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  • 13th March, 2025

    Every man dies. Not every man really lives.

    William Wallace

    Being born presumes you will die eventually, but contrary to what some believe it doesn’t mean you will live. Yes, you will be alive, but many things are alive but we can’t say they are truly living a life.

    You need a great purpose in life to be truly living, and service to other people is a truly noble purpose. Whether that be service to your kids by raising them, or service to others in your community. If your only purpose in life is to focus on yourself, to achieve something for yourself instead of working with and for others around you, you will not feel fulfilled in life.

  • Reconsidering the Crusades: Justified or Not? Video included

    Reconsidering the Crusades: Justified or Not? Video included

    If you have access to History Channel on your TV or something similar you’ve probably seen some documentaries about the Crusades. What you can see in those documentaries (or movies taking place in that time of history) is that the Crusades are represented as the worst and most shameful part of our history, especially in terms of Christian history. But were they really so wrong and barbaric as described? Could it be that they were justified?

    First and foremost, as in any war, no side is perfect and the Crusades weren’t an exception. This is the part that no documentary fails to mention and often emphasizes the most, but what I’ve often seen is that they either fail to mention the context that led to the Crusades or diminish the context behind them.

    Crusades were holy wars between the Christian world and the Islamic world. Islam had been around for almost 500 years before the launch of the First Crusade in 1095. During that time Islam had spread by force throughout Christian lands of the Middle East, Africa, and the Iberian peninsula. The Muslims started robbing and killing Christians who were traveling to visit the Holy Land.

    The Byzantine Emperor requested aid from the West and this was a big deal since the relations between the West and the East were not good considering this happened shortly after the division of Christianity into the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church in 1054. However, Pope Urban II looked past any disagreements between them, he encouraged military support for the Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos and called for an armed pilgrimage to Jerusalem.

    The Crusaders were tasked with taking back Jerusalem into Christian hands and protecting any Christians on their journey to the Holy Land. Were they unjustified? I think not. The Crusades were launched after centuries of Islamic aggression. What I think is that the media is using the Crusades as another reason to attack the Christians and portray us as bad people. You can see evidence of that month after month, the most recent example is staying silent when Christians are being massacred and slaughtered but informing us in detail when Muslims are dying. The reality is that Christians are the most prosecuted religion but the media is doing a great job in concealing that.

    Not to talk too much, here is a great video about the Crusades. Special thanks to the Pax Tube channel for making this video and allowing me to use it here on my site.

  • 12th March, 2025

    When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching he said of him, “Here truly is an Israelite in whom there is no deceit.” “How do you know me?” Nathanael asked. Jesus answered, “I saw you while you were still under the fig tree before Philip called you.” Then Nathanael declared, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the king of Israel.”

    John 1:47-49

    The first time I saw this conversation between Jesus and Nathanael, it was from an Instagram Reel with a clip from the TV series The Chosen. Yesterday I was reading the Gospel of John and stumbled again on their encounter so I wanted to share it today.

    The quote is a bit unusual compared to what I usually post because it doesn’t have a clear message of some action to take. It is rather a motivational quote showcasing the faith of Nathanael and proof of Jesus’ title as the Son of God or as he calls himself few verses after, the Son of Man.

    Nathanael thought God left him and didn’t hear him when he was at his lowest. Jesus by saying he saw him under the fig tree proved to Nathanael two things, firstly that Jesus is one with God and secondly that He didn’t leave him.

    Here is a clip from the show I mentioned, I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

  • 11th March, 2025

    And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. It is not surprising, then, if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve.

    2 Corinthians 11:14-15

    This verse has a wide application.

    Mohammad claimed to have met the angel Gabriel and that he gave him the Quran. That’s odd because the angel Gabriel was the one who informed Mary that she will give birth to Jesus, Son of God.

    “The angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come over you, and the power of the Most High will surround you. Therefore, the child will be holy and will be called the Son of God.” – Luke 1:35

    Muslims don’t believe that Jesus was the Son of God, only a prophet, Quran teaches them that. Now how could this be the same angel if it contradicts itself? At one time claiming that Jesus was the Son of God and then centuries later gave Mohammad a book, the so-called “Word of God” that claimed Jesus was just a prophet. I don’t think what Mohammad saw that day was angel Gabriel as it is well known that Satan often disguises as someone good to trick us into believing him.

    Healing through bio-energy

    Stay away from people claiming they can heal you through any kind of “energy” manipulation. It has become quite popular lately to seek alternative types of medicines, but be careful as you can easily wander off to the realms of evil. You have these people performing miracles just by touching you or even by just moving their hand through the air around you (and many other types of movement that “control the person’s energy field”), but who gave them such power?

    They sometimes claim that they have had a gift since birth while others that it’s a gift from God, and every possible explanation in between. What God gives that power? Sometimes when you act suspicious about their claim to have a gift from God to heal people as they please they might try saying something like “It’s not unusual that God heals people and performs various miracles”, well yes, in Christianity we have a large number of well known healing events. But all of those are a result of God’s grace received through prayer and not human’s manipulation of so-called “energy”.

    You don’t see those healers advocating prayer and repentance from their patients in order to be healed, therefore such healing is certainly not coming from God. Those healers are either scammers using the placebo effect to trick people or worse: they have the power to heal a person’s body but then that power has surely come from the Devil himself. They might not be aware that the Devil gave them this power and not God, but aware or not, the consequences of playing with the Devil like this are grave. The consequences will affect the healer as well as the patient who receives the treatment, so don’t dip your toes into such practices.

  • Comments on banners during Women’s Day march

    Comments on banners during Women’s Day march

    Don’t pay too much attention to the cover photo, it’s an AI generated image so it has lots of weird stuff.

    Another International Women’s Day is behind us, and we saw many marches of women in various cities around the globe promoting “women’s rights”. You could see many different banners of different themes (some having no connection to women).

    Let’s discuss a few:

    Abortion is primarily a political question/topic.

    Is it really? I do agree that politicians use the topic of abortion to gain votes, but I would never say something to this extent. Abortion is before anything a moral question. Is it moral to abort the pregnancy, therefore killing a baby, for your convenience?

    When women stop, the whole world stops.

    Fun example, once upon a time in Iceland, almost all of the female population went on strike. The economy went on normally, the only thing was that HR offices received no complaints during the strike.

    But now let’s get real, if either gender stopped doing what they usually do (men or women), the world as we know it would collapse. But you can’t say the phrase “When men stop, the whole world stops” because you would be accused of misogyny.

    My eggs, my omelet.

    Firstly, disgusting. Secondly, you do what you want with your eggs, but once those eggs are fertilized it’s no longer YOUR EGG, now it is YOUR CHILD, and no matter that it’s yours, you don’t have the right to kill it.

    Loud for Gaza, loud about genocide.

    What does that have to do with Women’s Day or Women’s rights?

    When I see this type of panel on protests or marches I know I am looking at somebody extremely ignorant and here is why. Firstly I suspect he/she writes and claims this because it is popular and wants to be a part of the movement without knowing much about the topic. If my suspicion is correct then that by itself is enough to characterize a person as not intelligent and ignorant, but this is hard to prove without interviewing them in person about the topic.

    The thing that proves to me they know nothing about what they support is the fact that you don’t see anyone marching for the thousands of Christians murdered in Syria a few days ago, about 70 Christians beheaded in Congo a few weeks ago, and countless other persecution of Christians around the world. Why is that? Because the media did almost no coverage of such incidents, and the knowledge of people marching for Gaza/Palestine extends only to the amount the mass media covers.

    The media doesn’t cover it probably because it’s not really convenient to portray the religious majority (in the West) as the one in danger, as the one persecuted. For some reason, only the minority is allowed to play the victim card, until they become the majority, once Islam becomes the majority in a country they won’t care about our minority status as Christians. I’m not making this up, you can see what happened to minorities in the Middle East, most recently in Syria – thousands dead.

    Does anyone look at how all this happened between Israel and Gaza? Has anyone read any history about the conflict, if they did they would soon realize that Hamas is not a victim. Hamas kept attacking Israel for years and Israel would almost always retaliate with a small attack, then one day Hamas decided to invade Israel, kill a bunch of people, and take a bunch of prisoners. Then Israel has had enough and decided to end Hamas, Hamas kept hiding and using civilians as human shields.

    Hamas attacked Israel knowing they couldn’t beat IDF(Israel Defense Forces), they knew they could use civilian casualties to gain public left-wing media support and they are using it to their advantage quite well so far. I mean, they must have known that, and if they did, that makes them terrible people – using your own civilian lives just to portray someone you can’t stand as the bad guy. Or maybe they didn’t know, which I doubt because that would mean they are incredibly unintelligent.

    I know this seems like I am pro-Israel, I’m really not, but the sheer manipulation and cold heart(using civilian lives as a commodity) of Islam, in this case Hamas, makes me want to puke and any problem I have with Israelis goes to second plan. Like comparing losing your house type of problem with breaking your arm type of problem; I’d rather have the house with a broken arm than an arm in one piece without a house.

    So what are you marching for exactly, and why aren’t you loud about the genocide of Christians? Let me guess, you are afraid you’ll be accused of Islamophobia. Since “phobia” means irrational fear of something and fear of Islam is definitely not irrational, Islamophobia doesn’t exist.

    No means no.

    Say no to sex then so you most likely won’t need to even think about saying yes or no to pregnancy as you won’t get pregnant.

    “Well, what about rape??” – an (airsoft) gun every leftist pulls out at some point during abortion discussion. Now tell me honestly, do you think the number of rapes, or should I say the number of rape-related pregnancies (because not every rape case will result in pregnancy, actually only a fragment of them will, statistically) is relevant for the broad abortion discussion?

    The number of abortions worldwide yearly is over 70 million(for comparison that’s more than the death toll of WWII, which lasted 6 years). It’s not a secret that almost all of the abortions are done due to personal preference of the mother, not incest, not health risks, not rape. All those others are so marginal that they should never be used as an argument, and by using them you’re just showing you are on the left side of the bell curve.

    Without the right to an abortion there is no free will.

    What to even say about this? I want to know what exactly gives a woman a moral right to an abortion?

    • Is it because it’s not a living human being? Because that’s not true, even if you are not religious, scientifically speaking that’s not true (you can find the source on the FAQs page).
    • Is it because it’s her child so it’s her right to choose? Then why not allow killing of born babies, she’s theirs mother too.
    • Is it because that baby is inside the mother’s body? That child is in there growing, you are feeding it and nurturing it. It is not part of your body, it has a body of its own, one proof of that is that the mother and the baby don’t always have the same blood type. If the baby was part of your body then you would share the blood, your blood, but it’s not like that, babies have their own blood pumping through their veins.
    • Is it because the woman is the one who will have to go through the troubles of pregnancy and the pain of childbirth so she should have a right to decide? That is the dumbest argument for abortion in my opinion. This is just running from responsibility, if you’ve had sex (especially unprotected sex) you have to bear the risk that you might end up pregnant and that you will have to have a baby. Nowadays, people mostly think “Oh well what’s the worst thing that can happen, if it sticks then we’ll just remove it and keep having sex the way we want to”. Also, pregnancy and childbirth are normal things that every mammal goes through, your bodies are made for it. If you have such an attitude towards a woman’s right to decide to abort because she has to go through pain and discomfort then that immediately implies (by application of gender equality) that a man can also choose to abort the baby that’s his that he doesn’t want (and the women does) because he doesn’t want to pay child support, it’s his money and having a baby doesn’t really fit into his life, it would cause him discomfort. By doing so it’s no longer solely a woman’s right to demand an abortion. By the way, I am convinced that the majority of men supporting abortion rights are doing it so they can fuck around more freely knowing that if the girl gets pregnant she has abortion as an option so that he would be relieved of all responsibility. If abortion was illegal then men would actually have to be more careful to not screw their life up financially (due to potential child support payments) over a one-night stand and would choose their partners more carefully.