Did you know that the word Hamas is in the Bible? I did not! This weekend, I read an article by a Jewish Rabbi/Theologian named Shmuel Klatzkin. The Hebrew word ḥāmas (חָמָס, meaning “violence,” “wrongdoing,” or “injustice”) is the antithesis of a more familiar word for Christians and Jews: šālôm
This is post 1 of 4 in the series “Getting to the Root of Antisemitism” Getting to the Root of Antisemitism The Gifts of the Jews The Gift of the Jews Becomes the Horror of Pagan Culture The Role of the Church in Combatting Antisemitism and the Degeneration of Society
Mosab Hassan Yousef writes in the preface of his book Son of Hamas that the current conflict in the Middle East between Israel and Hamas “stretches all the way back to the animosity between Sarah and Hagar described in the first book of the Bible.” Yousef has a unique perspective,
On October 7, 2023, the terrorist group Hamas committed a heinous attack on Israel. This has brought the entire Middle East to the brink of a war that has global consequences. The hot war is centered in Israel and Gaza, yet the war of ideas and ideals has been brewing
Amid the crisis in the Middle East, my thoughts turned to the story of Abraham, Sarah, and Hagar in Genesis. It is from this ancient story that Arabs and Jews (and Christians in a spiritual sense) trace their descendants. Jews trace their ancestry to Isaac, Sarah’s son. Arabs trace their
This is post 1 of 1 in the series “War in the West” Emancipating the World The West is in the midst of a war—a battle of ideas—with two fronts. Islamism is on the attack from the East, but a parallel tyranny grows in the West, a tyranny every bit
This is post 18 of 18 in the series “classics” Not Every Story is Based in Reality How Homosexuality Became Normal in the West How Evolutionists Explain Poverty Lies Enslave, Truth Transforms Human Evil, Cosmic Consequences NURTURING: The Wonder of Being There Personal God, Personal Creation The Implications of Moral
Recently we published, “Rape in Sweden Increased 1,472% from 1975 to 2014.” The post examined the deadly mix of postmodernism, with its dismissal of objective truth, and the violent misogyny of Islamism. Sweden’s rape experience is just the worst of several European countries that have seen an alarming growth of
This is post 1 of 3 in the series “new fascists” The New Fascism: Tolerance That Leads to Tyranny The New Fascists Use Words As Weapons New Fascists: Bullies Attacking the Family A new fascism is on the rise in the West. A pluralistic framework will not create a pluralistic
Iraq cemetery destroyed by ISIS, photo by Mstyslav Chernov (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons As we enter 2018, it is fitting to remember that 2017 brought the end of ISIS as a caliphate. The Western media has hardly noticed, as if the carnage and raw evil
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