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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo this trip is about "bringing together the world's major religions"
And putting away differences. This is what Peter Alexander just said on MSNBC.
Who are they kidding?
Donald Trump is going to wave a magic wand and erase thousands of years of world history. What a fucking joke.
luvMIdog
(2,533 posts)unblock
(52,503 posts)dalton99a
(81,708 posts)Yeah. Good luck with that.
Sugar Smack
(18,748 posts)It's more like people there are bracing themselves for the onslaught of a hurricane, with little chance of recovery afterward.
Ilsa
(61,717 posts)The rest of the jews, christians, and muslims call them heretics and ignore them.
Dale Neiburg
(698 posts)It would be a brilliant theologian like Don.
spanone
(135,950 posts)hatrack
(59,606 posts)Tanuki
(14,931 posts)and the moral bankruptcy of everything he stands for.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/02/01/opinions/trump-refugee-ban-bringing-religious-faiths-together-feiler/index.html
"President Trump's dramatic executive order blocking Syrian refugees from the United States and suspending immigration from some Muslim-majority countries has had a tumultuous impact. Children have been separated from their parents, teachers have been kept from their schools, Christian families have been turned away from American airports. Everyone from politicians to corporate executives has denounced the move. Scores of protests erupted around the country. The scope of the outrage appears to have caught even the White House by surprise.
Yet lost in the turmoil is one critical but overlooked benefit to all this upheaval: The president's action -- and the backlash that followed -- are the biggest boon to interfaith relations in decades. The idea that thousands of people would take to the streets in impromptu, grass-roots protests to defend not their own religious traditions but those of a beleaguered minority is relatively unheard of in the long history of religion. That the religion being defended is not just any tradition, but one widely disparaged in recent years from pulpits and campaign platforms as evil incarnate makes it even more remarkable.
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One reason for this universality: Support for the vulnerable, especially refugees, is one of the foundational beliefs of biblical ideology. The edict "Love the stranger because you were a stranger once yourself" is the single most common idea in the Hebrew Bible, used 36 times. Jesus picked up and enhanced this idea, making it a central pillar of his teaching and the Christian church for the next 20 centuries.
No wonder 550 Catholics attended Mass outside the White House this week in support of refugees. As Father Jim Martin, SJ, tweeted: "If you reject the migrant and refugee, you reject Christ himself, who asked us, who implored us, who ordered us, to see him in the stranger."
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southerncrone
(5,506 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,040 posts)but he's nothing but a tacky vacuous cheeto-colored buffoon.
Jesus would cleanse the temple with this creep.
mulsh
(2,959 posts)hear more self refererntial speeches from donny. I hope he brags about the "tremendous crowds, biggest in history" that greet him everywhere he went. So think I have a better than average chance of being right about this trip.
P.S: The fact he canceled the helicopter trip up to Masada but can spare 15 minutes at Yad Vashem is ample proof that he's "the least anti-Semitic person you could meet."
Martin Eden
(12,887 posts)And that is Donald Trump.