Conversation between forum conversees with diametrically opposing world views is entertaining if not always enlightening.
To understand President Trump you must go back to the highly controversial pastor, Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, (May 31, 1898 - Dec. 24, 1993), of his childhood church, who is associated not only with the American values of optimism and service, but with popularizing the concept of "positive thinking," especially through his best-selling book "The Power of Positive Thinking." He served as the pastor of Marble Collegiate Presbyterian Church, New York, from 1932 until his death in 1993.
Dr. Peale and Smiley Blanton, a psychoanalyst, established a religio-psychiatric outpatient clinic next door to the church. Blanton espoused no particular religious point of view. In 1951 this clinic of psychotherapy and religion grew into the American Foundation of Religion and Psychiatry, with Peale serving as president and Blanton as executive director.
President Donald Trump attended Peale's church while growing up, and much of his understanding of Christianity was formulated from Peale's concepts. Peale's ideas and techniques were controversial, and he received frequent criticism from both church figures and from the psychiatric profession. Immediately after Donald Trump announced his campaign to become president, I researched his personal beliefs in so far as that is possible, and subsequently reread portions of Dr. Peale's book to understand what it was that President Trump was taught as a child. Why?
Solomon said, "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." (Proverbs 23:7)
Thinketh – The Hebrew verb is found here only, and means, "as he is all along in his heart, so is he (at last) in act."
Animism and Fertility religions are ancient, however, man's original knowledge of the one true God is more ancient.
Animism and Fertility religions are futile man-made attempts to create their own gods, respectively, of inanimate objects in nature, and of their own reproductive systems, after, and only after rebelling and rejecting worship of the God who created them.
By "Abraham's religion," may I assume you are speaking of those three world faiths, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, commonly called the "desert religions" by the pagans and atheists of today?
Islam is an illegitimate "offshoot," of Abraham's religion, not a full blown participant, and not even a legitimate religion, though recognized as such by some.
Actually, Islam is a fertility religion, as is Mormonism (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints), and Roman Catholicism (when practiced as Rome dictates). All three are also modern threads of the worship of Gaia.
The rights we have are bestowed upon us by Yahweh, the great I Am, the Biblical God of Israel, irregardless of any historical Monarchy, Patriarchy or Matriarchy.
It is the duty of any government to recognize and protect those God-given rights for its citizens. They do not create them, nor can they legitimately remove them.
Science is man's attempt to understand the mechanics of God's creation, irregardless of whether or not one labels that attempt a by-child of man's "philosophy."
I've responded only to bits and pieces of your post because it splinters into so many fields of discipline, some of which seem irrelevant to your topic, but are of obvious interest to me.
RT friend wrote:
As you say, the rights we have are rooted in the abuse infliced by Monarchy and they find expression in the Declaration of Independence in 1776, and the rights we should have regardless of anything else withstanding (resisting) are laid out in the Virginia Bill of Rights, both documents are internationally orientated and gave rise in 1868 to the 14 th. Amendment identifying the common man as a Citizen who is no longer reflected by "blood bonding" as his birthright.
So if "blood bonding " was overturned by Religion it would have been anti-republican and done by an unknown Religion (Jesus is related to David and only Monachy exists in (p) Abrahams Religion ), and if such circumstances did prevail 150 years ago the outcome would have been anti-state as no such Religion has ever existed and genealogy is the foundation stone of (p) Abraham's Religion as well as Hindu and Zorasterism.
I think that's because Religion is fundamentally a male inspiration to cement male relationship in family relations by creating knowledge of a personal father and making the inheritance of property possible as an institution rather than a single matriarch.
Also genetically itself is a philosophical concept, not a Religious one, long before Religion there was Animism and reproduction.
I repeat in (p) Abrahams Religion there is nothing other than Monarchial Decree if you consider the (p) Ishmael offshoot to be a falfication of the (p) Abrahams Religion.
The 14 th. Amendment was the direct result of the Civil War to free s***es.
Please consider the 13 th. and the 15 th. Amendment's in connection with the 14 th. creating the irrefutable commonality of the species that we as contemporaneous pundits have the privilege to intellectually represent human beings in both Theological and Philosophical context.
I personally don't believe it's possible to separate the two schools of thought as Philosophy gave us science and Religion gave us a basis for agreement to collectively fight against nature by adopting science.
Animism seemd to have gone full circle from being innate as a prerequisite to our complex human thought process to becoming our Spirit being biologically embedded in the non-living things that we make, that is real conjecture, however all people always agreed that the main purpose of our thought application is to define exactly what a 😚 good person is ?.
A good person is a Gentleman Champian that if he doesn't make much money is happy to accept a humble station in life when his career comes to an end.
But we all can't be Champs and we all can't be treated as equals under the law, because of cost legal representation which is also a type of corruption, another question, why have money why not just trust each other?. 😍.
I agree ensconced system is a perversion of a formalized system that Governments should be represented by in it's employees, how did US Government departments get to be the neoconservative side of the Democratic Party?.
Unquestionably an oxymoron that starts off as opposites combining to be a formal system caused by the urge of affluence to justify itself by finding common ground which is proper, but becomes an oxymoron as an ensconced system when it's representatives start believing their own BS because opposites can't be combined only understood separately which neoconservative with a propensity for d********g sexual perversion can't get their head around.
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