Posted by
Mike on Tuesday, January 20, 2009 3:54:56 PM
Modern day Israel is a fulfillment of Biblical prophesy concerning the return of the Jews to the promised land. These returning Jews from among the gentiles are primarily the descendants of converts to Judaism in Europe and Asia who had mixed with the local Europeans, and thus their fair appearance. After the destruction of the Temple in the year 70, the Jews of Palestine also mixed with the local inhabitants, the Canaanites, Philistines who were maritime settlers, Greeks and Romans in Palestine, producing what we now call the Palestinian people. Palestine was then conquered by the Arab Muslims and changed hands with the Crusaders of Europe, and then conquered by the Turks before coming under the British Mandate. Modern day Palestinians are a mix of all of these elements genetically. Others migrated directly from Palestine to western Europe, and then returned to Israel as well.
During all of these years, there has been a struggle between Christ and anti-Christ. The Hebrew people outside of Judea of course had nothing at all to do with Christ's death. In recent history, anti-Christ took the form of Naziism under Hitler and Communism under Stalin. Jews and Christians both suffered.
Religious freedom is essential in today's world. People have a right to believe in a transcendent Deity and to express their beliefs and to act on their beliefs. It is wrong to punish the Christian majority by disallowing the display of Christian symbols in the public square as an expression of popular devotion to God. Jewish symbols may also be appropriate in the public square as much of our American heritage derives from our Hebraic Christian and Jewish roots. Generally, symbols of other belief systems, whether Moslem, pagan, or other, are inappropriate in our public square which belongs to all of the people, the vast majority of whom are Christians who do not share the belief sentiments of these minorities, if indeed that is what they actually believe.
Energy policy should be based on what is best for America. America needs coal, gas and oil. There are plenty of reserves of these natural resources. It is wrong to deny these resources to the majority of Christian American families, using protection of wildlife as a justification, but in reality to keep America dependent on foreign energy sources so as to blackmail America into defending the state of Israel regardless of what they do to their neighbors.