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       Re: Right-left (Judeo-)Christian divergence
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: June 24, 2023, 8:11 pm
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       As I have said from the beginning, the Amish are Old Testament
       followers just like the rest:
  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/experts-explain-complicated-relationship-between-144500758.html
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       > Experts explain complicated relationship between Amish
       communities and the environment: ‘It really isn’t [idyllic] at
       all’
       > ...
       > The post linked an article from Religion News that explored
       this relationship, citing certain harmful farming practices and
       dirty energy usage that seem to fly in the face of the
       perception of the environmental stewardship of these
       communities.
       > ...
       > “They believe that God gave the Earth to people for them to
       use,” McConnell told Religion News
       > ...
       > diesel and gasoline generators often serve as prime energy
       sources for Amish appliances and farm equipment. Burning either
       fuel significantly contributes to air pollution that worsens air
       quality and drives the overheating of our planet.
       >
       > Religion News reports that the few remaining Amish households
       headed by farmers often use harmful pesticides and chemical
       fertilizers that wreak havoc on local ecosystems and pollute
       waterways. The Amish have been under fire in several states for
       farming practices that degrade vital watersheds.
       > ...
       > “A lot of people from the cities where I’m from look at the
       Amish and think, ‘What an idyllic sustainable lifestyle, so
       different from our modern one,” the original poster wrote.
       “Except it really isn’t [idyllic] at all, it’s a largely
       separate insular economy from ours, but uses and benefits from a
       lot of the short term extractivist and careless land practices
       that has got modern America into the mess its in today.”
       --- End Quote ---
       See also:
  HTML http://aryanism.net/blog/aryan-sanctuary/to-the-people-of-atlantis/comment-page-1/#comment-65057
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       > The Amish stress strict obedience in their children, and this
       is taught and enforced by parents and preachers. Several
       passages in the Bible are used to support this view. Their
       children, as with all children, may resist a parent’s request.
       However, things such as tantrums, making faces, calling another
       bad names, and general disobedience are rare because the child
       knows that those actions will result in corporal punishment. Any
       youthful dissatisfactions are usually verbally expressed, but
       profanity is never allowed because the guilty child can expect
       swift punishment.
       >
       >
  HTML http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amish_way_of_life#Child_discipline
       --- End Quote ---
       Indeed, one look at the high sexual dimorphism of their clothes
       suffices to reveal their inferiority:
  HTML https://blog.geveo.com/img/hf_1_2021_06_16.jpg
       Woke comments:
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       > They are immoral weirdos that abuse the environment and kids.
       --- End Quote ---
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       > They make excuses and exceptions to technology so they can
       benefit from it, they use horrible chemicals on their farms. All
       they are doing is making the average person believe they are
       somehow different in order to drive up sales of overpriced
       goods.
       --- End Quote ---
       #Post#: 20947--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Right-left (Judeo-)Christian divergence
   DIR By: rp
       Date: July 15, 2023, 5:14 am
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       Re: Right-left (Judeo-)Christian divergence
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: August 10, 2023, 9:45 pm
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  HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/christianity-today-editor-evangelicals-call-163440579.html
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       > Christianity Today Editor: Evangelicals Call Jesus “Liberal”
       and “Weak”
       > ...
       > “When we get to the point where the teachings of Jesus himself
       are seen as subversive to us, then we’re in a crisis.”
       >
       > Moore said he thinks a large part of the issue is how divisive
       U.S. politics are, which is now spilling over into the church.
       He pointed to how a lot of issues are “packaged in terms of
       existential threat,” leading to the belief among everyone, not
       just evangelical Christians, that “desperate times call for
       desperate measures.”
       >
       > It makes sense, then, that evangelical Christians would
       embrace Trump, who portrayed himself as the answer to many of
       those supposed existential threats. Trump both campaigned and
       governed on a largely evangelical Christian platform. He moved
       the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem; he cracked down on
       immigration from majority-Muslim countries; and he appointed
       multiple conservative judges, including to the Supreme Court,
       which has swung sharply right.
       --- End Quote ---
       From the comments:
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       > So the right is really not "Christian."  So what does that
       really make them?
       --- End Quote ---
       Old Testament followers.
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       > It's ironic.  If Jesus was actually around today, he'd be
       called socialist, woke, liberal, extreme, etc... The very figure
       that Christianity is supposed to be built on would be vilified
       by Christians.
       --- End Quote ---
       Because they are not Christians. They are Old Testament
       followers.
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       > They've never believed in the teachings of Jesus. They've just
       parlayed religion into big business, power and wealth.
       --- End Quote ---
       Which is what the Old Testament teaches.
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       > Conservative "Christians" will crucify Jesus again when he
       returns to Earth
       --- End Quote ---
       Just like the Old Testament followers crucifed him the first
       time.
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       > It's no news that the evangelicals would be the first to nail
       Jesus to a cross. They hate everything that he actually taught.
       --- End Quote ---
       Just like those Old Testament followers who crucified him the
       first time.
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       > "Christian"/// Nah - they're following the AntiChrist...
       --- End Quote ---
       The Antichrist is the Messiah foretold in the Old Testament.
       --- Quote ---
       > These people would make Jesus throw up in disgust. They are
       the opposite of everything Jesus stood for.
       --- End Quote ---
       So were Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Joshua,
       Samuel, David, Solomon, etc..
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       > I left the evangelical religion of my youth 50 years ago, when
       I left home for college.  Even then, many of the parishioners
       were bigoted and mean-spirited.  Even then, most of the sermons
       dealt with (in this order):
       >
       > 1)    Battles and violence from the Old Testament.
       >
       > 2)    The writings of Paul
       --- End Quote ---
       This.
       #Post#: 21547--------------------------------------------------
       Western Degenerate Sport
   DIR By: antihellenistic
       Date: August 18, 2023, 12:15 am
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       About muscular sport :
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       > The word gymnastics is derived from the Greek word gymnazein
       which literally means "to exercise naked".[3] In ancient Greece
       and Rome, a public place devoted to athletes training, called
       gymnasion (plural: gymnasia) for Greeks and palaestra (plural:
       palaestrae) for Romans existed in cities. Fitness was regarded
       as a concept shaped by two cultural codes: rationalization and
       asceticism; authenticity and hedonism, respectively. In Greece,
       gymnastic excellence was regarded as a noble and godly pursuit,
       and was included in a complete education.
       >
       > ...
       >
       > From [b]around 1800, gymnastics developed in Western countries
       was meant to enhance body in order to sustain public morals and
       to mold better citizens.[5][/b] Pehr Henrik Ling was a pioneer
       in the teaching of physical education in Sweden, and he sought
       to reform and improve the gymnastics of the ancient Greeks. In
       1850, the Supreme Medical Board of Russia reported to their
       emperor on Ling's system, that by improving one's overall
       fitness, an athlete became superior to those who merely focused
       on a subset of muscles or actions.[4] In the mid 19th century
       the world saw the rise of physical culture, a movement that
       emphasized the importance of physical exercise for men, women,
       and children alike. Diocletian Lewis, a physician, even
       advocated for males and females exercising together in the
       gym.[6] In 1896 Men's gymnastics was on the schedule of the
       first modern Olympics. The Olympic gymnastic competition for
       women began in 1928.[3]
       --- End Quote ---
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitness_culture
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       Re: Right-left (Judeo-)Christian divergence
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: August 18, 2023, 7:11 pm
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  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscular_Christianity
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       > The movement came into vogue during the Victorian era as a
       method of building character in pupils at English public
       schools. It is most often associated with English author Thomas
       Hughes and his 1857 novel Tom Brown's School Days, as well as
       writers Charles Kingsley and Ralph Connor.[1] American President
       Theodore Roosevelt was raised in a household that practised
       Muscular Christianity and was a prominent adherent to the
       movement.[2]
       > ...
       > Muscular Christianity can be traced back to Paul the Apostle,
       who used athletic metaphors to describe the challenges of a
       Christian life.[9]
       --- End Quote ---
       To be fair, however, gymnastics is not specifically mentioned
       anywhere in this link (whereas your 'Fitness culture' link does
       not mention Muscular Christianity at all). If anything, football
       is considered to be most associated with Muscular Christianity:
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       > An early pioneers of Muscular Christianity in the US was Amos
       Alonzo Stagg, a Yale-educated football coach
       --- End Quote ---
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       > Sports were incorporated directly into many mission schools to
       promote muscular Christianity, as administrators and
       missionaries believed sports such as football shared many of the
       same values.[38] The effect mission schools like Adams College
       in South Africa had was seen through the demographics of
       football players
       --- End Quote ---
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       > It was the establishment of Western-style schools across the
       continent that brought about Muscular Christianity along with
       the introduction of European football teams.
       --- End Quote ---
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       > Missionary schools were among the first to incorporate
       football into their programs, to make sure every student was
       playing.
       --- End Quote ---
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       > Christianity and association football – followers of Muscular
       Christianity established several of England's leading football
       teams
       --- End Quote ---
       So why are you ignoring football and bringing up gymnastics
       instead??
       (At least gymnastics isn't played on grass:
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/olympics/msg7795/#msg7795<br
       />)
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       Re: Right-left (Judeo-)Christian divergence
   DIR By: rp
       Date: August 18, 2023, 9:10 pm
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       Are your talking about "American" Football or European Football
       (soccer) or both?
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       Re: Right-left (Judeo-)Christian divergence
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: August 18, 2023, 9:23 pm
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       Both, plus rugby.
       #Post#: 21567--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Right-left (Judeo-)Christian divergence
   DIR By: antihellenistic
       Date: August 18, 2023, 9:51 pm
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       --- Quote from: 90sRetroFan link ---
       >
       >
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscular_Christianity
       >
       > [quote]The movement came into vogue during the Victorian era
       as a method of building character in pupils at English public
       schools. It is most often associated with English author Thomas
       Hughes and his 1857 novel Tom Brown's School Days, as well as
       writers Charles Kingsley and Ralph Connor.[1] American President
       Theodore Roosevelt was raised in a household that practised
       Muscular Christianity and was a prominent adherent to the
       movement.[2]
       > ...
       > Muscular Christianity can be traced back to Paul the Apostle,
       who used athletic metaphors to describe the challenges of a
       Christian life.[9]
       --- End Quote ---
       To be fair, however, gymnastics is not specifically mentioned
       anywhere in this link (whereas your 'Fitness culture' link does
       not mention Muscular Christianity at all). If anything, football
       is considered to be most associated with Muscular Christianity:
       --- Quote ---
       > An early pioneers of Muscular Christianity in the US was Amos
       Alonzo Stagg, a Yale-educated football coach
       --- End Quote ---
       --- Quote ---
       > Sports were incorporated directly into many mission schools to
       promote muscular Christianity, as administrators and
       missionaries believed sports such as football shared many of the
       same values.[38] The effect mission schools like Adams College
       in South Africa had was seen through the demographics of
       football players
       --- End Quote ---
       --- Quote ---
       > It was the establishment of Western-style schools across the
       continent that brought about Muscular Christianity along with
       the introduction of European football teams.
       --- End Quote ---
       --- Quote ---
       > Missionary schools were among the first to incorporate
       football into their programs, to make sure every student was
       playing.
       --- End Quote ---
       --- Quote ---
       > Christianity and association football – followers of Muscular
       Christianity established several of England's leading football
       teams
       --- End Quote ---
       So why are you ignoring football and bringing up gymnastics
       instead??
       (At least gymnastics isn't played on grass:
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/olympics/msg7795/#msg7795<br
       />)
       [/quote]
       Because football can be played without using grass field. And
       different from muscular sports, football can be played with
       cheap price and not resulting moral degeneration into
       aggressiveness. Turanized sports like gymnazein and muscle
       bodybuilding are inferior than football which can be
       de-westernized on playing it. Remember Eugene Sandow...
       #Post#: 21569--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Right-left (Judeo-)Christian divergence
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: August 18, 2023, 10:12 pm
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       The grass is just a side point. The main point is that you
       started out criticizing Muscular Christianity, which is
       associated with football, not with gymnastics, yet you brought
       up gymnastics for no apparent reason. You can criticize
       gymnastics separately, but it makes no sense to blame Muscular
       Christianity for it, given gymnastics predates Muscular
       Christianity.
       "Turanized sports like gymnazein"
       Are you referring to the pommel horse event? Let's eliminate all
       sports involving real horses before we worry about that!
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       Re: Right-left (Judeo-)Christian divergence
   DIR By: antihellenistic
       Date: August 19, 2023, 12:04 am
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       --- Quote ---
       > "Turanized sports like gymnazein"
       >
       > Are you referring to the pommel horse event? Let's eliminate
       all sports involving real horses before we worry about that!
       >
       --- End Quote ---
       Of course, including body-building too which you consider
       reduces people's empathy and increases people's aggressiveness.
       Remember the Jew, Eugene Sandow. All kinds of sports that
       resulting useless competition activities which divide society
       must be eliminated. I prefer Hitler's ordinary walking sport
       which involves no competition at all. Even Hitler was not having
       muscle and not did do body-building activity
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