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Make No Mistake, The Name Calling In Black American Discussion Circles Is Mirrored In American Politics And Is A Reflection Of The Lack Of Reasonable Discourse In Society As A Whole

In all societies there are "minority" groups which exist within the relative "majority." Because these groups are a "minority," while they do not always reflect the opinions of the greater society, the opinions and the effects of the opinions of the greater society are more strongly reflected in the actions and reactions of these minority groups because they are subject to the consequences of views held by those who they live around. As such, I believe it is important to pay close attention to the opinions of "minority" groups in American society, for among many things that one can see, by watching these groups one can get a closer view at the problems of the larger society as the problems already there will be magnified in the smaller groups. In the case of America, it is the Hispanic and black peoples.<iframe class='youtube-player' type='text/html' width='640' height='390' src='http://www.youtube.com/embed/x1aJhHZHQGU?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent' allowfullscreen='true' style='border:0;'></iframe>One commentator I enjoy listening to frequently is a man by the name of David Carroll. From his location in the Cleveland, OH area he runs two YouTube and five Vimeo channels where he discusses issues pertaining to the breakdown of the black family structure and the antisocial behavior that is common in black communities today. While I do not agree with all of his points (he is a agnostic among several), he provides a thoughtful perspective on "black issues" that is seldom presented. One of the issues that he discusses a lot is what he terms the "soft, catty effeminate attitude of black men" who "were reared by single women and so they imitate what their mommas taught them."As David points out in many of his videos, and I have taken the time to view other "black commentators" online to see for myself, there is a trend to express anger in an uncontrolled, visceral way and then to lash out at the person making the comment instead of the idea being discussed. Now ad hominem attacks are common and for the most part characterize any debate no matter where one goes, but the level of such attacks has clearly reached a level that is beyond any sort of manageable level. As David points out in black circles, to present a reasoned thought is a rare act, and the modus operandi at all levels is to start calling people names such as "YOU'RE A  COON," "YOU'RE AN UNCLE TOM," or "YOU'RE A SELLOUT" while actually ignoring the points being discussed and using whatever available means are around to shut down his voice from having a place."Now the violence and dysfunction in black America is painfully and pitifully obvious. With most babies born to single women, illiteracy and ignorance accepted as normal and good, drug and alcohol abuse out of control, the rampant spread of sexually transmitted diseases, and social degeneracy praised as a model of behavior while order and common decency are scorned, it is no surprise that the average argument from the average person in black America would be nothing other than merely regurgitating the sewage these people have been nursed on for all their lives. To expect otherwise would be irrational.But is the discourse of contemporary black America really that different from the rest of America? Not really in terms of essence because the root sources of the dysfunction stems not from circumstances without, but from the dysfunction within the soul. Add to this that the dysfunction that one sees manifest physically is also present in the rest of America, but just structured in such a way that is different so it gives the appearance it is not present when it really is.<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/louisvillebreadlines.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-109443" height="225" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/louisvillebreadlines-300x225.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/louisvillebreadlines-300x225.jpg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/louisvillebreadlines.jpg 640w" width="300" /></a>Soup kitchen lines in Louisville, KY from the depression of the 1930s. The reality is that the situation now is far worse than the "Great Depression" ever was. However, just like with black America, the way it differs from the past is in the distribution. The bread lines of the 1930s have been replaced with the EBT/SNAP cards of today so that the inability of approximately 20% of the population to buy food for itself is hidden among the other people waiting to check out at the grocery store.The best way to see into the heart of America's dysfunction in public discourse is through her politics. As much as people do not want to admit it, politicians are a reflection of the heart of the people of their time because people elect those who reflect themselves. It is the reason why Jesus was killed, and why Christians are constantly warned that while they are "in the world" they must be on constant watch not to become "of the world," because the disorder in society is a reflection of the disorder of the people. This is one of the many products of a post-original sin world, and will persist until Christ returns. In this sense, there will always be dysfunction that will always have to be controlled in the same way that a gardener has to constantly watch his garden and uproot the weeds or pick off and destroy the malicious bugs and grubs that will come to feast on the tender plants he is trying to grow. The issue is not so much that such pests and problems exist, but as I referred to above with David Carrol's videos, the issue is the proportion in which these problems exist and what is being done to keep them under control.<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/bigstock-Tomato-Hornworm-31734068.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-109444" height="200" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/bigstock-Tomato-Hornworm-31734068-300x200.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/bigstock-Tomato-Hornworm-31734068-300x200.jpg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/bigstock-Tomato-Hornworm-31734068-768x512.jpg 768w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/bigstock-Tomato-Hornworm-31734068-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/bigstock-Tomato-Hornworm-31734068.jpg 1484w" width="300" /></a>The tomato hornworm caterpillar. Just as these rotten bugs (I believe) take pleasure in eating my tomato plants and I have to keep picking them off and feeding them to my chickens (who clearly enjoy eating them), so must a man in society always work against the evil forces and men trying to destroy it. This is a fact of life in any government regardless of time, place, or situation. I cannot stop them from attacking my plants, but I can control their spread. If I did not, they would eat my entire garden.American politics has always been filled with every sort of disorder one can think of going back to its earliest days. However, that disorder was able to be contained, for the most part, within a certain range of behavior. What has happened today is that American politics has reflected the complete deterioration of the people by reducing what is called "public discourse" to little more than a shouting and name-calling match between two sides who are both as evil as the other, possessing essentially the same views with the same ends but a different means to achieve it.<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/donald-and-hillary.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-109445" height="188" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/donald-and-hillary-300x188.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/donald-and-hillary-300x188.jpg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/donald-and-hillary-768x480.jpg 768w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/donald-and-hillary.jpg 800w" width="300" /></a>Politics has no enemies and no friends. It is less about principle and more about the preservation of power.The disorder of the liberals is so obvious and open that one only needs to look at them with a quasi-sober mind to see that something is not right. Having openly redefined itself as a party that openly embraces eugenics, socialism, and the fomentation of aggression over any difference between groups for the purpose of creating a power vacuum into which they use as a level to attempt to gain more power and influence at the expense of others, there is no way to deny where they stand. The joke of it is that these people are so obvious in their positions but they will claim at the same time they are the opposite with a straight face and believe their own words.The disorder of the conservatives is just as bad as the liberals, but unlike the liberals their disorder is hidden behind white picket fences and gestures of social congeniality. There is still a tremendous amount of sexual abuse, eugenicist ideas, socialism, and the use of violence and division as a tool of influence at the expense of others that is there. People are deceived by the fact that their is no "blood in the streets" in a physical sense- such as when "Pookie" guns down "Ray-Ray" over a pair of Air Jordans- but is just as real and destructive and as such it will be passed over without anybody thinking twice about it.<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/snowflake-sjw-cuck-guide-alt-right-slang.png"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-109446" height="169" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/snowflake-sjw-cuck-guide-alt-right-slang-300x169.png" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/snowflake-sjw-cuck-guide-alt-right-slang-300x169.png 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/snowflake-sjw-cuck-guide-alt-right-slang.png 768w" width="300" /></a>As mentioned earlier, the ad hominem attacks so characteristic of black American public discourse is no different than that in in liberal circles or in conservative circles. Just like the liberals, when the platitudes that are given by "conservatives" in public discourse as an explanation of policy are criticized or questioned, the immediate response is to start criticizing and even calling people names. Instead of “YOU’RE A COON” it is “YOU’RE A CUCK” or “YOU’RE A CULTURAL MARXIST,” and just like the people who shout “YOU’RE A COON” at the black Americans who present a viewpoint they disagree with not because the person is question actually fits the definition of a “coon” but as a way of shutting people down, these same conservatives use the phrase “YOU’RE A CUCK” in the same way, as a way of shutting people down without actually fitting the definition of the word to the person they criticize.<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/cooningexample.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-109447" height="225" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/cooningexample-300x225.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/cooningexample-300x225.jpg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/cooningexample.jpg 480w" width="300" /></a>"Cooning," as David points out, is a form of anti-social behavior in which a black man does self-depreciating acts in order to gain the attention of another. As he repeatedly says, "cooning is behavior, it is not having a difference of opinion." Likewise, a "cuck" is a weak man who stays in a submissive relationship to a dominant woman who has sex with other men and even children with them yet demands that he pay for her and her offspring despite him receiving nothing in return. "Cuckholdry" likewise is a form of behavior, not having a difference of opinion. However, the use of these terms is not to address actual issues, but rather to draw attention away from them through the use of ad hominem attacks.It is very easy, no matter who one is or what a man's background is, to blame one's problems on another and to attack another man's character instead of the opinions he is presenting. Indeed, one should expect that anybody who has a public opinion also opens himself up to public criticism, including that of his person. This is just expected and should be accepted as normal because it is. What makes for abnormal behavior is when one cannot have a discussion about issues without resorting to mockery, insults, and banal comments as the default, basic, and commonly accepted mode of comment and response.<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/creation.png"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-109448" height="300" sizes="(max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/creation-221x300.png" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/creation-221x300.png 221w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/creation.png 295w" width="221" /></a>Man is made in the image and likeness of God, and as the Baltimore Catechism has always taught, he is above the animals but just a little below the angels, as we possess a rational mind and an eternal soul like the angels with the corporeal means of generation and physical composition of the animals. Man is unique among God's creation, for he stands at a middle ground with the ability to look to Heaven while participating with God to bring new life into the world. It is a unique and beautiful place to be, because even though we are tarnished by original sin, God not only became man so that we might become like God through the sacrifice at Calvary, but He has endowed up with free will and a mind that is able to act and think independently so that we might choose to love God and find true happiness within Him.One of the struggles of humanity throughout the ages is that between man's angelic and animal sides because of original sin. Like the battle against bugs in the garden, it is a constant struggle that must be continually worked at. However, man is supposed to work to strive to be like the angels, imitating God in his acts and works instead of allowing himself to submit to acting like an animal, driven by base passions and not his true nature, and this is only possible in faithful obedience to Christ no matter how difficult a situation may be.It is easy to point fingers at others, such as the debased situation in black America, to show how far society has debased. However, the reality is that the situation in black America is for the most part an amplified reflection of the disorder in the larger society that is just magnified because they are a smaller segment of the population as opposed to the rest that while hidden from direct view is made clear in that the language of popular political speech is the same as that between minority groups arguing about similar issues in their own context. Ultimately, the issue is not about race, class, or any of the other superficial differences used as a level to cause division, but it is about the end purpose for causing the division, which is so that people would be unable to reason on even a basic level about matters which affect their daily lives and those of others so that the persons responsible for the division might be able to provide the "answer" to the problems they helped create.So do criticize others regardless of who they are when criticism is justly due. However, do not lose sight of yourself in the process, allowing yourself to embody and reflect the very same reasons for criticism of these other groups while unable to recognize it in yourself because they are just a reflection of you.

anonymous armageddon isis islam war Make No Mistake, The Name Calling In Black American Discussion Circles Is Mirrored In American Politics And Is A Reflection Of The Lack Of Reasonable Discourse In Society As A Whole

In all societies there are "minority" groups which exist within the relative "majority." Because these groups are a...

Man In Britain Murders Woman In Hotel With A Screwdriver, And Then Begins Eating Her Flesh Raw Like An Animal

A man in Britain murdered a woman in a hotel with a screwdriver, and then began eating her flesh raw like an animal. This crime was not committed by a Muslim, so don't expect the counterjihad loons to talk about this one. According to the report police killed this demon possessed man by tasering him. Here is his picture, look at the eyes, you can see the demonic possession just by the look of them:<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/JS123406008_Matthew-Williams-xlarge_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bqx4xac64PYZDl5dYfZ_Bhmhz7tre9PDcorWUnNHaMb2g.jpg"><img alt="" class="aligncenter wp-image-109438" height="982" sizes="(max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/JS123406008_Matthew-Williams-xlarge_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bqx4xac64PYZDl5dYfZ_Bhmhz7tre9PDcorWUnNHaMb2g-640x1024.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/JS123406008_Matthew-Williams-xlarge_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bqx4xac64PYZDl5dYfZ_Bhmhz7tre9PDcorWUnNHaMb2g-640x1024.jpg 640w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/JS123406008_Matthew-Williams-xlarge_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bqx4xac64PYZDl5dYfZ_Bhmhz7tre9PDcorWUnNHaMb2g-188x300.jpg 188w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/JS123406008_Matthew-Williams-xlarge_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bqx4xac64PYZDl5dYfZ_Bhmhz7tre9PDcorWUnNHaMb2g-768x1229.jpg 768w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/JS123406008_Matthew-Williams-xlarge_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bqx4xac64PYZDl5dYfZ_Bhmhz7tre9PDcorWUnNHaMb2g.jpg 800w" width="614" /></a> As we read in the report on this horrifying story:<blockquote>A landlady sobbed "He's eating her" in a 999 call after seeing a cannibal killer attack a young woman in her hotel, an inquest heard on Wednesday.Hotel owner Mandy Miles unlocked the door after hearing screams to see Cerys Yemm, 22, being attacked by her murderer in the room.An inquest heard Matthew Williams, 34, killed Miss Yemm before committing an act of cannibalism on her body.The 999 call played to the inquest jury heard how Mrs Miles, 50, rang police to get help after witnessing the incident in room seven of her hotel.She said: "There's a lad in the room. He's actually eating her. It's awful. His name is Matthew Williams and he's in Room 7."The tape heard Mrs Miles sobbing as she said: "There was screaming and screaming. Oh my God. It's awful. I went into the room and he's killed her. Oh my God. Is this real?"There's blood everywhere and it looks like a horror film. He was using the screwdriver and stabbing."<div class="articleBodyText section"><div class="article-body-text component "><div class="component-content">The 999 tape was played to the jury after CCTV images were shown of newly-freed prisoner Williams going into the "halfway house" Sirhowy Arms Hotel at Argoed, near Caerphilly, South Wales.They also showed Mrs Miles's son, Christian, arrive with other guests outside the room. She then told him: "You are not going in there."She tells her son to come away from the door, after informing the operator that she has seen Williams eating the person inside.The operator tells her that someone from the police will be straight there.</div></div></div><div class="section dynamicMpu"></div></blockquote><div class="articleBodyText section"><div class="article-body-text component "><div class="component-content"><blockquote>The 999 operator informs officers at just after 1am that there has been a reported murder at the Sirhowy Arms Hotel where a man has attacked another person with a screwdriver and is eating the person's face.The 999 operator then said: "This is genuine."The operator asked to have all the people inside the hotel leave as a number of police officers would be arriving.The hearing was told officers arrived at the hotel 14 minutes after the 999 call to arrest Williams.Williams, 34, was released from prison just two weeks before he  killed Miss Yemm. He then died himself after being Tasered by police.Miss Yemm was found covered in blood lying underneath Williams in his hostel room - after he binged on drink and drugs in the days before.An inquest into both their deaths heard paranoid schizophrenic Williams was released from custody without any medication or supervision despite being sectioned twice and complaining of hearing voices in his head.His mother, Sally Ann Williams, told the inquest that her son had previously been diagnosed with drug-induced schizophrenia after claiming he was a tree and saying his food was poisoned.She said he had been placed in foster care as a teenager after being caught stealing to buy drugs, and his drug addiction was "set in" after he returned from a young offenders' institution.<div class="articleBodyText section"><div class="article-body-text component "><div class="component-content">His mental health "deteriorated" after he split up from the mother of his son about three years before he killed Miss Yemm.Mrs Williams said: "At some point he was sectioned once or twice but I don't know the details."</div></div></div><div class="section dynamicMpu"></div><div class="articleBodyText section"><div class="article-body-text component "><div class="component-content">Williams was sent to prison for two-and-a-half years where he was given medication, but was offered "no support" when he was released on October 23, 2014.His mother said: "There was no mental health support whatsoever. He told me he'd been released without any medication. He'd been released without licence and had no probation restrictions."She said her son complained "the voices were back" in the days before the killing."He told me his head wasn't right," she said.She dropped food off outside his hostel hours before he killed Miss Yemm, where he "seemed fine" and received a text from him later which said he'd made "a lovely dinner" with the food she'd brought him.That night he killed Miss Yemm in his room, and died in the early hours of the next morning after being Tasered by police."I returned the next day and that's when I found out what had happened," said Mrs Williams.His best friend, Rhodri Moore, told the inquest Williams seemed fine after his release from jail, but deteriorated "after the first couple days".He said: "He was taking drugs on a daily basis. He said when he looked at a can of Coke he could see faces."He wasn't very well. He was seeing things, hallucinating. He was annoyed and on edge. Depressed."He couldn't get any medication. His mother was trying very hard to get someone to see him. He was willing to be helped. He wanted to be helped."He said Williams binged on amphetamines and cannabis after his release, and Williams was smoking weed the day before he killed Miss Yemm.</div></div></div><div class="section dynamicMpu"></div></blockquote><div class="articleBodyText section"><div class="article-body-text component "><div class="component-content"><blockquote>Mr Moore told the inquest: "He was looking wired. He looked to me like he hadn't been asleep."The inquest in Newport continues.</blockquote> </div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="h5ab-print-button-container"><div class="h5ab-print-button h5ab-print-button-left" style="cursor: pointer; color: #555">							print</div></div><div class="sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled"><div class="robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing">

anonymous armageddon isis islam war Man In Britain Murders Woman In Hotel With A Screwdriver, And Then Begins Eating Her Flesh Raw Like An Animal

A man in Britain murdered a woman in a hotel with a screwdriver, and then began eating her flesh raw like an animal. This crime was not...

US Immigration Deports Muslim Man After He Takes A Pair Of Scissors And Uses Them To Mutilate His Two-Year-Old Daughter's Genitals

<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/image_4851906.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-109433" height="232" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/image_4851906.jpg" width="170" /></a>Khalid Adem of Ethiopia is being deported from the USA for his crime of being the first person in the USA convicted of Female Genital Mutilation. According to the reports, he as arrested after he used a pair of scissors to forcibly "circumcise" his two-year-old daughter:<blockquote>ATLANTA – A citizen and national of Ethiopia was removed Monday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) to his native country after serving 10 years in prison.Khalid Adem, 41, a native and citizen of Ethiopia was convicted in Gwinnett Country, Georgia, of aggravated battery and cruelty to children in the first degree on Nov. 1, 2006, and sentenced to 10 years imprisonment. Using scissors, Adem mutilated the genitals of his 2-year-old daughter. Adem was ordered removed Oct. 31, 2016, based on his criminal convictions. Adem’s case is believed to be the first criminal conviction in the United States for female genital mutilation, and became the catalyst for the specific criminalization of female genital mutilation under Georgia state law.“A young girl’s life has been forever scarred by this horrible crime,” said Sean W. Gallagher, field office director for the Atlanta ERO Field Office. "The elimination of female genital mutilation/cutting has broad implications for the health and human rights of women and girls, as well as societies at large." Female genital mutilation/cutting is a federal crime. Any involvement in committing this crime is a serious human rights violation which may result in imprisonment and potential removal from the U.S. Individuals suspected of female genital mutilation/cutting, including sending girls overseas to be cut, may be investigated by ICE’s Human Rights Violators and War Crimes Center (HRVWCC). Established in 2009 to further ICE’s efforts to identify, track and prosecute human rights abusers, the HRVWCC leverages the expertise of a select group of agents, lawyers, intelligence and research specialists, historians and analysts who direct the agency’s broader enforcement efforts against these offenders.Since 2003, ICE has arrested more than 380 individuals for human rights-related violations of the law under various criminal and/or immigration statutes. During that same period, ICE obtained deportation orders against and physically removed 785 known or suspected human rights violators from the United States. Additionally, ICE has facilitated the departure of an additional 108 such individuals from the United States. (<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-removes-ethiopian-who-committed-female-genital-mutilation">source</a>)</blockquote>

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Khalid Adem of Ethiopia is being deported from the USA for his crime of being the first person in the USA convicted of Female Genital M...

A Massive Apostasy Is Taking Place Right Now As American Evangelical Christian Leaders Admit They Are In A Free Fall Collapse

<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/burnedoutchurch.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-109428" height="189" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/burnedoutchurch-300x189.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/burnedoutchurch-300x189.jpg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/burnedoutchurch-768x484.jpg 768w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/burnedoutchurch.jpg 981w" width="300" /></a>Christianity worldwide, especially in Muslim nations has been exploding with converts in the millions. However, the opposite is happening in America. Just as Europe is suffering from an ongoing and seemingly irreversibly apostasy from its Christian roots, American Evangelicalism is suffering a quiet, mass apostasy that threatens the very existence of American Christianity itself:<blockquote>My friend Rod Dreher is as sane and stable as anyone I know, and he's saying, in essence, that the sky is falling. I reference his new article in The American Conservative, called "The Coming Christian Collapse."He begins by saying that the two-thirds of millennials who were raised religiously unaffiliated still have no denominational identity today. Unlike previous generations, they're not joining churches as they get older and raise kids.Second, Rod says, "Millennials, even those who identify as Christians, are shockingly illiterate, both in terms of what the Bible says and more generally regarding what Christianity teaches."This growing biblical illiteracy has led to a moral decline of our young people into consumerism, drug abuse, sexual liberation, and civic and political disengagement.Third, Rod says that the working class has largely abandoned the church, and that if the middle class follows suit, as appears likely, the church will be in a world of hurt. He quotes the late Michael Spencer, who warned of a coming evangelical collapse: "We Evangelicals have failed to pass on to our young people an orthodox form of faith that can take root and survive the secular onslaught." (<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.christianpost.com/news/american-christianity-may-be-collapsing-what-should-we-do-167095/">source</a>)</blockquote>The essay by Rod Dreher that Eric Metaxas is referring to is well worth the read. In summary, American Christianity is rapidly disappearing, having lost its social strength and becoming a target of scorn and rejection by the greater society. In his view, Christians need to adopt a "Benedict option." Named in honor of <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02467b.htm">St. Benedict of Nursia</a>, the patron saint of Europe and exorcists, Christians need to form small communities in which to transmit and pass down their faith as the greater society around them dissolves just as Christians of the world of antiquity did:<blockquote> Millennials, even those who identify as Christian, are shockingly illiterate, both in terms of what the Bible says and more generally regarding what Christianity teaches. I trust you don’t need me to repeat again Christian Smith’s findings showing that Moralistic Therapeutic Deism — a bland, undemanding, non-specific religion parasitic on Christianity — has taken over US religious institutions and has displaced authentic Christianity, especially among the young....In my own informal conversations with college professors — both progressive and conservative, and both at Christian and secular institutions of higher learning — this finding has been abundantly confirmed. The ignorance is so widespread and profound that most of their students don’t even know what they don’t know. Which leads us to:If we lose the middle and upper classes, we lose the church. For various reasons, churchgoing in America is primarily something that educated middle and upper class Americans do. Charles Murray, among others, has highlighted research showing that the working class has largely abandoned church. If Christianity is to survive in the US, it cannot afford to lose middle class Americans. Of course Christianity must especially be for the poor and working classes, but at this point in its history in the US, the poor and working classes have already left, and the middle classes are hemorrhaging.College is (at least for now) a common middle class experience. If we lose these kids in (or by) college, they’re gone. According to my anecdotal information, supplemented by the research from Smith et al., this has already happened. (<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/the-coming-christian-collapse/">source</a>)</blockquote>Both of these articles are well worth the full read, as they discuss major issues that are often times ignored. They are well reasoned and thought provoking.But I'll give a simpler and more daunting reason why "American Christianity" is collapsing. That reason is because "American Christianity" is a social religion. It is a product of and subject to the spirit of the times in which it lives, existing an independent organism with a false conception of its very self. It could never survive long-term because it was inherently heretical and doomed from its inception, and what we are witnessing is its natural and really, inevitable death.<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/81PqhAn6iL-e1489692194473.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-109418" height="300" sizes="(max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/81PqhAn6iL-e1489692194473-169x300.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/81PqhAn6iL-e1489692194473-169x300.jpg 169w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/81PqhAn6iL-e1489692194473-768x1365.jpg 768w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/81PqhAn6iL-e1489692194473-576x1024.jpg 576w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/81PqhAn6iL-e1489692194473.jpg 1440w" width="169" /></a>While American Christianity is originally based in European Protestant movements such as Anglicanism, Lutheranism, and Calvinism, the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fundamentals">Fundamentals</a> series of books synthesized these views and form the basis of modern American Evangelicalism. It is not possible to understand American Christianity without these books (which can be purchased <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Testimony-Truth-Contains-Volumes/dp/0801087503">here</a>)American Christianity, or as some call it, “American Evangelicalism,” is a hybrid of mixed and varying Protestant ideas imported from the nations and peoples of Western and Northern Europe who sided with preachers and political leaders against the Catholic Church beginning in the 16th century with the Protestant Revolution as filtered through the Fundamentalist declarations of the early 20th century in combination with secular ideas about American nationalism and her place in the world with contemporary American culture. It is unique in that it is a product of a revolution that is ongoing, changing with each generation but always connecting itself back to the "early church" and then the Protestant revolution that bore it while skipping over the 13 centuries from Constantine to Luther.Characterized by an anti-authority mindset on one hand and an insular view on the other, it gives rise to countless sects that all claim to be the true “church” that represents most accurately the teachings and will of Christ. They will teach from the same Bible and claim that the same Holy Spirit is constantly speaking to them, elucidating and clarifying the truths that have not changed for two millennia, and they will all call each other Christians and part of the same “church”, which they identify as the “body of Christ” that is constituted of anybody who associates himself with the name of “Christian.” Yet these same “Christians” fight and constantly split over small points of doctrine or discipline, forming new congregations and claiming authority over each other from the same Bible with absolute ruthlessness. The result will be that when all of these “churches” are looked at from an all-encompassing perspective, they share absolutely no unity whatsoever with regard to anything, including basic dogmas that go so far as down to the very divinity of Christ, having the veneer of being called “Christians” yet with no unity and fighting constantly like a bunch of chickens at a cock fight except when it comes to criticism of the Catholic Church, in which there is a common understanding that is usually anti-Catholic.<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/cockfighting.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-109419" height="184" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/cockfighting-300x184.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/cockfighting-300x184.jpg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/cockfighting.jpg 680w" width="300" /></a>A cockfight, or the bickering that happens between American Evangelical sects today. But all joking aside, the fighting is real because while none will recognize the authority of the Pope there is absolutely no union of doctrine since each man is given the self-appointed authority to act as his own pope. The result is an ineffective, weak, flaccid Christianity defined by platitudes that attempt to make the problem of doctrine and heresy without addressing it while fighting over these same issues in a way that is a fruitless and destructive as a cock fight.The weak point of American evangelicalism is this lack of unity in any sense, for while these same people will universally agree they are not Catholic or support “the Pope,” each man is able to crown himself his own self-appointed pope by his own authority. This is a major issue that cannot be avoided. However, the way that they will attempt to compensate for this is to, as mentioned above, say that we are all just “mere Christians” (referring to the title of C.S. Lewis’ book, Mere Christianity,) and say that differences really do not matter in the greater understanding of what it means to be a Christians because we all are “believers in Christ.” The effects of this compensation are compounded by two factors. First, is by teaching in their “seminaries” about “Christian history” that is almost always filtered through secondary and tertiary sources, learning about events from people who have written about said events and not consulting the primary sources from which the record of said events derived. Second, is by appealing to the cultural and social feelings of the times, usually through popular music and cultural idioms, to generate positive emotions that people then attach to their particular church or pastor, leading to the phenomenon of “pastors” who have cult-like followings and mega-churches which collapse soon after that pastor dies or in embroiled in a scandal, after which said people move on to a new “church.”<iframe class='youtube-player' type='text/html' width='640' height='390' src='http://www.youtube.com/embed/D2BXeZCDTgA?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent' allowfullscreen='true' style='border:0;'></iframe>The full lyrics to the song Our God is an Awesome God. While well meaning, the song is shallow, vapid, and an insult in comparison to the great music produced by Christians for centuries. Even the man who wrote the song, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awesome_God">Rich Mullins, said it is "poorly crafted" and called it "one of the worst songs I ever wrote,"</a> but its explosive popularity among Evangelicals shows something into the nature of their faith. While there are many well-intentioned people, the foundation these people are given for their faith is inherently faulty, based on an emotional appeal and lacking in any sort of tradition.The combination of these three issues- a lack of unity, a lack of historicity, and an appeal to the senses- form a religious outlook that is as attractive to the senses, delicious on initial taste, and unfulfilling and deadly to one’s spiritual health as a plate deep-fried oreos is to your physical health. American “Christianity” is shallow and allows a man to believe as he wants. With a focus on emotions and a “personal encounter with Christ,” the person’s feelings are lifted and given guide over his intellect when it should be the other way around. With a lack of historicity, the traditions of the past are not transmitted, but created in the image of the times they represent. Thus the “early church” so often spoken about by “Christians” mirrors in certain congregations the “old tyme religion” of late 19th century American revivalism, the "holiness" sects of the early 20th century, the conservatism of the 1950s, the rock-concert style “church services” of the 1980s, or the sharp-dressed prosperity gospel preachers of the current times. It is the manufacture of history in the image of contemporary American culture, imposing the view of the present on a culture, place, and in a time completely alien to the people they claim to share a connection with.<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/freemaonsrysymbol.png"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-109420" height="229" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/freemaonsrysymbol.png" width="220" /></a>While there are many American Evangelicals who oppose Freemasonry, it is not a surprise that Freemasonry has a rich following in very "Christian" areas of America, such as the Bible Belt. This is because the religion is synonymous with social and national ideas and, while not openly seeing themselves as a "national church," their doctrinal positions are shaped with the spirit of the age and the culture and are subject to constant change. Thus while the "American ideals" of "liberty" are inherently Masonic and really very anti-Christian, the Evangelical will repeat them because, as he understands through the lens of his congregation, he is simply supporting his country as a Christian. It is less an act of intentional malice on the part of the common man but rather a reflection of the deception he has been taught.By creating eine Kirche des Zeitgeistes with each generation, its understanding of the world is filtered through the American political and social climate. This explains why there is such a strong involvement, especially in modern times, in politics with American evangelicals, because their understanding of religion is tied to a sense of American nationalism. It does not matter that the ideas of America- life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness- are indeed derived from the highly anti-Christian and evil Freemasonry movement, reflecting the French Revolution's principles of fraternite, liberte, egalite- fraternity, liberty, egalitarianism.However, this is particularly interesting when contrasted with the traditional Christian understanding  of the role of religion in government. For Catholics and the Orthodox, the "three estates" of society- the government, the church, and the people- were a reflection for them of the role of God in a cosmological sense, where the government and in particular, the King, ruled benevolently over his subjects who obeyed him, and in turn the subjects respected and protected the king, with the Church being the moral standard and buffer that bound and protected each from excesses from either side. Likewise, it is also why apostolic Christians always tended to favor monarchs and the monarchies.These varying and contradictory, warring ideas have always been present in American Christianity and because of the lack of any ability to articulate and define a clear authority about what to teach, which is something that it cannot do because each person claims to have equal authority to define the same teachings, then there can be no clear definition as to what is right and wrong and who can correctly interpret what Jesus taught. This is also the reason why the Catholic Church has always been at the best tolerated, and very often despised throughout American history.Now it is only fair that at the same time in mentioning the evangelical Protestant sects, one also address the dire situation of the Catholic Church in the United States. Having been highly influenced post Vatican II by a desire to become like the world instead of standing in resistance to it (which was a major criticism of the encyclicals Gaudium et Spes and the infamous Rerum Novarum). This desire to become "Americanized" is a huge problem and has caused much of the scandal, heresy, and problems in the Church in America in the past and today. Just like the Evangelicals, the Catholic Church is also suffering its own free-fall collapse in the main Novus Ordo ranks.<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/stnicholaspunchingarius.png"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-109421" height="232" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/stnicholaspunchingarius.png" width="217" /></a>St. Nicholas punching out Arius the heretic. At this time in the fourth century AD, 90% of the bishops and about 75% of the laity were Arians in the Catholic Church. This is a good model for our current times because like then, the Catholic Church is infected today with heretics and apostasy. However, what differentiates the Church from the evangelical congregations is that the Church is established by Christ, and just like with Arianism, she will eventually purge the heretics and apostasy from her ranks by the grace of God and will re-emerge stronger than ever. The evangelicals, unfortunately, because they were not founded by Christ, lack both the grace and the authority to do this purge, and they will either be folded back into the one truth Faith or they will simply apostatize and return to a pre-Christian state.But the current situation of the Church today does not reflect on its teachings, because as the Church has always taught, dogma cannot change because it comes from God even if the majority of people deny it, such as with the Arian crisis of the 4th century. If one looks beyond the outlandish criticism and phony conspiracy theories promoted by anti-Catholic writers throughout the centuries and the well-meaning but genuinely misguided attempts of ignorant evangelicals who think they have to "save Catholics because they are not Christians", one finds that in the minds of the intelligent people- those who know and understand something of sacred scripture and tradition- the resistance is not because they do not believe or understand, but it is because they are arrogant and do not want to submit to proper authority. In the words of one evangelical Christian I was conversing with about this issue, who could not dispute the lack of authority and genuinely knew something of Church history and tradition, he said that he would rather be an evangelical than submit because "the Protestants were always rebels and I've always been a rebel too."<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/james-white-copy.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-109426" height="161" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/james-white-copy-300x161.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/james-white-copy-300x161.jpg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/james-white-copy.jpg 642w" width="300" /></a>I have only two words to say about this: <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/2016/02/10/92946/">James White</a>But  regardless of the Evangelical resistance to the Catholic Church, their lack of historicity, apostolicity, and authority and the fruit they bear of a shallow, emotional, sociocultural "Christianity" cannot be hidden, just ignored. Eventually, enough people- especially the children of said people who during their formative years are most likely to rebel against what their parents taught them- will take note of this emptiness. While some will follow as their parents, some leave the Church for the Catholics or the Orthodox in pursuit of something more substantial and real. Most leave the Evangelicals all together and do not come back, associating Christianity with their experiences from growing up.Since their conception of Christianity is immutably tied to their understanding of the society, while certainly it can evolve, it will become something not at all like what it was before, forever changed and re-shaped by the times in which they live. In most cases, such extreme changes cannot be tolerated and the system collapses under the stress, which is what one sees happening right now. If that were not enough, the issue of grace and authority will destroy it, because whereas the Catholic Church possesses the grace and authority from Christ given to St. Peter, it does not matter what evils befall or infect it because God's hand is on her as per sacred scripture and tradition. This is why the Church has been able to endure revolutions, wars, the rise and fall of entire civilizations, and at times the most horrible leadership examples ever given in human history yet somehow miraculously does not collapse- because she is God's Church that like the ark of Noah in ages past will bring those who gather into and stay with her to salvation while the rest of the world around her perishes.Now I do feel compassion for the Evangelicals, for they are lost and confused and for good reason. Some of them regret what has happened with the current state of American Christianity, and long for the days of "old time religion." Yet that old time religion, the fullness of truth, is actually not that far away from them, for if they are willing to take a hard and honest look at themselves and the state of their doctrines, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/2016/01/17/90919/">they will find the very thing they were taught to oppose is what they have been seeking for</a>.<iframe class='youtube-player' type='text/html' width='640' height='390' src='http://www.youtube.com/embed/r3H5f7oePQE?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent' allowfullscreen='true' style='border:0;'></iframe>Now this is real old time religion, and yet it is as new as ever.

anonymous armageddon isis islam war A Massive Apostasy Is Taking Place Right Now As American Evangelical Christian Leaders Admit They Are In A Free Fall Collapse

Christianity worldwide, especially in Muslim nations has been exploding with converts in the millions. However, the opposite is happeni...

Teenager In North Carolina Beheads His Own Mother, Mutilates Her Body And Face

<div id="attachment_109415" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/maxresdefault.jpg"><img alt="" class="size-large wp-image-109415" height="576" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/maxresdefault-1024x576.jpg" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/maxresdefault-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/maxresdefault-300x169.jpg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/maxresdefault-768x432.jpg 768w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/maxresdefault.jpg 1280w" width="1024" /></a>Oliver Mauricio Funes Machado, beheaded his mother</div>An 18 year old male beheaded his own mother in North Carolina, as we read in <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://wncn.com/2017/03/08/zebulon-teen-charged-in-moms-beheading-was-in-mental-facility-recently-friend-says/">one report:</a><blockquote>The Franklin County teen deputies say beheaded his mom Monday afternoon was released from a mental health facility less a week before the killing, a family friend said.Miriam Banegas, a longtime friend of the Funes-Machado family, said she is heartbroken over the loss of Yesenia Funes Beatriz Machada and concerned for the son, Oliver, who is accused in the killing.“He did it with his hands, but he didn’t do it with his heart. Like it was a product of something else,” Banegas said Wednesday through a translator.The home where it happened was called a “gruesome scene” by Franklin County Sheriff Kent Winstead.Wednesday night, the first responders who worked the crime scene on Morgan Drive near Zebulon gathered for group counseling, officials said.“It takes a toll on them and we try to offer them some assistance,” Winstead said.A special team from the North Carolina State Highway Patrol is providing the session.</blockquote><div id="y7video_placeholder_brightcove-player34662704" class="brightcove-player-placeholder video-persistent-player-wrapper"><div id="y7video_brightcove-player34662704_playlist" class="video-playlist" data-section-id="y7video_brightcove-player34662704" data-more-link="https://au.news.yahoo.com/video/">

anonymous armageddon isis islam war Teenager In North Carolina Beheads His Own Mother, Mutilates Her Body And Face

Oliver Mauricio Funes Machado, beheaded his mother An 18 year old male beheaded his own mother in North Carolina, as we read in one rep...

Muslims In Australia Tell Students In Public School: 'Read The Koran Or Else We Will Behead You.'

Muslim students in a public school in Australia have been threatening both students and teachers that they must read the Koran or else they will be beheaded. They pushed one teacher into a corner and screamed Koranic verses. Three teachers have already gone on leave out of stress and fear. Here is <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://au.news.yahoo.com/nsw/a/34663197/punchbowl-primary-school-teacher-says-year-5-students-threatened-to-behead-her-kill-her-family/#page1">the report:</a><blockquote>Frightened teachers at a Sydney primary school have revealed students are showing signs of extreme radicalisation at a young age, saying they have been traumatised by threats of beheading and other violent behaviour.</blockquote><div id="y7video_placeholder_brightcove-player34662704" class="brightcove-player-placeholder video-persistent-player-wrapper"><blockquote><div class="video-persistent-player-position-fixed"><div class="video-persistent-player-position-absolute"><div class="video-persistent-player"><section id="y7video_brightcove-player34662704" class="brightcove-player brightcove-player-hide-big-play-button-start-finish"><div id="vjs_video_3" class="video-js vjs-mouse vjs-controls-enabled vjs-workinghover bc-player-ab3ddced-0c69-4b0f-8f1c-03485d042130_default vjs-dock vjs-plugins-ready vjs-contextmenu vjs-contextmenu-ui vjs-player-info video-js-loaded vjs-ima3-html5 vjs-errors vjs-ad-controls vjs-user-inactive vjs-has-started vjs-paused vjs-ad-playing not-hover" data-video-position="Article Hero" data-title="Teachers fearful of radicalism in Sydney primary school" data-live-stream="false" data-conviva-key="5108998baf5c66e41ca1d052ffb6cba6c37b5448" data-video-type="non-premium" data-embed="default" data-vc-id="c07" data-asset-id="34662704" data-section-id="y7video_brightcove-player34662704" data-ad-url="https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/ads?sz=400x300&iu=%2F58250233%2Fheadlines%2Flocal%2Fnsw%2Flatest&ciu_szs=&impl=s&gdfp_req=1&env=vp&output=xml_vmap1&unviewed_position_start=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fau.news.yahoo.com%2Fnsw%2Fa%2F34663197%2Fpunchbowl-primary-school-teacher-says-year-5-students-threatened-to-behead-her-kill-her-family%2F&correlator=1489669283&cmsid=753&vid=5360710586001&cust_params=bucket%3Dnone-dt-auto%26native_app%3Df_non-premium%26aph%3D1" data-player="ab3ddced-0c69-4b0f-8f1c-03485d042130" data-account="2376984109001" data-video-id="5361555327001"><div class="vjs-ima3-ad-container">Students as young as in Year 5 are making the threats and pressuring peers into reading the Koran at Punchbowl Public School in Sydney's southwest, the Daily Telegraph has reported.</div>Documents given to the newspaper reportedly reveal that at least three staff members have taken stress leave, received counselling and been paid compensation after bullying from Islamic students.</div></section></div></div></div></blockquote><div id="y7video_brightcove-player34662704_playlist" class="video-playlist" data-section-id="y7video_brightcove-player34662704" data-more-link="https://au.news.yahoo.com/video/"><blockquote>One woman reportedly claimed it all got too much for her and she eventually had to quit her job.She said the final straw was when she received death threats to her family from her year 5 and 6 students, with some saying they would behead her.Prior to that she claimed she made a number of complaints in 2014 about some of the behaviour in her classroom.She said she was abused by students when she stopped them from hanging a Syrian flag in the classroom.The woman also said she was pushed into a corner by several students who then began marching around her chanting the Koran.Many of the students also reportedly spoke of family members fighting in the war in Syria and pupils would walk out mid-way through a lesson to go and pray.The woman also reported an instance of bullying during which students would say to that the child being targeted had "betrayed his religion" by "not going to Muslim scripture".She said in an earlier incident a "group of boys had stood around a girl and called her horrible names like dog".News Corp reports that the woman said her complaints to the NSW Department of Education were simply dismissed.A spokeswoman for the Education Department did not deny that teachers at the school had been given compensation.However, she said the department was not aware of any religious-related violence at the school.“All NSW schools must immediately report all concerns of anti-social and extremist behaviour in NSW schools to a dedicated hotline,” she said to News Corp.“The Department of Education continues to work closely with law enforcement agencies on such matters."To maintain effective operations and protect the privacy of students, the department will not identify schools participating in these programs.”Those students may have since graduated and moved down the road to Punchbowl Boys High.Recently, the principal of that school Chris Griffiths was fired for refusing to allow the department of education to run a counter-extremism program there to target students at risk of radicalisation.</blockquote>

anonymous armageddon isis islam war Muslims In Australia Tell Students In Public School: 'Read The Koran Or Else We Will Behead You.'

Muslim students in a public school in Australia have been threatening both students and teachers that they must read the Koran or else ...