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• Noam Chomsky Says Christian Right Supports Israel Because They Are Anti-Semitic and Want the Jewish Population to Be Exterminated by Armageddon

  August 10, 2011 at 11:05am

  So let’s see if I understand this. According to Noam Chomsky, the only reason Christians support Israel is because they hate Jews. And Christians support Israel because they want Israel to be wiped out by Armageddon. Now, as I further understand, Noam Chomsky is a supporter of Palestine. So again, if I understand him correctly, the best way to be in favor of Israel is to be against Israel. Because, you see, if there were no Israel, there would (as a natural consequence) be no Israel to be wiped out by Armageddon in the first place. So by getting rid of Israel, you’re really ensuring its continued existence.

  I think I’ve understood Chomsky correctly, but then again, I’m not the professor. 8-)

• John Kerry: Media Has ‘Responsibility’ to ‘Not Give Equal Time’ to Tea Party

  August 5, 2011 at 11:24am

  I’m a little baffled here. John Kerry accuses the Tea Party of attempting to “cut the baby in half.” Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t it the abortionists who are doing that?

• Beck: Restoring Courage Will Remain at Southern Excavation Site of Temple Mount

  July 26, 2011 at 10:19pm

  In reply to CETMEONFIRE.

  @Uncle Tom
  It looks like my original comment you were responding to got deleted. Perhaps someone somewhere didn’t like a particular word, even though I disincluded the two middle letters, and even though I was only using it to draw an analogy between disincluding the middle letter in “God” because it‘s too sacred and disincluding the middle letters from that other word because it’s too profane. Who knows? Whatever. At any rate, because it did get deleted I couldn’t re-read it to find out whether or not I implied that “Elohim” and “Adonai” were interchangeable with “YHWH.” That certainly wasn’t my meaning, though–only that however many words there are for “God” in biblical Hebrew was beside the point I was trying to get at. I agree that “G_d” is a matter of personal preference–in fact, I actually think that was what I was trying to say in the first place, merely explaining the logic behind the preference. It is worth mentioning, though, that some people in fact do apply the same rationale to the name Jesus: They use an X, after the Greek letter Chi (which is the first letter in the Greek word for Christ). We can agree to disagree. This is not a personal preference I share (except when it comes to vulgar four-letter words, which apparently doesn’t matter on this forum anyway, even if I did leave out a couple letters and only brought it up in the first place for the sake of illustrating a point). 8-)

• Beck: Restoring Courage Will Remain at Southern Excavation Site of Temple Mount

  July 26, 2011 at 6:02pm

  In reply to CETMEONFIRE.

  Emmess rather strangely writes: “Not only that but the “g” should be lower case. Perversely, spelling the word with a hyphen has made it a name of the god of Israel. With the lower case “g” it is a generic spelling for any deity.”

  Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t CetMeonFire specifically refer to “The G_d of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob”? Seems like the “god of Israel” is the one he (or she?) intended to refer to in the first place. Since Beck’s rally is in Israel, I’m not quite certain how appropriate it is to ask for the blessing of “any deity,“ as if it were somehow pertinent to address our prayers to ”whichever one of you up there happens to care, it doesn‘t matter to me if it’s Yahweh, Baal, Aphrodite, or Zarathustra.”

• Beck: Restoring Courage Will Remain at Southern Excavation Site of Temple Mount

  July 26, 2011 at 4:35pm

  In reply to CETMEONFIRE.

  P.S. …
  It may also be worth mentioning the frequent practice of capitalizing pronoun references to God or to Christ, even though the word “he” in any other situation is all lower-case. The same sensibility is at play here. It has nothing to do with what language you happen to be writing in.

• Beck: Restoring Courage Will Remain at Southern Excavation Site of Temple Mount

  July 26, 2011 at 4:22pm

  In reply to CETMEONFIRE.

  @Uncle Tom
  Just because devout Jews speak and write in English doesn’t mean that they somehow should no longer consider the name of God too holy to spell out in its entirety. The distinction is not between Hebrew and English, the distinction is between Jewish sensibility and your own. But you don’t have to go back too far in history to find writers in the English language quite frequently writing “G_d“ or ”G–“ in lieu of ”God” (which Charles Dickens does frequently, just for example). Either that, or they would write it in all caps to differentiate between a reference to the sacred and a reference to the secular (which Harriet Beecher Stowe does in _Uncle Tom’s Cabin_, irony of ironies). Again, the distinction is not between English and some other language; here, the distinction is between a traditional sensibility toward the name of God and a contemporary or more casual one. If you want to jabber on about subjects on which you are ignorant, that’s all well and good, but occasionally you’re going to run into someone who actually knows what he is talking about.

• Beck: Restoring Courage Will Remain at Southern Excavation Site of Temple Mount

  July 26, 2011 at 1:54pm

  In reply to CETMEONFIRE.

  Uh … The Old Testament never spells out the complete name of God, since it is considered far too sacred, and only uses the consonants YHWH. Look up the word “tetragrammaton” sometime. FYI.

• Olbermann Reacts to Allen West: ‘You’re Making a Jack*ss Out of Yourself’

  July 20, 2011 at 3:32pm

  Keith Olbermann is probably the last person in the world who ought to be lecturing others about making a jackass of themselves.

• Popular Campus Crusade for Christ to Drop ‘Crusade’ and ‘Christ’ from Name

  July 20, 2011 at 3:22pm

  In reply to Bonnieblue2A.

  @Ranubis
  I’d look at Acts 4:12, which says that there is no other name but Christ’s whereby we are saved. And in John 14:14, Jesus names as a condition for prayer that our requests be made in His name. Nowhere in the Bible do I find it mentioned that it’s okay to close our prayers by saying, “We ask this in the name of That Guy.”

• Popular Campus Crusade for Christ to Drop ‘Crusade’ and ‘Christ’ from Name

  July 20, 2011 at 3:18pm

  In reply to Bonnieblue2A.

  Didn’t Jesus say, “Blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me”? (Matt. 11:6, KJV).