Comments on: An eye for an eye, and forgiveness https://thenewneo.com/2023/10/30/an-eye-for-an-eye-and-forgiveness/ A blog about political change, among other things Wed, 01 Nov 2023 04:32:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2023/10/30/an-eye-for-an-eye-and-forgiveness/#comment-2706060 Wed, 01 Nov 2023 04:32:01 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=129995#comment-2706060 Heh! Making the Christians the “Realist” camp?
Cute!
(Christianity trying to save Jews from themselves once again…or, actually, from the get-go!)

But why not go one step further and say “…Roman propagandists trying to subvert that [pesky] little country”…(or “pesky little religion”)…
Which is, of course, a bit of a stretch…but if so—though it’s probably just a bit too “post hoc” to be the case—it sure came back to bite Rome in the backside… But then I’m always open to wry irony…AKA “wryony”?

(Probably time to reread “Master and Margarita” one more time…. sigh…)

]]> By: R2L https://thenewneo.com/2023/10/30/an-eye-for-an-eye-and-forgiveness/#comment-2706050 Wed, 01 Nov 2023 03:18:49 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=129995#comment-2706050 Barry Meislin on October 31, 2023 at 9:13 am
“… and those who penned the Gospels” might very well have been Roman propagandists trying to keep the Jews from agitating and revolting again, after the 66-70 AD conquest/destruction of the 2nd Temple. It seems to have worked for many of the Gentiles, but not so much for the Jews, who still revolted again (one last time) via the Bar Kokhba revolt (132-136 AD).
See: James S Valliant & Warren Fahy, Creating Christ: How Roman Emperors Invented Christianity [2018] https://www.amazon.com/Creating-Christ-Emperors-Invented-Christianity/dp/1949914615/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

]]> By: Faith2014 https://thenewneo.com/2023/10/30/an-eye-for-an-eye-and-forgiveness/#comment-2706020 Wed, 01 Nov 2023 00:02:10 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=129995#comment-2706020 I often think ir would be significant if we could get the poorer parts of the inner cities to embrace an eye for an eye. What an improvement that would be since violence would definitely drop.

]]> By: M J R https://thenewneo.com/2023/10/30/an-eye-for-an-eye-and-forgiveness/#comment-2705939 Tue, 31 Oct 2023 17:42:41 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=129995#comment-2705939 Bill K (9:18 am), agreed in the main; there may be devils in the details, but those are not explicit [nor should they be, lest you pen a voluminous tome of observations (which I would then be obligated to read [smile])].

“America down”, definitely, although it saddens and pains me to acknowledge it.

“Israel increasingly ‘a flaming torch among sheaves'”, a work in progress, to be certain. It remains to be seen.

I fancy myself to be Bible-literate (which is where this conversation began), but that does not mean that I necessarily buy into various Biblical prophecies concerning the end-times, including those featuring USA and Israel as key actors.

Thank you for responding!

]]> By: om https://thenewneo.com/2023/10/30/an-eye-for-an-eye-and-forgiveness/#comment-2705908 Tue, 31 Oct 2023 14:15:24 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=129995#comment-2705908 are everywhere, hiding in plain sight. Always up to evil .....]]> White Devils™ are everywhere, hiding in plain sight. Always up to evil …..

]]> By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2023/10/30/an-eye-for-an-eye-and-forgiveness/#comment-2705907 Tue, 31 Oct 2023 14:11:47 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=129995#comment-2705907 …As “Spiked!” decides to try its hand at “Socio-Political Humour”….
“We must defend the right to hate”—
https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/10/30/we-must-defend-the-right-to-hate/

I believe the argument—ingenious in its own way, in fact practically irrefutable—is that since “Silence is Violence”; AND “Hamas-Supporting Protestors Are Most Definitely NOT Silent”; ERGO “Hamas-Supporting Protestors are Non-Violent”.

(Well, it makes sense to me….kinda….)

]]> By: Barry Howard Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2023/10/30/an-eye-for-an-eye-and-forgiveness/#comment-2705903 Tue, 31 Oct 2023 13:59:00 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=129995#comment-2705903 Well, yes, you have a point; though I have no doubt that she would insist that she’s ENTITLED to RECEIVE reparations and object very strongly to having to actually pay them.
(Though, given her salary and life style, what are the chances that she hasn’t really thought this thang through entirely….? Unless she comes to the perfectly understandable conclusion that her muggers are tools of all those White Devils out there….)

]]> By: om https://thenewneo.com/2023/10/30/an-eye-for-an-eye-and-forgiveness/#comment-2705899 Tue, 31 Oct 2023 13:50:15 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=129995#comment-2705899 Barry Meislin:

“Robbed?” Certainly not! She participated in an act of righteous reparations!

All oppressors must participate and give back to the community! 🙂

]]> By: Oligonicella https://thenewneo.com/2023/10/30/an-eye-for-an-eye-and-forgiveness/#comment-2705898 Tue, 31 Oct 2023 13:41:16 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=129995#comment-2705898 Barry Meislin:
(Which brings up the issue of dog maulings: for the life of me I cannot understand why there are so many dog maulings still “allowed” to occur in certain Western countries…)

You’ll have to elaborate on that “allowed”. i don’t think that word is accurately applied.

]]> By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2023/10/30/an-eye-for-an-eye-and-forgiveness/#comment-2705897 Tue, 31 Oct 2023 13:37:00 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=129995#comment-2705897 Actually, one might look at the Pharisees as more open to interpretation and nuance (WRT the law) than the more elitist Saducees (named after the High Priest Tzadok, or Zadok) whose interpretations were more strict, i.e., less mutable (or as the saying goes, “written in stone”…).

As for not finding any mention of this in Scripture, I don’t doubt it.
(Though the reason may well be that one is SUPPOSED to view the Pharisees as da bad guys…)
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And for those atheists, agnostics and or fence-sitters out there, here’s Actual Proof(TM) of the existence of the Almighty…or Possible Actual Proof, thereof….
“Soros-Backed Activist District Attorney Gets Robbed – Becomes Victim Of Her Own System”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/soros-backed-activist-district-attorney-gets-robbed-becomes-victim-her-own-system
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WRT Biden’s spirituality (and I have no doubt that he believes he IS a spiritual critter, at least when he can remember to do so), I’ve always felt that he and Pelosi should get together and found a new church…
Question is, though, what to call it…

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