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The recent COP conference Commies and Marxists decided they are going to take 300 billion dollars from the developed countries and give it to the third world. Who asked the people in the developed countries? Nobody. The COP gang are nothing but a bunch of dictators and Marxist commies.
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7 hours ago, taxme said:
God does not love me anyway because he already has made it clear to me that his choice as to who will be his pampered pooches and spoiled people are what we call the chosen ones in the bible.
No, that is not true. The Bible says:
"16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved." John 3: 16, 17 KJV
God loved man so much he sent his Son to earth to suffer and be crucified on a cross for the sins of man.
So while God chose the nation of Israel for a special purpose, he also loved all of mankind, Jew and Gentile, so much that he came to earth to suffer and die on a cross for the sins of mankind. This offer of salvation and atonement is available to everyone who believes in Jesus Christ as Savior.
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It is shocking that Trudeau would come out and support the ICC's decision to issue an arrest warrant for the Prime Minister of Israel and former defence minister.
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Republican Senator Lindsey Graham has threatened countries willing to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, stating that sanctions will be imposed, reports Fox News.
"If you are going to help the ICC as a nation and force the arrest warrant against Bibi and Gallant, the former defense minister, I will put sanctions on you as a nation. You’re gonna have to pick the rogue ICC versus America," said the senator."
US Senate threatens sanctions on countries aiding ICC in Netanyahu's arrest
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This began just after October 7, 2023 and has been continuing since. It is now becoming more violent.
Should the government use the Emergencies Act to put a stop to it or is there some other way to deal with it?
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1 minute ago, eyeball said:
If the government of the day is conservative do you donate money to them in addition to your remittance of taxes?
No. Why would you ask that?
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42 minutes ago, eyeball said:
Does your Bible tell you to treat it more like a charitable donation when you remit your taxes to a conservative government?
No. Citizens are required to obey the law and pay the taxes that are established.
However, we live in a democracy where free speech is supposed to be guaranteed. Therefore everyone has the right to oppose laws, taxes, and spending which they feel are wrong. It is part of our democratic system that evolved out of a historic Judeo-Christian civilization.
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45 minutes ago, eyeball said:
You seem to think it's only theft when left wing governments collect taxes.
A conservative government is not expected to be Socialist by definition. Conservatives believe in free enterprise, not Socialism. That doesn't mean a conservative government would get rid of all social programs because once society is built on certain programs, they can't be stopped. Old age pensions, welfare, will of course continue for the good of the citizens. But NDP type Socialist programs that try to provide everything imaginable including incomes without working may not happen. Governments only have so much money and Canada is already deeply in debt. Debt is harmful because the interest must be paid which comes from the taxpayers and makes it harder to provide essential services.
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This is completely crazy. Nobody should be forced to recognize pride weeks and fly pride flags if they choose not to.
Not doing so is not discrimination. Discrimination is a positive act. choosing not to do something is not an act. It is simply being neutral. So how can they be guilty of discrimination?
This doesn't make sense. It should be appealed as far as possible.
Incidentally I believe there are a lot of Christians around Emo or in the area. I know of some. Actively supporting something like that would go against many folks in the area of religious beliefs. So punishing people who decline for religious reasons would also be a violation of their freedom of religion. s However nobody needs a reason for being neutral. Punishing the local representatives would be a form of persecution when all they are doing is likely representing the feelings of their constituency which may not wish to be involved in pride things. Everyone should have the freedom to remain neutral or non-participatory in such matters as pride. Being non-active is not discrimination.
Ontario Human Rights Tribunal fines Emo Township for refusing Pride proclamation
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2 hours ago, ExFlyer said:
Very correct, as they have demonstrated over the decades.
While some do not care about UN resolutions, they are quick to accept UN assistance, funding and care when offered.
Bull$hit. Prove that allegation. I will grow older waiting for you to prove that. LOL
It's too long a list to post on here. Here is the link with the long list of resolutions against Israel by the U.N.
List of United Nations resolutions concerning Israel - Wikipedia
Here is a list for the past 40 years. That is long enough.
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1984:
- 23 November: Resolution 39/14: Reiterates the demand that Israel withdraw its threat to attack the nuclear facilities of neighbouring nations.
- 30 November: Resolution 39/28: Financing of UNDOF.
- 12 December: Resolution 39/54: Calling for an establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the Middle East.
- 13 December: Resolution 39/72-C: Demanding that Israel terminate all form of collaboration with South Africa.
- 14 December: Resolutions 39/95: Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Population of the Occupied Territories.
- 14 December: Resolution 39/101: Demands Israel not to build a canal between the Dead Sea and the Mediterranean.
- 14 December: Resolution 39/146: Reaffirmation of resolution 38/180 condemning Israel and calling all nations to cut ties with it.
- 17 December: Resolution 39/147: Israeli nuclear armament.
- 17 December: Resolution 39/169: Living conditions of the Palestinian people in the occupied Palestinian territories.
- 18 December: Resolution 39/223: Economic development projects in the occupied Palestinian territories.
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1985:
- 1 November: Resolution 40/6: Reaffirmation of the condemnation of Israel on its attack on the Iraqi nuclear facility.
- 2 December: Resolution 40/59: Financing of UNDOF.
- 10 December: Resolution 40/64-E: Demanding that Israel terminate all forms of collaboration with South Africa.
- 12 December: Resolution 40/82: Calling for an establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the Middle East.
- 12 December: Resolution 40/93: Israeli nuclear armament.
- 16 December: Resolutions 40/161: Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Population of the Occupied Territories.
- 16 December: Resolution 40/167: Decides to monitor Israel's decision to construct a canal between the Dead Sea and the Mediterranean.
- 16 December: Resolution 40/168: Reaffirmation of resolution 38/180 condemning Israel and calling all nations to cut ties with it.
- 17 December: Resolution 40/169: Economic development projects in the occupied Palestinian territories.
- 17 December: Resolution 40/201: Living conditions of the Palestinian people in the occupied Palestinian territories.
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1986:
- 29 October: Resolution 41/12: Calling Israel to place its nuclear facilities under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
- 10 November: Resolution 41/35-C: Demanding that Israel terminate all forms of collaboration with South Africa.
- 3 December: Resolution 41/44: Financing of UNDOF.
- 3 December: Resolution 41/48: Calling for an establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the Middle East.
- 3 December: Resolutions 41/63: Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Population of the Occupied Territories.
- 4 December: Resolution 41/93: Israeli nuclear armament.
- 4 December: Resolution 41/162: Reaffirmation of resolution 38/180 condemning Israel and calling all nations to cut ties with it.
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1987:
- 20 November: Resolution 42/23-D: Demanding that Israel terminate all forms of collaboration with South Africa.
- 30 November: Resolution 42/28: Calling for an establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the Middle East.
- 30 November: Resolution 42/44: Israeli nuclear armament.
- 3 December: Resolution 42/70: Financing of UNDOF.
- 8 December: Resolutions 42/160: Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Population of the Occupied Territories.
- 11 December: Resolution 42/166: Assistance to the Palestinian people.
- 11 December: Resolution 42/190: Living conditions of the Palestinian people in the occupied Palestinian territories.
- 11 December: Resolution 42/209: Reaffirmation of resolution 38/180 condemning Israel and calling all nations to cut ties with it.
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1988:
- 3 November: Resolution 43/21: The First Palestinian Intifada.
- 5 December: Resolution 43/50-E: Demanding that Israel terminate all forms of collaboration with South Africa.
- 6 December: Resolution 43/54: Reaffirmation of resolution 38/180 condemning Israel and calling all nations to cut ties with it.
- 6 December: Resolutions 43/58: Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Population of the Occupied Territories.
- 7 December: Resolution 43/65: Calling for an establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the Middle East.
- 7 December: Resolution 43/80: Israeli nuclear armament.
- 15 December: UN General Assembly Resolution 43/176: International Peace Conference; principles for peace
- 21 December: Resolution 43/228: Financing of UNDOF.
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1989:
- 20 April: Resolution 43/233: Expressing shock over killing of Palestinian civilians in Nahalin.
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1991:
- 16 December: Resolution 4686: Annulled Res. 3379
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2012
- 29 March: Resolution 66/225: Exploitation of natural resources.
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2017
- 21 December: Resolution ES-10/19: Criticizing US policy on Jerusalem.
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2018
- 13 June: Resolution ES-10/20: Criticizing the Israeli response to the 2018 Gaza border protests.
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2023
- 27 October: Resolution ES-10/21: Protection of civilians and upholding legal and humanitarian obligations in the 2023 Israel–Hamas war.
- 12 December: Resolution ES-10/22
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Some still don't believe that Communism, Socialism, and Marxism are all legalized theft. The Bible says in the ten commandments "thou shalt not steal". Yet some think if the government does it, it must not be stealing. It comes from the theory that governments can do no wrong. Taking from Peter to pay Paul by force is still stealing no matter how one looks at it.
Of course governments have a right to tax people in order to provide basic necessary services. But at some point, if it goes beyond and becomes part of Communist or Socialist ideology, then it becomes stealing.
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The title "Anti-Semitism in the United Nations" was carefully chosen. It does not charge the UN, an indispensable world organization, with anti-Semitism. Rather, it suggests that there is a considerable anti-Semitic component behind the policies pursued there and expressed without challenge (except by the United States) in its fora.
Emergency Special Sessions of the United Nations General Assembly are rare. No such session has ever been convened with respect to the Chinese occupation of Tibet, the Indonesian occupation of East Timor, the Syrian occupation of Lebanon, the slaughters in Rwanda, the disappearances in Zaire or the horrors of Bosnia. In fact, during the last 15 years they have been called only to condemn Israel.
Whereas Arab states have traditionally used UN fora to demonize and isolate Israel (for example, they routinely attempt to deny Israel its credentials), they now believe they enjoy "Western" support which emboldens them.
The latest Emergency Special Session, called to address Israeli construction at the Har Homa site, set in motion steps to de-legitimize Israel and to bring it to its knees. During its July meeting, the Session considered a resolution that requested member states "not to allow any import of goods produced and manufactured in occupied Palestinian territories, including Jerusalem" -- a virtual boycott and collective sanctions against the state.
During its November meeting, it took a further step towards making Israel an outlaw state. In a vote of 139 to 3 with 13 abstentions, it set in motion the eventual convening of states parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention, which grew out of the Nazi occupation of Europe. Thus, that Convention will now be employed against the people who were Hitler's victims. The resolutions of the November meeting requested that the Swiss government, as the depository of this Geneva Convention, convene by February 1998 a meeting of experts to initiate the process of condemning Israel for violating the Convention. This was done despite the admonition of Switzerland's UN Observer that such action could damage the peace process and politicize international humanitarian law.
As a result of such bias, the UN has lost credibility. It is no surprise that the Oslo agreements were negotiated outside of, and contained no role for, the UN. Though Israel has been the subject of aggressive wars in 1948, 1967 and 1973 and the victim of countless terrorist attacks, the Security Council and the General Assembly have never once censured its assailants. As Thomas M. Franck, Professor of International Law at New York University, has written, "...the UN is a place of convoluted realities. The Assembly's majority has also done its best to achieve an anti-Israeli politicization of the Secretariat."
It is not just an issue of anti-Israel bias; it is difficult to ignore an anti-Jewish bent in many instances. For 50 years the UN has condemned virtually every conceivable form of racism. It has established programs to combat racism and its multiple facets -- including xenophobia -- but had consistently refused to do the same against anti-Semitism until 1993, and then, only under intense US pressure.
Instead, the General Assembly established two Special Committees and two "special units" in the Secretariat devoted exclusively to Israeli practices, costing millions of dollars yearly. These produce anti-Israeli and Anti-Zionist pamphlets, booklets, papers and films, which are even distributed in the UN's six official languages to school children around the world.
The intense hostility that Israel faces in the UN and the anti-Semitic reverberations are illustrated by two events that occurred at the Commission on Human Rights in 1991 and 1997. During the 1991 session, the Syrian Ambassador repeated the Damascus Blood Libel that Jews killed Christian children to use their blood to make Matzoth. The Western democracies could not be stirred to challenge this age-old anti-Semitic libel (which the Ottoman Sultan as the ruler of Syria, denounced when it surfaced in the 1840s). It took intense US pressure to procure a challenge to this libel in the record, and then only months after the Syrian representative emphasized to the Commission, "it's true, it's true, it's true."
On 11 March 1997, the Palestinian representative charged, in a chamber packed with 500 people including the representatives of 53 states and hundreds of non-governmental organizations, that the Israeli Government had injected 300 Palestinian children with the HIV virus. Despite the repeated interventions of the Governments of Israel and the US, and UN Watch, this modern Blood Libel stands unchallenged and unrefuted on the UN record. No appropriate action by any UN body or official has been taken to date.
The Chairman of the Commission on Human Rights, a Czech, agreed to place on the record his letter to the Ambassador of Israel, sharing his "concern as to the charge made" against Israel -- "an allegation made without evidence, on the basis of a newspaper article ... proved completely false." The Chairman reneged on his agreement after he was called to task by a delegation of Arab Ambassadors and received no support from other regional groups -- including Western Europe.
Blood Libels are vicious and persistent carriers of anti-Semitism. The "Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion" were but a fiction of the Czarist police in the 1890s. Yet they are a well of anti-Semitic pollution -- published today in thousands of copies world-wide. The Damascus Blood Libel was raised 150 years later in the Commission on Human Rights. The latest PLO Blood Libel bears the imprimatur of the UN record and has yet to be removed by consolidated action of the Commission or by any UN agency or official on the public record. (Nor was there any rebuke in 1992 to a UN document circulated in the Commission by the PLO observer, which stated that Israelis "celebrating ...Yom Kippur, are never fully happy even on religious occasions unless their celebrations, as usual, are marked by Palestinian blood.")
The treatment of Israel in the UN is often dismissed as realpolitik -- the power of Arab numbers -- and recently, as a reaction to Israel's Likud government and Prime Minister Netanyahu. Yet even during the hopeful days of the Rabin/Peres peace negotiations there were the usual anti-Israel resolutions passed each year in the UN General Assembly and 5 in the Commission on Human Rights.
Since the Oslo accords, 259 Israelis have been killed and 5000 injured by Palestinian terror attacks. During the same period, 34 resolutions deploring Israel were passed at the UN, but not one against the terror attacks. The unique treatment of Israel cannot be explained on purely political grounds. Though anti-Semitic canards can go unchallenged in the UN, the mere reference in the 1997 Commission on Human Rights to an allegedly blasphemous reference to Islam, by a UN expert and from an academic source, brought a rebuff by consensus by the Chair, and the deletion of the offending sentence.
The viciousness with which Israel is attacked, and the reluctance of even democratic states to defend Israel or to accord it the same latitude for mistakes and wrongs that it freely and reciprocally accords other states, has a special quality and origin.
There is ample justification for the conclusion of Professor Anne Bayefsky of York University, Canada, writing of the UN Human Rights system: "It is the tool of those who would make Israel the archetypal human rights violator in the world today. It is a breeding ground for anti-Semitism. It is a sanctuary for moral relativists. In short, it is a scandal."
The infamous "Zionism is Racism" resolution was passed in 1975 when Yitzhak Rabin was Prime Minister. Describing the circumstances of the passage of the resolution, a representative in the chamber stated that "hatred was crawling on the floor." Although the resolution was rescinded in 1991, anti-Semitism in UN fora is still a force to be reckoned with, bearing in mind that 25 Member States voted against repealing the resolution and 13 abstained.
Anti-Semitism is not dead. Although anti-Semitic incidents have declined and a multi-cultural acceptance has produced wider tolerance in many states including the US, a 2000-year-old virus has mutated, and lives on, often in a disguised form. And the existence and achievements of the Jewish state in an area of relative backwardness stimulate anti-Semitism and furnish a respectable cover. Once anti-Semitism had a religious basis but, with the declining significance of religion in the West, anti-Semitism in church circles has relatively little standing as such.
Hitler exploited anti-Semitism with deadly consequences for Jews and the world. But racial anti-Semitism has been tabooed after the Holocaust and the Nuremberg trials. Now the existence of the state of Israel permits anti-Semitism to assume a political form, safe from challenge as intolerance or racism. How many times one hears: "I like Jews but I can't stand Zionism," or "I have nothing against Jews, but I don't like Israel." The existence and achievements of Israel offer a visible and irresistible target for dormant anti-Semitic feelings aroused by a focus on Israel's mistakes and misdeeds, which are characteristic of every state including the US.
Some Arab states appear to have now found a way to accomplish a purpose that the unrepealed PLO Charter, pledging the destruction of Israel has not achieved.
Wars with Israel have been disasters and are much too problematic to repeat. The attempt to bring Israel to its knees through sanctions and boycotts at the Security Council faces a US veto. However, these Emergency Special Sessions of the UN General Assembly, in which all but 3 states have joined in a collective denunciation, show the possibility of a slow but sure de-legitimization of Israel and the hope of some for its eventual strangulation.
Israel stands at the precipice of being treated at the UN as South Africa during apartheid. It is certainly not comparable, considering that Israeli Arabs are citizens, vote and sit in the Knesset. The challenge to Israel's right to exist as an equal state may soon move from the PLO Charter to the UN. The adjourned Emergency Special Session of the General Assembly is a harbinger of worse to be attempted.
The world faces a dilemma. The UN exists, and there is no present alternative. As Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, former US Ambassador to the UN warned long ago, "the UN is a dangerous place."
The United Nations held their first ever conference on combatting anti-semitism on Thursday January 22, 2015. Barely half of the UN's 193 member states attended the informal meeting, which was planned four months ahead of time in hopes that many members would be able to attend. All 57 Islamic nations represented at the UN unanimously condemned "hatred, anti-semitism, and Islamophobia," in a move that US ambassador to the UN Samantha Power called "extremely significant." Speakers including French philosopher Bernard Henri Levy delved into historical anti-semitism and made the case that European anti-semitism today is as dangerous as ever. Levy stated "In Paris, just a few days ago, we heard once again the infamous cry 'Death to the Jews' and cartoonists were killed because of cartooning, police for policing and Jews just for shopping and being Jews. In other capitals in Europe and elsewhere, faulting the Jews is once again becoming the rallying cry of a new order of assassins, unless it is the same but cloaked in new habits. This assembly was given the sacred task of preventing those terrible spirits from re-awakening, but they have returned and that is why we are here." The most common theme of the day was that anti-semitism is the first step down a long road of racism, bigotry, and discrimination. At the meeting, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said that "Grievances about Israeli actions must never be used as an excuse to attack Jews." The meeting concluded with a panel discussion featuring a group of CEO's of human rights NGO's.
Source: UN Watch; Jerusalem Post (January 22, 2014); Time Magazine (January 23, 2015)"
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9 hours ago, ExFlyer said:
Left wing??
I think Israel is feeding the hate...world wide regardless of politics. Many countries disagree with Israeli tactics.
Even the United Nations "General Assembly Overwhelmingly Adopts Historic Text Demanding Israel End Its Unlawful Presence, Policies in Occupied Palestinian Territory .."
Now Israel and hamas is accused of war crimes
Arrest warrants issued for Netanyahu, Gallant and Hamas commander over alleged war crimes
The U.N. and its associated organizations have a long history of anti-semitism and anti Israel resolutions. Everything they do is automatically anti Israel and has no credibility.
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If I forget thee, O Jerusalem… (Psalm 137)
It is the great moral disorder of our time.
Dear Israel is but a spit of earth on a huge globe. Three years after six million Jews were put to torture, humiliation, whippings, rape, medical experiment, starvation, and vile death, was it not surely time — time for all the nations of the Earth who had reached some moral understanding of life and government — to allow Jewish people time to rest, time to mourn, time to see what and who might be left of them.
To find just one period, just one time, just one place where and when they did not have to start up in the middle of the night when unfamiliar sounds disturbed, did not have to hear demagogues howling at them from street corners, or put up with the trendy, ignorant western pseudo-radicals shouting in bullhorns from library steps. To not see their shops and homes targets of mobs and slanders, their synagogues battered.
A time when they might gather on a bit of land where dogs were not set upon them; where children did not mock them; where passerby thugs did not attack their elders in the street; where Jews unique in their sorrow and pain could meet with some of their tormented doubles, if for nothing else but to share laments and profound griefs, generate solace by shared company and memory.
Ah, Jews. Ah, Israel."
Rex Murphy: Hatred of Israel is the great moral disorder of our time
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24 minutes ago, Michael Hardner said:
Concerned parent?
I'm hoping my school board teaches kids to listen to ideas and be able to turn them around in their heads on their own...
Or I guess I could invite you to burst into the classroom and tell them to yell lalala and cover their ears...
Snowflake noise is a thing folks.
It seems the TDSB is using schools as a tool to brainwash liberal/ leftist ideology into young minds. Of course as a liberal lefty yourself, you would scoff at any exposure of it.
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The Toronto and District School Board has come under fire for opposing Capitalism. Is this a sign that school boards and schools themselves in Canada are brainwashing anti western values and anti-Capitalism ideology into young people? This is something that should be investigated and examined. Should school boards be abolished and a new governance model established?
"“Our capitalist system,” I have just learned, “is one of the main reasons our planet is getting stripped away and destroyed.” That is according to the Toronto District School Board, which made the claim in the November edition of its EcoSchools newsletter to promote something called “Buy Nothing Day” on November 29. The TDSB says that by buying nothing for a day people can protest consumerism and help the environment. The reality, of course, is just the opposite: capitalism and buying things are nothing to protest. Nor are they responsible for “our planet getting stripped away and destroyed.”
Matthew Lau: Schools should stop teaching lies about capitalism
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5 minutes ago, Radiorum said:
I invite you to once again read the principles of scientific pantheism I posted earlier.
Pantheism is just another false religion or false god.
5 minutes ago, Radiorum said:For me, the Bible is a text written by humans thousands of years ago, and not supernaturally inspired.
This is a fatal belief. The nature of the Bible, fulfilled prophecies, and eye witness accounts of miracles and the supernatural all recorded in the Bible point to it being true and supernaturally inspired by God. Many make the same conclusion as you without having studied it. Such judgments are based on zero knowledge of the Bible.
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13 minutes ago, Radiorum said:
98% of scientists accept the theory of evolution as a valid scientific theory. Creation.com found the 2% who don't know what they are talking about.
I don't know what the percentages are. Truth is not determined by numbers. Truth is truth, whatever it may be.
Most of the world believes in false gods or false religion.
So what do numbers prove? Nothing.
There is a very good book called Darwin's Universe, From Nothing, By Nothing, For Nothing, Survival for Nothing by Yan T. Wee. You can purchase it on Alibris as a used book and other websites.
This is a bit of information about the book:
"Darwinists hope to bury God in an avalanche of a causeless universe and a godless evolution. But instead of liberating us, they plunge us into a cosmic depression. We are reduced to: From Nothing, By Nothing, For Nothing - an accidental leftover from the Big Bang, evolved by a lucky chance, and are here for no ultimate purpose. We are just walking molecules, birthed through a cosmic accident, dancing to the music of our DNA, and destined to disappear in a cosmic blink - nothing more, nothing less, nothing else. And when we look to science and evolution for answers, all we get is a blank look. Life has no real purpose dude - it is about the survival of the genes in us - feeding, fending, fleeting and fathering - just live through it and get it over. Our final destination is the hole in the ground. But is it true? Perhaps we are: From Someone, By Someone, For Someone . Perhaps there is an unexplored and awesome universe beyond the Darwinian world of survival for nothing. Science encourages us to think critically and let us place Darwinism in the crosshairs and examine it in the light of empirical science - is it observable, falsifiable and repeatable? If not, it is not experimental science. And, as we shall see, Darwinism is an unobservable and unreproducible pseudo-science. This book will walk us through cosmology, biology, philosophy and end with theology, the queen of the sciences. Empirical science buries Darwinism and resurrects Creationism. We are more than cosmic orphans lost in an accidental, uncaring and dying Universe; we are living souls, made in the image of God, and designed to have a wonderful relationship with an awesome Creator. Yan T Wee, the founding Pastor of Shalom Baptist Church, Singapore, writes from his fascinating research into the latest skirmish between speculative Darwinism and deducible Creationism. He concludes that Darwinism, when viewed in its entirety, is not only disingenuous, but a guaranteed, one-way ticket into the universe of ultimate meaninglessness and despair."
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3 minutes ago, Radiorum said:
I have a great interest in truth. But I will not have it handed to me unquestioned and ready-made. I will use my faculties to figure it out myself. Why did God give me faculties if He did not intend me to use them?
I would say you ignore many angles and thoughts around the subject of evolution, the Bible and the supernatural.
You come across as someone who holds strictly to a purely humanistic, worldly view and seem to reject the supernatural and God out of hand.
That is not rational. Man was not present at the time of creation and therefore has only theories of how it all started and happened.
Logic should tell you an extremely complex universe with all the life forms could not come into existence just by an accident of the cosmos. In other words something as complex and wonderful as the universe and man had to have a designer-Creator. Something does not come from nothing. That is the first principle of logic. Extreme complexity does not come from nothing.
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1 minute ago, Radiorum said:
If you are going to criticize the science, you need to know the science, not what a religious website says.
Actually many of the articles and videos on the creation.com website are speaking from a scientific point of view to demonstrate how the theory of evolution is not credible. Many authors have degrees and are scholars.
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8 hours ago, Radiorum said:
Citing a supernatural source is not rational at all. It refutes all the scientific evidence.
This is where you are wrong. Scientific evidence so called does not prove the theory of evolution. There are countless articles on the creation.com website refuting the theory of evolution.
The Bible says in Genesis ch. 1 that God created the universe and life in six literal days. This was a supernatural event. This is what many Bible believers believe. That is what I believe. I thank God for the gift of faith to believe this.
The theory of evolution is a rejection of God and his almighty power to create everything is six days. Everyone is free to believe what they want, but according to the Bible, rejecting the supernatural has eternal consequences.
"11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. 13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. " 1 Corinthians 2:11-15 KJV
Unless the Holy Spirit of God gives a person the gift of faith to believe the Bible, he will not believe it.
There is a battle going on in the world between God and Satan. Satan's destiny is already determined. He is not going to win. But he wants to take as many souls down with him as possible in the meantime. All I can tell you is if you have any interest in knowing the truth, you need to read the King James Bible with an open mind and be born again. Remember we are talking about the supernatural. Read the gospel of John. Jesus Christ was raised from the dead and seen by eye witnesses as recorded in the Bible. This was a supernatural event just as creation was.
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No wonder the Canadian military is in a disastrous condition.
No wonder the health care system doesn't have the money it requires and is in a crisis with 6.5 million Canadians with no family doctor and ERs shutting down.
People dying on waiting lists in the so-called public health care system.
Food prices out of reach for millions who are forced to go to food banks which are running very low.
But 32 billion for indigenous issues and billions more to fight climate change.
Not to mention the billions spent around the world for various things.
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While the Trudeau government has tripled the amount of money it spends on Indigenous issues from $11 billion annually in 2015 to more than $32 billion earmarked for 2025, it doesn’t appear to be improving the lives of on-reserve Indigenous people, according to a new study by the fiscally conservative Fraser Institute.
In “An Avalanche of Money: The Liberal Government’s Policies Toward First Nations,” author Tom Flanagan argues the most effective program at improving the lives of Indigenous people on reserves has been the Liberals’ Canada Child Benefit introduced by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in 2016 — a universal program that helps all Canadian families, except for those in the highest income brackets.
That raises the question of where all of the other federal money being spent specifically on Indigenous issues is going, Flanagan said.
He notes that from 2016 to 2021, Statistics Canada’s Community Well-Being Index, which measures the standard of living of communities across the country on the basis of education, employment, income and housing, reported that the average gap between First Nations families living on reserves and other Canadian families was reduced from 19.1 points to 16.3.
He argues this occurred mainly due to the increased income the CCB gives to First Nations families living on reserves because they have more children and lower incomes on average than other Canadians.
The CCB allocates up to $7,787 annually per child under age six and up to $6,570 annually for children age six to 17.
These amounts start to be reduced when a family’s adjusted annual net income is over $36,502 and the Trudeau government says it has lifted hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty.
But it also raises the question of where all the money from other federal programs targeted specifically to Indigenous people is going.
For example, the Trudeau government has repeatedly broken its 2015 promise to end all drinking water advisories on First Nations reserves by March 2021.
According to the latest data available, while the federal government has lifted 147 long-term advisories since 2015, 31 remain in effect in 29 Indigenous communities.
Auditor General Karen Hogan reported in 2021 that “Indigenous Services Canada did not provide adequate support to First Nations communities so that they have access to safe drinking water” predicting the problem could continue on some reserves for years
In addition to tripling annual spending on Indigenous issues to $32 billion from 2015 to 2025, Flanagan noted the Trudeau government is settling many Indigenous class action lawsuits without litigation, resulting in increasing liabilities for taxpayers.
Canada's 'net zero’ greenhouse gas emission targets are ‘wishful thinking’: Report
Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux reported in July that the federal government’s estimate of all of its outstanding contingent legal liabilities, as of March 31, 2023, was $76 billion, growing by about 30% annually since 2016, a large portion of this attributed to Indigenous claims.
Giroux noted that in 2023, the Trudeau government recorded expenses of $26 billion related to Indigenous litigation in that year alone, and advised parliamentarians to seek better information from the government on how these expenditures impact the government’s budgetary balance.
Meanwhile, Flanagan said, specific legal claims with Indigenous groups are being settled by the Trudeau government at a rate four times higher than that of the previous Progressive Conservative government, leading to a significant transfer of land and money to First Nations.
“If policy makers in Ottawa want to help Indigenous people, they should look closely at what types of spending policies produce the most tangible benefits,” Flanagan said.
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Well, Justin has a message for you: It’s going to get even harder, Buster, because he is quite willing to jack up the carbon tax.
He knows what the real priority is and it isn’t your kids. It isn’t your mortgage or rent.
As of April, the federal minimum tax was set at $80 per tonne of CO2 equivalent, set to increase to $170 in 2030.
The carbon tax increases the price of everything and Trudeau is willing to hit you harder. If you and your kids cared about global warming the way he and Guilbeault do, you would train your little offspring to get along on twigs.
Perhaps your family could investigate the practice of breatharianism — the belief that a human can survive on air and light. No food required.
Just like that cult, Trudeau is treating global warming like a religion. He is a carbon-taxifarian."
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8 hours ago, taxme said:
The question to be asked here is who were the people that wrote about the history of the Jews anyway? Were they Jewish themselves that wrote about the history of the Jew?
If you are talking about the books in the Old Testament that tell the history of the Jews, that was written by Hebrew (Jewish) men under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit of God. It was written by several dozen authors over a period of more than a thousand years ending around 400 B.C. or ending about 2,400 years ago.
The Old Testament history of Israel is recorded in detail in the historical books of the Bible.
This website is a brief outline of it.
A Brief Chronological History of Old Testament Israel | by David Norczyk | Medium
This history says in part:
"In all, Old Testament biblical history spans from Adam to John the Baptist. This is a chronological expanse of some 4,100 years with Abraham occupying the center point at roughly 2,000 years before the arrival of Jesus Messiah, the promised God-man sent from heaven to save His people from their sins (Mt 1:21)."
I don't know of any other nation which has such a long history and which began as the Jewish nation approximately 4,000 years ago. They are also unique in the fact that their identity as a people survived the past 2,000 years while dispersed throughout the world.
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The Canadian citizens never agreed to anything. Never given a choice.
Bull. We did nothing and owe nothing. There is no "legal or moral liability".
So what? This has nothing to do with the third world countries at all. Any subsidies come from taxpayers in Canada or wherever they are. The claim of subsidies may also be fiction. Environmentalists call normal business tax reductions to cover expenses paid a subsidy. It is not a subsidy. That is not the definition of a subsidy. If an energy company has to spend a billion dollars in order to extract some resources, they receive a tax reduction to compensate for their expenses. This is the same in any business. They don't pay taxes on the cost of doing business or costs of developing resource industries. Often building a oil production facility entails massive pipelines and refining facilities. That is a business expense and must be compensated for by tax reduction on expenses.
Sometimes, subsidies must be given to enable a company to develop the industry in order to create thousands of jobs and future royalties result for the province and taxes for the federal government.