I’m often amused by atheists, agnostics, and other skeptics of God who claim my belief in a Supernatural being that created a wondrous, ever-expanding universe and every living thing on this planet within it, means I’m living in a fantasy world devoid of reality. My response is usually something along the lines of it takes a lot more faith to believe that all of this – you, me, the entire ecosystem on Earth, the Earth itself, our solar system, the billions of other galaxies out there, all of it just happening by chance, it takes more faith to believe in us winning the universal lottery than to have faith that God did it all.

Former atheist and longtime Christian apologist Lee Strobel is out with a new book called Is God Real. It tackles the basic question of proving beyond scientific doubt whether God, and God’s claims, are real or not, and he uses atheists’ own statements and accounts as his evidential underpinnings for his book.

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Yet here in the secular world running amok, among the people running things domestically and internationally, the same people who roll their eyes when people of faith try to offer solutions based on religious principles, these are the people who want you to continue to roll back your lifestyle to the stone age and eat insects before the Earth boils, even though the evidence is in that the Earth really isn’t warming much at all. The environmentalists have their faith, though, and it is robust and impervious to data.

When it comes to the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, the Democratic Party, even to this day, holds onto a mythical tenet that requires belief in a fantasy world that has not existed, nor will exist, until Christ’s return. And that is commonly known as the two-state solution.

Admiral John Kirby, the White House co-press secretary for stuff deemed beyond the mental capabilities of Karine Jean-Pierre, which are most subjects these days, said as recently as a couple weeks ago that the Biden administration, even after the attacks of October 7th by the Iranian proxy Hamas and the rising anti-Semitism worldwide, believes wholeheartedly in moving towards a two-state solution.

It’s delusional and foolish, and Kirby is an otherwise intelligent man, notwithstanding he being a partisan Democrat tasked with trying to make sense out of an incoherent foreign policy. Israel has been forced to explore a two-state solution for decades by American leadership. It’s always been a non-starter for one simple reason. You cannot negotiate peace between two sides when one of the two sides isn’t willing to accept a state of their own. One side wants quiet, and the other side wants it all and with all the Jews dead in the process. When one side does not believe the other side has a right to exist, it takes next level suspension of disbelief to think that any deal that is negotiated will be implemented in good faith.

We’ve seen what happened when Israel left Gaza in 2006. They still provide food, water, infrastructure, the internet when it came along, and still it wasn’t enough. Palestinians didn’t want Gaza. They want everything from the river to the sea, and they voted into power a terrorist group to lead them to a day where that reality could finally happen.

Joe Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer are learning the hard way that not only does the two-state solution fail on the macro level, it’s failing when applied to the micro level within their own Democratic Party. It took him almost two months, but Schumer Wednesday on the Senate floor began to call out the problem in his own party with anti-Semitism.

Meanwhile, Joe Biden is vacillating on the issue. His instinct has always guided him to support Israel, but is realizing it’s more problematic than ever to do so. He’s still got the big picture right, most of the time, but then bizarre tweets which have to be walked back, speeches, gaffes at press conferences, all provide that wiggle room to placate and pacify the sizeable malcontent anti-Semites within Democratic Party ranks. It’s way more than just Rep. Rashida Tlaib and the Squad. A large chunk of the voting base of the Democratic Party is outraged at Biden for his not-quite-unwavering support of Israel. It’s still too pro-Jewish for them, and they want him to cut it out.

Biden initially said he would not believe the casualty numbers coming out of Hamas, because you cannot trust Hamas. He had to backtrack and apologize for that when the hard left pushed back. Biden is now in essence trying the two-state solution in the Democratic Party – defend Israel’s right to exist and defend itself, but not exist and defend itself to the extent that it inflames the passions of Muslim-American Democrats here. Sure, anti-Semitism is bad, but we as an administration cannot say the word anti-Semitism without including Islamophobia in the same sentence. He’s trying to appease both wings, and neither one is buying it. If the two-state solution won’t work in one political party thousands of miles away from where the carnage and killing are taking place, how does anyone honestly believe it’s still going to eventually become reality in the Middle East? Again, it’s living in fantasyland.

Pentagon deputy spokeswoman Sabrina Singh was on Fox News Wednesday defending Biden’s support for Israel in the most tangible way possible – by listing out munitions we’re supplying our ally in the Middle East. She claims it shows we’re doing so without conditioning that aid and assistance…with the caveat that we’re still ordering them not to kill too many people with these weapons and make sure we don’t see images of non-combatants being blown up. In other words, she’s putting conditions on the end of the sentence where she’s claiming we’re not conditioning aid.

But the delusion in her answer comes at the end, when she attempts to deploy the Jedi mind trick by imploring that we keep in mind Hamas doesn’t represent Palestinians. I’m sorry, that’s not only untrue and dangerous, you have to be a little off in the head to believe that is so.

Hamas took over Gaza in 2006. They immediately took over the schools in Gaza and instituted, among other things, New Hamas math. Here’s a sample question. If you have has a bus of 40 Jews on it and you martyr yourself by blow it up in a glorious suicide bombing attack, killing 32, how many Jews still have to be killed in order to finish the righteous work?

The demographics of Gaza are not promising. The median age of a Palestinian living in the Gaza Strip is 19.6 years old. That’s due to a number of factors, most notably that Hamas has not exactly been too good at infrastructure, and has raided the supplies Israel have provided in order to make rockets and explosives. Providing quality of life has never been Hamas’ strong suit. Suicide vests – those are more in line with Hamas’ strengths. Hamas not only encourages acts of jihad against Jews, but families of jihadist martyrs are rewarded financially depending on the number of Jews that are taken out in the process. People do not live to be a ripe, old age in Gaza. Jew hatred tends to get the best of you sooner rather than later.

So if the average age is 19.6, and Gazan schools begin actively teaching Jew hatred as part of the curriculum in 2006, 17 years ago, that means that yes, Palestinians are represented quite nicely by Hamas. We may not like it. We may believe this and the next generation of Palestinians have been brainwashed. That all may be true. But to look at the camera and claim Hamas doesn’t represent Palestinians?

The Jerusalem Post showed the results of survey of Palestinians in both Gaza and the West Bank since the 10/7 attacks, and 75% support the attacks, and 74.7% agree in a Palestinian state from the river to the sea, meaning all of it from the Jordan River on the east to the Mediterranean Sea to the west. No land for Israel, no existence for the Jews. All of it. 75%.

Donald Trump’s best poll in the 2024 GOP primary is 64%. That’s a huge margin, but there’s still more dissent at Trump in the GOP than Palestinians against Hamas, and yet Democrats and the legacy media would have you believe that the Republican Party has been hopelessly taken over, can’t be trusted to govern ever again until they purge themselves of the cult of Trump. Joe Biden himself said Wednesday again that this isn’t your father’s Republican Party because the crazy MAGA people have taken it over. So if that’s true with Trump at 64%, how can we claim 75% of Palestinians still supporting Hamas after the 10/7 attacks aren’t represented by Hamas? That’s just delusional.

Israel needs to purge the world of Hamas. The U.S. needs to purge the country of anti-Semites. That’s best done by punishing those that engage in it with derision, scorn, and if you’re in the private sector, disassociating your business and its brand from anti-Semitic wingnuts in your employ. Colleges need to throw out avowed anti-Semites. Visa holders here that espouse and support terror groups need to have their visas revoked and sent home. Never again has to mean never again.

And as long as we’re purging people, we need an administration free of people in positions of importance and influence where they have demonstrated no evidence to be serious about their portfolios. And if you hear a person in Washington or in media ever talk again about a two-state solution, just know that you’re listening or watching someone who believes in fairy tales.