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In a way the two can be seen as related as since 10/7 we've seen a huge uptick in anti semitism which just goes to show you the world doesn't recogniz...

I'm seeing an awful lot of finger pointing from you and zero condemnation of a dangerous phenomenon that undermines the impartiality of the police for...

It's about the same level of validity as a police officer who refuses to be placed on a rota for protecting e.g. a black space or a native american sp...

If some portion of your police force is morally opposed to providing protection to Jewish spaces there is something very very rotten in that security ...

Read this today but absolute insanity from a supposedly first world, civilized nation. Dutch police are allowing their officers to opt out of providin...

You say a lot so I need to take it piece by piece rather than all at once. Among the first ways we know God is that we fear him. God is terrifying. Re...

I don't have all day to make responses but if I don't address your main concern here let me know. It's ultimately humans discussing a text, so yes, we...

I do not know whether the view from God is that "suffering is good." I think you go a little too far with that assumption. Some suffering is clearly c...

In the biblical worldview they are one and the same. A free will is a will aligned with God. If we become something else, say hedonists, then our "goo...

I agreed with points 2 and 3. I would go back to Job on this one: As humans our perspective is incredibly limited. Some suffering is understandable an...

Suffering is an important mechanism through which we grow. I'm not going to comment on whether God "needs" us to suffer. I also find distinguishing be...

I think we can all agree that suffering can teach us things. It's the idea of "unnecessary" suffering that the philosopher objects to as if he can fin...

How can God be omnipotent and good when men who are 5'4 exist?

Very informative, educational posts on this subject as always. I must provide a little pushback. Ok, but there is clearly material that pre-dates this...

Yes, and sometimes by making evil succeed it allows it to be built up to something great and then destroyed all at once. Assyria is described in such ...

In what ways is the Bible wrong about God's nature and how do you know this? Has God communicated revelation to you?

Yes Christianity has a dark side. All religion has a dark side. As does secularism. Every worldview has potential pitfalls. Christianity gets a lot of...

I don't see why Israel needs the US to fight its war for it. These past few days Israel decapitated Hezbollah. Hamas has been neutered. Israeli intell...

You can cite from Proverbs all you want but that was written many centuries before Jesus was born. As I said, there is a vast wisdom literature that e...

You misunderstand me. I am not concerned with the miracles. I am not concerned the resurrection. I am not concerned with the "science" of the New Test...

I speak here only of the gospels - not the entire New Testament, and certainly not the Tanakh which is a different work that existed before Jesus & th...

What question did you ask me?

Unless you change and become like a little child you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

Right on. I think the closest we get to it is when J tells his followers to be as cunning as snakes and as innocent as doves. But don't forget that th...

The Muslims didn't agree with it. Not the people; the muslims - their political leadership. And that's what it comes down to. Apparently for some peop...

Why do you figure Israel can't leave the innocent Palestinian lemon farmers alone to their crops? Perhaps it's because Israel grows limes and consider...

Ah yes, the Palestinians and their lemon farms. Did you know that when the Israelites conquered Canaan they were notorious for destroying the lemon fa...

The gall of that God. How would you have handled that one? How long do humans get to live in your universe? Go ahead, tell God how it should be done. ...

:up: I also believe the Poles around this time '44/'45 were forced to wear stars and were next in line for deportation and death on the basis of their...

I actually like Wittgenstein and find that his thinking has helped me clarify my own. I took a course on him years ago. I still find it helpful to thi...

You misunderstand me. I was talking about power relations in the Nazi ghetto versus the Gaza "ghetto." The Nazis oversaw Jewish puppet authorities who...

So to be clear: Your view is that Israel is only rightfully/lawfully entitled to the land allocated under the 1947 Partition Plan? And that any Israel...

Theft is wrong in all societies, but territorial boundaries change as a result of war all the time. Are you saying that all territorial changes as a r...

Israel has actually killed and captured quite a few of the culprits, including some of the top Hamas leadership. I'm not blaming the victim here. Hama...

Well, Jews have the word of their Scriptures. I will not carry out my fierce anger, nor will I devastate Ephraim again. For I am God, and not a man— t...

Well, before I did anything I'd need to know what happens after death. Do humans respawn or reincarnate after death? If so then I'd feel much less gui...

Presumably God has a much higher level of consciousness than humans so it would be impossible trying to "put myself in the shoes" of God. It would be ...

Is there any meaningful difference between the two? Israel's goals are twofold regardless: Rescue hostages, destroy Hamas. ...and we are now permittin...

Do you believe that Israel is permitted to respond (through force/militarily) to 10/7?

I find hedonism and utilitarianism not particularly interesting. "Happiness" is an unbelievably complicated concept.

Heavily politicized and ultimately meaningless term in the context of the current conflict.

A force of ~6000 breaches the Israeli border on 10/7 and viciously slaughters ~1200 and abducts ~250 and apparently in your reality any military respo...

I don't call Benkei names. I give him facts and he responds with ad homs.

No need to get mad.

Consider reading your bible again but this time pretend that you're a Jew.

You're like the fish who asks: "water? what water?"

Luther said some nasty things about Jews and Catholics but he did use the Hebrew Bible as the basis for his translations and clearly had some knowledg...

There have been messianic movements in Judaism. Amy-Jill Levine speculates that Jews may have been praying to or through Jesus. I don't think we'll ev...

Israel cannot negotiate with a party that insists that Jerusalem is part of the Islamic ummah. From chapter 7 of the 2017 Hamas charter: "7. Palestine...

Not similar. In the Warsaw uprising it was the resistance that led it, not the puppet authorities. The Warsaw ghetto uprising occurred because the Jew...