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Toto · 08-17-2012, 08:05 PM

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After a month visiting Biblical sites in the Middle East, the connection between God and conflict in the Middle East becomes inescapable. Israel is filled with sites holy to all three major religions, and religious Jews regard the entire nation as a sacred site. It's not just a country with a flag, and a bureaucracy, and a budget, it's actually God's country. It's the spiritual made real.

This belief illuminates and inspires all manner of odd behavior, from settlers periodically trying to take back the Dome of the Rock from the Muslims in Old Jerusalem, to thousands of amateur archaeologists sifting through rubble cast off from the Temple Mount/Al Aqsa mosque plaza, hoping to find some bits of proof that Solomon's Temple lies beneath that, bits that could be used to take it and all of Jerusalem back for modern-day Israel -- as the Bible commands.

outhouse · 08-17-2012, 09:51 PM

I would have no problem seeing jews get their stolen temple mount back.

I look at islams deity as the worst perversion of the abrahamic deity, that amounts to a man going into a cave with a bible and coming out with a barbaric version.

yeesh you would think im biased lol

jews are not inoccent with their perversion of deities combining multiple Canaanite deities as one.

its my opinion christians have a perverted version of deities that has stupidity written all over the math with the trinity eqation. 3 is not polytheism = barf

youngalexander · 08-18-2012, 12:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Nina

So a Baywatch beauty climbs the big hill looking for Noah's Ark and falls flat on her pretty face. And Bibi plans a Biblical-style wreaking of vengeance on the ancient force of darkness over God's mountains to the east.

I haven't been to Iran, but we already know the mullahs there are finding their own prophet-stamped encouragement for bellicosity.

Meanwhile, the godless rest of us can only stand and wait.

A Blessing is called for:
May god bless and keep Bibi & the GodBotherers - far away from us!

sotto voce · 08-18-2012, 04:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Toto

Nina Burleigh on the Holy Land

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After a month visiting Biblical sites in the Middle East, the connection between God and conflict in the Middle East becomes inescapable. Israel is filled with sites holy to all three major religions, and religious Jews regard the entire nation as a sacred site. It's not just a country with a flag, and a bureaucracy, and a budget, it's actually God's country. It's the spiritual made real.

This belief illuminates and inspires all manner of odd behavior, from settlers periodically trying to take back the Dome of the Rock from the Muslims in Old Jerusalem, to thousands of amateur archaeologists sifting through rubble cast off from the Temple Mount/Al Aqsa mosque plaza, hoping to find some bits of proof that Solomon's Temple lies beneath that, bits that could be used to take it and all of Jerusalem back for modern-day Israel -- as the Bible commands.

The actual problem is that even educated people confuse the word 'inerrancy' for 'literalism'.

What one might call a fundamental error.

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08-17-2012, 09:51 PM	#2
outhouse Veteran Member Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Auburn ca Posts: 4,269	I would have no problem seeing jews get their stolen temple mount back. I look at islams deity as the worst perversion of the abrahamic deity, that amounts to a man going into a cave with a bible and coming out with a barbaric version. yeesh you would think im biased lol jews are not inoccent with their perversion of deities combining multiple Canaanite deities as one. its my opinion christians have a perverted version of deities that has stupidity written all over the math with the trinity eqation. 3 is not polytheism = barf

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