Friday, July 28, 2023

faith thrives in a modern world

In the previous episode we saw the comparison between the high religiosity in england, nearly 2/3 to the higher religiosity in u.s.
the irony is shocking that after the whole irish issue between catholics and anglicans... each side did not say "we have such an ugly past we should leave religion" instead 59% of england, for more than half nearing 2/3 is christian. england has "NOT wearied" of christianity.
anyway this generation is LONG AFTER the "appalling history of interfaith violence" so that does not affect people's decision to join a church or exit. instead the more PROXIMAL cause is churches teach as i heard in a preaching, not to kiss before wedding matching the famous phrase "you may NOW kiss the bride" at each wedding and also taught in church besides weddings but the APPALLING looseness and promiscuity is the real reason people announce their suppression of theit faith to "get some."
even those religious wars by the catholic pope were in the form of war, azaries battling like the first segment of the 30 year war religion was only part of the issue and time. it would be a lie to describe it as "house to house murder the heretic systematically". nor the cowardly bully lining up the weak unarmed and mass murdering but in the form of war which is different and each side was confident in their justice.
another irony is that the anglican church is failing to attract new comers. we would EXPECT marketing that sells personal computers whether mac or microsft, would also "sell" anglican christianity? but the problem with the comparison is that sales the buyer holds his purchase so that does not work for faith in either part of the sale.
i mean the buyer gave money and gets the p.c. as above but in religion the buyer gets no item nor is payng for any item so the comparison "what works for soap flakes" on page 62 is just a mindless mocking by the hate filled dawkins who was so filled with hate he could not distinguish. 
even tithes are not in exchange for anything because the salvation of the church does not depend on buying it. we can get salvation by grace but want to obey the tithes and offerings to the one who HELPED us earn our money.
my point is marketing would not attract people anyeeway so anglican does not put effort into convincing nor proseltyzing and DESPITE the history of ugly violence and lack of advertising still 59% of england chooses christian despite the absence of inquisition threat and of advertising and despite temptation of ludity and the very visible rows of various condoms in every pharmacy.
the fact is most american immigrants were FLEEING the european organized religion... not to escape to ludity but to get FREEDOM OF WORSHIP to do their own faith rather than the orgaznized religion.
obviously christianty has MORE BRANCHES from its root than the one official church in each country so more christians from each of various branches fled to america from england like the thanksgiving story and other similar stories amish puritan and more fleeing the organized religion but not to ludity but to their own interpretation of christianity.
that caused the larger population of christians in u.s. not any "soap flake" advertising by flaky dawkins.
they came to america as "groups" of puritans and amish etc and the hate filling dawkins caused another "blind spot" despite the same page of "catholic and protestants alternately gaining power and suppressing the othere" he did not notice the lack of "comfort and stability" in england whose "loss" led then to join the american church... literally alternate history because they lacked stability and did not lose it and brought their faith with them. i mean we dont have millions of atheists flooding to u.s. and joining a church due to loneliness. that alteranate history was impossible due to the unpopularity od the bizarre oddity called atheism.
instead christians poured to the land of opportunity and made churches to CONTINUE their faith not join the native american church.
despite the element of community that does not attract people to join a church if they don't agree with the faith.
they can do "the sunday drive" in the beatles song on sunday instead a boring lecture where you CANT TALK during service nor preaching anyway. that is not sociial interaction.
the u.s. constitution specified NOT TO LIMIT worship which PROTECTED religion that document is FAR from a "secular constitution" but a VERY PRO-pro-religion document ENSURING each of various faiths from "a is for amish to catholic to jew to protestant" and from simple amish no zipper to the cleverly named "electric church" associating high tec and "I.T." modernity. really? yes! it is a  real branch on the list.
the u.s. government HAS chaplains in the executive branch but separate from policy so the "non-anglican get bullied to pay a tax" to the state church or jizya tax to islam gets prevented.
the only ads i saw for christianity were the "dancing nuns" joyously skipping along a tree lined path WISHING me a merry christmas.
the churches are not "competing" for followers because in another blind spot... joining a church leads to GIVING offerings... not paying to GET anything. 
the only one using "aggressive hard sell technique" is dawkins using the association marketing trick, which could work if he had not ruined the claims as i showed in previous mytakes about association that is a marketing method.
not the calm submissive church goers are mania nor even the exciting televangelists but these repeated blind spots show that the agnostics are in a frenzied panic to suppress their faith pumpin out shallow comedy mocking... that is the mania.
the condescension calling christians "uneducated" page 62 is far from accurate as if zero college proffesors are christian. 
that claim of dawkins could be aimed at accuratley it muslim countries but in the west where education is guaranteed [besides my own spelling] almost everyone is well educated and heard abouyt evolution from a single cell bacteria to branches of animaks and concluded that is TOO HARD TO BELIEVE the MORE plasible explanation is some creator created verious animals.
we are aware, we write the atheist faith on school exams but we all know what is more plausible and THAT is the cause for 59% of england is christian and more than that percentage of a larger population in u.s. 

Sunday, July 16, 2023

Marketing: by association American founders

 Despite the well-known fact that almost all the first presidents of u.s. were Episcopalians christians, well known because preserved in the Almanac, people try to play games by association. this is not any assumption nor "conventional to assume" but well-known fact.

the fact is: founders opposed organized Christianity of the Anglican and pope but were Christian. specifically Episcopalian including george washington.

dawkins did not lie when he called them, the broader term deist; i will explain his lack of accuracy. "deist" includes christian so dawkins, who could not bear to call them Episcopalian, but also not get caught lying, so he used a broader term deist that is true and includes presbyter christians, while hiding the painful truth that good freedom is credited ASSOCIATed to christians. ouch.

so dawkins played on the "precious personal American freedom" linked to the founders and claimed "the greatest of the founding fathers [no lady?] might have been atheists." did you notice the word might? it is just an association trick. many steps away from accuracy and all depending on the maybe. the ones who were not athiests were the minor ones? how about john adams? and Episcopalian washington? not the greatest?

those founders who might have been atheists, dawkins considers the greatest... serving the purpose of association technique, atheists will follow the chain: feel like they are "with" the "greatest" of founders who "provided precious personal" freedom. tadda. but...


even he did not want to get caught lying so safely added the word "might"... but the ones who might be greatest were the christian founders, including john adams, but were they against christianity? were they secular? both i mean they wanted personal freedom from the organized christianity, as above.

he also used the formula "WOULD" they would be athiests now. but would they? the word would itself indicated that they were NOT atheist so no justification to claim now they would be DIFFERENT only a trick, but since it was a "would" formula he plays the game to mislead his readers who are happy to be associated with those they respect. unquestionably.

he cherry picks one candidate who protested religious pressure and interpreted as secular despite the guy never mentioned secular. the opposite even that "secular" wrote "quoting god is a powerful ally" gasp! that is neither secular nor modern atheist who say bible is Cinderella with her fairy god mother.

that speech whined about "factions" each one claiming "our god guided a different direction" that was his complaint the word "factions" that he DID say, but not the word secular that he never said , but opposite of secular , as above he did say god is a powerful ally page 60. far from secular. but dawkins needed association so he added a word secular not even there but opposite as above.

such desperation indicated he was grasping for straws trying to stifle his natural faith in god even he believed but his mind struggled to the point of these blunders or deceptions.

he quoted a treaty with muslims to prove that the presidents were not presbyter christians which they were... but it was a treaty with muslims in that context they stretched the truth of separating church from state for the purpose of muslim treaty needed to protect shipping in the Mediterranean. so the truth is separate church stretched for the treaty but not "truly not founded on christian ideas."

maybe people protested? dawkins adds imaginary stuff for his bias: "would" again using the would technique to allow lying. they would protest but maybe not... considering separated church from state and for the sake of a critical treaty. no conflict then nor now, but his propaganda HINGED and relied on woulds and mights for what? just to imagine association. at the time noone complained as i explained, they needed the treaty, so no reason to claim now "would differ" but he needs these two pages of false propaganda so people will feel good and recommend buying his "brilliant" and munificent? book.. yes clever but due to use of imaginary would and might techniques not real quality nor content.

i remind the fact: john adams and more were presbytarian christians. almost all including george washington were either Episcopalians or Presbyterians the two most prevalent faiths of presidents. that refers to the two groups with the most total 19 of 43. that is meaning of most but more were presbytarian if we do not split hairs. george washington was a christian not among the 3 unaffiliated. so was jefferson despite unaffiliated still christian and among his fellows. the "poor lonely rejected atheist" rejected by hostile christians" in his fake dramatized history but truly among his fellow christians.


Almost all U.S. presidents= commander-in-chiefs have been Protestant Christians. Forty-three presidents (Grover Cleveland held two non-consecutive terms) were Protestant Christians. and one more catholic. even lincoln considered unaffiliated due to "doubted the divinity of Jesus Christ" still matched unitarian christian. like both john adams+s presidents in the later chart.

Friday, July 14, 2023

summary stupendous stargate sg1 s4 story

 season 4 disc 5 has 4 stories 4.19-22

19, carter went with a student to see robot fireflies. they became danger, how will they escape?

20, something was controlling the computers. it started to control carter too. how will they save her?

21, onil's squad joins their robot copies to battle a powerful system lord.

22, onil's team joined tokra symbiotes, to battle apophis. how will they escape capture?

summary book potter stone new try

intro': rowling wrote an AMAZING story, created a wonderful world with dangerous adventures. i cannot do better but i can write a summary and add a bit of fan fiction. this time chapter by chapter

ONE: The Dursely family had a lone young son, named dudley. mrs. dursley, a blond named petunia, pretended that she did not have a sister. on a usual morning, Mr. Dursely, named vernon, who kept a mustache, started driving to his job. that was when he could not believe his eyes. he saw a cat reading a map? impossible! 

At work's break, he heard people talking about the potters, his wife's sister's family. after work he bumped into a man dressed oddly in a violet cloak. the guy spoke in unintelligible words like some nut, "dont be sorry. nothing could upset me today. you-know who is gone!" but he did not know who. He went home, and asked petunia about her sister so she was very annoyed. vernon wondered if the cloak guy had anything to do with his sister in laws "kind". 

near midnight, on an empty corner, a man suddenly appeared. he was wearing long robes under a purple cloak. he flicked open a metal cigaret lighter and clicked. each click the light of a lamp vanished. in the darkness he sat by a cat that was now a lady, wearing an emerald green cloak. she also said "you know who has disappeared, after killing the potter family. only their son lived". the man, named albus dumbledor, replied that he arranged to bring that child harry to his relatives the dursleys.

they heard a roaring engine overhead. a motor bike fell from the sky. a giant rode it and sobbed about the potter's deaths. he laid harry on the doorstep. dum' clicked the darker once, so the balls of light flew back to the street lamps. in the morning petunia found harry on the doorstep. and ten years passed as harry's eleventh birthday neared.

ANALYSIS: the conversations here were mysterious and intended as a hook to cause curiosity to continue but it can be a turn off due to so much without a story so it can be a turnoff of uninteligible talk. even the cool magic which was wonderful was distracted by vague phrases that contained a story in broken bits.

finally a boy on a doorstep from midnight to morning can only be a true documentary because an imaginary story they would put the baby in the house. despite this one event that was real most of the chapter was fiction except the stuff both in the video and the book.

FAN FICTION: i could not write a better story but i can be a hindsight critic. do not introduce magic motorbikes so soon. it is great but not in the first chapter with so much stuff that is hard to understand and not even mentioning it was enchanted.

chapter one: "at midnight, the dursley parents heard a baby crying, so they went to check on their son dudley. in his room they found he and a second child were crying. in shock they read a note: "Harry is your relative. his parents died, tonight, so he is your responsibility now." ma said, "we should bring the orphan to an orphangae." pa said "he will do chores" so they raised harry for ten years. chapter two." 

analysis: this would tell the dursley perspective. harry indoors with a brief mention of his parent's death without introducing magic yet nor contrasting the usual world with mysterious rejoicing and avoiding the mysterious talk, replaced by common conversation.

TWO: summary: Harry liked his scar and recalled that he had asked how he got his thin-lightening-shape-scar so they said in a car crash. harry experienced mysterious unexplainable stuff. he would get a hair cut at a barber, and same as previous haircuts, as soon as he got home it was long again. aunt had cut his hair very short, but by morning it was long again.

they went too a zoo. there harry looked at a snake until cousin d punched him down. harry hurt from the punch and the hard concrete. d' was leaning on the glass when it stopped existing so he jumped back as the snake escaped and thanked harry "thanksssss."

later harry got mail but before he could read it uncle took it away. more letters came for him so uncle burnt them. he even chhanged harry room and  moved the family to different places to avoid the letters. on a distant isle, a giant man, named r.h. came. he told harry, "you are a wizard... your parents got murdered by an evil wizard."

h' led harry to the place to but magical items. it was in london [72]. the magicaly passed through a wall. in a bank harry rode the roller railway and got some money from his inheritance. hagrid got a small specially protected package. h' bought an owl for harry before harry bought his wand.wands were made using magical creatures. one of the wands responded by shooting red and gold sparks. harry learnt that the wand chooses the wizard and that his wand was from the same phoenix used in voldemorts wand.

FAN FICTION: when harry entered the wand shop a box jumped off a shelf and fell away freeing a wand which flew to harry.... chose him.

uncle drove harry to the train station where he met the weasly family. harry rode the train with ron. they shared treats while ron told harry about his brothers. harry rode magic-mover boats on lake between the train station and the school castle. a wizard cap explained the characteristics of students for the 4 houses. it assigned harry with his new friend ron and a girl named hermiy-oni. they ate a generous feast before going to the dorm to sleep.

later hagrid invited harry to visit. when he visited he heard about a break in at the wizard bank. the same day he had gone there with h. at school harry studied various magical subjects, including broom flying. nevil's broom went wild causing nevil to fall and get injured. his sphere fell. d. malfoy stole it and wanted to hide it like a jerk. harry chased draco who threw it. harry flew and caught it skillfully. malfoy challenged harry to a duel so harry went at night ignoring protests from hermione. he and his pals almost got caught. they fled until finding a giant dog with 3 heads and jaws.

on halloween, harry got a gift broom and learned about quiditch. a troll was found in the dungeon. harry and ron went to find hermione and saw the troll attacking her. harry jumped on the troll [188] and ron used a charm to save harry from the club that jumped up and then fall on the trolls head ending the threat. FAN FICTION: hermione who had succeeded at leviosa first, used it to disarm the troll. it jumped up... harry and ron entered and saw the troll look up when the huge club crashed down on its head. ron would save harry later not save hermione now she can save herself. ENDNOTE: half of 331 pages is 165 so at end of chapter 10 page 192 end part one of summary.

conclusion: the title stone refers to a red stone. people tried to get it but was safely in a mirror until harry took it out. then it was almost stolen, until harry mysteriously burnt quirrels face. preventing the theft of the stone. harry the hero.

prophets for christians new try

 jesus mentioned by name, Isaiah Jeremiah and Jona:  "Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you [Mat 15:8] These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me, they worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules." establishing he faith that isaiah was a prophet. so we can trust "even" when he said surprising messages such as "blood i did not want" even in past tense time since this is true we know the other books, we got, that can cause error that did want blood in past, are error and not from the true god. only in future he wanted blood as written in ephesians not past not ever.

also john the "student who saw jesus" mentioned isaiah by name in gospel john.

also  jesus mentioned by name, Jeremiah in gospel matthew by the student matthew who was the student of jesus "When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say the Son of Man is?” [16:14] They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” did jesus say "i must correct you, jeremia was not a prophet? if that was true, then their teacher must save them from error. instead he agreed with them.

after jeremiah they print other books but jesus never mentioned them by name, except, "when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination that causes desolation,’ spoken of through the prophet Daniel" so daniel is in by matthew who was jesus student. and it was part of jesus answer.

a council said revelation is heresy. even mat. 21.44 is not a quote nor even in original.

another quote from "word" no name, "If you had known what these words mean, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice,’ mat. 12.7, preserved a bit of scripture helping clarify isaiah one and jeremiah seven with similar ideas. and there preserved "Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth."

john 12.14 +15, "Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, as it is written: “Do not be afraid, Daughter Zion; see, your king is coming, seated on a donkey’s colt" but no name just scripture. also "scripture says, “They will look on the one they have pierced." preserved scripture but before rabbis assigned to people. written: “ ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered". written: “ ‘I will send my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way before you.’ no name because original scripture.

so this preserved the prophets for christians complete. no other books beside isaiaha jeremiah and jona the prophet to the gentiles.

Thursday, July 13, 2023

bible books with events 13 books

 Josefus wrote that "we jews have thirteen books of stories". the following match his contents:

first of stories AND FIRST in bible as i explained, is:

joshua. see introduction at

https://thinkforyourselfn8.blogspot.com/2023/07/book-joshua-and-introduction.html

list 12 more: judges samuel kings Isaiah, Jeremiah, Jona [story and prophet], Ruth, Esther, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemia, chronicles.

except for jonah a story with events, still certainly not the dozen prophecies that rabbis wrongly claim as holy messages, not one book nor many books they are not events in contraast to isaiah.

these 13v must be purified as i explained in intro to joshua, link above.

a bit of joshua, can be accepted with: Ruth, the story in isaiah about hezekia with prophecies, jeremiah with story and prophecies, jona with story and prophecies for gentiles. with Esther, Daniel,

however despite josefus had ezra story in his history and did count it in 13 the rabbis lost the real book ezra replaced it with book cyrus which is not holy and similarly nehemia that he counted in 13 is not on the rabbi list so remove these two too. and chronicles since an error is not from god therefore this book with errors is also not from god. we know the years between mesa and nebucadnezer. 830-580 bc=250 years despite it is exageration not lie still it is not true so not holy. so must not scorn the holy books by including this human with holy.

book Hosea and other prophets

 Book of Hosea, see book dozen here below

Joel,  see book dozen
Amos, see book dozen
Obadiah, see book dozen
Jonah, see book dozen
Micah, see book dozen
Nahum, see book dozen
Habakkuk, see book dozen
Zephaniah, see book dozen
Haggai, see book dozen
Zechariah, see book dozen
Malachi, see book dozen here:

book dozen and introduction
introduction: in jewish bible, the book with twelve shorts is called dozen. however josephus number 22 books and his stories, indicated which are the  "13 books describe things that were done" not prophecies. source against apion 1.8. these indicate that this book dozen was not authentic. also it contains in book malaki part that can cause error that god wanted sacrifice but the same book contained he did not and same in jeremiah chapter 7. the names were people who lived between 830 b.c. and 500 b.c. darius. around 300 years. during this time assyria power 720 b.c. the rabbi order is not chronological for example jona was mentioned in book kings but obadia was at the time of a war with edom so before the others. either way it is not authentic as above.
Book dozen: chapter 1:  "i desire kindness not sacrifice". end book dozen.
Zacharia time darius 500 b.c. latest of this group not time order