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Thread #140399   Message #3236821
Posted By: Little Hawk
10-Oct-11 - 01:08 PM
Thread Name: BS: Palestine
Subject: RE: BS: Palestine
Christianity is also an offshoot of Judaism. Judaism was undoubtedly an offshoot of whatever came before Judaism...there were many previous religions existing in that region of the world prior to Judaism.

And so what? What does any of that have to do with present day issues of right and wrong? Supposedly being "first" at something does not make someone better than someone else. Justice is based on practicing equality, not on practicing some kind of concept of a Master Race or of preferential treatment for "God's Chosen". We are either all God's Chosen or the concept is utterly fallacious and destructive.

Religious/cultural arrogance and exclusivity is equally offensive whether it is practiced by Nazis, Zionists, Muslim Fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalist, Maoists...or any other kind of "ists".

Land theft is also equally offensive no matter who does it to whom. The Nazis called it a search for "lebensraum" (room in which to live). (Room in which Germans could live at the expense of the previous inhabitants, who would be displaced...or killed, if necessary...by German settlers.) Gosh! Doesn't that sound a wee bit familiar in the present context of the Middle East?