Department of Defense's (DOD) response, and it deployed military assets in Operation United Response that supported U.S. and international assistance efforts. As of February 2010, DOD had 20,458 military personnel stationed in Haiti or in its waters. Twenty-six Navy and Coast Guard vessels, 68 helicopters, and over 50 fixed-wing aircraft assisted in the transportation of supplies, relief and rescue personnel, and casualties. U.S. Air Force Special Operations command personnel dispatched to Port-au-Prince within 24 hours of the earthquake and restored air traffic control capability and enabled airfield operations, provided immediate medical services, and conducted search and rescue missions. As of February 2010, DOD delivered 2.1 million bottled waters, 1.79 million food rations, more than 100,000 pounds of medical supplies, and more than 844,000 of bulk fuel. Additional tasks undertaken by DOD personnel include casualty treatment both ashore and afloat, aerial reconnaissance to assist rescue/supply efforts, the distribution of hand-held commercial radios, and the provision of radio broadcast capacity for emergency services information.
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@cosmosheiress9816 Kind of a dumb question doncha think?
If tthere was nothing in it for us, why would we do it? 🤷♀️
You think we are dumb?? 🤷♂️
Go ahead and wait -- I don't care what you do. 😎👍🇺🇸 ✝️
Just off the top of my head . . .
After World War II, we did a complete reconstruction project in Japan.
After the Afghan war, we did a complete reconstruction project in Afghanistan.
We have ICBMs in Eastern Europe aimed at Russia so they will not bother the NATO countries.
We keep an aircraft carrier parked in the Persian Gulf whose sole purpose is to keep Iran from shutting off the shipping of crude oil to most of the world.
We currently have 3 aircraft carriers, 1 battleship, and quite a few airplanes in the South China Sea. They are there to keep China from invading Taiwan, as well as, keeping China from fishing in waters belonging to Korea, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, and the Phillipines.
We have an airbase in Japan which is doing nothing to benefit us. The purpose of that airbase is to remind China not to invade Japan. And it is also a launching point against Russia if we ever have to calm them down.
We have an airbase in the Phillipines which is doing nothing to benefit us.
We have a B-52 parked on an island in India. Its only reason for being there is to remind China that we do not want them to attack India.
I cannot say completely that any of these examples do not benefit the United States because the fact is . . . they all do. They all contribute to world stability and world stability benefits us. All of our military presences around the world are there because the host country asked us to come provide stability. That stability benefits them and it benefits us.
We rebuilt Haiti after the earthquake and I already gave you that information and you just said it was all lies because the victor writes history -- so why are we even talking because anything I give you, you will just say it isn't true?
Go believe your own propaganda in your own mind -- do not bother me with your psychological problems. I am not a psychologist. 🛏
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@PraneeI I do not think so . . .
"Iron mining in the United States began in 1608, when a ship returning from the Jamestown Colony in Virginia
CARRIED A LOAD OF IRON ORE BACK TO ENGLAND.
The manufacture of iron from ore apparently began in 1622, in what is now Chesterfield County, Virginia, but was halted when American Indians killed everyone in the establishment.
John Winthrop, Jr. established an iron furnace at Braintree, Massachusetts, which started making iron in 1644, but closed when it ran out of nearby ore in 1647. A more successful effort was established at Saugus, Massachusetts.
Iron production in the 1700s was done with charcoal, of which American forests could provide a seemingly endless supply. Numerous small iron mines supplied
IRON FURNACES SCATTERED THROUGHOUT THE COLONIES
in the 1700s.
Bog iron ore common around the Chesapeake Bay fed numerous iron furnaces in Maryland and Virginia set up to export to Britain.
It will be appreciated if you will get your facts right when speaking about America. 😎👍🇺🇸 ✝️
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@jayleeper1512 Don't you think it is very stupid of you to be telling an American what kind of family customs Americans have?
The FACTS are that poor people have families just like other people. When they get arrested, those families leap into action and pool some money to pay the bail.
I have had people call me on the telephone and tell me their family member was arrested and can I contribute to the bail. What about you??
The bondsman charges 10 to 15 percent. So if your bail is set at $3000, the family only has to pay $300.
A jail is in the city, and the people who are there have not been convicted of a crime. A prison is (usually) situated away from the city for public safety, and the residents there have all been convicted, and are serving their sentences. Prisons have a high population, libraries, outdoor recreation, and cafeteria. They are filled with convicts.
Laws are not passed in a vacuum. Laws are passed to solve a specific problem.
Studies show that when there is no bail system, 9% of the people arrested fail to show up for their trial date. So if you want to get rid of the bail system, it is incumbent upon you to come up with a way to get those people to go to their court date.
You are overlooking that 91.4% of the people who cannot make bail will either plead guilty or be found guilty in court. Those GUILTY CRIMINALS will be given prison sentences and the time served in jail will be deducted from their prison sentence. It does not matter whether they could make bail or not because they are criminals who will be serving time anyway.
Your ignorant comment about "a war on the poor" is probably the stupidest thing ever said in the history of the world:
One-third of the federal budget ($2.2 trillion) goes to programs to help the poor.
In addition to federal, the states and local governments give almost a trillion.
Private organizations give about $1 trillion.
We have 40 million poor people in America and they are given help of about $4.5 trillion a year.
WHAT "war on poor people" ????? 🤷
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@rolyswansea8439 What do you mean saying that most of the world will have nothing to do with Christianity??
The Christian religion is the largest religion in the world having 2.2 billion adherents. So I guess somebody approves of it.
And "giving away" your income is not diametrically opposed to being fiscally responsible. An individual who is fiscally responsible in their finances ends up with more savings that they can give away than a person who squanders his wealth.
Politics is mostly about money and how the government spends your tax dollars. This is from the article you linked:
"For example, some conservatives advocate for greater economic intervention, while others advocate for a more laissez faire free-market economic system."
The Bible says that when Christ returns, He will come on the clouds of Heaven accompanied by tens thousands of His saints, every eye in the world will see Him come, He will stand on a mountain in Jerusalem, and He will enter through the Eastern gate of Jerusalem. So I do not think we have a concern about Him arriving in America.
The event of the loaves and fishes does not demonstrate communal lifestyle because only one person shared his lunch. No one else in the crowd contributed.
Jesus would have been AGAINST COMMUNISM because communism teaches that the workers are supposed to violently overthrow the capitalists and steal all of their farms and factories and pass the capitalist's wealth all around. That is not voluntary "sharing" and Jesus would not approved of doing that.
It is true that Jesus said that being wealthy can be a spiritual stumbling block. But nothing Jesus said negates anything that any of the other prophets taught about wealth. This is Moses:
“Now it shall come to pass, if you diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments which I command you today, that THE LORD YOUR GOD WILL SET YOU HIGH ABOVE ALL THE NATIONS OF THE EARTH. And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, because you obey the voice of the Lord your God:
“Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the country.
“Blessed shall be the fruit of your body, the produce of your ground and the increase of your herds, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks.
“Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.
“Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.
“THE LORD WILL CAUSE YOUR ENEMIES WHO RISE AGAINST YOU TO BE DEFEATED before your face; they shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways.
“The Lord will command the blessing on you in your STOREHOUSES [banks] and in all to which you set your hand, and He will bless you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
“The Lord will establish you as a holy people to Himself, just as He has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the Lord your God and walk in His ways. THEN ALL PEOPLES OF THE EARTH SHALL SEE THAT YOU ARE CALLED BY THE NAME OF THE LORD [Christ], and they shall be afraid of you. And the Lord will grant you PLENTY OF GOODS, in the fruit of your body, in the increase of your livestock, and in the produce of your ground, in the land of which the Lord swore to your fathers to give you. The Lord will open to you His good treasure, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand. You shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow. And the Lord will make you the head and not the tail; you shall be above only, and not be beneath, if you heed the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you today, and are careful to observe them. So you shall not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right or the left, to go after other gods to serve them."
Holy Bible book of Deuteronomy chapter 28
As you can see from this passage, God lifted up America because of their obedience to the commands of God and God made America both rich and powerful. The United States is probably the most righteous country that has ever existed.
Jesus would not have a problem visiting the United States of America. 😎👍🇺🇸 ✝️
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“Now it shall come to pass, when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the Lord your God drives you, and you return to the Lord your God and obey His voice, according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart and with all your soul, that the Lord your God will bring you back from captivity, and have compassion on you, and gather you again from all the nations where the Lord your God has scattered you. If any of you are driven out to the farthest parts under heaven, from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there He will bring you. Then the Lord your God will bring you to the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it.”
Deuteronomy 30
“But you, Israel, are My servant,
Jacob whom I have chosen,
The descendants of Abraham My friend.
You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth,
And called from its farthest regions,
And said to you,
‘You are My servant,
I have chosen you and have not cast you away:
Fear not, for I am with you;
Be not dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you,
Yes, I will help you,
I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.’
Isaiah 41:8
“Fear not, for I am with you;
I will bring your descendants from the east,
And gather you from the west;
I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’
And to the south, ‘Do not keep them back!’
Bring My sons from afar,
And My daughters from the ends of the earth— “
Isaiah 43:5
“For there shall be a day
When the watchmen will cry on Mount Ephraim,
‘Arise, and let us go up to
ZION
To the Lord our God.’ ”
For thus says the Lord:
“Sing with gladness for Jacob,
And shout among the chief of the nations;
Proclaim, give praise, and say,
‘O Lord, save Your people,
The remnant of Israel!’
Behold, I will bring them from the north country,
And gather them from the ends of the earth,
Among them the blind and the lame,
The woman with child
And the one who labors with child, together;
A great throng shall return there.
They shall come with weeping,
And with supplications I will lead them.
I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters.”
Jeremiah 31:6
“Hear the word of the Lord, O nations,
And declare it in the isles afar off, and say,
‘He who scattered Israel will gather him,
And keep him as a shepherd does his flock.’
For the Lord has redeemed Jacob,
And ransomed him from the hand of one stronger than he.
Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of ZION.”
Jeremiah 31:10
Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah— 32 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, [h]though I was a husband to them, says the Lord. 33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their [i]hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.”
Jeremiah 31:31
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@Joyce-ow1ks The United States manufactures 85% of its own consumer goods. The things we import are things that lend themselves to being relatively easy to manufacture and ship. That would be items, such as clothes, toys, power tools, electronic goods, such as stereos, televisions, microwave ovens and computers.
About two-thirds of our imports come from countries other than China, and particularly, a clothing factory is easy to set up in any country. That leaves around 5% of our consumer goods coming from China.
Our importers have cancelled most of their orders from Chinese factories because they are too chincy to pay the tariffs. So as the supply chain dries up, we can expect shortages in things like toys and consumer electronics. Americans will have plenty of money but will not be able to buy a new computer because there will not be any available. The ones that are available will double in price.
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@idontknow4449 First of all, I have been living in the United States for 67 years, and I know what the policies are and what the positions are because they are reported here daily as they happen.
Secondly, I verify all of my comments on Google before posting them.
The missiles that we had in Europe were there solely to defend Europe against the communist threat from the Soviet Union. That was their only purpose.
In 1963 when the Soviet Union attempted to put missiles in Cuba, a deal was struck that we would remove our missiles from Turkey in exchange for removing Soviet missiles from Cuba. Then all of our missiles were removed from Turkey.
Then in 1991, when the Soviet Union collapsed, there was no more communist threat from the Soviet Union. So we took home all of our missiles because it is not the American taxpayer's job to protect Europe. That is Europe's job.
At the same time, we opened trading relations with Russia, and have been on good terms with Russia, and a lot of American companies invested in Russia.
Now with this war, all of that hard work has been ruined.
Why would I be "trolling" ?
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@andrewlim7751 Fiber optic cables are not made of glass -- they are plastic.
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Owens-Illinois tried drawing fibers by using air and steam, but failed to produce anything thinner than broom straws. Then in 1932, a lucky accident happened. Dale Kleist, an intern engineer, was using a metal-layer gun—sometimes used to bronze baby shoes—to try to generate a stream of glass to fuse two halves of a glass block. Instead of a stream, the jets of air coming from the gun produced an explosion of fine, lightweight fibers.
Kleist’s frustration was Owens-Illinois salvation. His “experiment” showed that air or steam, applied at a critical angle, can stretch glass into very fine fibers. Within months, Owens-Illinois had converted the disused bottle plant into a factory for manufacturing fiberglass wool insulation.
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The Toshiba name is derived from its former name, Tokyo Shibaura Denki K.K. (Tokyo Shibaura Electric Co., Ltd) which in turn was a 1939 merger between Shibaura Seisaku-sho (founded in 1875) and Tokyo Denki (founded in 1890). The company name was officially changed to Toshiba Corporation in 1978.
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Here are the details of the wars listed above. Read about each war and judge for yourself who is lying. 😎👍🇺🇸 ✝️
Grenada:
America did NOT attack Grenada:
In Grenada, a COMMUNIST rebel group attacked the government and executed the prime minister. The United States, in combination with 6 other countries went in to Grenada and restored order.
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Panama:
The United States military has never invaded Panama. But they did go in and arrest a criminal:
General Manuel Noriega was wanted by the United States for racketeering and drug trafficking. The United States arrested him.
General Manuel Noriega surrendered to the United States on January 3, 1990 and was then flown to the U.S., where he was tried, convicted and sentenced to 40 years in prison.
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Gulf War – Kuwait:
America did NOT attack Kuwait:
Saddam Hussein in Iraq attacked Kuwait because he wanted their oil fields. The United States drove Iraq out of Kuwait.
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Somalia:
America did NOT attack Somalia:
Somalia has a very long ongoing insurgency/civil war. The United States backs the established government.
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Haiti:
In September 1991, Joseph Raoul Cédras (general of the Haitian military) overthrew the democratically-elect president Jean-Bertrand Aristide in a coup and took control of the Haitian government.
In the 3 years following the takeover of the Haitian government, international observers estimated that more than 3,000 men, women and children were murdered by or with the complicity of Haiti's then-coup regime.
In 1995, the United States military evicted cedras and reinstalled the democratically-elected Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
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Bosnia
America did not "attack" Bosnia:
This was a civil war in Yugoslavia following breakup of Soviet Union. Pakistan violated an agreement not to supply weapons and NATO got involved and stopped Pakistan.
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Kosovo:
The Kosovo War was an armed conflict in Kosovo that lasted from 28 February 1998 until June 1999. It was fought between the forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (i.e. Serbia and Montenegro), which controlled Kosovo before the war, and the Kosovo Albanian REBEL GROUP known as the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). The conflict ended when the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) intervened by beginning air strikes in March 1999 which resulted in Yugoslav forces withdrawing from Kosovo.
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Afghanistan:
America did NOT attack Afghanistan:
America was ATTACKED by terrorists harboring in Afghanistan in the well-known World Trade Center terrorist attack. The intent was to get to the terrorists hiding in the Afghan mountains. The Afghan government refused to hand over the terrorists. The U.S. ignored the Afghan government and went after the terrorist hiding in their country.
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Iraq:
Saddam Hussein gassed and killed 3000 Iraqi citizens (Kurds). He had previously started a war with Kuwait which the United States had to solve militarily. He was stone-walling the United Nations inspectors and would not let them see his nuclear weapons development. The allies told him to remove himself from office or we would come remove him (which we did).
It was NOT a NATO operation -- it was a U.N. operation.
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Libya:
America did NOT attack Libya:
Libyan agents bombed "La Belle" nightclub in West Berlin, killing three people, including a U.S. serviceman, and injuring 229 people. The United States punished Libya by bombing them.
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Syria:
America did NOT attack Syria:
Syria had an on-going insurgency/civil war. The United States led a United Nation attack against ISIL which is a world-wide terrorist organization.
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Ukraine:
In 2022 Russia invaded Ukraine. On February 23, 2022 Vladimir Putin, Russia's president gave a nation-wide speech explaining the reasons that Russia attacked Ukraine:
President Putin claimed that Ukraine was entirely overrun by NAZIs and that Ukraine's government was being run by a gang of NAZIs and that Russia was going to "denazify" Ukraine.
President Putin said that Russia prefers for Ukraine to be a completely unarmed neutral country and Russia was going to "demilitarize Ukraine."
President Putin said that Russia prefers for the Eastern corridor of Ukraine to be broken off from Ukraine and made into independent republics and Russia was going to handle that.
After explaining his reasons, President Putin severely warned all other countries to stay out of Russia's way in this or they would pay dearly for the consequences.
NATO, along with 41 total countries said that Ukraine is a sovereign nation and Russia needs to stay out of Ukraine.
The democratic freedom-loving nations imposed sanctions on Russia and commenced arming and training Ukraine military so they could defend the sovereignty of Ukraine.
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In the last 150 years the United States of America has SELFLESSLY intervened to protect the rights of the people and has defended the freedom and democracy of 34 countries . . . and counting . . .
😎👍🇺🇸 ✝️
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@hkfoo3333 Sorry, Lady, but YOU have no idea what you are talking about.
1. China has already looked into selling these goods to other countries. There is no market for them as the other countries are already buying Chinese goods and cannot take any more. Further, those other countries have no money and can only pay one tenth of what Americans pay.
2. They cannot buffer the goods through other countries because the president is closing the loopholes. He just slapped Vietnam with 46% tariffs for doing that. Now Vietnam is in trouble.
3. No our store shelves will not be empty because many of the goods we buy, such as purses and panties are discretionary purchases that could wait for years. You have no idea about America. The closet of an American woman has 100 dresses in it, and 50 pairs of shoes. She could go the rest of her life without buying more outer clothes.
Besides that, the United States is the number two world manufacturer. We manufacture a lot here, and there are other countries to buy from, such as Canada, Mexico, Germany, Malaysia, Thailand, Japan and Korea.
Then we can always build more factories or those countries can build more factories.
And if that is not enough, we always have the option of paying the 245% tariff, which Americans can easily afford to do.
4. The United States is the world’s largest producer of corn,
the second-larget producer of soybean,
the third-largest producer of wheat,
the fifth-largest producer of potatoes,
the tenth-largest producer of sugarcane,
the twelfth-largest producer of rice.
About one-third of what we grow goes to China, and there is no alternative source for that much food. Besides that, if the Chinese do not sell us their manufactured goods, they will have no money to buy food.
No, American shelves will not be bare. But Chinese shelves will. We will bury them.
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@kova1577 It was in the video.
Basically, our county is multi-racial. We have:
75% White
14% Black
18% Hispanic
4% Asian
2% Native American
The country was started by White people.
Then some bad White people brought some Africans over here and made them work on plantations as slaves.
In 1865, slavery was outlawed and the Black slaves were freed. But they have never been able to get out of their economic ditch and in general the White people have remained richer.
So the Blacks claim that they cannot live the American Dream because the Whites have instituted some kind of invisible barrier that blocks them from achieving in society.
They call this "systemic racism" and will never shut about claiming that the Whites have somehow blocked them.
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Now there are 2 main political parties:
Democrats
Republicans
Democrats have mainly Black people, some White people who are Catholic Christians, atheists, humanists, socialists, minorities and LGBTQ. Democrats are politically liberal, believe in a socialist type welfare state and are always asking for a handout from the government. They general do not care whether people sin or not and their main focus in on the importance of accepting everyone and everyone's lifestyle choice.
Republicans are mainly White people, Protestant Christians, Evangelical Christians.
Republicans are mostly financially succesful White people who attend church regularly. Their politics are conservative. They do not want the government charging high taxes and giving the money to a bunch of people who are lazy and do not want to work. They favor freedom and the Republic. They stand for God, Guns, and Guts. Get a job and pull yourself up by your own bootstraps.
The democrats are liberal and want to change the country and make it atheist/socialist.
The republicans are conservative and want to keep the country religiously focused as it always has been. They are the nationalists.
There is a constant battle going on in America for the soul of the country.
The democrats want to win the election. So they are trying to claim that the Republican party is completely made up of White Christian Supremacists (which it isn't).
It is in the video. 😎👍🇺🇸 ✝️
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@darianvergof2508 Yes?
Well we have known that for 2000 years:
"Now as He sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be? And what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the END OF THE AGE?”
And Jesus answered and said to them:
“Take heed that no one deceives you. For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many. And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of sorrows.
Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake. And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another.
Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many. And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. But he who endures to the end shall be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then THE END WILL COME.
Therefore when you see the ‘abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place” (whoever reads, let him understand), then let those who are in Judea FLEE TO THE MOUNTAINS.
Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take anything out of his house. And let him who is in the field not go back to get his clothes. But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days! And pray that your flight may not be in winter or on the Sabbath.
For then there will be GREAT TRIBULATION, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be. And unless those days were shortened, NO FLESH WOULD BE SAVED; but for the elect’s sake those days will be shortened.
Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘There!’ do not believe it. For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. See, I have told you beforehand.
Therefore if they say to you, ‘Look, He is in the desert!’ do not go out; or ‘Look, He is in the inner rooms!’ do not believe it. For as the lightning comes from the east and flashes to the west, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. For wherever the carcass is, there the eagles will be gathered together.
IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE TRIBULATION of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven [falling stars - meteorites], and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and THEY WILL SEE THE SON OF MAN COMING ON THE CLOUDS of heaven with power and great glory. And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
Now learn this parable from the fig tree: When its branch has already become tender and puts forth leaves, you know that summer is near. So you also, WHEN YOU SEE ALL THESE THINGS, know that it is near—at the doors! Assuredly, I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away till all these things take place.
Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away.
But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only. But as the days of Noah were, so also will the COMING OF THE SON OF MAN be. For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN be. Then two men will be in the field: one will be taken and the other left. Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and the other left. WATCH THEREFORE, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming.
But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into.
Therefore YOU also BE READY, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect."
Matthew chapter 24
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@mohamedali2858
The population of the United States is 67% Christian, 3.5% Muslim, and 2% Jewish for a total combined 72%.
What all 3 religious faiths have in common is they all 3 believe in a Creator God who created the Earth and everything in it. All 3 faiths believe that mankind is answerable to this Creator God. All 3 faiths get this idea from the Jewish Torah. You may not be aware of it, but the Jewish Torah is contained inside the Christian Bible. The first 5 books of the Bible; Genesis, Exodus, Numbers, Leviticus and Deuteronomy are the Jewish Torah. Christians, Muslims, and Jews agree that these first 5 books of the Bible are the inspired Word of God as revealed to mankind.
One of the things that the Torah teaches is that homosexuality is a sin and an abomination to God. The law of Moses in the Torah says that if a person commits the sin of homosexuality, they are to be taken outside the city and stoned to death by the community.
In addition to the public stoning of the trespassers of the law, there is a story in the Torah about God raining down fire from Heaven and destroying 5 cities off the face of the Earth due to those cities being steeped in homosexual practices. The whole story is contained in the book of Genesis chapters 18 and 19, which you can find in any Bible. I adjure you to read the story for a clearer understanding.
Now back to America:
You have a country where 72% of the population believes that homosexuality is a sin and an abomination before God. In addition, those believers are fearful that if the sin of homosexuality becomes rampant in their country, God will wipe out their country in a violent firestorm.
That is the backdrop.
Now along comes a small group of citizens who say, "We are woke. We do not believe in your God and if we did believe in Him, we would refuse to obey him anyway. LET'S PARTY!!"
Then the idea of homosexuality grows and starts including, lesbians, gays, bisexuals, queers and transgender people. They come up with the acronym LGBQT to name the group of heathen sinners.
Then the group calls anyone who disagrees with them (including Muslims) "homophobic."
They mock Christians, Jews, and Muslims for believing in God and start pushing their woke agenda. They want to be granted all civil rights, including legalized marriage between same genders (which the Torah does not permit).
They start having "pride" parades in the streets of every city to prove to themselves that they are "okay" and they try to force the righteous people to accept them as normal and nothing wrong. They basically push their LGBQT WOKE agenda down the throat of people who are humbly trying to worship God and live the right way. The normal people are SICK OF HEARING ABOUT IT.
Then the "transgender" boys try to join the girl's athletic teams so they can beat the girls in sports with their God-given male bodies.
Then these " transgender" men and boys want to use the ladies restroom and leer at the naked women.
The whole country is sick to death of them.
Then Anheuser-Busch company gets the bright idea! 💡
"If we can sell beer to this LGBQT WOKE crowd, we can make a lot of MONEY!" 🤷♀️ 🤷♂️
Completely forgetting that the LGBQT WOKE crowd are a bunch of hedonistic sinners, MOCKING GOD and nobody in the whole country likes them.
That is what we call "a one in a million marketing mistake"
Anheuser-Busch will never recover financially from that mistake.
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Additionally, the Torah says that if a man wears a woman's clothes or a woman wears a man's clothes, they must be taken outside of the city and stoned to death.
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The same God and Moses who gave the Ten Commandments that you are so proud of also said this:
“When the Lord your God brings you [Israelites] into the land which you go to possess, and has cast out many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you, and when the Lord your God delivers them over to you, you shall conquer them and utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them nor show mercy to them. Nor shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to their son, nor take their daughter for your son. For they will turn your sons away from following Me, to serve other gods; so the anger of the Lord will be aroused against you and destroy you suddenly.
But thus you shall deal with them: you shall destroy their altars, and break down their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden images, and burn their carved images with fire."
So I guess He "is no God of yours."
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@cubsfanbigmike31 I have. The veil is the delusional lie that the socialist media is feeding all of you gullible democrats and you are all swallowing it hook, line, and sinker.
"The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness."
II Thessalonians 2:11
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@benedictsawyer8012 That would be a problematic claim because NATO was not in the country when the Libyan civil war started. They had been out of the country for 6 years and Libya was under single government for 5. Additionally, Libya was in active civil war when NATO arrived. So if there was an ongoing civil when NATO arrived, how could you justify the claim that NATO started a civil war??
This is the timeline:
February 15, 2011 the Libyan public starts a rebellion in Benghazi and tries to oust Gadaffi
February 17, 2011 -- the first civil war starts
March 17, 2011 -- The United Nations authorizes military intervention to stop the war
March 19, 2011 -- NATO arrives to remove Gadaffi and stop the war
October 23, 2011 -- the first civil war ends
October 31, 2011 -- NATO leaves the country.
August 8, 2012 -- single government is setup
March 16, 2017 -- another rebellion/coup and Libya devolves into double government
As you can see from the timeline, NATO was not in the country when either the first or second civil war started. So NATO could not have "started the civil war."
As far as I am concerned, if they cannot hold their own country together after 5 years of single government, what happens after that is on them.
Also, it was NATO -- not "America" . . . and NATO had a United Nations approval vote to remove Gadaffi.
And seeing as Gadaffi was an evil tyrant voted by the United Nations to be deposed, his "warning" anybody about anything really does not carry much weight . . Does it?
If I were an evil tyrant about to be deposed, I would try every possible warning that I could think of. 🤷♂️
(You understand that I can look this all up and do not have to just go by false rumors that negative people make up about America . . . Right?)
(Which is what I suggest you start doing.)
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@leob4403 What is your problem??
YOU are the one who needs to learn some humility.
I am "humble" and you lied when you called me a "liar."
Isn't that a bit hypocritical of you??
I did not claim the "the USA has the best transportation in the world." I claimed that Americans do not want or need much public transportation.
I never claimed that "the USA is the best at everything." However, we are the best at leading the world:
The facts are . . that the Americans created your whole life:
Every minute of every day of your life an American invention is giving YOU a better life. So let us look at some American inventions that YOU could not live without:
Lightbulbs
Aluminum foil
Frozen Food
High Process Food Canning
Can Openers
Microwave Dinners
Peanut Butter
Breakfast cereals
French Fries
Fluoridated water that prevents cavities
Durable Vehicle tires
Electric starters for cars
Generators to charge car batteries
Airplanes
The Modern Jet Engine
Electric well pumps that bring water to your house
Electric power generating stations
The whole electrical grid
Every fan or blower in your heating system
Your air conditioner
Your refrigerator
Your microwave oven
Automatic Clothes washing machine
Radios
Television
Satellite telecommunications
GPS
Fiber optic cables
Lasers
Sound and music recording
Industrial computers
Desktop computers
Laptop computers
Cell phones
Smart phones
Smart watches
Videos
The internet
Anything with a transistor or microchip
The factory assembly line
Cotton Gin
Various Farming Equipment
Metal-hulled Ships
Petroleum refining into gas and diesel
Petroleum refining into plastics
Polyester and Nylon
Nuclear power
Solar panels for green energy transition
and . . .
Soft Drinks (Have a Coke. 🧋)
Then there are business models invented by Americans:
McDonald’s
Burger King
Kentucky Fried Chicken
Starbucks
Circle K
Tesla
Walmart.….
It was ALL invented in America.
And if you live in a constitutional republic, the Americans invented your entire political system.
An American farm yields up to 30,000 pounds of potatoes per acre.
And this is just a tiny mention of how Americans have improved your life. The fact is that Americans are so ingenious that the United States patent office has over 3 million American patents on file (in a country only 247 years old).
The Americans are the smartest, most creative, most industrious people in the world who created the entire modern world.
Without the United States of America YOU would be living in a cave, stone building, or wood hut with a thatched roof, carrying your water from a stream in a bucket with half of your teeth missing and cooking and heating over a campfire using wood that YOU PERSONALLY went out and gathered from a forest. And you would be using the bathroom outdoors and washing your clothes in a stream.
Your connection to the outside world would be extremely limited and depending on your specific situation, you may not even know what is happening beyond your own village -- let alone around the world. 🌎
My advice is that before you "laugh" at any American, first try going without American invented lightbulbs 💡 for 24 hours and learn how American 🇺🇸 ingenuity has helped YOU see 👀 in the dark.
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@GN28
Afghanistan:
America did NOT attack Afghanistan:
America was attacked by terrorists harboring in Afghanistan and the intent was to get to the terrorists hiding in the Afghan mountains. Afghan government refused to hand over the terrorists. U.S. ignored the Afghan government and went after the terrorist hiding in their country.
Bosnia
America did not "attack" Bosnia:
This was a civil war in Yugoslavia following breakup of Soviet Union. Pakistan violated an agreement not to supply weapons and NATO got involved and stopped Pakistan.
Cambodia:
America did NOT attack Cambodia:
Cambodia was a civil war between communist uprising Khmer Rouge against the established government. North Korea got involved and attacked Cambodia. The United States drove North Korea out of Cambodia.
China:
America did NOT attack China:
China was a communist uprising against the established government. The United States assisted the Chinese government.
Congo:
America did NOT attack Congo:
At the end of colonial rule, Congo erupted into civil war between Blacks and Whites. Belgium sent troops to protect Whites. The U.N. sent peacekeepers. Soviet Union sent support to the wrong side (as usual).
Cuba:
America did NOT attack Cuba:
A communist revolution occurred in Cuba wherein many Cubans were driven out of their homeland into the United States. The exiled Cubans attempted to retake their own county. The United States supplied the boats.
El Salvador:
America did NOT attack El Salvador:
El Salvador had a 12-year civil war. The United States assisted the established government.
Korea:
America did NOT attack Korea:
Communist North Korea attacked democratic South Korea. The United States drove North Korea out of South Korea.
Guatemala:
America did NOT attack Guatemala:
Guatemala had a civil war with leftist insurgents attacking the Guatemalan government. America supported the government of Guatemala.
Indonesia:
America did NOT attack Indonesia:
Indonesia had a civil war when some army generals broke from the established government. The United States supported the generals with military support. Later in the war, the CIA bombed some areas in Indonesia in DIRECT VIOLATION of president Eisenhower's order not to do it.
Laos:
America did NOT attack Laos:
The war in Laos was an extension of the Vietnam war and had to do with the North Vietnamese invading and controlling part of Laos.
Grenada:
America did NOT attack Grenada:
In Grenada, a rebel group attacked the government and executed the prime minister. The United States, in combination with 6 other countries went in to Grenada and restored order.
Iraq:
Saddam Hussein gassed and killed 3000 Iraqi citizens (Kurds). He had previously started a war with Kuwait which the United States had to solve. He was stone-walling the United Nations inspectors and would not let them see his nuclear weapons development. We told him to remove himself from office or we would come remove him.
It was NOT a NATO operation -- it was a U.N. operation.
Iran:
America did NOT attack Iran:
Iran was an 8 year long full-scale war that started with revolutionaries taking over Iran. Iraq attacked Iran to prevent the spread of the revolution. Later in the war, the United States supported Iraq against the revolution.
Kuwait:
America did NOT attack Kuwait:
Saddam Hussein in Iraq attacked Kuwait because he wanted their oil fields. The United States drove Iraq out of Kuwait.
Lebanon:
America did NOT attack Lebanon:
Lebanon had a civil war going on and there were both French and American peace-keeping forces in the area. They were both bombed by an Islamic Jihad.
Libya:
America did NOT attack Libya:
Libyan agents bombed "La Belle" nightclub in West Berlin, killing three people, including a U.S. serviceman, and injuring 229 people. The United States punished Libya by bombing them.
Nicaragua:
America did NOT attack Nicaragua:
In Nicaragua, some rebels overthrew the established government. Then the people from the government side started fighting to get their country back. The United States supported them.
Pakistan:
The United States has never fought in Pakistan.
Palestine:
The United States has never fought in Israel.
Panama:
America did NOT attack Panama:
General Manuel Noriega was wanted by the United States for racketeering and drug trafficking. The United States arrested him.
Peru:
America did NOT attack Peru:
Peru has had a very long ongoing communist revolution. The United States backed the established Peruvian government.
Somalia:
America did NOT attack Somalia:
Somalia has a very long ongoing insurgency/civil war. The United States backs the established government.
Sudan:
America did NOT attack Sudan:
Sudan had a 23 year long insurgency/civil war. The United States backs the legitimate government but is not involved in the war.
Syria:
America did NOT attack Syria:
Syria had an on-going insurgency/civil war. The United States led a United Nation attack against ISIL which is a world-wide terrorist organization.
Vietnam:
America did NOT attack Vietnam:
Communist North Vietnam attacked democratic South Vietnam. The United States went over there and pushed the communists back up to the North.
Yemen:
America did NOT attack Yemen:
In 2002, the United States killed a handful of terrorists who were operating inside Yemen.
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You just listed 26 countries and FALSELY claimed that America attacked them. In only ONE case did America attack another country and it was part of an approved United Nations action coordinated with 44 other countries.
After telling 25 lies in a row, you have the gall to tell me that I do not think critically? 🤷♀️ 🤷♂️
Frankly, Americans are fed up to here with hearing scum like you tell lies about our country. 😎👎🇺🇸 ✝️
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@DW-op7ly If I am right about something, why should I be less biased?
I am an inventor. So let me explain how inventions and patents work:
In the old days, there were no patents. When somebody had a good idea, everybody just copied it and everybody was happy doing it that way.
Even today, an invention can go directly into the public domain if the inventor does not patent his invention. I personally have an invention that I did not patent and everyone has copied it and you can buy it in many stores.
I do not get any residuals from my invention, and if you use my invention, I am happy for you.
This has been the way of the world for thousands of years. But in the last hundred years or so, thought on patenting has evolved. Specifically, what has evolved is the COST of inventing something.
When life was simple, the cost of inventing was small. But the type of inventions that we have in the high-tech modern world can cost a million dollars of research. The cost of the research is why we have patents. If a company spends a million dollars in research, they need some way to recover that money back.
The company recovers their money by having the exclusive right to produce and sell their invention for several years.
If you short-cicuit the protection process, that company cannot recover their million dollars. If you continue short-circuiting the protection process, that company will go bankrupt and shut down. Any inventions they would have invented in the future will never come into the Earth.
If you do that to enough different high-tech-companies, they will all shut down.
That will end scientific progress as we know it.
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@غزةالعزة-ض2م My proof is right here in the Bible:
"Now it shall come to pass, when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the Lord your God drives you, 2 and you return to the Lord your God and obey His voice, according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart and with all your soul, 3 that the Lord your God will bring you back from captivity, and have compassion on you, and gather you again from all the nations where the Lord your God has scattered you. 4 If any of you are driven out to the farthest parts under heaven, from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there He will bring you. 5 Then the Lord your God will bring you to the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it."
-- Moses --
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@paikuhansensei815
You said this and this is a lie:
"They want to give it to the Taliban only if the Taliban become slaves like most governments around the world obeying in matters of ideologies, radical feminism, and the destruction of the traditional family unit."
That is a lie. They have put no such conditions on the release of that money.
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Further, your whole paragraph about Afghanistan being under a military occupation is a lie. What the U.S. military has been doing in Afghanistan for the last 20 years is keeping the terrorists at bay, so the legitimate people could restore and rebuild the country. That is not a military occupation.
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Now let us talk about fake governments:
You live in a house. You borrow $100 from your neighbor who is the head of the family next door.
The next day a man with a gun comes to your neighbor's house and runs your neighbor off and says,
"From now on I am the head of this family. You are now my wife, this is my house and these are my children."
Then he goes over to your house and says,
"Dude, I am going to need that $100 that belongs to my family to buy some food -- let me have it."
Are you going to hand this stranger with a gun the $100 or not?
Does the fact that he is brandishing a gun make him the legitimate head of the household?
That is a fake government.
The United States who expelled the British did so in a valid revolution of the general populace and then set up a government that is "of the people, by the people, and for the people."
It has nothing at all to do with whether they used guns or not. It was done by the will of the people working together. That is a legitimate government.
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"Do I think men in caves pulled off 911?"
Absolutely I do..
Now I am going to tell you how I know that and we are getting into the area of United States government top-secret information, so I can just say this:
How do you think we were able to find out about the Al Qaeda hide-out in the Afghan mountains?
Here in the United States, we have people who are called "remote viewers." These remote viewers are clairvoyants who have the ability to see anything, anywhere in the world.
Immediately after 911, our remote viewers went to work to find out where the attack came from. Within hours, they located the base in the Afghan mountains and could see into it (from here).
Then they informed the United States government who did the attack and where they were located. So there is no question about that.
Now do I think Osama Bin Laden acted alone?
No. U.S. intelligence tells me that what happened is called a "decapitation attack" and that there is no way Al Qaeda planned a decapitation attack on their own. A nation (someone familiar with war games) planned it, but Bin Laden carried it out.
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Now about you telling me to "think, think, think":
I am one of the clearest thinkers in the world and one of my thinking procedures is not to draw conclusions based upon inadequate information.
You are asking me to SPECULATE -- not to think.
That is how you are coming to too many inaccurate conclusions. You are doing too much speculating. In the future, if you cannot verify your facts, do not believe your own conclusion.
You are GUESSING that the Cabal did it. But you must always bear in mind that your guesses are guesses, your hunches are hunches, and your facts are facts.
One does NOT present guesses as if they were facts.
If you do have the proof, do not state it as being true -- you say, "This is what I believe and this is why."
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@genrcflyer Pretty much all countries use fiat currency now, so you are not setting America separate by saying that.
All countries have inflation also.
And ancient Rome used coins, and they had inflation.
As far as your comment about the wealth gap . . .
You are just saying things without any hard data to back it up.
Point 1:
In 1960, 65% of American households owned their home.
In 2024, 65% of American households own their home.
Point 2:
In 1960, the average house size was 1200 square feet.
In 2024, the average house size is 2300 square feet.
Point 3:
Every American household has more air-conditioners, dishwashers, garbage disposals, and microwave ovens that we did not have before. And most modern houses have a central heating and air-conditioning system. Larger refrigerators. More cars in the driveway.
The material facts and data suggests that lower class Americans just keep getting wealthier.
If you have some PROOF otherwise, I will be happy to look at it. But I do not accept random opinions and vague statements with no hard data.
Credit has nothing to do with the mines. That is just another vague opinion with no data to back it up.
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@balikislam770 I cannot give you a link because I am blocked from doing links on utube. I gave all of the information in the articles above. You can read all about it in the articles, but I can give you a quick summary:
1. After World War II, the United States occupied Japan for 6 years -- like in Afghanistan.
2. After World War II, the Americans took food into Japan and fed all of the starving people.
3. Before the war, the emperor of Japan was "divine." (like in North Korea). The Americans said, "You are not divine -- you are a man".
4. The Americans broke up the huge mega-farms in Japan and gave one small farm to each Japanese family.
5. The Americans built roads, schools, and hospitals in Japan -- like in Afghanistan.
6. The Americans rebuilt the factories in Japan.
7. The Americans made Japanese women go to school -- like in Afghanistan.
8. The Americans set up a good banking system in Japan.
9. The Americans gave Japan a new government -- like in Afghanistan.
10. The Americans wrote the constitution that Japan is using today. A good constitution is important for a country to develop. A constitution must have fair rules and respect human rights. The Americans make good, fair constitutions that allow the country to develop socially, politically, and economically.
The Americans built the FOUNDATION that allowed Japan to develop into the powerhouse that it is today.
They did the same thing for Afghanistan, but the Taliban has ruined everything. Because of the Taliban, Afghanistan will never be like Japan.
Everything is explained in the articles I gave you to read. Do a search for the articles I gave you.
Why do you think Japan is so much similar to America today? It is because the United States of America built Japan.
You will never understand what it means to be an American -- it means LOVE YOUR ENEMIES. 🇺🇸 ✝️
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@dunzhen 1. You are a liar because America does not have "vassals" or "brainwashing."
2. I will NEVER forget the cheap toys I got from Japan.
China has had 55 years to fix their quality problem. I could have done it in 8. In fact they has never been a time in American history where low-quality production was the norm, and that includes the 13 British colonies from 1620. So do not make excuses for them.
3. Maybe you could say 30% of the world prefers China. But that is the stupidest thing that anyone has ever done, preferring a fascist totalitarian state over a free democratic state. If those people are that stupid, there is no help for them.
4. The communist party has a rule that you have to be atheist to join. So obviously the Christian West are the righteous ones and do have "the moral high ground"
In communism the only ethics is to take away the wealth of the capitalists. There is no other ethic to it. You are okay to lie, cheat and steal (kill) to become the top dog. The part of China that faces the world is all about materialism and wealth. There is no spirituality. China is a hollow shell of a man with nothing on the inside.
5. Buying anything from China regardless of how good it is, is financing the invasion of Taiwan. And you would be stupid to finance the start of the next world war.
6. The West was forced to "carve up the world" following World War II because a lot of countries emerged with no government, and the world had to do something. The Soviet Union insisted that those new countries must be under Soviet control and the free West was against letting them become communist. So agreements were made that half of the country would be communist and half of country would be free.
Furthermore, you just blamed America and the UK in that and completely left out the fact that the Soviet Union caused it.
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After listening to your statement, I think you have a warped perspective of history and reality and do not see it as it reallyWar. I think if you history better, you would have completely different opinions.
Also, China's territorial disputes are not "the West's legacy." You also have your history wrong on that.
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@MightBinder One does not have "allies against" someone. One just has allies.
But okay. Fine.
I can do any American war. So let us start with Iraq. After Iraq, we can do any other war you choose.
This is the modern history of Iraq. Study this. Then tell me what your question is:
"In July 1979, President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr was forced to resign by Saddam Hussein, who assumed the offices of both President and Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council. Saddam then purged his opponents including those from within the Baath party.
Iraq's Territorial Claims to Neighboring Countries:
Iraq's territorial claims to neighboring countries were largely due to the plans and promises of the Entente countries in 1919–1920, when the Ottoman Empire was divided, to create a more extensive Arab state in Iraq and Jazeera, which would also include significant territories of eastern Syria, southeastern Turkey, all of Kuwait and Iran’s border areas, which are shown on this English map of 1920.
Iraq invades Iran:
Territorial disputes with Iran led to an inconclusive and costly eight-year war, the Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988, termed Qādisiyyat-Saddām – 'Saddam's Qādisiyyah'), which devastated the economy. Iraq falsely declared victory in 1988 but actually only achieved a weary return to the status quo ante bellum, meaning both sides retained their original borders.
The war began when Iraq invaded Iran, launching a simultaneous invasion by air and land into Iranian territory on 22 September 1980, following a long history of border disputes, and fears of Shia insurgency among Iraq's long-suppressed Shia majority influenced by the Iranian Revolution. Iraq was also aiming to replace Iran as the dominant Persian Gulf state. The United States supported Saddam Hussein in the war against Iran.
Although Iraq hoped to take advantage of the revolutionary chaos in Iran and attacked without formal warning, they made only limited progress into Iran and within several months were repelled by the Iranians who regained virtually all lost territory by June 1982. For the next six years, Iran was on the offensive. Despite calls for a ceasefire by the United Nations Security Council, hostilities continued until 20 August 1988.
The war finally ended with a United Nations-brokered ceasefire in the form of United Nations Security Council Resolution 598, which was accepted by both sides. It took several weeks for the Iranian armed forces to evacuate Iraqi territory to honor pre-war international borders between the two nations (see 1975 Algiers Agreement). The last prisoners of war were exchanged in 2003.
The war came at a great cost in lives and economic damage—half a million Iraqi and Iranian soldiers, as well as civilians, are believed to have died in the war with many more injured—but it brought neither reparations nor change in borders. The conflict is often compared to World War I, in that the tactics used closely mirrored those of that conflict, including large scale trench warfare, manned machine-gun posts, bayonet charges, use of barbed wire across trenches, human wave attacks across no-man's land, and extensive use of CHEMICAL WEAPONS such as mustard gas by the Iraqi government against Iranian troops and civilians as well as Iraqi Kurds. At the time, the UN Security Council issued statements that "chemical weapons had been used in the war." However, in these UN statements, it was never made clear that it was only Iraq that was using chemical weapons, so it has been said that "the international community remained silent as Iraq used weapons of mass destruction against Iranian as well as Iraqi Kurds" and it is believed.
Iraq invades Kuwait:
A long-standing territorial dispute was the ostensible reason for Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990. In November 1990, the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 678, permitting member states to use all necessary means, authorizing military action against the Iraqi forces occupying Kuwait and demanded a complete withdrawal by January 15, 1991. When Saddam Hussein failed to comply with this demand, the Gulf War (Operation "Desert Storm") ensued on January 17, 1991. Estimates range from 1,500 to as many as 30,000 Iraqi soldiers killed, as well as less than a thousand civilians.
In March 1991 revolts in the Shia-dominated southern Iraq started involving demoralized Iraqi Army troops and the anti-government Shia parties. Another wave of insurgency broke out shortly afterwards in the Kurdish populated northern Iraq (see 1991 Iraqi uprisings). Although they presented a serious threat to the Iraqi Ba'ath Party regime, Saddam Hussein managed to suppress the rebellions with massive and indiscriminate force and maintained power. They were RUTHLESSLY CRUSHED by the loyalist forces spearheaded by the Iraqi Republican Guard and the population was successfully TRRRORIZED. During the few weeks of unrest tens of thousands of people were killed. Many more died during the following months, while nearly two million Iraqis fled for their lives. In the aftermath, the government intensified the forced relocating of Marsh Arabs and the draining of the Iraqi marshlands, while the Coalition established the Iraqi no-fly zones.
On 6 August 1990, after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, the U.N. Security Council adopted Resolution 661 which imposed economic sanctions on Iraq, providing for a full trade embargo, excluding medical supplies, food and other items of humanitarian necessity, these to be determined by the Security Council sanctions committee. After the end of the Gulf War and after the Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait, the sanctions were linked to removal of weapons of mass destruction by Resolution 687. To varying degrees, the effects of government policy, the aftermath of Gulf War and the sanctions regime have been blamed for these conditions.
The effects of the sanctions on the civilian population of Iraq have been disputed. Whereas it was widely believed that the sanctions caused a major rise in child mortality, recent research has shown that commonly cited data were fabricated by the Iraqi government and that "there was no major rise in child mortality in Iraq after 1990 and during the period of the sanctions." An oil for food program was established in 1996 to ease the effects of sanctions.
Iraqi cooperation with UN weapons inspection teams was questioned on several occasions during the 1990s. UNSCOM chief weapons inspector Richard Butler withdrew his team from Iraq in November 1998 because of Iraq's lack of cooperation. The team returned in December. Butler prepared a report for the UN Security Council afterwards in which he expressed dissatisfaction with the level of compliance.
The same month, US President Bill Clinton authorized air strikes on government targets and military facilities. Air strikes against military facilities and alleged WMD sites continued into 2002."
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@عليياسر-ذ5ب
“Now it shall come to pass, when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the Lord your God drives you, and you return to the Lord your God and obey His voice, according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart and with all your soul, that the Lord your God will bring you back from captivity, and have compassion on you, and gather you again from all the nations where the Lord your God has scattered you. If any of you are driven out to the farthest parts under heaven, from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there He will bring you. Then the Lord your God will bring you to the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it.”
Deuteronomy 30
“But you, Israel, are My servant,
Jacob whom I have chosen,
The descendants of Abraham My friend.
You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth,
And called from its farthest regions,
And said to you,
‘You are My servant,
I have chosen you and have not cast you away:
Fear not, for I am with you;
Be not dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you,
Yes, I will help you,
I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.’
Isaiah 41:8
“Fear not, for I am with you;
I will bring your descendants from the east,
And gather you from the west;
I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’
And to the south, ‘Do not keep them back!’
Bring My sons from afar,
And My daughters from the ends of the earth— “
Isaiah 43:5
“For there shall be a day
When the watchmen will cry on Mount Ephraim,
‘Arise, and let us go up to
ZION
To the Lord our God.’ ”
For thus says the Lord:
“Sing with gladness for Jacob,
And shout among the chief of the nations;
Proclaim, give praise, and say,
‘O Lord, save Your people,
The remnant of Israel!’
Behold, I will bring them from the north country,
And gather them from the ends of the earth,
Among them the blind and the lame,
The woman with child
And the one who labors with child, together;
A great throng shall return there.
They shall come with weeping,
And with supplications I will lead them.
I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters.”
Jeremiah 31:6
“Hear the word of the Lord, O nations,
And declare it in the isles afar off, and say,
‘He who scattered Israel will gather him,
And keep him as a shepherd does his flock.’
For the Lord has redeemed Jacob,
And ransomed him from the hand of one stronger than he.
Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of ZION.”
Jeremiah 31:10
Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah— 32 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, [h]though I was a husband to them, says the Lord. 33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their [i]hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.”
Jeremiah 31:31
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@skyyefinance Public property is government-owned property that is normally available for common use.
It can include streets, sidewalks, parks, community centers, hiking trails, swimming pools, and any place that the public is commonly allowed to go.
However, there are some restrictions to public use. For example, you could not demonstrate at a kindergarten, elementary school, or high school because the school is there for a purpose and you would not be allowed to distract the students from their studies or endanger the students.
They also cannot block traffic on a street or demonstrate on a pedestrian-restricted highway.
New York city has a big park called Central Park where these demonstrators could be demonstrating about Palestine and no one would bother them there.
Another good place that is commonly used for protests is the Washington Monument Mall in Washington D.C.
You can look up either place on utube and watch a video to see how easily it is to hold a protest.
It is possible to hold a protest on private property. But they would need permission from the property manager and he is probably going set some guidelines to follow.
What you are seeing in the video is university students who believe that because they are studying at that university, that gives them the right to use all of the property any way they choose. Even their mother would not allow that.
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@seanedghill5025 So the richest country in the world with the largest GDP in the world, having one of highest standards of living, the largest military in the world, who live in the largest houses with all conveniences, such as central heating and air-conditioning and 2-car attached garages with a car and a truck in the garage are "like a third world country"?
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The facts are . . that the Americans created your whole life:
Every minute of every day of your life an American invention is giving YOU a better life. So let us look at some American inventions that YOU could not live without:
Lightbulbs
Aluminum foil
Frozen Food
Canned Food
Can Openers
Microwave Dinners
Peanut Butter
Breakfast cereals
French Fries
Fluoridated water that prevents cavities
Durable Vehicle tires
Electric starters for cars
Generators to charge car batteries
Airplanes
The Modern Jet Engine
Electric well pumps that bring water to your house
Electric power generating stations
The whole electrical grid
Every fan or blower in your heating system
Your air conditioner
Your refrigerator
Your microwave oven
Automatic Clothes washing machine
Radios
Television
Satellite telecommunications
GPS
Fiber optic cables
Lasers
Sound and music recording
Industrial computers
Desktop computers
Laptop computers
Cell phones
Smart phones
Smart watches
Videos
The internet
Anything with a transistor or microchip
The factory assembly line
Cotton Gin
Various Farming Equipment
Metal-hulled Ships
Petroleum refining into gas and diesel
Petroleum refining into plastics
Polyester and Nylon
Nuclear power
Solar panels for green energy transition
and . . .
Soft Drinks (Have a Coke. 🧋)
Then there are business models invented by Americans:
McDonald’s
Burger King
Kentucky Fried Chicken
Starbucks
Circle K
Tesla
Walmart.….
It was ALL invented in America.
And if you live in a constitutional republic, the Americans invented your entire political system.
An American farm yields up to 30,000 pounds of potatoes per acre.
The fact is that Americans are so ingenious that the United States patent office has over 3 million American patents on file.
The Americans are the smartest, most creative, most industrious people in the world who created the entire modern world.
Without the United States of America YOU would be living in a cave, stone building, or wood hut with a thatched roof, carrying your water from a stream in a bucket with half of your teeth missing and cooking and heating over a campfire using wood that YOU PERSONALLY went out and gathered from a forest. And you would be using the bathroom outdoors and washing your clothes in a stream.
Your connection to the outside world would be extremely limited and depending on your specific situation, you may not even know what is happening beyond your own village -- let alone around the world. 🌎
My advice is that before you "laugh" at any American, first try going without American invented lightbulbs 💡 for 24 hours and learn how American 🇺🇸 ingenuity has helped YOU see 👀 in the dark.
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@BaumerPaulGefreiter You seem to be an intelligent, thinking person, so I am going to explain the politics for you:
1. Zelenski wants to fight Russia all the way back to the border, and recover all of Ukraine's stolen land. If that is even possible, it could take 20 years, and cost a million Russian lives and a million Ukrainian lives.
There is also a risk of starting WW III.
2. NATO is on board with that idea.
3. There are already about 180,000 people dead from this war. President Trump is aghast at so many people dying, and he does not want any more people to die. That is a big concern for our president. He just wants the war to stop.
Your calling Trump "moral relativism" is completely reprehensible, considering that he is concerned about people dying (and apparently, no one else is).
4. The United States has already given Ukraine about $180 billion dollars. It is not possible to keep doing that for 20 years. Also, NATO could not do it.
5. The American reputation abroad is completely misunderstood by so many people (including you) that it could never be straightened out in everyone's mind.
6. Americans, in general, do not care what foreigners think of us. We do not work to secure our reputation. We work to secure what is right.
7. What happened in the Oval Office was unfortunate. But it is not any big deal that anybody should be getting all worked up about.
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Boy, that is a weird comment.
1. The government is not allowed to make a law regarding religious favoritism. If the government closed businesses on Sunday, would that be fair to the Jews or the Seventh Day Advent church?
Muslims who meet on Friday morning?
We do have some Sunday closings. But I will let someone else explain it.
2. We have 3 nationally sanctioned religious holidays: Easter, Christmas, and Thanksgiving. But technically speaking the Constitution does not allow that because it is religious favoritism.
3. A church tax is forced giving. The Bible is clear that giving must be voluntary and come from the heart.
Also, that is unconstitutional because it is religious favoritism.
Is the government also going to tax, Hindus, Jews, Buddhists, and atheists?
What the churches do is not really the government's business to get involved in unless you are living in a theocracy. And even then, you would have to outlaw every dissent among citizens to make it work.
The giver decides how much to give and to whom. For years, my giving has gone to churches in Mexico, Africa, and Iran. I do not give anything to my local church.
Wow.
And your statement that "capitalism is America's religion" is just plain hate and blasphemy.
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@Gerben42 Actually, that is completely wrong. Have you ever been in the different parts of an American city?
The suburbs are the coolest for 2 reasons:
1. All of the buildings are spread apart, allowing the breeze to blow through, cooling the street.
2. The houses have front yards, backyards and side yards. The yards have grass that cools by the evaporation principle. The yards have bushes and trees that cool by the evaporation principle.
Then the breeze blows that cool air from the yards across the sidewalks and streets and cools them. It is known that planting green things in your yard reduces your air-conditioning expense.
On the other hand, as you go into the center of a city, there is much more concrete and pavement everywhere that absorbs heat, and everything is built both tall and close together, blocking the breeze. And there is not enough greenspace due to all of the buildings. You could not plant enough grass and trees there to have a good cooling effect because there is no place to put it.
Then you have the problem that all of the airconditioners in all of those tall buildings are creating heat, and the people cooking is creating heat, and the automobile engines are creating heat.
The city centers are stifling hot in the summers with high humidity and no breeze. And while that is going on, you are breathing pollution from car and truck exhaust.
A city is a very unpleasant place to be in the summer. We fry eggs 🍳 on the sidewalk.
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@AnotherDuck Spread out suburbs are not particularly costly to the city. All of the roads, sidewalks, plumbing and sewer was built by the project developer -- not the city.
There is a cost is to send police and fire trucks to the suburbs. And the facts are that suburbs have half the crimes and fires that the city has. When a house burns in a suburb, it is just one house. In the INNER city, you can lose the whole block.
As the city spreads out, the city occurs some costs by way of libraries, parks, and community centers dotted around. But what happens concurrently is that commercial centers pop up near any subdivision and those business property taxes are very high.
Our basic belief here is that the people live how they want to live and the community builds itself how it wants to be. Then the city SERVES the community. The community does not serve the city. That would be socialism.
We are not here to be "economically beneficial to the city."
We are the city.
Now as far as taxes:
Property taxes are pro-rated based upon real estate value. The very expensive houses in the burbs pay very high taxes. Higher than the older urban areas where the houses have a MUCH LOWER value.
You mention that we have 3 times the vehicle deaths than Germany. But you did not mention that we have MANY more vehicles on the road per capita. You need to learn to count beans.
Also, most of our vehicle deaths occur on interstate highways. Secondly, in urban street crossings. There are NONE in suburbs.
Additionally, our roads that go out to the burbs are built by gasoline tax. So that the individual who drives on that road every day pays to repave the road.
The guy told you square in the face that Americans prefer suburbs. If rich Americans can afford to live in suburbs, we can live in suburbs. It is not your country. So why is that a problem for you?!?
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America did not create Israel -- God created Israel. And it was the UK who initiated the zionist movement -- not America.
Genesis 13:15
"for all the land which you see I give to you and your descendants FOREVER."
Exodus 32:13
Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants, to whom You swore by Your own self, and said to them, ‘I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven; and all this land that I have spoken of I give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it FOREVER.’"
Joshua 14:9
So Moses swore on that day, saying, ‘Surely the land where your foot has trodden shall be your inheritance and your children’s FOREVER, because you have wholly followed the Lord my God.’
1 Chronicles 28:8
Now therefore, in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of the Lord, and in the hearing of our God, be careful to seek out all the commandments of the Lord your God, that you may possess this good land, and leave it as an inheritance for your children after you FOREVER.
2 Chronicles 20:7
Are You not our God, who drove out the inhabitants of this land before Your people Israel, and gave it to the descendants of Abraham Your friend FOREVER?
Ezra 9:12
Now therefore, do not give your daughters as wives for their sons, nor take their daughters to your sons; and never seek their peace or prosperity, that you may be strong and eat the good of the land, and leave it as an inheritance to your children FOREVER.’
Psalm 136:21
And gave their land as a heritage, For His mercy endures FOREVER; A heritage to Israel His servant, For His mercy endures forever.
Isaiah 60:21
Also your people shall all be righteous; They shall inherit the land FOREVER, The branch of My planting, The work of My hands, That I may be glorified.
Jeremiah 7:7
then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers FOREVER and ever.
Jeremiah 25:5
They said, ‘Repent now everyone of his evil way and his evil doings, and dwell in the land that the Lord has given to you and your fathers FOREVER and ever.
Ezekiel 37:25
Then they shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob My servant, where your fathers dwelt; and they shall dwell there, they, their children, and their children’s children, FOREVER; and My servant David shall be their prince FOREVER.
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@rfrancisfawkes105 Sorry, but I am right on both topics.
Do you have any idea where Africa would be today without electricity, light bulbs, electric motors and generators, clean water production, vaccinations, and railroads, rubber tires, modern communications . . .
I can continue that list for 150 benefits and you are flat wrong.
I happen to know for a fact that there are White people in African villages AS WE SPEAK who are drilling water wells, giving people free vaccinations, teaching and handing out meals of cooked rice.
Even giving free solar cooking ovens in areas with no electricity.
In fact, I have paid for some of the rice myself.
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@TheGamingSyndrom Yes I have heard of it.
1. Out of the billions and billions of Christians, the Crusades were only involving a couple of thousand. So we are not going to count that as being representative of Christianity.
Who knows what those people were thinking? But Jesus never taught anyone to start a war. So either they were not Christians or they were very confused Christians.
2. Colonialism:
Colonialism was done by businessmen who may and may not have been Christians. We do not know who these people were and do not know if they were Christians or not. Colonialism was all about the mother countries importing gold, spices, and whatever from the colonies and selling other goods to the colonies.
That was all about business relationships. They were one-sided relationships. But all of the colonies benefitted from trade that they otherwise would not have gotten. And when the colonies became more developed, they achieved independence and and now a part of the modern world.
That is not a bad thing.
3. Native Americans:
Anything that happened to Native Americans they brought it on themselves. From almost the beginning, the savages were attacking settlements, burning settler's cabins, and murdering men, women, and children.
There was really nothing the White people could do but fight back and eventually move them a long way away.
4. Christianity does not have a doctrine of "forced conversions."
All (100%) of Christian conversions are 100% voluntary.
You cannot force someone to repent of their sins and you cannot force someone to accept Jesus into their heart as their Savior.
Any such "forced conversions" would not be a conversion any way. So even trying that would be pointless, right?
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Because a vote for Israel is a vote for God. As you can see here:
Genesis 13:15
"for all the land which you see I give to you and your descendants FOREVER."
Exodus 32:13
Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants, to whom You swore by Your own self, and said to them, ‘I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven; and all this land that I have spoken of I give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it FOREVER.’"
Joshua 14:9
So Moses swore on that day, saying, ‘Surely the land where your foot has trodden shall be your inheritance and your children’s FOREVER, because you have wholly followed the Lord my God.’
1 Chronicles 28:8
Now therefore, in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of the Lord, and in the hearing of our God, be careful to seek out all the commandments of the Lord your God, that you may possess this good land, and leave it as an inheritance for your children after you FOREVER.
2 Chronicles 20:7
Are You not our God, who drove out the inhabitants of this land before Your people Israel, and gave it to the descendants of Abraham Your friend FOREVER?
Ezra 9:12
Now therefore, do not give your daughters as wives for their sons, nor take their daughters to your sons; and never seek their peace or prosperity, that you may be strong and eat the good of the land, and leave it as an inheritance to your children FOREVER.’
Psalm 136:21
And gave their land as a heritage, For His mercy endures FOREVER; A heritage to Israel His servant, For His mercy endures forever.
Isaiah 60:21
Also your people shall all be righteous; They shall inherit the land FOREVER, The branch of My planting, The work of My hands, That I may be glorified.
Jeremiah 7:7
then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers FOREVER and ever.
Jeremiah 25:5
They said, ‘Repent now everyone of his evil way and his evil doings, and dwell in the land that the Lord has given to you and your fathers FOREVER and ever.
Ezekiel 37:25
Then they shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob My servant, where your fathers dwelt; and they shall dwell there, they, their children, and their children’s children, FOREVER; and My servant David shall be their prince FOREVER.
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@damocles8417
"19 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy."
Leviticus 19:1
" You shall not shave around the sides of your head, nor shall you disfigure the edges of your beard. 28 You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you: I am the Lord."
Leviticus 19:27
"And you shall know that I am the Lord; for you have not walked in My statutes nor executed My judgments, but have done according to the customs of the Gentiles which are all around you.” ’ ”
Ezekiel 11:12
"You shall therefore distinguish between clean animals and unclean, between unclean birds and clean, and you shall not make yourselves ABOMINABLE . . .
. . . by beast or by bird, or by any kind of living thing that creeps on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean."
Leviticus 20:25
"Now therefore, make confession to the Lord God of your fathers, and do His will; SEPARATE YOURSELVES from the peoples of the land, and from the pagan wives.”
Ezra 10:11
"If I say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’
And to the worm, ‘You are my mother and my sister,’
15 Where then is my hope?
As for my hope, who can see it?
16 Will they go down to the gates of Sheol?"
Job 17:14
"Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption."
I Corinthians 15:50
"For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life."
Galatians 6:8
"But these, like natural brute beasts made to be caught and destroyed, speak evil of the things they do not understand, and will utterly perish in their own corruption,"
II Peter 2:12
"While they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption"
II Peter 2:19
"He who sows iniquity will reap sorrow."
Proverbs 22:8
"Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap."
Galatians 6:7
"Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world."
James 1:27
"And Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, PURIFY YOURSELVES, and change your garments."
Genesis 35:2
"As he loved cursing, so let it come to him;
As he did not delight in blessing, so let it be far from him.
18 As he clothed himself with cursing as with his garment,
So let it enter his body like water,
And like oil into his bones.
19 Let it be to him like the garment which covers him,"
Psalm 109:17
"Let your garments always be white,
And let your head lack no oil."
Ecclesiastes 9:8
"3 Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and was standing before the Angel.
4 Then He answered and spoke to those who stood before Him, saying, “Take away the filthy garments from him.”
Zechariah 3:3
" “But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw a man there who did not have on a wedding garment. 12 So he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here without a wedding garment?’ And he was speechless. 13 Then the king said to the servants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’"
Matthew 22:11
"but others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire, hating even the garment defiled by the flesh."
Jude 1:23
"You have a few names even in Sardis who have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with Me in white, for they are worthy."
Revelation 3:4
"I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; and white garments, that you may be clothed"
Revelation 3:18
"“Behold, I am coming as a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his garments," [spotless]
Revelation 16:15
"But the cowardly, unbelieving, ABOMINABLE, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”
Revelation 21:8
" But I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. 23 The city had no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it. The Lamb is its light. 24 And the nations of those who are saved shall walk in its light, and the kings of the earth bring their glory and honor into it. 25 Its gates shall not be shut at all by day (there shall be no night there). 26 And they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it. 27 But there shall by no means enter it ANYTHING THAT DEFILES or causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life."
Revelation 21:22
"“Do not seal the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is at hand. 11 He who is unjust, let him be unjust still; HE WHO IS FILTHY, LET HIM BE FILTHY STILL; he who is righteous, let him be righteous still; he who is holy, let him be holy still.”
Revelation 22:10
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"Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers."
Ephesians 1:29
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@paracelumalchemistis7331 You are really not that good of a military strategist. I have already explained why Russia will not escalate. I thought that would be sufficient.
The size of Russia is huge. But if you will look at a map and population, their 140 million people are scattered all over that huge expanse in very small towns and tiny villagers. Those tiny rural villages are of no importance to Russia's national identity.
Now tell me how many cities and regions of Russia can you name off the top of your head. Now if those cities get nuked, what is left of russia?
On the other hand, how many states and cities of America can you name off the top of your head?
Russia is large geographically, but the United States is the second largest country geographically and has more than twice the population of Russia. Which means that in a nuclear exchange of say 1200 missiles from both sides, Russia would be finished. But more than half of the American population would survive.
Also, why do you think Russia keeps building more and more nukes?
They are doing that because they are afraid of the United States and want a good solid deterrent.
The United States has 5000 military bases scattered around the world. In order to attack the United States safely, they would have to take out all 5000 military bases. So there goes 5000 of their nukes right up front, leaving only 1000 to attack the U.S. ships and mainland targets.
Also the United States has the largest conventional military in the world. It is roughly equivalent to the size of the next 5 countries put together.
In addition to that NATO has a bunch of their own nukes in Europe that can come into play.
Will the United States use nukes? No. Not unless they are attacked with one.
So how will the United States and NATO respond if Russia uses any nuke anywhere?
The Pentagon called Moscow on the phone last week and told them that if Russia uses even one nuke anywhere, we will come to Russia and destroy every single last vestige of the Russian military.
I think they got the message, don't you? 🤷♂️ 🤷♀️
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@lpk6372 Well not exactly.
I was tested in high school in 1972 and had a genius IQ at that time -- so obviously the television watching that I did then failed to dumb down my brain. I will add to that comment that television was a much more informative and mentally stimulating exercise than it is today.
Now about me helping society:
1. There is no such thing as "society" -- that is an imaginary concept. What we want to do is help other people. So let us look at that:
At the start of the pandemic, the experts told us that when we achieve "herd immunity" the pandemic would dry up and go away by itself. Right?
And they said that herd immunity means that 67% of the population NEEDS to get infected with the virus in order to achieve herd immunity. Right?
So anyone who gets infected is helping to achieve herd immunity and put a stop to the pandemic. Right?
So getting infected with the virus is helping people. Right?
Now I was living in San Diego last year. I was living a couple of miles from a military base where the government brought some people incoming from China and quarantined them.
Therefore, in April of last year, I contracted the virus and fully recovered from it -- so I have natural immunity to the virus. Right?
So I am helping other people by being immune to the virus and contributing to the herd immunity concept and also by not spreading it to other people. Right?
Since, I am immune to the virus and cannot be a spreader of it, I do not need to take a vaccine. Right?
Please feel free to point out if I have any mistakes or errors in my logic.
Now explain to me your so-called "consequences of my actions" and apologize for saying that I "learned nothing from my forefathers." 😎👍🇺🇸 ✝️
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You have an error in your comment where you say, "vaccines are not new."
The fact is that all 3 of the vaccines, Pfizer, Moderna, and J&J are genetically-developed vaccines and that is completely new and unproven technology.
They are also developed using fetal tissue -- so I do not take vaccines because I am a conscientious objector to that.
When they stop using fetal tissue in vaccine production AND start testing them properly to make sure they are 100% safe, I will wholeheartedly support vaccine mandates.
But I do NOT support mandates on vaccines that have only been proven for a few months and we are not sure they are safe in the long-term.
I am HELPING PEOPLE by resisting a HIGHLY IRRESPONSIBLE societal and governmental push to get people to take an unproven vaccine in which the long-term "consequences" may mean that 3 years from now everyone who took the vaccine could start dropping like flies.
You have absolutely no idea what the long-term consequences of taking an experimental, unproven vaccine could be -- so do not lecture me about consequences.
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@wjmrtnz1
No. I am right:
Then Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest 2 and asked letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, so that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.
3 As he journeyed he came near Damascus, and suddenly a light shone around him from heaven. 4 Then he fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?”
5 And he said, “Who are You, Lord?”
Then the Lord said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. It is hard for you to kick against the goads.”
6 So he, trembling and astonished, said, “Lord, what do You want me to do?”
Then the Lord said to him, “Arise and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”
7 And the men who journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing a voice but seeing no one. 8 Then Saul arose from the ground, and when his eyes were opened he saw no one. But they led him by the hand and brought him into Damascus. 9 And he was three days without sight, and neither ate nor drank.
10 Now there was a certain disciple at Damascus named Ananias; and to him the Lord said in a vision, “Ananias.”
And he said, “Here I am, Lord.”
11 So the Lord said to him, “Arise and go to the street called Straight, and inquire at the house of Judas for one called Saul of Tarsus, for behold, he is praying. 12 And in a vision he has seen a man named Ananias coming in and putting his hand on him, so that he might receive his sight.
13 Then Ananias answered, “Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much harm he has done to Your saints in Jerusalem. 14 And here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on Your name.”
15 But the Lord said to him, “Go, for he is a chosen vessel of Mine to bear My name before Gentiles, kings, and the children of Israel. 16 For I will show him how many things he must suffer for My name’s sake.”
Acts chapter 9
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And certain men came down from Judea and taught the brethren, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.” 2 Therefore, when Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and dispute with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas and certain others of them should go up to Jerusalem, to the apostles and elders, about this question.
3 So, being sent on their way by the church, they passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, describing the conversion of the Gentiles; and they caused great joy to all the brethren. 4 And when they had come to Jerusalem, they were received by the church and the apostles and the elders; and they reported all things that God had done with them. 5 But some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed rose up, saying, “It is necessary to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.”
Now the apostles and elders came together to consider this matter. 7 And when there had been much dispute, Peter rose up and said to them: “Men and brethren, you know that a good while ago God chose among us, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe. 8 So God, who knows the heart, acknowledged them by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as He did to us, 9 and made no distinction between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith. 10 Now therefore, why do you test God by putting a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear? 11 But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved in the same manner as they.”
12 Then all the multitude kept silent and listened to Barnabas and Paul declaring how many miracles and wonders God had worked through them among the Gentiles. 13 And after they had become silent, James answered, saying, “Men and brethren, listen to me: 14 Simon has declared how God at the first visited the Gentiles to take out of them a people for His name. 15 And with this the words of the prophets agree, just as it is written:
‘After this I will return
And will rebuild the tabernacle of David, which has fallen down;
I will rebuild its ruins,
And I will set it up;
17 So that the rest of mankind may seek the Lord,
Even all the Gentiles who are called by My name,
Says the Lord who does all these things.’
“Known to God from eternity are all His works. 19 Therefore I judge that we should not trouble those from among the Gentiles who are turning to God, 20 but that we write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from things strangled, and from blood. 21 For Moses has had throughout many generations those who preach him in every city, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.”
22 Then it pleased the apostles and elders, with the whole church, to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas,
Acts chapter 15
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21 Now it came to pass, that when we had departed from them and set sail, running a straight course we came to Cos, the following day to Rhodes, and from there to Patara. 2 And finding a ship sailing over to Phoenicia, we went aboard and set sail. 3 When we had sighted Cyprus, we passed it on the left, sailed to Syria, and landed at Tyre; for there the ship was to unload her cargo. 4 And finding disciples, we stayed there seven days. They told Paul through the Spirit not to go up to Jerusalem. 5 When we had come to the end of those days, we departed and went on our way; and they all accompanied us, with wives and children, till we were out of the city. And we knelt down on the shore and prayed. 6 When we had taken our leave of one another, we boarded the ship, and they returned home.
7 And when we had finished our voyage from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais, greeted the brethren, and stayed with them one day. 8 On the next day we who were Paul’s companions departed and came to Caesarea, and entered the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, and stayed with him. 9 Now this man had four virgin daughters who prophesied. 10 And as we stayed many days, a certain prophet named Agabus came down from Judea. 11 When he had come to us, he took Paul’s belt, bound his own hands and feet, and said, “Thus says the Holy Spirit, ‘So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man who owns this belt, and deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.’ ”
12 Now when we heard these things, both we and those from that place pleaded with him not to go up to Jerusalem. 13 Then Paul answered, “What do you mean by weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”
14 So when he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, “The will of the Lord be done.”
Acts chapter 21
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11 Now when Peter had come to Antioch, I withstood him to his face, because he was to be blamed; 12 for before certain men came from James, he would eat with the Gentiles; but when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision. 13 And the rest of the Jews also played the hypocrite with him, so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.
14 But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter before them all, “If you, being a Jew, live in the manner of Gentiles and not as the Jews, why do you compel Gentiles to live as Jews? 15 We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, 16 knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified.
17 “But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is Christ therefore a minister of sin? Certainly not! 18 For if I build again those things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. 19 For I through the law died to the law that I might live to God. 20 I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. 21 I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain.”
-- Prophet Paul --
Galatians chapter 2
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@MegaAssface Okay. I am not of law. I am a philosopher. All of the general theories that you study about rights and social contracts and stuff are not proposed by lawyers. They come from philosophers.
Now . . .
Here in the United States, we believe in freedom from government intervention in our lives. That was how and why our country was founded. To overthrow the monarch's overreach.
On the other hand, being a Canadian, you do not believe in freedom. You are little children who need a monarch to be your mother and your nursemaid, tell you what to do, and take your toys away when you do not share.
We, on the other hand, are adults who know what to do and how to treat others and how to share.
Being adults, we do not need a monarch nursemaid godmother. We do not want, need, or have a use for the government to try to step in and solve of every little problem of our society.
That is freedom. Making your own decisions for your own life with no monarch trying to interfere and try to make the decisions for you.
The government is not allowed to tell us what to say, what to do, where to live, which church to attend, or whether to own a gun. Those are all adult-level decisions and we are fully capable of making them for ourselves.
That is fundamental American law.
I am surprised you would get that far in law school without learning what freedom is.
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@cpc9563 The fact that many people in Malaysia can buy the cheaper Chinese model smartphone is not going to keep Chinese factories open.
Samsung sold 224 million smartphones last year, and the whole population of Malaysia is only 35 million.
Then besides smartphones, the Chinese have to sell, toasters, microwave ovens, refrigerators, computers, stereo, televisions, all kinds of clothing, and so on.
Buying a phone is one thing in your life. But buying everything in your whole life at higher prices is a whole level of expenses.
And besides that, Malaysians are already buying most things from China. If Malaysians are already buying at their maximum, they cannot increase their purchasing. That is also true of every other country. None of them can buy more than what they are already buying.
And to go to farther countries you have shipping costs. Everything is cheaper in Malaysia than in countries farther away. Brazilians have to pay a lot more (and they may not prefer the Chinese brand).
Then you have another problem that Chinese factories make all of the parts for American cars and airplanes. Who drives American cars in Malaysia?
I am sorry, but if Americans stop buying, there is no way to keep the Chinese factories open. You might keep 10% of them open, but not all of them.
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@salsa564 Why is my comment "absurd" ?
Everyone in the world is created by God and God loves all of his creation. Christians love their friends and their enemies, and most of the West is Christian. If you love someone, you are going to be happy for them to be successful and to have a good life.
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust."
-- Jesus --
Cheering for others to win a race and encouraging others to do well originates from being a good, nice, and kind-hearted person.
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Iran gives them the rockets.
Finances and funding
Hamas, like its predecessor the Muslim Brotherhood, assumed the administration of Gaza's waqf properties, endowments which extend over 10% of all real estate in the Gaza Strip, with 2,000 acres of agricultural land held in religious trusts, together with numerous shops, rentable apartments and public buildings.[74]
In the first five years of the 1st Intifada, the Gaza economy, 50% of which depended on external sources of income, plummeted by 30–50% as Israel closed its labour market and remittances from the Palestinian expatriates in the Gulf countries dried up following the 1991–1992 Gulf War.[75] At the 1993 Philadelphia conference, Hamas leaders' statements indicated that they read George H. W. Bush's outline of a New World Order as embodying a tacit aim to destroy Islam, and that therefore funding should focus on enhancing the Islamic roots of Palestinian society and promoting jihad, which also means zeal for social justice, in the occupied territories.[76] Hamas became particularly fastidious about maintaining separate resourcing for its respective branches of activity—military, political and social services.[77] It has had a holding company in East Jerusalem (Beit al-Mal), a 20% stake in Al Aqsa International Bank which served as its financial arm, the Sunuqrut Global Group and al-Ajouli money-changing firm.[78]
By 2011, Hamas's budget, calculated to be roughly US$70 million, derived even more substantially (85%) from foreign, rather than internal Palestinian, sources.[78] Only two Israeli-Palestinian sources figure in a list seized in 2004, while the other contributors were donor bodies located in Jordan, Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Britain, Germany, the United States, United Arab Emirates, Italy and France. Much of the money raised comes from sources that direct their assistance to what Hamas describes as its charitable work for Palestinians, but investments in support of its ideological position are also relevant, with Persian Gulf States and Saudi Arabia prominent in the latter. Matthew Levitt claims that Hamas also taps money from corporations, criminal organizations and financial networks that support terror.[79] It is also alleged that it engages in cigarette and drug smuggling, multimedia copyright infringement and credit card fraud.[78] The United States, Israel and the EU have shut down many charities and organs that channel money to Hamas, such as the Holy Land Foundation for Relief.[80] Between 1992 and 2001, this group is said to have provided $6.8 million to Palestinian charities of the $57 million collected. By 2001, it was alleged to have given Hamas $13 million, and was shut down shortly afterwards.[81]
About half of Hamas's funding came from states in the Persian Gulf down to the mid 2000s. Saudi Arabia supplied half of the Hamas budget of $50 million in the early 2000s,[82] but, under U.S. pressure, began cut its funding by cracking down on Islamic charities and private donor transfers to Hamas in 2004,[83] which by 2006 drastically reduced the flow of money from that area. Iran and Syria, in the aftermath of Hamas's 2006 electoral victory, stepped in to fill the shortfall.[84][85] Saudi funding, negotiated with third parties like Egypt, remained supportive of Hamas as a Sunni group but chose to provide more assistance to the PNA, the electoral loser, when the EU responded to the outcome by suspending its monetary aid.[86] During the 1980s, Iran began to provide 10% of Hamas's funding, which it increased annually until by the 1990s it supplied $30 million.[82] It accounted for $22 million, over a quarter of Hamas's budget, by the late 2000s.[83] According to Matthew Levitt, Iran preferred direct financing to operative groups rather than charities, requiring video proof of attacks.[83][87] Much of the Iran funding is said to be channeled through Hezbollah.[83] After 2006, Iran's willingness to take over the burden of the shortfall created by the drying up of Saudi funding also reflected the geopolitical tensions between the two, since, though Shiite, Iran was supporting a Sunni group traditionally closely linked with the Saudi kingdom.[88] The US imposed sanctions on Iran's Bank Saderat, alleging it had funneled hundreds of millions to Hamas.[89] The US has expressed concerns that Hamas obtains funds through Palestinian and Lebanese sympathizers of Arab descent in the Foz do Iguaçu area of the tri-border region of Latin America, an area long associated with arms trading, drug trafficking, contraband, the manufacture of counterfeit goods, money-laundering and currency fraud. The State Department adds that confirmatory information of a Hamas operational presence there is lacking.[90]
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That is all hogwash. 🤷♂️
On 23 February 1988 the Kurdish villages of Gwezeela, Chalawi, Haladin and Yakhsamar were attacked by the Iraqi military with poison gas.
On 16 March 1988 the Iraqi military attacked Kurdish Halabja and killed 5,000 Kurds with poison gas.
From 22 March until 2 April 1988 the Iraqi military was fighting the Kurds in the Iraqi Qara Dagh region and used poison gas on the Kurdish villages of Safaran, Sewsenan, Belekjar, Serko and Meyoo.
From 7 to 20 April 1988 the Iraqi military was fighting in the Kurdish Iraqi region of Garmiyan and used poison gas on the Kurdish village of Tazashar.
3–8 May 1988 the Iraqi military attacked Kurdish Askar and Goptapa with poison gas.
Between 15 May and 16 August 1988, the Iraqi military attacked the Kurdish valleys of Rawandiz and Shaqlawa. The Kurdish villages of
Hiran, Balisan, Smaquli, Malakan, Shek Wasan, Ware, Seran and Kaniba were all attacked with poison gas.
From 25 August to 6 September 1988 the Iraqi military attacked Badinan and attacked the Kurdish villages of Wirmeli, Barkavreh, Bilejane, Glenaska, Zewa Shkan, Tuka and Ikmala with poison gas.
Can somebody please explain to me how a government can gas 50,000 of its own citizens to death when they do not have any "chemical weapons" ??? 🤷♂️ 🤷♀️
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The antichrist world takeover team is behind it. Put your trust in Jesus. Stock up for a rainy day and ignore them.
There are no "years to come" -- Jesus is coming back.
"Now as He sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be? And what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?”
And Jesus answered and said to them: “Take heed that no one deceives you. For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many. And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars.
See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be FAMINES, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of sorrows.
“Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake."
Matthew 24:3
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@documenter1199
Countries With the Best Education System:
ranking is an annual perception-based global survey of university students, industrialists, academic educational professionals, school teachers, assistant professors, associate professors, adjunct professors, university professors, visiting professors, global business executives, and education policy experts. The survey was conducted from January to April 2020, gathering over 196,300 replies.
Based on this list, the United Kingdom comes out on top as having the most well-developed education system in the world for 2020. IN SECOND PLACE is the UNITED STATES, followed by Australia, the Netherlands, and Sweden."
CEOworld Magazine
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@tomlaureys1734 Almost everything I told you Putin said, I personally heard him say in various live speeches. They are all well known comments and if you search diligently, you can locate the sources.
I do not see that anything that happened in Canada has any bearing. The Minsk agreements are cease-fire agreements.
When I perceive that someone is lying, I feel comfortable pointing that out to them. Pointing out when someone is lying, helps keep people honest and helps the discussion come to the truth. It is neither uncivil nor a personal attack and there is nothing "personal" about it. It blocks people from deliberately misleading the true facts of the discussion.
If it is truly your "opinion" that NATO is an empire, I find that very difficult to believe.
I would like to see some evidence suggesting that NATO is an "empire."
The United States is a federation of 50 nation-states. No one thinks they are an empire.
The Russian Federation is a federation of 21 nation-states. No one claims they are an empire.
The European Union is a federation of 27 nation-states. No one claims that is an empire.
Yet NATO is not even a political organization of any kind and has no authority to tell the citizens in those countries what to do. How can an "empire" not be able to tell its citizens what to do?
NATO is not even close to being an empire.
My only explanation for your believing that NATO is an empire is either you do not know what NATO is or you do not know what an empire is.
I agree that Russia cannot get rid of their nukes while NATO has nukes.
But also, NATO cannot get rid of their nukes while Russia has nukes.
So that is a problem, isn't it?
If you want concrete evidence that Russia wants to take over Ukraine:
What about Crimea?
They already took Crimea and incorporated it into the Russian federation.
What about Kherson?
They already took Kherson and incorporated it into the Russian federation.
What about Luhansk?
They already took Luhansk and incorporated it into the Russian federation.
What about Donetsk?
They already took Donetsk and incorporated it into the Russian federation.
What about Zaporizhzhia?
They have already taken it and incorporated it into the Russian federation.
And they are still bombing all over Ukraine -- not confining the war to only the areas they would need to hold.
These are all historical facts, now. How much evidence do you need?
Russia is not done taking countries. If no one stops them, they will take all of Ukraine and then start carving into Poland and Germany.
Even last week a high official in Russia, ambassador Borodavkin, made a statement that there are NAZIs in Kazakhstan and Russia should perform a "Special Military Operation" in Kazakhstan.
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@tomlaureys1734
The quote about Ukraine not being an actual country comes from a 2008 NATO meeting. I cut this from a Russian newspaper called Kommersant:
"“However, the Russian president spoke about Georgia quite calmly and as if in passing,” says a Kommersant source in the delegation of one of the NATO countries. “When it came to Ukraine, Putin flared up. Addressing [George] Bush, he said: , George, that Ukraine is not even a state! What is Ukraine? Part of its territory is Eastern Europe, and part, and a significant one, was donated by us!" And then he very transparently hinted that if Ukraine was nevertheless accepted into NATO, this state would simply cease to exist. That is, in fact, he threatened that Russia could start secession of Crimea and Eastern Ukraine".
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On July 12, 2021 Vladimir Putin wrote a 5000 word essay delineating his position on Ukraine. It is posted on the Kremlin's website and you can look it up and read it there.
In his article he says:
Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia are the "tri-une" state [of Rus]
He says:
Everything happening in Ukraine is part of an "anti-Russia project" to steal Ukraine from Russia.
He says:
"true sovereignty of Ukraine is possible only in partnership with Russia."
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If you want to hear the Ukranian side to Ukrainian history, Anna from Ukraine is a history professor in Ukraine. She has a lot about Ukraine-Soviet relations on her utube channel. You can go through her older videos (before the war started) and get her opinion.
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@tomlaureys1734 When you stop lying, I will stop calling you out on it.
NATO members listen closely when the United States speaks because we are SMART -- not because we pay the bills.
And, by the way, it is your opinion that NATO should have been dissolved, but you could be wrong about that, couldn't you?
I suspect that that China blew the pipeline. So what?
Do I go around accusing countries of what I suspect as if it were some kind of fact?
Let me give you the facts again:
In the United States, business and government are separate. The government does not blow up pipelines to help the businesses.
And further, the natural gas companies in the United States are struggling to keep up with supplying 300 million Americans. They do not need more business from Europe. Your completely unfounded fake accusations are uncalled for.
And by the way ...
The Nordstream I pipeline was sitting empty when China . . . I mean . . when someone blew it up. It was NOT delivering any gas anywhere.
Your friends in Munich are cold because Putin will only accept rubles in payment for gas and Germany does not pay in rubles, so they cannot buy gas.
That is entirely between Germany and Putin and has nothing whatsoever to do with the United States.
And Germany no longer wants to buy Russian gas. The German government cancelled the certification for Nordstream II the day after Russia invaded.
Also, I made a personal decision not to discuss the countries you mentioned when you told the lie about the military complex. So I guess you will never know the truth about those wars, will you???
But you do at least know that Russia is obliterating Ukraine -- not the United States. . . . right?
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@tomlaureys1734 Okay. Let me defuse this:
Absolutely . . and I mean absolutely NATO does not have any soldiers in this conflict. Individual citizens from any country are allowed to volunteer, but it has to be as a private mercenary -- they cannot represent their country. Those are NATO rules -- no direct involvement.
At the bottom you conclude that NATO wants war, right?
But in the discourse you say that the only possible place this could lead is World War III, right?
So if you take both of your statements and add then together, you come up "NATO wants World War III."
Am I right so far?
In World War III, the United States would take some nuclear hits, the arms manufacturing plants would be primary targets, and Europe would be completely annihilated off the face of the planet.
Am I right so far?
So taking both of your statements together:
"NATO wants Europe to be completely annihilated off the face of the Earth."
With me so far?
As a general rule, do people prefer to live or do people prefer to die?
I think we can agree that people prefer to live.
If people prefer to live, does NATO want Europe to be annihilated?
No.
So if Europe does not want to be annihilated, does NATO want war?
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The British did this because the Bible says that in the last days God will gather all of the Jews from around the world back to their original homeland.
The British felt that they were helping God fulfill His prophecy. Balfour and Rothschild and others were Jewish.
“Now it shall come to pass, when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the Lord your God drives you, and you return to the Lord your God and obey His voice, according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart and with all your soul, that the Lord your God will bring you back from captivity, and have compassion on you, and gather you again from all the nations where the Lord your God has scattered you. If any of you are driven out to the farthest parts under heaven, from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there He will bring you. Then the Lord your God will bring you to the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it.”
Deuteronomy 30
“But you, Israel, are My servant,
Jacob whom I have chosen,
The descendants of Abraham My friend.
You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth,
And called from its farthest regions,
And said to you,
‘You are My servant,
I have chosen you and have not cast you away:
Fear not, for I am with you;
Be not dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you,
Yes, I will help you,
I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.’
Isaiah 41:8
“Fear not, for I am with you;
I will bring your descendants from the east,
And gather you from the west;
I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’
And to the south, ‘Do not keep them back!’
Bring My sons from afar,
And My daughters from the ends of the earth— “
Isaiah 43:5
“For there shall be a day
When the watchmen will cry on Mount Ephraim,
‘Arise, and let us go up to
ZION
To the Lord our God.’ ”
For thus says the Lord:
“Sing with gladness for Jacob,
And shout among the chief of the nations;
Proclaim, give praise, and say,
‘O Lord, save Your people,
The remnant of Israel!’
Behold, I will bring them from the north country,
And gather them from the ends of the earth,
Among them the blind and the lame,
The woman with child
And the one who labors with child, together;
A great throng shall return there.
They shall come with weeping,
And with supplications I will lead them.
I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters.”
Jeremiah 31:6
“Hear the word of the Lord, O nations,
And declare it in the isles afar off, and say,
‘He who scattered Israel will gather him,
And keep him as a shepherd does his flock.’
For the Lord has redeemed Jacob,
And ransomed him from the hand of one stronger than he.
Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of ZION.”
Jeremiah 31:10
Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah— 32 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, [h]though I was a husband to them, says the Lord. 33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their [i]hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.”
Jeremiah 31:31
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@glatzefratz8492 "approx 20% of their equipment should be brand new"?
Where do you get that? Just make it up out of your head?
The only "brand new" equipment I know of is the Kinsai hypersonic ballistic missile. And they already used it in Lyviv.
I also know they have 3 or 4 SU-57 fighter jets. But Ukraine shot one down. So maybe they do not want to take a chance with the other two.
I also know they build 20 brand new Sarmat 28 nuclear ICBMs every year. But those do not fit into this type of war.
At any rate . . .
If they do have any brand new equipment, there is no chance at all that any of it would be "more advanced" than western equipment.
Russia has always had a sluggish economy and has lagged way behind the rest of the world technologically speaking. They cannot even make their own semiconductors. When we do get our hands on their downed equipment and dissect it, we always find American-made semiconductors on the inside.
All of their weapons are based on large explosive brute force -- they are not high-tech, precision-weapons like the American weapons are. That is why they are losing -- they do not have or know how to make high-tech weapons.
Russia is a poor, remote, backward, way-behind, sleepy-head country, trying to rebuild the empire of Catharine the Great. That is why most of Ukraine does not want to join their federation. Ukraine wants to move forward into the 21st century and Russia doesn't.
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Also . . .
Russia is a poor, rural, agrarian society. They are the world's largest exporter of wheat. They derive their income from sales of grain, crude oil, natural gas. They do not have a lot of manufacturing or industry and are not a world leader in anything (except ICBM building).
Poland has no interest in attacking remote, backward, sleepy-headed Russia. Poland has their own life to live and is not interested in living someone else's life. The only country Russia should be afraid of is China, who is sitting right on their border, has a long history of building great Chinese empires, and is trying to take over whatever country they can get with their big greedy eyes. 👀
The Chinese would love to get their hands on those Siberian oil fields and refineries. They import a LOT of oil.
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@halo1561 I went and looked it up and the answer is not easy because WE DO NOT KNOW how many warheads Russia has -- all we have are guesses. But I did find this:
"Since 1945, the US has manufactured over 70,000 nuclear warheads, which is more than all other nuclear weapon states combined"
"IT IS THOUGHT that, between 1949 and 1991, the Soviet Union manufactured approximately 55,000 nuclear warheads"
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"The US was in possession of 6,450 nuclear warheads in 2018."
"In 2018, Russia was in possession of ROUGHLY 6,850 nuclear warheads."
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Not sure I believe any of this -- where would 70,000 warheads vanish to?
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@halo1561 This is from the "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists" volume 69, issue 5:
"Of the more than 66,500 warheads that the United States has produced since 1945, almost 59,000 have been disassembled, more than 13,000 of these since 1990. The United States has retained nearly 20,000 plutonium cores (pits) from the warheads it dismantled, storing them in igloos at the Pantex Plant in Texas. The United States also stores some 5,000 canned subassemblies (secondaries from thermonuclear warheads) at the Y-12 facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee."
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@halo1561 Not according to the atomic scientists. The Atomic Scientists say Russia is struggling to keep up with the U.S.
"Russia has released very little information about the size of its stockpile, but based on statements from Russian officials and US assessments, we estimate that Russia currently has approximately 8,500 intact warheads. Of these, about 4,480 are in the military stockpile, with the remaining 4,000 retired warheads awaiting dismantlement. We estimate that since 1949, the Soviet Union and Russia have produced some 55,000 nuclear warheads.
Russia is in the middle of a major transformation of its nuclear posture involving the phasing out of Soviet-era missiles and submarines and the deployment of newer, but fewer, weapons to replace them. To keep some degree of parity with the LARGER U.S. MISSILE FORCE, Russia is deploying more warheads on each of its missiles."
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@musabashraf
Then Moses said to God, “Indeed, when I come to the children of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they say to me, ‘What is His name?’ what shall I say to them?”
14 And God said to Moses, “I AM THAT I AM.” And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’ ” 15 Moreover God said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel: ‘The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is My name forever, and this is My memorial to all generations.’
Exodus 3
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Jesus said,
"Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it and was glad.”
57 Then the Jews said to Him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have You seen Abraham?”
58 Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM.”
John 8
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"Therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill Him, because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also said that God was His Father, making Himself equal with God."
John 5
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@vstormvbringer76 God CAN have a "mother."
God can do ANYTHING He chooses to do.
And it is not blasphemy if God says it:
"Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows: After HIS MOTHER Mary was betrothed to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with CHILD OF THE HOLY SPIRIT."
Matthew 1:18
"And Mary, the daughter of Imran, who GUARDED HER WOMB, and so WE BREATHED INTO HER OUR SPIRIT and she believed in the truth of her Lord's Words and His Books, and was one of the devout.
Quran 66:12
"Then the Isaiah said, “Hear now, O house of David! Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will you weary my God also?
Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, THE VIRGIN SHALL CONCEIVE and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel [with us is God].
Isaiah 7:13
The virgin’s name was Mary.
And having come in, the angel said to her, “Rejoice, highly favored one, the Lord is with you; blessed are you among women!”
But when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and considered what manner of greeting this was. Then the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a Son, and shall call His name Jesus. He will be great, and will be called THE SON OF THE HIGHEST; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David.
And He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of His kingdom there will be no end.”
Then Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I do not know a man?”
And the angel answered and said to her, “THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL COME UPON YOU, and the POWER OF THE HIGHEST WILL OVERSHADOW YOU; therefore, also, that HOLY ONE who is to be born will be called THE SON OF GOD. Now indeed, Elizabeth your relative has also conceived a son in her old age; and this is now the sixth month for her who was called barren. For WITH GOD NOTHING WILL BE IMPOSSIBLE."
Luke 1:27
"Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows:
After His mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, BEFORE THEY CAME TOGETHER, she was found with CHILD OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not wanting to make her a public example, was minded to put her away secretly. But while he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying,
"Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take to you Mary your wife, for THAT WHICH IS CONCEIVED IN HER IS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will SAVE HIS PEOPLE FROM THEIR SINS.”
Matthew 1:18
"Now Jesus Himself began His ministry at about thirty years of age, being (AS WAS SUPPOSED) the son of Joseph, the son of Heli, the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of Melchi, the son of Janna, the son of Joseph . . . . "
Luke 3:34
"Now there stood by the CROSS OF JESUS HIS MOTHER and His mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus therefore saw HIS MOTHER and the disciple whom He loved (John) standing by, He said to His mother, “Woman, behold your son!” Then He said to the disciple, “Behold your mother!” And from that hour that disciple (John) took her to his own home.
John 19:25
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You wanna bet?
The United States of America was founded to be a Christian nation and is still, according to our founding documents, a Christian nation.
The Declaration of Independence says this:
"We believe that all men are created . . . "
Who believes that?
Americans believe it.
So you can substitute the word "Americans" for the word "we" like this:
"Americans (we) believe that all men are created . . . "
So you can see from our founding documents that all Americans believe in a Creator -- and anyone who does not believe in a Creator is not an American.
So by definition of this clause, as given in the Declaration of Independence, no atheist, Buddhist, Hindu, spiritist, animist, satanist, or humanist can be an American. The Declaration of Independence states specifically that you have to believe in a CREATOR GOD in order to be an American.
Americans do not believe in the theory of evolution -- anyone who believes in the theory of evolution is NOT an American. As clearly stated in the Declaration of Independence, Americans believe that "God created."
This example is from the Declaration of Independence. But there are many additional founding documents that tighten this concept up to be that only Christians can be Americans -- that is what our founding documents say.
Our National Song and National Motto:
Our national motto, "In God Is Our Trust" was penned by Francis Scott Key in the year 1814. It occurs in the fourth stanza of our national anthem: The Star Spangled Banner.
If you are not putting your trust in God, DO NOT sing our national anthem -- it was not written for you. If you cannot sing "in God is our trust" with sincerity, do not sing it at all.
Our national motto was added to the two-cent coin in 1864 as "In God We Trust." Since then it has been added to all of our currency. This serves as a daily reminder that all Americans put their trust in God.
In addition to containing our National Motto, our National Anthem contains this phrase:
"O thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war's desolation.
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the Heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!"
So you can see that Americans believe that:
● Heaven rescued our land (War of 1812)
● God made our nation and continually preserves our nation.
● It is incumbent upon Americans to praise God for making and protecting us.
Pledge of Allegiance:
Here in the United States of America we have a national pledge that we recite that affirms our faith and allegiance to our basic founding principles: our freedom and liberty for all. This is the pledge:
""I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
The original framework was penned by Francis Bellamy in 1892.
In 1923, the words, "the Flag of the United States of America" were added.
Then in 1954 the United States Congress added the phrase "under God" to bring the Pledge of Allegiance in line with what we believe as Americans.
Our Pledge of Allegiance declares that the United States of America is a nation that operates under the guidance and protection of Almighty God. If you do not believe that, DO NOT recite our Pledge of Allegiance. You should not recite pledges with insincerity.
Over the years, some people have tried to say that the First Amendment to the Constitution creates a "wall of separation between church and state . . . . It doesn't. This is a misinterpretation of what is called "the establishment clause" which says, "Congress shall make no law regarding an establishment of religion."
These errant people mistakenly read the clause as saying, "Congress shall not establish a religion."
The clause does not say that and to falsely interpret it that way is wrong. The easy way to conceptualize what the clause is saying is to substitute an easier word for "establishment of religion." What is an establishment of religion?
An establishment of religion would be for example, a church, or a synagogue, or a mosque. So to make the meaning clear, you could say:
Congress shall make no law regarding a church.
Congress shall make no law regarding a synagogue.
Congress shall make no law regarding a mosque.
So you can see through substitution that the purpose of the establishment clause is not to create a "wall of separation between church and state," but to prevent the government from meddling in church affairs. Perhaps Thomas Jefferson said it best when he said:
"I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This results not only from the provision that no law shall be made respecting the establishment or free exercise of religion, but from that also which reserves to the states the powers not delegated to the United States. Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise or to assume authority in religious discipline has been delegated to the General Government. It must then rest with the states, as far as it can be in any human authority."
And the followup clause [or prohibiting the free exercise thereof] makes it clear that the government cannot inhibit or prohibit the free exercise of "an establishment of religion" and cannot prevent exercise of public faith, personal prayer, or the spreading of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, any place, any time, including on public property.
(With the obvious exception that order must be maintained in society.)
Articles of Confederation
Many people are not aware that the Constitution that we currently use is actually the SECOND constitution of the United States and that there is a previous one. It is called The Articles of Confederation.
What is telling about the Articles of Confederation is that they happen to speak of America's institutional faith in God. The Articles of Confederation contain this phrase:
"And Whereas it hath pleased the Great Governor of the World to incline the hearts of the legislatures we respectively represent in congress, to approve of, and to authorize us to ratify the said articles of confederation . . . "
So we can understand from this phrase that it was the belief of the Continental Congress that God had "inclined the hearts" of the government legislatures of the 13 colonies to come together and create a new country. Forming our nation was no accident -- God told them to do it. That is what our founding documents say.
It should be obvious to anyone with a thinking brain that when God tells someone to form a new government, He would not want them forming a completely secular government where He Himself would be personally excluded.
The exact same Continental Congress who wrote our Constitution also wrote the Article of Confederation (only about a year apart). So we can see from studying the Articles of Confederation that the Continental Congress had no intention for the First Amendment of the second Constitution to create a "wall of separation" between God and His new government for the colonies.
At the age when our nation was founded, the population of the 13 colonies was about 99% protestant Christian. This country was founded by Christians who were (through prayer) working out a fair way that Christians could establish a government body for them to govern themselves under the guiding light and principles of Almighty God.
At the time that these things were being done, there were no atheists to speak of in the colonies, and there was no consideration whatsoever given to what atheists might think about the document. The Constitution of the United States of America is a document created by Christians for Christians as means of governing the body of their several Christian communities. It is a Christian document.
If you are not a Christian, you are not an American -- you have no part and parcel in what we are doing here and your opinion on the various phrases of the Constitution is meaningless. It is not your document -- it is our document
Our founding documents say that America is a Christian nation and that no non-christian can be an American.
America is a nation created by Christians for Christians and there was never any intention for any non-christians to come and get involved in what we are doing here. If you are not a Christian, if you do not believe in God, if you do not want to have a country that operates under the guidance and protection of God, we would appreciate it if you would go someplace and start your own country and stop trying to interfere with ours. 😎👍🇺🇸 ✝️
Author: Matthew Rae Loutner
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@roberttheodorebarrett6373 It appears that you are the one who needs to read a history book. Here ... try mine:
The United States of America was founded to be a Christian nation and is still, according to our founding documents, a Christian nation.
The Declaration of Independence says this:
"We believe that all men are created . . . "
Who believes that?
Americans believe it.
So you can substitute the word "Americans" for the word "we" like this:
"Americans (we) believe that all men are created . . . "
So you can see from our founding documents that all Americans believe in a Creator -- and anyone who does not believe in a Creator is not an American.
So by definition of this clause, as given in the Declaration of Independence, no atheist, Buddhist, Hindu, spiritist, animist, satanist, or humanist can be an American. The Declaration of Independence states specifically that you have to believe in a CREATOR GOD in order to be an American.
Americans do not believe in the theory of evolution -- anyone who believes in the theory of evolution is NOT an American. As clearly stated in the Declaration of Independence, Americans believe that "God created."
This example is from the Declaration of Independence. But there are many additional founding documents that tighten this concept up to be that only Christians can be Americans -- that is what our founding documents say.
Our National Song and National Motto:
Our national motto, "In God Is Our Trust" was penned by Francis Scott Key in the year 1814. It occurs in the fourth stanza of our national anthem: The Star Spangled Banner.
If you are not putting your trust in God, DO NOT sing our national anthem -- it was not written for you. If you cannot sing "in God is our trust" with sincerity, do not sing it at all.
Our national motto was added to the two-cent coin in 1864 as "In God We Trust." Since then it has been added to all of our currency. This serves as a daily reminder that all Americans put their trust in God.
In addition to containing our National Motto, our National Anthem contains this phrase:
"O thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war's desolation.
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the Heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!"
So you can see that Americans believe that:
● Heaven rescued our land (War of 1812)
● God made our nation and continually preserves our nation.
● It is incumbent upon Americans to praise God for making and protecting us.
Pledge of Allegiance:
Here in the United States of America we have a national pledge that we recite that affirms our faith and allegiance to our basic founding principles: our freedom and liberty for all. This is the pledge:
""I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
The original framework was penned by Francis Bellamy in 1892.
In 1923, the words, "the Flag of the United States of America" were added.
Then in 1954 the United States Congress added the phrase "under God" to bring the Pledge of Allegiance in line with what we believe as Americans.
Our Pledge of Allegiance declares that the United States of America is a nation that operates under the guidance and protection of Almighty God. If you do not believe that, DO NOT recite our Pledge of Allegiance. You should not recite pledges with insincerity.
Over the years, some people have tried to say that the First Amendment to the Constitution creates a "wall of separation between church and state . . . . It doesn't. This is a misinterpretation of what is called "the establishment clause" which says, "Congress shall make no law regarding an establishment of religion."
These errant people mistakenly read the clause as saying, "Congress shall not establish a religion."
The clause does not say that and to falsely interpret it that way is wrong. The easy way to conceptualize what the clause is saying is to substitute an easier word for "establishment of religion." What is an establishment of religion?
An establishment of religion would be for example, a church, or a synagogue, or a mosque. So to make the meaning clear, you could say:
Congress shall make no law regarding a church.
Congress shall make no law regarding a synagogue.
Congress shall make no law regarding a mosque.
So you can see through substitution that the purpose of the establishment clause is not to create a "wall of separation between church and state," but to prevent the government from meddling in church affairs. Perhaps Thomas Jefferson said it best when he said:
"I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This results not only from the provision that no law shall be made respecting the establishment or free exercise of religion, but from that also which reserves to the states the powers not delegated to the United States. Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise or to assume authority in religious discipline has been delegated to the General Government. It must then rest with the states, as far as it can be in any human authority."
And the followup clause [or prohibiting the free exercise thereof] makes it clear that the government cannot inhibit or prohibit the free exercise of "an establishment of religion" and cannot prevent exercise of public faith, personal prayer, or the spreading of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, any place, any time, including on public property.
(With the obvious exception that order must be maintained in society.)
Articles of Confederation
Many people are not aware that the Constitution that we currently use is actually the SECOND constitution of the United States and that there is a previous one. It is called The Articles of Confederation.
What is telling about the Articles of Confederation is that they happen to speak of America's institutional faith in God. The Articles of Confederation contain this phrase:
"And Whereas it hath pleased the Great Governor of the World to incline the hearts of the legislatures we respectively represent in congress, to approve of, and to authorize us to ratify the said articles of confederation . . . "
So we can understand from this phrase that it was the belief of the Continental Congress that God had "inclined the hearts" of the government legislatures of the 13 colonies to come together and create a new country. Forming our nation was no accident -- God told them to do it. That is what our founding documents say.
It should be obvious to anyone with a thinking brain that when God tells someone to form a new government, He would not want them forming a completely secular government where He Himself would be personally excluded.
The exact same Continental Congress who wrote our Constitution also wrote the Article of Confederation (only about a year apart). So we can see from studying the Articles of Confederation that the Continental Congress had no intention for the First Amendment of the second Constitution to create a "wall of separation" between God and His new government for the colonies.
At the age when our nation was founded, the population of the 13 colonies was about 99% protestant Christian. This country was founded by Christians who were (through prayer) working out a fair way that Christians could establish a government body for them to govern themselves under the guiding light and principles of Almighty God.
At the time that these things were being done, there were no atheists to speak of in the colonies, and there was no consideration whatsoever given to what atheists might think about the document. The Constitution of the United States of America is a document created by Christians for Christians as means of governing the body of their several Christian communities. It is a Christian document.
If you are not a Christian, you are not an American -- you have no part and parcel in what we are doing here and your opinion on the various phrases of the Constitution is meaningless. It is not your document -- it is our document.
Our founding documents say that America is a Christian nation and that no non-christian can be an American.
America is a nation created by Christians for Christians and there was never any intention for any non-christians to come and get involved in what we are doing here. If you are not a Christian, if you do not believe in God, if you do not want to have a country that operates under the guidance and protection of God, we would appreciate it if you would go someplace and start your own country and stop trying to interfere with ours. 😎👍🇺🇸 ✝️
Author: Matthew Rae Loutner
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@Dizzifying1 Actually ... most of our founders were Christians and the tiny handful who claimed to be deists at various times in their lives also claimed active Christianity:
The United States of America was founded to be a Christian nation and is still, according to our founding documents, a Christian nation.
The Declaration of Independence says this:
"We believe that all men are created . . . "
Who believes that?
Americans believe it.
So you can substitute the word "Americans" for the word "we" like this:
"Americans (we) believe that all men are created . . . "
So you can see from our founding documents that all Americans believe in a Creator -- and anyone who does not believe in a Creator is not an American.
So by definition of this clause, as given in the Declaration of Independence, no atheist, Buddhist, Hindu, spiritist, animist, satanist, or humanist can be an American. The Declaration of Independence states specifically that you have to believe in a CREATOR GOD in order to be an American.
Americans do not believe in the theory of evolution -- anyone who believes in the theory of evolution is NOT an American. As clearly stated in the Declaration of Independence, Americans believe that "God created."
This example is from the Declaration of Independence. But there are many additional founding documents that tighten this concept up to be that only Christians can be Americans -- that is what our founding documents say.
Our National Song and National Motto:
Our national motto, "In God Is Our Trust" was penned by Francis Scott Key in the year 1814. It occurs in the fourth stanza of our national anthem: The Star Spangled Banner.
If you are not putting your trust in God, DO NOT sing our national anthem -- it was not written for you. If you cannot sing "in God is our trust" with sincerity, do not sing it at all.
Our national motto was added to the two-cent coin in 1864 as "In God We Trust." Since then it has been added to all of our currency. This serves as a daily reminder that all Americans put their trust in God.
In addition to containing our National Motto, our National Anthem contains this phrase:
"O thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war's desolation.
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the Heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!"
So you can see that Americans believe that:
● Heaven rescued our land (War of 1812)
● God made our nation and continually preserves our nation.
● It is incumbent upon Americans to praise God for making and protecting us.
Pledge of Allegiance:
Here in the United States of America we have a national pledge that we recite that affirms our faith and allegiance to our basic founding principles: our freedom and liberty for all. This is the pledge:
""I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
The original framework was penned by Francis Bellamy in 1892.
In 1923, the words, "the Flag of the United States of America" were added.
Then in 1954 the United States Congress added the phrase "under God" to bring the Pledge of Allegiance in line with what we believe as Americans.
Our Pledge of Allegiance declares that the United States of America is a nation that operates under the guidance and protection of Almighty God. If you do not believe that, DO NOT recite our Pledge of Allegiance. You should not recite pledges with insincerity.
Over the years, some people have tried to say that the First Amendment to the Constitution creates a "wall of separation between church and state . . . . It doesn't. This is a misinterpretation of what is called "the establishment clause" which says, "Congress shall make no law regarding an establishment of religion."
These errant people mistakenly read the clause as saying, "Congress shall not establish a religion."
The clause does not say that and to falsely interpret it that way is wrong. The easy way to conceptualize what the clause is saying is to substitute an easier word for "establishment of religion." What is an establishment of religion?
An establishment of religion would be for example, a church, or a synagogue, or a mosque. So to make the meaning clear, you could say:
Congress shall make no law regarding a church.
Congress shall make no law regarding a synagogue.
Congress shall make no law regarding a mosque.
So you can see through substitution that the purpose of the establishment clause is not to create a "wall of separation between church and state," but to prevent the government from meddling in church affairs. Perhaps Thomas Jefferson said it best when he said:
"I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This results not only from the provision that no law shall be made respecting the establishment or free exercise of religion, but from that also which reserves to the states the powers not delegated to the United States. Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise or to assume authority in religious discipline has been delegated to the General Government. It must then rest with the states, as far as it can be in any human authority."
And the followup clause [or prohibiting the free exercise thereof] makes it clear that the government cannot inhibit or prohibit the free exercise of "an establishment of religion" and cannot prevent exercise of public faith, personal prayer, or the spreading of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, any place, any time, including on public property.
(With the obvious exception that order must be maintained in society.)
Articles of Confederation
Many people are not aware that the Constitution that we currently use is actually the SECOND constitution of the United States and that there is a previous one. It is called The Articles of Confederation.
What is telling about the Articles of Confederation is that they happen to speak of America's institutional faith in God. The Articles of Confederation contain this phrase:
"And Whereas it hath pleased the Great Governor of the World to incline the hearts of the legislatures we respectively represent in congress, to approve of, and to authorize us to ratify the said articles of confederation . . . "
So we can understand from this phrase that it was the belief of the Continental Congress that God had "inclined the hearts" of the government legislatures of the 13 colonies to come together and create a new country. Forming our nation was no accident -- God told them to do it. That is what our founding documents say.
It should be obvious to anyone with a thinking brain that when God tells someone to form a new government, He would not want them forming a completely secular government where He Himself would be personally excluded.
The exact same Continental Congress who wrote our Constitution also wrote the Article of Confederation (only about a year apart). So we can see from studying the Articles of Confederation that the Continental Congress had no intention for the First Amendment of the second Constitution to create a "wall of separation" between God and His new government for the colonies.
At the age when our nation was founded, the population of the 13 colonies was about 99% protestant Christian. This country was founded by Christians who were (through prayer) working out a fair way that Christians could establish a government body for them to govern themselves under the guiding light and principles of Almighty God.
At the time that these things were being done, there were no atheists to speak of in the colonies, and there was no consideration whatsoever given to what atheists might think about the document. The Constitution of the United States of America is a document created by Christians for Christians as means of governing the body of their several Christian communities. It is a Christian document.
If you are not a Christian, you are not an American -- you have no part and parcel in what we are doing here and your opinion on the various phrases of the Constitution is meaningless. It is not your document -- it is our document.
Our founding documents say that America is a Christian nation and that no non-christian can be an American.
America is a nation created by Christians for Christians and there was never any intention for any non-christians to come and get involved in what we are doing here. If you are not a Christian, if you do not believe in God, if you do not want to have a country that operates under the guidance and protection of God, we would appreciate it if you would go someplace and start your own country and stop trying to interfere with ours. 😎👍🇺🇸 ✝️
Author: Matthew Rae Loutner
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@conrioakfield414 What do you mean telling Equipping the Saints that he does not want to live in a theocracy? We already do live in a theocracy:
The United States of America was founded to be a Christian nation and is still, according to our founding documents, a Christian nation.
The Declaration of Independence says this:
"We believe that all men are created . . . "
Who believes that?
Americans believe it.
So you can substitute the word "Americans" for the word "we" like this:
"Americans (we) believe that all men are created . . . "
So you can see from our founding documents that all Americans believe in a Creator -- and anyone who does not believe in a Creator is not an American.
So by definition of this clause, as given in the Declaration of Independence, no atheist, Buddhist, Hindu, spiritist, animist, satanist, or humanist can be an American. The Declaration of Independence states specifically that you have to believe in a CREATOR GOD in order to be an American.
Americans do not believe in the theory of evolution -- anyone who believes in the theory of evolution is NOT an American. As clearly stated in the Declaration of Independence, Americans believe that "God created."
This example is from the Declaration of Independence. But there are many additional founding documents that tighten this concept up to be that only Christians can be Americans -- that is what our founding documents say.
Our National Song and National Motto:
Our national motto, "In God Is Our Trust" was penned by Francis Scott Key in the year 1814. It occurs in the fourth stanza of our national anthem: The Star Spangled Banner.
If you are not putting your trust in God, DO NOT sing our national anthem -- it was not written for you. If you cannot sing "in God is our trust" with sincerity, do not sing it at all.
Our national motto was added to the two-cent coin in 1864 as "In God We Trust." Since then it has been added to all of our currency. This serves as a daily reminder that all Americans put their trust in God.
In addition to containing our National Motto, our National Anthem contains this phrase:
"O thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war's desolation.
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the Heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!"
So you can see that Americans believe that:
● Heaven rescued our land (War of 1812)
● God made our nation and continually preserves our nation.
● It is incumbent upon Americans to praise God for making and protecting us.
Pledge of Allegiance:
Here in the United States of America we have a national pledge that we recite that affirms our faith and allegiance to our basic founding principles: our freedom and liberty for all. This is the pledge:
""I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
The original framework was penned by Francis Bellamy in 1892.
In 1923, the words, "the Flag of the United States of America" were added.
Then in 1954 the United States Congress added the phrase "under God" to bring the Pledge of Allegiance in line with what we believe as Americans.
Our Pledge of Allegiance declares that the United States of America is a nation that operates under the guidance and protection of Almighty God. If you do not believe that, DO NOT recite our Pledge of Allegiance. You should not recite pledges with insincerity.
Over the years, some people have tried to say that the First Amendment to the Constitution creates a "wall of separation between church and state . . . . It doesn't. This is a misinterpretation of what is called "the establishment clause" which says, "Congress shall make no law regarding an establishment of religion."
These errant people mistakenly read the clause as saying, "Congress shall not establish a religion."
The clause does not say that and to falsely interpret it that way is wrong. The easy way to conceptualize what the clause is saying is to substitute an easier word for "establishment of religion." What is an establishment of religion?
An establishment of religion would be for example, a church, or a synagogue, or a mosque. So to make the meaning clear, you could say:
Congress shall make no law regarding a church.
Congress shall make no law regarding a synagogue.
Congress shall make no law regarding a mosque.
So you can see through substitution that the purpose of the establishment clause is not to create a "wall of separation between church and state," but to prevent the government from meddling in church affairs. Perhaps Thomas Jefferson said it best when he said:
"I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This results not only from the provision that no law shall be made respecting the establishment or free exercise of religion, but from that also which reserves to the states the powers not delegated to the United States. Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise or to assume authority in religious discipline has been delegated to the General Government. It must then rest with the states, as far as it can be in any human authority."
And the followup clause [or prohibiting the free exercise thereof] makes it clear that the government cannot inhibit or prohibit the free exercise of "an establishment of religion" and cannot prevent exercise of public faith, personal prayer, or the spreading of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, any place, any time, including on public property.
(With the obvious exception that order must be maintained in society.)
Articles of Confederation
Many people are not aware that the Constitution that we currently use is actually the SECOND constitution of the United States and that there is a previous one. It is called The Articles of Confederation.
What is telling about the Articles of Confederation is that they happen to speak of America's institutional faith in God. The Articles of Confederation contain this phrase:
"And Whereas it hath pleased the Great Governor of the World to incline the hearts of the legislatures we respectively represent in congress, to approve of, and to authorize us to ratify the said articles of confederation . . . "
So we can understand from this phrase that it was the belief of the Continental Congress that God had "inclined the hearts" of the government legislatures of the 13 colonies to come together and create a new country. Forming our nation was no accident -- God told them to do it. That is what our founding documents say.
It should be obvious to anyone with a thinking brain that when God tells someone to form a new government, He would not want them forming a completely secular government where He Himself would be personally excluded.
The exact same Continental Congress who wrote our Constitution also wrote the Article of Confederation (only about a year apart). So we can see from studying the Articles of Confederation that the Continental Congress had no intention for the First Amendment of the second Constitution to create a "wall of separation" between God and His new government for the colonies.
At the age when our nation was founded, the population of the 13 colonies was about 99% protestant Christian. This country was founded by Christians who were (through prayer) working out a fair way that Christians could establish a government body for them to govern themselves under the guiding light and principles of Almighty God.
At the time that these things were being done, there were no atheists to speak of in the colonies, and there was no consideration whatsoever given to what atheists might think about the document. The Constitution of the United States of America is a document created by Christians for Christians as means of governing the body of their several Christian communities. It is a Christian document.
If you are not a Christian, you are not an American -- you have no part and parcel in what we are doing here and your opinion on the various phrases of the Constitution is meaningless. It is not your document -- it is our document.
Our founding documents say that America is a Christian nation and that no non-christian can be an American.
America is a nation created by Christians for Christians and there was never any intention for any non-christians to come and get involved in what we are doing here. If you are not a Christian, if you do not believe in God, if you do not want to have a country that operates under the guidance and protection of God, we would appreciate it if you would go someplace and start your own country and stop trying to interfere with ours. 😎👍🇺🇸 ✝️
Author: Matthew Rae Loutner
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@cs0345
"A prominent member of Adams' cabinet, Secretary of War James McHenry, claimed that he protested the language of Article 11 before its ratification. He wrote to Secretary of the Treasury Oliver Wolcott, Jr., September 26, 1800: "The Senate, my good friend, and I said so at the time, ought never to have ratified the treaty alluded to, with the declaration that 'the government of the United States, is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.'
WHAT ELSE IS IT FOUNDED ON?
This act always appeared to me like trampling upon the cross. I do not recollect that Barlow was even reprimanded for this OUTRAGE UPON THE GOVERNMENT and religion."
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@equippingthesaintslivestre4886 Yes it is and I do have it "straight." I did not say the person is not "a real American" -- I said the person "is not an American at all."
The United States of America was founded to be a Christian nation and is still, according to our founding documents, a Christian nation.
The Declaration of Independence says this:
"We believe that all men are created . . . "
Who believes that?
Americans believe it.
So you can substitute the word "Americans" for the word "we" like this:
"Americans (we) believe that all men are created . . . "
So you can see from our founding documents that all Americans believe in a Creator -- and anyone who does not believe in a Creator is not an American.
So by definition of this clause, as given in the Declaration of Independence, no atheist, Buddhist, Hindu, spiritist, animist, satanist, or humanist can be an American. The Declaration of Independence states specifically that you have to believe in a CREATOR GOD in order to be an American.
Americans do not believe in the theory of evolution -- anyone who believes in the theory of evolution is NOT an American. As clearly stated in the Declaration of Independence, Americans believe that "God created."
This example is from the Declaration of Independence. But there are many additional founding documents that tighten this concept up to be that only Christians can be Americans -- that is what our founding documents say.
Our National Song and National Motto:
Our national motto, "In God Is Our Trust" was penned by Francis Scott Key in the year 1814. It occurs in the fourth stanza of our national anthem: The Star Spangled Banner.
If you are not putting your trust in God, DO NOT sing our national anthem -- it was not written for you. If you cannot sing "in God is our trust" with sincerity, do not sing it at all.
Our national motto was added to the two-cent coin in 1864 as "In God We Trust." Since then it has been added to all of our currency. This serves as a daily reminder that all Americans put their trust in God.
In addition to containing our National Motto, our National Anthem contains this phrase:
"O thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war's desolation.
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the Heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!"
So you can see that Americans believe that:
● Heaven rescued our land (War of 1812)
● God made our nation and continually preserves our nation.
● It is incumbent upon Americans to praise God for making and protecting us.
Pledge of Allegiance:
Here in the United States of America we have a national pledge that we recite that affirms our faith and allegiance to our basic founding principles: our freedom and liberty for all. This is the pledge:
""I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
The original framework was penned by Francis Bellamy in 1892.
In 1923, the words, "the Flag of the United States of America" were added.
Then in 1954 the United States Congress added the phrase "under God" to bring the Pledge of Allegiance in line with what we believe as Americans.
Our Pledge of Allegiance declares that the United States of America is a nation that operates under the guidance and protection of Almighty God. If you do not believe that, DO NOT recite our Pledge of Allegiance. You should not recite pledges with insincerity.
Over the years, some people have tried to say that the First Amendment to the Constitution creates a "wall of separation between church and state . . . . It doesn't. This is a misinterpretation of what is called "the establishment clause" which says, "Congress shall make no law regarding an establishment of religion."
These errant people mistakenly read the clause as saying, "Congress shall not establish a religion."
The clause does not say that and to falsely interpret it that way is wrong. The easy way to conceptualize what the clause is saying is to substitute an easier word for "establishment of religion." What is an establishment of religion?
An establishment of religion would be for example, a church, or a synagogue, or a mosque. So to make the meaning clear, you could say:
Congress shall make no law regarding a church.
Congress shall make no law regarding a synagogue.
Congress shall make no law regarding a mosque.
So you can see through substitution that the purpose of the establishment clause is not to create a "wall of separation between church and state," but to prevent the government from meddling in church affairs. Perhaps Thomas Jefferson said it best when he said:
"I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This results not only from the provision that no law shall be made respecting the establishment or free exercise of religion, but from that also which reserves to the states the powers not delegated to the United States. Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise or to assume authority in religious discipline has been delegated to the General Government. It must then rest with the states, as far as it can be in any human authority."
And the followup clause [or prohibiting the free exercise thereof] makes it clear that the government cannot inhibit or prohibit the free exercise of "an establishment of religion" and cannot prevent exercise of public faith, personal prayer, or the spreading of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, any place, any time, including on public property.
(With the obvious exception that order must be maintained in society.)
Articles of Confederation
Many people are not aware that the Constitution that we currently use is actually the SECOND constitution of the United States and that there is a previous one. It is called The Articles of Confederation.
What is telling about the Articles of Confederation is that they happen to speak of America's institutional faith in God. The Articles of Confederation contain this phrase:
"And Whereas it hath pleased the Great Governor of the World to incline the hearts of the legislatures we respectively represent in congress, to approve of, and to authorize us to ratify the said articles of confederation . . . "
So we can understand from this phrase that it was the belief of the Continental Congress that God had "inclined the hearts" of the government legislatures of the 13 colonies to come together and create a new country. Forming our nation was no accident -- God told them to do it. That is what our founding documents say.
It should be obvious to anyone with a thinking brain that when God tells someone to form a new government, He would not want them forming a completely secular government where He Himself would be personally excluded.
The exact same Continental Congress who wrote our Constitution also wrote the Article of Confederation (only about a year apart). So we can see from studying the Articles of Confederation that the Continental Congress had no intention for the First Amendment of the second Constitution to create a "wall of separation" between God and His new government for the colonies.
At the age when our nation was founded, the population of the 13 colonies was about 99% protestant Christian. This country was founded by Christians who were (through prayer) working out a fair way that Christians could establish a government body for them to govern themselves under the guiding light and principles of Almighty God.
At the time that these things were being done, there were no atheists to speak of in the colonies, and there was no consideration whatsoever given to what atheists might think about the document. The Constitution of the United States of America is a document created by Christians for Christians as means of governing the body of their several Christian communities. It is a Christian document.
If you are not a Christian, you are not an American -- you have no part and parcel in what we are doing here and your opinion on the various phrases of the Constitution is meaningless. It is not your document -- it is our document.
Our founding documents say that America is a Christian nation and that no non-christian can be an American.
America is a nation created by Christians for Christians and there was never any intention for any non-christians to come and get involved in what we are doing here. If you are not a Christian, if you do not believe in God, if you do not want to have a country that operates under the guidance and protection of God, we would appreciate it if you would go someplace and start your own country and stop trying to interfere with ours. 😎👍🇺🇸 ✝️
Author: Matthew Rae Loutner
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@conrioakfield414 Religion is not the monster -- abuse of power is the monster.
Our revolution was to separate ourselves from the abuses of power of the British crown, such as quartering soldiers in American homes.
Obviously, you are not much of a reader or you would already know that:
"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
-- Declaration of Independence --
The colonizers did not come here to avoid religion -- they came here because they were looking for a place to practice their Christian faith without persecution and interference from the king.
This country was settled by Christians and when the United States government was created, the colonies were about 99% Christian. They had no objection whatsoever against religion and created a country that emulated the basic beliefs of the whole population. All of our previous founding documents demonstrate these facts.
The Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation ARE founding documents and In God We Trust is our national motto.
I was expecting you to disagree and come back with a bunch of lies and false arguments because you are not an American. You are just a wanabee . . . and if you understood the truth, that America is a Christian nation, you would not even be a wanabee.
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U.S. code Title 36 section 301 paragraph a:
(a) Designation.—
The composition consisting of the words and music known as the Star-Spangled Banner is the national anthem.
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@equippingthesaintslivestre4886 It is not about the Constitution stupid -- you are looking in the wrong place.
The Constitution sets up how the government is structured -- it does not define the nature of the nation as a whole. The definition of the country is found in the Declaration.
The United States of America was founded to be a Christian nation and is still, according to our founding documents, a Christian nation.
The Declaration of Independence says this:
"We believe that all men are created . . . "
Who believes that?
Americans believe it.
So you can substitute the word "Americans" for the word "we" like this:
"Americans (we) believe that all men are created . . . "
So you can see from our founding documents that all Americans believe in a Creator -- and anyone who does not believe in a Creator is not an American.
So by definition of this clause, as given in the Declaration of Independence, no atheist, Buddhist, Hindu, spiritist, animist, satanist, or humanist can be an American. The Declaration of Independence states specifically that you have to believe in a CREATOR GOD in order to be an American.
Americans do not believe in the theory of evolution -- anyone who believes in the theory of evolution is NOT an American. As clearly stated in the Declaration of Independence, Americans believe that "God created."
This example is from the Declaration of Independence. But there are many additional founding documents that tighten this concept up to be that only Christians can be Americans -- that is what our founding documents say.
Our National Song and National Motto:
Our national motto, "In God Is Our Trust" was penned by Francis Scott Key in the year 1814. It occurs in the fourth stanza of our national anthem: The Star Spangled Banner.
If you are not putting your trust in God, DO NOT sing our national anthem -- it was not written for you. If you cannot sing "in God is our trust" with sincerity, do not sing it at all.
Our national motto was added to the two-cent coin in 1864 as "In God We Trust." Since then it has been added to all of our currency. This serves as a daily reminder that all Americans put their trust in God.
In addition to containing our National Motto, our National Anthem contains this phrase:
"O thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war's desolation.
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the Heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!"
So you can see that Americans believe that:
● Heaven rescued our land (War of 1812)
● God made our nation and continually preserves our nation.
● It is incumbent upon Americans to praise God for making and protecting us.
Pledge of Allegiance:
Here in the United States of America we have a national pledge that we recite that affirms our faith and allegiance to our basic founding principles: our freedom and liberty for all. This is the pledge:
""I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
The original framework was penned by Francis Bellamy in 1892.
In 1923, the words, "the Flag of the United States of America" were added.
Then in 1954 the United States Congress added the phrase "under God" to bring the Pledge of Allegiance in line with what we believe as Americans.
Our Pledge of Allegiance declares that the United States of America is a nation that operates under the guidance and protection of Almighty God. If you do not believe that, DO NOT recite our Pledge of Allegiance. You should not recite pledges with insincerity.
Over the years, some people have tried to say that the First Amendment to the Constitution creates a "wall of separation between church and state . . . . It doesn't. This is a misinterpretation of what is called "the establishment clause" which says, "Congress shall make no law regarding an establishment of religion."
These errant people mistakenly read the clause as saying, "Congress shall not establish a religion."
The clause does not say that and to falsely interpret it that way is wrong. The easy way to conceptualize what the clause is saying is to substitute an easier word for "establishment of religion." What is an establishment of religion?
An establishment of religion would be for example, a church, or a synagogue, or a mosque. So to make the meaning clear, you could say:
Congress shall make no law regarding a church.
Congress shall make no law regarding a synagogue.
Congress shall make no law regarding a mosque.
So you can see through substitution that the purpose of the establishment clause is not to create a "wall of separation between church and state," but to prevent the government from meddling in church affairs. Perhaps Thomas Jefferson said it best when he said:
"I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This results not only from the provision that no law shall be made respecting the establishment or free exercise of religion, but from that also which reserves to the states the powers not delegated to the United States. Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise or to assume authority in religious discipline has been delegated to the General Government. It must then rest with the states, as far as it can be in any human authority."
And the followup clause [or prohibiting the free exercise thereof] makes it clear that the government cannot inhibit or prohibit the free exercise of "an establishment of religion" and cannot prevent exercise of public faith, personal prayer, or the spreading of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, any place, any time, including on public property.
(With the obvious exception that order must be maintained in society.)
Articles of Confederation
Many people are not aware that the Constitution that we currently use is actually the SECOND constitution of the United States and that there is a previous one. It is called The Articles of Confederation.
What is telling about the Articles of Confederation is that they happen to speak of America's institutional faith in God. The Articles of Confederation contain this phrase:
"And Whereas it hath pleased the Great Governor of the World to incline the hearts of the legislatures we respectively represent in congress, to approve of, and to authorize us to ratify the said articles of confederation . . . "
So we can understand from this phrase that it was the belief of the Continental Congress that God had "inclined the hearts" of the government legislatures of the 13 colonies to come together and create a new country. Forming our nation was no accident -- God told them to do it. That is what our founding documents say.
It should be obvious to anyone with a thinking brain that when God tells someone to form a new government, He would not want them forming a completely secular government where He Himself would be personally excluded.
The exact same Continental Congress who wrote our Constitution also wrote the Article of Confederation (only about a year apart). So we can see from studying the Articles of Confederation that the Continental Congress had no intention for the First Amendment of the second Constitution to create a "wall of separation" between God and His new government for the colonies.
At the age when our nation was founded, the population of the 13 colonies was about 99% protestant Christian. This country was founded by Christians who were (through prayer) working out a fair way that Christians could establish a government body for them to govern themselves under the guiding light and principles of Almighty God.
At the time that these things were being done, there were no atheists to speak of in the colonies, and there was no consideration whatsoever given to what atheists might think about the document. The Constitution of the United States of America is a document created by Christians for Christians as means of governing the body of their several Christian communities. It is a Christian document.
If you are not a Christian, you are not an American -- you have no part and parcel in what we are doing here and your opinion on the various phrases of the Constitution is meaningless. It is not your document -- it is our document
Our founding documents say that America is a Christian nation and that no non-christian can be an American.
America is a nation created by Christians for Christians and there was never any intention for any non-christians to come and get involved in what we are doing here. If you are not a Christian, if you do not believe in God, if you do not want to have a country that operates under the guidance and protection of God, we would appreciate it if you would go someplace and start your own country and stop trying to interfere with ours. 😎👍🇺🇸 ✝️
Author: Matthew Rae Loutner
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@equippingthesaintslivestre4886 You are a slow learner.
As I said before, the PROOF is in the Declaration of Independence -- NOT the Constitution.
The United States of America was founded to be a Christian nation and is still, according to our founding documents, a Christian nation.
The Declaration of Independence says this:
"We believe that all men are created . . . "
Who believes that?
Americans believe it.
So you can substitute the word "Americans" for the word "we" like this:
"Americans (we) believe that all men are created . . . "
So you can see from our founding documents that all Americans believe in a Creator -- and anyone who does not believe in a Creator is not an American.
So by definition of this clause, as given in the Declaration of Independence, no atheist, Buddhist, Hindu, spiritist, animist, satanist, or humanist can be an American. The Declaration of Independence states specifically that you have to believe in a CREATOR GOD in order to be an American.
Americans do not believe in the theory of evolution -- anyone who believes in the theory of evolution is NOT an American. As clearly stated in the Declaration of Independence, Americans believe that "God created."
This example is from the Declaration of Independence. But there are many additional founding documents that tighten this concept up to be that only Christians can be Americans -- that is what our founding documents say.
Our National Song and National Motto:
Our national motto, "In God Is Our Trust" was penned by Francis Scott Key in the year 1814. It occurs in the fourth stanza of our national anthem: The Star Spangled Banner.
If you are not putting your trust in God, DO NOT sing our national anthem -- it was not written for you. If you cannot sing "in God is our trust" with sincerity, do not sing it at all.
Our national motto was added to the two-cent coin in 1864 as "In God We Trust." Since then it has been added to all of our currency. This serves as a daily reminder that all Americans put their trust in God.
In addition to containing our National Motto, our National Anthem contains this phrase:
"O thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war's desolation.
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the Heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!"
So you can see that Americans believe that:
● Heaven rescued our land (War of 1812)
● God made our nation and continually preserves our nation.
● It is incumbent upon Americans to praise God for making and protecting us.
Pledge of Allegiance:
Here in the United States of America we have a national pledge that we recite that affirms our faith and allegiance to our basic founding principles: our freedom and liberty for all. This is the pledge:
""I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
The original framework was penned by Francis Bellamy in 1892.
In 1923, the words, "the Flag of the United States of America" were added.
Then in 1954 the United States Congress added the phrase "under God" to bring the Pledge of Allegiance in line with what we believe as Americans.
Our Pledge of Allegiance declares that the United States of America is a nation that operates under the guidance and protection of Almighty God. If you do not believe that, DO NOT recite our Pledge of Allegiance. You should not recite pledges with insincerity.
Over the years, some people have tried to say that the First Amendment to the Constitution creates a "wall of separation between church and state . . . . It doesn't. This is a misinterpretation of what is called "the establishment clause" which says, "Congress shall make no law regarding an establishment of religion."
These errant people mistakenly read the clause as saying, "Congress shall not establish a religion."
The clause does not say that and to falsely interpret it that way is wrong. The easy way to conceptualize what the clause is saying is to substitute an easier word for "establishment of religion." What is an establishment of religion?
An establishment of religion would be for example, a church, or a synagogue, or a mosque. So to make the meaning clear, you could say:
Congress shall make no law regarding a church.
Congress shall make no law regarding a synagogue.
Congress shall make no law regarding a mosque.
So you can see through substitution that the purpose of the establishment clause is not to create a "wall of separation between church and state," but to prevent the government from meddling in church affairs. Perhaps Thomas Jefferson said it best when he said:
"I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This results not only from the provision that no law shall be made respecting the establishment or free exercise of religion, but from that also which reserves to the states the powers not delegated to the United States. Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise or to assume authority in religious discipline has been delegated to the General Government. It must then rest with the states, as far as it can be in any human authority."
And the followup clause [or prohibiting the free exercise thereof] makes it clear that the government cannot inhibit or prohibit the free exercise of "an establishment of religion" and cannot prevent exercise of public faith, personal prayer, or the spreading of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, any place, any time, including on public property.
(With the obvious exception that order must be maintained in society.)
Articles of Confederation
Many people are not aware that the Constitution that we currently use is actually the SECOND constitution of the United States and that there is a previous one. It is called The Articles of Confederation.
What is telling about the Articles of Confederation is that they happen to speak of America's institutional faith in God. The Articles of Confederation contain this phrase:
"And Whereas it hath pleased the Great Governor of the World to incline the hearts of the legislatures we respectively represent in congress, to approve of, and to authorize us to ratify the said articles of confederation . . . "
So we can understand from this phrase that it was the belief of the Continental Congress that God had "inclined the hearts" of the government legislatures of the 13 colonies to come together and create a new country. Forming our nation was no accident -- God told them to do it. That is what our founding documents say.
It should be obvious to anyone with a thinking brain that when God tells someone to form a new government, He would not want them forming a completely secular government where He Himself would be personally excluded.
The exact same Continental Congress who wrote our Constitution also wrote the Article of Confederation (only about a year apart). So we can see from studying the Articles of Confederation that the Continental Congress had no intention for the First Amendment of the second Constitution to create a "wall of separation" between God and His new government for the colonies.
At the age when our nation was founded, the population of the 13 colonies was about 99% protestant Christian. This country was founded by Christians who were (through prayer) working out a fair way that Christians could establish a government body for them to govern themselves under the guiding light and principles of Almighty God.
At the time that these things were being done, there were no atheists to speak of in the colonies, and there was no consideration whatsoever given to what atheists might think about the document. The Constitution of the United States of America is a document created by Christians for Christians as means of governing the body of their several Christian communities. It is a Christian document.
If you are not a Christian, you are not an American -- you have no part and parcel in what we are doing here and your opinion on the various phrases of the Constitution is meaningless. It is not your document -- it is our document
Our founding documents say that America is a Christian nation and that no non-christian can be an American.
America is a nation created by Christians for Christians and there was never any intention for any non-christians to come and get involved in what we are doing here. If you are not a Christian, if you do not believe in God, if you do not want to have a country that operates under the guidance and protection of God, we would appreciate it if you would go someplace and start your own country and stop trying to interfere with ours. 😎👍🇺🇸 ✝️
Author: Matthew Rae Loutner
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“Now it shall come to pass, when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the Lord your God drives you, and you return to the Lord your God and obey His voice, according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart and with all your soul, that the Lord your God will bring you back from captivity, and have compassion on you, and gather you again from all the nations where the Lord your God has scattered you. If any of you are driven out to the farthest parts under heaven, from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there He will bring you. Then the Lord your God will bring you to the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it.”
Deuteronomy 30
“But you, Israel, are My servant,
Jacob whom I have chosen,
The descendants of Abraham My friend.
You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth,
And called from its farthest regions,
And said to you,
‘You are My servant,
I have chosen you and have not cast you away:
Fear not, for I am with you;
Be not dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you,
Yes, I will help you,
I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.’
Isaiah 41:8
“Fear not, for I am with you;
I will bring your descendants from the east,
And gather you from the west;
I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’
And to the south, ‘Do not keep them back!’
Bring My sons from afar,
And My daughters from the ends of the earth— “
Isaiah 43:5
“For there shall be a day
When the watchmen will cry on Mount Ephraim,
‘Arise, and let us go up to
ZION
To the Lord our God.’ ”
For thus says the Lord:
“Sing with gladness for Jacob,
And shout among the chief of the nations;
Proclaim, give praise, and say,
‘O Lord, save Your people,
The remnant of Israel!’
Behold, I will bring them from the north country,
And gather them from the ends of the earth,
Among them the blind and the lame,
The woman with child
And the one who labors with child, together;
A great throng shall return there.
They shall come with weeping,
And with supplications I will lead them.
I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters.”
Jeremiah 31:6
“Hear the word of the Lord, O nations,
And declare it in the isles afar off, and say,
‘He who scattered Israel will gather him,
And keep him as a shepherd does his flock.’
For the Lord has redeemed Jacob,
And ransomed him from the hand of one stronger than he.
Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of ZION.”
Jeremiah 31:10
Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah— 32 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, [h]though I was a husband to them, says the Lord. 33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their [i]hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.”
Jeremiah 31:31
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@Zen-x94x There was no official name Palestine until 132 ad when the Roman Emperor Hadrian renamed the area to Palestine. Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea.
"And it came to pass in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. 2 This census first took place while Quirinius was governing Syria. 3 So all went to be registered, everyone to his own city.
4 Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, 5 to be registered with Mary, his betrothed wife, who was with child. 6 So it was, that while they were there, the days were completed for her to be delivered. 7 And she brought forth her firstborn Son, and wrapped Him in swaddling cloths, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn."
Luke chapter 2
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@rebonditude5832 Russia has the most ICBMs in the world and keeps building. The question is "why?"
Historically, Russia has always been empire building. Russia was originally, one city, and through their conquests is now the largest country in the world.
Russia has a communist ideological background, which says that all capitalists must be destroyed. There are still some communists in Russia, who hold that idea, and we do not know how many or what positions they hold.
The CIA is concerned, and they know things that I don't.
Russia is a poor country jealous of Europe's wealth. That could be a motivation to try to take it by force.
The Soviet Union has a long history of claiming they will take over the United States, both by subterfuge, and by military force. One Soviet leader said that Russia has plans to strike every US base in the world with nukes all at the same time, to eliminate the United States.
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@rebonditude5832
United States Congressional Record--Appendix, pp. A34-A35 January 10, 1963
EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, January 10, 1963
Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America.
At Mrs. Nordman's request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following "Current Communist Goals," which she identifies as an excerpt from "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen:
From "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen
CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament by the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use "united force" to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems]. Give the World Court jurisdiction over nations and individuals alike.
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@marcilk7534 You can contact any hospital you were born at and they will make a birth certificate and send it to you.
You can also get them from county and state health departments.
If you are adopted you can use adoption papers.
Does not matter anyway, people over 80 get retirement checks, medicare, and medicaid, and low-income housing. You cannot get any of that stuff without proving you are a U.S. citizen. If they have ever held a job or left the country, they have an ID. Not to mention needing ID to pick up prescriptions, check into a hospital, cash a check, withdrawal money from a bank, buy a house or a vehicle, make a will . . .
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@marcilk7534 People who are here working here illegally are not qualified to vote and are not a part of this discussion.
ID proves that you are you. It is required to show a picture ID to prove who you are -- THAT IS A REQUIREMENT TO RECEIVE ANY GOVERNMENT BENEFITS. It is called your "primary ID."
Normally, they will accept:
Driver's license
State-issued ID
U.S. Passport
Then you have to prove state of residence and you can use a utility bill or car insurance for that. It is called "secondary ID."
In order to get a job, you HAVE TO HAVE A SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER and fill in a W-4 form so they can deduct Social Security from your paycheck. And you have to show your Social Security card and your ID to the employer and they make a photocopy of it and it is kept in your personnel file.
If you are an alien with a green card, you have to show your green card and your ID.
You cannot even get a Social Security number and card without proving you are you and the government keeps a copy of it in your permanent file.
NOBODY without ID is collecting retirement from their employer -- you have to show ID in order to get the job.
Further, you are wrong about hospitals -- I have gotten my birth certificate from my hospital more than once.
This is the requirements from the Social Security website for getting a Social Security card:
"Evidence of Age:
In general, you must provide your birth certificate. In some situations, we may accept another document that shows your age. Some of the other documents we may accept are:
● U.S. hospital record of your birth (created at the time of birth)
● Religious record established before age five showing your age or date of birth
● Passport
● Final Adoption Decree (the adoption decree must show that the birth information was taken from the original birth certificate)
Evidence of Identity:
You must provide current, unexpired evidence of identity in your legal name. Your legal name will be shown on the Social Security card. Generally, we prefer to see documents issued in the U.S. Documents you submit to establish identity must show your legal name AND provide biographical information (your date of birth, age, or parents' names) and/or physical information (photograph, or physical description - height, eye and hair color, etc.). If you send a photo identity document but do not appear in person, the document must show your biographical information (e.g., your date of birth, age, or parents' names).
Generally, documents without an expiration date should have been issued within the past two years for adults and within the past four years for children. As proof of your identity, you must provide a:
● U.S. driver's license; or
● U.S. State-issue identity card
● U.S. passport
If you do not have one of the documents above or cannot get a replacement within 10 work days, we may accept other documents that show your legal name and biographical information, such as a U.S. military identity card, Certificate of Naturalization, employee identity card, certified copy of medical record (clinic, doctor or hospital), health insurance card, Medicaid card, or school identity card/record.
For young children, we may accept medical records (clinic, doctor, or hospital) maintained by the medical provider. We may also accept a final adoption decree, or a school identity card, or other school record maintained by the school.
If you are not a U.S. citizen, we must see your current U.S. immigration document(s) and your foreign passport with biographical information or photograph.
WE CANNOT ACCEPT A BIRTH CERTIFICATE, HOSPITAL SOUVENIR BIRTH CERTIFICATE, SOCIAL SECURITY CARD STUB OR A SOCIAL SECURITY RECORD as evidence of identity.
Evidence of U.S. Citizenship:
In general, you must provide your U.S. birth certificate or U.S. Passport. Other documents you may provide are a
Consular Report of Birth,
Certificate of Citizenship
Certificate of Naturalization."
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@mersingjohor2826 You should ALREADY know what your Bible says.
“Now it shall come to pass, when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the Lord your God drives you, and you return to the Lord your God and obey His voice, according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart and with all your soul, that the Lord your God will bring you back from captivity, and have compassion on you, and gather you again from all the nations where the Lord your God has scattered you. If any of you are driven out to the farthest parts under heaven, from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there He will bring you. Then the Lord your God will bring you to the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it.”
Deuteronomy 30
“But you, Israel, are My servant,
Jacob whom I have chosen,
The descendants of Abraham My friend.
You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth,
And called from its farthest regions,
And said to you,
‘You are My servant,
I have chosen you and have not cast you away:
Fear not, for I am with you;
Be not dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you,
Yes, I will help you,
I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.’
Isaiah 41:8
“Fear not, for I am with you;
I will bring your descendants from the east,
And gather you from the west;
I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’
And to the south, ‘Do not keep them back!’
Bring My sons from afar,
And My daughters from the ends of the earth— “
Isaiah 43:5
“For there shall be a day
When the watchmen will cry on Mount Ephraim,
‘Arise, and let us go up to
ZION
To the Lord our God.’ ”
For thus says the Lord:
“Sing with gladness for Jacob,
And shout among the chief of the nations;
Proclaim, give praise, and say,
‘O Lord, save Your people,
The remnant of Israel!’
Behold, I will bring them from the north country,
And gather them from the ends of the earth,
Among them the blind and the lame,
The woman with child
And the one who labors with child, together;
A great throng shall return there.
They shall come with weeping,
And with supplications I will lead them.
I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters.”
Jeremiah 31:6
“Hear the word of the Lord, O nations,
And declare it in the isles afar off, and say,
‘He who scattered Israel will gather him,
And keep him as a shepherd does his flock.’
For the Lord has redeemed Jacob,
And ransomed him from the hand of one stronger than he.
Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of ZION.”
Jeremiah 31:10
Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah— not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the Lord. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.”
Jeremiah 31:31
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@mersingjohor2826 Can I quote anything on it from the Bible?!?
Of course I can quote it from the Bible. I would not be saying it if I could not quote it from the Bible. I am only sorry that you cannot quote it from the Bible.
“Then the Lord will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other”
Deuteronomy 28:64
“Now it shall come to pass, when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, and you [a]call them to mind among all the nations where the Lord your God drives you, and you return to the Lord your God and obey His voice, according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart and with all your soul, that the Lord your God will bring you back from captivity, and have compassion on you, and gather you again from all the nations where the Lord your God has scattered you. If any of you are driven out to the farthest parts under heaven, from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there He will bring you. Then the Lord your God will bring you to the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it.”
Deuteronomy chapter 30
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@balikislam770
"But Jesus called them to Himself and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those who are great exercise authority over them. Yet it shall not be so among you; but whoever desires to become great among you, let him be your servant. And whoever desires to be first among you, let him be your slave— just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to GIVE HIS LIFE AS A RANSOM FOR MANY.”
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And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said, “Take, eat; this is My body.”
Then He took the cup of wine, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you. For this is MY BLOOD of the new covenant, WHICH IS SHED FOR MANY FOR THE REMISSION OF SINS."
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67% of Americans are Christian
72% of Americans are other religion believing in God.
Specifically what happened is America is under attack by foreign entities:
United States Congressional Record--Appendix, pp. A34-A35 January 10, 1963
EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, January 10, 1963
Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America.
At Mrs. Nordman's request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following "Current Communist Goals," which she identifies as an excerpt from "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen:
From "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen
CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament by the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use "united force" to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems]. Give the World Court jurisdiction over nations and individuals alike.
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@peterwilliams2152 When a country has a high interest rate, consumers stop borrowing money for larger purchases, such as cars and homes.
Business people cannot borrow money to start new businesses, or expand existing businesses, or borrow their way out of a cash crunch.
A high interest rate shuts down your economy to almost zero growth, and at times, negative growth.
It takes time to come into play, as the effect ripples through the economy, but the longer the interest rate stays high, the more damage is done to the economy. At a certain point of slowing down, it becomes nearly impossible to start the economy to start back up again.
The net result of it all is tax revenues drop, and the government cannot pay its bills.
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@rusco88 Well, ha, ha, ha. The Port of Los Angeles is getting 80% of its usual traffic. China is not our only supplier. We also buy from Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Taiwan, Indonesia, Australia, India, Canada, Mexico, Europe and South America.
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@MagdiNonDuality What matters most to Jesus is that not one soul is lost. This is the last thing Jesus said before leaving Earth. Being the last thing He said, it is equal to someone giving their final wishes on their deathbed:
" And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
So then, after the Lord had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God. And they went out and PREACHED EVERYWHERE, the Lord working with them and confirming the word through the accompanying signs. Amen."
Mark chapter 16
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"The Lord is not slack concerning His promise [of returning], as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance."
II Peter 3:9
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“When the Lord your God brings you [Israelites] into the land which you go to possess, and has cast out many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you, and when the Lord your God delivers them over to you, you shall conquer them and utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them nor show mercy to them. Nor shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to their son, nor take their daughter for your son. For they will turn your sons away from following Me, to serve other gods; so the anger of the Lord will be aroused against you and destroy you suddenly.
But thus you shall deal with them: you shall destroy their altars, and break down their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden images, and burn their carved images with fire.
For you are a holy people to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has CHOSEN YOU to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth.
Deuterinomy chapter 7
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@maltekoch1632 Well again, you are completely wrong:
1. The United States has 20,000 miles of dedicated bicycle lanes and you could live here A YEAR without seeing a bicycle in one of the bicycle lanes.
2. I can show you a place the United States where a very good high quality bus line goes directly past a housing subdivision all day long and NOBODY living In that subdivision rides that bus. They drive their car.
In fact, there is one bus running along the South of that subdivision and a different bus running along the North of that subdivision and STILL nobody in that subdivision rides the bus.
And really, I can show THOUSANDS of situations where people have public transportation running directly in front of their house and they do not use it. They drive their car.
You do not understand Americans or American culture, yet you are trying to explain America to an American.
Your problem here is that you are stubborn and blockheaded, refusing to learn from somebody who is on location and knows what he is talking about. I find that most Europeans are stubborn and blockheaded like you are and think they understand America better than Americans themselves. You people argue your point with me all day long, instead of using the opportunity that is placed in front of you to learn something.
If you were smarter, you would be asking me about how American transportation systems work -- not trying to tell me.
You even questioned on how disabled people can get their groceries, as if you believe that all disabled people just starve to death in their home and then we bury them.
If you had studied all of my comments on this thread before commenting, you would have learned a lot about America.
This is your pop quiz for the day:
Name one disabled American who cannot get to their doctor's appointment, restaurant, or grocery store when they need to.
Extra Credit:
Figure out how we do that.
(And no I do not believe you.)
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@mathurex211 Not supposed to.
"And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?
11 He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but TO THEM IT IS NOT GIVEN.
12 For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.
13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; 🙈 and hearing they hear not, 🙉 neither do they understand.
14 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:
15 For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
Matthew chapter 13
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@haukesattler446 Yes. I know what I am talking about. I am a retired auto mechanic and there is no maintenance expense on a brand new car for the first 36,000 miles other than routine oil changes and tire rotations which are dirt cheap.
And considering that you are only driving the car once a year, it would take you over 10 years to put 36,000 miles on it and things started breaking down.
Considering the supreme quality of the new cars, you can likely go 50 to 60 thousand miles before needing a fan belt or water pump and those repairs are not particularly expensive.
And new tires last 50,000 miles.
I live in the United States and rental cars cost $30 per day plus 59 cents per mile (and those miles add up fast if you use it for everything like going to the store, restaurants, and various people's houses and everywhere while you are out of town on vacation).
And so what if a big car costs more?
If you are keeping a car until you die, the depreciation is meaningless. And if you only drive it once a year, you WILL still have it when you die.
Taxes on a bigger car may be marginally more expensive, but you are not going to be comfortable taking a small car on a long vacation, are you?
Also insurance is cheaper on a big car, not higher because they are safer in accidents.
And if you only drive it once a year, you can get one month insurance for that by the way.
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@haukesattler446
Apparently you failed to read the part where I said I am a retired auto mechanic (which is in my most recent comment to you).
YOU are lecturing an auto mechanic on car maintenance???
Are you joking???
As a professional, it has been my job to get old cars running that have been sitting for years. And it is also my job to advise people on routine maintenance and long-term storage. I think I know about storing cars, thank you.
And I do NOT advise practices that are "dangerous," thank you. Obviously, I know what is "dangerous" about car maintenance and you do not.
If you had been reading the thread you would know that I drive my car daily and this discussion is merely about a hypothetical question that someone asked me – it is not about a real situation. But since I am a professional, this is how you would do it:
1. Fuel: They make fuel stabilizer that you put in your gas tank that will preserve the quality of your fuel.
You can keep condensation in your fuel tank down to a minimum by filling the tank before storing it. But in reality, it is not going to have any more water vapor in the tank storing it than it would driving it because your gas cap has a seal on it and if you do not open the cap, moisture cannot enter the fuel tank. It gets in while you are fueling the vehicle.
2. Brakes: When you are ready to drive your car, you can take the wheels off and spray the brakes with a rust dissolver.
3. Moisture in Oil: You change your oil and filter once a year and plan to do it the week before your vacation.
And I will add to that: your fully warmed up internal engine temperature is 215°f. Any moisture or condensation that has built up over the winter will evaporate within 10 minutes of warming up the engine.
As far as “boiling it out regularly” . . . you do not need to do that. Your engine crankcase is a sealed unit that is not open to the atmosphere except in a few tiny places. When you shut your engine down it was 215°f inside and the only water inside was vapor and more water vapor does not readily enter because the crankcase is not open to the atmosphere.
All you need to do is change your oil in the spring.
4. Tires: What makes a tire age is called “dry rot.” Basically, the lubricants evaporate out of the rubber and the rubber dries out.
However, tire manufacturers have prepared for that and modern tires are made to be self-lubricating. A tire self-lubricates when it is flexed. All you have to do to prevent dry rot is move or flex the tire once a month and the tire will lubricate itself. You can do that by moving the car forward one foot once a month.
5. Engine and Drive Train Aging: Other than rubber tires and seals, non-moving parts do not “age prematurely.” The primary parts are made of metal and moving metal parts “age” by rubbing against each other causing “erosion.” The metal parts that rub each other STOP eroding each other when they stop rubbing each other. They do not “age” any more than a dry river bed does.
The supposed rubber parts on your engine and drive train do not dry rot like tires do because they are not really make of rubber. They are made of neoprene and other long-lasting materials that are scientifically designed to not dry out.
Your engine and drive train do NOT “age prematurely" when a car is sitting. But I do recommend to my customers that they drive their car around the block once a month just to keep some parts from sticking. I also advise them to bring the engine up to full operating temperature at the same time. That will evaporate any condensation that happens to arrive inside the oil crankcase.
And driving a car around the block once a month will exercise the tires and completely keep them from dry-rotting.
6. Interior: Rot is caused by mold. You treat that the same way you would deal with any mold issue. Keep your car interior dry and clean it with a good household disinfectant as needed.
7. Battery: A lead-acid vehicle battery only degrades when the battery is not fully charged. If you keep the battery charged all the way up at all times it will last indefinitely. They make “battery maintainers” for that. They come in both wall plug-in powered and solar powered. You have your choice.
I mean, really?
How do you think classic and antique car collectors store their cars for years and then take them out for an occasional Sunday afternoon drive?
And rich people who take long overseas vacations store their cars and then drive them when they come home?
Let me know if you have any more automotive questions. I am always happy to help people.
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@haukesattler446
In my previous post, I did not say to "park your and do nothing."
In fact, if you will check my comments, someplace up there I said that I would drive my vacation car 3 or 4 other times during the year to go other places in addition to my vacation.
When I said the tires "oil themselves," that means that the plasticizers are encapsulated and get released from flexing the tire.
You are wrong about the oil and rubber.
For starters, the "rubber" that tires are made of is not pure rubber. It is a mixture of complex compounds including rubber. Tires are mostly oil resistant and you should know that because they ride on asphalt which is a petroleum and vehicles drip various oils everywhere all over the road and splash oil on the tires and it does not ruin the tires. Immersing rubber in pure oil will over time dissolve it. But a tiny amount of oil on rubber will serve to keep it soft and pliable without any damage. And I will give you a parallel example:
Paper has a moisture content of 6% that keeps it pliable. Paper would be no good without that 6% moisture. But immersing paper in water will ruin it.
The same thing applies to rubber tires. A small amount of oil keeps them pliable. But they are not intended to be immersed in oil.
Here is a random list of plasticizers from Science Direct:
"The most common plasticizer chemical structures, polar or nonpolar, are, for example: phthalates, phosphates, carboxylic acid esters, epoxidized fatty acid esters, polymeric polyesters, modified polymers; liquid rubbers and plastics, NBR, CPE, EVA,…; paraffinic, aromatic, or naphthenic petroleum oils."
As you can see fatty acids are included which is an organic type of oil and petroleum oils are included. When these oils are mixed in the correct compounds and applied in the correct quantities they can be good to soften tires.
We do not know the precise compound that a tire manufacturer uses because it is a trade secret. But they can contain oils.
You are right that since the plasticizer may or may not contain oil, saying it oils the tire is incorrect. So I am editing my comment to reflect that.
I said that your engine crankcase has tiny holes that are exposed to the atmosphere and that comment was intended to also speak for the running gear. But I also said that it is difficult for moisture to get into those holes and the amount of moisture you would get is inconsequential. And speaking as someone who has a long history of taking apart running gear in junk yards, just trust me when I tell you that we mechanics do not find rust inside running gear of a junk yard vehicle. Probably the reason for that is there is always a microscopic film of oil that covers the entire interior surface to protect the metal from rusting (and moisture that can get in is negligible).
The microscopic film can be washed off if left out in the rain. But it really takes flushing to wash it off.
Specifically what I said is there is no maintenance cost to consider on a brand new vehicle for around the first 36,000 miles. This is true. If you were driving the car frequently, you would not be buying, fuel stabilizer, rust disolver, driving your car around the block or battery maintainers.
However you would have those costs if you left it parked as indicated:
Fuel Stabilizer $5.00
Rust Disolver $7.00
Block Driving $30.00
Battery Maintainer $5.00
Oil Change $30.00
Total $77.00
The median wage in the United States is about $67,000.
So 77 divided by 67,000 equals 0.1%
So as I said, "That is not a cost worth considering."
(Honestly . . . I cannot believe you are trying to debate car repair with an auto mechanic. 🤷♂️)
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@Flinno-k8w Are you American?
A home owner has a lot of needs for their truck. Most of them are surrounding maintaining the home. You haul mulch, lumber, drywall, sand, gravel, appliances, furniture, paint, lawnmowers and garden tillers.
And it is also used on hunting expeditions and camping in the woods and pulling camping trailers, pulling broken down vehicles, and hauling stuff for people you know who do not have a truck.
And hauling stuff related to your job.
Firewood for your backyard barbecues or your indoor fireplace.
Homeowners use their truck frequently.
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@benvandam369
The map does not tell us whether a military target was hit or a hospital was hit. Some power has been knocked out in 4 different regions. But there is no confirmed report that they have actually hit a power station.
This is the news. As I said, "You could do this with your eyes closed."
This is no different technique than Hitler bombing London:
"Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, and several other major cities have been hit in a barrage of missile attacks that hit civilian targets and killed several people, according to Ukrainian officials.
Missiles tore into Kyiv.
Explosions were also reported in Lviv, Ternopil and Zhytomyr in Ukraine’s west; Dnipro and Kremenchuk in central Ukraine; Zaporizhzhia in the south; and Kharkiv in the east.
In the capital, attacks struck in the heart of the busy city centre during the rush hour of the morning. The body of a man in jeans lay in a street at a major intersection, surrounded by flaming cars. In a park, a soldier cut through the clothes of a woman who lay in the grass to try to treat her wounds. Two other women were bleeding nearby.
A huge crater gaped next to a children’s playground in a central Kyiv park. The remains of an apparent missile were buried, smoking in the mud.
More volleys of missiles continued in the capital later in the morning as pedestrians huddled for shelter at the entrance of metro stations and inside parking garages.
“They are trying to destroy us and wipe us off the face of the earth,” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on the Telegram messaging app. “The air raid sirens do not subside throughout Ukraine. There are missiles hitting. Unfortunately, there are dead and wounded.”
“There’s no doubt here in Kyiv that this is Putin’s revenge for the Crimea bridge, and he’s taking it out on some of the softest targets there are, which are civilians”.
-- Al Jazeera --
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@srivani991 The head of Iraq had previously gassed to death thousands of his own citizens, and was blocking U.N inspectors from doing their nuclear inspections.THE WORLD gave Saddam Hussein an opportunity to step down or we would come step him down. He refused to step down. So we went in and stepped him down and set up a democratic government for the Iraqi people. None of it had anything to do with oil. It was about a tyrant and nuclear proliferation.
After the war ended we stayed in Iraq and rebuilt, building schools, hospitals, educating women, rebuilding the damaged infrastructure and the banking/financial system.
Do not be misled into believing this was an American operation. It was voted on by both the United Nations and NATO and 46 nations were actively involved in the operation in some way including Russia and China. Nuclear proliferation is a world concern.
In 2001 a Muslim terrorist group called Al Queda flew two jet airliners into the World Trade Center and one into the Pentagon building. A fourth jet airliner was headed for the Whitehouse. But the good citizens on board overcame the terrorists and bought the plane down in a farmers field. No one survived.. The United States government traced the gang leader to a hideaway training camp deep in the mountains of Afghanistan. The Afghan government was told that we want Osama Bin Laden. Either give him up or we will come get him. The Taliban refused to give him up. So we kept our word and went in and got him.
After the capture of Bin Laden, the United States went in and set up a democratic government for the Afghan people and spent 20 years building roads, schools, hospitals, educating women, and setting up a banking and financial system for them.
This terror attack on the United States was the terror attack that brought the WHOLE WORLD together as one people in a War Against All Terrorism World-wide.
In both cases the governments were given an alternative to avoid war in their country. In both cases they refused.
In both cases the Muslim terrorists running those countries were threats to the entire world.
Now what does any of this have to do with oil???
You realize that you throwing out the names of 2 countries and saying "these countries got destroyed" without context of what happened is stupid and meaningless . . Right?
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"The United States announced Monday it will send nearly $64 million in humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, a day after the United Nations issued an emergency call for $600 million to prevent famine and a public health crisis.
The U.S. was spending an estimated $300 million a day on the war in Afghanistan before its military withdrawal in recent weeks.
The Biden administration has yet to officially recognize the Taliban as Afghanistan's government since the militant group swiftly took power following the U.S. exit.
The funding will come from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the U.S. State Department and will be distributed through the U.N. and independent aid groups. The latest donation brings U.S. humanitarian spending in Afghanistan to $330 million this year, making it the largest foreign donor, USAID said.
In addition to these funds, USAID has also created a Disaster Assistance Response Team based outside Afghanistan to run the U.S. government's response to the unfolding humanitarian crisis, the release said.
As part of today's announcement of aid, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged Afghanistan's neighbors to keep their borders open to Afghan refugees and promised to work to ensure that the Taliban does not hinder humanitarian assistance, especially to vulnerable groups like women and girls.
"We will continue to press for the Taliban to respect the rights and freedoms of women and girls, and are committed to preserving the gains Afghans, especially women, have made in the past 20 years," Blinken said in a statement on Monday.
This announcement comes after the U.N. reported last week that millions in Afghanistan was beginning to run out of basic aid supplies and food."
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@@kmkmk7887
"Immediately AFTER THE TRIBULATION of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. THEN the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And He will send His angels WITH A GREAT SOUND OF A TRUMPET, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other."
Matthew 24:30
"If anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘There!’ do not believe it.
For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. See, I have told you beforehand.
“Therefore if they say to you, ‘Look, He is in the desert!’ do not go out; or ‘Look, He is in the inner rooms!’ do not believe it.
For AS THE LIGHTNING FLASHES from the east and shines to the west, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be."
Matthew 24:27
"To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
Behold, HE IS COMING WITH THE CLOUDS AND EVERY EYE WILL SEE Him, even they who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. Even so, Amen."
Revelation 1:6
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@crunchyfrog555
"Then as He went out of the temple, one of His disciples said to Him, “Teacher, see what manner of stones and what buildings are here!”
2 And Jesus answered and said to him, “Do you see these great buildings? Not one stone shall be left upon another, that shall not be thrown down.”
Mark 13:1
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They will put you out of the synagogues; yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers God service.
John 16:2
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But know this, that in the last days [a]perilous times will come: 2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 unloving, [b]unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, 4 traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power.
II Timothy 3:1
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Then the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, so that the way of the kings from the east might be prepared.
Revelation 16:2
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@crunchyfrog555
But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: 2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, 4 traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power.
II Timothy 3:1
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@DC-qn4wz Yes. I know that. Living paycheck to paycheck is fine.
I have lived paycheck to paycheck all of my life and so have all of my family members -- grandfather -- grandmother -- everybody. Never had a problem living paycheck to paycheck. So what is your complaint about that??
If you have all of your food and shelter living paycheck to paycheck what more do you need?
Almost every person in the world lives paycheck to paycheck. It is normal.
You are just throwing out phrases with no rationality.
What do you have to say about the other 50% of Americans?
The 180 million RICH Americans who do not live paycheck to paycheck. Does any other country have that percentage of rich people?
And I will tell you something:
A person can become a millionaire living paycheck to paycheck. All you have to do is buy a house and live in it. You make your house payment every month and when your loan pays out in 30 years, you own that house free and clear at a value of $250,000. Then when your house is paid out, you start investing the extra money in stocks and bonds. You will die as a millionaire. 70% of Americans own their own home and are doing that plan. Home ownership is a great wealth and equity builder.
The poverty level of each country is set by each country's government. They are not universally the same. The United States is the richest country in the world. So the poverty level here is very high and people living at the poverty level live a perfectly normal life.
Living at the official United States government poverty level, one can pay for a one-bedroom apartment with internet, a couple of smart phones, your own car, plenty of food, eating out at restaurant a couple of times a week, a closet full of new clothes, a vacation every year, go visit your family on the weekends, and buy Christmas presents for your friends and family. You can also graduate from college and get a higher paying job while living at poverty level. So there is opportunity for upwards mobility.
That is poverty-level living in the United States. I recommend that you go by life experience level and do not be misled by numbers and statistics.
Now I will tell you something about these statistics:
They only reflect income. They do not include resources that you own. You can have a million dollars in stocks and bonds and living like a king paying your expenses from the sale of your stocks, but your monthly income is $1200 a month and your income will qualify you as living in poverty.
A lot of retired people living in the United States have their house paid out, their car is paid for and money in the bank, but are receiving their monthly retirement check. So they may be living on their retirement check of $1350 but sitting on a house worth $250,000. They could have a net worth of $450,000, but are counted in the statistics as poverty level.
Not including resources is kind of an odd way of counting isn't it?
Also teenagers living at home with their family and working part time are counted as poverty level.
And college students who are living on government grants and loans to go to school but working part time are counted as living at poverty level.
Wives working part time while their husbands are working full time are counted as poverty level.
Now about homeless people:
The population of the United States is about 360 million. Yet there are only 187,000 actual homeless people who live outdoors. That is a phenomenal number for an industrial nation the size of the United States and is one of the lowest homeless rates in the world.
Thanks for the info and God Bless America. 😎👍🇺🇸 ✝️
(I would not live any place else.)
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@michaeltravers8420 My opinion is that (not for the first time) her "facts" are actually errors. She claimed that it was the Romans who killed the Jesus and that is a MAJOR historical error:
19 So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. 2 And the soldiers twisted a crown of thorns and put it on His head, and they put on Him a purple robe. 3 [a]Then they said, “Hail, King of the Jews!” And they struck Him with their hands.
4 Pilate then went out again, and said to them, “Behold, I am bringing Him out to you, that you may know that I find no fault in Him.”
Pilate’s Decision
5 Then Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. And Pilate said to them, “Behold the Man!”
6 Therefore, when the chief priests and officers saw Him, they cried out, saying, “Crucify Him, crucify Him!”
Pilate said to them, “You take Him and crucify Him, for I find no fault in Him.”
7 The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and according to [b]our law He ought to die, because He made Himself the Son of God.”
8 Therefore, when Pilate heard that saying, he was the more afraid, 9 and went again into the Praetorium, and said to Jesus, “Where are You from?” But Jesus gave him no answer.
10 Then Pilate said to Him, “Are You not speaking to me? Do You not know that I have [c]power to crucify You, and power to release You?”
11 Jesus answered, “You could have no power at all against Me unless it had been given you from above. Therefore the one who delivered Me to you has the greater sin.”
12 From then on Pilate sought to release Him, but the Jews cried out, saying, “If you let this Man go, you are not Caesar’s friend. Whoever makes himself a king speaks against Caesar.”
13 When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Jesus out and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called The Pavement, but in Hebrew, Gabbatha. 14 Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, and about the sixth hour. And he said to the Jews, “Behold your King!”
15 But they cried out, “Away with Him, away with Him! Crucify Him!”
Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?”
The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar!”
16 Then he delivered Him to them to be crucified. Then they took Jesus [d]and led Him away
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@yunko9369
"In 1843, the British, under Captain Lord George Paulet, occupied the Hawaiian Islands for five months because of a land dispute involving a Briton, Richard Charlton. Hawaiian sovereignty was restored by Rear Admiral Richard Thomas five months later, who renounced the actions of Charlton and Paulet. In 1849, the French arrived in Honolulu with ten demands for the monarchy, including an end to continued persecution of Catholics and high tariffs on French goods. When these demands were not met in a timely fashion, the French invaded Honolulu and captured the city. They left one month later, after raiding government buildings and other property in Honolulu.
In the face of increasing European interest in the islands, Kamehameha III decided to solicit protection from the United States. On March 10, 1851, the King formally applied to the United States Congress to become a protectorate of the United States. Hawaii did not become a protectorate of the United States in 1851, but the seeds were sown for the relationship of dependence that would color the remaining years of the Hawaiian monarchy."
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@JawboneDonky
Those are good quotes, but somewhat incorrect:
In the first century, southern Isreal was called Jewdea, and Northern Israel was called Samaria.
Then, after the Jewish revolt of 132 ad, the Roman Empire officially renamed Israel to Syria-Palestina, and it remained that way for a couple of hundred years.
After that, the Ottoman Turkish maps have it labeled as just Syria.
But the British maps of the 19th century have it labeled as just Palestine.
The Brits named it Palestine. However, it was a nearly uninhabited patch of desertland and swampland in the 19th century. The total population was under 500,00 and it was never considered a state -- only a region.
The current Arabs who are trying to call themselves "Palestinians" are, in reality Arab immigrants (colonizers) from Arabia.
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@stefanl5183 Let us try using our brains okay?
Do you have one?
The United States is the world's largest oil producer.
The United States can produce enough natural gas to supply both America and Europe at the same time.
The United States has massive coal, copper, and mineral mines.
The United States grows all of their own wheat and supplies China.
The United States grows all of their own corn and supplies China.
The United States grows all of their own soybeans and supplies China.
The United States grows all of their own beef, chicken, and pork and supplies China.
The United States grows all of their own milk, cheese, honey, wine, nuts, and all fruits and vegetables, including tropical fruits in Hawaii.
The United States manufactures their own cars and trucks, including electric vehicles.
The United States has a massive timber industry for building houses and a massive steel industry for building skyscrapers.
The United States is the world's technology leader who invented airplanes, solar panels, computers, cell phones, and the internet.
The United States has clean air, clean water, and boundless electricity.
The United States is the richest country in the world.
The United States even has hollywood.
The United States has everything and is fully self-sufficient.
Russia is a very poor backward country 5000 miles away from the United States speaking a foreign language with a foreign culture on another continent on the opposite side of the planet.
So while I am watching the movie, you think really, really hard and tell me one thing that Russia has that would interest the Americans.
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@sirknightvision9006 Well those days are over and Israel has turned back to HaShem, and HaShem is rebuilding Jerusalem. Don't you even study the prophecies?
The prophecies say that when a person repents, HaShem will forgive them and start blessing them (which should be expected).
30 “Now it shall come to pass, when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the Lord your God drives you, and you return to the Lord your God and obey His voice, according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart and with all your soul, that the Lord your God will bring you back from captivity, and have compassion on you, and gather you again from all the nations where the Lord your God has scattered you. If any of you are driven out to the farthest parts under heaven, from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there He will bring you. Then the Lord your God will bring you to the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it. He will prosper you and multiply you more than your fathers. And the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live."
-- Prophet Moses --
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@sirknightvision9006 Your passage is true. But it expired 2800 years ago. It no longer applies. This passage applies now:
30 “Now it shall come to pass, when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the Lord your God drives you, and you return to the Lord your God and obey His voice, according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart and with all your soul, that the Lord your God will bring you back from captivity, and have compassion on you, and gather you again from all the nations where the Lord your God has scattered you. If any of you are driven out to the farthest parts under heaven, from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there He will bring you. Then the Lord your God will bring you to the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it."
Deuteronomy 30
People can change from year to year. So try to catch up.
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@sirknightvision9006
"For there shall be a day
When the watchmen will cry on Mount Ephraim,
‘Arise, and let us go up to ZION, to the Lord our God.’ ”
For thus says the Lord:
“Sing with gladness for Jacob [Israel]
And shout among the chief of the nations [United Nations],
Proclaim, give praise, and say,
‘O Lord, save Your people,
The remnant of Israel!’
Behold, I will bring them from the north country [Europe] and gather them from the ends of the earth.
“Hear the word of the Lord, O nations,
And declare it in the isles afar off, and say,
‘He who scattered Israel will gather him,
And keep him as a shepherd does his flock.’
For the Lord has redeemed Jacob [Israel]
And ransomed him from the hand of one stronger than he.
Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of ZION.
Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a NEW COVENANT with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah—
But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord. For I WILL FORGIVE THEIR INIQUITY and their sin I will remember no more.”
Jeremiah 30
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@JG0315 Smart phone.
If your first comment was about the Leave it to Beaver show, I lived that kind of life when I was a teenager. My parents owned a television and I watched those shows when I got home from high school every day.
Leave it to Beaver, The Partridge Family, Mayberry RFD . . . they were all just like my life in America and the world around me. When I was in high school, people were generally nice, crime was low, there were no mass shootings, there were no riots, there was no political strife, drugs only existed in far away places like New York and San Francisco . . . it was a peaceful time of backyard barbecues, music on the radio, attending school sports, going swimming on the weekends and church on Sunday, and we were all optimistic about the future.
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@miaj94 Well it is not easy to answer you when you propose a completely fake question. Let us start with this:
The Israeli nation is a theocracy and, as such, their law has civil law and religious law blended together -- not separated out like we are used to.
In order to meet those particular needs, the Law of Moses was given to the Jews and only to the Jews. The Law of Moses, including the Ten Commandments, applies to Jews only and it does not and never has been binding upon the gentiles.
Therefore, the command in the Law of Moses to "remember the Sabbath Day and keep it holy" applies to Jews -- it does not and never has applied to any non-jews.
This exact question was brought up to the apostles in the early church when a large number of Greeks began to be saved and join the church:
"Do the gentile Christians have to be circumcised and learn and follow all of the jewish laws, feast days, and customs?"
The Jews in the church at Antioch contended that the gentile converts had to be circumcised and keep the whole Law of Moses. But the apostles wrote a letter to the Antioch church and told them that the gentile converts do not have to "be circumcised and keep the Law of Moses" This is the Bible verse:
"23 The apostles, the elders, and the brethren,
To the brethren who are of the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia:
Greetings.
24 Since we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, “You must be circumcised and keep the law”—to whom we gave no such commandment—
Acts 15:23,24
You can read the rest of their answer in chapter 15.
So you can see from the Bible that gentiles did not keep the Sabbath before the death of Christ and they are not required to keep the Sabbath after the death of Christ.
Jews and only Jews have ever kept the Sabbath. So the bottom line is:
If you are a Jew or a Jewish convert and have been circumcised in the flesh, you are bound to keep the entire Law of Moses, including the Sabbath.
But anyone who has not been circumcised in the flesh is not bound by the Law of Moses and is not bound to keep the JEWISH Sabbath.
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@natbarmore Well for starters if you are driving 10 over the speed limit, you are legally, ethically, and morally wrong. (and you are putting someone's life at risk.)
Secondly, if there are cars on your right driving slower than you, it would be difficult to pass you on the right.
Thirdly, highway departments frequently declare that they want a "smooth steady flow of traffic" because that is the safest. So comply with that.
Thirdly, whether other drivers have a complaint or not has nothing to do with anything.
Fourth, if other drivers are passing you, you are the slow vehicle.
What you are supposed to do is stay at or below the speed limit at all times, except when passing other vehicles.
If other cars are speeding, then that automatically makes the right lane your lane.
You get in the right lane and drive the right speed.
If someone is driving slower than you and impeding you, you pass them on the left and then move back into the right lane.
Drive sixty-drive and arrive alive.
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@nihaojxjx I mean 183 countries have made a very, very serious mistake:
Here in the United States we have a multi-party system. We have several different political parties and anybody can start one. For example, we have the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, the Reform party, the Libertarian party, the Socialist party, the Natural Law party, the Constitution party and the Green Party.
Each of these political parties represents the differing viewpoints of the people and it is through these different parties that we inform the government of what our wishes are.
If any one of these political parties took up weapons and overthrew our government and took control of our country and eliminated all of the other parties, that would be imposing their opinion on the rest of the country by force.
That kind of action would never be recognized. One political party cannot take over the country.
In China, that is what happened -- one political party with one opinion took over the country in a revolution. We do not believe in one political party forcing its opinion on all of the people of the country.
We would not recognize that -- we would fight against it and save our political system.
Now in China, there is the addition problem that the original government was never overthrown in the revolution. The original government of China was losing in the civil war and retreated to Taiwan. As long as the original government still exists, China's civil war is not ended and the issue is not settled. The original government in exile is the legitimate government of China and must be recognized as the only representative of China.
The civil war is not over and there are currently 2 governments of China competing for control: there is the PRC running the mainland and there is the ROC running the island. It is not up to the outside nations to say which government of China is the representative of China. That is an issue for the Chinese people to decide. And until the Chinese people have settled which government is going to represent them, the nations cannot recognize a new government. They have to recognize the original government that was already legitimately in place before the attempted (uncompleted) communist takeover of the country (coup de etate).
183 nations have made a very, very serious mistake. They have gotten themselves involved in China's civil war and recognized the illegitimate government that they do not agree with (communism/totalitarianism). The nations will pay dearly for that mistake.
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@bradleyaverick2191 My comment was just a reaction to your mixed up, confused conspiracy theories. But "seeking help" is easier said than done. I would not trust any human being to help you. So I can only refer you to the Holy Spirit for guidance:
“I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come."
John 16:13
"For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God."
Romans 8:14
I think that you should develop a Bible study plan that will let you read the entire Bible through from beginning to end and do not skip any verses. You can do that by starting at the beginning and studying 4 pages every day. Let the Holy Spirit guide you and not man.
Then I would like to clarify a couple of things:
1. All Christians are "born again." That is not a group or sect:
There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to Him, “Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher come from God; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him.”
Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?”
Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
John chapter 3
2. All Christians are "evangelical." That is not a group or a sect. The word evangelical means that you are prone to tell others about Jesus:
And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned."
Mark 16:15
3. Be wary of being suspicious of other people, groups, and motives and avoid conspiracy theories. Just relax and be guided by the Holy Spirit.
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@bradleyaverick2191
1. Now it shall come to pass, when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the Lord your God drives you, 2 and you return to the Lord your God and obey His voice, according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart and with all your soul, 3 that the Lord your God will bring you back from captivity, and have compassion on you, and gather you again from all the nations where the Lord your God has scattered you. 4 If any of you are driven out to the farthest parts under heaven, from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there He will bring you. 5 Then the Lord your God will bring you to the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it. He will prosper you and multiply you more than your fathers. 6 And the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.
Deuteronomy 30
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@bradleyaverick2191
1. NOW IT SHALL COME TO PASS . . .
when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, and you [a]call them to mind among all the nations where the Lord your God drives you, 2 and you return to the Lord your God and obey His voice, according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart and with all your soul, 3 that the Lord your God will bring you back from captivity, and have compassion on you, and gather you again from all the nations where the Lord your God has scattered you. 4 If any of you are driven out to the farthest parts under heaven, from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there He will bring you. 5 Then the Lord your God will bring you to the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it. He will prosper you and multiply you more than your fathers. 6 And the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live."
Deuteronomy 30
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@BellicoseNation Sorry. Christ did not say that and the Bible does not say messiah will bring back the Jews.
“Now it shall come to pass, when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the Lord your God drives you, and you return to the Lord your God and obey His voice, according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart and with all your soul, that the Lord your God will bring you back from captivity, and have compassion on you, and gather you again from all the nations where the Lord your God has scattered you. If any of you are driven out to the farthest parts under heaven, from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there He will bring you. Then the Lord your God will bring you to the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it.”
Deuteronomy 30
“But you, Israel, are My servant,
Jacob whom I have chosen,
The descendants of Abraham My friend.
You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth,
And called from its farthest regions,
And said to you,
‘You are My servant,
I have chosen you and have not cast you away:
Fear not, for I am with you;
Be not dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you,
Yes, I will help you,
I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.’
Isaiah 41:8
“Fear not, for I am with you;
I will bring your descendants from the east,
And gather you from the west;
I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’
And to the south, ‘Do not keep them back!’
Bring My sons from afar,
And My daughters from the ends of the earth— “
Isaiah 43:5
“For there shall be a day
When the watchmen will cry on Mount Ephraim,
‘Arise, and let us go up to
ZION
To the Lord our God.’ ”
For thus says the Lord:
“Sing with gladness for Jacob,
And shout among the chief of the nations;
Proclaim, give praise, and say,
‘O Lord, save Your people,
The remnant of Israel!’
Behold, I will bring them from the north country,
And gather them from the ends of the earth,
Among them the blind and the lame,
The woman with child
And the one who labors with child, together;
A great throng shall return there.
They shall come with weeping,
And with supplications I will lead them.
I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters.”
Jeremiah 31:6
“Hear the word of the Lord, O nations,
And declare it in the isles afar off, and say,
‘He who scattered Israel will gather him,
And keep him as a shepherd does his flock.’
For the Lord has redeemed Jacob,
And ransomed him from the hand of one stronger than he.
Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of ZION.”
Jeremiah 31:10
Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah— 32 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, [h]though I was a husband to them, says the Lord. 33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their [i]hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.”
Jeremiah 31:31
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In the beginning, God created Adam.
Then Adam was lonely, so God created Eve. God said to Adam, "This is your special helper."
Then God said, "A man shall leave his mother and cleave unto His wife, and the two shall be ONE FLESH."
Later Jesus said, "What GOD HAS JOINED TOGETHER, let not man put asunder."
This is the HOLY institution of marriage that was created and ordainded by God. Marriage is not a civil ceremony -- it is a religious rite.
Because marriage is a matter of religion, the state cannot marry people, the state cannot divorce people, and the state cannot pass any laws saying what a marriage is . This is not state business.
Only the church can marry people. Only the church can divorce people. Only the church can say what marriage is. And the church is required by God to say what I have recorded above. Marriage is between one man and one woman.
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@SteffanBlanco1 You sure are trying to sneak through the gate with a lot of fake information.
If they meant architect, they would have said architect.
The founding fathers were not freemasons. Each held a different belief, but most were some type of Protestant Christian. Two or three of them were pastors of Christian churches.
Creator means God and God means creator in any faith. And so what if they did use architect?
That would be a fitting term for a God who can create the whole universe and takes nothing away from His role as Judge.
And the Articles of Confederation call Him "the Supreme Judge of the Universe." So it is clear that they were talking about the Christian image of God. Now you have a Creator who is also an Architect and a Judge.
Additionally, in the state constitutions, you will find discussions of various types of Christianity employed in their state. And that makes it clear that they were meaning the Christian God.
As I have already said, the Contitution allows for variations of different opinions of who God is. And that includes Architect, Judge, Creator, Christianity or whatever.
What ties all Americans together is our fundamental belief that THERE IS A GOD who rules over mankind and rules over America and that is SIMILAR to having a theocracy.
Seeing as two thirds of Americans are Christian, that gives our theocracy a Christian flavor. But except for certain states, our founding documents do not require that.
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@SteffanBlanco1 Here is a statement from the United States government explaining the religion of the Continental Congress. This statement is in the Library of Congress website:
Religion and the Congress of the Confederation, 1774-1789
"The Continental-Confederation Congress, a legislative body that also exercised executive power, governed the United States from 1774 to 1789 and left an impressive list of accomplishments, not the least of which was winning the war with Great Britain, the greatest military power of the age. Congress, as it was always called, contained an extraordinary number of deeply religious men, some of whom -- John Dickinson, Elias Boudinot and Charles Thomson, for example -- retired from public life to write religious tracts and commentaries and publish new translations of the Bible.
The amount of energy that Congress invested in encouraging the practice of religion throughout the new nation exceeded that expended by any subsequent American national government.
Congress appointed chaplains to minister to itself and to the armed forces; it sponsored the publication of a Bible; it imposed Christian morality on the armed forces; and it granted public lands to promote Christianity among the Indians. Most conspicuous were the national days of thanksgiving and of "humiliation, fasting and prayer" that Congress proclaimed at least twice a year throughout the war. These proclamations were always accompanied by sermonettes in which Congress urged the American populace to confess and repent its sins as a way of moving God to grant national prosperity.
Scholars have recognized that Congress was guided by "covenant theology," a Reformation doctrine especially dear to New England Puritans, which held that God had bound himself in an agreement with a nation and its people, stipulating that they "should be prosperous or afflicted, according as their general Obedience or Disobedience thereto appears." Wars and revolutions were, accordingly, considered afflictions, as divine punishments for sin, from which a nation could rescue itself by repentance and reformation. Year in and year out, therefore, Congress urged its fellow citizens to repent "of their manifold sins" and strive that "pure undefiled religion, may universally prevail."
The Continental-Confederation Congress, the first national government of the United States, was convinced that the "public prosperity" of a society depended on the vitality of its religion. Nothing less than a "spirit of universal reformation among all ranks and degrees of our citizens," Congress declared to the American people on March 19, 1782, would "make us a holy, that so we may be a happy, people."
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"Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the Lord, The CREATOR of the ends of the earth, neither faints nor is weary. His understanding is unsearchable."
Isaiah 40:28
"Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, 25 who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the CREATOR, who is blessed forever. Amen."
Romans 1:24,25
"Therefore let those who suffer according to the will of God commit their souls to Him in doing good, as to a faithful CREATOR."
I Peter 4:19
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@Historicalium
"Then one was brought to Jesus who was demon-possessed, blind and mute; and He healed him, so that the blind and mute man both spoke and saw. And all the multitudes were amazed and said,
“Could this be the Son of David?”
Now when the Pharisees heard it they said, “This fellow does not cast out demons except by Beelzebub, the ruler of the demons.”
But Jesus knew their thoughts, and said to them: “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand. If Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand?
And if I cast out demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your sons cast them out?
Therefore they shall be your judges.
But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, surely the kingdom of God has come upon you."
Matthew chapter 12
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@LouisGFranco
Try commenting on this verse. It is intended to be taken literally:
"Then the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, so that the way of the kings from the east might be prepared."
Revelation 16:12
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"The Euphrates River is at risk of drying up due to climate change.
Temperatures in northeastern Syria have risen by one degree Celsius compared to 100 years ago, and average rainfall has decreased by 18 millimeters per month per century.
The Iraqi Ministry of Water Resources warns that the river could be dry by 2040.
Human impact on the environment could be driving the Euphrates, a cradle of civilization, to destruction, forcing people to leave a place they have called home for thousands of years.
Over the past decades, the flow in the Euphrates-Tigris River system has decreased to almost half of the average annual flow during dry years. The water levels in the Euphrates are currently at one of their lowest points in recorded history.
This reduction in water availability, in conjunction with population growth, has furthered water insecurity of downstream countries such as Syria.
Syrian farmers and herders are most impacted by these droughts, which leaves them in a precarious position, with many rural populations at risk of displacement. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Syria’s wheat harvest has dropped by 75 percent since conflict broke out in 2011.
Now, after more than a decade of conflict from the Syrian civil war, many farmers are struggling with harsh economic and security conditions while having to adapt to new realities caused by the changing climate.
And the people most affected by these changes rely heavily on the Euphrates for survival. In particular, water issues are impacting the agricultural sector in Syria, with farmers in Northeastern Syria losing their crops due to contaminated water and lack of irrigation.
As Katherine Bliss, director of immunizations and health systems resilience at CSIS’s Global Health Policy Center, explains, “One of the challenges that we’ve seen with respect to recurrent drought is that people are finding it necessary to either go further to find their water or to seek water from sources that have turned out to be contaminated.”
Center for Strategic & International Studies
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Washington, DC 20036
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Fax: 202-775-3199
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@theyassinez1 Jesus was NOT "Palestinian" -- He was Jewish.
In the first century AD, there was no Palestine. The land of Israel was called "Judea" after the majority Jewish population.
"You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews."
-- Jesus --
John 4:22
"For this reason we also thank God without ceasing, because when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you welcomed it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also effectively works in you who believe. For you, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God which are in JUDEA in Christ Jesus. For you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, just as they did from the JUDEANS who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they do not please God and are contrary to all men,"
I Thessalonians 2:13
"Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward Him, and said of him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”
Nathanael said to Him, “How do You know me?”
Jesus answered and said to him, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.”
Nathanael answered and said to Him, “RABBBI,
You are the Son of God!
You are the King of Israel!”
Jesus answered and said to him,
“Because I said to you, ‘I saw you under the fig tree,’ do you believe? You will see greater things than these.”
And He said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.”
John 1:47
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Bro.
That does not even begin to make sense:
When Jesus CHRIST returns He is going to be king of the whole Earth and everyone on Earth is going to be subjects in His kingdom. If everyone in God's kingdom is a follower of CHRIST, then what is logically the name they will be called?
Muslim?
No.
CHRIST (ian) ?
Obviously yes.
CHRISTian means follower of CHRIST and if everyone in the kingdom is a subject of CHRIST the King, what sense would it be for CHRISTans to change their name to Muslims??
The opposite is the case. If any Muslims are found worthy to attain to that age, they will be subjects of CHRIST the King and change their name to CHRISTian, as they will be followers of CHRIST the King.
Get it?
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"For as the lightning comes from the east and flashes to the west, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be."
-- Jesus --
Matthew 24:27
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"When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory."
-- Jesus --
Matthew 25:31
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"But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as others who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus.
For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep. For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in CHRIST will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.
Therefore comfort one another with these words."
I Thessalonians 4:13
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"And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then I saw the souls of those who had been BEHEADED FOR THEIR WITNESS OF JESUS and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with CHRIST for a thousand years. But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of CHRIST, and shall reign with Him a thousand years
Revelation 20:4
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"the time is coming that whoever kills you [CHRISTians] will think that he offers God service. And these things they will do to you because they have not known the Father nor Me.
-- Jesus --
John 16:2
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@syahrulshiddiq9733 I do not support evil and Jesus does not swear.
You are lying on both counts like a true Muslim.
"Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls filled with the seven last plagues came to me and talked with me, saying, “Come, I will show you the bride, the Lamb’s wife.” And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, having the glory of God. Her light was like a most precious stone, like a jasper stone, clear as crystal. Also she had a great and high wall with twelve gates, and twelve angels at the gates, and names written on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel: three gates on the east, three gates on the north, three gates on the south, and three gates on the west.
And they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it. But there shall by no means enter it anything that defiles [FILTHY MOUTH], or causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life."
Revelation 21
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Indian massacre of 1622:
In 1618, after the death of Powhatan, his brother Opitchapam, a lame and quiet old man, became paramount chief of the confederacy. Their youngest brother, Opechancanough, was probably the effective leader, with his friend, war-chief and advisor Nemattanew. Neither of the younger men believed that peaceful relations with the colonists could be maintained.
Perhaps in 1620–1621, Opitchapam retired or he was deposed (but possibly he died in 1630), and he was succeeded by his youngest brother. Opechancanough and Nemattanew began to develop plans for the unavoidable war. Having recovered from their defeat commanding Pamunkey warriors during the First Anglo-Powhatan War, they planned to shock the English with an attack that would leave them contained in a small trading outpost, rather than expanding throughout the area with new plantations. In the spring of 1622, after a settler murdered his adviser Nemattanew, Opechancanough launched simultaneous surprise attacks on at least 31 separate English settlements and plantations, mostly along the James River, extending as far as Henricus.
Jamestown was saved by the warning of an Indian youth living in the home of Richard Pace, one of the colonists. The youth woke Pace to warn him of the planned attack. Living across the river from Jamestown, Pace secured his family and rowed to the settlement to spread the alarm. Jamestown increased its defenses.
During the one-day surprise attack, the Powhatan tribes attacked many of the smaller communities, including Henricus and its fledgling college for children of natives and settlers alike. In the neighborhood of Martin's Hundred, 73 people were killed. More than half the population died in Wolstenholme Towne, where only two houses and a part of a church were left standing. In all, the Powhatan killed about four hundred colonists (a third of the white population) and took 20 women captive. The captives lived and worked as Powhatan Indians until they died or were ransomed. The settlers abandoned the Falling Creek Ironworks, Henricus, and Smith's Hundred.
After the attack the surviving English settlers worked on a plan of action. "By unanimous decision both the council and planters it was agreed to draw people together into fewer settlements" for better defense. The colony intended to gather men together to plan a retaliatory attack, but this was difficult. Of the survivors "two-thirds were said to have been women and children and men who were unable to work or to go against the Indians."
Opechancanough withdrew his warriors, believing that the English would behave as Native Americans would when defeated: pack up and leave, or learn their lesson and respect the power of the Powhatan. Following the event, Opechancanough told the Patawomeck, who were not part of the Confederacy and had remained neutral, that he expected "before the end of two Moones there should not be an Englishman in all their Countries." (i.e. genocide)
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Indian massacre of 1622:
"In 1618, after the death of Powhatan, his brother Opitchapam, a lame and quiet old man, became paramount chief of the confederacy. Their youngest brother, Opechancanough, was probably the effective leader, with his friend, war-chief and advisor Nemattanew. Neither of the younger men believed that peaceful relations with the colonists could be maintained.
Perhaps in 1620–1621, Opitchapam retired or he was deposed (but possibly he died in 1630), and he was succeeded by his youngest brother.
Opechancanough and Nemattanew began to develop plans for the unavoidable war. Having recovered from their defeat commanding Pamunkey warriors during the First Anglo-Powhatan War, they planned to shock the English with an attack that would leave them contained in a small trading outpost, rather than expanding throughout the area with new plantations. In the spring of 1622, after A SETTLER MURDERED HIS ADVISOR Nemattanew, Opechancanough launched simultaneous SURPRISE ATTACKS ON at least THIRTY-ONE SEPARATE ENGLISH SETTLEMENTS and plantations, mostly along the James River, extending as far as Henricus.
Jamestown was saved by the warning of an Indian youth living in the home of Richard Pace, one of the colonists. The youth woke Pace to warn him of the planned attack. Living across the river from Jamestown, Pace secured his family and rowed to the settlement to spread the alarm. Jamestown increased its defenses.
During the one-day surprise attack, the Powhatan tribes attacked many of the smaller communities, including Henricus and its fledgling college for children of natives and settlers alike. In the neighborhood of Martin's Hundred, 73 people were killed. More than half the population died in Wolstenholme Towne, where only two houses and a part of a church were left standing. In all, the Powhatan killed about four hundred colonists (a third of the white population) and took 20 women captive. The captives lived and worked as Powhatan Indians until they died or were ransomed. The settlers abandoned the Falling Creek Ironworks, Henricus, and Smith's Hundred.
After the attack the surviving English settlers worked on a plan of action. "By unanimous decision both the council and planters it was agreed to draw people together into fewer settlements" for better defense. The colony intended to gather men together to plan a retaliatory attack, but this was difficult. Of the survivors "two-thirds were said to have been women and children and men who were unable to work or to go against the Indians".
Opechancanough withdrew his warriors, believing that the English would behave as Native Americans would when defeated: pack up and leave, or learn their lesson and respect the power of the Powhatan. Following the event, Opechancanough told the Patawomeck, who were not part of the Confederacy and had remained neutral, that he expected "before the end of two Moones there should not be an Englishman in all their Countries." (i.e. genocide)
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Indian massacre of 1622:
"In 1618, after the death of Powhatan, his brother Opitchapam, a lame and quiet old man, became paramount chief of the confederacy. Their youngest brother, Opechancanough, was probably the effective leader, with his friend, war-chief and advisor Nemattanew. Neither of the younger men believed that peaceful relations with the colonists could be maintained.
Perhaps in 1620–1621, Opitchapam retired or he was deposed (but possibly he died in 1630), and he was succeeded by his youngest brother.
Opechancanough and Nemattanew began to develop plans for the unavoidable war. Having recovered from their defeat commanding Pamunkey warriors during the First Anglo-Powhatan War, they planned to shock the English with an attack that would leave them contained in a small trading outpost, rather than expanding throughout the area with new plantations. In the spring of 1622, after A SETTLER MURDERED HIS ADVISOR Nemattanew, Opechancanough launched simultaneous SURPRISE ATTACKS ON at least THIRTY-ONE SEPARATE ENGLISH SETTLEMENTS and plantations, mostly along the James River, extending as far as Henricus.
Jamestown was saved by the warning of an Indian youth living in the home of Richard Pace, one of the colonists. The youth woke Pace to warn him of the planned attack. Living across the river from Jamestown, Pace secured his family and rowed to the settlement to spread the alarm. Jamestown increased its defenses.
During the one-day surprise attack, the Powhatan tribes attacked many of the smaller communities, including Henricus and its fledgling college for children of natives and settlers alike. In the neighborhood of Martin's Hundred, 73 people were killed. More than half the population died in Wolstenholme Towne, where only two houses and a part of a church were left standing. In all, the Powhatan killed about four hundred colonists (a third of the white population) and took 20 women captive. The captives lived and worked as Powhatan Indians until they died or were ransomed. The settlers abandoned the Falling Creek Ironworks, Henricus, and Smith's Hundred.
After the attack the surviving English settlers worked on a plan of action. "By unanimous decision both the council and planters it was agreed to draw people together into fewer settlements" for better defense. The colony intended to gather men together to plan a retaliatory attack, but this was difficult. Of the survivors "two-thirds were said to have been women and children and men who were unable to work or to go against the Indians".
Opechancanough withdrew his warriors, believing that the English would behave as Native Americans would when defeated: pack up and leave, or learn their lesson and respect the power of the Powhatan. Following the event, Opechancanough told the Patawomeck, who were not part of the Confederacy and had remained neutral, that he expected "before the end of two Moones there should not be an Englishman in all their Countries." (i.e. genocide)
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Indian massacre of 1622:
"In 1618, after the death of Powhatan, his brother Opitchapam, a lame and quiet old man, became paramount chief of the confederacy. Their youngest brother, Opechancanough, was probably the effective leader, with his friend, war-chief and advisor Nemattanew. Neither of the younger men believed that peaceful relations with the colonists could be maintained.
Perhaps in 1620–1621, Opitchapam retired or he was deposed (but possibly he died in 1630), and he was succeeded by his youngest brother.
Opechancanough and Nemattanew began to develop plans for the unavoidable war. Having recovered from their defeat commanding Pamunkey warriors during the First Anglo-Powhatan War, they planned to shock the English with an attack that would leave them contained in a small trading outpost, rather than expanding throughout the area with new plantations. In the spring of 1622, after A SETTLER MURDERED HIS ADVISOR Nemattanew, Opechancanough launched simultaneous SURPRISE ATTACKS ON at least THIRTY-ONE SEPARATE ENGLISH SETTLEMENTS and plantations, mostly along the James River, extending as far as Henricus.
Jamestown was saved by the warning of an Indian youth living in the home of Richard Pace, one of the colonists. The youth woke Pace to warn him of the planned attack. Living across the river from Jamestown, Pace secured his family and rowed to the settlement to spread the alarm. Jamestown increased its defenses.
During the one-day surprise attack, the Powhatan tribes attacked many of the smaller communities, including Henricus and its fledgling college for children of natives and settlers alike. In the neighborhood of Martin's Hundred, 73 people were killed. More than half the population died in Wolstenholme Towne, where only two houses and a part of a church were left standing. In all, the Powhatan killed about four hundred colonists (a third of the white population) and took 20 women captive. The captives lived and worked as Powhatan Indians until they died or were ransomed. The settlers abandoned the Falling Creek Ironworks, Henricus, and Smith's Hundred.
After the attack the surviving English settlers worked on a plan of action. "By unanimous decision both the council and planters it was agreed to draw people together into fewer settlements" for better defense. The colony intended to gather men together to plan a retaliatory attack, but this was difficult. Of the survivors "two-thirds were said to have been women and children and men who were unable to work or to go against the Indians".
Opechancanough withdrew his warriors, believing that the English would behave as Native Americans would when defeated: pack up and leave, or learn their lesson and respect the power of the Powhatan. Following the event, Opechancanough told the Patawomeck, who were not part of the Confederacy and had remained neutral, that he expected "before the end of two Moones there should not be an Englishman in all their Countries." (i.e. genocide)
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@JT-wq9gz Education and history will take you a long way.
Israel started being a Jewish state around 1600 bc. There were NO ARABS and NO MUSLIMS. Islam does not even appear until 580 ad, 2200 years AFTER the establishment of the Jewish state. It was a Jewish state until first century Roman era.
It is not "Arab land."
Israel and the Jews were conquered by the Arabs in 639 ad during the Muslim conquests of the seventh century when the Arabs STOLE the land from the Jews.
The Jews are tired of wandering the Earth in every country like nomads when they have their own homeland and they want their land back.
The Arabs took the land from the Jews militarily. So it is fair for the Jews to take it back militarily.
The brutal barbarian violence that has taken place on this strip of land in past times tremendously exceeds the offenses that you are describing and is in fact overwhelming and mind-boggling.
I can show you a Bible verse where the Jews are ordered by God to slaughter every man, woman, and child in a village and all of the farm animals because they were all idolators and sinners. This is nothing. You cush people living in twentieth century civilization are sitting on cushions.
The first time the Jews took over this land about 1800 bc God told them to slaughter all of the Canaanites before them because of their grievous sins. God said do not let any of them live because they will became a stumbling block to them in the future.
Additionally, the first violence here was not in the 1940s. It was the Palestinians attacking the Jews in 1920:
"By 10:30 a.m. on Sunday, 4 April 1920, 60,000–70,000 Arabs had congregated in the city square for the Nebi Musa festival, and groups had been attacking Jews in the Old City's alleys for over an hour.
The crowd reportedly shouted "Independence! Independence!" and "Palestine is our land, the Jews are our dogs!" Arab police joined in applause, and violence started. The local Arab population ransacked the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem. The Torath Chaim Yeshiva was raided, and Torah scrolls were torn and thrown on the floor, and the building then set alight. During the next three hours, 160 Jews were injured.
A riot broke out, the people began to run about and stones were thrown at the Jews. The shops were closed and there were screams. … I saw a Zionist soldier covered in dust and blood. … Afterwards, I saw one Hebronite approach a Jewish shoeshine boy, who hid behind a sack in one of the wall's comers next to Jaffa Gate, and take his box and beat him over the head. He screamed and began to run, his head bleeding and the Hebronite left him and returned to the procession.
… The riot reached its zenith. All shouted, "Muhammad's religion was born with the sword". …
I immediately walked to the municipal garden. … my soul is nauseated and depressed by the madness of humankind."
The army imposed night curfew on Sunday night and arrested several dozen rioters, but on Monday morning they were allowed to attend morning prayers and were then released. Arabs continued to attack Jews and break into their homes, especially in Arab-majority mixed buildings.
On Monday, as disturbances grew worse, the Old City was sealed off by the army and no one was allowed to exit the area. Martial law was declared, but looting, burglary, rape, and murder continued. Several homes were set on fire, and tombstones were shattered. British soldiers found that the majority of illicit weapons were concealed on the bodies of Arab women.
On Monday evening, the soldiers were evacuated from the Old City, a step described in the Palin Report as "an error of judgment". Even with martial law, it took the British authorities another 4 days to restore order."
Khalil Sakakini
1920 Jerusalem Riots
(This is all public knowledge.)
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Your position is just like the people who claim that the British settlers were massacreing the native Americans.
It does not wash with the facts. The first Indian war was started by the natives -- not the settlers. It was started solely because there were a large number of settlers coming (about 20,000 so far) and the natives did not want to share the VAST open lands of America. The natives became the terrorists just like the Palestinians became the terrorists. And both of them tried to GENOCIDE the newcomers out of existence. THAT IS TERRORISM!!
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@l-uk3xm
"Jordanian disengagement from the West Bank (in Arabic: قرار فك الارتباط), in which Jordan surrendered the claim to sovereignty over the West Bank, took place on 31 July 1988. On 31 July 1988, Jordan renounced its claims to the West Bank (with the exception of guardianship over the Muslim and Christian holy sites in Jerusalem), and recognized the Palestine Liberation Organization as "the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people."
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"The West Bank, including East Jerusalem, has been under military occupation by Israel since 7 June 1967, when Israeli forces captured the territory, then ruled by Jordan, during the Six-Day War. The status of the West Bank as a militarily occupied territory has been affirmed by the International Court of Justice and, with the exception of East Jerusalem, by the Israeli Supreme Court.
The official view of the Israeli government is that the laws of belligerent occupation do not apply to the territories, which it considers instead "disputed", and it administers the West Bank, excepting East Jerusalem, under the Israeli Civil Administration, a branch of the Israeli Ministry of Defense."
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@hotdog9262
Sorry but you are still making incorrect unfounded statements out of your snobbery. For clarity I changed Jet Engine to read "modern jet engine." (the one that makes modern air travel possible). It was invented in America:
"The 1945 surrender of Germany revealed substantial wartime discoveries and inventions. General Electric and Pratt & Whitney, another American engine-builder, added German lessons to those of Whittle and other British designers. Early jet engines, such as those of the Me 262, gulped fuel rapidly. Thus, an initial challenge was posed: to build an engine that could provide high thrust with less fuel consumption.
Pratt & Whitney resolved this dilemma in 1948 by combining two engines into one. The engine included two compressors; each rotated independently, the inner one giving high compression for good performance. Each compressor drew power from its own turbine; hence there were two turbines, one behind the other. This approach led to the J-57 engine. Commercial airliners—the Boeing 707, the Douglas DC-8—flew with it. One of the prominent postwar engines, it entered service with the U.S. Air Force in 1953."
The airplane was invented by Orville and Wilbur Wright in Dayton, Ohio.
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@Alpejohn
"From pickling and salting to smoking and drying, humans have been finding ways to make food last longer since prehistoric times. But by the 18th century, an efficient—and truly effective—means of preservation remained elusive.
In 1795, the French government decided to do something about it. That year, the country was fighting battles in Italy, the Netherlands, Germany and the Caribbean, highlighting the need for a stable source of food for far-flung soldiers and seamen. France's leaders decided to offer a 12,000-franc prize through the Society for the Encouragement of Industry for a breakthrough in the preservation of food.
Nicolas Appert, a young chef from the region of Champagne, was determined to win. Appert, who had worked as a chef for the French nobility, dove into the study of food preservation. He eventually came up with a radical innovation: food packed in champagne bottles, sealed airtight with an oddly effective mixture of cheese and lime. Appert’s discovery built on earlier imperfect techniques, which either removed air or preserved food by heat but hadn’t managed to do both.
Running a bustling lab and factory, Appert soon progressed from champagne bottles to wide-necked glass containers. In 1803 his preserved foods (which came to include vegetables, fruit, meat, dairy and fish) were sent out for sea trials with the French navy. By 1804, his factory had begun to experiment with meat packed in tin cans, which he soldered shut and then observed for months for signs of swelling. Those that didn’t swell [botulism] were deemed safe for sale and long-term storage.
Originally, the can end was soldered or welded onto the can body after the can was filled. However, this introduced a variety of issues, such as foreign contaminants (including lead and other harmful heavy metals). The double seam was later developed as a cheaper and safer alternative and quickly replaced the welded seam:
In 1904, the Max Ams Machine Company of New York patented the double-seam process used in most modern food cans. Today a double-seam machine can safely seal more than 2,000 cans a minute—a long way indeed from Appert’s pea-packed bottles.”
“The double seam is made using a double seamer, which can have just one or a number of heads or seaming stations. The double seam is formed by mechanically interlocking five layers of material together: three layers of the can end and two layers of the can body. Each seaming head typically consists of two rolls, a first operation roll and second operation roll, and a chuck. Some seaming machines have two first operation rolls and two second operation rolls and a few machines use a method called "rail seaming" which requires no rolls. During the seaming operation, the can end is lowered onto the filled can body and held down by the chuck, which acts as an anvil to the seaming operation. The first operation roll then engages the can end against the can body thereby folding the end curl around the flange of the body. In some seaming machines, this is done as the can is turning at high speed.”
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@DareDevilMinecraft
Steve Inskeep: Let's set aside the word “genocide”, though, and focus on the things that our correspondents have found: large numbers of people imprisoned, people encouraged to give up their language and culture. You acknowledge those things or not?
Ambassador Qin Gang: You have to make a distinction between people breaking the law and being sent to prison and some other people being sent to the vocational training center.
Steve Inskeep: You are referring to what outsiders called camps?
Ambassador Qin Gang: Those people breaking the law, the terrorists, of course, the destination for them is prisons with barbed wire and high walls. To keep the society safe, we have to bring them to justice. There is no problem, as you do in the United States. But for those people, to some extent, more or less influenced by extremist ideas, which is a driving factor to many people in any terrorist and separatist activities, we give them a chance. We use a measure to correct them. It’s what we call a preventive measure.
Steve Inskeep: Preventing them from having terrorist thoughts before they have them.
Ambassador Qin Gang: Those people...not every Uyghur was sent to the school. But when we found some people, as I said just now, more or less influenced by extremist ideas, before they are getting worse, we send them to the school, giving them education on language and law and give them vocational training, so that when they finish, they can get a decent job with a good pay, so they can support themselves and they can support their families, so they will no longer be engaged into extremist and separatist activities.
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@HermanWillems Sorry, but that is incorrect. Jesus does not specially want people to be poor. He told one specific individual to go sell all that he had. Jesus did not turn around to the crowd and tell the whole crowd to do it. You are making an assumption that it was said to everyone when it was not.
On your second Bible quote, you quoted the first part, but left out the second part. This is the WHOLE PASSAGE:
"23 Then Jesus said to His disciples, “Assuredly, I say to you that it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. 24 And again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
25 When His disciples heard it, they were greatly astonished, saying, “Who then can be saved?”
26 But Jesus looked at them and said to them, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
It is clear that by the power of God rich people can be saved if they turn their life and their riches over to God and use their TALENTS to advance the kingdom.
When God gives you TALENTS, He expects you to use them . . . not throw them away.
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@pincermovement72 Why should we fight Russia?
Russia did not invade America, Japan, or Europe. Russia attacked and invaded Ukraine. It is their job to defend their own country when it is attacked. It is not our job.
And your example parallel is ridiculous -- America did not call Mexico a bunch of NAZIs and go invade Mexico.
And if you do not understand why Russia needs to be tamed you do not know your Russian history. Do you know how many times in history Russia has invaded one of their neighbors?
59 times.
Do you know how large Russia was in 1000 ad? About the size of Germany.
They literally expanded to their current size by invading and taking over their neighbors. They have in the past even invaded and tried to annex both Mongolia and China.
All through their long history Russia has been exchanging lives for territory and their blood is on their own hands. Now they have Ukrainian blood on their hands (and not the first time).
And what do you mean "buffer zone"?
That is just stupid.
Is there any country in the would that can say, "I want this country here next to me to be completely disarmed and no self-defense weapons at all because I want them to be my "buffer zone" instead of being their own country with their decisions and rights?
That is stupid. No country has the right to say that about any other country.
Does America have a "buffer zone" country?
Does China have a "buffer zone" country?
Does Israel have a "buffer zone" country?
"Every world power must have a "buffer zone" ?????
Name one.
The United States has the North American Free Trade Agreement with the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.
So according to your military theory, the North American bloc is threatening Greenland, Cuba, Grenada, Haiti, El Salvador and Guatemala?
And I suppose Puerto Rico is the common launch point?
Do not be absurd.
And I guess you have never been told that the United States has a nuclear missile launch field in Wyoming near the Canadian border and those nuclear missiles are aimed due North in the direction of Canada?
Do you hear Canada complaining?
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@Jason-io9zg You do not have a United States top security clearance and as such you will never be told how the United States military knows it was a spy balloon, how the decision was made to let it fly out over water, when they began to first track it, or what cargo was on the balloon.
Be careful that you do not assume things that you do not know.
What we do know is the military would not shoot down a harmless weather balloon after it was out over the ocean leaving the country. They would just let it go.
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The United States has the most sophisticated and advanced intelligence community in the world. You will remember that a year ago ... .
The United States said, "Russia is going invade Ukraine."
Countries around the world said, "Oh come, now. Russia is not going to just start a war."
The United States said, "Russia is going to invade Ukraine."
Ukraine said, "Don't be silly. We are cousins with Russia. Russia would never invade us."
The United States then said, "It is going to happen tomorrow. Russia is going to invade Ukraine tomorrow."
The next day, Russia invaded Ukraine.
Jason,
If U.S. intelligence says it is a spy balloon . . . it is a spy balloon.
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@Jason-io9zg This ABC News article was published on February 4th -- the day after the train wrecked:
50-CAR TRAIN DERAILMENT SPARKS MASSIVE FIRE, MANDATORY EVACUATION ORDER IN OHIO
Youngstown officials issued a shelter-in-place order for the entire town of roughly 5K people.
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EAST PALESTINE, Ohio -- A massive fire broke out after a train derailed Friday night in northeastern Ohio near the Pennsylvania state border, leading officials to issue evacuation and shelter-in-place orders for nearby residents.
About 50 cars derailed in East Palestine at about 9 p.m. EST Friday as a train was carrying a variety of products from Madison, Illinois, to Conway, Pennsylvania, rail operator Norfolk Southern said Saturday. There was no immediate information about what caused the derailment. No injuries or damage to structures were reported.
"The post-derailment fire spanned about the length of the derailed train cars," Michael Graham, a member of the National Transportation Safety Board, told reporters Saturday evening. "The fire has since reduced in intensity, but remains active and the two main tracks are still blocked."
-- ABC News --
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@Jason-io9zg Freedom of speech means that you are free to criticize your own government's policies, actions, and activities without fear of reprisal.
That is all it means.
In the United States, we have freedom of speech.
In China, when you criticize the government, you either get arrested, intimidated, beaten, or you lose social credits or you disappear. That is not freedom of speech.
In Russia, when you call Putin's "special operation" a war, you can get 15 years in jail.
When you criticize Putin, you fall out of a hotel window.
That is not freedom of speech.
In Iran, when you criticize the government, you are executed.
That is not freedom of speech.
In Cuba no one talks about the government in any way.
That is not freedom of speech.
Here in America Jason is LEGALLY FREE to say anything he wants to say about U.S. government policies and actions. You can say Biden is a weak leader. You can say anything you want to say and the government is not going to delete your comment or come knocking on your door.
What happened to Jack Ma when he called Xi Jinping a "power-hungry clown"?
He disappeared 5 months, right?
In the United States you do not disappear.
We have 100% freedom of speech. 😎👍🇺🇸 ✝️
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@makcys You do not know what happened to the native Americans?
The native Americans are still here. A large number of them intermarried and integrated into American culture (in which case they disappeared and cannot be counted).
But most of them were given large parcels of land for each tribe to settle on and call their own . . called "reservations." Native tribes are considered their own independent nations, as well as, being United States citizens. The tribes have the right to vote in American elections and the right to send representatives to sit in Congress.
Native American tribes own BIG casinos and make LOTS of money through their gambling enterprises. In the state of Oklahoma, tribes own gambling centers combined with convenience store/gas stations. I encountered them on every corner when I lived in Oklahoma and bought gas from the natives.
When you enter a native tribe-owned convenience store, there is a sign on the door saying, "You are now entering the sovereign land of the Choctaw Nation."
The Chickasaw Nation, the Potawanami Nation, and the Wyandotte Nation also own convenience stores in Oklahoma.
Also, since America has NO CASTE SYSTEM and offers EQUAL OPPORTUNITY for all citizens, Natives can go to college and get good jobs.
One of my best friends is Native and he holds a college degree in social work. He works as an alcohol/drug abuse counselor and is employed by the State of Texas.
Natives enjoy their native religion and culture. Every year the tribes hold a Sundance Festival in the State of South Dakota where they wear their cultural costumes and do their native rituals and dances. They gather from all over the America to go to the American Sundance. My friend goes from Texas and invited me one year, but I was not available to go.
There are 326 Indian reservations is the United States covering 56 million acres of land.
The Native population is 10 million, making up 3% of the U.S. population.
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Your suggestion that a country can get rich through looting is erroneous. Spain and the Spanish monarchy tried that. They conquered Mexico and looted TONS of gold from the Aztec empire. Where is Spain now?
And where is the gold?
It is gone -- they spent it through the years.
In order to get rich and stay rich, a country has to have a constant supply of income. The United States depends upon its rich farmland, as well as its high industrialization.
We sell $36 billion of foodstocks to China every year (and that is just China).
And the United States has high industrialisation (number two manufacturing country).
Ultimately, the United States is rich and will stay rich because America is the single most Christian country in the world, having 260 million Christians constantly being awarded GOOD KARMA FROM GOD.
God blessed America from the very beginning and continues to bless America and keep America rich. 😎👍🇺🇸 ✝️
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@annfrancis6287
“Now it shall come to pass, when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the Lord your God drives you, and you return to the Lord your God and obey His voice, according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart and with all your soul, that the Lord your God will bring you back from captivity, and have compassion on you, and gather you again from all the nations where the Lord your God has scattered you. If any of you are driven out to the farthest parts under heaven, from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there He will bring you. Then the Lord your God will bring you to the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it."
Deuteronomy 30
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@hadiwijaya3585
1. We were in Afghanistan for 20 years and did not take any minerals out.
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The United States gives more aid to help other nations than any other country in the world. The aid can be in a number of areas of need, such as:
Food aid and distribution
Education
Water, sanitation, and hygiene initiatives
Infrastructure assistance
Agriculture training
Climate resilience support
Health care
Conflict, Peace, and Security (military aid)
Emergency Response
HIV/AIDS
Government and Civil Society
Operating Expenses
Economic Development
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In 2019, we gave a total of $47 billion U.S. dollars to assist other countries.
These are a few of the international programs that we support:
World Food Program: $2.6 billion
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees: $1.7 billion
United Nations peacekeeping: $1.46 billion
United Nations International Children’s Fund: $833 million
UN regular budget: $685.5 million
World Health Organization (WHO): $230 million
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These are some of the countries we support:
Afghanistan ($4.89 billion)
Israel ($3.3 billion)
Jordan ($1.72 billion)
Egypt ($1.46 billion)
Iraq ($960 million)
Ethiopia ($922 million)
Yemen ($809 million)
Colombia ($800 million)
Nigeria ($793 million)
Lebanon ($790 million)
$10.1 million for remedial reading programs in Zambia and Moldovia.
And there are many others.
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This is only the government aid. We have a large number of private citizens and private organizations who have their own aid programs.
The United States is a very, very wealthy country. We have lots and lots of industry and are a net exporter of crude oil. We are the number one crude oil producer in the world (Saudi Arabia is second).
We have minerals that we have not even had an opportunity to mine yet. If you look at a topographical map of the United States, you will see a large brown area on the left. No one lives in that area -- it is all desert, mines, and minerals.
Americans are (in general) very generous people and want to help others in other countries.
What Americans want more than anything else is just to live in peace.
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To answer your question about understanding the culture of others. We live in a very advanced modern technological world and we really do not understand tribal societies.
As I said earlier, we were only in Afghanistan for one reason -- we were attacked.
And I will say that most of the people of the world are against the Taliban because of their human rights issues in the past. They do not allow women to go to school and they torture and kill people who disagree with them. Most people do not like that.
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@squeaky206
Preamble to the Constitution of the State of Pennsylvania:
"WE, the people of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, grateful to Almighty God for the blessings of civil and religious liberty, and humbly invoking His guidance, do ordain and establish this Constitution."
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Preamble to the Constitution of the State of Delaware:
"Through Divine goodness, all people have by nature the rights of worshiping and serving their Creator according to the dictates of their consciences . . ."
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Preamble to the Constitution of the State of Massachusetts:
" . . . We, therefore, the people of Massachusetts, acknowledging, with grateful hearts, the goodness of the great Legislator of the universe, in affording us, in the course of His providence, an opportunity, deliberately and peaceably, without fraud, violence or surprise, of entering into an original, explicit, and solemn compact with each other; and of forming a new constitution of civil government, for ourselves and posterity; and devoutly imploring His direction in so interesting a design, do agree upon, ordain and establish the following Declaration of Rights, and Frame of Government, as the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts."
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@monichat So what?
A civil war in the United States is the start of World War III and the destruction of the whole world.
You wished for it . . . so enjoy eating your cancer-causing irradiated frankenfood.
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"Another parable He put forth to them, saying:
“The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field; but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way. But when the grain had sprouted and produced a crop, then the tares also appeared.
So the servants of the owner came and said to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?’
He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’
The servants said to him, ‘Do you want us then to go and gather them up?’
But he said, ‘No, lest while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them.
Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers,
“First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to BURN THEM, but gather the wheat into my barn.”
Matthew chapter 13
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@RobertDeNaga Okay. I reviewed your comments and I understand what you are saying. The prophets say this is going to happen that Satan will become head of the Catholic Church.
You will resist and resist and resist. But Satan will gain the upper hand. You will need to go underground to survive. But your faith is to trust in Jesus because in a short 7 years from the time he takes control, he will be removed by the appearing of Jesus Christ.
"Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God."
II Thessalonians 2:3
"Then he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name, His tabernacle, and those who dwell in heaven. It was granted to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them. And authority was given him over every tribe, tongue, and nation. All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world."
Revelation 13:6
"And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming."
II Thessalonians 2:8
The prophets say that these things will happen. They are in scripture and the Word of God cannot be altered or changed.
The prophets say to make preparations to go underground.
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Wait a minute Palki.
It is NOT a myth. The Jews DID crucify Jesus:
"19 So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. 2 And the soldiers twisted a crown of thorns and put it on His head, and they put on Him a purple robe. 3 Then they said, “Hail, King of the Jews!” And they struck Him with their hands.
4 Pilate then went out again, and said to them, “Behold, I am bringing Him out to you, that you may know that I find no fault in Him.”
5 Then Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. And Pilate said to them, “Behold the Man!”
6 Therefore, when the chief priests and officers saw Him, they cried out, saying, “Crucify Him, crucify Him!”
Pilate said to them, “You take Him and crucify Him, for I find no fault in Him.”
7 The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and according to our law He ought to die, because He made Himself the Son of God.”
8 Therefore, when Pilate heard that saying, he was the more afraid, 9 and went again into the Praetorium, and said to Jesus, “Where are You from?” But Jesus gave him no answer.
10 Then Pilate said to Him, “Are You not speaking to me? Do You not know that I have power to crucify You, and power to release You?”
11 Jesus answered, “You could have no power at all against Me unless it had been given you from above. Therefore the one who delivered Me to you has the greater sin.”
12 From then on Pilate sought to release Him, but the Jews cried out, saying, “If you let this Man go, you are not Caesar’s friend. Whoever makes himself a king speaks against Caesar.”
13 When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Jesus out and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called The Pavement, but in Hebrew, Gabbatha. 14 Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, and about the sixth hour. And he said to the Jews, “Behold your King!”
15 But they cried out, “Away with Him, away with Him! Crucify Him!”
Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?”
The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar!”
16 Then he delivered Him to them to be crucified. Then they took Jesus and led Him away."
Holy Bible book of John chapter 19
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The United States has had universal healthcare since 1966:
"On July 30, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Medicare and Medicaid Act, also known as the Social Security Amendments of 1965, into law. It established Medicare, a health insurance program for the elderly, and Medicaid, a health insurance program for people with limited income.
In 1965, the passage of the Social Security Amendments, popularly known as Medicare and Medicaid, resulted in one basic program of health insurance for persons aged 65 and older, and another program providing health insurance for people with limited income funded by state and federal sources, respectively. It was funded by a tax on the earnings of employees, matched by contributions by employers, and was well received. In the first three years of the program, nearly 20 million beneficiaries enrolled in it.
Debate over the program actually began two decades earlier when President Harry S. Truman sent a message to Congress asking for legislation establishing a national health insurance plan. At that time, vocal opponents warned of the dangers of “socialized medicine.” By the end of Truman’s administration, he had backed off from a plan of universal coverage, but administrators in the Social Security system and others began to focus on the idea of a program aimed at insuring Social Security beneficiaries whose numbers and needs were growing."
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“When the Lord your God brings you [Israelites] into the land which you go to possess, and has cast out many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you, and when the Lord your God delivers them over to you, you shall conquer them and utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them nor show mercy to them. Nor shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to their son, nor take their daughter for your son. For they will turn your sons away from following Me, to serve other gods; so the anger of the Lord will be aroused against you and destroy you suddenly.
But thus you shall deal with them: you shall destroy their altars, and break down their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden images, and burn their carved images with fire.
Prophet Moses
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@peaked_aussie Verse taken out of context. That commendment is talking about individual action about an individual person killing their individual neighbor.
It has nothing whatsoever to do with any government action. You are judged by God for teaching the verse out of context, which is twisting the Word of God unto your own ends.
32 "Now while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day. And those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation. They put him under guard, because it had not been explained what should be done to him.
Then the Lord said to Moses, “The man must surely be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp.” So, as the Lord commanded Moses, all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him with stones, and he died."
Numbers 15:32
"For he [the government] is God’s minister to you for good. But if you do evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword in vain; for he is GOD'S MINISTER, an avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil."
Romans 13:4
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"Now as He sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be? And what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the END OF THE AGE?”
And Jesus answered and said to them:
“Take heed that no one deceives you. For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many. And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of sorrows.
Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake. And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another.
Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many. And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. But he who endures to the end shall be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then THE END WILL COME.
Therefore when you see the ‘abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place” (whoever reads, let him understand), then let those who are in Judea FLEE TO THE MOUNTAINS.
Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take anything out of his house. And let him who is in the field not go back to get his clothes. But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days! And pray that your flight may not be in winter or on the Sabbath.
For then there will be GREAT TRIBULATION, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be. And unless those days were shortened, NO FLESH WOULD BE SAVED; but for the elect’s sake those days will be shortened.
Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘There!’ do not believe it. For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. See, I have told you beforehand.
Therefore if they say to you, ‘Look, He is in the desert!’ do not go out; or ‘Look, He is in the inner rooms!’ do not believe it. For as the lightning comes from the east and flashes to the west, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. For wherever the carcass is, there the eagles will be gathered together.
IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE TRIBULATION of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven [falling stars - meteorites], and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and THEY WILL SEE THE SON OF MAN COMING ON THE CLOUDS of heaven with power and great glory. And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
Now learn this parable from the fig tree: When its branch has already become tender and puts forth leaves, you know that summer is near. So you also, WHEN YOU SEE ALL THESE THINGS, know that it is near—at the doors! Assuredly, I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away till all these things take place.
Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away.
But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only. But as the days of Noah were, so also will the COMING OF THE SON OF MAN be. For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN be. Then two men will be in the field: one will be taken and the other left. Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and the other left. WATCH THEREFORE, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming.
But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into.
Therefore YOU also BE READY, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect."
Matthew chapter 24
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