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Title: Top US General Says American Troops Should be Prepared to Die—for ISRAEL
Source: Free Thought Project
URL Source: http://thefreethoughtproject.com/to ... al-american-troops-die-israel/
Published: Mar 20, 2018
Author: The Free Thought Project
Post Date: 2018-03-21 09:27:17 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 9745
Comments: 83

I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same…” This is the oath of enlistment that every American military service member or federal employee takes upon entry into government service (with slight variation for commissioned officers).

With the largest joint U.S.-Israeli air defense exercise ever conducted having recently concluded, which involved over 2,500 American service personnel, and in the midst of heightened Israeli involvement in the Syrian war, we find ourselves asking…

Are US troops ready to fight and to die for America’s Israel’s defense? …We think not, but there are US generals out there enthusiastically promoting the idea.

Earlier this month, in the midst of the 9th annual 12-day massive joint exercise named “Juniper Cobra” which was hailed in Israeli media as the largest of its kind, simulating a “battle on three fronts” (namely, Syria-Lebanon-Gaza Strip) US Third Air Force Commander Lt. Gen. Richard Clark spelled out just such a scenario wherein US troops could be asked to fight and to die for defense of America Israel – even to the point of being placed under Israeli commanders responsible for battlefield decision making. 

While major joint military exercises involving significant troop deployments are nothing new for the US and its allies (Juniper Cobra itself has been conducted annually for nearly a decade), Lt. Gen. Clark’s words to Israeli media are truly precedent setting and shocking, especially as he is among the highest ranking military officers in the US armed forces.

It is well worth reading the alarming scenario Gen. Clark laid out while speaking to the Jerusalem Post in its entirety:

“The United States and Israel enjoy a strong and enduring military-to-military partnership built on a trust that has been developed over decades of cooperation,” said USAF Third Air Force commander Lt.-Gen. Richard Clark, who also serves as the commander for the deploying Joint Task Force – Israel.

“The Juniper Cobra exercises continue to strengthen this relationship, providing us with the opportunity to bolster interoperability and develop seamless integration with our Israeli partners.”

According to Clark, the US and Israeli troops will work side-by-side under each other’s relevant chain of command.

But this is where Clark pushes far across the normative “military-to-military partnership” characteristic of joint drills with other allied nations. He says that US troops should be prepared to die for the Jewish State:

“As far as decision-making, it is a partnership,” he continued, stressing nonetheless that “at the end of the day it is about the protection of Israel – and if there is a question in regards to how we will operate, the last vote will probably go to Zvika [Brig.-Gen. Zvika Haimovitch, head of the IDF’s Aerial Defense Division].”

Washington and Israel have signed an agreement which would see the US come to assist Israel with missile defense in times of war and, according to [Israeli commander] Haimovitch, “I am sure once the order comes we will find here US troops on the ground to be part of our deployment team to defend the State of Israel.”

And those US troops who would be deployed to Israel, are prepared to die for the Jewish state, Clark said. “We are ready to commit to the defense of Israel anytime we get involved in a kinetic fight there is always the risk that there will be casualties. But we accept that – as every conflict we train for and enter, there is always that possibility,” he said.

And it appears that both military leaders are in agreement on this point – that they are ready and willing to put US troops in harm’s way in pursuit of Israeli defense policy.

Disturbingly, Clark acknowledges willingness for life-and-death battlefield decisions impacting American soldiers to be placed in the hands of the Israeli chain of command in saying: “if there is a question in regards to how we will operate, the last vote will probably go to [Israeli General] Zvika.”

While in more stable times in the Middle East, Clark’s words might possibly be dismissed as hyperbole and misplaced enthusiasm for “the mission” – his words come as Israel is already actively involved on two fronts: Gaza and Syria. And according to many analysts and reports, including one recently leaked internal Israeli defense memo, Israel is ramping up for devastating engagement along a third front as Tel Aviv continues to view Lebanese Hezbollah to its north as the prime threat to Israeli security.

Should broader war break out between Israel, Hezbollah, Iran, and Syria, will US troops who find themselves working closely with the IDF be forced to obey the commands of Israeli generals, even to the point of death? We can’t find anything in the oath of enlistment or the Constitution [federal statute in 10 U.S.C. 502, and based in Article VI of the Constitution] that requires US citizens or soldiers to defend and fight for a foreign nation.


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And those US troops who would be deployed to Israel, are prepared to die for the Jewish state, Clark said. “We are ready to commit to the defense of Israel anytime we get involved in a kinetic fight there is always the risk that there will be casualties. But we accept that – as every conflict we train for and enter, there is always that possibility,” he said.

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#13. To: Vicomte13 (#9) (Edited)

Some bozos buttfugging has no real impact on my life

Oh. Right. Says the apple who fell from the crazy tree. I guess the moral framework of the HIV infested care taker who you claim stole your all your money had nooooo impact at all.

Did you say Bozo?

{click}

VxH  posted on  2018-03-21   18:12:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: A K A Stone (#11)

You Catholics never read Ezekiel huh?

Yup. And after that the Temple was rebuilt, Israel regathered, went totally corrupt, Jesus came, pronounced the final doom on the Temple, was killed by the Temple authorities - who thereby brought the Deuteronomic doom upon Israel.

Israel of the Temple is gone. The old bottle burst. The only covenant that matters is the New Covenant with Christ. Jesus imposed the penalty clause of Deuteronomy on the old Temple and its priesthood, and sent the Roman Army to utterly wipe out the Temple and its priesthood forever, until the end of the world.

Christians who fail to read and listen to what Jesus had to say get caught up in intermediate stuff and lose the thread. It's nonsense. The modern state of Israel is a Western European colony, of European Jews, established in the Middle East for two reasons - (1) The Jews wanted out of Europe and wanted THAT land in particular, for reasons that have to do with their myths of themselves - and they were owed something (in most people's minds) because of the Holocaust, and (2) Europeans still didn't like Jews even after the Holocaust, and leapt at the idea of the Jews all self-deporting from Europe to this new Israel.

So, Israel is there. It'll be there as long as the West pours in money and arms. After the West stops, Israel will be swamped by the Muslims. The historical parallel is Crusader Outremer, which lasted a bit over a century. Once the West lost interest in propping it up, it was overrun.

I don't want to see the overrun, because that will be a genocide, also because it will be a big win for the Muslims, and that's not acceptable. So I'm willing to provide defense assistance to Israel for now.

The notion that Christians need to pay tax dollars to uphold the European Jewish colony in Palestine is a weird Protestant fantasy that isn't really supported by the Bible if the Bible is actually read fully and carefully. But Proddies think it is.

Vicomte13  posted on  2018-03-22   9:51:48 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#15. To: Vicomte13 (#14)

Wrong!

I guess you don't believe Ezekiel.

Looks like you don't believe revelation either.

A K A Stone  posted on  2018-03-22   9:56:17 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#16. To: VxH (#13)

Oh. Right. Says the apple who fell from the crazy tree. I guess the moral framework of the HIV infested care taker who you claim stole your all your money had nooooo impact at all.

Did you say Bozo?

{click}

That's right. No impact at all. My money was not stolen because of homosexual sex. It was stolen because people some people steal money, and that guy did.

There is no impact on my thinking because, unlike you, I understand cause and effect. I understand that one person's sexual sins does not make another person commit financial crimes against third person. In this, I am a reasonable, intelligent person.

You're just a raving bigot. You think of sodomy and your mind goes queer and you cease to think. It's why you come off the way you do. In the process you end up isolated - nobody on this site could ever work with you on anything, because you're such a mean, spiteful, small-minded bigoted jackass. The problem with that is that nobody can form meaningful alliances with people like you. So you sit out there alone, rave about what you care about, are too disgusting and nasty person for anybody to ally with you on anything. And then you die and pass from a world that steadily marched away from you.

And then you wake up to judgment and find out that God doesn't like assholes either.

You lose here. You lose there. You just lose. Go die in a hole.

Vicomte13  posted on  2018-03-22   9:58:06 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#17. To: A K A Stone (#15)

Wrong!

I guess you don't believe Ezekiel.

Looks like you don't believe revelation either.

When you get right down to it, you're right. I don't believe that either of those things can or should be taken literally. Because they're not literally true.

Vicomte13  posted on  2018-03-22   10:00:47 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#18. To: A K A Stone (#12)

No we didn't did we. Histories course cannot be altered even by Catholics conspiring with Nazis to wipe Jews from the earth.

You care more about Jews than you do your own people. This is how Protestantism makes people stupid.

Vicomte13  posted on  2018-03-22   10:01:53 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#19. To: Vicomte13 (#17)

I guess you don't believe Ezekiel.

Looks like you don't believe revelation either.

When you get right down to it, you're right. I don't believe that either of those things can or should be taken literally. Because they're not literally true.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 King James Version (KJV) 16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

17 That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.

Par for the course you follow the pope man not the word of God. You just said so, so don't get mad at me.

A K A Stone  posted on  2018-03-22   10:10:40 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#20. To: Vicomte13 (#18)

No we didn't did we. Histories course cannot be altered even by Catholics conspiring with Nazis to wipe Jews from the earth. You care more about Jews than you do your own people. This is how Protestantism makes people stupid.

We are supposed to love everyone are we not?

How is me pointing out that the "unfallable perfect god pope" was helping the nazis make me love my people any less then Jews?

A K A Stone  posted on  2018-03-22   10:12:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#21. To: Vicomte13 (#17)

I guess you don't believe Ezekiel.

Looks like you don't believe revelation either.

When you get right down to it, you're right. I don't believe that either of those things can or should be taken literally. Because they're not literally true.

Since revelation relates to Genesis. I guess you can throw Genesis in the trash too.

A K A Stone  posted on  2018-03-22   10:17:21 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#22. To: Vicomte13 (#21)

Have to throw out Timothy also. He said all scripture is good and from God. Which you don't believe.

How many other books should be removed from the Bible?

So far we have Ezekiel, Revelation, Timothy, and Genesis. You didn't say Genesis but implied it imo.

A K A Stone  posted on  2018-03-22   10:24:27 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#23. To: A K A Stone (#21)

Since revelation relates to Genesis. I guess you can throw Genesis in the trash too.

I don't throw any of these things into the trash. I read them, see the parts that are flawed or apparently in error, look at the original language to see if the text can be salvaged, and where not, read it metaphorically or allegorically, if I can, or I just shrug my shoulders and dismiss it as a human error in a human book. My belief in God isn't much related to the Bible.

Vicomte13  posted on  2018-03-22   10:44:03 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#24. To: A K A Stone (#22)

How many other books should be removed from the Bible?

The only language in the Bible I take as authority are the direct words of Christ given as commandments.

The rest of it is background information and the opinions of other men. It's interesting, and sometimes wise, but it's not law.

Vicomte13  posted on  2018-03-22   10:45:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#25. To: Vicomte13 (#24)

The only language in the Bible I take as authority are the direct words of Christ given as commandments.

The rest of it is background information and the opinions of other men. It's interesting, and sometimes wise, but it's not law.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 King James Version (KJV) 16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

I just don't get people who claim to believe in God but think they are smarter then God and pick and choose which parts they want to.

It is a pretty silly way to go about it.

A K A Stone  posted on  2018-03-22   10:47:06 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#26. To: A K A Stone (#22)

How many other books should be removed from the Bible?

So far we have Ezekiel, Revelation, Timothy, and Genesis. You didn't say Genesis but implied it imo.

The only parts of the Bible that I consider to be authority from God that apply to ME are the direct words of Jesus (and the Father) in the four gospels and the first part of Acts, the single quote of Jesus in the letters of Paul, and what Jesus says directly in Revelation.

The rest is interesting, but it's not authority.

Vicomte13  posted on  2018-03-22   10:47:12 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#27. To: Vicomte13 (#26)

The only parts of the Bible that I consider to be authority from God that apply to ME

I know. You and the pope correct God because he is to stupid to get it right. Listen to Vic not the Bible. He knows more. Yeah I got it.

A K A Stone  posted on  2018-03-22   10:51:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#28. To: A K A Stone (#25)

I just don't get people who claim to believe in God but think they are smarter then God and pick and choose which parts they want to.

God healed my broken neck, raised two dead animals in my hands, drove away a physical demon, and talks to me out loud.

He did this before I ever read your idolatrous little book. My religion does not come from your book, and I don't need your book. I recognize the parts of your book that are God speaking, and I also recognize in your little book when it's some man speaking.

No aspect of my religion came from your book. I knew God before I read it, and my reading of it didn't change anything regarding my knowledge of God, other than cause me to think about scenarios I have not personally experienced, and to understand how God has interacted with other people.

I don't think I'm smarter than God. For me to do what you do would be to walk AWAY from God and think that the book is above God. And that's blasphemy.

I criticize the Catholic Church for what it deserves to be criticized for. I mostly stay away from discussing God with Protestants because your minds are closed to him. You worship your little book, and the opinions of men about your little book.

You don't talk about GOD with me at all, and you defile God and claim that the God who has kept me alive and sustain me isn't even God. Your ilk calls me a liar and ascribes the miracles I have experienced to Satan, even, because it doesn't fit your narrow-minded human principles revolving around a book written by men.

I have never learned a single thing from any Protestant regarding God, other than how to be self-righteous, violent, arrogant and wholly dishonest - and losing the grace of God in the process.

I take the book - not your abridged version of it but the whole thing (including the parts that the Catholic Church has left out) - I read it, I see what is good, what is bad, what is true, what isn't true, and what parts came from God.

I also read the logic of it, and see and hear God - My God - in the voice of Jesus in his father in the Gospels, Acts and Revelation. I hear Paul speaking from his inspiration in his letters, but I also hear Paul's Judaism struggling to remain relevant in the face of the real God. Paul's love of God is clear, but what he rights is contradictory nonsense in many parts because HE was conflicted, between the Judaism of his upbringing and education - over which he was responsible for the deaths of many Christians - and what God was telling him directly through the spirit. What Protestants do with Paul is scandalous.

Now, we've gone through many iterations about religion on these threads over the years. We never get anywhere and we never CAN get anywhere, because you want to "teach me" about God based on the opinions that other men have taught you, but I know God directly, and talk to Him directly when I need to, and he intervenes and saves my life and other things directly with miracles, so I don't need to be taught by you. You are not teaching me anything, you're just yelling at me the opinions of other men.

God never told ME that I was a teacher, to go out and talk about him with some new knowledge. He's the same God who spoke out loud through Jesus' mouth.

So when you read Paul saying "He who will not work, shall not eat" - and you take that out of context to boot - and then you assert that the words of this man are equal to the words of God Incarnate, speaking about caring for the poor, turning the other cheek, etc. - you're not teaching me anything. You're showing how hopelessly snared you are in this book, that you actually equate the opinions of Paul with regards to running a soup kitchen with the opinions of God. Your little book is a God-maker, to YOUR mind, but not to mine.

I'm not a teacher - you can read what God wants in your book, if you read it right. Reading it right, if you want that, is opening to the Gospels, reading what Jesus said there, in Acts and in Revelation, and making THAT your law, because that actually IS the law. The rest is additional material, but quite a bit of it conflicts with Jesus, or changes the focus, and if you want to know God, you would do well to stop confusing the issue with the opinions of Paul and Ezekiel and whoever wrote Genesis, and focus on what Jesus said.

But that's not the way Proddies do religion, so you'll never do that.

I get why you don't. You are capable of understanding why I don't allow a book written by men to supplant the way I came to God, which was by him coming to me directly, reaching out of the sky and saving my life and talking to me and doing what he has done for me.

You are capable of getting me, but you don't want to, because I didn't come to God at all in the way that your pastors say your book says is the only way. Obviously it's not the only way, which means your book is wrong about that.

And you cannot hear those words.

So we can't really talk at all about religion, can we?

So we should stop, because all that happens is that you start beating on me and piling on the insults because you don't like the way that God went about it with me - and all you can do is deny he did it. All I can do is repeat what I know - and because what I know is not acceptable to your religion, we can't get past the impasse, and we just bicker.

Which is pointless, unless the POINT is to be mean to each other because our religions differ. To ME, that's pointless. Your mileage may vary.

Vicomte13  posted on  2018-03-22   11:07:13 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#29. To: Vicomte13 (#28)

od healed my broken neck, raised two dead animals in my hands, drove away a physical demon, and talks to me out loud.

You sound kooky when you talk about raising dead animals from the grave.

You sound hypocritical when you say God healed your broken neck. Because you made it clear in a thread that God doesn't intervene and people die. Well except in your case because he had to heal you so that you could correct the Bible and tear out the parts that are incorrect. Ok sarcasm is now off.

You have your own private intrepretation of the bible, and in your private intrepretation you also have to throw Peter in the trash.

16For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty. 17For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. 18And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.

19We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: 20Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. 21For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

By the way Vic. How do you know that someone didn't make up the words in red in the Bible?

A K A Stone  posted on  2018-03-22   11:22:15 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#30. To: A K A Stone (#27)

Listen to Vic not the Bible. He knows more.

I never said any such thing.

God never made me a teacher.

What I say to you is the same thing that God the Father says to you in the Gospels: listen to JESUS.

"Listen to Vic" is your words.

Vicomte13  posted on  2018-03-22   11:24:04 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#31. To: Vicomte13 (#28)

The heart of the righteous studieth to answer: but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things.

29The LORD is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous.

30The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart: and a good report maketh the bones fat.

31The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise.

32He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul: but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding.

33The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is humility.

A K A Stone  posted on  2018-03-22   11:27:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#32. To: A K A Stone (#29)

You sound kooky when you talk about raising dead animals from the grave.

You sound hypocritical when you say God healed your broken neck. Because you made it clear in a thread that God doesn't intervene and people die.

I am going to die. God isn't going to stop that. He stopped it THEN, at THAT moment. When it's HIS time for me to go, I will go. I won't breathe one breath less than he appointed (which is why I have never bothered to get a gun), and I won't breathe one breath MORE than he has appointed either (which is why I don't worry too much about getting on airplanes).

I know I sound kooky. I'm not an evangelist, out there saying "I have experienced miracles, therefore follow me!" No. I refer to my direct encounters with God only in reaction to people presuming to tell me that I don't know God because I don't believe what they believe. I know God better than they do. They get their faith from a book. I get my knowledge of God directly.

I don't need to get pushed around by people waving their Jack Chick pamphlets who know less about God than I do. I don't teach - I have never been called to that - but I'm not going to be schooled by bigoted ignoramuses either.

I don't CARE about the Bible, A K A Stone. I've read it to see IF God was there - he is - and to see what he has to say in there. God is in there, and so also is a lot of human opinion, myth, tradition, and a welter of contradiction.

Anyway, this is going nowhere, so I'm going to walk away from it.

Vicomte13  posted on  2018-03-22   11:30:18 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#33. To: Vicomte13 (#32)

I don't CARE about the Bible

34 You brood of vipers! How can you speak good things, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

A K A Stone  posted on  2018-03-22   11:35:46 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#34. To: Vicomte13 (#28)

God healed my broken neck, raised two dead animals in my hands, drove away a physical demon, and talks to me out loud.

I know i'm upsetting you and making you mad. But I am only posting the truth. Like Bible verses. Like your own words.

But you are a hypocrite.

Christ does not treat Chrsitans' diabetes or cancer. He let's them bear that cross, die, and come to him.

Similarly for starvation. Christ lets hundreds of millions of Christans starve to death. They bear their cross to the end and have their reward in the next life.

Christ never promised health and happiness in this life - in fact, he promised that those things won't be found here.

So you're right - I have absolutely no belief at all that Christ will reach down from heaven and protect Christians from any diseases, or marauding enemies, or starvation, or natural disaster - because he DOESN'T protect us from any of things, and never said he would. Our reward for staying true to him is found on the other side, in the afterlife, not HERE.

https://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=52686&Disp=14#C14

A K A Stone  posted on  2018-03-22   11:40:13 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#35. To: Vicomte13 (#34)

So you're right - I have absolutely no belief at all that Christ will reach down from heaven and protect Christians from any diseases, or marauding enemies, or starvation, or natural disaster

Yes Vic he has more important things to do. Like help you with your magic show of raising lizards and cockroaches from the dead. And healing your neck (not anyone else though because you said so) because you are special and he needs you to get rid of that bad book the Bible that is full of errors.

A K A Stone  posted on  2018-03-22   11:46:51 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#36. To: A K A Stone (#35)

Yes Vic he has more important things to do. Like help you with your magic show of raising lizards and cockroaches from the dead. And healing your neck (not anyone else though because you said so) because you are special and he needs you to get rid of that bad book the Bible that is full of errors.

Well, I guess we can return to it again.

The Bible is full of errors. The earth is probably 4-5 billion years old. Man evolved from primates. The Creation myth in Genesis 1 is just that - a myth. It is not literally true. The world was not created in 7 calendar days, and life did not appear "poof".

IF you religion hangs on every word of the Bible being literally true, then your religion is itself a myth. POOF! It disappears because Genesis 1 is false. You're no different than a Muslim, believing nonsense BECAUSE it's written in a book that you've been told not to question.

IF you believe that the earth is 6000 years old, you are a ridiculous person. That wasn't true in 1400, when we did not have modern scientific technique, but it is now, in 2018, for a Western-educated person who should know better and who has learned the scientific method, to persist in the LITERAL belief, and disbelief, in things that are so. If you're religion can't handle the truth, then it's a waste - and your religion CAN'T handle the truth.

Just because Genesis isn't true doesn't make it worthless. Paul wrote something dramatic that isn't true either. ALL have sinned he wrote. That's bullshit. Babies have never sinned, not ever. And babies are 10% of the population. Paul would have been accurate if he had said 90% of people have sinned, but he said "ALL" and that's false.

Now, YOU - in your relentless anger and bigotry - would scream at anybody who said "ALL" when the real number is 90%. You would say "You're a LIAR!" So, using YOUR favored discussion techniques, Paul's a LIAR. Both Genesis 1 at the beginning of the Bible, and Paul towards the end, both contain things that are not true - THEREFORE - again using YOUR terminology - the Bible is full of LIES. And because YOU say God wrote the Bible, then God is a liar, and liars are damned, so God is a Goddamned Liar, using YOUR argumentative method.

Your method is chaotic and stupid, and leads you there.

I am a more reasonable person.

Paul was a man, an enthusiastic man. He never claimed equality with God, and he urged people towards Jesus, not towards worshiping Paul himself. He resorted to hyperbole, and wrote a bunch of letters without studying everything he ever wrote before that. Which means that there are lots of contradictions in Paul's letter, as would be expected when any man writes a lot, and passionately.

SOME of those contradictions, and SOME of those things that are not literally true (such as "ALL have sinned"), are simply hyperbole. Yes, Paul, a man, is permitted to use hyperbole in his writings. No, the fact that some men decided to include Paul's letters in a book that the men called "The Bible" does not magically convert Paul's hyperbole into infallible truth. YOU'RE the one who believes it does. But given that there are failures and falsehoods and myths all over Scripture, you're pushed further and further into defending the indefensible, until finally you resort to your own hyperbole, which is: "Every word is true because I believe it is, and if you don't then you're wrong and your religion is false!"

What a load of hooey.

Yet that is precisely what you and your co-religionists believe.

You have dug yourself a pit of self-willed ignorance that you can't be talked out of, and consider yourselves holy - the more ridiculous and counterfactual, the more your faith must be true.

In this, you are the carbon copy of the Muslims: ignorant fanatics.

As far as morality goes, I see a man - you - who hates the poor - and I see your co-religionists arguing for the morality of slavery. Which means you're evil and opposed to God - and you use your little book - your idol, with all of it errors - as proof of that.

And you're angry that the world doesn't buy your the bullshit of your false religion.

Now, here's the thing, I'm ALSO angry that Catholic priests have molested boys and the Church has covered it up. I'm not happy at the accumulations of wealth in the Church (though the valuable artwork at the Vatican does not trouble me: the Vatican is, for all intents and purposes, a public museum of religious art. The only use of art is display, and the Vatican displays the work of masters for all to see. Should the Vatican sell it all to private owners and thereby deprive the public of the ability to see it? How would that be just? Or perhaps give it to public museums - but why do that when the Vatican already IS a public museum.

Certainly the way that the Vatican was BUILT, FIVE HUNDRED YEARS AGO, with the sale of Indulgences, was a scandal that rightly enraged many, including Luther: he was right about that. But this is 2018, and carping endlessly about the "wealth" of the Church is dishonest. Artwork and buildings where worship is held, the patrimony of the past, isn't the sort of "wealth" that can be turned into anything than what it already is: a public museum of museum pieces - that people pay money to see. That money goes into the church coffers, and a great deal of that is used for charity all over the world.

Could the Church be more efficient about that? Probably not. Already when one compares the various charitable organizations, the Catholic Church, with an 8% overhead cost, compares favorably to virtually every private charity and all public institutions. If you give $1 to a Church charitable fund, 8 cents of that will be used to keep the lights on and pay the salaries and upkeep of the religious, and 92 cents will be spent on the charity. Find any major charity that operates so efficiently at that scale? You can't. None exists.

So despite the endless wailing and carping about the "wealth" of the Catholic Church, it's a BS complaint.

But complaints about covering up pedophilia - that is legitimate. The complaint that priests should be allowed to marry is, likewise, legitimate.

I don't defend the sins of the Catholic Church, past or present. I'm not angered by the ancient sins: men sin, and that was a long time ago. I am angered by the present, ongoing sin, and I won't defend it.

You and your ilk, though, are not honest enough to examine the errors in your own organizations, or the evils in your beliefs - about the poor, for example. You're quick to judge the Catholics, collectively and individually, and you don't even SEE your own sins. It's the classic plank- in-the-eye that Jesus spoke of.

Given that no real discussion is ever had with you: you just repeat the same stupid bullshit over and over. You believe in myths that are in the Bible. I don't. And I am able to, nevertheless, maintain my own respect for and use of the Bible EVEN THOUGH I recognize that it isn't all literally true, and EVEN THOUGH I recognize that literary forms such as hyperbole and poetry are used in it which means that parts cannot be taken literally. Other parts can be, and I am well-educated enough to be able to see the differences, which are obvious.

Also, I don't believe that the Bible is the "Constitution" of the Church, or the final authority, or anything like what you believe. Nor does the Bible ever say that it is. The Church WROTE the Bible, and the authority of God is expressed primarily through the Church. The Bible is a book written by men. It contains some of the words of God, including those words that impart the authority to the Church that I believe the Church has. My beliefs are consistent with what modern science has taught me, with what the Church traditions are, and also with my own moral authority, which comes from being a creature of God close to God. When it comes down to a conflict, my own moral sense ALWAYS is superior in authority to the Bible and to the Church also, as it must me. Jesus tells people to tear out their eyes and cut off their limbs if they can't resist sins. Origen as unable to resist the sin of masturbation, so he cut off his own penis and testicles. Was he right? He LITERALLY followed Jesus' commandments. Did Jesus mean those things literally? Or was Jesus using hyperbole to make a point?

If you're a literalist, then praise Origen and follow his example.

I've explained this, and more, to you many times. All you ever do is come back with more sarcastic juvenile crap. Same shit, over and over again.

So yeah, I actually DO have more important things to do than to reiterate the same things, over and over again.

I made no magic show of two things raised from the dead. I state factually what God did with me. Those things happened. You mock them and mock me. That's certainly your right.

I never said get rid of that bad book.

For a man who claims to be devoted to God you are such a serial liar, and you mock what God has done.

This is another reason that it's a waste of my time. You are an unwitting agent of the Devil, and you are going to rage against the truth whenever and wherever you see it. And then you will die, and you will see the truth.

Until then, you're going to do what you do. With regards to me, that means marching right alongside of your buddy VxH, saying exactly the same lies, in the same way, and making the same false accusations about what I have supposedly said and done, over and over again.

To converse with you is to be mocked by a liar who mocks God. Your hatred of the poor is mocking God, and you don't even understand the Bible you claim to profess.

So why, exactly, do you want to have more conversation with me? What is the point.

I recognize that this is a waste of time: you're a poorly educated bigot who lies a lot, and a nasty evil person. This is why I really did mistake you for VxH: you sound like him, you do the same thing he does. I would bet that you're both the same Protestant religion, and you praise your self- deceit as faith.

As I said, God never called me to be a teacher. He did remonstrate with me to be a peacemaker, and communicating with you two does not keep the peace.

So yeah, actually, I do have more important things than to go over this same dull, tired ground with you again and again. I'm not your teacher. You won't listen to the man you proclaim is your Savior, so what's to be done with you? Just put up with your abuse? I do. But I shouldn't.

Vicomte13  posted on  2018-03-22   13:50:28 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#37. To: A K A Stone (#35)

because you are special

You're right, I am special to God. And you're not. Go figure out why.

Vicomte13  posted on  2018-03-22   13:51:25 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#38. To: Vicomte13 (#36)

bigotry

Why do you insist on slandering me? Did you throw the 10 commandments in the trash too.

A K A Stone  posted on  2018-03-22   13:57:13 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#39. To: Vicomte13 (#36)

The Creation myth in Genesis 1 is just that - a myth.

No need for Jesus then Huh. No original sin, no need for redemption.

Your have revealed your views to be even more sinister than you have ever let on before.

A K A Stone  posted on  2018-03-22   13:58:46 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#40. To: Vicomte13 (#36)

Your hatred of the poor is mocking God

My friends are the poor. I don't live in a McMansion in Connecitut. I'm not an elitest saying I am special according to God and you are not. That is what you say.

You really cannot handle criticism very well.

Why again aren't you a hypocrite when you say God doesn't heal anyone then you say he healed you?

A K A Stone  posted on  2018-03-22   14:00:44 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#41. To: Vicomte13 (#28)

And you cannot hear those words.

I don't really care much about your words when you attack Gods word.

Just like you don't like Timothys words when he says all scripture is from the creator God.

I have faith in Gods word, you don't.

Faith is how you get saved. Not doubt and calling God a liar.

You have your own custom religion that only you believe. Unless you pounded it into your kids too. Hopefully not.

A K A Stone  posted on  2018-03-22   14:03:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#42. To: Vicomte13 (#36)

So why, exactly, do you want to have more conversation with me? What is the point.

Because I find it fascinating that someone who claims to believe in Jesus. Regularly attacks the book that we learn about Jesus from.

A K A Stone  posted on  2018-03-22   14:06:47 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#43. To: Vicomte13 (#36)

I'm not your teacher

That is for sure. Because if I took your lessons I would end up not believing in God and I'd get a job at a pet store raising lizards and bugs and stuff from the dead. You didn't do that your parents must have slipped you some acid.

I'm not going to dispute if God healed you. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. My only contention there is you are a giant hypocrite because you said God doesn't heal anyone. That is why I say you think you are special.

I've been fair with you in this discussion. You haven't by calling me evil, bigot etc. To you someone quoting scripture is evil. I guess all the apostles were evil then because they just made up a bunch of lies according to you. Even Peter.

You are one goofy scripturally challenged know it all.

A K A Stone  posted on  2018-03-22   14:10:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#44. To: Vicomte13 (#36)

My beliefs are consistent with what modern science has taught me, with what the Church traditions

You should test out your beliefs by having sex with a monkey and seeing if you reproduce. You don't have to do that because you will not reproduce with a monkey you think you came from.

1 Timothy 6:19-21 King James Version (KJV) 19 Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.

20 O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:

21 Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.

A K A Stone  posted on  2018-03-22   14:17:12 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#45. To: Vicomte13 (#36)

My beliefs are consistent with what modern science has taught me, with what the Church traditions

6-8 Jesus replied, “You hypocrites, Isaiah described you beautifully when he wrote—‘This people honours me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. And in vain they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men’. You are so busy holding on to the traditions of men that you let go the commandment of God!”

9-13 Then he went on, “It is wonderful to see how you can set aside the commandment of God to preserve your own tradition! For Moses said, ‘Honour your father and your mother’ and ‘He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death’. But you say, ‘if a man says to his father or his mother, Korban—meaning, I have given God whatever duty I owed to you’, then he need not lift a finger any longer for his father or mother, so making the word of God invalid for the sake of the tradition which you hold. And this is typical of much of what you do.”

21 Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.

A K A Stone  posted on  2018-03-22   14:17:49 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#46. To: Vicomte13 (#36) (Edited)

saying exactly the same lies,

That is itself a lie.

When I call you a hypocrite because you clearly said God does't heal anyone. But then you said he heals you. That isn't a lie. But if you are so smart why can't you explain why God heals you and no one else. You dodge this question and every question you are getting when you are losing and at a loss for words. I'd be embarrassed if I said that and couldn't explain how it isn't hypocrisy. I'll keep asking it to until you answer it to my satisfaction.

A K A Stone  posted on  2018-03-22   14:39:39 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#47. To: Vicomte13 (#28) (Edited)

God healed my broken neck

Are you sure it wasn't Shamash that healed you?

In the image, an ancient Assyrian king is wearing a cross on his chest, just like the one seen on the Pope’s robe.

Shamash (Akkadian Šamaš “Sun”), was a native Mesopotamian deity and the sun god in the Akkadian, Assyrian and Babylonian pantheons.

Shamash was the god of justice in Babylonia and Assyria, corresponding to Sumerian Utu.

This cross was identified with a Sun god eight centuries before Christ and long before it was called the Maltese Cross by the Knights of Malta.

It’s also called the Iron Cross. Roman Catholic Adolph Hitler renewed use of the Iron Cross in 1939 and superimposed the Nazi swastika in its center.

Ask yourself, why does the Pope wear the cross of Shamash the Sun god?

romancatholicbeliefs.org/...church-pagan-god-symbols/

A K A Stone  posted on  2018-03-22   14:56:16 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#48. To: A K A Stone (#1)

Israel good, muslims bad.

I don't think so.

A Pole  posted on  2018-03-22   15:10:11 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#49. To: A Pole (#48)

That's ok. You can have your own view.

I was thinking about posting this but I will just tell you. Poland has the least secularized youth in Poland. Good for them huh.

So was I wrong about Israel being good or Muslims being bad or both?

A K A Stone  posted on  2018-03-22   15:13:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#50. To: A K A Stone (#47)

Ask yourself, why does the Pope wear the cross of Shamash the Sun god?

Are you a Jehovah Witness?

A Pole  posted on  2018-03-22   15:14:47 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#51. To: A Pole (#50)

Are you a Jehovah Witness?

No but I love it when they come to my door to talk to me. They find out they have someplace else to be. They never want to stick around and chat to long.

Why do you think the Pope wears the sun gods logo?

A K A Stone  posted on  2018-03-22   15:17:29 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#52. To: A K A Stone (#49)

So was I wrong about Israel being good or Muslims being bad or both?

The first is a state/government. Muslims are people like Jews in Israel, or Chinese or Latinos or Eskimos. Some are good, some are bad and most are in between. OK?

A Pole  posted on  2018-03-22   15:17:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#53. To: A Pole (#52)

Muslims are people like Jews in Israel, or Chinese or Latinos or Eskimos. Some are good, some are bad and most are in between. OK?

So you're saying you have no reservations about Poland becoming a distination of massive Islamic immigration?

How would your wife or daughters (if you have either) feel about living is a Muslim-dominant communitah?

Liberator  posted on  2018-03-22   15:20:59 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  



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