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Slavery in Biblical Perspective
- By Mike Scruggs
- Category: Mike Scruggs' Column
The Dangers of Uninformed Virtue-signaling
A couple years ago, researching an article, I ran across a Christian website where the author harshly condemned slavery as the most grievous evil imaginable and said that slavery was condemned throughout the Bible. This has been a popular American view since the end of the Civil War, but it is astonishingly misinformed and blatantly unbiblical considering numerous contradictory passages and verses in both the Old and New Testament.
The purpose of this article is not Civil War history, but it is necessary to know how our ideas about slavery have been influenced by the war and distorted by post-war propaganda. The most common American narrative of the Civil War is that it was only about slavery, but while that view has become almost obligatory in an era of woke political correctness, it is considerably misinformed. Campaigning for Abraham Lincoln on September 27, 1860, at a New York City auditorium, Thaddaeus Stevens, who became Chairman of the powerful U.S. House Ways and Means Committee from March 1861 to March 1865, told a huge audience that the two most important issues in the coming November election were preventing slavery from spreading to new states and raising the Tariff [by about 67%], but of the two, passing the Morrill Tariff was the most important. Neither Lincoln nor the 1860 Republican Platform called for abolishing slavery.
The American Republic and the American Empire
- By Mike Scruggs
- Category: Mike Scruggs' Column
The Empire Advances by Marginalizing the Truth
Lt. Gen. Vincent Stewart (1958-2023), Semper Fi!
The Constitutional American Republic is still strong, and many still stand strong in their faith, but a domestic secular drive to become an American Empire has become politically, economically, and culturally dominant and is straining every nerve to maintain its dominance. As usual, power tends to corrupt and creates false narratives to sustain its power. The American Empire is advancing by marginalizing fundamental reality and truth. This pertains to many aspects of American life and culture but also extends to a morally bent foreign policy.
The Reign of Anti-Christian Terror in the Soviet Union
- By Mike Scruggs
- Category: Mike Scruggs' Column
The Amazing Survival of Russian Christianity
Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow was Consecrated in 2000.
As early as 867 AD, there were probably Christian missions and churches in the Kievan-Rus State, the predecessor of the Russian Empire. We know that the Kievan-Rus had considerable contact with Byzantine Christians in Constantinople. Vladimir the Great (958-1015) was raised as a pagan, but his grandmother, Olga, was a Christian and had considerable influence on her grandson. After much study and negotiation, Vladimir became a Christian. Many of his subjects were already enthusiastic Christians, when he became the Ruling Prince of the Kievan-Rus in 980 and called all his subjects to baptism in the Dnieper River. This 980 date is generally considered the formal beginning of Christianity in Russia.
Understanding the Ukraine War at a Glance
- By Mike Scruggs
- Category: Mike Scruggs' Column
An Election Map Tells It All
Ukraine Presidential Election Map 2010. Percent for Viktor Yanukovych
Sixty to ninety percent of the voters in Crimea and 8 other southern and eastern oblasts voted for Yanukovych: Donetsk 90%, Lugansk 89%, Crimea 78%, Odessa 74%, Zaporizhia 72%, Mykolaiv 72%, Kharkiv 71%, Dnepropetrovsk 63%, and Kherson 60%. These correspond to Russian primary language percentages of 50 to 90 percent. \
This map shows pretty clearly where Russian language and culture predominate, which is a major factor underlying the Civil War beginning in 2014 and the current conflict between the Ukrainian government and the Russian Federation. A major issue since 2014 and the U.S. backed Maidan coup, which forced Yanukovych out of office, has been Ukrainian government discrimination against Russian ethnicity and ethnic cleansing of Russian language, religion, and culture. Since close to 5,000 Russian ethnic civilians in the Donbass region (Donetsk and Lugansk oblasts) have been killed largely by Ukrainian artillery shelling of civilian areas, some have termed this ethnic genocide.
CIA Nordstream Intelligence or Cover Story
- By Mike Scruggs
- Category: Mike Scruggs' Column
New CIA Release Blames Rogue Ukrainian Intelligence Group
According to a New York Times article released May 5, 2023, and a similar article in the Nation, the same day, the CIA has released new information that a group associated with Ukrainian Intelligence agencies, with possible Polish help, disabled the Nordstream pipelines on September 26, 2022. The articles distance any responsibility by Ukrainian President Zelensky, Ukrainian leadership, or the Biden Administration. The articles also allege that Ukraine had secretly developed “very advanced” underwater warfare technology, and that its intelligence agencies had a budget of $4.0 billion. The motive was saving Ukraine, a major natural gas supplier, from economic disaster. A much less sophisticated version of this theme regarding a crew of six, including two divers, on a 50-foot sailing yacht, appeared in the New York Times in March.
Mike Scruggs is the author of two books: The Un-Civil War: Shattering the Historical Myths; and Lessons from the Vietnam War: Truths the Media Never Told You, and over 600 articles on military history, national security, intelligent design, genealogical genetics, immigration, current political affairs, Islam, and the Middle East.
He holds a BS degree from the University of Georgia and an MBA from Stanford University. A former USAF intelligence officer and Air Commando, he is a decorated combat veteran of the Vietnam War, and holds the Distinguished Flying Cross, Purple Heart, and Air Medal. He is a retired First Vice President for a major national financial services firm and former Chairman of the Board of a classical Christian school.
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