Rudyard Kipling"
“When you're left wounded on Afganistan's plains and
the women come out to cut up what remains, Just roll to your rifle
and blow out your brains,
And go to your God like a soldier”
General Douglas MacArthur"
“We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.”
“It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.” “Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
“The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.”
“May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .” “The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
“Nobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
The Soldier stood and faced God
Which must always come to pass
He hoped his shoes were shining
Just as bright as his brass
"Step forward you Soldier,
How shall I deal with you?
Have you always turned the other cheek?
To My Church have you been true?"
"No, Lord, I guess I ain't
Because those of us who carry guns
Can't always be a saint."
I've had to work on Sundays
And at times my talk was tough,
And sometimes I've been violent,
Because the world is awfully rough.
But, I never took a penny
That wasn't mine to keep.
Though I worked a lot of overtime
When the bills got just too steep,
The Soldier squared his shoulders and said
And I never passed a cry for help
Though at times I shook with fear,
And sometimes, God forgive me,
I've wept unmanly tears.
I know I don't deserve a place
Among the people here.
They never wanted me around
Except to calm their fears.
If you've a place for me here,
Lord, It needn't be so grand,
I never expected or had too much,
But if you don't, I'll understand."
There was silence all around the throne
Where the saints had often trod
As the Soldier waited quietly,
For the judgment of his God.
"Step forward now, you Soldier,
You've borne your burden well.
Walk peacefully on Heaven's streets,
You've done your time in Hell."
•The coins prove that the area under “Islam” was either Christian or Zoroastrian until 692 AD
•The Rock inscriptions prove that Islam as we know it didn’t appear until around 730 AD
•All of the 7th c. references for Muhammad are too far north, or refer to someone else who is ”the praised one”
THE QUR'AN:
•The 6 earliest manuscripts prove that men created different Qur’ans between the 7th – 9th
centuries
•The Birmingham Folios prove that Muslims borrowed stories created long before the Qur’an
•The 30 Qira’ats which proliferated from the 8th-10th centuries proved the Qur’an was evolving everywhere
•Holding up the 26 Qira’ats in 2016 opened up a whole ‘can of worms’ for Muslim scholars
•The interview of June 8, 2020 created a platform for us to go public with the Qira’at Narrative
•The 29 Qira’at Variants dumped into the Nile in 1924 prove that when Muslims find problems with their Qur’an, they either burn them, wash them, erase them, cover them, or sink them to destroy the evidence!
•The 4,000 Consonantal Variants prove that Muslims have accreted, deleted and corrupted their text, before standardizing it in the last century
•The 63 fragments amassed to find just 96% of the Qur’an proves Muslims still can't find a complete Qur’an for over 100 years, as their fragments are tentative, or have no sources
•The Aramaic proto-Qur’an proves that when we go back to the original text we will find Jesus!
A POSSIBLE SCENARIO FOR THE ORIGINS OF ISLAM:
•The 7th – 8th century Arabs in order to create their own distinct identity needed a ‘book, a man, and a place’, which they did with the Qur’an, Muhammad and Mecca; but it didn’t take just 22 years as the SIN claims, but centuries, proving that Islam is as man-made as any other religion, unlike Christianity!
WHY IS THIS 'HISTORICAL CRITIQUE' SO POPULAR?
1) We can use this material today to disprove the Preservation of the Qur’an, Muhammad and Mecca
2) It is Islam and not us who are ‘arguing from silence’, as we have the 7th c. evidence they don’t have
3) These arguments hit at the very foundations of Islam; yet they are neutral and ‘politically correct’
4) It is visual: Notice that everything we show you has to do with pictures of coins, rocks, buildings, maps, timelines and manuscripts. Even speaking fast you still got the ‘gist’ of what he was saying
5) You don’t have to know Arabic to understand it, or use it: One of the biggest fears we hear from many Christians is that they don’t want to have to learn Arabic in order to discuss Islam with Muslims
6) It is foundational to everything Muslims believe: It features one book, one man, and one place; yet, without any one of the three, Islam “falls to pieces” and is destroyed
7) It is Historically neutral, and therefore NOT Islamophobic, or “hate speech”: Thus, everyone can use it
8) But we really would prefer that Christians to use it…why?
•Because Christians have the only book, and man, and place which have passed these criticisms .
•Thus, we understand its power, and have the right to use it publicly…but mostly….
•We are the only ones who have a better response, and a better solution = Jesus Christ!
