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Category Archives: Christianity
Why do more U.S. women study abroad than men?
Washington Post: Nearly 300,000 U.S. college students will study abroad this year…65 percent of students leaving the United States will be women…The St. Lawrence Kenya program is one of the oldest study abroad programs in Africa and more than 70 … Continue reading
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The Oregon Shooter Was A 26yo Mulatto Who Hated White Christians
BLOG: The immediate on-line web history of Chris Harper-Mercer showed him to be a mixed-race, angry young man in general alignment with various radical racially aligned groups such as Black Lives Matter, Fuck The Police and Fuck Yo Flag – … Continue reading
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Blog: Haredi Rabbi says Muslim invasion of Europe is ‘excellent news’ because “Edom” (Christianity) must be destroyed before “Messiah” can “return”
Blog: An extract from a talk by apparently Chabad-associated Rav David Touitou. Full video here. The rabbi says: “The Messiah of Israel will only come when Christ, Europe, Christianity are totally defeated. Therefore I ask you, is this good news … Continue reading
Vatican Has Stricted Immigration Policy In The World
Comments at the Chateau: * Go there and see for yourself. I have, it’s an amazing place. The Catholic church carried western culture for centuries. Without it, some of the greatest works of art in existence would not have been … Continue reading
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Stereotyping While Waiting In Line At Ralphs
It was a mess at Ralphs this afternoon. As I waited in line, I noticed patterns. WASPs are the best behaved group. They are the best at waiting in line and they are the best, in general, in acting like … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Diversity, Immigration, Islam, Israel, R. Abraham Cooper, Race
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Stepping Back Into Church
I’m a preacher’s kid. I grew up in Seventh-Day Adventist churches. Then I left all that at age 18 and became an atheist for a few years and then converted to Orthodox Judaism. For the past four years, I’ve been … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Christianity, Personal
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Religion & Family First, State Second
Paul Johnson writes in Modern Times: De Gasperi, for his part, never recognized in Mussolini anything except a destructive radical: ‘Bolshevism in black’, as he put it. His own Partito Popolare Trentino was welcomed by Don Luigi Sturzo into the … Continue reading
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Pathological White Altruism
Many Christians are destroying the West with their pathological white altruism. Here’s an example: Sister Sharon, 70, first met immigrant families when she was growing up near the Canadian border in a North Dakota farming town. They were Spanish-speaking migrant … Continue reading
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Horrors Of the Christian Adoption Scene
From Chateau Heartiste: “You know which religious group rarely bothers with all this outgroup, extrafamilial, pathological altruism toward their distant lessers?” “Psychologically normal people don’t like sacrificing their time, energy, and love for unrelated children who don’t look or act … Continue reading
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Praying For Abortionists
The Christian approach seems naive. Few Jews I know, or even know of, spend time praying for their enemies. Jews seem to have fewer scruples about hating their enemies while Christians seem to feel compelled to try to love their … Continue reading
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