U.S. Supreme Court stated in the 1892 case of Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, written by Justice David Josiah Brewer (143 U.S. 457-458, 465-471, 36 L ed 226): ” This is a religious people.
This is historically true. From the discovery of this continent to the present hour, there is a single voice making this affirmation.
The commission to Christopher Columbus…(recited) that
‘it is hoped that by God’s assistance some of the continents and islands in the ocean will be discovered’…
The first colonial grant made to Sir Walter Raleigh in 1584…and the grant authorizing him to enact statutes for the government of the proposed colony provided
‘that they be not against the true Christian faith’…
The first charter of Virginia, granted by King James I in 1606…commenced the grant in these words:
‘…in propagating of Christian Religion to such People as yet live in Darkness…’
Language of similar import may be found in the subsequent charters of that colony…in 1609 and 1611; and the same is true of the various charters granted to the other colonies.
In language more or less emphatic is the establishment of the Christian religion declared to be one of the purposes of the grant.
The celebratedcompact made by the Pilgrims in theMayflower , 1620, recites:
‘Having undertaken for the Glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith…a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia’…
You probably won’t see this on your news channels but Israel recently found an underground Hezbollox airbase/ drone building factory/ launch site, built under a village in southern Lebanon.
After capturing the tunnel, soldiers found around 50 UAVs with warheads of around 30 kilograms (66 pounds) of explosives each.
All ready to be fired into Israel, just a few kilometres from the border.
The tunnels go under the village of Madjal Zoun.
They run under houses and a mosque.
The subterranean facility, guarded by massive steel blast doors, was built in the past decade with direct Iranian assistance, including planning and funding, according to Israeli military sources.
Inside the tunnel, which was wide enough for a standard vehicle to drive through, Hezbollox had assembled Iranian-made drones using parts smuggled into Lebanon, presumably under the noses of the UNFIL personnel.
The drones can typically fly 200 to 500 kilometers (125 to 310 miles), enough to reach all of Israel, according to IDF officials. Military analyst Fabian Hinz identified the UAVs as an Iranian drone design, known as the Qasef in the service of the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen.
In addition to the UAVs, the troops found around eight tons of explosive material in the underground site’s rooms
Make no mistake, Iran stands behind Hezbollox in Lebanon.
They have no interest in peace.
Israel must be allowed to defend itself and our northern border from these threats.
No other country would tolerate this.
Iran is demanding Israel withdraw from southern Lebanon but make no commitment to stop using their proxies to attack us.
They criticise Israeli aggression and threaten to walk away from the deal with the US. This is a genius move, designed to build a wedge between Israel the US and to further trash Israel’s reputation around the world.
In reality they will use any excuse they can to sink the deal and make it look as though it’s all Israel’s fault.
We cannot be held to ransom for a deal we had no part in.
Lebanon needs to be freed from Hezbollox and Iran’s evil intentions.
Israel and Lebanon must find a way to live in peace together without them.
We need to make sure there is an end-game strategy and our soldiers are not left vulnerable to attacks they cannot defend against because of an externally imposed “ceasefire” that is nothing of the sort.
We need a real and lasting diplomatic solution between the Lebanese government and Israel.
We need our leaders to have a vision for a better, more peaceful future, not more, never-ending violence and war.
Those are diplomatic talks the world should be backing. These could really make a difference.
These are talks the Israeli government ought to commit to but probably won’t because perpetual war has become an end in itself and as long as it continues certain political groups can keep their supporters happy. It’s not an acceptable state of affairs but it is the reality we are living now.
But sure, go ahead and hate on Israel.
We know much of the world will anyway.
But look, really look at those UAVs and explosives and tell me – what would you do if these were on your border pointed at your home?
I asked one of my Arab friends who claimed to be a Palestinian, to tell me the meaning of the word Palestine. He said that he doesn’t know. I asked him if there has ever been a Nation called Palestine in history; if there was, what was the date of inception, details of currency, leaders, national anthem, flag, capital? He couldn’t answer the question. I asked him again whether he knows where the name Palestine came from. He said no, and I asked him to take few minutes to Google it. He did and found out that the word ”Palestine” originated from the Hebrew word ”Philistine” meaning ”a person who is hostile”. I asked him what did he find. He said that everything he found is Zionist propaganda against the Palestinians. I asked him, what language do the Palestinians speak? He said Arabic. I asked him does the Arabic language have the letter “P” in its alphabet, he kept silent and refused to answer. I asked him again, how can you claim that you’re a Palestinian, yet you don’t know the meaning of Palestine. I gave him an example, In Hebrew the meaning of the name ISRAEL is: ”May God prevail”. Every nation has names and names have meaning. Whether it’s people’s names or Nation’s, they all have meanings. I asked him if he’s aware that Israel existed before Christianity and Islam? He said no that Israel was invented by the Zionists. I asked him, who are the Zionists, where did they come from and what is the meaning of Zionist? He couldn’t answer. I said to him that if he believes that the Zionists invented Israel, it also means that the Zionists invented the Quran, Islam’s holiest scripture because the Quran mentioned Israel as a Nation and the Jews as People. And the Quran actually made it clear that the land belongs to the Israelites. —– “We [Allah] settled the Israelites in a blessed land and provided them with good things”. Qur’an 10:93
“Enter, My People, the Holy Land which Allah has assigned for you. Do not turn back, or you shall be ruined”. [Qur’an 5: 21]
“Pharoah sought to scare them [the Jews] out of the land [of Israel]: but We [Allah] drowned him, together with all who were with him. Then We said to the Israelites: ‘Dwell in this land. When the promise of the hereafter comes to be fulfilled, We shall assemble you all together [in the Land of Israel in the End of Days]”. [Qur’an 17:103]
“It was Our [Allah’s] will to favour those who were oppressed [the Jews] and to make them leaders of mankind, to bestow on them a noble heritage and to give them power in the land [of Israel]: and to inflict on Pharoah, Haman, and their army, the very scourge dreaded by their victims”. [Qur’an 28: 5-6]
“We [Allah] gave the persecuted people [the Jews] dominion over the eastern and western lands which We had blessed [the east and west banks of the Jordan River]. Thus your Lord’s gracious word was fulfilled for the Israelites, because they had endured with fortitude; and We destroyed the edifices and towers of Pharoah and his people”. [Qur’an 7:137] — I showed him the 5 verses above and asked him, if he believes that the Quran is eternal word of Allah and should be trusted and obeyed? He said yes but Quran also call them to make war with the Jews. I said to him, yes I know that but the Quran never told you Muslims to claim that Jewish lands belongs to the Muslims: He said that he doesn’t want to talk about this issue again. I said to him that he should dig a little bit deeper because at the end of the day he will find out that he originated from Egypt, Syria or some other Arab country but there is no such thing as Palestinians.
More or less inflammatory, reactionary, hysterical rhetoric of that party. They don’t think things through but react and with emotions. Then when those democrat polices don’t work they prefer to blame other people who had nothing to do with the problems they, the Democrats, created because their, the Democrats, real goal is the usurpation of power
Even the four that are recognized as Deists, used scripture in their personal writings which is well documented. The only reason they are they are even considered Deists is due to the fact those 4 did not belong or declare a specific religious church. But all them were well educated in scripture.
Thomas Jefferson later in life was part of a Baptist Bible study group and taught calvanist theology.
Benjamin Franklin called the Continental Congress to pray, which makes the claim that he was a deist rather questionable.
In fact, Islam is an unrepentant politico-expansionist movement clothed in the trappings of religion and bent on universal conquest by whatever means it can mobilize: deception (taqiyya), social and cultural infiltration, or bloody violence, as its millennial history and authoritative scriptures have proven. (See Koran 13:41, which is meant literally despite the attempt of apologists to launder its purport: “Do they not see that We are advancing in the land, diminishing it by its borders on all sides?”)
There are several ways in which Islam differs from all other major religions. For
It sanctions militant proselytization, mandating forcible imposition on other peoples by coercion, threat and overt violence (Koran 8:39, 9:29, etc.), a practice unique among religions today.
It punishes apostasy with death (Koran 4:89; Hadith, Bukhari 9.84.57), also a practice unique among religions today.
It countenances no separation between church and state, that is, it cannot render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s. The scope of its ambition is khilafil, that is, the establishment of a Caliphate requiring that a state—ultimately a universal state—be ruled by Islamic law. As Muslim scholar Jaafar Sheikh Idris explains, “Secularism cannot be a solution for countries with a Muslim majority or even a sizeable minority, for it requires people to replace their God-given beliefs with an entirely different set of man-made beliefs. Separation of religion and state is not an option for Muslims because it requires us to abandon Allah’s decree for that of man.”
The “religion” itself takes precedence he transcendent values it should strive to attain: the flourishing of the individual soul, the love of God’s Creation, the grace and miracle of life, the conversation with the Divine, freedom of conscience and the inviolability of personal choice in determining one’s redemption. Instead, it elevates conformity to a set of stringent rules, down to the smallest detail, as a prerequisite to salvation, whose effect is primarily to perpetuate the faith itself at the expense of the individual votary. Admittedly, this is a literalist practice common to most restrictive and comparatively minor orthodoxies, but regarding the massive following enjoyed by Islam and its susceptibility to violence and the subjugation of other faiths and peoples to its hegemony, we are remarking a radically greater economy of scale and the havoc it can wreak.
The propensity to violence is not an aberration but an intrinsic element of the Islamic corpus. As Lee Cary has written, Islamic terrorists are “legacy, Koranic literalists” who use terror “to enforce a dogma that defines behavioral practices that comply with the Koran and [defines] the regulations of daily life.” The much-bruited notion that there is such a thing as “Islamism,” a form of extremism that has nothing to do with Islam proper, or is a perversion thereof, is a pure canard, another in a series of timorous progressivist memes bleaching the blood out of the Islamic ideological jalabiyya. Islam, not “Islamism,” promises paradise for martyrs and jihadis killed in battle (Koran 3: 157), thus palliating and even inciting feral attitudes and fanatical actions—a patently non-spiritual way of earning beatitude.
As Howard Kainz points out in an illuminating essay, “Islam and the Decalogue,” Islam reverses the Golden Rule, which is central to Judaism,
, Hinduism, Buddhism and Confucianism (Koran 48:29, 2:191, 3:28, etc.). For this reason, Kainz concludes, “Islam may best be understood,” not as a religion, but “as a world-wide cult.”
The standard rebuttal that all faiths have at one time or another shown themselves prone to violence and repression misses the essential point. All the major religions have reformed themselves, reducing or eliminating the all-too-human tendency to sanctimonious oppression—and none of these faiths, let us remember, endorsed oppression as a universal creedal or Divine imperative. Such is not the case with Islam, a communion that since its inception in the 7th century has seldom strayed from its sanguinary path of carnage and subdual. Its incendiary prescriptions and commands, as many scholars have noted, are open-ended and contain no “sunset clause.” They are perpetual and mandatory, feeding what essayist Bill Kassel calls “religious-themed barbarism”!
Here is a fun little puzzle for anyone who says the left is all about diversity and lifting up immigrants.
Elon Musk just became the first person in history to reach a net worth of one trillion dollars. He was born in Pretoria, South Africa. He came to America the legal way, earned his citizenship in 2002, and built companies that put rockets in orbit and electric cars in millions of driveways.
By any honest reading of the words, he is an African who became an American. A self-made immigrant success story.
So where are the celebrations from the people who say they love immigrants and worship green energy?
Nowhere to be found.
Here is the part that makes you laugh out loud. Not long ago, that same crowd adored this man. Tesla was the official car of the climate movement. Democrats made up about 40 percent of Tesla buyers. They parked his cars in their driveways like a badge of honor.
Then Musk did the unforgivable. He started thinking for himself. He questioned the spending, the censorship, and the narrative. He stopped voting the way they told him to.
And just like that, the hero became the villain.
The cars they once bragged about got bumper stickers that read, I bought this before Elon went crazy. The man they praised became, in their own words, public enemy number one.
Nothing about Musk changed except his politics. Same immigrant. Same companies. Same electric cars they used to love.
That is the tell. The applause was never about the achievement. It was about obedience.
We have always believed people should be judged by their work and their character, not by whether they fall in line. Musk earned every dollar of his success. The only thing he refused to do was bow.
Meanwhile Elon Musk is doing great things for America and humanity. Much more than all the Democrat politicians in the country combined. He has used his wealth to create things that are good for the nation, its people, and the world.
Name the Senator who has done more for Ukraine than Musk’s donation of Starlink at the beginning, which Biden refused to pay for. Without that, Ukraine would no longer exist.
He did the same for North Carolina while Biden had FEMA out checking political signage instead of survivors.
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