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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: “From River To Sea” - Antisemitism or Tone Deafness? |
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Posted: 10 Feb 2024, 7:02 am
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Replies: 17
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| Before 10/7 I had some sympathy for Palestinians but all 10-7 showed is that they endorsed a party that uses barbaric violence to solve issues of territory. Actually, I’ve seen you make pathetic excuses for Israel’s oppression of the Palestinians long before October 7th 2023. It’s all very strange ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: There may be hope for Christian Evangelicals. |
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Posted: 07 Feb 2024, 7:58 am
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Replies: 26
Views: 3,020
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ASPartOfMe wrote: Why assume people of color will be less fundamentalist?
Good point. This highlights another flaw with the CNN article quoted in the OP as far as I'm concerned. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: There may be hope for Christian Evangelicals. |
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Posted: 07 Feb 2024, 7:53 am
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| 1950s America, which Evangelicals and Catholics are trying to recreate, was as least as bad as Nazi Germany. Didn't you used to be a Republican Tim Tex? I suppose that was before you figured out that you'd fit in better on this forum by moaning about conservatives. I'm still puzzled why you ever id... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: There may be hope for Christian Evangelicals. |
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Posted: 07 Feb 2024, 7:30 am
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Replies: 26
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| There may be hope for REAL Christian Evangelicals. No, I am not talking about our Lord and Savior (although I should). I am referring to a few short paragraphs in a recent CNN news blurb. Chen predicts that "America will become more secular, and Christianity less conservative" as non-Whit... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: IF trump wins 2024 and the camps start |
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Posted: 28 Dec 2023, 2:43 pm
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Replies: 19
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| I feel like this is about the hundredth time I’ve said this in here, but can I just remind everyone that Trump already served a four-year term as President, and did nothing but talk tough on twitter. The right-populist pledges he made during his 2016 election campaign came to nothing, so the idea th... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Evidence of Israel's genocidal intentions toward Gaza? |
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Posted: 28 Dec 2023, 2:41 pm
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Replies: 66
Views: 2,803
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| Many polls indicate the vast majority of Israeli citizens want peace with the Palestinians. I think that should be starting point for reconciliation rather than focusing on one two bad apples in the Knesset. Nonsense. Do you just make this stuff up as you go along? Here’s the reality: https://time.... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Things suddenly designated "woke" |
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Posted: 28 Dec 2023, 2:38 pm
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Replies: 118
Views: 2,645
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| The term "woke" is highly controversial. When right wing writer Bethany Mandel, spearheading the intellectual basis of the anti-woke movement was interviewed she quite shockingly was unable to define "wokeness" https://www.forbes.com/sites/danidiplacido/2023/03/16/anti-woke-auth... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Things suddenly designated "woke" |
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Posted: 28 Dec 2023, 2:36 pm
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Replies: 118
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| Being "woke" is to be anything other than ableist, ageist, classist, racist, sexist, or xenophobic. Who defines this? The ableists, ageists, classists, racists, sexists, and xenophobes. I might take your whining about “racism” more seriously if you hadn’t had an Israeli flag as your avata... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Christian Zionism |
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Posted: 21 Dec 2023, 9:34 am
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Replies: 42
Views: 2,414
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| I was taught that the U.S. government was behind everything, using Israel as a pawn to unleash its influence in the Middle East. I think that's an oversimplified view. It seems to me that lobbying by various large private organizations of American people, both Jewish and Christian, is a much bigger... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Palestinian Christians |
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Posted: 21 Dec 2023, 9:10 am
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Replies: 50
Views: 2,856
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| The deputy mayor of Jerusalem recently appeared on LBC radio in the UK where she shamelessly lied that "there are no churches in Gaza", then followed that up with the lie that there are "no Christians" in Gaza because "Hamas has driven them out". https://www.youtube.com... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Palestinian Christians |
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Posted: 21 Dec 2023, 9:05 am
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Replies: 50
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| As the journalist Jonathan Cook recently pointed out on twitter: "Israel has a long, covert history of trying to rid the region of Palestinian Christians. Why? Because they complicate the self-serving clash of civilisations narrative Israel cultivates to win over westerners." https://twitt... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Palestinian Christians |
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Posted: 21 Dec 2023, 9:03 am
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Replies: 50
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| Almost a third of the members of the PLO were Christians. Interesting. I didn't know that. The first act of "Arab terrorism" committed on US soil was the assassination of Bobby Kennedy (for his support for giving fifty jet fighters to Israel)by Sirhan Sirhan who was a Christian Palestinia... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Why is it wrong to criticize Israel? |
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Posted: 02 Dec 2023, 2:08 pm
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Replies: 62
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| I'm a bit of a WW2 buff. The West failed to help the Jews. Horribly. Over 50 million people were killed in WW2. I reject this idea that it was the duty of ‘the West’ to help ‘the Jews’ as if nobody else’s lives mattered, let alone the idea that ‘the West’ now has a duty to give Israel the green lig... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Right / left political shift and Israel |
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Posted: 20 Nov 2023, 7:50 am
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Replies: 22
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| Some strange shifts in politics taking place in Europe. Far right and right politics shifting to supporting Israel with the left associated with support for Palestinians. Always thought far right was anti semitic? Although Trump was very much pro Israel. Maybe the conflict is creating a right wing ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Noam Chomsky : Why America Holds Israel as a Sacred Cow? |
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Posted: 11 Nov 2023, 7:56 am
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Replies: 34
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| So Chomsky is saying that... the US's huge and unwavering support of Israel is because... in the '67 war Israel broke the back of "Secular Arab Nationalism". Making it easier for the US to "run the middle east". That plus the fact that Israel and the US share intelligence. Does ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Noam Chomsky : Why America Holds Israel as a Sacred Cow? |
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Posted: 11 Nov 2023, 5:19 am
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Replies: 34
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| Another thing that strikes me about reading this thread is how poorly some people understand the American Right (or at least how careless they are when talking about it). Christian Zionists, Christian Nationalists and White Nationalists are three different groups. Christian Zionists obviously suppor... |
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