Lone Candle
Champion of Truth
Indo-European genes and language stretch from Western Europe to Sri Lanka. They were an early horse-people, that used their nomadic technologies like horse-riding, wagons, and chariots to dominate far in different directions. Genetically, their male lines spread far by dominate men having children with many women.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtJ3iVROA60
Gladiators were fat vegetarians.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oYjJiehxq8
Distortionary subsidies helped create suburbanization and longer commutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKMcs9eYvq4
Islamic sacred writings were written hundreds of years after the life of Muhammad, and Muhammad claimed to have received revelations from God that conveniently allowed him to do things that were politically expedient for him, and would change as his political needs changed.
“Islam is a militaristic political system that preaches the subjugation of all of humanity and their submission to Allah who created all humans just so they worship him”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbWPfkTKzlQ
Germany, Japan, and Iran are great societies. But, after Germany and Japan were taken over by barbaric regimes, bringing them back into the civilized world required burning those countries to the ground. The same might be required for Iran.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60BDe7Vtbnw
Christians have deemphasized Jesus’s focus on forgiveness. Instead, Christians emphasize atonement. Jesus’s immediate followers made this shift.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqpVUmJpEf0
The Bible isn’t one book. It is a bunch of books put together. If we really want to understand it, we should try to understand what each author was saying.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5ojTGrL_94
Jesus was not mentioned by Greek or Roman sources in the first 100 years. And, his first Greco-Roman reference was a passing reference. Paul also tells us very little about what Jesus specifically said. Our earliest sources are the four gospels. They are not particularly reliable, but that doesn’t mean they are useless. The Gospels are not first-hand testimony, but people reporting hearsay. They couldn’t know Jesus’s exact words.
We can look at which testimony is earlier, whether one seems to be emphasizing a bias or a message rather than just telling us what happened, to what extent different sources agree with each other, and the extent that Jesus is saying something that seems like his followers would not want him to say.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dDtefHPTEk
The South left the Union in order to defend slavery and racial supremacy. The Southerners believed it was a scientific truth of the world that blacks were inferior and should be subservient. They didn’t lose these beliefs the moment they lost the war. After the Civil War, White Southerns responded to the loss by organizing in order to persecute, murder, beat, and instill fear in, blacks, in order to keep them down and maintain racial supremacy. White Southerners maintained white supremacy through terrorism.
The Klu Klux Klan, the KKK, started as a kind of social club, almost like a college fraternity. They made up silly-sounding titles and wore fun costumes. The people in it were racists, but they didn’t set up the organization to do racist things.
The Klan became a political organization when members perceived the North’s rule as too aggressive in potentially arming blacks in state militias and giving them the ability to vote.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX7sVUgcD4I
George Washington was private about his religious life, so even people in his day were not sure about his religious convictions. At times, he didn’t go to church often, but at other times, he went weekly. Washington did not often talk explicitly about Christianity in his writings, but did use generally religious language. Washington read the Bible and it inspired some of his rhetoric. When asked directly to confirm that he was a disciple of Jesus Christ, Washington dodged the question. After the Revolutionary War, Washington stopped taking Communion, although skipping Communion was common back then. Washington didn’t mention his religion on his deathbed. Washington did think religion was important for society’s morality. Because he was private about his religious beliefs, it’s hard to say what he actually believed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O1nvDfgRX0