[quote]PRCalDude wrote:
First of all, I have no love affair with Israel. I’m even willing to discuss some of the things Israel has done to us with the ‘patriot’ set around here if I could get you all to drop the moral equivalence b/w Israeli Jews and Arabs and at least show up on some of the threads to express a little moral outrage against Islamic jihad.
Instead, all we get from the ‘patriot’ crowd is more whining about central banking, gold, the Patriot Act, AIPAC, and moral equivalences between religions. The rest of us non-patriots are expected to believe that if we just dropped religion, central banking, and threw Israel under the bus, everything would be great and all the unpleasantness with the Islamic world would just blow over.[/quote]
We throw hmm… what is it? 6 billion dollars at Israel on an annual basis and here are some examples of how our great “ally” repay us:
Selling US military secrets to the Chinese:
Spying on the US:
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/motherofallscandals.html
They even killed Americans in 1967:
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/04/23/liberty.attack/
This is not to mention that the Arabs obviously have a vital resource to the American economy and the Jews don’t.
[quote]PRCalDude wrote:
Secondly, this whole load of crap about the Old Testament being plagiarized is exactly that: a load of crap. It’s been answered by so many Christian scholars it’s not even worth discussing with you. None of your types ever bother to read any our rebuttals, so I can discuss this with you until I’m blue in the face and make no progress.[/quote]
As opposed to “you types”? Actually I read the Tanakh myself and decided that most of it sounded completely unbelievable in a literal sense. So even if it was original fiction, I wouldn’t believe it anymore than I would the Koran. There are so many stories in the Old Testament that are completely ridiculous…
And even if they are true, the ancient Jews would be considered war criminals, thieves, liars and mass murderers and rapists at that by today’s standards.
[quote]PRCalDude wrote:
And I’m sure Voltaire had no small part to play in sapping the civilizational marrow from France and other European countries who bought into his ethic of self-congratulation, narcissism, and selfishness. [/quote]
Could you back this up from any of his works? I have read them all and seen him preach no such thing. If anything, he helped spawn the Enlightenment which helped Europeans break the yoke of Christian dark ages which pushed back human knowledge to pre-Greco-Roman levels.
[quote]PRCalDude wrote:
Christians have kids. The Voltaire types don’t. They’re too busy telling each other how smart they are rather than sacrificing their time, money, and energy to raise a family and carry on civilization. Look at France now. It shouldn’t be any real surprise why it’s in demographic meltdown vs. the savages it’s imported from north Africa. France even provides enormous subsidies to couples who have kids, and it still has had no effect amongst the French population. Same thing in Germany. [/quote]
Not having kids is not an ideal, but there is nothing wrong with a population shrinkage and no logical reason why they have to import immigrants there; if they wanted to they could find a way to survive with even a smaller tax base.
The real reason why they import immigrants there is because they embrace the American ideology of multiculturalism. The 1965 Immigration Act was specifically anti-European immigrant in nature and Western Europeans seemed to follow us.
[quote]PRCalDude wrote:
And as far as the ‘civilized’ peoples the 12 tribes of Israel ethnically cleansed from Canaan are concerned: I don’t find burning your newborns alive on statues of Molech and other detestable Canaanite practicess to be too civilized. Call me crazy. You know your ancient Near Eastern history, don’t you?
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Actually I have read the whole Old Testament and like another poster pointed out, it is full of ethnic cleansing against many peoples. Do you find this justifiable? If so, it speaks volumes about you.