Wednesday, December 29, 2021

WOKE POPE ASLEEP TO REALITY

 https://freedombeacon.com/pope-francis-immigration-announcement-is-downright-scary/

Pope Francis, who seems to be in contest with Joe Biden as who can be dead wrong more of the time (both are approaching 100%), thinks that illegal immigrants can do as they please and every country has to give up their sovereignty to accommodate them. Sorry, Frannie, that is why they have borders. Hooray for Hungary - they do not have the massive sexual assault and rape problems of Sweden and Germany. Their leader loves his country!  Has this sorry pope EVER expressed any concern for the rape victims? Yikes, there were MANY young boys sodomized by his priests and he has not raised as much ruckus about that as he has about defending lawbreakers!  Such are all woke people is my experience. Hypocrites on steroids!

TED CRUZ'S COMPROMISE

Read the article in the link below and then tell me if you agree that this is unconscionable and should disqualify him from any consideration of being president,  He compromised with the devil and now a nation has to pay. 

 https://patriotsignal.com/breaking-ted-cruz-folds-to-biden-regime-complete-reversal/

DESMOND TUTU AND OTHER ICONS DEMYTHOLOGIZED

As you may have heard, (Archibishop) Desmond Tutu died.  He was widely acclaimed though it was clear he was not a part of the Body of Christ, just as Mother Theresa and Markin Luther King, Jr. were not by their own words.  The world knows the difference much more than Christians do, which is why they embraced all three uncritically.

Tutu was a rabid anti-Semite, with a lot of background on that in the article I provided a link to below. 

https://www.newsmax.com/alandershowitz/apartheid-hitler-stalin-zionism/2021/12/28/id/1050201/?ns_mail_uid=d199525f-2033-41f9-805ca7370deff243&ns_mail_job=DM288393_12292021&s=acs&dkt_nbr=010504kr1ppm

Tutu wrote an incredibly blasphemous book, "God is Not A Christian". He was a universalist and  preached what Satan did, and totally ignores who Jesus is and what God is like. He put his own failed ideas above the Holy Scriptures.

https://real-leaders.com/desmond-tutu-god-is-not-a-christian-nor-a-jew-muslim-hindu/

Mother Theresa doubts that Jesus was who he said he was for the last decades of her life. She was against evangelism which was Jesus' final charge to us before he ascended to heaven.  Like Tutu, she was a universalist and put her own failed ideas above the Holy Scriptures. It has been well documented that she was a master at PR, with a stunningly small number of people actually helped.  While she would fly off to get the best medical care for herself, the people in Calcutta received marginal care at best with "poor" being a more accurate description.

https://www.evangelical-times.org/articles/cults-and-other-religions/the-myth-of-mother-teresa/

MLK Jr. in his own writings says he stopped believing in the diety of Jesus Christ when he was 13.  His writings, summarized by his denial of three pillars of Christianity in this paper on display at Stamford. make is crystal clear.  It reads like a hateful skeptic,

"What Experiences of Christians Living in the Early Christian Century Led to the Christian Doctrines of the Divine Sonship of Jesus, the Virgin Birth, and the Bodily Resurrection" 

On the Sonship of Jesus--

The first doctrine of our discussion which deals with the divine sonship of Jesus went through a great process of development. It seems quite evident that the early followers of Jesus in Palestine were well aware of his genuine humanity. Even the synoptic gospels picture Jesus as a victim of human experiences. Such human experiences as growth, learning, prayer, and defeat are not at all uncommon in the life of Jesus. How then did this doctrine of divine sonship come into being?

We may find a partial clue to the actual rise of this doctrine in the spreading of Christianity into the Greco-Roman world. I need not elaborate on the fact that the Greeks were very philosophical minded people. Through philosophical thinking the Greeks came to the point of subordinating, distrusting, and even minimizing anything physical. Anything that possessed flesh was always underminded in Greek thought. And so in order to receive inspiration from Jesus the Greeks had to apotheosize him.

...As Hedley laconically states, "the church had found God in Jesus, and so it called Jesus the Christ; and later under the influence of Greek thought-forms, the only begotten Son of God." 

On the virgin birth--

First we must admit that the evidence for the tenability of this doctrine is to shallow to convince any objective thinker. To begin with, the earliest written documents in the New Testament make no mention of the virgin birth. Moreover, the Gospel of Mark, the most primitive and authentic of the four, gives not the slightest suggestion of the virgin birth. The effort to justify this doctrine on the grounds that it was predicted by the prophet Isaiah is immediately eliminated, for all New Testament scholars agree that the word virgin is not found in the Hebrew original, but only in the Greek text which is a mistranslation of the Hebrew word for "young woman." How then did this doctrine arise?

A clue to this inquiry may be found in a sentence from St. Justin's First Apology. Here Justin states that the birth of Jesus is quite similar to the birth of the sons of Zeus. It was believed in Greek thought that an extraordinary person could only be explained by saying that he had a father who was more than human. It is probable that this Greek idea influenced Christian thought.

A more adequate explanation for the rise of this doctrine is found in the experience which the early christians had with Jesus. The people saw within Jesus such a uniqueness of quality and spirit that to explain him in terms of ordinary background was to them quite inadequate. For his early followers this spiritual uniqueness could only by accounted for in terms of biological uniqueness. They were not unscientific in their approach because they had no knowledge of the scientific. They could only express themselves in terms of the pre-scientific thought patterns of their day.

On the resurrection--

The last doctrine in our discussion deals with the resurrection story. This doctrine, upon which the Easter Faith rests, symbolizes the ultimate Christian conviction: that Christ conquered death. From a literary, historical, and philosophical point of view this doctrine raises many questions. In fact the external evidence for the authenticity of this doctrine is found wanting. But here again the external evidence is not the most important thing, for it in itself fails to tell us precisely the thing we most want to know: What experiences of early Christians lead to the formulation of the doctrine?

The root of our inquiry is found in the fact that the early Christians had lived with Jesus. They had been captivated by the magnetic power of his personality. This basic experience led to the faith that he could never die. And so in the pre-scientific thought pattern of the first century, this inner faith took outward form.

Of course, the gross immorality of his life, his intellectual dishonesty with rampant plagiarism, and his Marxist associations were legion.   The world whitewashes all three of these icons, as do many uninformed Christians.  We need to know the truth as that truth will set us free.

Saturday, December 25, 2021

FAILED RACE AND GENDER CARDS

Kamala Harris says the criticism of her is because of her race and gender.  It is truly stunning that people with poor character and judgment seem immune to self-reflection and having a realistic opinion of themselves.  It is, as Yogi Berra liked to say, "Deja Du all over again".  Obama played the race card when he was criticized for bowing and scraping to our enemies, condemning the United States before much worse nations, and hiding his personal history, his dubious connections with a terrorist and a twenty year relationship with a bitter anti-American left-wing preacher.  Obama claimed to be a Christian while having Islamic services in the White House and lied about much of everything else. He lied about his long-term advocacy of the LGBTQ agenda, he lied about where he was born - note his own publicity piece used until shortly before running for president said flat-out he was born in Kenya and then he mocked everyone who actually later believed it.   Obama was elected BECAUSE of his race - the ultimate affirmative action election - people wanted to give him a chance despite zero executive experience and zero accomplishments and the fact he TAUGHT Rules for Radicals, a set of actions with a sop to Satan himself designed to bring down our nation and our culture.

Kamala also disgraced herself by having a sexual relationship with Willie Brown who promoted her politically, going to our nations to trash America, a horrifically abrasive and condescending personality. and being 100% ineffective in her job with ZERO accomplishments.  Many remember she had to drop out of the race for president because her own party rejected her before she was even in a single primary!  Any Vice President must be able to be President at a moment's notice, and Joe Biden admitted he would chose someone SOLELY because of their race and gender!  How bigoted and foolish! You pick the best person and do not limit yourself to the absurd character-deficient Stacey Abrams's or Kamala Harris's of the world. Neither of them was REMOTELY qualified for the job and either would obviously be an unmitigated disaster.  

The time has come when we evaluate people based upon the content of their CHARACTER, not on the color of their skin.  Remember who said that?  MLK, Jr. Yet tens of millions of racist fools voted for Obama and 8 years later Harris SOLELY based on the color of their skin and IGNORED major warning signs that they lacked the essential honesty and the needed characteristics to lead.

People are bailing on the liar-in-chief Biden (check out his 48 years of lies and his horrific record of being wrong on just about everything with even Obama's Robert Gates concurs with that assessment) and the hapless Harris. Both are totally incompetent and both blame everyone else but themselves.  They are both delusional and both must be HURLED from office - the sooner the better!

Tuesday, December 07, 2021

RIGHT AND FREE BY DENNIS PRAGER (unedited as a condition to reprint)

I received a phone call on my radio show from a man who said, "Dennis, I'm a gay conservative actor in Hollywood, and it is far easier to come out of the closet as gay than as a conservative."

That call was in the 1980s.

While the current cancel culture — the firing, humiliation, disparagement and smearing — of conservatives is exponentially worse today than 30 years ago, it is not new.

As a result, the great majority of Americans who are conservative — that is, about half the country — hide their true beliefs. They fear saying anything that differs with the Left. This would include such reprehensible sentiments as:

- With all its flaws, America is the finest country ever made.

- Men do not give birth.

- There are only two sexes.

- A person's color is the least important thing about them.

- The greatest problem in black life is not whites but a lack of fathers.

- A man who becomes a woman and then competes in women's sports is cheating.

- Posting to social media a video by a renowned epidemiologist, virologist or medical doctor who asserts that ivermectin and/or hydroxychloroquine with zinc, when used early enough, almost always prevents hospitalization for COVID-19.

The list is far longer than this. But if you think even this list overstates the problem, put any of these statements on any mainstream social media platform and see what happens. See if any relatives drop you from Facebook or even from their lives. See what your employer says or does. See what Twitter or Facebook does to your account.

There are valid reasons to fear publicly differing with the Left.

So, then, what arguments can be offered on behalf of coming out of the closet?

The first is this: For every person you alienate, you will likely bring at least one new, wonderful person into your life.

Putting aside issues of courage, of standing for what is right, of saving America from those working to destroy it, there is a great selfish reason to come out of the closet: kindred spirits, i.e., good people, will discover you.

In 2020, I received an email from a young woman in her second year at Harvard who told me that my book that explains the Left and America, "Still the Best Hope," had changed her from liberal to conservative. Needless to say, I was intrigued to learn more about her and, as it happened, she lives — as I do — in Los Angeles. So, I invited her to sit in on my radio show.

While speaking to her during commercial breaks, I was impressed enough to ask if she would be willing to describe her political and moral metamorphosis on the radio. I warned her that appearing on "The Dennis Prager Show" and talking about her conservative views would likely lead to some lost friends, angry, if not alienated, relatives, and attacks back at Harvard. I made that case persuasively enough to give her pause and ask, "May I call my mother?"

She stepped out to make the call. When she returned to the studio, she announced, "I'm coming on."

About half a year later, she made another appearance on my show, and I asked her what happened after her initial appearance.

"I went through two weeks of hell," she responded.

As predicted, she lost friends she had had since elementary school, some relatives limited their contact with her, and some students back at Harvard regarded her as an indecipherable sellout.

"Then what happened?" I asked.

"Then I entered heaven," she responded.

She offered two big reasons. 

One was that she began to sleep better than she had in years. The other was the number of kindred spirits, all quality people, who reached out to her, some of whom became friends.

Regarding reason one — sleeping better — staying in the closet exacts a serious mental price on a person. One should not think only coming out of the closet exacts a price. 

As for the second reason, virtually no price paid for coming out of the closet is comparable to the rewards of doing so. There is little as happiness-inducing as having kindred spirits in your life. 

Now, is that worth losing one's job? If you are sure you will lose your job and no other job paying a comparable salary will be available, only you can answer that question. Similarly, if one of your children will stop talking to you because you are not "woke," it is not for me to advise you what to do. But there are no other compelling arguments not to come out of the closet.

And there are at least two other arguments for coming out. 

One is that you will respect yourself more. And so will others — including, quite possibly, one or more of your children (and your grandchildren, if you have any). 

And two: You will help save this country from tyranny. For some, that should suffice.