Playing the Jesus Card
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Benjamin Netanyahu has a problem. The Obama administration is insisting on a settlements freeze, and the Israeli prime minister, who is resisting such demands, is not getting the support he might have expected from the U.S. pro-Israel community. Usually, when an American President makes any sort of demand on Jerusalem, pro-Israel (primarily Jewish) organizations compel Congress to pressure the president to cease and desist. It usually works. But not this time.
So what’s an Israeli leader to do? Netanyahu is resurrecting a tried and true strategy: Call on Christian fundamentalists — who see maintaining Israel’s occupation as paramount — to galvanize popular pressure against Obama. But just like the last time he played this trick, the tactic is unlikely to work magic for Bibi anytime soon.
For one thing, it’s clear that Netanyahu is on shaky ground with the mainstream pro-Israel lobby on settlements. At the president’s meeting with Jewish leaders at the White House on July 13, Obama heard virtually no criticism of his policy on settlements. Even the more conservative Jewish groups held their tongues. The only exception came when one participant urged the president not to change his policy but to keep his differences with Israel private, such that there would be "no daylight" visible between Israeli and American positions. Obama responded that past administrations did not have much success with that approach. "For eight years, there was no light between the United States and Israel, and nothing got accomplished," he said.
There are numerous reasons why the Jewish community is not rushing to Netanyahu’s defense. First, there has never been much support in the United States for West Bank settlements. AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobby, has never taken a stand favoring settlements nor have most of the other mainstream pro-Israel organizations. The up-and-coming pro-Israel, pro-peace organizations like J Street and my employer, the Israel Policy Forum, oppose settlements and fully support the president’s position.
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Let me tell you a little story...
We wish to travel to our children on Mars.
We pack a few things, excitedly, and tell the NET our plan. The elevator takes us to a shuttle.Inter-city or inter-planetary travel is very fast - vehicles and occupants are an integrated charge-field. You feel no acceleration. Its just like being in your kitchen.
In this world, you can do anything you want. You can pursue any art. Any science.
You can do nothing.
Since you don't need to die, you can stop. You can enter a dream and no dream state and let the present pass on by. You can come back when everything is new. You can have a new adventure.
You can decipher unknown segments of unknown genome. You can pursue skiing.
Your body looks like a 32 year old. It runs like a 27 year old. Your mind is limitless. Your abilities are limitless.
Men do not fear women. Women do not fear men.
Women play no games, there's no need. She has no limits. All men are perfect beings. - All wonderful people. All women are perfect beings.
Every relationship is easy. Women are what ever they wish. Men are finally every thing that the masculine gift can give. All talent and ability. And all wonderful people.
Women are whatever they wish.
You can be sexual. Or not. It's OK. Anything is OK because everything is possible. And everyone is fine. All fine beings.
No one wastes their time, now that it is limitless. How strange to think that when it is proscribed, people do nothing but waste it.
I am glad our parents took the resolve to grow from the squalor of the dark ages.
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gen468
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journalism is predicated on fact!
Who is delusional now? - 2 years ago
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gen468
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freecrack
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current shouldnt nor should any credible news orginization be religouse friendly . religion is based in faith and journalism is predicated on fact, by definition they are two opposing metodology serving two seperate functions. like religion has a track record of being to journalists? osama isnt exactly basing anything he believes based on the times.
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freecrack
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donnyin3d
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Ridiculous fighting over old fairy tales.
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donnyin3d
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freecrack
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1-christians want the jews to occupy isreal in order to fullfill thier doomday prophecy. the jews need to rebuild the temple then and only then will the rapture come.
2-thier is no free muslum state so the christians like the jews having dominion over israel so they too can worship there (muslums deny them access when in control)
3-of the monothiestic religions it is christianity and islam (not judaism) that promote converting others to thier faith wich leads to inevitable conflicts between the two ,and the christians know how much the arabs hate the jews so having israel in the hands of the jews is like a lil fuck you to the muslum world without having to suffer direct conciquences. instead the christians bask in the irritation to muslims the jews provide, allowing jews to be victims of muslum violence instead of them. the perfect religous shield to hide behind - 2 years ago
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freecrack
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A friend was talking about working stiffs. First, they pay you less than they are making from your actual contribution, so a measure of their profit is your creation. But you make your bed.
Second, you pay rent. The fruit of your labor, moneys you contracted for and accepted, and taken home, is given off to someone. That person may or may not be doing anything worthwhile. Maybe they are amounting to substantially LESS than they otherwise would. An atrophied shill, a shell of what they really would amount to. -And all the while you are a slave; and remain a slave because of it. Your gifts for us all, are never manifested.You work and produce but you cannot produce more because the shill wants to maintain a dumb idea of self-gratification. And so your are enslaved.
And then the banks charge interest and are always back-dealing and ripping off everyone, as much as possible; - and so you remain a slave.
Now we are talking about everyone who works - which is a whole lot of people.
If their dreams and innovations were allowed (and the shills got off their ass and contributed as well) we'd have a wholly different world.
Right now, it's all about everyone being enslaved and passing money up through the banking system.All that dammed-up human potential. Dammed up.
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trut
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Exactly, people gaining directly from the product of their own work, perhaps a 95% inheritance tax would end the system of entitlement for the self- indulgent cream puffs in the US.
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trut
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Yes, what are the evils in the world? We have religion, we have war for profit, - what else?
We have the perverse mis-use of world wealth and mis or ill-constructed financial system. A vast number of the beneficiaries are parasites on the producers and on real production.
The world could be a very different place were more people gaining directly from the product of their own work.
And maybe there'd be a few less self-indulgent cream-puffs around. - 2 years ago
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donnyin3d
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Wouldn't the jesus card be the joker?
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donnyin3d
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soberwood
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If Christians were indeed living a life within the principles of the teachings of their Lord Jesus there would be less arguement about this subject and the Christians would have realized they have no place in the arguement. . There would however be no need for this arguement either for the world would not have arrived at this place where religion has any use to an enlightened, evolved humanity.
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soberwood
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ProjectBat
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Current isn't exactly the most religious friendly of all places, though there are enough people on here to keep it from being anti-religious. That said, here's a thought. Why don't more Christians want Israel to be completely destroyed? I think I can recall a passage referring to Israel's destruction coming before Jesus can come back.
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ProjectBat
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trut
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ProjectBat:
Sometimes you have to break an egg...
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trut
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Sumbodyswatchin
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When people live in a world of fantasies their whole lives, they tend to do some crazy shit. I wish people would grow up, think for themselves, and stop clinging to their ancient and dangerous superstitions.
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Sumbodyswatchin
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bombastinator
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Since so many people call him racist I think it likely he was just itching to try to pass the buck a bit.
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bombastinator
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neonbunny
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It's not even that man, it's Christianity that needs to fuck off.
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neonbunny
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TheJerryMadden
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religion needs to just fuck off
already. - 2 years ago
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