Israel is upset yet again

So the UN recently passed a resolution for Israel to stop further settlements. Needless to say, Israel is upset, again.  Let's go back in time a few years...

let's start with Ancient Egyptians move to the Canaanites, Israelites, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Ancient Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, the Arab Rashidun, Umayyad, Abbasid and Fatimid caliphates, Crusaders, Ayyubids, Mamluks, Mongols, Ottomans, the British, and now the modern Israelis and Palestinians.

Although the peoples of Israel and Palestine have been in these lands for a long time, their statehood is actually pretty recent in the history of that particular area of the Fertile Crescent.   Both parties make claim to the land. There is plenty of written history on the matter, but what is interesting is that one is based on reality and the other is based on - you decide.

Genesis 15:18

On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates

Exodus 3:8 

And I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

Ezekiel 20:6 
On that day I swore to them that I would bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most glorious of all lands.


And this from Numbers 13

verse - 27 This is what they reported to Moses: “We went to the land where you sent us. It really is a land flowing with milk and honey. Here’s some of its fruit. 28 But the people who live there are strong, and the cities have walls and are very large. We even saw the descendants of Anak there. 29 The Amalekites live in the Negev. The Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites live in the mountain region. And the Canaanites live along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea and all along the Jordan River.”

verse - 30 Caleb told the people to be quiet and listen to Moses. Caleb said, “Let’s go now and take possession of the land. We should be more than able to conquer it.”

So...

Even though there were people already living in this land, God basically says tough shit, and his "chosen" people can take whatever they need. This occupation is henceforth known as "Zionism".  And the rest is history.  So the Israelis are upset that they cannot keep taking what a man made deity has promised them. 

Shame really.

Christian Foundations of Marriage

Read this shit if you wish.  If you don't know where these passages are from they're not from the Islamic Book of Fables (IBoF), nope it's from the Christian Book of Fables (CBoF).

Perhaps this misogyny was acceptable back then (I doubt it though), but I would like to think that as a species we have PROGRESSED past this ancient mentality. 

Enjoy...

1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV

Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. ...

Ephesians 5:22-33 ESV 

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, ...

There are far more gems in the CBoF but this is just a couple to wet your whistle.

Peace out man,

FMF

The State of Things

It's been some time since I've posted anything.  But I thought that today was as good as any other day to report on how I see things in the world today.

The United Kingdom has (in a mostly uninformed way) decided to leave the European Union.  The "Leave" side is basically saying that by being in the EU that the UK is losing its UKness - its autonomy and its sovereignty.  The UK doesn't have a reputation of playing nice in the sandbox - they want to own the sandbox.

After days of terrible markets and scary politics, the future of the UK is probably going to be pretty shaky.

The US is on its way to a federal election.  The Republican front runner seems to be Donald Trump and the Democratic nominee is Hillary Clinton.  Donald Trump's platform is basically making America great again - I'm not really sure what he's referring to.  When was America ever "great"?

Hillary Clinton suffers from Ivory Tower Syndrome.  She's way too far up the political wahzoo to actually know or care about the average american taxpayer.   I'm not saying the she doesn't know her shit - she's probably one of the best political minds in the US, but she's not really that attractive to the general (mostly uninformed) electorate.

Most of the world sees the US as a joke at the moment.  I've never seen a US President so disrespected before the way President Obama has.  The references made to his daughters and the first Lady are shameful - I realize that the americans value free speech but that shit was just fucking awful.

Presently in the US it seems that Donald Trump may be getting his wish of making America great again.  Racial tensions are high between the black community and non-black community over a series of black deaths at the hands of police.  Shit is really getting out of control just like the 60's.  Maybe that's when America was great - beating on black people.

The Arab world is one big shit storm with attacks from the Islamic State (Daesh) and other fringe groups that want recognition from these sick fucks.  I realize that not all of the fighters are religiously motivated, if they were they would all be one truly stupid bunch - for if their god is soooooo powerful why can he not eradicate evil from the earth on his own?  Why does he need puny humans to do his work? Because he's not that powerful - so why would you believe in this god's power when he clearly has NONE.

So how do we explain to these truly ignorant parasites that every person on this planet is entitled to peaceful self determination?  How can we educate these gullible individuals that their ideals are those of criminals against humanity?  

Peace - let's work on it