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You mention anthropology, a science, and then bring in the bible to do what exactly? Make yourself look like a clown? Make yourself look like someone who wants to win over "christian" hearts?
Cognitive dissonance. I bet in cases with open religious nutters like yourself it will most definitely lead into a psychosis of some sorts. Fingers crossed to that.
Originally posted by dontreally
Uh huh.... Bigot much? So now everyone who believes in the Bible is a moron? And actually, i didnt say that as an appeal to Christians. Its my own personal belief. Additionally, the bible DOES infact say that the Jewish people will return to Israel, so that must account for something, shouldnt it?
It amazes me how secularists want to arbitrate between the Israeli and Palestinians, using "democracy" and "international law", when the simple fact is: Both parties, Jew and Arab, make claim to Israel and Jerusalem on religious grounds. There is a certain centrality to this land to the Jews and the Muslims (adopting this perception from the Jews) aswell believe Jerusalem, and so all of Israel (which to them should fall under the term "Dar Al Islam", which means "house of submission") should be under Islamic government....This despite the fact that the Quran belies their claim to it.
Um... what cognitive dissonance? Do you know what that term means? You know, not everyone understands the Torah and writings in the way of christian fundamentalists. Im not a Christian, first of all, and second, a great deal of the Bible is allegory - cloaking a philosophy...
So if you had actually been a philosophically minded person, you would understand that there is no real conflict between religion - when philosophically understood (and not everyone is so fortunate to understand the inner meaning of the Torah/prophets/writings) and science. They deal with two disparate aspects of reality. Science cannot touch the metaphysical; it cannot concern itself with values, or meaning, and likewise, Science has its own sphere of reality; dealing with concrete things.
Originally posted by Nammu
reply to post by JohhnyBGood
Do remember that common law, historic literature and science, which we so adamently count as the basis of our western culture, had Islamic origins.
Abbas is right; the people ancestral to the Palestinians (and ancestral to the ancient Israelites) have history out there stretching to the Neolithic. However, Jews as such can only trace back to three thousand years ago. Because that's the earliest point at which Judaism was founded. Duh? I mean you really can't have "Jews" without "Judaism" now can you?
At some point under Egyptian rule, they adopted Judaism, and managed to form two kingdoms,
When European Jews - some of them distant descendants of those long-exiled revolt leaders - started migrating to the Levant, they were finding the descendants of the people their holy books are about.
To justify their militarized attempt at Ashkenazi Colonialism, they conjured this mythology of the place having been totally empty, and that the people who lived there were "Arab invaders" (which is awkward - if nobody lived there, how would 'arab invaders' have lived there?)
I guess what I'm saying, dontreally, is that you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. You never do. You run away when confronted by anyone who DOES, and then pretend you'd never heard such things when you renew the topic as though you'd never been schooled. it's silly.
Originally posted by dontreally
Science is not divorced from religion; Religion falls under scientific scrutiny. You don't get to say "nuh uh, no science here!" - your religious views are scientifically lacking, and thus can easily be dismissed as false. Science has yet to determine whether you just like playing pretend, or whether you might have a delusional mental disorder that subjects you to believing in irrational, unprovable things that actually cause you harm and distress when you believe in them.
You really are a full bown Nazi, in every sense of the Term./
Just as the Nazis were intrigued by Buddhism, as are you. And you and them share much more in common then that. Apparently anything that doesnt fit your 'scientific' religious ideals, which in any case is based on a personal philosophy which adheres to your own logic, is moronic, and unaccetpible.
This is why i dont talk to you. Its because youre a Nazi - and a sophist, ignorant, buddhist, hypocrtical one at that.
Abbas is right; the people ancestral to the Palestinians (and ancestral to the ancient Israelites) have history out there stretching to the Neolithic. However, Jews as such can only trace back to three thousand years ago. Because that's the earliest point at which Judaism was founded. Duh? I mean you really can't have "Jews" without "Judaism" now can you?
Further, these ancestral people followed a pretty easy-to-follow religious and political trajectory. They started out as pagan Canaanite tribes. Then they came under Egyptian rule. At some point under Egyptian rule, they adopted Judaism, and managed to form two kingdoms, tributaries to Egypt. later they were conquered by the Persians, then the Macedonians, then the Romans. Somewhere in the middle of the Roman period, some guerrilla bands of the locals started a war with the Romans, and lost - their leaders were dispersed around the empire, and life carried on. Late in the Roman period, Christianity caught on, and many of these people converted. For a while they fell under the rule of the Byzantine Roman Empire. When Omar and his army came in the 700's, the territory and its people fell under Arab rule. Many converted to Islam, for the same reasons they had converted to Christianity earlier - economics. There's a period of back-and-forth between the Arabs, Franks, and Turks, and the territory ends up a Turkish holding for a long damn time.
When European Jews - some of them distant descendants of those long-exiled revolt leaders - started migrating to the Levant, they were finding the descendants of the people their holy books are about. To justify their militarized attempt at Ashkenazi Colonialism, they conjured this mythology of the place having been totally empty, and that the people who lived there were "Arab invaders" (which is awkward - if nobody lived there, how would 'arab invaders' have lived there?). The European powers, who had only the very vaguest grasp of or interest in history outside of Europe, just sort of shrugged and went along with it.
your religious views are scientifically lacking, and thus can easily be dismissed as false. Science has yet to determine whether you just like playing pretend, or whether you might have a delusional mental disorder that subjects you to believing in irrational, unprovable things that actually cause you harm and distress when you believe in them.
Originally posted by dontreally
reply to post by wcitizen
These people also constitute a very small minority of Orthodox Jews.
There also the most backward, and illogical, of religious
Funny that you would think these Jews at all represent Orthodox Jewry. Most Orthodox Jews are either Religious Zionist, or neutra.
Just listen to these guys speak. Half of them can barely speak english, let alone have read a secular book. Their 'wisdom' is confined to only jewish law, and unfortunately Jewish law is only suited to personal affairs. Not to the real world and its complicated political realities. They have no concept at all of how politics works. And so they naively think the Messiah will pop out of nowhere, maybe materialize out of nothing, and one day take over the world. It is such.........illogical nonsense. Judaism cannot be reconciled with such nonsense.
And you have nothing in common with these people. You only cite them because you think they strengthen your argument.
Originally posted by Lemon.Fresh
Reply to post by wcitizen
*He never called Orthodox Jews Nazi's.
*Their logic is not sound. Their main point of contention is that the nation was put in place by man, and not by God. As per the Tanakh, God will use whom He pleases to carry out his will.
*You were in fact trying to bolster the idea that Jews as a whole think this way.
*All I see in this thread is the refutation of what was claimed as factual by the PA, followed by "Anti-Zionist" rants.
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*All I see in this thread is the refutation of what was claimed as factual by the PA, followed by "Anti-Zionist" rants.
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