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Astana, Kazakhstan, where Athanasias Schneider is a Bishop, seems a remote backwater. Except that various rising, non-aligned nations are making it a center of geo-strategic planning. The Mackinder Thesis, The Geographical Pivot of History, is that whoever controls the heartland of Eurasia controls the world. Astana is not a strategic backwater. From this location at the center of the world, where key events are unfolding, Bishop Schneider offers astonishing insights in his catechism that are not original in any sense of the word, but are in the true tradition of the Catholic faith. One of them is that, far from...

The Gods of Political Correctness dictate that all religions are of equal worth; that there are “…three great Abrahamic religions,” and “The Arabs are Semites too, so they can’t be anti-Semites.” All three of these sacred cow clichés need to be slaughtered on the altar of truth. While Christianity and Islam are both offshoots of the Jews and took from them the concept of having one’s own holy writ, their self-definitions as new faith communities were radically different. The Koine Greek language narratives that Christians append to their version of the Hebrew Bible purport to be a continuation of Jewish...

For the historians in the room... Free ebook Downloads in common formats at link. "The story of Lincoln's life told by himself in his stories, wit and humor of the War, the COurts, the BAckwoods and the White House." -- T.p "Illustrated with one hundred original outline drawings by special artists of scenes and characters in Lincoln's stories, and fifty phograph portraits of the famous men of Lincoln's time and their biographies." -- T.p "Copyright by Henry Neil, 1901." -- T.p

“Someone complained, and it was gone.” That’s all Cornell University biology Professor Randy Wayne said he has been able to determine so far about the whereabouts of a longtime display in the Ivy League school’s Kroch Library of a bust of President Abraham Lincoln in front of a bronzed Gettysburg Address plaque. Wayne, a frequent visitor to the library, which houses Cornell’s rare and manuscript collections, said when he stopped in several weeks ago he noticed the display had been disappeared. “It’s been there since I can remember,” he told The College Fix in an interview. He asked the librarians...

A nearly completely intact clay oil lamp from 2,300 years ago was found near a stone bath during recent conservation work at the Mount Gerizim National Park....said Netanel Elimelech, director of the park... “We found a lot of clay sherds lying around, but to find something complete with signs of its use is pretty nice. You can still see the black marks of burning from when the lamp was used. It throws you back (in time.)”The archaeological complex on Mount Gerizim, located outside of Nablus, was excavated in the 1990s under the leadership of archaeologist Dr. Yitzhak Magen. Recently conservation...

The first time that the word Hebrew is used in the Bible is in Genesis 14:13 where Abraham is called a Hebrew. In the Hebrew language the word “Hebrew” is written עברי (Ivrie) and the root letters are used to mean, cross over. Abraham whose name originally was Abram, or in Hebrew Avram (which means exalted father), being called out of his own land by God, crossed over Euphrates into a land which God promised to give to him and his seed as an inheritance forever. There, God also promised to make him a father of many nations. God also...

HEBRON, West Bank - Jewish settler leaders prayed on Monday for U.S. President Donald Trump’s re-election, citing his support for Israel, during a ceremony at a biblical tomb in the occupied West Bank that has been a flashpoint of conflict with the Palestinians. “We have come to bless President Trump, both for the past, to thank him, but also for the future, that he succeeds in the coming election,” Yishai Fleisher, spokesman for the Hebron settlers, said at the Cave of the Patriarchs burial site. One of those interred there, according to tradition, is Abraham, who is revered by Jews,...

President Donald Trump expects “seven or eight or nine” additional Arab states to sign peace agreements with Israel in the near future, including Saudi Arabia, he announced Tuesday during a White House ceremony. Trump made the comments after formally signing peace agreements between Israel, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain. Known as the Abraham Accords, Trump and its other signatories hope it heralds “a new dawn for peace in the Middle East.” Trump also said that he spoke with the King of Saudi Arabia and expects the country to join the agreement “at the right time,” according Agence France...

The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren; And Judas begat Phares and Zara of Thamar; and Phares begat Esrom; and Esrom begat Aram; And Aram begat Aminadab; and Aminadab begat Naasson; and Naasson begat Salmon; And Salmon begat Booz of Rachab; and Booz begat Obed of Ruth; and Obed begat Jesse;And Jesse begat David the king;…and David the king begat Solomon of her that had been the wife of Urias; And Solomon begat Roboam; and Roboam begat...

I explore the inescapable idolatry contained with in the Koran, and Muhammad's distortion of Genesis 18.

I explore The Embellishment, Surah 33 of the Koran, and explain why Muhammad was the most carnal "prophet" to ever live.

I explore the pagan roots of Islam, and describe the merciless, sociopathic nature of Allah as he's depicted in The Koran.

The quiet heartbreak and pain of infertility is well known to many evangelicals, whose aspirations to have a child have been frustrated for reasons they cannot understand or control. It is frequently a secret burden that couples carry, which only emerges into the open as they reveal their struggles to family, friends, and doctors. The weight of infertility and the value of children has increasingly prompted infertile couples to pursue procreation by every means possible: artificial insemination, in vitro fertilization, and even surrogacy have all found their way into evangelical communities. Yet while evangelicals have become increasingly aware of the...

Ezekiel is a key figure in the Bible and in his end-of-days prophecy, he foresees the Dead Sea flourishing into life – something that is considered to be impossible due to its high salt content. Israeli photojournalist Noam Bedein has reported sightings of marine life in small sinkholes around the Dead Sea, as well as vegetation growing. Photos released by the Dead Sea Revival Project show tiny fish swimming in water that is reportedly from the highly-salinated body of water. Mr Bedein, who works on the Dead Sea Revival Project, which works to preserve the Sea and other Israeli “water...

Let’s say you have a grandfather of whom you are particularly fond, and out of the blue, a stranger says: “Hey, that’s my grandpa!” Then, lest you think this stranger is somehow trying to ingratiate himself with you, he adds: “Everything you thought you knew about grandpa is wrong!” Would that endear this stranger to you? That is the question everyone who believes in the notion of “three Abrahamic Faiths” needs to answer. Proponents of this view believe that -- since Abraham is an important figure in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (especially the first and last of those three) --...

If you ran the world, what is one thing you would decree/do/enact?

Rock a My Soul in the Bosom of Abraham – Learning the Wisdom of an old Spiritual Msgr. Charles Pope • August 12, 2016 • There is an old African-American spiritual that says, “Rock a my soul in the bosom of Abraham. Oh, rock a my soul!” At first glance its meaning may seem obscure, but it speaks to a deep tradition and a kind of spiritual strategy that has great wisdom.Biblically, the “bosom of Abraham” referred to the place of rest in Sheol, where the righteous dead awaited the Messiah and Judgment Day. It is mentioned only once...

New mayor is a Fatah terrorist who killed 6 people in a 1980 terror attack, received a life sentence - and was freed during a prisoner swap. Terrorist Tiyassir Abu Sanina is expected to win Sunday's elections for Hevron mayor. Abu Sanina is a member of the same terror cell which carried out the May 1980 terror attack on Beit Hadassah, killing six people civilians and wounding twenty more. All of the terrorists who participated in the attack were given life sentences, but released during the prisoner swaps of the 1980s. Hevron Jewish Community Spokesman Noam Arnon said, "Choosing as...

Moscow, October 24, Interfax - Works on conserving the Oak of Mamre from decay are conducted in the representation of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Hevron (the West bank of the Jordan river). Experts of the National Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences The Nikitsky Botanic Garden, St. Petersburg Forestry University, and Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod are attracted to participate in the work. The Oak of Mamre is mentioned in the Bible, according to which the Holy Trinity visited Abraham near the tree. The experts will treat the tree with special material protecting it from decay,...

Her comments on justifying having two positions, one for public and one for private is due to Spielberg Lincoln movie.