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12 Jul 2023 - Russia should stop attacking Russia – Biden

The US leader delivered his most recent gaffe during a keynote speech at the NATO summit

“Russia could end this war tomorrow by withdrawing its forces from Ukraine, recognize its international borders and ceasing its attacks on, its inhumane attacks, on Russia,” Biden said on Wednesday. “I mean by Russia, on Ukraine,” he quickly corrected himself.

https://www.rt.com/news/579622-biden-russia-gaffe-nato/

 

Funny thing, although the media has been reporting this as a gaffe. The media also tends to ignore the history of Malorussia. Malorussia (Aka Little Russia) is a geographical and historical term used to describe the modern-day territories of Ukraine

 

From Little Russia to Ukraine

The term Little Russia, which traces its origin to medieval times, was once widely used as the name for the geographic territory.[citation needed] The first appearance of the name Ukraine (Ukraina) was in 12th-century chronicles;[citation needed] it was used sporadically from the mid-17th century until it was reintroduced in the 19th century by several writers making a conscious effort to awaken Ukrainian national awareness.[21] But it was not until the 20th century when the modern term Ukraine started to prevail, while Little Russia gradually fell out of use.

Today, many Ukrainians consider the term disparaging, indicative of imperial Russian (and Soviet) suppression of Ukrainian identity and language. It has continued to be used in Russian nationalist discourse, in which modern Ukrainians are presented as a single people in a united Russian nation.[23] This has provoked new hostility toward and disapproval of the term by some Ukrainians.[21] In July 2021 Vladimir Putin published a 7000-word essay, a large part of which was devoted to expounding these views.[24]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Russia

 

History is always a case of he said she said.  George Orwell — 'Those who control the present, control the past, and those who control the past control the future.'

George Orwell's statement is bigger than I have understood it to be. Control history and you control the world. Dissenting voices, your political opponents, who get to call themselves victims and who get to have their demands met.

 

18 April 2022 - Douglas Murray writes - The War on the West.

In recent years, the critics of the West have marked themselves out through a set of extraordinary claims. Their technique is a pattern. It is to zoom in on Western behaviour, remove it from its context of the time, set aside any non-Western parallels, and then exaggerate what the West actually did.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-10727009/If-Churchill-sullied-Lefts-woke-warriors-force-writes-DOUGLAS-MURRAY.html

 

Quadrant Online

8 Jul 2022 - ‘Truth Telling’ and Aboriginal Tribal Warfare

The Uluru Statement from the heart which Prime Minister Anthony Albanese recently endorsed in full, has a plethora of legal, racial and practical problems. More specifically, it argues a voice to parliament will be a part of the pursuit for historical ‘truth telling’, which includes the frontier wars and various massacres committed by European settlers. However, the statement remains silent on anything that does not support this one-sided view of Australia’s past.

A state of violent conflict worse than the European theatre of war speaks to the complexity of Australia’s history and the danger of appending to colonisation a basket of unique violence specific to one cultural group.

This goes to show the fraudulent dangers of national repentance and reparations. Who will pay the Southern Arrentes’ descendants for their loss? Will the Matuantara people be called upon to ‘pay the rent’ for the land they took from the Southern Arrente? Should the government insist there is an inherited debt of guilt to be apportioned for crippling women and children and leaving them to die? Will the perpetrators’ descendants be called upon to apologise in an admission of public guilt?

A similar thing is happening in Australia right now. If activists want to think seriously about putting the responsibility of past injustices upon modern descendants, the current demand for repentance and reparations must be expanded beyond ‘white guilt’ to acknowledge the massacres of Aborigines by other Aborigines. ‘Truth telling’, if it is to mean anything, should not be politicised.

https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/aborigines/2022/07/truth-telling-and-aboriginal-tribal-warfare/

 

 

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Genesis 4:10 The LORD said, “What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground.

I think history is an easy thing really. There are people to respect and there are people who are not worthy of respect along with shades of grey. From what I have seen all cultures have them. I often wonder what type of Utopia people think people were living in throughout history. Perhaps there are some soldiers of fortune out there. Who might be up for a debate on what the oldest profession in the world is? I believe it would be murder.

Currently, Australia has two Aboriginals/of Aboriginal descent. One as the minister of Indigenous Affairs and one as the shadow minister of Indigenous Affairs who are not going to have a debate. About the voice, basically, an Aboriginal committee enshrined in the constitution to make representation to the Australian Government because what the world needs is another committee.

 

20 Jul 2023 - Debate dodge by Minister Burney 'unfair on voters' - Sky News Australia

 

 

Perhaps an honorable mention if you know anything about Australian politics is Linda Thorpe also an Aboriginal/Aboriginal descent.

20 Jul 2023 - ‘She’s a victim’: Lidia Thorpe slammed for calling King Charles a ‘violent invader’ - Sky News Australia

 

 

 

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Personally, I can't say I am a fan of anybody sticking a flag in the dirt or saying we owned the land. Throughout history it is what it is I guess and it generally means only one thing. If you step foot on what we consider ours there will be a fight. I am not sure what answers there are for the human race but I do have a favorite class of humans. They are the ones that seek to be a blessing to somebody else. Half the time it is just a case of not playing politics, putting themselves in somebody else's shoes, and not segmenting an argument.

I am not sure if not segmenting an argument is even possible as we all come with our own perspectives on an issue. So from my perspective, I have my faults, and I have my biases but by the grace of God go I. To call Australia racist or whites racist to me only shows your own racism because you have generalized an entire population. Both Africa and Australia existed for tens of thousands of years before the Europeans landed and what did they find? Did they find a land of brotherly love and tolerance for one another? Did they find any shape or form of Wakanda?

 

Infanticide

Infanticide (or infant homicide) is the intentional killing of infants or offspring. Infanticide was a widespread practice throughout human history that was mainly used to dispose of unwanted children,[1]: 61  its main purpose being the prevention of resources being spent on weak or disabled offspring. Unwanted infants were normally abandoned to die of exposure, but in some societies they were deliberately killed.

 

Africa

In some African societies some neonates were killed because of beliefs in evil omens or because they were considered unlucky. Twins were usually put to death in Arebo; as well as by the Nama people of South West Africa; in the Lake Victoria Nyanza region; by the Tswana in Portuguese East Africa; in some parts of Igboland, Nigeria twins were sometimes abandoned in a forest at birth (as depicted in Things Fall Apart), oftentimes one twin was killed or hidden by midwives of wealthier mothers; and by the !Kung people of the Kalahari Desert.[9]: 160–61  The Kikuyu, Kenya's most populous ethnic group, practiced ritual killing of twins.[101]

Infanticide is rooted in the old traditions and beliefs prevailing all over the country. A survey conducted by Disability Rights International found that 45% of women interviewed by them in Kenya were pressured to kill their children born with disabilities. The pressure is much higher in the rural areas, with every two mothers being forced out of three.[102]

Australia

Literature suggests infanticide may have occurred reasonably commonly among Indigenous Australians, in all areas of Australia prior to European settlement.[citation needed] Infanticide may have continued to occur quite often up until the 1960s. An 1866 issue of The Australian News for Home Readers informed readers that "the crime of infanticide is so prevalent amongst the natives that it is rare to see an infant".[103]

Author Susanna de Vries in 2007 told a newspaper that her accounts of Aboriginal violence, including infanticide, were censored by publishers in the 1980s and 1990s. She told reporters that the censorship "stemmed from guilt over the stolen children question".[104] Keith Windschuttle weighed in on the conversation, saying this type of censorship started in the 1970s.[104] In the same article Louis Nowra suggested that infanticide in customary Aboriginal law may have been because it was difficult to keep an abundant number of Aboriginal children alive; there were life-and-death decisions modern-day Australians no longer have to face.[104]

South Australia and Victoria

According to William D. Rubinstein, "Nineteenth-century European observers of Aboriginal life in South Australia and Victoria reported that about 30% of Aboriginal infants were killed at birth."[105]

James Dawson wrote a passage about infanticide among Indigenous people in the western district of Victoria, which stated that "Twins are as common among them as among Europeans; but as food is occasionally very scarce, and a large family troublesome to move about, it is lawful and customary to destroy the weakest twin child, irrespective of sex. It is usual also to destroy those which are malformed."[106]

He also wrote "When a woman has children too rapidly for the convenience and necessities of the parents, she makes up her mind to let one be killed, and consults with her husband which it is to be. As the strength of a tribe depends more on males than females, the girls are generally sacrificed. The child is put to death and buried, or burned without ceremony; not, however, by its father or mother, but by relatives. No one wears mourning for it. Sickly children are never killed on account of their bad health, and are allowed to die naturally."[106]

Western Australia

In 1937, a Christian reverend in the Kimberley offered a "baby bonus" to Aboriginal families as a deterrent against infanticide and to increase the birthrate of the local Indigenous population.[107]

Australian Capital Territory

A Canberran journalist in 1927 wrote of the "cheapness of life" to the Aboriginal people local to the Canberra area 100 years before. "If drought or bush fires had devastated the country and curtailed food supplies, babies got a short shift. Ailing babies, too would not be kept", he wrote.[108]

New South Wales

A bishop wrote in 1928 that it was common for Aboriginal Australians to restrict the size of their tribal groups, including by infanticide, so that the food resources of the tribal area may be sufficient for them.[109]

Northern Territory

Annette Hamilton, a professor of anthropology at Macquarie University who carried out research in the Aboriginal community of Maningrida in Arnhem Land during the 1960s wrote that prior to that time part-European babies born to Aboriginal mothers had not been allowed to live, and that 'mixed-unions are frowned on by men and women alike as a matter of principle'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infanticide

 

Oh, you needed to do it for food. To figure out farming must have been too much work. Black is good white bad.  (Yes, I am making a generalization)

 

History Of Agriculture

Agriculture began independently in different parts of the globe, and included a diverse range of taxa. At least eleven separate regions of the Old and New World were involved as independent centers of origin. The development of agriculture about 12,000 years ago changed the way humans lived. They switched from nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyles to permanent settlements and farming.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_agriculture

 

I do give the Jews one credit, Throughout their history when bad things happened they tended to view it as we have sinned against God. They view their 400 hundred years of slavery in Egypt as a Judgement of God. Perhaps you might think that is just stupid delusional faith thinking. With karma, I do think there is a chance to think soberly about yourself.  With politics, it feels like a game of pointing out who is the biggest hypocrite. It is not my intention with this thread.

 

There but for the grace of God go I

There are several variants of this phrase, but all make reference to the same concept: an admission of humility that were it not for the work of God's grace (and perhaps also one's upbringing among those also formed in God's grace), any number of trials or tribulations could have befallen a person. The original is most often attributed to St. Francis of Assisi, who may well have been quoting or paraphrasing the words of the Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 15:8–10, which states, "Last of all, as to one born abnormally, he appeared to me. For I am the least of the apostles, not fit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am...".

It has also been attributed to a mid-sixteenth-century statement by a reformer John Bradford, "There but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford", in reference to a group of prisoners being led to execution.

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

 

Which brings me to somebody like Dr Dennis Kilama

Dr Dennis Kilama is a Council member of The Gospel Coalition Africa. He has served as a lecturer and the Deputy Vice Chancellor of Africa Renewal University in Uganda, an evangelical University equipping leaders to transform society. Dennis is an ordained minister under the Baptist Union of Uganda and has served as senior pastor of Lugogo Baptist Church in Kampala. He is currently on sabbatical leave as he pursues his Phd in Philanthropy at Indiana University, Indiana, USA.

Dennis has written and researched on cross cultural missions and contextualization. He also serves on several boards engaged in missions mobilization and training in Uganda. Dennis is married to Yvonne and God has blessed them with three children.

https://africa.thegospelcoalition.org/profile/dennis-kilama/

 

It is Dr Dennis Kilama who wrote the article below. The chilling truth & gospel cure.

30 Mar 2021 - Child Sacrifice in Uganda: The Chilling Truth & Gospel Cure

Child Sacrifice Is Happening In Africa Today

Human sacrifice is a chilling reality in Africa. It is happening today. Countries where it is reported include: Uganda, Nigeria, Swaziland, Mali, Tanzania, and Namibia. The victims of this cruel vice are mainly children. They are tortured, mutilated, and killed. One reason as to why children are the victims is because they are easy prey to abduct. But more significantly, it is that their blood is viewed as pure: without blemish. Many Africans believe that pure blood yields better results in the practise of sacrifices.

What Beliefs Lie Behind Child Sacrifice?

Child sacrifice in Africa originates from the belief that man is limited in power, while spirits have unlimited power. By appeasing the spirits one can tap into their power. Many believe that there is power in shedding blood from animals. This appeases the ancestors and spirits. Thus people make sacrifices seeking power from the spirits.

Power & Prosperity At Any Cost

Underlying this practice is the desire to get rich quickly or to gain political victory. The high poverty levels in Africa only catalyse this evil, for desperation makes it worse. People are willing to sacrifice anything – even their children – to gain power and money. Often parents, housemaids, and relatives are involved in the practice. These men and women seek the power of the spirits through whatever means possible.

Behold, The Lamb of God

The uniqueness of biblical Christianity is that in Jesus there is one perfect, sufficient sacrifice. Jesus’ death was sufficient to avert the wrath of God, eternally. In Christ we also have a single, reliable, and relatable high priest. He lives to intercede, hiding nothing from us while holding out his perfect blood. His death made all other blood sacrifices and mediators obsolete.

https://africa.thegospelcoalition.org/article/child-sacrifice-in-uganda-the-chilling-truth-gospel-cure/

 

Behold, The Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.

 

Matthew 5: 1-25 

Now when Jesus saw the crowds, he went up on a mountainside and sat down. His disciples came to him, and he began to teach them.

The Beatitudes

He said:

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.
10 Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.11 “Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. 12 Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

Salt and Light

13 “You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.

14 “You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. 15 Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. 16 In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.

The Fulfillment of the Law

17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18 For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. 19 Therefore anyone who sets aside one of the least of these commands and teaches others accordingly will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 20 For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.

Murder

21 “You have heard that it was said to the people long ago, ‘You shall not murder, and anyone who murders will be subject to judgment.’ 22 But I tell you that anyone who is angry with a brother or sister will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to a brother or sister, ‘Raca,’ is answerable to the court. And anyone who says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of hell.

23 “Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother or sister has something against you, 24 leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to them; then come and offer your gift.

25 “Settle matters quickly with your adversary who is taking you to court. Do it while you are still together on the way, or your adversary may hand you over to the judge, and the judge may hand you over to the officer, and you may be thrown into prison. 26 Truly I tell you, you will not get out until you have paid the last penny.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%205&version=NIV

 

 

 

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I feel I have said enough in this thread. I am going to leave it with Matthew 18. I am fine if the bible is not everyone's cup of tea. I am not in church myself but I still think of it as a puzzle book and a type of hope.

 

The Greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven

18 At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Who, then, is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?”

He called a little child to him, and placed the child among them. And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me.

Causing to Stumble

“If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea. Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to stumble! Such things must come, but woe to the person through whom they come! If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life maimed or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire. And if your eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell.

The Parable of the Wandering Sheep

10 “See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.

12 “What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off? 13 And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he is happier about that one sheep than about the ninety-nine that did not wander off. 14 In the same way your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should perish.

Dealing With Sin in the Church

15 “If your brother or sister sins go and point out their fault, just between the two of you. If they listen to you, you have won them over. 16 But if they will not listen, take one or two others along, so that ‘every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses. 17 If they still refuse to listen, tell it to the church; and if they refuse to listen even to the church, treat them as you would a pagan or a tax collector.

18 “Truly I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will beloosed in heaven.

19 “Again, truly I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything they ask for, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. 20 For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.”

The Parable of the Unmerciful Servant

21 Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother or sister who sins against me? Up to seven times?”

22 Jesus answered, “I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times

23 “Therefore, the kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants. 24 As he began the settlement, a man who owed him ten thousand bags of gold was brought to him. 25 Since he was not able to pay, the master ordered that he and his wife and his children and all that he had be sold to repay the debt.

26 “At this the servant fell on his knees before him. ‘Be patient with me,’ he begged, ‘and I will pay back everything.’ 27 The servant’s master took pity on him, canceled the debt and let him go.

28 “But when that servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred silver coins.He grabbed him and began to choke him. ‘Pay back what you owe me!’ he demanded.

29 “His fellow servant fell to his knees and begged him, ‘Be patient with me, and I will pay it back.’

30 “But he refused. Instead, he went off and had the man thrown into prison until he could pay the debt. 31 When the other servants saw what had happened, they were outraged and went and told their master everything that had happened.

32 “Then the master called the servant in. ‘You wicked servant,’ he said, ‘I canceled all that debt of yours because you begged me to. 33 Shouldn’t you have had mercy on your fellow servant just as I had on you?’ 34 In anger his master handed him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should pay back all he owed.

35 “This is how my heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother or sister from your heart.”

 

 

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