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Old 07-11-2009, 10:28 PM   #31
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The nonsense of a holocaust in 70 CE because taxes was not paid is grotesque.
What on earth are you ranting about? :huh:
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Apparently the rest of Europe was happy to have Rome rule them .
There were no Monotheists in Europe - divine man was no problem in this neck of the woods. The greatest defense for the right to freedom of belief - is a debt owed to the Jews alone.
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The Jews didn't do anything to Rome other than give it Christianity, which did believe in at least one divine man.
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The nonsense of a holocaust in 70 CE because taxes was not paid is grotesque.
What on earth are you ranting about? :huh:
There was a holocaust in 70 CE. Over a million [or prorata 20M today] sacrificed themselves rather than bow to a depraved Roman image. It is not even mentioned in the Roman Gospels - as if they had something more imporatant to write.
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The Jews didn't do anything to Rome other than give it Christianity, which did believe in at least one divine man.
The Greeks gave Christianity, thinking Judaism was dead. That was an error.
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Did they really think Judaism was dead? That was only Israel.
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Did they really think Judaism was dead? That was only Israel.
Israel lives. Rome is dead. Shame on Europe for glorifying a depraved power as an enlightenment.
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Well, Rome was probably copying Alexander. His empire died a quick death too. Then there was the Holy Roman empire, and finally the colonial powers. Temporal power does come and go.
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And why shouldn't Rome have imposed its rule on Israel? Romans were the victors which left all the other peoples, including the Jewish people, to submit to the power of Rome. Should the Jewish people have been treated more delicately than any other people?

The legitimacy of Rome was in its power to conquer.
The dif between a Roman and a European, is what makes a true monotheist. Its a tough job but someone has to do it. 99.9% of all today's christian ancestors were enforced to believe - and the same ratio holds with all the natives encountered in other invaded lands. This is a hard fact, and it has a hard time competing with a belief.

'BETTER TO DESTROY THEIR BODIES AND SAVE THEIR SOULS' - Gee thanx. :wave:
Well Joseph, here's another nail in your coffin. Jews were forced to believe until Paul. Paul pulled a sect of fearful Jews out of Judaism to begin a new religion. In this new religion Jews were not forced to be circumcised at eight days old, not observe every minute detail of Moses laws and be put to death for offending in the slightest. Paul provided a way to escape the most horrific religion on the planet in those days, Judaism. And Christianity succeeding and left the uncivilized Jewish tradition of "death by law" and useless animal sacrifices behind. That was progress Joseph, and what the Jewish hiarchy fought against. If it had not been for Rome's destruction of Jerusalem and the pushing of Jews into a more civilized existance, the Jews of today would still be stuck in that backward, useless tradition. Of course before Rome came on the scene, and back further in Jewish history, there were many many Jews who escaped from Judaism and melted into the world of Gentiles. Even back then in those ancient days, there were some Jews who decided enough was enough of that Jewish BS. What does it tell you Joseph when your own people leave Judaism because they see no benefit in its death cult supplied by its Hebrew God? (I'm assuming you're Jewish and and a proponent of a "Jewish state".)
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Your advice? You're in a position to determine political policy or something? I see you as just another war monger who uses your tall tales to threaten and intimidate ignorant people that you hate and want dead. Instead of calling them "Europeans" why not just say what you mean, you want the "pals" (the Christian Americans) killed, don't you? You want the Muslims killed don't you? You're so full of hate you can barely control your venomous knife-in-the-back routine.
So how would you deal with Europe's two holocausts and going for a third by stealth by joining the death-to-the-jews brigade? Americans were killed not by Jews - they were killed because the European established Regimes were not confronted - and Bush scattered to the Afghan hills - insead of the regimes. Hate was invented by European Christianity [Jews are brn of the devil] and than in the Quran [death to the Jews]. But hate comes from here:

FIRST THE SATURDAY PEOPLE - THEN THE SUNDAY PEOPLE.

The death-to-Jews brigade? There is no such thing Joseph, and you're merely trying to insight violence via your propaganda. Instead of striving for peace with the Iranians (assuming they are whom you're talking about), you strive for war via America's alliance with Israel. Then you could shift the blame and say "this is America's war" just as Nutenyahu said about Bush's invading Iraq.

In my opinion Joseph, if you want Muslims dead, then you go do it yourself and don't expect me or my family to volunteer to do your dirty work for you. Besides, I'm anti-war and know that people seeking peaceful relations can have those peaceful relations without killing people who are of a different religion.

You can stop with your self serving halocaust routine because you've worn it out already and to many people have died because of religious supernatural beliefs. You have no room to put Jews on a shelf like trophy's to use in your bragging rights.
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