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| Re: Right-left (Judeo-)Christian divergence | |
| By: 90sRetroFan Date: November 22, 2020, 2:38 am | |
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| To be fair, Jesus as far as I know never addressed the topic of | |
| incest. | |
| As for the Tanakh: | |
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_views_on_incest | |
| [quote]In the Hebrew Bible, sexual relationships between | |
| siblings are forbidden to Jews but permissible to | |
| Gentiles[/quote] | |
| Perhaps more relevant to the Ivanka angle: | |
| [quote]One of the most notable features of each list is that | |
| sexual relations between a man and his own daughter are not | |
| explicitly forbidden | |
| ... | |
| Some say it means sexual relations between father and his | |
| daughter are only allowed if the husband is a widower, if the | |
| mother has died (and cannot feel jealousy) the relationship is | |
| allowed.[/quote] | |
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| Re: Right-left (Judeo-)Christian divergence | |
| By: 90sRetroFan Date: December 15, 2020, 12:12 am | |
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| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__bYcI-lQGs | |
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| Re: Right-left (Judeo-)Christian divergence | |
| By: guest5 Date: January 4, 2021, 5:45 pm | |
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| How the 'Western mind' was shaped by the Medieval Church[quote] | |
| Most research on human psychology focuses on Western societies, | |
| but the way people in the West think can be traced to changes in | |
| family structures in the Middle Ages.[/quote] | |
| https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201231-how-the-way-you-think-was-shaped-ce… | |
| The western mind thinks Judaic and many westerners behave as you | |
| would expect Yahweh himself to behave.... | |
| For example, westerners may not sacrifice their children | |
| physically on an alter as Yahweh recommended Abraham do to | |
| Isaac, but they sacrifice their children's innocence | |
| symbolically instead by sending their children to western | |
| schools where they learn to become western adults, or as we like | |
| to call them: the adulterated. | |
| [img] | |
| https://miro.medium.com/max/864/0*wnIGfz1-8N-8cx4E[/img] | |
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| Re: Right-left (Judeo-)Christian divergence | |
| By: 90sRetroFan Date: January 13, 2021, 12:20 am | |
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| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk4-lYH8K2g | |
| #Post#: 3384-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Right-left (Judeo-)Christian divergence | |
| By: 90sRetroFan Date: January 15, 2021, 1:49 am | |
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| https://us.yahoo.com/news/white-american-christianity-needs-honest-160336600.ht… | |
| [quote]In the past few days, I�ve seen all kinds of statements | |
| from Christian leaders trying to distance themselves from the | |
| violent mob at the Capitol. Christian writers known for their | |
| thoughtfulness lament that �somehow� white supremacy has crept | |
| into our churches, and the faculty of a major evangelical | |
| institution put out a manifesto saying that the events at the | |
| Capitol �bear absolutely no resemblance to� the Christianity | |
| they teach. That mob, they�re telling us, is a fringe element. | |
| They�ve radically misunderstood the real message of American | |
| Christianity. | |
| This could not be further from the truth. | |
| I believe the mob at the Capitol has radically misunderstood the | |
| teachings and life of Jesus. But it is an absolutely logical | |
| conclusion of white American Christianity.[/quote] | |
| In other words, the latter is based on the Old Testament. | |
| [quote]Hundreds of years ago, the Church laid the foundation for | |
| the theft of the Americas, enslavement of Africans and Native | |
| Americans, and centuries of brutal colonization worldwide, with | |
| the doctrine that it was O.K. to take land and liberty from | |
| people who were not Christian. | |
| Within their first decade on this continent, the holiness | |
| movement of the Puritans, who told themselves they�d come to the | |
| �new world� to spread the gospel, had virtually exterminated the | |
| Pequot people, and enslaved many survivors. And Roger Williams, | |
| the Massachusetts minister who became the first advocate for | |
| religious freedom and the separation of church and state, was | |
| banished from his colony by his fellow Christians for objecting | |
| to government attempts to enforce the first four of the Ten | |
| Commandments, refusing to swear an oath of loyalty to the | |
| government of Massachusetts and saying grace over his meals at | |
| the wrong time. Alone and sick, he fled into the New England | |
| winter, which almost killed him. Though his fellow Puritans gave | |
| lip service to the idea that they had come to the continent to | |
| share the light of Christ, he was the only one who bothered to | |
| learn local customs or languages. Saved that winter by the | |
| Narragansett people, he was without a church home when he died | |
| years later. | |
| Williams� doctrine of the separation of church and state was | |
| eventually inscribed in the American Constitution. And Thomas | |
| Jefferson�s Declaration of Independence reflects the strong | |
| influence of Christianity in the American colonies, by rooting | |
| the rights it demands in our status as creatures of God. But the | |
| Declaration of Independence also describes Native Americans as | |
| �merciless Indian savages,� and the Constitution defined | |
| African-Americans as only three-fifths of a person. Despite | |
| America�s early public piety, this country is explicitly founded | |
| on the idea that the people who built its farms, roads, cities | |
| and wealth, without freedom or payment, are not quite human. And | |
| despite Jefferson�s rousing insistence on the equality of �men� | |
| in the eyes of God, his own wealth came mainly from a factory he | |
| staffed with enslaved children. | |
| Sentimental depictions of Christian faith among enslaved people | |
| are popular with American Christians, and the rich tradition of | |
| gospel music, perhaps America�s greatest contribution to world | |
| culture or the church, was unquestionably created by people | |
| living in American slavery. But people in slavery in America did | |
| not start becoming Christian in large numbers until around 1800, | |
| because American slave-holders avoided sharing Christian | |
| teaching with the people they enslaved, so that they wouldn�t | |
| find themselves in the position of holding fellow Christians in | |
| slavery, which might force them to give up their | |
| �property.�[/quote] | |
| See what I mean? | |
| [quote]For early voices that spoke out against slavery within | |
| the American church, the price was high. Benjamin Lay, who | |
| shamed the Quakers into becoming abolitionists with stunts like | |
| standing outside meetinghouses on Sunday morning barefoot in the | |
| snow to remind the good Christians of the condition of the | |
| people they held in slavery at home, died unwelcome as a member | |
| in any Quaker church. | |
| For the vast majority of American history, Christian ministers | |
| have spoken with passion and vigor in favor of slavery, | |
| segregation, and white supremacy. Not even all Christian | |
| abolitionists were convinced of the full humanity of the people | |
| they fought to free. The Ku Klux Klan is a movement deeply | |
| rooted in the church, in both the North and the South. | |
| When Black Christian clergy organized the 1963 March on | |
| Washington, where Martin Luther King, Jr., a Baptist minister, | |
| delivered his �I Have A Dream� speech, Christianity Today, | |
| founded not even a decade earlier by Billy Graham, and edited at | |
| the time by one of evangelicalism�s most prominent theologians, | |
| Carl F.H. Henry, called it �a mob spectacle.� | |
| Today, American neighborhoods are more segregated than they were | |
| in the years immediately following the Civil War. But churches | |
| are even more segregated than the rest of society. Sunday | |
| morning, when people stream into services, is one of the most | |
| segregated hours in America. | |
| These are not minor aberrations, sidenotes to our history, | |
| either as a country or a church. White supremacy, racism and | |
| segregation are a cancer running through our major organs. And | |
| our apathy toward them, or our comfort with them, compromise and | |
| threaten to kill all the other good we hope to do. | |
| We cannot get rid of them by pretending they�re not central to | |
| our history, and central to the way we live today. And in our | |
| hearts, we know they are. That�s why so many Christian | |
| institutions and leaders have failed to speak out directly | |
| against racism and white supremacy, instead taking refuge in | |
| recent days in vague calls for prayer and healing. We know if we | |
| confront these foundational American sins directly, their | |
| supporters will cause convulsions that may tear our institutions | |
| apart � and knock us from our coveted positions. | |
| But there can be no healing without this direct confrontation. | |
| You cannot cure cancer by pretending it is not there.The white | |
| American church can�t pretend that the mob at the Capitol is not | |
| part of us. | |
| It is us. | |
| To have any hope of healing, we must acknowledge that fact. We | |
| must admit our own ignorance. Our own apathy. Our own discomfort | |
| with people who are different from us. Our own desire to believe | |
| that we�re better than everyone else. Our own willingness to | |
| take things that are not ours, and keep things we did not earn. | |
| Our profound bent to lie about ourselves. Our willingness to do | |
| violence to get what we want. Our willingness to turn away when | |
| violence is done to others, because it benefits us. | |
| As Christians, we must forcefully, publicly name and repudiate | |
| these things. We must be honest about how long a history they | |
| have and how deep they go. And about how much work it will take | |
| to eradicate them. | |
| And we must do that work.[/quote] | |
| So will you discard the Old Testament from your Bible? | |
| #Post#: 3389-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Right-left (Judeo-)Christian divergence | |
| By: guest5 Date: January 15, 2021, 1:03 pm | |
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| https://i.pinimg.com/originals/8b/35/6a/8b356a113153c2dac35ab9b66d2b5c39.jpg | |
| [quote]@PastorJohnHagee | |
| � | |
| May 17, 2018 | |
| Supporting Israel is not a political issue, it's a Bible issue. | |
| It is not possible to say, "I believe the Bible" and not support | |
| Israel and the Jewish people.[/quote] | |
| [img] | |
| https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DdZeWFIXUAAq-G4?format=jpg&name=medium[/img] | |
| #Post#: 3501-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Right-left (Judeo-)Christian divergence | |
| By: 90sRetroFan Date: January 19, 2021, 11:00 pm | |
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| https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/mary-schmich/ct-met-schmich-father-bill-… | |
| [quote]Column: A Catholic pastor speaks out about Trump. Some | |
| parishioners walk out. | |
| ... | |
| �As President Trump has lied about so many things,� he told the | |
| congregation, �I have never spoken out, and fear we are teaching | |
| the young that truth and facts do not matter.� | |
| By Corcoran�s count, a dozen people walked out of Mass that | |
| morning. Nearly two dozen more at the 9:30 Mass. �Probably 30,� | |
| he estimates, at the 11:30. | |
| Each time he was startled. Saddened. �Awful,� is how he | |
| described it later. | |
| And each time he knew he was doing what he had to do. | |
| ... | |
| After he spoke out, Corcoran received calls and emails from | |
| several upset parishioners. Some said they come to church to | |
| find peace and instead they�d found confrontation.[/quote] | |
| I have long warned that even in moderate churches the | |
| congregations tend to be more rightist than the clergy. | |
| Now imagine how bad it would be if churches were democratic. | |
| If we can see that is a good thing that churches are not | |
| democratic, why is it harder to see that states should not be | |
| democratic either? | |
| #Post#: 3604-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Right-left (Judeo-)Christian divergence | |
| By: guest5 Date: January 24, 2021, 3:28 pm | |
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| How Might Joe Biden�s Catholic Faith Guide His Presidency? | | |
| Sunday TODAY | |
| [quote]When Joe Biden was inaugurated on Wednesday, he became | |
| the second Catholic president in American history. He has spoken | |
| openly about his faith, but how does it line up with his policy | |
| proposals? [/quote] | |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmPdoQj40_E | |
| #Post#: 3757-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: JEWS HAVE NOTHING IN COMMON WITH US! | |
| By: guest5 Date: January 28, 2021, 12:28 pm | |
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| It ain't too hard to tell who sits behind that throne aye!? :D | |
| https://i.pinimg.com/originals/50/60/4a/50604ae88fc3b9a645bef8bd87cdd113.jpg | |
| https://brandonacox.com/wp-content/uploads/4787331810_e86ab6a8d2-1.jpg | |
| #Post#: 3886-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Right-left (Judeo-)Christian divergence | |
| By: 90sRetroFan Date: January 31, 2021, 9:41 pm | |
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| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Hg8VH9QU5s | |
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