John Rankin’s Public Videos

(JohnRankinYouTube.org)

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1] JohnRankin.us: Yes to Honest Politics

 

  • Jesus, in the Face of His Enemies: A Paradigm Shift for Overturning Politics as Usual: Introduction (A Dangerous Book). October 19. 2020. Click here (7:56).
  • Jesus, in the Face of His Enemies: A Paradigm Shift for Overturning Politics as Usual:Chapter One (Why Did Jesus Have Enemies?). October 19, 2020. Click here (19:50).
  • The Male Chauvinism of Human Abortion, October 4, 2020: Two questions that need to be asked of all political leaders and the wider culture. Click here (4:54).
  • The Challenge: An invitation for anyone to debate me on the assertion: The only basis in history for religious and political liberty is located in Genesis 1-2 and fulfilled by Jesus during Passover Week in the face of his enemies. (In context of the battle over the Supreme Court between those who trust the State as god, and those of s who trust the One True Creator as God). September 28, 2020. Click here (1:19).
  • The Biblical Nature of the Level Playing Field: The Basis for Honest Politics. September 8, 2020. Click here (4:10).
  • Invitation to Join PrePartisan.org: The Non-Partisan; Bi-Partisan; and Post-Partisan; the Alternative of the Pre-Partisan as Rooted in the Six Pillars of Honest Politics. September 22, 2020. Click here (5:10).
  • The Vision of the Emancipation Party (.us): Simplicity, Trust and Transparency in Government; the Level Playing Field; Cutting the Reach of Government; the Six Pillars of Honest Politics. September 10, 2020. Click here (2:25).
  • Transparency in Law. Thirty Points of Simplicity and Transparency in the Proposed Rewrite of the Connecticut Constitution and General Laws. September 10, 2020. Click here (8:04).
  • Science and Politics: Questions Worth Asking. Allopathy versus Naturopathy; Pharmakon; Darwin; Virology and Immunology; Covid-19 and Questions of Quarantine; Social Distancing and Face Masks; Testimony of Full Naturopathic Healing from the Verge of Death; Quinine with Zinc Kills Covid-19; Human Sexuality and the Health of Man and Woman in Marriage; Global Warming, Computer Models and the Polluting Enterprise of Producing Electric Car Batteries, Solar Panels, Wind Turbines, versus Nuclear Power; The Dishonest Science of HIV/AIDS. September 10, 2020. Click here (19:16).
  • Questions for Ned (.com): Quinine and Political Power: Eight Questions for the Governor and State Legislature. September 22, 2020 (1:18). Click here.
  • Honesty in Race Relations. One Human Race; Abolitionist History; Mars Hill Forum with Jeremiah Wright; History of the Democratic Party. September 10, 2020. Click here (9:43).
  • Letters on American Slavery (1836): Rev. John Thomas Rankin. Excerpts on Original Thinking as John Rankin Writes to Dissuade One of His Brothers Back in Tennessee Who Bought a Slave; Published in the Castigator Abolitionist Newspaper in Cincinnati; Later in Book Form. September 10, 2020. Click here (12:38).
  • Man and Woman in Marriage: Necessary or Outdated. The Trajectory from Genesis 1-19: The Marriage of Man and Woman and Descent to Sodom & Gomorrah where Sexual Anarchy Produces Social Anarchy, Political Anarchy, and thus the Poor and Needy Get Trampled; the Nature of the Household Economy; Fatherhood and the Well-being of Children; Helpful Law. September 10, 2020. Click here (8:40).
  • What is Equal Justice for Women and Their Unborn? The Biology of Conception; The Driving Force of Male Chauvinism and/or Irresponsibility; What About Rape & Incest?; Ballot Question: “In Biological Terms, When Does an Individual Human Life Begin?; Ballot Question: “To What Extent is Human Abortion Driven by Male Irresponsibility?”; Amendment to the United States Constitution: “Equal Justice for Women and Their Unborn Children.” September 10, 2020. Click here (11:12).

2] TEI Online Classes: The Mission Field of Politics

 

  • Class 1: Introduction to Biblical Theology 101 and Political Theology 101; The Power of Assumptions; The Making of an Ex-Unitarian. August 19, 2020. Click here (14:18).
  • Class 2: Conversion; Creation, Sin and Redemption; Analogy to Equilibrium, Tension and Resolution in Classical Music; Defining Issues of God, Life, Choice & Sex. August 20, 2020. Click here (15:04).
  • Class 3: The Twelve Positive Assumptions of Genesis 1-2. September 1, 2020. Click here (19:22).
  • Class 4: The Six Pillars of Biblical Power; The Six Pillars of Honest Politics; The Wesleyan Quadrilateral of Scripture, Tradition, Reason and Experience; The Babylonian Genesis;The Trajectory of Genesis 1-3; 4-11; 12-19. September 3, 2020. Click here (18:34).

 

3] Brief Stories from the Mission Field of Politics

 

  • Baptism into the Abortion Debate in 1972 at Denison University. February 21, 2019. Click here (2:58).
  • Demonic Explosion at the University of New Hampshire in 1989: Who is God in the Face of Questions of Life, Choice & Politics? February 2, 2019. Click here (6:53).
  • A woman “pro-choice” physician agrees that abortion does not “unrape” the woman). January 30, 2019: Click here (2:23).
  • A woman on live radio, WGAN in Portland, ME, 1989, testifies: 1] she personally knows what it is to be raped; 2] is angry with the reality of another man “scraping out” the uterus; and 3] how in listening to John Rankin address the subject, all her “hatred toward all men drained out of [her] heart”). January 25, 2019. Click here (3:50).
  • A woman student poses the question concerning rape & incest at Brown University between John Rankin and ex-Rhode Island director of Planned Parenthood, Mary Ann Sorrentino). January 20, 2019. Click here (4:49).
  • A woman student at UMass Amherst who had been conceived in rape, and love for her mother). January 17, 2019. Click here (3:47).

 

4] 41 Vignettes on the Life of Muhammad, and Comparison with Jesus the Son of God

 

  • See:: The Real Muhammad: In the Eyes of Ibn Ishaq (a condensation of the most ancient and extant biography of Muhammad); and Moses and Jesus in the Face of Muhammad (which contains the 41 vignettes below, condensed from The Real Muhammad). Both books are available at johnrankinbooks.com.
  • Why I Wrote a Book on Muhammad. December 28, 2018: Click here (5:12).
  • [An Honest Conversation with a Muslim Salafist in Hyde Park. January 17, 2019: Click here (9:42).]
  • 41 Vignettes on the Life of Muhammad: Introduction. March 16, 2019: Click here (2:19).
  • Vignette #1 on the Life of Muhammad: Anti-Jewish Theme. March 16, 2019: Click here (1:25).
  • Vignette #2 on the Life of Muhammad: Muhammad’s Calling and the Fear of the Demonic. March 16, 2019: Click here (4:25).
  • Vignette #3 on the Life of Muhammad: Insult, Initial Violence, and the First Bloodshed. March 16, 2019: Click here (1:45).
  • Vignette #4 on the Life of Muhammad: The Conversion of the Violent Hamza, the first bodyguard. March 16, 2019: Click here (2:04).
  • Vignette #5 on the Life of Muhammad: The Conversion of ‘Umar, the second bodyguard. March 16, 2019: Click here (2:07).
  • Vignette #6 on the Life of Muhammad: The Use of the Qur’an to Silence Debate. March 16, 2019: Click here (2:58).
  • Vignette #7 on the Life of Muhammad: The “night journey” to Jerusalem. March 16, 2019: Click here (2:10).
  • Vignette #8 on the Life of Muhammad: Jibril kills those whom Muhammad curses. March 16, 2019: Click here (1:41).
  • Vignette #9 on the Life of Muhammad: Muhammad co-opts religious liberty. March 16, 2019: Click here (1:59).
  • Vignette #10 on the Life of Muhammad: Muhammad’s one-way treaty with the Jews in Medina. March 16, 2019: Click here (3:17).
  • Vignette #11 on the Life of Muhammad: The question of hypocrisy, and annoying questions. March 16, 2019: Click here (2:07).
  • Vignette #12 on the Life of Muhammad: Hatred of the Jews. March 16, 2019: Click here (2:26).
  • Vignette #13 on the Life of Muhammad: Pattern establishes itself. March 30, 2019: Click here (1:38).
  • Vignette #14 on the Life of Muhammad: Questions by rabbis. March 30, 2019: Click here (1:20).
  • Vignette #15 on the Life of Muhammad: Offer to the Jews of Khaybar. March 30, 2019: Click here (3:32).
  • Vignette #16 on the Life of Muhammad: Dispute over religion. March 30, 2019: Click here (2:39).
  • Vignette #17 on the Life of Muhammad: Friendship with the Jews forbidden. March 30, 2019: Click here (1:39).
  • Vignette #18 on the Life of Muhammad: Abu Bakr’s violence at a Jewish school. March 30, 2019: Click here (1:51).
  • Vignette #19 on the Life of Muhammad: Jihad against Christians. March 30, 2019: Click here (1:11).
  • Vignette #20 on the Life of Muhammad: Muhammad’s anger at a theological posed by some Jews. March 30, 2019: Click here (3:17).
  • Vignette #21 on the Life of Muhammad: The Christian delegation of Najran. April 1, 2019. Click here (3:18).
  • Vignette #22 on the Life of Muhammad: Fever and the requirements of prayer. March 30, 2019. Click here (1:11).
  • Vignette #23 on the Life of Muhammad: Definition of martyrdom and permission to break a sacred month to advance Islam. Click here April 1, 2019. (4:09).
  • Vignette #24 on the Life of Muhammad: Zaynab taken from her unbelieving husband. April 1, 2019. Click here (1:47).
  • Vignette #25 on the Life of Muhammad: Muhammad orders the killing of Ka’b b. Al-Ashraf. April 1, 2019. Click here (1:31).
  • Vignette #26 on the Life of Muhammad: Muhammad orders any Jew to be killed. April 1, 2019. Click here (1:23).
  • Vignette #27 on the Life of Muhammad: Mass beheadings by Muhammad. April 1, 2019. Click here (2:27).
  • Vignette #28 on the Life of Muhammad: Muhammad orders the killing of Sallam Ibn Abu’l-Huqayq. April 1, 2019. Click here (1:28).
  • Vignette #29 on the Life of Muhammad: The treaty at Hudaybiya and its breaking. April 1, 2019. Click here (3:46).
  • Vignette #30 on the Life of Muhammad: Torture and beheading. April 1, 2019. Click here (2:21).
  • Vignette #31 on the Life of Muhammad: The conquest of Mecca, beheading for apostasy, and the killing of a singing-girl. April 1, 2019. Click here (3:21).
  • Vignette #32 on the Life of Muhammad: Violence, violence, dogged violence. April 1, 2019. Click here (1:44).
  • Vignette #33 on the Life of Muhammad: Bribes to Enter Islam. April 4, 2019. Click here (1:21).
  • Vignette #34 on the Life of Muhammad: Death to poets. April 4, 2019. Click here (2:13).
  • Vignette #35 on the Life of Muhammad: The power of shunning. April 4, 2019. Click here (2:38).
  • Vignette #36 on the Life of Muhammad: Hiring ‘Abdullah as an assassin. April 4, 2019. Click here (2:07).
  • Vignette #37 on the Life of Muhammad: Voluntarily or by Force. April 4, 2019. Click here (1:36).
  • Vignette #38 on the Life of Muhammad: Killing for a dowry. April 4, 2019. Click here (1:50).
  • Vignette #39 on the Life of Muhammad: The killing of a handicapped man for singing a song. April 4, 2019. Click here (3:20).
  • Vignette #40 on the Life of Muhammad: The killing of a poet. April 4, 2019. Click here (1:09).
  • Vignette #41 on the Life of Muhammad:  The killing of a woman poet. April 4, 2019. Click here (3:02).
  • Patterns in the Life of Muhammad: A summary review of the 41 vignettes on the life of Muhammad. May 24, 2020. Click here (10:15).

 

5] Miscellaneous

 

  • Fred Phelps: A True Son of Hell (Founder of the Westboro Baptist Church and “GodHatesFags.com), October 28, 2019, reflections on Mars Hill Forum #70, October 13, 2002: Click here (32:52).
  • Mayor Pete: What Does Genesis 1-2 Say About Human Sexuality? April 11, 2019: Click here (6:29).
  • Mars Hill Forum #151, April 22, 2012, Conard High School, West Hartford, CT: Short Clip: Atheism Proves the Existence of God. Guest: David Silverman, President, American Atheists: Click here (2:29).
  • In Thanksgiving for my Father (1918-2010), October 2, 2010: Click here (8:56).
  • Mars Hill Forum #139 Clip 1, November 6, 2008, Kingdom Life Church, Milford, CT: The Bible, Race and American History: What are the Issues? Guest: Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright, former pastor to U.S. President Barack Obama: Click here. (6:05).
  • Mars Hill Forum #139 Clip 2, November 6, 2008, Kingdom Life Church, Milford, CT: The Bible, Race and American History: What are the Issues? Guest: Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright, former pastor to U.S. President Barack Obama: Click here (3:28).
  • Mars Hill Forum #138 Clip, October 25, 2008, The First Cathedral, Bloomfield, CT: Is Same-sex Marriage Good for the Nation? Guest, Arline Isaacson, co-chair, Massachusetts Gay & Lesbian Caucus: Click here (6:06).
  • Mars Hill Forum #80 Clip, February, 5, 2004, Smith College, Northamption, MA: Is Same-Sex Marriage Good for the Nation? Guest: Amy Hunt, board member, Massachusetts Gay & Lesbian Caucus: Click here (9:14).

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