so i just finished "why the christian right is wrong?" by robin meyers. an excellent read. meyers is a bit full of himself, but it's easy to get past that.
on that note, the war going on in gaza is absolutely appalling. first of all, israel is being completely ridiculous and absurd. the PM yesterday said that a cease-fire was out of the question. no one is actually saying what their ultimate goal is in invading gaza, other than to "get rid" of hamas, but what does that even mean? yes, the people who run hamas are pretty evil, but israel is not showing that they are much better. i do feel sympathy for the jews and that they had a genocide committed against them, but it's not too far of a stretch to say that what they are doing to the palestinians now (and in what they did by forming israel from the beginning) is not much different. i wouldn't call myself an anti-israeli or pro-palestinian. i like all people, and i don't think it's right for the US and the UK to just stand on the side of one team here. both sides are committing terrible atrocities and we need the biggest players in the world to be a negotiator to both. i was outraged even more when i logged onto facebook yesterday and read the status of a guy i went to high school with who is ridiculously conservative. and Christian. and his status said: "[Insert his name] hopes Israel kills every one of those camel jockey Hamas terrorists." WHAT. minus the fact that any person could ever wish death upon another person, a CHRISTIAN is doing so (Religious Views: Follower of the Lord Jesus). would Jesus bomb someone? even a "camel jockey terrorist"? NO. he would be going into their meetings and trying to get to know them better and why they're doing what they're doing. at least, that's the Jesus i'm pretty familiar with and have studied in the Bible.
i really just hope the US and the other world leaders can see that taking one side in this war is a big doorway into absolute disaster. i hope even more than obama sees this, despite his strongly pro-israel stance in the past.
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