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  1. stealth6948

    stealth6948 said, 11 months ago

    Let there be Peace

  2. Corosive Frog

    Corosive Frog said, 11 months ago

    Then why is the place where he was born such a war hole now. sigh

  3. oldlegodad

    oldlegodadGenius_badge said, 11 months ago

    Corosive Frog, Please read James A Mitchner’s “The Source” (again?)to get some idea of why that little piece of real estate has had such a contentious history. It will also give you a deeper understanding of your faith’s evolution.

  4. Corosive Frog

    Corosive Frog said, 11 months ago

    They’re fighting over a rock. God is everywhere! Ironically, both Judaism and Islam are both rabid iconoclast religions; the only thing you should worship is the One Upstairs, not any rock or place or face or saint and yet, they have been fighting over a rock for decades.

    Then again, there might be more to it than that like the Jews need for a place to call home after they have been bullied for centuries wherever they went. On the other hand, the land that they claim was someone else’s home before they came.

  5. ralphman

    ralphman said, 11 months ago

    Everywhere on the planet was someone elses home at some time or another.

  6. fennec

    fennec said, 11 months ago

    Very good point, ralphman

  7. DHLEAKY

    DHLEAKYGenius_badge said, 11 months ago

    oldlegodad71 says:
    faith’s evolution.

    Is that an oxymoron ?
    I thought that Faith just spewed out complete and unchanging from an Omniscient all knowing entity.
    Please enlighten us . Evolved from and now to, what????

  8. Corosive Frog

    Corosive Frog said, 11 months ago

    ralph; Yeah, wish some could see the world like that and concentrate on bouncing back instead of making war, but you gotta admit it’s pretty hard when you’ve been kicked out of it, with bsolutely no ressources and one of the biggest armies in the world bombs unarmed people…

  9. oldlegodad

    oldlegodadGenius_badge said, 11 months ago

    DHLEAKY, That is why faith is not static but grows as we see more of Gods handywork. We will never understand all, but we seek with open mind and receptive SOUL what the Spirit will impart (or not).

  10. DHLEAKY

    DHLEAKYGenius_badge said, 11 months ago

    oldlegodad71 says:
    DHLEAKY, That is why faith is not static but grows as we see more of Gods handywork. We will never understand all, but we seek with open mind and receptive SOUL what the Spirit will impart (or not).
    AS EVER, YOU DO NOT ANSWER THE QUESTIONS.
    Evolved from and now to, what???
    Good G0D, what convoluted reasoning, makes me glad to be an atheist.
    HAPPY FESTIVUS !

  11. HUMPHRIES

    HUMPHRIESGenius_badge said, 11 months ago

    DHL, to each his own … as I previously stated, please do not fault the faith by the actions of some of it’s hearlders.

  12. Trogon2

    Trogon2 said, 11 months ago

    Religions do not lead to peace. Hasn’t anyone been looking at the facts for these last ……hmmmm…..at least 4,000 years. The god concept and all it purveyors have brought us to where we are today, a world of hate and strife, with no end in sight. Our children will reap a bitter harvest.

  13. fennec

    fennec said, 11 months ago

    Trogon, I know people of many faiths who are wonderful and people of many faiths who are awful…same with people of no faith. I am afraid that any human organization, religious or secular, has the potential for hate and strife. It may all lie in the “me and mine” versus “thee and thine” aspect of human biology

  14. HUMPHRIES

    HUMPHRIESGenius_badge said, 10 months ago

    fennac, well said …

  15. Joy Lederman

    Joy LedermanGenius_badge said, 10 months ago

    “I thought that Faith just spewed out complete and unchanging from an Omniscient all knowing entity.
    Please enlighten us . Evolved from and now to, what????”

    PUH-LEEZE. Do you think the “god” being worshipped in America’s Mega-Churches is the same one I encountered in the Lutheran church 50 yrs ago? It’s all a cult of personality. People flock to the minister that tells them what they want to hear. From one Catholic church, there are now thousands of evolved splinter denominations that get obsessed with one line of scripture (the anti-gay conservatives, the pro-love liberals, the anit-abortion fanatics, etc)

    {oh, I see,this was a sarcastic comment,dhleaky - you are as sceptical of religion as I am!}

  16. Joy Lederman

    Joy LedermanGenius_badge said, 10 months ago

    “Religions do not lead to peace. ”

    There will never be Peace as long as all parties believe that THEIRS is the only true god. If we’d stop blaming our desires on the will of imaginary superheros and behaved rationally, perhaps THEN there might be some hope of Peace. (of course, Primates are not, by nature, peaceful rational creatures–explains so much about the human condition, moreso than the god fairytale)

  17. HUMPHRIES

    HUMPHRIESGenius_badge said, 10 months ago

    Joy L … your observations , though true, do hurt. For me I think I’ll light a little candle rather than curse the darkness.

  18. acellist

    acellistGenius_badge said, 10 months ago

    Welcome to the Jewish Calendar Year 5768!
    Jews have lived in the land now called Israel continuously from the time of its original CONQUEST by Joshua more than 3200 years ago until the present day, though Jews were not always in political control of the land, and Jews were not always the majority of the land’s population.
    So, how far back or forward in time need one journey to establish “rights”?
    Of course when persecution is as complete as it has been, it only serves to strengthen familial group identity and foment external jealous resentment of that unity.
    Christians, it was written that you must ‘Spread the Word’, not that you must make anyone believe.
    The Rich get Richer while Absolute Power corrupts Absolutely!
    As Bill Maher says: “Religion warps thinking!”

  19. acellist

    acellistGenius_badge said, 10 months ago

    The worldwide Jewish population is 13.3 million with a growth rate close to zero percent.
    Who’s next when they are all exterminated, besides, they have to be in place for the “End of Time” scenario:
    http://www.ucgstp.org/bureau/wnp/wnp0002/scenario.htm
    or:
    http://therefinersfire.org/endtime_questions.htm

  20. curiosity1

    curiosity1 said, 10 months ago

    Sigh… The biggest problem I have with faith is that it precludes and occludes reason.

    Here’s to 2009, may mankind leave the year slightly more thoughtful and reasonable than we enter it.