The policies embraced by the Biden administration not only blithely ignore the realities in the Arab world, but the realities of an extremist Israeli state that, with Congress bought and paid for by the Israel lobby, couldn’t care less what the Biden White House dreams up.
Israel has no intention of creating a viable Palestinian state.
Its goal is the ethnic cleansing of the 2.3 million Palestinians from Gaza and the annexation of Gaza by Israel. And when Israel is done with Gaza, it will turn on the West Bank, where Israeli raids now occur on an almost nightly basis and where thousands have been arrested and detained without charge since Oct. 7.
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Most monotheists insist upon creating their Creator’s nature in their own fallible and often angry image — a fire-and-brimstone, wrathful-condemnation Creator requiring pain-filled penance/payment for humankind’s sinful thus corrupted behavior.
Furthermore, Jesus was/is meant to show to people that there really was/is hope for the many — especially for young people living in today’s physical, mental and spiritual turmoil — seeing hopelessness in a fire-and-brimstone, wrathful-condemnation Creator requiring pain-filled penance/payment for humankind’s sinful thus corrupted behavior. That definitely includes his death and resurrection, of course.
Understandably, many of them will likely find inconvenient, if not plainly annoying, trying to reconcile the conspicuous inconsistency in the fundamental nature of the New Testament’s Jesus with the wrathful, vengeful and even jealous nature of the Old Testament’s Creator.
Although he was/is no pushover, Christ’s fundamental nature and teachings were/are notably different from the unambiguously vengeful God of Judaism and Islam (not to mention the Biblical Old Testament’s Almighty). Followers of Islam and Judaism generally believe, however, that Jesus did exist but was not a divine being, albeit Islam teaches that Jesus was a prophet:
After all, how could any Divine Being place itself down to the level of humans — and even lower, by some other standards? How could any divine being most profoundly wash his disciples’ feet as did Jesus, the act clearly revealing that he took corporeal form to serve? How could God not be a physical conqueror — far less allow himself to be publicly stripped naked, severely beaten and murdered in such a belittling manner?
For me, all of that makes Jesus even greater, not less divine.
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