guest301 said:
....God said that we were the chosen people ..I didn't come up with that and certainly don't go around feeling better than anybody else because of it. God gave us that designation for his own reasons, not because their is any inherent traits in us that warrants it.....
How nice it is to be one of God's chosen. The religious Zionist Jews consider the old testament to be literally 100% true, and an accurate account of their history. If they had the power, we would be dealt with exactly the same way as in the past. God would tell them to go here there and everywhere and drive out the inhabitants of the land and steal their posessions. If they didn't submit and dared to fight back, God was sure to make em pay big time, when given a chance.
They wiped out and destroyed everyone in their path , from the Amalekites, Hittites, Girgasites, Canaanites, Amorites and a whole lot of other ites.This is exactly what they've done to the Palestinians. Lets read just one story of the many which are quite similar of the dealings of the Jewish God and his chosen. Let's open our bibles to the book of Samuel Chapter 15 vs. 2. Pity the poor folks who ever get in their way!!! They don't forgive or forget.
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Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt
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<A name=3>15:3</A> Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have,
and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
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<A name=4>15:4</A> And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.
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<A name=5>15:5</A> And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.
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<A name=6>15:6</A> And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for ye shewed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.
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<A name=7>15:7</A> And
Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until thou comest to Shur, that is over against Egypt. <A name=8>
15:8</A> And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive,
and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
Well, it turns out KING Saul didn't utterly destroy all and God was really ticked, so he sends the Prophet Samuel to finish the job.
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15:32</A> Then said Samuel, Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past.
Notice how Agag with hat in hand hopes for a little mercy. Fuggetaboutit.
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15:33</A> And Samuel said, As the sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And
Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.
Aragorn?A simple question for you? Do you justifythat sort of action? If so, would you have slaughtered the children, babies, women and animals if the prophet told you to? Just curious.
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