Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Maybe Muslims Have One Small Thing "Right"?

 Listened to an interesting sermon last Sunday.   One of the things that was brought out was the notion of body posture as it relates to prayer.   The pastor looked at scriptures from throughout scripture that showed how often people bowed or knelt when in prayer or similar acts.  Jesus in the garden and on the cross bowed/knelt as he prayed.  Moses on Mt. Sinai being one additional example.  

The point being made was that our body posture when praying can have an effect of how we pray.   This  is not to imply that prayers while driving or sitting or laying down aren't heard, but it seems more about how our posture shapes how we think about prayer and how we relate to YHWH.  Clearly we can't "pray without ceasing" if we are constantly on our knees, but I am seriously considering adding some prayer times where I am intentionally on my knees before YHWH.   I don't think that either the pastor or I would suggest that this is some sort of requirement, yet I'm infrequent by this.  For me, I would hope that this might help me focus my prayers and avoid distraction when I pray (at least a couple of times a day).  

 

As with things of this sort, I am concerned that I might make it transactional.   That I will go in thinking that if I only do  this one specific thing that YHWH will reward me for my actions.   That clearly seems like the wrong attitude and it'll probably be a bit of s struggle to try to keep this focused on YWHW and who He is and being confident in His sovereignty.  

Anyway, just throwing this out there because of how it struck me.   I plan to try to implement this in my prayer life and  see if it changes how I relate to YHWh and how I view my prayer time.  

 

There's a Freaking Word For This and Has Been For Years.

 https://www.lse.ac.uk/media-and-communications/assets/documents/research/msc-dissertations/2016/Dissertation-Monica-Ibrahim.pdf

 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rapefugee

 https://app.overton.io/document.php?policy_document_id=gatestoneinstitute-d9c7162d5f9566a7f5918488fefb93f9

 https://voxpol.eu/events/lunch-briefing-series-rapefugees-not-welcome-online-hate-speech-refugee-crisis-far-right-extremism-2/

 "So many European women have been raped by Muslims that they have a name for them: “rapefugees.” And they’ve had this name for years. And yet there are millions of Euros who will instinctively call me bigoted for noticing. Europeans have been taught to hate themselves and their fellow countrymen so much they won’t dare speak the truth out loud to defend their culture, and if they do they risk arrest. We must free the mind of the West before it can be saved."

 

Charlie Kirk 

 

It is amazing how many ASPL choose to ignore the massive rape crisis in Europe that has been going on for years (decades) . The very thought that hundreds or thousands of Muslim (mainly Pakistani) men have raped lord knows how many girls, boys, and women, and have for the most part either gotten away with these crimes or gotten lighter sentences than were warranted is an obscene miscarriage of justice. That girls protecting themselves are being charged, or that rape victims are being referred to as "lovers" or "prostitutes" in the media is likewise obscene. The silence on the pro-Islam left is deafening. That they and "moderate Muslims" won't condemn these attacks and call for harsh punishments simply points out the reality that they are simply cowards. They are scared the there will be violence if they speak out or punish these scum appropriately. Beyond that, it's now virtually a crime to display the British flag, IN THE UK. 

 

I've never been much for vigilantism, but it's time for  the men of Europe to stand up and defend women, girls and boys who are being preyed on by vile scum practicing their religion. Imams who preach this crap in Mosques, need to be deported or jailed immediately. The simple fact is that they know exactly the demographic of the worst offenders, and they choose not to fix the problem because they're scared of violence. Screw that. Protect your citizens/subjects and respond to any violence with greater violence.

Legal stuff

 https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/former-proud-boy-jeremy-beretino-claims-he-was/

This seems to not bode well for those convicted for their actions on J6.

 I'm not going to post the link as the story is well covered, but this is the 3rd time recently that someone on the left has been exposed for committing mortgage fraud.   Lisa Cook simultaneously claimed two residences in different states as her "primary residence" in order to get a better interest rate.  Either she knowingly committed fraud, or she's too stupid to know what "primary residence" means.  In either case she does not belong on the Fed board making decisions that affect the lives of millions.  

 

 https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/suspect-fatally-shot-home-invasion-joliet-identified/

What this "real journalism" MSM outlet leaves out is that Hurd was released on parole in Feb of 2025 despite multiple burglary convictions.   Why in the hell is this scum out on the streets and attempting to victimize more innocent people?

 

 

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We All Have Choices

 https://x.com/wyattcatarina/status/1960111270260252912?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

As usual, I'm faced with listening to what an Egyptian Christian pastor has to say about Islam and immigration, or morons like Dan.   

Go Swine Go!

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Who would have thought that swine would be the last bastion standing between Europe and Muslim domination.  

 https://newschecker.in/fact-check/european-women-adopting-pigs-to-avoid-harassment-from-muslim-men-heres-the-truth-behind-viral-videos

Maybe we need to start a GoFundMe to send piglets and Vietnamese Potbelly Pigs to Europe and donate them to rapable women.

 

 

Commitment to a Narrative, Over Public Safety

 https://x.com/devorydarkins/status/1960339347787714588?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

So Joe Scarborough is interviewing Brandon Johnson on MSNBC  (For Dan, who's not so smart about these things, the SOURCE of this information is MSNBC a left leaning network which allegedly engages in real journalism, NOT Twitter) and asks him if having 5000 more cops on the streets of Chicago would help lower crime.  Johnson is incapable of answering, despite the question being asked multiple times, and Joe stipulating to Johnson's fanciful notions about billions of dollars in social programs being implemented.   Clearly Johnson is more concerned with toeing the liberal line that more law enforcement is bad, than in what is best for the citizens of Chicago.  

Thoughts on Rights

 “Rights” are a religious concept. A spiritual doctrine. They have no meaning outside of that framework. A godless worldview can’t account for rights. Rights in that case are just whatever the guy in power says they are. There’s no higher power or inherent right to appeal to. So whenever someone talks about rights, they’re making a religious claim. Whether they know it or not. Our nation is founded on this explicitly religious claim — “endowed by the Creator,” etc. That’s why it’s so laughably absurd to hear people defend the “right” to burn the flag or make porn. Really? God endowed us with the mystical right to burn our nation’s flag and have sex on camera? This is a right inherent to our very nature as human beings — the right to desecrate our national symbols and become digital whores? God had that in mind when he made us, did He? It’s silly. But people these days use words without stopping to think about what they mean. Most of the people running around crying about their rights have never once actually considered what a right even is, or how they know they have them, or from where — or whom — these rights come.

Matt Walsh 

 

 "The very idea of rights comes from Christianity: "Richard Rorty was a committed Darwinist; and in the Darwinian struggle for existence, the strong prevail while the weak are left behind. So evolution cannot be the source of universal human rights. Instead, Rorty says, the concept came from “religious claims that human beings are made in the image of God.” He cheerfully admits that borrows the concept of universal rights from Christianity. He even calls himself a “free-loading” atheist: “This Jewish and Christian element in our tradition is gratefully invoked by free-loading atheists like myself.”"

 

Nancy Pearcey quoting Richard Rorty

 

 “the most philosophy can hope to do is to summarize our culturally influenced intuitions about the right thing to do in various situations. The summary is effected by formulating a generalization from which these intuitions can be deduced… That generalization is not supposed to ground our intuitions, but rather to summarize them.” 

“If the activities of those who attempt to achieve this [foundationalist] sort of knowledge seem of little use in actualizing this utopia, that is a reason to think there is no such knowledge. If it seems that most of the work of changing moral intuitions is being done by manipulating our feelings rather than by increasing our knowledge, that is a reason to think there is no knowledge of the sort that philosophers like Plato, Aquinas, and Kant hoped to get.”

“[I]t does little good to point out to the people I have just described that many Muslims and women are good at mathematics or engineering or jurisprudence. Resentful young Nazi toughs were quite aware that many Jews were clever and learned, but this only added to the pleasure they took in beating such Jews. Nor does it do much good to get such people to read Kant and agree that one should not treat rational agents simply as means. For everything turns on who counts as a fellow human being, as a rational agent in the only relevant sense – the sense in which rational agency is synonymous with membership in our moral community.” 

Richard Rorty


"Appeals to reason and knowledge have little effect in Rorty’s thought. We have to concentrate on what works, he says, and his conclusion is that “the emergence of the human rights culture seems to owe nothing to increased moral knowledge, and everything to hearing sad and sentimental stories” 


So, in the mind of an well educated atheist and Naturalist, the very notion of human rights comes down to simple Utilitarianism.   It's all about what works.