“Therefore behold, I am going to make them know—this time I will make them know My power and My might; and they shall know that My Name is Yahweh.” (Jeremiah 16: 21)
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Joshua A. Krisch—Americans Skeptical Of God But Think Heaven Is Real, Somehow:
Since 1980, the number of Americans who believe in God has decreased by half and the number who pray has declined five-fold. Has America lost its faith?
The United States formally separates Church and State, but it’s hard to deny that America is inundated with religious innuendo, from its controversial pledge of allegiance all the way down to its Judeo-Christian courthouse displays and faith-espousing legal tender. Yet fewer Americans pray or believe in God than ever before, according to a new study in the journal Sage Open.
Researchers found that the percentage of Americans who claim they never pray reached an all-time high in 2014, up five-fold since the 1980s. Over the same time period, belief in God and interest in spirituality appears to have similarly declined, especially among young adults.
The findings suggest that, “millennials are the least religious generation in memory, and possibly in American history,” says Jean M. Twenge, psychology professor at San Diego State University and coauthor on the study, in a press statement. “Most previous studies concluded that fewer Americans were publicly affiliating with a religion, but that Americans were just as religious in private ways. That’s no longer the case, especially in the last few years.”
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SnyderTalk Comment: I want to make four points:
- Schizophrenic is a good way to describe the U.S. It’s a mental disorder.
- Despite the evidence, some people keep saying that the U.S. is a Christian nation. They are wrong.
- We abandoned Yahweh a long time ago.
- The Democrat Party booed Yahweh at their 2012 Presidential Nominating Convention. That tells us a lot.
Our nation needs to pray, but I can see Yahweh’s hand raised in judgment. If we are not careful, we will get what we deserve.
Krisch asked this question: “Has America lost its faith?”
The answer is obvious. It’s YES.
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His Name is Yahweh, the website, is a companion of the book His Name is Yahweh.
To see videos that explain the importance of God’s Name, click here.
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1: Judith Bergman—Sharia in Denmark:
The issue of parallel Muslim societies has sparked renewed debate in Denmark after a three-part television documentary, “The Mosques Behind the Veil” was aired at the beginning of March on Danish TV2.
The documentary consists of an undercover investigation into claims that Muslim imams are working towards keeping parallel societies for Muslims within Denmark.
The filmmakers had two young Muslims — brought from outside Denmark — go undercover in Gellerupparken, an area best described as a predominantly Muslim ghetto in Aarhus, Denmark’s second city. For three months, the two lived as a fictitious couple, Fatma and Muhammed, while visiting eight different mosques in Aarhus, Odense and Copenhagen — the three largest cities in Denmark — with hidden cameras. The goal was to hear what imams say behind closed doors about Danish law and authorities, gender equality and general contact with Danish society, such as Muslim women participating in the Danish job market. There are approximately 140 mosques in all of Denmark.
The film is similar in concept to the British BBC Panorama documentary, “Secrets of Britain’s Sharia Councils,” which aired in April 2013. The BBC went undercover to document the discrimination practiced in British sharia councils against Muslim women. (The existence of British sharia councils were no secret to the British; the Danish film, it turned out, documented a Danish sharia council for the first time).
SnyderTalk Comment: Mosques are staging headquarters. It’s time to accept reality and deal with it.
2: CNN— Yemen’s Jews furtively flee to Israel, leaving an ancient legacy behind:
The flight landed in Israel in the dead of night. Its origin was a secret. So were its passengers. Only well after the plane touched down at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport and the passengers disembarked and made their way to their temporary home did the secret come out.
Seventeen Yemenite Jews were onboard, some of the last of Yemen’s dwindling Jewish population escaping the war-torn country. They arrived under cover of darkness, wearing their traditional headscarves and speaking their native Arabic.
They boarded buses to the immigration center in Be’er Sheva in southern Israel, where family members who had already moved to Israel greeted them with a shower of hugs and kisses.
SnyderTalk Comment: “Furtively flee”?
That’s an interesting description. Furtive means that it’s a secret. Is it?
Not at all.
Jews may be fleeing Yemen quietly, but they have been fleeing for many years. The Jews who remain in Yemen today were too slow to accept reality as it has been unfolding.
I think you can say the same thing about Jews who remain in Europe.
After the Boston Marathon bombing a few years ago, Boston adopted this slogan: B Strong.
I said this then and I’ll say it again today because it applies in the U.S. and Europe: Don’t B Stupid.
See “17 Yemenite Jews secretly airlifted to Israel in end to ‘historic mission’”.
3: USA Today—World reacts to Brussels terror attacks:
World leaders reacted with shock and resolve Tuesday to news of a terror attack in Brussels that killed at least 31 people and wounded more than 150 others.
Belgium raised its terror threat level to maximum and security was tightened across the region as well as in the U.S. and elsewhere.
Speaking in Havana on the third day of his visit to Cuba, President Obama said: “We will do whatever is necessary to support our friends in Belgium.”
“We stand in solidarity with them in condemning these outrageous attacks against innocent people,” he added. “This is yet another reminder that the world must unite, we must be together.”
“We are at war,” said French Premier Manuel Valls. “We have been enduring acts of war for many months in Europe. And in the face of this war, we need an every minute mobilization.”
SnyderTalk Comment: French Premier Manuel Valls is right. We are at war.
Why not act like it?
With whom are we at war?
It’s time to stop playing silly games. People’s lives are at stake.
Europeans should know that by now.
4: Washington Post—The Daily 202: Donald Trump flips the script on foreign policy:
George H.W. Bush was still popular because of his leadership during the Gulf War when Bill Clinton decided to challenge him in 1992. The then-Arkansas governor won by focusing on the economy, making the case that the country should turn inward and invest a post-Cold War peace dividend in domestic programs.
In 2016, Republican front-runner Donald Trump is trying to make a similar case. After 13 years of seeming quagmire in the Middle East, the billionaire businessman is promising to scale back the U.S. footprint overseas. And it is former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who must persuade the American people on the importance of U.S. leadership in the world, to both keep us secure and ensure our prosperity.
Trump came to The Post’s newsroom yesterday for an hour-long sit-down with the editorial board. He outlined a foreign policy that sounded significantly more isolationist than interventionist. “I don’t think we should be doing nation-building anymore,” he said. “I think it’s proven not to work. . . . I just think we have to rebuild our country.”
- “He twice made a point of saying he was not prepared to trigger a third world war, first in reference to Russia and Ukraine, a second time in a discussion about China’s moves in the South China Sea,” Dan Balz notes in his column. “He said he would ‘find it very, very hard’ to approve sending tens of thousands of U.S. troops to fight the Islamic State, even if the generals at the Pentagon recommended it.”
- On NATO: “We certainly can’t afford to do this anymore. … NATO is costing us a fortune, and yes, we’re protecting Europe with NATO, but we’re spending a lot of money. … Ukraine is a country that affects us far less than it affects other countries in NATO, and yet we’re doing all of the lifting … Why is it that Germany’s not dealing with NATO on Ukraine?”
- On whether the United States benefits from its involvement in Asia, Trump replied: “Personally, I don’t think so. … I think we were a very powerful, very wealthy country. And we’re a poor country now. We’re a debtor nation. … South Korea is very rich, great industrial country, and yet we’re not reimbursed fairly for what we do. We’re constantly sending our ships, sending our planes, doing our war games — we’re reimbursed a fraction of what this is all costing.” (Read the full transcript of the session, which was entirely on the record, here.)
5: The Atlantic—The Unnerving Insecurities of Donald Trump:
To Donald Trump supporters, I pose this question: When you think back on your high school, your platoon during basic training, your frat brothers, men you’ve dated, or the regulars at your local bar, did the loud guy who boasted about his anatomical endowments strike you as a confident winner, or deeply insecure?
Was he comfortable in his skin and ready to lead others, guided by the needs of the task at hand, or was he desperate to fill a void in his psyche with attention-seeking?
These are not idle questions.
Once again, the Republican frontrunner for the presidential nomination is talking at length about his penis to the national press. His comments came in an interview with the Washington Post’s editorial board. Its editor, Fred Hiatt, harkened back to a GOP debate where Trump went out of his way to assure Americans that “there’s no problem” when it comes to his genitals. “You are smart and you went to a good school. Yet you are up there talking about your hands and the size of your private parts,” Hiatt said. “Do you regret having engaged in that?”
SnyderTalk Comment: Unnerving?
For some, that’s true. For others, Trump is a breath of fresh air.
This much is certain, though. We need to pray for Donald Trump, because I think he’ll be the next president.
6: Burak Bekdil—Egypt’s “Dictator,” Turkey’s “Democrat”:
In theory, Egypt is ruled by a former army General who came to power by a coup d’état. In contrast — and in theory, too — Turkey is ruled by a leader who has the popular support of half the voters — a democratically-elected man. But as the West (not always Western leaders) tend to highlight, in bolder-than-ever letters, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s is a tyrannical governance while Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi wins praise.
Erdogan has declared several times that Sisi is an illegitimate dictator, a wording that sent diplomatic relations between Ankara and Cairo into the deep freeze. If Erdogan cared about undemocratic practices in a country, he would reform his own government. Instead, he keeps intimidating and intimidating. He openly challenges the rule of law, including a statement that he will not obey the Constitutional Court rulings he does not like; and taking over critical media outlets — the kind of things any observer would expect from an “Arab dictator.”
Erdogan’s hatred of Sisi is not about a choice between democratic practice or dictatorial rule. It is about Sisi’s fight against radical Islamists, whom Erdogan adores. “Sisi is the most rational Arab leader today,” said Zvi Mazel, a former Israeli Ambassador to Cairo, in a speech last month. “Sisi is fighting radical Islam.”
In the past couple of years, Egyptian newspapers have often suggested that Sisi was fallible. For instance, Al Watan identified factors undermining Sisi, mentioning, notably, “corruption and nepotism” — two unpleasant words that can, in “democratic” Turkey, and even without an addressee, lead to detention and a torturing trial.
7: NBC News—Brussels Terror: Belgian Police Find Bomb-Making Factory, ISIS Flag:
Investigators carrying out raids after Tuesday’s terrorist attacks in Brussels believe they’ve found a bomb-making factory complete with chemicals used in explosives, nails and bolts.
Authorities are still hunting for one of three suspects caught on surveillance video as they pushed luggage carts through the airport. They believe he fled the gruesome, chaotic scene.
“I can understand that people are scared,” Belgian Interior Minister Jan Jambon told NBC News as he visited a makeshift memorial.
“But I can say that our services are now in a high state of alert and are working day and night to arrest these guys.”
SnyderTalk Comment: It’s a war. It’s Islam vs. the world. Pretending it isn’t only makes matters worse.
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SnyderTalk Comment: Anti-Israel and anti-Trump folks are the same people and they use the same tactics. That tells me all I need to know.
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“The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me. Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.” (John 17: 22-24)
See “His Name is Yahweh”.
