]]> https://johnnycirucci.com/ukraines-pro-russian-separatists-fight-for-christ/feed/ 0 https://johnnycirucci.com/known-by-his-enemies/ https://johnnycirucci.com/known-by-his-enemies/#comments Wed, 22 Jan 2014 18:18:23 +0000 http://johnnycirucci.com/?p=1202 In December of 1998, Congress began impeachment proceedings against William Jefferson Blythe Clinton.

In January of 1999, William Jefferson Blythe Clinton committed the American military to a 500 year old religious conflict between Bosnian muslims and Serbian Christians in the former Yugoslavia…aiding the Islamists against their Orthodox foes.

The action was sold to the American people as necessary due to inhuman atrocities created by Serbian “ethnic cleansing”, but a decade later it emerged that Albanian muslims self-inflicted “cleansing” on innocent locals:

Eve-Ann Prentice, a British journalist who covered the Kosovo war for the Guardian and the London Times, testified during Slobodan Milosevic’s trial in the Hague. He said that rather than being driven out by the Serbs, “The KLA [Kosovo Liberation Army] told ethnic Albanian civilians that it was their patriotic duty to leave because the world was watching. This was their one big opportunity to make Kosovo part of Albania eventually, that NATO was there, ready to come in, and that anybody who failed to join the exodus was not supporting the Albanian cause.” ~ Rewarding Terrorism, Deception in Kosovo, Andy Wilcoxson, World Net Daily

Even the “atrocities” were hotly contested at the time as nothing more than contrived provocations for war:

…in Belgrade, Gen. Wesley K. Clark, the NATO commander, and Gen. Klaus Naumann, chairman of the NATO military council, were sitting with President Slobodan Milosevic of Yugoslavia. They came brandishing a plastic portfolio of color photographs documenting a massacre of Albanians three days earlier by Serbian security forces in the Kosovo town of Racak.

They also came with threats of NATO air strikes.

This was far from their first encounter with the Serbian leader, but this time, they recalled, they found a newly hardened man with a bunker mentality.

“This was not a massacre,” Milosevic shouted. “This was staged. These people are terrorists.”

When General Clark warned him that NATO would “start telling me to move aircraft,” Milosevic appeared infuriated by the prospect of bombings. He called the general a war criminal. ~ How a President, Distracted by Scandal, Entered Balkan War, Elaine Sciolino and Ethan Bronner, New York Times

This is the same Wesley Clark that later spilled the beans on similar plans for the Middle East—plans that ran as far back as 1991 to destabilize governments and overturn them with the help of radical Islam:

Note that Syria and Iran are on the doorstep of this policy.

The Bosnian War didn’t do much for Christian Serbs but it was a tremendous boon to the Religion of Peace—by the way, National Guardsmen that should be home digging citizens out of weather emergencies are still deploying on this mission today!

Mike Scruggs noted for the Tribune Papers (archived here) that this was a war that created a terrorist haven in the heart of Europe:

For 78 days in 1999, we bombed Christian Serbia and their forces in Kosovo, ostensibly as a humanitarian move to prevent Serbian ethnic cleansing of Kosovo’s Albanian population. Our real motive was to cripple the troublesome anti-multiculturalist Serbs and to enhance our standing with the oil-rich Muslim world. We bombed bridges, selected buildings, railroads, even passenger trains, and other targets in the Serbian capital of Belgrade. Unfortunately, the Chinese Embassy was also hit. According to John Pilger, writing in the Guardian, many of the bombs dropped from a relatively safe altitude (for us) of 15,000 feet, also hit schools, hospitals, and homes. Total Serbian dead amounted to about two thousand. Pope John Paul II described the bombing as an “act of diabolical retribution.” Many conservative and liberal American leaders agreed, but the Serbs eventually had to yield to our more advanced technology and vastly superior force. …

The results of our alliance with the KLA and establishing an Albanian base of Muslim power in Kosovo have been horrific. The Albanians have driven 277 thousand Serbs from Kosovo. Hundreds have been murdered. Thousands have been robbed and brutalized as their homes and property were destroyed. Muslim multiculturalists have destroyed 135 Orthodox churches, monasteries, and shrines. All this was done under the noses of UN security forces.

Bill Clinton’s great military achievement was a humanitarian disaster, and it established a dangerous Muslim foothold in Europe that is exporting terror and crime.

Unfortunately for Milosevic and the Christians of Serbia, their most important ally, Russia (lead at the time by Boris Yeltsin) was weak and unable to do much more than pick up the pieces for the embattled nation.

Russia has fiercely opposed the NATO bombing and acted as almost the sole ally of Milosevic as the conflict played out. But it has limited its support to hot rhetoric and criticism of NATO, offering no military assistance to the Belgrade government.

The Kremlin is in an uncomfortable position that requires it to play a tough theme to keep nationalist political opponents in Moscow in check even as it works to become a peacemaker on the world stage, where it depends on Western economic support to prop up its faltering economy. ~ Russia Presses For Diplomatic Role In Conflict, Terry Atlas and Charles M. Madigan, Chicago Tribune

But this conflict did set the stage for a paradigm shift that would place Russia and Christ on one side and America and Mohammad on the other.

CONSTANTINE RISING

In a previous column, I noted that today’s President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, is a man known by his enemies:

It seems that Vladimir Putin’s American enemies are of the same two-Party Machine that many in the burgeoning Liberty Movement are also struggling against.

There is no greater example than one found in Damascus.

As the Middle East dominoes continued to fall, ousting stable governments and turning them over to Shariah-instituting radicals, Putin has been credited with stopping the Caliphate from making Syria the next victim. In his signature statesmanship, he reached out to the American people via an opinion editorial in the New York Times.

With surprising uniformity, the reaction from Democrat and Republican insiders was the same. Leftist NJ Senator Robert Menendez claimed with ridiculous hyperbole that Putin’s Op-ed. made him “want to vomit”.

In the same unimaginative vein as saying “I know you are but what am I?”, Arizona Republican Senator John McCain submitted a counter Op-ed. to Pravda.

Having nowhere left to turn, Syria’s Christians reached out to Russia for safety from the American Islamic scourge.

Does that characterization upset you? It does me, and I wrote it. But it is what America has become.

America is lead by a man who says we are not a Christian nation:

—and who mocks the Christian Bible:

How has America’s mortal Cold War enemy become her spiritual opposite?

Decades earlier, a secret plot was hatched in Leningrad of what was then the Soviet Union by Maria Ivanovna…the mother of Vladimir Putin. Ivanovna planted the seeds of her Christian faith covertly into her son and kept them from her husband who was a member of the atheist Communist Party. It was a conspiracy that changed a nation, and the world, for the better.

“My mother baptized me allegedly in secret from my father, who was a member of the Communist party. He was not a functionary; he was a plant worker, however, he was a party figure at the level of a workshop party organization. And mother allegedly baptized me in secret from my father. So, it affected me personally and our family”, Putin said.

In more than one sense, the Church is the government’s natural partner, Russian President Vladimir Putin said about the role of the Orthodoxy in Russian history when he appeared in the “Second Christianization of Rus” documentary film released by the one of the local TV channels. According to the President, the Russian Orthodox Church and the government are now cooperating in more than one aspect, including the cultivation of moral values and supporting families. ~ Secretly Baptized Putin says Russian Orthodox Church Helps International Accord, Voice of Russia

Today, aberrant lifestyles like homosexuality are receiving the imprimatur of Western governments all over the world and Right-minded citizens (most of them Christians) are now being forced by the coercive boot of that authority to accept it, or else!

In Colorado, a Christian bakery is being forced by a judge to cater a homosexual wedding against the owner’s Christian beliefs.

A judge in New Mexico is doing the same to a Christian photographer who refused to work a lesbian “wedding”.

Only one place in the world is saying “No!”: Russia.

Recently, the Duma (Russia’s Legislature) sent a bill to President Putin* which he signed into law stating that homosexuals can not use propaganda to court minors.

Outraged Leftists the world over wailed and gnashed their teeth, comparing Russia’s President to the man who slaughtered 6 million Jews. Lost in the shuffle was the fact that an unprecedented 88% of Russians polled, supported the new measure.

The Associated Press railed and mocked Vladimir Putin for the ridiculous notion that homosexuality is an impediment to saving Russia from a plummeting birthrate and cultural extinction, or connecting the attraction a man has to other men with a man being attracted to a young boy.

Absolutely outrageous!

Unless you take into account the two homosexual men who serial raped and abused the young boys they legally adopted.

The case of Connecticut “married couple” George Harasz and Douglas Wirth is beyond sickening when you learn that prosecutors were going to give the two men suspended sentences when their lawyer threw the offer in the government’s face…only to learn later that even more children were coming forward with allegations of abuse.

Clearly, the “Nazis” of Russia are barbaric in their efforts to stave the appetites of homosexual men.

LIGHTING THE F– USEWITH A TORCH

In a few short weeks the Winter Olympics will be starting and their being hosted in Sochi, Russia seems to have a whole slew of people and organizations upset from Chechen insurgents to Saudi princes to American intelligence agencies. In fact, you can draw a line from one, clear through to the other.

Two bombings in the industrial city of Volgograd occurred within 24 hours of each other killing 33 and injuring 40 more. Forming a massive 10,000 kilometer triangle of intrigue, the city that was previously known as Stalingrad and, before that, Tsaritsyn, is a day’s travel north of Grozny, Chechnya while Sochi is a day’s travel west.

Also on this map is Ukraine; a nation recently visited by United States Senator John McCain (R, AZ) during his Foment Civil Unrest Tour.

It seems word is getting out amongst Ukrainians that joining the European Union is akin to Shangri-la, Nirvana, Eden and Paradise all rolled into one. Well that’s absolutely spot on!

If you were more cynical, you’d almost think that someone was trying to weaken and attack Russia by destabilizing her vulnerable southern provinces. I would counter with, just because the master of world terrorism, Bandar bin Sultan (also known as Bandar Bush) recently threatened the President of Russia for slowing down the Wahhabist dominoes at Syria, does not a conspiracy make!

If that were the case, why you’d think there were Cold War Puppet Masters who never knew when to quit—who received so much power from their machinations against the Soviet Union that they continue to undermine Russia long after she has shed herself of the ghosts of Lenin and Stalin (men adored and empowered by the West).

The devastating weapon that Communism was for the Western Globalist Elite of old, Islam is, today:

…this “hornet’s nest” [of Islamic terrorism in the Cold Steppes of Russia] was organized, sponsored and stirred up, as Jimmy Carter’s national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski admitted in 1998, by the United States and its partners, including Turkey and Saudi Arabia. “What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?” Brzezinski told Le Nouvel Observateur.

It wasn’t, however, the liberation of Eastern Europe that primarily interested the United States. Following the suicide bombing of a bus outside Volgograd in October, President Vladimir Putin said the ongoing terror attacks are part of an effort to undermine Russia proper. “Some political forces use Islam – the radicals within it who are not typical of Russian Muslims – to weaken our state and create conflicts on Russian soil that can then be controlled from abroad,” he said. ~ Volgograd Bombings: CIA’s Chechen Assets Attack Russia Ahead of Winter Olympics, Kurt Nimmo, InfoWars

And they should be attacked, dammit! They continue to undermine a man so great that he has been likened to Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt and Jesus Christ.

With blatant disrespect Russia has impugned his very legitimacy!

American politicians and the media are lying to the American people. They do so because they hope that their complicity in the greatest fraud in U.S. history will be overtaken by events, that is, the 2012 election. It is the Big Stall to cover up the Big Lie.

In the Russian language there is a term called “vranyo.” It is loosely defined as telling a white lie or a semi-truth. It may contain fantasy or involve the suppression of unpleasant parts of the truth.

In regard to Obama’s ineligibility and his alleged felonies, politicians and the media expect the American people to respond in this way:

“You know that you are lying, I know that you are lying, and you know that I know that you are lying, but we both smile and nod in agreement.”

Barack Obama, according to Article II, Section I, Clause 5 of the U. S. Constitution, is an illegal President. The law requires a candidate for the Presidency to be a “natural born citizen,” that is, a second generation American, a U.S. citizen, whose parents were also U.S. citizens at the time of the candidate’s birth. ~ Barack Obama Is An Illegal President, Period, Lawrence Sellin, Pravda

What hubris! To imply that Russians have more courage confronting a subversive insurgent trying to destroy America from within, as if not one of her 535 Legislators wouldn’t have the courage to address this issue themselves!

While brave men like Al Gore try to save us from our own carbon dioxide, the Russian Secret Service is hacking the e-mails of global warming propagandists—ah… “researchers”, and inconveniently leaking what they found. The polar bears are dying, for crying out loud!

The news that a leaked set of emails appeared to show senior climate scientists had manipulated data was shocking enough. Now the story has become more remarkable still.

The computer hack, said a senior member of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change, was not an amateur job, but a highly sophisticated, politically motivated operation. And others went further. The guiding hand behind the leaks, the allegation went, was that of the Russian secret services. ~ Was Russian Secret Service Behind Leak Of Climate-Change Emails? Shaun Walker, Independent

What we need is something so bold, so “in your face” that it can take reality and turn it on its head. If Islam is the source of terror the world around, we’ll say it’s Orthodox Christianity! If Islam is taking over whole cities like Deerborn, Michigan, we’ll say that’s where the “Christian terrorists” are coming from. As the coup de grâce we can hijack a character from one of our most outspoken opponents (an exploitation made possible by his very timely demise).**

That is the entirety of Hollywood’s latest action film, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit.

Barack Obama, Hollywood, the CIA, Saudi Arabia…if a man be known by his enemies, then Vladimir Putin (and the country over which he presides) may very well be the last hope for the free world.

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* Notice even supposedly “state media” RIA Novosti headlined the bill as “anti-gay”.
** Christian philanthropist Dr. Jim Garrow has made the amazing assertion that he has worked for the CIA until “outed” by the Obama administration and that Andrew Breitbart, Michael Hastings and Tom Clancy were all murdered by the government. This could be the source for an entirely different column though I, personally, find his accusation both possible and credible.

If there is one phrase that completely encapsulates the modern understanding of the Roman Emperor Constantine, it is the above saw.

Rome was an empire splintered and scattered when the armies of two rivals Maxentius and Constantine met in 312 AD.

It was just before the Battle of Milvian Bridge that it was reported Constantine had a miraculous intervention by the Christian Messiah, Jesus.

According to Church historian Eusebius (an adoring contemporary of the future world ruler), it began with a vision perceived by Constantine and his entire army proclaiming that in the sign of Christ they would be victorious over the pagan magic of Maxentius.

Lactantius states that the general ordered his men to place that sign (believed to have been the Greek acronym for Christ, the letters chi and rho superimposed on each other) upon their shields.

At the conclusion of the battle, Maxentius had drowned in the Tiber and his army was completely routed.

Constantine now ruled Rome along with Licinius whom he later defeated as a result of treachery against the Edict of Milan and antagonism towards Christianity.

Though a great many scholars dispute the authenticity of Constantine’s vision, few dispute the reforms he instituted upon his ascension to World Ruler.

Constantine stopped pagan sacrifice (particularly infanticide), outlawed abuse of slaves, stopped execution by crucifixion, set the precedent of the free exercise of religion and gave special privileges to Christians, in particular.

Whether intended, or not, it was a brilliant political move.

Is there a modern equivalent, a kindred of Constantine reincarnated or, shall we say “Born Again” in similar savvy statesmanship?

SOLDIERS OF THE SCIMITAR

Around the world, Christians are again under extreme persecution and, shockingly, there may very well be a directed strategy behind it.

Western governments and intelligence agencies (particularly those of the U.S. and U.K.) have been riding radical Islam like a terrible, barbaric beast of conquest toppling governments all over the world. Increasingly, it seems that Washington D.C. takes instruction from Riyadh (or, perhaps more accurately, Mecca).

The Soldiers of the Scimitar are a scourge to peaceful peoples within their reach, particularly Christians.

In Pakistan, muslim gunmen tried to force their way into a Christian boarding school killing 6 but were thwarted by security-minded administrators and praying children.

50 Christian college students in Nigeria weren’t as lucky, they were slaughtered in their sleep.

Pakistani militants continued in their efforts and managed to burn to death a Christian Rawalpindi man.

In Egypt, the Obama/CIA/Muslim Brotherhood confederation is kidnapping and torturing young Christian girls, forcing them into sex slavery.

The systematic abduction and forced Islamization of Coptic minor girls in Egypt is a frequent, dangerous and a rapidly escalating phenomenon. The problem was brought to light by the Coptic Pope Shenouda III as far back as December 17th, 1976, when he protested during a conference held in Alexandria that “there is pressure being practiced to convert Coptic girls to embrace Islam and marry them under terror to Muslim husbands” and demanded that the abducted girls be brought back to their families. ~ Abduction and Forced Islamization of Christian Coptic Girls Continues in Egypt, Assyrian International News Agency

Throughout the world, Christians are hopeless and helpless as the forces of this New Islamic World Order converge upon them. They are without a single champion.

Or are they?

CONSTANTINE RISING

Vladimir Putin’s father was a “model Communist” and “militant atheist” but his mother was a quiet, passionate Orthodox Christian who planted a secret seed of revolt in him that is now emblazoned upon his chest in the form of a small tin cross she gave him, that he now never removes.

Since then, Putin has been a man of destiny, rising in the ranks of the KGB to become one of the most powerful men in the world.

In 1988, Putin was a mid-level agent assigned to harangue then-President Ronald Reagan over his “human rights” record during a visit to Moscow. But, as my friend Rob Hase pointed out (hat/tip to Rob for sending this astounding story to me), the expression on Putin’s face is not one of anger or disdain but perhaps surprised admiration—his hand partially-clenched in inquisitive angst.

Perhaps these were two real men, flawed, but connected by that uncommon bond amongst so few world leaders—integrity.

Though lesser men were unsuccessful in removing Reagan, his legacy was still clouded by their efforts.

Yet, Reagan’s message of self-determination and the Protestant work ethic continues to echo through the ages. Has his former adversary picked up Dutch’s ensign to be a splinter in the All-Seeing Eye?

During his 2012 Presidential Election victory speech, Putin made some strange allusions to triumphing over outside influences. Was this veiled defiance against the New World Order?

Since then he has become somewhat of a cult-hero amongst those yearning for a champion of freedom. While the CIA and MI6 Harlot rides the Beast of jihad, Christian leaders are turning to their new Constantine. The Christian Post noted that, wherever the Bush/Obama Machine has been, Christians suffer:

…Metropolitan Hilarion, foreign relation chief of the Russian Orthodox Church presented evidence and statistics that stated, “Every five minutes one Christian was dying for his or her faith in some part of the word.”

Christians face persecution in many nations; from church demolition in Afghanistan and bombings of churches in Iraq, to the violence against Christians taking place in rebellious towns in Syria.

After delivering the facts, Metropolitan Hilarion asked Putin to make protection and defense of Christianity around the globe a major part of his foreign policy.

And, as reported by Interfax, Putin replied, “You needn’t have any doubt that that’s the way it will be,” assuring Hilarion that Russian foreign policy would defend Christians from persecution abroad.

It is with great confusion that many “Conservative Christians” in America look longingly to Russia and with revulsion at their own messianic magistrate.

While Obama has remained silent on the subject of the ethnic cleansing of Christians going on throughout the Middle East, Russian President Vladimir Putin has not been.

On August 1, 2013, Putin said world leaders must come together to stop the violent persecution of Christians in the Middle East.

Something is wrong when Putin is a greater champion for freedom and liberty than the President of the United States is. ~ While Obama Plays Golf, Putin Defends Liberty, Judson Philips, Washington Times

Putin has a persona of being a man’s man but in the most modern Renaissance sense. The man who trains martial arts with Steven Seagal doesn’t kill wild tigers as Teddy Roosevelt once did, he tranquilizes them.

Although critics called the incident a “set-up”, even they grudgingly admitted their information came from Putin, himself, who (apparently) was trying to stay apolitical in an attempt to draw attention to wildlife conservation.

Regardless of their authenticity, these events are still striking when compared to what the so-called “leader of the free world” gets photographed doing.

As the Surveillance State becomes a dystopian reality for Americans, intelligence defectors like Edward Snowden are seen more and more as heroic whistleblowers than the traitors politicians and media portray them to be.

Putin threw himself squarely on their side when he gave Snowden sanctuary.

A decade of the “War on Terror” has netted Americans, not more freedom, but less. Along with their sons coming home missing arms, legs and faces a frightening new wave of technology is now being aimed at them after it has been perfected on the battlefield.

Americans are looking up in the sky and being shocked to see military drones flying overhead like a scene from a Science Fiction movie.

While Barack Obama was reported to have made the sick, sociopathic statement that drones make him “good at killing”, Vladimir Putin sounded much more presidential with the assertion that “drones are not toys”. President Putin vowed to be more circumspect in use of the valuable platform than his world counterparts (yet showed honest pragmatism in refusing to swear them off entirely):

In America, the homosexual lobby is steamrolling the last vestiges of traditional morality, as is the case everywhere else in the world…except Russia.

Recently, the Duma handed President Putin a law banning “homosexual propaganda” and he signed it, drawing the ire of so-called “Progressives” worldwide.

A MAN KNOWN BY HIS ENEMIES

It seems that Vladimir Putin’s American enemies are of the same two-Party Machine that many in the burgeoning Liberty Movement are also struggling against.

There is no greater example than one found in Damascus.

As the Middle East dominoes continued to fall, ousting stable governments and turning them over to Shariah-instituting radicals, Putin has been credited with stopping the Caliphate from making Syria the next victim. In his signature statesmanship, he reached out to the American people via an opinion editorial in the New York Times.

With surprising uniformity, the reaction from Democrat and Republican insiders was the same. Leftist NJ Senator Robert Menendez claimed with ridiculous hyperbole that Putin’s Op-ed. made him “want to vomit”.

In the same unimaginative vein as saying “I know you are but what am I?”, Arizona Republican Senator John McCain submitted a counter Op-ed. to Pravda.

McCain showed his ineptitude in the effort and Putin won the battle handily.

To be sure, Vladimir Putin is not George Washington. But then again, George Washington isn’t George Washington.

Putin is, however, an expert diplomat. Where others walk through perilous quagmires and make emotional assertions that cost them credibility, Putin is sharp and circumspect.

He will need his statesmanship acumen if he is to proceed further down this path, for there is a minefield that all who enter the Freedom realm must navigate: Zionism.

The nation of Israel is the Achilles Heel of the Liberty Movement in general and Libertarians in specific. When the issue is raised, their arguments of strong logic quickly devolve into ugly racial hatred.

For Biblical scholars, this is no surprise:

The Burden of the Word of the L-rd concerning Israel.

Thus declares the L-rd who stretches out the heavens, lays the foundation of the Earth, and forms the spirit of man within him, “Behold, I Am going to make Jerusalem a cup that causes reeling to all the peoples around; and when the siege is against Jerusalem, it will also be against Judah. It will come about in that day that I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples; all who lift it will be severely injured. And all the nations of the earth will be gathered against it. In that day,” declares the L-rd, “I will strike every horse with bewilderment and his rider with madness. But I will watch over the house of Judah, while I strike every horse of the peoples with blindness. Then the clans of Judah will say in their hearts, ‘A strong support for us are the inhabitants of Jerusalem through the L-rd of Hosts, their G-d.’” ~ Zechariah 12:1-5 (New American Standard, capitalization and abbreviation added out of respect)

Can President Putin unify Right-minded freedom lovers and become the Lafayette of their 2^nd American Revolution?

For a man already channeling Constantine, it may be as easy as tranquilizing a tiger.

—A friend asked me this question:

Dina: Why is the “O” left out of Lord?

Johnny: Dina, after seeing so many Christians who have lost respect for the Name of God (“G-d”), I have adopted the tradition of our Orthodox Jewish brethren who hyphenate the Name out of deep reverence and respect. There was great fear at the chance of having written the Name incorrectly and then having to blot out or erase the Name. In this way, there was a cushion of safety.

Before Christ, Jews were so reverential they sometimes would simply say “ha Shem” for “the Name”. After the Son of G-d put a Name and a Face on His Love, Christians got too familiar and now have no reverence.

One of the most ancient manuscripts—the Magdalene Papyrus—a snippet of the Gospel of Mark actually abbreviates the Name of Jesus (the English equivalent would be something like “J-s”).

Next time a Christian writes “OMG!”, perhaps you could share this with them.

Dina: I understand what you’re saying and the history behind it however I was introduced to the Lord and I do have reverence for Him. I have no fear in writing His Name wrong, He has changed my life and I could never forget that!! The bible states God, Jesus…..not G-d or J-s……thanks for sharing.

Johnny: You’re welcome, Dina. I would only add that your English translation fails to abbreviate His Name. My example of an early text in the original Greek proves just the opposite. There is no such thing as a “perfect” English translation…not even the vaunted “King James” (which I hate) which mentions “unicorns” and calls Passover “Easter”.

I am not trying to convince you to adopt this tradition, just something to think about. ~ Johnny