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These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
–Deuteronomy 6:6-7 (NIV)–

Train up a child in the way he should go,
and when he is old he will not depart from it.
–Proverbs 22:6 (NKJV)–

Fathers, do not provoke your children,
lest they become discouraged.
–Colossians 3:21 (NKJV)–

As for me and my house,
we will serve the Lord.
–Joshua 24:15 (NKJV)–

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I’m tired of your open mouth
Crawling inside my skin
Endless pain we never quit
The fight within that pride’s begun

Saying it’s too late
What a man’s got, he’ll learn to hate

Forget the time I said I would
Replace that with I never will
Beyond the facts held in your face
Ignore the facts beyond your nose

Saying it’s too late
What a man’s got, he’ll learn to hate

Grow up!

Not without meaning
No response, no revealing

Just grow up!
Wrong!
Wrong!
Wrong!
Wrong!

–Chevelle, “Family System”–

Originally from here.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION

This week, our Nation observes Anti-Communism Week, a solemn remembrance of the devastation caused by one of history’s most destructive ideologies. Across continents and generations, communism has wrought devastation upon nations and souls. More than 100 million lives have been taken by regimes that sought to erase faith, suppress freedom, and destroy prosperity earned through hard work, violating the God-given rights and dignity of those they oppressed. As we honor their memory, we renew our national promise to stand firm against communism, to uphold the cause of liberty and human worth, and to affirm once more that no system of government can ever replace the will and conscience of a free people.

For more than a century, communism has brought nothing but ruin. Wherever it spreads, it silences dissent, punishes beliefs, and demands that generations kneel before the power of the state instead of standing for freedom. Its story is written in blood and sorrow, a grim reminder that communism is nothing more than another word for servitude.

In the 34 years since the end of the Cold War, the world has witnessed both the triumph of democracy and the persistence of tyranny in new forms. New voices now repeat old lies, cloaking them in the language of “social justice” and “democratic socialism,” yet their message remains the same:  give up your freedom, place your trust in the power of the government, and trade the promise of prosperity for the empty comfort of control. America rejects this evil doctrine. We remain a Nation founded on the eternal truth that liberty and opportunity are the birthrights of every person, and that no ideology, whether foreign or domestic, can extinguish them.

As we mark Anti-Communism Week, we stand united in defense of the values that define us as a free people. We honor the victims of oppression by keeping their cause alive and by ensuring that communism and every system that denies the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness will find their place, once and for all, on the ash heap of history.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim the week of November 2 through November 8, 2025, as Anti-Communism Week. 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this seventh day of November, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and fiftieth.

DONALD J. TRUMP

Now the king told the boogie men,
“You have to let that raga drop
The oil down the desert way
Has been shaken to the top”
The Sheikh, he drove his Cadillac
He went a-cruising down the ville
The Muezzin was a-standing on the radiator grille

Sharif don’t like it
Rocking the Casbah, rock the Casbah
Sharif don’t like it
Rocking the Casbah, rock the Casbah

By order of the prophet
We ban that boogie sound
Degenerate the faithful
With that crazy Casbah sound
The Bedouin, they brought out
The electric kettle drum
The local guitar picker
Got his guitar-picking thumb
As soon as the Sharif
Cleared the square
They began to wail

Now over at the temple
Oh, they really pack ’em in
The in-crowd say it’s cool
To dig this chanting thing
But as the wind changed direction
And the temple band took five
The crowd caught a whiff of that crazy Casbah jive

The king called up his jet fighters
He said, “You better earn your pay
Drop your bombs between the minarets
Down the Casbah way”
As soon as the Sharif was
Chauffeured outta there
The jet pilots tuned to
The cockpit radio blare
As soon as the Sharif was
Out of their hair
The jet pilots wailed

(Sharif don’t like it)
Thinks it’s not kosher
(Rocking the Casbah
Rock the Casbah)
(Sharif don’t like it)
Fundamentally can’t take it
(Rocking the Casbah
Rock the Casbah)
(Sharif don’t like it)
You know he really hates it
(Rocking the Casbah, rock the Casbah)
(Sharif don’t like it)
Really, really hates it

–The Clash, “Rock the Casbah”–

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Gerhard Weinberg, World War II: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford UP, 2014).

Blessed are the pure in heart:
for they shall see God.
–Matthew 5:8 (KJV)–

I am he that liveth, and was dead;
and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen;
and have the keys of hell and of death.
–Revelation 1:18 (KJV)–

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Bernard McGinn, The Foundations of Mysticism (Crossroad, 1991), ch. 5.

Robert Gregg, trans. Athanasius: The Life of Antony (Paulist Press, 1979).

Colm Luibheid, trans. John Cassian: Conferences (Paulist Press, 1985).