Neither did the Jews worship the Emperor!

The Archbishop of Athens and Greece said something about the Parthenon being holy and except for Christians, people started wondering what was he talking about. Of course he tried to present himself as a leader of the Greek nation and said something that is impossible to believe. Christians had to build a church inside the Parthenon, because even more than two centuries after the reign of Constantine Apostata, people were attached to those temples and their traditional religion. The video shows a brief history of Parthenon and the Church had the nerve to question the fact that the Christians destroyed the nude sculptures.  

An article asked rhetorically the Archbishop if he had forgotten about this and all crusaders came to write their irrational comments. One was that if was inevitable that Christians murdered everybody and destroyed everything as they had suffered persecutions for three centuries. Apart from being the Religion of Love, apart from being the best religion with the worst followers as they actually say, I wondered why should one want to persecute Christians, an unknown small group among many others. Christians say because of the emperor worship. However Jews didn't have to do that, Samaritans probably neither, so why the Christians? Because at the time of Decius, when Christianity entered a new phase, some people appeared and provoked their martydom.

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The cult of Roman emperors, living and dead, became the State religion throughout the empire, though it originated as a simple act of thankfulness for the peace and stability brought by Rome. Temples were erected in honour of Julius Caesar soon after his death (44 BCE) and to Augustus in his lifetime, e.g. at Pergamum. This explains the reference to ‘Satan's throne’ (Rev. 2: 13). In this city, as elsewhere, the cult developed because local people wanted it not in order to flatter the establishment but out of genuine gratitude for the benefits brought by Rome, and it was not felt to be a substitute for existing religions. Nevertheless, as the feelings of gratitude faded, the imperial cult became more and more a test of loyalty to the regime. The consequence was that refusal to perform the outward rituals was bound to incur penalties. Both Jews and Christians were conscientiously unable to burn incense to any human being: Jews, after some initial persecution, got exemption from Claudius; but Christians suffered when the Church's numbers expanded sufficiently to attract the State's hostile attention (1 Pet. 4: 16). Failure to give divine honours to the emperor or ‘to swear by the genius of Caesar’ was not the only ground for persecution; but the anti‐Christian writer Celsus (about 178 CE) warned Christians of the perils of their lack of civic sense and of their disloyalty to an empire from which they derived many material benefits.

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Around the third century, with some exceptions. Martyrdom was hugely important in early Christian theology. The first Christians believed that Jesus’s promise, “Ye shall indeed drink of the cup that I drink of,” was an invitation to martyrdom. Dying for the faith guaranteed immediate passage to heaven, where martyrs sit on a throne next to God himself. Early Christians buried their deceased loved ones near the graves of martyrs, hoping that they could somehow hitch a ride to paradise. Initially, there was no taboo against actively seeking martyrdom. The North African writer Tertullian praised thousands of Carthaginian Christians who supposedly approached the Roman governor en masse to request execution—the governor is said to have declined—and there were reports of similar incidents. Beginning in the third century, however, Christian theologians argued that this kind of behavior shouldn’t be glorified. Within a few decades, the orthodox Christian view was that voluntarily seeking execution was suicide, not martyrdom.

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Moss - How did early Christians think about martyrdom? Candida R. Moss

Now, that is low!

On the 6th of  February 2017, anarchists used explosives to set fire to a soliticitor office, because one of the lawyers is defending a member of the neonazi, neofasist, nationalistic party 'Golden Dawn'. As explosives were used, an innocent old man who lived at the same floor and happened to be just inside his apartment at the time of the explosion. He said that for one or two seconds he would have been dead. However his hands were burned and he suffered from cardiac and respiratory problems. When it happened they talked about an old man. After finding out who he was, there was never a mention again. They reported about four women, being freed by the fire brigade, but never was anything writen about an old man again when other sites or newspapers started reporting the fact. No official visited him in the hospital, although he was a victim of terrorism. His crime? He has written some books about hellenic polytheism. He is conservative in his views, but Christian conservatives get airplay, as well as anarchists, or communists even nazis, with no seats in the parliament. Although he is the only one who doesn't speak bad about Christianity. Still for the the Greek State and its profiteers, Ethnic Hellenes do not exist.

What? No, resurrection?

So that is what the 'savage' is saying. The civilised, say something about resurrection, second coming etc.

Iran: Free to wear Hidschāb and Tschador since 1979

Finance against Business

Banks shouldn't belong to a state or private institutions, but to the people trading. The very existence of external moneymakers and creditors is arrogation of the whole trade. Banks shouldn't be anything more than another public service providing the paper or the data for the trade partners. However they managed to appropriate the whole trade as they own the money needed for the whole trading system. As they ask for interest the whole trade volume should increase every year. However in nature there is no eternal growth, but after a peak there is glut or decline. Finance is used to overcome this glut by fictive goods, which provide gain to finance by business decline. Worst of all why should anybody try to make money out of the goods and services market, when the real money is in the finance instruments with no costs and no real product development? There are giant corporations which were found before the rise of finance, but there so going to be a shift sooner or later.

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Donald Trump vs. George Soros

I am not much interested in elections, because parlementary democracy is no democracy to me and politicians act as if they appeal to morons and most probably that is what they think of their voters. However I have a strongest dislike against any type of parabalani and so not only against Brownshirts, Blackshirts or Redshirts but Pinkshirts or pink Pussyhats as well. Pink Pussyhats are probably a mocking of the Phrygian Cap, the symbol of the American and French Revolution.
So Trump, probably a useful idiot, won the elections in his country and the opponent George Soros, or at least this is the person we see or is easy to detect, will try to bring him down. Soros will use toilet papers in his possession like The Guardian to make a fuss about Trump talking like a rockstar, but will not do anything about a real problem like a refuge closing in Sunderland, except writing an article one is going to forget the next moment.
Common people shouldn't get any ideas that they might find a leader who really would support them against the rich people, for everyone sake even for the rich's.

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Identity politics
Billionaire George Soros has ties to more than 50 ‘partners’ of the Women’s March on Washington
What is the link between one of Hillary Clinton’s largest donors and the Women’s March? Turns out, it’s quite significant

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 Billionaire investor George Soros. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
BILLIONAIRE INVESTOR GEORGE SOROS. (PHOTO BY SEAN GALLUP/GETTY IMAGES)
In the pre-dawn darkness of today’s presidential inauguration day, I faced a choice, as a lifelong liberal feminist who voted for Donald Trump for president: lace up my pink Nike sneakers to step forward and take the DC Metro into the nation’s capital for the inauguration of America’s new president, or wait and go tomorrow to the after-party, dubbed the “Women’s March on Washington”?

 The Guardian has touted the “Women’s March on Washington” as a “spontaneous” action for women’s rights. Another liberal media outlet, Vox, talks about the “huge, spontaneous groundswell” behind the march. On its website, organizers of the march are promoting their work as “a grassroots effort” with “independent” organizers. Even my local yoga studio, Beloved Yoga, is renting a bus and offering seats for $35. The march’s manifesto says magnificently, “The Rise of the Woman = The Rise of the Nation.”

It’s an idea that I, a liberal feminist, would embrace. But I know — and most of America knows — that the organizers of the march haven’t put into their manifesto: the march really isn’t a “women’s march.” It’s a march for women who are anti-Trump.

As someone who voted for Trump, I don’t feel welcome, nor do many other women who reject the liberal identity-politics that is the core underpinnings of the march, so far, making white women feel unwelcome, nixing women who oppose abortion and hijacking the agenda.

To understand the march better, I stayed up through the nights this week, studying the funding, politics and talking points of the some 403 groups that are “partners” of the march. Is this a non-partisan “Women’s March”?

Roy Speckhardt, executive director of the American Humanist Association, a march “partner,” told me his organization was “nonpartisan” but has “many concerns about the incoming Trump administration that include what we see as a misogynist approach to women.” Nick Fish, national program director of the American Atheists, another march partner, told me, “This is not a ‘partisan’ event.” Dennis Wiley, pastor of Covenant Baptist United Church of Christ, another march “partner,” returned my call and said, “This is not a partisan march.”

Really? UnitedWomen.org, another partner, features videos with the hashtags #ImWithHer, #DemsInPhily and #ThanksObama. Following the money, I poured through documents of billionaire George Soros and his Open Society philanthropy, because I wondered: What is the link between one of Hillary Clinton’s largest donors and the “Women’s March”?

I found out: plenty.

By my draft research, which I’m opening up for crowd-sourcing on GoogleDocs, Soros has funded, or has close relationships with, at least 56 of the march’s “partners,” including “key partners” Planned Parenthood, which opposes Trump’s anti-abortion policy, and the National Resource Defense Council, which opposes Trump’s environmental policies. The other Soros ties with “Women’s March” organizations include the partisan MoveOn.org (which was fiercely pro-Clinton), the National Action Network (which has a former executive director lauded by Obama senior advisor Valerie Jarrett as “a leader of tomorrow” as a march co-chair and another official as “the head of logistics”). Other Soros grantees who are “partners” in the march are the American Civil Liberties Union, Center for Constitutional Rights, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. March organizers and the organizations identified here haven’t yet returned queries for comment. 

On the issues I care about as a Muslim, the “Women’s March,” unfortunately, has taken a stand on the side of partisan politics that has obfuscated the issues of Islamic extremism over the eight years of the Obama administration. “Women’s March” partners include the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which has not only deflected on issues of Islamic extremism post-9/11, but opposes Muslim reforms that would allow women to be prayer leaders and pray in the front of mosques, without wearing headscarves as symbols of chastity. Partners also include the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which wrongly designated Maajid Nawaz, a Muslim reformer, an “anti-Muslim extremist” in a biased report released before the election. The SPLC confirmed to me that Soros funded its “anti-Muslim extremists” report targeting Nawaz. (Ironically, CAIR also opposes abortions, but its leader still has a key speaking role.)

Another Soros grantee and march “partner” is the Arab-American Association of New York, whose executive director, Linda Sarsour, is a march co-chair. When I co-wrote a piece, arguing that Muslim women don’t have to wear headscarves as a symbol of “modesty,” she attacked the coauthor and me as “fringe.”

Earlier, at least 33 of the 100 “women of color,” who initially protested the Trump election in street protests, worked at organizations that receive Soros funding, in part for “black-brown” activism. Of course, Soros is an “ideological philanthropist,” whose interests align with many of these groups, but he is also a significant political donor. In Davos, he told reporters that Trump is a “would-be dictator.”

A spokeswoman for Soros’s Open Society Foundations, said in a statement, “There have been many false reports about George Soros and the Open Society Foundations funding protests in the wake of the U.S. presidential elections. There is no truth to these reports.” She added, “We support a wide range of organizations — including those that support women and minorities who have historically been denied equal rights. Many of whom are concerned about what policy changes may lie ahead. We are proud of their work. We of course support the right of all Americans to peaceably assemble and petition their government—a vital, and constitutionally safeguarded, pillar of a functioning democracy.”

Much like post-election protests, which included a sign, “Kill Trump,” were not  “spontaneous,” as reported by some media outlets, the “Women’s March” is an extension of strategic identity politics that has so fractured America today, from campuses to communities. On the left or the right, it’s wrong. But, with the inauguration, we know the politics. With the march, “women” have been appropriated for a clearly anti-Trump day. When I shared my thoughts with her, my yoga studio owner said it was “sad” the march’s organizers masked their politics. “I want love for everyone,” she said.

The left’s fierce identity politics and its failure on Islamic extremism lost my vote this past election, and so, as the dawn’s first light breaks through the darkness of the morning as I write, I make my decision: I’ll lace up my pink Nikes and head to the inauguration, skipping the “Women’s March” that doesn’t have a place for women like me.

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story has been updated to include a statement from the Open Society Foundations.

Asra Q. Nomani is a former Wall Street Journal reporter. She can be reached at asra@asranomani.com or on Twitter.

Something for amateurs like Microsoft, IBM, Oracle ...

The Greek elites are exasperated with being made responsible for the Greek economic crisis and have decided to make a profound organisation of the Greek economy. So the University of Peloponnese decided to hold a conference, to show people what exactly they should do to trounce the worlds richest enterprises. The solution is when all businessmen pray the The Jesus Prayer!

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Instructions in Greek