Posted on 05/28/2023 10:17:02 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
JERUSALEM, ISRAEL – The Jews that founded the modern State of Israel were overwhelmingly secular.
Most Jews who founded the country, in fact, were socialists, atheists and agnostics.
They had abandoned faith in the God of the Hebrew Scriptures in Western Europe, or had lived in the communist bloc countries of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe and were prevented from believing in the God of Israel and having access to the Bible.
Most religious Jews in Europe believed it was forbidden for sinful men and women to rebuild the State of Israel.
They believed only the Messiah could do that.
Thus, there were very few religious Jews streaming into the Holy Land in the early- and mid-20th century.
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The pre-Christian Roman Empire was rife with homosexuality, beastiality, pedophilia, abortion, and infanticide by exposure.
They did not value children much.
Jews and Christians saw children as a gift from G-d. They valued them immensely. In the Old Testament, G-d is adamant about child sacrifice, calling it an abomination.
Christians and Jews simply had more children, took better care of them, and often adopted children pagan Romans abandoned to die by exposure.
There were other factors of course.
Moses mother hid him in the bulrushes.
Yes, long before the Romans.
The Egyptian Pharoah was having all the Hebrew boy babies killed. So, a different time and place, yet reminiscent.
The God of Abraham, Elijah, and Jesus has always abhorred the sacrifice of children.
People do not realize this was a revolutionary doctrine. They think every person in the world always loved and cared for their children, and sacrificed *for* their children.
This is not close to being correct. Many, many pagan tribes and religions have no problem with killing infants or young children, even their own, if the children are inconvenient.
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