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This mosque had been a part of the Wichita community for 32 years. Maybe we should be at least a bit grateful that we haven’t seen a whole lot more of this…I am fairly certain this is not the last time.
Somebody also had begun turning on its outside water faucet overnight to hike its water bill, its leader said.
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Eclectic Cyborg Tue, Nov 1, 2011 3:52:54pm |
If it was Christians that did this, I can’t help but wonder if they were using a copy of the Bible that omitted the New Testament…
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Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut Tue, Nov 1, 2011 4:07:10pm |
re: #1 dragonfire1981
If it was Christians that did this, I can’t help but wonder if they were using a copy of the Bible that omitted the New Testament…
Um, I’m sure you didn’t mean it that way, but a copy of the bible that omits the New Testament is otherwise known as the Tanakh, the holy text of the Jewish tradition?
Perhaps reconsider your comment in the light of that?
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Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Tue, Nov 1, 2011 4:09:46pm |
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Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut Tue, Nov 1, 2011 4:15:25pm |
re: #3 Sergey Romanov
The behavior of Christians up until the enlightenment didn’t really demonstrate much softness or, indeed, lack of firebombing mosques. Christians using the new testament like billy-oh burned quite a lot of mosques. In fact, they hold the mosque-burning record, I’d dare say, especially since the Mongols tended to spare religious spaces.
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Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Tue, Nov 1, 2011 4:20:29pm |
re: #4 Obdicut
And it’s not like NT preaches religious tolerance in the first place.
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Bob Levin Tue, Nov 1, 2011 5:09:35pm |
re: #1 dragonfire1981
Do you understand what you said up there? If you were typing in a fog, and I do this myself sometimes, so I understand—I’ll negate my downding.
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Bob Levin Tue, Nov 1, 2011 5:16:38pm |
Well, if I were a Muslim in Wichita, I’d be pretty sure that this action violates federal law, as well as local law. If local law seems a bit slow in responding, I’d jump it up to the Feds. If the Feds are slow to respond, I’d form legal organization in the manner of the SPLC, and file suits to make the Feds follow the law. This will work.
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Eclectic Cyborg Tue, Nov 1, 2011 5:32:12pm |
Sorry guys.
I was NOT implying that I believe Jews were responsible.
What I meant was in the Old Testament God sometimes directed his followers to harm and/or kill those who followed other religions.
After Jesus came, things changed.
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Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut Tue, Nov 1, 2011 5:33:53pm |
re: #8 dragonfire1981
Sorry guys.
I was NOT implying that I believe Jews were responsible.
What I meant was in the Old Testament God sometimes directed his followers to harm and/or kill those who followed other religions.
After Jesus came, things changed.
Um. No. After Jesus came, Christians then went on to kill large numbers of people who followed other religions, in the name of god.
Remember?
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Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Tue, Nov 1, 2011 5:42:56pm |
re: #9 Obdicut
It seems, in context, df was talking about the content of the books (as (s)he sees it). True, Christian actions are tied to the absence of NT in the first comment, and that is ahistorical, but the emphasis is still on the alleged content. Interestingly, quite a lot of bigoted actions were and still are justified by the OT citations, despite the NT allegedly supplanting it in Christian theology, which makes the symbolical presence of absence of the NT irrelevant in any case.
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Bob Levin Tue, Nov 1, 2011 6:15:49pm |
re: #8 dragonfire1981
Well actually, that’s kind of what we thought you meant. So, I’m just going to assume that you don’t understand what you said. But you’re not fog typing.
No, the “Old Testament” is not a violent book. And to understand that, you have to study Talmud.
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Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Tue, Nov 1, 2011 6:21:04pm |
re: #11 Bob Levin
Tanakh, of course, is a very violent book (Numbers 31, just for starters), and no, the Expanded Star Wars Universe Talmud is not some sort of a key without which it doesn’t make sense, it’s a separate religious work written much later.
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Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Tue, Nov 1, 2011 6:28:05pm |
re: #11 Bob Levin
(And yes, we’ve had this discussion before, but as long as you make this statement, I will make this rejoinder.)
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Vicious Babushka Tue, Nov 1, 2011 7:07:26pm |
re: #8 dragonfire1981
Sorry guys.
I was NOT implying that I believe Jews were responsible.
What I meant was in the Old Testament God sometimes directed his followers to harm and/or kill those who followed other religions.
After Jesus came, things changed.
Changed how?
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Bob Levin Tue, Nov 1, 2011 8:00:42pm |
re: #12 Sergey Romanov
We could just have this discussion through ESP. We know what each other is going to say. But that’s cool. ;-)
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Eclectic Cyborg Wed, Nov 2, 2011 7:25:22am |
Ok so apparently I completely failed to find the proper words for the point I was trying to make. I am sorry for offending anyone.
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Bob Levin Wed, Nov 2, 2011 1:51:16pm |
re: #17 dragonfire1981
No, it’s cool. Don’t drop the discussion. Get into it more. Find the words. Go for it.
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CuriousLurker Wed, Nov 2, 2011 1:56:10pm |
re: #18 Bob Levin
Hey, Bob—sorry to interrupt, but I saw this yesterday and it made me think of some of the things you’ve said: Immigrant faiths, U.S. change each other
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Bob Levin Wed, Nov 2, 2011 2:35:26pm |
re: #19 CuriousLurker
Yes indeed. That’s how it goes. Then there’s the backlash phase, where the kids say that our traditions have become too watered down, rebel against the parents, become very observant to the point of driving their folks nuts (which is the point). Yet they somehow figure a way to be very observant and still keep going for the latest minivan.
You gotta love it.
Then there’s Lenny Bruce’s take:
“If you’re from New York and you’re Catholic, you’re still Jewish. If you’re from Butte Montana and you’re Jewish, you’re still goyisch. The Air Force is Jewish, the Marine Corps dangerous goyisch. Rye Bread is Jewish, instant potatoes, scary goyisch. Eddie Cantor is goyisch, George Jessel is goyisch-Coleman Hawkins is Jewish.”
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