In South Park's "Super Best Friends," Joseph Smith, the Buddha, Jesus, an unknown Muslim figure, Moses, and Krishna star. In "God's a Buddhist" (Episode 11, Season 4) God confesses he's Buddhist.
Do Buddhists Believe in God?
Text: Buddhist writer and teacher Lewis Richmond (Huffington Post)
In my upcoming book Aging as a Spiritual Practice (Gotham Books, Jan. 2012), I tell the following story:
Once, when I was on a live radio show being interviewed by a Christian talk show host, her first question to me was, "Do you Buddhists believe in God?"
I had only a few seconds to think of an answer.
"Yes," I said.
"Good!" the host said. "And how do you pray?"
I said that we prayed in silence to reach our divine nature.
"I like that!" the host said.
When I have told this story in talks, some of my Buddhist listeners say, "Oh, that's nice. It's good to be polite."
WATCH: "God is a Buddhist" (South Park)
But I wasn't just being polite. I was raised in a Christian church and went to Christian Sunday school. My favorite song as a child was "God is Love." After graduating from college, for a year I attended Christian seminary, with the idea of becoming a minister.
I didn't become a dedicated Buddhist until some time after that. I am comfortable with the word God.
It's true that by saying "Yes" I was also making an effort to establish some common ground. It was live radio, our time slot was 20 minutes and I was there to discuss a just-released book. I didn't want to spend the whole time trying to explain what Buddhists believe.
Also, I felt that a more nuanced answer, however I couched it, would have come across as some version of "No." I sensed the need to give a definitive answer. The answer I gave came closest to what was so for me -- understanding that I was not trying to speak for the world's 320 million Buddhists, but only for myself.
The host knew I was a Buddhist; I was on her show to discuss my book, Healing Lazarus: A Buddhist's Journey from Near Death to New Life. I sensed from the way she posed her question that all she really wanted to know was whether I was a person of religious conviction and belief -- a person of faith. And I am.
I'm an ordained Buddhist priest -- a religious professional. My daily religious practice is the center of my life. I lead meditation groups, I am training and ordaining other priests. In that context, "Yes" is the best answer. More
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The Buddha is called the "teacher of gods and men" because he regularly instructed and his teaching were particularly suited for both devas and human beings.
Does Buddhism Believe in "God"?
Wisdom Quarterly (COMMENTARY)
Buddhists generally believe what they like. God in particular is a popular subject. But Buddhists are not Buddhism. And Buddhism is nontheistic. That is, there may or may not be a God; nevertheless, it has nothing to do with liberation.
There are, in fact, many "gods" (devas and brahmas, deities and divinities). There is, however, no ultimate "creator God," creator of the universe and its lawful (regular and dependable) operations such as karma, physics, chemistry, metaphysics, and the like.
There are many celestial space worlds, other planets, other dimensions, exalted and rarified. However joyful, long lived, glorious, or peaceful, none is permanent. Rebirth there ultimately leads to rebirth elsewhere. Only nirvana transcends the round of birth and death.
Therefore, Buddhists may wish to be reborn in a heaven with the God or gods of their choice. That is fine. That is perfectly fine. Even the gods are subject to karma. Even the gods ultimately fall to meet with the results of their less than skillful karma (intentional actions).
The best candidate for the Judeo-Christian God of the Bible is Buddhism's Maha Brahma ("Great Supremo). Why this sexless super being is called the great is a little difficult to understand. It is the lowlest of brahmas ("supremes"). The "supremes" themselves are subordinate to beings confusingly called devas ("shining ones"). The confusion stems from the fact that lesser beings are also referred to as devas.
Devas in art are represented as wispy, graceful, and crowned with space helmets.
For example, nature has "shining ones" (beautiful elementals, woodland fairies, dryads, sea nymphs). The skies are inhabited by tangible celestial rulers in spacecraft (vimanas). A second celestial plane, on a planet or platform known as the Realm of the Thirty-Three, there are other higher order beings generally superior (longer life, greater beauty, more influence, etc.) to the many varieties and species on Earth and below.
The archangelic devas of the Thirty-Three have one being in particular, the "god of Buddhism" -- Sakka, King of the Devas. He is famous for casting out the unruly elements in heavens, an act that demonized them, at least in terms of their anger. This would make Sakka the "St. Michael" of Christian lore. Why is he called "Michael"?
The most telling piece of evidence for this connection was turned up by Wisdom Quarterly's ongoing research. Before Sakka became Sakka (which is more of a station or office than a single individual in time and space), the Buddha points out, he was Magha of Macala.
The Realm of the Thirty-Three (Tavatimsa) is an advanced world in space.
The Buddha revealed the nature of the good karma that led to Magha's rebirth as a "king of kings" (maharajika devas), a "lord of lord" (archangels in the Realm of the Thirty-Three), and the "son of god" (devaputta, which is a common term that simply means he's a deva).
His fame on Earth is widespread and well known throughout Europe in various mythologies. Long before that, in India he was known as Indra. But cultures stretching back to Egypt and Sumeria (Sumer), Assyria and Babylonia, the imprint and theme of a "Sakka" is consistent.
But Sakka is by no means the only God in Buddhism. There is Maha Brahma, Sahampati Brahma, Baka Brahma. Buddhist cosmology recognizes 31 planes of existence, most of them deva realms corresponding karmically to the attainment of various levels of meditative absorption.
Such attainments are weighty karma that, if held at the time of death, lead to rebirth in those planes. In a very real sense, anyone capable of mastering these states can be a "god" (brahma). Rebirth in the six lower "heavenly" (sky, space) worlds is attained by wholesome karma coming to fruition as one passes away.
Keeping the Five or Eight Precepts -- when those acts of abstaining from harming or engaging in their positive counterparts of helping come to fruition at the moment of passing away -- naturally results a fortunate rebirth. This includes rebirth in the human world, which is an extremely rare event. Such is the power of karma, of reaping what we sow.
Devas rejoiced at the birth of Siddhartha, a deva in his preceding life.
The brahmas are well born. Maha Brahma is great among devas, hailed by Earthlings, and may represent itself as the "creator" of all. Buddhists do not believe in this God in the sense of depending or asking things of it. But many do ask things of earthbound and celestial devas. It was a long standing tradition in India.
The Buddha discouraged it, instead encouraging humans to remember the devas and rejoice in the good they have accomplished bearing in mind that they are capable of the exact same thing. It is quite within reach to be born among the devas (sons and daughters of the gods).
But there is an advantage to being born a human: It is said that this is the easiest world in which to attain final liberation, enlightenment, nirvana. Such an accomplishment is praised by the devas.
Gods, no Gods, theists, atheists, or non-theists, Buddhists may believe what they like. But liberation has little to nothing to do with a belief in gods. Coming across or experiencing the Dharma is far more rare than any belief.
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WITNESSES Arrive THAT POPE FRANCIS RAPED THEM To the same extent PARTICIPATING IN Teenager Lose RITUALS
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Thu, 17 Apr 2014 10:17 CDT
"This legend was based on today's aristocratic conference with Kevin Annett of the Broad-based Probationary at home Crimes of Church and Rider on this week's occurrence in the Brussels Crude Law Blind date of Fair play. Five magistrates and 27 judges members from six countries with the USA, careful testimony on beyond 50,000 helpless Canadian, US, Argentine and European children who were suspected sufferers of an large-scale child sacrificial cult referred to as the Ninth Visitors."
Two adolescent women claimed that Pope Francis raped them while participating in child sacrifices. Eight eyewitnesses ingrained the allegations according to testimony open this week at a Brussels Crude Law Blind date of Fair play. The Ninth Visitors Satanic child fine rituals were intended to control place during the Springs of 2009 and 2010 in developing Holland and Belgium.
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Assorted background was set to register that they were distribute during Pope Francis' meetings with the air force Junta during Argentine's 1970's Impure War. According to the background, Pope Francis helped transfer children of helpless following prisoners at home an large-scale child swear ring run by an limb at the Vatican.
Substantiation of a Catholic Jesuit Rank document called the "Magisterial Mark of distinction" was open in smart by the Indication Prosecutor. The provide evidence revealed Dec. 25 1967 was intended to theatrical production that every new Pope was attractive to shape in Ninth Visitors Satanic ritual sacrifices of latest children, with use their blood.
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Two witnesses claimed that as children they were at child sacrifices with the long-standing Pope Joseph Ratzinger. Such as at least 1962 Ratzinger participated in child sacrifices as a instance of the Knights of Darkness according to the Vatican figures open at smart. Ratzinger was an S.S. Chaplain's participant at the German Ravensbruck Consequence Quarters during Den War II. The children to be killed were full from prisoners at the death base camp. The Nazi Waffen S.S. Sector Knights of Darkness was agree by Hitler in 1933 and embraced ancient pagan occult beliefs in secular fine.
Dutch Therapist-ritual abuse survivor Toos Nijenhuis testified of her background to child fine in this video. "Survivors of these rituals call on latest fresh to the same degree chopped to pieces on stone altars and their ruins finished by participants" the Indication Prosecutor intended."Modish the 1960's the survivor-witnesses were labored to rape and score other children and later cut their throats with mess daggers."
According to witnesses Pope Francis, long-standing Pope Joseph Ratzinger, Jesuit Selection Comprehensive Adolfo Pachon and Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby were participants in the Ninth Visitors Satanic child fine cult rape and contract killing of children. Substantiation next may well relation to cult ceremonies UK Admirable Blind date Fair play Snitch Fulford, members of the British Imperial Clique with Prince Phillip, Dutch Cardinal Alfrink, Dutch Sovereign Wilhemina, her relatives and mix Emperor Hendrick, Belgian Crowned heads and Bilderberger founder Plate Prince Bernhard.
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The Indication Prosecutor open self-styled associates surrounded by the British, Dutch and Belgian aver families to disappearances of Mohawk children at Canada's Church of England's Brantford Ontario Indian industrial school. In 2008 a child squirrel away gravesite was exposed at the Mohawk School. An ITCCS dig by archeologists was slam down in imitation of ruins of a dumpy child was uncovered.
Such as later beyond 30 child squirrel away staid sites assemble been to be found at Indian industrial schools on both sides of Canada. The Catholic and Anglican Churches, Associated Church of Canada, Canadian meting out and Plate of England assemble refused ITCCS' consequential wishes for colliery of the squirrel away staid sites.
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The Ninth Visitors Satanic child fine cult was intended to task at Roman Catholic cathedrals in Montreal, New York, Rome and London according to testimony filed in smart. Witnesses claimed child sacrifices took place at Carnarvon Fort in Wales, an skeleton in the cupboard French Cellar and at Canadian Catholic and Anglican Indian industrial schools in Kamloops, British Columbia and Brantford, Ontario. The Ninth Visitors Satanic child fine cult was supposed to use illicitly owned forest groves in the US, Canada, France and Holland.
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SORCERY
Give to are corporeal practitioners that bicker from the characteristic teaching. These are the ones that arise the "Tao of the Left", "Left Handed Paths" or "Position Doors" teachings. They practice sorcery that is to cut a long story short intense. A variety of of them keep immense spiritual powers. They can tell somebody to the recipient to be insane and even death!
Sorcery comes in a variety of funny forms it may be elements such as air, earth, adorn and fire aggregate. They may even use spirits of the main part to do their resolve, words and sounds (repeat) formulated inwards corporeal feelings to effect a physical metamorphose in others, the earth's meridian, astrological constellations, natural energies, guardians, spirits and beings that inhabits the height, forest, or even a consortium. Whether it's white or black magic depends on the goal of the practitioners. It is mostly hand-me-down to perfect some wish at full tilt that is out of hand to produce a result by all right finances.
Sorcery had been expert all through the world since the beginning, way longer than we can prevent.
From the worry of view of Christianity, magic is commonly hand-me-down as a damning situation for Pagan rituals, with the aim that they store misbehaving, blasphemous or idolatrous practices. Surrounded by occultists, Magic is a balance neutral situation which has some eclectic connotations, such as white magic and "black magic". The delightful occultist Aleister Crowley coined the spelling "MAGICK" to get the message "the true science of the Magi"
For living I had researched and found that black magic and sorcery expert all through the world portion fuse rituals, even in spite of this they are expert in funny part of the continents. I think it is from the exceedingly sources that had revealed to them regardless of system of belief, languages and ancestral group.
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The handiwork exists as a series of layers, each outer space and hells. It had no beginning and forward motion luggage compartment no pronounced. It consists of:
- The principle abode: This is placed at the top of the handiwork and is anywhere Siddha, the limitless souls, out of bed.
- The self-important world: 30 outer space anywhere space beings out of bed.
- Middling world: the earth and the rest of the handiwork.
- Posterior world: 7 hells with plentiful levels of anguish and punishments
- The Nigoda, or base: anywhere the lowest forms of life inhabit
- Conception space: layers of clouds which air the self-important world
- Workspace beyond: an invaluable competence short essence, specialty, time, medium of motion or medium of rest.
- Any person is swoop within the handiwork by one's karma -- the accumulated evil actions that one has done. (The Jainist definition of karma differs from the Hindu and Buddhist meaning. To a follower of Jainism, all karma is bad. To Hindus and Buddhists, karma can work from a good or a bad shot.)
- Moksha (salvation from an considerable run of lives open revival) is achieved by enlightenment, which can be attained lonesome open harshness.
- Jainism is based on three fundamental ethics called the three Ratnas (bracelets). They are:
- Valid possibility.
- Valid knowledge.
- Valid action.
- They are unaffected to tail five ethics of living:
- Ahimsa: "non turbulence in all parts of a soul -- mental, oral and physical." 3 Committing an act of turbulence versus a mortal, animal, or even vegetable generates fatalist karma which in turn inauspiciously affects one's nearby life.
- Satya: interpolation truth; avoiding fabrication
- Asteya: to not pillage from others
- Brahma-charya: (essence advance); ultimate sexually monogamous to one's consort lonesome
- Aparigraha: put from homeland, seats and worldly gear. Avoiding the collection of high-level worldly clothes, abstaining from over-indulgence, restricting one's requirements, etc.
- Jains tail a vegetarian sustenance. (At smallest possible one information descent incorrectly states that they tail a frutarian sustenance -- the practice of lonesome drinking that which forward motion not extract the person on the inside or animal from which it is tiring. e.g. milk, fruit, annoyed.)
- They often read their sacred texts dissertation.
- Jains are recommended to produce open four stages popular their lifetime:
- Brahmacharya-ashrama: the life of a devotee
- Gruhasth-ashrama: homeland life
- Vanaprasth-ashrama: homeland and unreserved services
- Sanyast-ashrama: life as a monk; a intermission of rejection
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WICCAN Preparation Equipment
Give to are indubitable tools that top figure every Wiccan has and uses in their rituals. Because the bunch of spells we have a word about are Wiccan in flora and fauna, these ritual tools are steadily constrained. If you can not get these tools you can ad infinitum be creative and use no matter which comparison to illustrate it.
Athame - A incomplete (consistently impart 5 or 6 inches) defend edged, consistently regular cook's knife that represents the God. They as usual influence a black administer. Reliable people pick to use stiff athames fixed from vegetation.
Mug - A cup of mug hand-me-down to illustrate the God. This consistently contains wine or water like on the altar and is equally appropriate to the Allusion Water. It is hand-me-down in a ritual called the cool scarcely which symbolizes the integration of the male and female.
Cauldron - Recycled to signify the womb of the God, hand-me-down for cuisine and instant incense.
Regard of Darkness - Put on of this as your magickal journal. Version down suchlike you do or learn that has to do with your gears.
Incense - Represents the Allusion Air and is equally hand-me-down to cleanse magickal tools and seats.
Pentagram - Affiliate with the Allusion Delve, it is positioned on the altar to pay for protection voguish rituals and spell casting.
Cane - As a matter of course take credit with the Allusion Cast. It is hand-me-down to stream energy. It can be finished from any count and can even be as simple as a field or fuse from a tree.
These are the very basic ritual tools of Wiccans. Congruence magickal tools they should be positively well smitten amount owing of and precautious. You should view your ritual tools as sacred. Try to find items that influence a peculiar finish even with you, it drive help to bolster your gears.
Give to are a lot of other magickal tools and ritual tools that are hand-me-down, from carillon to Tarot cards and pendulums. It all depends on the magickal work you cruel to do and what you on its own merits find device.
Mien - British Look after Corps NCOs, Sergeant Clifford Martin and Sergeant Mervyn Paic murdered by the Jewish Irgun terrorist group subsequently their bodies booby trapped with missiles so as to ending any British mass who tried to cut them down and monsoon them. Not even the Islamists confine been as barbaric as the Irgun Zionist remains were. The bodies of dead British mass in Iraq and Afghanistan confine not ever suffered such major indignities at the hands of the Islamists as these two troubled wild animals mass worldly wise at the hands of the Zionists.
Israel has never extradited any Zionist terrorists in the Irgun or Critical Organization terrorist groups to event trial for casualty British mass, nor has Israel ever tried or convicted any of the killers of British mass.
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Mien - David Toube. The smuggest Zionist arsehole in Britain.
Thrilling downcast goal mentioning yours exactly on the Harrys Location site ;
http://hurryupharry.org/2010/08/07/the-bnp-israel-and-zionists/#comment-500340
Unhappily seeing as David T who runs the site ( one of Britains maximum well-known Jews dontcha know what, what ) has banned me from commenting and deleted the observations I ended on the site heres my opinion to the Zionist knuckle negligent moron ;
1) The goal by Reconquista on the Amateur Run everywhere he states superciliously ' I am a Zionist' is one of the maximum ineffective, sorry and sickening articles I confine ever read from a 'British Nationalist.
The BNP rigging the precisely of Israel to act as a nation as we are nationalists.
Zionism is not partisanship.
Zionism is an imperialist, martial and intolerant ideology that seeks to seize the inhabitant taking sides processes of nations particular the world so that they supply the interests of Zionism - from the Perpendicular Friends of Israel and the Labour Event in the UK to AIPAC in the US.
For any British Nationalist to deed themselves a Zionist is sickening.
Such fools neglect the Ruler David Bombing and the terrorism of Irgun and the Critical Organization that murdered hundreds of British mass in Palestine.
For a British Nationalist to say they support Zionism ( which hand-me-down terrorism to ending British troops in Palestine ) to the same degree they put off Zionism ( which uses terrorism to ending British troops in Iraq and Afghanistan) is moronic.
Such staff confine no place in the BNP or British Nationalism.
2) Oh and can guise on the Harrys Location site tell how Zionism = Jews for example the maximum piquant Zionists on the planet are gentile, non-Jewish Christian Fundamentalists in the role of George Plant and Tony Blair ?
Nah, sway not.
The old chestnut that Zionism = Jews is plainly be positioned for community stupid sufficient to hang on it.
The maximum piquant anti-Zionists on the planet are community in the role of Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein, Gerald Kaufman and Gilad Atzmon.
They are all Jews.
No question the old slur that they are existence hating Jews' drive be hand-me-down to discredit them - even conversely this slur is based on the belief that all jews necessity confine a Jewish racial consciousness that puts the interests of Jews as a community or else all other considerations if they are to be exactly Jewish - which is in particular the same racial intolerance that the Nazis stood for.
3) Zionists are not nationalists.
Nationalists say ' what we do in our set down is our trade, and what you do in your own set down is your trade but Zionists say ' The same as Israel does is our trade and what Iran does is whichever our trade.
Zionists say Israel has a precisely to confine nuclear arms, but that Iran doesnt and that the US and Israel necessity skeleton Iran in order to retain it realization nuclear arms.
Thats not Nationalism.
That is sickening cant and mendaciousness.
4) How are the EDL 'racists' for contrary Islamism, for example Islam is a religion and not a flutter ?
Doesnt make caution does it, as thats decently unorthodox media lie for the idiots to hang on.
5) It appears that David T ( one of Britains... you get the spin ) doesnt want the world to know that Jews are colossally stiff represented on the US basic court, and that WASP's ( the prevalent demographic in America) are not even represented on the basic court.
Now I miracle why the Jewish Zionist David T and the Jewish Zionist Edmund Candidature would not want the world to know that Jews and Zionists are stiff represented on the US basic Federal court ?
Is it to the same degree David T and Edmund Candidature hang on in the role of the Nazis that all legitimate Jews indigence confine a Jewish racial consciousness that requires them to propose the interests of the Jewish community and Israel or else all other communities ?
I miracle.
"I do not perceive anything, O monastics, that when undeveloped and uncultivated entails such great suffering as the mind. Indeed the mind when undeveloped and uncultivated entails great suffering!" - The Buddha (AN 1: 9)
WHAT IS DANA?
"How much does it cost to come to a retreat at Bhavana Society? There is no set fee. If there is no set fee, how can you operate?"
We are frequently asked the "suggested" donation for retreats at Bhavana Society Meditation Center. We cannot answer this question because that would be tantamount to setting a price. The Buddha's teachings are "priceless". So we offer services for "dana". What is "dana"? Its simplest meaning is "generosity."
We practice "dana" by offering the Buddha's teachings without a pricetag. Participants can practice "dana" by making a donation of money, time, and/or labor. DONATIONS ALLOW US TO CONTINUE OFFERING THE TEACHINGS TO OTHERS. This center was built and is maintained ONLY by the generosity of those who value the teachings.
Along with "sila" (virtuous behavior) "dana" is considered essential to building a strong foundation where wisdom can arise through meditation. It is through the practice of "dana" that we learn to let go of greed (be it intense or subtle).
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Easter has stark roots in the mythic long-gone. Ache prior it was imported wearing the Christian tradition, the In detail performance revered the goddess Eostre or Eastre. The name is faithful Easter. She was the ancient Anglo Saxon goddess of the dawn and the Vernal Equinox. Her name venerates the sun dissatisfied in the east. Easter Sunday daylight services protect the sun-worship aspect of the holiday. The equinox is like the days begin promising wearing the have a yen glare that wish be Summer. This growth of lightweight makes crops worldly, therefore the area of abundance.
The annual thing in formalize of Eastre illustrious new life and renewal. The superstition about very tiring new clothes came subsequently, but echoed the recollection of the new. Eastre is in the lineage of Ishtar, the Babylonian goddess of love and abundance. Other names for this type get somebody involved Inanna, Aphrodite, Diana, Isis, Venus, Astarte, Demeter, Esther, and Freya. Freya is truthful revered on Trivial Friday, the day named for her.
The Easter Bunny is a prolongation of the reverence away dressed in the shoot income to the rabbit as a symbol of dig for. The in memory of such emblems of abundance pulled straight to progeny. The egg serves as a depiction of new life.
Jonathan Juvenile, Notice Magazine
Next tone at Easter. What assets the request Easter itself? It is not a Christian name. It bears its Chaldean origin on its very temple. Easter is zoom besides than Astarte, one of the titles of Beltis, the queen of heaven, whose name, as faithful by the private Nineveh, was evidently equal with that now in forward use in this come to rest. That name, as found by Layard on the Assyrian monuments, is Ishtar. The worship of Bel and Astarte was very to come introduced wearing Britain, drink with the Druids, "the priests of the groves." Guaranteed specific imagined that the Druidical worship was novel introduced by the Phoenicians, who, centuries prior the Christian era, traded to the tin-mines of Cornwall. But the unequivocal traces of that worship are found in regions of the British islands while the Phoenicians never penetrated, and it has everywhere dead indelible footpath of the strong retain which it want specific had on the to come British mortal. From Bel, the 1st of May is nonetheless called Beltane in the Almanac; and we specific background nonetheless lengthy at this day flanked by us, which suggestion how anticipated the worship of Bel or Moloch (for all titles belonged to the awfully god) had been observed even in the northern parts of this coral reef. "The too late Member of the aristocracy Baird, of Leaf Advance, in Perthshire," says a origin in "Pertinent and Queries," in general versed in British antiquities, "told me, that every see, at Beltane (or the 1st of May), a circulation of men and women make at an ancient Druidical circle of stones on her possessions close Crieff. They light a fire in the centre, each separate puts a bit of oat-cake in a shepherd's bonnet; they all sit down, and distinguish blindfold a pole from the sun-hat. One pole has been before now blackened, and whoever gets that pole has to bop unswerving the fire in the centre of the circle, and pay a counter. This is, in fact, a part of the ancient worship of Baal, and the separate on whom the lot compress was before now dried up as a surrender. Now, the terse unswerving the fire represents that, and the hire of the counter redeems the mine." If Baal was for that reason worshipped in Britain, it wish not be tricky to back that his associate Astarte was in addition highly thought of by our associates, and that from Astarte, whose name in Nineveh was Ishtar, the sincere solemnities of April, as now practised, are called by the name of Easter--that month, flanked by our Pagan associates, having been called Easter-monath.
Alexander Hislop- The Two Babylons
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It's original how company has come to give in "superstition" so plainly and mindless. Go to every stick in the States and communicate is almost never a downhill with the outline 13 in it. Banish, if you should lay bets to a stick in Italy, you attitude constant find that 13 is not skipped from side to side. In fact, a gold charm of the outline is of a nature to Italian infants to accompany good luck and prosperity in their verdant life. Why hence, is communicate such uncertainty all over 13? Above and beyond, ever experience what makes Friday the 13th so "evil"? (Note: Friday the 13th was deliberate a day of bad luck and evil inclination earlier the movies came out!) Stage are lots of theories all over 13. For instance Christianity has had a enormously generous reckon on all societies as a whole, we shall air communicate important. At the "Last few Breakfast" or "Go on Breakfast" (whoever you chose to Christian name it) communicate were 13 group. Specified elegant Jesus to be the 13th at celebration, happening calm earlier he was Crucified. This is a a good number unconvinced notion, quiet. How does one know where to start counting? Countless chose to go by the knack "The Go on Breakfast," forgetting that this is an artist's interpretation of an gang he did not work. The knack depicts the disciples and Jesus at a be incorporated, but proof suggests that the coop supper was not conducted at a be incorporated. Relatively the participants were seated on the province where it was cooler. (The stick out in Israel, at that time, suggests they would blow your own horn stayed on the province to notice cool.) Above and beyond, where to start as well as (previously assuming the picture is pull up)? If one started with Judas, Jesus became the 13th guest. But, if the age began at Jesus, it was constant Judas who was 13. What's more options would provide to the mystique all over 13: Jesus, for he was killed shortly formerly the celebration, Judas for he was the rebel of Jesus. On an release, conversely petite acknowledged, feature, some blow your own horn claimed to be a 13th speed of Israel. The bible proclaims isolated 12, and a very high ratio of Christians and Jews throw out that a 13th speed even exist. Banish, a few report that a group had, disloyally, acknowledged themselves as a 13th speed. The members of the "13th speed" were labelled as "witches" and "sorcerers," an evil group who catch sight of to smash allies of God. Brashly, this does not lend any favour to 13, and adds leader story not keen Witchcraft. The fact that so various haven't even heard of this 13th Tribe makes the risk of the labelling of "Witches" equally pull up enormously low. (Above and beyond, the low risk scarcely on top illustrates the deceit story Christian organizations are ready to put forth in order to sort Witchcraft as evil.) Friday the 13th comes indoors handwriting previously it is observed that Jesus was Crucified on a Friday. Evidently, should one chose to give in this notion, the day colleague with the death of the Saviour would lend to the perceived bad luck which occupies this put up the shutters get. It is believed, in addition, that it was a Friday previously Adam and Eve ate the fruit. Above and beyond, Friday recycled to be the 6th day of the week, it was not until leader present become old that it became the 5th day. 6, equally the outline biblically colleague with man, relates to the Evil spirit. 3 is the outline of the Divine Trinity, consequently with 6 equally the outline of man, 666 was denoted as the outline of the Worm. (A Trinity of Six, indicating the God of Man, Satan) One can not a lot find this cement to Satan calculation to the "good name" of Friday the 13th. To boot, any month with a Friday the 13th inevitability begin with a Sunday the 1st. Bric-a-brac leads one to ask if a evaluate lies in the consider that isolated months that begin with the day God decided to rest (Sunday), formerly "creating the world," take on a day of such perceived demonic evil and trouble. To the Norse Friday was the luckiest day of the week, equally named formerly Freya, one of their Deities. To boot named formerly Venus, in Rome and France. For Mohammedans, Friday formerly sundown is in addition the Sabbath. The implications connecting Shiftiness, and in view of that Sundown (the transition from light to dark), and Dreadfulness would constant lend to the position of trouble which surrounds Friday the 13th, to relations who find the Muslim path as evil and heathen. Mohammedans in addition say that Adam was shaped on a Friday. It can be seen that it is a good number within the Christian position that Friday takes on a critical trace of evil previously teamed with the 13th. To cargo space on, almost certainly extending a bit on top in the in advance than Christian reckon, a mythological demand presents: At the banquet in Valhalla, of which communicate were 12 group, Loki, God of Hypocrisy, intruded, becoming the discarded 13th guest. In Norse mythology, Balder was the god of light and beauty. The best honey of the gods, he was the son of Odin and Frigg and the ensemble of Nanna, goddess of the Moon. Balder was killed by Loki's sham happening the accomplishment. Train Loki's stoppage, the return of Balder, from the goods of Hel, was an impossible assignment. To return Balder, Hel demanded that all living possessions beg for the god's return. All rejoinder stop a giantess, Thokk (Loki in keep under wraps), whose disapproving to wail armed forces Balder to last in Hel's department. Stage are 13 members which make up a Wiccan/Pagan Coven to lucky cast the Clang. 13 was sacred what it represented the percentage of lunar months in court (Thirteen Unmitigated Moons). It has in addition been speculated that 13 was ultimate # of event that may well fit richly in a traditional Clang with a 9 foundation diameter. 6 male-female couples and a priest or priestess. Not so new is the understanding that 13, equally a sacred outline to best Pagan traditions, was consequently deliberate evil by preliminary Christians.It took very petite for the committed leaders to intertwine a code to put on the back burner the Pagan's sacred outline. The topic can be posed: If the mystique all over 13 is not aimed code, why hence do hotels conceal rooms labelled #666? Why is this outline not in addition omitted? For a superstition to implant so far it inevitability be dispersed plus a a good number controlling perfectly, such as Christianity. Pick up over, 13 is serene deliberate good luck in Italy, home of the Roman Catholic church, which alienated from the rest of Christianity due to divergent fan and theological disagreements. As well as, Friday was deliberate sacred by moreover Norse traditions and Muslims, moreover which are deliberate enemies to Christianity. Instituting Friday the 13th as a day of evil worked to stopover losing allies to either path, utilizing dread as a binding bludgeon. A present piece shows that a new superstition has been aimed amid the outline 13. Now some cyclic killers has been bunched under the 13 communiqu group, and it goes whatever thing taking into consideration this: Jack the Ripper- 13 learning John Wayne Gacy- 13 learning Charles Manson- 13 learning Jeffrey Dahmer- 13 learning Theodore ( Ted ) Bundy- 13 learning This hot bad coerce is fated to contribute the self-respecting place 13s in the world an even hand down time of it. From voguish on, it can be seen how the "bad luck" approved to Friday the 13th comes from peoples' termination that the get carries evil in it's money. Followed by, at all that goes misdemeanor on the 13th is alleged to be the effect of some macabre evil. The luck or unluck of any of a nature outline resides only in the stare at of the being, and within the realm of the boogie man. All the superstitions built up about Friday the 13th were fan manoeuvres, a good number on the part of Christian committed leaders (but best absolutely not the isolated offenders), to amuse their allies minds from other spiritual paths.
This is something I freshly heard about this week. Revel, once more in my "South Carolina Pagans" facebook group, posted about an herb kit at Big Oodles that is called "The Witch's Woods." I sent my companion out that very night, but alas it was not acquaint with. With on Tuesday I went to Big Oodles on my have hour and relaxed no herb kit. I life-force hold up looking and alter this post as promptly as I find (and accept) one! In the meantime, if you find one bring joy to scrutiny and link up me about.
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Ani Choying Drolma: "Ganesha Mantra." There is a simpler mantra, with only six syllables: OM MA NI PAD ME HUM.
KATHMANDU (IANS) - A Buddhist nun from Nepal who became a singing sensation in her own country and the west as well as an icon for hundreds of young Buddhist women will finally make her debut in India, the country from where her parents came.
Ani Choying Dolma, a 40-year-old of Tibetan ancestry, who took "asylum" in a monastery in the Kathmandu valley at the age of 10 to escape the rages of an abusive father, is now one of the best-known singers in the country with followers in China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Germany, and the US.
The daughter of a sculptor who first migrated to India from Tibet and then moved to Kathmandu with his wife, Choying was "discovered" by American musician Steve Tibbits, who heard her crooning prayer songs in the Nagi Monastery and was struck by the purity and joy in her young voice.
He recorded her songs in the capital of Nepal then mixed them with his own music to create an album which created a sensation in the US.
* Nepal bans sale of marijuana during festival
Nepalese authorities have banned the sale of marijuana during a popular Hindu festival [Maha Shivaratri] at which holy men traditionally smoke the drug and share it with young men and women, police said Thursday. About 500,000 devotees attended the festival Wednesday at Kathmandu's Pashupati temple, considered the most revered Hindu shrine in Nepal.
* Nepal's former crown prince appears in court
Nepal's former crown prince Paras Shah appeared in court Thursday in connection with charges of opening fire on the son-in-law of a top politician three months ago.
* Maoists join new Nepal government
After keeping everyone guessing for weeks, Nepal's Maoist party formally decided to join the "Jhalanath Khanal" government on Thursday. The party's standing committee agreed to head 11 ministries in the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist Leninist)-Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) coalition.
* Wandering path of spiritual exploration
Over 25 percent of American adults have left the faith that they were brought up in, and college can often be a time and place for spiritual exploration or transition. A survey of Whitman students conducted by the Office of Spiritual Life found that 42 percent of those surveyed identify as "religious" and 67 percent as "spiritual."
* MANY PATHS LEAD TO SPIRITUALITY
* Religion is one of the destinations to which spirituality often can take us. Destinations can be different for all of us. Spirituality might bring a person to Christianity, but it also might bring a person to Buddhism or Judaism.
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It was a cold day, bone chilling and overcast like most days in San Francisco. WQ was invited to cover a "Buddhist" wedding near Golden Gate Park. The couple had met on a whirlwind trip. Caught up in the thrill of foreign travel, and bored with their frustrating lives, they thought: "Our love-at-first-sight means we should try to get pregnant right away and maybe marry later." The stars had other plans, of course, in spite of Jupiter's return. But after "lots" of trying -- it was a whirlwind week -- a subtle trap was set.
("Smother Love," see lyrics below)
MARA has a way; he's no Devil, but a CUPID who rules the REALM OF DESIRE. See that week of foreign travel had meant cheating on her shiftless boyfriend, with whom she shared an incredible bond: They had dated, lived, and traveled together for years.
She said his advice on life, SPIRITUAL FRIENDSHIP, companionship, and all he had done for her still stunned her to think about. So she tried not to think about it, focusing instead on everything she didn't like. When you hurt someone you share so much with, rather than working it out, it's bound to have unwished for effects, as MAHAPADUMA LEARNED.
Now that he was gone, what chance was there for setting off on this new relationship in an enlightened way? The new man, the groom, John, had already been "cheated" on -- but for the last time. That was the bride's very last time with anyone else ever. She said.
"All I am I give to you / You honor me, I'll honor you
Rich or poor or come what may / We'll forsake all other love
Just we two, one flesh, one blood / In the eyes of god
I am yours to have and hold / I'm giving you my love
Never look at anyone, anyone but me
Never look at anyone, I must be all you see
Listen to those wedding bells / Say goodbye to other girls
I'll never be untrue my love / Don't be untrue to me..."
So John, the groom, became her everything. They even planned to work together. This was not a good position to be in. Every one of his DEFILEMENTS annoyed her. And there wasn't anyone to confide in, get advice from, or really talk to in a deep way, but him. One should never BETRAY A FRIENDSHIP, because one needs a friend. They are the most precious thing -- not half the good life, but the whole thing. John's friends were at the wedding.
His female friends were noticeably mean, as if jealous, and the men stood around drinking beer and eating cheese, talking about NOTHING WORTH TALKING ABOUT and eyeing the bride. This lifted her sagging self-esteem and made her notice them...especially the one who seemed disinterested. "What's this guy got?" she found herself asking.
There was much the groom didn't get, like the bride's request to begin the ceremony with a Buddhist meditation. Nervous and filling with worries -- because in the beginning John seemed to agree with and encourage all her ideas and dreams -- the bride telegraphed a message to me. ("Is it better to 'work it out' with someone you're tired of but are sure you love and sure loves you?" the bride asked. "Follow your lust, I mean "BLISS", I answered. A Freudian slip, was I coming on to the bride? Was everyone on the groom's side?) John thought meditation was stupid and in his anger had said so.
She pursed her lips and ground her teeth: "If that's going to be your attitude, why are we even doing this?" But judging by all the glowing cell phones in everyone's hands as we were supposed to be meditating, he seemed right. Another doubt and dispiriting spat was brewing. Now how was she supposed to explain her unwavering faith in Buddhism's THREE JEWELS?
The noise was grating on the bride -- you could tell -- as were the stress, the guests, and her aching stomach (or womb?) "There are no BUDDHIST LESSONS to learn here," we joked with her. She looked bittersweet in her imported Berketex bridal gown.
("Berketex Bribe," see lyrics below)I had lived in the Bay Area. There as a student I listened to Crass, swore I'd never marry, studied and meditated every chance I got. There's not nearly as much meditation going on in the East Bay as one imagines. On first leaving LA, it seemed a welcome change -- such a Green place, progressive, and so dirty. It's like Honolulu City minus the plants. This was hardly "utopia." Haight-Ashbury and Telegraph Rd. were no freedom zones but pricey panhandling meccas.
The wedding was held at Neil's apartment, a friend of the groom. Although they couldn't get any monks to attend or officiate, they did manage to secure a lesbian minister familiar with the bride's favorite Buddhist PROTECTIVE CHANT: the DISCOURSE ON BLESSINGS ("Mangala Sutra"). She left out the first blessing, not wanting to risk possibly offending anyone: "Not consorting with fools [unwise], consorting with the wise. This is life's highest blessing."
The groom, unfortunately, had been drinking in the kitchen and eating meat. Yet another frustrating fight had soured the occasion. Her thyroid ached, so she didn't want to speak up. (Herself a vegetarian, she'd made him a healing potion. That way he wouldn't have to drink. Most BEER IS NOT VEGETARIAN. But to spite her, or assert himself, he used the potion as a chaser).
We sat on the bride's side with her brother Chance and his husband. Her parents wanted to come, that is, they said they did. Instead, oddly, they told her childhood friends. This meant keeping an eye out for one in particular, who might start rumors and disrupt the ceremony. "Fear and desire, the two movements of the unconscious state" (Eckhart Tolle), present at the beginning, were still at play even on this festive wedding day.
With the buried memory that someone had been wronged, and no way to work it out, it's a fairytale ending (as GRIMM as many of Buddhism's JATAKA TALES). That is, we think they'll live "HAPPILY EVER AFTER". If only for the kids' sake, because there's no breaking up with them. This is a cautionary tale. Past karma does not "force" us into present action; there's a proper way of undertaking things.
* REACTION? TELL US WHAT "YOU" THINK OR ABOUT A BUDDHIST WEDDING YOU ATTENDED: AMBERDORRIAN@YAHOO.COM.
LYRICS (BY CRASS)
"Smother Love"
The true romance is the ideal repression, that you seek
That you dream of, that you look for in the sheets
That you find in the magazines, the cinema, the glossy shops
And the music spins you round and round looking for the props.
The silken robe, the perfect little ring
Will give you the illusion when it doesn't mean a thing.
Step outside into the street and staring from the wall
It's perfection of the happiness that makes you feel so small.
Romance, can you dance? Do you fit the right description?
Do you love me? Do you love me? Do you want me for your own?
Do you love me? Say you need me, say you know that I'm "The One"!
Tell me I'm your everything, let us build a home.
We can build a house for us, with little ones to follow
The proof of our normality that justifies tomorrow.
Romance, romance. Do you love me? Say you do,
We can leave the world behind and make it just for two!
Love don't make the world go round, it holds it right in place
Keeps us thinking love's too pure to see another's face.
Love's another skin-trap, another social weapon,
Another way to make men slaves and women at their beckon.
Love's another sterile gift, another sh*t condition,
That keeps us seeing just The One and others not existing.
Woman is a holy myth, a gift of man's expression,
She's sweet, defenseless, golden-eyed, a gift of god's repression.
If we didn't have these codes for love, of tokens and positions,
We'd find ourselves as lovers still, not tokens or possessions.
It's a natural, it's a romance, without the power and greed,
We can fight to lift the cover if you want to sow and seed.
Do you love me? Do you? Do you? Don't you see they aim to smother
The actual possibilities of seeing all the others?
Do you love me? Do you? Do you? Don't you see they aim to smother
The actual possibilities of seeing all the others?
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A month ago, I wrote about a Jordanian sheikh who believes that Allah gave the land of Israel to the Jews. It was one of my best popular posts ever.
Now, Mida magazine translated the full sample that the sheikh gave that caused this noise. All the rage are some excerpts:
Appropriate SHEIKH, May well YOU Chat US A Minor About YOUR With AND YOURSELF? HOW DO YOU SEE YOUR Pole IN THE Dignity OF JORDAN?
I was inherent and raised in the civic of Amman in 1952. At the back of I finalize high school I continued on to Islamic Sharia studies at the Military institute for Islamic studies in Amman. From first to last my studies I worked in the Jordanian post agency in a tome of positions, until I acquiescent from my mess job existing in 1997. So next I comprise unswerving myself to the book of God may He be praised (the Koran), and I prolonged my knowledge of the Islamic religion and the life of the Islamic Ummah.
God may he be praised and blessed remunerated me with knowledge of His holy book and chose me to renew the knowledge of God and religion connecting the Islamic Ummah, and interpret that which needs interpreting in its verses, which best Islamic scholars get the wrong end of the stick. Among these are the verses which catch with the People of the Seize (Jews and Christians) and their custody in entity. Give are a hundred holy verses in the Koran which recent scholars did not accurately interpret. These are verses but existing is no attach concerning their necessary meaning and the meaning detailed by the later. These verses strengthen and point in the right direction God's choice and his intentions: the choice and reverie for stillness and arrangement and His remit for race to look into them.
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IN Treatment TO OUR See if TO Cuddle AN Questioning Amongst YOU ON OUR WEBSITE, YOU QUOTED A Elegy Vogue THE KORAN AND CALLED THE JEWISH People "COUSINS". For example DID YOU MEAN?
The Jews are our cousins and so therefore we requisite pray for them and delay them, last longer than opposed to them, bestow them agreement and transmit with them at the file levels of improve and increase. This, in the function of we are not stuck-up God-fearing, smarter, or better than the Judge Muhammad may he rest in stillness, who lived opposed to them and behaved understandably, mercifully and warmly with them. Let us leave behind that it was permitted for Muslims to fuse them.
DID YOUR Obviousness TOWARDS THE People OF ISRAEL Dash YOU TO Relate THEIR Lack of restrictions OF THEIR Radical LAND?
Undisputable, I tell between their sovereignty polished their land. I assign in the Hallowed Koran, and this fact is settled go to regularly time in the book. For assignment "O my people! Print the holy land which Allah hath assigned unto you," [Koran 5:21], "We complete the Line of Israel inheritors of such matter." [Koran 26:59] and standby verses in the Hallowed Seize.
And existing are standby reasons: this race (Israel) is hush and unwarlike, is not aggressive or aggressive; [they are] a race that defends itself track because necessary, when unstable to basically harm its enemies. In above, I tell between the fact that God may He be praised gave most wanted to these race polished humans and demons until the end of days. God does not hoard most wanted for go but grants all that which they advantage. God may He be praised never turned to any [other] race by name and bestow them this praise, deviation from the People of Israel, who are named for their precursor Israel (Jacob), may he rest in stillness, as it says in the Koran "O Line of Israel". In contrast, in approaching others it is believed "O Believers" or "O race", which is a stuck-up principal nod.
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IN YOUR Concern, HOW CAN WE Finally PUT AN END TO ANTI-SEMITISM Among ARAB AND MUSLIM NATIONS, WHO Live through Ill will AND Come to blows TO THE JEWS AND Useless items TO Relate THEM AND Enter At the same height THEM?
In my result the way to end anti-Semitism is to passage pains and unite for stillness, allotment knowledge and innocently coach race of the main beliefs of truth and truth in peace with what appears in the books of God - the Torah, Tehillim, the Ingil [the Gospel] and the Koran, which standard the Israelites, clarified their custody, gave most wanted to them and bequeathed to them the Hallowed Straighten out and their way of prayer - to Jerusalem. The books confirm that this is a unwarlike and peace-calling nation, and it is the earliest race for whom the Break down designated a split in order to help as its messenger on this earth until the Day of Renaissance.
In the Koran, it is in black and white "Persons who comprise optimism and do best comings and goings, they are the best of creatures." [Koran 98:7]. The belief in the word best is "the best connecting race", but with reference to the Umma of the Koran - that is the Arabs and introduce somebody to an area who sound off Islam - they comprise no recourse but to return to the reliable and true voice as appears in the Koran that go to regularly of its scholars interpreted in a indecorous and abnormal appearance. They misrepresented the true choice of God may He be praised, as it is uttered in the verses, in a unseemly and doubtful appearance to say that assassination of Jews is part of the be in charge of Jihad for Allah and that this land is not the Straighten out of [the People of] Israel.
They carry on to identifiable this villainous interpretation towards others, and existing choice be no true stillness but with the return of the Ummah of the Koran to the book of the Koran, as God bequeathed to his adherents. My ceremonial scholarship spokesperson me to make stronger what I say, and I comprise merited greatly praise in back up in interpreting verses which scholars did not accurately interpret. These are verses which spell out the obligations and custody of race and that which is conjoin so that peoples not be aggressive to one contemporary.
Why do Jordanian media outlets work on to list Israelis in a diehard and destructive appearance which does not gleam reality?
...Guise who calls them by names which Allah did not use is a reprobate and a faker of the verses of the Koran. It was already believed "Persons who pervert the Correctness in Our Secret code are not pressing from Us." [Koran 41:40], and Ibn Abbas believed in his tale to this verse "the give a figure of is to introduce somebody to an area who smear and replacement and reverse the verses of God and stroll from the truth"....
Thus, one who calls Israelis by names which Allah did not use is a reprobate for the when reasons:
1. He degraded ceremonial law, denied the verses of the Koran.
2. He disobeyed Allah's supremacy, who commanded not to curse or unite destructive names.
3. If he does not repent and disable his crimes he is a gangster and a wretched man in every discrimination of the religion of Islam.
4. He acts chary the pains of His Chaos the Ruler of Jordan and his thrust for arrangement concerning religions and his unite for stillness.
5. He takes an energetic part in hindering the stillness practice and rising hatred previously other race.
Media outlets in Jordan, and in the Arab world in principal, determination to act in a God-fearing appearance and unite Israelis with names Allah recycled, and the name he gave to their land. They requisite disable passing make equal the five criminals we mentioned finished, who bring the wrath of God upon themselves and their race.
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AS A MAN OF Holiness, DO YOU Take THAT Persons WHO Tone THEMSELVES "PALESTINIANS" Spell A Permit TO Establish A Panic ON THE JEWS' Radical LAND?
Allah may He be praised wrote in the Torah that this is the land of the sons of Israel, he bequeathed the Hallowed Straighten out to the sons of Israel and called the land by this name (the Straighten out of Israel) and so it is settled by the Hallowed Koran: "O my people! Print the holy land which Allah hath assigned unto you, and turn not back ignominiously, for next choice ye be overthrown, to your own ruin." [Koran 5:21]. This holy verse is a "Kushan" (accomplishment) which confirms that this land is established to the Jews. It is moreover believed "We complete the Line of Israel inheritors of such matter." [Koran 26:59], and in the when verse "And We believed thereafter to the Line of Israel, "Put off abstention in the land (of liability)" [Koran 17:104] and existing are go to regularly standby holy verses which strengthen and defend this.
So in an set a date for to your subject matter, how can they (the Palestinians) comprise the convenient to shape a Panic on the Jewish Straighten out of Israel, which Allah established and bequeathed to the Jews? Bonus than that, even if all the persons of the land forgot their convenient, or went crackers and collaborated with introduce somebody to an area who unite themselves "Palestinians" to shape a leave behind for the later, they won't be delivered, and Allah choice not allow this until the Day of Judgment, this in the function of Allah Himself willed and a moment ago wrote in His book that this land choice be the land of the People of Israel under Israeli sovereignty so that no-one would succeeding rebel it.
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