Subnostr

Oh goodness, where to begin... You're making me work, man.

1. You're making assumptions about me. I've told you nothing about myself or why I responded to your note. I have nuanced opinions and I don't join teams. I'm not on your team and I'm not on the team you think is your enemy.

2. You lied AGAIN. You said you muted me. I'm not upset that you didn't - Im happy for another chance to appeal to your rational faculties. But lying is not something followers of Christ do - and a follower of Christ is not necessarily a Christian.

3. I hate having to number things. This is your fault.

4. I have "read" the relevant sections of the Talmud - in quotes because I actually listened to it. If you had done the same, you would know that it says its okay to rape a girl or boy if they are haven't reached puberty, and they give reasons, but who cares about reasons after that.

5. I don't believe Mohammed (pbuh) even existed, despite my having read the Quran and had several friendly conversations with Muslims about the topic.S

6. A lack of laws against pedophilia in some Muslim countries does not mean pedophilia is acceptable in that particular culture.

7. Many separate cultures exist within the Muslim countries. You can't judge people in, say, Malaysia based on the hillbilly practices of Afghans. That would be even more ignorant than a Brit calling a Texan a "yank," because they assume NYC represents all of America. That's annoying.

8. At what point, in your opinion, does defending yourself turn into terrorism? There must be a line, right? Where is it? Define it, please.

9. You can't be a Christian and a Zionist at the same time. Sorry if this hurts, but its true. It probably means some of your family, who taught you to be a Christian, are actually not followers of Christ. Why? Because Zionism is a layered cake of lies. The first lie is defining "Israel" as a physical place. It is not. I'm not saying the place didn't exist - but the Jewish Diaspora never lost Israel by being outside of the geographical place. Israel's strongest critics are actually Jews who refuse to profane Israel by participating in the state's crimes.

God bless you and may he bring you closer to him, and I thank God that I may have been instrumental, maybe, for this purpose.

Ancap Revolt 10mo ago

You are muted, I didn’t lie. Other people reply to you and I get notifications for it, and then I check what you’re saying.

The section you are referring to does not permit raping a prepubescent child. It says that it is not intercourse in the halakhic sense, that it is more akin to physical assault. Just because it gives a lesser punishment for raping a child than it does for raping a woman does not mean that it permits pedophilia. Your confirmation bias has led you to misinterpret what is said. If you had done any research on the topic you would know that it does not permit raping children, it is just that there is a lesser penalty since their hymen can supposedly regrow. Again, this is not in the Tanakh, it’s in the Talmud, which is rabbinical interpretation of the Tanakh. This interpretation is ancient, and yet it still clearly does not PERMIT child rape.

Further, it clearly states that a girl under 12 most likely does not understand her vows. It states that a girl is not a grown woman until 18.

Muhammad (hellfire and eternal torture upon him) absolutely existed. Have you read any Hadiths? Aisha clearly states that she was 6 when she was betrothed to him and 9 when they consummated the marriage. Clearly, if it is acceptable for their prophet, it is acceptable in Islam. Islam provides no definition of womanhood, while the Talmud is very clear in its definitions. The Old Testament is also quite clear on it. Islam does not forbid child marriage and it explicitly permits raping married women if they are captives of war.

I do judge all Muslims the same, because they are Muslims. No person who dies a Muslim or Jew will have eternal life.

In what world could October 7th be construed as self defense? In what world is attacking a music festival self defense? In what world is a group — that has the stated goal of the extermination of Judaism — attacking civilian Jews self defense? How in the world can you construe any attack ever made by Muslims as self defense? Do you even know how Muslims ended up in the holy land?

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Comte de Sats Germain 10mo ago

As a follower of Christ, it is my opinion that Islam is in "the holy land" because God was displeased with his church being co-opted by the Roman state and used to justify oppression and idolatry. Fighting oppression and idolatry are the two goals of Islam. Dig into the "early church" - in quotes because its neither early nor the church - and you will find that it was tyrannical.

At the same time that Islam appeared, the statist church was busy with iconoclasm, and one side won by murdering the other side. Coincidence? It doesn't look like a coincidence to me.

It looks to me like Islam is the survivors, and they organized into a religion specifically to contest the hypocritical false church, and they realized they needed a foundation myth to fully separate from the Roman church. Mohammed predicted that Constantinople would fall to Islam - why? Because that's where the idolators were, along with the oppressive political power that had already murdered so many people, many of whom were Christians, for 300 years.

In that context, is Islam's mandate to "fight oppression wherever you find it" difficult to understand?

Don't get the impression that I'm praising Islam - I'm not. I'm just fitting the pieces together.

Now look at the creation of the state of Israel. Its mostly theft. Yes, some very wealthy settlers bought their land before the creation of the state, but that's not the majority of that land. Why should they be peaceful? Make that argument, in light of what's been stolen. What would you do if your home was stolen, or your parents' home was, and your someone in your family was killed for protesting it? Don't miss the point !! I'm not saying they're pure white lambs... What would you do?

Have you ever met a Palestinian? I have. I thought all the stuff you're saying now, when I met her. She told me about how her family keeps the key to their home that was stolen by Israelis. She told me this, in person. She was not lying.

You telling people its okay to murder people because they're Muslims and some Muslims somewhere were pesos, so all Muslims are bad - that's ridiculous. That's psychopathic. You think I'm "evil"? Dude.