The #Ayatollah is like the #Pope.

If the #zionists really did kill him, then why should #Iran hold anything back at all?

Also, there is an established #constitutional process. There are three ministers who convene to govern in the interim and #elect a new Ayatollah.

And the fact that Iran didn't immediately dissolve as soon as he was #killed disproves the (logistically impossible) claim that he was monopolizing #governance under one man.

#elect : taken by preference from among two or more

- French: élire

- German: auswählen,wählen

- Italian: eletto

- Portuguese: eleito

- Spanish: electo

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The world is having to rethink rapidly its alliances, structures, organisations, and loyalties in the face of #Trump and the ongoing implosion of the #US.

This is not something that the US can recover from. After all of this, they can't just #elect someone different and expect the world to give it back the trust it has proven it is so unworthy of now.

The times, they are a-changin'.

They will require many countries, to work together in new and creative ways, collectively as well as individually, to stand up to the intolerable bully that is the murderous US.

Make no mistake, it is not just Trump that is the problem. Trump was elected BECAUSE the US is in the state it is.

They have no right to #hegemony or to consider themselves exceptional, unless perhaps exceptionally awful.

The #American experiment has failed, and for too long they have bullied the world into their lie of their fair so-called rules-based order. That lie is now destroyed.

It is time for us all to establish a new future, one of cooperation, peace, and prosperity. It is time for us to set aside the endless demands of the belligerent US, and escape from its violent oppression.

"Now heaven and hell grapple on our backs and all our old pretense is ripped away. Aye, and God's icy wind will blow."
-- The Crucible, Arthur Miller.

"There is a world elsewhere."
-- Coriolanus, Shakespeare.

#USA #MAGA #rulesBasedOrder #europe #africa #china #russia #middleeast #japan #australia #canada #war #peace #putin #xijinping #starmer #uk

Arminianism

This is 1 of the most significant theological traditions in Protestantism. This represents a major shift in how Christians understand the relationship between God’s sovereignty & human free will.

It began as a technical debate within the Dutch Reformed Church in the 17th century, it eventually became the dominant “theological engine” for American revivalism & much of modern evangelicalism.

Arminianism is named for Jacobus Arminius (1590-1609), a Dutch pastor & professor at the University of Leiden. Arminius was trained in the strict Calvinism of Geneva, he was actually assigned to defend the Calvinist view of predestination against critics.

As he began researching on his own, he became increasingly unsettled by the idea that God might choose to save some (the “elect”) & condemn others (the “reprobate”) before they were ever born.

He argued that if God’s decree of salvation was “unconditional,” then God would ultimately be the author of sin. Arminius sought to preserve both God’s justice & human responsibility, leading to a system where God’s grace is primary but requires a human response.

After Arminius died, his followers (known as Remonstrants) formulated their beliefs into 5 articles. These points were a direct challenge to the “High Calvinism” of the time. These 5 articles are known as the Five Articles of Remonstrance, 1610:

• Conditional Election: God chooses people for salvation based on His foreknowledge of those who will believe, not an arbitrary decree.
• Unlimited Atonement: Jesus died for everyone, not just a select few/elect. However, only those who believe receive the benefit.
• Total Depravity (with a twist): Like Calvinists, Arminians believe humans are too sinful to save themselves. They need help to even take the 1st step toward God.
• Resistable Grace: God offers “prevenient grace” (grace that goes before) to everyone. But humans have the free will to reject it.
• Conditional Preservation: While God empowers believers to stay faithful, Arminians initially left it an open question whether a believer could “fall from grace.” Later Arminians generally argued that they could.

The Dutch authorities called a national council, the Synod of Dort (1618-1619), to settle the dispute. The Remonstrants were condemned as heretics. The council produced the Canons of Dort.

Interestingly enough, the famous “Five Points of Calvinism” (using the acrostic TULIP) didn’t exist before this. They were created specifically as a point-by-point rebuttal to the 5 Arminian articles. Essentially, Arminianism made Calvinism to define itself in the rigid terms we see today.

In American history, Arminianism underwent a HUGE transformation. It made its way across the Atlantic mainly through John Wesley & the Methodist movement. But it truly exploded during the Second Great Awakening (circa 1790-1840).

Preachers like Charles Grandison Finney took to its extreme. Finney argued that a revival wasn’t a miracle from God. But a “result of the right use of means.” By using emotional music, “altar calls,” & “protracted meetings.” He believed he could persuade the human will to choose Christ. This “practical Arminianism” redefined the American religious landscape.

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