I'm Dinesh D'Souza and I'm thrilled to be on this censorship-free platform.
How crazy! I used to think America was a censorship-free platform.
I'm looking forward to being myself here! To sharing my take on a whole range of issues, primarily politics, but also history, philosophy, religion, and so on.
By way of background: I was born in India, came to America at the age of 17 as an exchange student, studied at Dartmouth, worked in the Reagan White House, served as a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and the Hoover Institution, and have written a bunch of books--17 or 18 at last count--and made five documentary films including "2016: Obama's America" and "Hillary's America." I now do a daily podcast that is available in audio on Apple, Spotify and Google, and on video on YouTube and Rumble.
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I want my posts to be uninhibited, candid, constructive, and action-oriented. So not merely "We gotta act," but rather "Here's what we need to do, and here's what you can do."
I hope you'll join me on this new and fascinating voyage. Call it a "second sailing," if I can use a term borrowed from the ancient Greeks.
I also intend to spend time on this platform, so I can read what you have to say, and interact with my audience as much as possible. This is, in a sense, my "inner circle."
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Before debating free will, you have to start with the Calvinist view of God.
In Calvinism, God doesn’t merely permit or allow events to happen—He decrees them.
That distinction changes the entire debate over predestination.
This video illustrates how biblical archaeology works by examining a clay seal dated to the 8th century BC and attributed to the prophet Isaiah. It was produced by the Armstrong Institute of Biblical Archaeology (http://www.armstronginstitute.org) and narrated by Stephen Flurry.
The town of Magdala is located on the western coast of the Sea of Galilee.
In modern times, this ancient place was called al-Majdal.
I’ve been there twice, to visit an archaeologically significant synagogue in Magdala.
The synagogue contained the Magdala Stone, which has a carved depiction on its sides and top, of the synagogue itself, giving us a visual representation of what the old synagogue must have looked like.
The synagogue also contained a cache of artifacts dated to the time of Jesus, and it’s possible—though not certain—Jesus taught there.
None of the apostles came from Magdala, yet we know from Matthew’s Gospel that Jesus visited the region.
And we can surmise why. Magdala was the hometown of Mary of Magdala, also known as Mary Magdalene.
See the famous painting of her below by Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo.
Mary is sometimes depicted as a repentant sinner or even a prostitute, although there is no indication in the Bible of her being a “loose woman.”
Luke 8: 1-3 says she...
The Bible says that Joseph, an Israelite sold into slavery in Egypt, rose up to become one of the most influential high officials in Egypt.
For two centuries, skeptics said this was ridiculous.
The Pharaohs would never—they said—elevate a foreigner, let alone a lowly Semite, to such a position.
But archaeologist James Hoffmeier has shown that there is precedent.
Hoffmeier gives several samples of Semites and Canaanites who served as viziers and in other high positions under the pharaohs.
Moreover, from 1650 to 1550 B.C., the lower part of Egypt was ruled by foreigners.
These were the Hyksos, whose name literally means “foreign rulers.”
The Hyksos, as it turns out, were Semites from Canaan.
It would hardly be unusual for these Semites to pick one of their own to be a high official.
In the painting below by Giambattista Tiepolo, Joseph is shown receiving pharaoh’s ring.
Now admittedly the dates here don’t match perfectly. Joseph would seem to have lived before the ascension of ...
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