How long, O LORD, must I call for help but You do not hear, or cry out to You, “Violence!” but You do not save? / Why do You make me see iniquity? Why do You tolerate wrongdoing? Destruction and violence are before me. Strife is ongoing, and conflict abounds.Lamentations 5:20...
“The universe is huge and old and rare things happen all the time, including life.” –Lawrence Krauss “There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on accor...
Not especially so, but nor were they living in enlightened peace for the thousands of years before the Euros showed up! The primary difference is that violence was never (as far as I know) committed “in nomine” – “in the name of” Buddhism. This is because there is no “God”,...
This phrase is often used in the Old Testament to denote a personal and covenantal relationship with God, highlighting Joshua's role as a leader who seeks divine guidance. It echoes the language of Moses, showing continuity in leadership and faith. "why did You ever bring this people across...
Ten thousand years from now, Christians will be shaking their heads in astonishment that Christians in our day could have sat silently while this vast and depraved engine of violence could have been allowed to continue, justified by the fear of a home burglary or "terrorist" (the burglar learn...
They believe that the Saxon, Celt, and so on are partakers of the racial privileges and immunities explicitly ‘promised’ to Israel in the Old Testament. This racial conceit makes a philosophical alliance between London and the Jews of Amsterdam. What I see is a union of the human ...
4 For there are no struggles at their death.Their bodies are sturdy.5 They do not have the trouble common to people.They are not plagued along with the rest of mankind.6 Therefore pride is their necklace.They wear violence like clothing.7 Their eyes bulge out of their fat.[c]The scheme...
So, in the Old Testament we see some of what we are to do. We are to put leaven out of our hoouseholds--there is to be none. This obviously has to be done prior to the start of the Days of Unleavened Bread in order to obey the command in Deuteronomy 16:4. ...
There was something deeply ugly buried in the Obama campaign: all that hope and change was really just a code for violence, thuggish and totalitarian; young white women attacked and mutilated on the street. There’s no place in the new society for people who have the wrong kind of opinion...
I am not a Christian, and consider the entire Bible to be a thoroughly negative book for Nature appreciation, but without question, the Old Testament is filled with cruelty and intolerance and mass violence, and I would expect those that take it to heart would have little respect for Nature...