Zone1 Why are there so many Old Testament Christians?

[PeterPilot]

There is no doubt one can meet God anywhere...closet, mountains, beaches, deserts, forests. This is God calling us to prayer. Yet, throughout the Bible God's command is also for our collective worship. It is not one or the other, it is both.

Seriously, are you afraid you will be manipulated should you dare show up for communal worship? Perhaps instead think of why people are gathering--to worship God, not tend to our own insecurities and paranoia(s).

I was serving Mass in "communal worship" before Age 10. Irish Catholic, you know. I last served at Age 21, so please spare your ignorant lecture about daring to show up for communal worship. I do not condemn it, and I recognize that there is some sort of power in such worship.

It's just not for me. Are you able to comprehend that? I strongly support the First Amendment. Those wanting to go for communal worship have every right to do it. I have the right to take a pass. Is that OK with you?

 

[PeterPilot]

Semite and antisemite are false and confusing terms, literally meaning descendants of Shem.

Yes, the term is propaganda, nothing more.

 

[Woodznutz]

Yes, the term is propaganda, nothing more.

And we 'Semites' having been killing each other for millennia.

 

[PeterPilot]

And we 'Semites' having been killing each other for millennia.

Humans have been killing each other for millennia, yes. It's part of the human condition.

That's why we institute a notion known as "rule of law". Not to stop people from killing each other, because it won't, but to allow a civilized society to punish transgressors.

What we humans have devolved to is what we see in so many western countries, states like the US and Israel (and others) can openly conduct genocide with no responsibility.

 

[cnm]

Why are there so many Old Testament Christians?​

Imperialists prefer an authoritarian god. Such a god gives examples and reasons to hate and despise, which is important in order to assuage American guilt whilst oppressing in an otherwise unChristian manner.

 

[Woodznutz]

Humans have been killing each other for millennia, yes. It's part of the human condition.

That's why we institute a notion known as "rule of law". Not to stop people from killing each other, because it won't, but to allow a civilized society to punish transgressors.

What we humans have devolved to is what we see in so many western countries, states like the US and Israel (and others) can openly conduct genocide with no responsibility.

Eventually all will be judged.

 

[irosie91]

Read it and weep FF: Albert Einstein Letter to The New York Times. December 4, 1948 New Palestine Party. Visit of Menachen Begin and Aims of Political Movement Discussed : Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, Sidney Hook, et.al. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

what is there to weep about----islamo-nazi propaganda
is actually FUNNY

 

[irosie91]

Aren't Palestinians Semites? Aren't the Ashkenazi Jews non-semites? When the Zionists kill off the Palestinians, isn't that the ultimate act of being anti-semitic?

NO Ashkenazi jews are semites. The term semite refers to language----arabic is a semitic language as is Habrew, Ladino and yiddish. The term "antisemitic" refers to hatred of jews only---not hatred of arabs or any other group. Chaldeans are also semites but the term 'antisemite' does not refer to them------muslim arabs hate them because they are christians. Iranian muslims are not semites----their language is not a semitic one----arabs hate them ---partially because they are shiites. You are the ULTIMATE antisemite

 

[Meriweather]

I was serving Mass in "communal worship" before Age 10. Irish Catholic, you know. I last served at Age 21, so please spare your ignorant lecture about daring to show up for communal worship. I do not condemn it, and I recognize that there is some sort of power in such worship.

It's just not for me. Are you able to comprehend that? I strongly support the First Amendment. Those wanting to go for communal worship have every right to do it. I have the right to take a pass. Is that OK with you?

Apparently it's not okay with you as it seems I hit a nerve I had no intention of hitting. I was merely pointing out scripture calls us to individual prayer and also to communal worship.

 

[Foxfyre]

Read it and weep FF: Albert Einstein Letter to The New York Times. December 4, 1948 New Palestine Party. Visit of Menachen Begin and Aims of Political Movement Discussed : Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, Sidney Hook, et.al. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

It wasn't his letter. He may or may not have known he was a signatory to it. Or even what was in it. You don't ethically judge a man by a single statement or document but you judge him by the sum of his statements, actions, writings.

 

[BreezeWood]

You don't ethically judge a man by a single statement or document ...

during a world war ...

Einstein had written to inform Roosevelt that recent research on fission chain reactions utilizing uranium made it probable that large amounts of power could be produced by a chain reaction and that, by harnessing this power, the construction of "extremely powerful bombs" was conceivable.

might have left that one in the hamper.

 

[Foxfyre]

during a world war ...



might have left that one in the hamper.

But it was true. And he knew Germany was working on it.

 

[BreezeWood]

But it was true. And he knew Germany was working on it.

they were theoretically capable ...

Below are photographs of both pages of the letter written by Albert Einstein, with the help of Leo Szilard, to President Franklin Roosevelt on August 2, 1939 ...

dec. 8th 1941 - u s ww II beginning date ... einsteins letter written 2 1/2 years before the war began for the u s.

not everyone was as gunhoe as einstein for the a-bomb.

 

[Foxfyre]

they were theoretically capable ...



dec. 8th 1941 - u s ww II beginning date ... einsteins letter written 2 1/2 years before the war began for the u s.

not everyone was as gunhoe as einstein for the a-bomb.

Albert Einstein’s Role in the Atomic Bomb Was the “One Great Mistake in My Life”

Einstein and his colleague Leo Szilard played a crucial role in encouraging the United States to make an atomic bomb.

www.biography.com

 

[PeterPilot]

It wasn't his letter. He may or may not have known he was a signatory to it. Or even what was in it. You don't ethically judge a man by a single statement or document but you judge him by the sum of his statements, actions, writings.

You are in denial of inconvenient facts FF, and dishonest posting as a result. Because of that you are unaware that he made similar statements in other places besides that LTE.

 

[PeterPilot]

Apparently it's not okay with you as it seems I hit a nerve I had no intention of hitting. I was merely pointing out scripture calls us to individual prayer and also to communal worship.

Scripture? Your faith is the opposite of reason. Faith in the magic books of organized religions is a large part of the reason I left organized religion.

 

[PeterPilot]

NO Ashkenazi jews are semites. The term semite refers to language----arabic is a semitic language as is Habrew, Ladino and yiddish. The term "antisemitic" refers to hatred of jews only---not hatred of arabs or any other group. Chaldeans are also semites but the term 'antisemite' does not refer to them------muslim arabs hate them because they are christians. Iranian muslims are not semites----their language is not a semitic one----arabs hate them ---partially because they are shiites. You are the ULTIMATE antisemite

So many different opinions and assertions Rosie. I strongly support the First Amendment, but sometimes all I can do is laugh at those who believe assertions that cannot be proved.

"Anti semitism" is only a term of propaganda.

 

[Meriweather]

Scripture? Your faith is the opposite of reason. Faith in the magic books of organized religions is a large part of the reason I left organized religion.

You might recall that Catholicism calls for faith based on reason.

 

[PeterPilot]

You might recall that Catholicism calls for faith based on reason.

That is not the only fallacy advanced by the Church. Faith and reason are opposites.

 

[GMCGeneral]

God might condemn it, but Zionists, both Jewish and Christian, fully support it. Onward Christian Soldiers, ya know...?

And the antisemite rears his ugly head. Buh bye