I am not sure, because he has some good health related articles... but this guy
seems more and more like an attention grabbing Troll to me... and a
hypocritical one at that, because he want's us to believe that he is so pure,
yet he engages in the same kind of partisan, hateful rhetoric that he accuses
others of spewing and being subject to... he idolizes being a maverick
spokesman for GOD! Like the songs says, "Clowns to the Left of me; Jokers to
the Right" Why doesn't he stick to Health related issues and leave his personal
Religious and Philosophical views out of it?
Nationalism and the Ten Commandments – Patriotism or Idolatry? “Liberty” or
Slavery?
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Nationalism and the Ten Commandments – Patriotism or Idolatry? “Liberty”...
Pretty much every country on earth today has a flag representing that country,
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Top left: American children pledging allegiance to the U.S. flag with the
Belamy salute (image source), Top right: Kindergarten children in Huainan,
Central China saluting the flag of China (image source), Bottom left: saluting
the German Nazi flag (image source), Bottom right: Preschoolers in Ashkelon,
Israel celebrating Independence Day (image source.)
by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News
Pretty much every country on earth today has a flag representing that country,
and children are taught from the earliest ages, usually through public or
religious education, to respect and honor that flag, often by saluting it.
In the United States just about every school for children, whether public or
private, teaches their students to “Pledge Allegiance” to the flag of the
United States of America, while holding their hand over their heart.
Here is the Pledge in its modern day form:
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the
republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty
and justice for all.
The original Pledge of Allegiance was written by a 37-year-old Baptist
Christian Minister named Francis Bellamy in 1892.
I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic, for which it stands,—one
nation, indivisible—with liberty and justice for all.
By not specifying to which flag or which republic allegiance was being pledged,
Bellamy suggested that his pledge could be used by any country, as well as the
United States. (Source.)
The original salute used in reciting the pledge, the “Bellamy salute,” looked
like this:
Both the Pledge of Allegiance and the salute to the flag have undergone changes
over time.
When World War II broke out, many people noticed that the salute American
children were using for the American flag was the same salute that Germans
under Hitler, and Italians under Mussolini, started using, and the Bellamy
salute fell out of favor in the U.S. because it was considered “too fascist.”
Saluting the American flag in a ceremony which took place in Fifth Avenue, New
York, opposite the Union League Club in 1917. The formation is similar to what
is seen in certain Satanic rituals. Image source.
In 1942, Congress amended the Flag Code and President Franklin D. Roosevelt
signed it into law specifying that the Pledge should “be rendered by standing
with the right hand over the heart,” as it is today.
In its 1940 Gobitis decision (310 US 586), the Supreme Court ruled that schools
can compel students to recite the Pledge. In 1954 Congress added the phrase
“under God” to the text.
In 1943, the Supreme Court overturned Gobitis and ruled in its Barnette
decision (319 US 624) that school children could not be forced to recite the
Pledge as a part of their school day routine. (Source.)
This strong national tradition which was started by Christians is still a
strong national and religious tradition practiced today, and to refuse to
salute the American flag or treat it with disrespect is to be accused of not
being a “patriot” and even go against Christian values. Many Christian
Churches, for example, have the flag standing next to the cross.
So why am I spending time writing about this today?
Because our country is as divided as ever, placing people into groups and
labeling them so everyone can keep fighting each other rather than fighting the
Globalists who are dead-set on enslaving us and murdering us, and the label
“Patriot” is a classification I see every single day in my newsfeed, mainly
among the Christian Right and Trump supporters.
The term “patriot” today can pretty much be weaponized against anyone who
disagrees with the narrative of the day that the State wants one to believe and
obey, which today includes obeying all COVID-19 restrictions, and being a “good
patriot” and getting the “vaccine” to protect everyone else.
Biden Says a ‘Patriot’ Is Someone Who Gets Vaccine – Not Refuses It
For the Christian Right, displaying the flag on national holidays like the 4th
of July and Memorial Day is the “Christian” thing to do, and failing to do so
is seen as a moral failure.
But I absolutely REFUSE to pledge my allegiance to the American flag, not for
political reasons, but because to do so is IDOLTARY.
The English word “allegiance” as defined by the Miriam-Webster dictionary is
this:
Definition of allegiance
1 a: the obligation of a feudal vassal to his liege lord
b (1): the fidelity owed by a subject or citizen to a sovereign or government
// I pledge allegiance to my country.
(2): the obligation of an alien to the government under which the alien resides
2: devotion or loyalty to a person, group, or cause // allegiance to a
political party
The famous “Ten Commandments” given to Moses after the Israelites left Egypt
and their slavery starts out with two very specific commandments:
I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of
slavery. You shall have no other gods before me.
You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above
or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.
You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a
jealous God. (Exodus 20:2-5)
The flag of any nation is very clearly an “image,” and to worship or “pledge
allegiance” to that image and the nation it represents is very clearly idolatry.
My allegiance belongs to one person only, my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, who
said:
Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to
bring peace, but a sword.
For I have come to turn “a man against his father, a daughter against her
mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law— a man’s enemies will be
the members of his own household.”
Anyone who loves his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone
who loves his son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and anyone who
does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.
Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake
will find it. (Matthew 10:34-39)
There just is no room for “patriotism” for one who has given up everything this
life has to offer in exchange for following and serving Jesus Christ.
When you no longer have any attachments to this life that the Satanic
Globalists can threaten you with, they no longer have any power over you.
Because the worst thing they can do is kill you, if God allows it, and when you
learn to recognize how evil this world and this life is, you will welcome death
when it comes, understanding that the best is yet to come.
The LORD is with me; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me? (Psalms 118:6)
Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be
changed—in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.
For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will
be changed.
For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal
with immortality.
When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with
immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been
swallowed up in victory.”
“Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?” The sting of
death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give
yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in
the Lord is not in vain. (1 Corinthians 15:51-58)
A true lover of wisdom has hands too busy to hold on to anything! He learns by
doing and every pebble in the path becomes her teacher! Oink
