Mark Green Should Be Army Secretary Regardless Of HIs Views On LGBT, Islam And Evolution. He Has Spunk And We Agree With His Second Amendment Views

Trump’s Pick for Army Secretary: Civilians Should Have Military Weapons

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(Daniel Lang, The Daily Sheeple) President Trump has had no shortage of controversial picks for his cabinet and various government agencies. It seems like there isn’t anyone he can choose who won’t anger the establishment Democrats, establishment Republicans, or his own supporters.

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Among them is Tennessee state Sen. Mark Green, who is a former Army medic and a West Point graduate. So what’s controversial about this politician? He happens to have a view of the Second Amendment that would be considered insane by most liberals, and pretty extreme by many gun owners.

Green told a pro-gun rally in 2013 that “The Second Amendment, while it allows citizens to protect themselves from other citizens, goes well beyond just allowing us to defend ourselves from a criminal. The men who penned and ratified this document gave us the right to keep and bear arms as an ultimate checks and balances against the federal government. When considering magazine size and weapon type, comments like, ‘You don’t need a 10-round magazine to hunt deer’ completely misses the point of the Second Amendment.”

That of course, is a very common belief among gun owners. What he said next however, is a belief that many gun owners don’t share. “The citizenry should be allowed to maintain whatever weapon the federal government has. If they can have an aircraft carrier, I ought to be able to have an aircraft carrier.”

Though it’s considered an extreme opinion by most people on both the left and the right, it’s not without merit. If the Second Amendment exists to protect us from the military might of both foreign governments and our own government, then it should grant us the right to own weapons that are comparable to what these governments can deploy. The right to bear arms doesn’t specify what kinds of arms are allowed, right?

If his nomination is approved by the senate, he would probably be the most pro-Second Amendment appointment ever made by President Trump. Regardless of whether or not you agree with him completely, that would be a good thing. Unfortunately, he is being heavily criticized for his views on LGBT issues, Islam, and evolution. And for that, he is likely to withdraw from the nomination this week. They’ll probably appoint some establishment hack instead.

When The Press Goes After Someone Like Carson, The Fact That The Issue May Be Disputed Does Not Even Make The News!

Republican Presidential Candidate Ben Carson Flummoxed by Biblical Facts

By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz November 11, 2015 , 10:30 am

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“Then a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt. ‘Look,’ he said to his people, ‘the Israelites have become far too numerous for us. Come, we must deal shrewdly with them or they will become even more numerous and, if war breaks out, will join our enemies, fight against us and leave the country.’ So they put slave masters over them to oppress them with forced labor, and they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.” (Exodus 1:8-11)

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Dr. Ben Carson, GOP candidate for the 2016 US presidential race. (Photo: Gage Skidmore/ Wiki Commons)

Dr. Ben Carson, a neurosurgeon from Detroit hoping to win the Republican nomination for the 2016 presidential election, raised quite a few eyebrows recently when he theorized that the Egyptian pyramids were built by the Biblical character Joseph for the purpose of storing grain. This idea contradicts the classical archaeological theory that the pyramids were built as vast and elaborate burial chambers for Egyptian royalty.

The recent controversy is actually a rehashing of remarks Carson made at a college commencement speech 17 years ago at the Seventh Day Adventist-affiliated Andrews University. After Buzzfeed.com posted about it, the story quickly made the rounds on the internet. In the speech, Carson said, “When you look at the way that the pyramids are made, with many chambers that are hermetically sealed, they’d have to be that way for various reasons”.

Egypt’s antiquities minister Mamdouh el-Damaty told the media that Carson’s view on the subject was not even worthy of a response. Mahmoud Afifi, the head of the Ancient Egyptian Antiquities Sector at the Antiquities Ministry did, however, respond.

“A lot of people are trying to prove that the pyramids weren’t built for burials,” said Afifi. “Maybe they’re comments used for publicity like that man who’s not an archaeologist and says they stored grain, and I don’t know what that was based on.”

Carson stood by his statement in the face of the expert opinions quoted in the media.

“Some people believe in the Bible, like I do, and don’t find that to be silly at all, and believe that God created the Earth, and don’t find that silly at all. Secular progressives try to ridicule that whenever it comes up, and they’re welcome to do that,” Carson said in an interview aired on CNN.

Dr. Carson has many controversial views of his own, but he did not invent this theory. The belief that Joseph built the pyramids to store grain was popular in Medieval Europe and is found in sources written as early as the 6th century. A depiction of the pyramids as granaries can be found in a 12th century mosaic in St Mark’s Basilica in Venice.

The Bible, however, does not precisely support Dr. Carson’s theory. According to Biblical accounts, Joseph, as the Pharaoh’s advisor, is indeed responsible for storing grain against seven years of famine, but nowhere is it specified that the grain was stored in pyramids. In a separate account of times after the death of Joseph, the Bible relates that the Egyptians set the Hebrews to building the storage cities of Pitom and Ramses as a form of affliction (Exodus 1:11). The first-century Roman-Jewish historian Josephus Flavius expressed the opinion that the Hebrews did build the pyramids, but he did not claim they were for the purpose of storing grain.

Carson has already been at the center of several controversies revolving around religious issues. Baptized as a Seventh Day Adventist, he is a vegetarian for religious reasons. He has said that religion is very much a part of his politics, and he is vocally anti-abortion. In a 2006 debate, he stated that he does not believe in evolution, and has reiterated that belief on several occasions, also calling the big-bang theory of the beginning of the universe a “fairy-tale”.

Read more at https://www.breakingisraelnews.com/53581/ben-carson-sticks-to-his-biblical-guns-claims-joseph-built-pyramids-for-storing-grain/#YlP5W2lsbsCwX8Rk.99