Can Religious Christians be Good Americans?

[SIZE="3"]Exposing the Big Lie About Muslims and Christians[/SIZE]

[SIZE="2"]by Israel Shamir[/SIZE]

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Arab Christian women, parading with the cross of Jesus Christ, protest the Israeli killings of Arab civilians in the occupied territories, Oct. 19, 2000. Photographs like the one above are never reproduced in the western media because such images are highly embarrassing to those who want to equate the Arabs exclusively with Islam. For many American Judeo-"Christians," Muslims are the chief demons in the world today. Protestant fundamentalists travel to the "Holy Land" where they embrace the modern practitioners of the religion of the Pharisees, while ignoring or even castigating their Christian-Arab brethren in occupied Palestine. The favored image of Arab females disseminated in the corporate media is of pistol-brandishing Muslim militants. The fact that some Arabs are Christians and that these Christians are being slaughtered by Israelis, is not an issue for most American "Christians" or the media, hence the suppression of the photo. -Michael Hoffman.


..If these Christian Zionists care for Christ, not only for Zion, let them learn what Jews and Moslems feel towards Christ. Rami Rozen expressed the Jewish tradition in a long feature in a major Israeli newspaper Haaretz: "Jews feel towards Jesus today what they felt in 4 th century or in the Middle Ages: ..."For centuries, Jews concealed from Christians their hate to(ward) Jesus, and this tradition continues even now."

"He (Jesus) is revolting and repulsive", said an important modern religious Jewish thinker. Rozen writes that this "repulsion passed from the observant Jews to the general Israeli public".

On Christmas Eve, according to a report in the Jerusalem local paper, Kol Ha-Ir, Hasidic Jews customarily do not read holy books, as it could save Jesus from eternal punishment [the Talmud teaches that Jesus boils in hell]). This custom was dying out, but Hasids of Chabad (Lubavitch), the fervent nationalists, brought it back to life. I still remember old Jews spitting while passing by a church, and cursing the dead, while passing by a Christian cemetery. Last year in Jerusalem, a Jew decided to refresh the tradition. He spat at the Holy Cross, carried in the procession along the city. Police saved him from further trouble, but the court fined him $50, despite his claim that he just fulfilled his religious duty.

....Even today, Jews in Israel refer to Jesus by the demeaning word Yeshu (instead of Yeshua), meaning "Perish his name". There is an ongoing argument, whether His name was turned into a swear word, or the other way around. In a similar pun, the New Testament Gospel is called "Avon Gilaion", the booklet of Sin. These are the endearing feelings of the friends of Christian Zionists towards Christ.

What about Moslems? The Moslems venerate Christ. He is called "The Word of God", "Logos", Messiah, the Prophet and is considered "a Messenger of God", along with Abraham, Moses and Muhammad. Many chapters of the Kor'an tell the story of Christ, his virgin birth and his persecution by Jews. His saintly mother is admired, and the Immaculate Conception is one of the tenets of Islam. The name of Christ glorifies the golden edifice of Haram al-Sharif. According to the Moslem faith, it was there that the founder of Islam met Jesus, and they prayed together. The Hadith, the Moslem tradition, says in the name of the prophet, "We do not forbid you to believe in Christ, we order you to."

Moslems identify their prophet with Paracletes, the Helper (Jn 14:16) whose coming was predicted by Jesus. They venerate places associated with the life of Jesus: the place of Ascension, the Tomb of Lazarus, the Holy Sepulchre are adjacent to a mosque and perfectly accessible by Christians.

While Moslems do not consider Jesus God, they proclaim him as the Messiah, the Anointed one, the Paradise Dweller. This religious idea, familiar to Nestorians and other early churches, but rejected by mainstream Christianity, opened the gates for those Jews, who could not part with the notion of strict monotheism. That is why many Palestinian Jews and Christians of the 7th century accepted Islam and became Palestinian Moslems. They remained in their villages, they did not depart for Poland or England, they did not learn Yiddish, they did not study the Talmud, but they continued to shepherd their flocks and plant almond trees, they remained faithful to their land and to the great idea of the fraternity of men.


...The majority of the Christian Zionists are simple misled souls, people of good intentions but little knowledge. They think they "support Jews," but they promote the Christ-hating spirit among the Jews. It was not in vain that a hero of the Zionist book, "Exodus" by Leon Uris, kept a poster in his room saying "We crucified Christ". It was not in vain that an Israeli soldier on the roadblock of Bethlehem told me yesterday, "We starve the beasts", referring to the native Christians of the city of Nativity.

It was not in vain that the Gospel was burned on a stake in Israel, while anti-Gospel literature is widely spread; that new immigrant Jews embracing Christianity are persecuted and deported; that every preacher of the Christian faith in Israel can be sent to jail according to new anti-Christian laws; that Israeli archaeologists erase the Christian holy sites and memories off the face of the Holy Land.

[SIZE="3"]US Army Suicides Highest in 26 Years [/SIZE]

By PAULINE JELINEK, Associated Press Writer
Army suicides highest in 26 years - Yahoo! News


WASHINGTON - Army soldiers committed suicide last year at the highest rate in 26 years, and more than a quarter did so while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a new military report.


The report, obtained by The Associated Press ahead of its scheduled release Thursday, found there were 99 confirmed suicides among active duty soldiers during 2006, up from 88 the previous year and the highest number since the 102 suicides in 1991 at the time of the Persian Gulf War.

The suicide rate for the Army has fluctuated over the past 26 years, from last year's high of 17.3 per 100,000 to a low of 9.1 per 100,000 in 2001.

Last year, "Iraq was the most common deployment location for both (suicides) and attempts," the report said.

The 99 suicides included 28 soldiers deployed to the two wars and 71 who weren't. About twice as many women serving in Iraq and Afghanistan committed suicide as did women not sent to war, the report said.

Preliminary numbers for the first half of this year indicate the number of suicides could decline across the service in 2007 but increase among troops serving in the wars, officials said.

The increases for 2006 came as Army officials worked to set up a number of new and stronger programs for providing mental health care to a force strained by the longer-than-expected war in Iraq and the global counterterrorism war entering its sixth year.

Failed personal relationships, legal and financial problems and the stress of their jobs were factors motivating the soldiers to commit suicide, according to the report.

[SIZE="3"]To All Islam-haters, You Must Hear This ...[/SIZE]

Without any introduction, please hear this Ex Islam-hater Christian Woman talking on PalTalk about how she was deceived and conned all that time: click here to listen to her talking: YouTube - Ex islam-Hater converts to islam on Paltalk

Propaganda, propaganda, propaganda.

[SIZE="3"]"AMERICAN FASCISTS" The Christian Right vs USA ...Video[/SIZE]

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This is an interview on CBC's "THE HOUR" with author Chris Hedges, the autor of "AMERICAN FASCISTS": The Christian Right vs USA . It obviously goes into a lot more detail than the clip from the Colbert Report.
Very scary, very prescient, check this out.
Hedges examines the growing right-wing fundamentalist movement in America and argues that it resembles the early fascist, cult-like movements of Germany and Italy in the 1920's and 30's.