<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13516284</id><updated>2011-12-29T16:01:50.136-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Great Reconstruction</title><subtitle type='html'>For the LORD will rebuild Zion and appear in his glory.
                   Psalm 102:16</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13516284/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>The Ascetic Crusader</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16655605541869497397</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>21</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13516284.post-114364985307230321</id><published>2006-03-29T08:28:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-03-29T08:30:53.073-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Destruction of Western Civilization IV</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Marxism, Homoeroticism , Feminism and the NWO&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;based on the article Men or Cattle? by Steve Farrell - Newsmax.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5. Soft on crime,&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;soft on sin&lt;/strong&gt;, soft on convicted felons and soft on terrorism. Listen, if men are born that way, if men have no choice, if men are victimized by circumstances (including by capitalist economics and Judeo-Christian morality), it's understandable why killers kill, why gays are gay, why terrorists hate America, and why we MUST be tolerant of their miscues, and, well, given time and re-education, full of praise for their courage to be who they are.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;This line of reasoning leads to questions like &lt;strong&gt;how can sin be sin, or crime be crime, if men and women cannot help themselves?&lt;/strong&gt; Thus, in the world of Marx &amp;amp; Lenin, there is no virtue, there is no sin – but wait a minute, one virtue only, tolerance for every form of debauchery, and one sin only, tolerance for capitalism and Christianity. A perfect route to pushing the liberty they claim to be enlarging into moral and thus political anarchy followed by law-and-order tyranny.&lt;br /&gt;Either we are children of God, endowed with moral agency, a conscience, and the ability to "put off the natural man" – that is, the ability to rise above animal instincts, environment, conditioning, genetic influences, and economic pressures – or we are not. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13516284-114364985307230321?l=theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com/feeds/114364985307230321/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13516284&amp;postID=114364985307230321&amp;isPopup=true' title='17 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13516284/posts/default/114364985307230321'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13516284/posts/default/114364985307230321'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com/2006/03/destruction-of-western-civilization-iv.html' title='The Destruction of Western Civilization IV'/><author><name>The Ascetic Crusader</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16655605541869497397</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>17</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13516284.post-114364921990967113</id><published>2006-03-29T08:11:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2006-03-29T08:25:44.826-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Destruction of Western Civilization III</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Marxism, Homoeroticism , Feminism and the NWO&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;based on the article Men or Cattle? by Steve Farrell - Newsmax.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4. Men are cattle&lt;/strong&gt;. Returning to the point 1 supposition that men must be free to make choices but men don't possess agency, this parallels nicely the Marxist-Leninist claim that, yes, men do make choices, but, no, not as you think, but rather they are DRIVEN to those choices like cattle.&lt;br /&gt;This is called &lt;strong&gt;determinism.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Determinism :&lt;/strong&gt; Not long after Marx and co. invented this demeaning, excuse-laden, victim-multiplying philosophy on man, psychology came into being and picked up the iron ball and ran with it. Since then, nearly every &lt;strong&gt;psychological theory&lt;/strong&gt;, at its root, reinforces the man-bereft-of-agency idea, blaming all human action on the environment, or conditioning, or genetics – or anything but the Divine Gift of moral agency, and conscience, and the willingness of millions to obey the influence of an outside Higher Power, even when it is difficult, or near impossible.&lt;br /&gt;Men can't sacrifice their sins, their wants, their careers, their very lives on the alter – can they – for the sake of faith, fidelity, or family? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13516284-114364921990967113?l=theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com/feeds/114364921990967113/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13516284&amp;postID=114364921990967113&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13516284/posts/default/114364921990967113'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13516284/posts/default/114364921990967113'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com/2006/03/destruction-of-western-civilization.html' title='The Destruction of Western Civilization III'/><author><name>The Ascetic Crusader</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16655605541869497397</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13516284.post-114364922338233290</id><published>2006-03-29T08:11:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-03-29T08:22:32.366-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Destruction of Western Civilization II</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Marxism, Homoeroticism , Feminism and the NWO&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;based on the article Men or Cattle? by Steve Farrell - Newsmax.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;There is something eerily Marxist-Leninist about this mixed-signal approach to homosexuality being espoused in the West that truly can't be ignored : &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. Inconsistency&lt;/strong&gt;. Let's protect freedom of choice for gays, but then again, "they have no choice." We need to understand, in the "one step forward, two steps back" world of the left, inconsistency is consistent, logical and moral if personal and political empowerment result. Say what needs to be said, support what needs to be supported, at any given moment, in any given set of circumstances, even if this requires day-by-day, minute-by-minute, sentence-by-sentence flip-flops. Do it. "The ends justify the means." Plain and simple.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2. A denunciation of God&lt;/strong&gt;. Listen, declaring that God made homosexuals homosexual implies that God is the author of their sin – the same worn-out argument that hopes to indict God as cruel and unjust, and thus non-existent.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3. An attack on the church&lt;/strong&gt;. When activists combine the "I was made that way" contention with ‘evidence' provided by grant-driven ‘science' and politically correct-driven legislation, they have an iron-fisted plan to subvert and shackle the Christian church, handing over to the state the decision-making power of what can and cannot be taught and practiced. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13516284-114364922338233290?l=theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com/feeds/114364922338233290/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13516284&amp;postID=114364922338233290&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13516284/posts/default/114364922338233290'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13516284/posts/default/114364922338233290'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com/2006/03/destruction-of-western-civilization-ii.html' title='The Destruction of Western Civilization II'/><author><name>The Ascetic Crusader</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16655605541869497397</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13516284.post-114364858917977204</id><published>2006-03-29T08:03:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-03-29T08:09:49.183-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Christian Reconstructionism :&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;AN INTERVIEW WITH R.J. RUSHDOONY &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Conducted by Joseph McAuliffeJ.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;McAuliffe &lt;/strong&gt;: Can we really legislate the biblical standards of morality on non-Christians?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RJ Rushdoony&lt;/strong&gt; : One of the things most people don't understand about Christian Reconstruction is that first it is nothing new. It has been the historic position of the Christian church over the centuries. In Western Europe and the Americas it has receded in the past century or two, but it has always been the Christian way of life. Then , what we really have to understand is the picture of reality we are being fed. A top-down view of whatever faith people in power hold -- it is a view that expounds the capture of the upper echelons of society, and thus the machinery of the state, in order to impose an ideology on the people...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;(In other words its either a Christian standard or a secular / satanic one, but someone´s standards will always be imposed ) .&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13516284-114364858917977204?l=theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com/feeds/114364858917977204/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13516284&amp;postID=114364858917977204&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13516284/posts/default/114364858917977204'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13516284/posts/default/114364858917977204'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com/2006/03/christian-reconstructionism-interview.html' title=''/><author><name>The Ascetic Crusader</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16655605541869497397</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13516284.post-114364812979543247</id><published>2006-03-29T07:55:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-03-29T08:28:00.990-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Destruction of Western Civilization I</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Marxism, Homoeroticism , Feminism and the NWO&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;based on the article Men or Cattle? by Steve Farrell - Newsmax.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Which of the following do you agree with ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. We must have &lt;strong&gt;freedom of choice&lt;/strong&gt; in matters of human sexuality&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Homosexuals &lt;strong&gt;have no choice&lt;/strong&gt;, God made them that way, and so let's just accept them, embrace them,  and praise them for their courage to be who they are.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I agree with :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a) Statement 1&lt;br /&gt;b) Statement 2&lt;br /&gt;c) Both Statements 1 and 2&lt;br /&gt;d) Neither, I am a Christian&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13516284-114364812979543247?l=theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com/feeds/114364812979543247/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13516284&amp;postID=114364812979543247&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13516284/posts/default/114364812979543247'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13516284/posts/default/114364812979543247'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com/2006/03/destruction-of-western-civilization-i.html' title='The Destruction of Western Civilization I'/><author><name>The Ascetic Crusader</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16655605541869497397</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13516284.post-111982384668599327</id><published>2005-06-26T14:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-06-26T15:10:46.700-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Death of Property America !!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;"&gt;U.S. Supreme Court abolishes private property in America&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;From the Associated Press article " Cities may seize homes for economic development, court rules "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;by Hope Yen&lt;/span&gt; - &lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;June 23, 2005&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled today that local governments may seize people's homes and businesses — even against their will — for private economic development.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was a decision fraught with huge implications for a country with many areas, particularly the rapidly growing urban and suburban areas, facing countervailing pressures of development and property ownership rights.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The 5-4 ruling represented a defeat for some Connecticut residents whose homes are slated for destruction to make room for an office complex. They argued that cities have no right to take their land except for projects with a clear public use, such as roads or schools, or to revitalize blighted areas.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13516284-111982384668599327?l=theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com/feeds/111982384668599327/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13516284&amp;postID=111982384668599327&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13516284/posts/default/111982384668599327'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13516284/posts/default/111982384668599327'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com/2005/06/death-of-property-america.html' title='The Death of Property America !!!!'/><author><name>The Ascetic Crusader</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16655605541869497397</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13516284.post-111958651647354078</id><published>2005-06-23T21:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-06-23T21:16:55.276-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Slaying The Red Dragon I V : Galvanizing an Oil Crisis</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;OPEC unable to lower oil prices !!!!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Basque news and Information Channel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Riyad&lt;/strong&gt; - Saudi Arabia, the only producer with spare capacity, is already meeting world crude demand. For the time being, there is no call for more production. Others in OPEC are at full stretch. "Everybody in OPEC is at full capacity, maybe Saudi Arabia has something left but it is heavy oil, so in practical physical terms, we have nothing," said Libyan Energy Minister Fathi Bin Shatwan.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13516284-111958651647354078?l=theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com/feeds/111958651647354078/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13516284&amp;postID=111958651647354078&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13516284/posts/default/111958651647354078'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13516284/posts/default/111958651647354078'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com/2005/06/slaying-red-dragon-i-v-galvanizing-oil.html' title='Slaying The Red Dragon I V : Galvanizing an Oil Crisis'/><author><name>The Ascetic Crusader</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16655605541869497397</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13516284.post-111958310273964190</id><published>2005-06-23T20:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-06-23T20:18:22.746-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Slaying The Red Dargon III : Take Over of America</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;"&gt;Chinese Oil Giant in Takeover Bid for US Corporation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;By&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;David Barboza and Andrew Ross Sorkin     &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;The New York Times&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Shanghai&lt;/strong&gt; - One of China's largest state-controlled oil companies made a $18.5 billion unsolicited bid Thursday for Unocal, signaling the first big takeover battle by a Chinese company for an American corporation.&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;The bold bid, by the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), may be a watershed in Chinese corporate behavior, and it demonstrates the increasing influence on Asia of Wall Street's bare-knuckled takeover tactics.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;The offer is also the latest symbol of China's growing economic power and of the soaring ambitions of its corporate giants, particularly when it comes to the energy resources it needs desperately to continue feeding its rapid growth. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;This week, a consortium of investors led by the Haier Group, one of China's biggest companies, moved to acquire the Maytag Corporation, the American appliance maker, for about $1.3 billion, surpassing a bid from a group of American investors. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Last month, Lenovo, China's largest computer maker, completed its $1.75 billion deal for I.B.M.'s personal computer business, creating the world's third-largest computer maker after&lt;/span&gt; Dell&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; and Hewlett-Packard.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;   &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;CNOOC is being advised by an army of bankers from Goldman Sachs, J. P. Morgan Chase and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;N M Rothschild &amp; Sons of Britain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Two Republican representatives from California, Richard W. Pombo and Duncan Hunter, wrote a letter last week to President Bush, after speculation concerning the deal arose, urging that the transaction be scrutinized on the grounds of national security.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;    &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13516284-111958310273964190?l=theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com/feeds/111958310273964190/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13516284&amp;postID=111958310273964190&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13516284/posts/default/111958310273964190'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13516284/posts/default/111958310273964190'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com/2005/06/slaying-red-dargon-iii-take-over-of.html' title='Slaying The Red Dargon III : Take Over of America'/><author><name>The Ascetic Crusader</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16655605541869497397</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13516284.post-111877921961455263</id><published>2005-06-14T12:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-06-23T20:52:01.436-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Slaying the Red Dragon - Part II</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;"&gt;Dubya : Neville Chamberlain Reloaded ?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;based on "Western Blindness: Nazi Germany to China Today" Lev NavrozovFriday, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;May 5, 2000 Newsmax.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chinese absolutism is highly rational or "scientific” even more than Nazi Germany. Today this is evident in a measure like forced abortions. No prejudices, taboos or scruples. Pure science. The rulers do not want a high population growth rate because in contrast to Stalin or Hitler, they do not believe in numerical military superiority as a means of world domination. Hence forced abortions. It is inconceivable that in an absolutism so "scientific” and uninhibited morally the rulers would consider the destruction of the West (Taiwan) immoral.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For China , Taiwan is an immediate source of subversion , with which the United States has been unable to deal as Chamberlain dealt with Czechoslovakia, since the population of Taiwan are former U.S. allies — enemies of the rulers of China, and would be destroyed accordingly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But the United States has contrived its own Munich Accord, under which there is "one China” and Taiwan is not independent. ... However, the vast hotbed of infectious democracy is not Taiwan, but the democratic West itself, and the fall of the Soviet absolutism in 1991 showed the rulers of China that if the democratic West is allowed to exist as democratic, then no matter what its intentions are or will be, its pathogenic microbes of democracy, which it spreads because of the very fact of its existence, will destroy the Chinese absolutism as it destroyed the Soviet absolutism in 1991.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13516284-111877921961455263?l=theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com/feeds/111877921961455263/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13516284&amp;postID=111877921961455263&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13516284/posts/default/111877921961455263'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13516284/posts/default/111877921961455263'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com/2005/06/slaying-red-dragon-part-ii.html' title='Slaying the Red Dragon - Part II'/><author><name>The Ascetic Crusader</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16655605541869497397</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13516284.post-111868223693725060</id><published>2005-06-13T09:46:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-06-23T20:55:51.990-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Slaying a Red Dragon !</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;America  v. China : Time to Slay The Red Dragon ?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;based on "Chinese Empire Threatens the World" by Charles R. SmithMonday, June 13, 2005&lt;/span&gt; , &lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Newsmax.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dubya : Hello ?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CIA : Hey , dumbtruck ! China &lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;is&lt;/span&gt; a Nazi state after all.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;China is no longer a Communist state in the pure sense. The Chinese leadership believes in personal property and personal fortunes made through capitalism. This fact has not escaped notice in the West. Even the Rand Corporation admitted that most powerful Chinese officials have their own Swiss bank accounts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;China is a Nazi state. China has become a modern state rooted in National Socialism, more akin to the ideals of Benito Mussolini or Adolf Hitler. The leaders in Beijing support capitalism and free enterprise while enforcing single-party rule. The ruling elite maintains a single-party dictatorship that enforces its will with bloodthirsty revenge.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is worth noting that a small nation, held together by the whip of Nazi government, nearly defeated the world. One only has to imagine what the Nazis in China can do in the future.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Slaying of The Red Dragon&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(Never trust a communist. Pure and simple)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;U.S. policy toward China is dominated by another myth: that capitalism and trade will turn the one-party empire into a free nation of entrepreneurs. History has shown this to be incorrect. The fact is that dictatorships and capitalists often live quite comfortably together. Western capitalists held the fascist-dominated states of Nazi Germany and Italy in high esteem as the future of mankind because of their friendly nature toward free enterprise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The U.S. won the Cold War with ideas. &lt;strong&gt;America decided not to trade with the Soviets because we knew the money and the technology would finance and grow an already massive military machine&lt;/strong&gt;. The Soviet war machine could have won the Cold War with the help of Western "appeasement."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today, the fantastic growth of the Chinese war machine is directly linked to the Western policy of appeasement. The trade war that decimates American jobs at home also feeds the Chinese military industry. Money spent by the West on cheap toys, clothes, shoes and other consumer goods is directed by Beijing into nuclear weapons, missiles, submarines and long-range bombers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today, the growing threat in Beijing is not led by innocent peasants nor working poor. The front edge of fear and oppression can be found in &lt;strong&gt;the criminal dragon&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;the warlords&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;the party elite&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The forcible attempt to subjugate the Nazi world under a single whip, later called World War II, awoke the sleeping giants of &lt;strong&gt;freedom and democracy&lt;/strong&gt; - but not until 60 million had perished. Any future war with China will destroy ten times as many in only a few short days, and there is no guarantee that freedom will win.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is it time for the free world to wake up and Slay the Red Dragon ?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13516284-111868223693725060?l=theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com/feeds/111868223693725060/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13516284&amp;postID=111868223693725060&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13516284/posts/default/111868223693725060'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13516284/posts/default/111868223693725060'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com/2005/06/slaying-red-dragon.html' title='Slaying a Red Dragon !'/><author><name>The Ascetic Crusader</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16655605541869497397</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13516284.post-111867755751934669</id><published>2005-06-13T08:02:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-06-13T09:22:39.726-07:00</updated><title type='text'>blog entry 77 : Bolivia : Landlocked Powder-Keg</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bolivia : A Landlocked Powder-Keg&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;based on article form The Washington Post, March 9, 2005&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;WASHINGTON -- It is happening again in Bolivia. Another administration has bee brought to its knees. President Carlos Mesa was "choppered" out of the Presidential palace while barricades burned furiously outside the gates. Thousands of Bolivians marched in the streets threatening to paralyze the Andean country. Beyond this frustrating repetition of events, this latest crisis reveals that Washington has learned a lesson : It is very easy to strangle Bolivia, but come to govern and you will soon be gasping for air. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;The current crisis in Bolivia is social, economic and political. &lt;strong&gt;Socially&lt;/strong&gt;, despite improvement in service coverage, poverty has increased dramatically. The repeated mass displacements due to the decimation of Bolivia´s agrarian economy , especially among the rural poor, have worsened. &lt;strong&gt;Economically&lt;/strong&gt;, growth has been poor, and accompanied by structural unemployment and underemployment has led to a 70% growth in the "informal-blackmarket" employment. And&lt;strong&gt; politically&lt;/strong&gt;, Bolivia faces a dramatic crisis  as never before seen. Rampant corruption and lack of popular support in both the Mesa administration and the political elite have turned this &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;little Andean country into a landlocked powder-keg.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;Longtime observers of U.S. policy toward Bolivia believe rural mass migrations could be the result of Washington easing pressure last year on illicit coca-crop eradication goals.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;In early 2004, Washington had begun working closely with Bolivian municipalities under MAS (Andean Socialist Movement) control. The project was focused on developing alternative, more profitable cashcrops to replace illicit coca fields. Ceding to MAS's demands, Washington found itself unwittingly lending support to a Bolivian government study to determine the amount of coca hectares that could be grown legally in Bolivia for traditional uses. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;This may have led Mesa to try to deregulate Bolivia´s hydrocarbon sector &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;in a last minute effort to bring some foreign investment capital into the country.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;Bolivia is the poorest nation in South America.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;What do you think ?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13516284-111867755751934669?l=theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com/feeds/111867755751934669/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13516284&amp;postID=111867755751934669&amp;isPopup=true' title='39 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13516284/posts/default/111867755751934669'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13516284/posts/default/111867755751934669'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com/2005/06/blog-entry-77-bolivia-landlocked.html' title='blog entry 77 : Bolivia : Landlocked Powder-Keg'/><author><name>The Ascetic Crusader</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16655605541869497397</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>39</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13516284.post-111862290914441977</id><published>2005-06-12T17:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-06-12T17:35:09.146-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Dialogues :  Tuesday , Feb 1</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;Crusader&lt;/strong&gt; : OK, let my run it by you again : one, Human depravity is such that, if left unchecked, it will absolutely destroy human society.It can NEVER change it for the better...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pontius&lt;/strong&gt; : Not even in a Star Trek , Federation of Planets kinda way ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Crusader&lt;/strong&gt; : No. Two : Fallen men have no capacity within themselves to live in peace with each other, much less to create a New World Order based upon the sands of ever shifting relativistic standards...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pontius&lt;/strong&gt; : Which means ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Crusader&lt;/strong&gt; : Let me finish..(&lt;strong&gt;Pontius rolls his eyes)&lt;/strong&gt; Three, Only an unchanging standard can be trusted to maintain a stable society ; and this we &lt;strong&gt;Reconstructionists&lt;/strong&gt; insist is found in &lt;strong&gt;God´s law alone&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pontius &lt;/strong&gt;: ....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Crusader &lt;/strong&gt;: Well ? What do you think ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pontius &lt;/strong&gt;: I feel like invading Poland...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13516284-111862290914441977?l=theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com/feeds/111862290914441977/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13516284&amp;postID=111862290914441977&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13516284/posts/default/111862290914441977'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13516284/posts/default/111862290914441977'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com/2005/06/dialogues-tuesday-feb-1.html' title='The Dialogues :  Tuesday , Feb 1'/><author><name>The Ascetic Crusader</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16655605541869497397</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13516284.post-111855461560222398</id><published>2005-06-11T22:20:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-06-13T09:24:22.496-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Blog entry 1776 : American Paper Script</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Colonials Print their Own Money !!!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;based on article published in The London Herald, 1751&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When &lt;strong&gt;Benjamin Franklin&lt;/strong&gt; went over to England to represent the interests of the Colonies, he saw a completely different situation: A country gnawed by hunger and poverty. "The streets are covered with beggars and tramps," he wrote. He asked his English friends how England, with all its wealth, could have so much poverty among its working classes. His friends replied that England was a prey to a terrible condition: it had too many workers!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Franklin's friends then asked him how the American Colonies managed to collect enough money to support their poor houses, and how they could overcome this plague of pauperism. Franklin replied: " Poor houses ? What do you mean, Sir ? In the Colonies there is not a single unemployed person, neither beggars nor tramps."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;His friends could not believe their ears. They asked Franklin if he could explain the remarkable prosperity of the New England Colonies. Franklin replied: "That is simple. In the Colonies, &lt;strong&gt;we issue our own paper money&lt;/strong&gt;. It is called 'Colonial Scrip.' We issue it &lt;strong&gt;in proper proportion&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;to make the goods pass easily from the producers to the consumers&lt;/strong&gt;. In this manner, creating ourselves our own paper money, &lt;strong&gt;we control its purchasing power and we have no interest to pay&lt;/strong&gt; to no one."&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13516284-111855461560222398?l=theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com/feeds/111855461560222398/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13516284&amp;postID=111855461560222398&amp;isPopup=true' title='23 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13516284/posts/default/111855461560222398'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13516284/posts/default/111855461560222398'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com/2005/06/blog-entry-1776-american-paper-script.html' title='Blog entry 1776 : American Paper Script'/><author><name>The Ascetic Crusader</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16655605541869497397</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>23</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13516284.post-111841957102445230</id><published>2005-06-10T08:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-06-13T09:25:14.350-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Blog Entry 625 :  Bikini in the Burka</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;"&gt;Bikini or Burka ?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;based on the article " The Debauchery of American Womanhood: Bikini vs. Burka " &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;by Henry Makow Ph.D&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On my wall, I have a picture of a Muslim woman shrouded in a burka. Beside it is a picture of&lt;br /&gt;an American beauty contestant, wearing nothing but a bikini. One woman is totally hidden from&lt;br /&gt;the public; the other is totally exposed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These two extremes say a great deal about 2 distinct civilizations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First we must accept that the role of &lt;strong&gt;womankind&lt;/strong&gt; is at the heart of any culture,&lt;br /&gt;East or West.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It seems&lt;/strong&gt;, I repeat : " it seems", the &lt;strong&gt;Muslim archetype&lt;/strong&gt; is woman's focus on her home, the "nest" where&lt;br /&gt;her children are born and reared. &lt;strong&gt;It seems&lt;/strong&gt; she is the "home" maker, the taproot that sustains&lt;br /&gt;the spiritual life of the family, nurturing and training her children, providing refuge and support&lt;br /&gt;to her husband.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In contrast,&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;it seems &lt;strong&gt;the American female archetype&lt;/strong&gt; is to some degree feminist, she belongs to herself first.&lt;br /&gt;In practice, paradoxically, she is public property. She belongs to no one and everyone. She shops&lt;br /&gt;herself to the highest bidder. As the American male, she is auctioning herself all of the time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What do you think ?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13516284-111841957102445230?l=theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com/feeds/111841957102445230/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13516284&amp;postID=111841957102445230&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13516284/posts/default/111841957102445230'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13516284/posts/default/111841957102445230'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com/2005/06/blog-entry-625-bikini-in-burka.html' title='Blog Entry 625 :  Bikini in the Burka'/><author><name>The Ascetic Crusader</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16655605541869497397</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13516284.post-111834043117507891</id><published>2005-06-09T10:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-06-13T09:26:14.546-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Blog entry 201 : Reconstructionism</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The following excerpt is taken from :&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Christian Reconstructionism :&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;AN INTERVIEW WITH R.J. RUSHDOONY &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Conducted by Joseph McAuliffe&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;J.McAuliffe&lt;/strong&gt; : Can we really legislate the biblical standards of morality on non-Christians?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RJ Rushdoony&lt;/strong&gt; : One of the things most people don't understand about Christian Reconstruction is that first it is nothing new. It has been the historic position of the Christian church over the centuries. In Western Europe and the Americas it has receded in the past century or two, but it has always been the Christian way of life. Then , what we really have to understand is &lt;strong&gt;the&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;picture of reality we are being fed.&lt;/strong&gt; A top-down view of whatever faith people in power hold -- it is a view that expounds the &lt;strong&gt;capture&lt;/strong&gt; of the upper echelons of society, and thus the machinery of the state, in order to impose an ideology on the people...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13516284-111834043117507891?l=theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com/feeds/111834043117507891/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13516284&amp;postID=111834043117507891&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13516284/posts/default/111834043117507891'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13516284/posts/default/111834043117507891'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com/2005/06/blog-entry-201-reconstructionism.html' title='Blog entry 201 : Reconstructionism'/><author><name>The Ascetic Crusader</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16655605541869497397</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13516284.post-111833160640735753</id><published>2005-06-09T08:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-06-09T09:03:10.286-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Dialogues : Saturday, February 2</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;Pontius&lt;/strong&gt; : I disagree here Crusader.... Jesus said to pay your taxes to Ceasar but give your hearts to God. There are advantages to being non-political, like not having human issues cutting you off from another person when you wish to witness your faith...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Crusader&lt;/strong&gt; : No Pontius...Democracy and politics are of Caesar...they belong to the secular world. Not us. They are concerned with the earthly power of dominion and slavery over men. The essence of Democracy is pagan, created by the pagan idolater for the pagan idolater. This is a fact and irrefutable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pontius&lt;/strong&gt; : C´mon Crusader...Caesar is Caesar. Christ never advised us against being in the world or spoke against Democracy...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Crusader&lt;/strong&gt; : Luke 7 : 16 - 17..." &lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;16&lt;/span&gt;And they brought it. And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription? And they said unto him, Caesar's. &lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;17&lt;/span&gt;And Jesus answering said unto them, &lt;strong&gt;Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's&lt;/strong&gt;, and to God the things that are God's. And they marvelled at him."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pontius&lt;/strong&gt; : Taxes...Christ is talking about taxes there...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Crusader&lt;/strong&gt; : Yes...but there is much more to this than just taxes...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pontius&lt;/strong&gt; : There always is...isn´t there&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Crusader&lt;/strong&gt; : What Christ is saying is not only give to Caesar his tax money, but &lt;strong&gt;everything&lt;/strong&gt; that belongs to him...&lt;br /&gt;to me that includes secular government.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pontius&lt;/strong&gt; : Stretching it a bit aren´t we this morning , Crusader ? So, in your eyes, wouldn't that drive people further&lt;strong&gt; into&lt;/strong&gt; politics to change this quote , and I mean quote, " evil " democracy into a monarchy or theocracy?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Crusader&lt;/strong&gt; : Well, there´s my bus Pontius. Talk to you tomorrow...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pontius&lt;/strong&gt; : Hold it ! Not so fast....Where do you think......&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;(Crusader gets on bus)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pontius&lt;/strong&gt; (shaking his head in disbelief) : You´re going...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13516284-111833160640735753?l=theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com/feeds/111833160640735753/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13516284&amp;postID=111833160640735753&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13516284/posts/default/111833160640735753'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13516284/posts/default/111833160640735753'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com/2005/06/dialogues-saturday-february-2.html' title='The Dialogues : Saturday, February 2'/><author><name>The Ascetic Crusader</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16655605541869497397</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13516284.post-111825426647622616</id><published>2005-06-08T10:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-06-08T11:31:48.633-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Blog entry 301</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;" A Sith always deals in absolutes "&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Obi Wan Kenobi - Star Wars Episode 3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I finally went to see the much talked about Star Wars Episode 3. Although the movie presents the viewer with ample amounts of CGI eye-candy and non- stop action sequences, I was somewhat disturbed by overtly pagan references. Most notably : "A Sith always deals in absolutes."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the Star Wars universe, a Sith Lord is an enemy of the Galactic Republic. The Sith are fiendish creature / knights bent on taking over the Galactic Republic and its democratic system of government. The Jedi Knights&lt;br /&gt;are the defenders of The Republic and the Galactic way of life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To the average heathen, Christianity seems unbearably tyrannical, narrow-minded, arbitrary and "absolute".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You connect the dots.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13516284-111825426647622616?l=theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com/feeds/111825426647622616/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13516284&amp;postID=111825426647622616&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13516284/posts/default/111825426647622616'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13516284/posts/default/111825426647622616'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com/2005/06/blog-entry-301.html' title='Blog entry 301'/><author><name>The Ascetic Crusader</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16655605541869497397</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13516284.post-111824959063996927</id><published>2005-06-08T09:46:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-06-08T09:53:10.640-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Blog entry 245</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;CNN headline Reads :&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;"&gt;"European Parliament pressured on Constitutional Gay Marriage and Abortion Rights"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is it not legitimate and necessary for a Christian man to ask himself if this is not perhaps part of a &lt;strong&gt;new ideology of evil&lt;/strong&gt;, perhaps more insidious and hidden, which attempts to pit human rights against the family and against man ?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13516284-111824959063996927?l=theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com/feeds/111824959063996927/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13516284&amp;postID=111824959063996927&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13516284/posts/default/111824959063996927'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13516284/posts/default/111824959063996927'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com/2005/06/blog-entry-245.html' title='Blog entry 245'/><author><name>The Ascetic Crusader</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16655605541869497397</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13516284.post-111824864204590944</id><published>2005-06-08T08:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-06-08T09:45:40.086-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Dialogues .  Monday, January 30</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;On a cold winter morning Crusader and Pontius stand waiting for the bus. Standing in knee deep snow, we join them as they pick up on their conversation from yesterday. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Crusader &lt;/strong&gt;: The first democratic form of government dates back to ancient Athens, the cradle of Western pagan thought. Circa 5th century BC. Also, democracies place man above God. In a Democracy , the will of the people is viewed as infallible. This is blashpemous.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pontuis &lt;/strong&gt;: Remember, however, that God's hand is in who becomes the leaders of nations despite the human methodology.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Crusader&lt;/strong&gt; : Yes Pontius, I grant you that point (Romans 13). Nevertheless, it is the &lt;strong&gt;form of government&lt;/strong&gt; I am concerned about. By examining the nature and origin of Democracy I question it as an apt form of government for Christians .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pontius &lt;/strong&gt;: What is your suggestion for an alternative? A theocracy? I shudder to think of that...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Crusader&lt;/strong&gt; : What frightens you ? As a Christian man, do you not believe that there is one Lord, one lawgiver and one judge only ? Remember, this is a fundamental and inexorable Christian truth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pontius&lt;/strong&gt; : Ha! Unfortunately, it's not that simple my dear former classmate. I do indeed believe those things, but do I also trust humans to implement them? Not for one second....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A couple of young school kids dressed in thick bulging parkas and heavy snow boots walk by,  muttering a rap song rife with obsenities.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pontius&lt;/strong&gt; : Besides Christians practice democracy on many levels, in churches and in functions. I'm not sure how the democratic process is antithetical to the Christian belief, for all democracy is guided by law. We, as Christians, are guided by the ultimate law book in truth: the Bible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Crusader&lt;/strong&gt; : Perhaps, nevertheless Democratic systems are built in such a way as to advance the evil principle of relativism, ie : ¨nothing is sacred, everything is eventually permitted ¨. This driving principle of Democracy is unquestionably Satanic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pontius&lt;/strong&gt; : I think what we have here is a matter of : Is the "thing" evil or is it evil depending on who wields it ?&lt;br /&gt;I'd agree that Democracy, without a solid foundation in Biblical ethics, will eventually devolve into chaos. Then again, that can be said of just about anything. "For the love of money" comes to mind...there´s my bus Crusader.&lt;br /&gt;See you tomorrow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Crusader&lt;/strong&gt; : Saved by the bell...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onclick="return qr(14044999);" href="http://www.christianforums.com/newreply.php?do=newreply&amp;amp;p=14044999"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13516284-111824864204590944?l=theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com/feeds/111824864204590944/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13516284&amp;postID=111824864204590944&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13516284/posts/default/111824864204590944'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13516284/posts/default/111824864204590944'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com/2005/06/dialogues-monday-january-30.html' title='The Dialogues .  Monday, January 30'/><author><name>The Ascetic Crusader</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16655605541869497397</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13516284.post-111824481909407019</id><published>2005-06-08T08:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-06-08T08:43:27.220-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Worship the Lord your God and serve him only.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Luke 4 : 5 - 8&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;5&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;The devil led him up to a high place and showed him in an instant &lt;strong&gt;all the kingdoms of the world&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;6&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;And he said to him, &lt;strong&gt;"I will give you all their authority and splendor, for it has been given to me, and I can give it to anyone I want to. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;7&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So if you worship me, it will all be yours."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;8&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jesus answered, "It is written:&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;'Worship the Lord your God and serve him only".&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13516284-111824481909407019?l=theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com/feeds/111824481909407019/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13516284&amp;postID=111824481909407019&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13516284/posts/default/111824481909407019'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13516284/posts/default/111824481909407019'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com/2005/06/jesus-answered-it-is-written-worship.html' title='Jesus answered, &quot;It is written: &apos;Worship the Lord your God and serve him only.'/><author><name>The Ascetic Crusader</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16655605541869497397</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13516284.post-111824426974714497</id><published>2005-06-08T08:02:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-06-08T08:24:29.753-07:00</updated><title type='text'>What is an Ascetic Crusader ?</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Ascetic Crusader&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;Ascetic &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;adj.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;1) Leading a life of self-discipline and self-denial, especially for spiritual improvement. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;2) &lt;strong&gt;Pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic; self-denying and austere: an ascetic existence&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Crusader&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;n.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;a person who undertakes :&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;1) Any of the military expeditions undertaken by European Christians in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries to recover the Holy Land from the Muslims.&lt;br /&gt;2) A holy war undertaken with papal sanction.&lt;br /&gt;3) &lt;strong&gt;A vigorous concerted movement for a cause or against an abuse&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13516284-111824426974714497?l=theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com/feeds/111824426974714497/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13516284&amp;postID=111824426974714497&amp;isPopup=true' title='37 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13516284/posts/default/111824426974714497'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13516284/posts/default/111824426974714497'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theasceticcrusader.blogspot.com/2005/06/what-is-ascetic-crusader.html' title='What is an Ascetic Crusader ?'/><author><name>The Ascetic Crusader</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16655605541869497397</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>37</thr:total></entry></feed>
