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For The West To Revive, Christians Must Toughen Up
Townhall.com ^ | October 22, 2021 | Ilana Mercer

Posted on 10/22/2021 9:13:34 AM PDT by Kaslin

The West is collapsing under the weight of authoritarian governments. These “representatives” are rapidly robbing the individual citizen of bodily autonomy, of freedom of movement, and of the ability to work, play and partake in society.

Under martial law, Australia and New Zealand have, in the course of the Covid pandemic, practically reverted to penal-colony status.

Working in tandem as a criminal syndicate, Canadian and American state and corporate entities have colluded to corner the individual, and compel him to offer up his life-blood to the Covid spike protein. That is if their Subject wants to … eat.

Covid vaccine mandates and passports. Lockdowns and quarantines. And racial subjugation to The Other, in the form of a Critical Race Theory that festoons state and civil society: Why have we rolled over? Is this white guilt? And does historical Christianity play a role?

Edward Gibbon would probably say yes.

Gibbon was the genius who wrote, in 1776, the 12 volumes that comprise “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,” wherein he saddled nascent Christianity with the downfall of the Roman Empire, no less. (I read the 1943 version, which was “condensed for modern reading.”)

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: 666; christianity; endtimes; va666ine; vaxholes

1 posted on 10/22/2021 9:13:34 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Christians pretend they have to be nice and that our political leaders must be polite and play by the rules. They allow wimps in congress and in the judiciary to perpetuate this illogical assumption and suburban women to dictate what good behavior is when, with 60 million reported surgical abortions in the US since 1973, most of these women are post abortive, angry, depressed, in denial and the poorest role models for good behavior since biblical times


2 posted on 10/22/2021 9:21:32 AM PDT by stanne
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To: Kaslin

Only turn the other cheek to assume a better firing position.


3 posted on 10/22/2021 9:30:18 AM PDT by thescourged1
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To: stanne
" To go by Gibbon, Christianity might be called the Social Justice movement of its day. (My words, this time.) Gibbon certainly seemed to suggest so. "

What an absolutely fascinating thing to say !

4 posted on 10/22/2021 11:03:59 AM PDT by knarf
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To: knarf

I didn’t say that. Wrong send?


5 posted on 10/22/2021 11:07:02 AM PDT by stanne
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To: thescourged1

6 posted on 10/22/2021 11:07:06 AM PDT by knarf
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To: thescourged1

“Only turn the other cheek to assume a better firing position.”

Unfortunately most Christians seem to have an inexhaustible supply of other cheeks, and the Muslims, the Feminazis, the LGBTQRSTUV, the left... are having the time of their lives slapping them cheeks around.

They are way too tolerant of the intolerables. Unless they again become crusaders, they’ll just keep being stomped on.

The truly depressing fact is that they take all the stomping without a whimper. People unwilling to stand up and defend themselves don’t have much of a future.


7 posted on 10/22/2021 11:09:04 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: Kaslin

Bump to read for later. I recall Gibbon discussed in one class as a poor historian (making conclusions not supported by his references). His book however was considered an excellent source for it’s bibliography.


8 posted on 10/22/2021 11:14:09 AM PDT by Varda
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To: Kaslin

IMO, I a lot of “Christians” really are not.


9 posted on 10/22/2021 11:19:05 AM PDT by Rebelbase (Were State Dept. Havana Syndrome victims the guinea pigs of 5G/graphene oxide "vaccine" tests?)
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To: stanne

Bingo. My younger brother recently said our sisters say I’m too hot-headed/combative when I would talk with them because I watched too much Fox News.

I told him a. I don’t watch Faux News anymore - they are compromised/frauds and b. our God-given country is failing BECAUSE Christians and righteous citizens have been too weak/sleeping/quiet/passive. Why have 60 million babies been slaughtered and all the other evils permeated society and the ‘Church’? Because we didn’t take a stand and a voice and BE the Light and Salt of the Earth like we were commanded to do.

So I’m done with Political Correctness. Jesus meant that when he said “Let your Yeah be Yeah and your Nay be Nay. Anything else leads to all kinds of evils(troubles)”.


10 posted on 10/22/2021 11:34:24 AM PDT by time4good
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To: stanne

Perhaps you should read what you post.


11 posted on 10/22/2021 11:34:31 AM PDT by knarf
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To: time4good

Btw, I do not mean self-righteous Pharisaical or like West Lake Baptist frauds. There are times to call a viper a viper and swine swine, and times to discern of Justice and Mercy.


12 posted on 10/22/2021 11:38:49 AM PDT by time4good
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To: knarf

“ Perhaps you should read what you post.”

You’re wasting my time

You claim I posted some ‘Gibbons crap’

Why don’t you read what you post

Cite it and prove I posted it, tell me the number of said post

I did not post it


13 posted on 10/22/2021 11:47:55 AM PDT by stanne
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To: stanne

I submit this site and its premise.

https://defytyrants.com/

When the tyrants oppress their ‘underlings’ it is a Christian’s duty to ‘interpose’.


14 posted on 10/22/2021 2:08:34 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (My /s is more true than your /science (or you might mean /seance))
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To: Kaslin

bkmk


15 posted on 10/22/2021 2:22:53 PM PDT by sauropod
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To: Kaslin

Gibbon shares with Malthus an 18th Century error’s propensity to come back and beguile modern morons.

The Eastern Roman Empire survived, resolutely Christian, until 1453. And in the centuries following, Christian nations conquered the world. The decline of the West in the last 100 years corresponds to the rise of atheism, first in Europe and then in the United States.


16 posted on 10/22/2021 7:22:42 PM PDT by cmj328 (We live here.)
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To: stanne
(sighhhhh )

Y'know, I apologize ... you're correct.

You didn't post any "Gibbons crap" ... it was Kaslin who posted the original article.

I mistakingly posted to you instead of Kaslin, who posted (within the article posted), the quote I cited.... Which you would have noticed had you read the article, and more maturely answered that it wasn't you BUT KASLIN that posted the original .

17 posted on 10/22/2021 11:35:01 PM PDT by knarf
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To: time4good

You deny all the souls arrested and beaten over the years that have been publicly anti-abortion.


18 posted on 10/22/2021 11:38:43 PM PDT by knarf
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To: knarf

I don’t follow you. Can you explain ?


19 posted on 10/23/2021 1:28:25 AM PDT by time4good
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To: knarf

“Which you would have …more maturely answered”

In many circles, another insult after saying ‘I apologize’ takes away tge apology.


20 posted on 10/23/2021 4:58:24 AM PDT by stanne
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