Free Thursday thru Saturday. (needs editing, not perfect, but lot’s of pertinent primary document based historical evidence)
The vast majority of Americans have no idea that our government was illegally flipped from a government formed to protect the Judeo-Christian faith in Creator endowed rights, to an atheist government whose goal is to ban such a faith from schools and government and make itself the only source of rights – “By 1913 president Woodrow Wilson was crying out for change, a “new social age” in which we would reinvent not only America but the entire world by “interpreting the constitution according to the Darwinian principle” (Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom, Doubleday, 1913, p.50)
Want to gain real historically accurate information on academia’s and the media’s favorite theistic religion, Islam? Based on primary documents? Read review below –
Melly 5.0 out of 5 stars An action packed scholarly article Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2020
“Normally I finish a book this size in a day. Maybe two if I am busy. It’s not a thick tome. But it is so densely packed with well-researched facts and quotes it is difficult to take in as fast as it is possible to read it. I had to take a few breaks to let it all simmer, reading 1-2 other books before picking it back up.
Even with those breaks I still feel like I missed a lot. Rarely do I buy a Kindle Unlimited read – as this one was. Not only will I buy this, I am going to buy everything else by the author as well.
Ever read an action packed scholarly article? I haven’t – till this one. This book is deadly in the hands of well spoken conservatives. It should be a must-read for any young man or woman who is headed off to college…or high school for that matter. Actually, I encourage anyone with a young person in their life to make sure they have access to this book – and probably the others by this author. The research is phenomenal.”
If life is constantly forming itself from dead matter, where did death come from? Why is the entire universe dying? Wearing out? Going from order to disorder?
We quoted Isaac Asimov in chapter 4 and I will give the full quote here; “The universe is constantly getting more disorderly. Viewed that way we can see the second law all around us. We have to work hard to straighten a room, but left to itself, it becomes a mess again very quickly and very easily. Even if we never enter it, it becomes dusty and musty…In fact all we have to do is nothing and everything deteriorates, collapses, breaks down, wears out all by itself- and that is what the second law is all about.”(Smithsonian Institute Journal, June, 1970)
This law of entropy wasn’t discovered by modern science until 1850 by Rudolph Clausius, but the bible predicts it; for example, in Ps. 102:25, 26; “Of old you laid the foundations of the earth and the heavens are the works of your hands. They will perish but you will endure, they will all wear out like a garment, like a cloak you will change them and they will be changed, but you remain the same.”
It looks like the Bible is way ahead of the game….
Book 2 Roe vs Wade and the shedding of innocent blood Fr
Free Thursday thru Saturday
Excerpt from Chapter Eighteen Death by the (enlightened) Culture Was it it the lack of gun control? Or the forced removal of the bible from the schools by government action?
How about the number of drug related deaths since the early sixties? These listed were all friends of mine, and I assure you no previous American decade had this kind of drug death rate. And the first explosion of divorces…. Let me list just a few for you; Hugh S. – Heroin overdose, age 22 Robin B. – Heroin overdose, age 17 Colin P. – Murdered in drug deal- age 25 Mike S. – clubbed to death-drug related¸ age 28 Bruce V. – drug suicide, age 19 Denny D. – Heroin overdose, age 19 Randy C. – (almost got me murdered in a drug deal) Heroin overdose, age18-19 Hugh W. – Insane asylum drug related, (LSD) age 18 Gilbert C. – murdered in drug deal, age 26
This is a short list of personal friends who died or were put in an insane asylums due to the explosion of cultural change which took place in the sixties. I could make it a lot longer, believe me, if I wanted to think about it for a while, but it’s been over 40 years and I would rather not go over all that territory again. These were all friends, people I partied with, or, in the case of some of them, very close friends, surfing buddies that I grew up with and in the case of two of them, practically lived at their houses at times. They were all dead before I was 22…and not listing the HIV deaths from the new “if it feels good do it!” society –
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Book 3 the Apostasia
Free Thursday thru Saturday-
Excerpt from chapter 3: “So in the space of less than two hundred years the authority of the Scriptures and the views of the human being, roles of gender, origins and science, moral values and even the very concept of God came under direct or indirect attack. The main attacks could be listed as;
1) The “rationalist” atheist and existential challenge to the existence of God, absolute morals or objective truth, as well as a challenge to anything existing beyond nature or material itself.
2) The challenge of German higher criticism; a direct attack on the historicity of Scripture, it objective reality and reliability as a source of historical truth or knowledge.
3) The Darwinian challenge to the need for a supernatural creator; Design and complex information, a language or code such as found in DNA could arise all by itself and all could be explained in a rational materialistic manner.
4) The Lyellian challenge; everything in geology could be and needed to be explained through the filter of uniformitarianism. The present is the key to the past. Vast river canyons and river plains were not formed by past catastrophes; they were formed by the slow processes we observe every day. All the layers in the rock strata were formed over millions of years representing vast ages. Therefore the world was millions of years old and the bible had been proven to be unreliable in its presentation of world history.
5) The feminist challenge; The biblical roles of gender were all wrong, and not inspired by an all powerful and wise God. The bible was a book written by sexist men, in order to dominate women, and the sexual mores were un-necessarily strict and prudish. The biblical lines were not drawn to protect fallen man from himself; they were there to limit man from exploring and enjoying his full sexuality.
6) The Marxist challenge; all these new ways of thinking that were accepted very quickly by modern society led to a popular rejection of theism and particularly the biblical brand of theism. If God didn’t exist, then there was no need to allow room for Him in politics. If there was no god, then there were no moral absolutes or need to seek His blessing or rule in such a way to avoid His curse. In essence, Man was his own God. Instead of looking to God for our morality and modes of government and provision, we must look to government instead. Few people at the time realized how devastating this would be to the concept of human rights; all they saw was a new “freedom”
Can Creator endowed rights exist in a constitution reinterpreted on the ‘Darwinian principle’? How can Darwin’s theory and belief in the self evident truth of a supernatural Creator co-exist? (SCOTUS say they can’t) (Edwards v. Aguillard (1987) 482 U.S. 578) SCOTUS; “by advancing the religious belief that a supernatural being created humankind, the act impermissibly endorses religion” 1987, in Edwards v. Aguillard
Founders: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal and have been endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights…” Declaration of Independence. It goes on to state that “for this purpose governments are formed…” Declaration of Independence, written by Jefferson. Did the Declaration of Independence violate the “establishment clause”?a
Free Wednesday thru Friday A Woodcutters guide to the Literary Framework interpretation of Genesis One (a compromise found even at Moody and in most progressive Christian colleges, very likely at Whitworth and Nazarene seminaries)
A brief critique of the popular interpretation of Genesis Chapter One by an ordinary layman; a woodcutter from North Eastern Washington State
“We assert that Moses spoke in the literal sense, not allegorically or figuratively, i.e., that the world with all its creatures, was created in six days, as the words read. If we do not understand the reason for this, let us remain pupils, and leave the job of teacher to the Holy Spirit.” Martin Luther, Luther’s Works, Lectures on Genesis 1-5, Vol.1
Free Wednesday thru Friday, Brutus
From the Latin text of Nennius, translated by Cooper, chapter 17 in part; “After the flood the three sons of Noah divided the earth into three parts…Japheth expanded his borders in Europe. Alanus of the line of Japheth was the first man who came to Europe
Roe vs Wade, the shedding of innocent blood by Mark Hodges
Excerpt from Ch.1 “From the 1857 proslavery Dred Scot decision:”… “a negro, whose ancestors were imported into this country, and sold as slaves. . . were not intended to be included under the word ‘citizens’ in the Constitution, and can, therefore, claim none of the rights and privileges which that instrument provides for and secures to citizens of the United States.” Dred Scott, 1857
And in the Roe vs. Wade 1973 Supreme Court Decision; “The word ‘person,’ as used in the Fourteenth Amendment, does not include the unborn…. [T]he unborn have never been recognized in the law as persons in the whole sense.”
In the Dred Scott case of 1857 the Supreme Court said: “A slave is the property of the master and the Constitution has “provided for the protection of private property against the encroachments of the Government.”
Roe vs. Wade decreed; “This right of privacy… is broad enough to encompass a woman’s decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.”
In the Dred Scott case of 1857; “…that unfortunate race…had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order [and] they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.”
And Roe vs. Wade; “…abortion was practiced in Greek times as well as in the Roman Era…. Greek and Roman law afforded little protection to the unborn.”
The Apostasia, is the church divorcing God? Free Monday thru Wednesday
Table of Contents
Chapter One What Does the Word “Apostasy” Mean?
Chapter Two What Does Paul mean by Apostasy in 2nd Thessalonians?
Chapter Three What is different about Modern Society that would suggest wholesale apostasy
Chapter Four The Challenge of Atheism, Rationalism and Existentialism
Chapter Five The Challenge of Higher Criticism
Chapter Six The Darwinian Challenge
Chapter Seven The Challenge of Lyell’s Geology
Chapter Eight The Marxist Challenge; Removing God from Government; Or The Government Becomes God
Chapter Nine The Feminist Challenge
Chapter Ten The Youth Culture
Chapter Eleven Hell? No.
Chapter Twelve The Foolishness of men versus the Wisdom of God
Chapter Thirteen Comparing Darwin with Moses
Chapter Fourteen God Wrote Scripture; Lyell and Darwin Made up Stories: There is a Difference
Chapter Fifteen The Most unpopular Verses in the Bible Or; The Feminization of the American Church
Chapter Sixteen Tying it All Together
Appendix One History Chart
Appendix Two The Literary Framework Theory Critiqued
Free Monday thru Wednesday
The coming and reign of Arthur
Prelude, Merlin
As the afternoon sun shone on the path leading down from the stone walled Abbey through the meadow to the brook, a young boy could be seen running. His forehead was darkened with a bruised knot, and a bloody scrape could be seen on his bare right knee below his ragged robe. Tears were streaming down his hollow cheeks and his weeping could be heard as the figure in the ragged one piece cloak stumbled down the trail toward the shadows of the woods.
As he ran Merlin could still hear the voice and words of the monk ringing in his ears, the monk who had been sent to shoo him away from the back gate of the Abby, where his mother was a nun. “And don’t come back! Don’t come back here to plague your mother with questions about your pedigree. You are a bastard! A fatherless bastard. Be gone with you!”
Merlin had spent half of the day, though tired and hungry, hanging about the gates in the hopes of spying his mother. Finally the abbess had sent the monk to chase him off. “Away with you,” the burly monk had said. Merlin stood his ground and begged of the monk. “Who is my father? If my mother won’t tell me, you can. Who is my father?” The monk lunged at him, menacing him with his heavy staff. “You have no father! Be gone before I break your legs with this staff!”
But Merlin persisted, “Who is my father? I have a right to know!” With that the monk struck Merlin on his forehead with his staff, knocking him down. “You have no father unless a demon or fallen angel can be called a father. And you have no rights; you are a bastard, a fatherless orphan. Your father was a demon or a misbegotten Druid who learned the art of shape shifting from some Norse warlock, and beguiled your mother into sin with his sorcery. Now be gone before I break both your legs! Get you hence!”
With that the young Merlin, only nine years old, rolled to his feet and took off running down the rocky trail towards the creek and woods and safety. His choking sobs and whimpering could be heard echoing through the woods, even over the babbling of the brook, for over an hour.
As soon as he was out of sight, the burly dark robed monk shouldered his staff and re-entered the Abby, slamming the wrought iron gate behind him with a clanging sound that drifted down the hill through the woods to where young Merlin sat crying.
Inside the monastery, hot tears were also running down the face of his mother as she knelt with a dozen other nuns in a small chapel, all praying quietly for the spirit of the Lord to grant them forgiveness, and the grace to receive and recognize it, for their manifest sins against Him, and to help them fasten their attention on Him as the true brides of Christ.
The Celtic Sack of Rome
The Prelude (excerpt)
“Our friend Posidonius as you know has recently made a globe which in its revolution shows the movements of the sun and stars and planets, by day and night, just as they appear in the sky. Now if someone were to take this globe and show it to the people of Britain or Scythia would a single one of those barbarians fail to see that it was the product of a conscious intelligence?”
Cicero Galinus and Porsenna walked along the top of the outer wall defenses of Rome and looked down upon the hordes below them and beyond the walls; a sea of savage looking warriors mounted and unmounted, gathered by the tens of thousands. Smoke was rising from hill sides and valleys to the north of Rome, as far as the eye could see.
“Who are these creatures?” asked Galinus of Porsenna who sat nearby him. “A mixture, governor,” replied Porsenna, “an allied army of Burgund Gauls and some other hitherto unknown tribe from an island north of Gaul, they call themselves Trinovantes or Britons. Barbarians, sire, a pack of surly brigands.” “There is no doubt that they are brigands, Porsenna. But they are numerous brigands, as you can see, and they have crushed the resistance from the north coast of Gaul all the way to our doorstep,” said Galinus. “Who are their leaders?”
“A pair of brothers, a Belinus and Brennus, from that strange isle,” replied Porsenna. “I see. And how far away is Quintus with his army?” asked Galinus. “He is on Sicily, dealing with those troublesome Sicilianos. Camillus and his army are on their way up from the boot, right now.” Porsenna informed him.
“We will have to make a deal, will these barbarians be bought off?” Galinus asked. Porsenna smiled smugly to himself and condescendingly replied to the pro-counsel, “I have already made entreaties, governor, and for a high price now and a yearly tribute to be paid them at the end of each year that they don’t attack Rome, they are willing to leave and go attack the Germans.”
How important is it to hold SCOTUS accountable to an accurate interpretation of our original purposes of government? What’s in the book? (1) First it compares the two worst Supreme Court decisions ever made; the Dred Scot decision that legalized slavery and the Roe vs Wade decision that legalized abortion; and outlines the remarkable similarity of the two rulings- (2) It shows the totally out of historical context interpretation of the first amendment, not used until the 1940s, and the leaps of logic used to portray our founders as secular humanists trying replace our Christian foundation of government with one based on the atheist worldview- (3) It shows how this modern interpretation of the first amendment places our government on the same foundation openly espoused by every communist dictator in the last 100 years; Mao, Stalin, Marx, etc.- (4) Gives hard scientific evidence exposing the utter failure of the atheist naturalist theory proposed by Darwin and taught without question in all our schools from elementary thru college- (5) Shows the exact arguments and logic used by the SCOTUS to establish atheism as the only religious view and evolution as the only scientific view allowed in our public school systems- (6) gives both scientific and historical evidence for the existence of a supernatural Creator and the logical impossibility of maintaining the concept of Creator endowed inalienable rights without admitting the existence of a Creator-
The Catholic Inquisition was worse than modern socialism’s treatment of dissidents, burned accused witches without fair trials and never took positive action for good
While the inquisitions dealt with many accusations of heresy, infanticide, bigamy, sorcery, heretical cases against protestants, Muslims and Jews, etc, witchcraft was one of the many better known cases.
And without doubt, particularly in rural areas, things often got out of hand. Local inquisitors in less populated areas often acted over zealously and accused and convicted men or women without proper cause and/or evidence. For example, in Sweden during the worst period of witch trials, many defendants were accused of unlawful action by children. After many of the accused were executed, the children came forth and admitted they had just made up stories and that their accusations were false. At this point, to their credit, the Swedish inquisitors brought all witch trials to an end.
To the credit of the inquisition, the vast majority of the accused never went to trial or if tried, were found innocent. Many of the lower level inquisitors that had burned witches were investigated by the supreme court of inquisitors and found guilty of improper trials and sentences and were rebuked, replaced, or even tried and executed for murder.
The inquisitions were not the simple one-sided affairs often presented in colleges or the media, they were very complex issues during a complex 200 year period of history involving many different provinces, nations and independent legal districts.
The positive side of the period, the fact many upper level inquisitors worked hard at putting a check on the overzealous provincial judges, and that the vast majority of the accused had their cases dismissed, is rarely mentioned. Also never mentioned is the fact that many inquisitors took strong actions, along with popes, against slavery, both in Europe and the new world.
Examples;
Inquisitors in Venice, Italy, had only four executed of one thousand accused and put on trial, in a thirty year period.
In Friuli Italy, 814 persons were tried for witchcraft by local inquisitors in a period of over 200 years and none were executed. (Stark, for the Glory of God, p.261) (Ginzburg, The Night Battles; Witchcraft and Cults in the 16TH and 17th Centuries)
In Spain, during the Aragon inquisitions over a 100 year period, only 12 people were executed for witchcraft out of over 10,000 accused and several thousand brought to trial. (Stark, ibid)
Also in Spain, out of 44,701 brought to trial by inquisitions on various charges including witchcraft, heresy, infanticide, bigamy, etc., over a 160 year period of time, only 826 were executed. (Monter, 1990, Frontiers of Heresy)
In France local inquisitors that had executed witches were investigated by the French “parlement” and executed for murder. And in Barcelona where local inquisitors had sentenced 7 women to burn for witchcraft, the Suprema, or the ruling body of inquisitors, had them investigated, freed two of the accused that hadn’t been executed and ordered all the others released. They also rebuked the local body of inquisitors for lack of evidence. (Kamen, 1997, The Spanish Inquisition, An Historical Revision)
Just a few of the inquisition’s actions against slavery; From the Holy Office (the Roman inquisition) March 20, 1686
“It is asked; Whether it is permitted to capture by force and deceit Blacks and other natives who have harmed no one? Answer: No. Whether it is permitted to buy, sell or make contracts in their respect Blacks or other natives who have harmed no one and been made captives by force or deceit? Answer: No. Whether the possessors of Blacks and other natives who have harmed no one and been captured by force or deceit, are not held, to set them free? Answer: Yes. Whether the captors, buyers and possessors of Blacks and other natives who have harmed no one and have been captured by force or deceit, to make compensation to them? Answer: Yes.” Rodney Stark, For the Glory of God, p.332
Pope Eugene; “Restore to their earlier liberty all and each person of either sex who were once residents of the Canary Islands…these people are to be totally and perpetually free and let go without the exaction or reception of any money…” 1400’ Panzer, the Popes and Slavery,1996
Pope Paul III; “We, noting that the Indians are true men…by these letters declare that…these same Indians and all other peoples, even though they are outside the faith, shall not be deprived of their possessions or liberty…or reduced to slavery.” 1540 Panzer (ibid)
The witchcraft trial era lasted from roughly 1450-1750, over a broad and varied swath of Europe. Many of the witches that were executed had committed other crimes, such as infanticide, murder and others. Undoubtedly some innocent men and women were executed during the worst of it which happened between 1550-1650.
But many of the inquisitors fought hard not only fair trials but fair verdicts and to bring prosecutors into line and held responsible for their actions. And many of these men were avid abolitionists who fought diligently to end the slave trade.
This is not Stalin killing 30,000,000 people in 30 years alone, for refusing to succumb to the new atheist socialism in Mother Russia. Some of my textbooks placed the number as high as 85,000,00. Comparatively speaking, the inquisition was mild, though more complex. And yet accurate representation of the inquisition is hard to find on campus or in the media.
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