Orson Bean Quotes
Miracles aren't necessarily good for everyone. The parting of the Red Sea, great for the Jews, not so hot for the Egyptian soldiers.
Although they were a Christian sect, there was not a lot of tolerance then by the Catholic Church especially for Christians who theologically deviated slightly from official doctrine. Ironically, the Muslims who conquered Egypt and Syria were much more tolerant of the Syrian Christians than their fellow Christians were. See {634767} for his view of Islamic tolerance.
See {619709}. Ever since the Jews were ejected from their nation by the Romans, there have been some Jews and non-Jews who believed that the refusal of other nations to allow Jews citizenship inhibited their assimilation and was God’s way of maintaining the Jews as a distinct people so that they may fulfill Biblical prophesy and return to the Land of Israel. Stiles was a leading historian of his day and specialized in ancient Biblical history. Most people however, and most Jews, do not hold with this theory.
This verse is often cited by Muslim scholars who are defending against the claim that The Koran teaches violence against non-Muslims. In this case, the Jews are admonished to kill their defeated enemies. Today many Muslims claim that Jews and Christians who believe in the Old Testament believe that the violence was justified because it was ordered by God. Therefore when God orders Muslims to kill idolaters and other enemies, it is the same thing and not reprehensible.
Orson Bean was a veteran American film, television, and stage actor, and a comedian, writer, and producer. He was a game show and talk show host and a "mainstay of Los Angeles’s small theater scene." He appeared frequently on several televised game shows from the 1960s through the 1980s and was a longtime panelist on the television game show To Tell the Truth. "A storyteller par excellence", he was a favorite of Johnny Carson, appearing on The Tonight Show over 200 times.
