PoliticalChic
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Difficult to get a ‘yea’ when every vehicle for the dissemination of information is on the other side.
1.One of the primary results of militant secularism, creeping neo-Marxism, government school (the three are essentially the same) is hatred of the faith of our Founders. That's the 'nay.'
Here is my pal Gidget:
“LOL I despise religion…”
Things To Come
He never misses a chance to insert that.
2. But….I’m gonna say that, aside from being responsible for Western Civilization, a whole bunch of super ideas came by way of the Bible. And by that, I mean largely in opposition to every other religion of antiquity. Brand, spanking new ideas that came from no other philosophy!
Here is one of the brand new ideas in biblical religion:
God is beyond nature (all previous gods were gods of nature or part of nature). God is not a sexual being (all previous gods engaged in sex—with other gods and/or mortals). • There is only one God of humanity (all pre-existing gods were attached to one tribe, religion, or nation—there was no god of all humanity). We do not worship trees—because trees are created, not creators. We worship the Creator of trees. Unlike the other religions of the ancient world, biblical religion never worshipped nature. (Dennis Prager, “Genesis”)
Of course, paganism is having a re-birth, with Leftists celebrating the worship of Gaia, mother earth…..on April 22nd, Lenin’s birthday, no less.
3. In Genesis 1.28 God blessed them and God said to them, “Be fertile and increase, fill the earth and master it To have children is the first commandment in the Bible. Seems to be a pretty good idea….today, young people in many European countries and Japan are having so few children that the continued existence of some of those nations is at risk. Liberals claim that they are saving the earth by reducing their child-footprint. But I think it’s a pretty good idea, having chidren.
4. Genesis 12.12 If the Egyptians see you, and think, ‘She is his wife,’ they will kill me and let you live.
…the Egyptians were deemed quite capable of killing strangers and taking their wives. Perhaps this story is included in order to show just how revolutionary was the new system of ethical monotheism that God was trying to institute. In contrast to the normative behavior toward strangers in Egypt, God commands those who follow the Bible to love the stranger (Leviticus 19:34, Deuteronomy 10:19, Exodus 22:21). “The stranger was to be protected, although he was not a member of one’s family, clan, religion, community, or people, simply because he was a human being. In the stranger, therefore, man discovered the idea of humanity.” This was not the case anywhere else . I have not found any other civilization that demanded love of the stranger.
Dennis Prager, Op. Cit.
Without this view, Western Civilization could not have prospered. We’d be warring savages, just like a certain other ‘religion.’
But the best idea comes up in chapter 22: Next…
1.One of the primary results of militant secularism, creeping neo-Marxism, government school (the three are essentially the same) is hatred of the faith of our Founders. That's the 'nay.'
Here is my pal Gidget:
“LOL I despise religion…”
Things To Come
He never misses a chance to insert that.
2. But….I’m gonna say that, aside from being responsible for Western Civilization, a whole bunch of super ideas came by way of the Bible. And by that, I mean largely in opposition to every other religion of antiquity. Brand, spanking new ideas that came from no other philosophy!
Here is one of the brand new ideas in biblical religion:
God is beyond nature (all previous gods were gods of nature or part of nature). God is not a sexual being (all previous gods engaged in sex—with other gods and/or mortals). • There is only one God of humanity (all pre-existing gods were attached to one tribe, religion, or nation—there was no god of all humanity). We do not worship trees—because trees are created, not creators. We worship the Creator of trees. Unlike the other religions of the ancient world, biblical religion never worshipped nature. (Dennis Prager, “Genesis”)
Of course, paganism is having a re-birth, with Leftists celebrating the worship of Gaia, mother earth…..on April 22nd, Lenin’s birthday, no less.
3. In Genesis 1.28 God blessed them and God said to them, “Be fertile and increase, fill the earth and master it To have children is the first commandment in the Bible. Seems to be a pretty good idea….today, young people in many European countries and Japan are having so few children that the continued existence of some of those nations is at risk. Liberals claim that they are saving the earth by reducing their child-footprint. But I think it’s a pretty good idea, having chidren.
4. Genesis 12.12 If the Egyptians see you, and think, ‘She is his wife,’ they will kill me and let you live.
…the Egyptians were deemed quite capable of killing strangers and taking their wives. Perhaps this story is included in order to show just how revolutionary was the new system of ethical monotheism that God was trying to institute. In contrast to the normative behavior toward strangers in Egypt, God commands those who follow the Bible to love the stranger (Leviticus 19:34, Deuteronomy 10:19, Exodus 22:21). “The stranger was to be protected, although he was not a member of one’s family, clan, religion, community, or people, simply because he was a human being. In the stranger, therefore, man discovered the idea of humanity.” This was not the case anywhere else . I have not found any other civilization that demanded love of the stranger.
Dennis Prager, Op. Cit.
Without this view, Western Civilization could not have prospered. We’d be warring savages, just like a certain other ‘religion.’
But the best idea comes up in chapter 22: Next…