Posted on 03/19/2006 5:48:26 PM PST by US admirer
If a Chirstian made such a remark, it would be widely condemned (and rightly so).
I don't recall any Orthodox Jews lopping heads, do you?
I expect Pat Robertson will invite him to appear on the 700 Club.
And you wonder why some people question religion?
Each one claims to have the way, and all the nonbelievers are going to hell.
It's just a short walk from that to beheading the heretic.
Sheesh.
No, you are correct that they are not as violent as the their much more numerous Islamic counterparts. The more concentrated they are the more violent they become. Try driving through on of their neighborhoods on the Sabbath- you won't feel quite as sympathetic.
I suppose being 5'7" and weighing in at 300+lbs and having a high-pressure job had nothing to do with it.
I agree that the sane Israelis/Jews are much less tolerant of their wackiness- to their credit.
It was the Romans who crucified people, not the Jews/Israelis.
It must be great to hear voices and be able to read the mind of God, and know why he does certain acts.
This is kind of like reading the New York Times Op Ed page to get the scoop on Evangelical Christians.
The leftist secular Jews HATE the religious Jews. And I gather that you aren't too fond of religion either.
I have no problem with religions that don't:
1) try to impose their innocuous beliefs on others,
2) try to impose their injurious beliefs on others,including their children who cannot defend themselves.
Well, if you're saying Israel is murdering innocents as the Palestinian terrorists are,you more than lost me.
And as noted by another poster, it was Romans who crucified people.
But, I won't be beheaded.
I agree with you that extreme edges of any religion can be dangerous. However, you have to go to one hell of an extreme to be compared to the Arab terrorists we are dealing with now.
Really?
I don't know of an Jews, Orthodox or of an other variety, attempting to send you physicallyto Hell like the the Islamics.
But I guess to you what Jews say intramurally to each others in the heat of a campaign is the same as the Islamic death and destruction.
Still why compare the Jews to the Islamics if somebody is sending someone to Hell.
It is a widely held Christian believe among large segments that Jews are all going to Hell. We are grateful that unlike the Islamics they are not attempting to hurry the process.
At the end I find the most similarities of being crazy and scary between the Jew hating Islamics and the Jew hating posters.
If heaven were only filled with morons like this guy, it wouldn't be worth going to. This is the difference between Western and Muslim countries. In Western countries most people don't take this kind of nuttiness seriously.
Impose? Probably you tell your children what you believe, and others do the same. I have never noticed that religious people do more imposing on their children than secularists.
Sorry, but the current government of Israel has spent much of its time persecuting religious Jews. Sharon uprooted numerous settler families, destroyed their homes, and pretty much abandoned them.
These things cut both ways. I don't find it all that outrageous that someone should be criticize him for that kind of conduct.
"At one point however they weren't above crucifying people (namely Jesus). Personally I'd rather be beheaded."
You could be the PR guy for Abe Foxman of the ADL.
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