Browsing: Religion

A Brief History In another horrible and senseless incident of an Islamic refugee invited into Germany to escape the horrors of his native land at the hands of other Muslims, a Syrian refugee blew up a suicide bomb in Ansbach, wounding at least 12 people.  The 27 year old Syrian refugee had been living in Germany for the last 2 years, although he had been denied asylum.  The bomber may have caused more death and injury had he been allowed entry to the music festival being held in the area.  Security teams later raided the bomber’s residence and a local refugee…

A Brief History On July 18, 1969, Senator Edward “Ted” Kennedy of Massachusetts, possibly the next Democratic presidential nominee, drove his Oldsmobile off a bridge over Chappaquiddick Creek, killing his passenger, a young woman not his wife.  This scandal mixing a woman and booze may well have cost Kennedy a chance to ever earn the Democratic presidential nomination that he felt was his.  Many times over the years famous politicians have tainted their legacies by sexual scandal, and here we list 10 of the most egregious and most famous indiscretions.  Today, when surveillance video and cell phone recording capability are…

A Brief History This article present a chronological history of Jerusalem! Digging Deeper On Good Friday, somewhere around 33 A.D., Jesus of Nazareth, prophet to Islam and Judaism, the Christ and Savior to Christians, was crucified by the Romans in Jerusalem. Crucifixion was a particularly brutal and drawn out process of execution often reserved for “dangerous” criminals, ones that threatened the status quo.   On July 12, AD 70, the army of Titus Caesar Vespasianus, a Roman general that would later become Roman Emperor, finally attacked the walls of the city of Jerusalem after a 6 month siege, succeeding in taking the city…

A Brief History On July 15, 1838, while delivering a speech at Harvard Divinity School, Ralph Waldo Emerson described Jesus as a “great man,” but not “God.”  He further caused a furor by discounting the miracles attributed to Jesus in the Bible as not true. Digging Deeper One of the guiding lights of the 19th Century philosophical Transcendentalist Movement, Emerson was a prolific writer of essays and a speech maker, and was a friend and mentor to Henry David Thoreau. In 1836, his essay, Nature, became the foundation of Transcendentalism, and his 1837 speech he called The American Scholar was called by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.…

A Brief History On the evening of July 14, 2016, Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, an African-born Islamist immigrant to France, deliberately drove a 19-tonne cargo truck into crowds celebrating Bastille Day on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France killing 84 people and injuring more than 300.  Bouhlel was then shot and killed by hero police.  Due to his high number of victims, Bouhlel is unquestionably the most despicable scumbag of the year so far. Digging Deeper This loser was a Tunisian living in Nice, France and at age 31 was divorced with 3 kids.  According to his father, Mohamed was not religious, but…