Christian Democrats in the United States
Global Issues - Israel and Palestine Israel does exist, and we decry all attempts to terrorize its civilians with useless and counter-productive attacks. However, a peaceful world of international civil law can never exist while some people are denied citizenship in any country. Everyone has a right to form governments so they do not live in a brutal state of nature, and so do Palestinians. Israel must accept the existence of a Palestinian state, and must work to provide a level of civil equality for them. President Clinton accomplished marvelous results in the Israeli-Palestine conflict before the end of his term, and the first thing G.W. Bush did was to withdraw Clinton's special envoy and adopt a hard-line stance. This action sabotaged efforts for peace and destabilized the region, led to further conflict and let the violent Hamas group step into the power vacuum. We must return to the diplomatic table in Clinton's spirit of reconciliation, to build a Middle-East world in which Israelis and Palestinians are able to peacefully co-exist. Subscribe to Posts [Atom]
Thursday, February 18, 2010
1:11 PM
Look at the facts: the passport identities were stolen, but we all know that a passport is just a piece of paper and only works as far as people generally trust each other in the world. They may have been Israeli, they may have been Irish or German, they may be anti-Hamas Palestinians, but who ever they are, they too are only pawns, manipulated by influential forces who move large amounts of money and weapons around the globe.
The facts are, after World War II, fascists from Germany went underground, working their poisonous egotism all over the globe: including with the despots of the middle east. While Angela Merkel may be a nice lady, those elements learned to play a more subtle game, behaving themselves only as much as they had to in order to amass wealth and power. They bided their time, influencing global politics with key moves, and propped up an armed artifice of divinity against their purported ideological opponents, the Soviets.
The Nazi Socialists and Soviet Communists, like "Islam" and "The West" today, while supposedly opposite ideologies, were really two arms of the same mechanized system of political violence. The words behind any mechanism of state violence are irrelevant: the obvious truth is the red truth that spills on their swords, and no symbols or systems of logic can lie that away. So the same is true of emerging Maoism, Mao who, at least, did not try to hide from the maxim that might makes right, once you pick up a gun, but that maxim is wrong. If that is the mind one adopts, one might as well go back to the days before the Word, when humans could not speak, and battered each other with rocks for sex and scraps of meat.
It seems just as likely to me that a band of Nazis, employing Irish Republican Army rejects raided trash cans for ID numbers, went back and stamped the passports a few times on the train in Europe, then used them to travel to Dubai to make the hit. They didn't care about the security cameras because they got paid so much they can get plastic surgery and live out life in the south Pacific. Were the people on camera the same people in the photos? It did not look like it to me, in this video:
Maybe the passport photos were of Mossad members to lead the investigation astray and point the finger at Israel, but the real people only looked similar to them. Who would want to pay them? Someone with an interest in causing war between "Islam" and "The West." Someone, perhaps a family of weapons dealers, tied to monetary interests that exploited this, trying to play both sides, between Nazi Socialists and Communism, then between America and the Soviets in the cold war (perhaps someone who dealt with the late Charlie Wilson), and now between "Islam" and "The West."
They want to make us hate and kill each other because it's good for their business, and they have become inhuman. This, perhaps, is what scripture meant by tales of possession by demons. These people rile up crowds of shouting Palestinians, kept captive by their own leaders without education so they cannot see through the lies, used as pawns in a global power struggle that has nothing to do with God or self-development to glorify creation. Pawns are the first to be sacrificed. These maniacs still want to destroy the Jews, even if they have to sacrifice everyone from Riyadh to the Khyber Pass to do it.
So, you supposedly devout people in Gaza and elsewhere, will you be pawns, will you be human sacrifices for the idols of political power? Is that the kind of religion you want? Then you choose the path of the damned, and you will get everything you are asking for. Instead, choose God, choose life, choose light.
plenty of possibilities in the 1% uncertainty
Dubai's chief of police is "99% certain" Israel's intelligence agency killed Hamas official Mahmoud Al Mabhouh, but he offers no proof. Wild accusations without presenting proof to the public cause wars, because then different people adopt attitudes to one side or another based on emotional associations and other principles like loyalty, instead of facts. The cold fact is: war is death, and all people should rationally not like to let it spread. But we all fear that once it really cooked up, all those emotional associations would be all that mattered, and chaos would rip open our hearts and pour our blood on the streets like the "wine press" mentioned in scripture. This is not what we want at heart, but are trained to expect. So it must be rejected.Look at the facts: the passport identities were stolen, but we all know that a passport is just a piece of paper and only works as far as people generally trust each other in the world. They may have been Israeli, they may have been Irish or German, they may be anti-Hamas Palestinians, but who ever they are, they too are only pawns, manipulated by influential forces who move large amounts of money and weapons around the globe.
The facts are, after World War II, fascists from Germany went underground, working their poisonous egotism all over the globe: including with the despots of the middle east. While Angela Merkel may be a nice lady, those elements learned to play a more subtle game, behaving themselves only as much as they had to in order to amass wealth and power. They bided their time, influencing global politics with key moves, and propped up an armed artifice of divinity against their purported ideological opponents, the Soviets.
The Nazi Socialists and Soviet Communists, like "Islam" and "The West" today, while supposedly opposite ideologies, were really two arms of the same mechanized system of political violence. The words behind any mechanism of state violence are irrelevant: the obvious truth is the red truth that spills on their swords, and no symbols or systems of logic can lie that away. So the same is true of emerging Maoism, Mao who, at least, did not try to hide from the maxim that might makes right, once you pick up a gun, but that maxim is wrong. If that is the mind one adopts, one might as well go back to the days before the Word, when humans could not speak, and battered each other with rocks for sex and scraps of meat.
It seems just as likely to me that a band of Nazis, employing Irish Republican Army rejects raided trash cans for ID numbers, went back and stamped the passports a few times on the train in Europe, then used them to travel to Dubai to make the hit. They didn't care about the security cameras because they got paid so much they can get plastic surgery and live out life in the south Pacific. Were the people on camera the same people in the photos? It did not look like it to me, in this video:
Maybe the passport photos were of Mossad members to lead the investigation astray and point the finger at Israel, but the real people only looked similar to them. Who would want to pay them? Someone with an interest in causing war between "Islam" and "The West." Someone, perhaps a family of weapons dealers, tied to monetary interests that exploited this, trying to play both sides, between Nazi Socialists and Communism, then between America and the Soviets in the cold war (perhaps someone who dealt with the late Charlie Wilson), and now between "Islam" and "The West."
They want to make us hate and kill each other because it's good for their business, and they have become inhuman. This, perhaps, is what scripture meant by tales of possession by demons. These people rile up crowds of shouting Palestinians, kept captive by their own leaders without education so they cannot see through the lies, used as pawns in a global power struggle that has nothing to do with God or self-development to glorify creation. Pawns are the first to be sacrificed. These maniacs still want to destroy the Jews, even if they have to sacrifice everyone from Riyadh to the Khyber Pass to do it.
So, you supposedly devout people in Gaza and elsewhere, will you be pawns, will you be human sacrifices for the idols of political power? Is that the kind of religion you want? Then you choose the path of the damned, and you will get everything you are asking for. Instead, choose God, choose life, choose light.
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Tuesday, August 4, 2009
7:14 PM
Some say democracy blurs people into compromise, that it destroys cultures, but this is simply not true. Putting aside for the moment the sorrow of history and the injustices of displaced reservations, look at the Native American cultures. Native Americans who are citizens of tribal nations or of the United States have not forgotten their ancestors or the beauty in their cultures, and they never will. Many cultures thrive side by side in and around free democracies, and I think that is amazing. The more people are able to see each other as equals, the more we can create independently and together to honor the miracle of our shared existence.
From the history of democracy, and of political rule in general, we know that the concentration of power makes regional and trans-regional governments unstable. In the Mediterranean, Sparta fell because their elite authoritarian minority oppressed all other classes with violence. But earlier in Athens, the ruling Forum was a democracy of elites who oppressed merchants with money and oppressed slaves and foreign colonies with violence, and it met with a similar end. The Athenian Forum refused to allow the remote conquered island of Melos rule itself, but instead slaughtered and enslaved them. Then Athenian resources were sapped by foreign wars to suppress subjects, allowing Sparta to step in, and fifteen years later the brief flirtation with democracy was destroyed.
Similarly in Rome, the Senate attempted to make decisions for the Empire from Britain to Persia, and were so out of touch that governors and commanders on the frontiers had to rule by force to carry out the Senate's edicts. After a while, the Senate was largely irrelevant because the military was doing everything anyway, so it was easy to concentrate power in the Caesar. This lead to depraved excesses of power, and eventually the period of the "thirty tyrants" who destroyed the empire's industrial and mining capacities in their mad chase to kill one another to take the purple. Finally Christ's teachings got through to someone and Constantine remade the empire, and though darkness continued in some forms, a light did shine that shielded the world from total destruction.
It seems like Israelis do not understand these lessons of history. The creation of a rift of those enfranchised and those denied is only a short-term tactic of political manipulation, and a nation relying on such a tactic cannot sustain the disparity forever. Perhaps this was set up from the beginning, that the former enemies and persecutors of the Jews were all too happy to whisper in the ears of the Israeli military and to channel them weapons behind the scenes, because they knew it would corrupt their religion and their search for God... not because they wanted to help the Jews or Israel, but because they wanted to load them up with so many bombs and so much hatred and conflict that they could destroy the Jews and Israel with a word. If the United States is doing the same thing by proxy, playing the role of Rome, then we don't have long either unless we wake up and take charge of our own destiny.
In Palestine 2000 years ago, a small group of men who wore the signs and symbols of history were corrupted under the occupation by Rome. Those men would rather have killed anyone offering a way out of the disparity than give up their own, artificially and externally imposed power. That seems all too familiar, both today in modern Israel, and in ancient Israel under the lines of kings who forgot the prophets and their wise progenitors David and Solomon, and alternately corrupted Israel into debauchery or exerted vicious and bloody wrath in the name of religious purification.
Don't forget that the way out has already been offered, that we already know which way to go to escape death - that way is love.
universal suffrage necessary for modern democracy
Suffrage, the freedom to independently choose representatives in cooperative government and to vote on issues, is the right of all the people of the modern world. If democracy is to succeed anywhere, then every person must be free to express opinion and to participate in the creation or repeal of laws. Because the creator gives us all the ability and the instinct to separate right from wrong, in freedom we trust that we will be okay in the long run, even though many of us make mistakes.Some say democracy blurs people into compromise, that it destroys cultures, but this is simply not true. Putting aside for the moment the sorrow of history and the injustices of displaced reservations, look at the Native American cultures. Native Americans who are citizens of tribal nations or of the United States have not forgotten their ancestors or the beauty in their cultures, and they never will. Many cultures thrive side by side in and around free democracies, and I think that is amazing. The more people are able to see each other as equals, the more we can create independently and together to honor the miracle of our shared existence.
From the history of democracy, and of political rule in general, we know that the concentration of power makes regional and trans-regional governments unstable. In the Mediterranean, Sparta fell because their elite authoritarian minority oppressed all other classes with violence. But earlier in Athens, the ruling Forum was a democracy of elites who oppressed merchants with money and oppressed slaves and foreign colonies with violence, and it met with a similar end. The Athenian Forum refused to allow the remote conquered island of Melos rule itself, but instead slaughtered and enslaved them. Then Athenian resources were sapped by foreign wars to suppress subjects, allowing Sparta to step in, and fifteen years later the brief flirtation with democracy was destroyed.
Similarly in Rome, the Senate attempted to make decisions for the Empire from Britain to Persia, and were so out of touch that governors and commanders on the frontiers had to rule by force to carry out the Senate's edicts. After a while, the Senate was largely irrelevant because the military was doing everything anyway, so it was easy to concentrate power in the Caesar. This lead to depraved excesses of power, and eventually the period of the "thirty tyrants" who destroyed the empire's industrial and mining capacities in their mad chase to kill one another to take the purple. Finally Christ's teachings got through to someone and Constantine remade the empire, and though darkness continued in some forms, a light did shine that shielded the world from total destruction.
It seems like Israelis do not understand these lessons of history. The creation of a rift of those enfranchised and those denied is only a short-term tactic of political manipulation, and a nation relying on such a tactic cannot sustain the disparity forever. Perhaps this was set up from the beginning, that the former enemies and persecutors of the Jews were all too happy to whisper in the ears of the Israeli military and to channel them weapons behind the scenes, because they knew it would corrupt their religion and their search for God... not because they wanted to help the Jews or Israel, but because they wanted to load them up with so many bombs and so much hatred and conflict that they could destroy the Jews and Israel with a word. If the United States is doing the same thing by proxy, playing the role of Rome, then we don't have long either unless we wake up and take charge of our own destiny.
In Palestine 2000 years ago, a small group of men who wore the signs and symbols of history were corrupted under the occupation by Rome. Those men would rather have killed anyone offering a way out of the disparity than give up their own, artificially and externally imposed power. That seems all too familiar, both today in modern Israel, and in ancient Israel under the lines of kings who forgot the prophets and their wise progenitors David and Solomon, and alternately corrupted Israel into debauchery or exerted vicious and bloody wrath in the name of religious purification.
Don't forget that the way out has already been offered, that we already know which way to go to escape death - that way is love.
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Thursday, January 1, 2009
12:35 PM
Deeply ingrained in the Palestinian cultural psyche is the notion that suicide attacks, terrorist attacks, rocket attacks on civilians and those kinds of "political" targets have some strategic value for their political goals. Yet it would appear, from the ongoing conflict without end, in which the Palestinians are for the most part the recurrent losers, that these strategies do not further their goals of justice, peace, and independent statehood.
Going after soft targets achieves no military goal for the Palestinians. If they want to wage war then they would need go after Israeli military installations and chokepoints of their military transportation infrastructure. (I'm not saying they should do this, or that they would succeed, just that it would make more sense as a military strategy.) But instead, when Palestinians get into conflict, they engage in militarily hopeless suicide missions, which have the inevitable result of provoking Israel's military force.
Why?
Let's take the recent Hamas rocket attacks against Israeli towns. These rockets have no targeting systems and just land where ever they land. We may recall that Hitler's buzz bombs, while terrifying, only served to strengthen British resolve to end World War Two, and the allies won by making the bitter choice to turn that strategy against Germany a thousand fold, firebombing German cities and killing civilians by the thousands. Given that states, armies and politicians are unlikely to behave much differently than they did 70 years ago, or 700, or 7000, why would the states backing Palestine encourage a losing strategy that results in the inevitable reaction by the Israeli military?
Who gave the Palestinians these rockets? Probably Syria, Iran, Egypt, or Saudi Arabia, or at least arms dealers who are protected by those states. Do you think they didn't know what would happen? No. They knew very well what Israel would do. So, why?
The simple answer is that fascist pseudo-republics like Iran and Syria need a way to manipulate their citizens into loyalty. Anger is much easier to generate than happiness, and much easier to manipulate. If the people in charge of the Islamic states actually wanted peace, or wanted their people to be happy, or cared about the Palestinians at all, they would find a solution with Israel. If they actually wanted to destroy Israel, they would do it, but they do not, because the existence of Israel and the oppression of Palestine is useful to them to control their own people. So in a sense, the Islamic states hang the Palestinians upon the cross of the west, not for any higher purpose, but only to maintain the power of the Herods of the middle east.
As long as Palestinians continue attacks on Israel, they will continue to lose, and the fascists of the Islamic states have an easy way to stoke the anger and fear of their people and keep them in control. If the people of the Islamic states realized the truth, they would throw the crooks out and would take charge of their own educations, their own governments, and their own lives, and work for peace. Reconciliation for the past may never be possible, but moving forward may be possible anyway, because people are simply tired of violence. If the Palestinians realized this larger picture, they could make peace with Israel -- in fact, Israel could one day become their greatest ally, if they would let that future unfold.
Again, hierarchical state authority is the problem. The fascists throughout the middle east have manipulated the people's search for the highest cosmic authority, God, to create an excuse for absolute authority on Earth. That is a lie. There is no correspondence of divine authority to earthly authority. If everyone were holy like the prophets of God, that would work, but they are not -- most people are sinners, they are corruptible, and absolute power makes them crazy. That is why universal participatory democracy, liberty and freedom are essential for peace.
palestinians are sacrificed by the muslim states
Consider for a moment why the Palestinians always seem to lose. Is it just the fault of Israel? Or does culpability lie with the states who "support" the Palestinians?Deeply ingrained in the Palestinian cultural psyche is the notion that suicide attacks, terrorist attacks, rocket attacks on civilians and those kinds of "political" targets have some strategic value for their political goals. Yet it would appear, from the ongoing conflict without end, in which the Palestinians are for the most part the recurrent losers, that these strategies do not further their goals of justice, peace, and independent statehood.
Going after soft targets achieves no military goal for the Palestinians. If they want to wage war then they would need go after Israeli military installations and chokepoints of their military transportation infrastructure. (I'm not saying they should do this, or that they would succeed, just that it would make more sense as a military strategy.) But instead, when Palestinians get into conflict, they engage in militarily hopeless suicide missions, which have the inevitable result of provoking Israel's military force.
Why?
Let's take the recent Hamas rocket attacks against Israeli towns. These rockets have no targeting systems and just land where ever they land. We may recall that Hitler's buzz bombs, while terrifying, only served to strengthen British resolve to end World War Two, and the allies won by making the bitter choice to turn that strategy against Germany a thousand fold, firebombing German cities and killing civilians by the thousands. Given that states, armies and politicians are unlikely to behave much differently than they did 70 years ago, or 700, or 7000, why would the states backing Palestine encourage a losing strategy that results in the inevitable reaction by the Israeli military?
Who gave the Palestinians these rockets? Probably Syria, Iran, Egypt, or Saudi Arabia, or at least arms dealers who are protected by those states. Do you think they didn't know what would happen? No. They knew very well what Israel would do. So, why?
The simple answer is that fascist pseudo-republics like Iran and Syria need a way to manipulate their citizens into loyalty. Anger is much easier to generate than happiness, and much easier to manipulate. If the people in charge of the Islamic states actually wanted peace, or wanted their people to be happy, or cared about the Palestinians at all, they would find a solution with Israel. If they actually wanted to destroy Israel, they would do it, but they do not, because the existence of Israel and the oppression of Palestine is useful to them to control their own people. So in a sense, the Islamic states hang the Palestinians upon the cross of the west, not for any higher purpose, but only to maintain the power of the Herods of the middle east.
As long as Palestinians continue attacks on Israel, they will continue to lose, and the fascists of the Islamic states have an easy way to stoke the anger and fear of their people and keep them in control. If the people of the Islamic states realized the truth, they would throw the crooks out and would take charge of their own educations, their own governments, and their own lives, and work for peace. Reconciliation for the past may never be possible, but moving forward may be possible anyway, because people are simply tired of violence. If the Palestinians realized this larger picture, they could make peace with Israel -- in fact, Israel could one day become their greatest ally, if they would let that future unfold.
Again, hierarchical state authority is the problem. The fascists throughout the middle east have manipulated the people's search for the highest cosmic authority, God, to create an excuse for absolute authority on Earth. That is a lie. There is no correspondence of divine authority to earthly authority. If everyone were holy like the prophets of God, that would work, but they are not -- most people are sinners, they are corruptible, and absolute power makes them crazy. That is why universal participatory democracy, liberty and freedom are essential for peace.
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008
12:25 AM
About the same time, Hamas terrorists fire rockets into Israel and Israel terrorizes the Palestinians of Gaza, back and forth, always creating more grief, more anger, more revenge. Hundreds dead, thousands more in danger.
Not to mention the Taliban in Afghanistan who blew up a crowd of schoolchildren the other day.
The idea of evil as a spiritual force is all too often used by one side of a conflict to describe the other side. But the conflict itself is the evil.
Truly we live in a time when evil is awakening, becoming a force in and of itself, when chaos and lawlessness reign not because the state lacks the power of violence, but because our hearts are hardened to the radiant love of God, because in our anger and despair, we lose sight of the beautiful gift of life which has been given to us by the creator. The light must awaken as well - to see through the darkness, to know what seems unknowable, to go into the darkness before evil and shine.
Are these metaphors, or reflections of a deeper reality? I don't have any answers. I don't understand. Jesus, are you reading this? We need you back, brother.
santa shooter, gaza and the awakening
In the U.S. we've just had our happy illusions of Christmas shattered by a psycho who dressed up as Santa Claus and killed his ex-wife and nine members of her family, orphaning 13 children, including one little girl he shot in the face when he opened the door. Why? No one will ever make sense of this.About the same time, Hamas terrorists fire rockets into Israel and Israel terrorizes the Palestinians of Gaza, back and forth, always creating more grief, more anger, more revenge. Hundreds dead, thousands more in danger.
Not to mention the Taliban in Afghanistan who blew up a crowd of schoolchildren the other day.
The idea of evil as a spiritual force is all too often used by one side of a conflict to describe the other side. But the conflict itself is the evil.
Truly we live in a time when evil is awakening, becoming a force in and of itself, when chaos and lawlessness reign not because the state lacks the power of violence, but because our hearts are hardened to the radiant love of God, because in our anger and despair, we lose sight of the beautiful gift of life which has been given to us by the creator. The light must awaken as well - to see through the darkness, to know what seems unknowable, to go into the darkness before evil and shine.
Are these metaphors, or reflections of a deeper reality? I don't have any answers. I don't understand. Jesus, are you reading this? We need you back, brother.
> detail, links and comments >>
Friday, February 29, 2008
1:03 AM
A "holocaust" is unnecessary.
It sounds futile to some, but the only hope to resolve the conflict is for a unanimous decision on both sides to lay down arms and stop fighting.
It can be done, if people realize the free will that God gave each of us can be used to far greater potential in peace and cooperation.
That's all there is to it. It cannot be more simple.
The Accusers and Deceivers from both sides strut and battle about in parliamentary and military shenanigans, and the result is, women and children die.
We fall into war due to divisions into families, clans, alliances, even, in a very real sense, nations of enforced ethnic or religious character of any kind, or in an abstract sense, hierarchy. Nations in general set us up for some conflict, though national sovereignty is still useful to protect variation and progress in the hum-drum mechanics of everyday life, and to work out local issues locally, since after all, there are thousands of different but equally happy paths for us to choose from. Liberal democracies resolve their differences peacefully by convening (and opting to remove) leaders whom they believe project their best values. Compromise does not mean a win-lose result. It means both sides win and work together to build a better world where children will not die in a "holocaust."
It is always possible for everyone to change their minds and unanimously decide to live together with their differences, not to compete destructively, but to compete to promote the common welfare. It is a choice, a beacon more clear than one realizes, a lighthouse that one sights through the fog just in time to steer clear of the rocks.
everyone lay down arms
Today, Deputy Israeli Defence Minister Matan Vilnai declared Palestine would face a "bigger holocaust" if Hamas did not stop rocket attacks.A "holocaust" is unnecessary.
It sounds futile to some, but the only hope to resolve the conflict is for a unanimous decision on both sides to lay down arms and stop fighting.
It can be done, if people realize the free will that God gave each of us can be used to far greater potential in peace and cooperation.
That's all there is to it. It cannot be more simple.
The Accusers and Deceivers from both sides strut and battle about in parliamentary and military shenanigans, and the result is, women and children die.
We fall into war due to divisions into families, clans, alliances, even, in a very real sense, nations of enforced ethnic or religious character of any kind, or in an abstract sense, hierarchy. Nations in general set us up for some conflict, though national sovereignty is still useful to protect variation and progress in the hum-drum mechanics of everyday life, and to work out local issues locally, since after all, there are thousands of different but equally happy paths for us to choose from. Liberal democracies resolve their differences peacefully by convening (and opting to remove) leaders whom they believe project their best values. Compromise does not mean a win-lose result. It means both sides win and work together to build a better world where children will not die in a "holocaust."
It is always possible for everyone to change their minds and unanimously decide to live together with their differences, not to compete destructively, but to compete to promote the common welfare. It is a choice, a beacon more clear than one realizes, a lighthouse that one sights through the fog just in time to steer clear of the rocks.
> detail, links and comments >>
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
8:26 PM
israel is the holy land
Sure Israel is the holy land. Jews are (one of) God's holy people? Okay. That doesn't mean the Israeli state gets a free pass to kill people and disenfranchise artificially divided racial groups from their ancestral land and from civilization in general.> detail, links and comments >>
Friday, August 3, 2007
7:39 AM
But simultaneously it became known that the Pentagon "accidentally" sold a large number of spare F-14 parts, in violation of law, on the open market, and Iran is the only country who wanted them for its aging F-14 squadrons.
It is apparent that the forces of evil are within our own military bureaucracy as well as the Islamic terrorists. The solution to war is not more weapons for everyone, it is peaceful self-leadership from the bottom up — the sheep must wake up and watch themselves, because the wolf wears the skin of the shepherd. Instead of leading us toward peace, they have begun to arm the region from the middle east to south asia for a final cataclysmic showdown.
God gave us our free will so that we could learn to stop fighting. I do not believe that a final battle on the plain of Jezreel is necessary to bring about the return of Christ, because Christ's message is one of peace by exercise of free will to throw off the shackles of violent tradition. It may happen, but that shows you how much Bush lies to you about his supposed Christian virtue... he seeks to hasten the prophecy... a dire and explicitly enumerated sin.
Consider that Bush is the second beast, granted power by the people for another ten years (or so) before the people wake up and take charge of their country. Reagan might have been the first; he was wounded but did not die, after all. Don't be so self-assured of your wealthy, comfortable righteousness. (Personally I think Hitler was the first and Stalin was the second, but that doesn't mean we're out of the woods yet.)
GW Bush - the mad bomber
Bush's solution to war in the middle east is now to arm just about everybody, with his major arms deals for Israel, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. (As well as a French arms deal for Libya announced today.)But simultaneously it became known that the Pentagon "accidentally" sold a large number of spare F-14 parts, in violation of law, on the open market, and Iran is the only country who wanted them for its aging F-14 squadrons.
It is apparent that the forces of evil are within our own military bureaucracy as well as the Islamic terrorists. The solution to war is not more weapons for everyone, it is peaceful self-leadership from the bottom up — the sheep must wake up and watch themselves, because the wolf wears the skin of the shepherd. Instead of leading us toward peace, they have begun to arm the region from the middle east to south asia for a final cataclysmic showdown.
God gave us our free will so that we could learn to stop fighting. I do not believe that a final battle on the plain of Jezreel is necessary to bring about the return of Christ, because Christ's message is one of peace by exercise of free will to throw off the shackles of violent tradition. It may happen, but that shows you how much Bush lies to you about his supposed Christian virtue... he seeks to hasten the prophecy... a dire and explicitly enumerated sin.
Consider that Bush is the second beast, granted power by the people for another ten years (or so) before the people wake up and take charge of their country. Reagan might have been the first; he was wounded but did not die, after all. Don't be so self-assured of your wealthy, comfortable righteousness. (Personally I think Hitler was the first and Stalin was the second, but that doesn't mean we're out of the woods yet.)
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Friday, June 1, 2007
8:42 PM
Maybe Hitler didn't get his coffee one morning and went ape over it. The fact is, that for however loud people like Achmedinibaba and the latest Nazi punks are, there are ten thousand times as many people in those "ethnic groups" who will gladly stand together for themselves, each other, and everyone "in between" these artificial, divisive, and constructed racial lines.
From the perspective of science and evolution, racism makes no sense. A physical body is an amalgum of tens, if not hundreds of thousands of genetic traits, and most are not visible. It is a waste of brainpower to subdivide the world over the few of those that present bone structure and skin pigment. Hitler wanted to know how to create a "master race," but that is impossible... it does not make sense in the book of life.
From the perspective of religion, racism makes no sense. When we quiet the voice of the deceiver, if the voice of God does speak to us, then we know from what it says, and from what some of every tribe and nation have said, and are punished for even today — that the world can someday live at peace, if we all make the choice to live together.
you cry "peace, peace" when there is no peace
Suppose Arabs and Jews realized they had always been one people, and voted democratically, we could imagine a middle east to which all the Jews in the world were free to move there if they chose to, and all people are free to worship as they chose. Why should we kill? Perhaps in this world, world war II had been resolved by a contest of which English or Bavarian could bake the better pastry. Yum, yummy pastry.Maybe Hitler didn't get his coffee one morning and went ape over it. The fact is, that for however loud people like Achmedinibaba and the latest Nazi punks are, there are ten thousand times as many people in those "ethnic groups" who will gladly stand together for themselves, each other, and everyone "in between" these artificial, divisive, and constructed racial lines.
From the perspective of science and evolution, racism makes no sense. A physical body is an amalgum of tens, if not hundreds of thousands of genetic traits, and most are not visible. It is a waste of brainpower to subdivide the world over the few of those that present bone structure and skin pigment. Hitler wanted to know how to create a "master race," but that is impossible... it does not make sense in the book of life.
From the perspective of religion, racism makes no sense. When we quiet the voice of the deceiver, if the voice of God does speak to us, then we know from what it says, and from what some of every tribe and nation have said, and are punished for even today — that the world can someday live at peace, if we all make the choice to live together.
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Saturday, May 12, 2007
11:29 AM
exclusionary citizenship
Similarly, Russian families living in Estonia since World War II should not be denied citizenship because of language requirements. With education, all people are learning to speak to each other again, and this is a good thing. Rules that fracture countries based on language and throw people back out into the "state of nature" can appear to the majority language group to be a "stabilizing" measure, but they are only being suckered by people who profit in power by denying rights to constructed minority groups.> detail, links and comments >>
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
2:08 PM
comments
It's safe to say this is an emotional issue for everyone. But most people in the U.S. do not want to destroy the world, or impose fascism, or bring the end times like the paranoid set rants about. The Bible cautions people not to wish for the end of the world and warns those zealots who seek an early end to the mysterious plan.> detail, links and comments >>
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