No, you certainly didn't offend me; I hardly remember the exchange, it was a while back, correct? I agree that we must learn about different cultures. The danger I see is that Americans tend to think everyone on earth shares the values of our culture, when most people do not. So we are led to believe that we can install a democracy in Iraq, for example, when American style democracy is viewed as blasphemy in orthodox Islam. Re: Jesus in the temple, there was no other way pilgrims could buy animals for sacrifice other than changing their currency; there was nothing wrong with moneychangers to provide that service. I believe he didn't "toss out" the moneychangers' tables, but rather "overturned" them, in the tradition of Hebrew prophets acting out, symbolically, their prophesy. I believe he was symbolically acting out the apocalyptic event he believed to be imminent. Jesus was a good Jew of his time. >>> And do you really believe that you would not have any Jewish books or any of the Jewish people? What about the survivors of the camps? === Well, the only reason there were survivors is because the Americans and British liberated the camps and the only reason they liberated them was that they defeated the Germans. They finally, belatedly, made war in order to protect Western civilization.
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