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Saturday, November 04, 2006
Doug Giles :: Townhall.com Columnist
We Love Pepsi. They Love Death.
by Doug Giles
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Y’know, when I see videos of young Muslim young men slicing their heads with straight razors in a frenzied jihadic pep rally, and then I see videos of our young pimps and thugs, or our Queer Eyed for Straight Guy males and our Darwinian throw back Jack Ass 2 droogies, I get a real bad feeling. It’s the feeling that if our civilian teens/twentysomethings were ever to go toe to toe with post-pubertal Islamic terrorists that our young ‘uns would get hammered like a loose board at John DiResta’s house.

Our soft and stupid culture is setting us up to be no match for these Muslim youth who are being wet nursed in Islamic death cults, being fueled with Muslim madness in a land with zero economic opportunity and are feasting feverishly on a steady diet of Anti-American disdain.

Yep, all things being equal, I believe they will eventually clean our kid’s clock if we don’t get a pro-American, kiss-my-butt attitude back into our warp and woof. These Muslim boys who currently reside across the sea (and some across your street) are not your normal young men.

This is sort of a problem for me. Why? Well, once again, Muslim young men dig jihad, and our youth love hair gel, teeth grills and blue jeans that are 17 sizes too big. Al Qaeda operative Maulana Inyadullah put it succinctly, “[Americans] love Pepsi, and we love death.” This is not some moody, PMS phase Islam is currently going through. This is their MO.

I believe that if we, as a nation (especially young adults), don’t toughen up a bit—and do it quick—that we’re not going to have the long-term stuff to cudgel off these persistent zealots. As I begin to stare at my 44-year mark and try to see down the road regarding the land my girls and their kids will inherit, I begin to shake like Shemp when he didn’t have any cheese at the real possibility of the end of this great American experiment.

I believe our increasingly effeminate culture doesn’t stand a long-term chance in hell against Muslim mayhem—unless we beef up a bunch and get back some of the now-endangered American resolve. And that goes for every American—whatever your politics, sexual bent and musical taste. If we don’t recognize and realign spiritually, physically and politically to stave off these death dealers, then within 50+/- years we will be another head on Muhammad’s trophy room wall.

Don’t believe me? Look across the pond. Europe is history as far as their heyday goes. With diminishing birth rates and a thinning of skin, it won’t be too long before the EU is Islam’s prison chick . . . mop head wig, lipstick and all. For a more in-depth and disturbing look into how Europe is cooked, get Mark Steyn’s latest book, America Alone.

Having run out of analogies, adjectives and time, let me put this to you in a song I wrote (to be sung to the tune of “Imagine,” by John Lennon). Continued...

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Doug Giles’ new book “If You're Going Through Hell, Keep Going!" is now available. Ann Coulter says "Doug Giles is a substantive and funny tour de force for traditional values.” Doug’s talk show and video blog can be seen and heard at www.ClashRadio.com.
 
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David M
"Today is a good day."

For islamism.

"The Bhagavad Gita never claims to be history."

So it's irrelevant to the discussion.

[Me: There are historians and researchers, and historians as interpreters -- that is, dealing with primary and with secondary evidence.]

You: "You are drawing a distinction here which appears entirely irrelevant to me."

Errata: I meant "historians AS researchers" -- that may have cluttered my meaning.

My point is that evidence matters. Interpretation about evidence is opinion. I see the distinction as vital.

"I don't believe that any great purpose is served by arguing about the merits of Herodotus."

I brought him up as a point about the historiography of ancient times: it was sound. My point was that Luke worked with sound principles of scholarship.

"The authors of the Bible borrowed from their pagan neighbors. The[y] modified the texts somewhat in order to fit in with the evolving theology of monotheism, that is all."

Yes, you've repeated you previous assertion quite nicely. I won't argue about your own opinion. I simply identify it as opinion.

[Me: In fact, the dating of Hammurabi IS highly variable...] You: "Certainly the subject is neato and also irrelevant."

Yes, it might very well seem so. But your argument hinges on precedence -- who came first, Moses or Hammurabi. I won't go off on the tangent that I didn't go off on before. I will state on my own authority that Moses antedates Hammurabi. I know, I'm an ignoramus. We've already agreed on that. The fact that I have published several hundreds of thousands of words on this very topic will be discounted. I must by lying, anyway.

[Me: A dogmatic assertion. You didn’t read the links. Not MY imagination at all.] You: "You wrote an awful lot on the subject. Too much. Maybe on another day I will read it."

And yet you pronounced it my "imagination." Hardly honest, eh?

"A nonexistent third source is unnecessary and really doesn't help your position at all."

And yet you will be an adherent to the theory of the Q document.

"What is clearly evident is that these borrowed ideas came from extrabiblical, uninspired sources."

Again with the "borrowed." This is the logical fallacy of handwaving.

"Since the ideas predate the New Testament and are not present in the Old Testament they must have come from an extrabiblical, uninpsired source."

Begging the question. Dogmatic assertion. Horns of a false dilemma.


J

Gratings, David.

"The Bhagavad Gita transends history. It is a lovely book. I recommend that you read it"

Golly, Mr. Science! You mean it's both true, and not true. Holey Moley! How did you get so smart?

I read it when you were learning how to ride your BigWheel.

"There are some scholarly historians who say that the Bible contains historical errors."

You changed the terms of the discussion. There are historians and researchers, and historians as interpreters -- that is, dealing with primary and with secondary evidence. As the Holy Book says -- oh, I mean the REAL Holy Book ... the ONLY Holy Book ... you know, the Bible? Ahem. As I was saying, as God's Holy Word states, a man seems honest, until his neighbor speaks.

"If you compare Luke to Herodotus you are insulting Luke."

An authoritative-sounding opinion. I let my statement stand. He was careful to report rumor as rumor. This is integrity. He's called the Father of Lies, and the Father of History. The former displays an unsubtle and incomprehending grasp of the work.

Herodotus's "accuracy was due to his painstaking research and interviews with many of the eyewitnesses, both Greek and Persian, of the events that he narrated." [Terry Buckley, Aspects of Greek History, 750-323 B.C.: A Source-Based Approach. London and New York: Routledge, 1996; p. 161/]

"I hope that you are not suggesting that the Gilgamesh Epic and Babylonian creation account were borrowed by the pagans from Moses. Or do you have some other explanation for the similarities?"

It's called "euhemerism." Real historical events become corrupted as legend and myth. Many but not all of the flood myths are based on local catastrophic floods. The Deucalion and Ogyges floods of the Greeks are related to the Thera catastrophe, for example. Many of the native American myths are remembered from the breaking of ice dams remnant of the glaciation period. Northern Asia was overwhelmed by the flooding of the Artic Ocean by a meteor strike -- hence the presence of whole ecosystems preserved in the permafrost. Etc. Gilgamesh (correlative with Horus, btw) was a real king of Erech (Uruq, from which we get Iraq) dating from the period of the pre-dynastic tombs of Ur -- son of Dumuzi/ Tammuz/ Nimrod/ Osiris/ Narmer. The preserved kinglists and other cuneiform records are clear and in agreement. His liaison with Ishtar and his meeting with a flood patriarch mean whatever they mean.

I will not trouble you with the problems and scandals of the chronology of Egyptology. Enough to say that all of ancient history is keyed to the Dynastic system of dating devised by Manetho. If the dynasties should by some incredible chance be misarranged, then the dating of, say, Hammurabi is highly variable. In fact, the dating of Hammurabi IS highly variable, there being three different standard dates for him which differ by three centuries. The point is that our earliest record of the Epic of Gilgamesh is from Hammurabi’s era – and Hammurabi’s era is dependant on Egyptian chronology, and I will not go into detail here since it is off-topic. But it’s really a neato subject.

“Interpreting the constellations as the gospel is merely a revelation of your own imagination and creativity. Nothing else.”

A dogmatic assertion. You didn’t read the links. Not MY imagination at all.

“Are you familiar with the Pseudepigrapha?”

Intimately

“There are plenty of New Testament ideas which were borrowed from the Jewish Pseudepigrapha.”

“Borrowed”? Could it be that both take as their origin some third source? But of course your “plenty” is not merely suspect, but wrong.

“The authors of the New Testament were aware of the extracanonical books.”

You did say “Nag Hammadi,” not “Jewish pseudepigraphae.” Of course you refer to the Book of Enoch -- and Jude doesn’t quote it, rather they both quote an extant oral prophesy, similar to ‘Who hangs upon a tree is cursed.’

J
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