Asderathos' Aggregate

21 Apr

Remember what we said on 9-11? They will not change us. Well I’m afraid they already have. They’ve changed our country, but our country is not a piece of paper, our country is not a collection of laws, and it is certainly not parties or politicians. It is not our money, it is not our stuff, it is us. To [change] America they must fundamentally change us. They are indoctrinating our children, they are fining us, they are making it illegal to live your life the way you always have lived your life. They’re making it illegal to have your kids help you on your own family farm. They are doing everything they can to fundamentally transform.
Read “Man’s Search for Meaning” by Viktor Frankl

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Glenn Beck, Radio H1, 4-17-13

Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl’s memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his own experience and the experiences of those he treated in his practice, Frankl argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and move forward with renewed purpose. Frankl’s theory—known as logotherapy, from the Greek word logos (“meaning”)—holds that our primary drive in life is not pleasure, as Freud maintained, but the discovery and pursuit of what we personally find meaningful. -Amazon

# James Madison # Founding Fathers # Quotes # First Amendment # Religion # America # American History # Law # US Constitution

22 Feb

There is not a shadow of right in the general government to intermeddle with religion. Its least interference with it would be a most flagrant usurpation. I can appeal to my uniform conduct on this subject, that I have warmly supported religious freedom.

— James Madison, the Virginia Ratifying convention.

(Source: books.google.com)

# Quotes # Pope Benedict # Pope Benedict XVI # Government # Religion # politics # Christianity

20 Feb

Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes not divine, but demonic.

— Pope Benedict XVI (via invicemsunt)

(via atimeforchoosing)

# Paul Harvey # Farmer # God Made A Farmer # God # Christianity # Religion # America

14 Feb

God Made A Farmer by Paul Harvey 1978

And on the 8th day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, “I need a caretaker.” So God made a farmer.

God said, “I need somebody willing to get up before dawn, milk cows, work all day in the fields, milk cows again, eat supper and then go to town and stay past midnight at a meeting of the school board.” So God made a farmer.

“I need somebody with arms strong enough to rustle a calf and yet gentle enough to deliver his own grandchild. Somebody to call hogs, tame cantankerous machinery, come home hungry, have to wait lunch until his wife’s done feeding visiting ladies and tell the ladies to be sure and come back real soon — and mean it.” So God made a farmer.

God said, “I need somebody willing to sit up all night with a newborn colt. And watch it die. Then dry his eyes and say, ‘Maybe next year.’ I need somebody who can shape an ax handle from a persimmon sprout, shoe a horse with a hunk of car tire, who can make harness out of haywire, feed sacks and shoe scraps. And who, planting time and harvest season, will finish his forty-hour week by Tuesday noon, then, pain’n from ‘tractor back,’ put in another seventy-two hours.” So God made a farmer.

God had to have somebody willing to ride the ruts at double speed to get the hay in ahead of the rain clouds and yet stop in mid-field and race to help when he sees the first smoke from a neighbor’s place. So God made a farmer.

God said, “I need somebody strong enough to clear trees and heave bails, yet gentle enough to tame lambs and wean pigs and tend the pink-combed pullets, who will stop his mower for an hour to splint the broken leg of a meadow lark. It had to be somebody who’d plow deep and straight and not cut corners. Somebody to seed, weed, feed, breed and rake and disc and plow and plant and tie the fleece and strain the milk and replenish the self-feeder and finish a hard week’s work with a five-mile drive to church.

“Somebody who’d bale a family together with the soft strong bonds of sharing, who would laugh and then sigh, and then reply, with smiling eyes, when his son says he wants to spend his life ‘doing what dad does.’” So God made a farmer.

http://nation.foxnews.com/paul-harvey/2013/02/04/full-audio-and-text-paul-harveys-original-so-god-made-farmer-speech

# Thomas Jefferson # youtube # debate # Discussion # Christiantiy # Religion

12 Feb

# Glenn Beck # Christianity # Religion

31 Jan

mormonproblems:

This is Glenn Beck’s conversion story. It’s crazy awesome.

-Gareth

# religion # judaism

23 Jan

Ketzele: Third Time, Ice Cream

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by Lurker, with Arnie Draiman

There is an interesting phrase used in Israel which is recited when one unexpectedly encounters a person for the second time within a short period: pa’am shlisheet, glida (“third time, ice cream”). This is commonly understood to mean: If we…

# Religion # Judaism

23 Jan

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Actually, it’s a blessing thanking G-d for creating the human body in His great wisdom and how it functions properly but ok.

Yeah…

we love our biology. Don’t even man.

What is that bull****. It doesn’t thank G-d for what the image states; it acknowledge that G-d created our bodies in a way that is even one small problem were to arise, it could kill us. It also acknowledges that G-d sustains us.

That is why people sometimes also say it after an operation.

And I wouldn’t call it a prayer, it’s a brocho - a blessing.

Finally, this appears somewhat subtly anti-Semitic. Twisting the truth [even when your source doesn’t say what you have] to make Orthodox Jews appear in a negative light.

We acknowledge G-d’s presence and support in all aspects of our lives, as well as the authority G-d has over us. I think did-you-kno needs to revise that little poster and put it in a more respectful frame.

Here’s the prayer in English, and a link to information about it. It is from a children’s site but so what? The information is valid.

“Blessed are You, Hashem, our G-d, King of the universe, Who formed man with wisdom and created within him many openings and many hollows (cavities). It is obvious and known before Your Throne of Glory that if but one of them were to be ruptured or if one of them were to be blocked it would be impossible to survive and to stand before You (even for a short period of time). Blessed are You, Hashem, Who heals all flesh and acts wonderously.”

Tell me this isn’t beautiful.

# America # Religion # Morality # Education # The Northwest Ordinance # Quotes

27 Dec

Religion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged. The utmost good faith shall always be observed towards the Indians; their lands and property shall never be taken from them without their consent; and, in their property, rights, and liberty, they shall never be invaded or disturbed, unless in just and lawful wars authorized by Congress; but laws founded in justice and humanity, shall from time to time be made for preventing wrongs being done to them, and for preserving peace and friendship with them.

— The Northwest Ordinance by the US Congress (July 13, 1787) Article 3

# creation # evolution # debate # posters # science # religion

5 Dec

slide-to-the-right:

I actually got in a debate with a liberal in regards to creationism versus evolution. After I gave him a Bible verse showing how they knew the Earth was round before we did; he goes “well; huurrr; its more probable that the creation of the Earth was a result of spontaneous mutations.” Yep; just like how Darwin thought that flies emerged “spontaneously” from the mud. He then went on to say that “religion obstructs scientific progress.” Nope; just people like you; clearly.

(Source: merrypilgrim, via socopolitics)

# Obama # Socialism # Jim Wallis # Gay Marriage # Abortion # Religion # Evil

christinaalovessjesusx:

Amen Amen Amen! Love this so much :D ♥ God lovess you very much!!

Forever reblog.

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# Christianity # Religion # Love # Posters

It’s probably a tossup as to whether Christmas or Easter attracts the most people to church services. When it comes to synagogue attendance, the runaway winner is Yom Kippur. On this holiest day of the Jewish Year, even many secular Jews will participate.

As December 25 is a holiday in America, so Yom Kippur, or the Day of Atonement, is a legal holiday in Israel. Imagine an enemy launching an attack against our nation on Christmas Day, and you get a feel for what Israelis experienced in 1973 when Egypt and Syria attacked Israel on Yom Kippur.

The biblical background for the Day (Yom) of Atonement is found in Leviticus 16:29-34a:

“And it shall be a statute to you for ever that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict yourselves, and shall do no work, either the native or the stranger who sojourns among you; for on this day shall atonement be made for you, to cleanse you; from all your sins you shall be clean before the LORD. It is a sabbath of solemn rest to you, and you shall afflict yourselves; it is a statute for ever. And the priest who is anointed and consecrated as priest in his father’s place shall make atonement, wearing the holy linen garments; he shall make atonement for the sanctuary, and he shall make atonement for the tent of meeting and for the altar, and he shall make atonement for the priests and for all the people of the assembly.

“And this shall be an everlasting statute for you, that atonement may be made for the people of Israel once in the year because of all their sins.”

For the faithful, this day is still marked by 25 hours of fasting and intense praying. Many will not only refrain from eating, but also from washing and even sexual relationships.

Confession of sins is the order of the day. More than anything else, participants are concerned about reconciliation—reconciliation first between people and then between individuals and God. Christians can recall the words of Jesus in His Sermon on the Mount:

“Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother or sister has something against you, leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to them; then come and offer your gift.”

Christians wanting to understand how the two faiths are intertwined yet different would do well to read Hebrews chapters 9 and 10.

We encourage you to mark your calendars, because this year Yom Kippur falls on September 26.

To read more about Yom Kippur, visit the HEBREW FOR CHRISTIANS website.