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I remember looking at various photographs from the Holocaust. In the pictures it wasn’t the victims that caught my eye but the guards. They didn’t look like monsters, but like normal people. People who would play ball with their sons or take their spouses to a restaurant for an evening. They looked like normal people,…
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What kind of Messiah where the Jews of First Century Judea and Galilee looking for? Reading the gospels, it is apparent that there were three types of Messiah they wanted, depending on the group. The common man was looking for a caring Messiah who would feed them and care for them. They were the ones…
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The ancient Greeks had several words for love. The four most common ones were: storge for the love family members have for one another, eros for the romantic and sexual love spouses would have for one another, philia for the love of friends and comrades, and there was agape which was the ultimate love where…
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I recently read the book You Are What You Love by James A. K. Smith. Like so many of the Christian books today it is fairly redundant. He often makes a point and then has the tendency to over emphasize the point. More than once he would take five pages to say again what he…
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In the previous post I laid out the case how the segregation of the chosen few by Nazism and Communism invariably led to mass murder. Some will want to point out that the setting aside (or sanctification) of the chosen few is also an aspect of religion, such as Christianity. Which is true. They would…
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I was watching a video of Jordan Peterson where he said that the “Hammer and Sickle” of Communism should be as reviled as the “Swastika” of Nazism. The moderator of the discussion pointed out that although most current college students agree that Communism has killed over 100 million people (compared to the 12 million of…
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I just recently binged watched the Amazon series Fallout. It was an enjoyable show, but don’t analyze it too deeply. It does have some major plot holes, but the characters were good, and the story never dragged. What really caught my attention was something said in the fifth episode. In it, Lucy, the main protagonist…
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Why did God allow Hitler to come to power? And why did He allow the Holocaust to happen? These are two questions often asked by both believers and sceptics alike. And these are fair questions even if they are unanswerable since as scripture says, “the ways of God are above the ways of man.” I…
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The other day I was watching Tiggernometry and in this episode Konstantin Kisin and Francis Foster were discussing Antisemitism with Sam Harris and Eric Weinstein. During the course of the discussion, they made the observation that Jews seem to dominate many areas of intellectual life. That would include the number of Nobel Prize winners, academics,…
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You have to wonder, why is there so much antisemitism in the world? Some claim it’s a holdover from the Christian Middle Ages, but hatred of the Jews predates the Christian era. The book of Acts in the New Testament speaks of Emperor Claudius kicking the Jews out of the city of Rome. Pagan Rome…
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I’ve finished reading the book How to Be Perfect by Michael Schur, the creator of the television show The Good Place. It could be titled Secular Ethics Philosophy for Dummies. It is an easy read and I’ve read about a third of it. But as the alternate title I gave suggest, it doesn’t touch the…
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In all honesty I have to admit that I’m not Pro-Life, I’m Anti-Abortion. I think it’s important that we stop hiding behind euphemisms that we think will be more acceptable to the public. I think those who say they’re Pro-Choice should admit they are not Pro-Choice. Many of them don’t believe a law-abiding citizen should…