Soft-Tyranny.

Views on this dispicable article: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/03/20133772515825350.html

Europe is turning into a liberal fascist sub-continent clearly. It reminds me about how Hitler sought to take the children away from the influence of their parents so he could indoctrinate them with his own philosophy in the NSDAP youth-groups. Secular governments manifestly have an anti-Christian bias, and are seeking to remove kids from the influence of their parents so they are more tolerant and persuaded toward secular-liberal values rather than traditional Christian ones, considered backward. This is just manipulation. Parents have the ultimate authority to instil values in the child, so long as the rights of the child aren't violated. Every person has a world-view and instils the values of their belief system into the child, not just religious people. It's just mob rule imposing itself over a cultural and religious minority. SO much for freedom of religion, to practice their own beliefs. When a child grows older they are free to research into other religions and make their own decisions. Simply rabid liberalism gone to seed, now with its attempt to remove historical values from its people.  Not surprised though at the duplicity and conniving, surreptitious tactics of these people to subvert the enemy electorate. They invoke my revulsion.

Similar Themes in Ancient Religion

''Among the sacred legends of the Babylonians and Assyrians the following were the most remarkable. They believed that at a remote date, before the creation of the world, there had been war in heaven. Seven spirits, created by Ami to be his messengers, took counsel together and resolved to revolt against high heaven, the dwelling-place of Ann the king, they plotted evil, and unexpectedly made a fierce attack. The moon, the sun and Vul, the god of the atmosphere, withstood them and after a fearful struggle bent them off. There was then peace for a while. But once more, at a later date, a fresh revolt broke out... their leader who is unnamed, took the form of a dragon, and in that shape contended avith the god of Bel, who proved victorious in combat, and slew his adversary by means of a thunderbolt. Upon this, the entire host of the wicked angels took to flight, and was driven to the abode of the seven spirits of evil, where they were forced to remain, their return to heaven being prohibited.''

''The following is the Chaldsean account of the Deluge, as rendered from the original .... He spake to me and said: -- 'Son of Ubaratutu, make a ship after this fashion... for I destroy the sinners and life... and cause to enter in all the seed of life, that thou mayst preserve them. The ship which thou shalt make, ... cubits shall be the measure of the length thereof, and.. cubits measure of the breadth and height thereof; and into the deep thou shalt launch it... And enter thou into the ship, and shut the door; and bring into the midst of it thy grain, and thy furniture , and thy goods, thy wealth, thy servants... I will gather to thee the beats of the field, and tha animals, and I will bring them to thee; and they shall be enclosed within thy door.... ''

-- Rawlinson, George: The Religions of the Ancient World.

It's interesting how similar themes go across different ancient religions. You wonder if they have copied each other, or whether they similarly draw on and reflect actual past events to some extent. The flood story is ubiquitous. Any way I'm going to research more into this topic to find out.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/03/the_case_for_morality_and_god_comments.html#disqus_thread

Commentary Excerpt from PalestineFacts

I would like to ask the following to the Israel bashers in here:

Do you believe there are such things as facts – yes or no?

If yes, why do you falsely claim that a ‘Palestinian people exists and yet reject 4000 years of Jewish history in Israel? If you accept facts, why do you ignore that the Arab world seeks Israel’s annihilation since 1948? Is annihilating an entire country or ethnic group of people a human right? If Israel decides to do the same with the Arabs and Moslems – will that be considered to be a human right?

If you deny the existence of facts and if you insist that there is no reality or facts but merely subjective opinions, wkat makes your opinions moral or legitimate? After all – there are just opinions and no right and wrong?

If you adher to equality of all human beings, why do you reject pro-Israeli statements as “people who studied at an Israeli university” and uses the word Zionist as if it was an insult? First of all, no pro-Israeli comment, provided it is factual, should be discarded merely because a Jewish person/Israeli person made that statement because that means you judge that person due to his ethnic and racial identity – and that’s racist and morally repugnant. Second, Zionist is not an insult nor is it an invective.

I have a few questions for you Jew haters and Israel bashers – provided of course you admit the existence of facts and reality and the quality of all men – Jews included:

1) Why is “Palestine” a Roma’n/Latin name? Why do Arab nationalists use a Roman/Latin name?

2) Why is therre no letter “p” in Arabic?

3) Why is there no “Palestine” or “Palestinians ever mentioned – not once, in the Bible or the Koran?

4) Why does both the Bible and the Koran admit that Israel is the Jewish homeland and therefore Jewish property?

5) Why are pro-Israeli Christians accused of being “subjective” due to their religious beliefs but you don’t say the same about pro-Arab voices? Why are pro-Israeli voices among non Jews ‘subjective” whereas pro-Arab opinions are all of the sudden accepted as the truth? Christians may be religious, but that does not mean they are not speaking the truth. They are in fact refering to ancient history.

6) Why are Jewish claims to Israel always equated with the Bible and why is the Bible always portrayed as religious jiggery-pokery? First of all, the Bible is not one books but several books in one volume written by many authors for many centuries. Second, the Bible does not only consist of religious jiggery-pokery and myths and legends. Actual geographical locations in the Bible are to be found in real physical Israel of the ancient times and of today (and also verified by other ancient civilizations) – places such as: Jerusalem, Hebron, Jericho, Betlehem, Beer Sheva, Yafo (an Israelite seaport used by the ancient kings – King David and King Solomon to trade with Phoenicia – recounted both by the Bible and by non Jewish and non Biblical sources as well), Nasareth, Masada, Dead Sea and so on. All these places exist in the real world. Also the Bible speaks of the Kingdom of Israel and the Kingdom of Yehuda. But it is not only the Bible that speaks of ancient Israel. Ancient Egyptian, Hittite, Canaanite, Edomite, Phoenician, Philisteene, Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, Greek and Roman sources confirm the exisence of ancient Israel and ancient Yehuda/Judea and the ancient Jews/Israelites. Many non Jewish ancient civilizations confirm in their historical records what is already confirmed in the Bible. The Bible speaks of the Assyrian conquest of the Kingdom of Israel. The Assyrians and their historical records also speak of this conquest of Israel and the bringing of Israelite slaves into Assyria. The Bible speaks of the Babylonian conquest of the Kingdom of Yehuda. Babylonian records speak of the destruction and conquest of Yehuda and the Jewish exiles brought from Yehuda into Babylon. Ancient Persian records reveal that King Cyrus the Great vanquished the Babylonians and allowed the Jews to return to Israel/Yehuda and rebuild the land, the city of Jerusalem the Jewish temple. The Greeks speak of the Jews and so do the Romans. Why do all these civilizations mention the Jews if we Jews “have no rights to the land” and that our ancient history is supposedly “nonsense”? How do you explain all these things? Rejecting the Bible all together as jiggery-pokery reveals extreme and blatant ignorance and second, with or without the belief in God, with or without the belief that God gave the land of Israel to the Jewish/Israelite people, it still remains an undeniable historical fact that millions of Jewish men, women and children lived in the ancient land of Israel called -you guessed it -Israel. Independently of their religious beliefs, ancient Israel was and is a very real, tangible and physical fact.

7) Nationalism has been alien to the Arabs who have for 1400 years lived as nomads and Bedouins in multi-ethnic and multi-racial “Arab” empires, whose majority population – locals, subjects, citizens, slaves, soldiers, mercenaries, physicians, mathematicians, merchants, kings and royals were no ethnic Arabs – merely Arab speaking Moslems of primarily Iranian/Persian, Kurdish, Turkish, Jewish, Berber and African origins. Very few kings and royals and indeed very few people in the Arab empires could boast with pure Arabian blood. The Koran’s definition of an Arab is a Nomad – a social function – someone who lives in the desert, but since any ethnic group can live in the desert it doesn’t have to entail a certain ethnic character. The Arab definition of an Arab is someone who speaks Arabic. Anyone who learns Arabic becomes an Arab. The Arabs of today, in 22 Arab states, and the Arabs of Israel today and the so called “Palestinians”, are ethnically speaking as mixed as the Arabs of the past. If there are no Arabs today, how can there be any “Palestinian” “Arabs” to begin with?

8) Jewish/Israelite history started 2000 BCE meaning 4000 years ago. Arab history started in the 7th century C.E 1400 years ago, on the south wester corner of the Arabian peninsula, hundreds of kilometers away from Israel, 2600 years after the Jews established themselves in the land of Israel. How can the Arabs be the natives of Israel? How could the Arabs have lived in Israel prior to the Jews? Historically, geographically and physically impossible.

9) Most of the so called “Palestinians” are actually multi-ethnic/multi-racial Arab speaking Moslems of primarily Iranian, Kurdish, Turkish, Afghan, Egyptian, Sudanese, Somalian, Black African, Tartar, Bosnian, Albanian, Greeks, Italian and German origins and some of them arrived in Israel 200-300 years ago and moved here due to the political ambitions of the Ottoman empire (the Turks), many of them arrived in Israel (or Palestine under Ottoman rule) as guest workers coming to Jewish cities and industries being built in the land of Israel in the mid and late 19th century, but most of them, the vast majority of those “Palestinians” came to Israel in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. That’s hardly ancient history and that’s hardly a homogenous distinct united separate ethnic group of people.

10) The Romans renamed Israel/Yehuda into “Palestine” or Palaestina to spite the Jews since the Jews fought against the Roman occupation 2000 years ago (the Romans mentioned no “Palestinian’ people or country – why?) and since Jews made such a resistance, the Romans who vanquished the Jews in the 2nd century C.E wanted to erase all evidence that Israel is the Jewish homeland, so the Romans searched through historical records and found out that the arch enemy of ancient Israel was the Philisteenes – an Indo-European ethnic group of people (also mentioned in the Bible that you love to hate) originating from the today Greek island of Crete – they were no Arabs, spoke no Arabic and were no Moslems, but they conquered the Israelite coast and built cities like Gaza, Ashkelon and Ashdod and they fought both against Israel and Egypt and lost against both nations. The Philisteenes were utterly destroyed and disappeared from the stage of history possibly in the 9th or 8th century BCE – meaning 2700-2800 years ago, 900-1000 years before the Romans began to call Israel “Palaestina” and 1300-1400 years before a single Arab or Moslem or mosque even existed in Israel or the Middle East or the Arabian peninsula. But the name “Palestine”comes from Philisteene which means “invader”. If Arabs/”Palestinians”claim Philisteene ancestry they have to explain how they can both the Arabs from the Arabian peninsula and yet belong to a completely different ethnic-cultural and linguistic group of people not from the Arabian peninsula but from Crete- 1300-1400 years before Arabs even entered Israel as invaders and conquerors. Claiming that Arabs/”Palestinians” that entered Israel primarily in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s are related to an ethnic group of people that has been dead now for at least 2700-2800 years is intellectually dishonest.

11) If Arabs/”Palestinians” claim Canaanite ancestry they will fail again. The Canaanite language was almost identical to Hebrew. The ancient Hebrews/Israaelites needed no interpreters to understand the Canaanites. The Israelites and Canaanites intermarried and some Canaanites even converted to the Israeli faith and became Israelites themselves, so the claim that Israelites/Hebrews came to Israel/Canaan after the Canaanites is a truth wit a slight modification because many Jews/Israelites back in those days actually had Canaanite ancestry. There is only one ethnic group today that can claim Canaanite ancestry and that’s the Jews/Israelis. The Canaanites completely assimilated into the Jewish nation in the 8th century BCE. Why is Hebrew so similar to the Canaanite language and why is Arabic so different from Canaanite? If Arabs claim Canaanite ancestry, why don’t Arabs speak Canaanite?

12) What kings, dynasties, palaces, temples, buildings, structures, currency, capital, language, alphabet, religion, kingdom, state, nation state, city state, republic, duchy, principality or empire did the “Palestinians” have and why is it that not a single ancient civilization ever mentions – not once, not anywhere, any “Palestinian” people, nation, tribe, culture, civilization, state or kingdom?

You Israel bashers and anti-Semites have to answer these questions.

You are ideologically motivated biased racists that want to steal our 4000 years of Jewish history and erase and replace us from history with an invented “Palestinian” people simply because you cannot accept that Jews have equal national rights among the nations. Denying us national rights merely because we are Jews is racism. Claiming we can’t steal the land from the “Palestinians’ is a blatant and extreme lie of the highest order since the land in dispute has been ours for the past 4000 years. The world would be a lot better place if you could simply lieave this tiny and peaceful country alone and embrace Israel and the Jewish people in the human family – that is, if you are not racists and believe in the equality of human life.

Second Post

And my questions to you Sarah, provided you are a human too are twofold: 1) Why do you insist on calling mutli-ethnic Arab speaking Moslems “Palestinians” when there is clearly no “Palestinian” people to begin with? Do you do this out of malice? 2) Why do insist that IDF kills innocent women and children? Nazi Germany killed 6 million innocent Jewish men, women and children, but that doesn’t mean Jews can claim Germany’s territory. Are you implying that IDF “kills” “innocent women and children” and therefore the Arabs have a moral “right” to call themselves “Palestinians” and to claim Israel?

Why do Arab terrorists slit the throat of Jewish babies? Why do Arab terrorists attack Jews or Israelis? IDF and Israel never kills out of pleasure but out of self defense. IDF targets Arab terrorists – who happen to hide among Arab “civilians”. It means in order to hit the terrorists you must strike buildings in which civilians live. The alternative is not to attack but to keep the Arab terrorists alive so that they can go on killing Israeli/Jewish men, women and children. Would you prefer that instead? Hamas, PLO and Fatah attack ALL Israelis/Jews no matter if they are soldiers or civilians. They attack Israelis/Jews with the explicit intent to kill them because of their Jewish ethnicity. In the normal world, we would call it racism, hate crime and genocidal ideologies. More than 95% of the population of the Arab world believes that hating, attacking and massacring Jews is in order. Do you believe that those opinions are civilized? PLO, Hamas and Fatah hide among their civilians in order to seek refuge from IDF while they relentlessly attack Israeli/Jewish soldiers and civilians. Israeli soldiers protect Israeli civilians and try to minimize the casualties among civilian Arabs. But truth be spoken, the vast majority of the “Palestinians” support mass murder on Jews. Do you think the “Palestinians” are so innocent? Please answer all my questions if you think you are human.

Interesting Comments on American Thinker

The Democrats of today are elitists and authoritarians. I have never met a Obamacrat that did not think this way. They are totally convinced of their own superiority. It is part of their personality and psychology. They got there from many different life experiences and believe that they are on this earth to rule and herd the rest of the population to their own advantage. They think they are better educated, smarter, and morally superior. They also think they should be in the ruling class and everyone else should acquiesce because of their self identified natural abilities. They hate everyone that does not think like they do. And they do not think that all are created equal under the law. They are contemptuous, racist, misogynist, regionalist, ageist and ignorant. They hate the very culture that has provided them with advantages which they refuse to acknowledge because it would mean they have to acknowledge their own weakness and shriveled little psyches.

We need to take back our government schools. If we can, we might have a chance to stop the production of Democrat voters. The Demoncraps are producing Democrat voters by destroying public school children's ability to be successful Americans. Children need a positive context for information. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are positive, constructive, and productive. Government school victims are being brainwashed into losers. Government school victims are being programmed and brainwashed into being poor, destructive, self-destructive, addicts, and dependent upon government welfare.

I worked with people who would covertly disrupt or destroy a project or plan so only they could be the ones to gallantly stride forth and fix it...leading to hero status among management and promotions.

This is the ulimate plan for Democrats, led by the Chicago Machine Politik.
Collapse the system, ride in as the saviors to fix it while blaming Republicans for "not giving them everything they wanted".

Many strident Liberals are already predicting the failure of ObamaCare because Republicans would not allow the SIngle Payer option. They're also (Krugman, et al) blaming Republicans for the failure of the recovery because we needed at least TWICE the amount of stimulus.

ANY compromise Democrats feel they're forced to make will some how hinder the success of anything they're trying to do. That will be the positioning for years to come, as economic collapse becomes a reality. This is why the Republican Party needs to reform and rebrand while it quietly stands-down. Everything will be their fault.

The Marxists have been in a stealth war of attrition until they assume enough power, accumulate sufficient allies (MSM, Hollywood, Big Education), and secure the allegiance of those sworn (top Military brass, SS ) to defend this nation, its Constitution and its citizens. They're either at the point--or close to it--where legal niceties, a "free" press, and a Constitution will no longer constrain them from completing the transformation from a Democractic Republic, to a full-fledged Fascist state run by neo-Marxists....with a racist chip on their shoulder and kinship with Muslim animals.

We're not talking about people who perceive reality or think like the rest of us. We're talking about people who are motivated by powerful, pathological compulsions to control and rule people, punish success, avenge themselves upon normal people, and above and beyond all else, express their blind hatred of America, American capitalism and wealth, the American way, and the American people. Looters and arsonists and rapists and armed robbers and cold-blooded murderers are oblivious to costs and consequences.

I think many of us still want to believe we're involved in an orderly, sometimes spirited, reconcilable political contest with people who uphold a philosophy somewhat different from ours. I'm sorry, friends, but that was a long time ago.

I say the "progressives" are the current iteration of Soviet communists who deliberately starved millions of kulaks to death and banished millions more citizens to prison camps. They're successors to the Maoists who deliberately starved millions of Chinese to death, at lesst half of whom were children. They're proud moral and intellectual descendants of the last century's most monstrous mass murderers.

And something you 'two wrongs make a right' people can't seem to get through your thick skulls is that, whether or not a person saying something is being a hypocrite has NOTHING to do with the truth of what they're saying. So rush has trouble with marriage. If he criticizes homosexual marriage, his own woes take NOTHING from the truth of what he says. (Unfortunately, the homofascists - you know, those HYPOCRITES who call for tolerance but can't manage to tolerate anyone who doesn't think like they do- seem to have gotten to his advertisers or something. He doesn't touch that issue anymore.)


Kudos to you Jim, since have apprehended the larger issue. The issue lies not simply in religious fanaticism, but in totalitarianism.

Hannah Arendt in "The Origins of Totalitarianism" explains what differentiates socialism or statism from the totalitarianism that existed in the USSR and Nazi Germany (and later Mao's China). It is a homogenization process that isolates the individual and the "atomization" of the masses attacking randomly any group that does not comply using propaganda and terror to force the individual or groups to capitulate.

She believed that the USSR had best achieved this horror of totalitarianism with the example of a woman whose husband would disappear and never be spoken of again for fear of reprisal. Is it any wonder that our elite, liberal progressives claim as their heroes either Stalin or Mao?

Some people know the term, 'self-hating Jews' which applies to Jews who make derogatory statements about Jews or Judaism. They can't change who they are but express contempt for their fellow Jews or Israel as a way of expressing their frustration or anger at their own identity.

Complaint to NZ Herald

Why don't you put an anti-Islamic diatribe on your website. But you couldn't because that would be intellectually consistent and even-handed, since you have singled out Christianity for denunciation and excoriation. Atheists and humanist progressives like the entire news-board at NZHERALD are a minority. Your inordinate progressive monopoly over the media is disturbing. You don't represent the people, you assert your emotional and ideological ideals over everyone. ALL we want is an impartial account of current events, not illiberal opinion pieces castigating religious people. You have essentially turned yourself into a propaganda machine, espousing the secular humanist ideology, when the majority of Kiwis believe in some form of god.

If you can censor yourself to paint a picture of other religions in a non-negative fashion then you can do the same with Christianity, but unfortunately you just reveal yourself as partial and prejudicial against Christianity, which is effectively a double-standard. If this is some form of affirmative action, because of the trite, narrow-minded platitude about perennial Christian oppressors, get a life and read some real history. But clearly I don't think many people, particularly in this newsroom, actually have any legitimate historical knowledge, besides the usual a-historical tripe peddled by the new-atheist movement these-days, for the express purpose of demonising religious adherents.

Think about eminent figures like, Locke, Descartes, Copernicus, Galileo, Martin Luther, Martin Luther King, Wilberforce, Newton.... and how indispensable they have been to science, human rights and the Western tradition. Also remember you can't extricate modern society from its historical roots. Attacking your ancestors is asinine. It's great we have improved but we should never patronise our ancestors. That is self-defeating. The gay movement shouldn't celebrate its accomplishments while at the same time disparaging another minority of people who disagree with gay-marriage, on grounds of moral principle. Many people can hardly choose to change the fact that they are different with respect to their deeply held moral convictions. Attacking their belief *system* doesn't accomplish anything but, rather further entrenches divisiveness.

Because I subscribe to a world-view that differs to the mainstream, and feel attacked by the mainstream, I would retaliate. You should be grateful that Christianity proscribes violence, and mandates pacified and gentle response to its vociferous dissenters.

Political Correctness or Political Coercion.

The content herein is largely taken from Prophecy in the News with additional annotations of my own. The link to the video source is provided at the end.

Political Correctness: the fine art of censorship, it is culturally chosen language, supposed to favour certain groups and certain ideas, and multicultural developments which are meant to be good for society. When the apostle Paul talks about 'perilous times' it translates into a sort of social insanity, which we are seeing today, a distorted and inverted understanding of morality. And today there is a prevailing censorship over our very language,  you have to be multi-culturally conscious and sensitive in order that you not say the 'wrong' thing, however this political correctness or social morality is increasingly being used to extinguish the truth and abridge freedom of speech.

How does Political Correctness develop? Some rich and powerful group identifies a problem, and then they try to fix that problem. It's not long until there’s a  movement, which becomes a social cause in which 'good works' are trumpeted as socially superior. Then within that movement you have a developing language, things you can say and things you can’t say unless you become branded as politically incorrect. This becomes a sort of social morality. The result is that those who are branded as politically incorrect become excoriated by the cultural elites and the docile conforming masses.

 With the use of carefully crafted language, a cloud of emotions is evoked, it’s nice to say this but not nice to say that, which is skilfully captured by social planners who use the language to shape society, to attractively fashion what they perceive as a problem so that it becomes  a solution. And all you have to do is speak the right language. Creating a social awareness of the problem how-ever, and then then an intellectual movement is the crucial step.

In psychology it is recognised that certain labels inevitably develop into a pejorative term if they are associated with objects or people that are predisposed to being derided by certain trend-setting groups, particularly younger generations, so new labels are periodically crafted to remove the negative connotations of the pejorative terms. An example of this: the blind become ‘visually impaired’, those with special needs become 'special people', dyslexic become ‘verbally challenged’, and so on ad-infinitum.

Now days if a famous figure says something deemed inappropriate or politically incorrect they are excoriated, and made to come crawling onto the alter of  political correctness, to repent and apologise for their sins, under the duress of publicity and sensationalism by the media puppets. What is perceived as compassion and cultural sensitivity quickly evolves into political power, because some myriad of groups have to control the language, and these organisations and associations are invariably liberal.

Philip Atkinson: political correctness is the communal tyranny that erupted in the 1980s,  a spontaneous declaration that particular ideas, expressions and behaviour that were then legal should be forbidden by law and that people who transgressed should be punished. In present day England, Islam is engulfing the local culture and traditions, but no one can speak out against it because the British parliament has ruled that Islam is a peaceful addition to the British culture and must not be criticised. Today there are also certain things that preachers cannot say and get away with it.

Political correctness is just another term for ‘miss-speak’, the language of English socialism. Designed not to extend but to diminish the chain of thought, by cutting down the choice of words, the only language whose vocabulary gets smaller every year. The vocabulary of a people guides and shapes a nation. Certain associations and groups dictate the language in the education system. They are even banning images showing women as being more nurturing than men, men as capable leaders, men are boys in active problem solving roles, this in order to create a gender neutral environment so young children are more easily able to choose to be gay or lesbian. History is revised; pioneering women sitting in wagons while men walk must not be shown, pioneer women must not be shown sewing, cooking, sweeping, spinning wool or rocking babies. These are actual directives from such organisations. These are only a tiny fraction of the thousands of directives issued everyday.

In thousands of commercials the man of the house is an impotent whiner because he can't open a jar, he can’t make something work, he can’t find the cold medicine, he can’t fix food… while his wife displays wisdom and talent and problem solving ability. In sitcoms the husband is stupid, the wife is smart, and the children are beyond their years. But the man is supposed to be the spiritual leader of the household. And then there's is always the token gay guy who is disproportionately represented in every sphere of entertainment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJfGyE0KGw4