Thursday, March 31, 2005
Jerusalem 5
I always thought that evangelical Zionism was like something out of a sci-fi novel. Two races, the Kristiani and the Ebreu, who bear a basic distrust of each other and think that their god is going to wipe the other out at the end of days. The two, however, end up uniting in a common goal, to oppress and demonize another race, the Esalam.
Well, now it looks like they've all united against a new race: the Omeau. Let's take a look at those soundbites, shall we?
"They are creating a deep and terrible sorrow that is unbearable," Shlomo Amar, Israel's Sephardic chief rabbi, said yesterday at a news conference in Jerusalem attended by Israel's two chief rabbis, the patriarchs of the Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox and Armenian churches, and three senior Muslim prayer leaders. "It hurts all of the religions. We are all against it."
So, I assume Buddhism and Unitarianism just decided to send a telegram saying they were with you?
Abdel Aziz Bukhari, a Sufi sheik, added: "We can't permit anybody to come and make the Holy City dirty. This is very ugly and very nasty to have these people come to Jerusalem."
Well, I see you've done a very good job with that. Except for that gay guy in the Knesset, of course...
One day later, however, Pope John Paul II appeared on a balcony over St. Peter's Square and delivered a message expressing his "bitterness" that the gay festival had gone forward, calling it an "offense to the Christian values of a city that is so dear to the hearts of Catholics across the world."
...says the man who has Bernard Law working for him, safe from the Boston DA.
At the news conference in Jerusalem, he called the festival "the spiritual rape of the Holy City." He said, "This is not the homo land, this is the Holy Land."
Let's see; a gay pride parade counts as "spiritual rape", but plans by other evangelicals to blow up the Dome of the Rock does not. Also, I'd listen to a guy who doesn't refer to me by a prejorative.
I'm a Christian myself, and I like Jews and Muslims. But when I look at the extremists in each group, I see people who Isaac Asimov could have had a field day with.
Well, now it looks like they've all united against a new race: the Omeau. Let's take a look at those soundbites, shall we?
"They are creating a deep and terrible sorrow that is unbearable," Shlomo Amar, Israel's Sephardic chief rabbi, said yesterday at a news conference in Jerusalem attended by Israel's two chief rabbis, the patriarchs of the Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox and Armenian churches, and three senior Muslim prayer leaders. "It hurts all of the religions. We are all against it."
So, I assume Buddhism and Unitarianism just decided to send a telegram saying they were with you?
Abdel Aziz Bukhari, a Sufi sheik, added: "We can't permit anybody to come and make the Holy City dirty. This is very ugly and very nasty to have these people come to Jerusalem."
Well, I see you've done a very good job with that. Except for that gay guy in the Knesset, of course...
One day later, however, Pope John Paul II appeared on a balcony over St. Peter's Square and delivered a message expressing his "bitterness" that the gay festival had gone forward, calling it an "offense to the Christian values of a city that is so dear to the hearts of Catholics across the world."
...says the man who has Bernard Law working for him, safe from the Boston DA.
At the news conference in Jerusalem, he called the festival "the spiritual rape of the Holy City." He said, "This is not the homo land, this is the Holy Land."
Let's see; a gay pride parade counts as "spiritual rape", but plans by other evangelicals to blow up the Dome of the Rock does not. Also, I'd listen to a guy who doesn't refer to me by a prejorative.
I'm a Christian myself, and I like Jews and Muslims. But when I look at the extremists in each group, I see people who Isaac Asimov could have had a field day with.
