Christians=patriots, Commies=cannibals!
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The only reason I gave this book 2 stars was because it gives good ideas for prepping and gear purchases.  Aside from that, however, this book might as well have been written by an 11-year-old.  The plot was beyond flat and predictable.  It is hard to believe that Rawles was ever an Army Officer, because officers have college degrees, which usually entails a basic mastery of writing (which Rawles clearly does not have).

Here's a good formula to help you to understand what to expect from this book: Every character who is capable, intelligent, clean, prepared (basically anything good) just happens to be a christian (okay, there's one token Jew).  Every character who is evil or inept just happens to not be a christian.  I don't know if you can even call this propaganda, because it is just so obvious!  I mean, seriously, the first bad guys the book brings out are carrying communist handbooks, and guess what?  THEY'RE ALSO CANNIBALS!!

I should have been tipped off in the first chapter when the main character chooses Fox News as his information source.  This book basically takes everything that the types of people who watch Fox News are afraid of or hate (non-christians, liberals, communists, atheists, pot-smokers...) and villifies the hell out of it.  The thing that makes it so painful is the complete lack of subtlety or artistry.  It's kind of like when a really stupid person tries to insult you.  You don't really get offended, you just feel sorry for the person and the whole situation is just sort of embarrasing and pathetic.

The biggest problem I have with this horrible book (thank God I just got it from the library and didn't actually PAY for it) is that it paints this rosy picture that if you buy a bunch of name-brand gear, stock up on a bunch of food and gas, and accept Jesus Christ as your lord and savior, then you'll make it just fine through the approaching collapse.

Seriously, this book is just horrible.  It gave me a few ideas for prepping, but in all it is just terrible.  As an atheist, a realist, and someone with more than a third-grader's appreciation for storytelling, I must highly encourage that you DON'T BUY THIS BOOK!  If you want to get some gear ideas, get it from your local library but for the love of God (who does not exist) don't spend your hard-earned money on it!
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The Left-wing movement has been trying to destroy this country for years.  People like the KKK (I mean the Klinton's, Kennedy's and Kerry's) hate America.  Mr. Kupelian exposes them for who they are.  A must read in America's culture war over her heart and soul!
2052012
I thought I understood the threat that the Islamo-Fascists pose to our great country. That is until I heard this courageous woman speaking on the radio. The things she said made my skin crawl, disgusted me, and made me realize that I knew only the top layer of the unspeakable things of which these hideous people are capable.

If you're thinking, "Well if it doesn't directly threaten me, then I couldn't care less", or maybe the old stand-by, "Ignorance is bliss", just remember that you will not feel so full-of-bliss when you awaken one day soon to find America gone and then learn that you're being hunted-down to be killed as an infidel!

If you consider yourself Christian then please pray for all Muslim's to hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ and read the true Word of God and truly understand that to know Jesus is to know Peace. Conversely, No Jesus, No Peace.

May the Lord bless us all.
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A very interesting book of how a huge section of Americans have duped themselves into believing nonsense. Chris Hedges shows how the Christian Right's Commissars have adapted fascist tactics, in an attempt to steal the nation away from it original belief structure. Their tactics are very Germanic, and come out of the early playbook of the National Socialists. There is the use of non-threatening words, code words, and clichs to identify believers to one another. There is also jockeying for position just below the master ruling elite, if you are fascist and rich enough, there is the promise of being elevated to right below them, to become one of the Commedantes in the new world Christian order. They even have their own Mein Kampf called The Institutes Of Biblical Law by R. J. Rushdoony.
Hedges with his background as a seminary graduate, is able to see through their religious hypocrisy. For them this is the fear of death and non-existence taken to an extreme, since the death fear is the final part of the abandonment cycle that is a normal component of our egos. It is just that Christians cannot reconcile themselves to it, and are desperately searching for a way out, a magical trap door, which becomes solely a profession of belief, with no hard work to perform, or complex thought. Apparently the main tenet is they are the best and the chosen, by the virtue of belief, while everyone else is satanic and the enemy. They have traded morality for "Serbian Alzheimer's disease: they have forgotten everything but their resentments." All this is built upon the denial of modern science and logic and replacing it with magical belief and distortions of the reality, and premeditated lies.
 The reader finds it is strange that a group of people can be bonded so closely by faith, instead, as Hedges mentions, that for the German fascists, bonding agent was "Blut und Boden: Blood and Soil." And I wonder, can be the fatal flaw in the Christian Dominionist Movement. And if it is, can it be exploited? Additionally, do they realize, although they are Americans, that this makes them the spiritual and social inheritors of the German National Socialists? And do they care?
All this might seem impossible or humorous, if their script for their new order did not require the death of the majority of the world's population. For them its like being a super-spy: hiding it plain sight; plotting and planning; laughing at the beliefs of others; winning little victories here and there; waiting for Der Tag, to proclaim the anti-intellectual thousand year Christian Reich. This nihilistic vision of the future puts them with the most savage of totalitarians. If left unmolested his Christian fantasyland can only lead to a dead planet, and an extinct sentient species. With the surviving whales and dolphins, toasting in remembrance to us with a tuna.
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more right wing crap pretending that Christianity, the biggest religion in North America, is somehow being victimized.  The millions of gays, dead and persecuted at the hands of these bible thumpers, is presented as one side of an "opinion," as if a pile of corpses was somehow equal to the hurt feelings of someone who cannot tell the difference between fairy tales and reality.  Only suitable if you are a bible thumping hate mongering bigot, who wants to be told that oppressing others is perfectly acceptable as long as you suck on Jesus.
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A very informative read.  This is information about the misguided Left, and those "people" who peddled their contrived ideas to school systems and departments of education across America.  With no basis for their premise, the deceptive and misleading agendas of the left truly are harmful and evil.  Their misdeeds have been instrumental in socially engineering the minds of innocent children and adults.  If you don't think so, look at the kids who are so mixed up, that now want to become the other sex.
You Know, there IS an omniscient God, and He will forgive you for anything you've done in your life.  You just have to call out to Lord Jesus.  Read the Bible ... start with the book of John (it's ~80% through it).  He does love you ... for real.
Peace
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This edition has been annotated by the National Center for Constitutional Studies, a fringe Mormon group and teaches a fundamentalist view of the document with annotations! Annotations written by Cleon Skousen, an idealogue who takes to rewriting history to support his ultra-right, Bible based theories. Guess who loved this book... Ammon Bundy, who led the armed occupation of the Oregon wildlife refuge!
Stay away from this "version"!
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"THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO OF THE 21ST CENTURY!"

This is truly the, "COMMUNIST MANIFESTO OF THE 21ST CENTURY!" As a Libertarian I see this for what it is. It is a guide book for every Stalinist Elitist Liberal which tells them how to deceive the people to gain power. And silence all opposition. And once they have gained the power do what they want to force the failure that is Communism on the public. For the public good.

In this book Alinsky reveals just what Stalinist like Hillary Clinton and rest of the Democrats have been doing for years to con the American people. Lying at ever turn as to who and what they really are. He clearly admits that their ideas will be rejected for the oppressive and regressive failure history has proven them to be. "So they must lie!" And they have been lying for the past 4o + years clearing using this book for the last 36 years as their Bible. Hillary, Bill, the entire Democrat party, the media and the Stalinist that infest our schools. And colleges. They're all doing it.

But Saul Alinsky doesn't stop there. He clearly spells out the principals that they (the Stalinist Liberal) must govern / lord over us for the public good. Sound familiar? Yup.. "Bound to your natural superiors." Karl Marx.

Now he tries to give himself cover by saying he has contempt for any dogma left or right. But if you read it for what it is and read Hillary Clinton's thesis. He fails miserable. It is what is it is. A guide book (the Bible) for the modern day Liberal like Hillary Clinton and today's Democrats on how to con you. And seize power! People who are not just neo Marxist, but are complete Stalinist Elites.

Don't be fooled by the defenders of this book. They're all using the tactics outlined in the book to silence opposition and criticism of Alinsky and the Democrats. It tell you exactly who and what they are and the total disaster it will be for America and the world if they are allowed to seize the power they so lust for.

To Borrow a phrase. "Liberal, Progressive, Humanist... A Stalinist by any other name." It's who they are and this book taken for what it is rips away their masks.
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I am just about done with this book and I feel it may be the most influential book I have ever read outside of the New Testament.  It is beautifully insane, as are the words of Jesus.  A dream that should be real and CAN BE REAL.  If not for the world, FOR YOU TODAY AND RIGHT NOW.  Become a fool for God.  Tolstoy was ready to do so and wanted others to do the same.  And just as Jesus, his greatest object of scorn were the hypocrites, who used the words of truth to convince the masses just enough to make them do just the opposite.  To kill in the name of Jesus, to support hierarchies of men, to make us all assist in statist warmongering through forced conscription and taxation.

I read the negative reviews here and what befuddles me is that so many act like Tolstoy was so removed from life and violence.  Except for the war vets out there, I'd say he was a lot closer to it than you, given the time and place of his life.  So don't act like he'd seen nothing and was living in la la land and you aren't.

Moreover, who said that he had to be "logical"?  By that same token, neither was Jesus.  But Jesus had something a lot of us don't have, a giant set of balls.  He was willing to die first, be humiliated and mocked and treated like dirt.  And he begged forgiveness for those who did it.

What I think Tolstoy disliked the most is that the mythology of Christianity did everything to take Jesus away from us, to turn him into a God and forget the part of him that was the man, to make us feel that it was Him and Him alone to which the right to really walk it like you talk it was invested.  But hey, that blood coming out of his body was the blood that made Him a man.  And when they scourged Him (i.e. kicked the ever living crap out of Him)that was a man who took those blows that sent pain shocking up those nerves and into that brain.

Of course there are all sorts of logical arguments that could be raised against Tolstoy's demands at radical Jesus, but you'd best just take them to Jesus because He preached radical faith.  If logic is what you want to use, just go be an atheist, cause really where is the "logic" in believing in Christ or His testimony?  Neither the mythology or the testament of Christ really fits in line with your brain if all you want to do is ask what Jesus would do if someone pulled a knife on Him and he had a kid to protect.  You are just like the Pharisees at that point, using logic to tempt Jesus when even their religious platform was itself illogical.

you either got the heart or you don't.  I don't think anyone had the guts Jesus did, but if you can't even hear it, you certainly can't touch it.

Did Tolstoy think his treatise was gonna end all war?  Of course not.  But if he inspires even one of us to remember to walk away when someone insults or takes a swing at us and to not silently grumble about what a jerk they are, if he inspires even one more person to really think about what signing on to join an army really means (it ain't college money)...it's one more step forward.

Tolstoy, you rock!
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The average American simply does not understand the insidious ways the history of  our great country has been maligned and re-written to suit the new agenda. Modern leftists are telling a new story, however, contradicting traditional veneration for America in order to convince a nation to author its own destruction and unmake the America that is here now. Our colleges are over ridden with liberals that "teach" (or brainwash) the young minds in America and get them to believe the lies that them make them feel ashamed to live in this once great nation of ours. After seeing this film I challenge those that see it to do their homework and learn the truth our founding fathers lived through in order to estblish the United States of America.
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The authors clearly do not understand that constant threat that Christianity has presented and continues to present to pluralistic society.

The speak as if conventional Christian dominance is an un-mixed blessing to a free society, which it clearly is not.  In fact the crushing force of Christian ideology seeks to undermine the liberty of "others" repeatedly throughout history.  The men who defined America knew the risks from a dominant religion -- after all they, or their immediate ancestors, had been victims of those risks --  it was in that spirit that they wrote a document to protect America from the religious wars that had driven them out of Europe.

"... the work of the ACLU is informed by a larger political project-modern liberalism-to transform American government and society into an administrative-welfare state."  As if the state is stepping on church turf where they can serve people who submit to their version of truth.  This is simply a basic disagreement over the existence of secular society predicated on a separation of church and state.  We agree that our rights come from a higher power than the state; however that power is not the Christian religion.

I do not know anything of the other author but Thomas L. Krannawitter is far too erudite, to have written this work out of ignorance, this is a work of zeal -- religious zeal that has outstripped the colonial American history that he knows at least as well as I do.
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Great and at the same time very scary! It's proof of how ignorant we are when it comes to politics, and also how little human life counts in the eyes of a totalitarian regime, either communism or Muslim caliphate!!
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With presidents and politicians publicly proclaiming on television that "Islam is a religion of peace" we all need to find out that these deceived political leaders are deluded and deceiving millions of people.  President Bush and Obama have proclaimed Islam to be a religion of peace when it is a religion of war!  A war that has been raging now for over 1,000 years worldwide and is now just coming to the USA.  Believe me, you don't want to read the Quran as it is incoherent and a difficult to read book, but if you want to read it then go right ahead; I did and found it to be scary to read.  This book, "The Islamic Invasion" is a short cut you can take to understand Muslims and the Quran. It is the truth and it is written in easy to understand English.  It is not a boring book.  In fact, it is a page turner!  Christians and the nonreligious alike will be highly educated by this book and "forewarned" of the actual danger we all face from Islam.  The Quran specifically states that a Muslim must convert you to Islam or cut your head off or crucify you!  They are to seek you out and kill you!  They are too kill all the Jews!  All Christians are to be enslaved, pay Islam a tax or die.  That's the religion of peace our politicians are publicly telling us.  Muslims on television "denounce violence" but their Quran "commands" them to destroy all unbelievers and take over the world for Allah.  I am writing an article on my Website [...] about Islam to enlighten people of this so-called religion of peace and why terrorism will continue without end.  Please do read the article and the book, The Islamic Invasion.  It will help you fully understand what is going on in the news every day.  World War III is on!
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If you are seriously concearned with the world we are experiencing today, READ THIS BOOK! it is a metaphor for the undermining forces that are at work! whether you believe it or don't,This Great Country of ours was born of Judaism-Christian values and our intrinsic symbols of Faith are being attacked! Namely the symbols(Mt Soledad landmark Cross} of Faith and Prayer! If you know History you are aware of the cost of losing Religious rights and this book is an eye opener for whats at stake! A+A+A+AMEN!
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I've been a Christian for some time. However, there are times I would disown that label as what passes for Christianity in America nowadays is nowhere near what Jesus taught. It's time for a revolution, one that comes from the red letters in our Bibles.
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The Christian Life and Character of the Civil Institutions of the United States

This book was written to be an encyclopedia of knowledge about America's Christian heritage.  It was meant to provide future generations full evidence of the Divine upbringing of our Christian Republic.

Christian Life and Character is easy to read like an encyclopedia.  It is full of fascinating  historic stories, documents, testimonies, about the facts of the colonization, statesmen, women, ministers, and Civil Government of the USA.

With these facts people can not make a case against America's Christian founding.

This book was originally published in 1864, 146 years ago.  It has been out of print for over 100 years.

Organizations like the ACLU, and Americans United for Separation of Church and State have done their best to push this book back into the dusty shelves of university libraries because they want our Christian history forgotten.

I appreciate the ministry of American Vision who has brought back into print many great books like this.  This book is already in it's ninth printing (as of 10/2010)!

Our generation is not taught the truth of history in public schools, and this book corrects that travesty.  This book should be the cornerstone of every library.

Morris was a historian (1810-1867), and minister.  For over 10 years Morris worked on this project out of concern for the loss of Christian heritage in 1864!!  He wanted to preserve a testimony for all generations to keep our Christian republic alive and well.  May it be so.
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This book is a compendium of chapters by different religious people and theologians. The great thing about this book is that all of the people who contributed to it honor and realize that Jesus is the man in between Judaism and Christianity. And that Christianity is completely dependent upon Judaism for it's existence. I love that the contributors of this book celebrate Jesus being Jewish and that Judaism is essential to Christian. When you read this book you can't help but wonder about the mentality of Christian anti-Semite's who claim to be so religious and spiritual in their beliefs which by it's nature is so ignorant of the fact that Jesus was not just Jewish, but a fully practicing observant Bar Mitzvahed Jew.

Futher, the Last Supper was a Passover meal, which according to Judaism, God commanded the Jews (and therefore the Christians who were/are simply Jews who felt that Jesus was the Messiah, while non Christian Jews feel the Messiah hasn't come yet), that they MUST observe and keep Passover and the Passover meal.

It's always confounded me that the Last Support became distanced from the fact that it was a Passover meal to some degree and that to many, they don't even fully get that Jesus was a Jew. And a very devout one at that! How can any religious observant Christian be anti-Semitic? To be anti-Semitic is to hate Jesus' faith. He was even called Rabbi by many because to be a Rabbi you are a teacher which Jesus most certainly was.

At any rate, they book deals with this and much more. A very interesting read and in that way a wonderful bridge between Judaism and Christianity.