Open Thread

I’ve been busy with errands today. What’d I miss?

13 Comments

MikeInOhio on May 27, 2008 at 3:36 pm

Apparently, not much.

Thread has been open for 68 minutes and not a single comment.

Must be some serious holiday hangovers out there today.

BooMan on May 27, 2008 at 3:43 pm

not too much interesting to write about.
- Real History Lisa on May 27, 2008 at 4:11 pm
  
  How about your favorite Sydney Pollack film? My list is here:
  
  http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/052708a.html

dada on May 27, 2008 at 3:51 pm

turning the killing fields green:

Environmentally Friendly Bombs Planned

does that count?

instills a lot of hope in the future, eh.

MikeInOhio on May 27, 2008 at 4:06 pm

Right up there with “humane capital punishment”

Paradoxes abound.

We humans are such strange creatures.
Drew J Jones on May 27, 2008 at 5:57 pm

My favorite oxymoron, though:

Awful good jumbo shrimp.

An oxymoron^2.

Brendan Skwire on May 27, 2008 at 4:33 pm

I had fun with Joe Lieberman’s office today

dada on May 27, 2008 at 4:39 pm

har!…yes you did!

good one.
Second Nature on May 27, 2008 at 5:12 pm

Niiiice…
Drew J Jones on May 27, 2008 at 5:53 pm

Hilarious.
colinski on May 27, 2008 at 7:24 pm

Although I’ve certainly spent enough time looking at the issue of the Christian Right’s allegiance to Israel, I don’t recall the theological nuances off-hand.

The point — at least for some Dispensationalists — is that the Jews return to Israel and a cataclysm are merely milestones to the rapture. Jews don’t fare well in the rapture, although beliefs vary, so Jews/Israelis are merely a tool for the Christian right. Jews have to give up their religious beliefs and accept Jesus as their savior or go to hell, and some people believe they go to hell anyways (because it’s already too late for them). However you look at it, it’s a temporary pact based on self-interest between the Christian right and Jews (a temporal one) rather than an ‘eternal’ one.

Someone please check me on this.

My point is simply that it’s an odd religious alliance based more on military support for Israel than religious beliefs.

Would you want to align with someone who thinks you’re going to hell because of your religious beliefs? Strange bedfellows, indeed.

Hagee quote —

“It was the disobedience and rebellion of the Jews, God’s chosen people, to their covenantal responsibility to serve only the one true God, Jehovah, that gave rise to the opposition and persecution that they experienced beginning in Canaan and continuing to this very day… Their own rebellion had birthed the seed of antisemitism that would arise and bring destruction to them for centuries to come…. it rises from the judgment of God upon his rebellious chosen people.[46]

— Wiki. article

Notice Jews are the problem (not Rome), and they become fodder for the rapture. The point is, for some, to bring on a cataclysm so ‘we’ can all rapture. A war involving Israel is good! Armageddon is good!
- Oscar In Dallas on May 27, 2008 at 8:49 pm
  
  Would you want to align with someone who thinks you’re going to hell because of your religious beliefs?
  
  If I believed them to be wrong then I wouldn’t have a problem with using them – political alliances rarely have anything to do with looking out for the best interests of the other party. It is the point where people’s interests intersect where political alliances are created.
  
  In this instance they are each other’s useful idiot…