A community of 86,000 about a half-hour’s drive from Jerusalem, Beit Shemesh has a growing ultra-Orthodox population. The town has become a cauldron of tension in recent days, with crowds of black-cloaked men assaulting television crews and facing off with police, pelting them with rocks and eggs.
These dumbasses actually believe that women shouldn't walk on the same side of the street as men, among a plethora of other ridiculous nonsense that they espouse.
Then, in this morning's paper...
BETHLEHEM, Israel - The annual cleaning of one of Christianity's holiest churches deteriorated into a brawl between rival clergy Wednesday, as dozens of monks feuded over sacred space at the Church of the Nativity. The monks were tidying up the church ahead of Orthodox Christmas celebrations in early January, following celebrations by Western Christians on Dec. 25. The fight erupted between monks along the border of their respective areas. Some shouted and hurled brooms.
Jesus H. Christ! I don't need to go into the equally ridiculous shenanigans of Islam to make this point. All three of these religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, were given birth by the Jews. Each of them claim Abraham as their father. They each worship the same deity. Each of them have caused more trouble on this earth and been a bigger pain in the ass than all other religions combined.
The Jews created this mess, they need to clean it up.
God, protect me from your followers.
Fuck 'em
ReplyDeleteMonks giving beat downs and Clergy tossing eggs. Damn this planet is interesting. Say what you will, but without religion, Life would be damn boring.
ReplyDeleteHalle-bleedin-lujah!
ReplyDeleteAny ultra-religious group causes nothing but hatred and discord. Give me the good old, middle-of-the-road, pretty meaningless CoE any day.
For a non-religious person like me they at least appear harmless.
Fuck 'em. Wait, somebody else said that. OK, how about this...who gives a shit about a bunch of dumb ass, chauvinist, pig dogs claiming THEY know what GOD wants. I. AM. SICK. OF. ALL. OF. THEM!
ReplyDeleteI don't know. I read that about the monks with brooms today also and it just plain cheered me up. The visuals.
ReplyDeleteI am a Christian and the Jesus I know from the bible showed love and compassion for prostitutes and other down trodden women and even protected them for just these kind of religious zealots (e.g. John 8: 1-11). I am embarrassed that these men claim to represent God. Their actions do not glorify God and are more like attempts to glorify themselves.
ReplyDeleteP.S. Don't the fighting monks realise how dumb they look fighting each other. It's actually a bit funny but sad that it happens almost every year.
ReplyDeleteI thought the monk thing was funny as well. The image that came to my mind was Jesus rubbing his forehead in frustration while muttering... Oy vey!
ReplyDeleteWhat MRM said. If we were all atheists, or if we all shared the exact same religious beliefs, what would we fight over? I'm sure we'd think of something.
ReplyDeleteThis is a bit off subject but I actually remember something about a "fighting monk" who boxed in the 30's or 40's. I think he was a Catholic priest.
ReplyDeleteI'm personally tired of all the religious types who wear their faith on their sleeves.
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ReplyDeleteThe Talmud is Judaism's holiest book (actually a collection of books). Its authority takes precedence over the Old Testament in Judaism. Evidence of this may be found in the Talmud itself, Erubin 21b (Soncino edition):
ReplyDelete"My son, be more careful in the observance of the words of the Scribes than in the words of the Torah (Old Testament)."
Jewish scholar Hyam Maccoby, in "Judaism on Trial," quotes Rabbi Yehiel ben Joseph:
"Further, without the Talmud, we would not be able to understand passages in the Bible ... God has handed this authority to the sages and tradition is a necessity as well as scripture. The Sages also made enactments of their own ... anyone who does not study the Talmud cannot understand Scripture."
"When a grown-up man has intercourse with a little girl it is nothing, for when the girl is less than this (three years and a day) it is as if one put the finger into the eye." The footnote says that as “tears come to the eye again and again, so does virginity come back to the little girl under three years.” Kethuboth 11b.