When I was Muslim, Surah 5:32 was my favorite verse to quote.
“Whoever kills a soul, it is as if he killed all of mankind.”
I put it in every debate. Every conversation about Islam and peace. It felt like the most beautiful verse in the Quran.
Then I read it slowly.
The verse doesn’t say Allah revealed this to Muhammad. It says: “We decreed upon the CHILDREN OF ISRAEL…”
Wait. Decreed where? When? I went looking.
Bro, then I found it.
Mishnah Sanhedrin 4:5. A rabbinic commentary on Cain and Abel, written down around 200 AD like four centuries before the Quran. Rabbis discussed why Genesis says Abel’s “bloods” (plural) cry out and concluded: whoever destroys one soul, it is as if he destroyed an entire world.
Insane that it was word for word, with the exact same context. Bro, the same Cain and Abel story it’s attached to in Surah 5.
What I thought was the most beautiful verse in the Quran turned out to be a rabbi’s classroom commentary…
Literally, that’s when the question changed for me. It went from “isn’t this verse beautiful?” to: What the heck is a rabbinic homily doing inside a book that claims to be the eternal, uncreated speech of God?!
Because there are only two options. Either Allah quoted the rabbis. Or a man in Arabia heard Jewish teachers and repeated what they said…
The crazy part is, the Bible predicted men would do this. “I am against the prophets who steal my words from one another.” ( Jeremiah 23:30)
That was the start of my journey toward Christ. I stopped defending the borrowed word of the Quran.
Senator John Kennedy on Elon Musk and DOGE exposing USAID, “I’ll tell you what Mr. Musk discovered. I find it fascinating. He discovered:
The American taxpayers are giving money to Afghanistan
He found that we are giving money to Yemen
He found that we are giving money to Syria
He found that the USAID has 10,000 people employees, and every year they give away $40 billion
He found that the USAID gave money to support electric vehicles in Vietnam. Our money, taxpayer money
He found that the USAID gave money to a transgender clinic in India. “I didn’t know that. I bet you the American people didn’t know that”
He found that USAID gave $1.5 million to a Serbian LGBTQ group, they got $1.5 million to QUOTE, “advanced diversity, equity, inclusion in Serbia’s workplaces and business communities”
They found that USAID spent $164 million to support radical organizations around the world
They gave $122 million of that to groups aligned with foreign terrorist organizations
According to this report in Mr. Musk, the USAID has given millions of dollars to quote organizations in Gaza controlled by Hamas
He found that we gave $2 million, USAID did, for sex changes in Guatemala
He found that we gave $20 million to produce a new Sesame Street show in Iraq
He found that we gave $4.5 million of taxpayer money to combat misinformation in Kazakhstan
He found that we gave $10 million, USAID did, of meals to an al-Qaeda-linked terrorist group called the Nusra Front
Mr. Musk found that we gave $7.9 million of taxpayer money to a project that would teach Sri Lankan journalists to avoid binary gendered language. (The USAID took 8 million bucks and gave it to a bunch of journalists in Sri Lanka to teach them how to avoid binary gendered language)
USAID gave $1.5 million to promote LGBT advocacy in Jamaica
They gave $1.5 million to rebuild the Cuban media ecosystem
They gave $1.5 million for quote, art for inclusion of people with disabilities in Belarus
Another $3.9 million for LGBT causes in Macedonia
$8.3 million for equity and inclusion education in Nepal
“I could go all night and many of my colleagues are upset. They’re really mad at Mr. Musk. Hell, I think we ought to give him a medal”
Just in case some of you young whippersnappers (& some older ones) didn’t know this. It’s easy to check out, if you don’t believe it. Be sure and show it to your family and friends. They need a little history lesson on what’s what and it doesn’t matter whether you are Democrat or Republican. Facts are FACTS.
Up until the 1980’s, Social Security cards expressly stated the number and card were not to be used for identification purposes.
Since nearly everyone in the United States now has a number, it became convenient to use it anyway and the “NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION” message was removed.
Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, introduced the Social Security (FICA) Program. His promises are in black, with updates in brackets.
1.) That participation in the Program would be completely voluntary [No longer voluntary],
2.) That the participants would only have to pay 1% of the first $1,400 of their annual Incomes into the Program [Now 7.65% on the first $90,000, and 15% on the first $90,000 if you’re self-employed],
3.) That the money the participants elected to put into the Program would be deductible from their income for tax purposes each year [No longer tax deductible],
4.) That the money the participants put into the independent ‘Trust Fund’ rather than into the general operating fund, and therefore, would only be used to fund the Social Security Retirement Program, and no other Government program [Under Johnson the money was moved to the General Fund and spent], and
5.) That the annuity payments to the retirees would never be taxed as income [Under Clinton & Gore up to 85% of your Social Security can be taxed].
Since many of us have paid into FICA for years and are now receiving a Social Security check every month — and then finding that we are getting taxed on 85% of the money we paid to the Federal government to ‘put away’ — you may be interested in the following:
Q: Which Political Party took Social Security from the independent ‘Trust Fund’ and put it into the general fund so that Congress could spend it? A: It was Lyndon Johnson and the democratically controlled House and Senate.
Q: Which Political Party eliminated the income tax deduction for Social Security (FICA) withholding? A: The Democratic Party.
Q: Which Political Party started taxing Social Security annuities? A: The Democratic Party, with Al Gore casting the ‘tie-breaking’ deciding vote as President of the Senate, while he was Vice President of the US
AND MY FAVORITE: Q: Which Political Party decided to start giving annuity payments to immigrants? A: That’s right! Jimmy Carter and the Democratic Party. Immigrants moved into this country, and at age 65, began to receive Social Security payments! The Democratic Party gave these payments to them, even though they never paid a dime into it!
Now, after violating the original contract (FICA), the Democrats turn around and tell you that the Republicans want to take your Social Security away!
And the worst part about it is uninformed citizens believe it! If enough people receive this, maybe a seed of awareness will be planted and maybe changes will evolve. Maybe not, though. Some Democrats are awfully sure of what isn’t so — but it’s worth a try.
Iran has been a designated State Sponsor of Terrorism since Jan 19, 1984. That’s 42 years. When a regime trains kids to chant “Death to America,” believe it the first time.
Iran is a country with vast resources. It was at one time a prosperous nation. But this Iranian regime cares only about exporting Islam and destroying all other beliefs and people. They want nuclear weapons as the key to the ultimate power. Thank God for Donald Trump.
