Saturday, May 30, 2026

The Bible: Take A Closer Look - Especially At The Old Testament's Commonplace Bloodlust


The God Of The Bible Commands All Men To Stone Rebellious Children To Death. (In The Quran There Is Nothing As Cruel As God's Deuteronomic Demand That Your Own Children Be Killed For The Triviality Of Adolescent Rebelliousness)

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2021/09/alan-religious-conservatives-assume.html


Biblical Violence: Is The Bible More Violent Than The Quran? Jesus Wars: How Four Patriarchs, Three Queens, and Two Emperors Decided What Christians Would Believe for the Next 1,500 Years

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2023/10/biblical-violence-is-bible-more-violent.html



"Is The Bible More Violent Than The Quran?"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/03/is-bible-more-violent-than-quran-npr.html


Worst Bible Passages

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/09/worst-bible-passages.html


Biblical Literalism And The Cultivation Of Hatred

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/02/biblical-literalism-and-cultivation-of.html


Why The Bible Belt Is Not Only Lawless, But Bloodthirsty

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2021/11/why-bible-belt-is-not-only-lawless-but.html

More Contradictions And Disagreements In The Gospels: When The Bible Gets The Bible Wrong

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2021/05/more-contradictions-and-disagreements.html



The Big Lie And Conservative Christianity's Unshakeable Belief That The Bible Is Inerrantly True

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-big-lie-a

nd-conservative.html

Utah Primary Schools Ban Bible For "Vulgarity And Violence"... And My Own Startling Epiphany When I Began Reading Bible Stories To My Children



King David Was A Cold Blooded Murderer: How The Bible Teaches The Righteousness - Or At Least The Normalcy -- Of Egregiously Violent Behavior


Why The Bible Belt Is Not Only Lawless, But Bloodthirsty



More Contradictions And Disagreements In The Gospels: When The Bible Gets The Bible Wrong



The Big Lie And Conservative Christianity's Unshakeable Belief That The Bible Is Inerrantly True
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-big-lie-and-conservative.html


King David Was A Cold Blooded Murderer: How The Bible Teaches The Righteousness - Or At Least The Normalcy -- Of Egregiously Violent Behavior



King David: Common Criminal Or Uncommon Criminal

Judeo-Cristian Scripture Is Categorically More Blood-Thirsty Than The Koran/Qur'an



The Bible's Two Versions Of The Decalogue Are Different. Read The 1st Commandment

The Normalization Of Cruelty During Donald Trump's Administration: A Compendium  (Updated July 6, 2025)



Compendium Of Christianity Posts: Why "Conservative" "Christians" Are All Going To Hell (If There Is A Hell...Which I Don't Believe)



Christianity: A Compendium Of "What Went Wrong" - And Current Worship Of The Wrongness









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Thursday, May 28, 2026

Trevor Noah Brilliant Rap On "Unrealized Capital Gains," The Domain In Which The Untrarich Take Us For The Suckers We Are



Trevor Noah is The Best!
See the brilliant video clip embedded in my first Comment box, below.

Black History Matters

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Apartheid made her son illegal at birth…
then decades later, a bullet went through her head and she still told him to stop crying.
Patricia Noah did not raise Trevor Noah to feel sorry for himself.
Not once.
She raised him to survive a country that legally treated his existence as a crime.
Before Trevor Noah became famous, before the comedy, before the television shows, there was a Black South African woman risking prison simply for having a mixed-race child during apartheid.
His father was white.
His mother was Black.
Under apartheid law, that relationship itself was illegal.
So Patricia Noah learned how to love her own son in secret.
When police appeared nearby, she sometimes had to let go of Trevor’s hand in public and pretend he did not belong to her.
Think about how painful that is for a mother.
To teach your child that survival sometimes means acting like you are strangers.
But Patricia refused to let apartheid shape her son’s mind.
She marched him through wealthy white neighborhoods on purpose so he would understand something important:
“The ghetto is not the whole world.”
That sentence changed his life.
Because while South Africa was still trapped under apartheid, Patricia Noah was already building a mentally free Black man inside it.
She made Trevor read constantly.
Debate ideas.
Question everything.
Reject self-pity.
She knew exactly what she was doing.
Then life turned violent again.
After escaping an abusive marriage, Patricia spent years rebuilding her life away from a man who could not control her anymore.
But in 2009, that man came back with a gun.
He shot her once.
Then again.
The second bullet entered the back of her head.
Trevor rushed toward the hospital believing his mother was dying.
And maybe the most disturbing part of the story came next.
While Patricia was still in surgery, hospital staff approached Trevor about money.
No insurance.
Massive bills.
Potential debt that could destroy a family financially forever.
Trevor was only 25 years old.
And without hesitation, he agreed to pay whatever it cost to save her.
Because the woman on that operating table had already spent his entire life building him into someone capable of standing there.
Then came the miracle.
Doctors discovered the bullet had passed completely through Patricia’s head…
without destroying her brain.
No paralysis.
No fatal damage.
No catastrophic loss.
The doctors barely understood how she survived.
Trevor walked into her hospital room overwhelmed with emotion and started crying.
Patricia looked at him and told him to stop.
Then she made a joke.
“Now you’re officially the best-looking person in the family.”
That was Patricia Noah.
A woman who survived apartheid.
Survived poverty.
Survived domestic violence.
Survived a bullet through her skull.
And four days later?
She went back to work.
Because some Black mothers become so strong that even survival itself starts looking ordinary on them.
Maybe that is why this story hits people so deeply.
Not because Trevor Noah became famous…
but because behind his success stood a woman who refused to let the world convince her son he was small, broken, or limited by racism.
She built freedom inside him long before South Africa became free itself.
So here’s the question:
How different would the world be if more children were raised by people who taught them to reject fear and self-pity no matter how cruel society became?
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Alan Archibald
Trevor Noah's BRILLIANT disquisition on "unrealized capital gains." To paraphrase Bill Clinton, "It's NOT about income tax, stupid." (Income tax means NOTHING to the wealthy. It's trivial to them personally. It's only importance is that income tax shun…
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