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Please forgive the vanity, as well as an anti-chr*stian apologetic at this time of year. My purpose is not to hurt or antagonize but to answer this thread. May G-d help me to do so. Most arguments between Jews and chr*stians don't really satisfy anyone on either side because they focus on details--the eternity of the Torah, the identity of Messiah, the prophecies--and ignore the big picture of which these things are but details. Be`ezrat HaShem I will call upon my own prior beliefs as a Fundamentalist Protestant to lay out this "big picture" so that, whether the reader agrees...

I am not a Serb. I am a garden variety American with ancestors from a variety of European nations – but no ancestors from Balkan nations. My interest in the issues involved in the break-up of Yugoslovia has been one of journalistic curiosity. Why do we never HEAR the Serbian side of any issue in the media? Where are the Serb spokesmen and historians? For ten years I’ve searched for the answers. I have asked Serbs questions about issues and have primarily gotten puzzled responses from them. Many have questioned me back: “Why are you telling the truth about Serbs?...

I have observed recently that at the very time when Israel and Jews seem in more danger than ever before and only chr*stian conservatives stand up for them, Jewish liberals seem to be pulling out all the stops in trying to destroy the alliance and build ill-will. I said I would try to comment at length on what is going on here and wil now try to do so. As most of you know, I am neither Jewish nor chr*stian (though I used to be the latter). I am an observant Noachide (Halakhically, all non-Jews are Noachides; an observant Noachide...

Let’s play fill-in-the-blanks. In general, Americans and Europeans are Christians. Arabs are Moslems. Indians are Hindus. Chinese are _________? If you have trouble filling in the last blank, it’s because the answer is blank. From time immemorial, the Chinese have been the least religious of any of history’s major civilizations. Daoism, Confucianism, Chinese Buddhism are rationalistic quasi-religions lacking any personal relationship with a transcendent deity or deities. The ancestor- and spirit-worship of Chinese folk religion is individualized to families only. This is one reason why China has periodically endured spasms of murderous cultural insanity. In the middle of the 19th...