Christianity’s Non-Compete Clause

John R. Houk

© September 11, 2014

Here is a great essay by Kenneth Roberts that I found on Political Islam. The central theme is that Islam has a non-compete clause encoded into their holy writings and theology. And Mr. Roberts also takes the next step alluding that Islam is the only major religion with a non-compete clause.

I am a Christian so I probably shouldn’t comment definitively on the certainty of other religions accepting the existence of other faiths. However, I do know that Christianity has a non-compete clause also embedded into our Holy writings. The difference between Islam and Christianity is how that encoded non-compete is to be placed into action.

Islam overtly utilizes its incomprehensible dualistic theology in which two contradictory Quranic teachings are true as long as Islam is promoted. For example the Quran tells Muslims to treat the People of the Book with respect because these poor ignorant people were followers of Allah but allowed themselves to distort the content of their Holy writings. Contrasting this respect for the People of the Book is the command to kill them for blaspheming against Mohammed the false prophet and blaspheming the faith of Islam by asserting Jesus is both fully human and fully God and is a part of the Trinity which Christians believe is the mystery of three persons that are ONE God. The Islamic solution for this perceived blasphemy is to kill them wherever you find them. Although Islamic dualism is not specifically mentioned in this essay by Ali Sina, the essay demonstrates the reality of Islam toward non-Muslims:

Let us compare both sides of Quran:

In Surah 73:10 God tells Mohammad to be patient with his opponents, "Be patient with what they say, and part from them courteously". While in Surah 2:191 God orders him to kill his opponents, "kill them wherever you find them, and drive them out from wherever they drove you out." In Surah 2:256 God tells Mohammad not to impose Islam by force, "There is no compulsion in religion", Then again in verse 193 He tells his messenger to kill whoever rejects Islam, "Fight them until there is no persecution and the religion is God's". In Surah 29:45 God tells Mohammad to speak nicely to people of the Book (Christians and Jews), "Argue with people of the book, other than evil doers, only by means of what are better! and say, we believe in what has been sent down to us and sent down to you. Our God is the same as your God, and we are surrendered to Him." But in Surah 9:29 Allah tells him to fight the people of the Book, "Fight those who do not believe in God and the last day... and fight People of the Book, who do not accept the religion of truth (Islam) until they pay tribute by hand, being inferior".

Muhammad gives no justification for this discrepancy in the Quran and the change in Allah's mood from peaceful to militant and conciliatory to confrontational. Muslim apologists in the West present the kinder verses of the Quran or what is known as the Early Revelation. While Islamic scholars, when have only Muslims as their audience, say that those softer verses of the Quran were abrogated and supplanted by harsher ones. The reason given is, as Al Maudoody puts it, "Mohammad became strong enough to move from the stage of weakness to the stage of Jihad". READ ENTIRETY (The Contradictory teachings of the Quran; By Ali Sina; found at Harrington Sites – Attributed to FaithFreedom.org but couldn’t find it)

The Religion of Peace has collated some Muslim suras that show the Quran requiring violence and/or death for non-Muslims that defy Islamic Supremacism: “What does the Religion of Peace Teach About Violence?”

Christianity in contrast does not teach human beings to exact violence and death against nonbelievers of Christianity. Rather Christians are to share the Good News of Christ’s deliverance from this dark age by believing that the Blood of Christ exacted on Him by human hands is the Redemption price for Adam and Eve’s failure in selling out to Satan in the Garden of Eden; thus one must believe in Jesus is the Son of God in deity and the son of man via Mary Who died on the Cross, was buried for three days and arose from the grave in bodily form to reside on the Right Hand of God the Father. Unbelief is dealt with in the Last Judgment when the Book of Life is opened to see whose name is written or not written in it. God’s Mercy is extended for that human decision until a person’s dying breath to Believe in Christ Jesus.

Unfortunately as the Christian Church became a State Religion, rulers of man exacted punishment on nonbelievers for refusing to believe. That unscriptural punishment included a death sentence and mass genocide in the name of Jesus Christ. However such crimes against humanity is distinctly against the Great Commission of the Lord Jesus Christ the Son of God both coequal with the Father and with the nature of humanity. Taking on a sinless version of human nature in Christ is what makes Redemption from the lost nature of humanity possible in Christ’s Redeeming act.

Here are New Testament Scriptures demonstrating Redemption and toleration:

¹³ No one has ascended to heaven but He who came down from heaven, that is, the Son of Man who is in heaven.^[a] 14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, ¹⁵ that whoever believes in Him should not perish but^[b] have eternal life. ¹⁶ For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. ¹⁷ For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.

¹⁸ “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. ¹⁹ And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. ²⁰ For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. ²¹ But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.” (Jesus talking in John 3: 13-21 NKJV)

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, ⁴ just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love,⁵ having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, ⁶ to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved.

⁷ In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace (Ephesians 1: 3-7 NKJV)

³ For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, ⁴ and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures, ⁵ and that He was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve.⁶ After that He was seen by over five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain to the present, but some have fallen asleep. ⁷ After that He was seen by James, then by all the apostles. ⁸ Then last of all He was seen by me also, as by one born out of due time.

¹² Now if Christ is preached that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? ¹³ But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ is not risen. ¹⁴ And if Christ is not risen, then our preaching is empty and your faith is also empty.

²⁰ But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. ²¹ For since by man came death, by Man also came the resurrection of the dead. ²² For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive. ²³ But each one in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, afterward those who are Christ’s at His coming.²⁴ Then comes the end, when He delivers the kingdom to God the Father, when He puts an end to all rule and all authority and power. ²⁵ For He must reign till He has put all enemies under His feet. ²⁶ The last enemy that will be destroyed is death.

⁴² So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption. ⁴³ It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power. ⁴⁴ It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. ⁴⁵ And so it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being.”^[a] The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

⁴⁶ However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and afterward the spiritual. ⁴⁷ The first man was of the earth, made of dust; the second Man is the Lord^[b] from heaven. ⁴⁸ As was the man of dust, so also are those who are made of dust; and as is the heavenly Man, so also are those who are heavenly. ⁴⁹ And as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear^[c] the image of the heavenly Man. (Bold text mine - 1 Corinthians 15: 3-8, 12-14, 20-26, 42-49 NKJV)

⁵ Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, ⁶ who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, ⁷ but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. ⁸ And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. ⁹ Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, ¹⁰ that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, ¹¹ and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. (Bold text mine - Philippians 2: 5-11 NKJV)

In case you have been too brainwashed to understand the mystery here, verse six proclaims Jesus is equal to God and ergo is God. Verse seven tells us Jesus emptied Himself of those Divine prerogatives as God to become a human being. Verse eight tells us he became a human being to be able to die. And we did Jesus as a man need to die? Because only a human being could remit the spiritual DNA passed to every single human by Adam that had become through disobedience by believing and giving allegiance to Satan in the Garden.

⁶ Now when these things had been thus prepared, the priests always went into the first part of the tabernacle, performing the services. ⁷ But into the second part the high priest went alone once a year, not without blood, which he offered for himself and for the people’s sins committed in ignorance; ⁸ the Holy Spirit indicating this, that the way into the Holiest of All was not yet made manifest while the first tabernacle was still standing.⁹ It was symbolic for the present time in which both gifts and sacrifices are offered which cannot make him who performed the service perfect in regard to the conscience—¹⁰ concerned only with foods and drinks, various washings, and fleshly ordinances imposed until the time of reformation.

¹¹ But Christ came as High Priest of the good things to come,^[a] with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation. ¹² Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption. ¹³ For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh, ¹⁴ how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? ¹⁵ And for this reason He is the Mediator of the new covenant, by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, that those who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

²³ Therefore it was necessary that the copies of the things in the heavens should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.²⁴ For Christ has not entered the holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us; ²⁵ not that He should offer Himself often, as the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood of another— ²⁶ He then would have had to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now, once at the end of the ages, He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. ²⁷ And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment, ²⁸ so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation. (Hebrews 9: 6-15, 23-28 NKJV)

Jesus sets the example of how to treat people in the present time who reject Him. In Jesus’ day Jews and the Samaritans did not get along too well. Samaritans were the descendants of the remnant left in Israel after deportation occurred by Assyrian conquest. These Jews (or really the remnant of the ten-tribe Northern Kingdom) that were left behind were devoid of spiritual leadership plus any Judaic faith they possessed was also corrupted by bad Kings allowing polytheistic religions to be practiced so that the King of Judah still centered in Jerusalem would not inspire rebellion. The Assyrians left these leaderless there to work the land. These remnant Northern Kingdom Hebrews left behind developed a religion that combing Judaic beliefs with some polytheistic beliefs. The returning Jews from the second deportation executed by conquering Babylon viewed these surviving remnant with disdain and thus as impure. This shows the reason Samaritans treated Jesus badly in the verses below:

⁵¹ Now it came to pass, when the time had come for Him to be received up, that He steadfastly set His face to go to Jerusalem, ⁵² and sent messengers before His face. And as they went, they entered a village of the Samaritans, to prepare for Him. ⁵³ But they did not receive Him, because His face was set for the journey to Jerusalem. ⁵⁴ And when His disciples James and John saw this, they said, “Lord, do You want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them, just as Elijah did?”^[a]

⁵⁵ But He turned and rebuked them,^[b] and said, “You do not know what manner of spirit you are of. ⁵⁶ For the Son of Man did not come to destroy men’s lives but to save them.”^[c]And they went to another village. (Bold text is mine – Luke 9-51-56 NKJV)

Hmm … What would Mohammed have done?

¹¹ “Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake. ¹² Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

⁴³ “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor^[a] and hate your enemy.’⁴⁴ But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you,^[b] 45 that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. ⁴⁶ For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? ⁴⁷ And if you greet your brethren^[c] only, what do you do more than others? Do not even the tax collectors^[d] do so? ⁴⁸ Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect. (Matthew 5: 11-12, 43-48 NKJV)

How would Mohammed react to an enemy?

¹⁰ Also He said to them, “In whatever place you enter a house, stay there till you depart from that place. ¹¹ And whoever^[a] will not receive you nor hear you, when you depart from there, shake off the dust under your feet as a testimony against them.^[b] Assuredly, I say to you, it will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city!” (Mark 6-10-11 NKJV)

Mecca authorities had given Mohammed the boot. Mo went to Medina for refuge. For some idiotic reason the Medinans who appeared to be swayed by a Jewish-Arab tribe made a deal with Mo, BUT Mo began to gather in followers largely to the revenue sharing plan from robbing trade caravans. These followers became militarized. The Medina Jews became concerned with the writing on the wall concerning Mo’s power. Mo sets up the Jewish-Arab tribe with a false accusation providing the excuse to usurp power and authority from the Jewish-Arabs. The final result – Mo beheaded all the males above puberty and placed the useful women (regardless of marital status) into sex-slavery. After the Jews and Mo’s own Arab tribe were sufficiently subdued the false prophet practically walked on in to Mecca as the new ruler. Mo spent the remainder his days conquering today’s Arabic Peninsula being particularly harsh to those refusing to convert to Islam.

Christians have a non-compete clause but as earlier noted Scripture does not demand violence or death for refusing Christ as Savior. Neither do the Scriptures demand violence or death for a person who chooses to leave the Faith either for another or out of atheism. Even so leaving Christianity places a person in a position to have their name erased from the Book of Life opened at the Last Judgment.

⁶ since it is a righteous thing with God to repay with tribulation those who trouble you,⁷ and to give you who are troubled rest with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, ⁸ in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹ These shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power, ¹⁰ when He comes, in that Day, to be glorified in His saints and to be admired among all those who believe,^[a] because our testimony among you was believed. (2 Thessalonians 1: 6-10 NKJV)

If one leads an unchristian lifestyle yet still professes Christianity there is a problem that needs to be dealt with. But still, the solution is not violence or death:

⁹ I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people. ¹⁰ Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world.¹¹ But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—not even to eat with such a person.

¹² For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside? ¹³ But those who are outside God judges. Therefore “put away from yourselves the evil person.”^[a] (1 Corinthians 5: 9-13 NKJV)

Shunning an unrepentant apostate in the hope that repentance brings a return to Faith:

⁶ This punishment which was inflicted by the majority is sufficient for such a man, ⁷ so that, on the contrary, you ought rather to forgive and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one be swallowed up with too much sorrow. ⁸ Therefore I urge you to reaffirm your love to him. ⁹ For to this end I also wrote, that I might put you to the test, whether you are obedient in all things. (2 Corinthians 2: 6-9 NKJV)

Knowingly flirting with any sin that separates from God after experiencing Redemption in Christ presents a danger to self that may have eternal consequences:

¹ Therefore, leaving the discussion of the elementary principles of Christ, let us go on to perfection, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, ² of the doctrine of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. ³ And this we will^[a] do if God permits.

⁴ For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, ⁵ and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, ⁶ if they fall away,^[b] to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and put Him to an open shame.

⁹ But, beloved, we are confident of better things concerning you, yes, things that accompany salvation, though we speak in this manner. ¹⁰ For God is not unjust to forget your work and labor of^[a] love which you have shown toward His name, in that you have ministered to the saints, and do minister. ¹¹ And we desire that each one of you show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope until the end, ¹² that you do not become sluggish, but imitate those who through faith and patience inherit the promises. (Hebrews 6: 1-6, 9-12 NKJV)

Salvation is easy to attain in Christ but one must be sure to work out their Salvation in order to NOT condemn themselves to a negative eternal judgment.

Jesus Christ the Son of God is the ONLY way to a positive eternity in union with God Almighty:

⁷ Then Jesus said to them again, “Most assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. ⁸ All who ever came before Me^[a] are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them. ⁹ I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. ¹⁰ The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. (John 10: 7-10 NKJV)

⁶ Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

¹⁵ “If you love Me, keep^[a] My commandments. ¹⁶ And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever— ¹⁷ the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you.

¹⁹ “A little while longer and the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you will live also. ²⁰ At that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. ²¹ He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.”

²⁶ But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you. ²⁷ Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. (John 14: 6, 15-17, 19-21, 26-27 NKJV)

The Christian non-compete clause thus is an extension of God’s Grace and Mercy in which the actual outcome results in a positive or negative Last Judgment according to the time spent in your mortal coil and your last mortal breath.

JRH 9/11/14

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Islam’s Non-Compete Clause

By Kenneth Roberts

September 6, 2014

Political Islam

Imagine a football league where only one team is allowed to score goals or win. That’s the premise of political Islam.

Islam is the only religion with a non-compete clause. Non-compete agreements in today’s business world defend proprietary information. Proprietary ideas give companies their leading edge. Islam goes beyond branding itself ‘the best’ (which all ideologies do); Islam forbids other ideologies from competing with Islam in a number of areas. It’s like a modern corporation, but more ruthless.
Islam’s Unique Idea

Islam’s unique, proprietary idea is jihad, the holy war to eliminate competition with Islam. According to Ibn Khaldun, the holy war of jihad is not permitted to other religions or ideologies.

Non-Compete Regulations

Islam’s non-compete restrictions are summarized in the infamous Pact of Omar and Sharia law. They regulate non-Muslims from competing with Muslim males in the following areas: proselytizing, politics, employment opportunities, social status, prestige or ‘honor’, public events, using the Arabic language, teaching about Islam, marrying Muslim women, the security of possessions and the elegance or height of buildings…even in how the Kafirs dress. Nor may women compete with Muslim males, since Allah made women constitutionally inferior to men ‘in reason and religion’.

Islam’s non-compete restrictions are the Kafirs’ terms of surrender to the Islamic state. The Pact of Omar was made by eighth-century caliphs to be forced on non-Muslims against their wills. Wherever Islamists become the ruling class, the Pact of Omar is dragged out to crush whatever challenges Islamic monopolies. That makes Kafirs and women permanent underclasses in Sharia-ruled societies.

Islamists want to insinuate Sharia into Kafir societies before Kafirs and women are aware of its non-compete implications.

In a Sharia society, non-competition applies everywhere, even in the law courts where Sharia favors the inconvenience, impoverishment and humiliation of Kafirs and the inferior status of women.

How Islam defends non-competition

Islamic non-competition is defended by jihad. Jihad is a monopoly on aggression. Allah forbids Kafirs from resisting jihad in any way, since counterjihad is a way of competing with Islam.

What makes Islam’s non-compete system draconian is the normative means to enforce it: vigilantism. Since murder is reprehensible, Sharia law craftily hides the murder of Kafirs and apostates behind verbiage, mumbo jumbo and silence. Silence should not be overlooked as a powerful legal weapon!

America’s emancipation of slaves did not entirely end slavery. American slavery slyly continued as late as 1928 because no punishment was on the books for slave-owners, even though slavery was illegal. Similarly, Sharia law has no punishment for a vigilante who murders an apostate or a blasphemer. Islamic vigilantes in such cases are ‘killing by right’, that is, Allah authorizes killing apostates and blasphemers on the example of Mohammed. Vigilantes are considered auxiliary police enforcing Allah’s non-compete laws. Such vigilantes are heroes, rather than criminals.

Islam’s top authority on Sharia, the fatwa department of Al Azhar University in Cairo has sanctioned Islamic vigilantism. In theory, the death sentence for blasphemy is imposed by the Islamic state, but if the state isn’t available to act, a private Muslim vigilante may carry out a death sentence against a blasphemer. This is where Islamic law gets interesting. A self-directed vigilante may execute a fatwa issued by an imam, but even a fatwa is not necessary. When a Kafir competes with Islam or its prophet, a vigilante may murder the blasphemer even without a fatwa being issued.

We cannot imagine a Christian pastor issuing a death warrant, yet two hundred thousand imams are authorized to do so and over a billion Muslims are deputized to kill. Many writers and cartoonists around the world (such as Salman Rushdie, Robert Redecker, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Kurt Westergaard, Lars Vilks, Molly Norris, Trey Parker and Matt Stone) have a clear understanding of Islamic vigilantism, since they live with full-time security guards. Almost everyone writing about Islam has received anonymous death threats. Writing about Islam breaches Islam’s non-compete clause.
Results of Non-Compete

The cost of Islam’s non-compete contract is stagnation. ‘Innovation’ (an evil word in Islam) is forbidden, because Islam’s alleged perfection cannot be improved. The 7th century is deemed the time of perfection, so Muslims cannot progress past it. Sharia leads the world backwards to the 7th century, not forwards to progress.

Muslims want to be world leaders, but their non-compete makes them followers. Competition has everything and produces everything that the Islamic world craves and needs for its survival, but the Muslim world produces little because of its philosophy of non-competition.

Jihadists curb their cognitive dissonance by repeating their certainty of Islam’s moral perfection until they all but drown out the images and voices of modernity. They want Islamic terrorism removed from discussion, so that 7th-century-loving Muslims are not contrasted with progress-loving Kafirs. Jihadists live in denial, but many burn out: they half-heartedly see backwardness is not the answer.
What should we do?

First of all, Kafirs need to see Islam’s non-compete clause is a real threat to progress and democratic values. Islamic belief in non-competition means that no progress is needed or possible. But Islam’s allegedly perfect society never existed, unless slavery, misogyny, vigilantism, inequality and genocide are ‘perfect’. Non-competition is bad for people. Societies that imposed monopolies on thought and political power have had cycles of revolution and counter-revolution or have stalled in poverty, disease and superstition.

Secondly, we should fault Islam’s non-compete system because it spreads fear; we should ban jihad because it has caused more than 270 million deaths and always creates tyrannies.

Recognizing political Islam’s dysfunction, today’s Muslims flee from it to live in free non-Islamist countries. Surveys show 65% of Muslims are Islamists in theory, but not in practice. This contradiction is Islam’s Achilles’ heel. Westerners should highlight it, rather than flattering the Islamism of oil-rich countries in order to keep oil prices low.

Mohammed declared endless war on competition giving Muslim males monopolies on everything. Jihadists expect to win this war through high birthrates and terrorism.

Many Western leaders shield jihad and supremacism from ideological scrutiny because they underestimate the pervasiveness of Islamism. Are they fit to lead?

As Islamism spreads, the vibrancy of the competitive world will gradually be dampened by Islam’s non-competition and terrorism.

It is self-refuting to fight the jihadists militarily, without blaming Islam’s non-compete philosophy. Non-competition is what ignites the jihadist culture, so refuting the non-compete philosophy of Islam should be a top priority.

"A footnote to a reader 'David' [Ken — September 7, 2014 @ 7:34 PM]:

Convict leasing began in 1846 and lasted until July 1, 1928, when Herbert Hoover was vying for the White House. When the U.S. entered World War II, the Franklin Roosevelt administration realized that the continued existence of involuntary servitude in the South undermined war propaganda against the Axis. Less than a week after Pearl Harbor, Circular N0. 3591 was issued to all federal prosecutors instructing them to prosecute cases of “involuntary servitude and slavery”. Finally, the Thirteenth Amendment would be enforced.

Sharia law maintains a loophole allowing the murder of apostates and blasphemers by private Muslims."

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Christianity’s Non-Compete Clause

John R. Houk

© September 11, 2014

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What’s your take on ‘Burn the Koran Day’?

John R. Houk
© September 9, 2010

Burn the Koran Day is scheduled for September 11, 2010 to dishonor the Muslims who attacked America on September 11, 2001 (aka 9/11). There have been a lot of opinions from the Left and Right denouncing the Pastor and Church of an otherwise insignificant membership of fifty or so. The feeling is to be outraged over insulting Muslims rather than being insulted that an act of perfidy occurred on American soil in the name of Allah and Mohammed.

I personally have swayed back and forth in indecision over the right and wrong of a Burn Koran Day. I even made a comment supporting the concept that Christians ought not to lower them self down to a level of Islamic vengeance. Then I read Ann Coulter’s support of a Burn Koran Day and now I am back to, “Yep let’s burn those vile books insulting Christianity and the American way of life.”

Reading the comments of my fellow Conservatives and Christians at other websites I may be in lonely company. I despise being moved by peer pressure though, so for now I am with the Burn the Koran Day crowd even if it is politically incorrect.

JRH 9/9/10

Tolerant Americans

There is tolerance and intolerance. Tolerance is viewed as good and intolerance is viewed as evil. Is this an absolute?

Joe Bunker has written an excellent essay in which tolerance is twisted by intolerant people making it bad. Bunker also makes a good case for times when intolerance is GOOD. This is a good read.

JRH 8/9/10 (Hat Tip: Bill J. Spence ccpga)

Attention Christians: This is a call for a New Christian Crusade to Defend the Faith

John R. Houk
© July 21, 2010

I have been very hard pressed to walk the line of being disgusted with the religion of Islam while giving Muslims the benefit of the doubt of being deceived people by a religion that is as political as it is theological. There is a saying among Christians: hate the sin and love the sinner.

The point is in hating the sin; the sinner will have the opportunity in their life to turn their life to faith in Christ even if it is their last breath. Believing that Jesus arose from the dead in bodily form (as opposed to spiritual) making a show openly in victory over Satan’s unjust evil world system leased to him by the First Adam thus defeating death. From death God the Father reasserted Life in the son of man from Mary’s lineage and the Son of God by the Incarnation of God the Second Person of the Triune God. Triune meaning God is ONE. Belief in the Resurrection is the New Covenant of Life by the loving God who was willing to risk the Second Person on the ONE Godhead by an emptying of divine attributes to become a man. The only way for God to save the World he so loved was to have an absolutely Just, sinless and righteous man sacrifice his life as payment to redeem the actions of the First Adam who subleased his charge to Satan. The sublease was an act of disobedience that separated Adam and Eve and their descendants from Union with God. Thus Adam felt naked for God’s Glory no longer clothed Adam.

The Last Adam Jesus Christ sacrificed His Life and Blood on the Cross to die with the sins of humanity imputed upon Him. The death of Jesus was an unjust act perpetuated by the lord of darkness. The Justice of God thus judged Satan’s lease over humanity had been broken. The Father enabled Life in Jesus returning His Perfect Spirit to be reunited with his human body in life. The human body of Jesus the Christ then became transformed as the Divine attributes that left at the Incarnation were reinstalled at the Bodily Resurrection in which eventually sat Jesus at the Right Hand of the Father as the Last High Priest. This High Priest Jesus is the Priest-King to both Jew and Gentile thus uniting humanity by the Blood of Christ.

In Islam hate and intolerance abrogate peace, love and tolerance. In Christianity the Love of God and the Good News of Deliverance and the joint-heirship with the First Born from the dead (AKA the Last Adam, the Christ) is made available to human beings in the flesh by tossing the old man aside and becoming a new creation in Christ Jesus. The process of growing in one’s new creation in Christ life leads away from the fleshly desires and temptations to walk in hate, violence, intolerance and all acts of humanity antithetical to a Godly Life made possible by faith in Christ.

Mohammed’s later life is all about carnal relations with women which can be insinuated to gratify the baser desires of unredeemed through lust for sex slaves. The women that became the wives of Mohammed did not do so because his Allah said there would be some divine benefit for humanity. No my friends: Mohammed’s dalliance with multiple wives and sex slaves was the bad old fashioned carnal lust to satisfy the hunger for sex. Mohammed’s first wife died. The whole time she was alive the paradigm for Mohammed was one wife and one husband. After Kadijah’s death, Mohammed took on multiple wives which included gorgeous Jewish gals captured in war, a wife or two of a companion who Mo could not resist and even the marriage to a seven year little girl whose marriage was consummated when she was the ripe old age of NINE.

Beyond the carnal desire for women, Mohammed’s later life had become consumed for the bloodlust of Jews, Christians and the marketing caravans loaded with wealth to be stolen. Why?

The Jewish Arab tribes of Medina resisted Mohammed’s theopolitical cult as NOT compatible with Judaism. Mohammed did not fit the bill of a prophet that Judaism was specifically looking. The Jewish punishment: Conquest, genocide, theft, sex-slavery and eventually banishment or death from the Arabian Peninsula. Mo’s later life directive toward Jews (and Christians) differed from Mo’s early life of calling Jews (and Christians) the people of the book who were to be respected and not forced to become Muslims. Although that respect was for Mo a little deceptive: For Jews and Christians to live peaceably among Muslims then Jews and Christian had to pay a protection tax which turned out to be humiliation tribute that was to be collected in the most humiliating way possible. The protection tax (jizya) only protected Jews and Christian from summary death or execution for rejecting Islam. There is no compulsion in Islam – Yeah Right! To choose to remain a Jew or Christian entailed a subhuman existence with zero rights vis-a-vie Muslims. Jews and Christians have the right NOT to practice their religion in front of a Muslim without facing death. Jews and Christians cannot build new Churches and Synagogues let alone repair old ones without facing death. Jews and Christians cannot wear the same clothes as Muslims without facing death. Jewish and Christian females are open targets for Muslim rapists who do not have to worry about prosecution because a Jew and Christian are not allowed to testify against a Muslim. For that matter a woman that is raped can be punished by being in a position that her family is not protecting her (that goes for Muslim women as well). Easy targets are deserving targets in Islam. There is more that can be directly linked to Islam’s perfect man’s examples in the Quran, Hadith, Sunna and Sira. All the examples are not good for non-Muslims.

On the other hand the example of Jesus emerges to greater degrees of righteousness right up until the time of His Crucifixion on the Cross. Just prior to the death of Christ, one of two thieves crucified with Christ asks to join Jesus in His Kingdom. He was promised a place in Paradise with Jesus. Jesus’ last breath to His Father in Heaven was to forgive those who Crucified the Son of God for they knew not what they had done. Mohammed’s last breath was to kill all Jews and Christians in the Arabian Peninsula because they refused to acknowledge Mohammed as the last Prophet and his god he called Allah as God Almighty.

Do I have a problem with Islam? Yes.

Christ commands me to love my enemies and pray for those who persecute me. Hence I do so for Muslims.

The Word of God Inspired by the Holy Spirit tells me to pray for unrepentant sinners and disbelievers. For Christians do not wrestle with flesh and blood but with different levels of spiritual beings under the command of Satan. All that is evil is influenced directly or indirectly by Satan, Satan’s minions and by anti-Christ spirits that will culminate eventually in the two men that are the Anti-Christ and his False Prophet.

It is time for Christians to rise up and keep their eyes upon Jesus. It is time for a Holy Crusade that more than likely will not be supported by any Western government especially in America. In America Muslims that are attempting to follow the purist revival of the Mohammed example has used the American Constitution to become aggressors against Judeo-Christian spiritual values and have convinced politicians (especially of the Leftist persuasion) that American Muslims are poor victims of Islamophobia. God help that it would become true that Islamophobia would take a hold of Americans; HOWEVER not because of irrational fear or to act out hatred against the physical person of a Muslim. God’s Word tells us that Godly Love overcomes fear. Also a physical attack based on hatred sucks a Christian into the same credo of Theopolitical Islam: kill that which offends Mohammed and his Allah. Regardless of the history of Christianity in which Christian embracing Sovereigns would slaughter Jews, Muslims and those considered heretical Christians in the name of Jesus Christ; that slaughter was definitely contrary to the example of Jesus Christ and the Word of God.

The Modern Christian Crusade should be all about confronting Islam head on publicly even if Muslims attempt to paint such action as racism. Christians should NOT engage in violence, but share the Good News of Jesus Christ the Son of God even though they may be provoked to respond to Islamic violence. American Muslim organizations have used their definition of Islamophobia to use law enforcement to disperse Christians exercising their right of Free Speech and Religious Freedom. Muslims have deceitfully used the U.S. Constitution to use the money from foreign Muslim billionaires to engage in Legal Jihad (aka Lawfare). There was a time in Europe and Asia Minor that Christians were thrown in the slammer, to the lions and to the torture chambers to get them to recant their faith in Christ (long before Islam for those were the days that Romans persecuted Christians). Now that is real martyrdom.

Muslim martyrdom is dying in battle spreading Islam or in a homicidal suicide bomb designed to strike fear in non-Muslims in the death of men, women and children. The reward for dying a martyr in Islam: eternal access to the carnal sexual pleasures of 72 eternal virgins that satisfy a martyr's every sexual desire. What does a Christian martyr look forward to?

8 And Stephan, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people. 9 Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen. 10 And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake. 11 Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God. 12 And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon him, and caught him and brought him to the council. 13 And they set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law: 14 For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us. 15 And all that sat in the council, looking steadfastly at him, saw his face as it had been the face of an angel. (Acts 6: 8-15 KJV)

1 THEN said the high priest, Are these things so? 2 And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, … (Acts 7: 1-ff)

Steven proceeds to tell the council the history of the Hebrews from Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph and the other Eleven Patriarchs, Moses, David, Solomon and the Prophets as the Scripture points to Jesus the Christ as the Messiah promised by Moses. Then:

51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did so do ye. 52 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers: 53 Who have received the law by the disposition of angels and have not kept it. 54 When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth. 55 But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up steadfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God. 56 And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened , and the Son of man standing on the right of God. 57 Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord. 58 And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man’s feet, whose name was Saul. 59 And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. 60 And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge, And when he had said this , he fell asleep. (Acts 7: 51-60 KJV)

Now that is what true martyrdom is: A culture of Life willing to die to be an example of Life. This is as opposed to a culture of death that divinizes death to receive carnal sexual pleasure for all eternity in Paradise.

Even from a human perspective, which theological perspective of the afterlife promises the Holy Bliss of Union with God? Is it a martyr with a vision into an afterlife that ends all human suffering or a martyr who glorifies death with expectation of sensuous carnal sex to fulfill human lust?

JRH 7/21/10