Posted on 08/21/2010 7:02:54 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
I have faced death, and my hope and peace comes from imagining Jesus ruling this world along with His angels and those who were killed during the tribulation. It will be a wonderful time. This period of time will be considered the darkest of ages compared to the future.
4 world order is from Daniel and Revelation. Kings from the 4 corners of the Earth. Jesus will have the only 1 world order.
Will he let it go on that long? Why not? He let worse happen in China and the Middle East.
We will be destroyed, but God is LONG Suffering. I also think sooner, much sooner.
We are buying our own dept. No nation goes 20 years doing THAT. We are already gone. Catch 22.
Lose now or lose bigger tomorrow. And we keep picking tomorrow.
There’s a beautiful Youtube with someone who sounds like Johnny Cash but isn’t doing a song about Job. I’ll see if I can find it.
I admire your Jesus-centered perspective, which has been the consolation of all the saints in times of dire trouble.
Here it is. Maybe not everyone’s cup of tea, but I reallllly like it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTIiXtW9ctU
http://www.reverbnation.com/artist/song_details/2953611
Neat, and I do love Wm Blake's art!
The amazing thing to me, as I study history, isn't that Rome fell, but that the Germanic barbarians were the only ones who seemed to care by the end. The Romans of Roman stock were more worried about taxes and money, while the German nobles wanted to preserve, and ultimately be, Romans. That is why Christianity survived, because by the late 5th century the barbarians were Christian an viewed it as something to preserve. Even though many where some flavor of Arians, they were very sympathetic to the Church, and ended up converting because that is what the Roman's are.
Such will not be the case this time. The muslim hordes who are spreading across Europe have little desire to preserve the culture or religion. The fall of the West will be more like the East this time. With minarets in St Peter's square. In such "Catholic" countries as Spain and Italy, the next generation will not be Christian. In the North, the old bastions of Calvinism and Lutherans are already fading away. Even here, the State bends over backwards to accommodate islam while snubbing Christianity. A remnant will be saved, but they may not survive the coming night in the West.
But Africa and Asia are having the Word spread like wild fire. There are majority Lutheran countries in Africa, and more Christians in China than in Europe or the US. The Church will survive, though we may not recognize it in a generation.
The story in a nutshell.
No I don't realize that at all. The question isn't "is politically incorrect science widely criticized", it's is the criticism valid. Those people who have been picking holes in the global warming orthodoxy have been widely criticized too, they are still right. IQ tests exist in every language, with culturally relevant signifiers in them. IQ tests do not require writing. There are even IQ tests done totally with blocks that have been shown to correlate pretty closely to more traditional IQ tests. I'm a little surprised that a conservative here on FR is signing up with the IQ-deniers, a group who tend to be far left and dedicated to pushing their multicultural agenda over reality. Have you read "IQ and the Wealth of Nations" or "The Bell Curve"??
Many of Europe’s women are beyond the years where they could have 8 children... many are past the point where they could have more than one. Demographics bite.
As you point out the West predates Christianity by many centuries. I do look back on both Rome and Greece as part of my heritage and inheritence, despite being neither Greek or Roman. And the Western Slavs, from whom I am descended, did not convert to Christianity until forced to by the Tuetonic Order as part of the Norhtern Crusades.
I desire the West to survive. Christianity was central to the west for about 1400 years, and many of our greatest achievements were inspired by it.
None the less it now seems to have not only lost it's force here, but in many cases be an active agent of our destruction. One need only look at the many Christian organizations that are pro-homosexuality, pro-amnesty, anti-American, anti-Israeli, etc.
Perhaps that is needed in China and Africa (both notoriously repressive and prejudiced cultures)? Maybe we need something different now, just as Hellenistic Paganism was no longer relevant at the start of the Dark Ages, perhaps Christianity as we understand it today isn't relevant for the new Dark Age of the West that it has helped usher in.
Read “Fire in the Minds of Men” for a start.
Remeber that not all the races on Africa fit that mold.
My disagreement with your racialist theory does not make me a leftist. There is a very wide gulf between your extreme view and mine, which believes that the children of [legal] immigrants who can quickly absorb better nutrition and living conditions can also raise their group’s median intelligence within one or two generations.
Hispanics are good, Liberals and Welfare Queens are bad.
I certainly agree with that. What I was saying is not that Christianity is the evil ideology that is destroying the West, rather that it is so weakened, reformed and defanged that it appears to have no role in saving and reconstituting the West. Using two examples from history: At some point in the past the pagan gods motivated their cultures, great deeds were accomplished, wars fought, temples errected, the gods blessings sought and assured. In that period the Hellenistic World and Rome were in their ascendency.
By the time Rome fell clasical paganism was a quaint remnant of the past without any power in mens minds to motivate them to restore the greatness of Rome. Emperor Julian was the last to even make an attempt, and it was short lived. In 363 A.D. Julian died. In 387 A.D. Rome is sacked for the first time in 1000 years.
Or consider the Crusaders, who fought in the name of Christianity to protect pilgrims, rebuff Islam, spread the Gospel. Many of the Crusaders took vows of chastity and poverty as part of their preparation. Christianity was central to the defense of the West for 1000 years, and helped repulse Islam, the Moors, the Ottamans and other threats.
Christianity no longer seems to have the power over us, the power to motivate and encourage. It reminds me of late paganism, mostly a curiosity for many people, the leading institutions are bloated and corrupt, not capable of mustering us to do what is needed.
Why hasn't it worked for American blacks then? Surely you are not claiming there is widespread mal-nutrition among blacks in America? In fact the average IQ of American blacks is just what you would expect given that on average they are about 20% white. In other words 150 years after the end of slavery and 50 years after Jim Crow your theory still has born no fruit.
I consdier people who cling to theories of egalitarianism in the face of reality "liberals" regardless of what other views they hold.
I think the problem of answering your posts is the inherent conflict in your own position. You appear to believe in your own race’s superiority, but seem to take no comfort in it. You can’t have it both ways.
Some people knew this before science told us since God had already told us that Eve was the mother of all the living...we all share the same family tree.
Hispanics are good?
What is good are human beings with morals, responsibility, good character, and be willing to provide for any offspring they produce, in a marriage. And determination and courage.
Whatever their color or race. And if they’re illegal, they should be shown the door, fast.
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