I heard on the tube this morning that there is a Muslim hotel [I missed the rest of the story...I think the hotel was in the Middle East somewhere] that put up a HUGE Christmas tree. 'Bet you won't find any Christmas tree in Israhell....the Israhell police would tear it down.
that is exactly right. Israel is extremely intolerant of christmas trees or any christmas display. If a private home has a christmas tree in it, they will take it down if they find out about it.
and in the muslim world they like Christmas. They like the celebration, the customs, the gift-giving. They encourage christmas shopping at shopping malls in muslim nations. and they're actually even giving gifts to each other at christmas some of them.
this indicates that many muslims have no hostility to christians, and that the Israelis are hostile.
But Christmas isn't even very christian IMHO. Where is it spoken in the christian bible that we should celebrate it and engage in its customs? There is the verse in the old testament that specifically ridicules the christmas tree custom.
Jeremiah 10:2 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
Jeremiah 10:3 For the customs of the people [are] vain: for [one] cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
Jeremiah 10:4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
It is interesting to see that the Federal Reserve's regulations which they came up with are more important than the US Constitution on this matter. The constitution says that congress shall make no law with respect to religion. yet congress created the federal reserve and the federal reserve can stop religious expression.
Israel is extremely intolerant of christmas trees or any christmas display. If a private home has a christmas tree in it, they will take it down if they find out about it.
and in the muslim world they like Christmas. They like the celebration, the customs, the gift-giving. They encourage christmas shopping at shopping malls in muslim nations. and they're actually even giving gifts to each other at christmas some of them.
this indicates that many muslims have no hostility to christians, and that the Israelis are hostile.
Christians co-existed with Muslims peaceably under Saddam Hussein. The night before we started bombing them back to the third world, I saw [on the tube] people praying in a church right next door to the palace. Now it's not safe for any Christians remaining after America's ZOG took over.
But Christmas isn't even very christian IMHO. Where is it spoken in the christian bible that we should celebrate it and engage in its customs?
I know, I know....however, look at Brother Nathanael. He was born Jewish, but because of Christmas, he came to know Christ. He talks about it on his website.
There is the verse in the old testament that specifically ridicules the christmas tree custom.
Jeremiah 10:2 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
Jeremiah 10:3 For the customs of the people [are] vain: for [one] cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
Jeremiah 10:4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.......
....This isn't about Christmas trees; it's about the wooden idols the Israelites built and carried around and worshipped....
Jeremiah 10:5 They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.
This is another example of them projecting their foibles onto us.
not only did christians routinely get along with muslims in the arab countries prior to Israel, but also jews routinely got along with muslims in the arab countries prior to Israel. Baghdad prior to 1950 was one third jewish. there were jews all over the arab world who moved to Israel after Israel set off bombs in jewish neighborhoods in arab countries to scare them into Israel.
There is one author from Iraq who wrote a book documenting how the Iraq police were convinced that Israel was behind those bombings in the late 1940's & early 1950's. And Egyptian police also caught an Israeli in the act of setting a bomb in a jewish neighborhood. The Egyptian police forced Israel to admit that the guy was Mossad prior to releasing him.