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Health

Corona/Virus Treatment and Prevention

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Last night I was handed a flyer by a good friend of mine originally written by a respiratory therapist that included some common sense things we can do to combat the Corona virus.

After reading the flyer I realized that many people simply were never taught many of the things that I once considered to be common knowledge. In addition many people are regularly administered treatments (often by medical professionals) that actually prolong or even worsen the flu/virus.

Using this handout as a guide whilst adding additional information I have learned over the years I have compiled a list of 10 helpful things every human should know and understand before making decisions about treating viral symptoms, and even preventing them.

Fevers

Fevers in general are irrationally feared by most people, mostly due to a lack of understanding exacerbated by liability concerns of medical professionals. When you contract a virus your bodies immune system identifies that intruder and destroys it while building specific anti-bodies to combat it better in the future.

The process of your immune system using good cells to attack and destroy the viral cells cause a release of energy. That energy is absorbed by the surrounding tissue and blood as heat thereby causing your overall body temperature to rise above “Normal” this is the root cause of fevers.

Viruses are also EXTREMELY sensitive to heat. The elevated body temperature (Fever) is very effective in killing the virus (even more effective than the immune system) . When we take pharmaceuticals such as Motrin, Tylenol, Advil, Excedrin and so forth we lower our body temperature allowing the virus to live longer while making it harder for our immune system to eradicate the virus.

It also helps to keep your house warm, wear multiple layers or cover up and stay warm. This will reduce the amount of energy your body needs to produce heat in combating the virus.

Obviously we should use common sense and treat a fever that exceeds a “safe” level. I personally never treat a fever with medication unless it is in excess of 103 degrees Fahrenheit and other methods such as a cool shower have failed.

Pharmaceuticals

Remember medications DO NOT in ANY way make you well or cure any viruses! Every medication merely relives or covers up symptoms. In most cases they only serve to prolong or even exacerbate the virus. Most medications cause more overall harm than good when used to treat viruses!

There certainly are specific cases where medication can be helpful in combating a virus but these cases should be the exception and not the norm.

Dehydration

Not drinking enough water and staying properly hydrated during the colder months is the primary cause of contracting viruses. It also greatly contributes to prolonging the course of a virus once contracted. Our cells need fresh water to combat the virus as well as process the waste.

When it’s hot outside everyone universally knows that you are easily dehydrated and should drink plenty of water. In addition viruses do not survive well outside the body in warmer temperatures. Most people do not realize we should be drinking at least the same amount in the winter. Cold temperatures extract nearly as much moisture from our bodies as hot, just consider what happens to uncovered meat in the freezer – it is completely dehydrated on a matter of days plus viruses survive much better in the cool weather.

Gatorade and other similar drinks work well for re-hydration if you are sick. These drinks have small amounts of real sugar as well at electrolytes. If you go to the hospital the first thing they will do is give you an IV with D5W (Sugar Water) and Saline. Gatorade is cheaper and doesn’t require an IV.

Humans are well equipped to defend ourselves from these viruses. We naturally breath through our noses where we have several lines of defense. First we have nose hair, then mucus in our nose and sinuses followed by our tonsils. All of these serve as filters to protect us from bacteria and viruses but they only function properly when we are well hydrated. When you do not drink enough water and your nose is dry viral cells are not filtered out and go straight to your lungs where it is very easy to enter the bloodstream.

Mucus is our primary filter. It’s sticky consistency filters out most naturally occurring contaminates such as viruses, The mucus ultimately ends up in our stomach where it is very difficult to enter the bloodstream. Most contaminates and all viruses that I am familiar with are easily killed by our stomach acid and processed as waste.

Help Your Body Fight

We were not intended to be primarily indoor creatures and we were certainly not intended to eat primarily processed and pre-packaged foods. Most people should be taking some basic supplements at ALL times. Vitamin D, Vitamin C, Zinc and Magnesium are the most important in my opinion. This can generally by accomplished with a simple multivitamin once a day. I doubt you will notice an immediate change but when you look back over the course of the year you will notice a trend of better overall health and far fewer sick days.

We all should eat considerably healthier on a regular basis but this is exceptionally important when we are sink. Our bodies have an amazing ability to heal themselves if we provide the nutrients necessary.

Keep Moving

This is one of the most important things we can do once we are sick. Move around, this keeps your blood circulating and helps to oxygenate your body. Keep your lungs moist – Take hot showers and breathe in as much steam as possible. Take repeated deep breaths. Chewing mint gum can help with bronchial dilation. Laying around in bed or the hospital is the primary cause of pneumonia. Try coughing into a moist towel, this helps break up phlegm in your lungs.

If anyone has addition tips please leave them in the comments and I will attempt to incorporate them into this blog

History, Irish, Social Topics

Irish Slave Trade

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They came as slaves; vast human cargo transported on tall British ships bound for the Americas. They were shipped by the hundreds of thousands and included men, women, and even the youngest of children.

Whenever they rebelled or even disobeyed an order, they were punished in the harshest ways. Slave owners would hang their human property by their hands and set their hands or feet on fire as one form of punishment. They were burned alive and had their heads placed on pikes in the marketplace as a warning to other captives.

We don’t really need to go through all of the gory details, do we? We know all too well the atrocities of the African slave trade.

But, are we talking about African slavery? King James II and Charles I also led a continued effort to enslave the Irish. Britain’s famed Oliver Cromwell furthered this practice of dehumanizing one’s next door neighbor.

The Irish slave trade began when 30,000 Irish prisoners were sold as slaves to the New World. The King James I Proclamation of 1625 required Irish political prisoners be sent overseas and sold to English settlers in the West Indies. By the mid 1600s, the Irish were the main slaves sold to Antigua and Montserrat. At that time, 70% of the total population of Montserrat were Irish slaves.

Ireland quickly became the biggest source of human livestock for English merchants. The majority of the early slaves to the New World were actually white.

From 1641 to 1652, over 500,000 Irish were killed by the English and another 300,000 were sold as slaves. Ireland’s population fell from about 1,500,000 to 600,000 in one single decade. Families were ripped apart as the British did not allow Irish dads to take their wives and children with them across the Atlantic. This led to a helpless population of homeless women and children. Britain’s solution was to auction them off as well.

In 1641, Ireland’s population was 1,466,000 and in 1652, 616,000. According to Sir William Petty, 850,000 were wasted by the sword, plague, famine, hardship and banishment during the Confederation War 1641-1652. At the end of the war, vast numbers of Irish men, women and children were forcibly transported to the American colonies by the English government.(7) These people were rounded up like cattle, and, as Prendergast reports on Thurloe’s State Papers(8) (Pub. London, 1742), “In clearing the ground for the adventurers and soldiers (the English capitalists of that day)… To be transported to Barbados and the English plantations in America. It was a measure beneficial to Ireland, which was thus relieved of a population that might trouble the planters; it was a benefit to the people removed, which might thus be made English and Christians … a great benefit to the West India sugar planters, who desired men and boys for their bondsmen, and the women and Irish girls… To solace them.”(9)

J. Williams provides additional evidence of the attitude of the English government towards the Irish in an English law of June 26, 1657: “Those who fail to transplant themselves into Connaught (Ireland’s Western Province) or (County) Clare within six months… Shall be attained of high treason… Are to be sent into America or some other parts beyond the seas…”(10) Those thus banished who return are to “suffer the pains of death as felons by virtue of this act, without benefit of Clergy.”(11)

The following are but a few of the numerous references to those Irish transported against their will between 1651 and 1660.

Emmet asserts that during this time, more that

“100,000 young children who were orphans or had been taken from their Catholic parents, were sent abroad into slavery in the West Indies, Virginia and New England, that they might lose their faith and all knowledge of their nationality, for in most instances even their names were changed… Moreover, the contemporary writers assert between 20,000 and 30,000 men and women who were taken prisoner were sold in the American colonie as slaves, with no respect to their former station in life.”(12)

Dunn claims in Barbados the Irish Catholics constituted the largest block of servants on the island.(13) Higham estimated that in 1652 Barbados had absorbed no less than 12,000 of these political prisoners.(14) E. Williams reports: “In 1656 Cromwell’s Council of State voted that 1,000 Irish girls and 1,000 Irish young men be sent to Jamaica.”(15) Smith declares: “it is impossible to say how many shiploads of unhappy Irish were dispatched to America by the English government,” and “no mention of such shipments would be very likely to appear in the State Papers… They must have been very considerable in number.”(16)

Estimates vary between 80,000 and 130,000 regarding the amount of Irish sent into slavery in America and the West Indies during the years of 1651 – 1660: Prendergast says 80,000(17); Boudin 100,000(18); Emmet 120,000 to 130,000(19); Lingard 60,000 up until 1656(20); and Condon estimates “the number of Irish transported to the British colonies in America from 1651 – 1660 exceeded the total number of their inhabitants at that period, a fact which ought not to be lost sight of by those who undertake to estimate the strength of the Celtic element in this nation…”(21)

It is impossible to ascertain the exact number of those unfortunate victims of English injustice during this period, but we do know the amount was massive. Even though the figures given above are but estimates, they are estimates from eminent historians.

The flow of the Irish to the American colonies throughout the remainder of the 17th century was large and continuous, but not nearly as massive as between 1651 and 1660. Some of the many statements by historians give evidence of this Irish tide. Higham reports that in 1664 the Irish took the place of the French on St. Bartholomew’s.(22) Smith claims that during the four years leading up to 1675, already 500 Irish servants were brought to Jamaica by ships from Bristol, England that stopped in Ireland for provisions.(23) During 1680 on the Leeward Islands, Dunn posits: “with so many Irish Catholic servants and farmers… The English planters became obsessed with the fear of popery.”(24) Dunn also states that in Jamaica in 1685 the 2nd Duke of Aberlmarle, after his appointment by James II, a Catholic, mustered his chief support from the Irish Catholic small planters and servants and that the indentured servants who constituted the island militia were mainly Irish Catholic.(25) In reporting on Father Garganel’s statements, Lenihan claims: “in 1699 Father Garganel, S.J., Superior of the island of Martinique, asked for one or two Irish Fathers for that and the neighboring isles which were ‘fill of Irish’ for every year shiploads of men, boys and girls, partly crimped, partly carried off by main force for the purposes of slave trade, are conveyed by the English from Ireland.”(26)

During the 1650s, over 100,000 Irish children between the ages of 10 and 14 were taken from their parents and sold as slaves in the West Indies, Virginia and New England. In this decade, 52,000 Irish (mostly women and children) were sold to Barbados and Virginia. Another 30,000 Irish men and women were also transported and sold to the highest bidder. In 1656, Cromwell ordered that 2000 Irish children be taken to Jamaica and sold as slaves to English settlers.

Many people today will avoid calling the Irish slaves what they truly were: Slaves. They’ll come up with terms like “Indentured Servants” to describe what occurred to the Irish. However, in most cases from the 17th and 18th centuries, Irish slaves were nothing more than human cattle.

As an example, the African slave trade was just beginning during this same period. It is well recorded that African slaves, not tainted with the stain of the hated Catholic theology and more expensive to purchase, were often treated far better than their Irish counterparts.

African slaves were very expensive during the late 1600s (50 Sterling). Irish slaves came cheap (no more than 5 Sterling). If a planter whipped or branded or beat an Irish slave to death, it was never a crime. A death was a monetary setback, but far cheaper than killing a more expensive African. The English masters quickly began breeding the Irish women for both their own personal pleasure and for greater profit. Children of slaves were themselves slaves, which increased the size of the master’s free workforce. Even if an Irish woman somehow obtained her freedom, her kids would remain slaves of her master. Thus, Irish moms, even with this new found emancipation, would seldom abandon their kids and would remain in servitude.

In time, the English thought of a better way to use these women (in many cases, girls as young as 12) to increase their market share: The settlers began to breed Irish women and girls with African men to produce slaves with a distinct complexion. These new “mulatto” slaves has a higher intelligence level than that of African slaves, brought a higher price than Irish livestock and, likewise, enabled the settlers to save money rather than purchase new African slaves. This practice of interbreeding Irish females with African men went on for several decades and was so widespread that, in 1681, legislation was passed “forbidding the practice of mating Irish slave women to African slave men for the purpose of producing slaves for sale.” In short, it was stopped only because it interfered with the profits of a large slave transport company.

England continued to ship tens of thousands of Irish slaves for more than a century. Records state that, after the 1798 Irish Rebellion, thousands of Irish slaves were sold to both America and Australia. There were horrible abuses of both African and Irish captives. One British ship even dumped 1,302 slaves into the Atlantic Ocean because the crew was low on food.

There is little question that the Irish experienced the horrors of slavery much more in the 17th Century than the Africans did. There is, also, very little question that those brown, tanned faces you witness in your travels to the West Indies are very likely a combination of African and Irish ancestry. In 1839, Britain finally decided on its own to end its participation in Satan’s highway to hell and stopped transporting slaves. While their decision did not stop pirates from doing what they desired, the new law slowly concluded this particular chapter of nightmarish Irish misery.

But, if anyone, black or white, believes that slavery was only an African experience, then they’ve got it completely wrong. Irish slavery is a subject worth remembering, researching and not erasing from our memories.

But, where are our public (and PRIVATE) schools???? Where are the history books? Why is it so seldom discussed?

Do the memories of hundreds of thousands of Irish victims merit more than a mention from an unknown writer? Or is their story to be one that their English pirates intended: To (unlike the African book) have the Irish story utterly and completely disappear as if it never happened.

None of the Irish victims ever made it back to their homeland to describe their ordeal. These are the lost slaves; the ones that time and biased history books conveniently forgot.

Extensive content and references for this post provided by www.globalresearch.ca

Religion

Is it Acceptable for Christians to Pierce Their Bodies or Get Tattoos?

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“Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.”
— Leviticus 19:28

We live in a culture obsessed with the body — with altering it, decorating it, mutilating it. The modern man wants to proclaim ownership of himself by etching ink into his skin and pushing metal through his flesh. The modern woman, deceived by vanity and rebellion, treats her body like a billboard for self-expression rather than a temple for God’s glory. The image of God has become a canvas for self-worship.

But what saith the Lord?

In an age when rebellion parades as freedom and defilement is called art, the Christian must once again ask: What does God say? What is righteous? What is holy? For those who walk in The Great Order, the answer must be clear, not according to trends, feelings, or peer approval — but rooted in the eternal Word of God.

I. God’s Prohibition in Leviticus — A Matter of Holiness, Not Just Ceremony

The foundational text is clear:

“Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.”
— Leviticus 19:28

This command was not arbitrary. It was given to separate the people of God from the surrounding pagan nations. The Canaanites, Egyptians, and other heathen peoples engaged in self-cutting and tattooing as acts of mourning, idol worship, tribal identification, and magical ritual. Tattoos and body piercings were, in origin, sacrificial and religious acts — outward signs of allegiance to false gods.

The people of Israel were called out — to be distinct. The commandment was not merely hygienic or cultural. It was holy. It was a declaration: You belong to YHWH, not Baal. You are set apart. You are mine.

Many modern Christians hastily dismiss this as “Old Testament law” with no relevance today. But they do so inconsistently. For the very same chapter (Leviticus 19) also condemns witchcraft (v. 26), prostitution (v. 29), and dishonoring the elderly (v. 32). Are these no longer sins? Shall we also affirm child prostitution or necromancy under the banner of “freedom in Christ”?

Some laws in the Torah were ceremonial and tied to temple practices, but others reflected unchanging moral principles rooted in the nature of God. Leviticus 19:28 falls into the latter. It reveals a divine standard: that the body is sacred and must not be defaced like those of the heathen.

II. The New Testament Confirms the Principle: The Body Is Not Our Own

“What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.”
— 1 Corinthians 6:19–20

This verse is not metaphorical poetry — it is doctrine. The believer has been purchased. Redeemed. His body is now a vessel of the Holy Spirit. A consecrated structure. It is not a personal art project, it is a sacred temple.

If we understand the weight of Paul’s words, the gravity of defiling the temple becomes clear. When Jesus drove out the moneychangers from the temple, it was not a small thing. He fashioned a whip. He overturned tables. He drove them out with righteous fury. Shall we now bring tattoo needles and nose rings into the temple of our bodies, claiming “Christian liberty”?

To glorify God with our bodies means we must not deface them. Solomon’s temple was not defiled with carvings of dragons and skulls. It was adorned with gold, with beauty, with order — all by God’s command. Likewise, our bodies are to reflect His glory, not our rebellion.

III. The Pagan Roots of Tattoos and Piercings

Historical research reveals that tattoos and body piercings have long been associated with idolatry, tribal paganism, and spiritual bondage.

  • In ancient Egypt, tattoos were linked to goddess worship, particularly Isis. Women often tattooed themselves as symbols of fertility rites.
  • In Canaanite culture, markings were made on the body to honor the dead or as initiation into pagan mysteries.
  • Roman soldiers tattooed themselves to signify loyalty to Caesar — a false god of the state.
  • In Polynesian tribal religion, tattooing was a rite of passage into adulthood, manhood, or spiritual transformation.
  • Hindu practices often include nose piercings for women, connected to marriage and spiritual significance under their gods.

The association between tattoos and paganism is not incidental. It is consistent. Throughout the centuries, the marks placed on the body were declarations of spiritual allegiance. What man inscribes on his body reveals what master he serves.

Is it any wonder that in the Bible, God’s people are forbidden from such markings, while the servants of Satan are described in Revelation as bearing the “mark of the beast”?

“And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads.”
— Revelation 13:16

IV. Scripture Calls Us to Be Set Apart

“As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;
Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.”
— 1 Peter 1:14–16

“Abstain from all appearance of evil.”
— 1 Thessalonians 5:22

“Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.”
— 2 Corinthians 6:17

Holiness is not simply inward. It is visible. Observable. Tangible. A Christian’s walk should reflect God’s order — and that includes his attire, his speech, his habits, and yes, even his body.

When you see a tattooed body, does it cry out “set apart” or does it whisper “blending in”?

Let’s be honest. The modern tattoo culture is not driven by piety. It is driven by rebellion, vanity, and worldliness. It is associated with rock stars, gang members, feminists, bikers, and those who boast in sin. Shall we — the holy nation, the peculiar people, the royal priesthood — adorn ourselves like them?

V. The Deception of “Christian Tattoos”

Some will say, “But my tattoo is a cross!” or “It’s a verse!” or “It’s meant to honor God!”

The question is not what the tattoo says. The question is whether the practice itself honors the God who forbids it.

Would a man honor the King by disobeying His law? Would a priest paint graffiti on the temple wall and justify it by claiming it says “God is love”? A tattoo of Scripture is still rebellion if God has commanded us not to mark our bodies.

Furthermore, we must not forget that Satan often disguises evil as light.

“And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.”
— 2 Corinthians 11:14

“Christian tattoos” are often just a baptized version of worldliness. A sanctified mask for self-expression. But righteousness is not about rebranding the ways of the world — it’s about rejecting them.

VI. The Problem of Piercings

While some argue that earrings or piercings are culturally neutral or even biblical — pointing to references of earrings in Genesis or Exodus — we must make a key distinction.

In Scripture, earrings are often:

  • Given as spoil (Genesis 35:4; Exodus 32:2),
  • Associated with idol worship (Judges 8:24–27),
  • Or connected with feminine adornment (Ezekiel 16:12).

They are never commanded, and they are never treated as holy or righteous. In fact, their connection with idolatry should give us pause.

More importantly, in our current age, the proliferation of piercings — in ears, noses, lips, navels, and beyond — is a sign of cultural breakdown and gender confusion. Men now wear earrings. Women pierce their faces in grotesque ways. The lines between male and female blur, and the image of God is vandalized.

For the man of God walking in the Great Order, and for the woman of God pursuing meekness and modesty, piercings are not a mark of virtue. They are marks of conformity to a dying and decadent world.

VII. Forgiveness and Restoration

What if you already have tattoos or piercings? Is all hope lost? God forbid.

“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
— 1 John 1:9

The blood of Christ cleanses even the defiled temple. He forgives. He renews. But forgiveness is not a license to sin again. We do not presume upon grace.

Some tattoos cannot be removed, but they can be covered. Others may be a testimony — not of pride, but of repentance. The key is this: Do not justify the sin. Acknowledge it. Reject it. And do not repeat it.

VIII. Reason and Creation Affirm God’s Design

Let us conclude with simple reasoning and righteous deduction.

  • The body is the creation of God.
  • The body is the image of God.
  • The body is the temple of God.
  • The body is to be set apart from the world.

Therefore, it follows:

The Christian has no liberty to mutilate, mark, or desecrate his body according to his own whims or worldly fashion.

God did not make a mistake in your design. Your skin does not need improvement. As one Jewish rabbi once observed:

“No matter how well considered, a tattoo is the result of a short-term decision to decorate the body forever. What hubris to imagine that any of us, as individuals, can improve artistically on the original design of the Lord.”

Indeed. It is hubris. It is rebellion. It is a denial of God’s sufficiency.

IX. Let the People of God Be Holy

Let this be the cry of the remnant: We will not be marked by the world. We will not wear the badges of Babylon. We will be holy, consecrated, unpolluted.

Let the pagans ink their flesh. Let the rebels pierce their faces. Let the feminists defy God with rainbow tattoos. But let the people of the Great Order glorify God in body and spirit, which are His.

“Be ye not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind…”
— Romans 12:2

Conclusion:
Christians should not pierce their bodies or get tattoos. The weight of Scripture, the testimony of history, and the witness of creation all declare the same message: Your body is not your own. It is the Lord’s. Keep it holy.

Let us fear God. Let us obey His Word. Let us glorify Him with every fiber of our being — ink-free, metal-free, and set apart.

Soli Deo Gloria.
Let the Great Order rise.

Conspiracies, Holidays, Politics

The Truth About MLK

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The Real Martin Luther King Jr:

Every January, the media go into a kind of almost spastic frenzy of adulation for the so-called “Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr.” King has even had a national holiday declared in his honor, an honor accorded to no other American, not Washington, not Jefferson, not Lincoln. (Washington and Lincoln no longer have holidays — they share the generic-sounding “President’s Day.”) A liberal judge has sealed the FBI files on King until the year 2027. What are they hiding? Let’s take a look at this modern-day plastic god.

Born in 1929, King was the son of a Black preacher known at the time only as “Daddy King.” “Daddy King” named his son Michael. In 1935, “Daddy King” had an inspiration to name himself after the Protestant reformer Martin Luther. He declared to his congregation that henceforth they were to refer to him as “Martin Luther King” and to his son as “Martin Luther King, Jr.” None of this name changing was ever legalized in court. “Daddy” King’s son’s real name is to this day Michael King.

King’s Brazen Cheating:

We read in Michael Hoffman’s “Holiday for a Cheater “, The first public sermon that King ever gave, in 1947 at the Ebenezer Baptist Church, was plagiarized from a homily by Protestant clergyman Harry Emerson Fosdick entitled “Life is What You Make It,” according to the testimony of King’s best friend of that time, Reverend Larry H. Williams.

The first book that King wrote, “Stride Toward Freedom, – -was plagiarized from numerous sources, all unattributed, according to documentation recently assembled by sympathetic King scholars Keith D. Miller, Ira G. Zepp, Jr., and David J. Garrow and no less an authoritative source than the four senior editors of “The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.- – (an official publication of the Martin Luther King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Inc., whose staff includes King’s widow Coretta), stated of King’s writings at both Boston University and Crozer Theological Seminary: “Judged retroactively by the standards of academic scholarship, [his writings] are tragically flawed by numerous instances of plagiarism…. Appropriated passages are particularly evident in his writings in his major field of graduate study, systematic theology.”

King’s essay, “The Place of Reason and Experience in Finding God,” written at Crozer, pirated passages from the work of theologian Edgar S. Brightman, author of “The Finding of God.”

Another of King’s theses, “Contemporary Continental Theology,” written shortly after he entered Boston University, was largely stolen from a book by Walter Marshall Horton.

King’s doctoral dissertation, “A Comparison of the Conceptions of God in the Thinking of Paul Tillich and Harry Nelson Wieman,” for which he was awarded a PhD in theology, contains more than fifty complete sentences plagiarized from the PhD dissertation of Dr. Jack Boozer, “The Place of Reason in Paul Tillich’s Concept of God.”

According to “The Martin Luther King Papers”, in King’s dissertation “only 49 per cent of sentences in the section on Tillich contain five or more words that were King’s own….”!

In “The Journal of American History”, June 1991, page 87, David J. Garrow, a leftist academic who is sympathetic to King, says that King’s wife, Coretta Scott King, who also served as his secretary, was an accomplice in his repeated cheating. (“King’s Plagiarism: Imitation, Insecurity and Transformation,” The Journal of American History, June 1991, p. 87)

Reading Garrow’s article, one is led to the inescapable conclusion that King cheated because he had chosen for himself a political role in which a PhD would be useful, and, lacking the intellectual ability to obtain the title fairly, went after it by any means necessary. Why, then, one might ask, did the professors at Crozer Theological Seminary and Boston University grant him passing grades and a PhD? Garrow states on page 89: “King’s academic compositions, especially at Boston University, were almost without exception little more than summary descriptions… and comparisons of other’s writings.

Nonetheless, the papers almost always received desirable letter grades, strongly suggesting that King’s professors did not expect more….” The editors of “The Martin Luther King Jr. Papers” state that “…the failure of King’s teachers to notice his pattern of textual appropriation is somewhat remarkable….” But researcher Michael Hoffman tells us “…actually the malfeasance of the professors is not at all remarkable. King was politically correct, he was Black, and he had ambitions. The leftist [professors were] happy to award a doctorate to such a candidate no matter how much fraud was involved. Nor is it any wonder that it has taken forty years for the truth about King’s record of nearly constant intellectual piracy to be made public.” Supposed scholars, who in reality shared King’s vision of a racially mixed and Marxist America, purposely covered up his cheating for decades. The cover-up still continues. From the “New York Times ” of October 11, 1991, page 15, we learn that on October 10th of that year, a committee of researchers at Boston University admitted that, “There is no question but that Dr. King plagiarized in the dissertation.” However, despite its finding, the committee said that “No thought should be given to the revocation of Dr. King’s doctoral degree,” an action the panel said “would serve no purpose.” No purpose, indeed! Justice demands that, in light of his willful fraud as a student, the “reverend” and the “doctor” should be removed from King’s name.

Communist Beliefs and Connections

Well friends, he is not a legitimate reverend, he is not a bona fide PhD, and his name isn’t really “Martin Luther King, Jr.” What’s left? Just a sexual degenerate, an America-hating Communist, and a criminal betrayer of even the interests of his own people.

On Labor Day, 1957, a special meeting was attended by Martin Luther King and four others at a strange institution called the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee. The Highlander Folk School was a Communist front, having been founded by Myles Horton (Communist Party organizer for Tennessee) and Don West (Communist Party organizer for North Carolina). The leaders of this meeting with King were the aforementioned Horton and West, along with Abner Berry and James Dumbrowski, all open and acknowledged members of the Communist Party, USA. The agenda of the meeting was a plan to tour the Southern states to initiate demonstrations and riots. From 1955 to 1960, Martin Luther King’s associate, advisor, and personal secretary was one Bayard Rustin. In 1936 Rustin joined the Young Communist League at New York City College.

Convicted of draft-dodging, he went to prison for two years in 1944. On January 23, 1953 the “Los Angeles Times” reported his conviction and sentencing to jail for 60 days for lewd vagrancy and homosexual perversion. Rustin attended the 16th Convention of the Communist Party, USA in February, 1957. One month later, he and King founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, or SCLC for short. The president of the SCLC was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The vice-president of the SCLC was the Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth, who was also the president of an identified Communist front known as the Southern Conference Educational Fund, an organization whose field director, a Mr. Carl Braden, was simultaneously a national sponsor of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, of which you may have heard. The program director of the SCLC was the Reverend Andrew Young, in more recent years Jimmy Carter’s ambassador to the UN and mayor of Atlanta. Young, by the way, was trained at the Highlander Folk School, previously mentioned.

Soon after returning from a trip to Moscow in 1958, Rustin organized the first of King’s famous marches on Washington. The official organ of the Communist Party, “The Worker,- – openly declared the march to be a Communist project. Although he left King’s employ as secretary in 1961, Rustin was called upon by King to be second in command of the much larger march on Washington which took place on August 28, 1963. Bayard Rustin’s replacement in 1961 as secretary and advisor to King was Jack O’Dell, also known as Hunter Pitts O’Dell. According to official records, in 1962 Jack O’Dell was a member of the National Committee of the Communist Party, USA. He had been listed as a Communist Party member as early as 1956. O’Dell was also given the job of acting executive director for SCLC activities for the entire Southeast, according to the St. Louis “Globe-Democrat – -of October 26, 1962. At that time, there were still some patriots in the press corps, and word of O’Dell’s party membership became known.

What did King do? Shortly after the negative news reports, King fired O’Dell with much fanfare. And he then, without the fanfare, “immediately hired him again- – as director of the New York office of the SCLC, as confirmed by the “Richmond News-Leader – -of September 27, 1963. In 1963 a Black man from Monroe, North Carolina named Robert Williams made a trip to Peking, China. Exactly 20 days before King’s 1963 march on Washington, Williams successfully urged Mao Tse-Tung to speak out on behalf of King’s movement. Mr. Williams was also around this time maintaining his primary residence in Cuba, from which he made regular broadcasts to the southern US, three times a week, from high-power AM transmitters in Havana under the title “Radio Free Dixie.” In these broadcasts, he urged violent attacks by Blacks against White Americans. During this period, Williams wrote a book entitled “Negroes With Guns.” The writer of the foreword for this book? None other than Martin Luther King, Jr. It is also interesting to note that the editors and publishers of this book were to a man all supporters of the infamous Fair Play for Cuba Committee.

According to King’s biographer and sympathizer David J. Garrow, “King privately described himself as a Marxist.” In his 1981 book, “The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr.”, Garrow quotes King as saying in SCLC staff meetings, “…we have moved into a new era, which must be an era of revolution…. The whole structure of American life must be changed…. We are engaged in the class struggle.” Jewish Communist Stanley Levison can best be described as King’s behind-the-scenes “handler.” Levison, who had for years been in charge of the secret funnelling of Soviet funds to the Communist Party, USA, was King’s mentor and was actually the brains behind many of King’s more successful ploys. It was Levison who edited King’s book, “Stride Toward Freedom.” It was Levison who arranged for a publisher. Levison even prepared King’s income tax returns! It was Levison who really controlled the fund-raising and agitation activities of the SCLC. Levison wrote many of King’s speeches. King described Levison as one of his “closest friends.

FBI: King Bought Sex With SCLC Money

The Federal Bureau of Investigation had for many years been aware of Stanley Levison’s Communist activities. It was Levison’s close association with King that brought about the initial FBI interest in King. Lest you be tempted to believe the controlled media’s lie about “racists” in the FBI being out to “get” King, you should be aware that the man most responsible for the FBI’s probe of King was Assistant Director William C. Sullivan. Sullivan describes himself as a liberal, and says that initially “I was one hundred per cent for King…because I saw him as an effective and badly needed leader for the Black people in their desire for civil rights.” The probe of King not only confirmed their suspicions about King’s Communist beliefs and associations, but it also revealed King to be a despicable hypocrite, an immoral degenerate, and a worthless charlatan.

According to Assistant Director Sullivan, who had direct access to the surveillance files on King which are denied the American people, King had embezzled or misapplied substantial amounts of money contributed to the “civil rights” movement. King used SCLC funds to pay for liquor, and numerous prostitutes both Black and White, who were brought to his hotel rooms, often two at a time, for drunken sex parties which sometimes lasted for several days. These types of activities were the norm for King’s speaking and organizing tours. In fact, an outfit called The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee, which is putting on display the two bedrooms from the Lorraine Motel where King stayed the night before he was shot, has declined to depict in any way the “occupants – -of those rooms. That “according to exhibit designer Gerard Eisterhold “would be “close to blasphemy.” The reason? Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spent his last night on Earth having sex with two women at the motel and physically beating and abusing a third.

Sullivan also stated that King had alienated the affections of numerous married women. According to Sullivan, who in 30 years with the Bureau had seen everything there was to be seen of the seamy side of life, King was one of only seven people he had ever encountered who was such a total degenerate. Noting the violence that almost invariably attended King’s supposedly “non-violent” marches, Sullivan’s probe revealed a very different King from the carefully crafted public image. King welcomed members of many different Black groups as members of his SCLC, many of them advocates and practitioners of violence. King’s only admonition on the subject was that they should embrace “tactical nonviolence.” Sullivan also relates an incident in which King met in a financial conference with Communist Party representatives, not knowing that one of the participants was an infiltrator actually working for the FBI. J. Edgar Hoover personally saw to it that documented information on King’s Communist connections was provided to the President and to Congress. And conclusive information from FBI files was also provided to major newspapers and news wire services. But were the American people informed of King’s real nature? No, for even in the 1960s, the fix was in “the controlled media and the bought politicians were bound and determined to push their racial mixing program on America.

King was their man and nothing was going to get in their way. With a few minor exceptions, these facts have been kept from the American people. The pro-King propaganda machine grinds on, and it is even reported that a serious proposal has been made to add some of King’s writings as a new book in the Bible. Ladies and gentlemen, the purpose of this radio program is far greater than to prove to you the immorality and subversion of this man called King. I want you to start to think for yourselves. I want you to consider this: What are the forces and motivation behind the controlled media’s active promotion of King? What does it tell you about our politicians when you see them, almost without exception, falling all over themselves to honor King as a national hero? What does it tell you about our society when any public criticism of this moral leper and Communist functionary is considered grounds for dismissal?

What does it tell you about the controlled media when you see how they have successfully suppressed the truth and held out a picture of King that can only be described as a colossal lie? You need to think, my fellow Americans. You desperately need to wake up.

Sources:

1. The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.- – (an official publication of the Martin Luther King Center for Nonviolent Social Change).

2. “King’s Plagiarism: Imitation, Insecurity and Transformation,” The Journal of American History, June 1991, p. 87) David J. Garrow

3. New York Times” of October 11, 1991, page 15.

4. “The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr.”, David J. Garrow, (1981). 5. “And the walls came tumbling down,” Rev. Ralph Abernathy (1989)

Politics, Social Topics

Balkanization of the United States

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If you look across the American landscape in 2020, you might notice half of America hates the other half. Half of our U.S. Congress hates the other half, so much so, they’re doing nothing to further the interests of the American people. It’s called, “legislative gridlock.” And even though it’s hard to accept it’s all planned and purposed by those who have always been our enemy.

Back in the 1960’s democrats and republicans at least pretended to work together.  Americans prided themselves on working together.  Even with our ethnic and racial challenges, we enjoyed a common heritage and culture.  We worked through those challenges in a positive mostly manner. The first of many major mistakes was Teddy Kennedy’s “1965 Immigration Reform Act” that commenced the disintegration of America and the influx of those who were traditionally not “American”

Today, more than 100,000,000 million “legal” (Not counting illegal) immigrants later, we have managed to create a web of dysfunctional multiculturalism so tangled there may be no hope of correcting it short of total war, incompatible religions and violent cultures have been encouraged, even forced into our once peaceful and productive society – all by the hand of our elected leaders and those who control them.

A very similar thing happened to France and Europe in the 1970’s.  When France opened its borders to unlimited Muslim immigration in the 1970’s, Frenchman Jean Raspail, penned a prophetic novel, Camp of the Saints, describing the consequences of that senseless choice, “You don’t know my people – the squalor, superstitions, the fatalistic sloth that they’ve wallowed in for generations.  You don’t know what you’re in for if that fleet of brutes ever lands in your lap. Everything will change in this country of yours.  They will swallow you up!”

Today, another writer chronicled the result of that mistake in his book: The Strange Death of Europe—Immigration, Identity, Islam by Douglas Murray. If the United States maintains its current immigration course, much like the Titanic, someone around mid-century will likely write their magnum opus:  The Strange Death of The United States of America—By Her Own Hand.

No doubt here in 2020, we see a plethora historians and wise men warning us about the future should we continue on our current destructive course:

“Immigrants devoted to their own cultures and religions are not influenced by the secular politically correct façade that dominates academia, news-media, entertainment, education, religious and political thinking today,” said James Walsh, former Associate General Counsel of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service. “They claim the right not to assimilate, and the day is coming when the question will be how can the United States regulate the defiantly unassimilated cultures, religions and mores of foreign lands?  Such immigrants say their traditions trump the U.S. legal system.  Balkanization of the United States has begun.” – It is only us, the progeny of the founders that have not yet realized the depth of our troubles.

It can’t get much clearer than that statement by James Walsh. He can see it. I can see it. Roy Beck sees it. Dan Stein sees it. Jason Mrochek sees it. Dr. John Tanton saw it 50 years ago. Kathleene Parkers saw it. Barbara Jordan saw it. U.S. Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) and Steve King (R-IA) see it. All of them wrote about it. Virtually no one in the U.S. Congress heeded the messages.  If they did, they suffered name-calling such as the dreaded “R-word.”   The absurd fear of being labeled any politically incorrect term basically shuts down anyone in the political arena.

Because of our open-door policy for the past 55 years, we’re being balkanized from within and we are too lazy and scared to take the steps necessary to correct the mistakes (or intentional sabotage) of our past elected leaders.

Recently the state senator from Missouri, Maria Chappelle said, “I hope Trump is assassinated.” To make such a call constitutes “treason” but since she’s a minority and no one wants to be labeled the “R” word, she gets a pass. In Colorado, Denver Councilwoman Candi de Baca said, “If I get the coronavirus, I am going to attend as many MAGA rallies as I can.”  In other words, she would deliberately infect anyone who doesn’t hold her views.  Also a minority, she enjoys immunity.

Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said, “Trump is a racist, a sexist, a homophobe, a xenophobe and a religious bigot.”

That statement condemns more than half of the American public, everyone that voted for Trump. It intentionally enflames the other half. When a national leader attacks SO virulently, it incites civil unrest, social anger, racial animosity and cultural chaos. We have to realize this is being orchestrated on purpose to further the agenda of global elites.

The Somalian immigrant and House member Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, a democrat and a devout Muslim intent on installing Sharia Law in America, said, “I want all Muslims in America to make all Americans uncomfortable.” Indeed, they have made us uncomfortable and will continue to do so by continuing to escalate the acts of violence upon their avowed enemy – Christians, particularly European Christians.

If you whisk off to Hollywood, Debra Messing, a star in a disgusting homosexual sitcom, stated, “Trump puts all Americans in mortal danger.”

Earlier this year, U.S. Senator Charles Schumer, (D-NY), and the man who gave driver’s licenses to the supposed 9/11 hijackers, told two Supreme Court justices, Kavanaugh and Gorsuch, “You will pay the price” if they support any case against abortion rights, similar remarks were made to the latest Supreme court appointee, Barrett.

“Justices know that criticism comes with the territory, but threatening statements of this sort from the highest levels of government are not only inappropriate, they are dangerous,” Chief Justice Roberts said in a statement. “All Members of the Court will continue to do their job, without fear or favor, from whatever quarter.” – We can only hope this statement is true.

The Council on American Islamic Relations works 24/7 to bring Sharia Law to America. The Muslim Brotherhood works to incorporate black minorities into that religion with the intent of overthrowing the U.S. Constitution. The greater their numbers the greater their power.  Black Lives Matter members intimidate, carry weapons and absolutely loathe the United States of America and everything it once stood for. Antifa literally chants “death to America” in the streets whilst being cheered on by the corrupt media.

With 15+ million illegal Mexicans in America, La Raza, “The Race”, works to recapture the four border states back into Mexico: Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California.  One demographer noted on the Tucker Carlson Show on FOX NEWs recently, that immigrants birthed more babies in American in 2019 than actual Americans.  As a matter of fact, in the same report, illegal pregnant women birthed 372,000 ‘anchor babies’ inside our borders in 2019.  (Source: Tucker Carlson, FOX News, www.cis.org)

Don Lemon, a minority-gay CNN news host said, “The most dangerous terrorists in America are white straight men.” As James Welsh said back in 1991, “The balkanization of America has already begun.”

If you are reading this blog regardless of your political affiliation , do you think our country will survive? Do you think we can import another projected 110 million “legal” immigrants from 196 countries by 2050 and survive the sociological, religious, linguistic and cultural chaos brought to our shores?

MORE TO COME…………….

Contributions by: Frosty Wooldridge

Politics, Religion, Social Topics

The Rulers We Deserve

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A Call to Repentance, Reformation, and Household Dominion

By Lord Redbeard

I. A Nation in Decline Reaps What It Has Sown

Scripture does not stutter: we are governed not merely by what we choose, but by what we deserve. We are ruled in accordance with our collective obedience or rebellion. God is not mocked—for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap (Galatians 6:7). The condition of civil government in a nation is a spiritual thermometer of the people’s moral temperature. We are not victims of tyranny—we are under judgment. And the state of modern America proves it without question.

We are plagued by corruption in high places because we have allowed corruption in our hearts. Our laws reflect our idols. Our media mirrors our lusts. Our educational system teaches our rebellion. Our entertainment celebrates our abominations. And our rulers—confused, effeminate, godless, or greedy—are a visible judgment from God upon a people who have cast off His Word.

This is not unprecedented. In Isaiah 3, the Lord describes the condition of Judah just before He brings them into judgment. The people have forsaken His commandments. They boast in sin. They neglect the poor. They glorify wealth, vanity, and status. And what is God’s response? He removes the stabilizing structures of society.

“And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them… As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them.”
— Isaiah 3:4, 12 KJV

The result is predictable: disorder, division, and eventual destruction. When a nation abandons righteousness, God does not simply allow decline—He ordains it as punishment. And in His justice, He gives the people the rulers they deserve.

II. When God Judges a Nation, He Starts with Leadership

God does not need to destroy a nation with fire from heaven. One of His most terrifying judgments is the removal of wise and righteous leadership. He withdraws His hand of protection and guidance, and in their place rise up fools, children, and women—those unfit to rule.

“Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff… the mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet… the captain of fifty, and the honourable man…”
— Isaiah 3:1-3 KJV

These are not merely unfortunate political developments. These are divine removals. God strips a rebellious nation of its protectors and providers. Consider what has happened in modern America:

  • Our mighty men are removed from the battlefield. Our military is demoralized, not feared. Once feared by our enemies, it is now mocked, weakened by social engineering and political agendas.
  • Our judges are blind. They no longer uphold God’s justice but rewrite law to accommodate wickedness.
  • Our prophets preach smooth lies. Modern pastors no longer cry out against sin but market feel-good spirituality to itching ears.
  • Our craftsmen are few. Tradesmen, artisans, and men of skill have been replaced by consumers and office drones. Masculine labor is despised.
  • Our leaders are childish, emotional, and unpredictable. Politics is theater. Governance is chaos. Women and children now rule over us—and the people cheer.

This is judgment. Not political misfortune. Judgment.

God gives a nation leaders who reflect the hearts of the people. We have demanded comfort over courage, peace over principle, prosperity over piety. And now we reap the bitter harvest. We asked for Caesar, and we got clowns. We demanded equality, and we were given incompetence.

We are ruled by our own reflections. And until we repent, we will be ruled by ruin.

III. The Faces of Our Rebellion Are Public and Proud

The collapse of righteous leadership is not the root—it is the fruit. The root is national rebellion. And in our time, it is not a hidden rebellion. It is public, proud, and paraded.

“The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul!”
— Isaiah 3:9 KJV

Once, sin brought shame. Now, it brings applause. Our culture celebrates abortion as a human right, sodomy as virtue, feminism as freedom, and rebellion as self-expression. We call evil good and good evil. We have exchanged God’s moral order for moral anarchy.

Our parades celebrate abomination. Our schools teach confusion. Our corporations reward perversion. And the church, instead of resisting, has largely joined the rebellion.

The Lord says, “Woe unto their soul!”—because the destruction they deserve is the destruction they will get.

This is why the righteous suffer alongside the wicked in times of judgment. Because the people, as a whole, are lawless. The covenant has been broken. And even among God’s people, repentance is rare. We lament wicked rulers, but we tolerate wickedness in our homes. We weep over ungodly laws, but we permit ungodly media, ungodly friendships, ungodly habits.

We are not victims of political misfortune. We are under righteous wrath.

IV. The Fall of Feminine Culture and the Curse of Female Rule

Isaiah speaks not only to the men of Judah, but to the women—and he does not mince words.

“Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes… Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head.”
— Isaiah 3:16-17 KJV

Rarely does God speak judgment directly to the women. But when He does, it is because their influence has become culturally destructive. The women of Judah, like the women of modern America, are steeped in vanity, seduction, consumerism, and self-worship. They lead their families, not toward God, but toward destruction.

This is not about voting or office-holding—it is about influence. Women, by nature, shape culture through fashion, tone, language, and domestic presence. When that influence becomes rebellious and sensual, the entire society follows. Just look at today:

  • Women flaunt their nakedness on social media and call it empowerment.
  • Feminists reject marriage, children, and submission to pursue careers, fame, and fornication.
  • Mothers abandon their homes for vanity, chasing influence rather than godly offspring.
  • Immodesty is a billion-dollar industry.
  • Men have become spineless, enslaved to the approval of harlots.

And the judgment?

“Women rule over them.” — Isaiah 3:12

This is not progress. It is judgment. The rise of female leadership in society is a sign that the men have abdicated, and God has cursed the land. It is not a blessing to have a female ruler—it is a disgrace to the men.

We must return to God’s order: men as heads, women as helpmeets, children as disciples. Until then, disorder will increase. And judgment will not relent.

V. What Then Shall the Righteous Do?

In the midst of judgment, God does not leave the faithful without hope.

“Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.” — Isaiah 3:10 KJV

Even as the nation collapses, the righteous have a sure promise: they will be preserved. Their homes may be surrounded by chaos, but inside their walls there is peace. Their barns may not overflow, but their children will be taught of the Lord. Their influence may not be on television, but their legacy will endure for generations.

Righteousness always bears fruit. Always.

The faithful remnant must not lose heart. In times of judgment, they are not called to despair, but to build—to plant trees for their grandchildren, to dig deep wells of Scripture and truth, to labor in unseen places that the Lord might be glorified and future generations secured.

The patriarch must not concern himself with the presidency more than with his own table. The wife must not long for celebrity when she has been given the sacred task of shaping immortal souls. The children must not seek worldly popularity, but wisdom and holiness.

Faithfulness is resistance. Obedience is rebellion against the world. In an age of collapse, righteousness is a weapon.

VI. The Household: The Frontline of Resistance

The nation will not be saved by elections, protests, or political revolutions. It will be saved—if it is to be saved at all—by the reformation of households.

The home is where dominion begins. Before there can be righteous rulers in the land, there must be righteous rulers in the home. God is not looking for better ballots; He is looking for better fathers.

“Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it.” — Psalm 127:1

If we desire national restoration, we must return to God’s household model:

  • The father is the head: provider, protector, and priest. He governs with strength and wisdom.
  • The wives submit joyfully, serve diligently, and raise the next generation with excellence and virtue.
  • The children are trained in obedience, industry, worship, and responsibility.
  • The home is a miniature kingdom—a domain of righteousness, structure, and sacred order.

This is why feminism and statism have worked so hard to destroy the household. They know what many Christians have forgotten: he who controls the family controls the future.

It is time for fathers to rise again. Start by reclaiming what is yours:

  • Remove your children from government schools.
  • Lead family worship daily.
  • Take dominion through property, business, and legacy.
  • Train your sons to lead and your daughters to build.
  • Stop outsourcing what God commanded you to do.

The nation will not change until the men of God reclaim headship in their homes.

VII. What About the Government? What About Reform?

It is right to grieve over the condition of our nation. It is right to mourn the corruption, the wicked laws, the godless judges, the unjust rulers. But we must not be deceived into thinking that government reform can save us.

God controls rulers.

“By Me kings reign, and princes decree justice.” — Proverbs 8:15
“He removeth kings, and setteth up kings.” — Daniel 2:21

If we want better government, we must become better people. If we want righteous rulers, we must raise them.

When Israel demanded a king, God gave them one—not as a blessing, but as a judgment.

“They have not rejected thee, but they have rejected Me, that I should not reign over them.” — 1 Samuel 8:7

We must not ask for righteous government while rejecting God’s reign in our homes, churches, and communities. The irony is deep: we demand Christian presidents while refusing to rule our own children. We pray for godly laws while tolerating ungodliness in our own hearts.

God is not mocked. If we will not submit to His rule, He will give us tyrants. And until we repent, we will be ruled by the very sins we celebrated.

VIII. Return to God, Rebuild the Nation

The path back is not easy, but it is clear.

“If My people, which are called by My name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways…” — 2 Chronicles 7:14

This is not a sentimental verse—it is a divine blueprint.

  • Humble yourselves — Reject pride, self-righteousness, and entitlement.
  • Pray — Not weak, emotional platitudes, but strong, reverent, Scripture-saturated prayer.
  • Seek His face — Return to His Word, His law, His will.
  • Turn from wicked ways — Repent. Break off your sins. Cleanse your house. Discipline your family.

Then—and only then—will He hear, forgive, and heal.

This means turning away from the idols of convenience. No more excuses. No more deflection. Reformation is costly. Repentance is painful. But restoration is impossible without them.

We must rebuild the nation like Nehemiah rebuilt the wall:

  1. Each family builds their section.
  2. Each man labors with a sword on his side.
  3. The people pray while they work.

This is how Jerusalem was rebuilt. This is how we must rebuild: family by family, household by household.

IX. Conclusion: We Deserve Our Rulers—But We Can Raise Up Better Ones

We deserve the rulers we have. We deserve godless policies, unjust courts, perverse education, and incompetent officials. We deserve female rule, effeminate pastors, and degenerate leaders. Why? Because we abandoned the covenant. We rejected the King of Kings. We made gods of ourselves and idols of our pleasures.

But all is not lost.

God is still on His throne. His Word is still true. His promises still stand.

“And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations.” — Isaiah 58:12

You can begin today. Right now. Reclaim your household. Restore the fear of the Lord. Train your children in righteousness. Multiply. Establish dominion. Build. Teach. Reform.

And the day will come when God will raise up men of courage, wisdom, and justice—because they were formed by fathers who feared the Lord and ruled well.

Let it begin with you.
Let it begin with your home.
Let the patriarchs rise.

Polygamy, Religion

The Duties of a Christian Wife: Her High Calling in the Great Order

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In an age of confusion, rebellion, and moral decay, there is no calling more despised than that of the Christian wife. The world mocks her submission, ridicules her obedience, and scorns her devotion to home and husband. Yet heaven smiles upon her. For while feminists rant and career women crumble, she quietly builds a kingdom from her kitchen table.

She is not oppressed—she is exalted.
She is not silenced—she is sanctified.
She is not enslaved—she is set apart.

A Christian wife is not merely a helper. She is a house-builder, a covenant-keeper, a cornerstone of generational blessing. Her duties are not the result of cultural conditioning, but of God’s eternal decree. And if we are to restore the Great Order, we must restore the honor, dignity, and gravity of the wife’s sacred duties.

Let us now walk the ancient paths and examine what Scripture, history, and reason say about the glorious office of wifehood under God.

I. Her Position: Under Authority, Not Underfoot

The first duty of the Christian wife is to embrace her position under headship.

“But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man…”
 —1 Corinthians 11:3

This is not chauvinism—it is creational order. The wife is not the head of her own life. She is under her husband, just as he is under Christ.

Submission is not passive. It is active obedience. It means yielding, following, honoring, and supporting the man God has given her. It is a visible reflection of the Church’s relationship to Christ:

“Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.”
 —Ephesians 5:22

To resist her husband’s authority is to resist Christ. To obey him is to honor heaven. This is not blind servitude—it is intelligent devotion to God’s hierarchy.

II. Her Purpose: Created for the Man

The Christian wife must understand her creation purpose.

“Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.”
 —1 Corinthians 11:9

Eve was made to complete Adam’s dominion—not to compete with it. Her very existence is a help to her husband’s mission. Her home, body, time, and gifts are not her own. They are to be offered daily in support of her lord—her husband.

This counters every message of the modern world. Feminism preaches female independence, but the Bible teaches female interdependence—a woman exists to glorify her head, to multiply his legacy, to help him fulfill his calling.

Her duty is to ask: What is my husband’s mission, and how can I assist it with all diligence?

III. Her Attitude: Meekness and Quiet Strength

The Christian wife’s duty is not only external submission but internal disposition.

“Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.”
 —1 Peter 3:6

True obedience flows from the heart. A nagging, bitter, or anxious woman may perform tasks but defile her home. The Scripture praises a woman who is meek, gentle, quiet, and full of trust in God.

This meekness is not weakness. It is self-governed strength. The world encourages women to be loud, angry, and assertive. But God blesses the woman who speaks softly, works quietly, and bears hardship with grace.

Such a woman is a balm to her husband’s soul and a pillar to her home.

IV. Her Labor: Keeper at Home

Perhaps no duty is more countercultural today than the wife’s calling to work within the home.

“That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home…”
 —Titus 2:4–5

A Christian wife is not a corporate assistant. She is the chief operating officer of the household. She manages schedules, educates children, prepares food, maintains cleanliness, facilitates hospitality, supports business, and guards the spiritual tone of the house.

This work is not menial. It is dominion work. It is civilization-building. When a wife abandons the home, the whole order collapses. Children are raised by the state. Meals are replaced by chemicals. The husband is dishonored. The household loses its center.

A woman who labors in her home fulfills her purpose. And she reaps eternal reward.

V. Her Demeanor: Modesty and Distinction

A Christian wife does not dress to please the world. She dresses to reflect shamefacedness and sobriety (1 Timothy 2:9).

Her attire should:

  • Cover her body respectfully
  • Distinguish her as a woman
  • Honor her husband’s standards
  • Avoid sensuality, vanity, and androgyny

She should not wear pants, tight clothing, or fashion designed to attract other men. She does not follow trends—she follows the Book.

Her voice is soft. Her posture is reverent. Her demeanor says, I am under authority and at peace in my role.

VI. Her Joy: Bearing and Raising Children

The wife’s crown is not in a corner office. It is in her children.

“I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house…”
 —1 Timothy 5:14

Fruitfulness is not a burden. It is a blessing and duty. The Christian wife should be eager to bear as many children as the Lord will give. Birth control, abortion, and sterilization are tools of rebellion, not righteousness.

Once children are born, her duty continues. She:

  • Nurses and nurtures them
  • Trains them in obedience
  • Disciplines them with love and firmness
  • Catechizes them in the faith
  • Protects them from worldly influence

She does not send them to strangers. She does not outsource motherhood. She gives herself daily, joyfully, to their formation.

VII. Her Loyalty: Severing Ties with the Old Life

A wife must leave behind all former allegiances.

“Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife…”
 —Genesis 2:24

When a woman marries, she dies to her former self. She is no longer under her father’s authority. She is no longer bound to friendships that conflict with her husband’s order. She belongs to her husband—and to him alone.

This means:

  • No private conversations with male friends
  • No secret texting or social media flirtation
  • No complaints about her husband to outsiders
  • No prioritizing parents over her own house

She is one flesh with her husband. And her loyalty must reflect that union.

VIII. Her Conduct: Chaste in All Things

The Christian wife is a woman of chastity, sobriety, and fear of the Lord.

She is not a gossip. She is not flirtatious. She does not laugh at crude jokes or follow celebrity trash. She is not addicted to the phone or the television. Her life is centered, rooted, and stable.

“Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.”
 —Proverbs 31:10

She is rare. She is radiant. And her conduct brings honor to her husband, joy to her children, and glory to her King.

IX. Her Fellowship: Submissive Among Sisters

A Christian wife is not isolated. She walks with other God-fearing women—not to complain, but to sharpen.

Her fellowship is:

  • With other submissive wives
  • Centered on Scripture and prayer
  • Accountable to older, Titus 2 women
  • Guarded against bitterness, comparison, and discontent

She avoids idle chatter and “ladies’ nights” that undermine her household. She encourages other women to honor their husbands, be fruitful, and stay grounded in the home.

X. Her Weapon: Prayer and Intercession

The Christian wife is not silent in heaven. She prays for her household. She brings her husband before the throne. She weeps over her children in secret. She wars against spiritual darkness.

She is a spiritual force in the home—not by teaching over men, but by petitioning heaven daily.

“The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man [or woman] availeth much.”
 —James 5:16

XI. Her Spirit: Gratitude and Reverence

A godly wife is not a grumbler. She is not bitter. She is not discontent. She is thankful.

She thanks God for her role. She rejoices in the children, the kitchen, the chaos, and the peace. She sees her work not as a curse, but as a calling.

She fears God. She reverences her husband. She embraces her station.

And in doing so, she displays the glory of God more than any CEO or influencer ever could.

XII. Her Crown: The Fruit of Her Labor

A Christian wife who fulfills her duties will reap bountiful fruit:

  • Her husband praises her. (Proverbs 31:28)
  • Her children rise up and bless her.
  • Her household flourishes in peace.
  • Her community respects her.
  • Her God smiles upon her.

Let others chase vanity. Let women burn out in office towers. Let them trade their wombs for worthless paychecks.

As for the Christian wife—she builds a house, trains a nation, and pleases the Lord.

XIII. Her End: Glorified by Her Faithfulness

When her work is done, the faithful wife will hear:

“Well done, thou good and faithful servant…”

She will be greeted not with the applause of crowds, but the approval of heaven.

She will not regret missing a career.
She will not wish she had more applause.
She will rejoice that she poured herself out for her household.

Conclusion: Let the Wives Rise

Let the Christian wife no longer be ashamed of her role. Let her not apologize. Let her stand tall in submission, labor, purity, and praise.

Her duties are divine.

Let every woman who fears God examine herself.

  • Are you submitted to your husband?
  • Are you guarding your home?
  • Are you dressing in holiness?
  • Are you training your children in the fear of God?
  • Are you grateful for your calling?

This is the wife of the Great Order. She is rare. She is radiant. She is a weapon in the hand of God.

Let her arise.

Soli Deo Gloria.

Holidays, Religion

Is Christmas Christian?

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Should Christians Celebrate Christmas?

While most people recognize the Christmas season as the time of year for parties and celebrations, many are unaware it is also the time of year with the highest suicide rate.

In recent decades, many have sought to “secularize” (Actually re-secularize) Christmas by removing from it all references to Jesus Christ and His birth. Here in the United States, legal battles have successfully removed manger scenes from courthouse squares, and have created liabilities that prevent most school choirs from singing Christmas carols with “religious themes”. All while promoting Santa Clause as something to be worshipped as a God.

Millions of evangelicals have been deeply troubled by these trends. Feeling that they are in a battle with hostile secular forces that seek to eliminate everything that points to Christ and the Bible, they want to “reclaim” Christmas from the secularists. while not realizing that it rightly belongs to the pagans and secularists in the first place.

Millions more are simply turned off or offended by the crass commercialism associated with the Christmas season. Christmas has become a sales gimmick in the modern westernized world. Christmas-related sales are the key component of yearly profit margins for most retail sales operations. That is why, by the beginning of November, familiar Christmas music blares from the public address systems of malls across North America. Retailers are trying to get the public “in the mood” to begin Christmas shopping (Spending) early.

Decrying the commercial exploitation of the holiday season—and deeply bothered by efforts to remove all reference to God and the Bible from public life—many well-meaning Christians are demanding that Christ be put back into Christmas. The secularists, they claim, have hijacked a sacred Christian holiday for their own ends.

Western society is increasingly described as “post-Christian,” and secular elites have been dubbed “the new pagans.” In such an environment, should Christians join together to somehow reclaim Christmas? In a society that is more and more disconnected from God, can this disconnect be healed by encouraging more references to Jesus Christ during the Christmas season?

What approach does God want His people to take regarding Christmas? Is Jesus Christ, in fact, “the reason for the season?” You may be shocked to learn that Christmas is actually not Christian in its origins! For centuries before Jesus Christ’s birth in Bethlehem, December 25 was associated with decorating evergreen trees, exchanging gifts and carousing at parties and celebrations.

How did Christmas become the primary “Christian” holiday? Is it—and can it ever be—Christian at all? You can search the New Testament from start to finish, and you will never find a reference to any sort of Christmas celebration. Moreover, you will never read of a religious service held to commemorate the birth of Jesus.

But if the first Christians did not celebrate Christmas, then why did they not do so? When and how did this celebration achieve such prominence on the calendar of professing-Christian churches?

What Is The Origin Of Christmas?

Did you know that there were Christmas celebrations in Rome long before there were any in Jerusalem? How could a holiday that most associate with Jesus Christ of Nazareth have its origins in Babylon and Egypt many centuries before His birth? And how could such a holiday come to be so widely accepted as Christian?

To help us understand, we can look at the word “Christmas” itself. It means “mass of Christ,” and has its origins in the practices of the Roman Catholic Church. Yet even Catholic sources acknowledge that Christmas was not among the earliest festivals of the church, and that it does not have apostolic origins. Notice: “Christmas (i.e. the Mass of Christ), in the Christian Church, the festival of the nativity of Jesus Christ… As late as 245 Origen, in his eighth homily on Leviticus, repudiates as sinful the very idea of keeping the birthday of Christ ‘as if he were a king Pharaoh.’ The first certain mention of Dec. 25 is in a Latin chronographer of A.D. 354, first published entire by Mommsen.… [December 25 was] a Mithraic feast and is by the chronographer above referred to, but in another part of his compilation, termed natalis invicti solis, or birthday of the unconquered Sun” (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th ed., article: “Christmas”).

The New Testament makes certain key dates plain; for example, it tells us that Jesus Christ died on the day of the Passover. Yet Scripture does not mention the date of Jesus’ birth, and does not recount any Christians celebrating His birthday. In fact, the Bible associates the celebration of birthdays with the practices of heathen kings, and never mentions such celebrations in a positive light. This is why Origen—one of the early “Fathers” of the Roman Church, writing in the third century—was shocked at the very idea of celebrating the Savior’s birthday.

When the early Roman Church established a festival to celebrate the Messiah’s birth, it timed that festival to coincide with an existing pagan festival celebrating the birthday of the sun god. By co-opting existing pagan rituals and customs, the church sought to win the pagan masses to its idea of Christianity, allowing converts to continue to practice familiar customs—just calling them by different names.

The “mother and child” motif in religion was well known in the ancient pagan world. The ancient Babylonians and Egyptians worshipped a “Madonna” whom they revered as the “Queen of Heaven”—a title that the Roman Church would apply centuries later to Mary, the mother of Jesus. In Egypt, Isis was the mother and Horus was the child. In Mesopotamia it was Ishtar and Tammuz.

These stories trace back to Semiramis and Nimrod, in the early years after Noah’s flood. Nimrod was a mighty hunter (see Genesis 10–11), and led mankind’s rebellion against God at the Tower of Babel. Nimrod was one of the chief architects of the human civilization that began at Babylon, and that spread around the world as people migrated to repopulate the earth after the great flood.

The real origin of Christmas goes back to these ancient times, before it was carried forward by an apostate “Christian” church. The winter solstice—the day with the shortest daylight in the northern hemisphere—was anciently associated with the birth of the sun god. It was a time of festivity. Called Saturnalia by the Romans, this holiday was a time very reminiscent of our modern Christmas, when gifts were given, hostilities ceased, civic functions were suspended and parties were held. “It was usual for friends to make presents to one another; all animosity ceased, no criminals were executed, schools were shut, war was never declared, but all was mirth, riot, and debauchery” (Lempriere’s Classical Dictionary, article: “Saturnalia”).

Jesus Was Not Born In Winter!

“Christmas” festivities are not just “pre-Christian”—dating to pagan worship of the sun god—they in fact have no connection to the date of birth of the true Messiah, Jesus Christ. How do we know this? While the Bible does not explicitly tell us the exact day of Jesus’ birth, it gives us clear evidence of the approximate time. From Scripture, it becomes obvious that winter is the one season in which Jesus could not have been born.

Luke tells us that on the night of Jesus’ birth, the shepherds were still keeping watch over their flocks in the field (Luke 2:8). In ancient Israel, the rainy season began after the Feast of Tabernacles (which generally occurs in early October). By November, when the weather was turning cool and wet, the shepherds had already brought their flocks in from pasture and were keeping them in winter quarters. Shepherds were no longer spending the nights in the fields with the sheep, as they had done from the beginning of spring through the early fall season.

Another vital piece of evidence is overlooked by most. From Luke 1:35–36 we learn that John the Baptist, born to Mary’s cousin Elizabeth, was approximately six months older than Jesus. We are told that John’s father, Zacharias, was an elderly priest officiating in the temple, burning incense on the altar when an angel appeared to tell him that he and his wife would have a son who would prepare the way for the Messiah (vv. 8–17). We know approximately when the angel made this announcement, because we are told that Zacharias was “of the course of Abijah” (v. 5, KJV).

What was the “course of Abijah”? Centuries earlier, in the days of King David, there had been many priests. King David divided them into 24 “courses” (or groups) that served by rotation in the temple (1 Chronicles 24:1–19). The course of Abijah was the eighth of the 24 courses, and would normally have done its first week of service around the end of May. As Pentecost, the second of the three great pilgrim festivals, came the week after the eighth course served—and all 24 courses served during each of the three festival seasons—Zacharias could not have begun his return home until after the first week of June, or thereabouts. If John the Baptist was conceived shortly after his return home, near the middle of June, his birth would have been nine months later—around mid-March. Jesus, who was six months younger, would thus have been born soon after mid-September. This, of course, would have been while the shepherds were still staying with the fields at night with their flocks (Luke 2:8).

Consider also the traditional image of the three wise men who, together with the shepherds, are commonly represented standing in the stable to celebrate the newly born Messiah.

The Bible nowhere says that there were three wise men, and it makes clear that they did not come until at least a few weeks after His birth—by which time Jesus and His parents were living in a house (Matthew 2:11). We are told that these Magi came from the east. In first century parlance, this usually meant that they came from beyond the Euphrates River (which was then the eastern border of the Roman Empire). East of the Euphrates was the Parthian Empire, home to many remnants of the ten tribes of Israel who had gone into Assyrian captivity more than seven centuries earlier.

The Magi arrived at the king’s palace in Jerusalem several weeks after Jesus’ birth, looking for the Messiah. They had seen a mysterious “star” in the east, which had prompted them to make their journey to Judea. Upon hearing from the Magi about the timing of the star’s appearance, and what it portended, Herod ordered the slaughter of all boys in Bethlehem aged two years and younger (Matthew 2:16).

We know from Luke 2:22 that Jesus’ parents presented Him in the temple when He was 40 days old (cf. Leviticus 12:2–4), so they were still in the Jerusalem area when He was nearly six weeks old. Yet the family fled to Egypt, spurred by a warning Joseph received in a dream, immediately after the Magi visited them (Matthew 2:13–14). Clearly, the Magi did not arrive until well after Christ’s birth.

The Christmas Tree:

Clearly, the bible does not agree with this practice and nor should any real Christian, unless you are as upright as a palm tree or a heathen who enjoys vain customs.

jeremiah 10: 1-5:

1.Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: 2. Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. 3. For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. 4. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. 5. They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.

In the ancient Egyptian tradition, many celebrations occurred around the time of the Winter Solstice, which is the shortest day and the longest night of the year. The Egyptians believed that this was when the sun god, Ra returned in strength. The solstice symbolized a time of renewal and hope. To celebrate, the people filled their homes with evergreen boughs. They chose the evergreen trees because they maintained their color throughout the harsh winter months. Other people groups, including Roman and Celtic cultures, hung evergreens during the Winter Solstice in celebration, and to keep away evil spirits and illness.

Until the mid-nineteenth century, the Christmas tree was seen as a pagan tradition in the United States. The early Puritan settlers did not accept the tradition because of its cultic roots. In 1659, a law was established in Massachusetts outlawing the celebration of Christmas in the new colonies, with the exception of church attendance. Hanging decorations of any kind was outlawed, especially Christmas trees. As America ventured further from our true Christian roots the tradition became more accepted.

In 1848, the London News published an image of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert with their family celebrating around their decorated tree. This photo and its reprints in America began the modern popularization of the Christmas tree, with its glistening lights, shiny bobbles, and awaiting presents.

The Pagan Origins Of Holly:

In Roman mythology, holly was the sacred plant of the god Saturn, and to honor him at the Saturnalia festival, the Romans gave each other gifts of holly wreaths.

When Christians began to celebrate the birth of Jesus, they risked being persecuted for their new religion, and to avoid detection, they would place holly wreaths in their houses. As far as passers-by were concerned they were celebrating Saturnalia, not Christmas.

The Druid Origins Of Mistletoe:

Mistletoe was revered as a sacred plant by the Celts, the Norse, and the North American Native Americans.

Druids believed that mistletoe could protect against thunder and lightning. Priests would use a golden sickle to cut a piece of mistletoe from an oak tree, catching the branches before they reached the ground. The mistletoe would then be cut into small pieces and distributed amongst the people.

Mistletoe was also recognized as a druidic symbol of joy and peace. If enemies met each other underneath the woodland mistletoe, they were obliged to put down their weapons and form a truce until the following day.

This is where the custom of hanging sprig ball of mistletoe from the ceiling and kissing under it originates from.

Romans Made Laurel Popular:

Laurel or bay leaves were popular with the pagan Romans because the leaves were sacred to Apollo, the sun god.

The ancient Romans used decorative wreaths, made from laurel wreaths as a sign of victory, and it is believed that this is where the seasonal hanging of wreaths on doors came from. They actually celebrated the Murder “Victory over” of Christ Seasonally with the display of wreaths.

In northern Europe, laurel leaves were not commonplace, and instead, evergreen branches were gathered and used to decorate houses at Christmas, either as swags or shaped into wreaths.

Because of the pagan connections surrounding ivy and laurel, early Christians did not use these to decorate the inside of their churches.

Odin The Pegan God:

Despite the fact that our modern-day image of Father Christmas has largely been shaped by a 1930s Coca-Cola advertising campaign, he most definitely has Pagan roots.

Children all over the world are told that Father Christmas developed from St. Nicholas, but those people that follow Paganism know there is more to the story than that. There was a Pagan god named Odin, often depicted as a chubby old man with a white beard who wore a long flowing cloak.

It is, therefore, a combination of these two characters, and a liberal sprinkling of Coca Cola advertising that has resulted in who we now call Father Christmas or Santa Claus.

Red And Green Christmas Colors:

The traditional Christmas colors of red and green are complementary colors that represent fertility for the pagan religion.

Pagan derived decorations that are still seen at Christmas time include the green leaves and red berries of holly, mistletoe, ivy and wreaths.

Red and green are the traditional colors for Christmas tree baubles, but in recent years many more colors have become available, often changing yearly with the latest fashions. In recent years turquoise, pink, purple, and orange have been seen on the best-dressed trees to represent the ever changing representation of Pegan fertility IE, sodalities and transgenders.

Celtic Yule Log Mythology:

The Yule log played a major role in the Yule festivities, with a piece of the previous year’s log being saved to start the fire the following year.

Traditionally, it was considered unlucky to buy a log and instead it was harvested from the householder’s land or received as a gift.

Once brought into the house and placed ceremoniously in the fireplace it was decorated with greenery, smothered with alcohol, and dusted with flour before being set on fire. The log would then burn all night, before smoldering for twelve days.

Celtic mythology told the stories of the Oak King and Holly King, with the Oak representing the time from the Winter Solstice to Summer Solstice, and the Holly representing the time from the Summer Solstice to Winter Solstice.

Christmas Caroling:

But where does this tradition come from? You might be surprised to learn that it has its roots in an ancient pagan ritual called “wassailing”. 

There are two traditions of wassailing. The house-visiting wassail is where groups of people go from house to house, wishing their neighbors health and good fortune for the new year. The orchard-visiting wassail is a ritual for waking up the apple tree spirits for the coming spring and to ensure a good harvest in Autumn. 

In the house-visiting wassail, people would prepare some sort of beverage, like cider or “wassail”, a hot drink made of mulled ale, curdled cream, roasted apples, eggs, cloves, ginger, nutmeg, and sugar. It sometimes had a frothy top that earned it the name “Lamb’s Wool”.

The wassail was carried in a large vessel, either shaped like a giant, stout goblet, or like a large bowl with handles on the sides.

Going from house to house, the group of people would sing songs in the hopes of receiving a little food or a few coins. Sometimes, they would challenge the homeowner to riddles or use a combination of wit and persuasion to try to gain entry to the house. If successful, the homeowner rewarded them with food or money.

In thanks for his kindness, the wassailers would offer the homeowner a drink from the bowl or they’d drink to the health of him and his family. Wealthy farmers or lords of manor were often targeted and if they refused to donate or were thought to be stingy, they risked getting their property vandalized

What Difference Does It Make?

Almost every year, newspapers and magazines will publish articles pointing out that Christmas customs originate not from the Bible, but from pagan antiquity. Most readers, when faced with these facts, simply say: “I don’t see what difference it makes,” and continue with their Christmas preparations. Millions of professing Christians insist that, regardless of what pagan practices might lie behind the origin of Christmas, they celebrate the holiday to honor Christ.

Does this make Christmas acceptable to God?

Several centuries ago, Scripture became widely available in English as Protestant believers threw off the shackles of the medieval Roman Catholic monopoly on the Bible. Eager Bible students found themselves wrestling with many issues as they looked into God’s word. One issue was the celebration of Christmas. What conclusion did they reach? According to the eleventh edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica: “In 1644 the English puritans forbade any merriment or religious services [on Christmas] by act of Parliament, on the ground that it was a heathen festival” (article: “Christmas”). When King Charles II restored the monarchy, this ban was lifted, but the ban remained in many of North America’s early colonial settlements. Not until the 1840s was Christmas accepted as an acceptable holiday in Massachusetts.

Ask yourself a simple question. Should those who claim to be Christian take the Bible seriously? In Jeremiah 10:2, God declared to His people through the pen of the prophet: “Do not learn the way of the Gentiles.” He went on to state that “the customs of the peoples are futile,” that is, they are utterly empty and useless. God wants His people to follow His instructions, not to look at pagan practices and seek to copy them. What kind of empty, pagan customs was Jeremiah talking about in Jeremiah 10? The specific example in that chapter involved going out into the woods, cutting a tree and bringing it home to set it upright and decorate it (vv. 3–4). Does this sound amazingly like putting up a Christmas tree? It should.

Jesus declared: “And in vain they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men” (Mark 7:7). Those who wish to use Christmas to worship Christ are faced with a dilemma: do they follow the pattern of worship prescribed in Scripture, or do they cling to cherished customs, regardless of when and how those customs originated? Jesus censured many of the religious leaders of His day because they rejected the commandments of God in order to keep their own traditions (v. 9).

Would Jesus say those same words to you, based upon your actions and your choices?

When the ancient Israelites were ready to enter the Promised Land, they were warned against adopting religious customs from the surrounding nations (Deuteronomy 12:30–31). God told them instead to observe all the things that He instructed them, neither adding nor taking away from what He had taught (v. 32).

So, instead of seeking to put Christ back into Christmas, we must acknowledge that He was never there in the first place! Christmas never was Christian! True Christians will give it back to the pagans, to whom it has belonged all along! Instead of borrowing from the world around us, we ought to take our religious customs and practices directly from the Bible. Then we will be worshiping our Creator in spirit and truth, just as He teaches us to do (John 4:24).

Politics, Polygamy, Religion

Christian Polygyny

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By Lord Redbeard
“Bold Foundations for Biblical Patriarchy, Masculinity, and Household Dominion”

I. Introduction: Restoring a Forgotten Standard

The modern world shudders at the sound of the word polygyny. Conditioned by feminist propaganda, humanist ideals, and centuries of post-Biblical moral dilution, the Western church recoils from a truth its own patriarchs once walked in freely. But the Scriptures have not changed. The God of Abraham, Jacob, and David is still the same God. The standard of family life that built early civilizations, raised righteous dynasties, and established generational dominion under Yahweh has not been abrogated.

Polygyny—one man, multiple wives—is not a sin, but a structure. Not a deviation, but a design. It is neither lawless nor lustful. It is biblical. It is historical. And it is necessary if the people of God are to multiply, build, and rule in this age of collapse.

This post is not for the timid. It is for men who fear God more than the opinions of modernity. It is for women who long to build homes instead of careers. It is for families that seek to resurrect the household of faith—not as a poetic metaphor, but as a living, breathing embassy of the Kingdom of Heaven.

II. The Biblical Foundation for Polygyny

A. The Patriarchs and Their Wives

To reject polygyny is to reject the very foundation of the covenantal family. Scripture plainly shows that many of the holiest and most favored men of God were polygynous:

  • Abraham, the father of faith, had Sarah and Hagar (Genesis 16:3), and later took Keturah (Genesis 25:1).
  • Jacob, the namesake of Israel, had four wives: Leah, Rachel, Bilhah, and Zilpah (Genesis 29–30).
  • Moses, the great lawgiver, had more than one wife (Exodus 2:21; Numbers 12:1).
  • David, a man after God’s own heart, had many wives (2 Samuel 5:13).
  • Solomon, though later ensnared in idolatry, initially ruled with strength from a polygynous household.
  • Joash, Rehoboam, Jehoiada the priest, and others in the Old Testament carried on the practice without rebuke.

What is significant is not simply that these men were polygynous, but that God Himself gave them these wives, or blessed them within this structure. In 2 Samuel 12:8, the Lord says to David through the prophet Nathan:

“And I gave thee thy master’s house, and thy master’s wives into thy bosom… and if that had been too little, I would moreover have given unto thee such and such things.”

Not only was polygyny not rebuked—it was a gift from God.

B. The Law of God Regulates, Not Forbids

Deuteronomy 21:15–17 offers laws regulating the inheritance rights of the firstborn son from a less favored wife, clearly implying polygyny. Exodus 21:10 commands that if a man takes another wife, he must not diminish the food, clothing, or marital rights of the first. Again, regulation—not prohibition.

God is not the author of confusion. If polygyny were sinful, it would be forbidden. Yet no such command exists. The New Testament, too, is silent in its condemnation. Christ condemned divorce (except for fornication), not polygyny. Paul gave pastoral counsel for bishops and elders to be “the husband of one wife” (1 Timothy 3:2), not because polygyny is sin, but because the position required focused leadership and clear testimony.

III. Historical Endorsements of Polygyny

A. The Ancient Hebrews

Polygyny was the norm for centuries in Israel. It was seen not as promiscuity but as a mark of divine blessing. A man who could support multiple wives was seen as one who had dominion, wealth, and leadership ability. Wives were not trophies; they were builders of houses, mothers of tribes, and stewards of domestic life.

B. The Early Church Fathers

Contrary to the sanitized narratives of modern Christianity, several early Church leaders acknowledged the legitimacy of polygyny in the Old Testament without condemning it outright. Tertullian, Augustine, and others noted its role in redemptive history. Augustine even wrote that the patriarchs practiced polygyny by divine command or permission.

The universal prohibition of polygyny arose not from Scripture, but from Roman law and Greco-Roman ethics. By the fourth century, the church had become infected with Hellenistic dualism and anti-body asceticism. Celibacy was exalted. Sexual union, even in marriage, was frowned upon. And thus, polygyny, as a fruit-bearing, dominion-driven model, was outlawed by religious culture—not by God.

C. The Reformers and Beyond

Martin Luther acknowledged that polygyny was not inherently sinful. In a letter, he stated:

“I confess that I cannot forbid a man to marry several wives, for it does not contradict the Scripture.”

Luther even permitted a prince to take an additional wife under specific circumstances.

The Anabaptists, who returned to Biblical literalism, also practiced polygyny in some communities. In the early colonial frontier of America, polygyny was occasionally practiced among devout Christians where demographic imbalance and survival dictated practical, family-oriented solutions.

IV. Polygyny and Dominion

A. Fruitfulness Requires Structure

God’s first command to man was to be fruitful and multiply (Genesis 1:28). Polygyny supercharges this command. In a time when men are outnumbered by women, and many men are unwilling or unqualified to lead, the righteous man should consider it his duty to take more than one wife—not out of lust, but out of love for the Kingdom.

Each godly wife can be a builder of a godly household. Each womb, under righteous headship, becomes a seedbed of the next generation of dominion bearers. This is not about numbers alone—it is about culture, order, and the transfer of wisdom, authority, and inheritance.

B. Rebuilding Generational Houses

The modern world produces sterile units called “nuclear families”—fragile, unsustainable, and often broken. The Biblical household, in contrast, was a multigenerational estate. Polygyny enables the expansion of such households. As each wife builds her own tent within the same dominion domain, the patriarch’s authority multiplies—not by bureaucracy, but by blood and covenant.

Imagine a household with three wives: one managing the kitchen, another schooling the children, a third sewing garments or overseeing trade. Each has a realm. Each has her own children. Each contributes to the economy and expansion of the household. The husband, as patriarch, oversees, shepherds, and provides. This is no harem. This is hierarchy, holiness, and heavenly order.

V. Addressing Common Objections

A. “It’s Not Legal”

Neither was preaching the gospel in first-century Rome. We obey God rather than men (Acts 5:29). The legality of a practice under a pagan government is no test of righteousness. Many who say, “It’s not legal,” are silent when sodomy is legalized and Christian speech criminalized. Let us not use Caesar’s sword to measure Yahweh’s standards.

Civil marriage licenses are not required for covenantal unions before God. Righteous polygyny can exist outside of state registration. God sees what man refuses to recognize.

B. “It’s Not Loving to Women”

On the contrary, true polygyny provides covering, provision, and purpose to more women than monogamy alone. In a world filled with fatherless children, divorced mothers, and sexually abandoned women, a righteous man who embraces polygyny rescues—not exploits—the feminine.

Instead of loneliness, she receives community. Instead of aimless careerism, she builds a household. Instead of fornication or state dependence, she thrives under a man’s covenant and God’s law.

C. “It Will Lead to Jealousy”

So can monogamy. Human nature is fallen. But Scripture never makes emotional volatility the measure of obedience. Instead, it demands that men rule well and that women be sanctified in submission. Leah and Rachel struggled, yet they built the house of Israel. Jealousy is to be conquered, not coddled.

Mature wives in a godly home learn to honor each other. They bear different strengths. The fruit of meekness, service, and love among sister-wives can become one of the most beautiful pictures of Christian sisterhood.

VI. Qualifications of the Polygynous Man

A. He Must Be a Patriarch

Polygyny is not for the immature or undisciplined. It is for a man who rules well his house, provides without fail, and understands his spiritual role as priest, protector, and provider.

A man must not enter polygyny to gratify the flesh but to build the Kingdom. He must know each wife, care for her, shepherd her heart, and guide her children. His authority must be matched by wisdom and discipline.

B. He Must Be Just and Merciful

The polygynous man must show no partiality. He must be a man of order, ensuring that each wife is properly honored, provided for, and disciplined according to God’s Word. He is not a king for luxury’s sake, but a servant-king who models Christ’s care for His Bride.

VII. Women Who Thrive in Polygyny

A. Builders, Not Competitors

The woman suited for polygyny does not see her life through the lens of feminist rivalry. She sees her fellow wives as sisters in the household of God. She does not war for attention. She builds. She multiplies. She rules her children and her duties with grace and strength.

B. Women of Faith and Vision

The polygynous wife must walk by faith, not by the approval of the world. She understands that being covered by a righteous man is better than pursuing the emptiness of careerism or dating culture. She is a woman of vision—one who sees herself as part of a dynasty, not just a romance.

VIII. Polygyny in a Time of Collapse

The Western world is dying. Birthrates are collapsing. Marriages are failing. Feminism has turned women into men and men into cowards. But in the midst of the ruins, the righteous household can rise.

Polygyny is not a trend. It is a tool—a weapon in the hand of the patriarch to rebuild what was destroyed. It allows the righteous to shelter more women, raise more godly children, and multiply in a land that worships death.

IX. Conclusion: Rise and Build

The day is coming when Christian men will be forced to choose between cultural comfort and biblical obedience. The future will not belong to those who play by the world’s rules. It will belong to those who build households of strength, vision, and dominion.

Polygyny, rightly ordered under God’s law, is not merely permissible. It is powerful. It is not just ancient—it is anointed. And it is not optional for those who truly seek to multiply the household of faith and stand against the tide of collapse.

Let the righteous rise. Let the households expand. Let the patriarchs build.

“Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.”
—Psalm 128:3

Health, Religion

What Does The Bible Say We Should Eat?

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What Should We Eat?

The dietary laws about “clean” and “unclean” meats are among the clearest instructions found in the Bible. For thousands of years these laws have been a striking mark of identity separating God’s people from the world (Leviticus 20:25–26). Consequently, for centuries, these same instructions have been a source of controversy and confusion among various religious groups who all claim to get their beliefs from the same book—the Bible. Some have felt that “these laws express God’s will” and as such are wise, reasonable, and beneficial dietary regulations revealing God’s care for the health of His people. This public health focus of those dietary laws was espoused by Maimonides, the great Jewish philosopher of the Middle Ages in Spain and many other notable scholars However, other theologians have openly referred to the Leviticus dietary guidelines as meaningless, repulsive, arbitrary and irrational ideas that originated in primitive superstitions and not in the mind of God. These theologians have confidently asserted: there are no logical explanations for many of the guidelines—that health was definitely not their purpose; that it is a waste of time for Christians to study this section of Scripture. They have asked, What has all this to do with religion? Some have even stated, “The Scriptures do not claim that health is a factor in the dietary laws, though possibly hygiene was a by-product. Yet God said His laws were for our good, prolonging our lives (Deuteronomy 5:29, 33; 10:13). His dietary ordinances were not arbitrary. Their purpose was to benefit us. That being so, why would God later inspire a New Testament that supposedly shows “Christ repealed all the Leviticus regulations on unclean meats and practices” ? Why would an all-wise Creator function in such a contradictory manner? If you have ever pondered such questions, perhaps it’s time you really looked into the subject to determine for yourself what the real truth of the matter is.

Prove All Things:

The God of the Bible challenges each of us to “prove all things; hold fast that which is good” (1 Thessalonians 5:21 KJV). The answers could change your life and immensely impact your health! The Scriptures reveal several important reasons for the dietary laws. In Exodus we learn that God chose the nation of Israel for a special purpose (Exodus 19:5–6). Interestingly, the dietary laws were designed to make the Israelites distinct from other nations. Why? God told Moses, “I am the Lord your God, who has separated you from the peoples. You shall therefore distinguish between clean beasts and unclean…. And you shall be holy to Me, for I the Lord am holy, and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be Mine” (Leviticus 20:24–26). God chose Israel for the purpose of becoming a model nation—a light and example to the world. “Therefore be careful to observe them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who will hear all these statutes, and say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.’ For what great nation is there that has God so near to it, as the Lord our God is to us, for whatever reason we may call upon Him? And what great nation is there that has such statutes and righteous judgments as are in all this law which I set before you this day?” (Deuteronomy 4:6–8). God separated Israel from other nations so the results of His laws could be clearly seen by the other peoples and to show the wonderful benefits provided by His righteous ways. The dietary laws were also designed to promote wise management and efficient utilization of the environmental resources that God entrusted to mankind. The instructions about “clean” and “unclean” foods are important in fulfilling the commission given in Genesis 1:28 and 2:15 to “tend and keep” the earth. To rightfully understand the dietary laws, they must be seen in the context of God’s purpose.

Chew The Cud

Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14 are the primary passages in the Bible that discuss this subject. These chapters give very specific information summarized in simple, easy-to-understand principles. Today, however, the discoveries of modern science are revealing just how practical and important these laws really are. Beginning in Leviticus 11:1–3, we read that “the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying… ‘These are the animals which you may eat among all the beasts’ that are on the earth… whatever divides the hoof having cloven hooves and chewing the cud.’” This describes plant-eating mammals (herbivores) classified as ruminants. A ruminant is “the name given to a grazing animal that has a highly specialized digestive system and splits the hoof’” (World Book Encyclopedia, 1995). These animals have four-chambered stomachs that convert grasses that are inedible to humans and other animals into nutritious, high quality protein products (meat and milk specifically) that humans can then use for sustenance. Examples of such clean animals would be all cattle, sheep, goats, deer, bison, moose, antelope, gazelles, caribou and giraffes. They are all herbivores that obtain their food by grazing or browsing on grasses and other plants. From the standpoint of wise environmental management, these guidelines make a lot of sense. Vast areas of the globe are covered by grasslands (savannas, veldts, pampas), which are often called marginal lands because they do not have enough rainfall to support the production of food crops like corn or wheat. “The only way billions of acres of grassland can be used for human benefit is via ruminants” (Dairy Council Digest, Jan.–Feb. 1973). Grass-fed animals also produce meat that has a lower fat content than grain-fed animals—which we now realize is a health benefit. The clean animals that God permitted His model nation to eat—designated simply by split hooves and cud-chewing—were designed to produce nutritious food in an economical and ecologically sound manner. These guidelines were given long before the sciences of ecology, economics and nutrition. This was one of the benefits that God wanted the world to see through the example of the nation of Israel.

Hold the Hog:

The dietary laws regarding cud-chewing beasts also prohibit the consumption of all carnivorous animals and omnivorous animals for very logical reasons. God created clean animals to provide food and by-products for human use. He created animals unsuitable for human consumption for other purposes. Carnivores, as beasts of prey play an important role in controlling the populations of other animals and rodents. As an example, wolves and mountain lions, which feed on herds of deer, control not only numbers, but also help maintain the health of the herd by culling out older, sick or infirm animals. That’s one reason we shouldn’t eat carnivores. They eat sick and dead animals and transmit diseases to humans. The pig or swine is specifically mentioned as being unclean and not permitted as human food (Leviticus 11:7–8; Deuteronomy 14:8). While some theologians have stated, “We do not know why the swine was forbidden” (Interpreter’s Bible), thousands of other writers and scientist have found numerous logical reasons related to ecology, economics, nutrition and public health. In the wild, swine are often nocturnal animals that root for food. Their nighttime feeding habits should have kept their contact with humans at a minimum. Domesticated pigs, however, have been used for centuries as scavengers around human settlements. Having an omnivorous animal around that could put on weight rapidly by eating anything from garbage to dead animals and human wastes—and that could later be slaughtered and used for food—has seemed like a pretty good arrangement to many peoples. But is it? Today, domesticated hogs are fed a diet composed mainly of corn and grain. However, as non-ruminants with digestive tracts similar to that of humans, pigs are unable to survive on grasses and thus have been ecological competitors with humans for the same types of food grains (such as wheat, corn and barley). In America about 28% of the corn harvested is fed to hogs. Basically, pigs enjoy eating the same types of food that people eat. This is not a wise use of resources. He foresaw that great herds of hogs would take life-sustaining grain out of the mouths of his people. Jesus Christ Himself did not feel it inappropriate to allow an incident that caused the destruction of a herd of pigs! “Now a herd of many swine was feeding there on the mountain. And they begged Him that He would permit them to enter them. And He permitted them. Then the demons went out of the man and entered the swine, and the herd ran violently down the steep place into the lake and drowned” (Luke 8:32–33). Would Jesus have allowed the destruction of someone’s valuable property, without cause, through carelessness or accident?

Let Us Not Eat Bugs!

One of the major diseases transmitted by swine and other unclean animals is trichinosis. It is caused by a small parasitic roundworm that gets into the muscle tissue of animals and humans. The disease has a global distribution and affects about 4% of the world’s population—nearly 240 million people. This is not surprising considering that “people throughout the world eat more pork than any other kind of meat. Americans consume about 80 pounds per person each year. It should be noted, however, that many carnivorous and omnivorous animals are infected with the parasite Trichinella spiralis. Bear meat, walrus and wild pigs have been significant sources of infections in humans for thousands of years. The list could also include squirrels, rats, cats, dogs, rabbits, foxes, horse meat and marine mammals. It is hardly an accident or coincidence that God prohibited the consumption of these animals by His divinely given dietary laws. Tapeworms, which afflict about 3% of the world’s population (about 180 million), are another serious health problem encountered ONLY when pork is eaten. While beef and fish can also contain other tapeworms that can colonize the human digestive tract and cause discomfort, the pork tapeworm is much more dangerous, the larva of the pork parasite, once inside the human intestine, can migrate through the tissues to the heart, eyes and brain—and can eventually cause death. With reference to pork tapeworm disease, the highest rates of infection are seen in countries where pork is a major part of the diet, such as Mexico, Latin America, United States, Spain, Portugal, Africa, India, southeast Asia, and China. Although the general advice for avoiding parasitic infections from pork and other unclean animals is to adequately cook the meat, the most effective way to avoid these diseases is to avoid eating unclean animals that do not have cloven hooves and do not chew the cud—as God instructed Moses and the Israelites 3,500 years ago. If only this portion of the biblical dietary code were applied today, the global burden of parasitic disease could be reduced by 800% within 1 generation!

Don’t Eat The Garbage Man:

Why did God prohibit eating certain foods? Was the Creator being capricious? Why should He be concerned? Is there a rational, logical basis for the Scriptures dealing with which foods are fit for human consumption? After dealing with edible land animals, the second major set of divine dietary instructions concerned aquatic creatures. In Leviticus we are instructed: ‘These you may eat of all that are in the water: whatever in the water has fins and scales, whether in the seas or in the rivers—that you may eat…. Whatever in the water does not have fins or scales—that shall be an abomination to you” (11:9, 12). Numerous and sometimes fanciful reasons have been proposed for these guidelines. While some Bible scholars recognize that the consumption of unclean organisms can be harmful others suggest that organisms without fins and scales resembled snakes and thus are abhorrent to eat (Interpreter’s Bible, 1953). One source stated that scripturally “unclean,” bottom-dwelling organisms were symbolic of living in sin and pollution, and that fins were symbolic of prayers that could lift us out of such situations (The Bible Commentary, Scribner, 1871). The discoveries of science, however, reveal in greater detail the wisdom and benefits of God’s plain instructions about appropriate food. Biblically “clean fish” are generally free swimming in bodies of water. Most “unclean” fish are either bottom dwellers or predatory scavengers. The prohibition against eating scaleless fish protects against the consumption of fish that produce poisonous substances in their bodies. A U.S. Navy survival manual comments, “All the important fish with poisonous flesh… lack ordinary scales…. Instead, these poisonous fish are covered with bristles or spiny scales, strong sharp thorns, or spines, or are encased in a bony box-like covering. Some have naked skin, that is, no spines or scales”. Many sea creatures listed as venomous (four sharks, 58 stingrays, 47 catfish, 57 scorpion fish, 15 toadfish, etc.) do not have true scales. Eels—nocturnal predatory scavengers that eat “almost any kind of food, dead or alive”—would also be considered unclean. Eel blood contains a toxic substance “which can be dangerous if it comes into contact with eyes or another mucous membrane. The biblical guidelines were designed to point people to the safest kinds of fish to eat.

A Different Purpose:

Shellfish, lacking both fins and scales, are clearly excluded by the biblical dietary laws. But why would lobsters, crabs, crayfish and shrimp, which are considered delicacies in many parts of the world, be prohibited? The answer lies in understanding the role they were designed to play in nature. Lobsters are “nocturnal” foragers. They are bottom walkers and predatory scavengers that scavenge for dead animals and other bottom-dwelling organisms and debris. They are usually caught in lobster pots “baited with dead fish. Lobsters have long antennae and tiny hair-like sensors all over their bodies “that can detect specific chemical molecules in the environment (released by decaying organisms), which can help the lobster identify and locate food, even in the dark. Lobsters have been observed to bury a dead fish and then dig it up later, at intervals, to eat a bit more of it. Crabs are referred to as “professional garbage hunters” and as “scavengers” that eat almost anything. The crab prefers dead fish, but will eat any carrion [dead], “putrefying flesh” (International Wildlife Encyclopedia). Common shrimp, a small, delicate relative of crabs and lobsters, live by day in the mud or sandy bottoms of bays and estuaries all over the world. However, they become active at night as predatory scavengers and are “bottom dwelling detritus feeders “eating dead and decaying matter” (International Wildlife Encyclopedia). These organisms were all created for a very important ecological purpose. They are, in essence, the “garbage collectors” or the “cleanup crew” for the bottoms of lakes, rivers, beaches, bays and oceans. They were not intended to be food for human beings. That is also why the consumption of raw, pickled or undercooked crabs, crayfish, snails and shrimp carries a significant risk of parasitic infections like liver flukes, which infect up to 80 percent of some rural populations in Southeast Asia and Africa.

Danger On the Half Shell:

There are also important and logical reasons why God created and then clearly labeled clams, oysters, mussels and scallops as unclean and inappropriate for human consumption. These creatures are found in lakes, streams and coastal areas around the world where they perform specialized roles. As stationary filter-feeding mollusks, they pump large amounts of water over their mucus-covered gills, trapping tiny pieces of food (silt, plant debris, bacteria, viruses) which they then eat. As a result, mussels and other animals feeding on microscopic particles are the ultimate scavengers of the sea. Filter-feeding organisms are the “vacuum cleaners” for aquatic environments. Their role is to purify the water. Once you understand the purpose for which God created shellfish, the reason they are unclean should become obvious. Just as you would be reluctant to make a meal out of the contents of your vacuum cleaner bag, A/C filter or in your septic tank, the decision to eat shellfish should also be considered carefully! Because their method of feeding is “ideal for concentrating bacteria in sewage,” in addition to collecting and concentrating pathogenic viruses, heavy metals and nerve toxins produced by plankton, these shellfish present a serious health hazard to consumers (International Wildlife Encyclopedia). How serious is the threat of disease? The American Food and Drug Administration has stated that “raw oysters, clams, mussels and pork, so savored by gourmets account for 85 percent of all food born illnesses” (FDA Consumer, June 1991). Outbreaks of cholera, typhoid, hepatitis A, Norwalk virus, salmonella and paralytic shellfish poisoning are just some of the health problems frequently linked to the consumption of these mollusks, In addition ALL hepatitis comes from “Unclean” food! Notices have been published that pregnant women, the elderly and “individuals with immune systems weakened by certain diseases (cancer, diabetes and AIDS) should… avoid eating or handling uncooked shellfish”. These dangerous and potentially life-threatening situations can be avoided by understanding and following the biblical dietary laws that prohibit eating marine organisms that lack fins and scales.

Birds to Bugs:

The final groups of organisms covered by the biblical code are birds, insects and reptiles. Essentially all the excluded fowl are either birds of prey or scavengers like vultures and seagulls. Carnivorous birds are important in controlling populations of other animals. Their dietary habits of eating the flesh and blood of their prey make these birds potential agents for transmitting disease. Predatory fish-eating birds tend to accumulate high levels of toxic chemicals in their bodies. Most of these birds are not important food sources for humans. Reptiles are also among the animals listed as unclean for human food (Leviticus 11:29–30; 42–43). Regarding Insects, only those from the locust/grasshopper family are permissible as food. These creatures are distinguished by having “strong hind legs for springing” and have been used, historically, as a food source in the Middle East.

Dietary Laws Abolished?

The biblical dietary laws are simple, rational, practical and profound. Long before human beings knew the details of disease-causing microorganisms, life cycles of parasites or global ecology, God revealed powerful principles that would protect the environment, provide safe, healthful food and prevent the spread of disease for anyone who would be willing to follow these instructions. The intent and benefits of these biblical guidelines have been acknowledged periodically in history. One scholar observed recently that “most of the laws can be clearly seen to tend toward public health. But if these laws are so logical and beneficial to mankind, where did the idea come from that they have been abolished? Why do Bible-believing Christians seem to be in the forefront of promoting this notion? The answer is found in interpretations that are read into scriptures found in Mark 7 and Acts 10. Studying the “evidence” is all the is needed to gain a clear understanding. In Mark 7, Jesus addressed a question about why His disciples ate without washing their hands according to ceremonial traditions followed by the Pharisees. Some Bible translations add words to Jesus’ answer in verse 19, suggesting that He did away with the dietary laws. However, these added words are not found in the original texts. Christ’s point was that orally ingested dirt does not spiritually defile a person since it does not enter the heart to influence attitudes. The dirt passes through the digestive tract and is eliminated. The subject of clean and unclean meats and the dietary laws are not being discussed in this chapter or in Matthew 15:10–20, which discusses the same event. In Acts 10, Peter is given a vision to help him understand God’s future plans for the Church. He was shown a group of unclean animals and told three times to eat. Each time he adamantly declined because he believed it was wrong. Now remember, this was the Peter who supposedly heard Jesus abolish the dietary laws earlier in Mark 7 and who was trained by Christ for 3 1/2 years and yet he was still under the clear impression that eating unclean meats was wrong! He was puzzled over the meaning of the vision (Acts 10:17) until three men came knocking at his door with a request to hear the Gospel explained, Normally Peter would not have associated with these men who were outside of the covenant community, because the Jews considered the Gentiles to be “unclean.” When Peter put the pieces together he concluded: “God has shown me that I should not call any “Gentile” common or unclean”. Peter does not conclude in this chapter, or anywhere else in the New Testament, that the dietary laws were to be abolished. The so-called evidence is simply not there! Neither Jesus Christ nor Peter abolished these God-given guidelines.

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