Philo,
Where on earth did you get the idea that I hated anybody or showed no compassion? Your hasty words cut me to the quick. I'm hurt.

A life without a god does not create an insensitive hateful person .....despite what you might think.

I did not leave with their disease.
Their disease is religion.
Their hate is born of this. Would the middle east have the problems it has without religion?

Show me I'm wrong. Please.
I feel sorry from them.... Really I do. If only they could be cured of this malady.

The only disease I picked up in Jerusalem was a really bad case of the flu.

p.s. Jesus' dying words seem to vary depending on the gospel you are reading but Matthew, Mark, Luke and John do not agree with your particular version of His last expiring words. If you are going to quote this stuff then please try and get it right or you will confuse us even more.

There is no such thing as “Palestinians” but the Arabs of Palestine, many of them are the Christians and some converted into a Jewish faith as well.

No such a thing as a “Palestinian statehood” exists there upon all the history at all, but need to disintegrate felt with hatred and religious bigotry groups of populations, well supported by different forces round a globe.

Although creating the Arafatia will only alter the mishmash there, it is a right step as a world will see the exhausting of efforts in this direction and make a right conclusion at the end.

Priscillian,
You are right. Jesus spoke seven phrases or sentences post his crucifixion, and the one I mentioned was not the very last.

Quote, "Their disease is religion.
Their hate is born of this. Would the middle east have the problems it has without religion?"

Religions are a world-view like any philosophy or ideology, even as atheism. The problem is the passion one has for exclusive territory where their own particular world-view is totally adopted. The communist party in the USSR tried to eradicate religion by torture, imprisonment and death. They taught the children atheism and had the children dob in parents to the police if they taught them religion. They adopted atheism with equal passion and forbade the teaching of religion. This did not stop the problem of hatred and killing of millions of religious people it is just that it happened in the name of Atheism. In fact Russia is a much more peacful place since religion has been allowed and Christian ethics are taught in school.

Peace

Philo,
I've heard this accusation often, as if the excesses of the communists was spurred on by their rampant and passionate atheism.
If you care to read some Marx then you will realise why the church was on the nose with the communists, and they had good reason for this. This does not of course excuse the treatment of believers of which you describe. Stalin, Pol Pot and Mao et al were all homicidal maniacs, I agree. But I maintain that the "raison d'etre" of communism was to institute a political system. Atheism was a side issue, a by product of a flawed political belief system. I'm am not an apologist for atheism. It is simply an absence of a belief in a god. Nothing else than that, no stance on any other issue. Communists may have been atheists but the reverse is not necessarily true.

Religion however, claims to hold higher ideals. It is entwined in morality, law, belief, faith, the after life. Religion has abjectly failed on all accounts to bring about the kind of world it promises to deliver even though it does encourage "goodness". The middle east mess is of course an extreme example of this failure.
Please don't blame atheism for failing to deliver what it hasn't promised. By all means criticise its fundamental assertion. That there is no credible evidence for the existance of a god.

Priscillian,
The problem that raises your anger is based in human passion, and in an exclusive belief system related to race or territory. Atheists are equally as passionate about their belief system, just try to enforce a law that forbids the propagation of atheism, they will wage an equally hostile war.

Quote, "as if the excesses of the communists was spurred on by their rampant and passionate atheism."

It is apparent you have no personal knowledge of role of the religious police in USSR and the persecution of those who practised their faith. Children hacked to death in front of their parents because they would not denounce their faith in God. I have personal friends imprisoned for years in China and others sent to Siberia for no other reason than they were Christian. Atheism is not the answer to the problems of the world, it is equally the problem

The society that accomodates democratic world-view are less likley to wage civil war on their citizens. When those who believe one belief system must be enforced by law is the problem. Enforced belief systems that violate personal conscience and convictions are the problem.

A personal relationship that desires to emulate the character of a God who loves and forgives, is other than a licence to hate and kill.

Philo,
I say again, I am not an apologist for atheism.
A basic human right is freedom of religion and freedon from religion.(although they tried their damn hardest to shove the meme in my head...and obviously failed!)
Chopping up believers babies and putting people in prison because they have religious delusions is definitely NOT on.

Fine, then we are all agreed on this.

Why do Jews and Muslims in the middle east hate each other then?
How is one to know "the character of god" if one can't detect this god?

Scriptural references welcome. I have my Gideon's bible at the ready.