Trump's Commerce Secretary Howie Lutnick says you are among the best only if you are rich

 

 

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you. Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver have rusted, and their rust will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure for the last days. Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. You have lived on the earth in luxury and in pleasure; you have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter. You have condemned, you have killed the righteous man; he does not resist you.

 -- James 5:1ff.

Same stuff, different day: In early September 1929 Arab fanatics were butchering Jews in various neighborhoods of Jerusalem

 

Biden DOJ puts abortion clinic blockaders behind bars, Hamasniks blocking Golden Gate Bridge for hours get off scott-free

 

If your pastor went to Fuller Seminary, I highly recommend you get out now

 It's all the Joos' fault there's no democracy in the Middle East:

The religious left is as unwoke as they claim is the right

The anti-Semitic theology behind the Christian Zionist lobby:

As clergy and people of deep faith and conscience, we do not know a God that ignores or justifies the suffering of one group of people for the security and comfort of others.

For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth. ... And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face. ... Thou shalt be blessed above all people ... . And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee. And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee. ... Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed. ... And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them.

-- Deuteronomy 7:6, 10, 14, 15, 16, 20, 24

On Jewish Chosenness and Israeli Chauvinism:

 

A survey of the “Beliefs, Observance and Values among Israeli Jews” conducted in 2009 found that 70 percent of Israeli Jews believe that Jews are the chosen people. Since 46 percent of Israeli Jews define themselves as secular according to the survey, the numbers indicate that even within the secular minority, at least one-third maintains a belief in Jewish chosenness, and that the concept has taken on shades of simple ethnic chauvinism beyond any original theological significance. This is reminiscent of the quip about secular Zionists who don’t believe in God but do believe that God gave them the land. ... Half of Israeli Jews (48 percent) believe Arabs should be transferred or expelled from Israel.

George Scialabba isn't convinced by John Gray's attack on The Enlightenment, but still finds his new book worthwhile

The true believer dies hard.

From Scialabba's review in The New Republic here:

As Carl Becker argued 85 years ago in The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers (still “the best book on the Enlightenment,” in Gray’s opinion), the philosophes “demolished the Heavenly City of St. Augustine only to rebuild it with more up-to-date materials.” Gray’s verdict is even harsher: “Racism and anti-Semitism are not incidental defects in Enlightenment thinking. They flow from some of the Enlightenment’s central beliefs.” ... [A]gain and again, Gray finds, ... a mode of thought overthrows religion, only to imitate some of its characteristic intellectual moves. ... In fact, some of the resemblances Gray claims to see between Christianity and various types of atheism are less than compelling. In a devastating critique of Becker’s Heavenly City, Peter Gay coined the phrase “the fallacy of spurious persistence” to name a tendency to claim false or exaggerated continuities. ... Of course we should keep Gray’s cautions well in mind. The catastrophic revolutionary ideologies of the past were ersatz religions. Scientific utopias and promises to transform the human condition deserve the deepest suspicion. Moral and political progress are always subject to reversal. Humans are animals; human nature is riven with conflicts; reason is a frail reed. 

Stupidest story of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation: "Das Ende" on Playmobil Luther Bible is anti-Semitic

My KJV page at the end of the Old Testament: The End of the Prophets

Only a fool or a malcontent would fail to recognize the heretofore customary and universal editorial use of "the end". In this case, it's a malcontent, but it's fools who take his lies seriously.

Here:

Why was the word “END” written so prominently, Brumlik asked. “Theologically, there can be no other reason than that the ‘Old Testament’ and its validity should be seen as ended and superseded,” he wrote in the Berlin newspaper tageszeitung [sic]. 

My KJV page at the end of the New Testament: The End