But more importantly, what it is about is not really a secret. The purpose is repeatedly stated. And given your complaints, I am not inclined to answer your press. But a place to start is to examine what scripture actually says, the context and the meaning.

What an absolutely lame cop out. You insist that you aren’t a Christian yet spend an inordinate amount of time defending Christianity’s idiotic doctrines, and now when pressed on the crux of the matter you cop out saying : well read it for yourself. Utterly pathetic.

Not only are you a dishonest troll, but you’re an intellectual midwit that’s too stupid to grasp the chronological argument that Bay Area Guy is making. Scholars have long noticed the shifting definition of the kingdom of god from the earlier Gospels (Mark [70 CE] and Matthew [80 CE]) to the later Gospels (Luke [85 CE] and John [90 CE]). Ehrman rightly pointed out that in the earlier traditions (including the Q source), the kingdom of god was imminent and earthly. In the later Gospels it was neither simply because the promised kingdom failed to materialize. Later gospel writers clearly shifted the goal posts by redefining what the kingdom of god meant in light of the prophecy failure. This has been established in academic circles for decades now. All you do is provide textbook church readings of the gospels, giggle, and then pretend you’ve scored a goal. You’re the type of clown that’s doomed to go through life thinking he’s the smartest one in the room while everyone else looks away in awkward silence.

But despite all the maintenance in the world, absurdity cannot withstand scrutiny, hence the unravelling of Christianity that we see today.

Exactly. The key is that unlike back then, people today can compare notes and expose nonsense more easily. For every Christian apologist, there is a modern-day Celsus who can pick their bizarre beliefs apart.

Nativity of Christ – Decani Monastery, Kosovo, Serbia, 1340.

Христос се роди – ваистину се роди!Christ is born – truly born!

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and “probably” not “probably”

Mormons provably do not have big families anymore in the usa. Otherwise Utah, which is still majority Mormon (though diversifying), wouldn’t have the surprisingly low fertility rate it does: 1.9 children per woman in her lifetime.

https://www.usu.edu/today/story/usu-uwlp-releases-research-on-utah-women-and-fertility-trends

My one is actually two. Check out the first link. She’s even hotter:
https://files.idyllic.app/files/static/2569887?width=750&optimizer=image

And I suspect your three are actually one person taken from different angles. She has a pretty face and looks like my own daughter who lives in Israel as part of a prominent Hasidic sect.

You need to understand something. In Muslim and Jewish cultures a woman’s beauty is only appreciated after she is married and only by her husband and no one else. In both cultures marriages tend to be arranged in one form or another. Genesis 24:67 says:

New Living Translation
And Isaac brought Rebekah into his mother Sarah’s tent, and she became his wife. He loved her deeply, and she was a special comfort to him after the death of his mother.

The rabbis learn from this that you only really love a woman after you marry her and are committed to her. The whole secular Western notion of a woman flaunting her beauty in order to attract the attention of hoards of men is utterly anathema in both Judaism and Islam.

With all these hot Western women flaunting their curves to a bunch of loser sex-starved men, we don’t see a whole lot of social benefits such as stable families with lots of children. On the contrary, the more conspicuously erotic society becomes the less stable the family structures and the more uncertain the future.

“Have you seen the photos of TUR’s morally and physically dissipated Marxist contributors like Kevin Barrett and Caitlin Johnstone?”

Kevin Barrett is an actual Muslim convert and Islamic propagandist – just about THE LOWEST that a normal, white Western person can sink.

Paulo is just a service worker so don’t expect much from him. He doesn’t make policy or call the shots but is just a passive consumer of what to believe. The world is full of Paulos; they’re just there to do as they’re told. The beliefs expressed by him are extremely common in the US. Discussing politics with Joe or Jane Average is an exercise in frustration. The vast majority know nothing, they are just parrots.

Academic year starts in China in the Fall.

So? Hua Bin didn’t say that he was about to start his freshman year. He was almost certainly finishing his first year in Beijing when the Tiananmen incident occurred (April to June of 1989).

As I said, Hua could have been at the Square during the protests, so he had personal knowledge that the students left peacefully. Of course, a proven liar like you (link again) would support the massacre propaganda. I seriously urge everyone to read Ron Unz’s article on the subject (link).

Despite all the evidence that the concept of printing blocks originated in ancient Egypt and spread from there.

Why did books continue to be copied by hand for thousands of years after Egypt’s so-called invention? We all know of the many, many scriptoria in the West that did the copying. Obviously, duplication by hand was preferable to using whatever Egypt was supposed to have invented. China’s printing press, which came centuries before Gutenberg was born, was clearly a major advance.

Relax Scro!

Sometimes a travelogue is just a travelogue and not a frontal attack on Orthodoxy

Churches in the RF are NOT “full of religious people”, because the actual religious people in the RF tend to be Muslims, not christians. (A large chunk of the burgeoning population from nominally muslim central asian countries, like Tajikistan and especially Kazakhstan, is quite secular. Just saying that if a russian federation citizen or permanent resident is religiously observant and attends services, he is probably just as likely to be a musl8m as a christian.)

Russians do not attend church much at all, period. The large, beautiful cathedrals built under Putin stand largely empty, not even well attended on major holidays in many places.

For better and for worse, Russia is hardly a christian country, let alone a particularly devout and observant one.

https://re-russia.net/en/review/278/

All the ills that Europe and Europeans are facing now are carefully created by Jews, who use “Israel” as their center of operations.

Shut your Muslim pie-hole, you ignorant cunt.

The ills that Europe is facing are nothing more than comeuppance for centuries of imperialism. Look at France. Almost all of their immigrants are from former Muslim colonies like Algeria, Morocco, Senegal, etc.

Jews/Israel have nothing to do with any of that, but I’ll tell you one thing. Israel is the only country that’s realistic about the Islamist threat. The Europeans think they can assimilate the Muslims. What they don’t seem to comprehend is that Muslims have no interest in assimilating. They want to take over and impose Shariah law because that’s what the Koran compels them to do.

This is why there can’t be a one-state solution in Israel/Palestine. If the Muslims ever got a voting majority, the democracy would collapse and Shariah law would be implemented.

Sorry Achmed, Islam and Western civilization are incompatible.

Run to God, not to dead men.

How do we known that the increase in mortality and morbidity among young adult whites (if it even exists) has anything to do with COVID or the COVID vaccine. My experience may be different because, for one thing, I am in my 70 already and, for another, I think I already have a very strong immune system thank to the conditions and circumstances I have lived under during my lifetime.

When the COVID vaccine became available I looked into how it was supposed to work and decided that I would take it. The version I got was an mRNA vaccine. I later took two boosters and then stopped there. My conclusion about the mRNA concept is that it probably was something that happened naturally even if we either had never recognized it at all or considered it extremely rare.

In any case, it is five years later and I have noticed no ill effects as result of taking the vaccine. All I can say about what I seen of modern youth over the last couple of decades is that they seem pretty debilitated. How can you blame it all one one vaccine? There are a lot of factors and these are alluded to all over the place. Some of them are environmental. Some of them are psychological or psychosocial, pick your term.

What are the things that can affect people? Mental things are stuff like pornography exposure and early sexualization when that occurs, isolation due to social media use, fear of having no future, not being permitted to recognize or fight back against ethnic replacement, lack of opportunity to form families and lack of exposure to traditional religion, traditional education and traditional community structures. Environmental things could include exposure to chemicals in food and food packaging, pharmaceuticals and street drugs.

The issue needs some work. Anybody have anything to say, I would like to know about it and the readers probably would too.

What a creepy clan.

Sure. But normal, rational, fairminded people don’t care who is descended from “the israelites of the bible”, nor waste time trying to debate who is so descended.

People are judged by what they do and to a lesser extent say, by how they treat others, not by who their alleged ancestors were.

Hey lavoisier,

They don’t want their country controlled by Zionists and they don’t want their country controlled by Islamic theocrats.

just like the rest of us.

I have several friends who left Iran disgusted watching gay men hanged by cranes

As I understand it, the men hanged from cranes, were child-rapists. I remember reading about it, and if they were, I fully support capital punishment for such monsters. The West could learn something from Iran, if they hang child rapists, instead of letting them out to rape over and over and over..

Austria famously threw out the conviction of a Muslim “refugee” who brutally raped a ten year old Austrian boy at a public pool, because of guilt for being white people, and therefor Nazis, and so their children are considered expendable to the amusements of “refugees”.

Iran hang these dregs from cranes, for everyone to cheer as they’re journey to hell is expedited.

I don’t think they’ve ever hanged a gay man or women, simply for being gay.

and knowing about the many innocent people tortured to death by these Islamic goons.

couldn’t be nearly as many as were tortured to death by ((SAVAK)), during the brutal, ZOG-imposed Shah ((regime)).

I wonder if that had to do with some of the current repressions, as the pendulum swings in the other direction, from repressions to repressions. If it could, (and it wants to), ZOG would come in and tell the young people that they now have more freedom of expression, and young girls can idolize and emulate Nicki Minaj, and dress like hoochies, and so forth. Iow, the same cultural and spiritual sewage they foment in every place they rule, like America and Western Europe.

It’s seems so terribly rare, that people are simply allowed to live with a normal culture, without the extremes.

but for me, I’ve always supported the Iranian government because of my metric, which has never failed me. = Any government, or individual, who opposes ZOG, is on the right side of history, morality and decency.

Where I condemned the Iranian government, is when they lied about flight 752.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine_International_Airlines_Flight_752

Sure, it was embarrassing, but these idiots just don’t realize that once you’re known to be a liar, it destroys your credibility.

Still, I support Iran, and the young people who’re bristling under a repressive government, and hope they can come to a peaceful middle ground. They, (and we all) do have a ((common enemy)), just as does Palestine and Lebanon and Yemen and England and Russia and China and Germany and Sweden and France and Ukraine and Jordan and Egypt and Libya and Norway and Canada and Greenland and Syria and …

No, but certainly any honest, useful measure of inflation for normal people needs to include food, fuel, and housing. I think that our most commonly cited US inflation figures exclude those little trifles.

Let the salaries of congressmen, federal judges, prez and vp, cabinet officials, and generals NOT be automatically annually adjusted for inflation.

By contrast, make sure that federal food-stamp funding, food-bank aid, home heating subsidies, social security retirement benefits, and federal employee salaries and pensions all increase at the true, higher-than-reported rate of inflation each year.

Also, if we’re going to keep imposing a fed income tax on the whole populace, let’s index the income tax brackets to this real, higher inflation rate to prevent “bracket creep.”

Those are some inflation policy adjustments that will make a noticeable difference for tens of millions of non-plutocrat US citizens, both working and retired.

I doubt that many of the more elderly Trump cultists watch TikTok, YouTube, RedNote, etc. As to somewhat younger supporters, though, the manipulative programming on those platforms — AI or not — surely has had a deleterious effect.

I wouldn’t want my country’s currency yoked to the currency of a country whose federal government is mired in $40-plus trillion of debt, borrowing more every year for a bloated wasteful war machine and wars and occupations, and plagued with state county and city governments larded with trillions in unfunded pension obligations.

Better not to peg the currency, or to peg it to a couple of currencies that have been more stable, issued by governments that are far less indebted and not moving so fast in the wrong direction.

Conspiculously absent is any mention of decades of crippling sanctions and sabotage by the USA and its proxies in Venezuela; over six decades of boycott and sanctions of Cuba. Let’s not forget the “mass sufferings inevitably cause[d]” by capitalism and Neo-liberalism to the American people in particular and the West generally.

Money used to be both the medium of exchange and store of wealth (or value). Money in the US remains a medium of exchange but is no longer a store of wealth in anything but the short term. The decay in the purchasing power of money to half its present value can be roughly estimated by financial rules such as the Rule of 72.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_72

This rule is quite accurate for this purpose and simply requires dividing the number 72 by the rate of decay, or inflation, which was running at twice the official rate when recalculated by shadowstats. If the official rate is 3.5%, then the number 72 is divided by 7% (the actual rate of monetary inflation), yielding 10 years for the time it takes for the value of a dollar today to become half of what it is today.

This is massive theft of the wages and wealth of America’s working families and on a scale so great as to immediately deligitimize the federal government and a US Congress that consistently prevents an audit of the Fed to prevent an exposé of this massive fraud. So the dollar, over even ten years, is the antithesis of a trust instrument and, in fact, a massive betrayal of trust.

But it gets worse when the true rate of inflation in money and prices is applied to savings and to the more or less fixed benefits like a worker’s social security payment. Using the false rate of inflation in the latter case, because it’s used to make “cost of living adjustments,” amounts to theft. This theft through inflation amounts to silently taxing the poor to line the pockets of the rich. It enables the goons who’ve taken over our federal government and who own Congress like so many perfumed whores in a whorehouse to pay for these wars by taxing the poor without their having a clue what’s happening, and then dump the rest of the bill on our working families children and grand children.

Another arrogant Fatmerican with his head in the sand?

There are literally human-emitted turds in the streets and alleys of LA, where we live, and dozens of other US cities.

Not even counting the homeless among our tens of millions of illegal aliens:

we have millions of actual US citizens living in the streets,

a growing number of US citizens, including people working full-time, living in their vehicles,

a smaller but also growing number of US citizens living in motels, many working full-time,

and this year, thus far, millions more US Citizens without any medical insurance or good regular medical and dental care at all.

As one example, we never had any insane people expose themselves to us and our children when visiting Mexico, Turkey, Ukraine, Poland, Georgia, Armenia. We’ve had that, and men masturbating in tents with open flaps in front of our kids walking by, in LA, and this city is not an outlier or a rarity in today’s Shit USA.

Fatmericans are in no position to call other places the” turd world.”

Why do you want to ogle other men’s wives so badly? Did you marry a Jewish woman or something?

They’re setting up to come for you. In fact, they’ve already come for critics of Israel. Don’t be a fool. You’ve had enough time to learn about this Trump scam.

The woman who was shot and killed was attempting to run over an ICE agent. A vehicle can be used as a lethal weapon. Play stupid games…win stupid prizes. F*ck around and find out. One less leftist sh*t head is a good thing.

Have you picked a new nom deplume Meamjoe?

Caitlin: I have considerable regard for your integrity.

What happened in Minneapolis yesterday was a frightened cop shooting a driver who appeared to him to pose a threat to ICE agents.

I’m not saying he exercised good judgement. I am denying it was “cold blooded murder”. Amidst the confusion on that snowy street, that much, at least, seems clear.

They (The spinners and the band, mind you) can spin this in any direction they want, but the shooter guy knows the truth that he just shot an unarmed mother. I wonder, how is he going to sleep at night with that on his conscience? Pills and lots of them, perhaps? The sad thing is, this is probably not his first time, and it definitely will not be his last.

Certainly, it will not be his last time unless the authorities intervene to prevent him from doing the same thing again. Once one kills someone and gets away with it, it becomes hard for that person to stop killing.

Gotta join you on this one, wholeheartedly.

Quite a fair point. When it comes to nationalized energy resources, though, that system doesn’t seem worse than what we have.

We should nationalize our God-given natural resources in/under the ground, which no man created or invented. This means oil, natural gas, metals, and minerals.

Under public ownership, there will be no more lavishly compensated executives, no lobbyists. No huge profit margins at the expense of regular Americans simply trying to heat and cool their homes, cook meals, and take a hot shower, or small businesses trying to stay afloat.

Right now, corporations that shouldn’t even “own” our natural resources are paying dividends to a select minority of Americans, with most non-institutional shares held by people who are already very wealthy. This needs to stop.

Pay all profits from resource sales to every US Citizen in equal shares. This can be done monthly or quarterly as a kind of small universal basic income. A much bigger, less stingy version of Alaska’s paltry energy fund.

When the price of oil or natural gas or vehicle gasoline goes up, the majority of Americans who do NOT own energy corporation stocks could finally benefit directly from the price increase — not just pay higher bills and shell out more at the pump to make a small group of rich people richer.

Call it fascism or socialism or whatever you want, we are tired of being screwed and lawful action must be taken to change the system drastically in favor of the broad US Citizenry.

No payments to noncitizens, of course.

We may also want to consider suspending energy dividends to people currently serving a felony prison sentence. The dividends could resume when they are released, giving them at least a little something to get a fresh start with.

Minors could have their energy dividends deposited into an account held in trust until they reach age 18 or 21. Neither the government nor anyone else could touch their money.

Good for Venezuela or whoever takes back their people’s God-given natural resources from a small, heartless, wealthy elite. Just distribute the wealth to the individual people, don’t keep it with the government or let corporations arrogate it to their owners and execs and shareholders.

Your reading comprehension is poor or you’re arguing in bad faith. You’re attacking a position that I don’t hold and have never expressed here or anywhere.

I don’t support Maduro and didn’t support Chavez. I hate authoritarian or totalitarian regimes. Doesn’t matter whether they are a total official one-party or police state like China, or a supposed “multi-party democracy” with creeping surveillance / digital-currency / censorship / intimidation state as in the Us, Canada, EU, uk, and perhaps Russia.

Stop attacking the straw man and address my statement.

You can’t say how the Venezuelan system will work, socialist or not, until and unless Fatmericans MIND YOUR BUSINESS and LEAVE THEM ALONE. Stop the sanctions. However they fare with the ability to trade and contract with companies / people around the world to run their energy sector, that’s how they are. Butt out for a change and then judge their performance, good or bad or mediocre.

Obviously, the race / color of people professing the faith tells us nothing necessarily about whether it’s true, accurate, logical, realistic, useful to human life and harmony/peace and flourishing, etc.

That’s interesting, but I always wonder how an omnipotent, perfect God would need rest?

Still very important and advisable for people to regularly take time off, and be in the company of supportive / affectionate / good willed people, for both physical and mental health.

Praying to God together, or meditating, or singing or chanting, together can all foster optimism, hope, a sense of community and not being alone or pointless in this world.

And if God exists and made us, as seems to be the case, it would be right to give him thanks and praise any day, to borrow a catholic Mass phrase, alone or with others. Doesn’t matter what any group of men’s books arbitrarily say is the day of rest or worship chosen by God.

Thank you, God, for our lives, for our children, and please help the good people here no matter which day they attend worship services or pray or what books they believe are conveyed or inspired by God.

In Buddhism, we believe in certain realms where the beings can wish for a lot of things and have them simply materialise. These beings are called “devas” but could be called “gods” in western parlance. The mythology states that they are in a continual struggle with another class of beings called the “asuras”, which could be called “titans” in western parlance. Whatever gods are, they don’t appear to play much direct role in human affairs, but maybe they maintain cosmic order by fighting off chaos, but I don’t know if we have to thank them for that, because whatever they are fighting appears to be as much an existential threat to them as it would be to us, were it to prevail. If the conflict is actually real, it would be interesting to know what sort of technology is involved and why the gods cannot pursue the titans into their realm.

If jesus’s sacrifice was to “remove the need” for christians to engage in human sacrifice, that means that without jesus’s sacrifice, there would be some moral obligation for christians to involuntarily sacrifice (murder) humans (other than jesus).

Interesting that you claim evidence for jesus not dying on the cross, as that’s consistent with the muslim version of the story.

his mockery of the then widespread practice of human sacrifice.

Isn’t the story that he was a willing active participant in human sacrifice?

Robert Morgan: “Likewise, “what Jesus himself said” can be, and is, interpreted to mean anything you want. This is the point you insist on missing” – I haven’t missed anything. I’ve responded coherently to the primary points you have made in your comments.

Yes, Jesus’ words, I suppose, can be interpreted any way one chooses and unfortunately many people do. However, they twist the words of Christ and other texts in Scripture only if they first neglect basic hermeneutical principles of interpreting Scripture – such as reading words in context, understanding the historical setting, recognizing different types of literary genre, being aware of the cultural context and how words were understood by the biblical author, and the list goes on. This is so basic and simple, yet it has to be carefully explained to you because you engage in such obfuscation.

So, yes when readers neglect these most basic principles of interpretation, it is easy to distort what Jesus says. But only very uninformed, untaught and foolish people do that. The point you labored to make ends up proving nothing of any real importance – and particularly nothing against Christianity except that some Christians mishandle the Bible’s teachings in the same way that many unbelievers do.

As far as you quoting Paul’s words about Jesus’ resurrection in 1 Corinthians 15, you’ve made a complete mess of what he was saying. Apparently, some of the Corinthians had come to think of Jesus’ resurrection as something other than a bodily resurrection and may have discounted it altogether. The problem is that we are only hearing one side of the conversation and there is background information that’s missing.

Paul’s point in paraphrase form was simply that if there is no physical resurrection as some wrongly assume, then the Christian message is false and we are men most miserable and hopeless. But then Paul goes on to assert that Jesus did rise from the grave! Thus, rather than Paul declaring that Jesus never rose from the grave, he in fact declares that he did! In other words, Paul was trying to show the folly and false conclusions of what some of the Corinthians had come to believe.

Robert Morgan: “That’s ridiculous, of course. If there were any real evidence of it [the resurrection] it would be common knowledge, since it would be such a remarkable and unique event. The only “evidence” is the Bible account, which is as obviously fictional as Grimm’s fairy tales.”

You dismiss the evidence for the bodily resurrection of Jesus, but you offer no refutation of it and you obviously have not interacted with the arguments in favor of Christ’s resurrection in the books by Dr. Gary Habermas and others.

And no, even though Christ’s resurrection was seen by the disciples and even anong 500 witnesses, this is no guarantee that everyone will believe or accept it as factual truth. Humans have a great ability to deny the obvious and to engage in obfuscation.

There is no reason to believe it was a fairy tale either, especially since the gospel writers connect all of these events to historical reality and historical events (especially in Luke’s gospel and Acts). Time and time again, the New Testament has been shown to be in agreement with archeology and ancient historical events and places.

Moreover, what happened to Jesus’ body? Every theory that has been given as naturalistic explanations for the absence of the body fails when it’s carefully scrutinized. And why would all the disciples suffer lives of poverty and die in the most horrible way for what they knew to be a lie? This sort of thing does not comport with human nature.

You dismiss the gospels and other New Testament writings as mere “fairy tales,” but this amounts to nothing more than emotional denunciations on your part that fall dramatically short of proving what you want.

As for evidence for the reliability and historical accuracy of the New Testament, I’d recommend the works by such scholars as Craig Blomberg, the late F.F. Bruce, Daniel Wallace and others who meticulously answer higher critics and modern attacks on the veracity of the New Testament, particularly those raised by Bart Ehrman.

There’s some very nice things in the NT. Like, “Do unto others as you would have them do to you”. Love your neighbor, etc etc.

But the core teaching that You as an individual need to adhere to, “Believe” in Jesus Christ as your Savior”, needs to be declared publicly (in front of your church, etc), or you will “not enter the Kingdom of God”. And you will be declared a “Heathen” and you will be told you are going to a place called Hell where you will burn forever. You also have to believe that Jesus died for YOUR sins and this is the only way for you to be whole with God. You are a dirty sinner at the core and need this entity as your Savior. You also must believe he was murdered on a cross, buried, descended into hell, and then rose from the dead. He was also born from a virgin but there’s also conflicting info that he had brothers/sisters.

It’s really weird stuff when you examine it thoroughly. My studies in Eastern philosophies are much more peaceful and there is nobody you have to deify – however, you must take full responsibility for your actions instead of pinning it on some guy on a cross.

So, there is serious issues with the Christian branch of Judaism. Just like the Hebrew Torah, where God commanded his chosen people to mass murder people. We see they are still abiding by this command today in Gaza, etc.

Judaism is the largest religion in the world when you realize that Christianity is merely a branch of it. It has ruined the West!!

Ambrose Kane: “This occurs in the political realm too where the Republicans denounce the political views of the Democrats and vice versa. The presence of hotly contested differences over social and political policies does not mean that there isn’t a right or correct view on such matters. ”

Your analogy is apt in one regard: There is as little reason to believe that there is such a thing as a “true” Democrat or a “true” Republican as there is to believe there is such a thing as a “true” Christian, and because of this no reason to believe there’s a “true” Christianity. Even to embark on a search for such a thing is a logical error.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_scotsman

Ambrose Kane: “That there are theological and doctrinal differences between professing Christians and between various Christian denominations is hardly proof that Christianity is false – unless, of course, we want to say that all political, religious, scientific, and social groups that have strong differences between them are also false. ”

That Christianity is false in the sense that its foundational beliefs are lies is also quite evident, and even admitted in a backhanded way by Paul, with all the effrontery and chutzpah of a typical Jew swindler.

16 For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised: 17 And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
– 1 Corinthians 15:16-17

To put this in more contemporary English, we can translate this to: “If corpses don’t come back to life, then Christ didn’t either, and if Christ didn’t come back to life, your faith is misplaced, and you are still a sinner.”

But corpses don’t come back to life, and that’s a fact as certain as any can be. In all of recorded history there is no record of it happening. It’s as much a fact as that the sun rises in the east, and not the west. No one has ever witnessed the sun coming up in the west, nor any corpse coming back to life. Therefore, it’s plain that Jesus, even in the unlikely event that such a person actually existed, once dead, remained dead. Christianity is based on the foundational lie that he returned to life, like a zombie or a vampire.

It’s an amazing thing that Paul even has the chutzpah to tell his audience this, and at the same time represent the fact it never happens as more reason to believe! Of course, the fact that his deception worked and the belief system he was selling prospered only proves the adage that there’s a sucker born every minute. LOL And that’s probably an underestimate!

With the tens of millions of obese white and hispanic nonMuslim women in the usa, it’s pretty funny to see a Fatmerican try to mock (mostly nonwhite) Muslim women did bring supposedly so unusually fat.

Thank you –

”It’s like mah Mama always sayed, ‘A niqab is laack a box of cherries – yuh never know whatcha’ gonna git.’”

Great majority of traditional, observant Muslim women in the world do not wear a burqa, and good for them.

And their weight of authority is that it’s NOT required by the quran or any so called “authoritative” hadith about modesty, respect for women, and self-restraint.

Unlike long modest clothing like our european ancestors wore not so long ago, and unlike hijabs, the burqa is wrong. Muffling a woman and covering the eyes and face seems dehumanising rather than reasonably protective of women and loyalty in marriage.

Our modern “free” western conduct and dress, though, tend to the other extreme: vulgar, animalistic, presumptuous, and so lewd and revealing as to be inconsistent with the woman’s self-respect and respect among men. Unrealistic about the natural reaction of normal men when strangers push scantily clad (sometimes half-naked) women in their face all day — at a minimum, to treat them as soulless objects to be used because the natural drive is so strong and so absurdly continuously provoked among strangers and casual acquaintances.

You mean it’s better to objectify women?
Sad

The wisdom of covering up most Musulwimmin is undisputable 😬

Andrew Korybko said: “The US’ “special military operation” was therefore an astounding success regardless of one’s personal opinions about its merits.”

Andrew Korybko is absolutely right in saying this.

Moreover, it is obvious that Trump’s military success is a humiliating defeat for Putin and Jinping. There is no doubt about it.

Moreover, Putin and Jinping participated very actively in the Covid coup, which prevented Trump’s legitimate election victory in 2020.

They are now reaping the fruits of what they did against Trump.

The truth is that Putin and Jinping are globalists, and Donald Trump is anti-globalist.

It is not a geopolitical war at all, it is a war of ideas.

You know what else will “put food on your table” as a Venezuelan? Public ownership of natural resources, with the profits from their sale paid to every citizen in equal shares every year. Same arrangement we should have here in plutocrat USA.

If you’re so concerned about Venezuelans “putting food on the table”, leave them free from sanctions, threats, coups. “Let” them trade with other countries, and hire foreign expert workers and technicians, to repair, improve, and expand their infrastructure for extracting and transporting oil. Perhaps refining it as well. Some of these foreign corporations and workers will be Americans, as the Venezuelans choose.

The US didn’t arrest and transport Chavez to America to be tried. There was an unsuccessful coup (backed by the US, without American troops) that failed. Maduro is no Chavez. Any new leader who doesn’t cooperate with America now, will live in constant fear of being snatched. The old saying about people following the strong horse will go into effect in Latin America. In the end, it could work out well for Venezuela and the surrounding area. Ideology doesn’t put food on your table, a large economic investment by American companies, will.

Why are millions of Fatmericans still “so worked up” defending or excusing the rotten, thieving, lying, invading, civilian-murdering regime called the US government?

An awful lot of wind has been passed by some rather excitable commenters concerning Trump’s escapade in Venezuela, but let’s calm down and face the facts, cooly and soberly:

Maduro is/was an arse.

Venezuela is a pathetic Hell-hole of a basket case nation.

The real story here is that the nation blessed with the world’s biggest oil reserves, and plenty more natural bounty besides, manages to keep its people in terrible abject poverty and the most murderous lawlessness.
The murder rate in Caracas is off the charts.

Yes, yes, I know that this is mostly due to the character of the Venezuelan people, but Bukele in El Salvador shows us that a better life is possible, even with the direst of human capital.

What we had/have in Venezuela was a play pen ‘Marxist’ strutting around like a peacock, while his country collapsed all round him – and his citizens ran around killing each other.

Now, I’m not praising Trump here for the sake of praising Trump, but I cannot understand why commenters here are so worked up in defending a rotten regime.

The rate is “off the charts” wherever the US military goes, as well.

Bad as they may be, Maduro and his predecessors never murdered nearly as many people, within their borders or otherwise, as the US has done during the same period. Not even close. So genuine concern for human life cannot be a reason for removing Maduro without removing the US president, generals, etc., and executing them under international law for widespread crimes against humanity.

What’s “off the charts” are the hundreds of thousands of murders of women and children in Palestine, with US bombs and rockets, funding, targeting assistance, preferential trade terms, a military threat, and diplomatic cover for “israeli” invaders making it possible.

Add the hundreds of thousands of civilians murdered directly or deprived of adequate food and clean water from the US invasion and occupation of Iraq.

Add the additional hundreds of thousands of helpless, conscripted, often unwilling Ukrainian men (and boys, and women) killed in the meatgrinder because the US and friends had to meddle and help to oppress and then bomb ethnically Russian people in SE ukraine, then sabotage fruitful peace talks early in the process, then sabotage Europe’s pipelines connecting them to affordable plentiful Russian oil and natural gas.

Dismantling US murderers’ apologism is as easy as shooting fish in a barrel. You know, like our US-armed “allies” do to helpless Palestinian children and their parents in their homes, their schools, huddled in refugee camps, struggling and running desperately for food and water at the border, even at pointblank range execution-style.

Your concern over the oil output that would be lost if Venezuela invades a neighboring country is truly touching and, no doubt, sincere.

If the US were truly concerned with Venezuela’s oil production, the US and its vassals could have simply NOT sanctioned Venezuela’s government and companies. That would “allow” the Venezuelans to trade with and hire foreign experts to properly build, maintain and repair, improve, and enlarge its equipment for oil extraction, transport, and possibly refining.

And American young men should neither die, nor murder others, thousands of miles from our borders in a war that has nothing to do with defense of our people here in the USA, nor with a legitimate retaliatory attack on someone who has attacked us here, nor with a truly preemptive attack on someone preparing to attack us here.

As for the possible target of Venezuela’s armed forces, Guyana, I’m confident that your / US government interest has nothing to do with its ample gold and bauxite reserves, nor with its recently discovered oil. Nothing whatsoever.

Invading a country that is not attacking or preparing to attack you, makes you thugs look ridiculous, as well as evil and untrustworthy.

When you need to borrow all the money for the invasion — some of it from China through federal government debt instrument purchases — it makes you look ridiculous, not China or the other lenders.

The US has murdered or caused the death of more people outside their borders than China or the USSR / RF in the past 125 years. When it comes to killing women, children, old people, and other civilian noncombatants, the US is far far “ahead” of the Russian Federation and the P R China.

Lastly, sending bombs and rockets to be used to intentionally mass murder several hundred thousand women, children, and elderly people in Palestine — then providing cover when the survivors are deliberately starved as a weapon of conquest … that makes the US look “ridiculous” and worse. Not Russia and China.

Trump let one major convicted Latin American narcotics trafficker/exporter (former president of a country) FREE from prison, while kidnapping Maduro and his wife supposedly in part to punish them for … drug trafficking. Doesn’t seem like a “Win” or even a consistent policy against illegal drugs.

The US threatening, insulting, invading, and purporting to “run” another country that’s not attacking or preparing to attack us … seems more like a win for China and Russia.

We know which direction this kind of murder and arrogance will push the competition for goodwill, trust, and trade. It will help China and Russia look stable, respectful, and reliable by comparison. That helps China and Russia, not the USA, negotiate more liberal trade terms, and arrange mutually beneficial investments and partnerships in airport / seaport / infrastructure and energy projects in Central and South American countries. In other words, In the direction of more cooperation and trade between the targeted countries and China and to a lesser extent Russia, Brazil, and Iran, less with the US.

To top it all off, every dollar spent on this attack, and any forthcoming invasion and occupation of Venezuela, is BORROWED. Every day of needless, unconstitutional, undeclared, non-defensive war against Venezuela adds to the US’s enormous federal government debt.

The increased debt — and interest payments — will tend to weaken the dollar versus the currencies of less indebted countries. That hurts Americans as we try to buy foreign goods and services (on which we depend so severely for our consumer economy, household goods, clothing and shoes, medical equipment, pharmaceuticals, industrial equipment, tractors and other farm vehicles. It also undermines the standard of living of the increasing number of Americans who have made the understandable decision to live part or all of the year outside the USA, as their dollars will buy less of their new host country’s currency.

Tell us more about the “win”, Fatmerican.

Good luck and may God bless all good people in Venezuela under the aggression of the US, whether they supported Maduro or not.

As you know, almost none of the Muslims in europe, whether born in europe or born abroad, are from saudi arabia. They cannot go “back” to Saudi any more than you can.

I’d guess that many of the more sensible, traditional Europeans and Americans would like to see a code of public dress and conduct that is somewhere between the extremes of stifling dehumanizing face covering and burqa … and the vulgar, slutty, rude half-naked ready-to-fxxk-in-the- street style that characterizes our “free and open” western societies.

How about encouraging and expecting modest clothing and comportment that stops short of depersonalizing women by covering their eyes and face — something closer to the way most people in the usa and europe dressed three generations ago. Something like how many modern but observant Muslim and Christian women actually dress today, with or without a hijab.

It is all about oil, just like Bush 2 and the middle east, Trump did an act of war, but as long as his rich buddlies make money who cares: RIGHT???

And dumb young White men continue to join the military.

“We’re doing Christ’s work & bringing hope to these people”

There’s the cause of all this.

A.A.

I agree, it is important to worship a dead man in the RIGHT way. You tell ‘em.

Those catholics eat the body and drink the blood of the dead man — symbolically, many say — more often than the righteous protestants, for example, and perhaps that’s bad.

Agree wholeheartedly.

As an aside, let’s keep the remaining american-made shoe companies in business:
https://allamerican.org/lists/shoes/

FYI, in 2023 I purchased an American-made 30′ high commercial aluminum flagpole for $2,157.30 and an American-made flag for $64.45 and in 2024 I purchased a pair of American-made New Balance® tennis shoes for just over $218. In 2025 I purchased an additional American-made flag for just over $84. Later in 2025, I purchased two American-made flags for just over $322. This last purchase was for a 6′ x 10′ American flag and a 3′ x 5′ Gadsden flag. By the way, New Balance® shoes are no longer made in the USA; neither are Carhartt® products.

After I had purchased the flagpole, I could not enlist the help of a local “hobby farmer” to come out with his tractor and auger to help did the 30″ square by 30″ deep hole. He said that the ground was too hard, on account of the lack of rain that we had received during spring. I wound up digging the hole by hand. The NE Tennessee dirt was very hard and my “COPD” (emphysema) did not help. It took me a few days to get it done. Then I tried finding someone to pour the concrete for the ground sleeve. I could not get anyone to do the work. So I bought 12 bags of concrete mix from a local home improvement store, borrowed my neighbor’s wheelbarrow and mixed the concrete myself – two bags at a time. Another neighbor had a large pile of broken rock and he let me take whatever I needed, so that I didn’t have to use so much concrete mix.

I got the concrete mixed and poured as best as I could. I then got a local sign company to come out and install the flagpole in the ground sleeve. Then I put my American-made flags up!

The reason that I spent so much time and money on the purchase and installation of the flagpole and the flags was NOT^ to honor any current politician. It was to honor the Founding Fathers of my country, whom I thought did the absolute best that they could do to form (what used to be) the best country in the world.

And now the American vs. foreign made goods —

Here is a list of things that are either no longer American-made or are difficult to obtain. The list in non-inclusive – just things that came to mind…

Aluminum production; appliances (minor); automobile parts; binoculars; books; building products; cell phones; clothing; computers; copper production; copper wire; dental equipment; electrical products – both consumer and business/industrial; electronic equipment – both consumer and business/industrial; eyeglasses; fasteners & hardware; furniture; garden tools; garden tractors; glass products; hand tools; kitchen appliances & products; lawn furniture; lumber; machine tools; major appliances; medical equipment; microscopes; office furniture & supplies; shoes; sporting goods; steel production; telescopes and tires.

Since my entering the workforce in 1969 and especially since 1974, when I obtained a job as an industrial electrician trainee, we have had tens of thousands of factories either close up completely, or have downsized to a shadow of their former selves, throwing millions of people out of good-paying jobs.

Lest ANYONE say that it is the “unions” which are responsible for this, save your efforts. This exodus of jobs was caused by the banks & financial “industry” and the politicians (of BOTH parties) which enacted legislation and tax laws facilitating this exodus.

Companies (corporations) here in the USA have absolutely NO allegiance to either the USA or their employees. Their ONLY concern is the bottom line – how they can increase PROFITS – any way that those profits can be obtained. I have worked in factories and have witnessed this myself. My ex-wife has experienced this also.

The economic destruction taking place here in the USA is PLANNED. The “Big Money Interests” are intent on outsourcing ALL production and making the USA a playground for the rich. With the development of artificial intelligence (AI), this will hasten the process. AI is NOT being developed for the “benefit” of humans; it is being developed to eliminate jobs & people and to monitor & control people.

There are “groups” here in this country, and around the world, who are actively working for a One World fascist dictatorship government, with a very few at the top owning and controlling EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE. And the remaining people (the ones who are ALLOWED to live) will live in slavery. The “World Economic Forum” has publicly admitted this. And the American politicians, both the Democrats and the Republicans, will happily go along with it.

Thank you.

Fine point overall, unfortunately.

But luckily there are still a few companies making American flags in the usa:

FLAG STORE USA
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FEDERAL FLAGS
https://www.federalflags.com/collections/american-flags?campaign=638765312&content=&keyword=www.federalflags.com&msclkid=da5cf3858454107874889ad4ea52efc5&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=American%20Flags%20PMAX&utm_term=www.federalflags.com&utm_content=AssetGroup_121025_093213

Plenty of English spoken in Malaysia and the Philippines.

There are of course good places to settle in Central and South America besides Argentina, too, though the Italian cuisine, wine, women, and other Italian genetic/cultural influence in Argentina sure are nice.

Perhaps real estate and local-currency savings in another country or two. Really not sure either.

Blodgie – agree with all of your points. People were simpler back in the day; they actually believed in their government and thought they had their backs. We all know better now. But don’t forget that these old Americans didn’t have the Internet and were heavily propagandized through the school system, the newspapers, and good old Hollywood. They actually believed that their country and way of life was in jeopardy during the Civil War and WWI and WWII, so they sent their sons off to be slaughtered. For what? For lies!

It makes me angry when I think of all the young boys who lost their lives. It is sad beyond belief.

Everybody ignores the only important line in this article: “make housing more affordable and property ownership more accessible to the working poor.”

The whole problem is that houses cost way way way way way way too much. Just like food.

The government should build the ones we can’t build ourselves and sell them at cost.

Can’t wait to hear the shitheads howl.

Can’t tell him to brush up on his German if we spell a German word wrong 😉

The word should be Arschloch, if i remember right.

And what do you think the tribe have been doing to prisoners? You think shooting boys in their genitals is or blasting a pregnant woman in the gut is any better? What a fucking moron.

Notice now that the Trump supporters are down to, “at least he is not Kamala.”
It is all they have.

Still lightyears better than “At least she’s not Trump.”

Anyone who chooses to kill people is a non-starter with me. And Trump is a killer. He killed people, he continues to kill, he brags of killing, threatens to kill, exults in killing for any, all, or no reason. He kills without apparent remorse or reflection.

Nobody noticing this?

No volitional killer should get anywhere close to having his so-called success rated. It’s nullified completely by one kill, let alone hundreds and thousands. Trump not actually pulling the trigger or pushing the red button doesn’t matter; multiply even a small fraction of direct responsibility by tens of thousands of kills and you get some serious integers.

When the execrable Bill O-Reilly, in an interview with the pre-elected Trump, gratuitously slagged Vladimir Putin as a killer, Trump shocked everyone with his response when he said we’re killers too. I thought, about time someone understood that nobody will MAGA unless they first tell the American people the truth – that America is the bad guy. But I had wrongly assumed Trump was being reflective, when in fact his utterance was predictive self-justification.

Killing is the high sacrament of death-cult talmudic judaism. You can have it, Donald J. Trump, as it will have you.

Trump’s Israel support is worse than horrible, and only a moral idiot would argue that Trump’s work has been a mixed bag and nothing worse than that. I’d say being a grifter and con-man who seeks to profit from genocide is a pretty big deal. Suggesting Trump has ‘done decently’ while driving the nation to economic ruin at the same time as he’s whoring it out to a failed apartheid state is akin to saying that a serial murderer isn’t such a bad guy because he was a member of the Glee Club in high school.

If your only issue is fighting Jews and Israel, then obviously Trump deserves a 0/10.
If your only issue is immigration, then maybe a 9/10. (Lots of action, some of which is just theater, but overall very effective. Infinitely better than the Democrats on issues like Birthright Citizenship, but not enough action against employers with policies like E-Verify.)
He hasn’t started any wars, but he hasn’t stopped any either.
Reasonable people can disagree about his economic and other domestic policies.
Some things, like revoking the 1965 Executive Order that mandated Affirmative Action – something any Republican President in the past 60 years could have done but only Trump actually did – are simply miraculous leaps outside the Overton Window. Other things, like expelling immigrants for criticizing Israel, are shocking wrongs. He’s certainly not afraid of breaking precedents.
Stylistically, people either love or hate him. I would think that for cynics who want to “burn it all down”, you’d love his antics.
So, there’s plenty to pick from for whatever case you want to make. Trump is really a Rorschach test.

7/10 seems fair.

Truly hilarious and beautiful that Meathead and his whore wife had their throats slit by his spoiled Jew druggie son…lol

99.5% of Jew Hollyweird deserves the exact same fate.

I suspect that this, (the current deportation brouhaha), is what motivates a large swath of the TDS out there.

It’s definitely riling up a lot of folks, typically about half the country, as would be expected.

But ‘TDS’ is a passé epithet, one that Trump himself made obsolete by appealing to it habitually, even when he’s clearly in the wrong.

The man doesn’t deserve any cover. I realize that many wignats here are gleeful about some of things he’s done and said, which explains their reflexive whataboutery and copium dosing in the face of his myriad abuses.

Andrew Anglin has it right: Trump is preparing the ground for martial law, beta testing military occupation of major metropolitan areas in order to hone and perfect it once Americans become sufficiently acclimated. Most folks won’t even realize it’s here once it comes.

[Wignats, hate to tell you, but anything Trump is doing is cosmetic, at best. You’re never going to get your alabaster Elysium, not here in America. Demographic trends militate entirely against it regardless of current deportation effects, and Americans have more dogs than they have children. Instead of trying to force a situation from the top down, you should be looking to settle down and have children, regardless of how economically challenging that may be, because you can still raise them poor, happy, and wise, which is better than not bringing any children into this world at all. At least you’ll have skin in the game other than your own.]

Long story short… ‘TDS’ just doesn’t pack a punch anymore.

Unless the shoe’s on the other foot and it now stands for ‘Trump Defense Spasm’. 🕶️