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He's not wrong from a BIBLICAL standpoint.
The Bible also says disobedient children should be murdered. The Bible says that if you rape a child, you have to give her dad $50 and marry her. The Bible is OBSESSED with foreskin collection.
It says a lot of very stupid tripe, that's why nobody bothers following it.
The Bible is OBSESSED with foreskin collection.
That makes sense tho...
Like Old Testament was for the one group in the area who removed those as children. No adult spy would do that for cover, and it would take substantial time to heal to pass
So it wasn't "we love foreskins, gimmie them foreskins" as much as "give me the one thing that proved you killed an adult man who wasn't part of us".
It was genocide, if you weren't part of 'the tribe' you were an enemy and should be killed.
So yeah, totally evil, but logical.
Just So stories about the logical reason for genital mutilation don't hold water. Even in the Bible, there are accounts of how the Israelites could tell friend from foe: they did it by accent (search on "shibboleth" for more details), not by examining the guy's schwantz. Much easier from a safe distance.
Also, many other tribal societies also practiced circumcision and other forms of genital mutilation, some living adjacent to each other. And snipping is also practiced in Islam, which encompasses multiple nationalities.
"Shibboleth" was used in a battle between the Gileadites and the Ephramites. Both Israelite, both circumcised.
And Islam didn't exist in the old testament time; they are also an Abrahamic religion.
I always laugh at this argument, because there's a more amusing argument. Yeah, it's Israel's land and they're G-d's chosen people. But multiple times in the Bible G-d has taken that land from them and even had them enslaved by nearby nations! At this point in the mythos, G-d, the Messiah, has yet to reveal himself. He's still in silence lol So, based on all that, it sounds like Israel needs to take some responsibility for what they do.
"God" aint the lord's name, and even if you diduse his name, it wouldnt be in vain here, you good.
I was just gonna edit my post, and say this, but I think it's worthy as it's own post. I like how you bring up "in vain", because it's something I detest in the western Christian church mythos. they consider using G-d's name to be in vain whenever you say it out of the context of evangelism, almost. When, in fact, the use of in vain, is using G-d's name to justifying your crimes, is using Their name in vain. It's a pretty neat distinction in the Ancient Hebrew, that western Christianity has conveniently forgot. Thanks, Rome!
Thanks! I'm still gonna do it, because it's something a part of my life and spiritual journey! It really got started when I started listening to mewothoutYou and I really started looking at all religions more critically. I've ended up in a strange place, close to Samsara about it all lol.
Edit: In hindsight, "I'm still gonna do it" came out worse than I intended. I meant it more passive and sheepish, than cavalier.
Understood! Hope you have a good day!
And worrying about the appropriate nomenclature for mythical figures is an idle pastime.
It's not that I worry about it, it's a part of me. It's not something that I even really think about anymore, I just write it inherently. I actually had a wonderfully, rich conversation with a friend about it recently.
Thanks for asking if that's something I worry about instead of belittling me!
You can write god. Nothing happens. You look like a fool.
Thanks for the advice! I will still write G-d out because I like it and it's a part of my spiritual journey! I'm very big into Samsara and I really like the Hebrew tradition of not writing out G-d's name from holiness and not wanting to destroy it!
I appreciate you asking why I do it, instead of just calling me a fool with no prior knowledge of me as a person. That could've really hurt my feelings and put a damper on my day, so I appreciate all your kind words!
The Israelites in the bible never took responsibility except for when they were forced to.
Modern Israel doesn't have any prophets. Looks like someone else is gonna have to hold them accountable.
Christian Zionism is a deranged cult.
Christianity too, honestly. Most of it's time at least.
All religions are cults
By that same logic, the Italians have a right to the entire middle east because the Roman Empire engulfed it. Then the Ottoman's came and took it from them, so hey...I guess Turkey has a right to the entire middle east as well now.
Fuck Zionism.
Excited to hear Mike Huckabee's other theories on which ethnic groups enjoy sovereignty over which geographic regions
Turns out he thinks the Zulus hold an inalienable right to the whole of Myanmar /s
Sorry. A bronze age manuscript says so. No arguing with that.
Well I have a God given right to punch Huckabee straight in the face.
It's in the Bible, somewhere...
He wouldn't know if it was or wasn't. He pretended to be a preacher.
Hey, so God just told me Im the rightful owner of the world.
Everyone get the fuck off my rock.
You've got to be able to expand that Lebensraum though
Blows my mind that anyone can support this "God given right" to land for Israel while at the same time denying indigenous first Nations in America.
They're exactly the same thing: support for genocide against indigenous people and for theft of their land.
Religious rationalizations are irrelevant.
Bullshit, yes. Irrelevant, no. Sometimes they lead to real-world consequences that harm or kill innocent people.
God damn he got old.
I'd like to see that progress rapidly to a natural conclusion, honestly. Thankfully he's not in the news much anymore, but all things considered it would be harder to find a bigger gaping asshole even in this land of self-glorified assholes, which is currently enjoying its own golden age of assholery. He's like asshole emeritus now.
Emerditus.
Lindsey Graham.
More's the pity.
He shit out a daughter who's just as depraved as he is. Fuck their entire bloodline, may they rot in satan's asshole
So, back to where they came from then.
But God and Allah are the same entity?! Is he sure Allah is keen on this?
All because of their foreskin kink.
By the logic of the old testament of the Bible, wouldn't the Jews have a right to the entire earth?
As long as the follow God's orders, which include treating the stranger among you as an equal. But then there are also contradictory orders. It's lose/lose being the chosen people. What it really means is being singled out for abuse by a capricious, brutally authoritarian, abusive father-figure.
which include treating the stranger among you as an equal.
And then kill them on Sundays for not following their religious rules.
I think the channel is trying to downplay the comments to make them sound more normal and sane.
Evil hick.
Hasn't this been his whole deal for years?
Isn't that why he got out on that detail?
Or was Trump just annoyed by him and put him there to get rid of him? That's the vibe I got.