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III. Humanism Revisited
Today, humanism has become another name for atheism. One example of this is the enthusiasm for Darwin typical in the American magazine, The Humanist.
Humanism" is considered a positive idea by the majority of people. It brings to mind notions such as love of humanity, peace and brotherhood. But, the philosophical meaning of humanism is much more significant: humanism is a way of thinking that posits the concept of humanity as its focus and only goal. In other words, it calls human beings to turn away from Allah our Creator, and concern themselves with their own existence and identity. A common dictionary defines humanism as: "a system of thought that is based on the values, characteristics, and behavior that are believed to be best in human beings, rather than on any supernatural authority."33
The clearest definition of humanism, however, has been put forward by those who espoused it. One of the most prominent modern spokesmen for humanism is Corliss Lamont. In his book The Philosophy of Humanism, the author writes:
[In sum] humanism believes that nature ... constitutes the sum total of reality, that matter-energy and not mind is the foundation stuff of the universe and that supernatural entities simply do not exist. This nonreality of the supernatural means, on the human level, that men do not possess supernatural and immortal souls; and, on the level of the universe as a whole, that our cosmos does not possess a supernatural and eternal God.34
As we can see, humanism is almost identical to atheism. These atheist claims consist of errors and deception contradicted by science too.
There were two important manifestos published by humanists in the last century. The first was published in 1933, and was signed by some important individuals of that time. Forty years later, in 1973, a second humanist manifesto was published which confirmed the first, but contained some additions relative to some developments that had occurred in the meantime. Many thinkers, scientists, writers and members of the media signed the second manifesto, which is supported by the American Humanist Association.
When we examine the manifestos, we find one basic foundation in each of them: the atheist dogma and erroneous ideas such as that the universe and human beings were not created but exist independently, that human beings are not responsible to any other authority besides themselves, and that belief in Allah has retarded the development of individuals and societies. For example, the first six articles of the first Humanist Manifesto are as follows:
First: Religious humanists regard the universe as self-existing and not created.
Second: Humanism believes that man is a part of nature and that he has emerged as the result of a continuous process.
Third: Holding an organic view of life, humanists find that the traditional dualism of mind and body must be rejected.
Fourth: Humanism recognizes that man's religious culture and civilization, as clearly depicted by anthropology and history, are the product of a gradual development due to his interaction with his natural environment and with his social heritage. The individual born into a particular culture is largely molded by that culture.
Fifth: Humanism asserts that the nature of the universe depicted by modern science makes unacceptable any supernatural or cosmic guarantees of human values...
Sixth: We are convinced that the time has passed for theism, deism, modernism, and the several varieties of "new thought."35
In the above articles, we see the expression of a common false philosophy that manifests itself under such names as materialism, Darwinism, atheism and agnosticism. In the first article, the materialist dogma of the eternal existence of the universe is put forward. The second article states, as the theory of evolution does, that human beings were not created. The third article denies the existence of the human soul claiming that human beings are composed of matter. The fourth article proposes a "cultural evolution" and denies the existence of a Divinely ordained human nature (a special human nature given in creation). The fifth article rejects Allah's sovereignty over the universe and humanity, and the sixth states that it is time to reject "theism," that is belief in Allah.
It will be noticed that these claims are stereotypical deceptions, typical of those circles that are hostile to true religious morality. The reason for this is that humanism is the main foundation of anti-religious sentiment. This is because humanism is an expression of "man's reckoning that he will be left to go on unchecked," which has been one of the primary bases, throughout history, for the denial of Allah. In one verse of the Qur'an, Allah says:
Does man reckon he will be left to go on unchecked?
Was he not a drop of ejaculated sperm,
then a blood-clot which He created and shaped,
making from it both sexes, male and female?
Is He Who does this not able to bring the dead to life? (Surat al-Qiyama: 36-40)
Allah says that people are not to be "left to go on unchecked," and reminds them immediately afterwards that they are His creation. This is because, when a person realizes that he is a creation of Allah, he understands that he is not "unchecked" but responsible before Allah. For this reason, the mistaken idea that human beings are not created has become the basic doctrine of humanist philosophy. The first two articles of the first Humanist Manifesto give an expression to this doctrine. Moreover, humanists maintain that science supports these claims.
However, they are wrong. Since the first Humanist Manifesto was published, the two premises that humanists have presented as supposedly scientific have collapsed:
1.The erroneous idea that the universe is eternal was invalidated by a series of astronomical discoveries made when the first Humanist Manifesto was being written. Discoveries such as the fact that the universe is expanding, of cosmic background radiation and the calculation of the ratio of hydrogen to helium, have shown that the universe had a beginning, and that it came to be from nothing some 15-17 billion years ago in a giant explosion called the "Big Bang." Although those who espouse the humanist and materialist philosophy were unwilling to accept the Big Bang theory, they were eventually won over. As a result of the scientific evidence that has come to light, the scientific community has finally accepted the Big Bang theory, that is, that the universe had a beginning, and therefore humanists have no argument. Thus, in the words of the British philosopher Antony Flew:
… the Stratonician atheist has to be embarrassed by the contemporary cosmological consensus. For it seems that the cosmologists are providing a scientific proof of what St. Thomas contended could not be proved philosophically; namely, that the universe had a beginning…36
2. The theory of evolution, the so-called scientific justification behind the first Humanist Manifesto, started to lose ground in the decades after it was written. It is known today that the scenario proposed for the origin of life by atheist (and no doubt humanist) evolutionists, such as A. I. Oparin and J. B. S. Haldane in the 1930's, has no scientific validity; living things cannot be generated spontaneously from non-living matter as proposed by this scenario. The fossil record demonstrates that living things did not develop through a process of small cumulative changes, but appeared abruptly with their distinct characteristics, and this fact has been accepted by evolutionist paleontologists themselves since the 1970's. Modern biology has demonstrated that living things are not the result of chance and natural laws, but that there are in each organism complex systems that are evidence for Creation. (For details refer to Harun Yahya, Darwinism Refuted: How the Theory of Evolution Breaks Down in the Light of Modern Science)
Moreover, the erroneous claim that religious belief was the factor that prevented humanity from progressing and drew it into conflict has been disproved by historical experience. Humanists have claimed that the removal of religious belief would make people happy and at ease, however, the opposite has proved to be the case. Six years after the first Humanist Manifesto was published, the Second World War broke out, a record of the calamity brought upon the world by the secular fascist ideology. The humanist ideology of communism wreaked, first on the people of the Soviet Union, then on the citizens of China, Cambodia, Vietnam, North Korea, Cuba and various African and Latin American countries, unparalleled savagery. A total of 120 million people were killed by communist regimes or organizations. It is also evident that the Western brand of humanism (capitalist systems) has not succeeded in bringing peace and happiness to their own societies or to other areas of the world.
The collapse of humanism's argument on religion has also been manifested in the field of psychology. The Freudian myth, a corner-stone of the atheist dogma since early twentieth century, has been invalidated by empirical data. Patrick Glynn, of the George Washington University, explains this fact in his book titled God: The Evidence, The Reconciliation of Faith and Reason in a Postsecular World :
The last quarter of the twentieth century has not been kind to the psychoanalytic vision. Most significant has been the exposure of Freud's views of religion (not to mention a host of other matters) as entirely fallacious. Ironically enough, scientific research in psychology over the past twenty-five years has demonstrated that, far from being a neurosis or source of neuroses as Freud and his disciples claimed, religious belief is one of the most consistent correlates of overall mental health and happiness. Study after study has shown a powerful relationship between religious belief and practice, on the one hand, and healthy behaviors with regard to such problems as suicide, alcohol and drug abuse, divorce, depression, even, perhaps surprisingly, levels of sexual satisfaction in marriage, on the other hand. 37
In short, the supposed scientific justification behind humanism has been proven invalid and its promises vain. Nevertheless, humanists have not abandoned their philosophy, but rather, in fact, have tried to spread it throughout the world through methods of mass propaganda. Especially in the post-war period there has been intense humanist propaganda in the fields of science, philosophy, music, literature, art and cinema. The attractive but hollow messages created by humanist ideologues have been insistently imposed upon the masses. The song "Imagine," by John Lennon, soloist of one of the most popular music group of all times, the Beatles, is an example of this (Surely Allah is beyond that):
John Lennon, by his lyrics, "Imagine [there is] is no religion," was one of the most prominent propagandists of humanist philosophy in the twentieth century.
Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today...
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
... You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one
This song is a good indication of the sentimentality with which humanism, lacking any scientific or rational foundation, is imposed on the masses. Humanism produces, and can produce, no rational objection to religion or the truths it teaches, but attempts to employ suggestive methods such as these, which it regards as efficacious.
When the promises of the 1933 I. Humanist Manifesto proved vain, forty years passed after which humanists presented a second draft. At the beginning of the text was an attempt to explain why the first promises had come to nothing. Despite the fact that this explanation was extremely weak, it demonstrated the enduring attachment of humanists to their atheist philosophy.
The most obvious characteristic of the manifesto was its preservation of the anti-religious line of the 1933 manifesto: (Surely Allah is beyond the expressions in the extract below.)
As in 1933, humanists still believe that traditional theism, especially faith in the prayer-hearing God, assumed to live and care for persons, to hear and understand their prayers, and to be able to do something about them, is an unproved and outmoded faith… We believe ...that traditional dogmatic or authoritarian religions that place revelation, God, ritual, or creed above human needs and experience do a disservice to the human species... As nontheists, we begin with humans not God, nature not deity.38
These statements consist of humanist nonsense and represent a very superficial explanation. In order to understand religion, one first needs the intelligence and understanding to be able to grasp profound ideas. The predisposition must be sincerity and the avoidance of prejudice. Instead, humanism is nothing more than the attempt of some individuals, who are passionately atheistic and antireligious from the outset, to portray this prejudice as being, in their own eyes, rational. And these endeavors are doomed never to bear fruit.
However, humanists' irrational and illogical claims regarding faith in Allah and monotheistic religions are nothing new; they are a restatement of a mistaken claim that has been made for thousands of years by those who reject Allah. In the Qur'an, Allah explains this age-old argument propounded by the unbelievers:
Your God is One God. As for those who do not believe in the hereafter, their hearts are in denial and they are puffed up with pride.
There is no doubt that Allah knows what they keep secret and what they make public. He does not love people puffed up with pride.
When they are asked, "What has your Lord sent down?" they say, "Myths and legends of previous peoples." (Surat an-Nahl: 22-24)
Contrary to the promises of humanist philosophy, atheism have brought only war, conflict, cruelty and suffering to the world.
As revealed in these verses, the real reason for the unbelievers' rejection of religion is the arrogance hidden in their hearts. The philosophy called humanism is merely the outward manner by which this age rejects Allah. In other words, humanism is not a new way of thinking, as those who espouse it claim; it is an age-old, antiquated world-view common to those who reject Allah out of arrogance.
When we look at the progress of humanism in European history, we will discover many solid proofs for this assertion.
The Roots of Humanis in the Kabbalah
We have seen that certain terms in the Kabbalah contain a false doctrine that dates back to Ancient Egypt, and that was later included into the true religion Allah revealed to the Israelites. We have also seen that its foundation rests upon a perverse way of understanding that regards human beings as uncreated though divine creatures that have existed for eternity.
Humanism entered Europe from this source. Christian belief was based on the existence of Allah, and the belief that human beings were His dependent servants created by Him. But, with the spread of the Templar tradition throughout Europe, the Kabbalah began to attract a number of philosophers. So, in the fifteenth century, a current of humanism began that left an indelible mark on the European world of ideas.
This connection between humanism and the Kabbalah has been emphasized in several sources. One of these sources is the book of the famous author Malachi Martin entitled The Keys of This Blood. Martin is professor of history at the Vatican's Pontifical Bible Institute. He says that the influence of the Kabbalah can be clearly observed among the humanists:
As Vatican University historian Malachi Martin has shown, there is a close relationship between the rise of humanism in Europe and the Kabbalah….
In this unaccustomed climate of uncertainty and challenge that came to mark early-Renaissance Italy, there arose a network of Humanist associations with aspirations to escape the overall control of that established order. Given aspirations like that, these associations had to exist in the protection of secrecy, at least at their beginnings. But aside from secrecy, these humanist groups were marked by two other main characteristics.
The first was that they were in revolt against the traditional interpretation of the Bible as maintained by the ecclesiastical and civil authorities, and against the philosophical and theological underpinnings provided by the Church for civil and political life…
Not surprisingly given such an animus, these associations had their own conception of the original message of the Bible and of God's revelation. They latched onto what they considered to be an ultrasecret body of knowledge, a gnosis, which they based in part on cultic and occultist strains deriving from North Africa—notably, Egypt—and, in part, on the classical Jewish Kabbala….
Italian humanists bowdlerized the idea of Kabbala almost beyond recognition. They reconstructed the concept of gnosis, and transferred it to a thoroughly this-wordly plane. The special gnosis they sought was a secret knowledge of how to master the blind forces of nature for a sociopolitical purpose.39
In short, the humanist societies formed in that period wanted to replace the Catholic culture of Europe with a new culture that had its roots in the Kabbalah. They aimed to create a sociopolitical change to bring this about. It is interesting that, besides the Kabbalah, at the source of this new culture were the doctrines of Ancient Egypt. Prof. Martin writes:
Initiates of those early humanist associations were devotees of the Great Force—the Great Architect of the Cosmos—which they represented under the form of the Sacred Tetragrammaton, YHWH ….[humanists] borrowed other symbols—the Pyramid and the All Seeing Eye—mainly from Egyptian sources.40
It is quite interesting that humanists make use of the concept of "the Great Architect of the Universe," a term still used by Masons today. This indicates that there must be a relationship between humanists and Masons. Prof. Martin writes:
In other northern climes, meanwhile, a far more important union took place, with the humanists. A union that no one could have expected.
In the 1300s, during the time that the cabalist-humanist associations were beginning to find their bearings, there already existed—particularly in England, Scotland and France—medieval guilds of men …
No one alive in the 1300s could have predicted a merger of minds between freemason guilds and the Italian humanists….
The new Masonry shifted away from all allegiance to Roman ecclesiastical Christianity. And again, as for the Italian occultist humanists, the secrecy guaranteed by the tradition of the Lodge was essential in the circumstances.
The two groups had more in common than secrecy, however. From the writings and records of speculative Masonry, it is clear that the central religious tenet became a belief in the Great Architect of the Universe—a figure familiar by now from the influence of Italian humanists…The Great Architect was immanent to and essentially a part of the material cosmos, a product of the "enlightened" mind.
There was no conceptual basis by which such a belief could be reconciled with Christianity. For precluded were all such ideas as sin, Hell for punishment and Heaven for reward, and eternally perpetual Sacrifice of the Mass, saints and angels, priest and pope.41
In short, in Europe, in the fourteenth century, a humanist and Masonic organization was born that had its roots in the Kabbalah. And, this organization did not regard Allah as the Jews, Christians and Muslims did: the Creator and Ruler of the whole universe and the only Lord and God of humanity. Instead, they used a different concept, such as the "Great Architect of the Universe," which they perceived as being "part of the material universe."
In other words, this secret organization, that appeared in Europe in the fourteenth century, rejected Allah, but, under the concept of "the Great Architect of the Universe," accepted the material universe as a supposed divinity (Surely Allah is beyond that).
For a clearer definition of this corrupt belief, we can jump forward to the twentieth century and look at Masonic literature. For example, one of Turkey's most senior Masons, Selami Isindag, has a book entitled Masonluktan Esinlenmeler (Inspirations from Freemasonry). The purpose of this book is to train young Masons. Concerning the Masons' belief in the "Great Architect of the Universe," he has this to say:
Masonry is not godless. But the concept of God they have adopted is different from that of religion. The god of Masonry is an exalted principle. It is at the apex of the evolution. By criticizing our inner being, knowing ourselves and deliberately walking in the path of science, intelligence and virtue, we can lessen the angle between him and us. Then, this god does not possess the good and bad characteristics of human beings. It is not personified. It is not thought of as the guide of nature or humanity. It is the architect of the great working of the universe, of its unity and harmony. It is the totality of all the creatures in the universe, a total power encompassing everything, an energy. Despite all this, it cannot be accepted that it is a beginning… this is a great mystery.42
In the same book, it is clear that when Freemasons speak of the "Great Architect of the Universe," they mean nature, or, that they worship nature:
Apart from nature there can be no power responsible for our thought or our activities…The principles and doctrines of Masonry are scientific facts based on science and intelligence. God is the evolution. An element of it is the power of nature. So the absolute reality is the evolution itself and the energy that encompasses it.43
Some Masonic symbols.
The magazine Mimar Sinan, a publishing organization especially for Turkish Freemasons also gives expression to the same Masonic philosophy:
The Great Architect of the Universe is a leaning toward eternity. It is an entering into eternity. For us, it is an approach. It entails the on-going search for absolute perfection in eternity. It forms a distance between the current moment and the Thinking Freemason, or, consciousness.44
This is the belief the Masons mean when they say, "we believe in Allah, we absolutely do not accept atheists among us." According to Masonry's perverted beliefs, it is not Allah, but naturalist and humanist concepts such as nature, evolution and humanity regarded as supposedly divine.
When we look briefly at Masonic literature, we may begin to see that this organization is nothing more than organized humanism, as well as recognize that its aim is to create throughout the whole world a secular, humanist order. These ideas were born among the humanists of fourteenth century Europe; present-day Masons still propose and defend them.
Masonic Humanism: The Worship of Humanity
Pico della Mirandola, a Kabbalist humanist.
The internal publications of the Masons describe in detail the humanist philosophy of the organization and their hostility to monotheism. There are countless explanations, interpretations, quotations and allegories offered on this subject in Masonic publications.
As we said at the beginning, humanism has turned its face from the Creator of humanity and makes the mistake of regarding man as "the highest form of being in the universe." In fact, this implies the worship of humanity. This belief, that began with the Kabbalist humanists in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, continues so irrationally today in modern Masonry.
One of the fourteenth century's most famous humanists was Pico della Mirandola. His work entitled Conclusiones philosophicae, cabalisticae, et theologicae was condemned by Pope Innocent VIII in 1489 as containing heretical ideas. Mirandola wrote that there is nothing in the world higher than the glory of mankind. The Church saw this as a heretical idea that was nothing less than the worship of humanity. Indeed, this was a heretical idea because there is no other being to be glorified except Allah. Humanity is merely His creation.
Today, Masons proclaim Mirandola's heretical idea of the worship of humanity much more openly. For example, in a local Masonic booklet, it says:
Primitive societies were weak and, because of this weakness, they divinized the power and phenomena around them. But Masonry divinizes only humanity.45
In The Lost Keys of Freemasonry, Manly P. Hall explains that this Masonic humanist doctrine goes back to Ancient Egypt:
Man is a god in the making, and as in the mystic myths of Egypt, on the potter's wheel, he is being molded. When his light shines out to lift and preserve all things, he receives the triple crown of godhood, and joins that throng of Master Masons, who in their robe of Blue and Gold, are seeking to dispel the darkness of night with the triple light of the Masonic Lodge.46
According to the false belief of Masonry, human beings are gods, but only a grand master reaches the fullness of this divinity (Surely Allah is beyond that). The way to become a grand master is to fully reject the belief in Allah and the fact that human beings are His servants. Another writer, J.D. Buck, touches on this in his book Mystic Masonry:
The only personal God Freemasonry accepts is humanity in toto . . . Humanity therefore is the only personal god that there is.47
Evidently, Masonry is a kind of religion. But, it is not a monotheistic religion; it is a humanist religion and, therefore, a false religion. It is a perversion that enjoins the worship of humanity, not of Allah. Masonic writings insist on this point. In an article in the magazine Turk Mason (The Turkish Mason), it says, "We always acknowledge that the high ideal of Masonry lies in 'Humanism' doctrine."48
Another Turkish publication explains that humanism is a religion:
Far from dry sermons on religious dogmas, but a genuine religion. And our humanism in which the meaning of life takes root, will satisfy the longings that youth are not aware of.49
How do the Masons serve this false religion they believe in? To see this, we must look a little more closely at the messages that they disseminate to society.
Humanist Moral Theory
The Masonic theory of "humanist morality" is extremely deceptive. History shows that, in societies where religion has been destroyed, there is no morality and only strife and disorder. The picture on the left shows the savagery of the French Revolution and portrays the real results of humanism.
Today, Masons in many countries are engaged in an effort to introduce themselves to the rest of society. Using press conferences, Internet sites, newspaper advertisements and statements, they describe themselves as an organization solely dedicated to the good of society. In some countries there are even charitable organizations supported by Masons.
The same thing is said by the Rotary and Lion's Club organizations, which are "light" versions of Masonry. All of these organizations insist that they are working for the good of society.
Certainly, to work for the good of society is not an undertaking to be discouraged, and we have no objection to it. But, behind their claim there is a deceptive message. Masons claim that there can be morality without religion, and that a moral world can be established without religion. And, the intention behind all their charitable work is to spread this message in society.
We will see shortly why this claim is so deceitful. But, before that, it will be useful to consider the views of Masons on this subject. On the Masons' Internet site, the possibility of "morality without religion" is described in this way:
What is human? Where does he come from and where is he going?... How does a person live? How does he have to live? Religions try to answer these questions with the help of moral principles that they have set. However they relate their principles with metaphysical concepts like God, heaven, hell, worship. And people have to find their principles of life without being involved in metaphysical problems, which they need to believe in without comprehending. Freemasonry has been declaring these principles for centuries as freedom, equality, brotherhood, the love of working and peace, democracy, etc. These release a person totally from the religious creeds but still give a principle of life. They search their bases not in metaphysical concepts but inside a mature person living on this earth.50
Masons who think in this way are totally opposed to a person believing in Allah and performing acts of charity to gain His approval. For them, everything must be done only for the sake of humanity. We can clearly discern this way of thinking in a book published by the Turkish lodges:
Masonic morality is based on love for humanity. It totally rejects being good through hope for the future, a benefit, a reward, and paradise, out of fear of another person, a religious or political institution, unknown supernatural powers… It only espouses and exalts being good in relation to the love for family, country, human beings and humanity. This is one of the most significant aims of Freemasonic evolution. To love people and to be good without expecting something in return and to reach this level are the great evolution.51
The guillotine, the French Revolution's implement of brutality.
The claims in the above quotation are highly misleading. Without the moral discipline of religion there can be no sense of self-sacrifice for the rest of society. And, where this would appear to be accomplished, relationships are merely superficial. Those who have no sense of religious morality have no fear of Allah or respect for Him, and in those places where there is no fear of Allah, human beings are concerned only for their own gain. When people think that their personal interests are at stake, they cannot express true love, loyalty or affection. They show love and respect only to those who may be of benefit to them. This is because, according to this misconception of theirs, they are in this world only once and, therefore, will take as much from it as they can. Moreover, according to this false belief, there is no retribution for any dishonesty or evil they commit in the world.
Masonic literature is full of moral sermons which try to obfuscate this fact. But, actually, this morality without religion is nothing but sham rhetoric. History is full of examples to show that, without the self-discipline that religion confers upon the human spirit, and without Divine law, true morality cannot in any way be established.
A striking example of this was the great French Revolution of 1789. The Masons, who fomented the revolution, came forth with slogans shouting the moral ideals of "liberty, equality and fraternity." Yet, tens of thousands of innocent people were sent to the guillotine, and the country soaked in blood. Even the leaders of the revolution themselves could not escape this savagery, but were sent to the guillotine, one after the other.
In the nineteenth century, communism was born from the error of the possibility of morality without religion, and with even more disastrous results. Communism supposedly demanded a just, equal society in which there was no exploitation and, to this end, proposed the abolition of religion. However, in the twentieth century, in places such as the Soviet Union, the Eastern Bloc, China, Indo-China, several countries in Africa and Central America, it subjected people to dreadful misery. Communist regimes murdered an incredible number of people; the total number nears about 120 million.52 Moreover, contrary to what has been claimed, justice and equality have never been established in any communist regime; the communist leaders in charge of the state comprised a class of elites. (In his classic book entitled The New Class, the Yugoslavian thinker Milovan Djilas, explains that the communist leaders, known as "nomenklatura," formed a "privileged class" contrary to the claims of communism.)
Another violent scene of the French Revolution.
Also today, when we look within Masonry itself, which is constantly pronouncing its ideas of "service to society" and "sacrifice for humanity," we do not find a very clean record. In many countries, Masonry has been the focus of relationships for ill-gotten material gain. In the P2 Masonic Lodge scandal of Italy in the 1980's, it came to light that the Masons maintained a close relationship with the mafia, and that the directors of the lodge were engaged in activities such as arms-smuggling, the drug trade or money laundering. It was also revealed that they arranged assaults on their rivals and on those who had betrayed them. In the "Great Eastern Lodge Scandal" of France in 1992, and in the "Clean Hands" operation in England, reported in the English press in 1995, the activities of Masonic lodges in the interests of illegal profit became clear. The Masons' idea of "humanist morality" is only a sham.
That such a thing should happen is inevitable, because, as we said at the beginning, morality is only established in society by the moral discipline of religion. At the basis of morality lies the absence of arrogance and selfishness, and the only ones who can achieve this state are those who realize their responsibility to Allah. In the Qur'an, after Allah tells of believers' self-sacrifice, He commands "…It is the people who are safe-guarded from the avarice of their own selves who are successful." (Surat al-Hashr: 9). This is the true basis of morality.
In the Sura Furqan of the Qur'an, the nature of the morality of true believers is described in this way:
The servants of the All-Merciful are those who walk lightly on the earth and, who, when the ignorant speak to them, say, "Peace";those who pass the night prostrating and standing before their Lord...
those who, when they spend, are neither extravagant nor mean, but take a stance mid way between the two;
those who do not call on any other god together with Allah and do not kill anyone Allah has made inviolate, except with the right to do so, and do not fornicate...
those who do not bear false witness and who, when they pass by worthless talk, pass by with dignity;
those who, when they are reminded of the Signs of their Lord, do not turn their backs, deaf and blind to them. (Surat al-Furqan: 63-73)
That is, the basic duty of believers is to submit to Allah in humility, "not to turn their backs, as if they were deaf and blind when they are reminded of His signs." Because of this duty, a person is saved from the selfishness of the ego, worldly passions, ambitions, and the concern to make himself liked by others. The kind of morality mentioned in the verses above is attained by these means alone. For this reason, in a society lacking in love and fear of Allah and faith in Him, there is no morality. Since nothing can be determined absolutely, each determines what is right and wrong according to his own desires.
Actually, the primary aim of Masonry's secular-humanist moral philosophy is, not to establish a moral world, but to establish a secular world. In other words, Masons do not espouse the philosophy of humanism because they grant a high importance to morality, but only to transmit to society their notion that religion is not necessary.
The Masonic Goal: To Establish a Humanist World
As we have already seen, Masons are tied to humanist philosophy. That is why they reject faith in Allah, and the worship of human beings, or the veneration of "humanity" in His place (Surely Allah is beyond that). But, this raises an important question: do Masons reserve this belief for themselves only, or do they wish it to be adopted by others as well?
When we look at Masonic writings, we can clearly see the answer to this question: the goal of this organization is to spread the humanist philosophy throughout the world, and to eradicate the monotheistic religions (Islam, Christianity and Judaism).
For example, in an article published in the Masonic magazine Mimar Sinan, it says, "Masons do not search for the origin of the ideas of evil, justice and honesty beyond the physical world, they believe that these things arise from a person's social conditions, social relationships and what he strives for in his life." and adds, "Masonry is trying to spread this idea throughout the whole world."53
Selami Isindag, a senior Turkish Mason, writes:
According to Masonry, in order to rescue humanity from a morality of the supernatural based on religious sources, it is necessary to establish a morality that is based on love for humanity which is not relative. In its traditional moral principles, Masonry has taken into account the tendencies of the human organism, its needs and their satisfaction, the rules of social life and their organization, conscience, freedom of thought and speech and, finally, all the things that go into the formation of natural life. Because of this, its goal is to establish and foster human morality in all societies.54
What Master Mason Isindag means by "rescuing human beings from a morality based on religious sources" is the alienation of all people from religion. In the same book, Isindag explains this goal and its supposed "principles for the establishment of an advanced civilization":
Masonry's positive principles are necessary and sufficient for the establishment of an advanced civilization. They are:
-The acceptance that the impersonal God (the Great Architect of the Universe) is evolution itself.
-The rejection of the belief in revelation, mysticism and empty beliefs.
-The superiority of rational humanism and labor.
The first of the three articles above entails the rejection of the existence of Allah. (Masons do not believe in Allah, but in the Great Architect of the Universe, and the above quotation shows that with this term, they mean evolution.) The second article rejects revelation from Allah and religious knowledge based on it. (Isindag himself defines this as "empty beliefs.") And the third article ignorantly exalts humanism and the humanist concept of "labor" (as in Communism).
If we consider how entrenched these perverted ideas have become in the world today, we can appreciate the influence of Masonry in it.
There is another important thing to take note of here: how has Masonry put into motion its mission against religion? When we look at Masonic writings, we see that they imagine they can destroy religion, especially on the societal level, by means of mass "propaganda." Master Mason Selami Isindag throws a lot of light on this matter in this passage from his book:
…Even overly repressive regimes have not been successful in their attempts to destroy the institution of religion. Indeed, the harsh excesses of political methods, in their attempt to enlighten society by rescuing people from empty religious faith and dogmas produced an adverse reaction: the places of worship they wanted close are today fuller than ever, and the faith and dogmas that that they outlawed have even more adherents. In another lecture we pointed out that in such a matter that touches heart and emotion, prohibition and force have no effect. The only way to bring people from darkness to enlightenment is positive science and the principles of logic and wisdom. If people are educated according to this way, they will respect the humanist and positive sides of religion but save themselves from its vain beliefs and dogmas.55
In order to understand what is meant here, we have to analyze it carefully. Isindag says that repression of religion will make religious people more highly motivated and will strengthen religion. Therefore, in order to prevent religion from being strengthened, Isindag thinks Masons should destroy religion on the intellectual level. What he means by "positive science and principles of logic and wisdom" is not really science, logic or wisdom. What he means is merely a humanist, materialist philosophy that uses these catch-phrases as camouflage, as in the case of Darwinism. Isindag asserts that, when these ideas are disseminated in society, "only the humanist elements in religion will gain respect," that is, what will be left of religion will be only those elements approved by the humanist philosophy. In other words, they want to reject the basic truths that lie at the foundation of monotheistic religion (Isindag calls them vain beliefs and dogmas). These truths are the ultimate realities such as that man is created by Allah and is responsible to Him.
It is clear that Isindag and the Masons who share his ideas are in a state of serious error.
In short, Masons aim at destroying the elements of faith that constitute the essence of religion. They want to reduce the role of religion as merely a cultural element that in their view should express its ideas on a number of general moral questions. The way to accomplish this, according to the Masons, is to impose atheism on the society in the guise of supposed positive science and reason. Ultimately though, their goal is to remove religion from its position as even a cultural element, and establish a totally atheist world.
G. E. Lessing and E. Renan. The Masons wanted to realize the dream of these two atheist writers in eradicating religion from the face of the earth.
In an article by Isindag, in the magazine Mason, entitled "Positive Science–The Obstacles of Mind and Masonry," he says:
As a result of all this, I want to say that the most important humanistic and Masonic duty of us all is not to turn away from science and reason, to acknowledge that this is the best and only way according to evolution, to spread this faith of ours among people and to educate the people in positive science. The words of Ernest Renan are very important: "If the people are educated and enlightened by positive science and reason, the vain beliefs of religion will collapse by themselves." Lessing's words support this view: "If human beings are educated and enlightened by positive science and reason, one day there will be no need for religion."56
This is Masonry's ultimate goal. They want to destroy religion completely, and establish a humanist world based on the "sacredness" of humanity. That is, they want to establish a new order of ignorance, in which people reject Allah Who created them, and consider themselves Divine… This goal is the purpose for the existence of Masonry. In the Masonic magazine called Ayna (Mirror), this is called a "Temple of Ideas":
Modern Masons have changed the goal of the old Masons to build a physical temple into the idea of building a "Temple of Ideas." The construction of a Temple of Ideas will be possible when Masonic principles and virtues are established and such wise people increase on the earth.57
To further this goal, Masons work tirelessly in many countries of the world. The Masonic organization is influential in universities, other educational institutions, in the media, in the world of art and ideas. It never ceases in its efforts to disseminate its humanist philosophy in society and to discredit the truths of the faith that is the basis of religion. We will see later that the theory of evolution is one of Masons' principal means of propaganda. Moreover, they aim to build a society that does not mention even the name of Allah or religion, but caters only to human pleasure, desires and worldly ambition. This will be a society formed by people who have "made (Allah) into something to cast disdainfully behind their backs" (Surah Hud: 92), similar to the people of Madyan mentioned in the Qur'an. In this culture of ignorance there is no room for the fear or love of Allah, doing His will, performing acts of worship, nor is there any thought for the hereafter. In fact, these ideas are thought to be old-fashioned and characteristic of uneducated people. This deceptive message is being constantly used for indoctrination in films, comic strips and novels.
In this great enterprise of deception, the Masons continually play a leadership role. But, there are also many other groups and individuals engaged in the same work. Masons accept them as "honorary Masons," and count them as their allies because they are all one in their shared humanist philosophy. Selami Isindag writes:
Masonry also accepts this fact: In the outside world there are wise people who, although they are not Masons, espouse Masonic ideology. This is because this ideology is wholly an ideology of human beings and of humanity.58
This persistent battle against religion relies on two basic arguments or justifications: the materialist philosophy and Darwin's theory of evolution.
In the following chapters we will examine these two justifications, their origin and their relationship to Masonry. Then, we will be able to understand more clearly the behind-the-scenes of these lies that have influenced the world since the nineteenth century.
33 Encarta® World English Dictionary © 1999 Microsoft Corporation. Developed for Microsoft by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
34 Lamont, The Philosophy of Humanism, 1977, p. 116
35 http://www.jjnet.com/archives/documents /humanist.htm)
36 Henry Margenau, Roy Abraham Vargesse, Cosmos, Bios, Theos. La Salle IL, Open Court Publishing, 1992, p. 241
37 Patrick Glynn, God: The Evidence, The Recon223 Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar) ciliation of Faith and Reason in a Postsecular World, Prima Publishing, California, 1997, p. 61
38 http://www.garymcleod.org/2/ johnd/humanist.htm)
39 Malachi Martin, The Keys of This Blood: The Struggle for World Dominion Between Pope John Paul II, Mikhail Gorbachev, and the Capitalist West, New York, Simon & Schuster, 1990, pp. 519-520, (emphasis added)
40 Malachi Martin, The Keys of This Blood, p. 520
41 Malachi Martin, The Keys of This Blood, pp. 521-522
42 Dr. Selami Isindag, Sezerman Kardes V, Masonluktan Esinlenmeler (Inspirations from Freemasonry), Istanbul1977, p. 73, (emphasis added)
43 Dr. Selami Isindag, Sezerman Kardes VI, Masonluktan Esinlenmeler (Inspirations from Freemasonry), Istanbul1977, p. 79, (emphasis added)
44 Mimar Sinan, 1989, No. 72, p. 45, (emphasis added)
45 Selamet Mahfilinde Uc Konferans (Three Confrences in Safety Society), p. 51, (emphasis added)
46 Manly P. Hall, The Lost Keys of Freemasonry, Philosophical Research Society; 1996, pp. 54-55
47 J. D. Buck, Mystic Masonry, Kessinger Publishing Company, September 1990, p. 216, (emphasis added)
48 "Masonluk Iddia Edildigi Gibi Gizli Bir Tesekkul mudur?" (Is Freemasonry a Secret Organization as It is Claimed to be?) (Mim Kemal Oke, Turk Mason Dergisi (The Turkish Mason Magazine), No. 15, July 1954, (emphasis added)
49 Franz Simecek, Turkiye Fikir ve Kultur Dernegi E. ve K. S. R. Sonuncu ve 33. Derecesi Turkiye Yuksek Surasi, 24. Konferans, (Turkish Society of Idea and Culture, 33rd degree, Turkey Supreme Meeting, 24th conference), Istanbul, 1973, p. 46, (emphasis added)
50 http://www.mason.org.tr/uzerine. html, (emphasis added)
51 Dr. Selami Isindag, Ucuncu Derece Rituelinin Incelenmesi (The Examination of the Third Degree Ritual), Mason Dernegi (Masonic Society) Publications: 4, Istanbul, 1978, p. 15, (emphasis added)
52 Harun Yahya, Komunizm Pusuda (Communism in Ambush),Vural Publishing, Istanbul, April 2001, p. 25
53 Moiz Berker, "Gercek Masonluk" (Real Freemasonry), Mimar Sinan, 1990, No. 77, p. 23, (emphasis added)
54 Dr. Selami Isindag, Sezerman Kardes IV, Masonluktan Esinlenmeler (Inspirations from Freemasonry), Istanbul1977, p. 62, (emphasis added)
55 Dr. Selami Isindag, Masonluktan Esinlenmeler (Inspirations from Freemasonry), Istanbul 1977, pp. 145-146, (emphasis added)
56 Dr. Selami Isindag, "Olumlu Bilim-Aklin Engelleri ve Masonluk" (Positive Science-The Obstacles of Mind and Freemasonry), Mason Dergisi, year 24, No. 25-26 (December 76- March 77), (emphasis added)
57 Ibrahim Baytekin, Ayna (Mirror), Ocak 1999, No: 19, p.4, (emphasis added)
58 Dr. Selami Isindag, Masonluk Ustune (On Freemasonry), Masonluktan Esinlenmeler (Inspirations from Freemasonry), Istanbul1977, p. 32, (emphasis added)


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Controllers are the glue the binds an application together. They listen for events fired by the UI and then take some action on it. This helps to keep our code clean and readable, and separates the view logic from the control logic.
For example, let's say you require users to log in to your app via a login form. The view in this case is the form with all of its fields and other controls. A controller should listen to tap event on the form's submit button and then perform the authentication itself. Any time we deal with manipulating data or state, the controller should be the class that activates that change, not a view.
Controllers expose a small but powerful set of features, and follow a few simple conventions. Each Controller in your application is a subclass of Ext.app.Controller (though you can subclass existing Controllers, so long as it inherits from Ext.app.Controller at some point). Controllers exist in the MyApp.controller.* namespace - for example if your app had a Sessions controller it would be called MyApp.controller.Sessions and exist in the file app/controller/Sessions.js.
Although each Controller is a subclass of Ext.app.Controller, each one is instantiated just once by the Application that loaded it. There is only ever one instance of each Controller at any one time and the set of Controller instances is managed internally by the Application. Using Application's controllersconfig (as we do above) loads all of the Controllers and instantiates them automatically.
Here's how we might quickly define the Sessions controller described above. We're using 2 Controller configurations here - refs and control. Refs are an easy way to find Components on your page - in this case the Controller will look for all Components that match the formpanel xtype and assign the first one it finds to the loginForm property. We'll use that property in the doLogin function later.
The second thing it does is set up a control configuration. Just like refs, this uses a ComponentQuery selector to find all formpanel xtypes that contain abutton inside them (for example, this will find the Submit button in our hypothetical login form). Whenever any button of this type fires its tap event, our Controller's doLogin function will be called:
The doLogin function itself is quite straightforward. Because we defined a 'loginForm' ref, the Controller automatically generates a getLoginForm function that returns the formpanel that it matches. Once we have that form reference we just pull the values (username and password) out of it and pass them to an authenticate function. That's most of what Controllers ever do - listen for events fired (usually by the UI) and kick off some action - in this case authenticating.
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Stores are an important part of Sencha Touch and power most of the data-bound widgets. At its simplest, a Store is not much more than an array of Model instances. Data-bound Components like List and DataView just render one item for each Model instance in the Store. As Model instances are added or removed from the Store events are fired, which the data-bound Components listen to and use to update themselves.
While the Stores guide has much more information on what Stores are and how they fit in with Components in your app, there are a couple of specific integration points with your Application instance that you should be aware of.
Sencha Touch operates across a wide range of devices with differing capabilities and screen sizes. A user interface that works well on a tablet may not work very well on a phone and vice versa so it makes sense to provide customized views for different device types. However, we don't want to have to write our application multiple times just to provide a different UI - we'd like to share as much code as possible.
Device Profiles are simple classes that enable you to define the different types of devices supported by your app and how they should be handled differently. They are opt-in, so you can develop your app without profiles at first and add them in later, or never use them at all.Each profile simply defines an isActive function that should return true if that profile should be active on the current device, plus a set of additional models, views andcontrollers to load if that profile is detected.
To app Profile support to your app you just need to tell your Application about those Profiles and then create Ext.app.Profile subclasses for them:
By defining the profiles above the Application will load app/profile/Phone.js and app/profile/Tablet.js. Let's say that the tablet version of the app enables additional capabilities - for example managing groups. Here's an example of how we might define the Tablet profile:
The isActive function will return true whenever the application is run on what Sencha Touch determines to be a tablet. This is a slightly subjective determination because there is a near-continuous spectrum of device shapes and sizes with no clear cutoff between phones and tablets. Because there is no foolproof way to state which devices are tablets and which are phones, Sencha Touch's Ext.os.is.Tablet is set to true when running on an iPad and false otherwise. If you need more fine grained control it's easy to provide any implementation you like inside your isActive function, so long as it returns true or false.
You should make sure that only one of your Profiles returns true from its isActive function. If more than one of them returns true, only the first one that does so will be counted and the rest ignored. The first one that returns true will be set as the Application's currentProfile, which can be queried at any time.
If the detected currentProfile has defined additional models, views, controllers and stores these will be automatically loaded by the Application, along with all of the models, views and controllers defined on the Application itself. However, all of the dependencies named in the Profile will be prepended with the Profile name unless the fully-qualified class name is provided. For example:
- views: ['GroupAdmin'] will load app/view/tablet/GroupAdmin.js
- controllers: ['Groups'] will load app/controller/tablet/Groups.js
- models: ['MyApp.model.Group'] will load app/model/Group.js
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Each Application can define a launch function, which is called as soon as all of your app's classes have been loaded and the app is ready to be launched. This is usually the best place to put any application startup logic, typically creating the main view structure for your app.
In addition to the Application launch function, there are two other places you can put app startup logic. Firstly, each Controller is able to define an initfunction, which is called before the Application launch function. Secondly, if you are using Device Profiles, each Profile can define a launch function, which is called after the Controller init functions but before the Application launch function.
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Here is the history behind Fluoridated Water and how the wide range use came to be. Mind you this is a short over view the most disturbing part to me is how Fluoride (sodium fluoride (NaF) "Industrial Waste") was used in the concentration camps in WWII, and how we allow ourselves to consume it in huge quantities to this day.
Fluoride compounds are found in more than just public drinking water Fluoride remains one of the strongest anti-psychotic substances known, and is contained in twenty-five percent of the major tranquilizers and some supplement tablets. One of the most common places you can get your daily dose of Fluoride is in your toothpaste, but read the warning on that tube of tooth paste.
At the end of World War II the US government got involved and sent Charles Eliot Perkins who was a research worker with a background in pathology, physiology, chemistry, and biochemistry. Was sent to Germany to take charge of the huge Farben chemical plants, Perkins was told by the German chemists that they had devised a scheme during the war to control the population in any given area through the mass medication of drinking water with sodium fluoride. They explained that this tactic was used in the Russian and German prisoner camps to make the prisoners docile and stupid. Farben made plans to fluoridate occupied countries to cause slight damage to the brain to make it more difficult for a person to defend their freedom and become docile towards authority. The American military continued the Nazi research and explored techniques to incapacitate and medicate an entire nation. A presidential briefing the Rockerfeller Report, on CIA activities was actually part of a huge CIA program to study controlling human behavior.
The myth of dental prevention associated with fluoride was started in the United States in 1939 by Gerald J Cox of ALCOA. Who at the time was the biggest producer of toxic fluoride waste, and was being threatened by damage claims. In 1947 Oscar R Ewing an ALCOA lawyer was put in charge of the Federal Security Agency and the Public Health Service department fell under that agency. With in three years 87 American cities were fluorinating their water systems.
Looking for a bigger outlet to make a bigger profit the Aluminum Manufacturing, Fertilizer, and Weapons Industry funded American education and research. They turned a liability into an asset with the discovery that fluoride had a benefit to teeth. The discovery was funded by the industry being plagued by lawsuits from workers and communities poisoned by industrial fluoride emissions. Through sly public re-education, fluoride, once a waste product, became the active ingredient in fluorinated pesticides, fungicides, rodenticides, anesthetics, tranquilizers, fluorinated pharmaceuticals, and a number of industrial and domestic products, fluorinated dental gels, rinses and toothpastes. Fluoride is so much a part of a multibillion-dollar industrial and pharmaceutical income, that any withdrawal of support would be financially impossible, legally unthinkable and potentially devastating for their career and reputation.
Adolf Hitler said 'Tell a lie loud enough and long enough and people will believe it." And so began the campaign of deception to persuade public opinion, you can get practically any idea accepted if doctors are in flavor. Unlike chemicals that have a signature effect, fluoride, a systemic poison, produces a range of health problems, so it's effects are more difficult to diagnose. This made the acceptance of Fluoride very easy especially when any and all negative studies were hidden and buried.
In our recent past US Military documents such as Manhattan Project, were publicly released and shine light on Fluoride as being the key chemical in atomic bomb production and millions of tons of Floride were needed for the manufactureing of bomb-grade uranium and plutonium. Fluoride poisoning, not radiation poisoning, emerged as the leading chemical health hazard for both workers and nearby communities. The Journal of the American Dental Association shows that evidence of adverse effects from fluoride was censored by the US Atomic Energy Commission for reasons of "national security" This was in 1948. The report that was released stated that fluoride was safe for humans in small doses. Dr. Harold C. Hodge, who had been the toxicologist for the US Army Manhattan Project, was the leading scientific promoter of water fluoridation. Hodge was reassuring congress of the safety of water fluoridation, This heartless psycho was covertly conducting one of the nation's first public water fluoridation experiments in Newburgh, New York, secretly studying biological samples from Newburgh citizens at his US laboratory at the University of Rochester.
During the 1990's, research conducted by Harvard toxicologist Phillis Mullenix showed that fluoride in water may lead to lower IQ's, and produced symptoms in rats strongly resembling attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Days before her research was to be accepted for publication, She was fired as the head of toxicology at the Forsyth Dental Center in Boston. As her application for a grant to continue her fluoride and central nervous system research was turned down by the US National Institute of Health.
Fluoride is up to fifty times more toxic than sulfur dioxide, there are thousands of tons of industrial fluoride waste is poured into drinking water supplies all over North America. The US has the benefit of emitting as much fluoride waste into the environment as they like with absolutely no requirement to measure emissions and no way of being held accountable for poisoning people, animals and vegetation.
The International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology has classified fluoride as an unapproved dental medicament due to it's high toxicity also the US National Cancer Institute Toxicological Program has found fluoride to be an equivocal carcinogen. To this day the US government is continuing to introduce further fluoridation schemes throughout the country. The biggest show of not standing behind what they are mandating is the Water Act passed in November 2003. This makes it impossible for water companies to undergo civil or criminal hearings as a result of adding fluoride to public water supplies. Other similar bills were passed in a broader fashion to protect the pharmaceutical companies and the Government are protected from any liability even when forcing any and all toxins on any one or any thing, all in the name of financial gain.
This is a little about the History of Fluoride I have high hopes that everyone add a little more to this super important subject. I hope there are some of you that are still coherent enough to add to this. Our lives and the lives of others depend on information.
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Evans Repeating Rifle: Antebellum "Hi-cap Bullpup"
Anyone ever hear of the Evans Repeating Rifle, or better yet, actually own one, or even better yet, actually shoot one?
It seems like a design well ahead of its time; a hi-cap blackpowder levergun (I say hi-cap because it carried up to 34 rounds in a helical buttstock magazine, to the Spencer's 7). I say "bullpup" in jest, since it does load from a rear magazine in the buttstock. Also has a "clamshell" reciever like the F2000 and PS90. Does anybody know if reproductions are made? I see they are on Gunbroker (in a larger quantity that I would have figured) for over a grand, but in the proprietary .44 cartridge (of course). If a modern version in a modern smokeless cartridge exists, it would certaintly be a head-turner at the range, and very functional in the field.
I like the upper/lower buttstock halves-very cool look. The foregrip (dissipator) also looks much more comfortable than a bare barrel. I found a photo online of the internals; it looks like there's only a half-dozen or so parts to the gun, very simple, and somewhat similar to the Spencer.
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Joe Gill (Wilford Brimley), CROSSFIRE TRAIL...
"Hey Joe, why you shoot that ol' Evans anyway?"
"Well, it holds 28 bullets and I ain't a very good shot."
The only ones I've ever laid eyes on are the ones in the Cody museum.
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Wow never heard of this before, to cool.. Here are a few places I found
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We have one in our collection at the San Francisco War Memorial. It's in pristine condition too.
The National Firearms Museum has one too.
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I have two and have fired one of them quite a bit (it is one that was converted to .44-40). The idea sounds good on paper, but there are a lot of problems, best shown by a description of its use.
1. Open the loading gate in the buttplate.
2. Drop in a cartridge.
3. Work the lever to move the cartridge around one slot.
4. Go to 2 and repeat 2 and 3 28 (or 34) times. Go to 5.
5. The rifle is now loaded.
6. When the "Injuns" or whoever attack, fire ten rounds and they leave.
7. Now there is a ten round gap in the magazine.
8. Open the loading gate again, and drop in a cartridge.
9. Work the lever to move the cartridge around.
10. A live cartridge drops out on the floor until you get to the gap.
11. Repeat 8, 9 and 10 28 (or 34) times to fully load the magazine again.
12. If you fired all 28 (or 34) rounds at the "Injuns", you reload by going to 1 and starting over with the lever cranking - 28 (or 34) times.
13. Pick up those live rounds off the floor, if the "Injuns" give you a chance.
See the problem? Want to have to do that with the "Injuns" or whoever attacking? No loading gate like a Winchester. No detachable magazine. No single tube butt magazine like the Spencer. Nope, you load and crank, load and crank. When the "Injuns" break through, they find that the Evans users have died from exhaustion.
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|January 13, 2013, 08:15 AM
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....It is not what one might call a pretty rifle.
But then beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
No offense intended to those who own and love them.
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|January 13, 2013, 09:48 AM
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I have a friend who shoots one in SASS shoots. He makes the ammo from 455 Super Mag brass. He explains to the LTO and RO how he loads them. He has 2 dummy rounds painted red, he loads them first, then using the technique listed above, loads and levers until the first red dummy ejects, that means the second in in the chamber, and the rifle is still is safe.
|January 13, 2013, 10:29 AM
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James K - thanks for the loading description - very interesting. That sort of explains why the Evans "died". I've heard of them but have never had the opportunity to see one nor hear the loading procedure. Kind of a "no brainer" why rifles such as the Winchester flourished. All in the ease of operation.
barnbwt - thanks for sharing this - a great post! We all have learned a lot!
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|January 13, 2013, 05:11 PM
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Does anyone know how the action locks up? The parts/frame geometry don't make it immediately apparent to me, and I haven't found an animation of the mechanism
I think one of these is a modern pistol caliber (.38, .357, .44, .45LC, etc.) would kick butt if the action would be strong enough (the barrel's attachment and receiver screws look like a possible weak point), and the parts don't look terribly difficult to replicate, either. It seems that if there was some way to crank the magazine "backward" it would address most of the shortcomings as far as loading/topping off are concerned. As it stands, I see why the Spencer with its quick-loadable straight tube was more successful. Still, it was an incredible amount of firepower for one guy to be carrying back then (+3X the capacity of most platforms)
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Gun Hay-Suess covers the Evans:
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|November 10, 2018, 01:53 PM
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Absolutely WOW! You see...this is the reason why I have always harbored a fondness for forums and the Internet in general. You always learn something new. I have never even heard of the Evans rifle until I read this post and I have devoured my fair share of books and literature on 19th century arms just like any firearms buff would. And yet not only did this place reveal another wonderful oddity of an era where everything was possible, but actual surviving samples to be commonplace enough to be used in skirmish shoots is just spectacular. I have yet to see an original Savage-North .36 to be used regularly in an NSSA event or so and far more folks probably know about that one than the Evans.
Superb read, and the videos are cool as heck. Just about made my coffee break far more enriching.
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Lovers...it's been an incredible year.
Some serious shit has happened for me and the little interior decorating company that could.
I feel so fortunate to have had some of the MOST amazing clients and grown my little business into something that makes me pinch myself that I can actually make a living doing what I love to do
I don't wanna burn out so, I am officially taking a small break.
I have not stopped in over a year and I feel like now is the time to take a little 2 week breather to spend some Q.T. with the duck and G and appreciate some mental peace and quiet.
I plan on checking in to say hi...but mainly I will be silent
No clients, minimal blog, and no work...(lets see how long this lasts)
When the New year is in full swing I have TONS to talk about.
I have some great new clients and I am getting myself a brand spanking new website and blog.
I will be leaving blogspot and making amberinteriordesign.com a one stop shop. You will have access to everything on one page, blog included!!
The shoppe is thinking about expanding some, and e-decor is getting a facelift that I can't wait to talk about!
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There was nothing showy or spectacular about South Lenoir�s 6-1 victory over Spring Creek Tuesday in the Eastern Carolina Scholastic Summer League.
Instead, it was a clinic in opportunistic, fundamental baseball.
DEEP RUN � There was nothing showy or spectacular about South Lenoir�s 6-1 victory over Spring Creek Tuesday in the Eastern Carolina Scholastic Summer League.
Instead, it was a clinic in opportunistic, fundamental baseball.
The Blue Devils (4-5) did all the little things right, committing no errors, belting a couple of sacrifice flies, executing a beautiful hit and run, and stealing four bases without being caught.
They managed just six hits but made up for their lack of production with timing and meticulousness. SL drew three walks from Spring Creek�s pitchers; all three runners eventually scored.
�We took advantage when we had the chance on offense and gave an overall solid effort,� Blue Devils coach David Combs said. �Defensively we made the necessary plays and our pitchers threw strikes and did a great job of keeping their hitters off balance. I�m very pleased.�
SL didn�t need to light up the hitting column because its pitching was so good.
Nick Hunter, Wade Wetherington and Christian Yanez combined to limit the Gators to just three hits, all in the final two innings. The trio also walked one and fanned nine, although they did hit three batters.
Hunter set the tone, striking out the side in the first before leaving with some minor back pain.
�Nick�s okay and probably could have continued, but we�re not taking any chances in summer ball,� Combs said.
Wetherington did the bulk of the heavy lifting, tossing four hitless frames with five whiffs. The only hint of trouble came in the fourth when he nailed consecutive Gators after two were out. A harmless groundout to second by Spring Creek�s Will Rouse ended the inning, however.
�Nick had good stuff, Wade did an outstanding job, and Christian closed the door,� Combs said. �We just have to stop hitting batters and we�ll be fine.�
Hunter also had a nice night at the plate, singling, drawing a walk, scoring a run, and driving in one with a sacrifice fly.
Justin Howard collected two hits and an RBI for the Devils, while Cody Ladich and Jared Puckett also knocked in runs. Noah Stroud had a base hit, two runs scored, and swiped three bases for SL.
SL returns to action Thursday when it visits Eastern Wayne for a 5 p.m. doubleheader.
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Canada blanks the U.S. to advance to gold-medal gameby Dan Rosen / Chicago Blackhawks
SOCHI -- Canada won the rematch that was four years in the making. Now it can try to win another gold medal.
Jamie Benn's goal early in the second period Friday at Bolshoy Ice Dome was all the Canadians needed to beat the United States 1-0 in the semifinals of the 2014 Sochi Olympics and a rematch of the 2010 gold-medal game, also won by Canada by one goal.
Canada will play Sweden in the gold-medal game Sunday. The Canadians have won two of the past three Olympic gold medals after going 50 years without one (1952-2002). The U.S. will play Finland for the bronze medal Saturday.
Carey Price had the shutout with 31 saves in a game that featured an electric pace, mostly controlled by the Canadians.
Special teams also played a big role in Canada's win Friday as its penalty kill was 3-for-3. The Canadians were 0-for-2 on the power play but it didn't matter as the Americans didn't generate much on their power play as the Canadians held them on the outside most of the time.
Benn scored his goal 1:41 into the second period off a sweet diagonal pas from Jay Bouwmeester. The Canadians had several chances on United States goalie Jonathan Quick after the goal but they couldn't extend the lead despite controlling the pace for the bulk of the game.
Quick made 36 saves, including nine in the third period. His best was a pad save on Chris Kunitz with just under six minutes remaining in the third period. It at least gave the Americans a chance to tie the game, something they could not do.
Canada had a 28-22 edge in shots on goal after 40 minutes; it was 16-11 after the first period.
Benn and Bouwmeester worked some magic to give Canada the lead.
The play started when Benn made a pretty backhanded pass to Bouwmeester from the right circle to the left point. Benn immediately dashed to the net and Bouwmeester delivered a picture-perfect diagonal pass from his spot at the left point toward the slot. The pass was right on Benn's stick and he redirected the puck into the net, past Quick's glove, for the only goal Canada would need.
The Canadians have played three one-goal games in the tournament and their forwards have scored seven goals in five games, but it has been just enough to get them to the precipice of another gold medal.
The U.S. had two power plays before the end of the second period but Canada killed both. Price also came up with a big pad save on Zach Parise's redirect attempt from the slot and Max Pacioretty had an opportunity from the right post after Patrick Kane fed him an opportunity from left side, but Canada defended it well.
Quick preserved the one-goal deficit for the Americans with a dazzling pad save on Benn at 14:05 of the second. He had to push off hard from his right to left to get his pad on Benn's one-timer from the lower part of the right circle with his glove. Quick then was able to cover the puck with his glove.
Canada controlled the play early in the game save for a quick flurry from the Americans. Sidney Crosby's line, which included Patrice Bergeron and Chris Kunitz, had three scoring chances on its first shift of the game.
Crosby also had a chance with his backhand during Canada's lone power play of the first period, but his shot hit Quick in the mask. Patrick Sharp tried to shoot the rebound in but Quick stopped that one too.
The pace at the start of the game was electric. Each team had nine shots on goal before 10 minutes had elapsed. Canada, though, controlled the pace and play for the second half of the first period and most of the second.
The Americans appeared to be trying to survive before Benn scored and then were chasing the game after the goal.
The Canadians wouldn't let them catch up.


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After learning that Fred Davis's season was over with a torn Achilles tendon, the Redskins called up Chris Cooley, fan favorite and Washington's tight end from 2004 to 2011. While negotiating a contract, Cooley had an interesting, hop-filled request that Washington unfortunately didn't fulfill.
From Sarah Kogod of the Washington Post:
Literally, I have text correspondence trying to negotiate a case of beer into my contract. They wouldn't do it. I wanted it in writing so much.
Apparently it wasn't a dealbreaker, since Cooley still signed with Washington, but he should have stood his ground. General manager Bruce Allen is going to blanch at a case of beer thrown in? Cooley had leverage! Hopefully, the next collective bargaining agreement will address this issue.
The story of Chris Cooley's comeback, as told by Cooley [Washington Post]


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