http://www.giveshare.org/israel/key-to-northwest-european-origins.pdf
2007-10-28 06:42:36 · 16 answers · asked by Kojak 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It doesn't. However this article was writte Raymond F. McNairn and he is now a Evangalist for the Church of God of the 21st Century. Or at least I think that this is the name of it. I used to attend services years ago at the Worldwide Church of God and I know that it split and two or more other groups formed as a result. The names have changed but the message is pretty much the same. This article was submitted at the Ambassador College which is a college owned by the above church. The ''history'' of Israel in this thesis and the views of this church are opinion only. I know that they believe it but not everyone does.
Try to get your information from sources other than the church you attend. You may change your mind about a lot of things. I did
2007-10-28 07:00:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
First, you don't actually think I'm going to read that before answering your "question" do you? A quick glance shows it to be the usual fundamentalist drivel. The Bible is a lot of things, but it is not historically, scientifically or archeologically accurate.
Second, you have made an unsupported accusation. I am an atheist and I am not "riled" by the history of Israel.
Modern Israel was formed out of zionist yearnings and accelerated by the horror of the Holocaust in WW2. I do support the concept of Jews having their own nation. I don't support the fantasy that the mythical Yaweh deeded the land to them in perpetuity.
The modern country of Israel was not born without a struggle, and the actions of the Jewish "freedom fighters" are indistinguishable from the actions of those we label "terrorists" today. Israel is guilty of many injustices and atrocities itself, there are no innocents in the land of Palestine.
Jews have a dubious claim to that stretch of desert, which has been occupied for over 2000 years by the unfortunates we now refer to as the Palestinians. One also wonders at the "gift" given the chosen people, a desolate strip of unforgiving desert, when there are so many other parts of the world more congenial to life. Yahweh was a cruel prick.
At best, the ancient Israelites were a dominant tribe in the area for a few 100 years, so I think the Palestinians have a better claim of squatters rights, and deserve their own nation within Israel as well. Clearly none of the Arab nations want them in their country.
2007-10-28 06:56:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't.
Better question
Why do many Christians put modern Israel on such a pedastool when it is run by a government not far behind Iran in the atrocities it commits to its people and damage it causes to the outside world.
A large portion of the illegal black market drug trade comes out of Israel, with the government largely working behind the seems to aid and capitalize off this business, not to stop it.
The treatment of Palestinian captives over the years, many of which women and children, has been disgusting. Two wrongs do not make a right.
Israel is not a good country....
2007-10-28 06:48:55 · answer #3 · answered by Jett 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I've never heard that from an atheist.
I don't know about 1963 (or whenever that was written), but no serious scholarship today relies on generic encyclopedias - not even Britannica. And introductions full of underlines for emphasis do not seem particularly professional, either; nor did it inspire me to go more than a few pages in.
2007-10-28 06:49:08 · answer #4 · answered by kent_shakespear 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
obviously it doesn't rile all atheists. Many people of various religions find that sympthy only for Israel to be misplaced.
2007-10-28 06:54:04 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I rather like the history of Israel. Do you have something particular in mind?
I'm a saint, an atheist, and a worker; and what is the point of your question (and no I didn't look at your link)?
2007-10-28 06:46:31 · answer #6 · answered by 2.71828182845904 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well, I have always wondered why the US and UK provide so much aid to Israel when they are relatively wealthy compared to other countries, they seem to be grabbing land against international treaties, and they seem to be a theocracy.
These things bother me (and they should bother you) regardless of religion or lack thereof.
2007-10-28 06:57:09 · answer #7 · answered by HarryTikos 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't group us together. I'm an atheist, and I support the existence of Israel.
2007-10-28 06:45:59 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
do you honestly think anybody would even read one page of this? way to long. sum it up and get back to us. israels history doesnt bother me one bit.
2007-10-28 06:56:11 · answer #9 · answered by god_of_the_accursed 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No need to group. I don't care which way or another, just that people need to stop fighting over land. Why can't people live together?
2007-10-28 06:47:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋