An open letter to *ALL* Christians and Muslims:
Happening to Jews, as always, everywhere Christianity and Islam have conquested. In a town, in a city, in a neighborhood near you! But absolutist “faith” religions are not the problem??! … All hate and violence is justified, when one has faith (the size of a mustard seed).
“This is Yotam. He is a Jewish Israeli who was attacked yesterday by a group of Arabs in Warsaw.
They shouted at him “F*** Israel” and brutality punched him in his face. No one came to his help. In 2019, when a Jew is attacked in Poland people are blind.” – Stand With Us, 8 Sep 2019
https://www.facebook.com/19459912688/posts/10156736912537689/
Yet, we are supposed to have something *good* to say about Christianity and Islam?! … Work with us, then! With us non-Christians, non-Muslims, non- whites, and non-Arabs. Give us a *reason* to focus on your good deeds done in the name of your imagined “God”. Rather than all the bigoted, hateful, self-righteous, indifferent, and violent deeds being done and blessed in the name of “Christ” and “Allah”! … If you are a “believer” who does no harm, but still call yourself Christian or Muslim, *you* own Christian and Muslim historic behavior and share in the culpability.
It’s like being a “white” person. You’re automatically privileged in society and, *if you don’t fight racism everyday* to bring white history to account, to correction, to resolution – then, you are the *racist* you don’t want to see around you! This is life, folks! Embrace your part in it, and heal this world of its human suffering. No imagined god is going to do it for you! Be the Change!!!
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“the presidential candidate is “weaponizing” Christian teachings to promote a false religion.” – Pastor Rhyan Glezman … What???! Christians practice a false religion! Talking about hypocrisy!!! … Seriously, Christians don’t follow Jesus, they follow the Church’s diefied “Christ” idol. They don’t respect the teachings of Torah, as Jesus did. And, even worse, they demand that everyone believe life begins at conception – but they don’t give a fuck about the living children of color at their doorsteps! “Sanctity of life” is a Jewish concept, and it has everything to do with breathing nefesh (living creatures, especially humans, that have the “breath” of life within them!). How about Christians stop listening to their pastors, and start actually reading the book they claim to know so much about!
“Glezman asserted that Buttigieg’s use of Scripture to defend abortion up to the point of birth was “outrageous,” adding, “If we’re going to say we’re for all people and we love all people, but we don’t value human life in the womb, that’s being a hypocrite. You’re hypocritical if you don’t stand up for all life. So that’s why I’m speaking out.””
You’re a hypocrite if you support a criminal illegitimate president and white Christian nationalist vice president who are ripping babies from mothers’ arms to commit state sanctioned kidnapping. How is that valuing the sanctity of human life?! These kids will be traumatized their entire lives, all because their parents were born with brown skin!!! Only in the United States of AmeriKKKa!
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Tick, tock, tick, tock, Democrats! If you fail to do your duty under the U.S. Constitution – to impeach the illegitimately elected criminal 45th POTUS – you will not be getting my vote in 2020. Not one Republican and not one Democrat will get my vote! … The United States deserves to live with the Christian-supported Executive Administration of racism, corruption, and white terrorism that these political parties put into office and have made above the law of the land. Maybe, then, the citizens will learn, and abandon this dishonorable political party system.
Why should we vote for either party in 2020?!!! Neither gives a damn about anything other than party politics, and having word fights with the opposition. Wake up, citizens, your government fails you!!!
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The key to properly reading tapestries of ancient Middle Eastern BCE Jewish literature – known in the West as the “Bible” – is being able to distinguish what is mythic writings (national fiction) and what is historical writings (Israel’s perspective on real world events). The myths are rather self-evident – they have no actual historical basis *and* they are full of magical events. The histories are more ‘matter of fact’ in presentation *and* are presented in the same manner that all ancient civilizations histories are presented – giving credit for the alleged events to the nation’s national god.
The Assyrians did this (and Egyptians, too) and ancient Israel did this. For example, below, Assyria’s perspective on control of Megiddo, and Israel’s perspective on control of Megiddo:
“To the god Adad, the greatest lord… Adad-Nirari, strong king, king of the universe, king of Assyria… I mustered (my) chariots, troops and camps and ordered (them) to march to the land of Ḫatti. In one year, I submitted at my feet the land of Amurru and the land of Ḫatti. I imposed tax and tribute upon them forever.… He received the tribute of Jehoash of Samaria, of the (people of) Tyre Sidon.[11]” – Assyrian Tell al-Rimaḥ Stele, 797 BCE
“In the fifteenth year of King Amaziah son of Joash of Judah, King Jeroboam son of Joash of Israel became king in Samaria—for forty-one years…. It was he who restored the territory of Israel from Lebo-hamath to the sea of the Arabah, in accordance with the promise of YHWH, the God of Israel…” – 2 Kgs 14.23, 14.25
If you are treating ancient Jewish writings as being all factual and ‘inspired by God’, then you are not reading correctly *and* are more interested in a theological fantasy about the past, than actually exploring and understanding the past (and how each nation attributed their view of historical events to their nation’s primary god). That’s okay, choosing fantasy or fact – to each there own!
https://thetorah.com/megiddos-stables-trading-egyptian-horses-to-the-assyrian-empire/
Megiddo’s Stables: Trading Egyptian Horses to the Assyrian Empire
Megiddo was a major Israelite city that was transformed into a horse training center, with large stables and arenas where the palaces once stood. Scholars once attributed these stables to Solomon, but they are actually from the 8th century B.C.E., built by Jeroboam II to provide war horses to the Assyrian Empire.
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What does Goliath, Samson, and Jesus all share in common? All three are mythical demigods within ancient Jewish literature, literary figures.
Like the myths of Samson and of later written Jesus of Nazareth, Goliath the Philistine is a Jewish demigod literary character, half-human and half-angel. Goliath and Samson share common demigod attributes of the BCE period of mythical writings – massive physical size, strength, and social stature. Samson and Jesus share common demigod attributes – the impregnation of a mortal human woman through a sexual tryst with/by a divine being, and history changing social stature.
The deliberateness of the human imagined myths cannot be ignored, especially in this Common Era period influence of the two conquest religions – Christianity and Islam – that have been born from the absolutist belief in fictional demigod beings.
Oh, and David was NOT white with blonde hair, as depicted in this Western-created picture! He would have looked like Goliath, albeit smaller, in physical features (I sense the influence of common white appropriation of Semitic national characters!).
“We cheer as the young David rises to fight the giant Goliath, slaying the well-armed warrior with nothing but a sling and a stone. Yet the amorous king’s adulterous dalliance with Bathsheba, while familiar to most, is treated like dirty laundry and either explained away[3] or pushed out of the popular consciousness.
The revised Deuteronomistic History (DtrH2, Joshua-Kings) is overwhelmingly negative in its evaluation of kings and monarchy,[6] and it is into this framework that the story of King David is embedded.
Could it be that the Judean priestly class, which became the preeminent local leadership cadre of the Second Temple Period, viewed the possible reestablishment of a Davidic monarchy as a threat to their status? I suggest that it may have been precisely under these circumstances that the negative accounts of the reign of King David seen in the Succession Narrative were composed.”
https://thetorah.com/king-david-and-oedipus-rex/
King David and Oedipus Rex
Reading the Succession Narrative as Anti-Monarchic Greek Tragedy
“The parallels to Homeric epic are not — pace other scholars — evidence of the antiquity of these elements, but of the familiarity of the redactor with Greek culture and, more specifically, with its ‘national’ literature. Indeed, the battle of David and Goliath is best read with the Iliad as its intertext.”[13] – Prof. Azzan Yadin
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