I have often wondered why Whites are racists, and no other race is......

There are African Americans, Mexican Americans, Asian Americans, Arab Americans, etc.

And then there are just Americans.. You pass me on the street and sneer in my direction.

You call me 'White boy,' 'Cracker,' 'Honkey,' 'Whitey,' 'Caveman'... And that's OK.

You have the United Negro College Fund. You have Martin Luther King Day.

You have Black History Month.

You have Cesar Chavez Day.

You have Yom Hashoah.

You have Ma'uled Al-Nabi.

You have the NAACP.

You have BET....

If we had WET (White Entertainment Television), we'd be racists.

If we had a White Pride Day, you would call us racists.

If we had White History Month, we'd be racists.

If we had any organization for only whites to 'advance' OUR lives, we'd be racists.

We have a Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, a Black Chamber of Commerce, and then we just have the plain Chamber of Commerce.

A white woman could not be in the Miss Black American pageant, but any color can be in the Miss America pageant.

If we had a college fund that only gave white students scholarships... You know we'd be racists.

There are over 60 openly proclaimed Black Colleges in the US .

Yet if there were 'White colleges', that would be a racist college.

In the Million Man March, you believed that you were marching for your race and rights.

If we marched for our race and rights, you would call us racists.

You are proud to be black, brown, yellow and orange, and you're not afraid to announce it.

But when we announce our white pride, you call us racists.

I am proud...... But you call me a racist.

Why is it that only whites can be racists??

There is nothing improper about this.

Whites are the only people who are derided if they stand up for themselves!

BE PROUD TO BE WHITE! And No, I am Not Racist!

It's not a crime YET.... But getting very close!

Female shooter. Seven (7) dead in private religious school (K-6 grades); 2nd Fl. -- Nashville, TN

• 3-- staff members
• 3-- students
• 1- the shooter (teenager)

Semi-automatic weapon

When will this country ban these guns? CM

Why did Trump steal from the American people?

Has Trump sold out America yet?

CM

I would like to ask Jan to consider providing some of that work, or perhaps a synopsis, so we can all communicate better.

God, please come to the rescue of your children! The RCC is a cancel on mainstream religion (some call an overgrown "cult") around the world. Believe it or not, there are serious "Allegations against Canadian Cardinal", from 2008-2010. A prominent Canadian cardinal, (Ouellet), is named in a class action sexual assault lawsuit against the Quebec Diocese. To add insult to injury, Canadian cardinal, Ouellet, was called back to Rome and was promoted. This man works closely with the current Pope. Who is safe in the RCC? CM

Had I voted for him, I would repent.

Harris is almost as low.

This will serve as an interesting record to watch numbers in days to come.

1. Do you know the ingredients in these Covid-19 Vaccines?
2. Are humans the real guinea pigs or domestic cavy instead of the mice in the labs?
3. How many doses must one take?
4. How long does a dose lasts?
5. What are the side effects? Has anyone died from the vaccine?
6. Does it seems strange to you that the USA is so willing to give the vaccine to "the poor", "Black/brown Communities", hospital workers, and those in the nursing homes?
7. What person or people stand to benefit most financially from these vaccines?

Wake up my people! Enlighten those you love. Think before you submit your arm to a Covid-19 needle. CM

Published by Statista Research Department, Nov 27, 2020

 In August 2020, around one million handguns were sold in the United States. In August 2020, handgun sales in the United States grew by 66 percent when compared to the same period in the previous year.

What is this madness for America's need to buy more guns? Has she not learn that Firearm ownership leads to Firearm production and sale, Firearm related crime, deaths and injuries, and increase of deaths by accident, etc., in the U.S.? See the footprints of this madness. CM

The most important statistics

• Gun ownership in the U.S. 1972-2020
• Gun ownership in the U.S. by gender 2020
• Gun ownership in the U.S. by ethnicity 2020
• Gun ownership in the U.S. by age 2020
• Gun ownership in the U.S. by education level 2020
• Firearm ownership rate, by proximity to urban centers U.S. 2017
• Gun ownership in the U.S. 2017, by region
• Gun ownership, by party affiliation U.S. 2020

Further Content: You might find this interesting as well

STATISTICS

• Monthly sales growth of guns in the U.S. from 2019 to 2020
• Number of pistols manufactured in the U.S. 1986-2018
• Public perception of gun crime in America 2013
• Homicides with firearms in Latin America and Caribbean countries, 2009
• Number of non-fatal firearm crimes U.S. 2000-2019
• Non-fatal firearm crimerate in the U.S. 2011, by ethnicity
• Brazil: handgun import value 2016-2019
• Brazil: handgun import volume 2016-2019
• Wholesale sales of sports firearms in the U.S. 2007-2019
• Reasons for firearm ownership U.S. 2015
• Methods of firearm acquisition U.S. 2015
• Number of firearms processed U.S. 1990-2019
• Comparison: easy access to guns to blame for mass shootings in the US, 2011 and 2013
• Canada: number of individual firearms licenses held, by type 2019
• Number of federal firearm dealers U.S. 1975-2019
• Canada: reasons for firearms license revocations 2019
• Distribution of handguns imports into Denmark 2016, by country

Guns were made to kill. A Christian SHOULDN'T buy, owned or need a gun. Should not a people seek their God for protection? CD Christians don't be deceived or join this American madness -- buying a gun. Choice ye this whom you would rely upon for safety and protection, a gun or Christ? If you have a gun in your home, remove it immediately! CM

To be perfectly clear:

I call on all families and Christians to remove GUNS from their homes. Let heaven's abiding angels protect and keep you and yours safe. CM

See my past articles in CD for background to appreciate current post:

I said in the article below: "Some in CD took issues with me for calling the RCC a "Holy House" -- A "Cesspool of Deviancy". A sad confirmation of a destructive truth... Unfortunately, the carnage of sexual crimes exists then and continues today through active serving, unidentified, Pedophile Priests. A day of justice will come. The wheels of justice may grind slowly but her work is effective. Remain hopeful".

Though the years passed nothing seem to have changed. Oh, our children are still not safe in the hands of the RCC and those who suppose to give oversight. Lord, hear our prayers! CM

In April 1933 the Nazi police occupied the Watch Tower Society’s factory in Magdeburg with a view to finding evidence that would implicate the Society with communism. That attempt failed. Yet the storm troopers returned in June, closed down the factory and raised the swastika flag over the building. On June 29 this action was reported to the German nation by radio. The German Lutheran Church cooperated with the Nazis and rejoiced in the ban against the Earnest Bible Students, as the Witnesses were also known in Germany.* Lutheran minister Otto stated: “The first results of this cooperation can already be reported in the ban today placed upon the International Association of Earnest Bible Students and its subdivisions in Saxony.” The battle against Jehovah’s Witnesses was on!

To the Concentration Camps!

Sticking to Jesus’ rule of being separate from the world, Jehovah’s Witnesses in Nazi Germany refused to vote in the elections. The Nazis submitted them to public humiliation. Max Schubert from Oschatz, Saxony, was put on procession in a horse-drawn wagon with a sign held by storm troopers, saying, “I am a scoundrel and a traitor to the Fatherland, because I did not vote.” He was paraded through the streets to the public chanting of, “Where does he belong?” The mob’s answer? “In a concentration camp!” Very soon thousands of Witnesses were consigned to those infamous camps. What were conditions like there?

An official British government publication on the state of things in Germany shows that already in 1933 “flogging and torture were the order of the day, and it was common knowledge in Germany that the National Socialist [Nazi] movement was taking terrible vengeance on those who had the temerity to oppose it.” One ex-prisoner, who suffered at the Buchenwald concentration camp, stated: “The working hours were sixteen per day, Sundays and week-days alike. During these hours it was forbidden to drink, even in the hottest weather. . . . The work, of course, consists in moving heavy stones, often far beyond the strength of even a normal well-fed man.”

At that time, according to the British report, there were about 8,000 men in the camp, including “1,500 Jews and 800 Ernste Bibelforscher (International Bible Students). . . . Jewish prisoners wrote and received letters twice a month. The Bible Students were allowed no communication with the outside world . . . Herr X spoke with the highest respect of these men. Their courage and religious faith were remarkable, and they professed themselves ready to suffer to the uttermost. . . . Deaths took place daily in the camp.”

Another ex-prisoner from Buchenwald explained the reception that prisoners got at the “new City of Sorrow.” They were greeted outside the camp by superintendent Rödl with the words: “Among you are some who have already been in gaol. What you tasted there is nothing to what you’re going to get here. You’re coming inside a concentration camp, and that means you’re coming into hell. . . . We’ve only got two kinds of punishment in this camp, the lash and the death penalty.”

The concentration camps reaped a ghastly crop of millions of lives, victims of a perverted political philosophy. These people were systematically degraded, stripped of their dignity and then destroyed. Is it possible to imagine the personal agony and suffering of each one of those millions of victims?

“This Brood Will Be Exterminated!”

Some were not only victims but also martyrs, for they could have obtained their release. That was the case, according to one source, with the 10,000 Witnesses, men and women, who were victims of the sadism and brutality that Hitler and his S.S. henchmen had organized. Those Witnesses were given the opportunity to sign a paper renouncing their religion and thus go free. Very few accepted.​—See The Nazi State and the New Religions: Five Case Studies in Non-Conformity, by Dr. Christine E. King.

Of the 10,000, about 2,500 never did go free, according to the above source​—they died in Dachau, Belsen, Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen, Ravensbrück, Auschwitz, Mauthausen and other camps—​faithful to their God, Jehovah, and their exemplar, Christ. Aside from those who were gassed, many died as a result of beatings, starvation and medical experimentation. Others, including women, were executed by being hanged, beheaded or shot. Why? Because they would not violate their Christian neutrality by serving in Hitler’s armed forces or by attributing salvation to Hitler. They kept themselves separate from the world and were faithful to the end.​—Matthew 24:13.

In 1934 Jehovah’s Witnesses in Germany and in other countries sent telegrams to Hitler protesting his brutal treatment of the Witnesses. An eyewitness reports that when Hitler heard of this he “jumped to his feet and with clenched fists hysterically screamed: ‘This brood will be exterminated in Germany!’” Now, 50 years later, has the “brood” been exterminated?

To the contrary, they are stronger than ever. But Hitler and his Nazism have been defunct some 39 years. In contrast, there are now over 107,000 active Witnesses in the Federal Republic of Germany, plus thousands more under ban in the German Democratic Republic. The “brood” has not been exterminated. It has multiplied! They are stronger than ever!

Fascism Tries to Stop the Witness

Remember that Jesus said: “Because you are no part of the world, . . . on this account the world hates you.” This has applied to Jehovah’s Witnesses not just in Nazi Germany but all around the world​—because they have stood by Christ’s principles and example.

Prior to World War II they were also banned in Italy. When the Catholic Church signed a concordat with Mussolini’s Fascist government in 1929, it initiated a period of religious repression that stifled contact between the Watch Tower Society in Brooklyn and the Witnesses in Italy. One group of 25 faithful Italian Witnesses was given sentences ranging from 2 to 11 years in prison. Some did not complete their sentences. Why not? Because fascism fell first and the Witnesses were released.*

After the war, in 1946, there were 120 Witnesses in Italy, associated with 35 small congregations. What is the situation today? Jehovah’s Witnesses are now the second largest religion in Italy, with over 115,000 active Christians associated with about 1,600 congregations​—yes, stronger than ever!

A similar story could be told about many countries. For example, in 1959 the Ministry of the Interior in Spain gave the following instructions to the General Director of Security regarding the activities of Jehovah’s Witnesses: “Consequently, and for the purpose of radically stopping the further development of the evil described, Your Excellency should send a circular [to all Police Headquarters] . . . in which you should order, not just the simple vigilance of these activities, but the adoption of measures that would result in their being stamped out.”​—Italics ours.

A renewed wave of persecution swept through Spain and continued until 1970. Hundreds of Witnesses were fined or imprisoned simply for studying the Bible, preaching to others or remaining neutral on political issues. Were the Witnesses and their activity stamped out? To the contrary​—in 1970 they were reluctantly given legal recognition. Whereas in 1959 there had only been about 1,400 Witnesses, in 1970 there were 11,000! Now, just 14 years later, there are over 56,000 Witnesses organized into more than 840 congregations! The Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society has a fine branch headquarters near Madrid where the Watchtower and Awake! magazines are being printed for the Iberian Peninsula. So did the wave of Nazi-Fascist attacks up to and during World War II stamp out Jehovah’s Witnesses? No, they are stronger than ever! https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/101984884

Explanation: While I did not vote for Biden, I realize that some forum members did. I am offering this platform as an extended olive branch for you to simply sign your name below to ease your pain of acknowledging your error and regret. No need for fear, we have your back. We will readily forgive.

Preaching the Good News of God's Kingdom in Satan's World often brings a hostile and violent reaction from the unfaithful and lawless one. If this is how they react when the Good News of God's Kingdom is declared, how do you think they will react to the final message of divine destruction is delivered? Soon, those who reject the Good News will have no recourse.

What to look for to help gain discernment for the coming events:

• Brothers and Sisters who are 70 and 80 now, becoming 90 and 100
• 144,000 Congregations
• No Response in the preaching work
• An outbreak of peace and security proclaimed by the political kings
• Treat those coming for you with hospitality and kindness

1. It is currently in the news and before the US Supreme Court.
2. For fellow posters, in general, who want to discuss the topic decoupled from guns are invited to share in the topic of "abortion." This way, it will get a full hearing.
3. To provide the proper setting, space, and opportunity for my fellow posters,  @Truth, a recent newcomer to CD.
4. Since  @Truth  acknowledged thread boundaries, I want to give honor to you by starting this one.
5.  @Truth  attempted to raise the topic in two other threads, which were not advantageous to the topic at hand. e.g.
   1. https://www.christiandiscourse.net/discussion/comment/19928/#Comment_19928

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The questions emulated from the Halloween thread. See below:

https://www.christiandiscourse.net/discussion/comment/19962/#Comment_19962

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Although the questions are generated in another thread, I would like to give my friend, an unencumbered chance to answer them and other questions. The special invitation to @Truth is, in nowhere, restricting any posters from accepting the question package and being heard on this topic of "abortion."

So,  @Truth, do me the honors and answer the questions below. If you accept the challenge, I trust you will produce more fire than "smoke." Let me duly remind you that the wider CD Community will note your rationales:

1. Do you feel the need to impose, intrude, and control the lives of a woman (or women) that's not your wife (assuming you are married) who choose the option of a medical procedure in consultation with her doctor, husband, family, and faith counselor?
2. Do you need to put your eyes in the womb of another woman (not your wife's), not know her medical history or current condition?
3. Do you have an insatiable need to interfere in the marriage between a husband and a wife?
4. Do you need to be conscious for millions of women and families in this country and worldwide to make a most personal and intimate decision for them?
5. Do you need another man (not a relative) or a panel (primarily men) to interfere in a decision between you and your wife? e.g.
   1. Where, when, and how often to have sex?
   2. To use or not to use a condom?
   3. To use an IUD birth-control device?
   4. How many children or to have any at all?
   5. Rather or not, you should have a vasectomy?
   6. Whether your wife, in consultation with her doctor, can have a man or double mastectomy?
6. Do you need the public to make laws to know if you or your wife can have any of the above?
7. Do you have a burning desire to have a religious body, not of your faith, working through legislators to determine if your wife can have one of her cancerous ovaries removed?
8. Do you need me to come into your home and decide against you, your doctor, and your pastor to have one of the above (# 5)?
9. Do you need a group of strangers or me telling you what option is NOT AVAILABLE (abortion) to you if your wife or daughter were beaten and raped?
10. Do you need to be denied a right and a privilege the current right allows?

@Truth, it would be helpful if you would answer these questions put to another recent new comer @byGeorge to CD:

1. May I suggest you read or re-read this entire thread? Until then, consider these: 
2. When is a baby, a baby? 
3. Is a zygote a baby?
4. Tell me lumber, nails, roofing paper, a poured concrete foundation, etc. Is this a house? 

Please be aware of other threads in CD on abortion:

• https://www.christiandiscourse.net/discussion/comment/19226/#Comment_19226
•  https://www.christiandiscourse.net/discussion/824/when-is-a-baby-a-baby-at-conception-or-at-birth/p1
•  https://www.christiandiscourse.net/discussion/731/are-you-consuming-human-fetal-cells-with-almost-every-meal-or-snack 
• https://www.christiandiscourse.net/discussion/920/unborn-vs-born-defined.

@Truth, you seem to be yearning to have a discussion on abortion. Here is you opportunity? CM

oh oh oh ... conspiracy theory already propagated for years by folks like me ?

or maybe a real IPCC politics conspiracy exposed !!

Use a gun and now these will pay for it the rest of their lives.

The Second Amendment may give one the "right to bear arms", but not the right to go around shooting people.

• Gregory McMichael, Travis McMichael and William "Roddie" Bryan Jr. were charged with malice and felony murder in Arbery's death, which sparked national outrage after a video of his shooting was made public.

This, @reformed and @Truth, is murder! This "is reprehensible"!

Guns were made to kill! CM

CD Readers,

Please watch the video. This clip shows how one can stop a shooter in a church. If the Pastor had a gun, things could've turned out badly for many people. Clear-headed thinking and swift actions, not another gun, saves lives. If guns were not so available, so many lives would not have been threatened. Evil intent is a given after the fall and this side of the return of Jesus. Do we have to make guns so available for one to carry out sinister desires? Don't you agree?

Looking ahead, should churches be equipped with metal detectors, cameras, and/or armed guards? CM

PS. Guns are instruments of death. They were made to kill. CM

Are we being conditioned for Totalitarianism? Are we still able to think for ourselves? CM

Welcome to the Republican Party!

@BroRando

@Bill_Coley

@C Mc

See the Gun Violence Tracker: Week: Oct. 21 - 27, 2021

Years 2016 - 2021

• 393 deaths and 711 injuries over the past week
• 20,671 deaths and 40,399 injuries over the past year
• 97,773 deaths and 193,947 injuries over the past 5 years

Why the Second Amendment may be losing relevance in gun debate

Experts said legislatures are doing the work in setting the landscape on guns. 

ByLibby Cathey -- October 28, 2021, 5:06 AM

Do you really love life? Do you really want to protect the innocent? The Christian Community needs to wake up and step up. The gun deaths are NOT maybe people. They are real people. CM

Source: Gun Violence Archive:

* All data is lagged by three days. Full methodology

* Figure is current month-to-date. All data is lagged by three days. Full methodology

* Figure is current year-to-date. All data is lagged by three days. Full methodology

What more can you add to this topic? Believe it or not, many Christian homes are decorated in line with the symbols of this day. What would you say to them? CM

some thoughts concerning the official story of the September 11, 2001 events and what to make of it.

You know perhaps about the simple but well established little "duck test" which states: If a bird walks like a duck, swims like a duck, quacks like a duck, that bird is a duck!!

Applied to the events of September 11, 2001 it means: If the collapse of buildings looks like a controlled demolition, the collapse is a controlled demolition. This of course already means that the official story which the public is supposed to believe, namely that Osama bin Laden is the responsible culprit, can NOT be true.

When we take a look at the actions and what the US department of Justice has NOT done, the matter becomes also very clear. The US department of Justice has NEVER put out a search for Osama bin Laden for the September 11, 2001 attacks, and also has NEVER charged him for those attacks !

When asked by journalists why the FBI was had not issued a search warrant for bin Laden in the case of the September 11, 2001 attacks, the answer was because there was NO evidence for is complicity in this event!

Now, in a state under the rule of law, a person is considered INNOCENT until evidence has been presented and the person has been proven guilty. IF there is no evidence against Osama bin Laden, then obviously he and al-quaeda did not commit this mass murder but someone else did.

Interestingly, bin Laden from the start declared that he had nothing to do with these events and that powers within the USA conducted the attacks.

Later on, the Taliban even offered to hand over bin Laden if the USA would provide evidence for his guilt. The then secretary Colin Powell promised to produce the evidence, but NEVER did.

Instead, the USA and NATO-allies started a war of aggression against Agfhanistan which is still ongoing after 18 years ... and all because of a lie!!

Translated excerpt from a German language blog: Alles Schall und Rauch: Sascha Lobo lebt wirklich in der Verschwörungsgalaxie http://alles-schallundrauch.blogspot.com/2019/09/sascha-lobo-lebt-wirklich-in-der.html#ixzz609djgeEw

President Putin has gone into hiding. Well, sort of. On September 14, he said that many people (“dozens”) in his inner circle have tested positive for the virus, and as a result he has to self-isolate. His sudden seclusion has sent waves of anguish across this huge country. His explanation was met with disbelief. Everybody around Putin is vaccinated and so is Putin, or so he claimed. Why would he need to self-isolate; how could all these vaccinated people become sick? Is the vaccine – fake? Or should we look for another explanation. Did he fall, or was he pushed? Will he come back? Is this the end of Putin’s era? Is Putin ill, or was he forced into isolation? Is it a conspiracy? The Russian government is, and always was manual, not automatic; the absence of the ruler at the helm of the mighty ship of the Russian state could spell trouble. The Russians do not believe the official version, but what is the truth? ... ...

This is Pastor Artur Pawlowski. He kept his church open in Canada and defended off wave after wave of government enforcers trying to shut him down. This is a good man. A kind man. A man who stood for what’s right when it was easier to not. He returned to Canada today to face 6 years in prison - for opening his church. His response to going back, “if I do not go face them like a man, then everything I did means nothing. I will show the world who they are.” He was arrested upon landing. Currently his family has been locked out of the facility he is locked up at. Artur, you are giant among men. If you are from canada help this man. Its time for action. Dont think: but what am i able to do? Thats part of the problem. He stood up for us now we stand up for him. Share and if anyone has his contact share it to help him.

1. Does a man have the right to deny another to participate in an institution God has established--Holy Communion? Is this a religious overreach?
2. What is communion? Is it the same as those with protestant beliefs?
3. What does communion means or symbolizes?
4. If the Pope denies one communion, today; could it be tomorrow, he can deny baptism and be extreme, heaven?
5. To deny one communion, is this biblical?
6. Do you get the sense that this denial puts pressure on Biden to conform to the RCC dogma against his will?
7. Regardless of the RCC size, does this action or threat of denying one communion reeks with the stench of a cult?
8. How could one in another land impose on the moral rights of an American leader?

Why wouldn't he give a clear answer? The church did the same thing with other matters: same-sex marriage, priest marrying, women as pastors, etc. in the end, Church dogmas won out.

Is Mr. Biden a backslidden Catholic? What's there to study? In view of church leaders in America, is the Church divided?

Presently, at best, Pope Francis is in the middle of the road on this matter. A thing is not until it is ruled upon in the RCC. Therefore my questions above remain with the hope of finding decisive answers. CM

What’s going on in America? Free of speech, yes, but this? Has America lost her way? America fought wars for this? Shame! CM

Some questions confronts the the Church and clergymen:

1. How does one define "transgender"?
2. Is transgender natural or a choice?
3. Can one be "transgender" and yet, Christian?
4. What does the Bible say about trans-gender?
5. Can they be baptized into the Christian Church?
6. If a person is a member of the church, then becomes transgender, should this individual be dismissed from the fellowship?
7. Are there transgender clergymen? If so, how many? Is there a rationale or justification for them to be?
8. Are "transgenders" entitled to workplace protections and medical coverages?
9. Should "transgender" people be identified by the gender of their birth or what they declared themselves to be?
10. To be clear, is transgender a perversion to humanity and therefore, the courts, the church, and society shouldn't be bother or invest any time or energies upon the matter?
11. Is transgender worthy of the Christian's time to debate or it should be dismissed as an unexplainable sin?

These and other questions (though some overlapping) begs to be answered by society and the church. CM

As Left Tries to Paint Everyone at Capitol on Jan. 6 as a Domestic Terrorist, GOP Senator Exposes Security Footage That Tells a Much Different Story

Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, a Republican, has been conducting a review of security footage recorded on Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol building.

Footage that showed over 300 unauthorized individuals entering the Capitol building through the upper west terrace doorway, while five U.S. Capitol Police officers stood nearby, caught the senator’s eye.

Alarmed by what he discovered, Johnson sent a letter to the acting chief of the U.S. Capitol Police, Yogananda Pittman, on Thursday demanding some answers.