“If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.”
— Golda Meir
Zionism is the movement for the self-determination and statehood for the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland, the land of Israel.
“If Hamas put down their weapons, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons, there would be no Israel."
ברוך השם
“If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.”
— Golda Meir
Zionism is the movement for the self-determination and statehood for the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland, the land of Israel.
“If Hamas put down their weapons, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons, there would be no Israel."
ברוך השם
The Puritans hung Quakers. (See the Problem?)
"The Religious Society of Friends, whose members are commonly known as Quakers, was a Christian movement founded by George Fox in England during the early 1650s. Quakers opposed central church authority, preferring to seek spiritual insight and consensus through egalitarian Quaker meetings. They advocated sexual equality and became some of the most outspoken opponents of slavery in early America. Robinson and Stevenson, who were hanged from an elm tree on Boston Common in Boston, were the first Quakers to be executed in America. Quakers found solace in Rhode Island and other colonies, and Massachusetts’ anti-Quaker laws were later repealed."
"1659
Quakers executed for religious beliefs"
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-...igious-beliefs
All of the Religious Cults have one thing in common, they all think their Cult is the Chosen One. And they will kill anyone that disagrees.
Controlled Opposition (12-09-2018), kudzu (12-08-2018)
kudzu (12-09-2018)
As individuals, No. Once they get into Power, then they become violent and aggressive. The Spanish Inquisition is the classic example. Do YOU want to live in a Theocracy? You might say 'Yes' if it was your particular Cult, but what if it was an Islamic Cult? Would you convert or face being labeled a Heretic and watch your wife and children die horrible deaths (that only religious cult types can dream up) before being tortured and put to death yourself?
RB60, as a Christian, do you want to kill people that have different beliefs than you?
See, RB, there is a guy EXACTLY like you that lives in the Middle East and feels the EXACT same way you do.
Power? What do you mean by "power"? Are you in fear of this country becoming a "Theocracy"? You're insane if you are. It will never happen.
"RB60, as a Christian, do you want to kill people that have different beliefs than you?"
Again, you're insane to even think that. I don't even want to argue with those who don't have my spiritual beliefs because I don't care what they believe.
But you sit there and call me a "cultist" because of my spiritual beliefs, and that is not true. Have I ever insulted/attacked your non belief? I've only ever defended my beliefs.
I couldn't care less what you believe, or don't believe. Shut up on the matter and you won't get an argument.
Common sense is not a gift, it's a punishment because you have to deal with everyone who doesn't have it.
Not so much in Arabia... although I am sure it exists.
Funny, I attended our annual Hanukkah supper last Tuesday.. We are a bookclub and its evenly distributed with Jews, Christians, Agnostics and Atheists. The subject of the new book Jesus of Arabia came up..and someone said, " don't care what your religion teaches, we each have a choice as to how we're going to treat people".. We are very political little old ladies... and I don't think we are unique out there.
He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death. Thomas Paine
Phantasmal (12-09-2018)
kudzu (12-09-2018)
kudzu (12-09-2018)
He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death. Thomas Paine
kudzu (12-09-2018)
I'm having a conversation with others ... and you jump in with this:
"Me being a Christian, are you afraid I will come and kill you?"
I take the courtesy to respond to your outburst, and then you reply with this:
"I couldn't care less what you believe, or don't believe. Shut up on the matter and you won't get an argument."
So:
1. If you 'don't care', why are you jumping into a conversation that others are having?
2. It's a Discussion Board, you know, where people discuss stuff ... why are you telling me to "shut up"?
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