"Israel is preparing to Commit Genocide"

Poor leaders and evil leaders

 

Clapton seems to have responded to the Cross he has been handed by embracing and carrying It. My wife and I have tickets for his concert in Dublin, next year. May we all make it, with the help of God.

 

Suffering appears to have taught him wisdom.

Perhaps the worst thing about the Cross they went through is the tendency to blame oneself.

 

The World has gone mad.

Rockwell B1B Lancer.

 

His music since his son's death has been so poignant and heart touching.

 

I believe that the Beast will come from an ecumenical and Perelianist religion and that Babylon will be Mecca or the original city rebuilt near the Euphrates.

 

Interesting. Could very well be.

 

I really don't want a change of government in Iran but just for them to stop their persecution of Christians and their implacable hatred of Israel. I think that above geopolitical issues is the security of Christians, which will not exactly coincide with Israel's geopolitical interests, but in the case of Iran, the Islamic theocracy manages to oppose both things. Finally, I regret that this has become a discussion, I just think that the suffocated cry of Christians in the Middle East is above any geopolitical issue and even in the midst of the degeneration of the West.

 

In a way, the French Revolution was a preview of the Antichrist's government because the revolutionaries killed by beheading, as occurs in the book of Revelation with Christians who did not worship the image of the beast.

 

The perennial philosophy (Latin: philosophia perennis),[note 1] also referred to as perennialism and perennial wisdom, is a perspective in philosophy and spirituality that views religious traditions as sharing a single, metaphysical truth or origin from which all esoteric and exoteric knowledge and doctrine has grown.

Perennialism has its roots in the Renaissance interest in neo-Platonism and its idea of the One, from which all existence emerges. Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499) sought to integrate Hermeticism with Greek and Christian thought,[1] discerning a prisca theologia which could be found in all ages.[2] Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463–94) suggested that truth could be found in many, rather than just two, traditions. He proposed a harmony between the thought of Plato and Aristotle, and saw aspects of the prisca theologia in Averroes (Ibn Rushd), the Quran, the Kabbalah and other sources.[3] Agostino Steuco (1497–1548) coined the term philosophia perennis.[4]

A more popular interpretation argues for universalism, the idea that all religions, underneath seeming differences, point to the same Truth. In the early 19th century the Transcendentalists propagated the idea of a metaphysical Truth and universalism, which inspired the Unitarians, who proselytized among Indian elites. Towards the end of the 19th century, the Theosophical Society further popularized universalism, not only in the western world, but also in western colonies. In the 20th century, universalism was further popularized through the Advaita Vedanta and Sufism inspired Traditionalist School, which argued for a metaphysical, single origin of the orthodox religions, and by Aldous Huxley and his book The Perennial Philosophy, which was inspired by neo-Vedanta.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perennial_philosophy

 

I dont want this comment to be interpreted as celebrating the guillotine but...The previous methods of execution in france included mallet (striking the head until it was crushed), dismemberment by 4 horses or a slow death trough sword cuts. The guillotine ends it all in a second.
of course it was quicker so a more systematic, swift massacre was carried out

 

Yes; Perhaps it is an act of mercy on God's part to allow Christians to be killed at the end of time in a less painful way.

 

What you say is true, Julia. There is so much to grieve over. I, for one, have squandered many graces the Lord has offered me. Precious indeed is the Blood of Christ which washes clean the souls of those who sincerely repent. It is easier to point a finger at others than to accuse oneself in a way that places oneself on a path of sincere conversion.

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God, have mercy on me a sinner.

 

Lately in general, regarding this, I feel actively guilty for not saving people from preventable death (starved, curable disease, bad housing or ecology\sanitary conditions etc) when I, even with limited resources, could.
Peter Singer has a pretty horrible philosophy but his "drowning child analogy" is unavoidable true(in my opinion): If you could save a child drowning in mud at the cost of making your clothes dirty, the moral thing is to save him. So if you spend money on extra fancy clothing instead of feeding a starving kid in your city, you are guilty of that death.

 

I also think of dining out in expensive restaurants as contributing to my own lack of charity for others. I know of some places that serve $200 meals! And up.

 

This so called democracy brought the Mullahs. Without a western friendly monarchy, Iran turns radical by majority rule. Here in the U.S. we aren’t a democracy, we are a republic. That’s not understood anywhere in the Middle East.

 

Republic means congress\parliament instead of a monarchy? but why isnt USA a democracy, if people vote the president?
Is direct voter's influence needed for a country to be a full democracy?
(Also, I firmly believe most countries are kakistoracies:A kakistocracy (/kækɪˈstɒkrəsi/, /kækɪsˈtɒ-/) is a government run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens)

 

Not just in the US. Here in Europe we're overflowing with poor leaders and evil leaders. The difference is that you have a powerful military although I'm sure that our esteemed leaders have plans to change that. Orban from Hungary recently accused the EU of trying to impose an Orwellian world on us, citing their plans to buy and supply weapons through the European Peace Facility and controlling the media through the Media Freedom Act. He was right. It's straight out of 1984 and they're so full of their own importance that they don't try to hide it. Borrell, the Spanish waste of space who is some kind of EU foreign affairs minister, likened Europe to a garden surrounded by a jungle. Maybe he imagines it to be the new Garden of Eden. Then again, probably not because he came from the Socialist Workers Party in Spain so he probably thinks the Garden of Eden never existed. Orwell is looking like a prophet. And if Mary Shelley were alive today, she could change Frankenstein's monster into the EU and make a reality TV show out of it.

 

A republic is a country where power is held by the people who vote for representatives that are supposed to do the will of the people.

 

But you can't sustain a system against the will of the majority unless you use Soviet style oppression. The Turks' solution was a secularist party backed by the military. The secularists hated Erdogan and wanted the military to oust him. That solution was scuppered when there was a scandal about a planned coup. The secularists claimed that Erdogan was behind it but his supporters believed it. Anyway, it increased Erdogan's popularity and gave him a means of replacing the generals with people loyal to him. Now, there's a slippery eel controlling one of the world's largest armies in a country where all young men do a stint in the military. They say the Brotherhood has a strong presence in Turkey, which may explain Erdogan saying that Hamas are not terrorists.

When the Brotherhood ousted Morsi in Egypt (some say with US collusion), Al-Sisi saw the writing on the wall and took over there before he suffered the same fate as the Turkish generals.

I thought I heard that Erdogan mentioned in his statement something about the cross and the crescent. That's not a good sign. "They'll know we are Christians by our nukes" isn't the way to evangelise.