Posted on 12/27/2015 10:25:34 AM PST by AndreN
History is rife with misunderstandings that caused great hardship for people based upon political and religious ignorance. The worlds of politics and religion are two of the only concepts that affect everyone whether they participate in them or not. Despite the concept of separation of church and state, the two have always been and will always be intertwined. The influence they have on one another can be denied and even ignored for the sake of promoting a secular worldview, but invariably they collide despite all attempts to keep them separated.
These are strange times. Technology has brought nearly all societies together to some extent. Someone in the Middle East does not need to travel to America to have profound knowledge about western culture. Someone in America can become acutely aware of the geopolitical and religious conflicts happening in the Middle East. All it takes is a few keystrokes and some time spent researching. This is why terrorism is thriving. It is why potential terrorists are being radicalized across the globe. It is why the next American President must have an intimate knowledge of the Bible, the Quran, and the Constitution.
Some would argue that having knowledgeable advisers is enough. This is absolutely not the case. We are in times unlike any other. These three documents will play a larger role in our future than ever before. Scholarly understanding will be necessary for the decision-maker; having an unelected cabinet member or adviser calling the shots on these types of issues is simply unacceptable. Advisers on these issues worked in the past, but today too many things center around the interactions and responses that are driven by religious considerations.
It does not matter whether you are a Christian, Jew, Muslim, Hindu, atheist, agnostic, or believer in any other religion. It does not matter if you are a Republican, Democrat, Independent, Libertarian, or any other political party. It does not even matter if you are like most Americans focused on your own circle of influence and unaware of anything happening in the political and religious worlds. The need for the President to be versed in the Bible, the Quran, and the Constitution is not negotiable. There is no time for on-the-job training. Good ideas are not enough anymore.
Why the Bible? President Obama famously butchered sections of the Bible during speeches in his first term when he was trying to appeal to Christians and Jews to follow the secular path he laid out for the country. I was proud of those who denied his callings and saw through his ruse. Then, I became concerned when I realized that his constant attacks started having an effect on the spiritually or intellectually weak.
In the last seven years, we have seen the deterioration of our values in this country. As a result, we have seen the deterioration of the country itself as political correctness, race wars, crime, and poverty have increased as planned. It is ironic that his Presidency was supposed to be an awakening for America, a fundamental change in the way the country and its citizens operate. He succeeded and the people cheered. Many of them are still blind to the fact that they participated in hurting themselves and those around them.
Throughout all of this, the silver lining is that the core Judeo-Christian base of the country has been strengthened out of necessity. The numbers are down and that is not necessarily a bad thing. Since it is no longer as socially beneficial to go to church and act religious, the true believers in the one true God are standing out against a sea of lukewarm religious practitioners. In other words, the acceptance of the secular and agnostic model for American culture has helped to separate the wheat from the chaff in ways that were not visible before.
While President Obama failed to use the Bible as a weapon against Christians and Jews, the next President has an opportunity to use it to further unite believers from a political perspective. It is not just about knowing a few Bible verses and defending religious freedoms, though that is important. It is really about knowing how Christians and Jews can be guided towards a conservative perspective. Even in the church today, there are many who are leaning left. The Bible, when understood by the President, can be his most powerful tool for shifting the mindset of the country at its Judeo-Christian core to a righteous worldview that puts aside the pseudo-conservative principles like racism and embraces a Biblical perspective that is truly conservative and truly beneficial for the nation.
This absolutely must be understood. The Bible can unite this country within the confines of the 1st Amendment by building up the religious right and coalescing them towards the common goal of making America a better place for all. Rather than using certain Bible verses for leftist means like President Obama has done, it can be used to promote conservatism in ways that even those with a secular worldview can embrace. This is only possible with a President who truly, intimately knows the Bible and follows its teachings without question.
No, this is not a call for a theocracy. It is a call for the President to understand the Bible in a way that empowers him to make the right decisions and to guide the nation down a conservative path.
Why the Quran? We are not at war with Islam. We are, however, at war with radical Islamic forces who commit genocide for the sake of their caliphate, who promote terrorism in the United States (or anywhere for that matter), and who strive to destroy the United States by any means necessary. That means understanding Islam front, back, and in-between.
A President as well as the Secretary of State should know and understand the Quran if they have any hope of working with or negotiating with Islamic countries and organizations. Again, some will say that they simply need advisers, but in the heat of the moment during discussions or when decisions must be made, the President needs real knowledge, not advice. That does not mean the President must be a scholar of Islam. It simply means they must have intermediate knowledge of what the Quran teaches.
The President must read the book in order to understand radical Islam. To paraphrase Sun Tzu, Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.
The teachings of the Quran shed a great deal of light on the thinking that drives Islam. Unlike other religions, the Islamic faith is as political as it is religious. There is no separation of church and state with Islam. In fact, the Quran is the guidebook to everything political in Muslim nations such as Iran and Saudi Arabia. We have enemies and allies who are driven by the teachings of Muhammad. It behooves us to have a President, Vice President, Secretary of State, and Secretary of Defense who have read these teachings.
Why the Constitution? The requirements for President of the United States are that he or she must be a natural born citizen, a resident for 14 years, and 35 years of age or older. There should be another requirement. The President of the United States should be able to pass a comprehensive test about the Constitution. It is ludicrous that we would ever allow the leader of the free world to not have intimate knowledge of the document that is the backbone of our country.
Today, it is more important than ever. President Obama knows the Constitution and has systematically used this knowledge to entangle the country in a web of legal and political loopholes and landmines that undermine the fabric of the Republic. It will take more than a roomful of DC lawyers to clean up the mess when he is out of office. It will take a leader who deeply understands what can and cannot be done, a leader that is dedicated to defending it with his core. Those who espouse the belief that the Constitution is outdated are the same people who believe students should be protesting about what lunch is served on college campuses. They are the same people who believe that ObamaCare was somehow supposed to be a good thing. They are the same people who see no problem with the Supreme Court taking on state issues such as gay marriage.
The 1st, 2nd, 4th, and 10th Amendments have been under attack for three decades. As a result, the Constitution is bleeding. We need the equivalent of a trauma surgeon with embedded knowledge of the Constitution to sit in the Oval Office and make things right again.
As it pertains to religion, we need a President who understands the importance of religious freedoms and who will fight to maintain those freedoms within a society that is becoming tired of them. So many are willfully letting these liberties slip away because they think it will not affect them. They are sorely mistaken and the President must be a person who understands why.
These arguments are intended for a secular understanding. Even atheists or agnostics can see the importance of this knowledge. If you are one who believes we may be living in the end times, then the reasons for wanting someone in the White House with knowledge of the religious texts go up exponentially.
RanSacked came up with a novel idea too.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3377097/posts?page=37#37
People who do not understand the nature of mohammedanism are easily naive and gullible about it.
Find it online in a non-muslim site and read it there instead.
Thank you Chajin.
Kill them all and let allah sort them out.
Like other religions, Islam has multiple books that are to be considered as “holy books” from which their doctrines are drawn from. The Koran is basis for only about 14% of Islam’s teachings. It is a deceptive for anyone to claim something is not Islamic because it is not in the Koran.
The Sunna is comprised of 2 other books, the “Hadith”, which is snippets of Mohammed’s life and and the “Sira”, the biography of his life. The Hadith is the basis for over 1/2 of Islam’s teachings/doctrine. It is as if Muhammed’s life is to be considered an extention of the Koran.
I just finished reading the Sira, Mohammed’s biography, it is very enlightening and an easy read. Now I am working on the Hadith. I downloaded both to my Kindle from Amazon.
It is relatively inexpensive to get self-educated on Islam. Between Google and the available books, within a short time a person will be knowledgeable about Islam.
I would recommend the 2 books I downloaded, by author Bill Warner... “The Life of Mohammed (A Taste of Islam)” and “The Hadith (A Taste of Islam).”
Many Islam related books on Amazon are written by women who have left Islam. Check out the books by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Brigitte Gabriel, and Wafa Sultan.
Sorry for length of post but it is very important to get self-educated because we are being fed so many lies from every quarter. Islamic culture and religion is nothing like Judeo_Christian cultures.
Islam is a religion that needs the conquest of non-Islamic countries to survive. It started out as a warrior culture that grew wealthy by the wealth and “skills” of the people it conquered.
In a certain sense, you are right: no president, and even anyone else, really needs to know one sentence of the Quran. Nothing beneficial can be withdrawn from that book! However, if our enemies believe the teachings of the Quran and will obey them, we need to be prepared to respond adequately. Not trying to know what our enemies really believe (from the Quran and Islam), and what evil they may attempt to do against us, is quite irresponsible, especially for a wise president! We need to have a president who understands well our enemies and who is fully ready to fight back. When I say that our president must understand well our enemies, I do not mean that he must agree with them or call them our friends, but rather that he must know where they come from (they have been poisoned by the Quranic teachings), and what they may do against us (attack us because they classify us as infidels).
The Founding Fathers already weighed in on Islam.
Knowing the Quran (Koran) is merely one facet of understanding the bloody, barbaric history of Islam—all of which emanates from the Quran, the life of Muhammad (Mohammed), and the “glory days” of the medieval Arab caliphate(s)and later Ottoman Empire. One cannot fully grasp the scope of the Muslim (Moslem) threat to Western civilization without some significant familiarity with this history. Ted Cruz tends to be more knowledgeable, disciplined, articulate, and generally cerebral than Donald Trump (who is more a man of action), although Cruz also has a noteworthy history of repeatedly challenging the Republican Establishment in congress. In contrast, Trump is (in many respects, not all) the Andrew Jackson of our time—a berserker who flings himself like a whirlwind into the thick of battle, bewildering and scattering his enemies, and (like Jackson) arousing the ire of political “moderates” who view him as too unsophisticated, crude, boorish, and even dangerous to be taken seriously as a presidential candidate. It is instructive to notes that such moderates engineered the victory of one of their own (John Quincy Adams) in the election of 1824, even though Jackson had won more popular and electoral votes than Adams; let’s hope something similar doesn’t happen to Trump or Cruz. A blend of Trump and Cruz would make the ideal conservative candidate, and I hope they can continue to support each other, regardless of which one eventually wins the nomination.
Life’s too short to spend a minute reading that trash called the Koran.
Nice try NOOB!
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The only thing a US president needs to know about the koran is that it is diametrically opposed to the constitution and therefore it is his solemn duty to banish it and the people that follow it.
As for the first amendment and the freedom of “exercise of religion”, I don’t believe for a microsecond that the founders had in mind islam when they wrote it.
In light of the spread of islam, that clause in the first amendment needs to be revisited, either to define what is meant by religion or to specify that religions incompatible with the constitution are not allowed.
It is intellectually dishonest, illogical or at best sloppy to establish a fundamental law of the country (the constitution) and then allow the EXERCISE of a belief system that is anathema to that constitution, whose stated goal is to destroy the constitution.
It is a logical impossibility for believers of those two systems to peacefully coexist together.
I haven’t studied it as extensively as you it seems but that’s what I’m getting.
Islam is a problem for everyone that is not Muslim.
I was stunned and horrified the more and more I read. ISIS is truly getting their ways right out of their holy books. The Koran is a hard read and is not in chronological order, it is written based upon the length of chapters(weird).
The Sira is quite easy, as most biographies are, and it could easily be the script ISIS is following. Most Muslims have been born into their religion. But like all religions some people will not feel comfortable following all of its dictates. That is one of the reasons why there are moderate Muslims, they abhor some of the practices that are allowed by Muslims against not Muslims.
Since Islam is a religion that came out of Arabia, it was forced upon the cultures it conquered(i.e India, Irag, Iran,etc), thus it is not as embraced by the general population in some countries as it is in others. Pakistani Muslims are still influenced somewhat by being part of the British empire when Pakistan was still part of India.
Perhaps in the future this will be said of the European countries that have foolished invited it in.
Thank you. I’ll bookmark this and check it out.
You as well as others have suggested it would be a good idea.
Those of you who suggested I do this earlier, thanks to you as well.
I understand where you are coming from and I appreciate the follow-up.
Agreed...
I should hope that the President of the United States is a well-read thoughtful educated man (as were our founding fathers). But I hope in vain.
I read up on the capture of Medina by Mohammed since last we spoke. Was somewhat familiar with it beforehand. Went over it in more detail.
The parallels to the modern conflict are quite stark. I don’t see how anyone could say that not knowing the history is a good thing.
They’re running the same battle plan.
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