Psalms 4:4 Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.
Ecclesiastes 3:1
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven
One thing I've learned: on the spectrum of hateful to kind, and everything therein, people are religious, atheist, agnostic. I hope you find healing on your path.
"concrete action." Try that when you file for unemployment. "I've made the statement I must have a job now."
I think we should get into it. Often. But not right now, I have something to do.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herzl%27s_Mauschel_and_Zionist_antisemitism
I recently was involved in a similar discussion and said maybe he was elitist and antisemitism was a cover. Palestinian people are genetically Semites though.
Zionism didn't exist during Constantine's time. The father of Zionism, Herzl, was an antisemitic atheist. But Balfour signed the Agreement and Truman recognized Israel.
Yes to meet political ends. If there was one man who was literal Jesus, rather than legendary or an amalgamation of men, then he was crucified for being a threat to a rather comfortable occupation of Israel by the Romans, on trumped up religious charges. Same as chattel slaves and abolitionists. The modern global West is using both methods, Europe and the UK by criminalizing condemnation of illegal occupation and genocide, US with that coupled with discrimination against Christians. But only certain ones.
Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote about it in The Scarlet Letter, and Young Goodman Brown. Not that his ideas were perfect, but were rather advanced for his time.
All the English translations are wrong, because Greeks and Romans translated wrong, sometimes by honest mistake, often for political reasons, whether institutional or governmental, often both in tandem.
https://islam.stackexchange.com/questions/25360/what-is-the-difference-between-islamist-and-muslim
Yeman and Iran beg to differ.
Well I'm confused. I thought you said you're not a believer!