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Why must everything be eatable in Nigeria. No respect for life

DaniDani:
This one na fat man. There's difference between fat and muscle. Muscle has to do with strength while fat is for body size.

if you have muscle you go for bodybuilding. Olu is a professional strongman like Eddie hall the world strongest man 2017

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The white man said intelligent Nigerians should leave Nigeria because the powers that be are trying to bring every body down. People should watch the video very well abeg

Na so HIV go rush am too

A concert does not need too many artists. It is Nigeria someone who do a concert and invite 20 artistes what for.
It is humblesmith concert and only him should sing. One or two artiste can sing with him . Artiste don't need to attend the concert. It is for fans

blessedvisky:
I started seeing the name "Regina Daniels" late 2015.. This is late 2018 and she is still 16. Maybe she exists in another space-time continuum or a parallel dimension existing within Nigeria here. Pls science students should help us out with explanations

she has found the fountain of eternal youth�

Must u people compare buhari with Gej. We voted out Gej so that buhari will take Nigeria forward. Yet these people always have a need to mention Gej who is no longer in power. These guys have subconscious insecurities

These people don't get tired of blaming PDP. People voted u in to clean the mess of PDP , why still complaining about them. I don't just get it

Shukuakukobambi:
Really? I thought the albino hunchback told you buhari was dead and it's a cloned jubrin they brought back?

Was he lying?

Also didn't your Messiah order you to burn the zoo to the ground if anything happens to him? What are you waiting for?

Did IPOB kill anyone , people can make statements the most important thing is their actions. Compare that with the herdsmen that killed more than 500 people. Logic And common sense must guard our lives not tribalism, bigotry and religious fanatism

Emir is telling them truth they won't hear. Rather they will indoctrinate their youth with religious concept that has no reality with God. Falsehood and propaganda to simpletons who will believe everything their superiors tell them. Don't believe anything except it is alignment with logic and common sense.

Imisimedia:
1. Matthew
Suffered martyrdom in Ethiopia, Killed by a sword wound.

2. Mark
Died in Alexandria, Egypt , after being dragged by Horses through the streets until he was dead.

3. Luke
Was hanged in Greece as a result of his tremendous Preaching to the lost.

4. John
Faced martyrdom when he was boiled in huge Basin of boiling oil during a wave of persecution In Rome. However, he was miraculously delivered From death.
John was then sentenced to the mines on the prison Island of Patmos. He wrote his prophetic Book of Revelation on Patmos . The apostle John was later freed and returned to serve As Bishop of Edessa in modern Turkey . He died as an old man, the only apostle to die peacefully

5. Peter
He was crucified upside down on an x-shaped cross.
According to church tradition it was because he told his tormentors that he felt unworthy to die In the same way that Jesus Christ had died.

6. James
The leader of the church in Jerusalem , was thrown over a hundred feet down from the southeast pinnacle of the Temple when he refused to deny his faith in Christ. When they discovered that he survived the fall, his
enemies beat James to death with a fuller's club.
* This was the same pinnacle where Satan had taken Jesus during the Temptation.

7. James the Son of Zebedee
was a fisherman by trade when Jesus Called him to a lifetime of ministry. As a strong leader of the church, James was beheaded at Jerusalem. The Roman officer who guarded James watched amazed as James defended his faith at his trial. Later, the officer Walked beside James to the place of execution. Overcome by conviction, he declared his new faith to the judge and Knelt beside James to accept beheading as a Christian.

8. Bartholomew
Also known as Nathaniel Was a missionary to Asia. He witnessed for our Lord in present day Turkey. Bartholomew was martyred for his preaching in Armenia where he was flayed to death by a whip.

9. Andrew
Was crucified on an x-shaped cross in Patras, Greece. After being whipped severely by seven soldiers they tied his body to the cross with cords to prolong his agony. His followers reported that, when he was led toward the cross, Andrew saluted it in these words: 'I have long desired and expected this happy hour. The cross has been consecrated by the body of Christ hanging on it.' He continued to preach to his tormentors For two days until he expired.

10. Thomas
Was stabbed with a spear in India during one of his missionary trips to establish the church in the Sub-continent.

11. Jude
Was killed with arrows when he refused to deny his faith in Christ.

12. Matthias
The apostle chosen to replace the traitor Judas Iscariot, was stoned and then beheaded.

13. Paul
Was tortured and then beheaded by the evil Emperor Nero at Rome in A.D. 67. Paul endured a lengthy imprisonment, which allowed him to write his many
epistles to the churches he had formed throughout the Roman Empire. These letters, which taught many of the foundational Doctrines of Christianity, form a large portion of the New Testament.

Perhaps this is a reminder to us that our sufferings here are indeed minor compared to the intense persecution and cold cruelty faced by the apostles and disciples during their times For the sake of the Faith. And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: But he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
Pass on to encourage other Christians
Why Do we feel sleepy in Prayer,
But stay awake through a 3 hour movie?
Why are we so bored when we look at the HOLY BOOK,
But find it easy to read other books?
Why is it so easy to ignore a msg about God,
Yet we forward the nasty ones?
Why are Prayers getting smaller,
But bars and clubs are expanding
Why is it so easy to worship a celebrity,
But very difficult to engage with God?
Think about it, are you going to forward this?
Are you going to ignore it, cause you think you will get laughed at?

Make this message your contribution to the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, Amen!

My God these people are brave. Don't know whether modern day Christians can die for what they believe in

The baby might suffer fetal alcohol syndrome

graciously03:
continue to rest in Peace Mr Sam...the guy go don reincarnate by now sef

. Thank God a Nigerian that believes in reincarnation

Read 100,000 songs of milarepa or quietly comes the Buddha by Elizabeth clare prophet. Though religion may be different ,there is only one truth. If your path is traditionalism, practice it well. Purify your heart, mind, body, soul, thoughts, feelings and speech. And ask your deity to give you the wisdom of right action. Life is to beautiful to be arguing over religion. Love

Inordinate desire not just desire, the desire for material gains ,sex, power, control and attachment to Maya(the material world) are what causes suffering

Love is beyond religion, ethnicity and skin colour. As long as that person religion emphasizes in purity of the heart, mind, body, soul ,speech,desires and motives. I have no problem. Islam at its very core promotes peace, Christianity promotes peace . one of the things I always want to see in a spiritual or religious person is the ability to see beyond outer differences , go beyond religious boundaries and embody the underlying oneness of life. If your spouse is faithful, Honest, just, kind, loving, self- controlled why not marry him or her. Are rhese virtues not what religion is trying to teach us all. If he or she has that you are actually practicing the same religion because you share the same principles. We Nigerians must rise above the consciousness of separation and division and embody universal brotherhood, togetherness and oneness. The virtues your spouse is expressing is the most important thing. Thank u

All African countries are out of the world cup.
Why is it that Africans are always lagging behind in reasonable things but when it comes to poverty,unemployment, corruption,killings we are at the forefront. WHY WHY WHY

Pls how can I get or retrieve my GCE photocard I did my GCE in 2009 i am about to travel and they say i should bring my GCE certificate, I will need my photo card to collect it from waec, pls what do I do. Thanks for the help

They reincarnate in a religious family

Hell fire is nonsense it is a myth

[quote author=Toks2008 post=65143318]1.They believe that good works will take them to heaven:
Many people believe that salvation is all about how good you live while on earth but unfortunately it is not by how perfect your conduct is or how good natured you are. You must accept Jesus as your lord and saviour first and foremost because he is the only way to paradise, no other way.

Ephesians 2:8-9 'For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;not by works, so that no one can boast.'
John 14:6 'Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.'

2.They question GOD about his ways
Many people ask GOD different questions about salvation...'Why did he have to send Jesus to die when he has the power to simply forgive us' 'Why did a loving GOD sacrifice someone he claims to be his son?' 'Why did.....' and on and on.
The fact remains that GOD ways are not our ways(Isaiah 55:8 ) and he made us understand that without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins(Hebrews 9:22) and it is impossible for the blood of goats and bulls to take away the sins of the world(Hebrews 10:4-5).... so why not accept the sacrifice of christ and ask GOD why he chose that route when you get closer to him in paradise.

3.The simplicity of salvation
Now this is a very unique reason and many unbelievers find this very hard to understand because to them, getting saved had to be more difficult than just accepting Jesus as lord and saviour and getting baptized...but the truth is...it is that simple yet as simple as it is, many people find it extremely difficult to accept Jesus as lord and saviour which makes me wonder why a simple escape from eternal suffering can be so ignored by people.
John 3:16 'For GOD so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believes in him will not perish but have everlasting life.

4.Self condemnation
It is so sad that many people had at one time accepted Jesus as lord and saviour and have tasted salvation but willingly gave up their salvation due to self condemnation. Because they still find themselves committing the same sins they were involved in before they accepted Jesus as lord and saviour,they just felt they are not good enough to be saved.
GOD expects us to live a holy life and to also work out our salvation with fear and trembling but nevertheless, he will never condemn you but will help you in your weakness through the help of the holy spirit to get better and better because salvation is a work in process we go through right from the day we got saved to the very day we leave this world. So please don't ever condemn yourself or give up your salvation because the moment you are saved, nothing will separate you from GOD except you. Anytime you commit a sin, go on your knees and pray for forgiveness and ask the holy spirit to help you overcome that sin/addiction...trust me, he will surely help you and you will hate the very sinful habits you once thought you can never overcome.
Romans 8:1-2 'Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death'

5.Unbelief
It is so unfortunate that some people believe that Jesus was never crucified yet they believe in every other aspect of him...they say he is not the son of GOD, that he was just a prophet like every other prophet and so on. Some even say there is no heaven, no hell and no GOD...But believe it or not. Jesus was crucified, he died and rose on the third day and he is alive forever and ever. He is THE DIVINE SON OF GOD and he is coming back again to rule this world for 1000years and afterwards he will establish a new heaven and a new earth where those who believe in him will live forever and ever and ever without sins,sadness,death but in total grandeur
John 3:36 'Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.

6.Heresy
False teachings have made many unbelievers run away from salvation simply because many preachers have presented salvation in a very different light and many people would rather remain as unbelievers rather than get involved in what seem to be a bondage to them.
I have heard some preachers say 'You will end up in hell If you wear jewelleries, use relaxers on your hair, if a lady wears trousers, if you don't pay your tithe, if you have a boyfriend/girlfriend, if you take alcohol, if you marry more than a wife....and on and on they set their own standard that is totally different from what is written in the scriptures thereby making salvation look like a serious bondage and in the process they discourage many people who indulge in those things they condemn from getting saved.

Galatians 5:13 'For you have been called to live in freedom, my brothers and sisters. But don’t use your freedom to satisfy your sinful nature. Instead, use your freedom to serve one another in love'.

7.Theological permutation and combination
I know many people might be coming across these combination of words for the very first time but i have meticulously observed that there are different interpretations to scriptures in relation to different Christian denominations. This is not heresy in anyway but just a different understanding of the scriptures hence the reason why some believe in trinity and some don't...some believe that this earth will remain forever and some don't...some don't even believe in speaking in tongues and some believe it is a vital sign that you have received the baptism of the holy spirit...and many more. In my opinion, this different beliefs could make outsiders or unbelievers get more confused and could make them start wondering if they really need to get involved. My humble suggestion is that we as a body of Christ must focus on saving souls which is the most vital assignment given to us by Jesus and focus less on the discrepancies in interpreting scriptures.

Romans 14:5-8 'One person considers one day more sacred than another; another considers every day alike. Each of them should be fully convinced in their own mind .Whoever regards one day as special does so to the Lord. Whoever eats meat does so to the Lord, for they give thanks to God; and whoever abstains does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God.For none of us lives for ourselves alone, and none of us dies for ourselves alone. If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.'

8.Using human as role model
This is one of the biggest mistake many people make...infact some people have given up their salvation because they use 'pastors' as role model rather than use Christ Jesus. Many people will say 'How can i give my life to Christ when i saw a pastor in a hotel room with a lady, how can i be born again when pastors who preach the gospel are enmeshed in sins'. If you are one of these people who use humans as role model i humbly advise you to take your eyes away from men and focus on Jesus who is the author and finisher of our faith...He is our role model.

Hebrews 10:2 'Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.'

9.Sophistication
Many people are too full of themselves when it comes to the issue of salvation...they believe they are too powerful, popular, classy, wealthy,
handsome/pretty,educated...to accept Jesus as their lord and saviour so they just ignore and continue to live their life until its too late.
No matter how powerful,wealthy, good looking, influential, popular...you are, the fact remains that one day when you least expect it, you MUST leave this world and you must end up in either HELL or HEAVEN so the choice is yours to make while you are still in this world.

I keep reiterating that death must come to all no matter your age or status and it will come when we least expect it and when you die, people will forget about you so the best insurance you can have for your soul is to accept Jesus this moment because the worst thing that can ever happen to any human is to be caught dead without accepting Jesus as lord and saviour.

10.Some people will never be saved
As strange and wicked as this may seem,it is the truth. Lucifer,the demons and all fallen angels as well as those whose name have not been written in the book of life before the foundations of the world. This may get us confused but then i guess it still remains our choice to decide if we want to be saved or not....its totally up to you.

MAY GOD HELP US ALL.
Hell fire is a figment of your imagination
Wake up deluded one

Hell is a figment of the imagination

Place Of The Cow
THE COW is a poem of pity. One reads pity in the gentle animal. She is the mother to millions of Indian mankind. Protection of the cow means protection of the whole dumb creation of God. The ancient seer, whoever he was, began with the cow. The appeal of the lower order of creation is all the more forcible because it is speechless. (YI, 6-10-1921, p. 36)
…The cow is the purest type of sub-human life. She pleads before us on behalf of the whole of the sub-human species for justice to it at the hands of man, the first among all that lives. She seems to speak to us through her eyes: 'you are not appointed over us to kill us and eat our flesh or otherwise ill-treat us, but to be our friend and guardian'. (YI, 26-6-1924, p. 214)
I worship it and I shall defend its worship against the whole world. (YI, 1-1-1925, p.
Mother cow is in many ways better than the mother who gave us birth. Our mother gives us milk for a couple of years and then expects us to serve her when we grow up. Mother cow expects from us nothing but grass and grain. Our mother often falls ill and expects service from us. Mother cow rarely falls ill. Here is an unbroken record of service which does not end with her death. Our mother, when she dies, means expenses of burial or cremation. Mother cow is as useful dead as when she is alive. We can make use of every part of her body-her flesh, her bones, her intestines, her horns and her skin. Well, I say this not to disparage the mother who gives us birth, but in order to show you the substantial reasons for my worshipping the cow. (H, 15-9-1940, p. 281)
The Cow In Hinduism
The central fact of Hinduism is cow protection. Cow protection to me is one of the most wonderful phenomena in human evolution. It takes the human being beyond this species. The cow to me means the entire sub-human world. Man through the cow is enjoined to realize his identity with all that lives. Why the cow was selected for apotheosis is obvious to me. The cow was in India the best companion. She was the giver of plenty. Not only did she give milk, but she also made agriculture possible….....
Cow protection is the gift of Hinduism to the world. And Hinduism will live so ling as there are Hindus to protect the cow…… Hindus will be judged not by their TILAKS, not by the correct chanting of MANTRAS, not by their pilgrimages, not by their most punctilious observances of caste rules, but their ability to protect the cow. (YI, 6-10-1921, p. 36)
Cow-Slaughter
I would not kill a human being for protection a cow, as I will not kill a cow for saving a human life, be it ever so precious. (YI, 18-5-1921, p. 156)
My religion teaches me that I should by personal conduct instill into the minds of those who might hold different views, the conviction that cow-killing is a sin and that, therefore, it ought to be abandoned.
(YI, 29-1-1925, p. 38)
Cow slaughter can never be stopped by law. Knowledge, education, and the spirit of kindliness towards her alone can put and end to it. It will not be possible to save those animals that are a burden on the land or, perhaps, even man if he is a burden. (H, 15-9-1946, p. 310)
My ambition is no less than to see the principle of cow protection established throughout the world. But that requires that I should set my own house thoroughly in order first. (YI, 29-1-1925, p. 38)
Cow protection to me is not mere protection of the cow. It means protection of that lives and is helpless and weak in the world. (YI, 7-5-1925, p. 160)
But lit me reiterate….that legislative prohibition is the smallest part of any programme of cow protection. …People seem to think that, when a law is passed against any evil, it will die without any further effort. There never was a grosser self-deception. Legislation is intended and is effective against an ignorant or a small, evil-minded minority; but no legislation which is opposed by an intelligent and organized public opinion, or under cover of religion by a fanatical minority (TBC)

If you look at many of the things people do, you will see that the individual acts have no rational or logical purpose. Why do some men rape women or molest children? Why does a serial killer decide to kill dozens of people? Why does a mother decide to drown her children in the bathtub? Why do two groups of people allow hatred to build until is seems like violence is the only solution? Why do people engage in organized crime? Why do people destroy their bodies and minds with drugs, alcohol, tobacco or impure foods? Why do nations engage in the mass hysteria called war? Why do huge companies seek to concentrate money in the hands of a few shareholders by exploiting the workers, when spreading the wealth among the workers would give those companies a greater market? Why does an entire civilization allow a few large companies to pollute its environment and deplete natural resources in order to make a short-term profit, when doing so threatens the long-term survival of both the companies and the civilization? Can someone tell me WHY

you do not worship God for God's sake; you worship God for your own sake. You are not worshiping God because God has a need to be worshiped; your are worshiping because by doing so correctly you overcome all sense of separation from God and come closer to God. However for this to happen your worship must be love-based instead of fear-based.God is not an egomaniac that is obsessed with people worship.
ove. As you begin to love God, you realize that God is a completely self-sufficient, self-contained being. Therefore, God has no human needs and God certainly has no need to be praised or worshiped by human beings. How could an all-powerful God, who created an immensely vast universe, possibly have the need to be worshiped by human beings living on a planet that is like a speck of dust in infinity? I am not saying this to in any way degrade human beings. I am saying it to give a certain sense of co-measurement that God has absolutely no need to be worshiped. God is all, and therefore God is complete in and of itself.

, most earthly rulers have been fear-based individuals, and that is why they attempted to set themselves up with absolute power that allowed them to rule the population through fear. Many secular rulers have based their power on military might and the threat that they would kill people who did not obey them. Many religious rulers have based their power on the fear of God and the threat that those who did not obey would burn forever in hell. Sadly, this even applies to the Christian religion, which claims to represent jesus on earth. Yet didn't jesua say to love God with all your heart mind and lifestream [Mark 12:30]? And so how can you love G
od if you fear God and want everyone else to fear you?
, the outer form of worship is insignificant compared to the inner result of opening your heart and establishing a true connection between yourself and the object of worship. The ultimate form of worship is union with, oneness with, the object of worship. This can be seen when you understand that the original sin is a sense of separation from God.

The only way to be completely free of sin is to overcome the sense a separation from God. And the only way to overcome the sense of separation is to remove the distance between yourself and God. Because God is all and in all, there never was any real separation or distance between you and God. There was only an illusion of separation, and that illusion exists only in your mind. Remember jesus statement, “Ye are Gods.” The ultimate way to worship God in this world is to BE God in this world

This is from nothingdoyou from
2 years ago excerpt from the the news blog

Once upon a time, a man named Tai Solarin founded the Mayflower School
in Ikenne,Ogun State. The Late Tai Solarin was an unrepentant 'atheist'.
Yet, christians, muslims, traditional worshippers sent their kids to
the school because of the quality of education. The school flourished
and produced some of the best brains in Nigeria of today. In spite of
the quality, the school fees wasn't out reach of the average Nigerian
family. Tai Solarin, though an atheist, his legacy forever lives on. Now
the question is, how many 'Christian' families can afford to send their
kids to the current 'Christian' private school founded by popular
pentecostal movements? Moral of the story, you need not to wear a white
collar or grow long beard to impact on humanity. Service to humanity is
not a religious matter.

The body of Christ is simply a symbol for the wisdom of the Christ consciousness, and the blood of Christ is a symbol for the love of the Christ consciousness.

So the saying that life on earth will be redeemed through the body and blood of Christ is true, but only in the sense that it is through the wisdom and the love of the universal Christ consciousness that the world will be redeemed. It is essential to understand that the world will not be redeemed through jesus sacrifice on the cross alone.
Jesus life was meant to be an example of the spiritual path that all people can walk and thereby attain Christ consciousness (mind of Christ). The world will be redeemed only when a critical mass of people decide to embody the wisdom and the love of the universal Christ consciousness and thereby raise the collective consciousness of humankind to a new level.

taxation is very high. I would therefore consider it acceptable that people paid 10% of their income after tax. This can still fulfill the law of the tithe. Render unto Caesar's that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's.

Let me also say that people should not become attached to the figure of 10%. Remember the parable about the woman who gave all that she had and received a greater return from God than the rich man who barely noticed his gift. If you cannot afford to pay 10% of your income, then pay what you can afford and pay it with love. God’s multiplication is not so much related to the outer amount but to the amount of love in your heart.

The Bible contains several references to the principle of paying tithe. For example, Abraham paid tithe to Melchizedek, the king of Salem. So in that respect, I would say that paying tithe is scriptural.

The simplest way to explain the principle of paying tithe is to compare it to the process of sowing seeds. You have a person who after a long winter has a little grain left. He now has to go out into the field and bury that grain in the ground where it could rot or be eaten by animals. The person has no absolute guarantee that his efforts will bear fruit. Yet the person does have an absolute guarantee that if he does not sow the grain, he will not receive a harvest.

Money is a symbol for the light of God. Everything in this universe is made from God’s substance, God’s light. The nature of God’s light is to flow. This is expressed in the saying that freely ye have received, freely give. When you recognize that it is the Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom, then you should freely share and give of what you receive from God, what you receive from life.

You can even see this in society. When the economy of a nation begins to contract, people become pessimistic and spend less money. This causes the economy to contract even more. When the economy is expanding, people feel optimistic and spend more money, which causes the economy to grow faster.

What I am saying here is that the nature of God is to flow and expand. When you are in alignment with the principles of God, you are receiving freely and giving freely. As part of giving freely, you can consider giving a certain part of your income to purposes that are not related to your personal needs or desires. You would give this 10% of your income to what one might call God's purposes. You would give it to areas of society that have a greater need than yours.

When you do this, you demonstrate to God that you are willing to give part of your income to causes that do not relate to your own personal needs. You are willing to put your own needs second to the needs of another, to the purposes of God.

God will multiply the offering according to the purity of your heart. My parable about the talents demonstrates this principle. You will see that the Master praised the servants who multiplied their talents and chastised the servant who buried his talents in the ground. The basic principle is that you should allow God’s light to flow through you. When you do so, God will multiply your offering manifold. If you put one grain of wheat in the ground, you will receive many in return.

I am not saying that you can pay tithe exclusively to a church or religious organization. You can certainly pay tithe to any form of charitable organization.

In the past, many churches have used the principle of tithing by trying to make their congregations feel obligated to pay tithe to the church. Some churches have even attempted to scare people into giving them money. This is a misuse of the law of the tithe because it violates the principle of freely receiving and freely giving. You should not give tithe out of fear or a sense of obligation.

Likewise, you should not pay tithe out of an expectation of a return because this also violates the principle of free receiving and giving. Tithing is not a business deal between you and God, and if you approach it as such, you break the circle of the free flow of God’s light.

If you are currently paying tithe out of any negative feelings, Simply don't pay tithe until you get an impulse from within, an impulse based on love, that tells you where to give your tithe.

As a side note, let me say that in many industrialized countries. To be ctd

A democratic nation simply does not have the ruthlessness to use military power to suppress those it considers to be dangerous. If a democratic government seeks to take such power, it transform itself into a totalitarian regime. My point is that in a democracy, freedom of speech – no matter how it is executed – must never be seen as a threat to peace. On the contrary, it is the primary safety valve that can preserve peace.

Let us look at a concrete example. Most European nations have not healed the wounds left by World War II and the Holocaust. It is therefore understandable that such nations do not want to see the emergence of a Neo-Nazi movement that openly encourages the killing of Jews and the destruction of the state of Israel. Yet let us now recognize the fact that a small number of people in some European nations have become fascinated by the Nazi ideology. What is the best way to respond?

Some nations try to do nothing, but history has proven that ignoring a problem will not make it go away. Others try to actively suppress Neo-Nazis, but the inevitable effect is that they simply become more determined and organized. This has been proven by the resistance movements seen in many totalitarian regimes around the world. And when people are suppressed, society cannot as easily keep track of what they are doing. Furthermore, when you suppress people, tension grows and sooner or later you have a flash point.

The wiser course of action is to realize that it is a free government’s responsibility to help all of its citizens come to a higher understanding of life, meaning that they give up extremist viewpoints of any kind. So if some people begin to espouse a Neo-Nazi ideology, a government should try to understand why they are attracted to such a belief system. Obviously, they must feel dissatisfied with their society and its form of government yet powerless to do anything about it. Yet while the Nazi’s in WWII Germany might have been your enemies, these people are your own citizens and a free government should never see its own citizens as enemies. Since a free government cannot violently suppress such people, it needs to help them voluntarily give up their extremist views. One aspect of this is to allow FREE speech to do its work.

Allow such people to operate openly and say whatever they want to say. At the say time you allow those who oppose them to say what they want to say. The result is that the Neo-Nazis will say things that will offend many people. This gives these people an opportunity to consider why they are offended by such statements. And as people freely express their opinion about the Neo-Nazis, they get the opportunity to consider why they are so abhorrent to most people. The free expression of ideas will not actually create tension but will bring out whatever tension is already lurking under the calm surface. And by making it visible, people can easier see what they need to address in their nation. At least, this raises the potential of long-term progress for everyone. Seeking to suppress what is already there will only increase the lurking tension until an explosion occurs. Incidentally, such unresolved tension is what lead to the Nazi’s coming to power in pre-war Germany.

My point is that allowing free speech to work has the potential to lead to open dialogue, and this can lead to mutual understanding. People generally take extremist views because they feel they are not understood by their society. When people feel such understanding, they often moderate their views and enter the political process in a peaceful and more balanced way.

Kim: Yet some people say that if you allow Muslims to stage public demonstrations where they incite violence, they will gradually build a tension that will lead to actual violence. So they say a government’s only option is to suppress all demonstrations that incite violence and hatred.

Jesus: Most Europeans clearly see that Muslim extremists are fanatical, so they need to be very careful not to engage in any kind of fanaticism themselves. The core of fanaticism is black-and-white thinking. LINK You think that in any given situation, there are only two possible options – one bad and one worse – and you have to choose one. In other words, either you prevent Muslims from having free expression – which is bad – or you have mayhem and chaos – which is worse. Such beliefs are always based on blindness, where people are blinded by the beam in their own eyes and thus do not see what would otherwise have been obvious. They do not see that there are always more options than bad and worse.

In this case, many Europeans subconsciously realize that the influx of Muslims has created a need for THEM to change. Yet because they are unwilling to do so, they simply want the problem to go away. Once again, the problem is that you cannot serve two masters. You need to decide that you either do not allow any Muslim immigrants into your country (and deport those already there) or that you will do whatever it takes to help these Muslims integrate peacefully into your society. Most European nations are trying to allow Muslim immigrants without truly integrating them, and that is why you see mounting tension.

So how can you overcome this? By encouraging Muslims to take part in the political process, the public debate and every other aspect of a free society. Encourage Muslims to organize and create organizations that can interact with the government, with the media and with other organizations. These organizations can then voice immigrant concerns and negotiate solutions in cooperation with the government. They can put on a face to the press and this will help Muslims clarify their viewpoints while getting feedback from the media and the people in the host country.

Why do people stage demonstrations and shout for violence? Because they are frustrated and feel they cannot be heard or understood in any other way. So by encouraging dialogue, you will get the moderate, open-minded Muslims to join this process. And by allowing free expression, you will allow the extremist Muslims to make themselves visible. Thus, the moderate Muslims will separate themselves from the extremists, and you can now deal with the extremists without lumping the moderates in with them.

Incidentally, most of the Muslim extremists in Europe are NOT political refugees fleeing suppressive governments. They are violent, fanatical extremists, and if they are not willing to join a peaceful, democratic process in their new country, that country has a right to deport them. You can’t deport your own citizens, but you CAN deport immigrants who have no desire for peaceful integration in your country.

Kim: Some Muslims have pointed out that several European nations have defended the publishing of the cartoons as a free speech issue, while these same nations have made it illegal to make anti-semitic statements or say the Holocaust did not take place. The Muslims say this is hypocritical. Would you agree?

Jesus: Certainly, although hearing a Muslim accuse others of being hypocrites is an example of seeing the splinter in your brother’s eye while ignoring the beam in your own. You will indeed see Muslims who say that western governments should have restricted the newspapers from publishing the cartoons, because that is what would have been done in most Muslim nations.

Nevertheless, if the messenger be an ant, heed him and there is truth in such statements. You cannot allow people to speak freely on one issue while restricting their speech on another issue. There can be no restrictions to FREE speech in a FREE society. If speech is not free, the society cannot be free either.

Kim: So what do you think about the fact that in many nations people cannot speak freely about Jews, homosexuals, blacks or other minorities. For example, if you say anything remotely critical about the state of Israel, some people will immediately label you as anti-semitic. How does that affect free speech?
Jesus: It obviously restricts free speech, and people need to be on guard against ALL such taboos, no matter how subtle they are or how well-founded they might seem.

You know very well that I have made some remarks on this website that some people have labeled anti-semitic. You know I have made some remarks about homosexuality that some have labeled homophobic. If such labels become widely accepted in a society, they will undermine free speech in a very subtle and very dangerous way.

As one example, let us look at the Jews. It is perfectly true that the Jewish people have been subjected to much persecution, culminating in the Holocaust. Yet the fact that the Jewish people were persecuted by the Nazis in the past does not mean that all Jews have been elevated to the status of infallibility for all eternity. Jews are still human beings and are subject to the same laws and standards as all other human beings on this planet. If you set Jews apart, you simply continue the consciousness that caused the persecution of Jews in the first place and this will only lead to more persecution.

My point is that Jews are as prone to making mistakes as are other people. So if the politicians in Israel make mistakes, such as by continuing to respond to violence with more violence, then the international community has a right and a duty to criticize them. If nations refrain from doing so because they are afraid of being labeled anti-semitic, you create a dangerous situation. If people can exercise power without accountability, you will inevitably see the abuse of power and this goes for the state of Israel as well. There is no doubt that the state of Israel has gotten away with things because the international community is reluctant to criticize it. This is a major factor in making it impossible to create true peace between Israel and its neighbors—who clearly see what many nations in the West are unwilling to see. Thus, many Arab countries are correct when they point out that many western countries have a double standard in dealing with Israel.

However, there is a bigger issue here that goes to the very core of free speech. If you look at history, you will see that there is an ongoing battle between a small elite and the general population. This can be seen in every culture and in every historical period. There is always a small elite who is seeking unlimited power and privilege, and they do so by using whatever means available to suppress the general population. For those who want to know the spiritual cause of this, I explain it elsewhere.

In a totalitarian regime, the power elite can use physical force to suppress the population, but knowledge is still power. That is why every totalitarian regime on this planet has attempted to keep the population ignorant by suppressing the free flow of information and freedom of speech. Ask yourself why a regime with the formidable military power of the former Soviet Union and present-day China finds it necessary to suppress information. The reason is that the power elite always fears the truth, because the truth WILL eventually set the people free from the power elite.

It is extremely naive to assume – as most people do – that in a democratic nation there is no power elite. The democratic world still has a power elite, but because it no longer has military power, it has been driven largely underground. It can now operate only by staying hidden from the general population. I am going to make it very clear that I do not support most of the conspiracy theories out there. There isn’t one worldwide conspiracy to suppress the population—at least not in the material world.

Instead, there are a number of power elite groups who are fighting with each other to attain power and privilege. And it is an undeniable fact that a free, democratic society also gives freedom to such groups, because it assumes that its citizens have good intentions and support the democratic freedoms. Therefore, a democratic society is inherently vulnerable to those who seek to misuse democratic freedoms to gain power and privilege. Ignoring this fact will eventually threaten the survival of a democracy.

How can a power elite gain power and privilege in a democratic society? By misusing its freedom to undermine the freedom of the general population. For example, all people can vote, but they can only vote for the candidates that are running. If a country has allowed a system where only people with a lot of money can wage an effective political campaign, the power elite can select who can run for office. Another example is the ownership of the media. The press in a democratic nation is supposedly free to print anything it wants, but how free is it? If a commercial newspaper depends on advertising from large corporations, how willing is it to print something damaging to one or more of its essential advertisers? How willing is a paper to challenge the power and privilege of those who own it?

Yet there is a bigger issue. Although there are competing power elites, they all share the same basic goal. A democracy is a form of society that gives – or is meant to give – all people the same rights and opportunity. Thus, we might say that a democracy is designed to prevent a power elite from taking power and privileges over the general population. Therefore, all power elite groups share an interest in undermining the principles that guarantee equal rights.

From the very birth of the first democracy, there has been an effort by various groups to undermine and even destroy democracy. In modern western society, this has taken two main directions:

Secularization
Most democratic constitutions take their inspiration from the Declaration of Independence. This document was inspired by the ascended masters, and its central concept is that all people are created equal and that their Creator has given them certain INALIENABLE rights. The essence of this is that there is an authority that is above and beyond any authority on earth—meaning any power elite group. Thus, no institution on earth has the right to take away or restrict the rights given to ALL people by this super-earthly authority.

It should be possible for perceptible people to see that if the belief in and respect for the existence of a super-earthly authority declines, then the justification for the concept of inalienable rights fades with it. In a completely secular society, such as communist China, it is taken as granted that human rights are defined by the state, meaning an institution here on earth. In other words, rights are defined by an earthly institution rather than being given by an authority above and beyond the human power struggle. In practicality, this means that the ruling power elite defines the rights of the general population.
My point is that it is an undeniable fact that a completely secular democracy simply cannot survive for very long. It is inevitable that a power elite will erode the inalienable rights of the people until the people’s rights are now defined by the power elite.

The ascended masters clearly support the move away from the doctrinal, fanatical approach to religion in the middle ages. Yet we do not support the current situation in Europe where people live in a spiritual vacuum and where governments take pride in removing all influence of religious principles from government. This is not sustainable, and unless people embrace a new, universal spirituality, European democracy will continue its decline until it is democracy by name only.

Misguided tolerance
The concept of inalienable rights implies that it is possible to evaluate human behavior in terms of absolute right and wrong. If you violate the God-given rights of another person, your actions are wrong in an absolute sense and a democratic society has no obligation to tolerate them.

Yet one of the cornerstones of democracy is that a society is obligated to give its citizens the greatest possible amount of freedom, and this necessitates that people have a high degree of tolerance for each other’s differences. For example, a democracy must guarantee religious freedom, meaning that it cannot allow one religion to dominate society, as the Catholic Church did in the middle ages.

Over the past several decades, most western democracies have been exposed to a deliberate and planned attempt at social engineering. This is a very subtle attempt to misuse the concept of tolerance in order to subvert the respect for inalienable rights. By using some of the worst atrocities from history, such as the Inquisition and the Holocaust, certain power elite groups have gradually raised up tolerance as the overriding ideal for a free society.

The effect is that – in the name of tolerance – the majority has been engineered not to speak out against the behavior of any minority group, even if that minority is actually violating the inalienable rights of the majority, thus undermining democracy itself. In the name of tolerance, society has been moved toward a state where anything goes and there is no higher standard for evaluating behavior. Everything is defined by human beings—meaning the ruling power elite.

The net effect of these two factors is an undermining of the democratic principle of protecting the majority from an aggressive power elite. If anything goes, then the bullies have free reign to intimidate those who are not aggressive people. This has far-reaching consequences, but let me focus on the issue of free speech.

As I said above, the power elite can only maintain power and privilege by curbing free speech. They want to set themselves up as a privileged group whose actions and power cannot be questioned or gainsaid. They are in a separate class than the majority, they are above the law and can do whatever they want because they belong to the elite.