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The Failure of Western Democracy in the East
American Thinker ^ | October 22, 2023 | Alex Gordon

Posted on 10/22/2023 11:15:18 AM PDT by imardmd1

On October 7, 2023, the Sabbath of the Joy of the Torah, the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust took place. It took place not in the Diaspora, but in the Jewish state, in the south of the country, in the areas bordering Gaza. In an independent, strong Jewish state founded to protect Jews from pogroms, there was a very real pogrom. Why did it happen?

October 7 was a holiday, and the soldiers and officers wanted to be at home with their families, not on military bases in the Israeli south. They wished to keif and enjoy themselves. Hedonism had taken hold of the Israeli youth. There were very few soldiers on the Gaza border. Military intelligence was apparently on vacation as well. It was obvious that Israelis were possessed by a sense of people of the West who do not understand the East and who live in the belief that the desire for peace and life and respect for family and community interests is also shared by Hamas militants.

Westerners cannot comprehend the cult of death and are unable to understand the importance and value of the "holy war," "Jihad," against the "infidels." The Israelis were blinded and by the inertia of Westerners perceived the conflict with the militants as a conflict with people who, like them, are all about life, building and development. They allowed themselves to relax and be undisciplined. Freedom turned to promiscuity.

see more at https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/10/the_failure_of_western_democracy_in_the_east.html

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TOPICS: Current Events; Evangelical Christian; History; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: alexgordon; monarchy; spynet; theocracy; tyranny
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Submitted to the Religion Forum in that the hidden theme of congregationally-governed democratic republics that have always and ever been attacked by tyrant-enabled religio-political systems is here revealed. The viable existence of realms like that of the Islamist Hamas or ISIS entities which allow no tolerance of individual freedom of thinking and action ought to be identified and purged. A free system that possesses the necessary attributes that constitute an abundant life, an untrammeled sovereign liberty of thought, and a pursuit of happiness that excludes personal dominance by the priests of religion and politics ought to be preferred and promoted. at least here on the North American continent.
1 posted on 10/22/2023 11:15:18 AM PDT by imardmd1
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On the Cap Cod we did have the sources of such resistance to the overwhelming pietistic merchants of death. Their theme of individual liberty has survived but continually diminished little by little, until it has neared extinguishment by those immigrating legally or not, whose core cultural goal has been to reestabish some form of tyrranocracy, one type of organized religion after another.

Only true New Testament-styled Christ-headed local assemblies, councils of supporting Deists, and survival-gifted tolerable Hebraic synagoguers have resisted that form of tyranny that is now overcoming the Constitutionalist-founded rule of law that was to govern the behavior of our nation.

However, our second President John Adams predicted that: "The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If 'Thou shall not covet,' and 'Thou shall not steal,' are not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society, before it can be civilized or made free."

"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." A humble but wise man indeed, the First of our articulate learned Founders, one to imitate as far as possible with the Lord Jesus Messiah as the principal model, God Incarnate, stll living, and Superior above all.

Our nation seems now to be ungovernable by the Constitution without it being so surgically misformed as to be another creature not godly or even human, but becoming like that "Great Satan" recognized even by the Satanic Islamist heathen themselves.

God save and appoint the Supreme Court Justices whose terms can only be ended by personal relinquishment, disabling mental capacity, or physical death.

2 posted on 10/22/2023 11:36:23 AM PDT by imardmd1 (To learn is to live. To live is to teach another. Fiat Lux!)
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To: imardmd1

and they’re moving, being moved by politicians to the West to destroy what’s left of Western Democracy


3 posted on 10/22/2023 11:42:47 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: imardmd1

“The Failure of Western Democracy in the East”

Eastern US that is.


4 posted on 10/22/2023 11:44:38 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: imardmd1

Reverence for human life and respect for its sanctity are relatively recent developments whose history is measured in a few centuries, primarily products of Western civilized thought. And for “Western civilized thought” we can understand primarily European, Judeo-Christian, and yes, white. The rest of the world don’t think the same way because they don’t hold these values, and they never will.


5 posted on 10/22/2023 11:55:26 AM PDT by motor_racer ("We're gonna punish our enemies, and we're gonna reward our friends" - Barak Hussein Obama)
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To: imardmd1

I think “Western Thinkers,” (I count myself as one) do not, can not, fully understand people whose most fundamental thoughts, imperitives, and desires seriously conflict.

Much of it is due to the value placed on a Good Life, as we see it, and on Life at all as a prime imperitive.


6 posted on 10/22/2023 12:02:55 PM PDT by William of Barsoom (In Omnia, Paratus)
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To: imardmd1

Dems understand and let blm and antifa destroy amerikant cities and commit murder!


7 posted on 10/22/2023 12:06:09 PM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: imardmd1
They wished to keif and enjoy themselves.

Related to the German "kiffen." To smoke (high-quality) marijuana.

Regards,

8 posted on 10/22/2023 12:18:37 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: imardmd1

Something to consider is that Israel brought this upon themselves by disarming their people. They should be like the Swiss — every household armed and every person trained.
If you are unwilling to live is such a household, leave Israel — you are baggage.


9 posted on 10/22/2023 12:45:19 PM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo)
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Has Western democracy ever successfully resisted Islam?

When Islam was turned back at Tours or Vienna, thwarted in conquering China, fought for centuries in India, none of that was by Western Democracy.


10 posted on 10/22/2023 1:11:40 PM PDT by FarCenter
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To: motor_racer
Thank you for this cogent comment, with respect.

Your servant and FRiend,

imardmd1

11 posted on 10/22/2023 1:15:23 PM PDT by imardmd1 (To learn is to live. To live is to teach another. Fiat Lux!)
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Let’s focus on the failure of Western Democracy™ in the West.

Let the lesser breeds without the law shift for themselves. Our war is here.


12 posted on 10/22/2023 1:17:23 PM PDT by Jim Noble (They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn)
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I disagree with the author on several points.

The entire nation of Israel was on high alert for the week before Yom Kippur, the week during Yom Kippur, and the week after Yom Kippur.

Hamas struck two weeks after Yom Kippur, on a weekend, when many exhausted security people were catching up on sleep or taking the weekend off.

Hamas crossed the Israeli border at seven points. At three points, they advanced a mile or less. Their deepest penetration was less than four miles, against their softest target - the music festival.

I have not seen Israeli death statistics exclusively for the land invasion. Many Israelis died during the sudden massive Hamas rocket assault.

It is possible that half the Israelis killed or taken hostage during the land invasion were unarmed youngsters at the music festival.

Finally, no one seems to be aware that the Hamas land invasion was conducted by 2,000 Suicide Soldiers.

The Israelis killed at least 1,500 of those soldiers.

13 posted on 10/22/2023 1:19:55 PM PDT by zeestephen (Trump "Lost" By 43,000 Votes - Spread Across Three States - GA, WI, AZ)
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To: imardmd1

Did you write this article? Just curious.


14 posted on 10/22/2023 1:20:16 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: zeestephen

Well stated.


15 posted on 10/22/2023 1:25:49 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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“...belief that the desire for peace and life and respect for family and community interests is also shared by Hamas militants.”

If you work around terrorists, you gain an understanding of parts of their thought process. They are different than the Christian view in that Christians value life and many of them a trust and understanding of what their God has provided.

Islamists do not value life to include their own. They only value their God who also does not value life as he openly invites the Islamists to torture and kill non-believers where ever they hide. And they make that quite clear with their actions based upon qur’an teachings.

The problem is that the leaders in Christianity and the government of the US no longer wishes to engage the evil to change it or destroy it even when it attacks those who do not wish to be part of it and do are not aggressive toward it.

An excellent example of this is here:

https://www.mwkworks.com/onsheepwolvesandsheepdogs.html

This says it all.

wy69


16 posted on 10/22/2023 1:26:14 PM PDT by whitney69
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To: ifinnegan
No, I just posted the American Thinker article. But I did expand upon it in my Posts #1 and #2. Those I wrote just now, today, myself, and I am accountable for them only.

But thanks for asking. I think that might sound like a commendation(?)

17 posted on 10/22/2023 1:32:14 PM PDT by imardmd1 (To learn is to live. To live is to teach another. Fiat Lux!)
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To: imardmd1

It did seems perhaps the same author.


18 posted on 10/22/2023 1:34:50 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: motor_racer

Reverence for human life and respect for its sanctity are relatively recent developments whose history is measured in a few centuries, primarily products of Western civilized thought. And for “Western civilized thought” we can understand primarily European, Judeo-Christian, and yes, white. The rest of the world don’t think the same way because they don’t hold these values, and they never will.

And yet many third world countries have stricter laws against abortion than the US does. Abortion is overwhelmingly a sacrament of white liberals.

19 posted on 10/22/2023 3:51:57 PM PDT by FormerFRLurker ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"-Voltaire)
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To: whitney69

>>They are different than the Christian view in that Christians value life and many of them a trust and understanding of what their God has provided.

“When they discovered, from the admissions of some of them, that there were Catholics mingled with the heretics they said to the abbot “Sir, what shall we do, for we cannot distinguish between the faithful and the heretics.” The abbot, like the others, was afraid that many, in fear of death, would pretend to be Catholics, and after their departure, would return to their heresy, and is said to have replied “Kill them all for the Lord knoweth them that are His” (2 Tim. ii. 19) and so countless number in that town were slain.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caedite_eos._Novit_enim_Dominus_qui_sunt_eius.


20 posted on 10/22/2023 4:34:54 PM PDT by FarCenter
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