Posted on 12/31/2008 7:42:06 AM PST by Larousse2
“...In my opinion, it can surely be no coincidence that the most humane place in all of the Middle East is surrounded by barbarians who wish to extinguish it in the exact degree to which they systematically abuse their own children.
As a matter of fact, a couple of days ago a reader sent me this link to a piece in the Claremont Review on child sacrifice. In it, the author recalls Golda Meir’s famous remark about how “peace with the Palestinians will be possible when they love their own children more than they hate the Israelis. In saying so, she touched upon a fundamental difference between pagan and biblical religion: the presence or absence of child sacrifice.... Many ancient peoples believed in sacrificing a child to an angry god like Moloch or Baal in order to avert misfortune. Today, thousands of Muslims believe that sacrificing their children as ‘suicide’ bombers in a crowd of people pleases their God Allah. More, Islamic terrorists invite the death of children by placing their military and political headquarters in residential areas which they know their enemies will strike.”
Folks, is this not an obvious, if horrid—and therefore denied—truth about mankind in general and the Islamic world in particular? The author concludes his piece on a pessimistic note, speculating that “if the current intellectuals’ project of undermining the Biblical traditions of the Western world continues unabated..., rather than embracing some new, ‘enlightened’ philosophy which previous generations were supposedly too dull to conceive or practice, likely we will wind up with ancient paganism instead.”
This is exactly what I have stated in the past. Naive secularists believe that if we can only eliminate religion, then we will end up with a scientific and rational worldview. Not so. Eliminate religion—specifically, Judeo-Christian religion—and pagan magic rushes in to fill the breach. If your three eyes are opened, you only see it everywhere.
As the writer puts it, “Paganism has the advantage of being older than Christianity, the faith which arouses most of the hatred of the pseudo-intellectuals of our time.... Much of Islam today seems to have more in common with the pagan religions which preceded its founding in the seventh century. No clearer case of child sacrifice exists now than radical Islam’s cult of suicide bombings...” Who is that voice telling Muslims to murder children—both their own and others’? Could it be the same voice that told Abraham to sacrifice Isaac? No: could it possibly not be the same voice?
As a psychologist, I see the story of Abraham and Isaac as a primordial, archetypal tale of how barbarous pagans stopped listening to their psychotic, child-hating “god,” and instead took a right turn in history, discovered the God of Love, and became the Jews that we know and love. That little crack of light that opened up in antiquity runs in a straight line to us. Another line leads to contemporary Islam and its allies among the international Left. It is so obvious, and yet people do not see. This occasionally causes me real despair, as if the foundations of the West are being eroded in plain sight, on one side by Islamic do-badders, on the other side by leftist do-gooders. ...” [snip]
Continued:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2156342/posts?page=4#4
“am i crazy?” ~ remaxagent
Just confused. :) See post 21
Thank you for the link. I have bookmarked it.
Anyone think we can recruit him for POTUS?
I mean, given our future White House resident is potentially from Kenya... anything goes.
Right?
Don’t forget,,, they actually broke up a plot by terrorists to bomb some malls here in Columbus, Ohio back in 2002
Unfortunately he seems to have a tin ear when it comes to his own domestic politics. It appears that he has badly mismanaged his election campaign, in almost exactly the same manner as John McCain, and allowed Livni, Barak and the Kadimites to outmaneuver him. I will be very surprised if he wins the election.
Not yet, but don't make any plans for Saturday...
Thank you so much for posting!
I love it!
Bibi for POTUS!
Yes. Thank you for reminding me!
Please, just be awake, alert, and watchful.
We can hope and pray that Bib wins the election.
His arguments for action are sound and his sense of historical significance is right on. If we don't side with Israel on this issue we are dooming ourselves.
The UN has been reneging on its commitment to a member country which was created by the UN in 1948. This is a crime even worse than what HAMAS is doing to Israel of late.
A great deal of that happened due to timing and Israeli law.
Of course, but as our own recent election shows, sometimes the "hope" that wins is the hope of our enemies.
For a good analysis and dissection of how Bibi and the Israeli "conservatives" are bungling things check out the last few days of commentary on Caroline Glick's blog: www.carolineglick.com
JPost Article on Hundreds of Arabs Protest Israel in U.S. Click Here
Some of it was due to those factors, but most of the errors were Bibi's. Check out the link in post #35.
If as he says there is no moral equivalence, then they should take all of Gaza and by force of law remove every Muslim from the land.
This is considered inhumane, draconian, oppressive. But if they had done it decades ago, there would be no problem now.
Remove the Palestinians. Escort their women and children from the premises. If the Palestinians love their families more than they hate Jews, they will flourish elsewhere.
And quit worrying about world opinion. The world respects those who assert themselves, it celebrates winners, despises the meek and blames the victim.
i prolly am very confused was just trying to find a silver lining for the children that are being killed. i am a christian so my beliefs are muslims burn in hell. but these young innocent children that are being killed will end up going to heaven but if they grow up and become suicide bobmers or muslims they will burn in hell, but since there life is cut short they will make it to heaven. does this make sense or am i just stupid?
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