re: Article on Carrie Prejean Boller is extremely biased. I would say propaganda.

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So, she had a JOOtard crashout and it didn't go over well? Oh noz!

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Why is it a death sentence to criticize Israel in America? Why cant we have civil conversations about Israel without calls to be silenced and antisemitism to be tossed around by creeps like Mark Levin

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Israel has a right to exist.
Peru has a right to exist.
I don’t have to work a third job to pay for Peru’s right to exist.

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LOL.

We've given Israel (in inflation adjusted dollars) roughly $300 Billion in cumulative aid over all time...since 1947. If we divided that by all current taxpayers—not all taxpayers since 1947, just all taxpayers now, each taxpayer would be responsible for about $1800, or $150 a month.

I don't know how to figure out how much it represented to all taxpayers since 1947 since the population grew steadily since that starting point, but I'm going to guess it would be less than $75 a year per taxpayer in adjusted dollars. Around $7 a month per taxpayer.

Why don't y'all ever look at a pie chart of the budget or check the numbers before posting something asinine like that? Are you really that clueless about how much money we spend on stuff (if you are, you shouldn't be making an argument that hinges on taxes in the first place) or are you disingenuous, or what?

Should be 0 for all. We are like 30 trillion in debt. Stop this madness.

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Why is it a death sentence to criticize Israel in America?

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It isn't. Three of the top right wing podcasters criticize Israel daily.

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Thats a good question. Congress are the ones that distribute this money. Remember congress controls the purse strings. I mean they tell us that 10 times a day everyday. Maybe it just has to do with when congress sets the payouts. We look at everything by the year in totality but it actually operates by the month.

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That's certainly bullshite.

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It certainly is not.

Are you familiar with the similarities between their scriptures? Their dietary restrictions? Their codified laws? Their ritualistic practices, for example, circumcision?

Arabic Jews are descended from Isaac. Arabic Muslims are descended from Ishmael. They were brothers, in case you don't know.

Judaism has much more in common with Islam than it does with Christianity.

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Judaism has much more in common with Islam than it does with Christianity.

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True.

They both deny the deity of Christ.

Judaism just rejects him outright while Islam claims he’s a prophet or something but denies the trinity.

2 sides of the same coin, really.

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The poli board criticizes the U.S. by the minute if not the second.

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Can you perhaps be more specific on that, please? Who or which “cross section” are you referring to, and what’s the nature of the criticism to which you refer? I’m sure you’re thinking of something in particular, but not necessarily communicating it effectively at the moment.

Fair enough, but I guess I just perceived your post to be directed outward, towards others. Yet at the same time I also perceive you yourself to be somewhat heavily critical “of this country” as well, yes even particularly in the realm of those areas you have listed there. Specifically directing the lions share at the leader of the country itself. Which I understand we are to welcome, said criticism, and I agree. But it’s still ultimately criticism of the country nonetheless.

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Are you familiar with the similarities between their scriptures?

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I'm familiar with the fact that the Jewish scriptures contain over 300 prophecies foretelling the coming of the Christ. How many do you know of in the Quran? I understand the timeline, so how many references to Jesus AS THE CHRIST do you find in the Quran?

Also familiar with the fact that Jesus quoted the Jewish scriptures about 180 times, zero for the Quran.

I'm also familiar with the fact that the Law that Jesus said He came to fulfill was the Jewish law, not the Islamic Law.

And finally, I'm familiar with the fact that the Dead Sea Scrolls proved that the copies of Jewish scriptures were accurate and consistent over thousands of years. The history of the accuracy of the Quran is sketchy at best, and the Bible (including the Old Testament) is fundamentally different than the Quran in that it provides it's own chronology and context, while the Quran does not. The Jewish texts provide all the ceremonial and legal laws the Jews were supposed to follow—the Quran does not. In order to actually practice Islam you can't do it with just the Quran, you have to have the Hadith (Islam's oral teachings, not written down) and the Sira (various biographical accounts of Muhammed).

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They were brothers, in case you don't know.

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Pretty sure everyone knows that they were HALF brothers. It's also irrelevant.

Judaism was the religious foundation for Christianity; Jesus was a Jew and He came to fulfill Jewish law and prophecy. All the disciples were Jews. Most of the apostles were Jews.

Yes, the Jewish people rejected Jesus as the Messiah. So did the Muslims. So I guess in that regard they are similar.

But they have big differences as well. There's a reason that the Jewish scriptures are also the Old Testament of the Bible...because the OT and NT represent a continuous account.

The Quran does not.

You realize that Jesus' death was entirely modeled around Jewish ceremony, right? His entry into Jerusalem, being inspected by the Priests and religious leaders at the Temple the week before His death, communion at the Last Supper, which was based entirely on the traditional Jewish blessing on the Passover meal, the death itself taking place on Passover, Jesus staying up all night before, praying, as was the custom of the Jewish High Priest in the first century the night before Passover, the fulfillment of the prophecy that none of His bones would be broken like the Passover Lamb, etc. He acted as not only the sacrifice, but also the High Priest presiding over it in exact accordance with Jewish scripture.

Whether the Jews like it or not, their scriptures are Act One of Christianity.

Muhammed could copy Jewish customs and accoutrements (and he did...I don't dispute that. It was a deliberate ploy to sell his own religion...that's a well known historical fact), but he couldn't copy the scriptural basis that Jesus fulfilled.

In every way that counts, Judaism is inextricably linked to Christ, and Islam is not.