Pakistanis (at least the ones I know...and they pronounce it "Pockistan", not "Pack") tend to hate the U.S. Don't get me wrong, they're great people, but when you know a 24-year old woman that tells you stories of how when she was 7, she and her brothers would go out back and shoot their dad's AK for fun and how if anyone ever killed someone close to her that she would have their head on a platter...well, you begin to realize why people hate when countries like the U.S. get involved in their affairs.Now take that backlash of animosity and place it in a country like Iraq where we've killed hundreds of thousands of brothers and sisters.
Source was "The Roosevelt Myth" by John T. Flynn. He had his own sources. I do not know if it was adjusted for inflation, though such an error would not have been as important back then.
I apologize for the delayed response, but as you replied to your comment and not mine, I was not notified via my profile. The "evidence" you cite is circumstantial at best. Until it was proven otherwise, scholars and historians widely accepted that the Earth was flat, that mechanical devices were magical, that alchemy could turn lead into gold, that illness was caused by evil spirits, etc. ad infinitum.Arguments for the non-historicity of Jesus Christ have been presented by Professor Emeritus at University of London, George Albert Wells ("Did Jesus Exist", "Can We Trust the New Testament?", "Religious Postures: Essays on Modern Christian Apologists and Religious Problems"), by Earl Doherty ("The Jesus Puzzle"), Professor Emeritus at Boston University, Michael L. Martin ("The Case Against Christianity", "The Impossibility of God", "Atheism, Morality, and Meaning"), and by Robert M. Price ("The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man", "Deconstructing Jesus"), to name a few.G.A. Wells, has written numerous texts suggesting that the earliest extant Christian documents from the first century, most notably the New Testament epistles by Paul and some other writers, show no familiarity with the Gospel tradition of Jesus as a preacher and miracle-worker who lived and died in the recent decades. Rather, they present him "as a basically supernatural personage only obscurely on Earth as a man at some unspecified period in the past". Wells believed that the Jesus of these earliest Christians is not based on a historical character, but a pure myth, derived from the mystical speculations based on the Jewish Wisdom tradition. According to Wells, the Gospel tradition was a later stage of the development of the Jesus myth, which was given a concrete historical setting and subsequently embellished with more and more details.Earl Doherty, utilizing degrees in Ancient History and Classical Languages, performs a critical analysis of the original-language versions of the New Testament. Doherty argues that Paul and other writers of the earliest existing proto-Christian Gnostic documents did not believe in Jesus as a person who incarnated on Earth in an historical setting. Rather, they believed in Jesus as a mythical hero who suffered his sacrificial death in the lower spheres of heaven in the hands of demon spirits, and was subsequently resurrected by God. This Christ myth was not based on a tradition reaching back to a historical Jesus, but on the Old Testament exegesis in the context of Jewish-Hellenistic religious syncretism heavily influenced by Platonism, and what the authors believed to be mystical visions of a risen Jesus. According to Doherty, the Jesus myth was given a historical setting only by the second generation of Christians, somewhere between the first and second century. Doherty claims that even the author of the Gospel of Mark probably did not consider his gospel to be a literal work of history, but an allegorical Midrashic composition based on the Old Testament prophecies.Robert Price, who holds doctorates in both Theology and New Testament (Drew Theological Seminary), challenges biblical literalism and argues for a more skeptical and humanistic approach to Christianity. He questions the idea of a historical Jesus; in the documentary "The God Who Wasn't There", Price supports a version of the Jesus myth, suggesting that the early Christians adopted the model for the figure of Jesus from the popular Mediterranean dying-rising saviour myths of the time, such as that of Dionysus. He argues that the comparisons were known at the time, as early church father, Justin Martyr had admitted the similarities. Price suggests that Christianity simply adopted themes from the dying-rising god stories of the day and supplemented them with themes (escaping crosses, empty tombs, children being persecuted by tyrants, etc.) from the popular stories of the day in order to come up with the narratives about Christ. He has argued that there was an almost complete fleshing out of the details of the gospels by a Midrash (haggadah) rewriting of the Septuagint, Homer, Euripides' Bacchae, and Josephus.The Bible has been translated and rewritten countless times to suit the needs of the rulers-of-the-day. If it is possible for humanity to rewrite the alleged "word of God," why then is it so difficult to believe that historical texts can also be rewritten?"The history of a nation is, unfortunately, too easily written as the history of its dominant class." - Kwame Nkrumah"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon." - Napoleon Bonaparte"He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future." - George Orwell
diabloenfuegoFeb 25, 2009
Pakistanis (at least the ones I know...and they pronounce it "Pockistan", not "Pack") tend to hate the U.S. Don't get me wrong, they're great people, but when you know a 24-year old woman that tells you stories of how when she was 7, she and her brothers would go out back and shoot their dad's AK for fun and how if anyone ever killed someone close to her that she would have their head on a platter...well, you begin to realize why people hate when countries like the U.S. get involved in their affairs.Now take that backlash of animosity and place it in a country like Iraq where we've killed hundreds of thousands of brothers and sisters.
kreativenaimFeb 27, 2009
Source was "The Roosevelt Myth" by John T. Flynn. He had his own sources. I do not know if it was adjusted for inflation, though such an error would not have been as important back then.
Closed AccountFeb 28, 2009
He had to spend the money to try to fix the economy that the Republicans destroyed.
texpletiveMar 10, 2009
I apologize for the delayed response, but as you replied to your comment and not mine, I was not notified via my profile. The "evidence" you cite is circumstantial at best. Until it was proven otherwise, scholars and historians widely accepted that the Earth was flat, that mechanical devices were magical, that alchemy could turn lead into gold, that illness was caused by evil spirits, etc. ad infinitum.Arguments for the non-historicity of Jesus Christ have been presented by Professor Emeritus at University of London, George Albert Wells ("Did Jesus Exist", "Can We Trust the New Testament?", "Religious Postures: Essays on Modern Christian Apologists and Religious Problems"), by Earl Doherty ("The Jesus Puzzle"), Professor Emeritus at Boston University, Michael L. Martin ("The Case Against Christianity", "The Impossibility of God", "Atheism, Morality, and Meaning"), and by Robert M. Price ("The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man", "Deconstructing Jesus"), to name a few.G.A. Wells, has written numerous texts suggesting that the earliest extant Christian documents from the first century, most notably the New Testament epistles by Paul and some other writers, show no familiarity with the Gospel tradition of Jesus as a preacher and miracle-worker who lived and died in the recent decades. Rather, they present him "as a basically supernatural personage only obscurely on Earth as a man at some unspecified period in the past". Wells believed that the Jesus of these earliest Christians is not based on a historical character, but a pure myth, derived from the mystical speculations based on the Jewish Wisdom tradition. According to Wells, the Gospel tradition was a later stage of the development of the Jesus myth, which was given a concrete historical setting and subsequently embellished with more and more details.Earl Doherty, utilizing degrees in Ancient History and Classical Languages, performs a critical analysis of the original-language versions of the New Testament. Doherty argues that Paul and other writers of the earliest existing proto-Christian Gnostic documents did not believe in Jesus as a person who incarnated on Earth in an historical setting. Rather, they believed in Jesus as a mythical hero who suffered his sacrificial death in the lower spheres of heaven in the hands of demon spirits, and was subsequently resurrected by God. This Christ myth was not based on a tradition reaching back to a historical Jesus, but on the Old Testament exegesis in the context of Jewish-Hellenistic religious syncretism heavily influenced by Platonism, and what the authors believed to be mystical visions of a risen Jesus. According to Doherty, the Jesus myth was given a historical setting only by the second generation of Christians, somewhere between the first and second century. Doherty claims that even the author of the Gospel of Mark probably did not consider his gospel to be a literal work of history, but an allegorical Midrashic composition based on the Old Testament prophecies.Robert Price, who holds doctorates in both Theology and New Testament (Drew Theological Seminary), challenges biblical literalism and argues for a more skeptical and humanistic approach to Christianity. He questions the idea of a historical Jesus; in the documentary "The God Who Wasn't There", Price supports a version of the Jesus myth, suggesting that the early Christians adopted the model for the figure of Jesus from the popular Mediterranean dying-rising saviour myths of the time, such as that of Dionysus. He argues that the comparisons were known at the time, as early church father, Justin Martyr had admitted the similarities. Price suggests that Christianity simply adopted themes from the dying-rising god stories of the day and supplemented them with themes (escaping crosses, empty tombs, children being persecuted by tyrants, etc.) from the popular stories of the day in order to come up with the narratives about Christ. He has argued that there was an almost complete fleshing out of the details of the gospels by a Midrash (haggadah) rewriting of the Septuagint, Homer, Euripides' Bacchae, and Josephus.The Bible has been translated and rewritten countless times to suit the needs of the rulers-of-the-day. If it is possible for humanity to rewrite the alleged "word of God," why then is it so difficult to believe that historical texts can also be rewritten?"The history of a nation is, unfortunately, too easily written as the history of its dominant class." - Kwame Nkrumah"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon." - Napoleon Bonaparte"He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future." - George Orwell
stix213Mar 14, 2009
The iraq war didn't cost $4 trillion