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George Takei, Candace Owens, and the Keffiyeh-Social media reveals the power of the West's new religion [long]
Frontpagemagazine ^ | May 10, 2024 | Danusha V. Goska

Posted on 05/10/2024 4:57:41 AM PDT by SJackson

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1 posted on 05/10/2024 4:57:41 AM PDT by SJackson
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2 posted on 05/10/2024 4:59:21 AM PDT by SJackson (In a war of ideas it is people who get killed, Stanislaw Jerzy Lec)
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POLL - 10 OUT OF 10 TENT MANUFACTURERS SUPPORT PRO-MUSLIM ANTI-JEWISH COLLEGE DEMONSTRATIONS


3 posted on 05/10/2024 5:15:47 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Where Islam dominates freedom, civility, Jews and Christians die)
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[Iris Change]

Spellcheck can never replace editors.

Iris Chang

Otherwise interesting read


4 posted on 05/10/2024 5:15:50 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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The author’s mistake is that he thinks he can reason with Democrats, Marxist or Muslims. It cannot be done.

Power and control (through politics) is their religion.

The only way to reason with a leftist is to put a boot on their face. Give them exactly what they give you. /spit


5 posted on 05/10/2024 5:22:55 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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I married into a Jewish family but for the life of me I don’t understand how “Christ is King” is even remotely anti-Semitic. I would love for some Jewish Freeper to explain it.

No true Christian is going to tolerate being self-censored on this issue.


6 posted on 05/10/2024 5:22:57 AM PDT by Claud
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Candace Owens has received ample warning that her rhetoric raises alarms. Rather than confession and repentance, Owens persists, including the defiant “Christ is King” in her conversion tweet. The Bible counsels, “As for those who persist in sin, rebuke them in the presence of all, so that the rest may stand in fear,” 1 Timothy 5:20. Owens has been rebuked. She persists in sin.

??? The author lies. It is not a sin to profess that Our Lord, Christ, is King. Goska is a demented Christophobe.

7 posted on 05/10/2024 5:24:40 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to kill us. Plan to avoid this.)
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What if I wore a Rainbow colored Keffiyeh with a Star of David on it?............


8 posted on 05/10/2024 5:28:35 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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This is their religion, as described by Whittaker Chambers back in 1952 when his book "Witness" was published.

“It [Communism] is not new. It is, in fact, man's second oldest faith. Its promise was whispered in the first days of the Creation under the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil: "Ye shall be as gods." It is the great alternative faith of mankind. Like all great faiths, its force derives from a simple vision. Other ages have had great visions. They have always been different versions of the same vision: the vision of God and man's relationship to God. The Communist vision is the vision of Man without God.

It is the vision of man's mind displacing God as the creative intelligence of the world. It is the vision of man's liberated mind, by the sole force of its rational intelligence, redirecting man's destiny and reorganizing man's life and the world. It is the vision of man, once more the central figure of the Creation, not because God made man in his image, but because man's mind makes him the most intelligent of the animals. Copernicus and his successors displaced man as the central fact of the universe by proving that the earth was not the central star of the universe. Communism restores man to his sovereignty by the simple method of denying God.”

Whittaker Chambers, "Witness"

It was, for me, one of the most politically influential books I have ever read.

9 posted on 05/10/2024 5:39:13 AM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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To: Sirius Lee
Candace Owens has received ample warning that her rhetoric raises alarms..

Yeah this is pure baloney. Rhetoric? It is standard boiler-plate Christianity. ANY theological beliefs are going to...ahem..."raise alarms" with people that disagree. Do Jews think the Talmud's accounts of Christ doesn't alarm Christians?

"Don't raise alarms" is an impossible standard for anyone to meet.

Sorry, but this last part of the author's argument is simply atrocious and completely unpersuasive.

10 posted on 05/10/2024 5:50:30 AM PDT by Claud
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I had no idea that the expression “Christ is King” was considered to be bullying. Does Candice know this?


11 posted on 05/10/2024 6:08:23 AM PDT by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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the new "religion" emerging in the West, which rejects the Judeo-Christian tradition and embraces moral relativism, anti-Western sentiment, and prioritizing non-Western cultures/ideologies over Western ones.

his new "religion" promotes collectivist and anti-individualist ideologies

12 posted on 05/10/2024 6:34:02 AM PDT by mjp (pro-freedom & pro-wealth $)
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Of all the regular characters in TOS "Sulu" was the only one I didn't like.Spock was great...as was Uhura,Checkov,Scotty,Bones and,of course,Yoeman Rand.

It figures that he's the one who'd turn out to be a worthless filthbag in real life.

13 posted on 05/10/2024 6:39:18 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Proudly Clinging To My Guns And My Religion)
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If that’s the author’s point, glad I didn’t read the stupid article. Jesus is the Lord! Christ is King!


14 posted on 05/10/2024 6:42:40 AM PDT by stevio (Fight until you die.)
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Amen!


15 posted on 05/10/2024 7:14:19 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Yes, indeed.


16 posted on 05/10/2024 7:14:41 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: SJackson

Thanks for posting; as good as it is long.


17 posted on 05/10/2024 7:56:05 AM PDT by Stosh
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It’s a combination of Progressive political philosophy altered by Marxist ideology and merged into secular humanism, to produce a secular religion.

When you hear those who manifest this new religion best, you hear a pastiche of collected and preset pat phrases strung together as if saying something when, intellectually, they have said nothing beyond memorized “verses” from their new well indoctrinated scriptures.


18 posted on 05/10/2024 8:10:23 AM PDT by Wuli
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Anything that Takei is involved in should be immediately junked. He is a blithering idiot.


19 posted on 05/10/2024 8:12:27 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo, )
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To: Claud

True. That said, it is an observable fact (alas) that the phrase has been co-opted by splinter groups who are in fact hateful, and some of them are sort of monarchist Catholics who are in fact privately eager to talk about white supremacy....not just the superiority of western civ., but white Europeans as a race.

I found this fact to be sort of scary.

Especially because the Christian Reformed subculture uses the phrase “Christ is King” often and it’s not really a dog whistle for anything. Well, ok, maybe it’s a dog whistle for predestination....within that subculture.

But the monarchist/white supremacist crowd that circulate in tiny numbers throughout the conservative movement are not good people, they do not like America, and they are actually a bit racist and often anti-Semitic in addition to being stridently anti-Israel.

I don’t believe (or agree) that Candace is anti-Semitic. She is critical of Israel, and of the US’ relationship with Israel. I’d say most of us here at FR don’t agree with her on that, but I’d like to think that most of us should always pay attention, keep an open mind, continually re-assess our relationship with Israel, and listen carefully to Thomas Massie and others.

And on social media platforms, sadly, it is advisable to not re-post somethign put up by someone who is saying often and loudly “Christ is King” because if you scroll back through their content, you might find some very non-American, non-Christian, and non-conservative stuff in there. That’s just a sad reality.

(and I think that those who use the correct and beautiful phrase “Christ is King” in this way are in fact using the Lord’s name in vain, and that is always always always wrong)


20 posted on 05/10/2024 8:13:49 AM PDT by ConservativeDude
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