The Radicalised Rabbi: Is it a problem that America is a land of cults and whether Americans are Latter Day Ninevites

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Monday, 19 January 2026

Is it a problem that America is a land of cults and whether Americans are Latter Day Ninevites

9:00 Mormonism is not an Abrahamic religion.

10:00 American Primeval

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Meadows_Massacre

12:00 Mormon Extermination Act

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri_Executive_Order_44

13:00 America - land of cults

14:00 Local politics

15:00 Unprincipled political parties

16:00 Consultation

17:00 Policies must be in the national interest.

18:00 "Going back"

19:00 Reproductive rights

20:00 Secular Koranism

21:00 qiuran.com/2/256

22:00 Thomas Jefferson

Free will

23:00 The Book of Job

24:00 Winning arguments

25:00 Washington warned against political parties.

https://www.americanmajority.org/blog-2/why-was-george-washington-opposed-to-political-parties/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_Party

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_1812

The War of 1812 is considered a direct offshoot or peripheral theater of the broader Napoleonic Wars, as it stemmed from the global conflict between Britain and Napoleonic France, involving issues like British naval impressment of American sailors and trade restrictions, even though it was fought in North America with its own unique causes. Most European historians view it as a minor part of the larger struggle for dominance, while in the US, it's often seen as the "Second War of Independence".

Key Connections:

Shared Timeline: Both conflicts occurred simultaneously (Napoleonic Wars: 1803-1815; War of 1812: 1812-1815).

British Focus: Britain was heavily engaged against Napoleon in Europe, diverting resources but also causing friction with the U.S. over maritime rights.

American Neutrality & Involvement: The U.S. tried to stay neutral but was pulled in due to British actions like impressing sailors and interfering with U.S. trade, which were tactics used in the European war.

North American Theater: The war became a separate conflict in North America, but its roots were firmly planted in the European power struggle, with the U.S. seeing an opportunity to expand while Britain was distracted.

In essence, the War of 1812 was the North American front of the global struggle between Britain and France, even if its specific issues were localized.

26:00 Andrew Jackson, the National Bank and the Federal Reserve

27:00 Virginia and South Carolina

29:00 The female vote

30:00 Foreign policies

31:00 Treaty of London 1839

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_London_(1839)

32:00 Berlin and Baghdad Railway

33:00 An over-powerful military establishment would be threatening to republican liberty.

35:00 Plutocracy

37:00 A European war

38:00 Kayfabe/Punch and Judy Show

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch_and_Judy

40:00 Intersectionality

https://freebeacon.com/culture/alan-dershowitz-derides-theory-intersectionality-columbia-lecture/

41:00 Voting blocs

43:00 Man is created equal.

44:00 Sam Tideman's Unitarianism

45:00 Socinian Controversy

The most powerful church in the world

46:00 Protestants won the Wars of the Reformation.

47:00 WASP supremacy

48:00 The Church has to submit to secular power.

Why Europe became Catholic

50:00 The Protestant Reformation

53:00 History repeating itself

54:00 Thinking inside the box and not being heretics or revolutionaries

55:00 Even atheists have sacred cows.

56:00 Is America one nation under God trusting in God?

The Abrahamic God is superior to the God of Spinoza.

59:00 What is morality, good and evil?

1:01:00 Abortion

1:02:00 Infanticide

1:03:00 Single women are the ones demanding abortion.

1:04:00 A culture of casual sex

1:05:00 Marriage license

1:07:00 The difference between skipping town as a man and a woman arriving in town heavily pregnant and husbandless

1:10:00 The female voter

1:11:00 Marriage is no longer an attractive bargain for men.

1:12:00 The matriarchy is telling us to check out.

1:13:00 The laws of a benevolent God are for our protection.

1:15:00 Repentance

1:16:00 Jonah and the Ninevites

1:17:00 Jews have the identity of idolatrous recividism and also of maintaining standards against idolatry.

1:20:00 Jonah's decision to abandon ship

https://www.learnreligions.com/what-is-teshuvah-2076801

1:27:00 Keeping the channels of communications open

1:29:00 Blue church

1:30:00 The rules

1:32:00 Adam and Eve FAFO

Jesus

1:34:00 The Lord's Prayer

1:35:00 Belief in the afterlife

1:37:00 Doing the right thing

1:39:00 Teacher and fixer

1:40:00 The Divine Spark

1:41:00 Metaphorical mountains

1:42:00 Moral imperative and the evil inclination

1:43:00 Comparative religion

1:44:00 God and war

1:45:00 WW3

1:46:00 Nineveh

1:47:00 Hedonism

1:48:00 Aztecs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_conquest_of_the_Aztec_Empire

1:51:00 Russian serfs and the French Army in War and Peace

Tolstoy mentions Russian peasants behaving in ways that suggest a willingness to accept or "welcome" the French invaders in War and Peace, though this is presented as a pragmatic reaction to the breakdown of their own social order, rather than a desire for French rule.
Key mentions include:
The Bogucharovo Peasants (Book 10, Chapter 9): When Princess Marya Bolkonskaya tries to leave her estate, her peasants refuse to help her and prevent her departure. It is mentioned that these peasants are in contact with the French, have received pamphlets from them, and believe that the French will not harm them, unlike the looting Cossacks.
Rejection of Serfdom: The peasants in this area refuse Marya's offers of grain, believing that she is trying to trick them back into serfdom and that the French represent a potential end to their bondage.
The Contrast to City Dwellers: Tolstoy contrasts this behavior with that of the people in cities like Moscow, who, unlike in other European cities, did not welcome the French with bread and salt but instead fled.
General Attitudes: Early in the war, there was widespread, albeit often unfounded, fear among the Russian aristocracy that the serfs would rise up and join the French against their masters, which is reflected in the tensions at the Bolkonsky estate.
However, this "welcoming" is not depicted as patriotic support, but as a complex, chaotic response by the peasantry to their own harsh living conditions and the upheaval of war.

1:53:00 Meritocracy > monarchy/caste system

1:54:00 King Solomon died an idolater.

1:57:00 Book of Samuel

1:58:00 English kings were better behaved towards their subjects after the regicide of Charles I.

2:00:00 Gulf Kingdoms and William Tyndale

2:02:00 Patriot Act

Half of Jewry are secular.

2:03:00 Israel is an American colony.

2:04:00 Dubai

2:06:00 Self-sacrifice and leadership

The spirit of the law

2:10:00 Charles III does not enjoy First Amendment rights.

2:12:00 Gravitation

2:15:00 Peaceful resolution

2:16:00 Afghanistan

The 2001 U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, officially titled Operation Enduring Freedom, was driven by immediate security imperatives and broader long-term geopolitical strategies.
Primary Geopolitical Reasons
Dismantling Terrorist Networks: The immediate trigger was the September 11 attacks. The U.S. sought to destroy al-Qaeda and eliminate its safe haven in Afghanistan, which was provided by the Taliban government.
Regime Change for Strategic Denial: By toppling the Taliban, the U.S. aimed to replace a hostile "pariah state" with a pro-Western democratic government that would deny future sanctuary to extremists and stabilize Central Asia.
Regional Influence and Containment: Afghanistan served as a vital strategic base to monitor and check the influence of regional rivals, including Russia, China, and Iran.
Energy Security and Transit Routes: Influence in Afghanistan was seen as instrumental for accessing energy-rich Central Asian markets. The U.S. supported projects like the TAPI pipeline (Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India) to transport resources to world markets while bypassing Russian and Iranian territory.
Eurasian Connectivity: Its location at the crossroads of Central, South, and West Asia provided a "vantage point" for military and commercial operations across the Eurasian landmass.
Key Strategic Objectives
Capture of Leadership: Finding and neutralizing Osama bin Laden.
State-Building: Establishing a democratic Afghan state to serve as a long-term regional ally.
Nuclear Control: Maintaining a presence in a region populated by nuclear-armed or nuclear-aspiring states (Russia, China, Pakistan, India, and Iran).
Collective Defense: Activating NATO's Article 5 for the first time, reinforcing the alliance's relevance in the post-Cold War era.