tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3129176969483931917.post3201088760926281881..comments2023-03-27T15:05:54.887-05:00Comments on Disevangelists: Memo from the Grand Atheist Conspiracy CouncilFizlowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11416466217590061369noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3129176969483931917.post-777064852579238092009-02-02T04:53:00.000-06:002009-02-02T04:53:00.000-06:00Hey Zee & Philo,Philo's reference to Israe...Hey Zee & Philo,<BR/><BR/>Philo's reference to Israel has to do with the justifying ideologies behind the unconditional support that Israel has from America and behind Israel's treatment of its largest, first-nation minority: the Arab Palestinians. <BR/><BR/>Israel is the largest recipient of U.S. foreign aid, and it has enjoyed this status since 1976. In per capita terms, direct U.S. foreign assistance amounts to a subsidy of $500.00 per year per Israeli. Egypt, the second largest benefactor of direct U.S. foreign aid, in comparison, receives a per capita of only $20.00 per year per Egyptian. Israel is no longer the fledgling, vulnerable democracy it once was; it is capable of holding its own, and most of the tensions it experiences with its neighbors have to do with Israel's ongoing violations of UN and ICJ human rights violations.<BR/><BR/>The largest demographic to lobby for and to support Israel is the American Evangelical Christian. Evangelical eschatologies often veil Christians to the human rights violations in Israel-Palestine. Instead of advocating the oppressed as the biblical prophets and Jesus apparently called for, the Evangelical is often the morally heinous advocate for the suppression of first-nation Palestinians. And they do this because their desire for end-of-world apocalypse blinds them to here-and-now moral imperatives. This is another example of how dogmatic commitments can blind devotees. In this case the dogma is grounded in the Bible's land allotments to historical Israel.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3129176969483931917.post-76850077205982808352009-02-02T00:19:00.000-06:002009-02-02T00:19:00.000-06:00Perhaps Scriptulicious would like to expound on th...Perhaps Scriptulicious would like to expound on the Israel-Easter Bunny connection. He follows that more closely than I.Fizlowskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11416466217590061369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3129176969483931917.post-49395277854530852922009-02-01T23:01:00.000-06:002009-02-01T23:01:00.000-06:00You lost me on what the Easter Bunny would have to...You lost me on what the Easter Bunny would have to do with Israel... althought I half recall something about the Easter Bunny named Peter Rabbit that I saw on South Park one time that might relate. You do make a very good point. The problem is a lot of people are making money off the Easter Bunny even people who don't believe in the Easter Bunny. Thats a tough one to do anything against.Zeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04359591881376157621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3129176969483931917.post-74738901531334765542009-02-01T17:55:00.000-06:002009-02-01T17:55:00.000-06:00Zee: I totally agree, I wouldn't blog against the ...Zee: I totally agree, I wouldn't blog against the Easter Bunny either. Unless Easter Bunny believers started preaching that non-believers were the root of all evil, or that Bunny-belief needed to be taught in public schools alongside science, or that the Easter Bunny's name should be printed on American Currency or added to the pledge of allegiance, or that Bunny-believing institutions shouldn't pay taxes, or that my tax dollars should go to support warlike Israel because it would help bring about some long hoped-for apocalypse. No, it would take quite a lot before I'd blog against the Easter Bunny.Fizlowskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11416466217590061369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3129176969483931917.post-70629614245265957472009-02-01T17:08:00.000-06:002009-02-01T17:08:00.000-06:00Christians attack non-Christians because they are ...Christians attack non-Christians because they are ignorant. I honestly don't see the point in it. I don't believe in the Easter Bunny but I don't try to convince others to not believe in the Easter Bunny. I also have no intentions of starting a blog trying to explain how the beliefs of those who believe in the Easter Bunny are false and created by man not by the Easter Bunny.Zeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04359591881376157621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3129176969483931917.post-91071636269464758472009-02-01T11:21:00.000-06:002009-02-01T11:21:00.000-06:00Philosobot,this is an excellent post, I will not b...Philosobot,<BR/>this is an excellent post, I will not be able to access the internet or comment further until later tonight.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com