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Oh of course - Hamas surely has no interest in ruling Jerusalem or Tel Aviv or Haifa. They're actually an enlightened lot who are glad to share the la...

Possibly connected, in some way, to their unflinching insistence on their (stronger) neighbor's destruction and replacement with Islamic rule. /s

A prison of their own making formed through their own fanatical commitment to destroying their stronger neighbor. The billions they've received in aid...

That was right after 10/7. Bibi compared Hamas to Amalek, I remember that specifically. Honestly I'd say it's an apt comparison. It's ugly but I can't...

They were out yesterday in NYC marching with this flag. Hamas and Hezbollah flags present at those rallies. Everybody sympathizes with the innocent Pa...

I wasn't raised Christian, but I have read the Gospels and this is always how I've treated the "kingdom of heaven" primarily. Perhaps the kingdom of h...

Two states means Hamas is much more easily able to import heavy weaponry. It's a massive security risk. And Israel has tried the goodwill approach. Pu...

Two states does not bring peace. It only strengthens the Palestinians (both PLO and Hamas) in their quest to conquer the entirety of Israel and subjug...

Are they also sorry for the many hostages they've abducted and subsequently tortured and executed in captivity? Another 6 more today. Of the ~250 they...

They believe they'll one day become Gods, no? We could also throw out the pantheists and panentheists.

Ultimately, for the Christian, what matters is who is in Christ.

I would certainly agree that is blasphemous to call oneself God's ontological equal or to believe that one can "become" God. Yet I'll take the blasphe...

Aside from all this, I find Jesus a strange and radical figure. Many of his parables are morally dubious. They really do make me question. E.g. the pa...

It's called textual analysis and I don't have an issue with it. We can go through texts and glean different "layers" - what is earlier and what was a ...

Thanks for those references. I know "love your enemies" circulates now but consider it in 30 AD under Roman occupation in Judea. Were Jews supposed to...

It is the problem. It's an ongoing problem. What happened on 10/7 was - and I don't use this word lightly - straight-up demonic. Yet you have a large ...

I see the two are in the same ballpark, but J goes further with it. "Love your enemy" is not a part of Jewish tradition or the Hebrew Bible. If it was...

I asked for a source on "love your enemies" that predates Jesus. You did not provide one. ChatGPT attributes the idea/quote to Jesus.

I understand that implementation & interpretation is a whole other matter. Where and when was it said? And by who? Don't leave me hanging.

Love your enemy.

I generalize of course, but for whatever reason the Europeans here tend to understand e.g. Islamic violence in terms of blowback so, basically, whatev...

It wasn't too long ago that 2000+ Americans were killed in American soil and it sparked a war that at least initially had widespread support. Here we ...

IIRC Mormons hold that JC is the literal son of god and not god himself placing him outside of the nicean-creed understanding of christianity.

If you believe in Spinoza's God isn't everything God to you? So then Jesus is God. As are we.

You don't really need to go searching. God is already there is Scripture. The Old Testament is written before Jesus walks the Earth.

Says... a communist whose ideology has killed more people than all religions combined. Not surprised at all that you sympathize with brutal Islamist r...

I'm somewhat of a Christian but I'll still answer. I'd stick to classical theism in the Abrahamic tradition. That would leave me with either Judaism o...

Being offended is not a substitute for an argument. Only Islam is ever afforded this level of immunity from criticism. But this isn't Starmer's Britai...

Earth to frank, Islam isn't a race. It's an ideology that seeks to spread itself to every corner of the globe. And it just so happens to subjugate wom...

And are they all our allies? The right and the Islamists feed off each other. Any decisive action taken to defend "western civilization" will bring ba...

Israel is ground zero in the conflict between West and Islam. If Israel falls, Europe is next. Europe is already feeling the pressure. How democratic ...

"from the river to the sea" is the original zionist motto - but I would rather be a muslim under jewish rule than a jew under muslim rule. Israel is c...

I'd suspect it's revenge for something - likely another murder. But yes it's the wild west out there. If a Palestinian murders an Israeli their govern...

Sure. I mean the neo-nazi/nick fuentes "groyer" movement here in the US. Sure he can deal with Americans. But to say that Israel has the US wrapped ar...

Sorta? It's now more like the far left, muslims, and far right have formed a bloc that opposes Israel. So it's more like horseshoe theory. Moderate De...

IMO Christianity does have a more feminine ethic, but this is not the case for Judaism or Islam. Certain branches like Eastern Orthodoxy are more patr...

poor innocent haniyeh :cry: murdered by those evil zionists :rofl:

I think it would be interesting to throw yourself into these religions -- suspend your doubt (if required) for just a minute and see what type of pers...

This reminds me of the biblical idea of God hardening hearts. But yes, man can willingly and deliberately choose the worse over the better. And a choi...

If one is wholly weak then one is neither good nor evil. Then one is not a moral agent -- but rather more like a vegetable.

Weak resentful men are often the most dangerous and are quite capable of evil.

Why are you typing this on your phone/laptop? Go sell it and donate the proceeds to starving children. And yes locality matters.

I get his position. He opposes oppression. But the powerful will virtually always oppress more than the powerless, so the position just basically ends...

The stronger side will have the higher kill count in conflict thus, in a way, it is the oppressor/villain/bigger murderer.

pretty sure your morality can be summed up as a reflexive hatred of the strong. the weak can do whatever and remain in your favor insofar as they oppo...

You have serious difficulty grasping the idea that evil can also be weak. I think we've been over that this is a blind spot for you. You vilify the st...

And more German non-combatants were killed by the British than British non-combatants killed by the Nazis. Guess the British are worse than the Nazis....

Interesting. ChatGPT describes it as theistic yet agrees that Jainism does not believe in a creator god. Mesopotamian religion and other ancient polyt...

My point about ancient human societies being theistic is a general truth -- there were certainly individuals and perhaps ancient movements who sort of...

Zoroastrianism is dualistic envisioning a cosmic struggle between a good divine being and an evil one. In Judaism there is no such struggle. God is un...