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CAN’T YOU GET THE IDEAS RIGHT SIDE UP?

Brian Meadows
4 min readJan 26, 2025

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We all need to ‘know our tribes’. But neither can we make them into idols without losing what is best in them.
And this is just what both Islamists and ‘Christian’ nationalists do. They seek to grab all power in whatever countries are cursed by them. They seek to rob their neighbors of their God-given freedom of conscience, faith and worship. And, since neither can conceive of a god who is no more than the head of their particular tribes, they believe the whole world is organized exactly as are they and that all the talk about ‘creative freedom’ and ‘the marketplace of ideas’ is simply a ruse to clear the path for ‘atheistic, komm’niss, sosh’list, FAG i-dees’.
Well, pardners, why, then, do you need the state’s help in fighting such ‘idees’? If your ideas are better for us and healthier for the planet, why are you losing the contention of ideas and losing it bigtime without prohibition on criticizing this or even saying that? Like, for instance, wanting to prohibit even the use of the words ‘climate change’? Or any criticism of Islam and/or the Qur’an?
If your ideas come direct from God as you claim, why do they bring so much more DEATH and misery in their wake? No, dudes, I for one don’t buy it. Serving the Lord our God with all our minds does NOT mean, we switch our minds off! No; the God I know wants us to engage our minds with his, even to the point of speaking up even to Him and asking why — but be prepared for at least the implication you can’t digest His reply — at least not yet.
My continuing conversation with God seems to indicate that He shares infomation and…

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Brian Meadows
Brian Meadows

Written by Brian Meadows

An angry straight white Anglo-Saxon angry at most of his 'own kind'.

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