Really the world would be better, I guess so maybe we would of continued to be thrown in the Lion's den or be-headed..Get off your high horse.....
Your just a simple human being....
You act like some radical foreigner that's why I said what I did to you...
I am a radical. I have this radical idea that Jews have a right to be Jews in a Jewish state. That makes me a radical Zionist.
My dear, I am not an ostrich. Since we are anonymous here you do not know who you are talking to, so I will forgive you that. I just don't think you know quite how well educated or informed I am.
It is terribly sad to see someone so closed minded as you are. Here is a real clue: if you open yourself up to other ideas and other people's beliefs it will not weaken your faith. On the contrary, it might well strengthen it. In addition, if you don't denigrate other people's religious views and keep pounding yours again and again you would be much more effective in communicating Christian ideas. Right now all you do is alienate people and convince them you are nutty.
Let's take this out of the religious arena for a moment. Let's go to the more familiar political arena. I am a conservative. When I lived in the States I was a registered Republican. I worked in a number of Republican campaigns and I wrote position papers on foreign policy, expecially the Middle East, for two senatorial candidates. (No, they didn't win, but I was in hostile Democratic country.) In order to do that effectively I had to read the Arab press, read what our opposition had to say, to know what the liberal viewpoint du jour was, and so on...
Reading Arab viewpoints didn't weaken my support of Israel. Reading the New York Times or watching CNN when it went on the air didn't make me more liberal. It made me understand all viewpoints and gave me the ability to engage in meaningful debate.
When I first moved to Israel I supported Labor (which is like the Democratic party in the U.S.) largely because I supported the peace process. I strong supported Ehud Barak even though my economic views were more in line with Binyamin Netanyahu's views. I did, however, choose to look and listen to what Likud (kind of like the Republican party) had to say. When the peace process failed, and when I realized that it had never really existed, I could easily defend my position to support Ariel Sharon and Likud. I may have even brought a couple of votes along with me.
My core values, though, never changed.
Nobody is suggesting that you change your values or your beliefs. What I have said, in nice words, in angry words, and in everything in between, is that I have my own beliefs as do all the Jewish people. Don't hit us over the head with yours. That will NEVER get us to accept Jesus. Never!
Perhaps if you understood why that is so you'd offend less and be able to talk about your beliefs in a more effective way.