Are you willing to take the lord Donald J. Trump as your personal savior, to walk in his ways, to love him and to follow him?
Every form of personal redemption requires a path, a community and a literature.
* I suspect Trump’s chances of death or serious injury between now and the election are greater than police officers, firefighters or military personnel overseas. He is literally laying his life on the line for his country.
* I think there have been attempts on him already. But you are correct, it is going to get worse. And as Steve wrote about that guy in Europe, well, he had it coming, right? Hope for the best, prepare for the worst. Gonna get nasty…
* DONALD J. TRUMP RESPONSE TO LINDSEY GRAHAM:
“I fully understand why Lindsey Graham cannot support me. If I got beaten as badly as I beat him, and all the other candidates he endorsed, I would not be able to give my support either. Every time I see Lindsey Graham spew hate during interviews I ask why the media never questions how I single-handedly destroyed his hapless run for President. As a candidate who did not receive 1% in his own state – compared to my victory at nearly 40% with many others in the race – he has zero credibility. He was a poor representative and an embarrassment to the great people of South Carolina. Judging by the incompetent way he ran his campaign, it is easy to see why his military strategies have failed so badly — we can’t even beat ISIS!
While I will unify the party, Lindsey Graham has shown himself to be beyond rehabilitation. And like the voters who rejected him, so will I!”
Donald J. Trump
* Russell Moore was part of the Evangelical Immigration Table (EIT), a project of Soros’ National Immigration Forum. The Evangelical Immigration Table was funded partly by Paul Singer (Rubio’s money man), by which I mean he paid for their ads promoting amnesty during the Gang of Eight battle, which was pretty much all that the EIT did.
* Clearly if the term “self-hating” can apply to Jews or gays who dissent from the identity-politics line, then Russell Moore is a “self-hating” Christian.
* Is Moore considered to be on the Left? He was one of the contributors to the notorious “Against Trump” hissy-fit at National Review. He was contemptible enough then; with this he sinks to a new depth.
It’s a great irony that the hysterical reaction to Trump among self-proclaimed “principled conservatives” has exposed how much they’ve always been in it for fame and money. I hope Moore got a thrill from his little NYT byline.
* “This Baptist Charity Is Being Paid Hundreds of Millions to Shelter Child Migrants”
Since December, BCFS (Baptist Child and Family Services) has received more than $280 million in federal grants to operate these shelters, according to government records. On July 7, two days before Dinnin met Obama in Dallas, the Department of Health and Human Services awarded BCFS $190,707,505 in a single grant.
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The federal grant money for sheltering unaccompanied children, provided by HHS’s Administration for Children and Families, has so far totaled $671 million during the 2014 fiscal year. BCFS has received 40% of those funds, making it the largest recipient of money disbursed to contractors to temporarily house unaccompanied children…
* Christianity is a strange kind of religion.
It is both nativist and anti-nativist.
It arose in a time of Jewish resistance against the Roman Empire. Collaborationist Jews just went along with the Romans. Patriotic Jews wanted to drive the Romans out by any means necessary.
Jesus was more a patriotic Jew and certainly not a collaborationist Jew. He respected the patriotic Jews who were idealistic and willing to die for God and their land.
He had no respect for the collaborationists who just went along to enrich themselves and live well and enjoy privilege.
But He fell out of favor with the patriots as well because He thought the Jews should just leave it up to God. The real battle was a spiritual battle. And vengeance would be God’s.
If Jews were to be very good and give up their wealth and choose holy poverty and prove their goodness in the eyes of God, then God would take care of things. God would send terror upon the bad folks and smite them. According to John, God would even send the 666 beask that was scarier than Godzilla and Mechagodzilla combined.
Jesus saw armed resistance as futile since Romans were so much more powerful in arms. Also, too many key Jews were collaborators. And Romans appointed Herod as king of the Jews. And Herod was a master builder and a mighty tyrant in his own right.
So, how could Jews win? Jesus relied on God. If Jews were really really good, God would take care of it. And for this to happen, Jesus had to be sacrificed as a the Perfect Man. He would not resist the torture and pain. He would take the whupping(though prolly not as horrible as in Gibson’s movie) and then die on the Cross. And then God would open up the heavens, send the angels of vengeance(like in Raiders of the Lost Ark), and kick some butt. But it didn’t happen that way.
Since God didn’t punish the evildoers when Jesus got nailed to the Cross, the idea was that it will happen some day. Who knows when?
The whole idea began as revenge for the Jews against Romans, but since the religion outlasted the Roman Empire, the revelation about Judgement Day took on new meanings. Ironically, even though Jesus wanted to see God smash pagan Rome, the Rome that got smashed was Christian, and the smashing was done by pagans.
Go figure.
Anyway, Christianity began as a religion of resistance. It was to resist the Roman imperialists and the Jewish collaborators. But unlike Zealots who wanted to be like the Viet Cong, Jesus was more into what Gandhi pulled later. Gandhi had numbers on his side. Jesus thought He had God on His side.
St. Paul was a collaborator who used to whup patriotic Jews for the Romans. But he had a change of heart. And he came to serve Jesus. And he wanted to win over Jews, but Jews told him to get lost.
This is when Christianity, which began as a Jewish-nativist religion(and was maintained as such by Peter and his followers), became an anti-nativist religion. Disappointed by his fellow Jews–who also kicked his ass a few times–, Paul decided to turn it into a universal religion for all folks, and to make it palatable to non-Jews, his version didn’t require men to slice off their weenie skins. (That sure helped in spreading the faith.) Paul turned against the Jews and even railed against them. He appealed to Greeks, Romans, Syrians, and other peoples. And when he went among Jews, he favored exile Jews in non-Jewish lands.
But Romans didn’t like it. Romans were for pagan universalism of Roman rule.
It was political universalism that placed huge areas under Roman authority. Religiously, Romans let others worship their own gods.
Romans didn’t like the idea of a new kind of universalism, a spiritual one based on the God of the Jews. Even as Paul appealed to Romans and excoriated Jews, Romans found him bothersome and dangerous.
It was spiritual universalism vs political universalism. Eventually, of course, the two merged under Constantine.
Christianity that developed was dual-in-nature. It was both anti-imperialist and pro-imperialist. To the extent that its originator was a Jew who resisted the Roman imperialists and was killed by them, Christianity was an anti-Roman-imperialist religion. Also, a kind of ‘slave religion’ that morally favored the wretched-of-the-earth, it favored the oppressed over the oppressors.
But on the other hand, Christianity could not have spread so easily if not for Roman Empire’s vast cross-circuitry of roads and trade routes. Paul traveled of foot and by sea all over. He was able to do this cuz of Pax Romana. Also, his Roman citizenship saved him a bunch of times. So, even as he was spreading the faith that originated as anti-imperialism, his very means of spreading it was made possible by the existence of the Empire. In a way, Paul was standing up to Roman power and Roman way. But he wasn’t pure of heart like Jesus. He could be diplomatic, savvy, political, cunning. He knew how to save his own skin. He worked like a salesman. Unlike Jesus, he didn’t seek martyrdom. He tried to avoid it as much as possible.
He knew there was much to gain from Roman power, Roman laws, Roman military power. After all, without Roman imperialism, there would just be chaos and violence all around.
Furthermore, Christianity had its own seeds of imperialism. If indeed Jesus is the Son of One and Only God and if His truth is the only true truth, it means that the entire world must be made to accept His truth. That was justification for imperialism for the Romans and later the Europeans. Indeed, even US slavery was justified along the lines of turning black heathens into Aunt Esthers. And Spanish justified their conquest of the New World on the basis of spreading the faith.
So, Christianity spread via imperialism even though it originated as an act of anti-imperialism. Not only did Christians make a pact with mighty military power(beginning with Romans) but the innate core of Christianity is a kind of spiritual imperialism(very much like Islam that came later). To save the world, the world has to be conquered, and all must be made to share in the faith in the Lord.
Indeed, Moore overlooks the fact that the Christianization of much of the world is the product of Western Imperialism. He also fails to understand that his hope for more Christians-of-color in the West is the product of reverse-imperialism, the invasion of the West by darkie hordes(most of whom will be converted more to rap music and thug culture than religion).
I reject such imperialism and globalism. Imperialism had value long ago when the West did have much to teach the world. Also, there was a time when so many peoples were isolated and had much to gain by being shaken out of their doldrums into the international system dominated by the West, the most advanced folks on earth.
But now, globalism threatens all nations, all cultures, all traditions. It is like a hurricane that threatens the integrity and identity of every nation and civilization.
And for every new Christian convert created by globalism, there are 1000 new fans of Miley Cyrus and other such filth. Besides, the main faith spread by global West is now homomania.
Let non-Christian peoples keep their own cultures and identities. And let Europeans and Americans keep theirs.
* The Liberals in the comments section of The New York Times just had an orgasm at London electing a Muslim for mayor.
It’s weird seeing a bunch of Godless Liberal Atheists who claim they hate religion, yet want to see more Muslims in positions of power.
Why do Atheists want so badly to be ruled over by Muslims? It must be a Cuck fantasy for Atheists to want to live in a society like Syria or Yemen.
Atheists who love Muslims remind me of Feminazis who say there is a war on women, yet they only date thugs or bad boys and do not give nice guys the time of the day.
* Moore is a good example of how the Cult of Compassion could shut off a man’s heart to his fellow brethren.
Moore’s Cult of Compassion is all about the Noble Negro(of To Kill a Mocking Bird). His childlike mind is stuck in the 50s of Jimmy Crow. He has no idea how much this nation has changed. He still seems to think white folks have it all and must share with all the world. He must live in a bubble and be disconnected from reality since so many white people are hurting, largely due to growing diversity.
He is so full of himself, his own goodness, his own precious holiness, and his self-righteous conceit that he is blind to problems faced by real Americans whose needs have been overlooked by idiots like him and other globalists who favor ‘more consumers for my brand(in his care, religion)’ than for what is good for my fellow countrymen.
Moore is too busy looking into the looking glass and muttering ‘mirror mirror on the wall, who is the goody-goodiest of them all’ to realize that America of today isn’t what it was 50 yrs ago. It is now an America where blacks routinely beat up and bully whites. It is a nation where blacks are far more likely to taunt and insult whites than other way around. I mean how many whites say ‘go back to Africa’? But just listen to rap music that is filled with filth.
Moore has too much pride, a bad thing in Christianity. His moral pride and preening holy-shmoliness blinds him to the fact that he’s a greedy sumfabitch who’s only interested in increasing members for his church than doing what is good for all Americans.
And more immigration and more diversity is NOT what this country needs.
Diversity is imperialism, imperialism is diversity. Roman Empire was diverse… because it was an EMPIRE!
If the West deserves to be invaded to make it diverse, then the corollary is ALL the world deserves to be invaded to make them more diverse.
* That Russell’s article would appear in the NYT is simply bizarre. Would they publish an evangelical Op-Ed about how “the majority of people who ever lived” were bound to not enter Heaven because they refused to accept Jesus as their Savior?
I doubt it. And I also doubt that many evangelicals even read, or respect, anything in the New York Times.
