The Birth of a Nation
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This week Palestinians are moving beyond the Israel- and US-dominated peace process and appealing directly to the world. They are asking the United Nations to formally recognize Palestine as an independent, sovereign state within its 1967 borders.
There is a profound symbolic significance to this move.
It was with a vote in the General Assembly in November 1947 that the state of Israel first achieved recognition through a resolution calling for mutually occupied land to be divided into two states. Israel and most of the nations of the world have long viewed that vote as the source of Israel’s legitimacy as a nation.
If the United Nations General Assembly created the state of Israel sixty years ago, it can create a Palestinian state now.
A bold stroke of poetic justice like that could breathe new life into the whole region and beyond.
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Anonymous
I believe in freedom of religion and expression. People should be free to believe in whatever they want: Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Spaghetti monsters, etc...
Anonymous
I believe in freedom of religion and expression. People should be free to believe in whatever they want: Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Spaghetti monsters, etc...
Anonymous
Ah what a lovely platitude.
So I guess that goes for Nazism as well? And Zionism? etc, etc.
The problem with barbaric, ancient religions and forms of expression is that they prejudice other people in this shared world we live in. Hence the exponential increase in learned people around the world abandoning the dogma of old such as those expressed by the antiquated ideologies of the bible/torah etc.
This is what is meant by "post-religious". If you want to live in a world of civility than you may have to let go of some of your old tribal, reptile-brained beliefs that are no longer serving the modern world. Judaism is a classic example of these outdated modes of thinking. Not too dissimilar from the belief in spaghetti monsters - equally laughable. Same goes for Christianity, Hinduism, etc.
Anonymous
Ah what a lovely platitude.
So I guess that goes for Nazism as well? And Zionism? etc, etc.
The problem with barbaric, ancient religions and forms of expression is that they prejudice other people in this shared world we live in. Hence the exponential increase in learned people around the world abandoning the dogma of old such as those expressed by the antiquated ideologies of the bible/torah etc.
This is what is meant by "post-religious". If you want to live in a world of civility than you may have to let go of some of your old tribal, reptile-brained beliefs that are no longer serving the modern world. Judaism is a classic example of these outdated modes of thinking. Not too dissimilar from the belief in spaghetti monsters - equally laughable. Same goes for Christianity, Hinduism, etc.
Anonymous
I hope you can see the irony in your post. Freedom of thought must be protected at all costs.
Anonymous
I hope you can see the irony in your post. Freedom of thought must be protected at all costs.
Anonymous
there are some practices within certain religions that defiantly have there purpose in the world.
God bless the Green Mountain monks of Vermont. who make their living selling small hand made trinkets and grow all their own food. That pretty anti wall street...
I think you would be a fan of Hinduism if you've heard of tantric practices ;)
all these comments remind me of that one south park, the future contains a war of otters fighting humans over a war of names of ideologies.
But the Israel state, i do agree, is completely fucked up.
I met Palestinians who came to the States to learn to grow mushrooms indoors at this hippy/organic farm conference I was at. Because they suffer from protein deficiencies.
And the whole wearing a badge to show your religion in the holy land, its like disneyland almost.
Anonymous
there are some practices within certain religions that defiantly have there purpose in the world.
God bless the Green Mountain monks of Vermont. who make their living selling small hand made trinkets and grow all their own food. That pretty anti wall street...
I think you would be a fan of Hinduism if you've heard of tantric practices ;)
all these comments remind me of that one south park, the future contains a war of otters fighting humans over a war of names of ideologies.
But the Israel state, i do agree, is completely fucked up.
I met Palestinians who came to the States to learn to grow mushrooms indoors at this hippy/organic farm conference I was at. Because they suffer from protein deficiencies.
And the whole wearing a badge to show your religion in the holy land, its like disneyland almost.
Anonymous
Islam too--don't be bias now--any form that worships something supernatural is a religion.
Anonymous
Islam too--don't be bias now--any form that worships something supernatural is a religion.
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