In all sincerity, Navigator, here are a few suggestions I hope you'll consider.
1. Go to your nearest neighborhood synagogue and have a chat with the Rabbi. I suspect he or she will be delighted to explain a little of their beliefs to you. Don't go in with a chip on your shoulder, don't talk about the Palestinians (we'll get to that), just present yourself in a spirit of learning. Ask him to explain the phrase "the chosen people." The answer will completely upend your understanding of Judaism, I guarantee it. Might even blow your mind.
Ryan.
Why not save me the trouble of seeking out Rabbi's. You obviously have mind-blowing data regarding Judaism so why not just share it. What is the meaning behind the phrase 'Gods chosen people'?
2. Instead of whining about Israel's treatment of the Palestinians and slandering every Jew on the planet, get off your butt and do something about it. Join the legions of appalled Jews -- both inside Israel and out -- trying to change that country's tactics and injustices. Take part in an Amnesty International letter writing campaign. Write to your congress people and reps if you're American. Again, don't write with a chip on your shoulder. Use AI's sample letters. You'll still be sitting on your butt, I guess, but at least it'll be a productive butt-sitting.
I have slandered no one - Jew or otherwise. I am approaching this from an atheist perspective regarding theism.
It appears that organised religion of the 'one god' variety can be traced to Jews, and that the whole history which unfolded from that including the manufacture and distribution of the Protocols the rise of German Nazi is connected with that.
The history of the world as it has so far unfolded has everything to do with the Jew and their idea of god.
Within those events we are given the distinct impression that we are bad in the eyes of our creator.
You cage a dog and then continually poke a sharp stick at it, you are going to create a beast. A creature who resorts to base instinct and get your flesh anywhere near that beast and it will bite to kill.
You put a god idea in a cage and get it to perform tricks for you, you create a *********** monster.
That monster turned out to manifest as Nazi.
3. Read a history of the Jews that wasn't written by a driveling anti-semite. There's just too much to explain in a few posts on an internet forum.
Wow.
So I have been edumacated by a system which is run by driveling anti-semite edumacators!
And the Jewish history is far too complex to even begin to share points on a public forum!
Yet out there in cyberland is the truth!
Just google "
truth""The TRUTH"!
The truth is the sharp pointy stick needs to be laid aside. The cage has to be opened and the dog must somehow be healed of its afflictions at the hand of its captors.
How is that possible without some kind of sky-daddy coming forth from the heavens to put right the wrong caused in its name by the captors of the dog??
Will the deep and meaningful history be revealed to me that I might understand an mine eyes truly open as to the reason for why history happened and why the Jews did what they did?
Will the answer turn out to be "
money" "
love" "Love of money"?
Or something more profound and reasonable?
The force is strong in this one.
Oh no Ryan. While I can assure you that I 'hate' hypocrazy, even the accompanying feelings I know to be 'hate' are absent.
Oh I know what it is to feel hate. I detest that feeling.
But I do strongly oppose that which is evil and hides itself inside costumes of holiness, be they religious or political.
Now as to a particular history attached to the Tribes calling themselves Jews and as a nation, Israel, I was taught apparently by driveling anti-semites that After the downfall of the Nazis the Christian-like rescuers appropriated land and gave the poor sods somewhere to call home.
This tells me that before this the poor sods had no homeland. The stories they themselves have told the world confirm that they were a homeless people but they were also gods people consigned to bring the world to order in the sense of purpose and correct behavior.
I am aware that at one point in their history according to them (and they should know right?) they acquired a homeland by using the deadly force and doing so in the name of their god.
That is what the Nazi also did.
I don't know the details as to how they then lost that land to a thing obviously able to take it, but that thing in itself had more than a few shades of Nazi embedded into its practice.
Sure it called itself something else, but there it is always nearby if not sometimes most obviously controlling its own events in relation to how the world unfolds itself.
It is not hate which propels me, but love. Love for the truth, a very hard thing for anyone to pinpoint.
Something else which I am aware of is that all the human god ideas compiled into one god idea has not helped the world help itself.
But I have to concede that even that one god idea seemed to want human beings to succeed in getting along with each other in the spirit of love and mutual reason and purpose. So what exactly polluted that agenda and how did it manage to infiltrate its contrary agenda into the mix?
Should the Rabbis easily answer this for me?
