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Betty Bower's Super PAC: Join the Party

Published on Mar 26, 2012 by MrsBettyBowers

America's Best Christian, Mrs. Betty Bowers, releases a Super PAC ad for the GOP. They're welcome!

This video was written and produced by Andrew Bradley for BettyBowers.Com. Deven Green provides narration.

Join Betty on Facebook:

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Al Jazeera English: War and peace in Quran and Bible

Riz Khan, Riz Khan Last Modified: 26 Mar 2010 14:33 GMT


One of the widest perceptions in the Western world, especially after the attacks of September 11, is that Islam's holy book, the Quran, promotes conflict, violence and bloodshed.

Muslims argue that many of the verses of the Quran – such as the one asking the Prophet Muhammad and his followers to "slay them [unbelievers] wherever ye find them, and drive them out of the places whence they drove you out" – are taken out of context.

Muslim scholars say that the scriptures have been intentionally misused by Muslims and non-Muslims alike to advance political agendas.

Critics say that the texts promote extremism, and that Islam has left a trail of blood across world history.

Recently, Philip Jenkins, one of the world's leading religion scholars, conducted a study comparing the texts of the Quran and the Bible, and found that "the Bible contains far more verses praising or urging bloodshed than does the Quran."

Riz speaks with Philip Jenkins and Shaker Elsayed, the imam of Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Centre in the US and former secretary general of the Muslim American Society.

This episode of Riz Khan aired from Wednesday, December 29, 2010.

If you had the good fortune of taking history of the Western world courses in college, you will know that most of the violence that plagued Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire was religious based. 

Essentially powerful religions have no tolerance for each other. This is one of the reasons that Rightardia casts a skeptical eye toward religion.

Think World War 2 was different? Have you forgotten that the Nazis painted Teutonic crosses on their warplanes and tanks? The US invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan also had religious underpinnings.

Source: Al Jazeera

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Newsy.com: Vatican says Israel cannot use the Bible to justify its settlements in Palestine

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Israel is denying that the legal basis is not biblical based because they aren't really "the Chosen people."

Here is the legal basis for the  state of Israel according to Palestine Facts.org:

But there is a legal background to the State of Israel. The Declaration of Israel's Independence, issued at Tel Aviv on May 14, 1948, recites the legal history that led to the founding of Israel as an internationally recognised sovereign state:

• The land of Israel was the birthplace of the Jewish people. Here their spiritual, religious and national identity was formed. Here they achieved independence and created a culture of national and universal significance. Here they wrote and gave the Bible to the world.
  
• In the year 1897 the First Zionist Congress, inspired by Theodor Herzl's vision of the Jewish State, proclaimed the right of the Jewish people to national revival in their own country.
  
• This right was acknowledged by the Balfour Declaration of November 2, 1917, and re-affirmed by the Mandate of the League of Nations, which gave explicit international recognition to the historic connection of the Jewish people with Palestine and their right to reconstitute their National Home.
  
• On November 29, 1947, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted a Resolution for the establishment of an independent Jewish State in Palestine, and called upon the inhabitants of the country to take such steps as may be necessary on their part to put the plan into effect. This recognition by the United Nations of the right of the Jewish people to establish their independent State may not be revoked. It is, moreover, the self-evident right of the Jewish people to be a nation, as all other nations, in its own sovereign State.
  
• ACCORDINGLY, WE, the members of the National Council, representing the Jewish people in Palestine and the Zionist movement of the world, met together in solemn assembly today, the day of the termination of the British mandate for Palestine, by virtue of the natural and historic right of the Jewish and of the Resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations, HEREBY PROCLAIM the establishment of the Jewish State in Palestine, to be called ISRAEL. 

The first item is, in fact, religion based. No one really knows where the
tribe of Israel origanlly came from. One theory is from Iraq. The second and third bullets are irrelevant because the Zionist congress and the Balfour Declaration in the UK were unilateral declarations.

The UN resolution, United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181
November 29, 1947 did not establish of an independent Jewish State in Palestine. The UN agreed to study the issue in the resolution. 


Israel exists because it was able to defeat Arab armies in the middle east. It is as simple as that. There is no clear legal basis for the existence of Israle. 


This is one time that we agree with the Vatican. there is no biblical basis for the existence of Israel. Even if there were such basis, the history of the region does not always dovetail well with the Bible. 


source: http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_independence_israel_legal.php


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Politics Daily: Another Bone-Headed Baptist Moment

by Christine Wicker

I wanted to ignore it, and held out for more than a month. I didn't talk about it. I didn't think about it. I went to Texas, attended church with my relatives twice, talked with my Pentecostal cousin about nationalized health care, talked to my aunts about God's will, heard lots of Bible quoting, even did some myself, and never once considered bringing it up.

Whew! Over the hump, I thought. Never again to be riled by Southern Baptist idiocy, I'm free at last.

A little while later Richard Land, head of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, apologized for having compared national health care to "what the Nazis did."

I congratulated myself. I'd refused to be baited. I'd spared myself upset and had been wise to do so. Everyone makes mistakes. I've known Land a long time. Been bawled out by him a time or two. Had some good discussions. Land's a smart guy. He got carried away and he's really sorry, I told myself.

I was happy that Richard Land had been big enough to say he was sorry. Proud of myself for resisting my usual pique.

And then he did it again. He snuck off and started saying that . . . stuff.

What I think or don't think doesn't mean diddly squat to Richard Land or any other Southern Baptist of his ilk. And what he thinks ought not to mean any more to me.

But Lord help me, how can such a smart man be so absurd? This is a guy who went to Princeton . He's no rube.

So, okay, educated fools are nothing new, and people who will say anything to keep power are nothing new either. But he's saying things he knows to be complete fabrications. He's doing it in the name of Jesus. And he's trying to lead people who really do want to be like Jesus in a devilish direction.

Nothing new there either. I just wish I didn't get so riled up about it.

The Baptist Center for Ethics Web site, EthicsDaily.com, which helped disseminate Land's comments, only gave him more publicity. And in my piddly way, I'm doing the same. But something good has come out of it. A coalition of Christians, Muslims and Jews has come up with a good idea. Maybe it will cool my jets.

Noting several recent examples of political partisans trying to tar their opponents by casting them as Nazi-like, these religious leaders have called for a moratorium on all Nazi comparisons. Nobody can enforce such a ban, and I hope no one would want to.

But the rest of us ought to just dismiss all such comparisons as demagoguery – no matter who uses them. No matter what they're saying, we ought to shrug and turn away. Whether they're liberals or conservatives, such rabble-rousing is vicious. It demeans the memory of those who died in the Holocaust. It trivializes real horrors in the pursuit of political gain.

Not only are Land's comments right wing rhetoric, they are factually incorrect. Germany was one of the first countries to have a national health care ystem. Otto Von Bismarck established the German health care system in the 1880's. By the way, Bismarck was a conservative. 


See the complete article at http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/11/02/another-bone-headed-baptist-moment/

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