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"Zionism is Bankrupt" Richist Zionist from USSR

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 07:50:29 GMT

clipped by: righthand
clipper's remarks: "Lev Avnerovich Leviev (born in Tashkent, Soviet Union) is a Chabad Orthodox Bukharian Jewish billionaire who lives in London. Leviev is ranked 210th among the world’s wealthiest people, with an estimated personal net worth of $6.5 billion, although his associates put the figure closer to $8 billion.

Lev Leviev was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan in 1956. His parents, Avner and Chana Leviev, were prominent members of the Bukharian Jewish community. In 1971, when he was fifteen, his family immigrated from Uzbekistan to Israel. Shortly afterwards, Leviev began to work as an apprentice in a diamond polishing plant, learning the 11 steps of the diamond cutting process. After serving in the IDF, he established his own diamond polishing plant.
...Wikipedia.

Blood diamonds?
No evidence of any persecution in USSR. Myth too?

Clip Source: www.haaretz.com

Leviev: Zionism is bankrupt because of 'new American religion'

in addition to being the richest person in Israel, operates a 100-school educational network in Israel, the former Soviet Union and eastern Europe - does not accept secular Jewish culture and believes that Zionism is bankrupt

"And for that we are to blame, first and foremost, the moment we try to import the new American religion, and concentrate only on the new things that are being invented in our generation, and shrug off our Judaism."

Leviev, who serves as president of the Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS, had kinds words for outgoing Russian president Vladimir Putin and his successor, Dmitry Medvedev.

"Just as Putin was a wonderful president for the Jews, I think that Medvedev will be one, too," said Leviev. "I wish the Jews themselves would appreciate the Jews the way Putin knows how to appreciate them."

Leviev also criticized the Israeli policy of investigating sitting prime ministers for suspected improprieties

Tags: zionism, israel, russia, religion

Religious Cartoons. Not a bit funny. Ok?

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:11:38 GMT

clipped by: righthand
clipper's remarks: A god send. Well someone spoke in my ear.

Church and state cartoons.

Clip Source: edkrebs.com

"When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a communist."
-- Archbishop Helder Camara

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

-- Carl Sagan

To use the term blind faith, is to use an adjective needlessly.
-- Julian Ruck

Clip Source: edkrebs.com

"Just before us is a nuclear countdown with Iran, followed by the final battle: the battle of Armageddon . . . . The end of the world as we know it is rapidly approaching. Rejoice and be exceedingly glad. The best is yet to be."
-- Televangelist and McCain endorser John Hagee

Clip Source: edkrebs.com

If the Bible is mistaken in telling us where we came from, how can we trust it to tell us where we’re going?
-- Anonymous

The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages—as if the savages weren’t dangerous enough already.
-- Edward Abbey

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
-- Blaise Pascal

Tags: religion, humour, comic

Irreligious Cartoons? Not A bit funny! Ok?

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:57:03 GMT

clipped by: righthand
clipper's remarks: Well, maybe a little funny. Some of them ...very funny..

Clip Source: edkrebs.com

"The Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian god is a three headed monster; cruel, vengeful and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging, three headed beast-like god, one only needs to look at the caliber of people who say they serve him. They are always of two classes: fools and hypocrites."
–- Thomas Jefferson, 1813

Is it even vaguely possible that some New Age Republican whore-beast of a false president could actually make Richard Nixon look like a liberal?
--Hunter S. Thompson

Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.
--Frank Dane

Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity?
--Arthur C. Clarke

It's downright amazing to see how many people have a direct line to God, yet all receive different messages.

Nothing is more dangerous than an armed religio-nut doing God's will.
Bush and Osama think alike.
-- Bartcop

Clip Source: edkrebs.com

Religious Bullshit !

Tags: religion, humour, usa

Peace: Jew & Arab? A Piece of each other?

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 06:51:04 GMT

clipped by: righthand
clipper's remarks: None of the “performers” in Parpar1’s sex films was born outside the Holy Land. “We don’t think the Arab is less than the Jew,” Levy said.

Is this the one time when an Arab gets to fuc@ a Jew, and both enjoy it?

Clip Source: www.forward.com

For Adults Only: An Alternative Roadmap to Peace

There is one place in the Middle East where Arabs and Jews seem to be getting along quite well. It’s the Israeli Web site Parpar1.com, where amateur pornography features Arabs and Jews at each other’s throats — but only for erotic purposes.

Founded by two Tel Aviv computer professionals, the Web site has been serving up such X-rated fare as “Kosher Lesbians,” “The Rabbi’s Daughter” and “Sex Party in Jerusalem” since 2001. Parpar1 has hundreds of hours of video porn featuring amateur performers. It is a pay service that can be accessed on the Web or via mobile phone. Co-owner Avi Levy told the Forward that in addition to Israel, cell phones can get the adult content in England, Spain and Italy. Romania will soon follow. Levy says Parpar1 videos will be available on cable television in Canada eventually.

“I’m not a politician. I’m here to make money,” Levy said.

None of the “performers” in Parpar1’s sex films was born outside the Holy Land.

Tags: sex, arab, jew, religion

Thomas Jefferson on Christianity and Religion

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:25:42 GMT

clipped by: AcesLucky
clipper's remarks: Thoughts of another founding father.

Clip Source: www.nobeliefs.com

Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.

-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Dr. Thomas Cooper, February 10, 1814

What is it men cannot be made to believe!

-Thomas Jefferson to Richard Henry Lee, April 22, 1786. (on the British regarding America, but quoted here for its universal appeal.)

In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.

-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Horatio G. Spafford, March 17, 1814

Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind.

-Thomas Jefferson to James Smith, 1822.

And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerve in the brain of Jupiter.

-Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Adams, April 11, 1823

Tags: religion, thomas jefferson, politics, atheism, freethought, agnostic, founding father, god, christianity, bible

The Devil's Delusion

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 14:28:00 GMT

clipped by: Antara
clipper's remarks: More from the debates

Better to read the whole review...i could only clip a lil bit.

http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/dont-write-off-religion-just-yet/

Clip Source: www.samharris.org

Don’t write off religion just yet

THE DEVIL’S DELUSION

Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions

By David Berlinski

There is actually very little that is new in the so-called new atheism, whose claim to be based on science is as dubious today as it has ever been. A critique of the contemporary assault on religion is therefore much needed, and in The Devil’s Delusion, David Berlinski gives us a polemic that is powerful, erudite and often savagely funny. Berlinski - a mathematician and well-known critic of evolutionary theory, though not a proponent of “intelligent design” - has two targets in his sights: the conventional belief that religious thought is intrinsically superstitious and the materialist philosophy that Dawkins and his fellow “brights” - as members of the atheist community fondly describe themselves - mistakenly identify with science.

Tags: religion, debate, science, reason, www.samharris.org

Oh, God Blair. Oh, Blair God.

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 23:31:08 GMT

clipped by: righthand

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Tony Blair

Clip Source: www.independent.co.uk

In front of us this week was Blair with his increasingly maniacal eyes, poncing on about faith and God and religion, and I couldn't help reflecting on an excellent article by a colleague a few weeks ago who pointed out that God never seemed to give Blair advice. Like before April of 2003, couldn't He have just said, er, Tony, this Iraq invasion might not be a good idea

Blair's relationship with God is itself very odd

Clip Source: aftermathnews.wordpress.com

Apparently

Clip Source: www.independent.co.uk

Blair tells God what he absolutely and completely knows to be right – and God approves his words

Blair, like a lot of devious politicians, plays God himself

there are two Gods out there

Clip Source: heathlander.wordpress.com

Clip Source: www.independent.co.uk

Blair God and the infinite being which blesses his every word, so obliging that He doesn't even tell Him to go to Gaza

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Former UK prime minister Tony Blair has launched a faith foundation to tackle global poverty, challenge conflict and unite the world's religions.

Matthew Price reports.

Christian Zionists who seek to de-Judaize Israel

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:00:14 GMT

clipped by: righthand

Clip Source: www.israelenews.com

Christian Zionists who seek to de-Judaize Israel

Ex-missionary, Gavriel Sanders explains the hidden agenda on the part of SOME Christians' apparent support for Israel. He claims that while some Christian activists may donate to Israel-supporting causes, they may simultaneously be donating 4-5 fold more to efforts to convert Jewish souls (particularly Israeli Jews) away to Christianity.

[Video]

Gavriel Aryeh Sanders is a former missionary, and Evangelical Minister who converted to Orthodox Judaism.
Whilst learning Hebrew, he began questioning the narrative of the Christian Bible. His studies of Tanakh persuaded him to convert to Judaism

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NUylyDsE-c

Tags: religion, christian, jews, zionism, orthodox

Ancient Nuns' Brains for Alzheimer's Research

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:34:00 GMT

clipped by: righthand

Clip Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

Nuns in aging study leaving their brains behind

After major Alzheimer's findings, research will end with final sacrifice

Twenty years ago, Sister Antoine Daniel, left, and Sister Alberta Sheridan were part of the 677 members of the School Sisters of Notre Dame who granted a young researcher's request to test them each year in order to track the progression of Alzheimer's disease and other age-related brain disorders

The 61 surviving nuns recently completed their last round of intellectual and physical tests for the Nun Study, one of the world's most comprehensive neurological research projects

When they die, their brains will be taken for further study, joining a collection of hundreds of other brains donated by the the nuns who died before them

"I've tried to do good while I'm alive, and I liked the idea that I could do something good after death,"

"I never minded having my brain checked out. It kept me out of trouble,"

Tags: usa, religion, health, female, brain

Bush: 'God told me'. ...BBC TV program

Fri, 23 May 2008 09:38:08 GMT

clipped by: righthand
clipper's remarks: Where's his god now? What a nut. Don't they lock up religious freaks like this in America? Surely a snake-oil salesmen have more credibility now. When will they ever learn? I'm embarrassed every time I hear him speak. What must it be like to have been a one time Bush-lover? God!

More from the BBC program...
Bush is quoted as telling the two, "I feel God's words coming to me: 'Go get the Palestinians their state and get the Israelis their security, and get peace in the Middle East.' And by God, I'm gonna do it."

Mr Abbas remembers how the US President told him he had a "moral and religious obligation" to act.
...BBC

Clip Source: www.independent.co.uk

Bush: God told me to invade Iraq

President 'revealed reasons for war in private meeting'

Bush has claimed he was told by God to invade Iraq and attack Osama bin Laden's stronghold of Afghanistan as part of a divine mission to bring peace to the Middle East, security for Israel, and a state for the Palestinians

made the assertion during his first meeting with Palestinian leaders in June 2003, according to a BBC series which will be broadcast this month

Bush launched an impassioned attack yesterday in Washington on Islamic militants, likening their ideology to that of Communism, and accusing them of seeking to "enslave whole nations" and set up a radical Islamic empire "that spans from Spain to Indonesia"

programmeElusive Peace: Israel and the Arabs, which starts on Monday

President: "I'm driven with a mission from God. God would tell me, 'George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan.' And I did, and then God would tell me, 'George go and end the tyranny in Iraq,' and I did."

Tags: religion, bush, iraq, invasion

Einstein: Jews not Choosen People

Fri, 23 May 2008 22:12:13 GMT

clipped by: righthand
clipper's remarks: He declined an invitation to become Israel's second president, rejected the idea that the Jews are God's chosen people.

"For me the Jewish religion like all others is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions," he said. "And the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong and with whose mentality I have a deep affinity have no different quality for me than all other people."

And he added: "As far as my experience goes, they are no better than other human groups, although they are protected from the worst cancers by a lack of power. Otherwise I cannot see anything 'chosen' about them."

Clip Source: www.ynetnews.com

Einstein: Belief in God 'childish,' Jews not chosen people

In letter written by father of relativity, he reveals his belief that Jewish people 'have no different quality for me than all other people'

Albert Einstein described belief in God as "childish superstition" and said Jews were not the chosen people

Einstein

As a Jew himself, Einstein said he had a great affinity with Jewish people but said they "have no different quality for me than all other people"

"The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish

"No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this,"

"For me the Jewish religion like all others is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions,"

"And the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong and with whose mentality I have a deep affinity have no different quality for me than all other people."

no better than other human group

Tags: jews, religion, history

With Friends like these, who needs Enemies?

Sun, 25 May 2008 16:54:01 GMT

clipped by: righthand
clipper's remarks: There's a logic that bin Laden needed Bush like Bush needed bin Laden. One would expire without the other.

Could the same be true for this gang. Do the Zionists need the zealot Christian fundamentalist Christian evangelists like Hagee in the same way? Certainly "Jews defend Hagee's words" would seem to prove it.

"Viewing Hitler as acting completely outside of God's plan is to suggest that God was powerless to stop the Holocaust, a position quite unacceptable to any religious Jew or Christian," said Orthodox Rabbi Aryeh Scheinberg raises a few questions for me also. Anyone with any thoughts that would be more understanding than mine?

Clip Source: www.washingtontimes.com

Jews defend Hagee's words

Clip Source: blog.washingtonpost.com

Republican presidential hopeful, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., speaks at a press conference with Rev. John Hagee, a televangelist from Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas, Wednesday, Feb. 27

Clip Source: www.washingtontimes.com

Jewish allies of the Rev. John Hagee rushed to his defense yesterday to say the Texas evangelist is not anti-Semitic despite Sen. John McCain campaign's repudiation Thursday of the evangelist's endorsement

"John Hagee is one of the Jewish people's best friends,"

Orthodox Rabbi Aryeh Scheinberg

Hagee's "words were twisted and used to attack him for being anti-Semitic."

Hagee "interpreted a biblical verse in a way not very different from several legitimate Jewish authorities," the rabbi said

Evangelist Rev. John Hagee leads a march of Christians in support of Israel in Jerusalem

"Viewing Hitler as acting completely outside of God's plan is to suggest that God was powerless to stop the Holocaust, a position quite unacceptable to any religious Jew or Christian,"

Clip Source: blog.washingtonpost.com

McCain

Tags: zionists, isreal, religion

Orthodox Jewish youths burn New Testaments. What next?

Sat, 24 May 2008 03:31:42 GMT

clipped by: righthand
clipper's remarks: Wonder how this went down with the Christian Zionist fundamentalists? Are they in rapture over the burning of the new testaments? So your welcome to boast the Zionist economy but don't bring your bible. So now we have the torture, the concentration camps, the assassinations, the ethnic cleansing, the Gaza prison, the slow starvation, the economic strangulation, the racism, the Arab holocaust to match the Nakba of 60 years ago, and on and on. And all with America's blessing. What next? Burning the Christians?

Clip Source: www.historyplace.com

May 10, 1933

Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

Book burning in Berlin

Nazi book burnings were a campaign conducted by the authorities of Nazi Germany to ceremonially burn all books in Germany which did not correspond with Nazi ideology

Clip Source: www.haaretz.com

Orthodox Jews set fire to hundreds of copies of the New Testament in the latest act of violence against Christian missionaries in the Holy Land

Deputy Mayor Uzi Aharon said missionaries recently entered a
neighborhood in the predominantly religious town of 34,000 in central Israel, distributing hundreds of New Testaments and missionary material

he got into a loudspeaker car last Thursday and drove through the neighborhood, urging people to turn over the material to Jewish religious students who went door to door to collect it

"The books were dumped into a pile and set afire in a lot near a synagogue,"

"Not all of the New Testaments that were collected were burned, but hundreds were,"

"I certainly don't denounce the burning of the booklets, he said. I denounce those who distributed the booklets."

Tags: nazis, books, fire, religion, jews, orthodox, violence

Einstein's letter makes view of religion relatively clear

Tue, 13 May 2008 05:13:22 GMT

clipped by: arifsali
clipper's remarks: In the letter, he states: "The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this."

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." So said Albert Einstein, and his famous aphorism has been the source of endless debate between believers and non-believers wanting to claim the greatest scientist of the 20th century as their own.

A little known letter written by him, however, may help to settle the argument - or at least provoke further controversy about his views.

Due to be auctioned this week in London after being in a private collection for more than 50 years, the document leaves no doubt that the theoretical physicist was no supporter of religious beliefs, which he regarded as "childish superstitions".

Einstein penned the letter on January 3 1954 to the philosopher Eric Gutkind who had sent him a copy of his book Choose Life: The Biblical Call to Revolt. The letter went on public sale a year later and has remained in private hands ever since.

Tags: einstein, religion, science

EPILEPSY: 'a great deformity', grounds for divorce.

Tue, 06 May 2008 15:59:35 GMT

clipped by: righthand
clipper's remarks: "The court further found that the husband was aware of his wife's condition, and the fact that she was treated for it, prior to the marriage, but since she demonstrated no symptoms, the seizure could be construed as a new medical condition.

The court then relied on a halachic ruling, dating back several hundred years, deeming epilepsy a physical deformity that can be used as grounds for divorce."
... Ynet

Clip Source: www.ynetnews.com

court forces woman to divorce over medical condition

Great Rabbinical Court in Jerusalem enables husband to force divorce on his wife after she was diagnosed with epilepsy. Ruling based on centuries-old halachic law deeming condition 'a great deformity.'

Back to the middle ages?

Court in Jerusalem rendered a rare ruling Thursday, forcing a woman to agree to a divorce because she was diagnosed with epilepsy.

According to a report in Yedioth Ahronoth, the court further ruled the woman will not be eligible for alimony. The husband was, however, obligated to pay her the full amount mentioned in her ketubah – NIS 18,000 (approx $5,000)

ruled epilepsy was a "great deformity," thus enabling the husband to force a divorce on his wife.

The woman was reportedly involved in a car accident prior to the marriage and sustained a severe head injury.

the man became aware of his wife's condition only after witnessing a seizure during an event the two attended separately

He then refiled his petition.

Tags: discrimination, israel, religion, female, health, marriage, law, courts

Clipmarks | righthand's 'religion' clips

"Zionism is Bankrupt" Richist Zionist from USSR

Religious Cartoons. Not a bit funny. Ok?

Irreligious Cartoons? Not A bit funny! Ok?

Peace: Jew & Arab? A Piece of each other?

Thomas Jefferson on Christianity and Religion

The Devil's Delusion

Don’t write off religion just yet

Oh, God Blair. Oh, Blair God.

SEE ALSO

Christian Zionists who seek to de-Judaize Israel

Ancient Nuns' Brains for Alzheimer's Research

Nuns in aging study leaving their brains behind

After major Alzheimer's findings, research will end with final sacrifice

Bush: 'God told me'. ...BBC TV program

Bush: God told me to invade Iraq

Einstein: Jews not Choosen People

Einstein: Belief in God 'childish,' Jews not chosen people

With Friends like these, who needs Enemies?

Jews defend Hagee's words

McCain

Orthodox Jewish youths burn New Testaments. What next?

Einstein's letter makes view of religion relatively clear

EPILEPSY: 'a great deformity', grounds for divorce.

court forces woman to divorce over medical condition