Convert you little snotty nosed kid.
Now for the Rest of the Story...
But first, a rant...
Okay, the thirty-something entrepreneur from Forsyth County, GA is still burning me up. He was quoted in the Sunday paper three weeks ago in an article that told how the bedroom communities around major cities have become Bush's "base." The entrepreneur is quoted as saying he voted for Bush because he wants "less taxes."
So, LESS TAXES? My God, man, wake up. All he had to do was mail you a couple of rebate checks and you're hooked? MY GOSH! Did you know that Bush is running up the national deficit to sky high levels? Did you know that this so-called TAX CUT is only deferring the national debt to your children? Oh, and what about this little war that Bush started? Eighty billion needed last year, and probably another $80 billion this year? And that's just for redevelopment! Who do you think is going to pay for this? YOUR LITTLE PREP SCHOOL CHILDREN!!!!
On to my main topic for tonight...
See, the whole point of this website is to address violence and the rape of our environment. In regards to the "violence" thing, the more I look back into our history, the more I find the sinister role that Christianity has played in today's violence.
Let's review. First the Holy Roman Empire forces all the little "pagan" religions at the fringes of the empire to either convert to Christianity or die by the sword. However, the Jews are permitted to exist because they are God's Chosen People. But throughout the centuries, the Jews are persecuted in Europe. Sometimes they are forced to convert to Christianity through torture, such as in the Spanish Inquisition, and other times they are blamed for the death of Christ. But most often, they are simply hated because of their financial success. Even though the Spanish Inquisition finally ended in 1834, new waves of persecution continued in France, Germany, Russia, and other European nations. Fast forward 100 years later and the German Nazis are preparing to ethnically cleanse the continent. The question is, where were the Christians during these long years of Jewish persecution? Were they trying to stop it, ignoring it, or participants in the hatred?
Ouch, ouch. Okay, I promise to vote for Jeb Bush in 2008. Just put those
plier things back in the toolbox.
Sadly, even after the Holocaust many Jews returned to their home and STILL faced anti-Semitism. This was the last straw for many Jews and a few years later the state of Israel was formed. The point of all this is that if the Europeans had been "good Christians" and treated the Jews with love and respect, they would probably have not felt forced to emigrate to the Middle East.
Now, the irony continues because fundamentalist Christians point to all the violence and unrest in the Middle East as a sign that their version of the end is near, known as Armageddon. Yet, it was the Christians who created this whole current situation, through the Spanish Inquisition, the Holocaust and endless persecution of the Jews. There are no miracles that happened here, only a long series of cause and effect events. It was the hypocrisy of European Christians that created the Jewish State.
Hmm, where were those Christians? The following is a quote from a biography of Theodor Herzi , the visionary of modern Zionism:
In 1894, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer in the French army, was unjustly accused of treason, mainly because of the prevailing anti-Semitic atmosphere. Herzl witnessed mobs shouting “Death to the Jews” in France, the home of the French Revolution, and resolved that there was only one solution: the mass immigration of Jews to a land that they could call their own.
The rest, as they say, is history. Again, it was European anti-Semitism that led to the creation of Israel, and it was NOT a miraculous act of God, as I was always told in Church.
Did you know?
At one point the Jews considered creating a nation in British-owned Uganda, but the idea was quickly voted down by the World Zionist Congress at the turn of the 19th Century.
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