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A Methodist Doctor of Theology

Not only do I consider myself a Christian, I cannot take the insults of people who call themselves Christian seriously.

I have a correspondence with a Methodist minister.

A Doctor of Theology, no less.

He said that Jesus and all the Disciples were colored men. He stated categorically that the first white Christian was Luke the Physician.

I blew that away, so he said “Well, they certainly weren’t your white Christian gentiles.”

He said they were COLORED MEN. That is the fad in theology school today. Wheni blew that away with reference with representations in Rome he had seen long since, he said, “Well, they weren’t blond.”

If Peter had been a COLORED man, the early Christians would have noticed it. There are pictures of Peter from the first century. This ThD has SEEN them.

So he told an intentional untruth.

But it wasn’t a lie because it was a FASHIONABLE untruth.

He was wrong but he wasn’t wrong in an IMPORTANT way.

Nobody admits they were wrong to an Evil Racist.

He has never admitted to me that he was wrong about anything. A Christian has to explain himself to liberals, but never to me.

I criticized his Holy Middle East and he listed five things the Middle East had invented. I took care of every one of them. He was wrong on every one.

He never denied it.

He never admitted it.

Which is exactly what I expect of a professional Christian.

All Pontius Pilate ever had to say to Christ was, “What is truth?”

This is not a new experience for me. As I have said, someone at the University of Virginia in 1964 first heard of me when he was a new student and he wondered who the guy was people kept coming up to and went away from like somebody in a reception line.

He was told, “Whitaker is knocking them down again.”

So the Reverend Doctor set ‘em up and got knocked down.

But he never admitted he was simply wrong about anything.

It never occurred to me that he would.

Admitting that you are just plain wrong is what Christ demanded.

Never admitting that you are wrong is called Christianity.

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Your Word

William the Conqueror took England at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. I believe each army consisted of about 1500 men.

Some, no one knows how many, Saxons did not support Harold because he had given his word to William that William was the rightful heir to England.

Here comes the part we have trouble with. The reason Harold gave his word was that many years before he had been a captive of William and he would have been killed if he hadn’t given his word.

So he gave his word under duress.

So it wasn’t obligatory, right?

Well, the people back in Harold’s day weren’t modern enough to understand that. When you gave your word it was binding, no matter what. Your word was precious, and death was no excuse. If you had to die not to give your word, then you died.

It’s like giving information under torture, once they’ve got it, they’ve got it. Back then, those barbarians figured that once you started excusing people for giving their word, the time would come when “your word” meant nothing.

If you’ve ever studied contract law, you will realize they were right.

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I Don’t Trust Christians or Jews

No non-Moslem really trusts a vocal Moslem. So why do they trust people who make such a point that their whole world is based on their version of Christianity or Judaism?

Jews in general feel that everybody who is not a Jew is their enemy. So eachof the three major conventions of Jews in the United States, Reformed, Conservative, and Orthodox, annually adopt a resolution that there are too damned many white gentiles in America and we need to open up our borders and bring in more NON-white gentiles.

I don’t think I need to describe what would happen if a major non-Jewish convention annually passed a resolution saying there are too damned many Jews inthe United States and they feel threatened by it.

David Lawrence was a Jew who founded US News and World Report. He was not only conservative, he was hardcore pro-white. To the day he died he demanded that congress declare the fourteenth amendment invalid.

But when Lawrence died US News and World Report was taken over by other Jews, standard and packaged Jews who made it just one more liberal rag.

A person is not just himself, he is also part of his community. So rich conservative gentiles leave their money to hard-core leftist churches which give it to support Communist guerrillas in the third world.

I am very nervous about anybody who calls himself a Jew or anybody who makes a point of how Christian he is. You never quite know when he will suddenly decide you have insulted Jehovah and turn on you.

I am regularly told I am a non-Christian because I don’t swallow the Old Testament the way the whale took in Jonah. I never know when a person who seems devoted tothe survivial of the white race will suddenly have a Revelation and declare me his enemy and my race unimportant as compared to Jehovah.

These things don’t bother me as insults. Fifty years of politics makes you more or less immune to those. But what a person says tells you who he really is.

If you’re in hardball politics, you better listen CLOSELY.

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Icthysaurs

The reason I entitled the last article “Icthysauri” instead of Icthysaurs was because they lived a hundred million years ago. I am an educated man so I know they spoke Latin and Greek back then.

Like so much I say that sounds like a joke, this is taken seriously in academia. “Dinosaur” means giant lizard, but a Norwegian who called himself Linaeus — not a typical Norwegian name — developed a way of naming species based on Latin and Greek, which was the language of scholars in his day, hence his own name.

It is every bit as reasonable to say that Lastin and Greek are the international languages today as to say that the Icthysaurs spoke Greek.

Yes, but the word “dinosaur” is international. So everybody knows what it means so you can use it in any language.

Nice try, but what about the REST of the article you are writing? It won’t be in ancient Greek, so what’s the point?

I remember when I was embarrassed out of my wits by a multilingual German asking me why, if Americans were going to use untranslated French quotes, they didn’t just go ahead and write the book in French?

It was emabarrassing for me to explain that the author COULDN’T write the book in French and even if he could the readers who were bursting with pride that they had taken high school French and owned a dictionary couldn’t read the book if he did.

I don’t think he ever really believed that any adult, much less a scholar, could be that silly.

In German there are no big words. Since my subject back then was brick, I know the German word for “refractory,” a material that can withstand huge and rapid temperature changes, is Temperaturwechselbestandigkeit, which looks huge.

But Temperatur means temperature, wechself means “change,” bestandig means the ability to stand against, and keit is a the ending to such a combination, which indicates that if you put it all together you get what the stuff is. Temperaturwechselbestandigkeit can be understood by any adult German. He doesn’t have to go to a dictionary.

So why do doctors have to speak Latin? Why do they spend so much precious time learning words they have to go to a dictionary to look up?

Because it SOUNDS good. It ups their fees.

An icthysaur was an ancient reptile fish.

That wasn’t hard, was it?

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Icthysauri

The dolphins you see at Seaworld are mammals.

Tens of millions of years ago the dolphines were small, furry, four-footed animals I had one as a pet.

So dolphins are mammals who adapted, spectacularly, to live in the sea whence all our ancestors came.

Exactly the same thing happened in the dinosaur era. The icthysaur was a land dinosaurs that evolved to go back into the sea for its entire life. Like the dolphin, it could no longer live on land.

Here is the problem: the icthysaurus became extinct at the same time the dinosaur did. This blows ALL of the theories about dinosaur extinction out of the water, so to speak.

One thing you always hear when the extinction of dinosaurs is discussed is that they died and mammals survived because mammals were little and dinosaurs were big.

‘Fraid not. There were many tiny dinosaurs and one does not see them around any more either.

Other theories run up against the icthysaur. They explain what happened to the dinosaurs on land, but they don’t explain what happened to the ones in the sea. If all the land plants dinosaurs ate died, it would not affect the ones in the sea.

A lot of documentaries have glib explanations like size or why the land dinosaurs died out. I am tired of the ones that would obviously be absurd if little dinosaurs and sea dinosaurs.

It’s like he constant repetition in the 1970s when a new older human ancestor was found. Even the scientific publications would say, “The earliest ancestor of man was in … ” and then a whole new set of theories would pour out based on that find. A few months later another earliest ancestor would be found and another whole set of theories would pour forth.

Every set was wrong, but that didn’t matter. Each set got a lot of professors quoted and published, so they got their promotions and their list pf publications went up. Professors just look at the publications list, not whether what was written made any sense or not.

I stopped that by writing in Science News, to my own astonishment. But Science News reaches millions, so this won’t do it.

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