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Ancient Jewish sacrifice was specifically a substitute sacrifice for sin/wrongdoing. Jesus, in the Christian understanding, replaces all of those sacrifices with a single sacrifice with himself (as "God) as the the victim and also the recipient of the sacrifice, thus creating the ultimate sacri...

"Occupy," the American protest movement, is effectively over. I'm sure there are still groups of people doing this or that, but there is no traction and its out of the public consciousness. It spooked the establishment to a disproportionate, even comical degree (which should surprise nobod...

Again, in all three Abrahamic religions God requires mediation from humanity in order to establish a lawful order. Why? Isn't this a Protestant Christian interpretation ? No. Moses and Muhammad (in the Hijira) both had to negotiate divine law with God and make it possible for human compliance. The ...

I know little or nothing about people in Mexico with or claiming direct Maya descent and continuity with their religious traditions, but I have read a number of Western experts on Mayan history, archeology, and Mayan religion, and all of them say the same thing: there is no basis for the 2012/apocal...

And yet today America is sidling up close to Vietnam and building up a relationship with Vietnam. Saying America 'lost' Vietnam is silly. The term isn't really even meaningful. America failed to complete all of their stated objectives in Vietnam, and the regime they battled for so long immediately ...

These types of local uprisings are common in China and have been going on since the 90's with regularity. They tend to be in rural areas, and the reason is that rural Chinese feel left out of the economic boom of the last 20 years. Are they building to anything? I honestly don't know, but I think th...

All well and good, but why is it whenever I read up on Progressive philosophy, social issues are front and center, and the anti-war stance is hard to locate? Anti-war is something Progressives generally believe in. It's rooted in the social justice philosophy. i.e. if you are fighting wars of forei...

Certainly its all fun and games to people who weren't going to vote for him anyway, but aren't there any Paul supporters out there who might see this stuff and think twice? I don't find it compelling. As I see it. 'So what if he is a racist?' Lets take a look at it as though he is a racist, say we ...

An out-and-out US "war" with Iran is inconceivable to me at this point in time, but the US is certainly turning up the pressure on them to surprising levels. I don't see any benefit to it.

The most excoriating things I've read about Hitchens following his death were written by former friends and colleagues, and they all framed his late-stage conversion to slobbering warmonger as a consequence of two character traits that he displayed throughout his life: 1. He was desperately looking ...

Conservative Muslims and "Islamists" will have to be included in any democratic or representative government in any Arab country. It's not clear why this is even objectionable unless you assume from the get go that anything "Islamic" is bad, and the more Islamic something is the ...

What we know is that in the one independent country where the Muslim Brotherhood has taken power (Tunisia), it has been moderate, pro-human rights, and has shared power with more secular parties. Assuming that Egypt will turn in to Saudi Arabia or Iran at this time is presumptuous, to say the least...

The Lusitanians were and ancient Celt-Iberian tribe living what is now Portugal. They fought the Romans both on their own and in Carthaginian service. Lusitania was the Roman name for the province of their empire that consisted of what is now Portugal.

I suppose if there was clarity over the authorship of those articles, that case could be made, though I'm not sure anything in the newsletters rises to the level of "G*d Damn America!" I think some of the content is considerably worse, actually. But you're right, the authorship is dispute...

I guess that means Obama will win 99.9% of the "Black" vote, instead of the usual 97%. Well, Jews and homosexuals might not care for his remarks about them, and Latinos might also look twice at the concerns over "race war." How many points does a candidate want to give away? Als...

Egyptians rally against army over beatings of protesters CAIRO (Reuters) - Thousands of Egyptians rallied in Cairo and other cities on Friday to demand the military give up power and vent their anger after 17 people were killed in protests where troops beat and clubbed women and men even as they la...

Everyone has been predicting some form of civil war following US withdrawal since about 2007. By this time the US had armed and paid Shia militias to help beat down Zaraqawi and his "al Qaeda in Iraq" goons, then armed and paid Sunni militias to counter the now-beyond-their-control Shia mi...

The Reuters story yesterday was that the Dauphin and the military will "share power," which is step one towards military rule, either directly or through the Dauphin as a puppet.

A sample of scanned racist, homophobic, anti-Semitic, or just silly articles from the Ron Paul newsletter can be found here: http://www.mrdestructo.com/2011/12/game-over-scans-of-over-50-ron-paul.html#more Interestingly they span 33 years, bear Paul's name, and maintain consistent voice throughout....

For his part, Lellouche announced that Libya had awarded new contracts to Air France, Egis and Alstom. Air France Industries will repair airliners damaged during the months of fighting to oust Kadhafi belonging to Libyan Airlines and Afriqiyah. He added that talks were under way with Airbus over th...

A sample of scanned racist, homophobic, anti-Semitic, or just silly articles from the Ron Paul newsletter can be found here:

http://www.mrdestructo.com/2011/12/game ... .html#more


Interestingly they span 33 years, bear Paul's name, and maintain consistent voice throughout.