Essential fanaticism, redemption and the surrender of your critical faculties; all to know Abraham, the father of evil and the dogmatic means to have good people do evil things.
As we all know, Judaism, Christianity and Islam grew to fruition through this fella name Moses. I cursed G_D, Allah, God or whatever name "He" goes by. And the Prophet he rode in on.
Joseph Stalin (Steel) was responsible for the murders of more human beings than Hitler, by a factor of 3 -4.
And Marxist/Leninism became a religion in every meaningful way. Note: the leadership ranks of the Party were heavily overweighted with atheist Jews, e.g. Trotsky. I have often wondered how much influence the Judaism of their childhood and youth played in their understanding of Marxism and the Revolution.
Farmer BobWed Jan 08, 02:20:00 PM EST but subliminally they still feel the Jews killed Christ, and similar non sense too.
…followed by…
Teresita RedingerWed Jan 08, 02:39:00 PM EST subliminally they still feel the Jews killed Christ
And a good thing, too, Bob, because if our Lord was not put to death, we would still be in our sins. Don't you know basic Christian soteriology?
…followed by cautionary comment by Bob…
Farmer BobWed Jan 08, 02:50:00 PM EST Think before you type, Miss T. You have just said that the Jews killed Christ. The Jews didn't kill Christ
…Teresita then responded with a blood slander of ancient origin, which the Roman Church now denies…
Teresita RedingerWed Jan 08, 03:13:00 PM EST Anonobob: You have just said that the Jews killed Christ. The Jews didn't kill Christ.
On the contrary, it is written (1 Thess. 2:14-15): For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews: Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men.
But thank you for playing, please drive through.
Teresita clearly disbelieves the Pontiff and the mainline Protestant Churches, who have refuted the bloody liable of deicide. Furthermore, Teresita believes it possible to kill G-d, and that she will be damned if someone does not. What does she think about the bread and wine (cannibalism: real or substitutionary)?
...ever heard of Vatican II...Benedict is coming out with a new book, coauthored with a Jewish rabbi friend, disavowing your blood slander. Take up your complaints with him.
Your throwing this highly controversial piece of red meat anew to bigots is what Christians have been trying to fight for years.
I wonder, allen, why you injected yourself into the middle of a discussion between two Christians about the New Testament with accusations of psychopathy?
Luther also had some good advice about giving all one has to the poor.
Don't do it, he advised. You will just be creating another bunch of poor......one's self, and liked minded.....and in the end human nature will reassert itself and the status quo ante will be returned.
Luther followed his own advice here I think.......while he gave to charity, he also directly helped some people, especially the street kids of the day he and his wife adopted and raised.
You should have resisted the temptation of a heinous, bloody slander naming Jews as deicides – a slander that has caused rivers of Jewish blood to flow.
I don't claim to know a lot about how Jewish folks interpret their own scriptures. With a lot of argumentation and disagreement, I would imagine. I do know they find much deeper meaning in these stories than is apparent to the first reading by a pair of Gentile eyes.
Some of it is quite humorous. The Lord was so upset about the misbehaviors of his darlings the he determined to flood them all out, and start again nearly from scratch.
He selected one man named Noah Quirk, and his wife, to carry on. When Noah Quirk finally made land fall, he immediately set to work planting vine yards, from which grapes he made strong wine, got dead drunk, and passed out.
Later Noah Quirk is rumored to created Vodka.
At any rate the point seems to be that the Lord hadn't very good clay to work with here on this planet.
On the other hand, another time we see Abraham arguing the Lord down from wiping out Sodom and its sister city, finally getting Him to agree to let a few of the righteous folks out. This also is quite humorous and instructive too as it seems to say a righteous man should be the measure of things.
Therefore I think the big banner headline over this thread is a big idiotic crock of manure.
Was Hitchens a lapsed Catholic? Naw, although he expressed his disdain for the Church whenever he had an audience or a drink. Did quite a job on Mother Therese. But he didn't discriminate. He pretty much hated every religion.
He was actually Jewish if you follow the matrilineal line. Not surprisingly though, he was strongly anti-Zionist.
:)
My personal opinion is he kind of jumped the shark in his condemnation of religion as the greatest evil in the world. He gives religion much too much credit when you think of the tens of millions who died under communism, fascism, and any of the other various ism's of the 20th century.
As a general rule, Christians know nothing about Jewish texts; indeed, they know little of their own. Incredibly, the NAZIs knew their Hebrew and Judaism. Eichmann studied for years under a rabbi, who was allowed to escape. When captured, Eichmann recited, in perfect Hebrew, HaShema.
Christians have always insisted that the Tanakh must be understood literally (I should say the Christian version). That is not the case. Everything written has a point, and not always one that a literal reading will convey. The Akedah is not what it seems.
He was an interesting guy and I would have loved having a drink with him as well as the arguments that would likely ensue. I agreed with the way he thought about half the time. For instance he hated the War on Terror, NSA spying and other aspects of the Patriot act but he also turned into a neo-conservative and strong supporter of the Iraq war after 9/11 and until the time he died. The latter issue would have provided enough conversation for a bottle or two of scotch all by itself.
The thing I liked best about him was his distain for PC bullshit. An example, he was an Islamophobe and despised the way people, people in the media and politics especially, cower in terror before Muslims even to the point of being afraid to hurt their feelings or dainty sensibilities.
I would have appreciated his hedonistic habits when I was younger but the guy needed to taper off as he got older.
I think you probably mistakenly lump all Christians together when it comes to their individual beliefs about Scripture, Allen, just as I think you do the same when talking about Jewish views. Just my opinion and I don't claim to be any kind of expert.
IMO, how one views scriptures, biblical literalism both internal and external, to a large extent determines what group you fall into within the various Christian sects. Catholics, Protestant, and Fundamentalist Christians all view biblical literalism differently. I would tend thinks that the same would apply within the various Judaic traditions. Perhaps, I'm wrong.
If you tell me you are a Christian, then, I know your core beliefs. To learn which of the 2,000 denominations of Christian Churches you belong will take additional information, but really is irrelevant in the face of what I already know.
There are a number of issues dividing Christians, including the infallibility of the text, or at least someone else's text. Since there are so many Christian denominations and sects there must be a host of divisive factors in play, abortion being one. That said, orthodox Christians still hold to a core group of distinguishing doctrines.
As a Jew, I reject them all. To maintain civility, I make little of it. However, when someone uses an ancient slander, the cause of much harm, I will interject. To be fair, the pagan Greeks of Alexandria used many of the same slanders to cause harm to Jews. This was long before Christianity. The end result was a series of pogroms all over Egypt that lead to the deaths or enslavement of about one million Jews.
It should not come as a surprise that the descendants of these same Greeks founded Christianity through the apostate, Paul. Words kill, sometimes purposefully.
Had Marcion been followed, much trouble might have been avoided. He wanted to rid the Christian Church of the Hebrew Bible and the Hebrew God, both incompatible with Christianity in his opinion. He also denied that Jesus was the son of the Hebrew god; rather Jesus was the son of the “good” god of the Christians. His goal was a total break with anything Hebrew. Initially, he got some traction, but eventually it was observed that without the Jewish texts, Christians would have nothing to read. You see, there was not yet a Christian canon. Nonetheless, this heresy managed to hang on for several hundred years.
“The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization.”
I can't find out from the wiki article whether Hitchens was a lapsed Catholic. All they say is he was raised a 'nominal Christian'.
They do say he was Jewish on his mother's side.
There was this -
". He also served on the advisory board of the Secular Coalition for America,[123] a lobbying group for atheists and humanists in Washington, DC. In 2007, Hitchens began a series of written debates on the question "Is Christianity Good for the World?" with Christian theologian and pastor, Douglas Wilson, published in Christianity Today magazine.[124] This exchange eventually became a book by the same title in 2008. During their book tour to promote the book, film producer Darren Doane sent a film crew to accompany them. Doane produced the film Collision: Is Christianity GOOD for the World?, which was released on 27 October 2009."
I know Doug Wilson. He is an idiot. Since I think Hitches was basically an idiot too, I imagine a debate between these two frauds as being between the deaf and the blind.
A little like a debate on things religious between, say, Quirk and Rufus.
"all to know Abraham, the father of evil and the dogmatic means to have good people do evil things"
What a crock.
On the contrary Abraham can be seen an another example of the Hero of our monomyth of blessed repute, and his pulling up stakes and heading on out to something new as the Call to Adventure of our theme.
He is said to have left some city or other, full of gods and hookers, the poor and a few rich, and dissatisfied headed north and west.
This was his answer to his discontent, his desire for something more, to get up and go.
This call may be depicted as coming from God, or in any other manner, but it always comes from within. It is a psychological call. Sometimes it goes unheard, or unanswered or aborts in some way. But this fellow answered his call from within.....
Ass-Grabbing asshole of a Fudd is molesting women, in Seattle.
I was standing on a chair at the back of Chop Suey trying to see the band when you grabbed my ass without invitation. You are fucking lucky you chose me because I was just intoxicated enough to try and let you off with a warning:
"Don't grab my ass again."
But what would a perfectly entitled douchebag like yourself say to someone with enough audacity to politely request you not physically assault her?
"Don't make it so presentable."
You then grabbed my ass a second time for good measure before quickly disappearing into the crowd.
Let me tell you something, you piece of shit: What you did is third-degree sexual assault.
I will never again politely request to not be assaulted, but I will give a boot to the balls of you or anyone else who crosses the line.
Men were doing evil long before Abraham. And men have done evil on a scale that would make the children of Abraham blush with envy - See: the Khan Dynasty: Siege of Baghdad.
I often find those most bitterly angry about G-d to be the most forlorn without Him. Life can be so cruel, we naturally ask, why? I have no better answer than anyone else. But I do know that in the totality of a life that is winding down I have been blessed. Psychologically, we are far more torn by our losses than our gains. Mickey Rooney once observed that he had lost his first dollar gambling at 16 and had spent the next 40 years and a million dollars trying to win it back. As Joni Mitchell sang, “You don’t what ya got till it’s gone.”
I am deeply grieved to see the condition of the world I will soon depart. All the lives lost, intelligence squandered, the resources expended in trying to find a better way to kill our fellows is such a waste. Where would man be now had he heeded the simple admonition of Micah: "O man, what does He require of thee, but to do justice, seek mercy, and walk humbly before your G-d."
Couldn't respond to this post on the last stream as the stream itself was cut off by one of Deuce's erratic 'no more posts' dictates.
Doug: I simply find your condescension in the face of my brilliant insightful humor and biting wit unacceptable, that's all.
I beg your pardon. While I can't honestly say I appreciate the bitter tone of your message, I must admit I am often transported to a special place, one of rapt fascination, mesmerized by your wordsmithing and your wit, humbled by your comic genius, with the flow of your words, with the interconnection of puns and similes and metaphors that proceed in an unending stream of bubbly magic, prolific, seemingly never ending that seem to roll over themselves in riotous profundity literally sparking a laugh riot that forces me to at one point smile at another to laugh until my eyes fill with tears, so moving yet so absurdly (in the good way) comical it hurts; and yet, at certain times doubtless due to my own insensitivity I find that because of the tortured subtlety of your sarcasm, the opaque 'through a class darkly' character of you irony, I find myself perplexed, nay downright metagrabolized, and wondering aloud "What the hell?"
But all in all, I must admit, yours are usually bravo performances, and in the future, I will try to do better.
Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich dressed-down New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s embattled top aides Wednesday, calling the politically motivated logjam of the George Washington Bridge in September, “the lowest, most venomous form of political retaliation.”
“I didn’t decide to join the fray of this until today when these e-mails surfaced. I’m not a retribution kind of a guy, but the folks that are responsible for this can no longer be in positions that they can actually cause this type of damage to other unsuspecting communities,” Mayor Sokolich told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer.
Gov. Christie hasn’t been directly linked to the controversial lane closures, but the direct involvement of aides at the top tier of his staff has raised many questions about his role.
In the interview, Sokolich said he was not interested in a personal apology but insisted that the governor should apologize to members of his community.
“Don’t call me, but call the families who were waiting... for ambulances."
Allen:You should have resisted the temptation of a heinous, bloody slander naming Jews as deicides – a slander that has caused rivers of Jewish blood to flow.
Bob made a claim that the Jews did not kill Jesus. I provided a counterclaim by Saul of Tarsus, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Pharisee among Pharisees, from scriptures that Christians consider to be in the inspired word of God. You answered that it was psychopathic for me to quote that scripture. As I said earlier, it is not surprising, coming from you, but have no fear, I do not believe Deuce will take down your blatant anti-Nazararitism.
Dear Miss T, the Gospels, and the Letters, and Revelations are so filled with contradictions of all sorts that if they are all the inspired Word of God, then God must indeed be one mixed up confused Dude.
I Live on just over a 1/4 acre of land, well within the city limits of Moscow, Idaho. I do engage in many farm-like activities there, such as gardening, chicken-keeping, home-cooking, and DIY building and repairs, because of this my family and friends often call me "Farmer Bob" to tease me.
I started this comic mainly to amuse them
All of my strips are retelling of things that I have witnessed at some point while pursuing the behaviors that define my "Farmer Bob" identity
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I live in Raleigh, NC.
Please again. Do not distort or lie about my blog.
Please refer to my copywrite of which you are violating. I shall take legal action against this blog if it continues.
Words kill. You have no sense of empathy for the victims of those words.
Below, I have replied to Desert Rat's post on the First Crusade against Islam. Also lacking empathy, Desert Rat makes no mention of it being the First Crusade against European and ME Jewry. As those noble soldiers for Christ struck down unarmed Jewish men, women, and children, the curse on their lips was, "Christ Killers".
Fast forward to the mid-Twentieth Century and the same excuse was used over and over as millions of unarmed Jewish men, women, and children were mowed down or gased by the followers or soldiers of Christ.
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Empty threats from an Empty Mind. One that does not appreciate humor or imagination
Words kill. You have no sense of empathy for the victims of those words.
Of she doesn't care Allen. She is an anti-semite. She has lied for years about who and what she is. Her true stripes are coming out. Do not be surprised.
Just let the anti-semite know that the next time they attempt to murder us, our children, our wives, burn our homes to the ground? We will not be shocked, but will fight back and make the criminals PAY for their attacks.
If i could get one message thru to the Quirks, Rufus, Duece, Ms T and Desert Rat? If you try to harm us AGAIN? You will feel the pain of our response.
Anti-semites need to learn that we will not apologize for living.
January 9, 2014 How the Muslim World Came into Being Raymond Ibrahim
Arabic-language websites reported earlier this week that the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, which throughout the course of the war against the Assad government has committed any number of atrocities -- from decapitating "infidels" to burning churches -- has successfully "forced" two Armenian Christian families to convert to Islam.
A video accompanies some of these reports. In it, what appears to be an elderly Armenian man stands alongside an Islamic cleric who announces the Christian man's conversion to Islam -- to thunderous cries of "Allahu Akbar!" In his exultation, the cleric makes exuberant statements like "You see, we have no honor without Islam -- without crying aloud that 'There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his prophet!'" (This appears to be another way of saying, "Only by joining our winning team can you ever escape dishonor," the lot of all non-Muslim "infidels.")
The cleric also adds that, because the man is the head of his household, his Christian wife and children are all now Muslim as well -- "all praise to Allah!" And if they reject their new Islamic identity, they become "apostates," a crime punishable by death.
The rather flippant and sarcastic text that accompanies this video on some websites points out the obvious:
After decades of peaceful coexistence between the various religions of Syria, and after decades of living under the moderate form of Levantine Islam ... these two Armenian families were none too keen on entering Islam or learning of its eminence -- except at the hands of DAASH [al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant], which has been presenting a "rosy" picture of Islam and Muslims, by way of chopping heads, whipping people, and general repression. Thus did these two Christian Armenian families finally enter Islam, willingly -- but only at the hands of DAASH.
In other words, it's "curious," to say the least, that Christians who for generations lived amid moderate Muslim majorities in Syria opted to remain Christian, are now "suddenly" attracted to Islam -- and at the hands of a jihadi organization that has been bombing churches, kidnapping and beheading Christians, and teaching even children to slaughter Christians wherever they may be found.
Sound like genuine conviction to you? Maybe the 2012 news that "a family of Armenian Christians was found murdered, and all members of the family horribly decapitated" in Syria is compelling these Armenian families into seeing the "wisdom" of embracing Islam?
Here we reach an important but overlooked historical point. While many Christians, past and present, have indeed willingly embraced martyrdom -- the sword, death -- rather than recant Christ for Muhammad, the majority of born Christians, when faced with converting to Islam or dying, have opted for the former. Indeed, call it a lack of idealism or a lack of faithfulness, but when faced with converting to Islam or simply being third-class subjects (dhimmis), throughout the centuries, countless nominal Christians have opted for the former.
That is precisely how and why the so-called "Islamic world" -- the majority of which was almost entirely Christian before the Islamic conquests -- came into being: a fact Westerners were well-acquainted with, before the current age of political correctness and downright deceit fell upon us.
Raymond Ibrahim is author of Crucified Again: Exposing Islam's New War on Christians.
Started in 1096 with the "First Crusade" ... Culminating with the Zionist Crusade which started in 1948 and is ongoing, as we speak. Six hundred and eighteen years of incessant invasions and the subjugation of Muslims and their countries.
If we're to judge both the gander and the goose that has laid our golden egg.
What does it matter to the individuals that were killed ... ... in the Christian and Judaic aggression against Islam that began in 1096 and continues today?
I was looking for some article to say it and didn’t see one, so I will say it.
I will miss Farmer Bob.
I first saw him giving tomatoes to the Food Ministry for the needy. And then I saw him at his stand across from Grocery Outlet. He was a familiar figure, and I, for one, will attend his memorial service and miss him.
In addition to the descendants of the Canaanites, the original denizens before patriarch Abraham’s arrival from Mesopotamia, Sand concludes that today’s Muslim and Christian Palestinians are actually the true progenies of the original Jews.
Jamal KanjThu Jan 09, 09:37:00 AM EST In addition to the descendants of the Canaanites, the original denizens before patriarch Abraham’s arrival from Mesopotamia, Sand concludes that today’s Muslim and Christian Palestinians are actually the true progenies of the original Jews.
eresita RedingerThu Jan 09, 09:28:00 AM EST Allen: As a general rule, Christians know nothing about Jewish texts; indeed, they know little of their own.
Your racist anti-Nazaritism is noted once again.
As a general rule, Jews have big noses because air is free.
When you can read the Hebrew Tanakh in Hebrew, let me know. As it now stands, tens of millions of you folks believe that a perfectly good Hebrew word for "young wife" or "young woman" means "virgin".
You do not need a big nose to read Hebrew. You do need a brain.
How could any God fearing Christian woman fake us that she was a Taoist for so many years?
Taoism is a philosophy. Christianity is a religion. No overlap on the Venn Diagram. That's like asking how any virtuosa cellist could fake being a Democrat for so many years.
Crocks Extremely ugly shoes with holes in them that are apparently very compfortable. Most users of these shoes are children (probably because they are too young to realize how bad they look), Farmers and old people. Farmer Bob: "Check out my new crocks!"
Fast forward to the mid-Twentieth Century and the same excuse was used over and over as millions of unarmed Jewish men, women, and children were mowed down or gased by the followers or soldiers of Christ.
Sure. Because we all know Hitler orchestrated the rise of Nazi Germany to edify the Lord.
Jews Have Debased American & Jewish Culture - Our Worst Enemy By Rabbi Daniel Lapin
Not once in Mein Kampf did that monster charge Jews with being complicit in the killing of Christ two thousand years earlier.
He knew that long-ago event, shrouded in mystery and theological profundity, would never goad enlightened people to murder. Instead, he drew attention to the obvious and inescapable; that which every German knew to be true.
The sad fact is that through Jewish actors, playwrights, and producers, the Berlin stage of Weimar Germany linked Jews and deviant sexuality in all its sordid manifestations just as surely as Broadway does today.
Knesset study cites cases of 11-year-olds used for commercial sex that are among the several thousands of teenagers involved in prostitution. Vered Lee Haaretz
AnonymousThu Jan 09, 11:09:00 AM EST Bullshit allen!
Rabbi Lapin disputes YOUR assertion
What assertion? Are you sober? I have not mentioned Mein Kampf. HItler most certainly did appeal to German Christianitiy in his propaganda. Read a book, please or stick with something you know, "bullshit".
Hitler was not above using the Christian hook on his audiences.
Rabbi Lapin disputes YOUR assertion Jews Have Debased American & Jewish Culture - Our Worst Enemy By Rabbi Daniel Lapin Not once in Mein Kampf did that monster charge Jews with being complicit in the killing of Christ two thousand years earlier.
He knew that long-ago event, shrouded in mystery and theological profundity, would never goad enlightened people to murder. Instead, he drew attention to the obvious and inescapable; that which every German knew to be true.
The sad fact is that through Jewish actors, playwrights, and producers, the Berlin stage of Weimar Germany linked Jews and deviant sexuality in all its sordid manifestations just as surely as Broadway does today.
Not Once as opposed to YOUR assertion that Hitler was not above using the Christian hook on his audiences.
Hitler did not put it in writing, not once.
Provide a quote, what is YOUR reference, for YOUR assertions ...
The Collective provided them for Ben-Gurion ... Why won't you supply one for Hitler, when Rabbi Lapin disputes YOUR assertions about Hitler?
Rabbi Lapin ... http://www.towardtradition.org/our_worst_enemy.htm
"I don't understand your optimism," Ben-Gurion declared. "Why should the Arabs make peace? If I were an Arab leader I would never make terms with Israel.
“My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God’s truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was his fight against the Jewish poison. Today, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before the fact that it was for this that He had to shed his blood upon the Cross. As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice… And if there is anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly, it is the distress that daily grows. For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people. And when I look on my people I see them work and work and toil and labor, and at the end of the week they have only for their wages wretchedness and misery. When I go out in the morning and see these men standing in their queues and look into their pinched faces, then I believe I would be no Christian, but a very devil, if I felt no pity for them, if I did not, as did our Lord two thousand years ago, turn against those by whom today this poor people are plundered and exposed.”
[Adolf Hitler, speech in Munich on April 12, 1922, countering a political opponent, Count Lerchenfeld, who opposed antisemitism on his personal Christian feelings. Published in "My New Order"
This week Farmer Bob tells us, in his own words, about homesteading at Mockingbird Hill Farm and how he ended up there.
I was raised on a back road country farm …woodstoves and outdoor plumbing…it seems to have defined me.
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The place has a staff of one…the old dirt farmer…that’s me…Farmer Bob.
Over the many years my sweat has stained every acre of this land and yet I remain a reasonably affable curmudgeon and farm interpreter. Farm walk-a-bouts are largely self-directed by necessity.
The toads keep escaping and I have to round them up!
“You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.”
Netherlands tightens noose around apartheid Israel’s neck
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) reports:
PGGM announced its decision to divest from Bank Hapoalim, Bank Leumi, First International Bank of Israel, Israel Discount Bank and Mizrahi Tefahot Bank… citing the pension investment firm’s “responsible investment policy”.
The text cited the banks’ “involvement in financing Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. This was a concern, as the settlements in the Palestinian territories are considered illegal under international humanitarian law”.
According to PGGM’s policy paper, the company excludes investing in bodies involved in “violations of fundamental human rights and labour rights”.
Needless to say, “violations of fundamental human rights” is one of Israel’s foremost areas of expertise on which it has advised and trained many a dictator and torturer, from Central and South America to sub-Saharan Africa.
So, hats off to PGGM. The boycott, divestment and sanctions momentum is building up and there’s no rolling back.
I will post an email that will allow those interested to become a blog member. I am too busy to do it now. I hardly need to explain my obvious reasons for doing so.
As we all know, Judaism, Christianity and Islam grew to fruition through this fella name Moses.
ReplyDeleteI cursed G_D, Allah, God or whatever name "He" goes by.
And the Prophet he rode in on.
Truth is the first attribute of the Living god.
And I've done my share of cursing Jesus too.
Q: When was the first mention of a cigarette in the bible?
DeleteA: "And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel." (Gen 24:64 Gen 24:64)
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DeleteThe Religion of Communism is responsible for more deaths than any other, although Rufus has written as if he is not aware of that fact.
ReplyDeleteNorth Korea is a mafia state with the symbols of communism. Russia at least dropped the symbols.
DeleteJoseph Stalin (Steel) was responsible for the murders of more human beings than Hitler, by a factor of 3 -4.
DeleteAnd Marxist/Leninism became a religion in every meaningful way. Note: the leadership ranks of the Party were heavily overweighted with atheist Jews, e.g. Trotsky. I have often wondered how much influence the Judaism of their childhood and youth played in their understanding of Marxism and the Revolution.
The Commies had the best
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DeleteNo accounting for taste.
DeleteEsp in Mississippi and Florida.
I like the line about the age of Kant.
DeleteOther than that, not so much.
ReplyDeleteSome people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.
~Maria Edgeworth
Would you listen to a psychopath?
ReplyDeleteFarmer BobWed Jan 08, 02:20:00 PM EST
but subliminally they still feel the Jews killed Christ, and similar non sense too.
…followed by…
Teresita RedingerWed Jan 08, 02:39:00 PM EST
subliminally they still feel the Jews killed Christ
And a good thing, too, Bob, because if our Lord was not put to death, we would still be in our sins. Don't you know basic Christian soteriology?
…followed by cautionary comment by Bob…
Farmer BobWed Jan 08, 02:50:00 PM EST
Think before you type, Miss T.
You have just said that the Jews killed Christ. The Jews didn't kill Christ
…Teresita then responded with a blood slander of ancient origin, which the Roman Church now denies…
Teresita RedingerWed Jan 08, 03:13:00 PM EST
Anonobob: You have just said that the Jews killed Christ. The Jews didn't kill Christ.
On the contrary, it is written (1 Thess. 2:14-15):
For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews: Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men.
But thank you for playing, please drive through.
Teresita clearly disbelieves the Pontiff and the mainline Protestant Churches, who have refuted the bloody liable of deicide. Furthermore, Teresita believes it possible to kill G-d, and that she will be damned if someone does not. What does she think about the bread and wine (cannibalism: real or substitutionary)?
Would you listen to a psychopath?
So your claim is that the Pope disavowes the Sacred Scripture in 1 Thessalonians.
Delete...ever heard of Vatican II...Benedict is coming out with a new book, coauthored with a Jewish rabbi friend, disavowing your blood slander. Take up your complaints with him.
DeleteYour throwing this highly controversial piece of red meat anew to bigots is what Christians have been trying to fight for years.
What's your take on cannibalism?
I wonder, allen, why you injected yourself into the middle of a discussion between two Christians about the New Testament with accusations of psychopathy?
DeleteWho's the other Christian?
DeleteI said specifically I think one has to save oneself.
I'm Christian/Lutheran only in the sense that I followed perhaps the only good advice Luther ever had, which was to read and make up your own mind.
I did, and have.
I'm the monomyth guy, remember?
Luther also had some good advice about giving all one has to the poor.
DeleteDon't do it, he advised. You will just be creating another bunch of poor......one's self, and liked minded.....and in the end human nature will reassert itself and the status quo ante will be returned.
Luther followed his own advice here I think.......while he gave to charity, he also directly helped some people, especially the street kids of the day he and his wife adopted and raised.
You should have resisted the temptation of a heinous, bloody slander naming Jews as deicides – a slander that has caused rivers of Jewish blood to flow.
DeleteAre you really this stupid?
Cram your singular Mooth up your ass, I'm getting a massage!
Delete...always loved Hitchens...I could never understand how the guy could remain a Marxist and Trotskyite.
ReplyDeleteHe followed the life style of Quirk, what with all the drinking and smoking.
DeleteI don't know whether he chased skirts with Quirk's abandon though.
Both gentlemen seem to have agreed that, basically, "LIfe Sucks".
Was Hitch another lapsed Catholic by any chance?
All Dicks.
DeleteAway with all your superstitions
ReplyDelete.
ReplyDeleteHave we got to the part about purple unicorns yet?
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I don't claim to know a lot about how Jewish folks interpret their own scriptures. With a lot of argumentation and disagreement, I would imagine. I do know they find much deeper meaning in these stories than is apparent to the first reading by a pair of Gentile eyes.
DeleteSome of it is quite humorous. The Lord was so upset about the misbehaviors of his darlings the he determined to flood them all out, and start again nearly from scratch.
He selected one man named Noah Quirk, and his wife, to carry on. When Noah Quirk finally made land fall, he immediately set to work planting vine yards, from which grapes he made strong wine, got dead drunk, and passed out.
Later Noah Quirk is rumored to created Vodka.
At any rate the point seems to be that the Lord hadn't very good clay to work with here on this planet.
On the other hand, another time we see Abraham arguing the Lord down from wiping out Sodom and its sister city, finally getting Him to agree to let a few of the righteous folks out. This also is quite humorous and instructive too as it seems to say a righteous man should be the measure of things.
Therefore I think the big banner headline over this thread is a big idiotic crock of manure.
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DeleteWas Hitchens a lapsed Catholic? Naw, although he expressed his disdain for the Church whenever he had an audience or a drink. Did quite a job on Mother Therese. But he didn't discriminate. He pretty much hated every religion.
He was actually Jewish if you follow the matrilineal line. Not surprisingly though, he was strongly anti-Zionist.
:)
My personal opinion is he kind of jumped the shark in his condemnation of religion as the greatest evil in the world. He gives religion much too much credit when you think of the tens of millions who died under communism, fascism, and any of the other various ism's of the 20th century.
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Bob,
DeleteAs a general rule, Christians know nothing about Jewish texts; indeed, they know little of their own. Incredibly, the NAZIs knew their Hebrew and Judaism. Eichmann studied for years under a rabbi, who was allowed to escape. When captured, Eichmann recited, in perfect Hebrew, HaShema.
Christians have always insisted that the Tanakh must be understood literally (I should say the Christian version). That is not the case. Everything written has a point, and not always one that a literal reading will convey. The Akedah is not what it seems.
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DeleteHe was an interesting guy and I would have loved having a drink with him as well as the arguments that would likely ensue. I agreed with the way he thought about half the time. For instance he hated the War on Terror, NSA spying and other aspects of the Patriot act but he also turned into a neo-conservative and strong supporter of the Iraq war after 9/11 and until the time he died. The latter issue would have provided enough conversation for a bottle or two of scotch all by itself.
The thing I liked best about him was his distain for PC bullshit. An example, he was an Islamophobe and despised the way people, people in the media and politics especially, cower in terror before Muslims even to the point of being afraid to hurt their feelings or dainty sensibilities.
I would have appreciated his hedonistic habits when I was younger but the guy needed to taper off as he got older.
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DeleteI think you probably mistakenly lump all Christians together when it comes to their individual beliefs about Scripture, Allen, just as I think you do the same when talking about Jewish views. Just my opinion and I don't claim to be any kind of expert.
IMO, how one views scriptures, biblical literalism both internal and external, to a large extent determines what group you fall into within the various Christian sects. Catholics, Protestant, and Fundamentalist Christians all view biblical literalism differently. I would tend thinks that the same would apply within the various Judaic traditions. Perhaps, I'm wrong.
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Hardly, proving the value and efficiency of stereotyping.
DeleteThere are a number of sacraments and doctrines that bind all Christians, by definition.
virgin birth
crucifixion
resurrection
redemption
eucharist
trinity
baptism
hell
return of Christ
If you tell me you are a Christian, then, I know your core beliefs. To learn which of the 2,000 denominations of Christian Churches you belong will take additional information, but really is irrelevant in the face of what I already know.
There are a number of issues dividing Christians, including the infallibility of the text, or at least someone else's text. Since there are so many Christian denominations and sects there must be a host of divisive factors in play, abortion being one. That said, orthodox Christians still hold to a core group of distinguishing doctrines.
As a Jew, I reject them all. To maintain civility, I make little of it. However, when someone uses an ancient slander, the cause of much harm, I will interject. To be fair, the pagan Greeks of Alexandria used many of the same slanders to cause harm to Jews. This was long before Christianity. The end result was a series of pogroms all over Egypt that lead to the deaths or enslavement of about one million Jews.
It should not come as a surprise that the descendants of these same Greeks founded Christianity through the apostate, Paul. Words kill, sometimes purposefully.
Had Marcion been followed, much trouble might have been avoided. He wanted to rid the Christian Church of the Hebrew Bible and the Hebrew God, both incompatible with Christianity in his opinion. He also denied that Jesus was the son of the Hebrew god; rather Jesus was the son of the “good” god of the Christians. His goal was a total break with anything Hebrew. Initially, he got some traction, but eventually it was observed that without the Jewish texts, Christians would have nothing to read. You see, there was not yet a Christian canon. Nonetheless, this heresy managed to hang on for several hundred years.
ReplyDelete“The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization.”
― Robert Anton Wilson
Booby Wilson ain't a very good reader and mostly unlearned.
DeleteHe made more of reading and writing than you have.
Delete;-)
bob
What is the essence of the universe? This is not a metaphysical question but one of physics.
ReplyDeleteMy Dog
ReplyDeleteI can't find out from the wiki article whether Hitchens was a lapsed Catholic. All they say is he was raised a 'nominal Christian'.
ReplyDeleteThey do say he was Jewish on his mother's side.
There was this -
". He also served on the advisory board of the Secular Coalition for America,[123] a lobbying group for atheists and humanists in Washington, DC. In 2007, Hitchens began a series of written debates on the question "Is Christianity Good for the World?" with Christian theologian and pastor, Douglas Wilson, published in Christianity Today magazine.[124] This exchange eventually became a book by the same title in 2008. During their book tour to promote the book, film producer Darren Doane sent a film crew to accompany them. Doane produced the film Collision: Is Christianity GOOD for the World?, which was released on 27 October 2009."
I know Doug Wilson. He is an idiot. Since I think Hitches was basically an idiot too, I imagine a debate between these two frauds as being between the deaf and the blind.
A little like a debate on things religious between, say, Quirk and Rufus.
Hitchens claimed Judaism after discovering in middle-age that his mother was a Jew. Prior to that he was a disinterested Roman Catholic.
DeleteAha, then !
DeleteI had him pegged as another lapser.
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DeleteYou pegged it wrong, again!
DeleteTwo fellows who made their lives from letters,
and the alfalfa farmer thinks he can stand in judgement of them.
The both 'out performed' the Fudd.
He wallows in their wake, and is sinking is the sea of dispair.
The fella who has never had a word he wrote printed, by a publisher, in the public domain.
Farmer Bob, another name for an illiterate, but good speller.
b.o.b.
Part of the idiotic headline above reads.....
ReplyDelete"all to know Abraham, the father of evil and the dogmatic means to have good people do evil things"
What a crock.
On the contrary Abraham can be seen an another example of the Hero of our monomyth of blessed repute, and his pulling up stakes and heading on out to something new as the Call to Adventure of our theme.
He is said to have left some city or other, full of gods and hookers, the poor and a few rich, and dissatisfied headed north and west.
This was his answer to his discontent, his desire for something more, to get up and go.
This call may be depicted as coming from God, or in any other manner, but it always comes from within. It is a psychological call. Sometimes it goes unheard, or unanswered or aborts in some way. But this fellow answered his call from within.....
bed time here
Ass-Grabbing asshole of a Fudd is molesting women, in Seattle.
DeleteI was standing on a chair at the back of Chop Suey trying to see the band when you grabbed my ass without invitation. You are fucking lucky you chose me because I was just intoxicated enough to try and let you off with a warning:
"Don't grab my ass again."
But what would a perfectly entitled douchebag like yourself say to someone with enough audacity to politely request you not physically assault her?
"Don't make it so presentable."
You then grabbed my ass a second time for good measure before quickly disappearing into the crowd.
Let me tell you something, you piece of shit:
What you did is third-degree sexual assault.
I will never again politely request to not be assaulted,
but I will give a boot to the balls of you or anyone else who crosses the line.
You are rape culture, you dickwad of a Fudd!.
—Anonymous
The blog's sicko is back.
DeleteBob,
DeleteMen were doing evil long before Abraham. And men have done evil on a scale that would make the children of Abraham blush with envy - See: the Khan Dynasty: Siege of Baghdad.
I often find those most bitterly angry about G-d to be the most forlorn without Him. Life can be so cruel, we naturally ask, why? I have no better answer than anyone else. But I do know that in the totality of a life that is winding down I have been blessed. Psychologically, we are far more torn by our losses than our gains. Mickey Rooney once observed that he had lost his first dollar gambling at 16 and had spent the next 40 years and a million dollars trying to win it back. As Joni Mitchell sang, “You don’t what ya got till it’s gone.”
I am deeply grieved to see the condition of the world I will soon depart. All the lives lost, intelligence squandered, the resources expended in trying to find a better way to kill our fellows is such a waste. Where would man be now had he heeded the simple admonition of Micah: "O man, what does He require of thee, but to do justice, seek mercy, and walk humbly before your G-d."
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ReplyDeleteTo Doug with affection and admiration:
Couldn't respond to this post on the last stream as the stream itself was cut off by one of Deuce's erratic 'no more posts' dictates.
Doug: I simply find your condescension in the face of my brilliant insightful humor and biting wit unacceptable, that's all.
I beg your pardon. While I can't honestly say I appreciate the bitter tone of your message, I must admit I am often transported to a special place, one of rapt fascination, mesmerized by your wordsmithing and your wit, humbled by your comic genius, with the flow of your words, with the interconnection of puns and similes and metaphors that proceed in an unending stream of bubbly magic, prolific, seemingly never ending that seem to roll over themselves in riotous profundity literally sparking a laugh riot that forces me to at one point smile at another to laugh until my eyes fill with tears, so moving yet so absurdly (in the good way) comical it hurts; and yet, at certain times doubtless due to my own insensitivity I find that because of the tortured subtlety of your sarcasm, the opaque 'through a class darkly' character of you irony, I find myself perplexed, nay downright metagrabolized, and wondering aloud "What the hell?"
But all in all, I must admit, yours are usually bravo performances, and in the future, I will try to do better.
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That's better.
DeleteNot bad for a Biochem Major who went to Berkeley imagining himself to be a budding Chemical Engineer, huh?
Then came Calculus for Science Majors, and my personal Calculus changed quick-like.
Same with Organic Chem. for Hard Science Majors.
Then I took the Organic Chem for Pre-Med Students and the like and got an A.
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DeleteYou're welcome, Doug. That's nice of you to say. Sonorous fearful symmetry of my prose? Oh, you go to far.
I try, but I think you put me on too high a pedestal. You are going to make me blush.
Thanks.
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Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich dressed-down New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s embattled top aides Wednesday, calling the politically motivated logjam of the George Washington Bridge in September, “the lowest, most venomous form of political retaliation.”
ReplyDelete“I didn’t decide to join the fray of this until today when these e-mails surfaced. I’m not a retribution kind of a guy, but the folks that are responsible for this can no longer be in positions that they can actually cause this type of damage to other unsuspecting communities,” Mayor Sokolich told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer.
Gov. Christie hasn’t been directly linked to the controversial lane closures, but the direct involvement of aides at the top tier of his staff has raised many questions about his role.
In the interview, Sokolich said he was not interested in a personal apology but insisted that the governor should apologize to members of his community.
“Don’t call me, but call the families who were waiting... for ambulances."
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Carve him up and feed him to the homeless.
Pure Poetry, Quirk, don't you forget it.
AND, he and Gates got Obama re-elected.
DeleteWater-under-the-bridgegate.
DeleteAllen: You should have resisted the temptation of a heinous, bloody slander naming Jews as deicides – a slander that has caused rivers of Jewish blood to flow.
ReplyDeleteBob made a claim that the Jews did not kill Jesus. I provided a counterclaim by Saul of Tarsus, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Pharisee among Pharisees, from scriptures that Christians consider to be in the inspired word of God. You answered that it was psychopathic for me to quote that scripture. As I said earlier, it is not surprising, coming from you, but have no fear, I do not believe Deuce will take down your blatant anti-Nazararitism.
er...Nazaritism. Something like that.
Deleteanti-Nazararitism
Delete:)
Next you will be quoting the part where the Jewish crowd shouts, "His blood be upon us, and our descendants."
Do you think this is an historically accurate recollection, or a real whopper of a propaganda line?
Why would the average Jew shout something like that, a whole crowd of them in fact, when Jesus was one of them, and was nailed up by the Romans?
Dear Miss T, the Gospels, and the Letters, and Revelations are so filled with contradictions of all sorts that if they are all the inspired Word of God, then God must indeed be one mixed up confused Dude.
DeleteHow about anti-Nazarenism?
DeleteHow about anti - Peckerwoodism?
;)
How about we critic the up coming Seahawks/Saints game on Saturday.
DeleteA subject we might well agree on.
I think the Squawks are going to blow them away.
Did the illiterate Catholic woman say:
Delete"Jesus may have been a Jew, but Mother Mary sure was not."
or:
"Mother Mary may have been a Jew, but Jesus sure was not."
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;)
How could any God fearing Christian woman fake us that she was a Taoist for so many years?
Delete:)
Prediction:
DeleteSquawks by 17 points.
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DeleteMy Name is really Bob. I am not really a Farmer
I Live on just over a 1/4 acre of land, well within the city limits of Moscow, Idaho. I do engage in many farm-like activities there, such as gardening, chicken-keeping, home-cooking, and DIY building and repairs, because of this my family and friends often call me "Farmer Bob" to tease me.
I started this comic mainly to amuse them
All of my strips are retelling of things that I have witnessed at some point while pursuing the behaviors that define my "Farmer Bob" identity
http://www.farmerbobcomics.com/
Dear Farmer Rob,
DeleteThank you for drawing attention to my blog. However please do not lie, distort and or change the content of my blog by misrepresenting it and it's contents.
I live in Raleigh, NC.
Please again. Do not distort or lie about my blog.
Please refer to my copywrite of which you are violating. I shall take legal action against this blog if it continues.
©2011 Robert Witchger.
Teresita,
DeleteWords kill. You have no sense of empathy for the victims of those words.
Below, I have replied to Desert Rat's post on the First Crusade against Islam. Also lacking empathy, Desert Rat makes no mention of it being the First Crusade against European and ME Jewry. As those noble soldiers for Christ struck down unarmed Jewish men, women, and children, the curse on their lips was, "Christ Killers".
Fast forward to the mid-Twentieth Century and the same excuse was used over and over as millions of unarmed Jewish men, women, and children were mowed down or gased by the followers or soldiers of Christ.
Words kill!
DeleteFarmer Bob -
Your suit will fail.
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Empty threats from an Empty Mind.
One that does not appreciate humor or imagination
Thank you for your legal clarification you fucktard asshole.
Delete
DeleteThe Empty Mind continues to prove that it is.
so sad .. ;-(
bob
allenThu Jan 09, 09:11:00 AM EST
DeleteTeresita,
Words kill. You have no sense of empathy for the victims of those words.
Of she doesn't care Allen. She is an anti-semite. She has lied for years about who and what she is. Her true stripes are coming out. Do not be surprised.
Anti-semites dont change. Accept it.
DeleteJust let the anti-semite know that the next time they attempt to murder us, our children, our wives, burn our homes to the ground? We will not be shocked, but will fight back and make the criminals PAY for their attacks.
If i could get one message thru to the Quirks, Rufus, Duece, Ms T and Desert Rat? If you try to harm us AGAIN? You will feel the pain of our response.
Anti-semites need to learn that we will not apologize for living.
January 9, 2014
ReplyDeleteHow the Muslim World Came into Being
Raymond Ibrahim
Arabic-language websites reported earlier this week that the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, which throughout the course of the war against the Assad government has committed any number of atrocities -- from decapitating "infidels" to burning churches -- has successfully "forced" two Armenian Christian families to convert to Islam.
A video accompanies some of these reports. In it, what appears to be an elderly Armenian man stands alongside an Islamic cleric who announces the Christian man's conversion to Islam -- to thunderous cries of "Allahu Akbar!" In his exultation, the cleric makes exuberant statements like "You see, we have no honor without Islam -- without crying aloud that 'There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his prophet!'" (This appears to be another way of saying, "Only by joining our winning team can you ever escape dishonor," the lot of all non-Muslim "infidels.")
The cleric also adds that, because the man is the head of his household, his Christian wife and children are all now Muslim as well -- "all praise to Allah!" And if they reject their new Islamic identity, they become "apostates," a crime punishable by death.
The rather flippant and sarcastic text that accompanies this video on some websites points out the obvious:
After decades of peaceful coexistence between the various religions of Syria, and after decades of living under the moderate form of Levantine Islam ... these two Armenian families were none too keen on entering Islam or learning of its eminence -- except at the hands of DAASH [al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant], which has been presenting a "rosy" picture of Islam and Muslims, by way of chopping heads, whipping people, and general repression. Thus did these two Christian Armenian families finally enter Islam, willingly -- but only at the hands of DAASH.
In other words, it's "curious," to say the least, that Christians who for generations lived amid moderate Muslim majorities in Syria opted to remain Christian, are now "suddenly" attracted to Islam -- and at the hands of a jihadi organization that has been bombing churches, kidnapping and beheading Christians, and teaching even children to slaughter Christians wherever they may be found.
Sound like genuine conviction to you? Maybe the 2012 news that "a family of Armenian Christians was found murdered, and all members of the family horribly decapitated" in Syria is compelling these Armenian families into seeing the "wisdom" of embracing Islam?
Here we reach an important but overlooked historical point. While many Christians, past and present, have indeed willingly embraced martyrdom -- the sword, death -- rather than recant Christ for Muhammad, the majority of born Christians, when faced with converting to Islam or dying, have opted for the former. Indeed, call it a lack of idealism or a lack of faithfulness, but when faced with converting to Islam or simply being third-class subjects (dhimmis), throughout the centuries, countless nominal Christians have opted for the former.
That is precisely how and why the so-called "Islamic world" -- the majority of which was almost entirely Christian before the Islamic conquests -- came into being: a fact Westerners were well-acquainted with, before the current age of political correctness and downright deceit fell upon us.
Raymond Ibrahim is author of Crucified Again: Exposing Islam's New War on Christians.
Christendoms war on Islam ,
DeleteStarted in 1096 with the "First Crusade" ...
Culminating with the Zionist Crusade which started in 1948 and is ongoing, as we speak.
Six hundred and eighteen years of incessant invasions and the subjugation of Muslims and their countries.
If we're to judge both the gander and the goose that has laid our golden egg.
B.O.B.
Wow did muslims HAVE "countries" 600 years ago?
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DeleteYes, Muslims did, Jews did not.
What does it matter to the individuals that were killed ...
... in the Christian and Judaic aggression against Islam that began in 1096 and continues today?
DeleteAccording to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF),
more than 100 tons of explosives were dropped in the first 9 hours of 'Operation Cast Lead'.
How many bottle rockets is that?
Assad of syria murdered 120,000 Syrians and didn't drop nearly that much explosives...
DeletePlease name a muslim country of 600 years ago?
DeleteHow many bottle rockets did arafat stuff up his ass during gay sex?
DeleteCulminating with the Zionist Crusade which started in 1948 and is ongoing, as we speak.
DeleteNot to good a crusade, there are more arabs in the middle east and in Israel today than at any point in history.
Maybe the Israelis need to take lessons from their cousins the arabs and employ BETTER methods of killing.
AnonymousThu Jan 09, 08:32:00 AM EST
DeleteChristendoms war on Islam ,
Started in 1096 with the "First Crusade" ...
Culminating with the Zionist Crusade which started in 1948 and is ongoing, as we speak.
You are hopelessy illiterate.
The NSA hired Israel for $110 billion USD - heh, heh, heh ...
ReplyDeleteFarmer Bob will be missed
I was looking for some article to say it and didn’t see one, so I will say it.
I will miss Farmer Bob.
I first saw him giving tomatoes to the Food Ministry for the needy. And then I saw him at his stand across from Grocery Outlet. He was a familiar figure, and I, for one, will attend his memorial service and miss him.
Dorothy Poy
Grass Valley
Allen: As a general rule, Christians know nothing about Jewish texts; indeed, they know little of their own.
ReplyDeleteYour racist anti-Nazaritism is noted once again.
As a general rule, Jews have big noses because air is free.
In addition to the descendants of the Canaanites, the original denizens before patriarch Abraham’s arrival from Mesopotamia, Sand concludes that today’s Muslim and Christian Palestinians are actually the true progenies of the original Jews.
DeleteJamal Kanj
Teresita RedingerThu Jan 09, 09:28:00 AM EST
DeleteAllen: As a general rule, Christians know nothing about Jewish texts; indeed, they know little of their own.
Your racist anti-Nazaritism is noted once again.
As a general rule, Jews have big noses because air is free.
******
As a general rule, Flips are short, squat, fat, stupid, poor and have bad breath cause toothpaste costs a bunch.
As a general rule, Jews have big noses because air is free.
DeleteJesus had a big nose, he could have smelled that twat of yours a mile away...
Jamal KanjThu Jan 09, 09:37:00 AM EST
DeleteIn addition to the descendants of the Canaanites, the original denizens before patriarch Abraham’s arrival from Mesopotamia, Sand concludes that today’s Muslim and Christian Palestinians are actually the true progenies of the original Jews.
Maybe Hitler should have murdered them instead?
eresita RedingerThu Jan 09, 09:28:00 AM EST
DeleteAllen: As a general rule, Christians know nothing about Jewish texts; indeed, they know little of their own.
Your racist anti-Nazaritism is noted once again.
As a general rule, Jews have big noses because air is free.
When you can read the Hebrew Tanakh in Hebrew, let me know. As it now stands, tens of millions of you folks believe that a perfectly good Hebrew word for "young wife" or "young woman" means "virgin".
You do not need a big nose to read Hebrew. You do need a brain.
How could any God fearing Christian woman fake us that she was a Taoist for so many years?
ReplyDeleteTaoism is a philosophy. Christianity is a religion. No overlap on the Venn Diagram. That's like asking how any virtuosa cellist could fake being a Democrat for so many years.
Ms T, allen is a fellow that confuses 'religion', 'ethnicity' and 'race'..
DeleteHe is such a bigot he wraps all three into one package, then mislabels that with a misapplied linguistic term.
Such sloppy thinking and use of language, well ....
It leaves little room for the appreciation of the philosophic concepts of other folks.
What, Miss T?
DeletePhilosophy, religion?
What a crock, but good try.
Crocks
DeleteExtremely ugly shoes with holes in them that are apparently very compfortable.
Most users of these shoes are children (probably because they are too young to realize how bad they look), Farmers and old people.
Farmer Bob: "Check out my new crocks!"
Daughter: "Ew Farmer Bob, those are so ugly!"
Fast forward to the mid-Twentieth Century and the same excuse was used over and over as millions of unarmed Jewish men, women, and children were mowed down or gased by the followers or soldiers of Christ.
ReplyDeleteSure. Because we all know Hitler orchestrated the rise of Nazi Germany to edify the Lord.
we all know you are really a man
DeleteHitler was not above using the Christian hook on his audiences.
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DeleteWho would you be but who you are?
Bullshit allen!
DeleteRabbi Lapin disputes YOUR assertion
Jews Have Debased American & Jewish Culture -
Our Worst Enemy
By Rabbi Daniel Lapin
Not once in Mein Kampf did that monster charge Jews with being complicit in the killing of Christ two thousand years earlier.
He knew that long-ago event, shrouded in mystery and theological profundity, would never goad enlightened people to murder. Instead, he drew attention to the obvious and inescapable; that which every German knew to be true.
The sad fact is that through Jewish actors, playwrights, and producers, the Berlin stage of Weimar Germany linked Jews and deviant sexuality in all its sordid manifestations just as surely as Broadway does today.
http://www.towardtradition.org/our_worst_enemy.htm
DeleteAge of Child Prostitutes in Israel Dropping
Knesset study cites cases of 11-year-olds used for commercial sex that are among the several thousands of teenagers involved in prostitution.
Vered Lee
Haaretz
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/.premium-1.542420
"Spengler's Laws": "When a nation is reduced to selling its women, it's lost."
Hitler used much of the Lutheran Church laws to be the basis for his laws against the Jews.
DeleteNot a stretch.
Was Hitler a "true" Christians? No.
Is Ms T a "true" Christian? No.
Do Ms T and Hitler share hatred of Jews? Yes...
is Ms t - Hitler? No... Just an admirer.
AnonymousThu Jan 09, 11:09:00 AM EST
DeleteBullshit allen!
Rabbi Lapin disputes YOUR assertion
What assertion? Are you sober? I have not mentioned Mein Kampf. HItler most certainly did appeal to German Christianitiy in his propaganda. Read a book, please or stick with something you know, "bullshit".
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Deleteallen Thu Jan 09, 11:00:00 AM EST
DeleteHitler was not above using the Christian hook on his audiences.
Rabbi Lapin disputes YOUR assertion
Jews Have Debased American & Jewish Culture -
Our Worst Enemy
By Rabbi Daniel Lapin
Not once in Mein Kampf did that monster charge Jews with being complicit in the killing of Christ two thousand years earlier.
He knew that long-ago event, shrouded in mystery and theological profundity, would never goad enlightened people to murder. Instead, he drew attention to the obvious and inescapable; that which every German knew to be true.
The sad fact is that through Jewish actors, playwrights, and producers, the Berlin stage of Weimar Germany linked Jews and deviant sexuality in all its sordid manifestations just as surely as Broadway does today.
Not Once as opposed to YOUR assertion that Hitler was not above using the Christian hook on his audiences.
Hitler did not put it in writing, not once.
Provide a quote, what is YOUR reference, for YOUR assertions ...
The Collective provided them for Ben-Gurion ...
Why won't you supply one for Hitler, when Rabbi Lapin disputes YOUR assertions about Hitler?
Rabbi Lapin ...
http://www.towardtradition.org/our_worst_enemy.htm
Delete"I don't understand your optimism," Ben-Gurion declared.
"Why should the Arabs make peace?
If I were an Arab leader I would never make terms with Israel.
That is natural: we have taken their country."
Deletehttp://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Ben-Gurion
“My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a
Deletefighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded
by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and
summoned men to fight against them and who, God’s truth! was greatest
not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian
and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord
at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the
Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was his fight
against the Jewish poison. Today, after two thousand years, with
deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before the fact
that it was for this that He had to shed his blood upon the Cross. As
a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have
the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice… And if there is
anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly, it is
the distress that daily grows. For as a Christian I have also a duty
to my own people. And when I look on my people I see them work and
work and toil and labor, and at the end of the week they have only
for their wages wretchedness and misery. When I go out in the morning
and see these men standing in their queues and look into their
pinched faces, then I believe I would be no Christian, but a very
devil, if I felt no pity for them, if I did not, as did our Lord two
thousand years ago, turn against those by whom today this poor people
are plundered and exposed.”
[Adolf Hitler, speech in Munich on April 12, 1922, countering a
political opponent, Count Lerchenfeld, who opposed antisemitism on
his personal Christian feelings. Published in "My New Order"
Now, butt out!
ReplyDeleteWeekend Trippin' :
Farmer Bob, in his own words
This week Farmer Bob tells us, in his own words, about homesteading at Mockingbird Hill Farm and how he ended up there.
I was raised on a back road country farm …woodstoves and outdoor plumbing…it seems to have defined me.
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The place has a staff of one…the old dirt farmer…that’s me…Farmer Bob.
Over the many years my sweat has stained every acre of this land and yet I remain a reasonably affable curmudgeon and farm interpreter. Farm walk-a-bouts are largely self-directed by necessity.
The toads keep escaping and I have to round them up!
Deuce, I thought you were going to clean this place up?
ReplyDeleteHere is a candidate for your delete button -
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Farmer Bob ComicsThu Jan 09, 09:42:00 AM EST
Thank you for your legal clarification you fucktard asshole.
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There are about 10 others as well that ought to go.
Delete“You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her,
put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,”
thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.”
― John Berger
Bob, why aim so small?
DeleteMost of the posts on this thread are crap.
Most of the threads on this blog are crap.
In fact? Crap is normal here.
You could always leave, that would clean the place up, quite a bit.
DeleteIt'd be the first step in a literary renewal project.
The most illiterate and unimaginative should leave first.
I've told you to quit wasting your time, besides ....
Your sister would appreciate getting the computer back, too.
Netherlands tightens noose around apartheid Israel’s neck
ReplyDeleteThe Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) reports:
PGGM announced its decision to divest from Bank Hapoalim, Bank Leumi, First International Bank of Israel, Israel Discount Bank and Mizrahi Tefahot Bank… citing the pension investment firm’s “responsible investment policy”.
The text cited the banks’
“involvement in financing Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. This was a concern, as the settlements in the Palestinian territories are considered illegal under international humanitarian law”.
According to PGGM’s policy paper, the company excludes investing in bodies involved in “violations of fundamental human rights and labour rights”.
Needless to say, “violations of fundamental human rights” is one of Israel’s foremost areas of expertise on which it has advised and trained many a dictator and torturer, from Central and South America to sub-Saharan Africa.
So, hats off to PGGM. The boycott, divestment and sanctions momentum is building up and there’s no rolling back.
http://www.redressonline.com/2014/01/netherlands-tightens-noose-around-apartheid-israels-neck/
Allen: Words kill. You have no sense of empathy for the victims of those words.
ReplyDeleteSays the man who promises Jews will bring down the arch of American civilization, which would cause untold suffering. Empathy. Go figure.
I will post an email that will allow those interested to become a blog member. I am too busy to do it now. I hardly need to explain my obvious reasons for doing so.
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