Tuesday, January 05, 2021
Democrat Ends Prayer With 'Amen. ... and A-Woman'
This is brainless. In the New Testament, Christ is recorded in the original Greek of the gospels as sayin ἀμήν on a number of occasions, which transliterates into English as "amen". But it has nothing to do with men (or women). The Greek word meaning "man" is ἄνθρωπος (anthropos).
So the word has entered Christian worship out of respect for Christ's use of it, not because of any English word it might sound like.
At the end of a prayer it means roughly "So be it" or "I agree"! But that is not the end of it. It has a broader meaning than that. When Jesus said: "Verily, verily, I say unto you ...." (e.g. in John 5:24), what word do you think he was using according to the original Greek text that was translated as "verily"? That's right. He was actually saying: "Amen, amen, I say unto you". So it's basically just a way of emphasizing the correctness of something
On Sunday, a Democratic representative — who also happens to have been a pastor for 37 years — gave an official prayer to open the 117th Congress. With great pomp and circumstance, he closed his prayer by invoking “the monotheistic god,” Brahma, and the god who supposedly goes by many names. He then concluded with the most asinine thing I have ever heard. He ended with “amen … and a-woman.”
Yes, in a moment worthy of The Babylon Bee, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.), added the nonsense neologism “a-woman” to the classic prayer ending, “amen.”
“Amen” means “so be it,” “it is so,” or “verily.” Jews and Christians have used the term to conclude prayers for thousands of years. The word appears 30 times in the Hebrew Bible and 52 times in the New Testament. There is no connection — absolutely none — between “amen” and “men,” the far later English word for plural male individuals.
It honestly strains credulity that any educated Jew, Christian, or Muslim — much less a Methodist who served as a pastor for 37 years — would feel the need to make the term of assent “amen” inclusive by adding “a-woman.” Yet Emanuel Cleaver, who served as the pastor at St. James United Methodist Church in Kansas City, Mo., from March 1972 to June 2009, did exactly that — and it seems he is proud of it.
Yet this “a-woman” fiasco should show Americans just how stupid and shallow much of Democrats’ pandering in the name of “inclusivity” really is.
Banned from Facebook for hate speech - for saying 'men are such fools'
Desperate for some laughter and gossip – a virtual vestige of my old social life – I logged on to a closed group of old friends on Facebook.
I found them avidly discussing the extraordinary story of Hilaria Baldwin, the yoga instructor and lingerie-clad Instagram-influencer wife of US actor Alec Baldwin.
The 36-year-old mother-of-five had, it appeared, erased her wholly American parentage and upbringing in favour of a more exotic – but fake – Spanish heritage.
She'd even changed her name from boring old Hillary to its Spanish equivalent. Hilaria spoke in a Spanish accent worthy of Manuel from Fawlty Towers.
Once, on TV, she affected to forget ('um, how do you say in English') the word 'cucumber'.
Her agent's online biography of her gave her birthplace as Majorca rather than stuffy old Boston, and Hilaria gave the couple's children ostentatiously Spanish names.
But her claim to have arrived in the US at the age of 19 in order to 'go to school' came as something of a surprise to her New England contemporaries, including former classmates.
The whole affair exploded when an anonymous New Yorker tweeted: 'You have to admire Hilaria Baldwin's commitment to her decade-long grift [con] where she impersonates a Spanish person.'
This all raised the question of how much her Trump-taunting husband really knew about the woman he'd married.
(She insists that when they met in 2011, she had no idea who Baldwin was. As, presumably, growing up as an innocent Spanish senorita in her humble Spanish home, she naturally had no television.)
Later, appearing on a chat show, Baldwin, 62, lovingly mimicked his wife speaking on the phone in a Spanish accent. This suggested that Hilaria's performance – if that was what it truly was – continues behind closed doors.
A friend of mine wondered on Facebook if Baldwin had actually been taken in. Or was he complicit or simply willing to suspend disbelief in gratitude at snapping up a beautiful wife who was 26 years younger than him and remarkably bendy?
I laughed and put my fingers on the keyboard. 'Men are such fools!' I posted, adding a cry-laughing emoji to ensure it was obvious my remark was an affectionate joke. At this moment, things took a dark turn.
To my astonishment, my remark was instantly removed from Facebook. And a notice flashed up on my screen telling me that my joke had been deleted and I had been suspended from the social-media platform for the crime of 'hate speech'.
I had apparently breached Facebook's Community Standards, which ban 'anything that directly attacks people based on what are known as their 'protected characteristics' – race, ethnicity, national origin, religious affiliation, sexual orientation, sex, gender, gender identity, or serious disability or disease.
My initial reaction was surprise. Then outrage. Nobody sensible could surely think my comment constituted a war on the defenceless male sex. My husband burst out laughing when I told him what had happened.
Since our Facebook group was private, Alec Baldwin couldn't possibly have seen the remark, which didn't even mention him by name.
But who cares if he could? Baldwin may have been a teensy bit gullible – but men have been fools for women since the dawn of time. And hurrah for that.
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