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DC's avatar

Did you say the same when Hamas went into Israel and beheaded babies, burned people alive etc?

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Special Ted's avatar

Like the 'Babies on Bayonets' propaganda lie from WWI? Or the 'Babies in Incubators' propaganda lie from Desert Storm? The media is manipulating all of us, in all directions, and it is nothing new. This is a tragedy for all innocent people who are affected, not just a certain ethnicity. The shed of innocent blood is unacceptable.

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Kim D's avatar

The controllers are getting exactly what they want, as you follow these threads. Their goal is to raise the emotions of humanity to a fearful or angry frenzy, which they feed from. Observation, while remaining compassionate for those lives being affected and sending peaceful and loving prayers for an amicable end to the conflict would be the better approach.

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Truthseeker's avatar

Yes

I was watching footage of the protests in all these other countries. People lighting things on fire, destroying property, fighting in the streets, throwing rocks … it’s like deja vu- George Floyd protests anyone!?

Israel touches a third rail.

Same as race in the US…

Praying for peace. I have no idea where the truth is… because now we know all governments lie today and media is mostly propaganda.

So how can we even determine the truth today? And the bombardment of information right now is meant to confuse, incite and anger people very deliberately.

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Special Ted's avatar

Well stated! God bless you.

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sean anderson's avatar

Or the Gospels’ reporting 40 man children slaughtered in Bethlehem at order of His Majesty King Herod?

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Special Ted's avatar

Hi Sean, and thanks for your reply. I'm not sure what you mean by your comment. Could you please explain? Are you comparing the inerrant Word of God to today's mainstream media?

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sean anderson's avatar

Hello Special Ted:

My point is that the deliberate slaughter of human babies is savagery that evokes the deepest horror, whether the killing of Hebrew infants at Pharaoh’s command, the 40 at Herod’s command, the (faked) reports of Belgian or Kuwaiti babies, or the real but ignored cases of children killed by the mNRA poisons.

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Special Ted's avatar

Thank you for your response and clarification, Sean. I agree with you, these horrors (real or fake) are meant to evoke extreme visceral reactions. I appreciate you taking the time to reply to me, as I understand that I am a pariah among modern Christians. I want to glorify Christ and serve Him, and I am the worst sinner this world has ever known. But for the grace of Jesus through God the Father, I would have zero value at all. I pray that God blesses you beyond our wildest dreams, and then blesses you more!

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sean anderson's avatar

Well thank you Special Ted! I have nothing against birthday celebrations in general but notice only two birthdays mentioned in Scripture, both involving potentates and both involving executions, the Baker in Pharaoh’s case and John the Baptist in Herod’s case.

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Special Ted's avatar

Very interesting! What significance do you assign to the birth dates?

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sean anderson's avatar

Ecclesiastes 7:1 “ A good name is better than fine perfume,

and the day of death better than the day of birth.” I am not a member of one of those sects that forbids celebrating Christmas or personal birthdays. But I personally don’t party on my birthday. People who blow a fuse over me not sending a card or a gift strike me as immature. However I always sent my mother flowers on her birthday and a telephone call to my father while they lived and continue to send birthday greetings to my brother and sister. But the story of Herod Agrippa’s birthday begins with Herod’s (incestuous) lust for his daughter in law Salome and Herodias’s hatred for John who is arrested for denouncing Herod’s marriage to. So there is nothing of kindness, parental respect, or love about this celebration but instead Herod’s vain-glory and lust and Herodias’s jealousy, hatred and bloodlust. The most I got out of Pharaoh’s birthday was that it was not such a bright idea to steal from your employer, especially if he is a Pharaoh. I don’t think all birthday celebrations are wrong but I can understand why some Christian groups might think so.

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Special Ted's avatar

Wow, thank you so much for sharing this Sean! I, too, do not care anything about birthdays, but I try to honor my family due to tradition. I do not celebrate any holidays, including Christmas and Easter, but Christmas has bothered me for many years. I can’t find any Scripture instructing us to celebrate Jesus’ birth. My research points to it being around late September, anyway. Scripture instructs us to celebrate/commemorate Jesus’ DEATH and resurrection, clearly. but modern Christians following Scofield’s heretical futurism have an Israel-based view of prophecy and are completely clueless. Pre-millennial dispensationalists have been blinded, but there is hope that they can be educated. I would appreciate anything more you have to explain, if you’re willing. God bless you!

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Bryan Dair's avatar

The 'inerrant word of god' was written by men.

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Special Ted's avatar

Ah, I see. You do not believe the Bible. You probably believe in a god powerful enough to create and control everything, just not powerful enough to inspire the writings of men. Your god is weak and powerless, like men. You are a god unto yourself, no?

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Bryan Dair's avatar

All gods are man made.

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Special Ted's avatar

Says you. I say different. Looks like we have ourselves a Mexican standoff. Let's see which of us is correct at the end of this earthly life.

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DC's avatar

I call it like it is. Did you know the Palestinian Authority has a Martyrs Fund aka a Pay-for-slay?

Under Palestinian Authority law, every terrorist who is killed attacking Israel is defined as a “Martyr” whose family is immediately rewarded by the PA with a 6,000 shekels ($1,511) grant and a 1,400 ($353) per month allowance for life.

This means each family of the 1,500 dead Hamas terrorists who invaded Israel will receive 7,400 shekels for this first month. Families of those terrorists who were married and had children will receive even more. The PA will pay at least 11,100,000 shekels ($2,789,430) this month as a reward for participating in last week’s murders and atrocities against Israeli civilians.

In addition, the 50 captured Hamas terrorist murderers will receive monthly salaries in prison starting at 1,400 shekels/month which will eventually rise to 12,000 shekels/month. Terrorists who are married and have children will receive even higher salaries. This month these newly arrested terrorists will receive at least 70,000 shekels ($17,590).

In total, the PA will pay at least 11,170,000 shekels ($2,807,021) in payments under the PA’s “Pay-for-Slay” program to the Hamas terrorists this month. This is a low estimate since as the war continues there will be additional Hamas terrorist "Martyrs" and prisoners. This figure is added to the more than 100,000,000 shekels/month the PA already pays in salaries to imprisoned terrorists and families of terrorist “Martyrs.” EU countries and Norway, are currently the largest funders of the PA because the PA could not possibly make these terror payments without them. These donor countries like to pretend that it’s not their money rewarding terrorists, but everyone knows that the PA could not reward terrorists without this generous foreign funding. When payments to teachers, police, and street cleaners are taken care of by international donors, the PA has the hundreds of millions available it needs to pay for terror.

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Queen Hotchibobo's avatar

I hate it that the block feature doesn’t seem to work on substack. I’m probably going to have to read your venal dribblings again. ☠️

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CStone's avatar

You know that’s a lie

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