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[https://www.esv.org/Proverbs+20:9;Ecclesiastes+7:20;Romans+3:23;James+3:2;1+John+1:8;1+John+1:10/ All Have Sinned]<br> | [https://www.esv.org/Proverbs+20:9;Ecclesiastes+7:20;Romans+3:23;James+3:2;1+John+1:8;1+John+1:10/ All Have Sinned]<br> | ||
— Proverbs 20:9; Ecclesiastes 7:20; Romans 3:23; James 3:2; 1 John 1:8; 1 John 1:10 | — Proverbs 20:9; Ecclesiastes 7:20; Romans 3:23; James 3:2; 1 John 1:8; 1 John 1:10 | ||
[https://archive.org/details/feastsoflord0000howa The Feasts of the Lord: God’s Prophetic Calendar from Calvary to the Kingdom] | Archive.org<br> | |||
[https://archive.org/details/bakerencyclopedi0000hepp/page/n3/mode/2up Baker Encyclopedia of Bible Plants: Flowers and Trees, Fruits and Vegetables, Ecology] | Archive.org<br> | |||
[https://archive.org/details/giftsofjewsh00cahi The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels] | Archive.org<br> | |||
— “About the middle of the eighth century [BC], a Judean shepherd named Amos, living a few miles outside Bethlehem, is seized by a message from God and impelled to head north to preach to idolatrous Israel, which is <mark>enjoying high-flying economic success</mark>, a success that has passed some of its population by. Amos is decidedly not a professional prophet, like Elijah, and has no connection with any of the prophetic brotherhoods. He is, in his own words, “merely a herdsman and dresser of sycamore-figs,” as is evident from his rough, prickly words, delivered at the schismatic shrine of Bethel and in the streets of Samaria. There the shocked shepherd is witness to <mark>conspicuous consumption on a grand scale</mark>, which he realizes is <mark>just a new form of social injustice</mark>...<br> | |||
And the truth—for eighth-century Samaria—was this: to serve God means to act with justice. One cannot pray and offer sacrifice while ignoring the poor, the beggars at the gates. But more radical still: if you have more than you need, you are a thief, for what you “own” is stolen from those who do not have enough. You are a murderer, who lives on the abundance that has been taken from the mouths of the starving. You are an idolator, for what you worship is not the true God. You are a whore, for you have bedded down with other gods, the gods of your own comfort and self-delusion, you who “cram [your] palaces with violence and extortion,” who have “sold the upright for silver and the poor for a pair of sandals [from Gucci, no doubt],” who “have crushed the heads of the weak into the dust and thrust the rights of the oppressed to one side.””<br> | |||
Therefore, USA is “Samaritan” to the core — a thief, murderer, idolater, whore, and violent extortioner for not worshipping the True God, but instead the Mammon god of its “own comfort and self-delusion”. So much for all those empty, shallow, hypocritical American demands that "God Bless America”. | |||
===Alfred Edersheim=== | |||
[[wikipedia:Alfred_Edersheim|Alfred Edersheim]] | Wikipedia<br> | |||
[https://ccel.org/home3/search?text=Edersheim&genreID=&orderBy=Relevance Alfred Edersheim] | Christian Classics Ethereal Library (CCEL)<br> | |||
[https://www.ccel.org/ccel/edersheim/lifetimes The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah]<br> | |||
[https://ccel.org/ccel/edersheim/temple/temple?queryID=40750526&resultID=874 The Temple—Its Ministry and Services]<br> | |||
[https://ccel.org/ccel/edersheim/sketches/sketches?queryID=40750526&resultID=873 Sketches of Jewish Social Life] | |||
===Antisemitism=== | ===Antisemitism=== | ||
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Bodian’s course ought to be entitled “Modern Jewish Propaganda: Accusation of anti-semitism for cultural and political control”. | Bodian’s course ought to be entitled “Modern Jewish Propaganda: Accusation of anti-semitism for cultural and political control”. | ||
She essential argues against Christianity as having distorted Jewish religion.<br> | She essential argues against Christianity as having distorted Jewish religion.<br> | ||
Alfred Edersheim by way of much greater historical depth shows otherwise. | Alfred Edersheim by way of much greater historical depth shows otherwise. | ||
==Hinduism== | ==Hinduism== | ||