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The Wedgie Document – Censor Frank Turek, Praise Charles Darwin

[Note: I am reposting this as I have to move it from whence it was originally posted long ago]

This is a succinct and exemplary segment of “The Wedgie” Document. While one would hope that it is not very exemplary, I do fear that the sort of occurrence herein described is all too common.

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The following is from an article by Mike Adams that is entitled, Is Atheism Only a Bundle of Sentiments?

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“This semester, I learned that one of my colleagues is teaching our Sociology of Religion course with two supplemental texts, neither of which could be characterized as sociological in nature. One is The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins. The other is God is Not Great, by Christopher Hitchens. (The latter is an especially odd choice because it merely documents all the bad things members of each religion have done. The professor, who also teaches a course in Race and Ethnicity, would certainly never choose a course that merely documented all the bad things done by every race other than his own)…

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[Frank Turek] would then give a lecture outlining the reasons why he has concluded that atheism requires more faith than Christianity. We would then open up the microphone for an extended Q and A session.
As we approach the date of that lecture (March 24th, 2008 in the UNC-Wilmington Warwick Center Ballroom) we began to advertise. Unfortunately, our six requests for help from the university were ignored altogether. Two of those requests were directed towards the folks who run the “Faculty and Staff News” link on www.UNCW.edu. The folks who run that source of information claim to have a right to decline postings because they are “political” or, for that matter, to decline to post for any reason they choose…

I decided to write a letter directly to Chancellor Rosemary DePaolo to assert that the UNC-Wilmington website is a public forum and that, therefore, they really do not enjoy a right to engage in unbridled discrimination. Unsurprisingly, DePaolo did not give me the courtesy of a response…

Currently UNCW is promoting a “Celebration of Darwin” with various speeches and courses, which, taken together, make the Turek lecture so much more important in an environment claiming an interest in “tolerance” and “diversity” of different view…”

FYI: Frank Turek is the co-author, along with Norm Geisler of the book I Don’t Have Enough Faith To Be An Atheist et al (so, of course, he is being censored).

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“The Jews” in the New Testament, part 1 of 4

What does the New Testament mean by its use of the term “the Jews”? Does it mean every Jewish person who ever lived? Or perhaps those in Jerusalem at the time. Or maybe those who did not believe that Jesus is the Messiah.

In this parsed essay we will explore this question in these parts:

Part 1: Introduction and The Blood Libel
Part 2: Crucifixion Was Roman and Not Jewish and Who is Responsible for Jesus’ Death? Part 3: Falsity

Part 4: Conclusion

Jesus was Jewish, the twelve Apostles were Jewish, the fist disciples were Jewish. What later came to be known as the Christian movement was founded by a Jew, joined by Jews, and spread by Jews with Gentiles—non-Jews—eventually joining this movement (followers of Jesus were originally known as followers of the Way).

The New Testament comprises twenty-seven books—twenty-five were written by Jews and two were written by the Greek doctor Luke (see my essay A Jewish Book Called the New Testament). In the New Testament we find that it is the Jewish writers and speakers who use the term “the Jews.” Some may think that they did this in order to besmirch. Others may think that they did so because they were now Jewish-Christians and were distancing themselves from the non-Christian Jews.

Putting all speculations aside; we find that contextually the Jewish writer / speakers were generally referring to the Jewish religious leaders when they utilized the term “the Jews.” One such description of whom they addressed as such is found in Luke 24:19-20,

“…Jesus of Nazareth, who was a man, a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people, and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered Him to the judgment of death, and have crucified Him.”

Jesus speaks very differently to the common people as opposed to the religious rulers.
In the eyes of the Jewish religious leadership putting Jesus to death was the correct course of action. Since they thought Him to be a false prophet (or false Messiah) the Law of Moses, the Torah, called for such retribution. In that sense we may state that they thought that they were doing the right thing. Of course, they were not doing the right thing since Jesus is the Messiah. The point is that when we understand the point of view of some of the religious leaders of the time we should not be surprised to learn that they wanted to put Jesus to death. As far as they could see, it was their religious duty (of course, there were various other motivating factors).

The Blood Libel:
When, while calling for Jesus’ crucifixion, the crowd stated, “Let His blood be on us and on our children,” (Matthew 27:25) they were utilizing hyperbolic language in order to accentuate their total assurance that they were acting correctly, as they saw it and according to their Law; they were calling for the death of a false prophet. Another aspect to consider is that the Jewish people know that God deals with them nationally as far as their obedience (or lack thereof) or their sin is concerned. But there is no indication in the New Testament that the crowd’s statements were meant as a sign from above to persecute the Jews nor that they had the ability to pronounce any sort of curse upon themselves for generations to come. In fact, quite the opposite is the case.

Jesus, the one whom they were calling to be crucified, said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do” (Luke 23:34). If Jesus Himself asked God the Father to forgive them then it is beyond all reason and scripture that anyone who calls themselves a Christian should persecute the Jews. The fact is that even if Christians thought that Jews were their enemies they are supposed to love them all the more, bless them all the more, and pray for them all the more.

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Jesus taught,

“I say to you, Love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who despitefully use you and persecute you, so that you may become sons of your Father in Heaven. For He makes His sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust” (Matthew 5:44-45).

Rabbi Saul of Tarsus, later known as Paul the Apostle, wrote,

“Repay no one evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men. If it is possible, as far as is in you, being in peace with all men. Not avenging yourselves, beloved, but giving place to wrath; for it is written, ‘Vengeance is Mine, I will repay, says the Lord.’ Therefore, if your enemy hungers, feed him. If he thirsts, give him drink. For in so doing you shall heap coals of fire on his head. Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good” (Romans 12:17-21).

These texts form the New Testament are not directed specifically at the Jews and that is just the point. No matter who our enemy is, who hates us, who persecutes us, we are called upon to love, pray, bless and do good to them.

As Joe Keysor points out in his book, “Hitler, the Holocaust, and the Bible” (reviewed here),

“a blood libel has been attached to the teachings of Christ, often by the very same people who hypocritically object to a blood libel being applied to themselves.”

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1 Enoch

Herein we continue, from part 1, considering Cherubim and Seraphim in text generally termed the Apocrypha, Deutero Canonical, Pseudepigrapha, Gnostic Texts, etc. (see my article on the Apocrypha here). The fuller complete result consists of quotations of those sections within the text that refer to Angels, Cherubim, Seraphim, Devil, Satan, demons, serpent and dragon.

Bertrand L. Comparet on pre Adamic races

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…Genesis 4:1. “And Adam knew his wife, and she conceived and bare Cain.” Notice that what is not said is more significant that what is said, the Bible nowhere says Adam begat Cain…there are

literal children of Satan surviving in the world today…

—Bertrand L. Comparet

With this series, which I herein continue, I will consider Bertrand L. Comparet, A.B., J.D.’s The Cain/Satanic Seed Line. You can find the series on Comparet here.

Bertrand L. Comparet also hold to the un-, non- and anti-biblical view that there were “millions of the pre Adamic, Asiatic and African people around” at the time of the Garden of Eden event. And this is part of his racism as he specifies that “Adam was the son of Yahweh. It doesn’t record that about any of these pre Adamic people mentioned in Genesis chapter 1”—for some odd reason, he did not get around to telling us exactly whereabouts in Genesis 1 (or anywhere else) we are told of pre-Adamic humans (if racists such as Comparet would even call them humans).

He claims that “The trees in the Garden of Eden were the family trees of nations and races…Adam and Eve weren’t supposed to intermingle with these people. If Negroes and Asiatics were all that Yahweh wanted, He already had them…Adam and Eve were told not to mongrelize their race with these per Adamic people that were in the world.”
Note how inconsistent he is since on his very own view this actually means that as per Genesis 2 Adam and Eve were allowed to have sex with multiple partners of multiple nations and race since God stated “Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat” with the one exception.

Bertrand L. Comparet then gives us another faulty Hebrew lesson in claiming that in Genesis 3:13 the term translated as beguiled “means seduced.” So what of it: his mind is in the sexual gutter but one can seduce sexually or not such as an advertisement that is designed to seduce you into purchasing a product.

Of course, Bertrand L. Comparet’s goal is to claim that “Cain was the product of this seduction.” He tells us that the enmity will be between the woman’s literal seed and the serpent’s literal seed, “Satan was to have just as literal children in this world as Eve was to have.”
Well, ultimately the woman’s seed is Jesus and so even in the roundabout way of the ultimate fulfillment via that virgin birth indeed, seed means offspring: direct or not. The issue is that indeed, biblically there are two seedlines but they are not based on genetics but rather on actions: sinful Satanic actions versus righteous Godly actions. The good news is that since it is not about genetics the sinful Satanic line can repent.

Comparet then tells us that “churchianity preachers” will point out the fact that Genesis 4:1 states, “And Adam knew his wife, and she conceived and bare Cain” just as he quotes it to which the then comments, “Notice that what is not said is more significant that what is said, the Bible nowhere says Adam begat Cain.” It is literally beyond reason to quote a text which states that “Adam knew his wife, and she conceived and bare Cain” and conclude from it that “the Bible nowhere says Adam begat Cain.” Sadly, is a typical great example of how the serpent seedline of Satan theory is concocted and promulgated. He merely attempts to sidestep the fact by pointing out the “monotonous regularity with which it [the Old Testament] always says, and so and so begat whosis and whosis begat what’s his name and what’s his name begat somebody else, and so on….You got citizenship because your ancestors.” Yet, a straight reading of clear text is that there were Adam and Eve and they began Cain—period.

In fact, for what it is worth (and I think that it is worth a lot) Angels look just like human males but since Satan is a Cherub he has four face, four wings but we get not description of their torso much less their nether regions. They may not even have the necessary equipment, as it were, to engage in such physically copulating activities. You will note that Satan was not involved in the Genesis 6 affair when Angels married human women and had offspring.

He keep digging a hole, the hole into which he is casting his integrity, by actually writing, “So Adam knew his wife and she conceived…I didn’t say the one caused the other. I said two things happened, one happened first and the other happened second. I never said they were cause and effect.” For proof that the Bible elucidating cause and effect is not the Bible elucidating cause and effect he points us to Genesis 5 wherein “you will find the list of Adam’s descendants. Cain’s name is nowhere to be found.” The issue is that genealogies had one ultimate purpose and it was to result in Jesus. Cain is not listed because he absconded from Adam and Eve and started his own family. Seth is the genealogy which eventually lead to Jesus.

Comparet point is that “The satanic bloodline crept in through Cain, possibly earlier, among the pre Adamic people. There were pre Adamic people who were not necessarily satanic. There were some pre Adamic people into whom the satanic bloodline came, and there were even some of the descendants of Adam who probably mongrelized.”

We now also learn that he also denies another biblical teaching in referring to the great flood/the deluge thusly, “this flood did not cover the whole earth as is falsely taught in the churches of today.” Well, the churches of today teach that because the Bible states, “the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered. Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered” (Genesis 7).
Yet, in his clumsy and anti-biblical manner, Comparet is attempting to systematize his serpent seedline of Satan theory. Thus, there is a reason for his denial of biblical facts (in fact, note how one false doctrine to cause another and another and another). He must do away with the worldwide flood in order to allow for his theorizing and not because of the Bible’s clear statements on the event.

Bertrand L. Comparet notes that “Noah…and his family were the ones in the area that were still pure in their bloodlines” and that “the flood wiped out the mongrelized Adamites.”

So, “pre Adamic people…were not necessarily satanic” but some were, Noah and family were pure Adamite and “the flood wiped out the mongrelized Adamites” so we are doing pretty well overall. In fact, since Noah and family were pure then it is end of serpent seedline story right? The pre Adamites are gone, the mongrelized Adamites are gone and all that is left is Noah and Adamite family. That should be the logical and theological end of Comparet’s story.
But wait—for some odd reason—there’s more!

Well, “The pure descendants of Adam multiplied and then you come to the fact of the satanic bloodline getting in there…What would be the obvious move on Satan’s part to thwart this plan? The obvious thing to do would be to mongrelize the descendants of Adam” but how?

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