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What happens when a movement chooses death over life, and hatred over truth? We found out on October 7, 2023. The attacks weren’t just acts of terror—they revealed a deeper battle between freedom and barbarism. Rawan Osman explains why the Middle East conflict isn’t just about borders or politics—it’s about the survival of Western Civilization itself.
Judaism did NOT give the world the concept of freedom, the Ancient Greeks did. Above all the father of freedom and the USA are not Moses or Jesus but Aristotle.
Judaism leads to the brutality of THEOCRACY, just like Christianity and Islam do. Just like Hinduism and Buddhism do. By their very nature all religions when practiced seriously and comprehensively lead to theocracy not to secular freedom.
The Maccabees fought to the death against Hellenization killing their own apostate and heretic Jews who wanted Hellenization.
There are several contemporary memoirs available about the excommunication of Orthodox Jews from their sects for heresy and blasphemy. Memoirs like “All Who Go Do Not Return: A Memoir Paperback – by Shulem Deen, “Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots Paperback – by Deborah Feldman, and “Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home Paperback – by Leah Lax, and there are others.
The real Jews are the hardcore, theocratic Jews. Just like the real Christians and the real Muslims are the hardcore, theocratic Christians and Muslims.
The crucial root of freedom is REASON and trust in reason, not religious faith of any kind.
The French Revolution says Hi.
The French Revolution collapsed into the French Terror because the it was based on irrational ideas masquerading as rational ideas. Just because a man claims his ideas are rational does not make them so.
Just because Fauci claims to represent reason, logic, and science does not mean he is.
Phrenology, Social Darwinism, Freudian psychology, Global Warming, and MARXISM are five more instances of ideas claiming to be based on reason, logic, and science that are irrational quackery.
Just because a man (you are a man, right?) claims his philosophy is rational does not make it so. I see very little in the way of rationality coming from you of late. Just a lot of lashing out and anger.
Maybe you should go to Greece and visit an island, have a drink and calm down.
So T, how’s your “end religion” project coming along? I notice you are getting more strident in your condemnation of the Jews and Christians. Same sh*t, just more angry. Bitter, table for one, perhaps.
Are you getting any converts to Objectivism? You know, the believers in the amorphous world of reason where 1) either anything goes, or 2) my way or the highway. Either way when you believe in nothing you will fall for anything.
So where are the Greeks now? A sliver of history that no one but Aristotle eggheads care about.
Greek philosophy, your foundation and bedrock of the rational and scientific beginnings and aspects of Western Civilization, folded like a cheap suit in the face of the spread of Christianity, which absorbed the teachings of your pagan heroes. Without Christianity Greek history would resemble those ruins that everyone takes selfies at. Without Christianity no one would remember or care about the Greeks or their fragile democracy.
Greece is the place where people go to the islands to relax. It is not the place where people go to listen to hemorrhoids like you, who whine and complain about how no one listens to them.
Sucks to be you.
Freedom is grounded in religious theology. It is referenced indirectly in the Declaration of Independence by mention of the Creator and Natures God. Reason alone is not sufficient to guarantee freedom which has to have a moral and religious framework. Without that the freedom of others is likely to infringe on the freedom of others. Lydon Johnson once said the “freedom to swing your fist ends where my nose begins.
As for who are the real Jews, Christians, Buddhists, etc. Is not for you to say.
Greek freedom was great for the Greeks – for their slaves, not so much.
Meanwhile Americas #1 domestic Enemy is the United Nations
Let’s move the UN to Haiti. We can refurbish the building for our hoeless Vets.
Wrong… Hamas is not the only threat to Israel and the West… just like Iran isn’t the only threat…
All of satanic islam is the threat !!!
And… they aren’t Arab’s… Arab’s can be Christians…
They’re called “muslims”… “Jihadists”… “muhammedans”…
To THX 1138
Since you mentioned Hinduism, let me put this here.
There has been no brutal theocracy in Hinduism at any time in it’s thousands of years of existence.
Hinduism happens to be the most flexible religion ever.
Whether you pray/don’t pray, whether you visit the temple/don’t visit, whether you observe fasts & festivals or you don’t, it’s all the same to other Hindus.
Everyone is free to believe and do what they want.
We Hindus don’t even have a word for non-believers like Christianity has pagan /heathen; or like islam has the word Kafir for non-believers. Hindus don’t have such a word because we believe in freedom of belief and faith.
There is no central authority in Hinduism which regulates or keeps a record of who is doing what.
Please don’t spread untruths. Thank you.