I’m a Christian.
My paternal great grandparents were
Polish Jews.
I do bible study and church every week.
I fail to understand the worship of an
Earthly place.
Without the Temple there is no Jewish path to redemption, and hardly a Jewish religion at all. It would be like trying to claim Christianity without Jesus.
Jesus never went to Mecca
This will be labeled by the left as racist hate speech in 3..2..1..
No, it isn't.
There is abundant archaeological evidence that there has been an Israelite presence in Jerusalem for more than 3000 years.
The Quran says Muhammad was from Bakka, not Mecca, but Quran apologists try to explained this away with claims of differences in provincial spelling. How could Allah have made such a blunder?
The Quran states that the people Muhammad spoke to in Bakka when proselytizing for his new religion were farmers, but in Muhammad's time Mecca was a barren place with no agriculture.
Muslims face in the direction of the "Qiblah" when they pray. The Qiblah is marked in mosques by the position of the apse. In mosques built as late as a century after the death of Muhammad, the apse is always facing to the east, with no regard for the direction to Mecca, but in a fashion reminiscent of the Christians.
Which very much makes it look like they hadn't yet figured out that Bakka was Mecca.
In fact the few historians with the cajones to speak the truth will tell you Mecca was chosen to be the Bakka of the Quran by later Arab rulers who were using Islam as a tool for social control of their people.