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Mordechai Would Not Kneel
“And all the king’s servants who were in the king’s gate would kneel and prostrate themselves before Haman . . . but Mordecai would neither kneel nor prostrate himself.” (Esther 3:2)
Lately we have seen more and more people getting down on one knee (or two) seeking forgiveness of the mob and some kiss the boots or wash the feet of its representatives. There are plenty of photos and videos you can access on this subject.
The mayor of Los Angeles has gotten into the act.
Amazon is on board.
And the NFL is doing a mea culpa:
“We, the National Football League, believe that black lives matter.”
I could put up dozens of photos and video clips of police kneeling. It makes me physically ill to look at them, however, and I won’t subject you to them here.
If Democrats and BLM rise to power and take control of our cities, schools, and corporations, it will soon be mandatory to kneel and kiss boots on demand, or maybe doing so will become a voluntary gesture of respect for our tyrannical leaders.
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“Yet I have reserved seven thousand in Israel, all whose knees have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth that has not kissed him.”
Today some force, or ask forcefully, others to kiss their boots, and kneel before them. And to swear affirmations while kneeling. Many would dismiss this as benign nonsense. But I would say it is old school fealty and worship.
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Sadly I see this coming to HR departments. A requirement to been knee and apologize to BLM, and minorities. This is a backlash for Trump and GOP leadership.
That would make some of us unemployable…er, more unemployable than we were before.
Maybe, but they would be mostly white so that would be seen as a good thing.
“Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.” – Emiliano Zapata
This is where I draw the line. I kneel only to God, not to men or their causes.
What about Abraham kneeling to the Hittites when he bought the Cave of Machpelah?
(I think there are some other biblical examples, but apparently I don’t keep them in my head; I can’t remember any of them clearly!)
I guess we could say that was a mistake on Abraham’s part. Or allegorize it somehow–he’s an image of the greater character serving the lesser, like Jesus.
Or maybe it’s just a different cultural context, and means something different.
I don’t have the answer. Just the question, and these very rudimentary speculations! Maybe you people have better than I do!
Or maybe he is earlier in the Bible and represents a less-developed form of consciousness. He represents faith, but he is not originally deeply-rooted (lives in a tent). The Hittites, metaphysically, represent thoughts of opposition and resistance. He kneels to them at that point, but what is the eventual denouement? Machpelah is even more interesting.
Where I work (large financial firm), one does not have to actively “kneel” to or support BLM, et. al. But actively opposing them will get you fired.
One interpretation is that the gesture describes a nod of respect only. It is the same language used when Moses speaks to his father-in-law Jethro.
Have you guys seen this:
It’s the new religion.
“When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.”
― G.K. Chesterton
I’ve always seen Abraham as a very human man, special because he was chosen by God. I many instances of his life he was an example, not to be emulated, but of the fallen nature that we all share.
A police department that kneels before any group of people might as well be defunded and disbanded, because the department has forfeited its authority to impartially enforce the law.
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But would Mordechai use a Mazel Tov cocktail?
“The Intellectuals” hahahahahahahahahaha OMG!!!! Hahahahahaha
Circumcision was to serve as a constant reminder of his humanity and imperfection.
Right, because when Jesus washes the disciples’ feet in the Bible it’s a [flowerbed] symbol of his repentance.
Good grief.
Mazel Tov cocktail:
the above is an answer to this question: “What do you call a mix of Bernie Sanders and Ihlan Omar?”
Re Mazel Tov Cocktail:
”Say Shalom to my little friend!…”
Important and panoramic — if depressing — survey:
http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=387652
I saw that on Amazon yesterday and thought that middle statement was disgustingly racist. They use the same terminology that I sometimes hear in places like Ricochet.
@grannydude has a post on the Main Feed about fact that the symbolism is the opposite of what the foot washers seem to think they’re conveying. If the foot washing is meant to parallel Jesus’ washing of the disciples’ feet, then the white folk are claiming the position of superiority.
It’s been running for more days than it needs to. I bet, if you challenged them, they would say the lower case in “lives” and “matter” means it’s not a reference to the organization.
Right on, right on.
The whole idea of acknowledging “white privilege” and using it to help the helpless blacks is condescending if not racist.
My problem is with the term “the Black community.” I don’t care about the upper case, but this phrase implies that there is just one black community, and that it is “other.”
Yes, to be not racist people of every color should be washing the feet of everyone else of every color.