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Jews vs. Palestine
#31
RE: Jews vs. Palestine
(May 15, 2021 at 8:45 am)WinterHold Wrote: So, he admits that the scripture of the Jews is the most sickening, though he believes that a "Jewish person" doesn't take these texts seriously? Huh

Unlike you, Sam Harris actually met many jews and talked with them about their faith.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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#32
RE: Jews vs. Palestine
(May 15, 2021 at 7:57 am)Eleven Wrote: Why Sam Harris doesn't criticize Israel:



I do agree with some of what he is saying here. But "self defense" in this case is moot after 1,000s of years of fighting over that land. Ultimately it still about religion for both sides. I have long since pretty much given up on taking sides. Isreal is certainly more westernized than it's neighbors for sure, so in that context I tend to support them more. But when he says Jews don't believe in a God, and don't take their holy books seriously, then why do they fight over that land? In that context, they are using religion to take more land, and that to me, in that context is no different than when White European Christians invaded the Americas and pushed Natives off their lands. 

Harris is right about Jihadist and Hamas motivations, but two wrongs do not make a right. While one can claim that Jihadist and Hamas are bent on the destruction of Israel and Jews, also remember that our right wing Christians believe Isreal being a state is a sign of the "end times". 

So this video is a mixed bag for me.

(May 15, 2021 at 11:56 am)Fake Messiah Wrote:
(May 15, 2021 at 8:45 am)WinterHold Wrote: So, he admits that the scripture of the Jews is the most sickening, though he believes that a "Jewish person" doesn't take these texts seriously? Huh

Unlike you, Sam Harris actually met many jews and talked with them about their faith.

I don't think this is an either or situation. There are Jews that DO believe in a God, just that most don't believe in hell. Christians and Muslims are the ones who believe in hell at a far higher rate. But there is no set standard for all Jews. Just like any other religion, there is always going to be different interpretations of the same religion/holy writing. But the idea of "hell" in antiquity for Jews, wasn't a magical place, but more like a "trash dump". 

If a Jewish person says they don't believe in a God, I'll take their individual word for it, but just for that person as an individual. I would also find it absurd to claim the most Orthodox right wing Jews don't believe in a God after watching them pray at the Wailing Wall countless times.
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#33
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https://twitter.com/DrMahmoudRefaat/stat...8918787072

Look how the Israeli savage zionist police treats women.
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#34
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If you're looking for saints in the promised land, the pickings are going to be slim.
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#35
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(May 15, 2021 at 1:16 pm)WinterHold Wrote: https://twitter.com/DrMahmoudRefaat/stat...8918787072

Look how the Israeli savage zionist police treats women.

As compaired to what? First off, what fucking makes you think I like seeing that shit myself? Secondly notice that those women aren't wearing Hijabs or Burkas? Those same women if they lived in Afghanistan would be covered head to toe. 

And what makes you think men in the west don't criticize other religions besides yours? I hate the idea of say LDS and Amish forcing gender roles on the females here. 

Was what you linked wrong? Yes. Just as wrong as what Chauvin did to George Floyd. In fact. My liberal friend who lives in Oklahoma, whose dad voted for Trump, even he was furious with how George Floyd was treated. I am pretty sure he'd be furious at the video you just linked here. The issue isn't that they have vaginas, but that they are unarmed. 

Do yourself a favor Atlass, stop looking through the prisim of "us vs them" or "gender".

Years ago I ran into an article online about right wing Orthodox Jews  who refused to sit next to women on a passenger jet. FUCK THEM. Females regardless of where they live, or what their religion is, are not second class humans to be either treated as property, or to be treated as submissives. 

I know that you don't want to see it. But trust me, in America, and even in Isreal there are Jews that do not like how Palestinians are treated. But that does NOT justify the religious zealots of Hamas or ISIS or Jehadists, regardless.

The video you linked is very disturbing and things like that should not happen. But Hamas and ISIS and Jehadists are not the solution.
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#36
RE: Jews vs. Palestine
(May 15, 2021 at 1:16 pm)WinterHold Wrote: https://twitter.com/DrMahmoudRefaat/stat...8918787072

Look how the Israeli savage zionist police treats women.

I don’t have a twitter account, so I can’t see that. Not that I’m justifying what probably happened, but police the world over are not generally known for the gentle treatment of women.

I imagine it has more to do with being a cop than with being a Zionist.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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#37
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(May 13, 2021 at 5:17 pm)WinterHold Wrote: Palestine is a Muslim, Arab land. It was Jewish in the Iron age until Rome ravaged it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_J...em_(70_CE)

Quote:The siege of Jerusalem in the year 70 CE was the decisive event of the First Jewish–Roman War, in which the Roman army captured the city of Jerusalem and destroyed both the city and its Temple.


[Image: 800px-Roberts_Siege_and_Destruction_of_Jerusalem.jpg]

This led to the famous "Jewish Diaspora". The return of Jews to Palestine and establishment of a Jewish state there is "a Zionist" doctrine, the Zionists are a Jewish cult that was supported by Britain in WW1 to weaken the Ottoman empire.

Even though Orthodox Judaism is against "Zionism" totally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism#Ha...nd_Zionism

the extreme cult (Zionists) is still getting support from the west and many other countries, they commit terrible massacres in the native Muslims & Christians, and cornered them in a small strip called "Gaza".

The cause of the Palestinians is a fair, just cause, they are fighting a cult of extreme religious maniacs who couldn't get over a defeat by the Romans before 2000 years.

The planet is 4 billion years old. It is NOT Muslim land, or Jewish land, or Christian land, or Hindu land or Buddhist land or atheist land. It is just the same planet, the same home all 7 billion humans live on.
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#38
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(May 15, 2021 at 5:45 pm)Brian37 Wrote:
(May 13, 2021 at 5:17 pm)WinterHold Wrote: Palestine is a Muslim, Arab land. It was Jewish in the Iron age until Rome ravaged it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_J...em_(70_CE)



[Image: 800px-Roberts_Siege_and_Destruction_of_Jerusalem.jpg]

This led to the famous "Jewish Diaspora". The return of Jews to Palestine and establishment of a Jewish state there is "a Zionist" doctrine, the Zionists are a Jewish cult that was supported by Britain in WW1 to weaken the Ottoman empire.

Even though Orthodox Judaism is against "Zionism" totally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism#Ha...nd_Zionism

the extreme cult (Zionists) is still getting support from the west and many other countries, they commit terrible massacres in the native Muslims & Christians, and cornered them in a small strip called "Gaza".

The cause of the Palestinians is a fair, just cause, they are fighting a cult of extreme religious maniacs who couldn't get over a defeat by the Romans before 2000 years.

The planet is 4 billion years old. It is NOT Muslim land, or Jewish land, or Christian land, or Hindu land or Buddhist land or atheist land. It is just the same planet, the same home all 7 billion humans live on.

That’s both simplistic and ignorant.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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#39
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(May 15, 2021 at 5:46 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(May 15, 2021 at 5:45 pm)Brian37 Wrote: The planet is 4 billion years old. It is NOT Muslim land, or Jewish land, or Christian land, or Hindu land or Buddhist land or atheist land. It is just the same planet, the same home all 7 billion humans live on.

That’s both simplistic and ignorant.

Boru

No it is not. The complexity is unfortunately human invented. But the reality is simple. Humans were not important to the solar system or planet 4 billion years ago, and we will be long gone as a species by the time the sun expands and fries our solar system.

"Importance" for our particular species is short term in cosmic time. It IS important for our species to fight less and cooperate more in order to extend our species ride. But our speices is not important to the planet anymore than the meteor that killed off the dinosaurs gave one fuck about the dinosuars.

It is not wrong to state that death is unfortunately part of life, and our species won't last forever on a planet that science has proven has had 5 mass extinction events. Humans are NOT above nature, we are simply one species in nature.
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#40
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(May 15, 2021 at 12:44 am)CarveTheFive Wrote: I’m glad the Jews have a homeland. And double fuck Hamas. Hamas is nasty.

If they keep trying to make Israel a far-right ethno-religious state they won't have a homeland for too much longer.
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