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  • MitzaLizalor
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    Re: Book review: Day Of Empire and The Deserter's Tale

    Are you referring to Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations.?

    The title was enough to remind me of what happens at Armageddon.
    Revelation 16:16 ff
    16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
    17 And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done.
    18 And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.
    19 And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
    20 And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.
    21 And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.

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  • Jeb Stuart Thurmond
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    Originally posted by Dr. Laurie PHD View Post
    But the real intolerace that Amy never factors in the the Liberal cultural elitist (aka Jewish) intolerance of non-Jews, who they call "rednecks" and so on. Americans are sick of how the Condescending Coastal Jewish Elite
    Say what you will about Amy Chua, but clearly she reads this forum and is good at taking pointers. Her new book about tribalism covers exactly this. I'd love to read your review of it. Once you sober up, of course.

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  • Sionisx2
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    Originally posted by Pastor Ezekiel View Post
    I'm sure that your dark master satan enjoyed them, and the Joo York Times no doubt.

    We read the KJV1611 Bible. You should try it too. The only book you'll ever need.
    Undoubtedly true, and good words to live by ( the bolded part ). But I enjoy reading fantasy novels, so it's a win win.

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  • Pastor Ezekiel
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    Originally posted by Sionisx2 View Post
    Lol. Well, they're good books all the same.
    I'm sure that your dark master satan enjoyed them, and the Joo York Times no doubt.

    We read the KJV1611 Bible. You should try it too. The only book you'll ever need.

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  • Sionisx2
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    Originally posted by Pastor Ezekiel View Post
    We are not interested in reading the latest homersexural novels or atheist propaganda bestsellers. Take it somewhere else.
    Lol. Well, they're good books all the same.

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  • Pastor Ezekiel
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    Originally posted by Sionisx2 View Post
    Seeing as how open minded you lot are ( haha ), I challenge thee to read Soulforge, by Margaret Wise and Tracy Hickman. Followed by Brothers Majere, Dragons of an Autumn Twilight, and the rest of the Dragonlance © Chronicles. They're a really good read. I'd like to see your fair and balanced review on any of those books.
    We are not interested in reading the latest homersexural novels or atheist propaganda bestsellers. Take it somewhere else.

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  • Sionisx2
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    Seeing as how open minded you lot are ( haha ), I challenge thee to read Soulforge, by Margaret Wise and Tracy Hickman. Followed by Brothers Majere, Dragons of an Autumn Twilight, and the rest of the Dragonlance (c) Chronicles. They're a really good read. I'd like to see your fair and balanced review on any of those books.

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  • Bobby-Joe
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    Fair and balanced reviews Dr Laura. I would challenge any of our critics to read your post and say were aren't opened minded.

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  • Pastor Isaac Peters
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    Very insightful reviews, Dr. Laurie.

    As for tolerance, where's the tolerance for us True Christians™? Why do the hellbound lie-berals demand tolerance for every sort of Christ-denying perversion, yet deny us the right to practice our religion in peace by evangelizing and by working to make government more Godly? Why must they always force their "equality" and "privacy" on us?

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  • Book review: Day Of Empire and The Deserter's Tale

    At last week's book burning I was verbally assaulted by a heathen who accused me of "burning books I had not even read". So, to prove that particular heathen wrong, I've decided to spare the occasional book from the flames, for a week, so I can read and review it. This week the books I (temporarily) saved are Day Of Empire by Amy Chua, and The Deserter's Tale by Joshua Key.

    I'm not a very fast reader, so by sacrificing comprehension for speed, and by reading during appointments (when I'm usually doodling on my notepad anyway) I've managed to read an astounding 500 pages this week. That's 100 pages per day, people! About 20 pages per appointment! Factor in that I'm just a woman, and that my patients keep interrupting me with their usual whiney babble about "pastor touched me as a child" this and "I still wake up screaming 'please stop hitting me daddy'" that.

    Day Of Empire by Amy Chua

    This book is about "hyperpowers" whatever that means. Did anicent Persia need ritalin? Maybe Ming Dynasty China needed to just run around the block to blow some steam off? It seems she defines the term as "a nation that dominates the world". Well, we already have a book about that, it's about the nation of the King of Kings and it's called the BIBLE.

    Its thesis is that world-dominating powers gain and maintain their power by what she calls "Strategic Tolerance". She claims, for example, that Britian gained power because of tolerating Jewish Bankers and Scottish skirt-wearers. Sorry, Mrs. Amy Chinkua, but Ango-Saxons know that power does not flow from the barrel of a peace pipe, but from a smallpox-infected blanket and a well-practiced whip-arm. And the well-worn knees of Praying to God to bless our Injin-killing, slave-driving ways, which He has!

    But the real intolerace that Amy never factors in the the Liberal cultural elitist (aka Jewish) intolerance of non-Jews, who they call "rednecks" and so on. Americans are sick of how the Condescending Coastal Jewish Elite are always patronizing us. Saying condescending things like "women are equal to men" What nonsense. Conservatives never condescend me, they just tell me that I'm inferior because I'm a woman, and that's the truth.

    The Deserter's Tale by Joshua Key

    As you'd expect, this is just a load of rationalizations from a coward. He doesn't claim to be a coward, but then, liberals have a weird definition of "bravery" and "cowardice" which I need to clarify.

    Liberals think that "bravery" means taking risks. By that standards, every drunk driver is brave, and people who play russian roulette are heros. No, courage means the ability to shut up one's concience and to do what has to be done. Cowardice and squeamishness are the exact same thing. Joshua Key deserted because he was too squeamish - that is, too cowardly - to help his platoon kill and rape Iraqis. Perhaps, Joshua, you should open the book you were named after: - THE BOOK OF JOSHUA - and find out what GOD has planned for the Iraqi people (and the entire Middle East):

    1:3 Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses.
    1:4 From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.

    The Middle East belongs to us. God wants the squatters evicted. The only question is, HOW does He want them Evicted?

    God doesn't desert because of collateral damage. Rather, he insists upon it. "So Joshua ... utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the LORD God of Israel commanded." (10:40) And he's not just an innocent bystander either. He is an active combatant. "The Lord God fought for Israel." (10:42) God "slew them with a great slaughter" and even "chased them along the way." Sometimes he "threw down great stones from heaven," and once he even stopped the sun from moving so that he and the Israelites could finish all their killing before sundown. (10:10-12)
    Here are a few highlights.
    • Joshua killed "everything that breathed" in each of the cities that he conquered, "as the Lord God of Israel commanded." 6:21, 8:24 - 40, 11:8 - 21
    • A family is stoned and burned to death (along with their animals) to punish the father (Achan) for looking at "the accursed thing." "So the LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger." 7:24-26
    • God threw down "great stones from heaven" so that he could kill even more people than the Israelites "slew with the sword." 10:11
    • God makes the sun and moon stand still so that Joshua could get all his killing done before dark. 10:12-13
    • "The Lord fought for Israel." 10:14
    • "For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly." 11:20
    • Remember that God "is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins." 24:19
    Conclusion:

    Two books well burnt!
    Last edited by Jeb Stuart Thurmond; 05-23-2018, 03:02 PM.
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