It isn't a "war" when you send overwhelming military force against a mostly unarmed civilian population. So the answer is "no" that it wasn't actually a "war" but rather a MASSACRE that was carried out by Israel against a couple of mostly unarmed civilian populations. We've seen evidence of these massacres on at least two occasions in recent memory: the first one took place during the summer of 2006, in Lebanon, while the second one took place during the Christmas season of 2008, in Gaza. It was a lop-sided massacre in both instances, and yet we saw on both occasions how both of these massacres were portrayed as a "war" by Israel in the newsmedia which they own and control. I don't know if you can remember it or not, but the pretext that was used by Israel as a justification for the 2006 massacre was especially ludicrous. Not true. In cases where soldiers are known to be involved in carrying out atrocities against unarmed civilians, military legal precedent requires that they be held accountable for their actions even if they make an effort to defend their actions by claiming that they were "just following orders." It just so happens that genocide is written into the religion of Judaism. Judaism is a racially-based religious system. Judaism promotes genocide on the basis of race.
Yeah, I can tell you all about all the crap that I was taught back in the days when I attended Yeshiva.
It seems ironic to me that Christians will excuse Christ for the alleged "good" he's done, when his existence has harmed so many others (mentally and physically.) Which is so totally selfish, and yet they offer up Christ as some bastion of altruism. For example, I physically cannot worship Jesus. It's just an impossibility for me. And yet I have been badgered with this icon since birth, irreparably molesting my psyche.
The bloody wars we see the news everyday does greater damage to our psyche than the image of a man on a cross or walking along with his pals explaining to people that it's overall better to love than to hate. Not his fault that people took love everyone as you love yourself as to mean, "Kill people" or "Not love everyone as you love yourself".
- Judaism says that you should love only Jews ("ahavat yisroel"). - Christianity says that you should love everybody, and that includes even your enemies. - Judaism says that you should kill people. - Judaism and Christianity are therefore totally at variance with each other. The "kill people" aspect of our religious training probably came into being as a result of conflating Judaism with Christianity ("Judeo-Christianity"). I'm not exactly sure how this state of affairs came about, nor can I say with any degree of certainty that I know who's responsible for entwining these two polar-opposite religions, but it could have been a man who went by the name of "Schofield" who published a revised version of the Bible during the mid-to-late 19th Century.
i'm giving up on arguing with you on the whole israel thing, i don't see the point because neither of us is going to change the others mind and all we're gonna do is piss each other off. but jesus did tell people to kill their parents look up matthew 10:34-36
Jesus was nothing but a stoner that got 12 dudes to follow him around the earth, well because he got the best weed ever.
No, he's not asking them to kill their parents. Where does it say kill, murder, harm? It uses the word divide. The sword is symbolic to his word and that the word may cause division to those that are not willing to accept it/be tolerant of it. It was a warning to Christians that their belief would bring them persecution. We can see persecution of Christians throughout history. The sword is representing a spiritual battle; Ephesians 6:17
TY for the reply. Judaism says that you should kill people? I think that's simplifying things to the extremes. I honestly don't know much about Schofield, but it seems to me that it would be his fault of twisting the message around, thereby creating a new religion, rather than the 'original' religion being at fault. As for, 'Jews should only love other Jews', I don't know what sect you are referring to but Judaism in of itself does not teach this. http://www.jewfaq.org/brother.htm
i know it probably doesn't literally mean to kill your parents and that it probably is symbolic, but why is it that many christains take every verse in the bible literally except for that one? my point is, you can't say that christainity is above all of the violence and hatred that's in other religions, if i need to i can cite other verses that are similar to this one. the point is just be tolerant of everyone and take the religions of this world for what they are, don't try to put people down because of what they believe in oh and here's the verse for anyone who hasn't read it. "Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household."
The gospels, for the most part, is a book of parables unless otherwise pointed out when Jesus stops talking in parables which does happen. I agree with you here.
Yes. It's very hard to reach any other conclusion after you've examined the the body of literature that forms the basis of Judaistic thought. The Jewish religion absolutely COMMANDS that its adherents commit mass murder against the Hittites and the Amalekites, the Philistines, and many other tribes that were, or are, indigenous to the area that's now referred to as the Middle East. There are even some orthodox rabbis who even believe that the entire Arab population falls under the category of "Amalek," and that - as such - that they are worthy of being exterminated as per the commandments in the Talmud-Torah. Israel is constantly thirsting for blood, and this is no coincidence. It comes from the religion of Judaism. I think that the URL you've quoted is basically propaganda that was intended to deceive the gentiles in believing that Judaism is a benign faith.
I'm open to the idea that Israel is basically a peace-loving nation and that it doesn't harbor genocidal designs on the Arabs. I would be more than happy to believe it, and yet there is simply an overwhelming preponderance of evidence to the contrary. I'm definitely not a bible scholar by any means, but if my memory serves me correctly, the commandment that you're referring to has its origins in the Jewish part of the bible (I'm thinking that it can be found in the book of Deuteronomy) where it states that you should kill your loved ones if they try to convert you over to a different faith. I am going to look this up in my bible, and then I will come back and post it.
