THE RADICALISED RABBI is a blog on Judaism and its very useful ideas and the blogger a Secular Koranist and a revolutionary. You don't have to be Jewish to find Jewish ideas very useful in tidying up your thinking and turbo-charging your powers of reasoning to the extent that you can even predict most events and disasters. The West is heading for disaster with its insane policy of Transnational Progressivism, turning our global village into Sodom and Gomorrah attracting the same punishment.
I see him as psychologically motivated, not ultimately rational. He uses logic and reason to serve his psychological need to destroy Christianity.
7:00 Verbal jihad
8:00 Non-engagement
9:00 Higher authority
10:00 Theology is the final frontier of politics.
13:00 Judeo-Christian
14:00 Christianity is not supported by Western governments.
15:00 Catholicism is no longer the official religion of Spain.
16:00 Christian Nationalism < Sharia
18:00 Uncontrolled mass immigration
19:00 Debates between Christians and Muslims
20:00 Who won the debate and why
21:00 What is the point of Americans going to church to change their politics with Christian Nationalism when they must already know that the church is separated from their state with the First Amendment supported by quran.com/2/256?
The Seven Years' War and the War of 1812 are indirectly linked through a continuous, century-long geopolitical rivalry between Great Britain and France, unfinished territorial conflicts involving Indigenous peoples, and the structural evolution of the British Empire in North America.Direct and Indirect ConnectionsThe Anglo-French Struggle: Both wars were extensions of global power struggles between Britain and France. The Seven Years' War established British dominance in North America, while the War of 1812 was a direct spillover of the Napoleonic Wars—Britain's final phase of that multi-decade existential conflict with France.Indigenous Land and Alliances: The outcome of the Seven Years' War pushed British authority and American colonists into the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes regions. This created a lasting friction over Indigenous lands that culminated in Tecumseh's Confederacy allying with the British to resist U.S. expansion during the War of 1812.Unresolved Border Pressures: Britain's retention of frontier posts and alliances with Native tribes after earlier treaties—roots tracing back to mid-18th-century imperial adjustments—fueled American war hawks' ambitions to capture Canada as a way to finalize national security.
Discussion of the railway's role as a contributing factor to the outbreak of war is complicated by two issues:Firstly, historians and political analysts who wrote about this issue directly after the war were not in possession of closed diplomatic records, an important piece and perspective on the historical record. Diplomatic documents of the German government were released between 1922 and 1927, British documents between 1926 and 1938. Only some Russian documents were released, and Italian documents came out only after World War II.Marxist historians emphasise imperial rivalries and economics as the driving force for the war, as was popularly reported with respect to the railway at the time[33][page needed] and especially as revealed in the Russian diplomatic documents. Regardless of diplomacy, financing and agreements and later points of view, the existence of the railway would have created a threat to British dominance over German trade, as it would have given German industry access to oil and a port in the Persian Gulf. The importance of oil as opposed to coal as fuel was recognised, as it could greatly improve the performance and capacity of the rival navies. The recognised strategic importance is seen by the wartime presence of the British there and by the earlier establishment of the Sheikdom of Kuwait as an autonomous kaza (district) of the Ottoman Empire and a de facto protectorate of Great Britain by the Anglo-Ottoman Convention of 1913 to block northern access to the Persian Gulf.Other historians have argued that the sum of many other issues, including intractable nationalities and the denial of self-determination to minority groups, were the dominant causes of World War I. They argue that although the railway issue was heated before 1914 (Corrigan shows that the railway issue was driving Germany and the Ottomans apart), conservative Anglo-American historians argue that it was not a cause of World War I[35] since the main controversies had been addressed in principle before the war started.Some of the optimism should be attributed to the willingness of the German government to compose long-standing differences... and in June 1914 a settlement was achieved over the Baghdad railway.Many economic and colonial issues which had been causing friction between French, German and British governments before 1914, such as the financing of the Berlin-Baghdad railway and the future disposition of the Portuguese colonies, had been resolved by the summer of 1914.Eventually an agreement over the Baghdad railway issue was reached between Britain and the Ottoman Government in 1913 in the following terms: First, there should be no differential treatment on any railway in Asiatic Turkey; second, two British representatives approved by HMG should be admitted to the Board of the Baghdad Railway Company; third, the terminus of the railway should be at Basra; last, no railway should be constructed from Basra to the Gulf without the sanction of HMG, which speaks to the importance of the issue. This was followed by an Anglo-German agreement on the similar lines in London on 15 June 1914. However these agreements, reached just prior to the outbreak of the Great War, were not realised.However, war began on 1 August 1914 – and one day later the secret treaty establishing the Ottoman-German Alliance was signed, perhaps giving credence to the notion that the issue had not been fully resolved. In fact, restriction of German access to Mesopotamia and its oil, and strategic exclusion from rail access to the Persian Gulf, was enforced by British military presence during World War I, and afterwards in the Treaty of Versailles by removal of the would-be Baghdad railway from German ownership and the transfer to France of the German-held 25% stake in the Turkish Petroleum Company in the San Remo Oil Agreement of 1920. Thus the potential consequences to Anglo-German economic rivalry in oil and trade by the existence of the railway were ultimately addressed by ownership and outright control, rather than by agreement. Marxist historians, unpopular in the Anglo-American perspective on process, would suggest that economic contexts, rather than nationalistic and political rivalries, underlie the root causes.
Combining the roles of the high priest and the king in the Hasmonean Dynasty caused major religious and political problems. Traditional Jewish law separated the political ruler (restricted to the house of David from the tribe of Judah) from the high priest (restricted to the lineage of Zadok from the tribe of Levi). By uniting both crowns, the Hasmoneans were viewed as unauthorized usurpers.Religious and Traditional ObjectionsWrong Lineage: The Hasmoneans were from the priestly family of Joarib/Levi, but they were not from the legitimate Zadokite line that traditionally held the High Priesthood.Tribe Violation: Kingship in Jewish tradition belonged exclusively to the tribe of Judah, making a priestly king a direct violation of tribal boundaries.Spiritual Corruption: Religious groups like the Pharisees and Essenes felt that mixing raw political power, warfare, and secular ambition with sacred priestly duties desecrated the office.
Political and Social Fallout
Civil Strife: Opposition to this dual authority led to violent domestic rifts, notably under Alexander Jannaeus, who openly fought and massacred religious dissenters.Loss of Public Support: Disenchantment with Hasmonean autocracy caused large parts of the Jewish population to lose faith in the regime.Roman Intervention: Bitter internal succession disputes between rival Hasmonean priest-kings eventually let the Roman general Pompey capture Jerusalem in 63 BCE, ending Jewish independence.In 63 BCE, Jewish leaders explicitly asked the Roman general Pompey the Great to intervene and settle a bitter civil war over who should rule Judea.When the Hasmonean queen Salome Alexandra died, her two sons, Hyrcanus II and Aristobulus II, launched into a violent war of succession for the crown and the High Priesthood. Seeking an advantage, both brothers—along with a third group representing the Jewish people—appealed directly to Rome.The Three Delegations to DamascusWhile Pompey was stationed in Damascus, three distinct Jewish factions arrived to pitch their cases:Hyrcanus II (The Elder Brother): Argued that he was the rightful heir by birthright. He accused his younger brother of illegal usurpation.Aristobulus II (The Younger Brother): Offered massive bribes and argued that his brother was weak, lazy, and unfit to defend Judea.The People's Delegation: A third group of Jewish citizens begged Pompey to abolish the monarchy altogether. They wanted to remove both brothers and restore Judea to its traditional, non-royal theocracy ruled solely by priests.The Disastrous OutcomeInstead of safely resolving the dispute, inviting Rome into internal politics backfired entirely:The Betrayal of Trust: Pompey delayed his decision, which made Aristobulus paranoid. Aristobulus fled to Jerusalem to fortify his defenses.The Siege of Jerusalem: Viewing this as a rebellion, Pompey marched his legions into Judea and laid siege to Jerusalem.Massacre and Desecration: Roman troops breached the temple walls, slaughtering roughly 12,000 Jewish defenders. Pompey even walked into the Holy of Holies—the most sacred part of the Temple—shocking the Jewish population.Loss of Sovereignty: Pompey appointed Hyrcanus II as High Priest but stripped him of the title of king. Judea was stripped of its territories, forced to pay heavy tribute to Rome, and permanently lost its independence, becoming a Roman client state.The Irony of Monarchy: Gibbon highlighted a recurring historical irony: the Jewish people had originally rebelled against the Seleucid empire to gain religious freedom, only to quickly establish an autocratic Hasmonean monarchy that bred internal corruption and deep social divisions.
52:00 Muslim takeover - good or bad?
57:00 European warlordism
58:00 "We're from Rome and we're here to help you."
59:00 Muslims accept the prophethood of Jesus and the Virgin Birth.
1:00:00 Dalai Lama
1:03:00 The Four Rightly-Guided Caliphs were not absolute monarchs.
1:04:00 Rich people problems
1:05:00 Rules are made to be broken.
1:06:00 George Washington warned Americans against getting themselves involved in European wars.
1:07:00 War finance
1:08:00 French Revolution
1:09:00 Alien invasion
1:10:00 Pompey
1:11:00 William F Buckley
1:12:00 Reasonableness
1:14:00 Submitting to TLM
1:15:00 A minimum standard of reasonableness
1:17:00 A strict regard for truth, no justice without truth, no peace without justice.
1:18:00 Maths is discovered rather than invented.
1:21:00 Exploration
1:22:00 Because of maths, God exists.
People using words to deceive themselves 2:00 Plenty more fish in the sea 4:00 Ignoring facts and logic 5:00 Turning your online communit...
