God Is in the Basement of the Empire State Building

http://nymag.com/print/?/news/features/kings-college-2011-8/index3.html


Dinesh D’Souza, the new president of the city’s only Evangelical college, wants to build a �Christian A-team.� But can the man who says Obama supports radical Muslims persuade students to follow him?


Each spring, the King’s College, a Christian school occupying two floors in the Empire State Building, hosts a series of lectures and debates on a single theme. This year’s theme is villainy. In a windowless basement room, Dinesh D’Souza, the college’s newly installed president, is delivering his remarks to a student camera crew, two potential donors, and about 30 undergraduates. In keeping with the college’s dress code, the students wear business suits.


�I want to talk a little bit about what I call the unique villainy of Barack Obama,� D’Souza, 50, says with a grin. �In my view, it’s the villainy of nondisclosure.� Obama campaigned as a standard liberal, D’Souza says, but actually is a vehement anti-colonialist. �For Obama, the radical Muslims are on the right side of history�that’s why he is so unnaturally solicitous toward them.�

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Students earn bachelor’s degrees in one of three majors: PPE (politics, philosophy, and economics); business management; or media, culture, and the arts. There is a core curriculum, which features Shakespeare, Adam Smith, and Augustine. Professors are not eligible for tenure, and all of them must sign a statement of Christian faith. CCCI still owns the King’s College. The Orlando-based nonprofit, which took in $646 million in revenue last year, began by proselytizing to students at secular colleges. With King’s, CCCI hopes to produce students who don’t need saving.

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�We are living, for perhaps the first time in history, in a society whose basic assumptions are secular,� D’Souza told the 36 �members of the King’s class of 2011. �Some Christians hope to change this through bottom-up, grassroots techniques. But I’m skeptical about that approach. Consider minority groups like Jews and gays, groups whose influence far outweighs their relatively small numbers. How do they do it? By focusing on strategic institutions�finance, media, law. At the King’s College, our mission is to prepare you to go into that world. It’s, frankly, an elitist mission, which says that culture is formed from the top down. I can only hope we have given you the tools to complete that mission, the tools to be dangerous Christians.�
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yes, the religiously insane are dangerous

....thing I can't say here.

Morally Ambiguous?

CON MAN?

Damn. who would have thought.

since the Empire State Building was built by one of the 1933 Coup Plotters with loot from the Crash of 1929.

nt

Design and construction

The Empire State Building was designed by William F. Lamb from the architectural firm Shreve, Lamb and Harmon, which produced the building drawings in just two weeks, using its earlier designs for the Reynolds Building in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and the Carew Tower in Cincinnati, Ohio (designed by the architectural firm W.W. Ahlschlager & Associates) as a basis. Every year the staff of the Empire State Building sends a Father's Day card to the staff at the Reynolds Building in Winston-Salem to pay homage to its role as predecessor to the Empire State Building.<16><17> The building was designed from the top down.<18> The general contractors were The Starrett Brothers and Eken, and the project was financed primarily by John J. Raskob and Pierre S. du Pont. The construction company was chaired by Alfred E. Smith, a former Governor of New York and James Farley's General Builders Supply Corporation supplied the building materials.<3> John W. Bowser was project construction superintendent.<1[br />
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_State_Building

John Jakob Raskob, KCSG (19 March 1879 - 15 October 1950) was a financial executive and businessman for DuPont and General Motors, and the builder of the Empire State Building. He was chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 1928 to 1932 and a key supporter of Alfred E. Smith's candidacy for President of the United States.

After Franklin D. Roosevelt became President, Raskob was a prominent opponent of the New Deal through his support of a number of anti-Roosevelt organizations including the American Liberty League. Raskob was also a leader in the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment.

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...and one of the eeeeleeete traitorous 1933 plotters against the United States of America.

Samuel P. Bush (Prescott's daddy) was a war profiteer in WWI.

"The nightmare for the world began in 1915, with the establishment of an unholy partnership between the U.S. Government and the ‘War Industries Board', for-runner of America's present day 'military-industrial complex'. Some of those seated on the board of directors were Samuel P. Bush, great grandfather of George W. bush, and so-called chief of Ordnance for the Small Arms and Ammunition Section, Wall Street banker Clarence Dillon, Samuel Pryor, executive committee chairman of Remington Arms, and Bernard Baruch, who, as head of the War Industries Board profited in excess of $200,000,000.

"The members of the Board aptly came to be known as the "Merchants of Death." Using the facade of government to legitimize their operations, the War Industries Board represented the big munitions makers of the day who dispatched agents around the globe to sell the weapons and materials of war to both sides of any conflict. They bribed government officials and used their corporate influence and capitol to increase international tensions, which in turn generated demand and maximized profit.


http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=3558

Remington and other firms sold their 7.92X57 cartridges to South American customers who turned around and sold them to...

Our standard issue round was the .30-06, so they weren't making them for us.

The recently made a commemorative Model700 in 8X57 (7.92x57)

Remington was also tied-in with DuPont, which made Smokeless Powder.

used to have its offices in the basement of the Empire State Building in the lat 60s, early 70s.

NBI was the education/information/propaganda wing of Ayn Rand's "objectivist" philosophy, named for her admirer and later lover, Nathaniel Branden. That's where I bought my limited edition copy of Atlas Shrugged and a couple of spiral notebooks, which yes I still have. On one visit there, I happened to see Rand herself, but I did not approach her.




TG, TT

Some are raised from Birth.

Will wonders never cease......

Wonder how much King's college sells a PhD for? Do they require a 25-page "dissertation", too?

I note that the Holy Bible, both Old and New Testaments, are not listed. But maybe that figures. Their goals would disappear in a cloud of dust if they happened to read and heed the words of Jesus and/or the writings of the gospels and epistles. What a miserable bunch they are. "Dangerous Christians"? They are dangerous but how dare they call themselves Christians. As a former lifelong Baptist, now leaning towards agnosticism, I object!!

Tired Old Cynic

I thought that's what this thread would be about when I saw the title.