Aug 15 2006

That’s Quite Enough, Thank You

Category: blogging — Steve @ 23:39 pm

Blogger is Outta heremorphing again and I can’t get access to edit the blog, so I did the next best thing - packed up my kitbag and moved to WordPress.  So long, Blogger…  Now if I can figure out how to import all my links.  Older comments with pictures will probably lose the graphics unless/until I can migrate those over from Blobber as well.

Aug 15 2006

The Real Nasrallah

Category: Israel — Steve @ 15:56 pm

Boker tov, Boulder! links a series of quotes Hezbullah Head-Thug Sayyid Nasrallah:

  • “There is no solution to the conflict in this region except with the disappearance of Israel.”
  • “Peace settlements will not change reality, which is that Israel is the enemy and that it will never be a neighbor or a nation.”
  • “And on this last day of the century,[1999] I promise Israel that it will see more suicide attacks, for we will write our history with blood.”
  • “I am against any reconciliation with Israel. I do not even recognize the presence of a state that is called ‘Israel.’ I consider its presence both unjust and unlawful.”
  • “The Jews invented the legend of the Nazi atrocities…Anyone who reads the Koran and the holy writings of the monotheistic religions sees what they did to the prophets, and what acts of madness and slaughter the Jews carried out throughout history… Anyone who reads these texts cannot think of co-existence with them, of peace with them, or about accepting their presence, not only in Palestine of 1948 but even in a small village in Palestine, because they are a cancer which is liable to spread again at any moment.”
  • “If we searched the entire world for a person more cowardly, despicable, weak and feeble in psyche, mind, ideology and religion, we would not find anyone like the Jew. Notice, I do not say the Israeli.”
  • “If they [the Jews] all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide.”

    • Aug 15 2006

    Christian Scholarship

    Category: faith — Steve @ 14:51 pm

    To my discredit, it’s been awhile since I’ve visited the Thinklings. I almost missed this quote from Kierkegaard on Christian scholarship (no, not scholarships):

    The matter is quite simple. The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand we are obliged to act accordingly. Take any words in the New Testament and forget everything except pledging yourself to act accordingly. My God, you will say, if I do that my whole life will be ruined. How would I ever get on in the world? Herein lies the real place of Christian scholarship. Christian scholarship is the Church?s prodigious invention to defend itself against the Bible, to ensure that we can continue to be good Christians without the Bible coming too close. Oh, priceless scholarship, what would we do without you? Dreadful it is to fall into the hands of the living God. Yes, it is even dreadful to be alone with the New Testament.

    Ouch.

    We dwell too long on word studies and topical discussions of Scripture. Is it because the plain language is too painful?