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  1. Fred C Dobbs

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    "A scorpion asks a frog to carry it across a river. The frog hesitates, afraid of being stung by the scorpion, but the scorpion argues that if it did that, they would both drown. The frog considers this argument sensible and agrees to transport the scorpion. The scorpion climbs onto the frog's back and the frog begins to swim, but midway across the river, the scorpion stings the frog, dooming them both. The dying frog asks the scorpion why it stung the frog, to which the scorpion replies "I couldn't help it. It's in my nature."

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog
     
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    Christians are under attack world wide and are getting little support. It is certain that Muslims wanted Christians killed and it's been going on for years.
     
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    US threatens to veto UN resolution on rape as weapon of war. Fortunately, I live in a Christian Nation. In Denmark during 1854, it was illegal for anyone except a Christian to own a whorehouse.

    There are many sexual assault victims in US Christian Fundamentalist Churches also. Take for example the case of Fundamentalist pastor Rev. Tony Leyva, a Cuban American that began preaching when he was only 9 years olds in Miami.

    The Rev. Tony Leyva would as an adult dress up in a Superman costume calling himself “Superchristian” to attract children in churches across the American South such as Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Ohio,Virginia, Midwest, Pennsylvania and later the Caribbean for about 25 years.

    Rev. Leyva became so well known among American Fundamentalist Christians that he even replaced Rev. Jimmy Swaggart with a weekly television show while Swaggart was off air dealing with a sex scandal.

    The Rev. Leyva was discovered to have molested over 300 boys in fundamentalist churches across the American South. Rev. Leyva molested more children than any single sexual predator discovered at the time and the record may still stand. Leyva sold many children to others as sex slaves.

    The Leyva story was blacked out by most of the American media monopolies so you probably never heard of this scandal. There is a 1996 book entitled "Brother Tony's Boys: The Largest Case of Child Prostitution in U.S. History: The True Story." Author Mike Echols, a California-based child advocate.

    The story below is about one of the young victims.

    See news article:
    Old Wounds Reopened
    By Leef Smith
    November 24, 2002
     
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    The largest mass sexual assault in history happened during World War II when the Soviet Army invaded Germany. Seeking revenge for Nazi atrocities in Russia, the Soviet troops raped between
    one and two million German women, about 80,000 subsequently committed suicide. There is a good documentary on Netflix about it now. I think its called Savage Peace. Prior to that the largest sexual
    assault was either the Japanese Rape of Nanking in the 1930s with about 80,000 rapes a well as at least 200,000 civilians killed, or the Armenian Genocide by the Muslim Turks during World War I. Over 1,000,000
    Armenian Christians were killed (out of a total of 3,000,000) and hundreds of thousands of others had to flee to other countries or be killed. There were tens of thousands of rapes with many of the victims
    being murdered afterwards. I once saw a photograph online which should scores of naked women raped and then crucified by the Turks. The bodies were still on the crosses. There were several massacres
    of Armenians and other Christians over the years, but the 1915 one was the worst.
     
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    My argument is that this is not really a religious war but a proxy war waged by the US and other Nation States to steal oil from the Middle East and Venezuela. I am unable to find Christianity anywhere, but Christendom abounds.

    Today WBRC reports that Paul Action Bowen, 39-year-old Alabama pastor, is in jail for allegedly engaging in sex acts with victims ages 13-16 and the Christian pastor is still in contact with his victims, according to authorities.

    In yet another terrible story....

    So what do you need for open a private Christian Academy in free America?
    • Teachers like Know County, Florida Mr. and Miss John Dollar.
    • A school like the Mountain View Christian Academy in Knox County.
    • Certification as a teacher.
    And you need to following tools:
    1. Cattle prods
    2. pliers
    3. vises
    Why pliers? As a disciplinary method by pulling the children’s toe nails out as Brother John Dollar did. The same with vises and cattle prods. Brother John and Linda would starve and lock the children into a closet. The Christian couple had adopted seven children: 14-year-old twin boys, two girls ages 12 and 13, and the 16-year-old. Police reported that “Their adopted 16-year-old son weighed 59 pounds when hospitalized Jan. 21 in Citrus County, which started an investigation, officials said. Twin boys, 14, subsequently were found to weigh 36 and 38 pounds. Two girls, 13 and 12, also were severely undernourished.”
    You can read the detailed story at Couple Charged With Torturing Adopted Children at Christian Academy

    This is very un-Christian.

    "This they said to test him, that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground." John 8:6
     
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    Teachers in the public schools are constantly being arrested for sexual misdeeds with students. I don't think any profession or religion has a monopoly on virtue. Rotten individuals can be found
    among all religions. atheists and agnostics. Muslims, however, seem to have more than their fair share. In the 1990s I was involved witha group dedicated to purchasing freedom for Sudanese who
    had been enslaved by Muslims. "Sudan is waging jihad, or holy war, against its Christian and non-Muslim populations. Government troops raze village, massacring the men and selling the women
    and children into slavery." Daily Gazette, Schnectady, New York, March 23, 1997. One third the size of the USA, Sudan had a population of about 30 million of whom 70% were Muslims living in
    the northern two-thirds of the country, concentrated along the Nile. The 30% of the population that were Christians or animists lived in the wetter, sub-tropical one third of the country in the
    southern region known as the Bahr El Ghazel. In 1989m Islamic fundamentalists violently siezed control of Khartoum, Sudan's capital, from its democratically elected government. These, led
    by Gen. Omar Hassan Ahmad el Bashir, at once began trying to impose strict Islamic practices on the Christians and animist (spirit worshipping) groups. To force compliance and conversion on the
    southerners, the Muslims bombed and burned peaceful villages, re-instated chattel slavery, murdered, raped, and tortured non-Muslims and even crucified children.

    According to NEWSWEEK, May 3, 1999, "The victims are black Christians and animists: the slave traders who raid the southern villages are Muslim Arabs, whose racial and religious kin
    control the central government in Khartoum. Journalist and human-rights groups have documented the resurgence of slavery in Sudan, but that has done nothing to reverse the trend."

    In roughly a dozen years well over one million people were killed, and over 250,000 - mostly children and women - were taken as slaves. Up to four million were temporarily forced into
    squalid refugees camps under apalling conditions. These losses were from a total population of only 9 million in southern Sudan. Enslaved women and children were given new, Muslim, names
    and forced to convert to Islam through a combination of starvation, gang rape, and torture. Slaves were held in northern Sudan, and exported for sale to Libya, Chad, Mauritania, and possibly
    other Muslim countries. I know of an incident where six Dinka men (the main African tribe in the region) tried to rescue their wives and daughters whom they could hear being raped in the Muslim
    camp. Unarmed, they were captured by the Muslims and tied to trees. The Muslims then chopped off their arms with axes and left them to bleed to death. Two of the six actually survived, and
    we raised money to buy them artificial arms. One of the men's wives was later purchased from the slavers and freed, but she was pregnant from repeated rapes. Muslims in the Sudan did things that
    would embarass a Nazi guard at Treblinka. It was the greatest forgotten tragedy of the twenth century. Muslims from other countries traveled to Sudan to participate in Jihad (or more accurately to
    murder and rape) and then returned home with their new 'skills'.
     
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    You are too lazy to format you response, I'm too lazy to read all that crap. It is against the rules to spam.

    Oh, yes. Back to present state of Christianity.

    Rev. Lonnie Wayne Lathma of South Tulsa Baptist Church arrested Soliciting Oral Sex from male undercover police officer. Oops.

    Brother Latham of the South Tulsa Baptist Church and an executive committee member of the Southern Baptist Convention was arrested for soliciting a blow job from a male undercover police officer. Latham has spoken out against same-sex marriage and in support of a Southern Baptist Convention directive urging its 42,000 churches to befriend gays and lesbians and try to convince them that they can become heterosexual "if they accept Jesus Christ as their savior and reject their 'sinful, destructive lifestyle."'

    The Southern Baptist Convention is the nation's largest Protestant denomination.

    I have nearly one hundred news articles of fundatmentalist pastors, youth choir leaders, and youth pastors arrested for rape, pedophilia, and torture. Jesus doesn't say anything about gays in the Bible, but he says plenty about hypocrisy.

    Since the fundamentalist Christians like to ride their moral High Horse and condemn others. I think it is important to reveal their behavior every time they screw up. If your local minister is caught raping little boys and girls, or arrested for sodomy and such, please post it and add to our growing collection.
     
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    The topic is not 'the state of Christianity'. It's Muslims attacking and murdering Christians throughout the world, Sri Lanka this time, and carrying on a genocide in the Middle East.
     
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    So what's your point?

    Which government?
     
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    All of the useful idiots should be forced to read that.
     
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    kyklos, There is nothing wrong with you pointing out the shortcomings of so-called Christians. But, neither is there anything wrong with pointing out the shortcomings of Muslims either. This
    post started out discussing Muslims murdering Christians. You felt led to change the subject to abuses by non-Muslims (Easter Worshippers as Hillary put
    it). Why don't you simply start your on post? Its important to reveal the behavior of Muslims every time they screw up as well. I think everyone should be able to
    agree that murdering innocent women and children is wrong.
     
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    Texas Baptist Rev.Thompson beat a child for 90 mins for talking. The beating caused the 11 yr. old child to have kidney failure. Don't talk during bible study! How is it possible to beat a 11 year old child with a heavy branch for 90 minutes?

    To me this signifies a serious problem that underlies the tendency of Christian and Islamic society to be so authoritarian in nature. This isn't just a problem with Islamic sects and Christian sects to engage in atrocities. Nation States are well aware of this tendency of organized religion to join in bigotry against an agreed upon enemy and exploit these feeling with agitation propaganda. Agitation propaganda is also called "Vertical propaganda" because it comes from the leaders of a regime. Fascism is a top-down revolution pretending to be populism--a very selective populism. Nation States use rape, torture, violence, religion, and theism as weapons of war. I see many "Christians" in America eager to whip up hate to encourage a proxy religious war for world wide profit and power.

    These issues are very relevant to the terrorism in Sri Lanka that was clearly a Nation-State supported attack.
    [​IMG]
     
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    yes its a vicious circle of revenge. Every time one of these crazed religious/ideological scumbags attacks, some other crazed religious/ideological scumbag decides to retaliate for all its glory.

    Religious/ideological fanaticism is a scourge of modern civilization.
     
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    Strange how Liberals find themselves unable to condemn the Sri Lanka bombings. One would think that everyone could agree that murdering innocent women and children is wrong. Many people
    have used these bombings as an occasion to make further, verbal, attacks on Christians. It should be pointed out the atheist Nazis and Communists have committed the worst atrocities in history. Un-
    believer Hitler and unbeliever Stalin killed about 40 million people between them. Religion, or lack of religion, doesn't guarantee that people will be good or bad. I, myself, am an agnostic. I point these
    things out in the interest of fairness. No one has a monopoly on virtue.
     
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    Both Catholics and Protestants competed against one another for Hilter's favor which was to control the German educational system.“Theologians Under Hitler: Gerhard Kittel, Paul Althaus, and Emmanuel Hirsch" is based on a book by Robert P. Ericksen with the another title "Betrayal: German Churches and the Holocaust " published by Yale University Press, 1985. You will find very familar phrases in this documentary on Nazi Christian Theology. Hitler proclaimed himself as the new Martin Luther.

    "In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders." --Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf.
     
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    They will never read it. They call it 'racist', which has nothing to do with the true meaning of the word.
    This is a special keyword designed by the puppet masters to act like horse blinders.
    This way the puppets cannot look around and see the real world, only what they are fed through the propaganda channels.
     
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    Well it worked well here on Nigel Farage. I've lost count of the number of times I've challenged one his many vilifiers to provide just one example of his 'racism' and answers come there none.
     
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    Those are not liberals. They do not believe in any liberal principle. Most of them call themselves 'progressives' which is an Orwellian word for 'regressives'.
    Liberals do condemn the murder of Christians (not Ester worshipers, like Obama or Clinton called them), by blood thirsty Muslims.
    Liberals stand by the Sri-Lanca people on their day of mourning.
     
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    Both Hitler and Stalin were atheists who despised Christainty. Hitler had some interest in the occult. He never was a church goer.
     
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    Nazi fascist Tucker Carlson recently started this meme of "Easter Worshipers" in his support of our government organizing a proxy religious war so Mafia Don Trump can steal Middle Eastern oil and resources. The problem is that the website that Tucker Carlson founded, The Daily Caller, uses the terms "Christmas worshipers," and the fascist right-wing Washington Times uses "Easter worshipers." Tucker looks like a total nitwit using this meme. So Tuck will drop this meme and secrete fake tears--like he secretes urine-- over the death of innocent Christians somewhere. Maybe Tucker can get a half blown up corpse and parade it around on TV for his viewers. So all this is fake out rage designed to stoke racist hate and filibuster the channels of communications with endless fake moral outrage. They often forget what they should be outraged about and target their own behavior. Orwell...LOL! What a dimwit.
     
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    The nature of an insect is that it does not care about life. It cares about the experience moment to moment.

    Humans have some of the genes of insects. The Cree Indians discovered phylogenetic DNA acting inside of humans that reflected the exact mentality. They called it 'wetiko" and they describe it as part of a collective unconscious existence.

    Think of the swarm, the herd, the flock.
     
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    Wow! Tucker Carlson is a Nazi and a Fascist! And Orwell was a 'dimwit'. It's hard not to laugh at these poor people.
     
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    A very poor effort to sound like you know something about the socialist and antifascist Orwell. You are going to lose this argument also. When Tucker tries to use Orwell for his fascist propaganda, that is the dimwit version of Orwell. So tell us something about Orwell.
     
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    I'll stand by post 222, thanks.
     
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    Heinrich Himmler was Hitler's right-hand man, the architect of the Holocaust, and the leader of the SS. And, like Hitler, he hated Christainty. According to the Time-Life book The SS, "Himmler's mania
    for racial purity, coupled with his contempt for Christian sacraments - which he considered fit only for the meek - yielded an exotic program to foster proper SS families." It goes on to say, "Church weddings
    were replaced by pagan SS rites presided over by the bridegroom's commander." The book further says, "In a 1936 memorandum, Himmler set forth a list of approved holidays based on pagan and
    political precedents and meant to wean SS members from their reliance on Christian festivities. The list included April 20, Hitler's birthday; May Day and the summer solstice; a harvest feast; and
    November 9, the anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch." These holidays were meant to take the place of Christian holidays such as Easter and Christmas - first for the SS, and then for Germany as a
    whole. "Climaxing the year in Himmler's scheme was the winter solistice, or Yuletide, an event that brought SS folk together at candlelit banquet tables and around raging bonfires that harkened back
    to German tribal rites." And, "In death as in life, the SS sought to distinguish its members from the uninitated. For SS men who had renounced church ties - as a majority of those in the armed units did -
    an alternative to Christian burial was devised." After an elaborate ceremony, fallen SS men were buried under rune shaped SS markers rather than crosses. (runes were "symbols employed by the
    warlike peoples of northern Europe in pagan times." These innovations were hardily approved by Hitler, and he and Himmler hoped to draw the whole of the German people away from Christainity.
    While Hitler may have mouthed a few insincere statements about Christainty to win support among the people, he never was a believer and had only contempt for those who were.
     

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