THE VOICE OF REASON
Solon, (born c. 630 BCE—died c. 560 BCE), Athenian statesman, known as one of the Seven Wise Men of Greece (the others were Chilon of Sparta, Thales of Miletus, Bias of Priene, Cleobulus of Lindos, Pittacus of Mytilene, and Periander of Corinth). Solon ended exclusive aristocratic control of the government, substituted a system of control by the wealthy, and introduced a new and more humane law code. He was also a noted poet.
42:00 The easiest way to understand the history of Western political ideologies is to understand liberalism as an attempt to replace Christianity and Nationalism Socialism as an attempt to replace liberalism when the Weimar Republic was imposed on the German people after the abdication of the Kaiser, when Christendom ended in 1918.
43:00 Marx would have rejected monarchy and supported republicanism.
46:00 It is tedious how some socialists keep trying to pretend that Jesus was a promoter of socialism just because of what he said about it being harder for the rich man to get to heaven than it would be for a camel to go through the eye of the needle as well as telling the rich young man to sell everything he owned to become one of his apostles. Unfortunately, there are parties and people calling themselves Christian Socialists just as there are people calling themselves Christian Nationalists whom we all know are really White Nationalists who have decided to use the cloak of Christianity to give themselves respectability. Many people who say "Christian" and "Jesus" a lot are only doing so because it has the effect of making others think they are stupid and kind ie as a way of saying they are nice and harmless.
In fact, Jesus is also known for saying "Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's" which arguably suggests that he was both a monarchist and imperialist.
Using Jesus to pretend he is on your side is frankly lame-brained. A political associate of mine who refuses to define himself properly was complaining about to me the other day that his other political associates were always claiming that he supported their view. They only do that because he has consistently refused to take a strong and consistent position on anything.
54:00 To be fair to Nietzsche, he seemed upset about God having been killed by unspecified persons.
Friedrich Nietzsche – The Gay Science, Book III, Aphorism #125 (The Parable of the Madman):
Have you ever heard of the madman who on a bright morning lighted a lantern and ran to the market-place calling out unceasingly: 'I seek God! I seek God!'? As there were many people standing about who did not believe in God, he caused a great deal of amusement. Why! is he lost? said one. Has he strayed away like a child? said another. Or does he keep himself hidden? Is he afraid of us? Has he taken a sea-voyage? Has he emigrated? - the people cried out laughingly, all in a hubbub. The insane man jumped into their midst and transfixed them with his glances. 'Where is God gone?' he called out. 'I mean to tell you! We have killed him, - you and I! We are all his murderers! But how have we done it? How were we able to drink up the sea? Who gave us the sponge to wipe away the whole horizon? What did we do when we loosened this earth from its sun? Whither does it now move? Whither do we move? Away from all suns? Do we not dash on unceasingly? Backwards, sideways, forewards, in all directions? Is there still an above and below? Do we not stray, as through infinite nothingness? Does not empty space breathe upon us? Has it not become colder? Does not night come on continually, darker and darker? Shall we not have to light lanterns in the morning? Do we not hear the noise of the grave-diggers who are burying God? Do we not smell the divine putrefaction? - for even Gods putrefy! God is dead! God remains dead! And we have killed him! How shall we console ourselves, the most murderous of all murderers? The holiest and the mightiest that the world has hitherto possessed, has bled to death under our knife, - who will wipe the blood from us? With what water could we cleanse ourselves? What lustrums, what sacred games shall we have to devise? Is not the magnitude of this deed too great for us? Shall we not ourselves have to become Gods, merely to seem worthy of it? There never was a greater event, - and on account of it, all who are born after us belong to a higher history than any history hitherto!'"
Here the madman was silent and looked again at his hearers; they also were silent and looked at him in surprise. At last he threw his lantern on the ground, so that it broke in pieces and was extinguished. 'I come too early,' he then said, 'I am not yet at the right time. This prodigious event is still on its way, and is travelling, - it has not yet reached men’s ears. Lightning and thunder need time, the light of the stars needs time, deeds need time, even after they are done, to be seen and heard. This deed is as yet further from them than the furthest star, - and yet they have done it!' It is further stated that the madman made his way into different churches on the same day, and there intoned his Requiem aeternam deo. When led out and called to account, he always gave the reply: 'What are these churches now, if they are not the tombs and monuments of God?
55:00 If you're a nihilist, you would only be interested in getting as much sex, money and power to make your life meaningful and pleasurable before death comes as the end. Nietzsche was an existentialist wondering what how atheists should lead their lives.
Nietzsche diagnosed nihilism as the central crisis of modern Western culture — the belief that life has no inherent meaning, value, or purpose — he did not advocate for it. Instead, he saw nihilism as a dangerous and destructive condition that results from the collapse of traditional values, especially the death of God.
Nietzsche viewed nihilism as a problem to be overcome, not embraced. He argued that the loss of objective meaning creates a crisis, but also an opportunity. His philosophy was a call to "revalue all values" and create new, life-affirming values through the Will to Power, the Übermensch (Overman), and the Eternal Recurrence — concepts designed to inspire individuals to live meaningfully despite the absence of inherent purpose.
In short, Nietzsche was a critic of nihilism, not a proponent. He used the term "nihilist" to describe those who deny life’s value, but he positioned himself as someone who sought to transcend nihilism through creativity, strength, and authenticity.
57:00 There would have been no Roman Catholic Church without Constantine the Great deciding to Christianise the Roman Empire.
59:00 The phrase originates from the Bible, specifically Galatians 6:7 (King James Version): "Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." This verse uses farming as a metaphor—planting seeds (actions) leads to a harvest (consequences). It's also echoed in Proverbs 22:8, Hosea 8:7, and 2 Corinthians 9:6, reinforcing the idea that moral and spiritual choices have inevitable results.
This is pretty generic. Hindus and Buddhists call it karma and atheists say to each other "What goes around comes around."
59:15 Marxism is just a modern ideology at the service of workers who want to rebel against bad working conditions. When you think about it, Jews began their existence because they left Egypt as a rejection of their working conditions under Pharaoh. Plebeians in Rome also withdrew their labour when their working conditions were not what they should have been.
1:04:00 Judaism and Islam are lawyers' morality but Christianity is indeed a slave morality because its believers are forbidden to question and inevitably reject the Trinity after realising its absurdity. Questioning, challenging and ejecting the Trinity is heresy attracting the death penalty of being burned at the stake. The Founding Fathers, being Unitarian, were therefore heretical Christians. Interestingly, America has had four Unitarian American Presidents. It is necessary to consider the problem of the Trinity to understand the series of republican revolutions that ended Christendom in 1918.
1:12:0 We all live in a mixed economy anyway. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_economy The problem is usury.
1:13:00 Wallace Wattles was excommunicated by the Methodist Church for heresy.
1:26:00 To be killed by Israel is to be killed by America.
What are you going to do about US foreign policy when US elections are rigged and your ruling classes are proud that they kill the leaders of countries they dislike?
1:30:42
@GavinLockard
"And I'm not saying that Islam is OK. Islam has problems too: most notably that it doesn't give everlasting life."
How would you know that any religion - including your own - gives everlasting life?
1:33:26
@hueylongeverymanaking3399
"Christianity is fundamentally anti-imperialist"
How can this be true when the last three global empires have been Christian and it was a Roman Emperor that adopted Christianity to protect his divine to rule as an absolute monarch?
1:34:32
@GavinLockard
@KevinTrudeauJunior People have been claiming for two-thousand years that Christianity is dying and almost gone. I looked that quote up and apparently it's from Hitler. Not surprised. His "Table Talk"
Hitler was Roman Catholic, was he not? He had to be because Austrians had to adopt the religion of their absolute monarch. It is not surprising therefore that most traumatised Europeans who think Christianity is the religion of the Stupid People who have not noticed that Christendom ended in 1918. As for Americans, they lack the historical awareness to blame the Founding Fathers for the death of Christianity.
1:34:52
@GavinLockard
book sounds just like a modern liberal, blaming the world's problems on "Russians" and tranditional Christianity.
Westerners do have a problem if they do not have a functioning moral system.
1:37:00 The risk you continue to refuse to take is to engage with me publicly.
1:40:26
@GavinLockard
Not saying that correlation is causation. There are a lot of reasons that the USA is no longer innovative. But I think one of them is the increase in belief in Darwinian Evolution
The problem is the degeneracy caused by widespread illegitimacy, actually.
1:41:49
@Niswander
I think egomania seems to be a big reason for the USA no longer being innovative
Actually, it is the degeneracy caused by widespread illegitimacy.
2:03:00 Are you prepared to be a guest on my channel?
1:33:26
@hueylongeverymanaking3399
"Christianity is fundamentally anti-imperialist"
How can this be true when the last three global empires have been Christian and it was a Roman Emperor that adopted Christianity to protect his divine to rule as an absolute monarch?
@YawnGod We are all on our way to our final destination.
10:48 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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How can you get to heaven if God does not exist to send you there?
10:55 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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The purpose of believing in God is to believe there could be a heaven to go to if we are good.
10:56 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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Is Olson's dog a rescue dog?
11:00 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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Usurer John Perkins was "chief economist" at a major consulting firm, allegedly helping U.S. corporations and intelligence agencies manipulate developing nations into taking on unsustainable loans.
11:01 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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These loans were used to fund infrastructure projects benefiting American companies, often leading to economic dependency and debt.
11:02 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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He claims he later quit this work after internal conflict and became an advocate for global justice and indigenous wisdom.
11:03 AM
@YawnGod
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Everyone is learning Evangelicalism is a CIA psy-op, so they're going TradCath and TradOrtho.
11:03 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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Why become Anglican? It is like rats getting on board a sinking ship.
11:04 AM
@YawnGod
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@OfficialSecularKoranism I agree that the Church of England is a kingly kind of hubris 👑
11:04 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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@YawnGod The reason why the government gives Islam such a bad press is because the Koran would regulate gender, labour, consumer and international relations.
11:05 AM
@ethan.caughey
I'm not with the Church of England. GAFCON.
11:05 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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@YawnGod Christendom ended in 1918, but nobody noticed.
11:06 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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@ethan.caughey What is the point of joining any church in America when the church has already been separated from the state by the Founding Fathers?
11:07 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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Baptists come from Anabaptists who were mocked by Catholics and the established church for wanting to be baptised again because they didn't think their infant baptism counted.
11:08 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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The key issue to understand is that CREDAL BAPTISM is what the Anabaptists and Baptists achieved after so many of them were burned at the stake.
11:09 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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Orthodox Christians have an all-in-one ceremony during their infant baptism. No confirmation ceremony required as in Catholicism and Anglicanism.
11:10 AM
@teestrypzSOG
Claire, you should get baptised…for a laugh
11:11 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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According to the Koran, hypocrites are hell-bound.
11:12 AM
@teestrypzSOG
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Alhamdulillah the Koran is not true
11:12 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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@teestrypzSOG How would you know?
11:12 AM
@teestrypzSOG
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Because Christ is King
11:13 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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The best you can do is obey the law of the land which should be in harmony with God's laws.
11:13 AM
@BrianOfCollegeStation
Chivalry
11:15 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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Christians are burdened by guilt being required to love their neighbours as themselves when all they have to do is obey the law of the land which should be in harmony with God's laws in the Koran.
11:15 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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Jordan Peterson has no theological qualifications and refuses to even say if he believes in God, suggesting that he does not.
11:16 AM
@BrianOfCollegeStation
But if your selfless then loving them as yourself would be not at all, ya?
11:16 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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Rules help us prioritise our obligations and obedience.
11:17 AM
@teestrypzSOG
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Tis seems not an easy burden. Alhamdulillah His yoke is easy and the burden is light; With God
11:17 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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@BrianOfCollegeStation No one is selfless.
11:18 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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Rules are different to hyperbole. Emotional people ruled by their irrational emotions prefer to worship their emotions.
11:19 AM
@BrianOfCollegeStation
I think that’s what I am getting at, @OSK. Loving neighbor as self need not mean not loving oneself, but rather it means to love both self and others a whole bunch
11:19 AM
@BrianOfCollegeStation
Which gets into being members of a body
11:20 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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The purpose of Christianity is to make Christians feel guilty and put them in a state of fear to be exploited by their corrupt and incompetent ruling classes if they take their Christianity seriously
11:21 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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@BrianOfCollegeStation Just try not to do what your neighbour hates.
11:22 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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It seems that the whole purpose of Christianity is to make Christians reject the idea of using rules to solve their problems.
11:23 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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The Founding Fathers rejected Christianity and built a wall beTween the church and their state for very good reason.
11:23 AM
@BrianOfCollegeStation
For sure, that. But if I can help a neighbor out, I thank God for the opportunity. Or at least I hope to
11:24 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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Pentecostalists rely on lies and pretence.
11:24 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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Why are Christians so reluctant to obey what are believed to be the laws of God?
11:24 AM
@BrianOfCollegeStation
I mean, if I can do it easily compared to the good I am doing
11:25 AM
@BrianOfCollegeStation
Pushing a car out of the road, etc
11:26 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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Ethan did not know what was expected of him: roll on the floor and pretend to speak in tongues to be one of the gang.
11:26 AM
@BrianOfCollegeStation
Is prophets just speaking on things they have no power over?
11:27 AM
@UpCycleClub
Jeremiah 49:34-39 is currently trending
BRAVE
Jeremiah 49:34–39 is a prophecy delivered by the prophet Jeremiah against the nation of Elam, located in present-day southwestern Iran, during the early reign of King Zedekiah of Judah.
Divine Judgment: God declares through Jeremiah that He will break the bow of Elam, symbolizing the destruction of their military strength, and bring four winds from the four corners of heaven to scatter the people of Elam to every nation. This signifies total dispersion and chaos.
Punishment and Terror: Elam will face fierce anger and disaster from the Lord, with enemies pursuing them with the sword until they are consumed. Their king and officials will be destroyed, and they will be terrified before their enemies.
Restoration Promised: Despite the severe judgment, the passage concludes with a message of hope: "But in the latter days I will restore the fortunes of Elam, declares the Lord." This reflects God’s ultimate sovereignty, justice, and mercy—judgment is followed by restoration for those who turn back to Him.
This prophecy underscores God’s control over all nations, the consequences of pride and defiance, and the promise of future renewal.
11:28 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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Prophets of God advanced the cause of ethical monotheism.
11:29 AM
@BrianOfCollegeStation
Cynical materialist in me wonders if unpopular people were less likely to get a translator
11:30 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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Christians in America tend not to want to acknowledge the fact that America has had four Unitarian Presidents. The purpose of the Founding Fathers was to reject the Trinity.
11:32 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Millard Fillmore and William Howard Taft were US Presidents who were Unitarian.
11:33 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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@UpCycleClub The neocons are going to make WW3 a World War of Religions that will end in the defeat of Christianity.
Western philosophy is mostly toxic to truth and logic.
11:00 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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Parasocial v irl
11:05 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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There is comfort in commitment.
11:05 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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You cannot commit to something if you have no convictions.
11:06 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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The closed system we want for our group is religion.
11:07 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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You either believe in right and wrong or you don't. If you don't want to talk about it or refuse to discuss moral principles, you lack conviction. If you have no convictions, you are just cattle.
11:10 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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Some pseudo-intellectuals I knew were already talking about Godel years ago.
11:12 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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You should ignore theories you don't understand and you don't understand if you cannot explain. Avoid being a victim of charlatanry. Black Box Theories are a charlatan's toolbox.
11:13 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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By identifying as Christian, he has the immediate trust of gullible Christians too gullible to recognise snake oil.
11:14 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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Godel's Theorem is useful for producing content.
11:16 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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The First Amendment is supported by 2:256 of the Koran.
11:19 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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Ideas are immaterial. Lies are immaterial. But lies are capable of being believed in and acted on.
11:20 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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He is telling you to ignore truth and logic and go with your feelings.
11:22 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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What has Ethan said that is so profound? Can either of you remember?
11:22 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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You don't know what a black box theory is.
11:24 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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Catholics, Anglicans, Orthodox Christians, Calvinists, Jehovah's Witnesses etc have all called each other heretics.
11:25 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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The Koran does not even mention blasphemy.
11:28 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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Are you talking about the Noahide laws?
11:56 AM
@chrishoward8473
@JimClatonII thanks! That's not the way I've heard it but maybe my sources are overly biased somehow
11:58 AM
@chrishoward8473
@JimClatonII are you interested in implementing Secular Koranism?
12:02 PM
@chrishoward8473
understood!
12:15 PM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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The Sabbath democratises a day of rest.
12:16 PM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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@JimClaytonII Thank you for your helpful comments [since deleted]. The First Amendment is supported by Islam, even if the overwhelming majority of Muslims don't know this!
12:16 PM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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@JimClaytonII There would be no Mormon Wars if Americans had already been Muslim!
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1:08:00 CLAIRE KHAW joins to make the point that the dominant culture must be supported by moral principles.
1:10:00 The enemy is always within.
1:11:00 Heresy
1:13:00 The Koran does not mention the crime of heresy.
1:14:00 The idea of religious freedom spread from America to Europe beginning with the French Revolution and ending Christendom with the Russian Revolution in 1918 when the three absolute monarchies in Austria, Germany and Russia ended.
1:15:00 Does the Koran really have it all covered?
1:16:00 In the entire 1400 years of Islam, only the Four Rightly Guided Caliphs of the Rashidun were rightly guided because they were not absolute monarchs. This means the rest of the Caliphs who were absolute monarchs were not rightly guided.
William Tyndale who only wanted to translate the Bible into English was burned at the stake over the translation of certain words.
AI Overview
William Tyndale was executed in 1536 by strangulation and burning at the stake, primarily for translating the Bible into English from Hebrew and Greek originals, which was considered heresy. His translation challenged Catholic Church authority, leading to his arrest and execution in Vilvoorde, near Brussels.
Key details about Tyndale's execution:
The Charge: Tyndale was tried for heresy, not only for the act of translating but because his English Bible was deemed to contain erroneous, Protestant-leaning interpretations (e.g., using "congregation" instead of "church" and "elder" instead of "priest").
Final Words: Before his execution on October 6, 1536, his final words were reported as, "Lord, open the King of England's eyes".
Legacy: Despite his execution, his work became the foundation for the King James Bible.
Context: While he was killed on the continent, his works were banned and burned in England, and his work was viewed as a major threat to the established religious hierarchy.
AI Overview
The US Declaration of Independence framed King George III's actions as characteristic of a tyrant unfit to rule a free people, effectively condemning absolute monarchy. It cited 27 specific grievances, focusing on the abuse of power, dismantling colonial self-government, and imposing rule without consent, asserting a right to overthrow such despotism.
Key points regarding the Declaration's stance:
Condemnation of Tyranny: The document frames King George III as a tyrant, not a legitimate constitutional monarch, emphasizing that "a Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people".
Grievances Against Absolute Power: It lists abuses aimed at creating absolute authority, such as dissolving representative houses, maintaining standing armies without consent, and imposing taxes without representation.
Assertion of Natural Rights: The declaration asserts that governments derive their power from the "consent of the governed," directly opposing the concept of absolute, divinely ordained, or unrestrained monarchical power.
Justification of Revolution: By characterizing the King's rule as a "long train of abuses and usurpations" designed to establish absolute despotism, the document justifies the Colonies' right and duty to throw off such government.
27 Specific Grievances:
What were the 27 specific grievances cited by the Founding Fathers?
The 27 grievances in the Declaration of Independence are a list of specific complaints against King George III, used to justify the American colonies' break from British rule. These grievances generally fall into three categories: individual rights, representation, and the abuse of military power.
The specific grievances cited are:
Refusal of Laws: The King refused to approve laws that were necessary for the public good.
Blocking Urgent Laws: He prevented governors from passing important laws unless they were suspended until he gave his consent.
Denying Representation: He refused to pass laws for large districts unless the people gave up their right to representation in the legislature.
Inconvenient Meetings: He called legislative bodies to meet at unusual and distant places to tire them into following his orders.
Dissolving Assemblies: He repeatedly dissolved representative houses for opposing his "invasions on the rights of the people".
Delaying New Elections: After dissolving houses, he refused to let others be elected for a long time.
Stopping Immigration: He worked to prevent the population of the colonies by obstructing naturalisation laws and land appropriations.
Obstructing Justice: He refused to approve laws for establishing judiciary powers.
Controlling Judges: He made judges dependent on his will alone for their jobs and salaries.
Sending New Officers: He created many new offices and sent "swarms of officers" to harass the people.
Keeping Peacetime Armies: He kept standing armies in the colonies during times of peace without the consent of legislatures.
Military Superiority: He made the military independent of and superior to civil power.
Foreign Jurisdictions: He worked with others to subject the colonies to a jurisdiction foreign to their constitution.
Quartering Soldiers: For "quartering large bodies of armed troops among us".
Protecting Murderous Soldiers: For protecting soldiers from punishment for murders committed against colonists.
Cutting Off Trade: For cutting off the colonies' trade with all parts of the world.
Taxation Without Consent: For "imposing Taxes on us without our Consent".
Denying Jury Trials: For depriving colonists of the benefit of trial by jury in many cases.
Trials Overseas: For transporting colonists across the sea to be tried for pretended offences.
Abolishing English Laws: For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighbouring province (Quebec) to set an example of absolute rule.
Taking Charters: For taking away colonial charters and altering the forms of their governments.
Suspending Legislatures: For suspending the colonies' own legislatures and declaring British power to legislate for them in all cases.
Waging War: For declaring the colonies out of his protection and waging war against them.
Attacking Coasts and Towns: For plundering seas, ravaging coasts, and burning towns.
Hiring Foreign Mercenaries: For transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries (Hessians) to complete the "works of death, desolation, and tyranny".
Forcing Captives to Fight: For forcing captured American citizens at sea to fight against their own country.
Inciting Domestic Insurrections: For exciting domestic insurrections and encouraging Native American attacks on the frontier.
America could have its Special Koranic Zone ("SKZ") but it may be preferable to call it Secular Koranism with, for example, Alabaman to Wyomingite Characteristics which would resolve the issue of states' rights and federal supremacy. I like to think that the Founding Fathers would be delighted with this elegant resolution!
1:00 Infantilised and feminised males who pretend not to understand
Envied Americans
The nature and purpose of religion
3:00 Why won't white middle class men with a university education refuse to discuss the problem of not having a functioning moral system?
Name-calling and being labelled
4:00 Asking the obvious next question a clever child could be asking never seems an option to middle class men with a university education afraid of their wives
Taboos and heresy
Men who are afraid of immoral women who may be their mothers, wives or daughters
5:00 Low status males would want a higher status and more senior male to respond to their moral dilemmas, so why they don't pass the message upwards instead of trying to ignore it?
6:00 Neocon White House Virus that attacks the minds of all American Presidents
7:00 Cattle
Alpha and beta males
8:00 The Fourth Estate is now the First Estate.
9:00 Nathan Ormond who streamed his fantasy of killing Konstantin Kissin
10:00 Middle class supposedly interested in politics and religion are too afraid to discuss these matters despite their university education.
11:00 Religion is for the cattle and politics for the ruling classes.
12:00 Moral philosophers in the West unable and unwilling to define good and evil
The official moral system of China: Socialism with Chinese Characteristics
13:00 The Chinese have an official moral system to kick against if they don't like it.
Historian Tom Holland - who is clearly ignorant of the Whig interpretation of history - propagates the pernicious view that Christianity is liberal.
14:00 Liberalism was a reaction and rejection of the totalitarianism of absolute monarchy.
Christianity has failed time and time again to defend the divine right of kings to rule.
15:00 Edward Gibbon said in The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire that Christianity was the cause of its decline and fall.
16:00 The Wars of the Reformation
17:00 Stockholm Syndrome suffered by 21st century Christians
18:00 It's only polite to listen if people want to tell you something.
Luke Thompson's rules
20:00 Content production is the bread and butter of YouTube
21:00 Having a stable marriage to rear a stable family is key to passing on one's traditions to the next generation
22:00 My crooked picture analogy
23:00 Warnings to heretics
24:00 Heretics who were burned at the stake were the ones who really believed in God
25:00 Michael Servetus
Curiosity killed the cat.
26:00 Believing in Christianity keeps you stupid.
27:00 Antisemites have to believe that Jews are Satan to be scapegoated to remain antisemites.
28:00 High IQ people might as well be stupid or mad if they cannot tell the difference between the symptoms from the disease.
30:00 Scapegoating means you are not addressing the disease.
31:00 Being stupid and divided is to encourage your enemy.
The imperial policy of divide and rule
32:00 Yale graduate Unitarian Christian with theology YouTube channel prefers to talk to Sam Shamoun than the Creator of Secular Koranism.
33:00 Tactics of avoidance: refusing to discuss certain subjects or pretending that they have been discussed and settled, questions asked and answered, lowering the status of the messenger by defaming them, continually disabling from commenting and then enabling them to delay communications while pretending to be open and receiving, rinse and repeat.
34:00 Not asking obvious questions and moving swiftly on is a well-established tactic of ignoring truth.
My message has been sent, received and understood. They are now trying to forget about it, pretend they have never received it or are deliberately misinterpreting it.
35:00 US foreign policy
The rabid dog in the room
36:00 TLC are known for discussing spirituality, religion, politics and church.
37:00 Refusing to bite the bullet
38:00 Fox on a pizza box
40:00 The greatest utility of Christianity is in allowing corrupt ruling classes to keep the populace dumbed down.
42:00 Too afraid to say how afraid they are.
43:00 WW3
44:00 Overgrown military establishment inauspicious to republican liberty
45:00 How Europeans destroyed European hegemony with WW1 and WW2
46:00 BRICS v Uncle Sam
47:00 Christian beliefs
49:00 Unthinking graduates
First Amendment rights of American husbands destroyed by no-fault divorce.
34:00 I think David finds it hard to listen to me make points because he already knows where it is going.
39:00 Is trying to have a conversation about something people can understand with a takeaway point really "colonising and taking over"?
44:00 In what way does it seem that I am possessed by demons?
46:00 Secular Koranism ignores the conflicting narratives in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The key issue is whether it is idolatry to worship Jesus. If you ask Jews and Muslims nicely, they will tell you that that is what they really think of the Trinity. Then you will have to decide whether you care what they think. Will Christians ever wonder how God might feel about worshiped as Jesus whom even Christians have to acknowledge was executed for blasphemy? Not if you want to stay Christian since the Trinity is totemic of the most powerful churches in existence ie Catholicism, Anglicanism and Orthodox Christianity. To be a Unitarian Christian like Sam just to remain in the fold of Christianity would mean lowering one's status to that of a heretic since that is how Trinitarians treat Unitarians unless they leave the fold of Christianity to either become Muslim or Noahide.
My position on idolatry is that you are an idolater if you are neither a Jew nor a Muslim. This means all other religions is idolatry. What is the harm of idolatry even if God does not exist to punish anyone for anything?
It is the opportunity cost of not being rightly-guided by the Koran.
Are you familiar with the concept of opportunity cost?
47:00 Does David think I am a believing Muslim? I am an agnostic political and social scientist as well as a moral and political philosopher who understands the nature and purpose of religion. Even atheists would agree that religion has a utility, do they not? Religion has the utility of bringing about the social cohesion of your society necessary for group survival. Whether or not you believe in God, this must be the case. Otherwise, no one would bother having a moral system either religious or secular.
48:30 What I am saying really should not be that hard to understand for college-educated English-speaking Americans complaining about their government concerned about their future crying "O tempora! O mores!" My conclusion is that you really do not understand, which is exasperating, or are pretending not to understand, which is infuriating.
49:00 I would have thought that if people are annoying you and trying to tell you something, it is only polite to listen to them if you have time and care about being polite, or if you are a YouTuber whose purpose is to produce meaningful content. Failing to ask the obvious next question seems to be pathological to men in denial, who already half know the answer but do not want it confirmed. "What do you want from me?" or "What do you want to tell me?" seem the natural questions people claiming to offer internet hospitality should ask.
50:00 Is David claiming to be a Noahide? Why is he still Christian then?
54:00 Yep, the sin of idolatry - a mortal sin - is its own punishment. Christians don't want to discuss idolatry while Jews and Muslims are still too afraid of their Christian overlords to tell them to their faces that it is idolatry to worship a man.
59:00 Bible Study
1:00:00 Does David realise that Jews do not want gentiles celebrating Passover and do not want to celebrate Passover with them?
Jews are not required to circumcise Gentiles who are spending Passover with them. However, an uncircumcised male, whether Jewish or Gentile, is prohibited from eating the Passover sacrifice (the lamb), as stated in Exodus 12:48: "But no uncircumcised person may eat of it."
This rule applies only to the Passover offering, not the entire Seder meal. Uncircumcised individuals may still participate in other aspects of Passover, such as eating matzah, bitter herbs, and the four cups of wine.
In ancient times, if a Gentile wished to partake in the Passover sacrifice, he and all males in his household had to be circumcised first. This was a condition for full inclusion in the covenant community and participation in the sacrificial meal.
1:04:00 Muslims say they won't let their children read the New Testament because of its sex and violence.
1:11:00 Praying for me
1:21:00 I am sorry to hear David is sad. I can't pray for him since I am agnostic, but will wish him and his father in law well. Prayer can be therapeutic and David's prayer for me worked, since by praying for me he took on a higher status than me, the supposedly demon-possessed troll with emotional problems. Because we have actually interacted and spoken in real time to each other, the ice has been broken. I look forward to his next Bible Study Class.
