Be sure to read the END, for an IMPORTANT solution to the Israel-Palestinian problem. We are seeing news about beheadings in Iraq and Syria in the current news. This is actually “Old Hat” in religion. Same old, same old. In my opinion, being burned alive is worse. Takes longer, for one thing. Religion has been there, done both. For example: Beheadings and Burning Alive in the Christian Religion. Reading the Bible was banned for 1230 years……by the Church. Owning a Bible was a criminal offence In 860, Pope Nicholas I, sitting high on a throne built specially for the occasion in the town square, pronounced against all people who expressed interest in reading the Bible, and reaffirmed its banned public use (Papal Decree). In 1073, Pope Gregory supported and confirmed the ban, and in 1198, Pope Innocent III declared that anybody caught reading the Bible would be stoned to death by ‘soldiers of the Church military’ (Diderot’s Encyclopedia, 1759). In 1229, the Council of Toulouse, ‘to be spoken of with detestation’, passed another Decree ‘that strictly prohibits laics from having in their possession either the Old or New Testaments; or from translating them into the vulgar tongue’. By the 14th Century, possession of a Bible by the laity was a criminal offence and punishable by whipping, confiscation of real and personal property, and burning at the stake. Beheading ordered by the Emperor Constantine, who was the keynote speaker at the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD, where Christianity was invented. See: beyondallreligion.net/2012/01/21/how-christianity-was-invented/ From Nexus Magazine: https://nexusmagazine/articles/doc_view/11-the-forged-origins-of-the-new-testament Constantine then decreed that the New Testimonies would thereafter be called the word of the Roman Saviour God (Life of Constantine, vol. iii, p. 29) and official to all presbyters sermonising in the Roman Empire. He then ordered earlier presbyterial manuscripts and the records of the council burnt and declared that any man found concealing writings should be stricken off from his shoulders (beheaded) (ibid.). As the record shows, presbyterial writings previous to the Council of Nicaea no longer exist, except for some fragments that have survived. Burning Alive in the Crusades: religioustolerance.org/chr_cru1.htm “ On the way to the Middle East, they decided that only one of their goals was to wrest control of Jerusalem from the Muslims. A secondary task was to rid the world of as many non-Christians as possible - both Muslims and Jews. The Crusaders gave the Jews two choices in their slogan: Christ-killers, embrace the Cross or die! 12,000 Jews in the Rhine Valley alone were killed as the first Crusade passed through. Some Jewish writers refer to these events as the first holocaust. Once the army reached Jerusalem and broke through the city walls, they slaughtered all the inhabitants that they could find (men, women, children, newborns). After locating about 6,000 Jews holed up in the synagogue, they set the building on fire; the Jews were burned alive. The Crusaders found that about 30,000 Muslims had fled to the al Aqsa Mosque. The Muslim were also slaughtered without mercy. Current News: May 7th, 2014: jpost/National-News/Autopsy-finds-murdered-Palestinian-teen-was-burned-alive-361571 How many people have died in the name of Christ, Christianity and Catholicism? truthbeknown/victims.htm I wrote a book about religious wars, violence, and intolerance . amazon/Spell-All-Their-Houses-Outrageously/dp/1461030765 It was brought up to date here: beyondallreligion.net But wait, I have a solution to the Israel-Palestinian problem: Believe it or not, I am a Korean War Veteran. (didnt go there-It wasnt ended when I enlisted-to avoid bad grades at UC Berkeley-got an incomplete for the semester only) I bring that up, because the war ended with a peace that still stands between the two countries, and that was 60 years ago. Couldn’t the Israeli - Palestinian war end similarly with a demilitarized zone, like Korea? There would not be a need for either a blockade or tunnels. There was a truce with a DMZ (Demilitarized Zone-Its still there today, and the war is technically not ended, but the killing ended) . The US, on the other hand, did commit its own troops as part of a UN international-peace keeping force. In reality, the UN force was in name only; the troops were made up of almost entirely American forces, with some American allies. The Korean War was the first instance that it became clear that the UN could be used by the US as a foreign policy tool. There was a DMZ in the Vietnam War as well.
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