Josephus Quotes
With us [Jews] it is not open to everybody to write the records …. The prophets alone had the privilege obtaining the knowledge of the most remote and ancient history through the inspiration which they owed to God….We do not possess myriads of inconsistent books conflicting with one another.
Joseph ben Matthias
Flavius Josephus, 37-105, Roman-Jewish General & Historian, Contra Apionem
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Priests at the time were mostly uneducated. They would tend to make up their own Biblical stories that the people would prefer rather than the official church versions. The bishops wanted this practice stopped.
Judge Moore was trying to justify oaths to God or other state references to a Judeo-Christian God as not violating the 1st Amendment stricture about the government endorsing a particular religion. Note however his {33827} quotation.
This is a classic example of institutional reluctance to examine history in the light and morality of the present. Nations have difficulties coming to grips with their pasts just as Churches and other institutions do.
Al-Maarri’s quotations are not only meaningful in their own right, but they illustrate the openness and free thinking that was allowed in the early days of Islam before about 1100. If anyone wrote such things today in most Islamic countries he would at least be jailed if not executed for blasphemy. And if any Christian in Europe made the same statement, he would have been excommunicated at least if not tortured and murdered.
Olmert was speaking for a significant minority of Israelis who believe that God consecrated the land of Palestine to the Jewish People and all other peoples who controlled it did so by conquest. So their logic is for those who do not believe in the Bible and give no modern credence to God’s will, the Jews have no taken back the land by conquest which is the way the Palestinians and all of the many peoples had controlled that land. For believers, the Jews have the highest right; for non-believers, their right of conquest is no weaker than any of the others.
Saudi Arabian Newspaper. This and other absurd libels against Jews permeated a series of two articles she wrote in the newspaper. The lie that Jews use the blood of non-Jews to bake their holy bread has been a staple of anti-Semitic propaganda through the centuries. A few days thereafter, the editor of the newspaper, who had been away at the time of the publication himself published a rebuttal and repudiation. See Turki Abdullah al-Sudeiri: {593163}
In 1996 the Tennessee Senate passed a resolution to post the Ten Commandments in homes, schools and businesses. Cohen was then a Senator of the Tennessee State Legislature.
