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As a grown-up man of fifty-three, there are words I thought I’d never use, names I’d never utter, things I’d never dignify by saying. Things, words, names like “Ye.” But if your fellow party-goer is drinking from the punchbowl wherein floats a turd, you’re bound by loving-kindness to grab the nearest ladle and holler “stop!” (more…)
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YHWH: God of the Jews
The Jewish God YHWH’s name in Hebrew is a four-letter sequence called the Tetragrammaton. (The four Hebrew letters that comprise it are all consonants; in ancient Hebrew, vowels were not typically written.) (more…)
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As a zealous Christian young man, most of the books I had been reading were concerned with one thing: devotion, which I would basically define as loving God, avoiding sin, and proselytizing per The Great Commission. “Culture,” on the other hand, was, I believed, a distraction at best, certainly superfluous. (more…)
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If there’s one thing internet people like to do these days it’s misrepresent each other. White Nationalists and their adjacents, unfortunately, are sometimes no exception. Tell a guy who’s fond of saying “Name the Jew!” that other races hate him too, and chances are you’ll get called a Jew yourself. At the very least, your JQ credentials will be highly suspect to the NTJ (as I’ve come to call them). (more…)