I saw this blog post that used RR to signify religious right,{I think}, anyway, whoever you are, I'M STEALING IT! Basically 'cause I thought it was cool! Anyway, this is my first conversation:
idiot: How do you see an end to the hostilities in the mid-east?
RR: Israel has a right to defend herself.
idiot: Should the US intervene?
RR: It is our duty as Christians to support Israel, no matter what.
idiot: No matter what? What if they were the aggressor?
RR: But they weren't.
idiot: I'm not saying they were, this time. My question is should we always support Israel, no matter what they do?
RR: Of course. We are, after all, a Christian nation.
idiot: What exactly makes us a Christian nation?
RR: This country was founded on Christian principles, and the majority of it's citizens are Christians.
idiot: Wasn't this country founded on rebellion against England, so we could own our own land, keep our own money, and keep our own religious beliefs, whatever they happen to be?
RR: Okay, maybe. But our Constitution was written based on the Ten Commandments.
idiot: Wasn't it also based on the Magna Carta, as well as many other texts? I even heard Thomas Jefferson was an atheist.
RR: What does all this have to do with Israel?
idiot: You're right, sorry. So, how do we end this conflict, can we try to talk peace?
RR: We don't negotiate with terrorists.
idiot: So, you're saying the only Christian way to deal with violence is all out war?
RR: EXACTLY!
idiot: Whatever happened to turn the other cheek?
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Deists:
Do not accept the belief of most religions that God revealed himself to humanity through the writings of the Bible, the Qur'an or other religious texts.
Disagree with strong Atheists who assert that there is no evidence of the existence of God.
They regard their faith as a natural religion, as contrasted with one that is revealed by a God or which is artificially created by humans.
They reason that since everything that exists has had a creator, then the universe itself must have been created by God. Thomas Paine concluded a speech shortly after the French Revolution with: "God is the power of first cause, nature is the law, and matter is the subject acted upon."
When Isreal does act/interact with its neighbors, I find some light in the "moral equivalency" argument. In an attack-counterattack situation, who did what, when, to whom, and why? So a suicide bomber on a Tel Aviv bus wants to and does kill a dozen Israel civilians riding to work or eating in a restaurant. Israel answers with a bombing raid on Hamas or Hezbollah. Maybe some Palestinian civilians are caught in the crossfire. How many civilians killed by a defensive attack against suicide bombers does it take to get "moral equivalance" for the civilians killed on the bus? What was the motivation of each actor? The alternative to thinking it out seems to be either forcing both sides to submit by outside pressure or letting them go on killing one another until they get tired.
It sure is a mess over there. The who-did-what-first debate would go on forever. Who owned what land in 1967, or 1948, or 70AD, pick a time since the Flood, Israel's land sure had a lot of different owners! I'll admit, I have no clue how to fix this mess.
some of us believe Things have now changed through the Restoration.