Larry Kuperman

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Kingbee commented: "The good news is that Christians may see many of their agenda items made real including a legal system based on G-d-given law...Sharia." My point exactly and excuse the (minor) edits. The thing is that when you open the door for one religion to be the State religion....you better take into account that people and things change. Lebanon, for example, was once controlled by a Catholic minority. Look at Lebanon today.

Reply to The Return of Prayer in Schools in Current Events JoeUser Forums

I want to thank everyone for their comments, this was a pretty interesting debate. As I commented before, this article was written with a satirical mindset. I wanted to you think about what prayer in school really means. Advocates of school prayer, usually Christians in this country, usually don't see a problem with non-Christian kids sitting quietly through their prayers. But put the shoe on the other foot....is that different? Imagine your s

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Just FYI on the Decalogues "One legacy of the movie are scores of public displays or monuments of the Ten Commandments that DeMille paid to be erected around the country as a publicity stunt. Known as decalogues, the displays were set up by the group Fraternal Order of Eagles, sometimes in or near government buildings." The Fraternal Order of Eagles was an all-white (until the late 1960's) group of movie theater owners that would later expand

Reply to The Return of Prayer in Schools in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Rebuttal. point by point: 1- Your forefathers are not necessarily the same as mine, but that aside, they very carefully built in separation of Church and State. 2- The Bible, referring to the Old Testament, is about as blood thirsty a book as you will find. For example, think about what it says regarding the Amalekites, "Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey." (1 Sam. 15:2-3).

Reply to The Truth about the Middle East in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

MM, wonderful post. Some interesting supplements: Since the election, the two largest Palestinian groups, Hamas and Fatah, have attacked each like street gangs when the police are on strike. Civilian casualties have not deterred these attacks. That doesn't bode well for the future of any Palestinian state. Secondly, Hezbollah in Lebanon sent armed forces in to clean out opposing groups hiding in Palestinian refugee camps. Oh, on the surface, it was the armed forces of

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"Interesting thoughts Kupe, but before I bow to Allah, someone will have to kill me." Depending on your vision of the afterlife, that may be easy or difficult. A Muslim would say that you would meet Allah at the end...whereas, our people, not so much. I am glad that you posted here, MM. As a fellow Jew, you know that for much of our history our people lived under the Muslims more easily than under the Christians. For example, during t

The Return of Prayer in Schools in Current Events JoeUser Forums

I was debating with a neighbor of mine about prayer in American schools and I suggested that we would probably live to see it become an issue again....just not the way that we thought. The prayer book may well be the Quran. Islam is the fastest growing religion in America. Muslims are now the largest minority religion (counting all forms of Christi

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"I too have always found Muslin to be the most belligerent of fabrics. It's in the weave." It must "rub" you the wrong way.

Reply to Militant Muslins in Politics JoeUser Forums

Muslin is a fabric made out of cotton. Muslim is a person that believes in the religion of Islam. We need go no further in establishing how much you know about this topic.

Reply to Is Your Religion Wounded? in Religion JoeUser Forums

The posting of this article coincided with the settlement of hundreds of sexual abuse cases by Catholic priests in Los Angeles. It seemed particularly ironic that the Pope would criticize other churches the same week that the LA Archdiocese settled a $650 million suit. Despite the Church's own report (The Nature and Scope of the Problem of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests and Deacons in the United States - A Research Study Conducted

Reply to The Sins of the Father in Religion JoeUser Forums

Simultaneous posts. 250 years of abuse documentation: "Sacramentum Poenitentiae was an apostolic constitution published by Pope Benedict XIV in 1741. It is a four-page document establishing general notice of the problem of sexual abuse amongst the clergy in the Roman Catholic Church. It was the fifth document in the canon-law book that was used to train all priests between 1918 and 1982. Specifically, the Sacramentum Poenitentiae addresses the

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Contego, I said Theunis was charged with Categoy One Genocide...and he was. That is the truth. There is nothing in that statement of fact that qualifies as "persecution" or hate by most standards. He worked at Le Dialogue, a periodical that is proven to have contributed to the genocide. The editor was convicted. Are you going to tell me that Father Theunis was unaware of the nature and the gist of the periodical? Whether he actually translated

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Again, Dr. Guy, because you posted your own article with only some quotes from me, people might not know that I wrote this: "You know what the sad part is? (I hope that our colleague, Dr. Guy, someone that I have respect for reads this.) If you think of the Church as an INSTITUTION, as the exclusive agent of G-d on Earth, it is hard to defend it. Kids and other innocents have been hurt and exploited at exactly the moments that they were weakes

Reply to The Sins of the Father in Religion JoeUser Forums

I'm not sure how I feel about your posting selected excerpts from my article, instead of posting a reply ON that article. Talk about out of context....I hope people read the entire article. I can substantiate everything that I wrote: "The participation in the genocide in Rwanda by priests and nuns" Not 1.1 billion Catholics.. priests and nuns. November 17th, 2006 Father Wenceslas Munyeshyaka is convicted of rape and aiding m

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You know what would be REALLY COOL? If while one of these hypocrites was in front of the camera tap dancing their way out of trouble, a bolt of lightning came down and smote them. I don't care if it was fake, get Spielberg on it, but that would get a lot more people to watch the news. Then the wife could brush her hair and walk off to the tune of "Serves You Right to Suffer."

Democrats Slander Republican Congressman in Politics JoeUser Forums

Family values oriented Republican Sen. David Vitter of New Orleans, accompanied by his wife, has refuted charges that he had relationships with New Orleans prostitutes. He did not deny that he may have relations with prostitutes in Washington D.C., where his name appears in the telephone records of the "D.C. Madams" escort service. We aren't sure about New Y

Reply to Is Your Religion Wounded? in Religion JoeUser Forums

Thanks, ThinkAloud. You know what the sad part is? (I hope that our colleague, Dr. Guy, someone that I have respect for reads this.) If you think of the Church as an INSTITUTION, as the exclusive agent of G-d on Earth, it is hard to defend it. Kids and other innocents have been hurt and exploited at exactly the moments that they were weakest and those who were supposed to safeguard them failed horribly. And this has gone on and on....for cent

Reply to Enough is Enough - The Church MUST Put its House in Order in Religion JoeUser Forums

It is an institutional problem. It happens with FAR GREATER frequency in the Catholic Church than elsewhere and in some particular Archdiocese where it is permitted. Bernard Law, for example, turned a blind eye to the problem in Boston. He said so. I suggested "closing churches in the worst areas for a period of not less than 10 years." Not all churches, the ones in the worst areas. So much for "penalizing 95% for the sins of the 5%." But the Church isn't going to do tha

Reply to Is Your Religion Wounded? in Religion JoeUser Forums

Thanks, MM, I hope that you saw my "get well" note. Of course you had so many.... Let me explain why I wrote this article. As most people know by now, today the Archdioces of Los Angeles settled over 500 cases of child-abuse for $660 million. In a JU article here Link I stated my opinion that fines are not enough, action needs to taken against what has been an on-going an

Is Your Religion Wounded? in Religion JoeUser Forums

If your religion does not recognize the Pope as the supreme interpreter of religious doctrine on Earth....always correct and infallible...if you think that you somehow might have the capacity to think for yourself about what G-d might want, then your religion is "wounded." Thus sayeth the Pope Benedict XVI and since he can never be wrong (when speaking Ex Officio) you

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Oh, and lest you think that I am being overly harsh, read this: WWW Link Headline: "Cardinal (Roger Mahony of Los Angeles): There is no way to go back and give them their innocence" LA Archdiocese settles sex abuse claims for $660 million. Oh, the penitent Cardinal says "Mea culpa!" If only I could give you back your innocence....He should only be struck down will saying that! The Cardinal managed t

Reply to Enough is Enough - The Church MUST Put its House in Order in Religion JoeUser Forums

Dr. Guy, there is no substance to your reply, only your emotion. You act as if all churches have sinned equally, but that is FAR from the case. In fact, I cited the three worst offenders and suggested applying the penalty where the worst crimes took place. You respond with the "Burn the world!" hyperbole because you have nothing else to say Two parts of my post that were not addressed: If it was a mosque that had allowed clerics to molest thou

Reply to Enough is Enough - The Church MUST Put its House in Order in Religion JoeUser Forums

Why is the Catholic Church treated so very differently than other institutions? Imagine the outrage if it was a series of Imams at Mosques that perpetrated these acts? How to put the house in order? Aggressive criminal prosecution against priests and other clerics involved in such heinous acts or in the concealment of such acts, confiscation of Church properties to pay damages to victims and closing churches in the worst areas for a period of not less than 10 years...that would clean it

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Thanks, Zoomba, for setting this up.

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You haven't seen the movie, but you are writing about it? "Further harassment was thrown at him because some people decided he was a Jew hater because of the way the Savior's torment was depicted in the movie. I remember the word "anti-Semitism"became a buzz word for awhile." Actually, I think that anti-Semitism has been a buzz word since, I don't know, the Holocaust or maybe the Inquisition. We Jews are funny that way. You persecute us for