Posts Tagged Torture

Ron Paul, The Religious Right, And The Golden Rule – Part 2

Posted by on Friday, 13 January, 2012

Will Grigg from Pro Libertate blog discusses the Golden Rule and Dietrich Bonhoeffer

[Part 2 of a 5-part series]

Show: Future Quake
Full Podcast:
Show 295 1-6-2012 Future Quake – Seventh Annual Future Quake “Predictions” Show
Date: 1/6/12
Hosts:
Dr. Future & Tom Bionic
Guest: Will Grigg
Notes: Another thing that is very, very disturbing is the sense that there is a severability clause somewhere in the Sermon on the Mount…; Your “neighbor” is whoever God happens to put in your path–that’s the answer that was given in the parable; Jesus chose as an example a Samaritan (an infidel–a nonbeliever) to illustrate the godly principle that your “neighbor” is whoever God happens to put in your path; That’s something which has been repudiated by that same cohort of a church that embraces torture… because obviously you cannot torture your neighbor… if you’re bound by the Golden Rule, you cannot inflict torture on somebody, because obviously you would not want torture to be inflicted upon yourself; Another illustration of where we might be going is the situation in Germany as described in Eric Metaxas’ book on Dietrich Bonhoeffer: “Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy“; “Positive Christianity”–the state-focused, cultural Christianity of Germany in the early 20th Century; As early as 1933, Bonhoeffer knew that he was eventually going to be killed by this regime that he saw rising, which eventually killed him in 1945

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Ron Paul, The Religious Right, And The Golden Rule – Part 1

Posted by on Thursday, 12 January, 2012

Dr. Future and William Grigg discuss the religious right’s criticism of Ron Paul, its identification with the military, and its repudiation of the Golden Rule…

[Part 1 of a 5-part series]

Show: Future Quake
Full Podcast:
Show 295 1-6-2012 Future Quake – Seventh Annual Future Quake “Predictions” Show
Date: 1/6/12
Hosts:
Dr. Future & Tom Bionic
Guest: Will Grigg
Notes: The religious right’s pro-war associations… staunchly anti-Paul; Some of Ron Paul’s most vicious criticism has come from the religious right; Values Voter Summit; The Dreyfus affair in France; Are we in danger of the same thing happening with the evangelical conservative forces here?; There seems to have been a full-blown identification between the military on the one hand and the body of Christ on the other, and there’s a complete repudiation of the idea of the Golden Rule as it applies to people who are not part of our tribe (tribe in this instance being defined as the nation state, or being defined as a particular element of the nation state); A study of attitudes both domestically and internationally with respect to the question of torture… of all the social cohorts who were polled, the one that tested highest in support of torture was American evangelical Christians

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Andrew Napolitano On War And 9/11

Posted by on Monday, 13 December, 2010

Taking a break from the current series to bring you another explosive audio clip from Judge Andrew Napolitano, this time from the Future Quake Show, back in May of this year. Judge Napolitano speaks with Dr. Future and Tom Bionic about the Iraq war, the war on terrorism, the JFK assassination, and 9/11…

[Click here for similar comments made recently by Napolitano on the Alex Jones Show.]

Show: Future Quake
Full Podcast:
Exposing The Innate Deceptive Nature of Government
Date: 5/10/10
Hosts:
Dr. Future & Tom Bionic
Guest: Judge Andrew Napolitano
Topics: The war in Iraq is profoundly immoral and profoundly unlawful; As a result of the lie about WMDs we have lost 5,000 Americans, 500,000 Iraqis, 3 million Iraqis have fled their country, and hundred and hundreds of billions of dollars in cash and property has been destroyed… the loss is irretrievable; The unlawfulness of it is that it’s not a declaration of war… it’s an authorization to use military force; This will let every future American president kill whoever he/she wants as long as the president can claim it’s being done to keep us safe from terrorism; If we had declared war on Iraq, or Al-Qaeda, or bin Laden, or whomever they think attacked us, there would be a human being or an authority figure to surrender–But when we declare war on an idea or an ideology, like “terrorism”, there is no one to surrender and the President can claim these war powers until the Congress takes them back from him; That is the hideous nature of how lies breed death and destruction and then take on a life of their own, “well we started the war, we have to finish it”; Napolitano’s book, “Lies the Government Told You“; The “War on Terror”, Patriot Act, Guantanamo Bay, and other usurpations of power; It would be prudent for us to be suspicious of the official government story of what happened on the day of 9/11; The JFK assassination–40 years later it is taken for granted that the government was involved in some way in the assassination of JFK… we will have an attitude like that about 9/11 at some point in the future; The government lies and we let them get away with the lying, and lying has become part of our culture… the government is immunized when it does it, and we expect them to do it again; A majority of the people on the 9/11 Commission admitted that the government lied and was not forthcoming; There hasn’t been a sufficient study of 9/11, the torture, Guantanamo Bay, etc.

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The Biggest Threat To Christianity: Fake Christianity

Posted by on Tuesday, 11 August, 2009

On the latest episode of the Future Quake Show, guest Mark Breton talks about the devastating effects of hypocrisy in the church, as well as the inherent challenges of evangelizing someone you are about to torture or kill.*

* sarcasm intended

Show: Future Quake
Full Podcast:
Evangelical Christianity “On The Couch” – A Spiritual And Mental Health Assessment
Date:
8/10/09
Hosts:
Dr. Future & Tom Bionic
Guest: Mark Breton
Topics: Fake Christianity/hypocrisy is a soul killer; Torture and the death penalty; How can you share the love of Christ with someone you are torturing or killing?

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