Perhaps it is appropriate to publish this article after yet another spectacular primary win by Donald Trump - the epitome of masculinity in a political field filled with wusses.
Not that this blog endorses Trump. The point is that voters perceive him as being tough, masculine, ready to challenge liberal policies on immigration, crime, trade, and other issues..
It is very likely that political realities will force him to turn wimpy once in office and renege on his promises. He has already sidestepped the issue of transgendered bathrooms, saying he will leave the states to decide, and his managers told the GOP that his act was to "project an image," and that he would mellow once in office.
But at the present moment his rising popularity shows a yearning for a return to the natural order of things, where men take on the role of defenders of society, and in particular of women and children.
The ongoing wave of rape of women and children by Muslims in Europe has exposed not only the violent nature of Islam, but - most importantly - the terminal decadence of European society.
This decadence has been fueled by feminism. For several decades now feminist mothers and teachers have been raising men to be more like women. Masculine qualities have been brainwashed out of them.
This is how Dutch men reacted to the Muslim mass rape of women in Cologne during New Year's Eve - by wearing mini-skirts to show their support for victims of rape! Just look at them and cry. - Other European men do not wear skirts but have been silent, in hiding, and doing NOTHING as their wives and children (boys and girls) continue to be raped.
Feminized men and feminist women have produced a European breed that stands helplessly as Muslims rape, kill, terrorize, rampage, and commit all kinds of depredations against European nations - while inviting even more of them - and funding them - in the name of compassion!
Sweden's education minister Gustav Fridolin making a cute little heart with his fingers, while Muslims continue to rape and murder Swedish women
The following video is a conversation between Norwegian journalist Iben Thranholm and Canadian video-blogger and philosopher Stefan Molyneux on how European society teeters on the brink of destruction because of the imposition of feminist values that contradict logic and self-preservation.
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Pope Francis, who sometimes (not often enough) decries Muslim persecution of Christians, could have preached by example and brought Christian refugees on his plane back to Italy.
Instead he deliberately chose to rescue 12 Muslims, leaving Christian refugees behind wondering what they had done wrong to deserve such a snub by the pope.
In addition, the Vatican has a tradition going back many decades of supporting Muslim terror if it is directed against Jews.
This pope and previous ones have had a close and warm friendship with Palestinian terror chiefs, receiving them multiple times at the Vatican, not in spite of, but because they had Jewish blood on their hands.
Pope John Paul met TWELVE times with arch-terrorist Yassir Arafat and expressed his affection for him. He warmly eulogized Arafat when he died of AIDS.
The Vatican supports the surrender of the Israeli Biblical heartland - including sacred Christian sites - to Muslims, for the creation of another terror state.
There has been a tacit - or perhaps explicit - agreement between the Vatican and Islam, where the Vatican refrains from criticizing Muslim terror, in exchange for using Muslim Palestinians as a tool for partitioning and eventually dismantling the state of Israel.
The Vatican was one of the last countries to recognize the State of Israel. The Church hatred against the Jews runs deep and no cost is too high (such as the abandonment of persecuted Christians) if it helps destroy Israel.
DISGRACEFUL - Pope Francis could have chosen Syrian Christian refugees to take into Italy, but he only chose Muslims.
Apparently, there were Christians among the Muslim migrants at the Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, where the pope and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, leader of the world's Orthodox Christians visited. But this pope decided that only Muslims were worthy of rescuing.
Continue reading and see links to articles on Muslim persecution of Christians
Caveat: Although I do not have - and have never had - any religion, I believe in God, an unknowable God. To me His existence feels real, while it is obvious that religions are in one form or another a human creation. Somebody heard voices, had a dream, or witnessed an apparition. And it goes from there. People confuse God with man-made religion. And that's the start of a whole set of problems. But that's my humble opinion.
In the case of Israel, it is the Jewish people's historical land by right. Even if you take Judaism out of the equation, Muslims are the real occupiers who invaded the land many centuries after Jews had established a Jewish kingdom and a major civilization in Israel. There was always a Jewish presence in Jerusalem and in the rest of Israel, even as invaders came and went.
Religions - man-made and all - are useful because they codify the principles by which a society is to be ruled. The Ten Commandments for the Jews - Jihad, slaughter of non-Muslims, and raping of women according to the Koran.
Sometimes tyrants go as far as to declare themselves to be a god, or to be directly guided by god. It all works to get control the masses more effectively.
We must also acknowledge that religious inclination is almost instinctual in human beings. Wherever there is no religion, people manage to invent one to fill the gap. Even atheists have a superstition or two, so it's not that they don't believe in the supernatural.
So it's a matter of deciding which set of religious beliefs will cause the least amount of damage to individuals and society.
Militant atheists have been waging an all out war on Christianity, and to a lesser extent on Judaism, because they are easy targets. Neither Christians nor Jews issue fatwas against those who insult their religion. It's safe to denigrate both Christianity and Judaism. So put in very stark terms, those who target those religions while being mostly silent about Islam's depredations are being intellectually dishonest.
Richard Dawkins' buyers' remorse. But critics of Christianity can now realize that at some point their words have had a deleterious effect on society. Richard Dawkins is now expressing the equivalent of buyer's remorse. After denigrating Christianity for years, he is now forced to confront the fact that the expanding cult of Islam is a much greater threat than even the most fanatic sort of Christianity could ever be.
Many people can live righteous and happy lives without believing in God. But the majority cannot. Once Christianity and its general moral values are eradicated, we are left with a vacuum that is filled with damaging activities such as different forms of addiction, and a with sense of purposelessness, in addition to the quasi-deification of notions such as moral and cultural relativism.
Devoted Christians too engage in immoral and criminal activities, and can be prone to depression. But for society in general, Christianity is a safety net available for everyone, and should not be thrown away.
Militant atheism, by the way, does not guarantee that a society will be ruled by reason and compassion. Take the Soviet Union, China, and North Korea as examples. The horrors these officially atheist societies have inflicted on individuals and on the environment surpass any sins that Christian capitalism may have perpetrated so far.
Nazism also waged war on traditional Christianity, while attempting to obliterate Christianity's roots, the Jews and Judaism, elevating the cult of the German race and their Fuehrer into a religion. See how depraved civilized people can get once you remove Christian social restraints.
Science as religion.Scientists have an almost religious attitude towards science itself, and they get extremely upset whenever anyone challenges their theories. They hold scientific doctrine as fact, always forgetting that scientific knowledge is always evolving, and that what was considered "an established fact" 50 years ago, or even 10 years ago, is now being replaced by new - and often contradictory - "established facts".
This is particularly important in medicine, where much harm is being done in the name of approved medical practice. Although you will be chastised for daring to challenge a doctor's authority, those practices continue to be revised all the time. There is no sacredness to science, although scientists would like you to regard it as sacred dogma.
Scientists' adherence to scientific doctrine based on political ideology is well known. Scientists who don't follow the established dogma to the letter are shunned, and deprived of jobs and grants for research. This is how the dogma is usually maintained.
Please read recent ARTICLEabout the intelligence gene. Leftists, who dominate the media and academic institutions, have always insisted that intelligence and race are a social construct. Now they are being led kicking and screaming to admit that yes, according to the latest research genes and race can determine a person's intelligence.
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VIDEO - Real Time with Bill Maher: Richard Dawkins Regressive Leftists (HBO)
In a text that is coursing about on social media, professional atheist Richard Dawkins begrudgingly admitted that Christianity may actually be our best defense against aberrant forms of religion that threaten the world.
“There are no Christians, as far as I know, blowing up buildings,” Dawkins said. “I am not aware of any Christian suicide bombers. I am not aware of any major Christian denomination that believes the penalty for apostasy is death.”
In a rare moment of candor, Dawkins reluctantly accepted that the teachings of Jesus Christ do not lead to a world of terror, whereas followers of radical Islam perpetrate the very atrocities that he laments.
Lamenting they can no longer use the Inquisition to torture and murder Jews, or incite the mobs to massacre Jews, or quietly support the Nazi Holocaust, they now use more subtle means to delegitimize Israel, thus perpetrating an attack on all Jews and fostering another genocide.
NGO Monitor reveals how largely tax-funded Catholic aid societies channel funds to subversive and anti-Semitic politicized NGOs attacking Israel.
By Ari Yashar,
Israel National News - Arutz Sheva
The Jerusalem-based research institute NGO Monitor on Tuesday released a detailed analysis of how Catholic charity NGOs operating in Israel are propping up political campaigns to delegitimize and economically attack Israel.
Pope Francis and the Church's sinister world of intrigue and Jew-hatred A tradition going back 2000 years.
Focusing on the period from 2008 and 2014, the analysis found that 7.4 million euros (approximately $8.2 million) were allocated by ten Catholic charities to 37 NGOs that feature an extreme anti-Israel bent and take part in the BDS movement to boycott the Jewish state.
The Catholic charities included Caritas Internationalis as well as Caritas members in the UK, US, the Netherlands, Canada, France and Ireland, as well as three other groups in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands.
"In the Arab-Israeli context, Catholic aid charities distribute funds to NGOs that inflame conflict, dehumanize Israelis, and delegitimize Israel," said NGO Monitor's chief programs officer Yitzhak Santis.
Continue reading, including links to related articles on the Vatican's historical war on Jews and Israel
The Pope recently canonized two Christian nuns making them "saints". This announcement was made under big fanfare as the Pope also recognized the never-before existing Islamic State of Palestine, along with calling terrorist Mahmoud Abbas - the financial mastermind of the Munich Olympics massacre - an "angel of peace".
The blog Elder of Ziyon has posted more details on one of these nuns that the Vatican and the media chose to hide.
EOZ writes:Were these poor Catholic women under brutal Israeli occupation? Did anyone call them "Palestinian" before 1970?
There is one fact in the life of one of the new saints, Sister Mariam Baouardy, that could be understood in a completely different context.
Betrothed in an arranged marriage at age 13, she refused to go along with it, insisting on a religious life. As punishment for her disobedience, her uncle hired her out as a domestic servant, making sure she had the lowest and most menial of jobs. A Muslim servant with whom she worked began to act as her friend with an eye to converting her from Christianity (to Islam). On 8 September 1858, Mary convinced him she would never abandon her faith; in response he cut her throat and dumped her in an alley. Mary lived, an apparition of the Virgin Mary treated her wound, and she left her uncle’s house forever.
THE VATICAN'S BOUNDLESS HATE FOR JEWS - Although Christians are being slaughtered by Muslims in the thousands, the Pope recognizes the Islamic State of Palestine, where Christians are being harassed and persecuted - The Christian Church's wicked alliance with Islam as long as Muslims keep killing Jews and threatening to destroy Israel Despite the acceptance by all Western nations, including, at the beginning, the Communist bloc, the Vatican's recognition of Israel occurred only in 1993.
The same Church that didn’t recognize Israel opened diplomatic relations with the PLO, a terror organization whose goal is the “liberation” of the Holy Land from the Jews who live between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River.
Pope John Paul met TWELVE times with his beloved friend, and fellow Israel-hater, terrorist Yassir Arafat
VATICAN CAN'T BREAK WITH TRADITION OF HATING JEWS AND BEFRIENDING JEW-KILLERS
- The Pope calls terrorist Mahmoud Abbas AN ANGEL OF PEACE and recognizes the Islamic State of Palestine - The Vatican loved German Nazis too and saved more than 1000 of them by providing them with false IDs so that they could escape justice
THEN AND NOW - German Nazis and Muslim Nazis
The Vatican cheerfully allies itself with the killers of Jews
SATIREby Zbigniew Zwgstkstwig
It's getting hard to keep up withPope Francis' daily reinterpretation of morality. If it's sinful, we approve it, he seems to say. If it kills Jews, we honor and celebrate it.
This is becoming so disturbing that I felt compelled to discuss it with a top Vatican official the other day.
'What's going on?' I asked Father Sudicio, an advisor at the Vatican. 'Can you tell me why this pope is going out of his way to side with issues that most of us consider unsavory, immoral, corrupt, or plain criminal?'
"ISRAEL IS THE ONLY SAFE PLACE FOR CHRISTIANS IN THE MIDDLE EAST" says Father Gabriel Nadaf, leader of Christian Aramaeans in Israel, who recently rejected their "ARAB" designation, in favor of ARAMAEAN
Greek Orthodox priest Father Gabriel Nadaf defends Israel before the UNHRC, calls on it to end anti-Israel 'witch hunt.'
Photo:Father Nadaf speaking at the United Nations Human Rights Council.
TO ALL THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITIES IN THE MIDDLE EAST
- May the world hear your cries for help
- AND WHAT IF JESUS LIVED IN JUDEA TODAY?
He would not be called Judean or Israeli.
He would be called a despised settler, an occupier of his own land, an oppressor.
The White House and European governments would demand his expulsion to coastal areas, along with his family and all other Jews of his community, in order to hand Judea and Samaria over to Islam.
Recognize the Visigoths' legitimate Rights of Self-Determination Now!!
By Professor Steven Plaut
Haifa University, Israel
Now that the Vatican has decided to "recognize" the "Palestinian people," although their ancestors invaded and conquered the ancient Jewish land in the 7th century, the only logical response from the world must be to recognize the legitimate rights of the Visigoths who conquered the Vatican even earlier. No justice – no peace.
Friends, Comrades, Zionists!
It is time we acknowledge Alaric I and his descendants as the true and rightful rulers of the Vatican. As you recall, the good Alaric took control of the Vatican on August 24, 410 CE, and turned it into a city of Visigoths.
Ever since then, the rights of the Visigoths to self-determination and freedom in the Vatican have been denied by Church authorities. But these rights to the eternal city are eternal and must at long last be acknowledged.
Indeed, Visigoth rights stem directly from the Nakba (Disaster) that the long-suffering Visigoths suffered at the hands of Theodosius and the Eastern Empire based in Constantinople and also from the Huns. Thousands of Visigoths were brutally murdered in the year 400 in Constantinople.
Clearly a two-state solution is called for whereby the Church can retain its control of Roman Ravenna and the Visigoths exercise their legitimate rights in the Vatican!
Now obviously the Visigoths held hegemony over the Vatican many centuries before anyone even dreamed of inventing a "Palestinian people."
While "Palestinians" are nothing more than Arabs from neighboring areas who migrated into "Palestine" to take advantage of the rising standards of living produced by the influx of Zionist migrants and capital, the Visigoths are a bona fide ancient people having their own rich culture.
Indeed their culture was the foundation for that of Spain and Portugal. They produced masterpieces of art and architecture. And they were progressive reformers; their laws were the first in Europe to recognize the legal rights of married women and of community property of couples. They were religiously tolerant and pluralistic. Unlike the Vatican.
So now that the Vatican has decided to "recognize" the "Palestinian people," the only logical response from the world must be to recognize the legitimate rights of the Visigoths to the Vatican. No justice – no peace.
The Vatican cheerfully allies itself with the killers of Jews
ANGEL OF PEACE - During a meeting at the Vatican Francis praised Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas as an "angel of peace" “destroying the bad spirit of war.”
BOASTING NUMBER OF JEWS KILLED
Fox News -"Moderate" Fatah - Mahmoud Abbas' own political faction - boasted on its official Facebook page of killing 17,000 of Jews.
In their own words:Fatah has killed 11,000 Israelis; Fatah has sacrificed 170,000 Martyrs (Shahids)...; Fatah was the first to carry out operations (i.e., terror attacks) during the first Intifada...
Muslim Nazis - Palestinians actively collaborated with the Nazi regime. Their leader, the Mufti of Jerusalem, was a Nazi war criminal, involved at the highest levels in Berlin in the design and implementation of the Final Solution. The Nazi genocidal and racist ideology is pervasive among Palestinians and Arabs in general. (See more references and video further on this page.)
It's getting hard to keep up with Pope Francis' daily reinterpretation of morality. If it's sinful, we approve it, he seems to say. If it kills Jews, we honor and celebrate it.
This is becoming so disturbing that I felt compelled to discuss it with a top Vatican official the other day.
'What's going on?' I asked Father Sudicio, an advisor at the Vatican. 'Can you tell me why this pope is going out of his way to side with issues that most of us consider unsavory, immoral, corrupt, or plain criminal?'
'I understand your confusion,' said Father Sudicio. 'but we have a very long tradition of not only supporting immoral issues, but of being embroiled with them in a very enthusiastic manner. Some of our popes were so corrupt that even by today's lax moral standards we would regard them as outright criminal and depraved.'
'But they were still considered holy and infallible', I interjected.
'Exactly! As far as the Church was concerned, none of that was put into doubt. They still represented Jesus on Earth.'
Then he continued: 'We have also been engaged in protracted persecutions of Jews, for example. Centuries of it. During the Inquisition we excelled in methods of torture and murder. You are shocked by CIA waterboarding, but that's a mere tickle compared to the Church's old methods of forcing Jews to convert or die.'
'Isn't there a smidgen of guilt for the Church's crimes and their incitement to murder Jews,' I asked.
'Well, officially yes. But between you and me, Zbigniew, we lament we were so woefully ineffective. Fortunately the Nazis organized a better system. We could not come out and cheer them, but we were privately pleased.'
'Once the Nazis lost the war, we did what we could to help them by providing many Nazi war criminals with false identity papers so that they could flee Europe and escape justice. We take pride in having saved at least 1,000 of them. We are a compassionate Church, Zbigniew.'
'Indeed,' I said, sarcastically, but my tone was lost on Father Sudicio who had a strange gleam in his eyes as he recalled his Church's many accomplishments.
'But it's not just regarding the Jews that the Church has sinned,' I argued. 'There has been a complete disregard for children. The other day Pope Francis ordered priests to pardon all abortionists and all women who had had an abortion.'
'And then there is this other issue of priests raping children for decades, while the Church hierarchy has covered up their crimes, and even on a few occasions even sanctioned their acts. What justification can there be for such injustice?'
'Well, yes, but the fact is that there has been ambiguity in the Church on whether what the priests did was an actual crime or not,' argued Father Sudicio.
'Back in 2010,' he continued, 'Pope Benedict said pedophilia was not an absolute evil. He also claimed that child pornography was regarded as normal by society at large.'
'Pope Benedict also said that even within the realm of Catholic theology there is no such thing as evil in itself or good in itself. There is only a better-than and a worse-than. Nothing is good or bad in itself.'
'So, that explains the Church's own ambivalence, I thought. But if the Church is not there to establish norms of morality and decent behavior, what is it there for,' I asked.
'The Catholic Church is a large institution. We have a big tent. There is room for the pious and for the sinner; for high moral standards, and for depravity. Who are we to judge? Anyway, sometimes we need to sacrifice our standards for the sake of the greater good.'
'But what other than having people live closer to Jesus' moral ideals could be your goal?' I asked.
'Sadly, we cannot win the real war without some compromises, said Father Sudicio. Right now we are at a crossroads. If we take the high road, we lose. If we take the other road, we live to fight another battle.'
'Can you elaborate, Father?'
'Well, as you know there are thousands of Christians who are being persecuted and killed by Islam right now, as we speak. We'd like to do more for them. We'd like to at least make more forceful condemnations from the Vatican and the pulpits. But we can't. '
'We can't afford to irritate Muslims with any criticism. They are sensitive folks and they have issued warnings. So we are forced to maintain an alliance with Islam that at times seems rather uncomfortable.'
'Just like the Nazis were our last hope to get rid of the Jews, Islam is our last hope in the 21st century to put an end to the Jewish claim to the Bible, and hopefully to the Jews themselves.'
'That explains the Vatican's many years of condemnation and non-recognition of Israel,' I pointed out.
'Exactly. The truth is that we have easier access to the Holy Sites with the Israelis than with the Muslims, but we have to contend with the much larger issue concerning who is the true inheritor to the Bible. This is what is really at stake.'
'In other words, you need to kill the parent in order to claim your inheritance,' I said.
'You put it in rather crude terms, Zbigniew, but that is what it amounts to,' said Father Sudicio. 'As long as the Jews say that Israel is their land, and that they are the descendants of the ancient Hebrews and all that, we are left on the sidelines.
'However, we contend that modern Jews do not have any claim to the ancient ancestry line, and that we - the Church - are the true link to the Old Testament, the real Chosen People. The sooner the Jews are gone from the Middle East and from the rest of the world, the better.'
'But the Israeli Jews will be replaced by who knows who, I argued. Maybe ISIS will overrun the Holy Land and raze every single Biblical site there. '
Pope John Paul met TWELVE times with terrorist ARAFAT
'Well, we have to take our chances in life, don't we?' Said Father Sudicio. 'In fact, we'd rather have such a catastrophe fall upon the holy sites than continue to see the State of Israel in the area. '
'Isn't the Church a bit like a suicide bomber, willing to self-destruct for the sake of making a point?'
'Now, you're being too harsh and melodramatic, dear Zbigniew. Our church won't be destroyed, no matter what happens to Israel.'
'But your moral relativism is making you irrelevant to those who hunger for true moral values', I said. 'That's why your followers are thinning out. So maybe the Vatican and the Church won't disappear in an explosion, but will just dwindle into a wealthy but tiny cult by the middle of the century, with nothing left from its ancient Biblical values to speak of.'
'Well, sometimes you have to pay a price for what you want. And what we want is nothing less than the undisputed claim to being the true chosen people, the true Israelis.'
CopyrightZbigniew Zwgstkstwig
The "Then and Now" pictures at the top - Hat Tip to commentator Yamit at Israpundit
Perhaps it is appropriate to publish this article after yet another spectacular primary win by Donald Trump - the epitome of masculinity in a political field filled with wusses. 
