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we cannot escape being Westerners being born in the West (of interest to the deeper thinker, do not have to agree)

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr_20uEVOiE&t=124s

Power/Christ

  2 Corinthians 10:5   = We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ . . . In an effort to demonstrate the power of God in your life, it does not take effort.  Christ has given us power to “destroy”, Koiné Greek here is “ĸaθaίρεσιν”, all heretical and culturally persuasive rhetoricians. You do not need to buy the lies of politically persuasive “scientists”, do some of your own research, especially if you are taking your marching orders from someone who is not even a medical doctor (of any stripe). Stand-up and do not cave to the power that is set before us in this divisive culture. It is not you who are divisive, but the spirit of lies, death, and the devil.  Do not take their bait! Enough is enough!  You have been lied to long enough, stop and consider how nation, identity, and allegiance have been torn to shreds, then look up to the cross of Christ and see that He is...

Love is Love -or- the Devil made me do it

  Like all good researchers (not) I began with Google (yes spell check capitalizes it).  My aim was to  write about the lanaguge of a lot of Christains speak, how they commonly communicate, which is what I call Christianese.  Too my (not)surprise, my first google search gave me drop-down choices for “Christian response . . . “ of to pride month, evolution, transgenderism, climate change, the problem of evil (really a capital E), Barbie Movie (I have no clue), AI (artificial intelligence), Buddhism, and love is love.  Who made this list (I won’t say) Joy Behar? Now, as I look closer at the love is love links below the first one is by Rebelution and the second by Focus on the Family.   The stupidity of Rebelution is ti cite I John 4:7-8 and emphasize the words “He who does not love does not know God, for God is love” a sappy response considering the verses that precede this (v. 8) being I John 4:1-7 which is the injunction “ believe not every spirit, but tr...

Personal testimony for the day . . .

  Literature and Liturgy: Expert, Signifier, and Construction Can any comfort be found in anything but the words of God, which are found in God’s person? Who is God’s person but Jesus? In The Return of the Gods Jonathan Khan explicates what he considers are the gods of ancient time which have returned. Through the labyrinth of names and deifications, Khan demonstrates in his own right how he believes that such gods have pervaded the modern world in their ancient forms. Each of which had suffered the process of demythologizing in the twentieth century. Among the god’s Khan mentions are ones that have never left the minds of the people from whom they originated. Now, of Baal which has origin in the ancient Near East there is the image of an iron bull on Wall Street and on the coinage of the EU. But this bull may perhaps have its origin for the EU in the myth of Zeus taking the form of a bull that abducts and ravages (rapes) the beautiful goddess Europa. But the EU probably does...

apátrida

  No sooner than I blog about the anti-pater the New Left Review comes out with an article by Mario Tronti that calls for a statelessness, neither masculine nor feminine, the article that has writer Victor Heringer ’s “claim to be  apátrida , stateless, reflected a fundamental repudiation of tribalisms and ideologies of all kinds. Today there can be no vanguards, no faiths, or as he proclaimed in  Pessoa  magazine: ‘Down with Progress! Long live Walter Benjamin!’ His true homeland was irony, something he half-joked was unknown to his compatriots” Simone Weil once wrote about the abolition of all political parties,   but it seems that Heringer sees there to be no necessary distinctions.   Victor avoids duality and tribalism and all with the negation of such distinctions.  

LGBTQ

 LGBT-QAI+  Let's Go Brandon - Test/Question All Inquisitionists + (the sign of the cross)  

Blank-ness

 According to Inside History the first murderer among the “colonists” in “America” was John Billington, murdering a fellow Plymouth Rock colonist.  Truth be known, the first white man to set foot on the shore would have been the first murderer, because he will certainly one who murdered a black slave, on the seas. Is this fuzzy logic? No. Inside History left out an important blankness in the story, the story never told.  That blankness was the color “black”  It is a curiosity to me that this was not even a consideration of the organization of Inside History. As white is blank now, black was certainly blank then.  It is time to realize these distinctions and realize the danger of leaving things blank. Some white dudes need to realize their blankness today, and black blankness in the past and present.  This is as close to liberal as I get these days, but there is definitely is a problem in the history being taught today.  No matter how you slice it.