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...and G-d commands Jewish people to cover their heads, wear beards, and have those pony tails. Just as Muslims have beards and cover their heads as well. It is modesty. To cover one's head to show that they are humble before G-d.
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How many of those non-Jew citizens are treated as second/third class There are many Israeli Arabs in the Israeli Knesset as well as in many other fields like the movie industry. For example, Israeli actor Mohammad Bakri (Israeli Arab Muslim) starred alongside Antonio Banderas in the movie The Body. Bakri also stars in the television show Tyrant, where Ashraf Barhom (Israeli Arab Christian) plays the main character Jamal. You may remember Ashraf Barhom as the senior Saudi agent in the movie The Kingdom with Jamie Foxx and Jennifer Garner. |
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I will discuss what I think Zionism is. I think Zionism exists for religious Jews who want a G-d-fearing Homeland to go to. Zionism exists for secular Jews as a place of sanctuary.
Adolf Hitler, as well as modern day Neo-Nazi groups, usually decide to take on a negative view of a person if they are born to a Jewish mother. Hitler did not care whether one was secular or religious. If they were Jewish, then Hitler did not like them. That is why Israel exists. To give both secular and religious Jews a place to go to when they feel like the world, or a particular part of the world, is bearing down on them with threats of antisemitism. That is why many Jews who are secular still support Israel. Because many anti-Semites seem to dislike Jews because they were born Jewish and not whether or not they practice the religion.
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You forgot to discuss Zionism.
Which aspects of it do you want me to discuss? It is a pretty broad term and broad philosophy that encompasses many different viewpoints and opinions. |
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Yeah, well it's all about what makes most more sense to the believer, but this source doesn't force it's beliefs, it simply states them. They'd be the last to want to impose govt in any way to apply their beliefs in any way, from what I see.
The ones who think revelation has already been fulfilled has a name, just can't think of it, but it's an old belief, around the time of Luther I think
Thought since you brought up the subject of the US in prophecy it might interest you .
Oh, it does, and as I said, I need to again review it. Nor can I say that they are wrong. Just that, my first impression is that it seemed a bit stretched. Thanks again. And, unlike other sections of the Bible, prophecy seems like it can be harder in general to decipher. The illustration that comes to mind is giving someone directions. Many times, several of the steps in the directions do not make sense till you get to that point. Another interesting thought - if the rapture is to happen prior to the most of Revelation (as many think), then some countries will be affected by the population loss and chaos than others. The US military has a large number of Christians, I have heard - if so, it would be crippling, though not necessarily a death blow.They do not believe in that kind of rapture (obviously) or as you say it wouldn't fit . They? Meaning the 7th day Adventists? Actually, I don't know what they think in that area - I know if someone is post tribulation rapture that would not be a factor either. As a young Christian I tried focusing on all that, but, too much, I think, at least for the wrong reasons. So, I have just accepted that Paul refers to such an event, but, I don't know for sure when. |
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I want to make a thread about the misconceptions of Israeli culture because I have seen, both online and offline, people who do not truly understand Israeli culture.
1.) In Israel, there are around 7.8 million people. About one hundred thousand to two hundred thousand are Arab Christians. 1.6 million are Arab Muslim. 6 million are Jewish. Out of those 6 million Jewish people, 3 million are European, 2.9 million are North African and Southwest Asia, and about one hundred thousand are Ethiopian. So about half of the Jewish people in Israel are from outside of Europe and the other half of the Jewish people in Israel are from Europe. Do not let anyone tell you that 90%+ of Israeli Jews are European. That is simply not true.
2.) Hebrew, a Semitic language similar to Arabic, is spoken in Israel. They do not speak Yiddish in Israel.
3.) Israel has Hebrew rap and Hebrew heavy metal music. Not everyone in Israel is super religious and shuns the media and pop culture. For the most part, except observing Shabbat (the Sabbath), Israel is a fairly secular country.
4.) The former President of Israel, Moshe Katzav, is of Iranian descent. The leader of the Kadima Party in Israel, Shaul Mofaz, is also of Iranian descent. There are many Jewish people of Sephardic/Mizrahi (Arab, Berber, and Iranian Jewish) descent in positions of political power in Israel.
5.) People say Israel expelled 700,000 Palestinians in 1948. Well, between 1948 and 1967, 1 million Jews from North Africa and Southwest Asia were expelled by Arab countries and fled to Israel.
6.) Not a misconception. But a fact. Miss Israel 2013 is of Ethiopian descent.
7.) Another fact. An Israeli company invented the first USB drives.
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After my both of my dogs died on the same day, one due to a car and other having a stress related seizure two hours later (yes I know it doesn't sound possible, but it happened), one of the friends I play league of legends with whom lives in California while I live in Georgia sent me a care packages filled with popcorn, birthday cake mix, a gangplank oranges squishy ball, Imgur upvote stickers, and a card. I cried right there in front of my dad and it's the kindest act of human compassion I've ever had happen to me.
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Not even close to resembling the mark of mammon. The child slept on something, and they are embarrassed to admit it. It looks precisely like something was impressed on his skin and not even impressed evenly, as it fades to one side.
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After reading this article I am amazed that Ebola is not already present in the UK. It seems as though anything can be smuggled into the country.
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An aside to the biblical predictions regarding the future attack on Israel - but related, and given current events, worth considering.
Not familiar myself, and I hope to review the passages, but for now, it was noted in piece by Joel Rosenberg that Isaiah 17 and Jeremiah 49 foretell the utter destruction and annihilation of the city of Damascus in the End Times.
Isaiah 17 does refer to Damascus - I don't know the context overall, don't know if Damascus has been a ruinous heap in the past. Jeremiah 49 notes Babylon, so not sure what the writer had in mind today. I did see an article heading about some concern that this Syrian conflict could trigger a world war - it could, but I don't think it will. Ugly situation, and kind of a damn if you do and damn if you do not type of situation, it seems. |
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When will people realize that cops are just hired guns - jack-booted thugs who are no better than the criminals they kill. we wrap them in robes of glory but the good ones are just wanna-be overlords with a license to kill. The bad ones are lazy - like this one. I hope he gets shot himself. I'll call one if I need one but I can only HOPE they are working for me.
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Do I need to repeat my argument that the next president needs to be a Republican, any Republican? This woman as well as probably one or two more justices will likely retire during that time frame. Does anyone with more than half a brain and even a rudimentary understanding of the Constitution want more associate justices like Mrs. Ginsburg on the bench? There can be no more important mission than preventing that from happening.
It's stunning that a Supreme Court justice would say such a thing. God help us all if the Court is ever run by liberals, because the Constitution will be shredded. |
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Wrong, Ruthie! A woman who can´t afford the pill, or a condom....or who is having sex with a man who can´t afford to buy one.... can´t afford to be having sex. And that´s her problem. Not mine. I am not morally obligated to prevent someone else´s pregnancy. Justice Ginsburg: Buying Contraceptives for Others is One of the ‘Obligations That Citizens Have’ (CNSNews.com) – Providing women with cost-free health-insurance coverage for contraceptives is one of the “obligations” of citizenship, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Wednesday in an interview with Yahoo’s Katie Couric. “Some people say there’s something troubling about mandating a private company though, to do something that is against their deeply held religious beliefs. What would you say to those people?” Couric asked Ginsburg, one of four dissenting justices in the court’s landmark Burwell v. Hobby Lobby decision. “When you’re part of a society, you can’t separate yourself from the obligations that citizens have,” the justice replied. Ginsburg called the 5-4 ruling in Hobby Lobby “a decision of startling breadth." The case concerned a regulation issued by the Department of Health and Human Services under the Affordable Care Act that said virtually all health-insurance plans in the United States must provide all women of reproductive capacity with co-pay-free coverage for all FDA-approved contraceptives. These "contraceptives" included two forms of IUDS and two drugs that can terminate a human life by preventing an embryo from implanting in the mother's womb. The Green family, which owns Hobby Lobby, said buying these IUDs and abortifacients drugs violated its Christian faith and that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act prohibited the federal government from forcing them to violate their faith in that way. The majority of the Supreme Court agreed. “Your 35-page dissent has been described as blistering and scathing,” Couric noted to Ginsburg. “Why did you find this decision so disturbing?” “The decision that an employer could refuse to cover contraceptives meant that women would have to take care of that for themselves or the men who cared,” Ginsburg replied. “Contraceptive protection is something that every woman must have access to to control her own destiny,” she added. “I certainly respect the belief of the Hobby Lobby owners. On the other hand, they have no constitutional right to foist that belief on the hundreds and hundreds of women who work for them who don’t share that belief. I had never seen the free exercise of religion clause interpreted in such a way.” http://cnsnews.com/news/article/tatiana-lozano/justice-ginsburg-buying-contraceptives-others-one-obligations-citizens |
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Obama has cut spending, had to deal with Bush’s mess, does not have the SS surplus that Reagan, Bush and Bush used to hide much of their record deficits and much of Obama’s deficit is the caused by the shortage in the SS fund. Then Obama has had to deal with Republicans’ promise to screw up everything until we get rid of the Black President.
So get this through your heads. The Republicans are the one who waste money, they increase welfare (much of it is for the rich) and even with their record tax increases they set record deficits.
Good lord, why would you vote for a Republican?
They voted republican because Bush started two wars AND cut taxes at the same time, and they thought this was a grand idea. That is the conservative's idea of sound fiscal policy. Then Bush’s wars, waste and tax cuts lead to inflation, the tax for mismanaging everything. It was this tax increase on the working class that triggered Bush’s Great Recession. The Republicans mantra is “spend, tax and borrow”. |
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When the young nation of Israel came out of Egypt, God called that nation "my son" in Exodus 4:22. When the baby Jesus came out of Egypt, God said, "Out of Egypt have I called my son." Matthew 2:15.
So, we have a passage in Exodus that is literally referring to the nation of Israel as my son, but is also prophetically referring to Jesus.
Is that what you mean there, so far?
There is next to no evidence that the Jews were ever in servitude in Egypt. And absolutely none that Moses existed at all, let alone he picked up the ten commandments. |
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his brothers a terrorist, what do you expect…
Now granted the tea party, to a liberal would be similar to a terrorist group, but I don't see the tea party supporting the setting up of Islamic states, supporting terrorist over free nations…
The way the Liberals do…
Kind of wild isn't it… Never thought you'd be part of the terrorist supporting group did you?
But you are :-)
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You say you want to compare the two…
Actually the comparison should be between the Liberals and Hamas…
Since Obama wanted Israel to surrender to Hamas, you have to realize the Liberals and Hamas are one and the same now… In order to be a liberal now you must support terrorist groups, terrorist states, and terrorism in general… Obama does :-)
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Ancient prophesy ?That is just a lame excuse for continued hatred and prejudice.
I don't see the Jews declaring a holy war. No one really give a flying fuck about ancient prophesy. There are people with stone-age intellect with their fingers on nuclear weapons.
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Any time it looks like Israel is going to war, everyone screams "Gog & Magog!!!"
And what's so stupid is that's it usually the idiot Christians who scream the loudest, especially since they think they know more about Hebrew scripture and prophecy than the Jews do.
Pretty silly that ingorant people reading the English translation of the greek translation of the Aramaic translation of a Hebrew scripture think they know more about the Hebrew scriptures than the Hebrews themselves do.
Talk about the epitome of hubris and arrogance!!? But, that's what Sunday School will do to you. You get the quality education you pay for.
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That's the thing about obscure, unspecific, nonsensical "prophesy", you can make it say anything you'd like.
That is what is so interesting about several of his points - many of the prophecies he points to are far from obscure, etc. Which is why several political leaders have found them of interest, given today's current events. Considering the same thing has been happening ever since anyone ever heard the words "Gog and MAGog" even when it was thought the Scythians (oddly enough who were Iranian!) Then the Romans; Attila the Hun; etc...etc..... none of those came true either. |
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