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A news article said "Leading religious institutes like the Presbyterian, Episcopalian, Church of Christ, as well as high Church officials in the Greek Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant Church have forcefully criticized Israel’s human rights record and have supported various types of boycotts." Not including but also other religions like the Muslim, Asian, etc. "Major trade unions in Canada, South Africa, and in the European Union and Middle East have expressed opposition to Israeli ethnic cleansing and militarism. University teachers, led by British and Irish educators, are supporting a boycott of Israeli scholars and institutes collaborating with the Israeli regime. Even within the United States, despite the Lobby’s propaganda campaigns, a majority of US citizens did not support Israel’s bombing of Lebanon"
What do you call when the civilian deaths vastly outnumber the soldier’s deaths? What do you call it when $10billion of civilian homes, businesses, and infrastructure gets destroyed more than military arsenal? What do you call that the rules and propaganda applies to others but not to specific people that are above the law that do break the rules the most and have power to manipulate the news that the majority of the world has seem the crimes committed are mainly by the ones that are immune? What do you call people that believe what they are fed? Just like the last post about what are you a republican or democrat about if a crazy person is coming at you to kill you what do you do. Now the one to blame is not the crazy person if the guy doesn’t protect his family but the guy that lets the crazy person hurt his family since they are more insane than the crazy person. The odd thing is that I use to say over 5-10 years ago that the Muslim religion is not good but people didn’t believe it and now many do but are misunderstanding it as well. Maybe it might take another 5-10 years for people to get it since as bad as the religion is; it is not the cause of the world's problems. We are the cause for not understanding what is going on to support the wrong things which hurts us and everyone else. We can not blame the wolf for it trying to hunt your sheep; you are to blame for not doing your job to take care of the sheep and not knowing what is going on. People that find politics boring are boring since if they can not care for something that impacts them and only care for useless things, and then what does that tell you about the person? Obviously some that know less will argue just because they don’t want to be woken up from their state of delusion since ignorance is bliss as the saying goes. ------------------ |
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This one is a mix of the 2 post about the pope in his comments and this. Also the fact the some forums have an error and doesn't let you reply. "The most senior Palestinian churchman, Archbishop Theodosius Atallah Hanna of Sebaste called upon Muslims to show their magnanimity and put an end to their campaign against the Pope. “The Pope apologised for his unfortunate words; now it is time to put this affair behind us and forget it” said the Msgr. Theodosius, a leading Palestinian cleric of the Orthodox Church of Jerusalem and the Holy Land, well known for his active support of the Palestinian cause. He spoke at the Church of Mar Elias (Elijah the Prophet) in his native Haifa to local Christians and Muslims. “Despite long and troubled history of our Church relationship with the Catholic Church” – said Atallah Hanna in a veiled reference to the Catholic Crusade against Orthodox Christians, - “I call for friendly, warm and brotherly relations with Vatican, and with all Christian and Muslim believers”. Archbishop joined with the Muslim clerics condemning a wave of arson targeting Catholic churches in Palestine. The perpetrators of these crimes are still unknown, and the Haaretz newspaper reported that Israeli Security Services [Shabak] are widely suspected for being behind it. The Orthodox Church is the oldest and biggest Christian Church in the Holy Land." [This message has been edited by warsong (edited October 03, 2006).] |
Lazarus![]() Member Posts: 1668 From: USA Registered: 06-06-2006 |
quote: I'd call it someone waging a smart war. Just gotta say, if you want a war to end you hit the civilians. That's the way it has always been. From way back in the Bible to WWII. Oh, and a lot of that anti-Israeli stuff, it sounds like propoganda to me. “Despite long and troubled history of our Church relationship with the Catholic Church” That's the understatement of the century. How about: And I'll end on this note. I'm only 15, what do I know about politics? This is just my opinion, wrong though it may well be. I don't think there always is a right and wrong side. Lazarus |
Faith_Warrior![]() Member Posts: 490 From: So.Cal. Registered: 09-05-2006 |
quote:Ugh, what will they think of next?? As for the Pope, he had it right the first time. He said it but there it is. So does the reaction prove that it's a religion of peace? Or to the contrary as stated? I guess every dog has its day. Lastly... "Go Israel!!!" :thumbsup: |
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These kinds of replies seem sorry to say a bit unchristian and once people slip away from Christ’s teaching they will get influenced in the bad way. As Christ said he is the Alpha and the Omega, you know the first and the last but to side with non christian views is contradicting christ since he can be first but not in the way he said it or the way we want it. Laz=== As for the understatement they don’t bother emphasizing since they don’t want to stir up anything I would guess in what the Catholics have done to them. Or I guess they are going with what the bible says to forgive. If there is no right and wrong side then why not become Muslim since there is no right and wrong side. Lol Faith warrior=== Go Israel? Maybe you should live their and then you will appreciate sin city LA as a moral place. Lol Don’t judge on your high chair, while not counting the majority of people and countries that have experience in dealing with the Middle East for millenniums, unlike the US which is still and infant and gullible with its altered form of Christianity which has been slowly been rotten away with politically correctness is not helping. Just don’t take things at face value and treat every side equally fair and to say go Israel is ignorant and humble in your analogy. Even Socrates being considered the greatest mind of all time said that the thing he is certain about is that he knows nothing. People learn every day and sometimes they learn things that change their entire view but they have to be humble enough to understand it all. Good luck. ------------------ |
Lazarus![]() Member Posts: 1668 From: USA Registered: 06-06-2006 |
quote: Look at the bombings of Dresden and other german cities during WWII. Some might ask whether it is unchristian even to fight, btw. Look: Hezbollah attacked Israel. According to everything I've heard most of the Lebanese were pro-Hezbollah and supported them. My Dad said something that I sure wish would happen a few weeks ago. He said that if one or the other side would simply stop fighting, and forgive, the conflict would end. Warsong, I didn't say there is no right or wrong side, I said I don't think there always is. Oh, and about the Pope, it sounded to me like he was backing down, because he was afraid of the Muslims. My own opinions can change from day to day so there's no guarantee I'm right. "If you do not forgive all men, then your heavenly Father cannot forgive you", paraphrasing. Lazarus |
Faith_Warrior![]() Member Posts: 490 From: So.Cal. Registered: 09-05-2006 |
So I’m ignorant because… I disagree with your views… yes so obviously I’m ignorant. So since I’m ignorant and support Israel I should just move there? I really hate it when conversations such as this degrade and especially so quickly. This is actually an typical attack that has been repeated so many times but with nothing good coming of it. Actually moving to Israel is an inviting prospect, but I feel called to stay in my own country that supports Israel (one of like two countries in this evil world) and help as best I can to stem the tide of the terrible delusion that many in my country want to steer our path onto. If all us who support Israel and their fight against Terrorism were to leave this country, I do believe that God’s direct blessings upon this country for supporting Israel would be swiftly removed and this country would implode upon itself, it‘s just the only thing propping my country up. This nation would turn into a purely Marxist nation, and that which remnants of Christianity here under the authority of such a government would be those that do such things as openly support the ordination of homosexual clergy into their “leading religious institutes”. So no, it really has no bearing on my views regarding what they may dream up next. I’m not required to support their views or assimilate into their agendas. I can choose “their side” or someone else’s side. Do I follow people or do I follow God? I think that’s what it comes down to. God gave each of us the capacity to use reason and follow his instruction which is pretty well defined in the inspired and literal bible which is the word of God. But leading religious institutions often seem to disagree with this position. If they are the many and I am among the few than I feel no alarm I assure you, is it not said that in the last days that the many will fall away giving head to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons? Is it not so that the Lord gave a call to repentance through John directed towards the Churches to turn from such things to save even their lamp stands from being removed? Unity at the loss of ones soul is not unity but death. It is the few that are chosen, these are the ones that escape such things and keep their lamp stands. |
Faith_Warrior![]() Member Posts: 490 From: So.Cal. Registered: 09-05-2006 |
quote:On the contrary, Ezekiel 37 is being fulfilled before our eyes. It’s Satan that is doing the punishing for it is nearly his time. |
ArchAngel Member Posts: 3450 From: SV, CA, USA Registered: 01-29-2002 |
quote: Faith_warrior, one of the lessons to be learned on this forum is that your wrong and ignorant if you disagree with warsong's priest. I just gave up trying to debate. it's easier to converse with my wall, especially if their is someone is the next room. ------------------ |
Lazarus![]() Member Posts: 1668 From: USA Registered: 06-06-2006 |
Yeah I noticed Arch. He is kinda like my Dad(no offense, Warsong)... My wall is a very good debater though. Lazarus |
ArchAngel Member Posts: 3450 From: SV, CA, USA Registered: 01-29-2002 |
I learn my best from the wall. anyhow, yeah, I used to clash alot with warsong. but not anymore. ... hmmm... oh well. ------------------ |
CheeseStorm Member Posts: 521 From: Registered: 11-28-2004 |
Well, we all agree that there's a problem. We disagree on who's causing the problem, so agreeing on a solution could be hard. I say we saturate them with Western stuff! Look at Japan before and after World War II. They were torturing prisoners and blowing themselves up like crazy until the boots got put to them. Now we're all jolly buds! Problem is, it was the Emperor of Japan who surrendered, and there's no Terrorist Emperor. Still, getting them to change somehow is the only alternative to gunning them all down. A lot of their kids get brain-washed at those super-religious schools where they learn about how great it is to die killing non-Muslims. There was a good story on the news about us Canadians in Afghanistan setting up a school there. Did you know when the Taliban were in charge, it was illegal to fly kites? We took a bunch of kites over there, too! Mahahaha. So, uh... any volunteers to put on 100 lbs of kevlar and go teach over there? |
Faith_Warrior![]() Member Posts: 490 From: So.Cal. Registered: 09-05-2006 |
quote:I... think that happens in umm Ezekiel 38 |
Lazarus![]() Member Posts: 1668 From: USA Registered: 06-06-2006 |
Tear down all their mosques and burn all their Koran's... but that would be religious persecution, wouldn't it? Well yeah, but at least they'd have a much harder time brainwashing their kids to be suicide bombers. Ummmf! This 100lbs of kevlar sure is heavy... It's sick.. Lazarus |
CheeseStorm Member Posts: 521 From: Registered: 11-28-2004 |
Maybe we can just have educational TV shows to show them how much the rest of the world owns. Then they can learn how to build their own kites. |
Lazarus![]() Member Posts: 1668 From: USA Registered: 06-06-2006 |
And then one of the kids makes a kite with Mohammed's picture on it and they'd go on a jihad against kites. Then some news network would show a picture of the kite while telling the story and they'd start another against TV's... Lazarus |
CheeseStorm Member Posts: 521 From: Registered: 11-28-2004 |
Lol, kite-jihad. I say we bomb them with Pokemon cards, and they'll focus on those instead of bomb-making. |
ArchAngel Member Posts: 3450 From: SV, CA, USA Registered: 01-29-2002 |
hmm... get them on something productive... I like your thinking ------------------ |
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You guys are good guys but I disagree and think you are wrong just like how you think I am wrong. ![]() I think people should finish college first to know more but it’s interesting to see some opinions. No hard feelings guys but I have been in debating and had to write up 15 page reports for one project let alone weekly projects. Getting to the truth is not as easy as some think of it to be since many times people cater to one side unfairly and they do not see it. Laz you talk about your dad a lot, I don’t know it your comments are good or bad to always compare me to him. lol Also your comment to burn down mosques is not a Christian method and you force your ideology on others which your view could be wrong as well. Maybe the Indians should burn every ones churches since they don’t push for sexual or immoral acts in their movies. As for Israeli’s yes they are mostly not religious and Jews in the US are mostly atheists up to or over 90%. They heavily vote for liberal causes outside of Israel, but choose to push for more conservative causes in Israel which is kind of strange or bad in what they do to others. If it was not for them they Liberal party would have no power in the US since they are the main contributors. Faith you say the country would be Marxist but that ideology was helped made by Jews which I guess they got power in communist Russia since many believed that someone that is not Christian would be good to run Russia and punish Christians just like how Christians are being is becoming bad every year in the US. And again to support Israel and support Jews are 2 different matters since that statement can be easily said 70 years ago to support Israel which would be the Palestinians but many went against Israel to have an ethnic cleaning of Palestinians so that Jews can move in and the Palestinians don’t like that someone took their land and massacred their people and are getting away with it which the support of people that don’t know what is going on. Their was a reason why God took the land away from them, and the land was not even theirs the first time and have gotten it by invading it. Muslims are no saints but they are not the problem to every thing that is wrong. Jews and Muslims worked hand in hand for thousands of years without much problems and even help take down many Christian holy places. Sheesh even the Jews help bring in to the US and many other nations Muslims with their liberal views. There is no good guy or bad guy but everyone doing what is best for themselves. Archangel Cheesestorm ------------------ |
luke![]() Member Posts: 311 From: I use your computer as my second Linux box Registered: 10-30-2005 |
I havent read much of this article, but: Its interesting isn't it? When the pope insults the 'religion of peace' by quoting a Byzantine emperor(an empire which was later destroyed by muslims... go figure)... the peacful muslims reply with "How dare you insult my religion, I'll kill you for it!" The civilians killed by Israel were accidental tragedies. The civilians killed by Hesbolla were successful strikes. ------------------ |
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luke lol yep Did you hear a journalist might got o jail for speech crimes becasue he called the 1915-18 Turkish massacre of Armanian genocide? Another reason why Israel picks on the muslims sicne they the muslims are nuts. But they also push for laws to bring them into every country. I don't like they game they are playing, but they are playing with fire. ------------------ |
Lazarus![]() Member Posts: 1668 From: USA Registered: 06-06-2006 |
Yeah, those "peaceful" muslims are so peaceful they've only murdered millions worldwide for thousands of years. I sure hope they never decide to go to war... ![]() Now excuse me while I laugh my head off. Every time I hear Bush say "Islam, the religion of peace" - I wonder if he knows what 2+2 is, because that is so idiotic. These doggone muslims in the US have several organizations, and a couple times I've seen them on TV complaining about racism, religious persecution, whatever. Lazarus |
zookey![]() Member Posts: 1902 From: Great Falls, Montana, USA Registered: 04-28-2002 |
I don't usually comment in forums like this but I do have to say something: with saying Muslims are violent--be careful treading that water----people could say that all christians are violent because of the Crusades or the Inquisition or an abortion clinic being bombed---then it could turn on us---burn all the churches burn all the Bibles----hatred and judgementalism is a very slipery slope and, once you slide all the way down it, there is no difference between you and Al-Qada, the KKK or any other hate-based organization. When I used to work for XrucifiX (way back in the day when it was called Two Guys Software---) Mack had a great quote on the site back then: One must be careful when hunting monsters lest he himself too become a monster SO...don't like what Bin Laden did? Then have enough balls to do (and, I might mention, what Jesus commands us to do!)----love people anyways. Don't let 9/11 make you hate every single person from the middle east or, just because someone says they are muslim, assume they are a suicide bomber. Either way, part of Christianity is understanding there is more than the eye can see and, as Jesus said, our enemy isn't people on this earth it is spiritual forces of darkness----so feel sorry for suicide bombers because they don't know that they are being played like puppets---and don't make the same mistake of allowing blind or ignorant hatred to get a grip on your life and allow Satan to play you the same way he played the bomber---because then you are A) no different than the bomber and B) have stopped being a positive force for God in the world. ------------------ |
Lazarus![]() Member Posts: 1668 From: USA Registered: 06-06-2006 |
True, hopefully I didn't come across that way. There are millions of muslims who would never think about committing terrorists acts. So actually they aren't following the Koran right... Lazarus |
Simon_Templar![]() Member Posts: 330 From: Eau Claire, WI USA Registered: 10-25-2004 |
Do you want to know why there are high civilian casualties in wars with Hezbollah, and Hamas, and in the insurgency in Iraq for that matter? Because the islamic forces deliberately hide behind civilians. The deliberatly put "innocents" in harms way. Why? because the death of these people benifits them. It makes Israel and the US look bad, it gives fodder to the liberal dupes who run the "world community" (who themselves are a bunch of corrupt, self serving, greedy swine. First off, chuches like the Episcopalians, the Methodists (UMC), etc are so degenerate to begin with that it is a stretch to even call them christian. I aught to know, I was a member of the Episcopal church. The fact that the Orthodox and Catholics agree with them should be a concern to you (or anyone of those churches). The Presby's and the Church of Christ are only slightly better off.. very very slightly. Of the churches listed the only ones that I would not automaticly dismiss out of hand as totally comprimised are the orthodox and the cahtolics. Sadly they both have a history of a long history of racism against Jews which pretty much invalidates what they have to say about Israel. Secondly, the moral standards of ANYONE who castigates Israel and either says nothing or even tacitly supports the muslims, must be so completely out of touch with reality that I'm really not willing to listen to them anymore. We're dealing with people who deliberately and purposefully Kill women and children because they know that doing so gives them the greatest impact. We're dealing with people who train THEIR OWN CHILDREN to strap bombs to themselves and blow themselves up, in hopes that they can kill some Jews. We're dealing with people who, as I said above, deliberately put non-combatants in harms way and use non-combatants as shields because it makes their enemies look bad. Do you know why the muslims hide behind civilians? Because they know that Israel and the US actually care about killing civilians. They know that their enemies actually have a sense of humanity and care about human life. http://masoret.hevre.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=1990937 There is a simple quote that contains a profound truth... "If the Arabs put down their weapons today, tomorrow there would be peace. ------------------ |
Faith_Warrior![]() Member Posts: 490 From: So.Cal. Registered: 09-05-2006 |
quote: Who... who who taught you this stuff??? This is so like far left one would fall off the edge of the world if they took another step. You know who the Marxists are, right? This is the dominant power behind the left. It's has little to do with Russia, really. I’m referring to much of the Democrat party and some of the indie parties. Many of the Dems are flaming Marxists! They want the US to be more like old Russia or like Cuba. Some of the Reps are pretty scary too, in fact. As for the Jews, they didn't just move in and start grabbing land 70 years ago, they were actually the Palestinians that lived there and were [u]called[/u] Palestinians. Jews lived there during WWII and assisted the allies in winning the war. Other than the Jews there were some settlements around the area but not much to speak of because the land was a barren desert (unlike it is today). These "Palestinians" are mostly from the surrounding nations that were abandoned there after the Jews started to turn the deserts into gardens. No one gave a dump about the land until the Jews did, and ever since then the nations have done nothing but to try to destroy the land and drowned the Jews in the sea as they threaten to do. |
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Laz I agree with what you said. But Bush has to say that the Muslim and Jewish religion is good just like everyone else. The Wall Street Journal says that Jews that are less than 3-5% in the US contribute over 50% to both republican and democratic parties even though they vote heavily 90% for liberal causes which hurt Christians and they know it and admit it. Christians don’t get along with Muslims so they bring more Muslims in the US and Europe and if things continue in 25-50 years the majority of Europe will be Muslim. Jews can deal with Muslims which is why they put their put their country in the middle of the Muslims. Some might say they are nuts to go their but they know what they are doing and ever since they went their place has been unstable after thousands of years of no violence in that region and the Muslims are getting killed more then Jews. These are not coincidences and their was a reason why God took the land away from them because of the problems, oy vai the head aches God gets again, another reason why so many Christians, other religions, and other countries that live near the region say the say thing since they dealt with it first hand. If you look at most of the replies in the forum you will see people from North America that don’t know about the place and think they know better than the people near them. It’s like you assessing a construction site form the other side of the world by just one a one sided info than being there to see it for yourself, and that’s not rational. You know? Zookey
As for your other comments about the churches you still have a lot of info to catch up with and again many of your points are off, but you are getting better so keep on reading. As for your quote that is not true since if you role back the clock 100 years Jews and Muslims did not have a problem in that regions as we do now. Arabs did put down their weapons and the Jews massacred them which you ignore. This is the difference from people in the US and people outside since the rest of the world that is near both of them get it while the people that did not deal with them don’t. It’s like me judging how your home is and I never been their or dealt with it and only hear a neighbor that you don’t get along with. Everyone does their job and the only people that don’t are the “Christians” that let lies and propaganda grow, just like how the alleged Christian crusaders went and attacked all the Christian nations and many still don’t get it. Faith ------------------ |
Lazarus![]() Member Posts: 1668 From: USA Registered: 06-06-2006 |
You know, I read a book once that said many of the same things Warsong just did. Lazarus |
Faith_Warrior![]() Member Posts: 490 From: So.Cal. Registered: 09-05-2006 |
quote:Wow, that’s amazing! Patton went to Palestine and slapped around two Jews that wouldn’t fight. Which revisionist history book did this come out of? Actually the Palestinian Jews were too busy doing missions for Brittan at the time to have time to be slapped around by Patton. Not just men either, but women were in the fight as well. Meanwhile, other countries in that region were in support of Hitler and his little Nazi’s, it’s like people would rather reward those countries (or appease) for their decisions to do evil. |
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Laz ??? You scare me sometimes. lol Faith Here is what Wikipedia quotes on what Patton said One of the biggest contributes to Hitler to gain power before WW2 were wealthy Jewish Americans and news papers and was even made Man of the year. But they also made Stalin man of the year 2 times and Stalin killed far more people (orthodox Christians) than Hitler did. More Christians died in the war but no Christian museums or the other genocides that Hitler did against the Orthodox counties which he wanted to wipe out all the slaves. Even the Catholic Church went to orthodox countries and said convert or die. As for Israel a former prim minister said that if they were the Palestinians they would feel the same way if someone took their land and killed their people. And the Jews wanted all the Germans wiped out after WW2 which was a bit racist of them to want an entire nation wiped out. But then again many find them infallible but as I said they are the same as everyone else and no one should get special treatment. Anyway let’s try to get back on topic, and as it says they get 20billion every year when US goes to war and so people should boycott them since Muslims, Christians, Jews, and the rest of the world gets hurt badly in the end and these actions are definitely unchristian, of do we need for things to get far worse so that people can see it? [This message has been edited by warsong (edited October 08, 2006).] |