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Trump Administration Shows Progressive Response to the Gay Agenda

By Julio Severo

Conservative leaders have questioned President Donald Trump’s decision to uphold an executive order signed by Barack Obama granting special rights to homosexuals in the federal government.

Yet, Vice-President Mike Pence, who is known as a pro-life fighter, has backed Trump’s decision.

“I think throughout the campaign, President Trump made it clear that discrimination would have no place in our administration,” Pence said.

“Discrimination” talk was basically the same strategy Obama and Hillary used to promote the gay agenda.

“He was the very first Republican nominee to mention the LGBTQ community at our Republican National Convention and was applauded for it. And I was there applauding with him,” added Pence.

If Pence brags that Trump was the first Republican candidate to praise the LGBTQ community, Obama was the first president to appoint a special envoy for the homosexual agenda. How does Pence expect Trump to surpass Obama? Or will Trump will be satisfied only to keep Obama’s homosexualist orders intact?

Even though Pence is touted for his pro-life advocacy, he has confirmed that Obama’s homosexualist laws are fine for him and Trump.

Peter LaBarbera, president of Americans For Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH), has said that such laws are not fine for conservative Christians and the Bible.

What good will be for the United States to have a pro-life president and a pro-life vice president who uphold homosexualist laws and lead the world into a massive homosexual chaos through the bad example of their empire?

If Trump and his vice president succeed in the fight against abortion, but fail against the gay agenda, the defeat will be devastating for family and society. It took only sodomy, not abortion, for a whole society, Sodom and Gomorrah, to be destroyed. It will take no less for America to be destroyed.

Their stance on the gay agenda is not a good thing for America now and her future. And it is not good for the world, because America is an empire that guides the world as a model for better or worse.

When he was the Indiana governor, Pence approved the Religious Freedom Restoration Act to protect religious people from persecution by gay activists. But after widespread pressure and boycotts, including from big businesses such as Apple and Wal-Mart, Pence rolled back his religious freedom law. His cowardly changes marked the largest step toward special homosexual rights there in history, according to pro-family activists who studied the language.

Trump has no history of fighting the gay agenda. Pence has a shameful history of backtracking on his fight against the gay agenda.

The only hope now seems to be Neil Gorsuch, who was appointed by Trump to the U.S. Supreme Court. Gorsuch has been greeted with jubilation as a pro-gun, pro-life, conservative, etc.

But if the church he attends is a sign of a man’s spirituality, the coming cultural storms will be relentless.

A DailyMail report reveals that Gorsuch’s own church, St. John’s Episcopal Church in Boulder, Colorado, is a hotbed of liberal thinking — and is led by a feminist pastor, Rev. Susan Springer, 58, who proudly attended the anti-Trump Women’s March the day after the President’s inauguration.

Springer, who is a registered Democrat, has said she is pro-gay “marriage” and offers blessings to same sex couples.

Gorsuch was brought up as a Catholic by his mother Ann, and attended an elite all boys Catholic school in Washington D.C. run by the Jesuit order.

The New York Times reported that he had become an Episcopalian while attending Oxford University as a postgraduate.

Yet, a conservative Christian always attends a conservative Christian church. Without exception.

Trump seems to have the same problem: he attends a liberal Presbyterian church. The advantage is that Franklin Graham and charismatic televangelists whose advices he receives are conservative.

I do not know which evangelical church Pence attends, but to backtrack on the gay agenda and to uphold Obama’s homosexualist orders is not conservatism. It is to help the same depraved agenda left-wingers like Obama and Hillary were already helping.

With information from the DailyMail.

Portuguese version of this article: Governo Trump mostra resposta progressista à agenda gay

Source: Last Days Watchman

Recommended Reading:

Trump and Obama: What Has Changed Between Them on Homosexuality and Saudi Arabia?

Holocaust, Abortion and Sodomy

Trump and Prophecies, and a New Model of National and World Leader

Homosexualist billionaire Peter Thiel’s influence grows in Washington as Trump names him for his transition team

Religion, Spirituality and enlightenment

This is the first in a series of blogs that I'll be posting on this subject as I explore the quagmire of religion, spirituality and enlightenment.

The never ending need to experience and understand something bigger than ourselves, something beyond our flesh and blood lives is an obsessive human endeavor.

As a result, there are countless disciplines, religious movements, cults, you name it, that have come and gone since man first became self aware.

Each venture into the non-physical world through millennia of questioning and exploring reveals aspects of our makeup and our needs. We see primitive religions creating external deities to provide answers. We see mystical disciplines that look inwards and endless variations and combinations of the two.

The road to "enlightenment" (whether it be with an external deity or internal exploration) is complicated and twisted, winding in and around our incredibly complex nature.

Every form of spiritual endeavor has disciplines, theologies, doctrines and sacrifices that each one embraces to achieve it's goal. But without exception every "road" requires a devotion to it's beliefs and practices, study in it's principles and applications, teachers and disciples, structure and leadership.

What if all of this could be simplified?
In fact what if the utter simplicity of it all has always been staring us in the face?
Perhaps we like the idea of achieving some unique skill that elevates us above the mundane and the ignorant and the "glory" that goes with it (ego perhaps).

But the true value of any spiritual path has to be in its universality - it must be simple, doable, and desirable for every single human without the need for years of intense study and discipline.

I look at christianity and it fails in this regard from the ground up. In fact all religions fail in this regard as they claim exclusive truth, demanding adherence to their doctrines to achieve "enlightenment" or "salvation" etc.

I look at Buddhism and all it's variations, and all the eastern mystical beliefs, and although they are based on more realistic premises than theistic beliefs (such as christianity) they still require years of discipline and devotion to reach their goal.

What if there is a simple universal truth that every human can embrace right now?
What if we can adopt it and simply grow with it ourselves, using what's already in our heart?
What if the only thing required of us to walk this road is honesty and integrity?

What if this thing is nothing more or less than love?

Ponder this and it's implications. Examine your own ideas and assumptions about the nature of "love". Look inside and ask if yourself if you've ever experienced unconditional love. Perhaps even ponder what unconditional love looks like!

More to come....

Trump Administration Slams Russia and Warns Israel

By Julio Severo

In her first appearance as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations on Thursday, Nikki Haley blamed Russia for the recent surge of violence in eastern Ukraine and warned sanctions against Russia will not be lifted until Moscow returns Crimea to Kiev.

Nikki Haley

Her remarks came amid speculation that U.S. President Donald Trump is changing his intentions towards Russia. Throughout his campaign, Trump had praised Russian President Vladimir Putin and expressed a wish for improved relations between the two countries.

On Thursday Putin accused Ukraine of starting the latest escalation to get from the Trump administration the same support it got from the Obama administration.

Ukraine is concerned that Trump could revoke the sanctions Obama had imposed on Russia. Allegedly, the sanctions were over Crimea, but Dr. Scott Lively has exposed that Obama’s real reason was the Russian law banning homosexual propaganda to children.

The Russian annexation of Crimea was a direct answer to the neocon coup in Ukraine funded by the left-wing billionaire George Soros.

“The Ukrainian leadership needs money, and the best way to get the EU, the U.S. and international organizations to pay is by posing as a victim of aggression,” Putin said.

Yet, Russia was not the only nation warned by the Trump administration. On Thursday, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was reiterating his support for the settlements, the Trump administration was condemning them. According to the Jerusalem Post,

“The White House warned Israel on Thursday — in a surprising statement — to cease settlement announcements that are ‘unilateral’ and ‘undermining’ of President Donald Trump’s effort to forge Middle East peace.”

The Jerusalem Post explained that the Thursday statement is a change from recent actions by Trump, saying,

“Under Trump’s leadership, reference to a two-state solution was removed from the Republican Party platform over the summer, and the president’s envoy to Israel has publicly supported the settlement enterprise.”

Now, for the first time, the Trump administration declared that its intention is an Israeli State and Palestinian State in the land of Israel. The White House said,

“The United States remains committed to advancing a comprehensive final-status agreement between Israel and the Palestinians that results in two states living side-by-side in peace and security.”

The only explanation for such dramatic changes in Trump’s actions and words is pressure from neocons. Even though Trump has spoken against neocons throughout his campaign, his change in foreign affairs is a sign that he is under pressure to follow the same neocon agenda of Obama and Bush.

His domestic policies are rallying fabulous support among conservatives within the United States, especially on pro-life issues, even though Trump said that he will keep in place Obama’s homosexualist laws.

Perhaps his foreign policy may prevail against neocons and be different from Obama and Bush, if he listens to his charismatic advisers.

Trump praying with evangelicals, including charismatics

While his administration was criticizing Russia and Israel, Trump was attending the National Prayer Breakfast, with televangelist Paula White at his right hand.

Trump and White have been friends for 15 years.

Trump helping charismatic televangelist Paula White to take her seat at his side

Highly acclaimed evangelist Rick Warren spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast.

Trump posted a picture of himself and his inner circle praying and he wrote alongside the image: “Moment of prayer last night after my nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch.”

Trump received an estimated 80 per cent of the evangelical vote. He was heavily supported by televangelists, and he pledged them to defund Planned Parenthood, the largest network of abortion clinics in the world.

Trump supporter Rev. Jerry Falwell Jr, president of the Virginia-based Liberty University, a non-profit Christian institute, told the Washington Post: “I think Trump is more one of us. He’s not an elitist. He doesn’t look down his nose at evangelicals and Christians and conservatives. I’m very shocked by how accessible he is to so many. He answers his cellphone any time of the day or night.”

The only hope now is that evangelicals who are close to Trump use their opportunities to encourage him to follow his own speech on neocons and avoid the same pitfalls in the foreign policy that Obama and Bush fell into.

The Trump administration should not warn Israel for occupying the land God gave to Jews, not to Palestinians. This is an Israeli, not an American, business.

And he should not keep the unnecessary meddling that Obama made in the relationship Russia has with Crimea. This is a Russian, not an American, business.

If evangelicals cannot help Trump, neocons will keep him in the disastrous orbit of Obama’s and Bush’s foreign policy.

With information from FoxNews, Jerusalem Post, Reuters, DailyMail and CBN.

Portuguese version of this article: Governo Trump critica severamente a Rússia e dá aviso para Israel

Source: Last Days Watchman

Recommended Reading:

Trump and Obama: What Has Changed Between Them on Homosexuality and Saudi Arabia?

Trump and Prophecies, and a New Model of National and World Leader

What Is Neoconservatism (Neocon)?

Trump and Obama: What Has Changed Between Them on Homosexuality and Saudi Arabia?

By Julio Severo

The White House said last Tuesday that President Donald Trump will continue to enforce an Obama’s executive order granting special rights to homosexuals in the workplace, making it clear that such order will remain intact “at the direction” of Trump.

“President Donald J. Trump is determined to protect the rights of all Americans, including the LGBTQ community,” said a statement released by the White House. “President Trump continues to be respectful and supportive of LGBTQ rights, just as he was throughout the election.”

The White House said Trump is proud to have been the first GOP presidential candidate to mention the LGBTQ community in his nomination acceptance speech, “pledging then to protect the community from violence and oppression,” which is a commonly used language and euphemism to advance the gay agenda.

How it affects churches, we do not know, but if you have a Christian organization and you do not hire homosexuals or if you do not accommodate their immoral lifestyle and ideology, the Trump administration offers to you the same thing the Obama administration offered: no financial relationship. But punishment.

About Trump’s decision to keep Obama’s homosexualist order, Peter LaBarbera, president of Americans For Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH), said,

“This is the first sign we have that President Trump will be triangulating on homosexuality versus abortion. As exhilarated as we were to watch the Trump administration confidently and boldly stand for the protection of the unborn at the March for Life, we are now deeply disappointed that Mr. Trump has chosen to defend false LGBTQ ‘rights’ based on changeable homosexual and gender-confused behaviors.”

He added,

“We condemned Obama when he advanced a sin-based agenda in the name of ‘Equality.’ We must do no less with President Trump.”

Pro-family leader Bryan Fischer remarked that with his decision to keep Obama’s order, “Trump bans Christian-run businesses who won’t affirm sexual deviancy from doing any work for federal government.”

The Trump administration has revealed hypocrisy in major points. If it is serious about the gay agenda as Obama was, why a normal relationship with Saudi Arabia, which murders homosexuals? The Obama administration condemned Christians opposed to the gay agenda, but had never condemned Saudi Arabia.

Last week Trump spoke by telephone with Saudi Arabia’s King Salman. He did not call him to condemn Saudi Arabia for murdering homosexuals. He called “to strengthen cooperation on fighting radical Islamic terrorism.”

Considering that Saudi Arabia is the main sponsor of the Islamic terrorism in the world, asking such Saudi help is akin to have Franklin Roosevelt asking Hitler to help America fight Nazism or have Ronald Reagan asking the Soviet Union to help America fight Soviet communism. It is illogical. It makes no sense.

In his call, Trump also “requested, and the Saudi king agreed to support, safe zones in Syria,” according to the DailyMail.

As admitted by the DailyMail, “Carving out safe havens in the civil war-torn Middle Eastern country would most likely require a massive deployment of US ground troops” in Syria.

For interventions in Syria, with Saudi support Obama deployed ISIS and Islamic rebels, who raped and murdered thousands Syrian Christians.

Now, with Saudi support, again, America under Trump wants to deploy thousands of American soldiers in Syria.

Because Obama and Trump never had any permission from the Syrian government to deploy troops in Syria, this is invasion.

Because the past U.S. administration created ISIS, which ravaged Syria, this is terrorism.

Because Saudi Arabia, which wants to help Trump in the invasion, is the main sponsor of the Islamic terrorism in the world, this is terrorism.

If Trump is serious about fighting Islamic terrorism, why did not he put Saudi Arabia in his black list?

If Trump is serious about helping Syrian refugees in alleged safe zones, why does not he ask the official permission from the Syrian government?

If he is serious about keeping Obama’s homosexualist decrees, why does not he condemn Saudi Arabia?

Besides, Obama imposed unfair sanctions against Russia, especially because Russia has an excellent law banning homosexual propaganda to children and adolescents. Trump has not reversed Obama’s sanctions.

Since the Obama administration, Russia has been a model against the gay agenda. As far as it depends on Trump, who seems not to want America reversing Obama’s homosexualist laws, Russia will continue to keep the leading position among Christian nations against the gay agenda.

Russia is in Syria helping Syrians, whose Christians are Orthodox as are Orthodox Christians Russians, because the Syrian government gave official permission for Russia to be in Syria. Anything less is invasion.

Trump is building a wall to protect U.S., and he deserves support on this. He is putting Islamic nations in his black list because he wants to protect the U.S.

But by keeping Saudi Arabia off his list and planning to invade Syria, he is inconsistent with conservative Christians and consistent with Obama and Hillary Clinton.

By keeping Obama’s homosexualist decrees he has the same inconsistency and consistency.

Saudi Arabia, which is an enemy of Syria, has no Christian community and bans Israelis from its territory. In contrast, Syria has one of the oldest Christian communities in the world. The Bible is not banned by the Syrian government. Saudi Arabia officially bans the Bible. Why had Obama a good relationship with Saudi Arabia, not Syria? Why has Trump a good relationship with Saudi Arabia, not Syria?

Why is Trump expressing a willingness to follow in Obama’s footsteps?

If Trump wants to “help” Syria, why call Saudi Arabia, the enemy of Syria?

If Trump does not want the U.S. invaded, why has he discussed with the Saudis about invading Syria?

Conservative Christians should not make the same mistake that they made regarding to former President George W. Bush. They supported him because of his pro-life stances. But they did not question him over his invasion of Iraq, which took a heavy toll on Iraqi Christians.

Conservative Christians liked Trump’s speech against neocons, but his stance on the gay agenda is not a good thing for America now and her future. And it is not good for the world, because America is an empire that guides the world as a model for better or worse.

Good Christians prophesied a good political administration for Trump. But what good will be if he does not choose to live prophetically such calling?

Trump has no conservative history, and he had connections with Obama and Hillary. His speech against neocons in his campaign was a fresh air of real conservatism, and the current pro-life stance of his administration is also a fresh air after eight years of the foul odor of the pro-abortion stances of the Obama administration.

Yet, by keeping the same homosexualist laws of Obama, including his illegal interference in Syria with Saudi assistance, Trump chose the same foul odor of left-wing radicals and neocons.

Let us hope he may change his course.

With information from the DailyMail and the Hill.

Portuguese version of this article: Trump e Obama: O que mudou entre eles sobre homossexualidade e Arábia Saudita?

Source: Last Days Watchman

Recommended Reading:

Holocaust, Abortion and Sodomy

Trump and Prophecies, and a New Model of National and World Leader

What Is Neoconservatism (Neocon)?

Holocaust, Abortion and Sodomy

By Julio Severo

The March for Life, a huge pro-life event in Washington DC, drew support from evangelicals and Catholics who want to ban the crime of abortion in America.

Abortion was officially legalized in the United States, the largest Protestant nation in the world, in 1973, while the cowardly Republican administration of Richard Nixon was drafting the infamous NSSM 200, the confidential U.S. government guide for the CIA and other agencies to promote population-control ideas and services worldwide, including through the United Nations.

The March for Life was held on January 27, the same date of the International Holocaust Memorial Day. Rev. Franklin Graham, the son of the famous evangelist Billy Graham said,

“Today is International Holocaust Memorial Day, a day set aside to remember the 6 million innocent Jews murdered by Hitler—gassed, experimented on, shot, and worked to death. Many observe that Hitler could’ve been stopped before so many lives were lost. But we have another #holocausttaking place in this world today—it’s called abortion. Over 58 million abortions have been performed legally in the U.S. since Roe v. Wade in 1973.”

Vice President Mike Pence also took part in the March for Life. This was the first time in the U.S. history that a vice-president took part in such event for the human rights of U.S. babies. But why cannot conservative presidents directly take part and show their support for life and babies?

If I were a U.S. president, I would take part. And when abortion was legalized, Nixon should resign in protest against the national disgrace of legal abortion. He did not it for life, but eventually he was forced to resign over his own personal and political disgrace.

Graham said,

“Rather than looking back and wishing we had done something, let’s work to end the horror of abortion in this country now before tens of thousands more innocent lives are selfishly ended.”

In 1974, thousands of pro-lifers filled the streets of Washington DC to stand against legal abortion. Pro-life marches are held in Washington DC for decades. But, 44 years later, abortion remains intact and unabated slaughtering hundreds and hundreds of thousands of American babies, even though the pro-life movement has been fighting year after year, under socialist and conservative presidents.

Prayer is necessary against the culture of contraception and slaughter, because while contraception is not seen as an accomplice of abortion, the slaughter of the innocent will continue.

Peter LaBarbera, the founder and president of American for the Truth about Homosexuality, asked an interesting question while he was marching for life:

“Hey everyone I’m at the March for Life in Washington and I am so encouraged by the momentum for turning back abortion. At the same time, I’m saddened by the contrast between the life movement and the movement to stop Big Gay and Big Trans. It’s wonderful to see all these young people charged up about defending life. My question is: how can we capture that same spirit to save marriage and turn back the normalization of homosexuality and gender confusion in the USA?”

He added:

“The sad part is: even a lot of good people have given up on the latter fight, as evidenced by the many people I’ve talked to in recent weeks—even some pro-life activists—who say Obergefell (SCOTUS’s imposition of same-sex ‘marriage’) will never be reversed. It’s God’s truth, not ours, and we must never give up on it!!”

LaBarbera is right, because President Donald Trump seems to show no willingness to reverse Obama’s homosexualist laws, especially the infamous gay “marriage.” And his vice-president, who is a pro-life evangelical, has a sad history of weakness in face of the aggressive homosexual pressure.

Sodom and Gomorrah were punished for the homosexual sins they committed against themselves. America will be punished by the homosexual sins she has been committing against herself and against other nations.

“What happened to Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities near them is an example for us of the punishment of eternal fire. The people of these cities suffered the same fate that God’s people and the angels did, because they committed sexual sins and engaged in homosexual activities.” (Jude 1:7GW)

Abortion is the holocaust of the unborn.

The legal acceptance of sodomy is the holocaust of family and society survival, in the same altar where homosexual priests in the past sacrificed babies to Baal and other demons.

Portuguese version of this article: Holocausto, aborto e sodomia

Source: Last Days Watchman

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Exposing the Global Population Control Agenda

The Holocaust and the Misdirected Criticism of a Brazilian Jew against Conservatives in Europe and America

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U.S. Homosexual “Marriage” Will Affect Other Countries

US Names First Global Envoy for Homosexual Agenda

U.S. Homosexual Envoy Wants Brazil in New International Pro-Sodomy Coalition to Deflect Accusations of US “Cultural Imperialism”

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Washington, D.C.: The Seat of the Immoral World Government

Homosexual “Marriage” and the Last Days

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Jewish groups attack Trump over his ban on Islamic immigration

By Julio Severo

A new immigration order of President Donald Trump has drawn the outcry from a wide range of left-wing Jewish groups, because it went into effect on Friday, January 27, the anniversary when Soviet troops liberated Jews from the Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz.

The date is memorialized as the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

“It is a terrible irony that today, the same day on which this order is to be signed, is also International Holocaust Remembrance Day,” the liberal Jewish group J Street said in a statement.

“The fact that President Trump’s order appears designed to specifically limit the entry of Muslims evokes horrible memories among American Jews of the shameful period leading up to World War Two, when the United States failed to provide a safe haven for the vast majority of Jews in Europe trying to escape Nazi persecution,” the statement said.

An irrational comparison, because Trump is not banning persecuted people. Under Obama, 99% of Syrians allowed into the U.S. were Muslims with 97% were Sunni Muslims last year. Sunni Muslims are responsible for 9-11 and every act of terror including Ft. Hood, San Bernardino, Orland, Paris, Brussels and Nice just to name a few, according to William Murray.

Syrian Christians, who are the real victims of persecution, including from the U.S.-created ISIS and the U.S.-trained rebels, were just 1% of Syrian immigrants allowed into the U.S.

For a rational comparison, it would make no sense the U.S. allowing 99% Nazi immigrants in 1940, when most persecuted people were Jews, and Nazi were oppressors. Christians in nations of Islamic majority are the new Jews.

Why should Jews today fight for Islamic immigration in the U.S. when Muslims persecute and torment Jews and Christians?

The doors of the United States have been wide open to the new Nazis, Muslims, while Christians in Islamic nations are treated as the Jews were treated in the Nazi era.

True Jews understand the similarity. Left-wing individuals, Jewish or not, do not understand.

Christians are suffering a Holocaust in several Islamic nations, with a yearly toll of 100,000 Christians martyrized, and are left-wing Jews worried about their oppressors not getting visas to the U.S.?

The U.S. has no obligation to take in refugees, Christians or not. But because the U.S. was greatly responsible for the war in Syria, by creating ISIS and funding and training the Islamic rebels, who persecuted and slaughtered Christians, the U.S. has an obligation and responsibility to take in Christian refugees.

Trump’s executive order declares that the U.S. will “prioritize refugee claims made by individuals on the basis of religious-based persecution.” That applies when “the religion of the individual is a minority religion in the individual’s country of nationality.”

Trump’s ban puts a 90-day pause on visas and immigration from seven countries including Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Iran, Libya, Yemen and Somalia.

The order also puts a 120-day ban on all refugee entries into the country and declares that refugees from Syria are not welcome until further notice.

The President Trump also addressed the topic of the Holocaust in a statement acknowledging Holocaust remembrance day.

“It is impossible to fully fathom the depravity and horror inflicted on innocent people by Nazi terror,” he said Friday.

“In the name of the perished, I pledge to do everything in my power throughout my Presidency, and my life, to ensure that the forces of evil never again defeat the powers of good.”

With information from the DailyMail.

Portuguese version of this article: Grupos judaicos atacam Trump por causa de seu decreto interditando imigração islâmica

Source: Last Days Watchman

Recommended Reading:

The Holocaust and the Misdirected Criticism of a Brazilian Jew against Conservatives in Europe and America

Trump and Prophecies, and a New Model of National and World Leader

Immigration: A Weapon of Mass Cultural Destruction in Liberal Hands

Christians Are the Most Persecuted Religious Group in the World

Observe. Listen. Communicate.

There's a huge difference between seeing and observing, hearing and listening.

Random pic cos I couldn't find anything related to the topic

In some ways its obvious, when we consider our daily lives - things wizz past our eyes and ears and we simply can't stop to take in and evaluate everything, and we can eventually become numb with sensory overload, affecting our ability to observe and listen to the most basic (and often important) things, and our ability to successfully communicate.

It takes a conscious effort - a shift in our focus - to observe and listen without judging or reacting.

As we move through our day, we begin to look up/out from our inner chatter. I even find the physical exercise of straightening up and making myself look around with the intention of shifting focus makes a difference.

When we bring this into communication, we don't just see and hear someone, we observe and listen to them without judging. This is the essence of communication.

It's all about shifting our focus from the never ending inner rambling of the mind and taking in the bigger reality around us, extending into our focussed interactions. When we communicate with someone we shift from trying to talk to them, to hearing them without judgement.

So much of our communication is reactionary, rather than responsive - meaning that we have only heard and seen things in a way that triggers a reaction in us, rather than listened and observed with empathy and the goal of understanding, leading to a response that empowers, challenges and respects the value of the other.

It takes effort though, and often we are so caught up in our own reactions that we aren't even aware of what we are doing - or not doing. I often get into trouble, especially online, when I don't make the effort. And I see it so often in others, when try as I may to communicate clearly, they are too busy reacting from their inner dialogue and eagerness to judge and justify.

Lets all try to listen. Ask questions, draw out the real issues. Bypass the rhetoric and clichés. Challenge biases and paradigms, but most of all, hear each others hearts.

And here's the BIG one: don't be afraid of being wrong!

The Holocaust and the Misdirected Criticism of a Brazilian Jew against Conservatives in Europe and America

By Julio Severo

Today is the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, when the world stops to remember the Holocaust and its victims: 6 million Jews murdered by Nazis.

Osias Wurman, who is the honorary consul of Israel in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, rightly said, “If a rebuilt Jewish State had existed, in the 1930-40s, this genocide would have never been accomplished.”

Then he added, in the Brazilian newspaper O Globo:

“Today, more than ever, it is necessary to warn the world public opinion about the dangerous change of course rightward that has been ravaging Europe and some nations in the American continent. A global poll, held in 2014, found that 46% respondents had never heard about the Holocaust!”

Mr. Wurman makes an impossible comparison. He seeks to equalize the conservative change of political course in Europe and probably in the United States with indifference to the Holocaust. In a worse tone, he has said that this change is “dangerous,” and he talks about the need to warn the world against the change rightward that is “ravaging” Europe and probably the United States.

In fact, the same left-wing militants who see “danger” in the rightward change have been accusing U.S. President Donald Trump of being Adolf Hitler. Do all the Jews agree with the Left? No. In an interviewto WND (WorldNetDaily), Anita Dittman, who lived through the Holocaust as a Jewish girl in Germany during the 1930s and 1940s, has a message for those who think Trump is the American Hitler, on this International Holocaust Remembrance Day. “When they say he is another Hitler, they are crazy,” Dittman told WND.

Mr. Wurman seems to support the Left. But the European and American Left has consistently opposed the State of Israel. If, as Mr. Wurman implies, the existence of the State of Israel is important to avoid a Jewish genocide, it follows that the Left wants such genocide.

Meanwhile, the “dangerous” conservative change, especially energized by evangelicals, brought Donald Trump, who has clearly shown his support to Israel. In fact, some months ago, the Sanhedrim asked Trump and Putin, who is also a conservative, to rebuild the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem.

The Sanhedrim would never be comfortable at making the same request to left-wing leaders.

By helping rebuild the Temple, would Trump and Putin be encouraging people to forget the Holocaust? What “ravages” and “dangers” could their conservative actions bring?

I concede that there are some individuals in the Right who adhere to dangerous and even anti-Jewish stances, even if discreetly. In Brazil, where Mr. Wurman lives, some quarters of the Right have been influenced by an esotericist who is anti-Marxist and an advocate of the strange idea that the Inquisition was a myth and legend. He denies the Inquisition in the same way Muslims and neo-Nazis deny the Holocaust.

Hitler, whose political propaganda was anti-Marxist, was seen as “right-wing,” but actually he was an esotericist who would have had no difficulty to deny the Inquisition.

Yet, Mr. Wurman has not exposed or denounced the Inquisition advocacy in the Brazilian Right. He has occupied himself with fanciful threats: he has denounced the alleged danger of a Right in America that is supporting Israel!

Trump has a Jewish son-in-law and he has been a friend of Israel. So Mr. Wurman’s disturbed criticism is misdirected. It should not be directed indirectly to Trump and other conservatives. It should be directed to leftists in Europe and America, who are helping the Islamic invasion in their nations, at the expense of the security of the Jewish citizens, because most Muslims hate Jews and love Hitler. Mein Kampf, Hitler’s autobiography, is a bestseller in Islamic nations in the Middle East.

And Mr. Wurman’s disturbed criticism should be directed to deniers of the Inquisition, because to deny the Inquisition is like to deny the Holocaust. It is to deny that Jews were innocent victims of systematic persecution, torture and murder.

There is no justification for Mr. Wurman to accuse indirectly Trump or other conservatives, who are being attacked by the Left.

But there is much justification for him to accuse rightists whose pro-Inquisition stances are not lambasted by the Left and the Right.

Portuguese version of this article: O Holocausto e as críticas mal direcionadas de um judeu brasileiro contra conservadores na Europa e América

Source: Last Days Watchman

Recommended Reading:

Jewish Issues: A Clarification to Christians about Their Perception on the Jews

Trump and Prophecies, and a New Model of National and World Leader

Sanhedrin Asks Putin and Trump to Build Third Temple in Jerusalem

Julio Severo in O Globo

Olavo de Carvalho and the Inquisition