Evidence for God from Science

Hey, thanks Byblos! Your avatar is kind of cool, by the way. I wanted to ask you what you thought was the best way to approach discussing the topic of the Holy Land. I think it's an important topic because the native Christians are the descendants of the first Christians. I would like to be respect...

Was a message deleted yesterday? Dear Moderator, Hello. I believe I posted here yesterday, trying to answer KMR's question about whether we thought it would be best for the Holy Land to have a democracy or a government based on religious law. Perhaps I am confused and didn't post anything. If I pos...

Dear Gman, You have brought me to reconsider my previous statement that "I dislike war", and to qualify it. As a general principle, I dislike war, but perhaps it is good in some cases? General William Sherman said "War is Hell". Being in a war where you kill other people, and ha...

Dear Gman, Hello! I care about people's human rights. And I think that just because there is a conflict doesn't mean that an entire people should be mistreated. In our own American history we have a serious problem of inflicting "collective punishment": there was a long-term conflict betw...

Dear Rick D, I think you raised a relevant question when you asked: So it is still curious for me to explain why there was such a huge unbalance of forces, even though the Arab countries were bigger and their militaries had more people in total. Israel was alot stronger militarily. Or, maybe...it's...

Dear Danny M, You commented: their way is not the way of peace and concession; if it were I’d actually support the idea as positive for Israel. Imagine for a moment that a parent has two children who she loves. She said that each child should get half of their bedroom. But the two children are figh...

Dear RickD and Gman, I prefer peaceful resolutions to conflicts and dislike war. Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. ~Ludwig von Mises Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it. ~William Penn These...

Dear Murray, Your words show sensitivity when you say: You must remember these people live their entire lives in refugee tent camps, i do not believe that accepting that is the christian thing to do. Here, you see millions of people living in refugee camps, dispossessed of their homes, banned from ...

Dear Gman, I believe it's important for people to be able to live in their homes, regardless of their ethnic background. So I also sympathize with the many Jewish emigrants, who, as you pointed out, came from Arab countries to Israel, often escaping discrimination. Perhaps an analogy from our own e...

Dear DannyM, As a general principle, I think every person should be able to have full political rights as a citizen of a country. And where a country is the ancestral homeland of a more than one significant population, it should be dedicated to all the large populations in it. So I believe the mill...

Dear Gman, I sympathize with your words "There should be no two state solution...", but don't completely agree. My model would be countries with more than one ethnicity, like America, Canada, Switzerland, or Russia which are dedicated to all the ethnicities and religions whose homes they ...

RickD wrote:Rakovsky,
RGeeb hasn't posted on this site since March 2005.

Thanks for the heads-up.

Dear Dazed and Confused, I have alot of concern for the Holy Land's well-being and wholesomeness, because it is special for Christianity- the birthplace of our Christian faith, and the homeland of the Palestinian Christian descendants of the first Christians. The Holy Land should be a place of peac...

Dear RGeeB, Hello! In this thread you raise the important theme of the Church being the same as Israel in terms of Christian thinking and theology. I think that you unknowlingly put your poll question in the form of a kind of "Catch 22" when you write: Israel has lost its privileged posit...

Dear Rick D, My hope is that by openly discussing the problems with the conflict, we will be better able to understand it. In doing so, we may come to look at things in ways we hadn't before. In your message above, it seems to me your main question is what the Israeli State could have done in a sit...