The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Helen Benedict and Eyad Awwadawnan on the efforts by industrial nations to lock out the 84 million forcibly displaced migrants around the globe.
The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Helen Benedict and Eyad Awwadawnan on the efforts by industrial nations to lock out the 84 million forcibly displaced migrants around the globe.
United States actions which have destabalized many counties is responsible for the existence of probably the majority of these displaced people. The United States has aresponsibility to take in a large number of these people who are fleeing from dangerous and economically harmful situations. As a son of immigrants, I welcome immigrants to our country and the interesting cultures and diversity they bring to us.
Although your points are valid - you neglect to include the vast percentage who vehemently refuse to assimilate! What excuses might you have for what has become of Sweden and Germany? What excuses do you have for the crimes/brutal rapes and murder they commit? No one denies them anything - in fact just the opposite holds true which is why they seek refuge here! In return they demand we cater to their needs - refusing to learn the language and adapt to the customs!
The Europeans who came to America got down and their knees and kissed the ground - they learned the language and never ever took a dime of government handouts! Comparing the immigrants who arrive today versus those who arrived previously is a slap in the face! You want to come to a different Country then you better learn the language and assimilate rather than expect us to do MORE for your culture!
I'm sick and tired of people that come to America and refuse to adapt and learn the language! I live in an area where they have taken over entire towns - the attitude is profound - this is now all theirs! In our State of ten million residents two million are illegals! The signs on the shops are no longer in English and they certainly have no respect for our culture! Although I am no fan of Orbin per se - he has the right idea when it comes to protecting the Hungarian culture!
I'm sorry they've been displaced because of the US but they need to respect the Countries who grant them refuge! Instead, just the opposite holds true! A sense of entitlement!
neoliberalism, so ANY claim over them as Steven Biko said (paraphrasing), "1st they kick us down, then they blame us for not being completely compliant."
2) You're narrative about grateful immigrants in u$a is fiction: slaves, multiracial anti slavery/ anti oligarchy uprisings like the Bacon Rebellion, poor whites being jailed and fined for not joining mandatory fugitive slave raids, still-dehumanizing / land stealing by u$a's parasite class to 'give' to desperately poor light skinned people, organized economic and cultural suppression of Mediterranean peoples, Jews, Irish, Roma etc, earth's MOST violent suppression of unions and suffrage movements, including shooting children led street protests.
Get to know the economic and political REASONS why this symptom of late stage capitalism exists below. Rebuttals with links for context encouraged.
My brother Jesus and I speak regularly. He keeps reading the book of Jonah to me. It wasn't wasn't divine will that saved Nineveh it was the people who changed God's decree.
Your religion is unChristian. It is the Religion of Rome and Athens. My brother Jesus is100% the son of Man.
Only we can bring justice to our universe the Creator created and moved on.
Thomas Jefferson wrote America Bible he translated the Bible into American. You can read it on Kindle Jefferson's Bible.
The only thing missing from Jefferson's Bible is God . It is the biography of Jesus and is well worth reading.
There is no such thing as Freedom of Religion. Religion forbids freedom of thought and expression. My people were executed for blasphemy. Blasphemy is crime for believers in superstition myth and legend.
Jesus is a brother.
Your prophecies are simply lies to take away your freedom.
Jefferson believed in democracy and biological and scientific evolution. He was a botanist who evolved plants for specific needs.
Of course the only Freedom is freedom from religion.
In Quebec Bill21 demands Freedom from religion. We try to be Christian but it is a slog.
People believe the Darnedest things "Art Linkletter may be gone but he is not forgotten. In our Biblical tradition Noah was the town drunk and David's third son was Absalom.
Google Absalom He was the son of David in my Bible.
Jefferson waS A COWARD BUT HE WAS WISE AND TOLD THE TRUTH HE COULD READ HEBREW
AND ARAMAIC GREEK AND LATIN.
iT IS HARD FOR A RICH MAN TO UNDERSTAND jESUS OF nAZARETH HE WAS A GREAT MAN
I know what was written and know who wrote what. What more do you want? You spout nonsense.
Analyze the meaning of Beowolf it is nonsense except for those trying to understand the evolution of myth. It is the words of trying to solve mysteries in tongues that no longer exist.
I don't want to hurt you , I don't want to destroy things that give you reason to wake up in the morning.
I wish you nothing but peace and happiness.
I am not a spiritual guide
Geneva is the gin my neighbours drink in the spring with maple sap and a cursed city in Switzerland.
. I am me and you are you. I don't need knowing things I don't need to know or even want to know.
I need to know why my computer is so slow during the holidays but everybody is home for the holidays and I live is a village not a city.and why' people still believe when their beliefs don't correspond to empirical evidence.
We have churches for sale lots of churches for sale. They may have some utility but we don't need churches we know we are our Brother's keeper. I remember Keats "That is all ye need to know. Truth is beauty ----beauty truth Ode on a Grecian Urn.
I talk to the trees and they me their history over a million years. Does your God wear a watch. Do you read Yuval Noah Harari?
I want you to stop spreading the word that is meaningful only to you and those looking for meaning where there is no meaning.
Life itself is all the meaning people need.
There is no decrees written in stone by Zeus or Yahweh ot the Tetra. There is no sound that will change the future even the blast of the Ram's horn as the gates of Heaven swing open and shut.
Give somebody a hug and some affirmation.
I don't believe in magic don't care whether or not there is a God. If there is I will know soon enough.
Kaddish is is our prayer for life and death it has no meaning. Abracadabra is Hebrew it is an homage to our mortalit6y and acknowledge that as the Kabbalist of old told us. God exists in the places we have yet to explore.. I won't even tell you what Ben David means in my tradition because it is more of an accident than a prophecy.
Do you feel better trying to convince an old man of thing that are not, never were and never will be.
L'chaim
The people didn't read they didn't need to read
I don't believe in Kings how do I believe in a King of kings. My Torah says God told the people they don't need Kings, kings are an impediment to love and understanding and David proved God's wisdom.
Tom Harpur was a Canadian Theologian he wrote the Pagan Christ it was a best seller for two years I tried to procure a copy at The University of Chicago Seminary bookstore. I had to get the book and the study guide from Canada. It is dangerous to speaki truth in your country. The truth is too painful.
Get a copy. Harpur was an Anglican Priest who understood that the bible is not history it is literature and good literature is better than crazy self affirming history.
You sound like a lovely person stop trying to convince yourself of things that just ain't so..
I just go by 'Sola scriptura', often in Greek, as LED by the Holy Spirit. Yehoshua, Hebrew is the Word. John, chapter 1, especially in Greek is wonderful.
I deal in TRUTH. You must know we DON'T live on some
Insanely spinning non globe(optoid) orbiting?
But perhaps not.
The Geneva BIBLE was first, closer to the Greek.
I hope your neighbors like theirs!!
I don't need it!!
Ask some REAL, short question instead of 'vomiting' nonsense.
You are letting your anger blind you brother. In your words, "vehemently refuse to assimilate," did you watch what happened in America on January 6th 2021? Still today many republican senators, house members and of course the voters claim the elections were rigged. Rigged only if they lost. What do you have to say to them? Or is your anger only for people born on different soil and don't learn the language. I will take a nice foreigner that I can't understand over a republican or democrat that hates their fellow Americans just because they wear different colors on election day. Wouldn't you?
I agree. My shifts at Raytheon have been especially long and grueling lately, and the last thing I need is to see a bunch signs that aren't in English while I drive to one of the 3 box stores I shop at in town. Someone also once implied online that 5 layer dip isn't a rich cultural heritage, and boy I was peeved about that too. I made that dip for my Great Grandma's funeral last week. She came over from the old country way back in the 1930's as a girl, I think, but she probably knew English the second she landed here - I didn't know her very well. Anyway, we're Americans now, and that all that matters. And those signs annoy me and those people don't look or seem like me at all. I'd like to enjoy my vacuous material life without having to think about how my cell phone was made, or where the bombs my tax dollars pay for go, or what it must be like to live as an immigrant or a refugee in another country.
I am not an American. I live in a real democracy. We don't speak English because we don't want to be as insane as Americans. There is nothing special about French and nothing special about English. I was brought up speaking English. I lived in America for two decade. I didn't particularly thrive living in 1984 but I learned a lot.
I know what freedom and democracy mean. Big Brother says Freedom is slavery and democracy is tyranny.
Raytheon? Wow you are upset about signs? I will take a sign stapled to my forehead over being a proud employee of the top 2 or 3 companies in the whole world providing weapons that kill 100's of thousands of people in all corners of the Earth no matter how big or small. Even as I type this people are dying due to your proud employer.
Yeah brother I saw that. There’s angry people that say very ignorant things on here all the time. You did get me, but I don’t think you can blame me for thinking you were one of the ignorant ones. Either way. I’m glad you’re a positive person.
Raytheon! Really. Wonder when this batch of weapons from the world’s weapon supplier nation will be again used against our own - after displacing millions of innocents - who will become shunned refugees??
Lol, thanks! I know it's crude but I find the assimilation rhetoric particularly enraging, having lived as an immigrant myself. Survival and success in a foreign country hinges on a social network, you know? It's a lifeline to those communities.
I like your satire but have you looked at a calendar. America does not do satire.
It is against the law. It is UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
That is why Franklin was cancelled and Scalia translated the constitution into Frontier Gibberish.
I lived in America for two decades as a REAL cANADIAN. i AM ME A CITIZEN OF cANADA AND qUEBEC AND i STILL DON'T KNOW HOW TO BE A cANADIAN. mY WIFE WAS BORN IN nASHVILLE BUT IS 0% tENNESSEE. sHE IS uNIVERSITY OF cHICAGO AND WE LIVE IN qUEBEC BESIDE qUEBEC'S aPPLACHIAN TRAIL. wHERE WE LIVE THE LIFE OF SOPHISTICATED hILLBILLIES.WITHOUT jIM bEAM AND FANTYNYL i SMOKE LOTS OF WILDWOOD FLOWERS AND WIFE MY DRINKS TEA AND COFFEE.
wE LISTEN TO jOHNNY cASH AND eRIC sATIE AND READ tWAIN, AND hERMAN mELVILLE AND sTEVEN pINKER AND sTEPHEN fRY AND jOHN sTEWART mILL, bENJAMIN fRANKLIN AND tHOMAS jEFFERSON.
jEFFERSON WROTE THE aMERICAN BIBLE THE ONLY THING HE DIDN'T PUT IN THE aMERICAN BIBLE WAS THE fLYING Spaghetti Monsters.
"The Europeans who came to America got down and their knees and kissed the ground - they learned the language and never ever took a dime of government handouts!" Really? How many Ojibwe speaking Americans do you know? This country was built on the genocide of one race and the enslavement of another.
You think YOU'RE SICK of ppl coming to your land and disrespecting the language? Try being Anishinaabe, having an Ojibwe convo at the gas pump in Minnesota, and being told to go back to your own country.
There's a real whacked sense of entitlement. And it's pervasive, especially in 'Murica.
In a nation of immigrants... who disrespect immigrants?
When we're using sound canons to deter humans in their greatest moments of need, we can look only in the mirror to see the problem.
Sure BJ you probably wish for Work Houses and would give Oliver Twist a good kick in the butt for asking for more than his "share" of gruel. Jack London's "People of the Abyss" in London where a predator society ruled and most starved was why many left Great Britain as refugees. Better yet get Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" where a capitalist "melting pot" predated on man and beast in the slaughter houses of Chicago. ( word has it many still speak Polish and eastern European languages to this day). By your opinion I wonder who's side you would be on? Eyad's hell on earth only brings your ridicule and indifference is outrageous!
BJ, The non-English speaking Europeans who immigrated to our country took time to learn the language and costumes and only second generations were fully integrated to our society. Perhaps that is the history of your ancestors. Same wise, today's immigrants need our help to acquire citizenship before they can fully contribute to USA and they always arrive with a desire for improvement and far from feeling entitled they have shown to be the hardest workers in their fields. About "the crimes/brutal rapes and murder they commit" I think you have watched too much Fox News.
Relax, don't be afraid, they are not going to take your job. Rather think what could we do if half the Pentagon budget were used to improve America instead of using it to destabilize other countries.
I'm with you brother. These angry people want others to assimilate to America. My question to them is what happens if in the future languages disappear because of technology. All you have to do is think and someone understands without words. Are they going to leave the US? Or some future party wins and changes to a different language. Are they going to leave the US? Or when China buys everything are these people going to willingly learn Mandarin? Or are they going to leave the US? ETC....ETC...
He has money hidden in off shore accounts, he is an oligarch as much as any other Russian oligarch that is getting dragged through the media as being evil. If they are evil than so is he. Do some research.
I watched Zelensky since he was just the piano player and watched America elect a pimp and thief to its highest office.
Trump's grandfather was a pimp just like his son and grandson.
I don't put any sway in money.
Our Prime was born into power but chose to live the life of a school teacher in Montreal's working class Papineau riding
Just because Trump looks like a pimp, talks like a pimp, dresses like a pimp doesn't make him a low class class pimp. He is a low class pimp because he likes being a low class pimp.
Your media and Russia's media likes attacking Justin Trudeau because of his wealth and power and he chose to serve rather than rule.
Justin Trudeau went into politics when he was 40 he taught high school and lived the life of a High School teacher.
His wife Sophie was a tv celebrity and Trudeau was recruited into politic to run in MontreaL's Papineau where he lived and worked. Montreal Papineau is a long way from the Prime Minister's office.
Trudeau won the leadership of our Liberal Party in a martial arts ring.
Here is our right wing media covering that charity event as it sought to diminish a man of incredible integrity.
They didn't take the time they were assimilated you are the Borg you are Rome. I am human. I was lucky I couldn't assimilate. I tried and I failed.
I am a lowly Jew and only now learning to write.
That is my story and you are welcome to listen to my story. I don't have to apologize I 've never been happier.
Enough is a banquet fit for the Messiah be he Prince or Pauper.
Mark Twain wrote a Bible he was a gifted writer.
He left us a library.
My Brother in Law lives in Brazil. He is an American living the rest of his life in Brazil. He lives like an American not a Brazilian. My step son bought a home in Portugal. He can only live like an American. I know what it is to be a Brazilian. I know what it is to be Portugese I am human. American is a very good thing to have been. Unfortunately it is 2023 tomorrow and Jonah has arrived with a message from God.
I live in Quebec. We speak French. I watch little television. The television my wife watches is English, There is no real English television in Quebec. The ads come from New York and Toronto. The adds from Toronto are illegal in Quebec. The laws in Ontario are different from Washington.
Snake oil is illegal in Quebec. Some Snake Oil is permitted in Ontario but Snake Oils all you get from New York, LA and Vegas.
We are all the same. We are Marxists. It is in our DNA.
Their country may have failed them but you have to do real research to find out why. My US government has overthrown countless democratically elected governments. Leaving these countries in shambles, more importantly installing far right governments that rob these people and leave schools and homes in ruin. You blame them for leaving their own country. Where would you go if your city and most of the other cities in your entire country were blown up? Even now the Ukraine Proxy War which you can trace the beginnings all the way back to the mid 80's due to the US government's involvement. Most recently and most significantly in 2014, when they were the main culprits that lead to the US backed proxy war. The ever growing military industrial complex may lead to a nuclear war. Putin and England had a deal before this war started but the US government told Boris Johnson not to take it. One of those times our government gave weapons and trained other countries' soldiers to fight Russia, led to the rise of Osama Bin Laden. How did that workout? Ukraine is the most corrupt country (with the help of the US of course,) in Europe with many of these groups that are receiving these weapons are not just far right factions but white supremacists, let's see what happens in the future when the "good people" of this corrupt county have all the training and guns we supplied them.
Just Sola scriptura, what ideas? I try to stay with scriptures.
Never had anything to do with 'doctrines of men'. The New Testament is clear.
I strongly doubt I'd BE Christian or a follower if I'd ever been taught the unscriptural teachings of Calvinism.
I had the privilege to teach an Indian boy, a deep inherent depression in him. I read this was prevalent. I couldn't address it directly, but did get him focusing.
It's in Christ that 'there is no east or west'. A favorite hymn.
The problem is, are the scriptures really worth believing? and if so which ones, the apocalypses of John, St. Peter or St. Paul.? or the many other "apocryphal" early Christian writings. Good for you, faith is a personal thing and I have none and keep happy.
Understood. But I prefer not be 'called' or what Soren Kierkegaard describes becoming a 'knight of Faith'. As he explains in his "Tears and Trembling" the leap of faith requires the suspension of the ethical just as Abraham was willing to kill his only son at the command of God. The problem is how to know when is God who is talking. Many people have murdered others with that assumption and we recently have a president that invaded Iraq. Since my poor intellect cannot understand God I'm agnostic.
Rodger lets get real. America rejects truth and prefers fairytales and Disney's Fantasyland.
Let's drink eat and be merry for tomorrow we die. Don't you remember gladiators lived longer than the average beaR AND THEIR SLEEP PARNERS AND bACCANAL PROVIDERS WERE EXPERT IN THEIR ASSIGNED TASK.
From a European standpoint I really have trouble with this immigration (most of it young males, sent by their poor families to get a job in Europe and send money home), these foreign cultures do not fit into ours (which leads to terrible problems with our population, I think it is the main reason that Europe is drifting to the far right or populist side of the political world). I did not vote or support any wars (and I do not know anybody that did), but Europe is still overrun by refugees from all the wars (started by the US and NATO and few supporting warmongers). That people drown in the Mediterranean is horrible, but they pay money to 'schleppers', throw away their passports, are taken over by Frontex ships and delivered to somewhere in Europe (the drag on the social systems will get so big it will bankrupt us - healthcare, housing, food). Europe has never before had a crime problem like in the US, it has now!! This is no solution - aid has to be given in their home countries, for me it would be: spend the military budget of the US and all the Western warmongers on this project (I know, will not happen, but when I think of going home to live in Austria - which I planned to do - I despair!! I never thought that I would agree with Mr Orban of Hungary ...). And sorry to blame Greece for bad treatment, is unfair, they are poor and bankrupt. Asylum can only be given for a short time, but Europe cannot even get rid of criminal immigrants (the worst offenders in the old days were Chechens and Afghans, now it is all over the place and the recommendations our politicians have for females is: stay home or wear a scarf). Most immigrants will not find any jobs, as there are too few for the citizens, so as said this kind of system can only ruin us all. This theme is an endless string of problems, unfortunately politicians do not care and corporations just want to make more profits. But I would say if we cannot solve our REAL problems (wars, now the threat of nuclear war, the climate crisis) we are doomed anyway and we of the 'rules based order' will join the miserable refugees (best case scenario)
If you really believe that main reason that Europe is drifting to the far right or populist side is because of emigrants (most of them stuck in Turkey), I suggest you take a hard look at what deinstrualization, big banks, and depopulation due to lack/cuts in social programs and austerity has done to the old continent.
I know, but 'immigration' (at that time they wanted cheap labor) started in the 70s and it got worse by the year (a lot came during the Yugoslav wars) and from then on the spigot was open. Otherwise of course austerity austerity (mainly Germany, which is really in bad shape, but NOW Europe will just go bankrupt - whatever, it is OVER!!)
Firstly I would like to thank 2follow him for this revelation.
Irving Layton's For my Brother Jesus sits beside my computer. Today it is joined by Louis Ginzberg's Legends of the Bible 1905 Jewish Publication Society.
Chapter V Abraham The cities of sin.
I am not Chris Hedges I am Moe son o0f Louis a lowly Israelite not the Messiah son of David. I am my father's son Absalom was David's seed. Hope is what gives life its meaning.
I got the book long after I knew the legend.
It wasn't the Donald Trumps that destroyed Sodom it was the Mitt Romneys, Joe Bidens and Bill Clintons.
Sodom was destroyed because it blamed the Donald Trumps instead of the Kings and princes who taught us to lie cheat and steal and gave us the excuses for the crimes against ourselves.
Of course Donald Trump is a thief and a liar but he didn't say I am not a thief he said I am a thief because it is good to be a thief in Sodom. It is our culture and our calling.
The real thieves steal our souls not our money.
"WE hold these truth to be self evident that all men are created equal, they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights among them life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Our legends teach us Sodom was destroyed because its leaders said Sodom is good and it is God that is Evil. The people need us we don't need them.
I remember Bishop Romney; telling the leaders of Sodom laws are not for them they are for us.
It was ever thus from the beginning when we crawled out of the sea and claimed the land as our own. We are Christians, weare Jews, We are followers of Mohammed we are law givers not subordinate to the laws of men.
'It is the eve of the eve of a new year. It is never too late to learn that all men are equal in the eyes of the Creator.
The leaders call it Armageddon . I call it the Exodus and a journey to the gates of Heaven.
We studied Darwin we understand we belong to the sea and the sea is inside not outside.
And the Evening and the morning was the sixth day.
Sodom is alive and well and the people are in pain and Jesus still weeps.
Thomas Jefferson wrote America's Bible he sits beside Jesus and weeps.
There is Jefferson's Bible on Amazon it is less than a dollar for the Kindle edition.
It starts
" And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed."
I salute you with the one finger I use to tap on my keyboard.
My Brother Jesus would have asked why I thought the Bible is nonsense.
I would have responded with a parable but you don't understand parables you are a pedant.
Jesus said render unto Caesar.... and render unto God.......
I live in Quebec where we understand the Bible and have banned RELIGION from our public places so we could practice being our Brother's keeper.
The Talmud translates the Bible into human understanding.
It teaches us; He who dwells on these things it would be better if he were never born. What was, what is and what will be.. I say only L'Chaim
Jesus said love ye one another without any caveats.
I know history. I know your hate, your hate killed many of my brothers.
I don't believe in (in hoc signo vinces)
I remember a brother executed between two thieves. They were also our brothers. The cross was used to kill from the time my brother died till the day after tomorrow. The cross was nothing but a license to kill and and justify the unjustifiable that is why Jesus still weeps.
I remember the Crusades and the Rhine ran red with our blood. I remember the Inquisition when our blood spilled on the sands of the Basque country. I remember my father whose youth perished in the land he grew up in. All done in the name of Jesus my brother.
Quebec is Christian because religion is banned in our public places.
Jesus lives in our hearts and souls. I remember the Seine running red with the blood of Catholics and Huguenots. I remember Cromwell and his Catholic genocides in Scotland and Ireland. I remember the English Civil war where innocents were slaughter by "christians" who were both Roundheads and Cavaliers. It was the bloodiest war in English history the English fought over the meaning of your Bible.
I was taught to not use the words currently in my head I lived among the innocents who ancestors you slaughtered . I offer you my thanks and the middle finger of my right hand.
Amen and Hallelujah
Blessed be the name of OUR Father who art in Heaven
I wish to report someone speaking the truth. Bring out the lumber and the nails.
The message my Brother tried to convey was the only way to be Christian was to ban religion.
I remember the Samaritans they smeared excrement on the doors of the temple that is what sometimes made them good. They are still with us and The Temple wall remains as a shrine to ignorance
The Bible is not nonsense it is only nonsense when spouted by such as you and Bishop Romney.
The Bible writes itself, it it is of today, yesterday and tomorrow. The book of Jonah tells us it is not written in stone. Why don't you study your own Bible. Zeus and Jupiter are your Deities not mine.
United States actions which have destabalized many counties is responsible for the existence of probably the majority of these displaced people. The United States has aresponsibility to take in a large number of these people who are fleeing from dangerous and economically harmful situations. As a son of immigrants, I welcome immigrants to our country and the interesting cultures and diversity they bring to us.
Although your points are valid - you neglect to include the vast percentage who vehemently refuse to assimilate! What excuses might you have for what has become of Sweden and Germany? What excuses do you have for the crimes/brutal rapes and murder they commit? No one denies them anything - in fact just the opposite holds true which is why they seek refuge here! In return they demand we cater to their needs - refusing to learn the language and adapt to the customs!
The Europeans who came to America got down and their knees and kissed the ground - they learned the language and never ever took a dime of government handouts! Comparing the immigrants who arrive today versus those who arrived previously is a slap in the face! You want to come to a different Country then you better learn the language and assimilate rather than expect us to do MORE for your culture!
I'm sick and tired of people that come to America and refuse to adapt and learn the language! I live in an area where they have taken over entire towns - the attitude is profound - this is now all theirs! In our State of ten million residents two million are illegals! The signs on the shops are no longer in English and they certainly have no respect for our culture! Although I am no fan of Orbin per se - he has the right idea when it comes to protecting the Hungarian culture!
I'm sorry they've been displaced because of the US but they need to respect the Countries who grant them refuge! Instead, just the opposite holds true! A sense of entitlement!
BJ,
1) Refugees are the OUTCOME of neocolonialism/
neoliberalism, so ANY claim over them as Steven Biko said (paraphrasing), "1st they kick us down, then they blame us for not being completely compliant."
2) You're narrative about grateful immigrants in u$a is fiction: slaves, multiracial anti slavery/ anti oligarchy uprisings like the Bacon Rebellion, poor whites being jailed and fined for not joining mandatory fugitive slave raids, still-dehumanizing / land stealing by u$a's parasite class to 'give' to desperately poor light skinned people, organized economic and cultural suppression of Mediterranean peoples, Jews, Irish, Roma etc, earth's MOST violent suppression of unions and suffrage movements, including shooting children led street protests.
Get to know the economic and political REASONS why this symptom of late stage capitalism exists below. Rebuttals with links for context encouraged.
Bhumika Muchhala on New International Economic Order https://youtu.be/TwhNhRmVEJM?t=5640
How u$a's Parasite Class is Ruining Everything https://youtu.be/Tde-5yfOn_I
u$a’s 1% has Oppressed We The People by Design from Day One https://youtu.be/m19xxHPYmIs?t=2798
Prof Gerald Horne Detailed Exposé on 1776 Counter-revolution https://youtu.be/C71DIrOmkBM
Gerald Horne on Haitian Revolution https://youtu.be/r-jXJM-xXt8
Since when is it written that strangers submit to the culture.
I thought Americans were Bible believers. The story of Sodom and Gomorrah is about receiving strangers and how they should be welcomed.
Hi Moe's, no country is Christian. That comes later according to prophecy. I cannot go to Iran and demand MY culture there.
I concur; it's their country. I don't HAVE to go, but if I do,
I incorporate some of their ways, and the same here.
Language, culture is learned, accepted or leave. It's not their country.
Exactly - accept the culture and some of the ways of the host country or leave.
RESPECT.
Anything else is an insult - telegraphs entitlement.
My brother Jesus and I speak regularly. He keeps reading the book of Jonah to me. It wasn't wasn't divine will that saved Nineveh it was the people who changed God's decree.
Your religion is unChristian. It is the Religion of Rome and Athens. My brother Jesus is100% the son of Man.
Only we can bring justice to our universe the Creator created and moved on.
Thomas Jefferson wrote America Bible he translated the Bible into American. You can read it on Kindle Jefferson's Bible.
The only thing missing from Jefferson's Bible is God . It is the biography of Jesus and is well worth reading.
There is no such thing as Freedom of Religion. Religion forbids freedom of thought and expression. My people were executed for blasphemy. Blasphemy is crime for believers in superstition myth and legend.
Jesus is a brother.
Your prophecies are simply lies to take away your freedom.
Jefferson believed in democracy and biological and scientific evolution. He was a botanist who evolved plants for specific needs.
Of course the only Freedom is freedom from religion.
In Quebec Bill21 demands Freedom from religion. We try to be Christian but it is a slog.
People believe the Darnedest things "Art Linkletter may be gone but he is not forgotten. In our Biblical tradition Noah was the town drunk and David's third son was Absalom.
Google Absalom He was the son of David in my Bible.
Jefferson waS A COWARD BUT HE WAS WISE AND TOLD THE TRUTH HE COULD READ HEBREW
AND ARAMAIC GREEK AND LATIN.
iT IS HARD FOR A RICH MAN TO UNDERSTAND jESUS OF nAZARETH HE WAS A GREAT MAN
MAYBE THE GREATEST.
iS EASIER FOR A CAMEL............
Then you know that there's 'no other name under heaven by which you must be saved', and the NAME then is a legal transaction for be8ng 'saved'.
In Hebrew, the Lord's NAME is Yehoshua.
Both the PROPER Greek name and Hebrew tell
everyone Who He is.
So if you believe the bible, then when you learn that
the name 'Jesus' is fake, invented in 1460 A.D.,
and has NO MEANING!!, you'll fix this and call
Him by either His Hebrew or Greek name, ie sous.
It's TWO words and will mean 'I AM' since
the Lord said this, 'before Abraham, I AM'.
Satan wants to remove 'ie sous', the 'I AM'.
Even Messianic Jews shorten His name to
Yeshua, dropping 'YEHO' Wwhich means God, Jehovah.
If this means nothing to you, don't reply.
And don't judge what you are in error of.
Ie sous has over 100 names: deliverer, Salvation,
shield, good Shepherd.
Lord of Lords and King of Kings.
He IS...the ONLY WAY to the Father.
Hearing the Lord's voice is very special and has led
us through dangers, traps. Don't fall for yet another LIE using the invented name, 'Jesus'.
Prophecy is the backbone of scripture.
I'm not hearing the bible. Geneva is first bible.
I know what was written and know who wrote what. What more do you want? You spout nonsense.
Analyze the meaning of Beowolf it is nonsense except for those trying to understand the evolution of myth. It is the words of trying to solve mysteries in tongues that no longer exist.
I don't want to hurt you , I don't want to destroy things that give you reason to wake up in the morning.
I wish you nothing but peace and happiness.
I am not a spiritual guide
Geneva is the gin my neighbours drink in the spring with maple sap and a cursed city in Switzerland.
. I am me and you are you. I don't need knowing things I don't need to know or even want to know.
I need to know why my computer is so slow during the holidays but everybody is home for the holidays and I live is a village not a city.and why' people still believe when their beliefs don't correspond to empirical evidence.
We have churches for sale lots of churches for sale. They may have some utility but we don't need churches we know we are our Brother's keeper. I remember Keats "That is all ye need to know. Truth is beauty ----beauty truth Ode on a Grecian Urn.
I talk to the trees and they me their history over a million years. Does your God wear a watch. Do you read Yuval Noah Harari?
I want you to stop spreading the word that is meaningful only to you and those looking for meaning where there is no meaning.
Life itself is all the meaning people need.
There is no decrees written in stone by Zeus or Yahweh ot the Tetra. There is no sound that will change the future even the blast of the Ram's horn as the gates of Heaven swing open and shut.
Give somebody a hug and some affirmation.
I don't believe in magic don't care whether or not there is a God. If there is I will know soon enough.
Kaddish is is our prayer for life and death it has no meaning. Abracadabra is Hebrew it is an homage to our mortalit6y and acknowledge that as the Kabbalist of old told us. God exists in the places we have yet to explore.. I won't even tell you what Ben David means in my tradition because it is more of an accident than a prophecy.
Do you feel better trying to convince an old man of thing that are not, never were and never will be.
L'chaim
The people didn't read they didn't need to read
I don't believe in Kings how do I believe in a King of kings. My Torah says God told the people they don't need Kings, kings are an impediment to love and understanding and David proved God's wisdom.
Tom Harpur was a Canadian Theologian he wrote the Pagan Christ it was a best seller for two years I tried to procure a copy at The University of Chicago Seminary bookstore. I had to get the book and the study guide from Canada. It is dangerous to speaki truth in your country. The truth is too painful.
Get a copy. Harpur was an Anglican Priest who understood that the bible is not history it is literature and good literature is better than crazy self affirming history.
You sound like a lovely person stop trying to convince yourself of things that just ain't so..
"I think therefore I am" Rene Descartes.
The Pagan Christ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pagan_Christ
Get the book and the study guide
I just go by 'Sola scriptura', often in Greek, as LED by the Holy Spirit. Yehoshua, Hebrew is the Word. John, chapter 1, especially in Greek is wonderful.
I deal in TRUTH. You must know we DON'T live on some
Insanely spinning non globe(optoid) orbiting?
But perhaps not.
The Geneva BIBLE was first, closer to the Greek.
I hope your neighbors like theirs!!
I don't need it!!
Ask some REAL, short question instead of 'vomiting' nonsense.
Or, just stop writing. No problem.
There's NO fruit of the Spirit in ANY of this.
Can you do better?
So quoting the bible is 'spouting nonsense?
You're into something else.
You can't judge a Bible by it's cover.
You are letting your anger blind you brother. In your words, "vehemently refuse to assimilate," did you watch what happened in America on January 6th 2021? Still today many republican senators, house members and of course the voters claim the elections were rigged. Rigged only if they lost. What do you have to say to them? Or is your anger only for people born on different soil and don't learn the language. I will take a nice foreigner that I can't understand over a republican or democrat that hates their fellow Americans just because they wear different colors on election day. Wouldn't you?
I agree. My shifts at Raytheon have been especially long and grueling lately, and the last thing I need is to see a bunch signs that aren't in English while I drive to one of the 3 box stores I shop at in town. Someone also once implied online that 5 layer dip isn't a rich cultural heritage, and boy I was peeved about that too. I made that dip for my Great Grandma's funeral last week. She came over from the old country way back in the 1930's as a girl, I think, but she probably knew English the second she landed here - I didn't know her very well. Anyway, we're Americans now, and that all that matters. And those signs annoy me and those people don't look or seem like me at all. I'd like to enjoy my vacuous material life without having to think about how my cell phone was made, or where the bombs my tax dollars pay for go, or what it must be like to live as an immigrant or a refugee in another country.
I am not an American. I live in a real democracy. We don't speak English because we don't want to be as insane as Americans. There is nothing special about French and nothing special about English. I was brought up speaking English. I lived in America for two decade. I didn't particularly thrive living in 1984 but I learned a lot.
I know what freedom and democracy mean. Big Brother says Freedom is slavery and democracy is tyranny.
I love Americans but Big Brother can go to Hell.
Raytheon? Wow you are upset about signs? I will take a sign stapled to my forehead over being a proud employee of the top 2 or 3 companies in the whole world providing weapons that kill 100's of thousands of people in all corners of the Earth no matter how big or small. Even as I type this people are dying due to your proud employer.
OL's post was dripping with sarcasm. The last sentence is esp revealing & scathing.
Good.
Lol, please be assured I am a pilot and a wildland firefighter by trade. I share completely your disdain for Raytheon and their ilk.
Yeah brother I saw that. There’s angry people that say very ignorant things on here all the time. You did get me, but I don’t think you can blame me for thinking you were one of the ignorant ones. Either way. I’m glad you’re a positive person.
Raytheon! Really. Wonder when this batch of weapons from the world’s weapon supplier nation will be again used against our own - after displacing millions of innocents - who will become shunned refugees??
I am disheartened and really so sad to think about our species tribalism. How to overcome????
Top shelf sarcasm 👌
Lol, thanks! I know it's crude but I find the assimilation rhetoric particularly enraging, having lived as an immigrant myself. Survival and success in a foreign country hinges on a social network, you know? It's a lifeline to those communities.
Sarcasm served cold probably went over BJ's Archie Bunker mentality!
O.L.
I like your satire but have you looked at a calendar. America does not do satire.
It is against the law. It is UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
That is why Franklin was cancelled and Scalia translated the constitution into Frontier Gibberish.
I lived in America for two decades as a REAL cANADIAN. i AM ME A CITIZEN OF cANADA AND qUEBEC AND i STILL DON'T KNOW HOW TO BE A cANADIAN. mY WIFE WAS BORN IN nASHVILLE BUT IS 0% tENNESSEE. sHE IS uNIVERSITY OF cHICAGO AND WE LIVE IN qUEBEC BESIDE qUEBEC'S aPPLACHIAN TRAIL. wHERE WE LIVE THE LIFE OF SOPHISTICATED hILLBILLIES.WITHOUT jIM bEAM AND FANTYNYL i SMOKE LOTS OF WILDWOOD FLOWERS AND WIFE MY DRINKS TEA AND COFFEE.
wE LISTEN TO jOHNNY cASH AND eRIC sATIE AND READ tWAIN, AND hERMAN mELVILLE AND sTEVEN pINKER AND sTEPHEN fRY AND jOHN sTEWART mILL, bENJAMIN fRANKLIN AND tHOMAS jEFFERSON.
jEFFERSON WROTE THE aMERICAN BIBLE THE ONLY THING HE DIDN'T PUT IN THE aMERICAN BIBLE WAS THE fLYING Spaghetti Monsters.
The capitals and lower case is meaningless. That is now I write. Sometimes I( haven't got the time or energy to the edit.
Miigwech. Thank you... for your lovely response. ;D
"The Europeans who came to America got down and their knees and kissed the ground - they learned the language and never ever took a dime of government handouts!" Really? How many Ojibwe speaking Americans do you know? This country was built on the genocide of one race and the enslavement of another.
You think YOU'RE SICK of ppl coming to your land and disrespecting the language? Try being Anishinaabe, having an Ojibwe convo at the gas pump in Minnesota, and being told to go back to your own country.
There's a real whacked sense of entitlement. And it's pervasive, especially in 'Murica.
In a nation of immigrants... who disrespect immigrants?
When we're using sound canons to deter humans in their greatest moments of need, we can look only in the mirror to see the problem.
Sure BJ you probably wish for Work Houses and would give Oliver Twist a good kick in the butt for asking for more than his "share" of gruel. Jack London's "People of the Abyss" in London where a predator society ruled and most starved was why many left Great Britain as refugees. Better yet get Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" where a capitalist "melting pot" predated on man and beast in the slaughter houses of Chicago. ( word has it many still speak Polish and eastern European languages to this day). By your opinion I wonder who's side you would be on? Eyad's hell on earth only brings your ridicule and indifference is outrageous!
BJ, The non-English speaking Europeans who immigrated to our country took time to learn the language and costumes and only second generations were fully integrated to our society. Perhaps that is the history of your ancestors. Same wise, today's immigrants need our help to acquire citizenship before they can fully contribute to USA and they always arrive with a desire for improvement and far from feeling entitled they have shown to be the hardest workers in their fields. About "the crimes/brutal rapes and murder they commit" I think you have watched too much Fox News.
Relax, don't be afraid, they are not going to take your job. Rather think what could we do if half the Pentagon budget were used to improve America instead of using it to destabilize other countries.
I'm with you brother. These angry people want others to assimilate to America. My question to them is what happens if in the future languages disappear because of technology. All you have to do is think and someone understands without words. Are they going to leave the US? Or some future party wins and changes to a different language. Are they going to leave the US? Or when China buys everything are these people going to willingly learn Mandarin? Or are they going to leave the US? ETC....ETC...
Thank you Failure from a fellow traveler.
I am however a Hitchhiker travelling the Galaxy.
I speak computer and live in Babel.
They say I am a genius at logic and logic in Babel is illogical.
You can't as of yet translate human either by digital, analog or quantum computing.
My worry is we are assimilating or have assimilated the Chinese.
Russia Ukraine is another religious war but this time the battle is for the survival of our species.
I speak Zelenskiy. He is also my brother, my son and my father.
Bury my heart in Babi Yar.
He has money hidden in off shore accounts, he is an oligarch as much as any other Russian oligarch that is getting dragged through the media as being evil. If they are evil than so is he. Do some research.
I watched Zelensky since he was just the piano player and watched America elect a pimp and thief to its highest office.
Trump's grandfather was a pimp just like his son and grandson.
I don't put any sway in money.
Our Prime was born into power but chose to live the life of a school teacher in Montreal's working class Papineau riding
Just because Trump looks like a pimp, talks like a pimp, dresses like a pimp doesn't make him a low class class pimp. He is a low class pimp because he likes being a low class pimp.
Your media and Russia's media likes attacking Justin Trudeau because of his wealth and power and he chose to serve rather than rule.
Justin Trudeau went into politics when he was 40 he taught high school and lived the life of a High School teacher.
His wife Sophie was a tv celebrity and Trudeau was recruited into politic to run in MontreaL's Papineau where he lived and worked. Montreal Papineau is a long way from the Prime Minister's office.
Trudeau won the leadership of our Liberal Party in a martial arts ring.
Here is our right wing media covering that charity event as it sought to diminish a man of incredible integrity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuSpZ3_5pTc&t=217s
The fact that America and it oligarchs and it effete intellectuals hate integrity is just part of my sorrow as I look out my south facing window.
Sometime a cigar is just a cigar.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babi_Yar
They didn't take the time they were assimilated you are the Borg you are Rome. I am human. I was lucky I couldn't assimilate. I tried and I failed.
I am a lowly Jew and only now learning to write.
That is my story and you are welcome to listen to my story. I don't have to apologize I 've never been happier.
Enough is a banquet fit for the Messiah be he Prince or Pauper.
Mark Twain wrote a Bible he was a gifted writer.
He left us a library.
My Brother in Law lives in Brazil. He is an American living the rest of his life in Brazil. He lives like an American not a Brazilian. My step son bought a home in Portugal. He can only live like an American. I know what it is to be a Brazilian. I know what it is to be Portugese I am human. American is a very good thing to have been. Unfortunately it is 2023 tomorrow and Jonah has arrived with a message from God.
I live in Quebec. We speak French. I watch little television. The television my wife watches is English, There is no real English television in Quebec. The ads come from New York and Toronto. The adds from Toronto are illegal in Quebec. The laws in Ontario are different from Washington.
Snake oil is illegal in Quebec. Some Snake Oil is permitted in Ontario but Snake Oils all you get from New York, LA and Vegas.
We are all the same. We are Marxists. It is in our DNA.
What WISDOM!! I Forgot!! Did we offer to help? I didn't see it.
I think ancestors had more..energy, determination? You?
Thank you Julio,
You made my day.
We are the Borg you will be assimilated . Resistance is FUTILE.
I watched America assimilate the world and I sat by my brother Jesus and we cried together.
I'm on board with ie sous, the king of kings.
My Bible says The Lord warned Israel about Kings
David the "elect of God" the Messiah translated into English.
Descended from a family of the elect of God spawned Absalom
What does your Bible say?
Maybe Calvin is your translator.
Jesus is my translator.
I worked for a Georgia graduate.
He had a PhD in Stupid.
In Quebec it is against the law to breed Georgia Bulldogs. They have a life expectancy of five and are born with breathing problems.
You are both right. Many of these people are lost, in misery, YET,
some, once received may be very detrimental.
No one counts how many, % wise of total are damaging.
And they come as a group, take one, take all. NO!! NOT!!
Entrance to another country should require MONTHS of helping the country for their keep. This is reality. Their country failed them.
So they must ASSIST their new...possible country.
Their country may have failed them but you have to do real research to find out why. My US government has overthrown countless democratically elected governments. Leaving these countries in shambles, more importantly installing far right governments that rob these people and leave schools and homes in ruin. You blame them for leaving their own country. Where would you go if your city and most of the other cities in your entire country were blown up? Even now the Ukraine Proxy War which you can trace the beginnings all the way back to the mid 80's due to the US government's involvement. Most recently and most significantly in 2014, when they were the main culprits that lead to the US backed proxy war. The ever growing military industrial complex may lead to a nuclear war. Putin and England had a deal before this war started but the US government told Boris Johnson not to take it. One of those times our government gave weapons and trained other countries' soldiers to fight Russia, led to the rise of Osama Bin Laden. How did that workout? Ukraine is the most corrupt country (with the help of the US of course,) in Europe with many of these groups that are receiving these weapons are not just far right factions but white supremacists, let's see what happens in the future when the "good people" of this corrupt county have all the training and guns we supplied them.
Yes. Such equitable requirements are mandatory for successful entry to another country.
Must assist rather than burden. Otherwise it's a parasitic attack.
Yes. Months of help.
All else is foreign takeover.
Just Sola scriptura, what ideas? I try to stay with scriptures.
Never had anything to do with 'doctrines of men'. The New Testament is clear.
I strongly doubt I'd BE Christian or a follower if I'd ever been taught the unscriptural teachings of Calvinism.
I had the privilege to teach an Indian boy, a deep inherent depression in him. I read this was prevalent. I couldn't address it directly, but did get him focusing.
It's in Christ that 'there is no east or west'. A favorite hymn.
The problem is, are the scriptures really worth believing? and if so which ones, the apocalypses of John, St. Peter or St. Paul.? or the many other "apocryphal" early Christian writings. Good for you, faith is a personal thing and I have none and keep happy.
You have to be 'called'. In Christianity, this is why nowhere does it say to baptize babies. Nor does it talk about abortion.
Does the world's way 'work'?
Yes, scriptures 'work', nothing else does.
Good points.
Understood. But I prefer not be 'called' or what Soren Kierkegaard describes becoming a 'knight of Faith'. As he explains in his "Tears and Trembling" the leap of faith requires the suspension of the ethical just as Abraham was willing to kill his only son at the command of God. The problem is how to know when is God who is talking. Many people have murdered others with that assumption and we recently have a president that invaded Iraq. Since my poor intellect cannot understand God I'm agnostic.
Rodger lets get real. America rejects truth and prefers fairytales and Disney's Fantasyland.
Let's drink eat and be merry for tomorrow we die. Don't you remember gladiators lived longer than the average beaR AND THEIR SLEEP PARNERS AND bACCANAL PROVIDERS WERE EXPERT IN THEIR ASSIGNED TASK.
From a European standpoint I really have trouble with this immigration (most of it young males, sent by their poor families to get a job in Europe and send money home), these foreign cultures do not fit into ours (which leads to terrible problems with our population, I think it is the main reason that Europe is drifting to the far right or populist side of the political world). I did not vote or support any wars (and I do not know anybody that did), but Europe is still overrun by refugees from all the wars (started by the US and NATO and few supporting warmongers). That people drown in the Mediterranean is horrible, but they pay money to 'schleppers', throw away their passports, are taken over by Frontex ships and delivered to somewhere in Europe (the drag on the social systems will get so big it will bankrupt us - healthcare, housing, food). Europe has never before had a crime problem like in the US, it has now!! This is no solution - aid has to be given in their home countries, for me it would be: spend the military budget of the US and all the Western warmongers on this project (I know, will not happen, but when I think of going home to live in Austria - which I planned to do - I despair!! I never thought that I would agree with Mr Orban of Hungary ...). And sorry to blame Greece for bad treatment, is unfair, they are poor and bankrupt. Asylum can only be given for a short time, but Europe cannot even get rid of criminal immigrants (the worst offenders in the old days were Chechens and Afghans, now it is all over the place and the recommendations our politicians have for females is: stay home or wear a scarf). Most immigrants will not find any jobs, as there are too few for the citizens, so as said this kind of system can only ruin us all. This theme is an endless string of problems, unfortunately politicians do not care and corporations just want to make more profits. But I would say if we cannot solve our REAL problems (wars, now the threat of nuclear war, the climate crisis) we are doomed anyway and we of the 'rules based order' will join the miserable refugees (best case scenario)
If you really believe that main reason that Europe is drifting to the far right or populist side is because of emigrants (most of them stuck in Turkey), I suggest you take a hard look at what deinstrualization, big banks, and depopulation due to lack/cuts in social programs and austerity has done to the old continent.
I know, but 'immigration' (at that time they wanted cheap labor) started in the 70s and it got worse by the year (a lot came during the Yugoslav wars) and from then on the spigot was open. Otherwise of course austerity austerity (mainly Germany, which is really in bad shape, but NOW Europe will just go bankrupt - whatever, it is OVER!!)
"No man is an Island entire of itself--
-----------------------
For whom the Bell Tolls
it tolls for thee"
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/john-donne
https://allpoetry.com/No-man-is-an-island
John Donne
1572-1631
"Works for me"
Elon Musk 12/28/2022
What can I say? I have said all there is to say.
Metaphysically yours
Moe
I hadn't been invited, called and perhaps like you,?, perhaps not,
didn't notice, then through a series of 'events' that today 'blow my mind', I was.
'to as many as received Him', so we know not even all invited went ahead.
That's why Abraham is called the 'Father' or originator, he DID know His God.
And this is where I'm headed.
You're respectful, rational.
Yes, tye w9rds of Yehoshua are excellent. Some others too.
Too bad you didn't ask your wife first.
The world. Must control BECAUSE they've got NONE.
So, they enFORCE.
This recording is tragic
Firstly I would like to thank 2follow him for this revelation.
Irving Layton's For my Brother Jesus sits beside my computer. Today it is joined by Louis Ginzberg's Legends of the Bible 1905 Jewish Publication Society.
Chapter V Abraham The cities of sin.
I am not Chris Hedges I am Moe son o0f Louis a lowly Israelite not the Messiah son of David. I am my father's son Absalom was David's seed. Hope is what gives life its meaning.
I got the book long after I knew the legend.
It wasn't the Donald Trumps that destroyed Sodom it was the Mitt Romneys, Joe Bidens and Bill Clintons.
Sodom was destroyed because it blamed the Donald Trumps instead of the Kings and princes who taught us to lie cheat and steal and gave us the excuses for the crimes against ourselves.
Of course Donald Trump is a thief and a liar but he didn't say I am not a thief he said I am a thief because it is good to be a thief in Sodom. It is our culture and our calling.
The real thieves steal our souls not our money.
"WE hold these truth to be self evident that all men are created equal, they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights among them life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Our legends teach us Sodom was destroyed because its leaders said Sodom is good and it is God that is Evil. The people need us we don't need them.
I remember Bishop Romney; telling the leaders of Sodom laws are not for them they are for us.
It was ever thus from the beginning when we crawled out of the sea and claimed the land as our own. We are Christians, weare Jews, We are followers of Mohammed we are law givers not subordinate to the laws of men.
'It is the eve of the eve of a new year. It is never too late to learn that all men are equal in the eyes of the Creator.
The leaders call it Armageddon . I call it the Exodus and a journey to the gates of Heaven.
We studied Darwin we understand we belong to the sea and the sea is inside not outside.
And the Evening and the morning was the sixth day.
Sodom is alive and well and the people are in pain and Jesus still weeps.
Thomas Jefferson wrote America's Bible he sits beside Jesus and weeps.
There is Jefferson's Bible on Amazon it is less than a dollar for the Kindle edition.
It starts
" And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed."
La plus ca change
The more they remain the same.
The Holy Bible is the written source of wisdom, understanding, knowledge, and thus is the standard bearer for ethics, morals, integrity.
The verse "Let God be True, and every man a liar", applies especially to anyone who refers to scriptural Truths as spouting nonsense.
Such a comment comes from one in a small, dark, place.
It is evident how that is working for that one.
Thank you Meta for proving my point.
Your understanding of the Bible is nonsense.
I live in the Universe not your MetaVerse.
I salute you with the one finger I use to tap on my keyboard.
My Brother Jesus would have asked why I thought the Bible is nonsense.
I would have responded with a parable but you don't understand parables you are a pedant.
Jesus said render unto Caesar.... and render unto God.......
I live in Quebec where we understand the Bible and have banned RELIGION from our public places so we could practice being our Brother's keeper.
The Talmud translates the Bible into human understanding.
It teaches us; He who dwells on these things it would be better if he were never born. What was, what is and what will be.. I say only L'Chaim
Jesus said love ye one another without any caveats.
I know history. I know your hate, your hate killed many of my brothers.
I don't believe in (in hoc signo vinces)
I remember a brother executed between two thieves. They were also our brothers. The cross was used to kill from the time my brother died till the day after tomorrow. The cross was nothing but a license to kill and and justify the unjustifiable that is why Jesus still weeps.
I remember the Crusades and the Rhine ran red with our blood. I remember the Inquisition when our blood spilled on the sands of the Basque country. I remember my father whose youth perished in the land he grew up in. All done in the name of Jesus my brother.
Quebec is Christian because religion is banned in our public places.
Jesus lives in our hearts and souls. I remember the Seine running red with the blood of Catholics and Huguenots. I remember Cromwell and his Catholic genocides in Scotland and Ireland. I remember the English Civil war where innocents were slaughter by "christians" who were both Roundheads and Cavaliers. It was the bloodiest war in English history the English fought over the meaning of your Bible.
I was taught to not use the words currently in my head I lived among the innocents who ancestors you slaughtered . I offer you my thanks and the middle finger of my right hand.
Amen and Hallelujah
Blessed be the name of OUR Father who art in Heaven
Baruch Atta Adonai Eluhenu melech Haolam.
You want to curse me this is how I speak.
I wish to report someone speaking the truth. Bring out the lumber and the nails.
The message my Brother tried to convey was the only way to be Christian was to ban religion.
I remember the Samaritans they smeared excrement on the doors of the temple that is what sometimes made them good. They are still with us and The Temple wall remains as a shrine to ignorance
It was after all built by men not gods.
The Bible is not nonsense it is only nonsense when spouted by such as you and Bishop Romney.
The Bible writes itself, it it is of today, yesterday and tomorrow. The book of Jonah tells us it is not written in stone. Why don't you study your own Bible. Zeus and Jupiter are your Deities not mine.
Jesus is my Brother not my Messiah.
David's son was Absalom he was the seed of Satan
Thank you
You lost me at ‘climate crisis’