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Posts by John Leland 1789

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  • Nicholas Kristof: "I Just Went to Darfur. Here Is What Shattered Me" {genocide of blacks by Arabs in Sudan}

    09/19/2024 10:27:49 PM PDT · 11 of 47
    John Leland 1789 to PGR88

    In the United States Congress some black Marxist lawmakers and Muslim lawmakers of Middle Eastern descent, as we all know, are cohorts together in the destruction of our Republic. Mohammedans will ride the Marxist/Communist horse for aggregating power as long as it works for them. The Communists, however, will eventually get their throats cut when Mohammedans insist on Sharia and all the rest. What are the black Marxists in our own Congress going to say about the Arab Militia genocide of black Sudanese?

  • NIFB Pastor Steven Anderson’s Son Alleges Years Of Domestic Abuse + ‘My dad used the same electrical cord on her that he used on us’

    09/14/2024 7:49:38 AM PDT · 15 of 19
    John Leland 1789 to Morgana
    This man, Steven Anderson, is a byword among unaffiliated (independent) Baptist pastors and churches nationwide. You can hardly attend a conference, Bible Conference, Camp Meeting, Revival Meeting, or preachers fellowship meeting without hearing warnings against Steven Anderson. The movement in general (those that keep up with these matters) has denied him fellowship.

    For those who do not know, "Independent Baptist" (We prefer the expression, "Unaffiliated") means only that we answer to no earthly headquarters, nor denominational organization, nor hierarchy. Local church autonomy has been a historical distinctive of Baptists. Some churches labeled as "Baptist" have forgotten the historical distinctives and have joined (signed on the dotted line, etc.) denominational structures.

    Conversely, Independent/Unaffiliated Baptists choose their fellowship opportunities and means of cooperation with other local churches on a non-obligatory, no-pressure, no-expectation basis; NO-signing-on-the-line, project-by-project, or opportunity-by-opportunity. The LOCAL congregation is the highest ecclesiastical authority.

    So, no other Baptist church or pastor, by any name, affiliation, or non-affiliation, takes any authority over nor accepts any responsibility for Steven Anderson, nor for his congregation, nor for his family, nor for any other matter.

    OUR OWN Baptist church has put the warnings out to our congregation and to others interested, concerning Anderson's abuses, his un-Biblical teachings, his evil behavior, and his negative influence.

    We are Baptists by historical distinctive. We warn our folks, however, that no one can know what is really happening in a local church or with its ministers, REGARDLESS OF THE NAME AND DESCRIPTION ON THE SIGN, without asking hard questions to the ministers and people of that particular local congregation. Inquirers must ask for copies of their literature, or for their doctrinal statement(s).

    We are constantly fielding very hard, critical questions ourselves, much in these days particularly because of people like Steven Anderson.

  • Harris Spox on Claim Capital Gains Tax Hike Will Hurt Investment: It’s Less of a Hike than Biden, Will Help Investment

    09/14/2024 7:06:52 AM PDT · 14 of 23
    John Leland 1789 to Brian Griffin
    "FDR’s Brain Trust decided that unions were the way to get effectively take over private enterprise without having to buy out the shareholders.

    "Consider Boeing and the IAM strike despite a 25% over four years pay offer."

    Yes, right out of Gramsci's Prison Notebooks, or even pre-Prison Notebooks, when Gramsci hoped that the Labor Unions of Northern Italy (pre-Mussolini) would transform Italy into a Socialist state. Lenin and Trotsky criticized Gramsci for moving too slow. I agree with Gonzales and Cornell-Gorka that "What Gramsci wrote in the Notebooks forms the basis on which today's NextGen Marxism is built."

    NextGen Marxism, What It Is and What To Do About It.

    by Mike Gonzales and Katherine Cornell Gorka Copyright 2024, Encounter Books.

  • Can a President Take or Take Over Patents Owned by Private Companies

    08/20/2024 1:39:13 AM PDT · 18 of 20
    John Leland 1789 to 9YearLurker

    I used her words precisely. I didn’t conflate nor interpret.

  • Can a President Take or Take Over Patents Owned by Private Companies

    08/19/2024 12:47:19 PM PDT · 1 of 20
    John Leland 1789
  • Billy Graham's granddaughter joins 'Evangelicals for Harris,' quotes Isaiah to blast Trump supporters

    08/16/2024 10:00:49 PM PDT · 56 of 81
    John Leland 1789 to SeekAndFind

    FALSE, FALSE, FALSE !!! And she has no idea about anything in Isaiah.

  • Is Homeschooling Isolating Us Too Much? (Barf alert)

    08/08/2024 9:53:49 PM PDT · 38 of 64
    John Leland 1789 to DoodleBob
    It's an article that we shall keep and use as an example for someone writing without an understanding of Biblical Christian standards, convictions, and purposes.

    In our case (and we realize that we would find ourselves in a small grouping), we home schooled as missionaries in foreign countries. Seven children. Four born in the States (one at home with no doctor, midwife, or nurse nearby), then three were born abroad: one in China, one in the Russian Maritime Region, and one born in the Philippines (the last born at home with a doctor just standing by). But all home schooled.

    If asked by authorities, "Are your children in school the prescribed number of days per year and the prescribed number of hours per day?" our answer was always, "Our children are in school 24/365." With a smile. End of conversation . . . always.

    Biblicist Christian thought and motivations undergird our reasoning. Our children are well aware of and well familiar with atheistic and Darwinian evolutionary positions, and their application to education and the behavioral sciences. But we never allowed our children to think that we would turn our children over to atheists or evolutionists as authority figures. School teachers are authority figures. Our children are well aware of sexual abuse, immorality, and perversion, and the dangers of these. But we never put them under the authority of people in a captive school setting where sexual mores were other than Biblical. Public schools are today chock full of atheists, and very proud ones; Darwinists, and very arrogant ones; sexual violators and perverts, and very filthy ones. And it seems that the teachers unions just like it this way.

    It might be interesting for Americans to be aware that in communist China there are parent-run underground Christian schools, and that there is a growing underground homeschooling movement. The Internet is helping, in a gigantic way, to build these movements. Huge numbers of Chinese families have decided, "We do not want our children being taught anymore by atheistic, Darwinian, Marxist-communists.

    In the United States, we also did not want our children taught under atheistic, Darwinian, Marxist-socialists (would be communists). The UNO planned, government-run, teachers union-enforced, public school system(s) are where the Republic is undermined and left-wing tyrannical democracy is fostered.

    None of our seven children have had trouble kindly and compassionately being good neighbors with or doing honest business with unbelievers or people who did matriculate through the public education system. They learned how to keep a good and loving heart toward Eastern mystics, Buddhists, Daoists, pseudo-Christian cultists, and atheistic communists in foreign lands and cultures without compromising their evangelistic, missionary Christianity.

    We now have fourteen grandchildren, ALL being homeschooled.

  • Whitman endorses Harris for president

    08/04/2024 9:39:45 PM PDT · 105 of 141
    John Leland 1789 to conservative98

    Have people gone mad? Mr. Trump is not fit to lead, but a Marxist-socialist is? What?! They know nothing of ideology nor the Marxist-Leninist ideology of people like Harris?

  • From What Countries Come the Olympic Male Boxers, pretending to be women?

    08/01/2024 11:18:28 AM PDT · 16 of 23
    John Leland 1789 to rainee

    I appreciate the reply! Thank you.

  • From What Countries Come the Olympic Male Boxers, pretending to be women?

    08/01/2024 11:17:30 AM PDT · 15 of 23
    John Leland 1789 to PGR88

    Thank you, kindly

  • From What Countries Come the Olympic Male Boxers, pretending to be women?

    08/01/2024 10:44:06 AM PDT · 1 of 23
    John Leland 1789
  • Cops Threaten To Take Kids From Family Terrorized by Anti-Christian Reddit Group

    07/29/2024 4:06:31 PM PDT · 44 of 50
    John Leland 1789 to Twotone
    1983. Four children. All under compulsory education law mandated school age in Florida. But close. And we were already homeschooling.

    School bus driver whose route went by our house happened to see the children in the yard. She had to look real hard because the lot was 2.5 acres all sloping down grade away from the road. The "yard" directly in front of the house was at least 150 feet from the road.

    School bus driver thought to herself, "Hhmmm, those kids don't ride my bus . . . wonder why?"

    So, here comes an "attendance officer" (truant officer, when we were young). He never even bothered to ask the ages of the children during the hour he spent at our home to discover whether the law compelled them to be in school yet.

    He threatened to bring a deputy sheriff if I didn't have "the children" enrolled in a school within ten days.

    Attendance officer pulled out a list of church schools in the county and said, "These are licensed Christian Schools." I knew each one, and I corrected him, "These schools are not licensed as you say; these churches consider the schools to be Biblical ministries of the church, and will not apply for licensure." I knew that to be a fact.

    Attendance officer backed up and said, "Well, maybe 'licensed' isn't the correct word, but the county approves them at least."

    I requested the AO's boss's phone number, and called the Superintendent the next morning, early. Somewhere between the time the AO left our home and the time I dialed the Superintendent, the AO probably realized he had come on too strong, and had not properly investigated the ages of my children, and the Sup. knew it, too. The AO was sitting in his office during my conversation with his boss, who was most apologetic, actually. I mentioned that we were threatened.

    The Sup. VERY POLITELY asked me to call Dr. Paterson Land in Tallahassee, the governor's non-public schools consultant. I did telephone her, and she was interested in my intention to homeschool the children.

    Dr. Land told me that her job was created because of the new huge number of families homeschooling their children, and the governor simply wanted someone to survey it and let him know what it was all about. And I believe that that governor was Bob Graham, a Democrat. Graham did not try to oppose homeschooling, which had a sudden burst of 10,000 families statewide that year, according to Dr. Land.

    Dr. Land advised me not to be concerned about the Attendance Officer, and told me that she would call the Superintendent. She did, too, and they never gave us another moment's notice.

    We homeschooled from 1982 to the graduation of seven children, and now we help others get started. All of our married children have homeschooled their children.

  • Kamala Harris Insisted “Bidenomics’ Worked While Costs Soared

    07/29/2024 11:43:52 AM PDT · 22 of 25
    John Leland 1789 to ChicagoConservative27

    Bidenomics DID certainly work while prices sored. That is what they believe should happen, and when prices sored, that is a success according to their intended ideology. They are Marxist-socialists, and whatever they can do to destroy capitalism or free-enterprise, destroy families, and make every American soul more dependent on the national regime, that is SUCCESS.

  • Kevin Roberts, architect of Project 2025, has close ties to radical Catholic group Opus Dei

    07/26/2024 10:10:25 PM PDT · 23 of 51
    John Leland 1789 to ConservativeMind
    "I have a coworker who is in Opus Dei. His wife is not to be seen by a male doctor without him being present, I believe."

    I'm not a member of Opus Dei, nor am I Catholic. But I believe that your coworker is sound-minded. I don't go to female physicians, and my wife doesn't go to male physicians.

  • Assassination Porn and the Sickness on the Left

    07/14/2024 5:28:26 AM PDT · 13 of 49
    John Leland 1789 to hardspunned

    Amazed. The article was great. Now I wondering: How does one post a full article on X ? I’ve always had to create a meme to use enough words to post what might be considered and article. Must one pay extra for this? Is there a special status that must be applied for?

  • First Truth Social Post from President Trump after being shot

    07/13/2024 8:02:09 PM PDT · 122 of 142
    John Leland 1789 to Freeper

    There were, however, two shots prior to the one that struck the president. Where were agents at the first and second shot?

  • First Truth Social Post from President Trump after being shot

    07/13/2024 6:15:26 PM PDT · 65 of 142
    John Leland 1789 to Yossarian

    Did the Secret Service agents jump up after the first, the second, the third, or the fourth shot?

  • Your Religious Values Are Not American Values

    07/05/2024 8:27:28 PM PDT · 73 of 74
    John Leland 1789 to E. Pluribus Unum

    Just three of the educational organizations that keep whole libraries, not just a bookcase, documenting the overwhelming Biblicist Christian influence on and contributions to America’s founding and development are . . . .

    Wallbuilders
    https://wallbuilders.com

    Foundation for American Christian Education
    https://face.net

    American Vision
    www.AmericanVision.org

  • Hillary Clinton Blames Sexism for 2016 Loss: Donald Trump Won Because He Is A Man

    05/25/2024 2:10:28 PM PDT · 61 of 84
    John Leland 1789 to mbrfl

    The men and women in our family usually vote for the men in primary elections over women of the same party, unless there is something really weird or stupid about the man. In races where we must check, for example, “no more than six.” We always favor the males. Hillary calls this sexism. I call it good principle that spreads across every area of life.

  • It’s now a felony in Florida to steal porch packages worth over $40.

    04/10/2024 9:49:23 PM PDT · 21 of 125
    John Leland 1789 to Prince of Space

    I don’t understand your question; or perhaps the statement you are trying to make that something can’t be a crime if it’s not caught on camera. Felonies take place every day that are not caught on camera. Still a crime, investigations proceed seeking a suspect.