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Memorial to the Sinti and Roma Victims of National Socialism, Tiergarten, Berlin, Deutschland.
Se erigió un monumento al sur del Reichstag en octubre de 2012 para conmemorar a los sinti y romaníes asesinados bajo el dominio nacionalsocialista durante el genocidio, o Porajmos.
Alrededor de 500,000 Sinti y Romanis fueron perseguidos y asesinados bajo el dominio nazi. El monumento del artista Dani Karavan consiste en una cuenca de agua redonda con una estela de piedra triangular en el centro, cuya forma se refiere al hecho de que todos los encarcelados por los nazis fueron identificados con triángulos de diferentes colores en su ropa de prisionero. Se coloca una flor en la estela como símbolo de la vida y para recordar a los sinti y romaníes asesinados. Tan pronto como se marchita, cae en las profundidades del pozo. Una nueva flor fresca se levanta del agua. Las palabras del poema "Auschwitz" del italiano Roma Santino Spinello están escritas alrededor del borde de la cuenca, en inglés, alemán y romaní: "Hundido en la cara / ojos apagados / labios fríos / silencio / un corazón desgarrado / sin aliento / sin palabras / sin lágrimas ".
A memorial was erected south of the Reichstag in October 2012 in order to commemorate the Sinti and Roma murdered under National Socialist rule during the Genocide, or Porajmos.
Around 500,000 Sinti and Roma were persecuted and murdered under Nazi rule.The memorial by artist Dani Karavan consists of a round water basin with a triangular stone stele at its centre, the shape of which refers to the fact that all those imprisoned by the Nazis were identified with differently coloured triangles on their prisoner clothing. A flower is placed on the stele as a symbol of life and to remember the murdered Sinti and Roma. As soon as it withers, it falls down into the depths of the well. A new, fresh flower then rises from the water. The words of the poem "Auschwitz" by Italian Roma Santino Spinello are written around the edge of the water basin, in English, German and Romany: "Sunken in face / extinguished eyes / cold lips / silence / a torn heart / without breath / without words / no tears".
A ZSSK retro festésű, 163 109-es pályaszámú Peršingje érkezik Kassa-Erzsébetvárosba, a 8509-es számú, Eperjes-Tiszacsernyő személyvonattal.
163 109, one of the retro Peršings arrives to Košice predmestie, with a Prešov-Čierna nad Tisou train. (Os8509)
2023.05.11.
It was August 1992 when I was in Ukraine. I traveled by river boat on the Dnieper river from Kiev to Odessa. This image was taken early in the morning, when we sailed past Dnipropetrovsk. Heavy smoke from factory chimneys, coal separations along the river, shrouded sun and dirty river ...
Result of Soviet policies - socialism and industrialization.
I am sad when I see what is happening today in Ukraine. People were friendly, full of hope, in Odessa, we hang out with the locals and celebrate the first anniversary of their independence, but today ...
At that time I had Nikon EM with Nikon lens series E 50 mm, 1:1.8, using Kodak slide film. Slide was scaned with HP Scanjet G4010 and processed to BW with PerfectEffects8 onOne software.
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socialism red flags socialists Josef Stalin, Mao Tse-tung, Adolf Hitler.
Obama has imposed national socialism everywhere. He turned GM into "government motors." rexcurry.net/swastika-audi-logo.JPG
Obama has never provided healthcare to anyone. Instead, he touted national socialism, he connived a senate seat, and then he shirked it too, spending much of the time away from Washington campaigning for an even higher office. He is dishonorable in so many ways.
Do not pledge allegiance to socialism. rexcurry.net/pledge-allegiance-pledge-allegiance2.jpg
Remove the blood red flags of authoritarianism. rexcurry.net/socialism-red-flags-socialists1c.jpg
It is the same dogma that was behind the worst murderers of all time: Josef Stalin, Mao Zadong, and Adolf Hitler. rexcurry.net/socialists8b.jpg
At one rally the caption "National Socialist Health Care, Dachau, Germany - 1945" was written over the piled corpses of Holocaust victims.
Defend yourself against socialist hate crimes. rexcurry.net/swastika4.jpg
Socialism = Swastikas. Capitalism = Prosperity
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Reject socialism. Embrace capitalism. Oppose vestiges of the National Socialist German Workers Party in today's government.
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Oppose Dr. Socialism and support Dr. Capitalism. Support capitalism with the Dollar Bill Ribbon Campaign! rexcurry.net/moneyribbon.jpg
Barack Obama wants to impose more national socialism in the United States. rexcurry.net/socialists.html
As only one example, Obama wants to impose socialized medicine. He and his national socialist comrades are a reminder of Josef Mengele: they want to impose mad scientist medical experiments upon Americans. rexcurry.net/socialized-healthcare-nazism.gif
The United States government already has a long history of imposing national socialism, through the Pledge of Allegiance and more. rexcurry.net/pledge-allegiance-pledge-allegiance2.jpg
National socialists set the worst records that have never been broken in the socialist Wholecaust (of which the Holocaust was a part): the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics with ~60 million killed; the Peoples' Republic of China, ~50 million; the National Socialist German Workers' Party, ~20 million. It is known by many names including: the anti-capitalist holocaust; the anti individualist holocaust; the anti minarchist holocaust; the anti capitalist genocide; the anti individualist genocide; the anti minarchist genocide. rexcurry.net/socialists.jpg
It resulted in the persecution of everyone who supported liberty and who opposed bigger government, bigger spending, authoritarianism, and socialism. Individualists and capitalists were persecuted by socialists in the modern inquisitions, also known as the anti minarchist inquisitions; the anti-capitalist inquisitions; the anti individualist inquisitions. The National Socialist German Workers Party even persecuted Jewish people as capitalists. rexcurry.net/inquisitions-heresy-socialism.html
1843 (published Feb.1844) Karl Marx wrote his notorious, “On the Jewish Question.” In it, he intended to libel Jewish folks when he said they were the quintessential capitalists and worthy of total contempt. Marxists and socialists had no interest in anyone they considered to be “the weak,” only in the loyal, and their “language of social justice” concerned a totalitarian plan for a new man, or more accurately a soldier ant in an ant hill. rexcurry.net/bellamy-edward-karl-marx.html
The modern socialist inquisitions greatly exceeded the old inquisitions in numbers of people slaughtered. It is referred to as the modern dark age, or the socialist dark age.
Today, the so-called opponents of socialism wave signs of Obama as Hitler and simultaneously scream the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States. Americans have lost their minds.
Some blame for the insanity belongs to Republican National Socialists (including the Bushes, who massively expanded national socialism imposed by the U.S. government). The gallery of 'Bush = Hitler' Allusions competes with the gallery of 'Obama = Hitler' allusions.
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It is not enough to merely oppose socialized healthcare. Opponents of socialized medicine will fail unless they include a wider call for cutting government and repeal of earlier socialized healthcare inroads (FDA, certificates of need, medicaid, medicare, the social security scam and social security number cards et cetera).
The typical healthcare commentary in television, radio or print is a constant whine, "if only there were more government." It is such a gestapo drone it is a comedy, made funnier by the complete blindness to the only meaningful alternative: cutting government and increasing liberty.
Of course, government officials never comprehend that they damage medicine, just as no socialist government has ever conceded causing shortages of any other food, clothing, housing or anything.
The socialist dogma is the same dogma that was touted in the late 19th century by National Socialists in the USA. Francis Bellamy (author of the "Pledge of Allegiance") and his cousin and cohort Edward Bellamy (author of the pathetic book "Looking Backward") wanted the government to take over all food, clothing, shelter, goods and services and create an "industrial army" to impose their "military socialism." See the video documentary at www.youtube.com/watch?v=BssWWZ3XEe4
That was the motiviation behind Francis Bellamy's "Pledge of Allegiance" to the flag, the origin of the stiff-armed salute adopted later by the National Socialist German Workers Party (see the work of the historian Dr. Rex Curry, author of "Pledge of Allegiance Secrets"). rexcurry.net/pledge-allegiance-pledge-allegiance2.jpg
It led to the use of the swastika as S-letters for "socialism" on the flag under German National Socialism. rexcurry.net/swastika3swastika.jpg
It is the same dogma that led to the socialist Wholecaust (of which the Holocaust was a part): ~60 million killed under the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; ~50 million under the Peoples' Republic of China; ~20 million under the National Socialist German Workers' Party. rexcurry.net/socialists.html
Today, the flag symbolizes authoritarianism in the USA. The historical facts explain the enormous size and scope of government today, and the USA's police state, and why it is growing so rapidly. They are reasons for massive reductions in government, taxation, spending and socialism.
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The Liberation Monument stands at Eduard-Wallnöfer square (formerly Landhausplatz) in front of the Neue (new) Landhaus (Regional Parliament) in Innsbruck.
Genesis
The Liberation Monument was built by Tyrolean artists and artisans from 1946 to 1948 on initiative and at the expense of the French occupying forces, designed by the architect of the French military government for Tyrol and Vorarlberg, Major Jean Pascaud. The monument is dedicated to those who sacrificed their lives for the liberation of Austria from seven years of unfreedom under National Socialism from 1938 to 1945. Plans and photos of the construction of this monument and the extremely laborious assembly of the eagle on the monument at the time are kept in the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum.
Description
In contrast to the Soviet War Memorial erected in Vienna in the same year, the Innsbruck Monument shows only Austrian symbols. It bears the inscription "PRO LIBERTATE AUSTRIAE MORTUIS" The death for the freedom of Austria and in cross form the coats of arms of the nine Austrian provinces. These grids were executed by master locksmith and later ÖVP (Austrian People's Party/Österreichische Volkspartei) city councilor Anton Fritz, who also chiseled the Tyrolean eagle with shield according to a design by the sculptor Emmerich Kerle in copper.
Acknowledgment by name
As part of the redevelopment of the Landhaus square in 2011, the name of 107 people who lost their lives in the resistance against the Nazi regime was attached to the Liberation Monument. In 2015, another 16 names were added. Since March 2012, there is a website for Eduard Wallnöfer Platz, where both monuments are described in detail.
On the western side of the monument are the following names:
Nominal appraisals
The deceased for the freedom of Austria
Josef Axinger
Michael Bazil
Anton Bodenwinkler
Matthew Burgstaller
Walter Caldonazzi
Alfons Degaspari
Johann Desch
Rudolf Eder
Alois Graus
Georg Gruber
Anna Gründler
Marian Kuderna
Stefan Kuderna
Konrad Meier
Robert Moser
Andreas Obernauer
Josef Pair
Johann Pechriggl
Maria Peskoller
Victor da Pont
Anton Rausch
Anton Rettenbacher
Johann Rieder
Narciso Riet
Hedwig Romen
Josef Salcher
Josef Schmiderer
Johann Schmidt
Albert Alois Schnitzer
Johann Schroffner
Karl Seemann
Rosa Stallbaumer
Johann Steinmayer
Anton Stock
Franz Stolzlechner
Adele Stürzl
Ferdinand Thaler
Otto Thies
Konrad Tiefenthaler
Martin Tissner
Leopold Tomschik
Ludwig Totzenberger
Albert Troppmair
Stefan Valentinotti
Hans Vogl
Karl Weiroster
Josef Werndl
Lorenz Wernisch
Josef Wieser
Johann Winkler
On the eastern side of the monument are the following names:
The deceased for the freedom of Austria
Paul Anetter
Max Bär
Alois Brunner
Josefine Brunner
Viktor Czerny
Helene Delacher
Heinrich Depaoli
Ferdinand Eberhart
Johann Erler
Peter Falconer
Georg Fankhauser
Ernst Federspiel
Nikolaus Federspiel
Alois Flatsche
Franz Frank
Sepp Gangl
Jakob Gapp
Johann Gasser
Franz Gruber
Alfred Grundstein
Andreas Hofer
Alois Holzer
Ferdinand Humer
Alois Hupfau
Shmuel David Janaszewicz
Jakob Justmann
Karl Killinger
Anton Kofler
Walter Krajnc
Carl Lampert
Franz Mair
Adolf Martinek
Hubert Mayr
Karl Mayr
Johann Mentil
Franz Josef Messner
Otto Neururer
Anton Obholzer
Ernst Ortner
Emil Palla
Hugo Paterno
Oskar Pfeifer
Anton Pils
Hugo Pircher
Josef Pontiller
Erich Ranacher
Franz Reinisch
Nikolaus Schwarz
Antonia Setz
Franz Setz
Anton Steiner
Florian Steiner
Lorenz Steiner
Alfons Sturm
Klara Sturm
Das Befreiungsdenkmal steht am Eduard-Wallnöfer-Platz (vormals Landhausplatz) vor dem Neuen Landhaus in Innsbruck.
Entstehung
Das Befreiungsdenkmal wurde von 1946 bis 1948 auf Initiative und auf Kosten der französischen Besatzungsmacht nach Entwürfen des Architekten der französischen Militärregierung für Tirol und Vorarlberg, Major Jean Pascaud, von Tiroler Künstlern und Handwerkern errichtet. Das Denkmal ist jenen Personen gewidmet, die für die Befreiung Österreichs aus siebenjähriger Unfreiheit unter dem Nationalsozialismus von 1938 bis 1945 ihr Leben geopfert haben. Pläne und Fotos von der Errichtung dieses Denkmals und der, für die damalige Zeit äußerst mühsamen Montage des Adlers auf dem Denkmal, werden im Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum aufbewahrt.
Beschreibung
Im Gegensatz zum im gleichen Jahr errichteten Sowjetischen Ehrenmal in Wien zeigt das Innsbrucker Denkmal nur österreichische Symbole. Es trägt die Inschrift „PRO LIBERTATE AUSTRIAE MORTUIS“ Den für die Freiheit Österreichs Gestorbenen und in Kreuzform die Wappen der neun österreichischen Bundesländer. Diese Gitter wurden von Schlossermeister und späteren ÖVP-Stadtrat Anton Fritz ausgeführt, der auch den Tiroler Adler mit Binnenschild nach einem Entwurf des Bildhauers Emmerich Kerle in Kupfer getrieben hat.
Namentliche Würdigung
Im Rahmen der Neugestaltung des Landhausplatzes im Jahr 2011 wurden an das Befreiungsdenkmal die Namen von 107 Menschen angebracht, die im Widerstand gegen das NS-Regime ums Leben kamen. 2015 wurden weitere 16 Namen ergänzt. Seit März 2012 gibt es eine Website zum Eduard Wallnöfer Platz, auf der beide Denkmäler ausführlich beschrieben sind.
Auf der westlichen Seite des Denkmals befinden sich folgende Namen:
Namentliche Würdigungen
Den für die Freiheit Österreichs Gestorbenen
Josef Axinger
Michael Bazil
Anton Bodenwinkler
Matthäus Burgstaller
Walter Caldonazzi
Alfons Degaspari
Johann Desch
Rudolf Eder
Alois Graus
Georg Gruber
Anna Gründler
Marian Kuderna
Stefan Kuderna
Konrad Meier
Robert Moser
Andreas Obernauer
Josef Pair
Johann Pechriggl
Maria Peskoller
Viktor da Pont
Anton Rausch
Anton Rettenbacher
Johann Rieder
Narciso Riet
Hedwig Romen
Josef Salcher
Josef Schmiderer
Johann Schmidt
Albert Alois Schnitzer
Johann Schroffner
Karl Seemann
Rosa Stallbaumer
Johann Steinmayer
Anton Stock
Franz Stolzlechner
Adele Stürzl
Ferdinand Thaler
Otto Thies
Konrad Tiefenthaler
Martin Tissner
Leopold Tomschik
Ludwig Totzenberger
Albert Troppmair
Stefan Valentinotti
Hans Vogl
Karl Weiroster
Josef Werndl
Lorenz Wernisch
Josef Wieser
Johann Winkler
Auf der östlichen Seite des Denkmals befinden sich folgende Namen:
Den für die Freiheit Österreichs Gestorbenen
Paul Anetter
Max Bär
Alois Brunner
Josefine Brunner
Viktor Czerny
Helene Delacher
Heinrich Depaoli
Ferdinand Eberhart
Johann Erler
Peter Falkner
Georg Fankhauser
Ernst Federspiel
Nikolaus Federspiel
Alois Flatsche
Franz Frank
Sepp Gangl
Jakob Gapp
Johann Gasser
Franz Gruber
Alfred Grundstein
Andreas Hofer
Alois Holzer
Ferdinand Humer
Alois Hupfau
Shmuel David Janaszewicz
Jakob Justmann
Karl Killinger
Anton Kofler
Walter Krajnc
Carl Lampert
Franz Mair
Adolf Martinek
Hubert Mayr
Karl Mayr
Johann Mentil
Franz Josef Messner
Otto Neururer
Anton Obholzer
Ernst Ortner
Emil Palla
Hugo Paterno
Oskar Pfeifer
Anton Pils
Hugo Pircher
Josef Pontiller
Erich Ranacher
Franz Reinisch
Nikolaus Schwarz
Antonia Setz
Franz Setz
Anton Steiner
Florian Steiner
Lorenz Steiner
Alfons Sturm
Klara Sturm
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Befreiungsdenkmal_(Innsbruck)
"Chinese socialism is founded upon Darwin and the theory of evolution." Mao Tse-tung (1893 – 1976). Kampf um Mao's Erbe (1977.)
Some of the famous atheists in the atheist Hall of Shame.
Stalin, Marx, Lenin, Kim Jong IL, Mao, Kim Jong Un, Pol Pot, Kruschev, Brezhnev, Honecker, Ceaușescu
Atheism proved itself, in the 20th century, to be the most horrendous, barbaric, murderous and criminal ideology the world has ever experienced. Countless millions suffered and died at the hands of this hideous ideology, they must never be forgotten.
The promised atheist/socialist utopia ... the idea of an atheist Heaven on Earth resulted in a diabolical Hell on Earth.
Who, but a complete idiot would want to resurrect such a monstrous, no-hope philosophy?
Present day, so-called 'new' (improved?) atheists (and communists) try to disassociate themselves from the disastrous record of the world's, first ever, official, atheist states, established in the great, atheist experiment of the 20th century.
But all the examples we have of official, atheist rule are horrendous. And, the tyranny still continues, wherever atheism is the dominant, ruling ideology, as in North Korea.
The ‘new’ atheists try to blame the 20th century’s persecution and brutality completely on communism. They claim it had nothing to do with atheism.
But, although communism is a disastrous economic system, there is no intrinsic reason why it should be brutal, or why it should hate religion, or why it should destroy churches and persecute and murder millions of Christians and people of other faiths.
That is the hallmark of atheist ideology, not of an economic system.
Communism is fatally flawed as an economic system. And, as it thrives on envy, class hatred and division, it is a an anathema to Christianity, and any other religion which preaches love for everyone. Consequently, it is the ideal bedfellow for atheism, but that is different from requiring an intrinsic hatred of God and religion as a matter of state, endorsed policy. That is essentially an atheist ideal.
If communists weren't atheists, why would they outlaw and attack all religion? Karl Marx, the founder of communism, hated religion, because he was also an atheist. He understood that communist, dialectic materialism, class war etc. is incompatible with most religions, so, it could be argued, that to be a bona fide communist, he also had be an atheist.
Lenin was a self-declared atheist who, together with his Soviet Bloc, atheist successors, tried to eliminate religion with brutal repression and wholesale murder.
Thus, history tells us that the atheist experiment has been tried and, from beginning to end, was a brutal and diabolical failure. The new atheists may say: “it's nothing to do with us gov.”
But who wants to risk such devastation again, by giving the atheist ideology another chance? Only a complete idiot would want to take that gamble.
However, it was only to be expected and it could easily have been predicted beforehand, that the inevitable result of atheism's lack of an absolute ethical or moral yardstick would be to wreak havoc on the world - and that is exactly what it did. .
Atheism hasn't changed at all in that respect, because it can't.
Atheism and secular humanism categorically reject the concept of intrinsic right and wrong. Therefore, the ephemeral values, moral relativism and situational ethics of atheism are the ideal recipe for abuse.
We can see from the belligerent, intolerant, rabble rousing rhetoric and anti-religious ranting of today's militant, new atheist zealots, that the leopard hasn't really changed its spots. Let no one doubt it - atheism has an horrendous and hideously, barbaric record... we must never let it happen again.
Moreover, it is a singularly perverse ideology that motivates its adherents to waste so much time of the only life they believe they have, trying to convince everyone else that they are doomed to eternal oblivion. The ultimate reward for atheists is to never know if they got it right, only if they got it wrong.
There is certainly no moral or rational defence for the atheist cult, past or present.
But what do atheists themselves say about their ethical and moral values?
They claim that they DO have an ethical and moral yardstick, and cite the Humanist Manifesto as representing the ethics and moral code of atheism.
So is it really true?
The Humanist Manifesto looks good at first glance, but like most proposals atheists have come up with, when examined closely, it is full of holes.
Problems, problems ....
1. You don’t have to sign up to the Humanist Manifesto to be an atheist.
2. Even if you do sign up to it, there is no incentive to follow it. No reward for following it, and no penalty for not following it. You are not going to be barred from being an atheist because you reject or break the rules of the Humanist Manifesto. It is not enforced in any way.
3. It borrows any desirable ethics, it may have, from Judeo-Christian values, there is no atheist, moral code per se.
Atheism is the ideology of naturalism. Genuine, naturalist, ethical values are basically the Darwinian, ‘law of the jungle’. Progressive evolution and improvement through the survival of the fittest/strongest, and the elimination of any who are weaker or unable to adapt - nature red in tooth and claw, In societal terms - the most powerful, wealthiest, most influential, most cunning, dominate and rule for their own benefit. Anything else in the Humanist Manifesto is actually a contradiction of social Darwinism and naturalism. Any socially desirable or compassionate ethics, which may be included in the H.M, are wholly inconsistent with atheist, materialist, naturalist, and evolutionist ideology.
4. By far the biggest flaw in the Humanist Manifesto is the fact that it is entirely ephemeral. It advocates 'situational ethics' and 'moral relativism'. And that major flaw makes it a worthless scrap of paper.
Why?
Because .....
Situational ethics is based on what people want or find desirable, not on any adherence to what is intrinsically right or wrong.
A good, example of humanist style, situational ethics in practice, is the gender selection abortions now being blatantly carried out in abortion clinics in Britain. It primarily discriminates against female babies, who are especially targeted for killing, because most of the parents who want it, prefer to have boys for cultural reasons.
The abortion clinics openly admit to it happening, and claim it is legal.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/pro-choice-aborti...
The abortion act of 1967 certainly did not intend that, and the Government admits it was not intended.
So we have a Government that knows it is going on, it also knows it is not what the abortion law intended, yet it is still reluctant to do anything about it.
Why?
Because it is wedded to the secularist concept of situational ethics, i.e. whatever people want, people get. Any concept of intrinsic right and wrong has to take a back seat, to whatever is the spirit of the times. And that is an example happening right now, in a so-called democracy.
The Nazi persecution of the Jews and other races they considered ‘inferior’ became popular through brainwashing of the public, and was eventually supported by a good proportion of the public.
Hitler cleverly used situational ethics to do what he had persuaded people was right and good.
So, all in all, the Humanist Manifesto and its purported ethical values, is a very dangerous document.
It gives carte blanche to any so-called ethical values, as long they become the fashionable or consensus opinion. Whatever people want, people get, or what a government can claim people want, they are justified in giving to them.
And for that reason it would not stop; a Lenin, a Stalin, a Hitler, a Mao, or a Pol Pot, even if they had signed up 100% to abide by the Humanist Manifesto.
In fact, the 20th century, atheist tyrants even called their regimes ... Democratic People's Republics. They claimed they were representing people's wishes, and thus carried out their 'situational ethics' on behalf of the people.
What about the common, atheist tactic of highlighting alleged crimes and wrongdoing committed by Christians?
The point is ....
Christians who do wrong, go against the teachings of Christianity. It is recognised as ‘sin’. If they blatantly and deliberately go against the intrinsic moral values and teaching of Christianity, they forfeit the right to continue to call themselves Christian. And they can even be excommunicated by the Church, if they fail to admit their actions are wrong.
And, without sincere sorrow and repentance, they don't get to go to the Christian Heaven.
End of story!
Atheists who do wrong, go against nothing, unless it is against the law of the land.
You cannot be chucked out of atheism for doing wrong, you cannot even be censored by atheism for doing wrong, it is a complete free for all, you can simply act with impunity according to your own desires and opinion. Atheists don’t recognise sin, right and wrong is not intrinsic or absolute. Atheism has no, unchanging, moral code. Right and wrong is, ultimately, just a matter of opinion
The atheist 'heaven' is right here on earth, and far from being a 'heaven' it is an horrendous nightmare. Anyone with any sense would call it a hell.
And even the law of the land need not stop atheists .....
Whenever, atheists get into a position of power they change the law to suit their situational ethics. Then they can do whatever they want.
That is what Stalin and all the other atheist tyrants did in their people's DEMOCRATIC republics.
And the atheist thirst for blood does not cease when they live in the so-called 'real' democracies, it is simply sanitised by atheist inspired, situational ethics.
They use their 'humanist' ethics to change the law, accompanied by 'newspeak' and propaganda.
So that what was once considered evil, is not only made legal, it is actually turned around so it is considered a virtue.
The wholesale and brutal slaughter, of the most vulnerable in society ... millions of unborn babies, is callously shrugged off as necessary, for 'free choice'.
Of course murder is always a free choice for the killer, only the dangerous, warped, atheist style, situational ethics could value a killer's free choice to kill, above the victim's right not to be killed, and make murder legal.
The callous slaughter of the unborn, which in most cases, was not even put to the people democratically (it was imposed on them by a handful of secularist politicians, lawyers and bureaucrats), is accompanied by the usual atheist lies and devious propaganda.
Doctors acting illegally over abortions get off scot-free ....
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2609950/Scandal-doctors-...
So the secularists simply laugh off democracy, it doesn't stop them, if it gets in the way of their ideology, they just ignore it, like they do with science.
"Democratic societies" how do they impact on situational ethics?
We see, in practice, that democracy is treated with utter contempt .....
Why ask the people? They are apparently not qualified to consider such difficult matters of right and wrong, like whether babies should live or die? You can't give those ignorant peasants, plebs and rednecks a vote on it, ... leave it to the secularist EXPERTS and their wonderful, situational ethics based on 'reason' and 'science'.
We are told by atheist moralists that the unborn baby is not fully human, it is only a blob of jelly, which has, and deserves, NO rights. As usual, they deliberately ignore, or twist, the scientific facts.
And we are also told, anyone who supports the rights of the unborn babies not to be brutally ripped limb from limb is evil and a ‘far right’ fanatic, because they are interfering with free CHOICE.
So the atheist leopard certainly hasn't changed its deceitful, devious, brutal and murderous spots, even in so-called 'real' democratic societies. It simply legalises and sanitises evil and murder and makes it appear good.
Then it can claim atheism is extremely ethical and virtuous, with its own, beautiful, humanist code of morals and conduct .... Yeah Right!
Remind you of anyone?
Always remember ....
Atheist/humanist so-called ethics and morals depend entirely on OPINION, and that is why they are so extremely dangerous.
Atheism has no moral or ethical yardstick, no concept of God-given, human rights ... only OPINION.
But WHOSE opinion?
My opinion?
Your opinion?
Or maybe Richard Dawkins opinion?
Or Sam Harris's opinion?
Or how about Barrack Obama's opinion?
Or why not STALIN'S or POL POT'S opinion?
So don't be fooled by the relentless chorus from the 'new' atheists and humanists, that atheism has its own code of ethics and morals, their code of ethics is based on the OPINION of one or more of the following ... whoever is: the most vociferous, the most charismatic, the most cunning, the most influential, the most powerful, the wealthiest, the most successful propagandist, the most persuasive, the most repressive, or the most brutal.
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Unjust laws/evil laws (such as legalised abortion) are effectively null and void. They should not be accepted by any right-thinking person. In any just society, the legalisation of abortion has to be regarded as a crime against humanity, and those guilty will surely be held to account by a more enlightened society.
“civil law cannot contradict right reason without losing its binding force on conscience. Every humanly-created law is legitimate insofar as it is consistent with the natural moral law, recognized by right reason, and insofar as it respects the inalienable rights of every person”. —St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, I-II, q. 95, a. 2.w
Why satanism is now on the center stage in the culture war.
www.crisismagazine.com/2019/why-satanism-is-now-on-the-ce...
EUbabel. The shocking occult symbolism of the European Union.
peuplesobservateursblog.wordpress.com/2017/09/23/togo-all...
“socialism never took root in america because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires”
- commonly misattributed to steinbeck by way of a vague paraphrasing from roland wright. though the original passage is rather opposite the sentiment, i enjoy the spirit of this made-up quip.
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The swastika was already a symbol for "socialism" used by socialists when Germany followed the lead. The swastika was used on the first new money of Soviet socialists before German socialists adopted it. rexcurry.net/ussr-socialist-swastika-cccp-sssr.html Before Soviet socialists the swastika was used by the notorious American socialist Edward Bellamy in conjunction with the Theosophical Society. rexcurry.net/theosophy-madame-blavatsky-theosophical-soci... Edward Bellamy was the cousin of Francis Bellamy, also an American socialist, who wrote the USA's Pledge of Allegiance, the origin of the nazi salute.
Swastikas were ancient symbols. However, the symbol has acquired a bad reputation due to ignorant people who do not know that the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSGWP or Nazis) did not call their symbol a "swastika." NSGWP members called their symbol a hakenkreuz (hooked cross) and they used it to represent crossed S-letters for their socialism under their National Socialist German Workers Party. See the work of the noted symbologist Dr. Rex Curry (author of "Swastika Secrets"). American socialists (e.g. Edward Bellamy, Francis Bellamy and the Theosophical Society) influenced German socialists in the use of the swastika to represent socialism. The ignorance about the "swastika" (hakenkreuz) was predicted long ago when Professor Max Muller discouraged Dr. Heinrich Schliemann in the careless use of the term "swastika" and referred to such ignorant people as "the vulgus profanum." The same people are ignorant of the fact that German national socialists did NOT refer to themselves as "nazis." NSGWP members referred to themselves as "socialists" (hence their use of the of the hakenkreuz to represent crossed S-letters for their "socialism"). Such people continue to defame the "swastika" symbol by their ignorance of the hakenkreuz and other symbols, rituals, meaning and terminology under German national socialists. For example, there is widespread ignorance of the fact that the German socialist's stiff-armed salute (and robotic chanting in unison) came from American socialists (Francis Bellamy, cousin of Edward Bellamy), and that the stiff-armed salute had been used in the USA's Pledge of Allegiance for about 3 decades before German socialists borrowed it. German socialists defamed the American salute as they defamed the "swastika," yet only because of ignorant people who still do not know the history. The stiff-armed salute developed because the early Pledge of Allegiance began with a military salute that was then extended outward to point at the flag (it was not an "ancient Roman salute" -another debunked myth repeated by the ignorant vulgus profanum). The above are part of the discoveries by Dr Curry (author of "Pledge of Allegiance Secrets").
Badge from the Hall-Carpenter Archives.
Source collection: digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/list/collections/46
The Long Road #13
My Krügers #57
1969 Krüger postcard from Croatia / Hrvatska, Zagreb, featuring
- DKW Junior
- FIAT 600 / ZASTAVA 750 (x8)
- FIAT / ZASTAVA 1300/1500
- FORD Taunus P1 "Weltkugeltaunus" (x2)
- FORD Taunus P1 Turnier
- FORD Taunus P3 "Badewanne"
- FORD Anglia 105E
- MERCEDES-BENZ W111 "Fintal" / "Heckflosse"
- OPEL Rekord P2
- OPEL Rekord P2 Caravan
- OPEL Rekord P1
- VOLKSWAGEN Beetle / Käfer / Buba (x2)
- VOLKSWAGEN Karmann-Ghia Typ 34
trams, trucks and many other vehicles
Designer: Chen Fu (陈辅), Zhang Zhenzhao (张镇照)
1962, July
Protecting the construction of socialism
Baowei shehui zhuyi jianshe (保卫社会主义建设)
Call nr.: BG E37/188 (Landsberger collection)
More? See: chineseposters.net
Membre del National Clarion Cycling Club present a l'acte d'inauguració de l'exposició "80è aniversari de l'Olimpíada Popular antifeixista 1936- 2016" (Estadi Lluís Companys).
According to Forbes Magazine's 2014 billionaires list, Vladimir Putin is worth upwards of $70 billion. I guess Communism is good for some, but for the worker, not so much.
"Chinese socialism is founded upon Darwin and the theory of evolution." Mao Tse-tung (1893 – 1976). Kampf um Mao's Erbe (1977.)
To people who hate the truth, the truth looks like hate...
Atheism and its humanist ethics.
Atheism proved itself, in the 20th century, to be the most horrendous, barbaric, murderous and criminal ideology the world has ever experienced. Many millions suffered and died at the hands of this hideous ideology, they must never be forgotten.
The promised atheist/socialist utopia ... the idea of an atheist Heaven on Earth resulted in a diabolical Hell on Earth.
Who, but a complete idiot would want to resurrect such a monstrous, no-hope philosophy?
The so-called 'new' (improved?) atheists try to disassociate themselves from the disastrous record of the world's first ever, official, atheist states of the 20th century's, great, atheist experiment.
But there is no other example to go by.
They even try to blame the persecution and brutality on communism, and claim it had nothing to do with atheism.
But communism, per se, is an economic system, there is no compelling reason why it should be brutal, or why it should hate religion, or why it should destroy churches and persecute and murder millions of Christians and people of other faiths.
That is the hallmark of atheism, not communism.
Of course communism is a fatally flawed, economic system which thrives on envy and class hatred, but that is not the same as specifically hating God and religion. That is the unique trait of atheism.
If the communists weren't also atheists, why would they have outlawed and attacked all religion?
Lenin was a self-declared atheist who, together with his Soviet Bloc, atheist successors, tried to eliminate religion with brutal repression and wholesale murder.
Thus, history tells us that the atheist experiment has been tried and, from beginning to end, was a brutal and diabolical failure. The new atheists may say: “it's nothing to do with us gov.”
But who wants to risk such devastation again, by giving the atheist ideology another chance? Only a complete fool would want to take that gamble.
However, it was only to be expected and it could easily have been predicted beforehand, that the inevitable result of atheism's lack of an absolute ethical or moral yardstick would be to wreak havoc on the world - and that is exactly what it did. .
Atheism hasn't changed at all in that respect, because it can't.
Atheism and secular humanism categorically reject the concept of intrinsic right and wrong. Therefore, the ephemeral values, moral relativism and situational ethics of atheism are the ideal recipe for abuse.
We can see from the belligerent, intolerant, rabble rousing rhetoric and anti-religious ranting of today's militant, new atheist zealots, that the leopard hasn't really changed its spots. Let no one doubt it - atheism has an horrendous and hideously, barbaric record... we must never let it happen again.
Moreover, it is a singularly perverse ideology that motivates its adherents to waste so much time of the only life they believe they have, trying to convince everyone else that they are doomed to eternal oblivion. The ultimate reward for atheists is to never know if they got it right, only if they got it wrong.
There is certainly no moral, rational or scientific defence for the atheist cult, past or present.
But what do atheists themselves say about their ethical and moral values?
They claim that they DO have an ethical and moral yardstick, and cite the Humanist Manifesto as representing the ethics and moral code of atheism.
So is it really true?
The Humanist Manifesto may look good at first glance, but like most proposals atheists have come up with, when examined closely, it is full of holes.
Problems, problems ....
1. You don’t have to sign up to the Humanist Manifesto to be an atheist.
2. Even if you do sign up to it, there is no incentive to follow it. No reward for following it, and no penalty for not following it. You are not going to be barred from being an atheist because you reject or break the rules of the Humanist Manifesto. It is not enforced in any way.
3. It borrows any desirable ethics, it may appear to have, from Judeo-Christian values, there is no atheist, moral code per se.
Atheism is the ideology of naturalism. Genuine, naturalist, ethical values are basically the Darwinian, ‘law of the jungle’. Progressive evolution and improvement through the survival of the fittest/strongest, and the elimination of any who are weaker or unable to adapt - nature red in tooth and claw, In societal terms - the most powerful, wealthiest, most influential, most cunning, dominate and rule for their own benefit. Anything else in the Humanist Manifesto is actually a contradiction of social Darwinism and naturalism. Any socially desirable or compassionate ethics, which may be included in the H.M, are wholly inconsistent with atheist, materialist, naturalist, and evolutionist ideology.
4. By far the biggest flaw in the Humanist Manifesto is the fact that it is entirely ephemeral. It advocates 'situational ethics' and 'moral relativism'. And that major flaw makes it a worthless scrap of paper.
Why?
Because .....
Situational ethics is based on what people want or find desirable, not on any adherence to what is intrinsically right or wrong.
A good, example of humanist style, situational ethics in practice, is the gender selection abortions now being blatantly carried out in abortion clinics in Britain. It primarily discriminates against female babies, who are especially targeted for killing, because most of the parents who want it, prefer to have boys for cultural reasons.
The abortion clinics openly admit to it happening, and claim it is legal.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/pro-choice-aborti...
The abortion act of 1967 certainly did not intend that, and the Government admits it was not intended.
So we have a Government that knows it is going on, it also knows it is not what the abortion law intended, yet it is still reluctant to do anything about it.
Why?
Because it is wedded to the secularist concept of situational ethics, i.e. whatever people want, people get. Any concept of intrinsic right and wrong takes a back seat, to whatever is the spirit of the times. And that is an example happening right now, in a so-called democracy.
The Nazi persecution of the Jews and other races they considered ‘inferior’ became popular through brainwashing of the public, and was eventually supported by a good proportion of the public.
So, Hitler cleverly used situational ethics to do what he had persuaded people was right and good.
All in all, the Humanist Manifesto and its purported ethical values, is a very dangerous document.
It gives carte blanche to any so-called, ethical values, if they become the fashionable or consensus opinion. Whatever people want, people get, or even worse, what a government decides the people want, they can claim they are justified in giving them.
And for that reason it would not stop; a Lenin, a Stalin, a Hitler, a Mao, or a Pol Pot, even if they had signed up 100% to abide by the Humanist Manifesto.
In fact, the 20th century, atheist tyrants even called their regimes ... Democratic People's Republics. They claimed they were representing people's wishes, and were carrying out their 'situational ethics' on behalf of the people.
What about the common, atheist tactic of highlighting alleged crimes and wrongdoing committed by Christians?
The point is ....
Christians who do wrong, go against the teachings of Christianity. If they blatantly and deliberately go against the intrinsic moral values and teaching of Christianity, they have no right to continue to call themselves Christian. And they can even be excommunicated by the Church, if they fail to admit their actions are wrong.
And, without sincere repentance, they don't get to go to the Christian Heaven.
End of story!
Atheists who do wrong, go against nothing, unless it is against the law of the land.
You cannot be chucked out of atheism for doing wrong, you cannot even be censored by atheism for doing wrong, it is a complete free for all, you can simply act with impunity according to your own desires and opinion.
The atheist 'heaven' is right here on earth, and far from being a 'heaven' it is an horrendous nightmare. Anyone with any sense would call it a hell.
And even the law of the land need not stop atheists .....
Whenever, atheists get into a position of power they change the law to suit their situational ethics. Then they can do whatever they want.
That is what Stalin and all the other atheist tyrants did in their people's DEMOCRATIC republics.
And the atheist thirst for blood does not cease when they live in the so-called 'real' democracies, it is simply sanitised by atheist inspired, situational ethics.
They use their 'humanist' ethics to change the law, accompanied by 'newspeak' and propaganda.
So that what was once considered evil, is not only made legal, it is actually turned around so it is considered a virtue.
The wholesale and brutal slaughter, of the most vulnerable in society ... millions of unborn babies, is callously shrugged off as necessary, for 'free choice'.
Of course murder is always a free choice for the killer, only the dangerous, warped, atheist style, situational ethics could value a killer's free choice to kill, above the victim's right not to be killed, and make murder legal.
The callous slaughter of the unborn, which in most cases, was not even put to the people democratically (it was imposed on them by a handful of secularist politicians, lawyers and bureaucrats), is accompanied by the usual atheist lies and devious propaganda.
Doctors acting illegally over abortions get off scot-free ....
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2609950/Scandal-doctors-...
So the secularists simply laugh off democracy, it doesn't stop them, if it gets in the way of their ideology, they just ignore it, like they do with science.
"Democratic societies" how do they impact on situational ethics?
We see, in practice, that democracy is treated with utter contempt .....
Why ask the people? They are apparently not qualified to consider such difficult matters of right and wrong, like whether babies should live or die? You can't give those ignorant peasants, plebs and rednecks a vote on it, ... leave it to the secularist EXPERTS and their wonderful, situational ethics based on 'reason' and 'science'.
Contrary to the scientific facts, we are told by atheist moralists that the unborn baby is not fully human, it is only a blob of jelly, which has, and deserves, NO rights.
And we are also told, anyone who supports the rights of the unborn babies not to be brutally ripped limb from limb is evil, because they are interfering with free CHOICE.
So the atheist leopard certainly hasn't changed its lying, devious, brutal and murderous spots, even in so-called 'real' democratic societies. It simply legalises and sanitises evil and murder and makes it appear good.
Then it can claim atheism is extremely ethical and virtuous, with its own, beautiful, humanist code of morals and conduct .... Yeah Right!
Remind you of anyone?
Some even have the barefaced audacity to describe their situational ethics with the slogan “Good without God”.
Always remember ....
Atheist/humanist so-called ethics and morals depend entirely on OPINION, and that is why they are so extremely dangerous.
Atheism has no moral or ethical yardstick, no concept of God-given, human rights ... only OPINION.
But WHOSE opinion?
My opinion?
Your opinion?
Maybe Richard Dawkins’ opinion?
Or Christopher Hitchens’ opinion?
Or Sam Harris's opinion?
Or how about Barrack Obama's opinion?
Or why not STALIN'S or POL POT'S opinion?
So don't be fooled by the relentless chorus from the 'new' atheists and humanists, that atheism has its own code of ethics and morals, their code of ethics is based on the OPINION of one or more of the following ... whoever (singly, or as a pressure group or lobby) is: the most vociferous, the most charismatic, the most cunning, the most influential, the most powerful, the most devious, the wealthiest, the most successful propagandist, the most persuasive, or the most brutal.
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…civil law cannot contradict right reason without losing its binding force on conscience. Every humanly-created law is legitimate insofar as it is consistent with the natural moral law, recognized by right reason, and insofar as it respects the inalienable rights of every person. —St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, I-II, q. 95, a. 2.
EUbabel. The shocking occult symbolism of the European Union.
peuplesobservateursblog.wordpress.com/2017/09/23/togo-all...
Swastikas were ancient symbols. However, the symbol has acquired a bad reputation due to ignorant people who do not know that the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSGWP or Nazis) did not call their symbol a "swastika." NSGWP members called their symbol a hakenkreuz (hooked cross) and they used it to represent crossed S-letters for their socialism under their National Socialist German Workers Party. See the work of the noted symbologist Dr. Rex Curry (author of "Swastika Secrets"). American socialists (e.g. Edward Bellamy, Francis Bellamy and the Theosophical Society) influenced German socialists in the use of the swastika to represent socialism. The ignorance about the "swastika" (hakenkreuz) was predicted long ago when Professor Max Muller discouraged Dr. Heinrich Schliemann in the careless use of the term "swastika" and referred to such ignorant people as "the vulgus profanum." The same people are ignorant of the fact that German national socialists did NOT refer to themselves as "nazis." NSGWP members referred to themselves as "socialists" (hence their use of the of the hakenkreuz to represent crossed S-letters for their "socialism"). Such people continue to defame the "swastika" symbol by their ignorance of the hakenkreuz and other symbols, rituals, meaning and terminology under German national socialists. For example, there is widespread ignorance of the fact that the German socialist's stiff-armed salute (and robotic chanting in unison) came from American socialists (Francis Bellamy, cousin of Edward Bellamy), and that the stiff-armed salute had been used in the USA's Pledge of Allegiance for about 3 decades before German socialists borrowed it. German socialists defamed the American salute as they defamed the "swastika," yet only because of ignorant people who still do not know the history. The stiff-armed salute developed because the early Pledge of Allegiance began with a military salute that was then extended outward to point at the flag (it was not an "ancient Roman salute" -another debunked myth repeated by the ignorant vulgus profanum). The above are part of the discoveries by Dr Curry (author of "Pledge of Allegiance Secrets").
City main parish church of Saint Giles
Object ID: 49309, Parish square 7
Cadastral Community: Klagenfurt
The Roman Catholic parish church Klagenfurt-Saint Giles stands in the town of Klagenfurt at the lake Wörthersee in Carinthia. The parish church Heiliger Ägidius belongs to the deanery Klagenfurt-Stadt in the diocese Gurk-Klagenfurt. The former city main parish church is under monument protection.
History
On the site of today's St. Egid Church was an older church building, which was mentioned as a vicariate of Maria Saal in 1255 for the first time in a document and 1303 was endowed with parochial rights. 1347 was the first documentary mention of a church "sand Gilgen" (St. Egid). 1519 followed the nomination of three priests at the church of St. Egid in the Schematism and 1540 was a restoration of the church.
The architectural form of the original church is evident from existing maps of the years 1605 and 1649. The church had a Gothic high choir, seven altars, a protruding transept and two spiers with pointed helmets connected by a covered wooden corridor.
From 1563 until the recatholicization in 1600, Protestant services were celebrated in the church. 1571 began with the keeping of baptismal books. From 1593 Johannes Herold was cantor. In 1603 the parish became independent.
Fires destroyed the rectory in 1535 and 1636. The Romanesque charnel house fell victim to the fire in 1636. Earthquakes affected the church in 1571, 1680 and 1688. The damage required in 1690 the demolition of the Romanesque church.
The consecration of the new church was carried out by Bishop Kaspar von Lavant on September 8, 1697. The laying of the foundation stone for the new tower was carried out by the Klagenfurt burgrave J. F. Count Orsini-Rosenberg on July 30, 1692. In 1706 the new ringing sounded for the first time and in 1709 the tower was completed. In 1723 there were renewed fire damages to church and tower. Thereafter, the tower was equipped with a Baroque onion helmet. With a height of 91.7 meters, it is after the parish tower in Villach, the second highest church tower in Carinthia and is considered one of the two landmarks of Klagenfurt. As part of guided tours, the 50-meter-high viewing platform of the watchman gallery can be climbed.
The new church was designed as a four-aisled gallery church with a two-bay square choir. Several barrel vaults with lunette caps rest on stucco-lustro pilasters with richly ornamented capitals. The triumphal arch is indicated by a transverse arch on wall pillars. Four side chapels with cross vaults and Baroque windows complete the building. The galleries feature lunette windows, also from the Baroque period.
Four artistically valuable side altars complete the interior design:
Nepomuk Altar (1822): The altar is made of imitation marble and contains as an image the motif of John the Baptist (1728) by Josef Ferdinand Fromiller and laterally figures of the Holy Family. The altar was donated by Egger-Lodron.
Crucifixion altar (1702). The central picture Crucifixion of Christ was painted in 1607 by Adam Imhof.
Barbara Altar (1702). Main image: Saint Barbara with tower and goblet.
Josef's altar (1699) donated by the Orsini-Rosenberg family. Main picture: Saint Joseph. Main painting: Marriage of Mary (both attributed to the Klagenfurt painter Adam Claus).
1729 followed the construction of the new high altar, which was first replaced in 1742 and 1780 by the until now existing high altar.
Around 1740 Benedikt Bläß created a Baroque pulpit, which may be considered one of the most beautiful in Carinthia; its main theme is the aspect of penance. In 1749, the introduction of the Holy-Head-Devotion was under Lorenz Klein. 1760/61 it came to the attachment of the ceiling frescoes by Fromiller and Mölckh.
The parish had in this time the branch churches Holy Spirit (consecrated in 1639) and Kreuzbergl (consecrated in 1742). 1772 was the abandonment of the cemetery in front of the church, having been the burial place for the whole city. 1780 belonged to St. Egid 9689 people, of which 8344 'communicants'. In 1784, it came to the regulation of the now three city parishes under Emperor Joseph II.
The storm damages from 1817 to 1827 after two hurricanes made a ceiling renovation necessary. In this context, it came in 1827 to the consecration of a new bell. 1832 was the separation of the legal connection from the parish of Gurk cathedral chapter. From 1859 to 1861 the church was restored inside. 1877 was again a renovation of the church tower.
Architect Franz Schachner redesigned the façade in 1893 and since 1895 there is a statue of Maria Lourdes in the northeast of the church. In 1906, Novak built a new organ for the church. In 1909, followed the demolition of the row of houses on the old Ring wall (including the organist's house) towards the hay square.
During the First World War, the bells of the church were removed and transported away. In 1924, the consecration of a new ringing took place, which consisted of the Poor soul, Floriani, Mary, Heroes- and Homeland bell. 1942, the bells were removed except for the Homeland bell again for war purposes. During National Socialism there were severe restrictions on the church, during the heavy bombings in Klagenfurt church and rectory remained largely spared.
In 1932, the church music association was founded at St. Egid. Also in 1932 followed the consecration of the church Christ the King and the new priest's house on the Lend Canal. In 1972, the parish of St. Hemma was created by separating an area in the northwest of St. Egid.
From 1964 to 1965, the new vicarage was built. From 1969 to 1974 the church was renovated inside and from 1982 to 1984 outside including the tower. From 1989 Ernst Fuchs designed the south sacristy as a chapel.
In 1990, the church received a new ringing, in 1992 an organ by the Czech organ builder Rieger-Kloss and in 2006 a total restoration was made. The vicarage was extended from 2006 to 2007 and an underground car park was built.
personalities
The writer Julien Green was buried at his own request in 1998 in the city's main parish church of St. Egid in a chapel designed for him. The tomb adorns a text from his diary of November 1954.
From 1991 to 2010, the Austrian painter Ernst Fuchs created an apocalyptic series of scenes for the south chapel ("Fuchs Chapel").
Stadthauptpfarrkirche Heiliger Egid
Objekt ID: 49309, Pfarrplatz 7
Katastralgemeinde: Klagenfurt
Die römisch-katholische Pfarrkirche Klagenfurt-St. Egid steht in der Stadtgemeinde Klagenfurt am Wörthersee in Kärnten. Die Pfarrkirche Heiliger Ägidius gehört zum Dekanat Klagenfurt-Stadt in der Diözese Gurk-Klagenfurt. Die ehemalige Stadthauptpfarrkirche steht unter Denkmalschutz.
Geschichte
An der Stelle der heutigen St. Egid-Kirche befand sich ein älteres Kirchengebäude, das als Vikariat von Maria Saal 1255 erstmals urkundlich erwähnt und 1303 mit pfarrlichen Rechten ausgestattet wurde. 1347 war die erste urkundliche Erwähnung eines Gotteshauses “sand Gilgen” (St. Egid). 1519 folgte die Nennung von drei Priestern an der Kirche St. Egid im Schematismus und 1540 erfolgte eine Restaurierung der Kirche.
Die Baugestalt der ursprünglichen Kirche ist aus vorhandenen Stadtplänen der Jahre 1605 und 1649 ersichtlich. Die Kirche verfügte über einen gotischen Hochchor, sieben Altäre, ein vorspringendes Querschiff und zwei Türme mit Spitzhelmen, die durch einen überdachten hölzerner Gang miteinander verbunden waren.
Von 1563 bis zur Rekatholisierung im Jahr 1600 wurden in der Kirche evangelische Gottesdienste gefeiert. 1571 begann man mit der Führung von Taufbüchern. Ab 1593 war Johannes Herold Kantor. 1603 wurde die Pfarre selbständig.
Brände zerstörten das Pfarrhaus 1535 und 1636. Der romanische Karner fiel dem Brand im Jahr 1636 zum Opfer. Erdbeben betrafen die Kirche 1571, 1680 und 1688. Die Schäden machten 1690 den Abbruch der romanischen Kirche erforderlich.
Die Einweihung der neuen Kirche erfolgte durch Bischof Kaspar von Lavant am 8. September 1697. Die Grundsteinlegung für den neuen Turm nahm der Klagenfurter Burggraf J. F. Graf Orsini-Rosenberg am 30. Juli 1692 vor. 1706 erklang erstmals das neue Geläute und 1709 erfolgte die Fertigstellung des Turms. 1723 kam es zu neuerlichen Brandschäden an Kirche und Turm. Danach wurde der Turm mit einem barocken Zwiebelhelm ausgestattet. Mit einer Höhe von 91,7 Metern ist er nach dem Stadtpfarrturm in Villach der zweithöchste Kirchturm Kärntens und gilt als eines der beiden Wahrzeichen von Klagenfurt. Im Rahmen von Führungen kann die 50 Meter hohe Aussichtsplattform der Türmergalerie bestiegen werden.
Die neue Kirche wurde als vierjochige Emporenkirche mit einem zweijochigen quadratischen Chor ausgeführt. Mehrere Tonnengewölbe mit Stichkappen ruhen auf Stucco-lustro-Pilastern mit reich verzierten Kapitellen. Der Triumphbogen wird durch einen Gurtbogen auf Wandpfeilern angedeutet. Je vier Seitenkapellen mit Kreuzgewölben und barocken Fenstern schließen den Bau ab. Die Emporen verfügen über Lünettenfenster, die ebenfalls aus der Barockzeit stammen.
Vier künstlerisch wertvolle Seitenaltäre runden die Innenausstattung ab:
Nepomuk-Altar (1822): Der Altar ist aus Kunstmarmor und enthält als Aufsatzbild das Motiv Johannes der Täufer (1728) von Josef Ferdinand Fromiller und seitlich Figuren der Heiligen Familie. Der Altar wurde von Egger-Lodron gestiftet.
Kreuz-Altar (1702). Das Mittelbild Kreuzigung Christi wurde 1607 von Adam Imhof gemalt.
Barbara-Altar (1702). Hauptbild: Heilige Barbara mit Turm und Kelch.
Josefs-Altar (1699) gestiftet von der Familie Orsini-Rosenberg. Hauptbild: Heiliger Josef. Aufsatzbild: Vermählung Mariens (beide dem Klagenfurter Maler Adam Claus zugeordnet).
1729 erfolgte die Errichtung des neuen Hochaltars, der bereits 1742 erstmals und 1780 durch den seither bestehenden Hochaltar ersetzt wurde.
Um 1740 schuf Benedikt Bläß eine Barockkanzel, die als eine der schönsten in Kärnten angesehen werden darf; ihr Hauptthema ist der Aspekt der Buße. 1749 war die Einführung der Heilig-Haupt-Andacht unter Lorenz Klein. 1760/61 kam es zur Anbringung der Deckenfresken von Fromiller und Mölckh.
Die Pfarre verfügte in dieser Zeit über die Filialkirchen Heiliger Geist (geweiht 1639) und Kreuzbergl (geweiht 1742). 1772 erfolgte die Auflassung des Friedhofs vor der Kirche, der Begräbnisstätte für die ganze Stadt war. 1780 gehörten zu St. Egid 9689 Personen, davon 8344 ‘Kommunikanten’. 1784 kam es zur Regulierung der inzwischen drei Stadtpfarren unter Kaiser Joseph II.
Die von 1817 bis 1827 entstandenen Sturmschäden nach zwei Orkanen machten eine Deckenrenovierung notwendig. In diesem Zusammenhang kam es 1827 zur Einweihung einer neuen Glocke. 1832 erfolgte die Lösung der rechtlichen Verbindung der Pfarre vom Gurker Domkapitel. Von 1859 bis 1861 wurde die Kirche innen restauriert. 1877 erfolgte neuerlich eine Renovierung des Kirchturms.
Architekt Franz Schachner gestaltete 1893 die Fassade neu und seit 1895 steht im Nordosten der Kirche eine Maria-Lourdes-Statue. 1906 baute Novak eine neue Orgel für die Kirche. 1909 folgte die Schleifung der Häuserreihe an der alten Ringmauer (u. a. das Organistenhaus) zum Heuplatz.
Im Ersten Weltkrieg wurden die Glocken der Kirche abgenommen und abtransportiert. 1924 fand die Einweihung eines neuen Geläutes statt, das aus der Armenseelen-, Floriani-, Marien-, Helden- und Heimatglocke bestand. 1942 wurden die Glocken mit Ausnahme der Heimatglocke wieder für Kriegszwecke abtransportiert. Während des Nationalsozialismus gab es starke Beschränkungen für die Kirche, bei den schweren Bombardements in Klagenfurt blieben Kirche und Pfarrhof weitgehend verschont.
1932 kam es zur Gründung des Kirchenmusikvereins zu St. Egid. Ebenfalls 1932 erfolgte die Weihe der Christkönigskirche und des neuen Priesterhauses am Lendkanal. 1972 entstand die Pfarre St. Hemma durch Abtrennung eines Gebiets im Nordwesten von St. Egid.
Von 1964 bis 1965 wurde der neue Pfarrhof errichtet. Von 1969 bis 1974 die Kirche innen und von 1982 bis 1984 außen einschließlich des Turms renoviert. Ab 1989 gestaltete Ernst Fuchs die Südsakristei als Kapelle.
1990 erhielt die Kirche ein neues Geläut, 1992 eine Orgel von der tschechischen Orgelbaufirma Rieger-Kloss und im Jahre 2006 wurde eine Gesamtrestaurierung vorgenommen. Der Pfarrhof wurde 2006 bis 2007 erweitert und eine Tiefgarage errichtet.
Persönlichkeiten
Der Schriftsteller Julien Green wurde 1998 auf eigenen Wunsch in der Stadthauptpfarrkirche St. Egid in einer für ihn gestalteten Kapelle beigesetzt. Das Grab ziert ein Text aus seinem Tagebuch vom November 1954.
Der österreichische Maler Ernst Fuchs gestaltete 1991 bis 2010 eine apokalyptische Szenenfolge für die Südkapelle („Fuchs-Kapelle“).
“I have used the laws of this country just like the greatest people that you read about every day in business have used the laws of this country, the chapter laws, to do a great job for my company, for myself, for my employees, for my family, et cetera….
…I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business.”
--Donald Trump, who has declared bankruptcy four times to avoid paying creditors.
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That makes sense. Big Businesses, like Trump’s, exploit multitudes of common people for their labor, and vacuum up their cash to benefit a few large stockholders and elite executives. That is Capitalism, and it is good.
For businesses to run more like government, where the executive suite serves to benefit employees and common people, would be Socialism, which is bad.
Everyone knows that.
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“We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes”
--Leona Helmsley, NYC Real Estate & Hotel Mogul
(Jailed for tax evasion and defrauding the government)
“It makes me smart”
--Donald Trump, on not paying any taxes
(Elected President of the United States)
Leona Helmsley, “The Queen of Mean”, was successfully prosecuted in 1989 by then U.S. Attorney (and now Trump sycophant) Rudy Giuliani for income tax evasion and fraudulent business practices. She reported to prison on April 15, 1992, the day when personal taxes fall due. Prisoner No.15113-054, estimated net worth over five billion dollars, served nineteen months in federal prison. Upon release she had to sell all her NY hotels, which sold drinks, because New York law does not allow convicted felons to hold liquor licenses.
What a difference twenty-five years can make.
Link to Altered States blog
Foto: (EN) Welcoming sign at the entrance of the Russian ghost town of Pyramiden on Svalbard. (DE) Repräsentatives Ortsschild der russischen Geisterstadt Pyramiden in Spitzbergen.
Pyramiden, die zweite russische Ortschaft auf Spitzbergen, war einst ein sozialistisches Utopia: Über 1'000 Personen lebten hier in für den Sozialismus komfortablen Verhältnissen: Es gab unter anderem ein Sportzentrum, ein Kulturhaus, ein sehr gut ausgerüstetes Spital und verschiedene landwirtschaftliche Betriebe. Die damals modernen Wohnungen hatten keine Küchen, da alle Einwohner in der gemeinsamen Kantine spiesen - das Essen dort war für alle kostenlos! Kühlschränke gab es auch nicht, dafür hatte jede Wohnung eine ins Fenster eingebaute Metallbox. Dort war es genügend kühl.
Der Kapitalismus forderte aber sein Tribut, und im März 1998 war es zu Ende mit dem Utopia: Aus Rentabilitätsgründen wurde die Kohlengrube geschlossen. Der letzte Kohlewaggon steht immer noch am Ortseingang von Pyramiden, direkt unter dem überdimensionierten Ortsschild auf dem Foto oben. Offenbar ist diese Kohle ein beliebtes Souvenir und der Waggon wurde schon mehrfach geleert. Dies ist aber kein Problem, da auf der Halde daneben noch genügend Kohle herumliegt, um den Bedarf der Touristen über Hunderte Jahre zu decken.
Fast zehn Jahre war Pyramiden eine richtige Geisterstadt, ganz ohne permanente Einwohner. Seither hat der russische Trust Arktikugol aber wieder ein paar Leute dort angesiedelt, die das renovierte Hotel betreiben, die Ortschaft etwas aufräumen und forschen. In Zukunft soll sich Pyramiden in eine Polarforschungsstation entwickeln. Derzeit leben in Pyramiden 15 Personen: Acht Russen und sieben Tadschiken. Die Russen leben im Hotel, die Tadschiken in der "Garage". Dies tönt schlechter, als es offenbar ist, dort ist es nämlich deutlich wärmer. Offenbar besteht diese Trennung aufgrund des islamischen Tagesablaufs der Tadschiken (mit Gebeten). An kalten Tagen gesellen sich aber auch die Russen gerne zu den Tadschiken in die warme Garage.
Alle anderen Gebäude sind aber nicht bewohnt, und so ist Pyramiden weiterhin grösstenteils eine Geisterstadt. Sämtliche Infrastruktur wurde aufgegeben - abgesehen von den im Sommer täglichen Touristenbooten kommt nur noch monatlich ein Versorgungshubschrauber aus Barentsburg an. Die Kommunikationsmöglichkeiten sind äusserst begrenzt, es gibt weder Internet noch Mobilfunknetz. Einzig an einer kleinen Stelle am Hafen ist es möglich, über das norwegische Netz SMS zu empfangen oder zu senden, wenn man ein bisschen wartet.
Die wichtigste Sehenswürdigkeit von Pyramiden ist die Leninstatue - die nördlichste der Welt! Sie blickt auf die zentrale Strasse der Grossen Oktoberrevolution, die von den Einheimischen bescheiden "Champs-Elysées" genannt wurde. Sie ist sehr grün - nirgendwo in Spitzbergen wächst das Gras besser und höher. Dies liegt daran, dass hierher extra die wertvolle Schwarzerde aus der Ukraine gebracht worden ist - bis heute hat sich deren Fruchtbarkeit erhalten. Sie ist so heilig, dass die Wiese nicht betreten werden darf. Gleich hinter der Leninstatue befindet sich das Kulturhaus und Juri-Gagarin-Sportzentrum. Das Gebäude kann besichtigt werden - es liegen dort immer noch alle möglichen Gegenstände herum aus der Zeit, als Pyramiden bewohnt war, und erinnerte mich deshalb stark an meine Besuche in Tschernobyl.
Zur Zeit meines Besuchs hatte die Siedlung übrigens Ärger mit einem aggressiven jungen Eisbären, der immer wieder am Siedlungsrand herumgeisterte. Einmal vertrieben ihn die Norweger zwar mit einem Helikopter auf den Berg daneben. Als der Helikopter verschwunden war, kam der Eisbär aber bald wieder den Berg herunter. Aus diesem Grund verlief die Führung durch die Siedlung unter strengen Sicherheitsvorkehrungen - die Reiseführer hatten Gewehre dabei, niemand durfte sich von der Gruppe entfernen. Natürlich hielten sich die russischen Touristen nicht daran, glücklicherweise passierte aber dennoch nichts.
Reisebericht Spitzbergen 2014
Teil 1: Das nördlichste Reiseziel der Welt
Teil 6: Grumant und andere Ortschaften
Andere Reiseberichte / Other travel reports:
2014 Bangladesch (mit Indien und Nepal) / Bangladesh
2011 Ägypten während der Revolution / Egypt during Revolution