Thank you for contacting me regarding H.R. 79, the WHO Withdrawal Act. I appreciate hearing from you.
The COVID-19 pandemic has proven that the World Health Organization (WHO) is a corrupt globalist organization that has been plagued with fraud, waste, and abuse. The WHO Has also continually bent under pressure of the Chinese Communist Party throughout the health crisis, putting lives around the world at risk for the sake of Chinese political propaganda. The thought of ceding U.S. sovereignty to it, or any other international body, is unacceptable. H.R. 79 would require the President to immediately withdraw the United States from the WHO and prohibit any federal funds to be provided for U.S. participation in the WHO.
As a strong supporter of America First policies, you can rest assured knowing I will never allow any international agreements to usurp the United State Constitution or U.S. sovereignty.
H.R. 79 has been referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. While I am not a member of this committee, you can be assured that I will remember your thoughts should I have the opportunity to consider this or relevant legislation in the future. I will also share your thoughts with my House colleagues. I am certain they will benefit from your views.
As a resident of Florida's Twelfth District, your comments and opinions are an important source of information to help me carry out my duties as your federal representative. In that regard, please do not hesitate to contact me in the future on any issue important to you. Also, if you would like to be informed more frequently about my work in Congress and in Florida's Twelfth Congressional District, please click here to sign up for my weekly newsletter. You can also visit my website at https://www.bilirakis.house.gov to sign up for regular email or to send me a message.
Again, thank you for sharing your thoughts with me.
"It’s not to say we’re going to force everybody to go vegan or anything crazy like that."
This statement alone is laughably revealing of how this feckless, delusional bartender perceives her role as a US Representative.
Lest we forget where she vacationed maskless with her live-in chubster Riley Roberts after not only lauding the plandemic lockdowns and mask mandates, but calling for more.
She's as sickening as the vat-meat she'll never eat.
But despite the obvious hypocrisy, she lives on with her influence. LA has its own AOC, including the dimples and socialist agenda. She was just voted in again as a city council member despite spearheading the decline of her district.
It can only be comprehended if one sees it for what it is: a deluded hate cult. Once they have destroyed everything from the nation to the economy to the food supply to their own children's minds, they will wake up to the true core of wokeness, and the wailing and gnashing of teeth will ensue. But no one will hear their cries, for it will be too late to save them from what they have wrought. That's how all hate cults end.....
The NYT just posted that by 2032, the US will require most cars to be electric or hybrids. I have long advocated for the drilling of oil in CA. It isn't that I am for polluting technology. It just seems more logical that you can clean up existing technology with its known problems instead of grabbing for new technology with its unknown consequences. All this is just a big win for those in bed with the government and a loser for consumers as well as the environment.
I went to an event that unveiled a 'carbon capture' project to be implemented in the Pacific off the CA coast. Executives from a car company and the local natural gas company were all so giddy. The executive from the gas company gushed about how her son, and his grade school class, approved of her involvement in transforming natural gas lines into carbon capture lines. She fully embodied Herbert Marcuse's belief that women's qualities (though fake in his mind) would be useful to advance the neo-Marxist platform. Only the professor who actually developed the ocean carbon capture technology was hesitant as to the benefits. I told a friend who invited me that I felt as if I were in a lion's den and I was one of the sacrificial (taxpayer) lambs.
Oh yeah I read about that one. Wow. Attempting to capture carbon in vestigial gas pipelines will be about as effective as attempting to stop viral spread with a mask and a >6ft social distance mandate. The unwavering arrogance and foolishness of these people is absolutely incredible.
Oh, cut her some slack. She's just trying to save the planet and keep everyone safe. With those noble goals, everything is justified. Making decisions for you is the government's job, after all, as Kentaji recently reminded us.
John you’re right on. The elites of this world have it out to rid themselves of the deplorable working class. They failed with Covid-19 and the failed MRNA shots. The attack on animal agriculture in the Netherlands and other parts of the EU is just a trial balloon in effort to see what they can accomplish. Do not give up even when it seems like no one is listening.
Agreed, at least in this state, it doesn't feel like nearly enough people, are listening. But contrary to reality speaks, I think they were pretty successful with the plandemic scare and getting people to take the follow-up spread-out kill shots. At the very least, it was a trial run that provided feedback information for them to refine their attacks in the future.
I want to like your substack, but referring to AOC as far left is LAUGHABLE! She's about as far left as Goebbels. I really wish people understood that Democrats are nothing but center-right, and AOC is nothing but a self-promoter. I grew up in a radical left household and, believe me, there is nothing going on today that reflects the values of my parents or myself.
I'm a bit confused by your comment (though it is most welcome). Far Left ends in totalitarianism -- Stalin and Mao, for instance. But the statement "Democrats are nothing but center-right" baffles me, as transgenderism, open borders, etc. do not smack of center right to me. But also, AOC is not merely a self-promoter. She was selected and groomed to be a mouthpiece and tool, no? She is a product not of her own doing but of a fabrication of a Marxist message. Help me understand here? :)
Let's start with Marx. How much Marx have you read? I only read Volume I of Capital; my partner is on Volume III. Do you know what Marx's point was? He objected to the idea that people's place in life is determined by a god promoted by the state, and he wrote about the actual reality of capitalism (tiny children employed in textile mills because they could crawl under the machines, women working naked alongside men in mines, children fed opium so their mothers could go out to work -- because women and children were cheaper to hire than men). Why did capitalists hate Marx so much? Because he wrote about the inner workings of capitalism that capitalists did not want people to know about.
I oppose transgenderism (and probably have far longer than you) because it's a disgusting ideology promoted by billionaires and the government, who are not exactly leftists. I would call Dennis Kucinich and Jimmy Dore leftists and they also oppose open borders, as do I. You are confusing Democrat Party politics with leftism, and the Democrat Party dumped actual leftists after WWII (see Victor Navasky).
Now I want you to think about what was done to the Soviet Union AND China when they attempted socialism. They obviously never succeeded because they were literally attacked by the U.S. We invaded (along with the Brits, those scumbags) Russia after WWI, and then when that did not work, we got up to all sorts of shenanigans. You should see what we did to East Germany, including putting soap in milk powder meant for East German children (and that's the least of it). Even after the fall of the Berlin Wall, over half of East Germans preferred their previous government. Now to China. American GIs wrote home to their families about not understanding why they were burning Chinese villages after WWII. Do you think countries will be liberal and open when they are constantly under attack? No, authoritarianism is the rule. Why are we becoming so authoritarian? We're not under attack, but our "leaders" are terrified of the ordinary public. I'd like to scare them a lot more!
"CRT is diametrically opposed to the Christian worldview. Marx held that “religion is the opiate of the people” and that his principal aim in life was to dethrone God and destroy capitalism. CRT has all the characteristics of a religion and acts as a competitor religion to Christianity in America. It even has a special, almost mystical, knowledge of racism by non-dominant groups that dominant groups cannot know. Unlike Christianity, CRT holds the alleged cultural hegemony (founded on the Christian worldview) is the root of all problems and must be overturned. The Christian focus on individual recognition of sin, regardless of place in any alleged power structure and the need for redemption through Christ is anathema to CRT. With this, CRT follows the Gramscian alternative narrative holds that American history that of an evil oppression of minority groups by a cultural hegemony that must be undermined and flipped. The next step is a communist revolution in following Gramsci to the end."
I have read Marx, but I do not agree with your conclusions. Marx was brilliant, but grossly errant. His ideas have been refashioned (neo-Marxism) in Social Justice "Theory," Queer "Theory," and Critical Race "Theory." James Lindsay's The Marxification excellently links Marx to the Drag Queen Story Hour indoctrination in our schools. There is a rift in the GOP (Trump versus others) and a parallel rift in the Dems (Biden promised to unite but finger-wags at MAGA while courting extremism and transgenderism). But you say the Dems are not bowing to far left insanity such as transgenderism, climate terror, etc? As to US evils abroad, I completely agree. But the bogeyman is not capitalism, but coporatism, of which all systems are at risk. But the Mao/Stalin apologetics just don't fly. I have read The Harvest of Sorrow, Solzhenitsyn, and Ryszard Legutko, among many. The elimination of individual rights in favor of a collective Borg unites them all, under the guise of Marx's "liberating" Revolution. It fails every time. (Dostoevsky analyzed this masterfully in The Possessed, which was prescient.) The ideas of "unalienable" rights and the divine integrity of the individual owe their roots to Moses and Christ. Marx hates religion, but that is just an atheist delusion. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/863971.Atheist_Delusions
I NEVER said the Dems are not supporting transgenderism, climate terror, etc! That's exactly what they are doing! No actual leftist I know supports such nonsense, but the ruling class certainly does because they make $$$$$ off of both, including allowing thousands of people to cross the border each day (thereby lowering wages for all working people). How do they make money off transgenderism? Lifelong medical patients, endless operations, drugs. And teaching people not to see what is in front of their eyes (where the CIA comes in; I want one of those T-shirts that say LGBTQCIA). So now we have an openly demented president whom the Dems swear is competent.
How do they make money off climate terrorism? Another huge wealth transfer in the form of taxpayer-provided subsidies to "renewables." You don't want to know what I think of renewables! Turning our beautiful Maine into industrial wastelands, disgusting, and there goes Angus King with his dump truck full of dollars.
I never make apologies for Mao or Stalin, I was trying to get you to think about what happens to countries when they are continuously under assault from outside.
Just as the word democracy is poisoned when it falls from the lips of the likes of Joe Biden, I do not accept the quackademic misuse of the word Marxist. Not interested in James Lindsay and Marx emphasized MATERIAL REALITY (which you should know since you have read his work, and not the usual Communist Manifesto which seems to be the entirety of the academic curriculum). Do you think he would ever have accepted the notion that men can become women and vice versa? Do you think he would have accepted the notion of drag queens? (With whom I had few problems as long as they stuck to gay bars far away from children.) He was trying to get people to think outside state ideologies which supported the ruling class and to focus on reality, not exactly the focus of LGBTQ bullshit.
I've spent 70 years listening to people talk about "individualism," and all I see around me are a bunch of ignorant conformists. Another grossly misused word. I read the gospels every day and I never see Jesus mention individualism because such a notion would have been absurd at the time. He saw a tribal, hierarchical world that did not serve people well, leaving most marginalized at best. He saw that SHARING and CARING for each other was one way out of a society ruled by greed. I've come to believe that Americans cannot even conceive -- another government project successfully carried out? -- of caring in a meaningful way for one another. Oh, yeah, the endless "awareness" campaigns and giving pennies to this charity or another, but you can see by our collapsing society that we are not yet coming together which is the one way to fight the WEF, WHO, etc. You should have seen the look given me by my "Christian" neighbor when I finally got my SS disability after three years with no income. She and her hubby fed all their lives at the public trough, with which I have no problem as long as people don't want to deny others basic needs.
And, yes, though I am a Jesus follower (and NOT a Moses follower), my experience of Christians is that they are still striving to be labeled the world's greatest hypocrites. I do not accept substitutionary atonement, sacrificing Jesus as though he were a goat instead of the world's greatest teacher (for me at least) so a bunch of comfortably numb people think they get to go to heaven. You'd like the priest I heard at my last venture into church -- the lies get to me quickly and then I literally cannot stomach going -- he told us at a forum after the service that "I am a capitalist!" I wrote what I thought of him on my own substack.
There is so much here, and I welcome your contribution. I think we need to find allies, including Christians (like me). I want you to ally against the globalists, not tell me why I am wrong to know that Christ is God. (Carl Jung: "I do not believe in God. I know God.") We all have free choice to seek, and you have found what you sought. But you are missing the core. The entire Old Testament presaged the human sacrifice of Christ -- like a Lamb, not a goat. CS Lewis and Owen Barfield (and JRR Tolkien) all saw this as what it is: not a borrowing from pagan traditions; a fulfillment of the sacrifice seeded throughout mythology. TS Eliot and Evelyn Waugh were extremely educated converts, not deluded or "comfortably numb." Quite the opposite -- what has banded humans in America was a shared Judeo-Christian heritage: the collapse of morality is what we see now, like the Jews of old. I could easily counter that you are stubbornly numb. :) I was an atheist for most of my life. Graduated near the top of my class at a fantastic law school. I'm not dumb, nor is it necessary for you to attack and insult Christians, right? Following Jesus as a guru without acknowledging His divinity does not make you a follower of Christ. Even Christopher Hitchens will tell you that. It is CS Lewis' trilemma. Try reading Hart -- Atheist Delusions. Where do you think the idea of the primacy of the individual came from, if not Moses and Christ? (You can also trace the same history in Thomas Friedman's The History of the Jews.) Few if any cultures even conceived of the idea of "unalienable" rights and individual worth before Christ -- that is what was the most radical of His teachings. Amen. :)
And you think the globalists are leftists, which is pretty funny. Thomas Friedman? He is utter trash, peddling propaganda for those globalists. The dude is as dumb as a box of crayons.
Sorry, I base my understanding of Jesus upon my PERSONAL experience and such works as Albert Nolan's Jesus Before Christianity. Individualism was unknown in the ancient world and did not arise as a philosophy until the industrial revolution and capitalism. Now it is the province of the neoliberals who insist that society does not exist (Thatcher) and all we are is a collection of "individuals," whose apparent individuality consists of deciding which one prefers, Coke or Pepsi.
Where did Jesus speak of "inalienable" rights? That's a line from the Declaration of Independence, correct? I never knew Jesus wrote that document.
What I want is people to come together across so-called political divides and understand that the people who want to kill the majority of us and who push garbage such as veganism -- do you really believe Bill Gates is a leftist? -- are the people oppressing us.
I was never an atheist and blew off university because I had been bored from junior high on and had no intention of paying for the privilege. My sister went to OSU at age 17 and they told her to just come in and take the exams and not bother with class. You can imagine that that got her into trouble!
No, I do not respect people who say they worship Jesus and then worship status, prestige, money, and tribe. You CANNOT serve two masters, and knowing Jesus PERSONALLY -- he probably saved my life -- I follow his teachings, not the teachings of churches which have ignored everything he taught in his life. Jesus is with us every day in every way and only through our begging for his help does he show himself to us. And I still swear that if he returned in person Christians would be there with their hammers and nails.
Since when has Bill Gates ever thought about the 'good' of the planet...really... Supposedly with all the billions he has ( if he really has them), he thinks nothing but his investments. Hey Bill!! How many cars can you drive? How many houses can you own? How much farmland can you own? How many more billions do you need to rid yourself of your ineptitude? With all your billions, you could be taking dictation lessons to learn how to talk succinctly, instead of the 'dork' you are! (sorry!) One of the best things I ever saw was when Mr Dork was hit in the face with a whipped cream pie! That is the true level where he belongs!!!
Dear Chief Wolf
Thank you for contacting me regarding H.R. 79, the WHO Withdrawal Act. I appreciate hearing from you.
The COVID-19 pandemic has proven that the World Health Organization (WHO) is a corrupt globalist organization that has been plagued with fraud, waste, and abuse. The WHO Has also continually bent under pressure of the Chinese Communist Party throughout the health crisis, putting lives around the world at risk for the sake of Chinese political propaganda. The thought of ceding U.S. sovereignty to it, or any other international body, is unacceptable. H.R. 79 would require the President to immediately withdraw the United States from the WHO and prohibit any federal funds to be provided for U.S. participation in the WHO.
As a strong supporter of America First policies, you can rest assured knowing I will never allow any international agreements to usurp the United State Constitution or U.S. sovereignty.
H.R. 79 has been referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. While I am not a member of this committee, you can be assured that I will remember your thoughts should I have the opportunity to consider this or relevant legislation in the future. I will also share your thoughts with my House colleagues. I am certain they will benefit from your views.
As a resident of Florida's Twelfth District, your comments and opinions are an important source of information to help me carry out my duties as your federal representative. In that regard, please do not hesitate to contact me in the future on any issue important to you. Also, if you would like to be informed more frequently about my work in Congress and in Florida's Twelfth Congressional District, please click here to sign up for my weekly newsletter. You can also visit my website at https://www.bilirakis.house.gov to sign up for regular email or to send me a message.
Again, thank you for sharing your thoughts with me.
Sincerely yours,
Gus M. Bilirakis
Member of Congress
Truth, patriotism, courage.... Hope!!
AOC ANOTHER ODD CRAT
"It’s not to say we’re going to force everybody to go vegan or anything crazy like that."
This statement alone is laughably revealing of how this feckless, delusional bartender perceives her role as a US Representative.
Lest we forget where she vacationed maskless with her live-in chubster Riley Roberts after not only lauding the plandemic lockdowns and mask mandates, but calling for more.
She's as sickening as the vat-meat she'll never eat.
But despite the obvious hypocrisy, she lives on with her influence. LA has its own AOC, including the dimples and socialist agenda. She was just voted in again as a city council member despite spearheading the decline of her district.
It can only be comprehended if one sees it for what it is: a deluded hate cult. Once they have destroyed everything from the nation to the economy to the food supply to their own children's minds, they will wake up to the true core of wokeness, and the wailing and gnashing of teeth will ensue. But no one will hear their cries, for it will be too late to save them from what they have wrought. That's how all hate cults end.....
The NYT just posted that by 2032, the US will require most cars to be electric or hybrids. I have long advocated for the drilling of oil in CA. It isn't that I am for polluting technology. It just seems more logical that you can clean up existing technology with its known problems instead of grabbing for new technology with its unknown consequences. All this is just a big win for those in bed with the government and a loser for consumers as well as the environment.
PRECISELY! The fantasy is quickly unraveling though.... It is an impossible boondoggle, but billions have already been made in the short run.
I went to an event that unveiled a 'carbon capture' project to be implemented in the Pacific off the CA coast. Executives from a car company and the local natural gas company were all so giddy. The executive from the gas company gushed about how her son, and his grade school class, approved of her involvement in transforming natural gas lines into carbon capture lines. She fully embodied Herbert Marcuse's belief that women's qualities (though fake in his mind) would be useful to advance the neo-Marxist platform. Only the professor who actually developed the ocean carbon capture technology was hesitant as to the benefits. I told a friend who invited me that I felt as if I were in a lion's den and I was one of the sacrificial (taxpayer) lambs.
It's a complete scam.... https://www.libertynation.com/problems-with-underground-carbon-storage/
Oh yeah I read about that one. Wow. Attempting to capture carbon in vestigial gas pipelines will be about as effective as attempting to stop viral spread with a mask and a >6ft social distance mandate. The unwavering arrogance and foolishness of these people is absolutely incredible.
Oh, cut her some slack. She's just trying to save the planet and keep everyone safe. With those noble goals, everything is justified. Making decisions for you is the government's job, after all, as Kentaji recently reminded us.
lol. They can't handle satire.... :)
John you’re right on. The elites of this world have it out to rid themselves of the deplorable working class. They failed with Covid-19 and the failed MRNA shots. The attack on animal agriculture in the Netherlands and other parts of the EU is just a trial balloon in effort to see what they can accomplish. Do not give up even when it seems like no one is listening.
I appreciate the encouragement -- I wrote this piece a year and a half ago, and it still feels like not enough people are listening.....
Agreed, at least in this state, it doesn't feel like nearly enough people, are listening. But contrary to reality speaks, I think they were pretty successful with the plandemic scare and getting people to take the follow-up spread-out kill shots. At the very least, it was a trial run that provided feedback information for them to refine their attacks in the future.
I want to like your substack, but referring to AOC as far left is LAUGHABLE! She's about as far left as Goebbels. I really wish people understood that Democrats are nothing but center-right, and AOC is nothing but a self-promoter. I grew up in a radical left household and, believe me, there is nothing going on today that reflects the values of my parents or myself.
I'm a bit confused by your comment (though it is most welcome). Far Left ends in totalitarianism -- Stalin and Mao, for instance. But the statement "Democrats are nothing but center-right" baffles me, as transgenderism, open borders, etc. do not smack of center right to me. But also, AOC is not merely a self-promoter. She was selected and groomed to be a mouthpiece and tool, no? She is a product not of her own doing but of a fabrication of a Marxist message. Help me understand here? :)
Let's start with Marx. How much Marx have you read? I only read Volume I of Capital; my partner is on Volume III. Do you know what Marx's point was? He objected to the idea that people's place in life is determined by a god promoted by the state, and he wrote about the actual reality of capitalism (tiny children employed in textile mills because they could crawl under the machines, women working naked alongside men in mines, children fed opium so their mothers could go out to work -- because women and children were cheaper to hire than men). Why did capitalists hate Marx so much? Because he wrote about the inner workings of capitalism that capitalists did not want people to know about.
I oppose transgenderism (and probably have far longer than you) because it's a disgusting ideology promoted by billionaires and the government, who are not exactly leftists. I would call Dennis Kucinich and Jimmy Dore leftists and they also oppose open borders, as do I. You are confusing Democrat Party politics with leftism, and the Democrat Party dumped actual leftists after WWII (see Victor Navasky).
Now I want you to think about what was done to the Soviet Union AND China when they attempted socialism. They obviously never succeeded because they were literally attacked by the U.S. We invaded (along with the Brits, those scumbags) Russia after WWI, and then when that did not work, we got up to all sorts of shenanigans. You should see what we did to East Germany, including putting soap in milk powder meant for East German children (and that's the least of it). Even after the fall of the Berlin Wall, over half of East Germans preferred their previous government. Now to China. American GIs wrote home to their families about not understanding why they were burning Chinese villages after WWII. Do you think countries will be liberal and open when they are constantly under attack? No, authoritarianism is the rule. Why are we becoming so authoritarian? We're not under attack, but our "leaders" are terrified of the ordinary public. I'd like to scare them a lot more!
"CRT is diametrically opposed to the Christian worldview. Marx held that “religion is the opiate of the people” and that his principal aim in life was to dethrone God and destroy capitalism. CRT has all the characteristics of a religion and acts as a competitor religion to Christianity in America. It even has a special, almost mystical, knowledge of racism by non-dominant groups that dominant groups cannot know. Unlike Christianity, CRT holds the alleged cultural hegemony (founded on the Christian worldview) is the root of all problems and must be overturned. The Christian focus on individual recognition of sin, regardless of place in any alleged power structure and the need for redemption through Christ is anathema to CRT. With this, CRT follows the Gramscian alternative narrative holds that American history that of an evil oppression of minority groups by a cultural hegemony that must be undermined and flipped. The next step is a communist revolution in following Gramsci to the end."
https://www.charlestonmercury.com/single-post/2020/09/22/The-new-religion-of-Critical-Race-Theory#:~:text=CRT%20is%20diametrically%20opposed%20to%20the%20Christian%20worldview.,as%20a%20competitor%20religion%20to%20Christianity%20in%20America.
I have read Marx, but I do not agree with your conclusions. Marx was brilliant, but grossly errant. His ideas have been refashioned (neo-Marxism) in Social Justice "Theory," Queer "Theory," and Critical Race "Theory." James Lindsay's The Marxification excellently links Marx to the Drag Queen Story Hour indoctrination in our schools. There is a rift in the GOP (Trump versus others) and a parallel rift in the Dems (Biden promised to unite but finger-wags at MAGA while courting extremism and transgenderism). But you say the Dems are not bowing to far left insanity such as transgenderism, climate terror, etc? As to US evils abroad, I completely agree. But the bogeyman is not capitalism, but coporatism, of which all systems are at risk. But the Mao/Stalin apologetics just don't fly. I have read The Harvest of Sorrow, Solzhenitsyn, and Ryszard Legutko, among many. The elimination of individual rights in favor of a collective Borg unites them all, under the guise of Marx's "liberating" Revolution. It fails every time. (Dostoevsky analyzed this masterfully in The Possessed, which was prescient.) The ideas of "unalienable" rights and the divine integrity of the individual owe their roots to Moses and Christ. Marx hates religion, but that is just an atheist delusion. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/863971.Atheist_Delusions
I NEVER said the Dems are not supporting transgenderism, climate terror, etc! That's exactly what they are doing! No actual leftist I know supports such nonsense, but the ruling class certainly does because they make $$$$$ off of both, including allowing thousands of people to cross the border each day (thereby lowering wages for all working people). How do they make money off transgenderism? Lifelong medical patients, endless operations, drugs. And teaching people not to see what is in front of their eyes (where the CIA comes in; I want one of those T-shirts that say LGBTQCIA). So now we have an openly demented president whom the Dems swear is competent.
How do they make money off climate terrorism? Another huge wealth transfer in the form of taxpayer-provided subsidies to "renewables." You don't want to know what I think of renewables! Turning our beautiful Maine into industrial wastelands, disgusting, and there goes Angus King with his dump truck full of dollars.
I never make apologies for Mao or Stalin, I was trying to get you to think about what happens to countries when they are continuously under assault from outside.
Just as the word democracy is poisoned when it falls from the lips of the likes of Joe Biden, I do not accept the quackademic misuse of the word Marxist. Not interested in James Lindsay and Marx emphasized MATERIAL REALITY (which you should know since you have read his work, and not the usual Communist Manifesto which seems to be the entirety of the academic curriculum). Do you think he would ever have accepted the notion that men can become women and vice versa? Do you think he would have accepted the notion of drag queens? (With whom I had few problems as long as they stuck to gay bars far away from children.) He was trying to get people to think outside state ideologies which supported the ruling class and to focus on reality, not exactly the focus of LGBTQ bullshit.
I've spent 70 years listening to people talk about "individualism," and all I see around me are a bunch of ignorant conformists. Another grossly misused word. I read the gospels every day and I never see Jesus mention individualism because such a notion would have been absurd at the time. He saw a tribal, hierarchical world that did not serve people well, leaving most marginalized at best. He saw that SHARING and CARING for each other was one way out of a society ruled by greed. I've come to believe that Americans cannot even conceive -- another government project successfully carried out? -- of caring in a meaningful way for one another. Oh, yeah, the endless "awareness" campaigns and giving pennies to this charity or another, but you can see by our collapsing society that we are not yet coming together which is the one way to fight the WEF, WHO, etc. You should have seen the look given me by my "Christian" neighbor when I finally got my SS disability after three years with no income. She and her hubby fed all their lives at the public trough, with which I have no problem as long as people don't want to deny others basic needs.
And, yes, though I am a Jesus follower (and NOT a Moses follower), my experience of Christians is that they are still striving to be labeled the world's greatest hypocrites. I do not accept substitutionary atonement, sacrificing Jesus as though he were a goat instead of the world's greatest teacher (for me at least) so a bunch of comfortably numb people think they get to go to heaven. You'd like the priest I heard at my last venture into church -- the lies get to me quickly and then I literally cannot stomach going -- he told us at a forum after the service that "I am a capitalist!" I wrote what I thought of him on my own substack.
There is so much here, and I welcome your contribution. I think we need to find allies, including Christians (like me). I want you to ally against the globalists, not tell me why I am wrong to know that Christ is God. (Carl Jung: "I do not believe in God. I know God.") We all have free choice to seek, and you have found what you sought. But you are missing the core. The entire Old Testament presaged the human sacrifice of Christ -- like a Lamb, not a goat. CS Lewis and Owen Barfield (and JRR Tolkien) all saw this as what it is: not a borrowing from pagan traditions; a fulfillment of the sacrifice seeded throughout mythology. TS Eliot and Evelyn Waugh were extremely educated converts, not deluded or "comfortably numb." Quite the opposite -- what has banded humans in America was a shared Judeo-Christian heritage: the collapse of morality is what we see now, like the Jews of old. I could easily counter that you are stubbornly numb. :) I was an atheist for most of my life. Graduated near the top of my class at a fantastic law school. I'm not dumb, nor is it necessary for you to attack and insult Christians, right? Following Jesus as a guru without acknowledging His divinity does not make you a follower of Christ. Even Christopher Hitchens will tell you that. It is CS Lewis' trilemma. Try reading Hart -- Atheist Delusions. Where do you think the idea of the primacy of the individual came from, if not Moses and Christ? (You can also trace the same history in Thomas Friedman's The History of the Jews.) Few if any cultures even conceived of the idea of "unalienable" rights and individual worth before Christ -- that is what was the most radical of His teachings. Amen. :)
And you think the globalists are leftists, which is pretty funny. Thomas Friedman? He is utter trash, peddling propaganda for those globalists. The dude is as dumb as a box of crayons.
Sorry, I base my understanding of Jesus upon my PERSONAL experience and such works as Albert Nolan's Jesus Before Christianity. Individualism was unknown in the ancient world and did not arise as a philosophy until the industrial revolution and capitalism. Now it is the province of the neoliberals who insist that society does not exist (Thatcher) and all we are is a collection of "individuals," whose apparent individuality consists of deciding which one prefers, Coke or Pepsi.
Where did Jesus speak of "inalienable" rights? That's a line from the Declaration of Independence, correct? I never knew Jesus wrote that document.
What I want is people to come together across so-called political divides and understand that the people who want to kill the majority of us and who push garbage such as veganism -- do you really believe Bill Gates is a leftist? -- are the people oppressing us.
I was never an atheist and blew off university because I had been bored from junior high on and had no intention of paying for the privilege. My sister went to OSU at age 17 and they told her to just come in and take the exams and not bother with class. You can imagine that that got her into trouble!
No, I do not respect people who say they worship Jesus and then worship status, prestige, money, and tribe. You CANNOT serve two masters, and knowing Jesus PERSONALLY -- he probably saved my life -- I follow his teachings, not the teachings of churches which have ignored everything he taught in his life. Jesus is with us every day in every way and only through our begging for his help does he show himself to us. And I still swear that if he returned in person Christians would be there with their hammers and nails.
Since when has Bill Gates ever thought about the 'good' of the planet...really... Supposedly with all the billions he has ( if he really has them), he thinks nothing but his investments. Hey Bill!! How many cars can you drive? How many houses can you own? How much farmland can you own? How many more billions do you need to rid yourself of your ineptitude? With all your billions, you could be taking dictation lessons to learn how to talk succinctly, instead of the 'dork' you are! (sorry!) One of the best things I ever saw was when Mr Dork was hit in the face with a whipped cream pie! That is the true level where he belongs!!!