FrancisRockwell

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[FrancisRockwell @Rockwell_Review]

It's time for the 2020 list of books @amazon has banned!
These books are also de facto banned from public and school libraries. While crying out for freedom of expression, @Bannedbooksweek, @Penamerica, and @OIF are silent about this censorship.
#BannedBooksWeek

[FrancisRockwell @Rockwell_Review]

Calling it a pogrom does less to discredit them and more to discredit the idea of pogroms being bad.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

These aren't "protests" in Northern Ireland.

They're not "riots" either.

It's a pogrom.

It's a systematic attempt to drive minorities out of their homes using violence.

It's been whipped up by the media, our politicians, and the racist psychopath who runs this app.

[Champions of the Ice @ChampionsOTIce]

I like how even at their absolute *worst,* the riotous mobs of angry white men make a point of evacuating the women and children of their *enemies* before torching the building they were living in.

The reason the Muslim women are terrified that the mob would potentially rape and kill her family is because that's what *their* culture does in tribal warfare to *ours,* just like the Japanese who thought American and British soldiers intended to inflict the same sorts of horrors upon them that the Imperial Army did at Nanjing.

The difference has always been that we aren't them.

Not all cultures are equal. Some are clearly better than others.

[🇺🇸 𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔦𝔱𝔞𝔤𝔢 𝔞𝔪𝔢𝔯𝔦𝔠𝔞𝔫 ♱ @WhiteUSA83]

✊🏻Hold the Line

[memetic_sisyphus @memeticsisyphus]

Not often you see a pro-beheading by foreigners protest.

[suboptimo @__suboptimo]

The time has come for men to do things that will make women sad.

Ladies, you may not understand what's about to happen, but understand it has to be done.

You’re gonna have to trust on this one.

We’re doing it for you, for our mothers, for our daughters, and for our people.

[robyn☦️ @RRR0BYN]

You’ve never had as much fun or been as free in your entire life as these lads have in the past 24 hours.

[Leonarda Jonie @Leonardaisfunny]

I hope the patriots in Belfast don't accidentally set some politicians' homes on fire, especially not the ones who brought in the migrants. That would really be awful.

[The Knowledge Archivist @KnowledgeArchiv]

2,400 years ago Aristotle warned us about multiculturalism

[FrancisRockwell @Rockwell_Review]

@McAuleyDeclan WILL TRADE REFUGEES FOR RACISTS

[Mark W. @DurhamWASP]

“They tell us we must be prepared to contemplate, in fact to welcome, the alteration and alienation of our towns and cities. They tell us there is no such thing as our own people and our country…”

Enoch Powell

[Wesley Yang @wesyang]

Individualized justice under the rule of law has no meaning to tribal peoples. When a tribes kills or rapes a member of a different tribe, the response is communal, it must be if one is to secure a balance of terror that secures a modicum of social peace.

The failure of a communal response is understood by the aggressing tribe as a kind of consent. Western Europeans, long ago subdued by systems of individualized justice and rule of law, have largely relinquished the collective instinct for such conduct. Having imported tribal peoples from the dark and backward corners of the earth en masse, they effectively acquiesce to the mass rape of their own daughters. This would be true even if Western European criminal justice was swift and decisive rather than constrained by a mind virus that has judges forbidding the deportation of rapists to their home countries in deference to the human rights of the rapists that turned police into active collaborators in the gang rape of British children for decades.

Northern Ireland is a small pocket that retains some of its tribal character and capacity for communal violence. The way to preserve Western Europe as a place beyond tribalistic hatreds and violence was to keep out those who would not live by the same law governed protocols. Having failed in this reasonable and moderate course through the fecklessness of its political elites, now some degree of reversion to practices drawn from Europe's tribalistic past seems already baked into the cake.

[FrancisRockwell @Rockwell_Review]

@zarahussain999 Boohoo.

[Clint Teeples @TeeplesCY]

"You aren't a Christian if you don't accept the Trinity."

The history of that statement is quite shocking, and almost nobody who says it knows that acceptance of the doctrine of the Trinity was once enforced by exile, fire, and death.

Here is what happened.

For the first 300 years after Jesus, Christians did not agree on how He related to God the Father. They argued about it constantly. There was no official rule. That was just normal.

Then a priest named Arius said the Son came from the Father and was beneath Him. Not equal. Not eternal. A lot of Christians agreed with him. A lot. This was not some fringe group. For stretches of the next century, his side was winning.

Other Christians said the opposite. The Son was fully God, equal to the Father, no beginning. Two camps, same Bible, opposite conclusions.

The fighting got bad. Riots. Mobs in the streets. Christians brawling over the nature of God.

So the Roman emperor stepped in. Constantine. He had just won a civil war and he wanted his empire to stop fighting. He was not even baptized. He did not care about the theology. He cared about order.

In the year 325 he called the bishops to a town called Nicaea. He paid for it. He ran the meeting himself. And they voted. They ruled that the Son was equal to the Father, fully God, one substance with Him. That ruling is the core of the Trinity. It got settled in that room, by that vote, on one word that is not even in the Bible.

They wrote the ruling into an official statement of belief. A creed. Every bishop was expected to sign it.

That is the part people think is the story. It isn't. The shocking part is how they made everyone accept it.

Constantine made the bishops sign the creed. The few who refused, he banished.

Then he ordered every book Arius ever wrote to be burned.

Then he made a law. If you were caught hiding one of those books, you were put to death.

Even after all of that, the Trinity did not win for good.

A few years later Constantine changed his mind. He brought Arius back. And he exiled Athanasius, the bishop who had won the argument at Nicaea. That man got banished five separate times in his life for believing the thing the church now says you have to believe.

For the next fifty years it flipped back and forth. One emperor said Trinity. The next said no. Whoever sat on the throne decided what was true. The official belief about God changed every time power changed hands.

It finally got locked in by another emperor named Theodosius. He made the Trinity the law of the empire. Disagree, and you were a heretic. Not in some spiritual sense. By law. Backed by soldiers.

A few years after that, the empire executed a bishop for his beliefs. The first time the state put a Christian to death over doctrine. It would not be the last.

Then came the document that says it out loud. A creed written around the year 500. Almost five centuries after Jesus. They named it after Athanasius, that same bishop. He did not even write it. They put his name on it for the authority.

It opens by declaring that anyone who does not hold the Trinity, whole and complete, will perish forever. Believe it or be damned. Put in writing, and made the test of who gets saved.

So that is where the line comes from. Not from Jesus. Not from the apostles. From emperors and councils who needed a divided empire to fall in line.

The Trinity did not become the rule because the argument was settled. It became the rule because the side that held it had the throne, the law, and the sword.

The next time someone says you aren't a Christian unless you accept the Trinity, remember what it took to make that rule stick. Exile. Fire. And death.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

BREAKING:

Rioters are breaking into migrant HMOs (Houses in Multiple Occupation, a form of taxpayer-funded housing for asylum seekers) in Belfast and setting them ablaze.

It’s a difficult night for firefighters in Belfast with fires reported in several parts of the city.

[FrancisRockwell @Rockwell_Review]

@asdasdf293 @RogueCenturion Moses was a murderer, yet he became a prophet. (For reference, no murder is one of the Ten Commandments, the really important ones that are brought up a lot)

[FrancisRockwell @Rockwell_Review]

“Rome wasn’t a civilization”

[NEWS LION @NewsLionSA]

Europeans never built a civilisation?

Professor James Small drops truth b0mbs about the myth of European civilisation and white superiority.

#AfricaWakeUp #JamesSmall #colonialism #imperialism #Europeans #Europe #Africa #Africans #history #civilisation #education #colonialism #imperialism #society #Professor

[FrancisRockwell @Rockwell_Review]

@grunk876 the meteorite that killed the dinosaurs broke Satan out of the core.

[FrancisRockwell @Rockwell_Review]

@grunk876 I knew a lady on my mission who believed that the sun was Joseph Smith and the planets were his wives. Jesus was a different star, but he supernova-ed to release his spirit to come to earth to help us out because earth was supposed to hold Satan in timeout but…