Joseph de Maistre
So I’ve been thinking a lot about political issues lately. After all, I’m a big fan of Joseph de Maistre. In the last couple of years we’ve had people on the alt-right say that the West needs to be saved from Islam and other non-white populations coming here. What do I think about the West? What would be considered saving the West? It has nothing to do with skin colour but returning it to Christendom. Anything else would ultimately be detrimental to the West.
On March 13, 2019 the Catholic Church reached six years with Pope Francis. I just want to say that it’s been a long six years. The man is the most liberal Pope in the history of the church. I’ve seen friends of mine leave the church under his leadership.
Jesus Christ
You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.
– Matthew 7:5
A Shia let me look at her book
What do I think of Isnad chains? Well, to be honest I don’t know. In the late ninth century scholars like Bukhari were finally coming into an Islamic age of literacy. It was now time to put the traditions of Muhammad to paper(or vellum). Bukhari and others then went around the Muslim world collecting sayings of Muhammad and his companions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FAsuQmnMNM
Pastor Steven Anderson is an American Baptist Pastor who is part of the King James Only movement. He has absolute faith in the King James Bible; a translation that I’m not too fond of. But he believes in the perfection of this 17th century document.
I’ve been reading the Quran a lot lately. Because of the ordering of the surahs, the early ones seem to take forever whereas the later ones go by super quickly. Anyone who has read it will know what I mean. It seems that after about Surah 50, it’s smooth sailing until the end. As most people know, Muslims say that the Torah is corrupt, even though that view is entirely absent from the Quran. I was plowing through the later surahs the other day and found two back to back surahs that really help explain the Quranic view.
If one watches a lot of debates between Christian and Muslim apologists, John 17:3 gets thrown around a lot. It supposedly refutes the deity of Christ. An interesting observation about this is that if you look at debates from ten years ago, this verse doesn’t seem to be quoted. John 14:28 seemed to be more popular but it doesn’t get quoted that much anymore. It’s almost as if John 17:3 and John 14:28 swapped places in terms of importance to Muslim apologists. I wrote about John 14:28 a while back so now I’ll tackle John 17:3.
On Sunday, right wing media sensation Mike Cernovich posted this Tweet. It says the following:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOZ_x5hN7sg&t=1s
On the weekend, David Wood and Anthony Rogers did a livestream on YouTube. The YouTube was to refute a claim that Yusuf Estes made on some television show that I believe was filmed in Dubai. In this clip Estes said that the Catholic Church was started by Alexander the Great in Rome three centuries before Christ. He also claims that this is on the Catholic website.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPHs8Dp4V7M
When Mohammed Hijab had his debate with David Wood, he mentioned something interesting. He mentioned in his first rebuttal that in the New International Version, the I AM statements aren’t I AM but “I will be”. This is news to me. I own several copies of the NIV and I don’t find that. I only find I am.