International issues, religion etc

 International issues (war/international relations/issues in other countries etc)

Military/Isolationism/Wars in general

I am anti war most of the time but I am anti war for the reasons that Mark Twain was anti war (Lockean love of liberty and anti government). We need end the practice of endless wars   

Since I am defacto anti war/not supportive of wars, I am by default against all countries on Earth going to war/me non supportive of all countries on Earth going to war . For example, after the outbreak of each war I check to see if an extremely rare and overwhelming case for me supporting that war being waged exists and if it doesn't I keep my default anti war/not supportive position on that war.  It takes more for me to support a war than to not condemn a war. I haven't supported a war since I supported the Iraq War in early 2003 (before changing my mind in March 2003 and being against the Iraq War)

I am Pro European Union.  I am a European Union-United States partnership Identarian

I am solidly pro military and pro veteran despite being anti war 

I am an Anti Imperialist

I am against the Open Skies Treaty

I feel my views on US and International relations is closer to US Isolationism than to the polar opposite to US Isolationailism on a scale where US Isolationism is at one end and its polar opposite is at the other end  (but not that far from US Isolationism's orbit)

I am a Non Interventionalist 

I am an Anti Globalist (just like many unions in the US are against it). I also see positives of radical localisim and feel radical localism is better or could be much better than globalism. We need all of the liberals and liberal groups we have to fight against globalism

I am against Globalized Capitalism as that causes so much of the ills we have today in many countries

I am against Globalization

I was and still am against the Patriot Act 

Sully has no leg to stand on criticizing Donald Trump for Trump's fake 2018 anti military remarks. Sully nearly killed hundreds of people through his reckless flight handling. He should have helped explain why Biden should be President instead of disrespecting the President at the time

Donald Trump never disrespected any military people in France in 2018. That story by the Atlantic that said he did those things is fake news. I don't blame them however for that since it does seem like something he would say. 

I am against domestic drones 

I am against wireless surveillance

I believe we should defund the NSA

Israel-Palestine

 I am Pro Israel (I am Jewish) and I don't feel liberals labeled as left anti semetic are in fact anti semetic or that their views are anti semetic. Their views are wrong or ignorant or whatever but not anti semetic. I believe they should focus on other political issues instead of Israel related issues even if that means that those anti Israel/anti zionist liberals take a moderate position or even lean conservative position on said other issues that they normally would be progressive on if they kept lingering on the Israel/Zionism issues (better for them to focus on those other issues even if that leads them to be less than progressive on those other issues and be labeled DINOs than them lingering on the Israel/Zionism issue and being labeled anti semetic)

I support Anti BDS laws since I hate the BDS movement

I am Pro Israel (center right) on the Israel-Palestinian conflict because I am Jewish (so homerism).  I have no forseeable or known issues with the Embassy of Israel being moved to Jerusalem. 

The Israel-Palestinian conflict , since 2003 has been like this:

I am pro Israel between most of the most and the vast majority of the time, but I always briefly oscillate to being Pro Palestinian along with me viewing the more fringe parts of Hamas and Hezbollah in the same way that modern progressive or liberal Atheists view the God of the Judeo Christian bible (but in a slightly more sensitive way). While I am in this Pro Palestinian mode, I also view the Palestinian Liberation Army and moderate parts of Hamas and Hezbollah as tolerable 1990s Anti Heroes. However, even in this Pro Palestinian mode, I still favor Israel's right to exist and on the record and morally (morally as in moral victory) their settlements in the West Bank (but off the record in this Pro Palestinian mode, I am more Pro Palestinian on the West Bank situation than I am on the record)

This temporary oscillation usually happens whenever I see the extreme fringe members of IDF kill innocent Palestinians. I get upset with Israel when I see senseless killings of innocent Palestinians, where I even view the extreme fringe of the IDF and the Israelis politicians who would be to the right of Menachem Begin/Herut party as being like the moderate members of ISIS for doing such dangerous things (sometimes when I am like this, I even sound like Amos Oz, Yehuda Elkana and Noam Chomsky on how 'bad' those fringe members of the IDF and Israeli parliament to the right of Herut are). But each time I temporarily oscillate to being Pro Palestinian, after cooling off, I always oscillate right back to being Pro Israel after seeing some suicide bombing by a Hamas killing innocent Israelis or I see some anti Jewish cartoons promoted by Hezbollah which triggers me.

Even when I am Pro Israel, I do have an intuitive understanding of the legit Palestinian grievances that they have with Israel.  Moreover, even when I am Pro Israel, I don't view Hamas or Hezbollah as militants (technically) or terrorists per say (I view Hamas and Hezbollah the same way that RINOs in the Republican Party view the Freedom Caucus). Hamas and Hezbollah care for their people (but they unfortunately care more about their rockets), and are lovable rouges who ,at least part of the time aren't wrong. It's just they go too far, and sometimes do commit brutal, sickening terrorism (but they are not terrorists per say) that makes it impossible for me to support them because doing so would mean I support innocent people dying, and since I am a humane person who cringes at death, I can't support Hamas and Hezbollah due to their brutal violence when I am Pro Israel.

Realistically, Israel should have been reclaimed by the Jews centuries ago or as late as the 1920s.  

It's important the Jewish people are encouraged to integrate in their countries in a way that helps those countries grow and their contributions to growing those countries is celebrated by those countries and the world. Jewish people should be encouraged to mass participate in all aspects of society in order to feel more included.  Moreover, Jews should be encouraged to have representation in various institutions to connect with each other, represent each other and show solidarity with each other. Moreover, Jewish owned institutions are a good thing as they help people within the Jewish community help each other in ways others can't.  Paula Hyman said as much in her book Jews in Modern France as she makes good arguments for Jewish assimilation and shows how France was a model for Jewish assimilation (for its time)

Jewish people should not be forced or even pressured to celebrate Christmas. Nobody should be forced or pressured to celebrate any holiday. I am glad that most Jews don't celebrate Christmas as its good to see some group of people ignore that holiday in the west.   45 percent of Americans would prefer to skip Christmas.  2 thirds of our planet don't celebrate Christmas.

I favor a binational solution (ie One Nation State) to the Israel-Palestine conflict, which could either be a twin regime federalist arrangement or a unitary state

If Palestinians feel they are being slighted by Israel they should be encouraged to apply for political asylum/refugee status in the US. We'll happily and somewhat more than conditionally take them. Many areas of the US are already Little Palestines and having more of them move to America and especially to those areas would be great for everyone.

I like the old school humanist and universal Zionism as I feel it was much better than modern Zionism. Modern Zionism is too Nationalistic for me.

Rashida Tlaib should not have given in to far left anti Israel zealots and she should have went to Israel/Palestine as she planned. 

China-Russia

I believe minorities in China should be well taken care of and have more advantages than the majority. I do applaud Chiba for having games to honor their minorities and at least pretending to be as I wrote above. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0x1-egOF2bc

A lot of criticism of China and the CCP is based off of ignorance

The 2022 Winter Olympics being played on schedule while the 2020 Summer Olympics weren't played on schedule seems hypocritical. I am against boycottting sporting events and I would never encourage anyone to boycott the 2022 Winter Olympics but I am fine with people boycotting the 2022 Winter Olympics.

I am Radically Centrist lean nuanced intuitive Fourth political position on the way China handled the pandemic .  

I don't think China should have gotten involved in the US 2020 racial unrest situations. I also condemn China for trying to make our children in this country woke through their books and videos on those issues they export to our schools. 

I believe sanctioning China for the Uyghur situation or any reason short of an illegal war won't work , since sanctions usually don’t work. China should not be sanctioned ever unless using those sanctions is a no brainer like as mentioned above. I want the US to focus on our own country and leave China and other counties alone. If Democrats want to do good , then they need to be real Left Wing or Far left instead of attacking China. 

Many countries have denied that China committed a genocide. China is wrong, not for abusing the Uyghur people, but for not being a Christian country, for if they were a Christian country, they never would have abused the Uyghurs in the first place. 

So their abuse of the Uyghurs is a consequence of that grave mistake. The US has no leg to stand on in going after China. The US is anti migrant and treats migrants like second class citizens, the US committed crimes against humanity in their Islamaphobic neocon war on Islam. Other anti China countries have done their own abuses too, from Canada’s horrific human rights abuses and forced expulsions of First Nations people to the UK’s abuse of Indians in India etc , those countries should take the beam out of their own eyes before going after China. I need to find more info on the abuses by China of the Uyghurs to give a better opinion on it. I will note that liberals all over Europe (some with reports) at least believe its plausible that at least a few of the allegations against China have very little evidence and are may (at worst) be used as an excuse to justify aggressions against China.

China should read Paul’s Epistle to Philemon , become Christian and thus forced labor will no longer be an issue since it would virtually cease to exist in China

I trust that China will continue to get better as a country like they always have and become more egalitarian as they develop more productive forces(though part of me leans skeptical). But something needs to push China in that direction . China and the CCP are like between has a Hero Antagonists and Bad Boys   to me

I am apolitical on high tariffs against China

I am apolitical with Hong Kong in their dispute with China. 

If China wants Taiwan I won’t put up a fight since Taiwan is already colonized by taking but I don’t support them taking Taiwan either. Mao rightfully let Taiwan be independent and its his will for Taiwan to be independent, hence my view

I apolitically begrudgingly open hearted pretty much sympathize with the USSR (especially the early 1920s-1950s version) to an extent retroactively.   In the 1980s I was apolitical toward the USSR but not against them. The USSR was an ally of the US in two World Wars (and had a very major part in defeating N..azisi.sm) had a good fiscal system, if the USSR became Post Capitalist it would have been almost based in my eyes. amongst other positive things they did. If the Democrats and mainstream liberals ever retroactively support or condone the USSR I will be retroactively against the USSR

The holodomor was a result of the USSR’s incompetance, there is no solid evidence that Josef Stalin i teionally orchestrated it or that it was intentional . The bourgeois , liberals and MSM defame the USSR by saying it was intentional to trash Socialism, Communism , Russia in order to force normies tobe imperialist fascists. Saying the famine was done on purpose by the USSR is indirectly anti semetic and plays into anti semetic conspiracy theories

The USSR and Russia never colonized Africa which is very good and makes the USSR and Russia better than many countries on that point alone. No countries should have been colonized ever

I was against the Nuclear Freeze in the 1980s and early 1990s only because I knew that the US having Nuclear weapons was to prevent the Soviet Union from using their Nuclear weapons. To this day I am still against a Nuclear Freeze due to countries like Russia, Iran and North Korea having Nuclear weapons. I want a world free of Nuclear Weapons but I will not support a Nuclear Freeze until countries like Russia, Iran and North Korea also agree to give up their Nuclear Weapons too. I do not want a Nuclear war. I am a Nuclear Abolitionist and true peace activist in this regard.. 

Arthur Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg were traitors and they should have spent many decades in prison for their treason instead of being executed (unless they agreed to be spies for the US against the USSR instead of going to prison then I would conditionally be open to that alternative).  As it is now they were traitors to the US and the world, their treason cost millions of Americans their lives fighting in Korea. They sold the US out and they are 2 of the more bigger disgraces in the history of the US.

The Russia SFSR should never have transferred Crimea to the Ukrainian SSR. As it now, I am mixed on Crimea becoming an Independent nation but I sympathize with people who want Crimea to become an Independent nation. 

I believe , like Pat Robertson that Vladimir Putin feels a higher power pushed him to invade Ukraine (or is just off his rocker).

Despite what I wrote above, my view on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine match these fellow ‘snarky’ tankies’ views on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine 

I feel in some ways the anti Russian Ukrainians are reactionaries

I want Crimea and the People's Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk to be Independant but part of a Multipolar state that includes Russia, Belarus, South Ossetia etc

If Russia attacks the US then me and Ukraine (including Azoz Battallion) will have a common enemy (Russia). Which would be like during World War I where Woodrow Wilson said that the US and the Allies had common enemies during World War I . In that case there would be no future for Russia since there would likely be a nuclear war in that hypothetical situation so it would be easy to be against Russia then. But Russia hasn't attacked us so that is only hypothetical

I also side with Tulsi Gabbard in her quarrel with Mitt Romney over Russia-Ukraine

The US and Europe should try to de escalate the Russia-Ukraine crisis instead of inflaming it

I was and I am still against Ukraine joining NATO. You can make the case that NATO should be abolished (from a progressive point of view)

I am strongly against companies (like Big Tech) suspending their products and services to Russia. Russian citizens are being wrongly and punitively penalized because of their government.  I call for a full boycott of every company who engages in these acts They never did this to Muslims in countries where ISIS or Al Qaeda are from, yet they do it with Russia? Hypocrite much. History will condemn Google, Microsoft, Sony for their actions with Russia. It goes against human decency, will only make Russians hate those companies and won't do anything.  Hurting innocent people through refusing them service to force them to have the view you want is fascist and evil

I do not support the Maidan Coup as I feel it was an illegal act or in extremely bad taste that borders on being illegal at best and because it removed a legit elected head of state who was admitely not popular (which is not an excuse for it)

Ukraine deserves at least some criticism and maybe more for not developing Donbas and leaving it open to Russia and other forces

I half hearingly only support the initial and earliest US sanctions against Russia from mid late February 2022 but I really prefer a more isolationist approach instead (like no US sanctions against Russia). No more endless wars or endless conficts. It's not our problem

The US and European better hope that their sanctions don't create Russophobia in the US and abroad because they are normalizing Russophobia (even if Russia has their share of the blame or brought this on themselves)

I am 100 percent against the US sending troops to go to war with Russia under any circumstance barring a direct hit from Russia on our soil.  I am 100 percent against the US setting up a no fly zone. No more endless wars of America being policeman of the world

The Jan 6 2021 protestors did not cause Russia to invade Ukraine and anyone who says otherwise is a fool

I believe that the we should hack the bank accounts of Russian Olyriachs and force them to be bankrupt for the rest of their lives. Not because of Russia's war with Ukraine and not for any political reason but simply because they are too rich and nobody should have that much money. If we can force them into bankruptcy we can have a slow trickle effect which leads to less wealth hoarding by filthy rich trolls.  No more yachts for them ,no more vacations for them, force them to live like the rest of us. They are easy and acceptable targets

It is hypocritical and wrong to ban innocent Russians from entering other countries even if there are good reasons for doing so. Liberals righfully blew back over a Muslim travel ban by Donald Trump during the reign of ISIS yet they applaud this? UGH.  I believe banning innocent Russians from going to other countries because of Russia going to war with Ukraine is wrong, senseless and fascist and is just as bad as Donald Trump's Muslim travel ban in 2017. I am fully against the Russia flight ban by the US and Europe. It is draconian, fascist and evil. It's also a violation of freedom of movement. I hope all Russians permanelty boycott the US and all countries that banned flights to and from Russia.

Some Russians have been unfairly fired due to their place of origin by fascist Russophobes. Their firings are a violation of Employement Acts ,since they were singled out due to their place of origin. These Russians being unfairly fired is akin to McCarthysim or what the US did to Japanese Americans right after Pearl Harbor. Freedom of speech means telling people what they don't want to hear. We must end extreme cancel culture and modern day McCarthyism

I am against Anna Nebretko getting fired by the Metropolitian Opera House. There was no reason to fire her and Peter Gelb should be fired on the spot for what he did.

I am against the Bolshoi Ballet being fired. They did nothing wrong and they were unfairly fired for no reason    

the Steele Dosier is false

Middle East/North Africa/Central Asia

Muslim world in general

Islam is no better or worse than any other religion. It has good and bad like any other religion. Islam shares an Abrahamaniac link to Judeo Christianity and is a peaceful religion. Not all criticism of Islam is Islamaphobic and some criticism of Islam is genuine and constructive.  Some sects of Islam do treat women and LGBTQ people unfairly which is wrong.  People should avoid criticizing things in Islam that they don't understand because if they don't avoid doing that, they'll look ignorant. 

Sharia law in its more extreme forms is misognist, homophobic, anti Christian, antisemetic and dangerous. We need to fight against those more extreme forms of Sharia law wherever it exists and prevent extremists of any religion, including Islam to impelement such anti democratic systems into our societies (such as those more extreme parts of Sharia law) . The more extreme parts of Sharia law go against the core beliefs of our society. By doing so, we will be fighting for the rights of all people.

However, according to the word of God, Muslims should seek Christ and if they appear open to it they should be pointed in that direction in a progressive way.

I believe people should criticize Islam and every religion since no religion should be off limits but they should do so in a constructive, genuine way that is free of Islamaphobia. 

Linda Sarsour has good views on Islam and Feminism

I am against the Netherlands being Islamaphobic and racist against Arabs and I condemn the Netherlands for it

I am against France and other countries banning Muslim women from wearing Burkinis and Burqas. I fully support Muslim women or any person wearing Burkinis and Burqas. Those bans are Islamaphobic and violate human rights.  Those countries are appeasing far right Islamphobes by these bans but are hurting the Muslim community at the same time. Instead those countries should try to make laws to help Muslims not hurt them.

Not all criticisim of the Hijab is hijaphobic but most of it is.  I am indifferent to World Hijab day

I was and still am against Donald Trump's Muslim travel ban

I have no issues with countries like Thailand, Malaysia, Myanmar etc requiring people to dress modestly or conservatively in certain religious places.

I have defended Muslims against defamation since 9/11. I am appalled that Muslims were and are stereotyped and labeled as terrorists since 9/11 (especially right after 9/11 and in the age of ISIS). The vast vast majority of Muslims are not terrorists and only a fringe part of some sects of Islam are terrorists. I do think that Muslims should try to counter Islamaphobia in a peaceful, educational and edifying sort of way instead of lowering themselves to the Islamaphobes level.

I don't believe the October 31 2018 truck attack in NYC or the Swedish truck attack in 2017 were terrorist attacks or Islamic extremism. I am not even that sure that the 2016 Nice lorre attacks were terrorism or Islamic extremism (or at least I am not that sure if terrorism/Islamic extremism was the primary motive of the attacks). Saying that every time a Muslim commits mass murder is terrorism or Islamic extremism is bigoted, ignorant, naive and offensive.  However, on the flip side, a few attacks by Muslims that are not labele as terrorism/Islamic extremism are technically terrorism or Islamic extremism (the Fort Hood shooting for example). But there are very far more times Muslims committing crimes are falsely accused of terrorism/Islamic extremism than there are times when Muslims do commit terrorist or Islamic extremist attacks and said attacks are not labeled as terrorism/Islamic extremism.  A lot of Muslims who were defamed as Islamic extremists were really atheists pretending to be Muslim.

Christians who are killed in the Middle East by ISIS should always be labeled as Christians instead of worshippers by the media and politicians.

Iran/Syria/Libya/Iraq/Afghanistan

Donald Trump did what he did to Qasem Soleimani. No need to go nuts over it. Yes it would have been perfect if Trump used Soleimani as a double agent or better yet left him alone , but the guy is a terrorist and he may have killed many people if he wasn't taken out so keep that in mind. Soleimani is in the afterlife/heaven now anyway. Barack Obama did something worse when he took out Omar Gaddafi that is the one people should complain about, not this one.

I am glad that the US left Syria in 2019 and I believe it was the right move. I fully support the 2019 troop withdrawal from Syria while still acknowleding that Bernie Sanders had valid concern about said withdrawl

I was and still am against the Libya War (the one under Barack Obama),

I was and still am against the Iraq War (I was begrudingly for it until late March 2003 then I became permanently against it)    

If the Iraq War could have been used in some way to catch at least some of the people behind 9/11 (ie Al Qaeda), to create something in Iraq which would have forced Saddam Hussein and Iraq to be an ally to the US like Saudi Arabia and its leaders were back then, to have Saddam Hussein work with Iran to create a network from Iraq to Iran to catch and stop Al Qaeda, if there was a way to possibly at least somewhat prevent what would become ISIS or similar terrorist groups from forming or growing while either not making the nation building of the US in Iraq obvious or better yet not trying to Americanize Iraq in the first place then in that hypothetical world, I would have supported the Iraq War and kept supporting the Iraq War even to this day and beyond. As it stands nope.  

Another bad thing about the Iraq War was getting rid of their Saddam. Saddam sort of protected Christians in Iraq. With him disposed, it allowed ISIS to target Christians a decade later

I support the Iraq War troop surge by George W Bush in 2007. It was a smart strategy and helped turn the war around for us

Chris Kyle was a war hero and his movie is not offensive as long as people who are offended by it get enlightened about this by people who don't feel Kyle or his movie were offensive. At the very least, it should not be censored since censorship sucks

I don't really support UN sanctions against Iraq in the 1990s since they don't work and its punitive. Maybe corporate sanctions against Iraq would have been at least somewhat decent though.

I think that the Gulf War was at least debately somewhat justifiable (doesn't mean I support it). It was a more complicated war than easily indefensible wars like the Vietnam War, Iraq War and Libyan War

I am against the way that Joe Biden handled Afghanistan .Biden botched the withdrawal of our troops in Afghanistan

I supported the Afghanistan War but we should have pulled out of Afghanistan in 2009 or in 2012. 

Europe

I support the KPD (including from their early 20th century libertarian and council communist beginnings, through their Marxist Leninist incarnation. I commend the Anti Racist Action movement work that the KPD did in the 1930s etc in directly countering racism in Germany and the KPD should be lauded for that

Asia conflicts

I do not condemn the 2021 coup de tat in Myanmar ,its none of my business

I support the way Donald Trump handled North Korea

I would have been against the Vietnam War if i was alive in the 1960s after initially supporting it and as it is now I've been against it since I was born (though I am against some far left parts of the anti war movement and against the hate that the veterans got from anti war people)  .As with Iraq ,people don't realize how strong the pro war propaganda is in the US when wars like the Vietnam War and Iraq War break out which leads people who wouldn't normally support those wars to faslely think being against said wars and supporting our troops in those wars are mutually exclusive (they are not)

I am neutral on the Swift Boat Veterans smearing John McCain and lean against them smearing John Kerry (smearing the Swift Boat veterans is counterproductive, 2 wrongs don't make a right). 

I would have strongly supported the Filipinos in the Philippine-American War if I was alive back then while trying to win at least some support for them back in the US (I do retroactively strongly support them) since the US was wrong to annex the Philippines (imperialism is wrong). 

Americas conflicts

I support and recognize the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone as a legit country. I support the creators and residents of that zone and if a Civil War broke out between the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone and the United States, I would side with the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone in that Civil War

I support the Free State Project

I support the Haitian protestors.

I try to be open to the Cuban 2021 protesters but I guess I am tolerant if them, but regardless, I hope the Cuban government learns from that and that peace and common ground is found in Cuba. It's a complicated mess that situation

I was and am against America involvement in Central America (ie Nicaragua) . If I could relive my life over knowing what I know now, I would support the Sandinistas s a kid in the 1980s

I am retroactively against the US going to war with Spain in the Spanish-American War as it was American aggressionism and Imperialism. I am retroactively radically neutral on which side to support in that war

Slavery and forced labor is wrong and immoral because the whole concept of working (paid and unpaid) is wrong and immoral. People shouldn't have to work to make ends meet. Working (paid and unpaid) is boring, harsh, a time sink and archaic.

I feel that from the 16th century onward, Europe and the US should have given equal rights to women and BIPOC+ (that white males had) in the United States (including Old South), European colonies etc and not used slavery anywhere. Then I would have wanted Europe and the US to give all citizens of the United States (including Old South), European colonies etc the Refusal to work right, and implemented extensive Social Democrat type welfare systems (like those found currently in Nordic countries) and UBI throughout the United States (including Old South), European colonies etc

However, I do not support a Refusal to work right being implemented anywhere on Earth in the future. I feel the only place for it was centuries ago

The US as a whole (North and South) in the 19th century was horrible to their workers in every sense of the word. They each oppressed their workers in their own, evil unique ways

In the US (North and South) in the 19th century, bosses and owners brutally dehumanized and overworked their workers, while either not paying those workers or barely paying them. 

Slavery in the South and the industrial indentured servitude in all but a name of the North were just extreme and harsh forms of a bigger picture which was the horrible labor practices, overconsumption, materialism, capitalism, hierarchies etc of the 19th century US (in all places, North, and South alike). They are large reason that labor unions were created in the first place

To expand on that, this is why my views on the Civil War and economics/labor-practices in the mid 19th century US/Old South/Confederacy exactly match Karl Marx’s views on those topics . I believe it was great that Abraham Lincoln was inspired by Karl Marx (and used Marxist rationale) to go to war with the Confederacy, free the slaves, and end the mode of exploitation (slavery) as that was by far the best inspiration and rationale for doing what Abraham Lincoln did back then (going to war with the Confederacy, freeing blacks, and ending slavery). 

But that was bittersweet because while slavery luckily ended in the South, industrial indentured servitude in all but a name sadly continued for some time afterward in the North. I wish that the Western US army or Canadian Army would have invaded the Northern US after the Civil War to free the Northern industrial workers from their industrial indentured servitude in all but a name just like the Union invaded the South to free the slaves during the Civil War.  

Xtian

The US and other countries are not Theocracies and thus the government should not enforce laws based on the beliefs of religious people. Theocracies only work in the afterlife or in the bible, not on Earth (give to Caesar what is Caesar etc).

It certainly wouldn't hurt for more people to at least try to live by the Two Commandments of Mark 12:28-31 of the KJV

According to the Gospels which are based on the natural wisdom that our creator inputed into the Gospel writers:

High ranking Jewish authorities (ie Sadducees and Pharisees)  conspired with non Jewish leaders to put Jesus to death. They were jealous of Jesus, and saw him as a threat (Jesus constantly called out the Sadducees and Pharisees for their hypocrisy and evil ways during his ministry). 

An unruly mob of people (the vast vast majority of whom were Jewish), in Jerusalem called out for the Romans to crucify and kill Jesus. In Matthew 27:25, Pontius Pilate washed his hands of Jesus's blood and those mob of people (the vast vast majority of whom were Jewish) who had called for Jesus to be crucified, told Pilate "His blood be on us and our children! In the Gospel of John (John 5:18, John 7:1, John 8:37) John shows that Jews wanting to kill Jesus throughout his ministry . Paul, who was himself a Jew, wrote similar things about Jews relationship with Jesus. Paul persuected Christians when he was still Jewish (1 Thess 2:14-15, Phil 3:5-6)

It doesn't matter because Jesus's death was predestined by God as a plan to save humanity. If Jesus wasn't crucified and killed, no Christians would be saved so the Jewish peoples' role in Jesus death saved humanity, because if he didn't get crucifed and killed, none of us would be able to have eternal life. Jesus gave his life willingly as a sacrifice for sin (Mark 10:45, John 18:11). It was Christians' sins that was the most directly responsible for the death of Jesus (Romans 5:8-9, 1 Timothy 1:15) Jesus rose from the dead 3 days later anyway and rose to heaven on his own free will. 

Jesus was white as was Mary, Joseph, a lot to most biblical figures so I have no real issues with depictions of them as white (not that it matters since it doesn't matter, we aren't even supposed to have depictions of Jesus or God since they don't want that, so we really shouldn't even have depictions of biblical figures, especially God, Jesus, Mary etc). They were Israeli ie Jewish, as seen in Israel today and in Jewish communities around the world, Jewish people are white.  To say otherwise is antisemetic.  God shouldn't be depicted as any ethnicity/race, since he has no form.

I want the Tridentine Mass (1962 Roman Missal) to continue to be celebrated just like it has been celebrated for the last 15 years. I support Pope Benedict's Summorum Pontificum. 

I used to go the Knights of Columbus as a child and teenager a few times a year.  The Knights of Columbus is a great organization.

Christians sharing all the positive things from their lives with other people in a natural, non religious way can help those people be open to being Christian. Christians should also use their lives as a non verbal , living encouragement to non Christians to consider Christianity. 

I sometimes do blame the Church for sometimes being an immoral inversion. For example, some sects of Christianity and Catholicism are an unhealed wound for the West due to their heretical anti liberal views. Some of these sects of Christianity and Catholicism forbid a liberal state which is a problem.

We should help and encourage all sinners to break free of their sins (since sins go against Jesus's teachings and go against natural laws set forth by our creator that are self evident) in compassionate yet firm love ways if their hearts aren't hardened and they are open to or ideally show a desire to break free of those sins. No sin is worse than other sins. The things that are sins are listed in the bible.