Comments on: In Israel, Christians Feud Over Holy Site

Coptic And Ethiopian Christians Fight Over Monastery Near Purported Site Of Jesus' Crucifixion

[patriotic9]

We need to conduct a new scientific study to figure out whether very religious people become psychotics or psychotic people become very religious!

[stopsocialis]

Typical religion nuts. Worshiping idols and buildings and forgetting God.
Posted by FloydZeppt at 08:03 AM : Oct 26, 2008

Wow you just described the Vatican and also fundamentalist Islam when they get on their knees 5 times a day and face "Mecca" and worship the pagan crescent moon god "allah".

[stopsocialis]

Moses, Christ, Mohammed... only one got what they all deserved.
Posted by Nancy_Naive at 08:13 AM : Oct 26, 2008

Moses and Christ are in heaven. Muhammed is in that other place.


Christ is risen, He is alive. Muhammed''s body has been rotting for about 1,400 years now and counting

Nuff said

[robert7562]

God Bless Everyone, NO Exceptions

[stopsocialis]

Not just two, but nations of idiots fighting a battle over whose imaginary friend is more "real". And we have put ourselves smack in the middle of this stupidity.
Posted by curse914 at 11:47 PM : Oct 25, 2008

Only uneducated fools who believe in propaganda, not truth, would call Jesus Christ "imaginary".

[stopsocialis]

When I die I swear I am going to find that frigging Jesus and yank his sorry a_ss right out of Heaven and toss him right in the middle of that friggin hellhole Holy Land and say ''''Enjoy It!"
posted by bailmeout1

Sorry mr. satan worshipper, you won''t find Jesus in the place you''re going with your blasphemous remarks.

[zwaggsy]

Still find both tragic and ironic that what should be a peaceful haven off worship can be used as an excuse for a pathetic feud by people who seem incapable of practising what they preach.

It''s even more tragic that Jerusalem which is called the "Holy City" has been the site off so much bloodshed for over a thousand years now, this does cause me to wonder just what exactly is taught by the preacher''s of peace & forgiveness.

On a plus side though I thought that the posts on this article were a lot more thoughtful than the usual left/right wing abuse!

[idnnsg]

"Here''s some logic, God is perfect which means he is above favoritism..." -- indianaman13 at 01:30 AM : Oct 26, 2008

Your concept of "logic" is a bit weak. "above favoritism" does not follow from "perfect". Your argument might as well be, "God is perfect, so he agrees with me"!

Otherwise, you made a good point.

[idnnsg]

"nor is a physical place holy if God himself is not there at that moment---as with Moses" -- egresor

Just a little FYI: God is supposed to be omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. Check out the meaning of #3 sometime. There is no place or time where God is not.

But I agree with your main point, that these people fighting over this supposedly "holy land" are simply ignorant fools.

[silverstar06]

Most amazingly, how in an arrogant fued, they are allowing not even only their, but every devout Christian''s tradition be destroyed, slowly and painfully. This has nothing to do with Jesus or Christianity. Merely ancient male arrogance disguised as piety.

[airboatboy1]

"..a bearded Copt in a black robe and a Ethiopian sunning himself in a wooden chair..". A bet these two religious nutballs would be easy to reason with! How about some pictures? I''m laughin'' just thinkin'' about it!

[egresor]

This is a sacred site. No one should be fighting over it. This is our site, it belongs to all of us.

Posted by ndjam

with respects----you are mistaken

if God himself is not manifested at a single moment in a single place it is no more holy than another other....only a patch of earth.

if you are a christian----don''t call Jerusalem the City of God for it is not. since the new testament the City of God was no longer found in a physical place, but found in the spirit.

[egresor]

that''s so silly

it shows that when the bible says many ar called but few are chosen it means few

all the rest only have felt the call and think they have been chosen

and they miss the entire truth of the scriptures

that there are NO holy physical places in the world

only those filled---literally and truly---not just telling yourself it''s so because you want to believe it''s so.

when God appeared to Moses in the desert and he told Moses to take off his soes for the ground he stood on was holy? the presence of God in that place was what made it holy and when God departed from that place it was no more holier than any other place. that''s the truth.

it correlates to a single person also. if a person truly becomes filled with His Spirit that holiness is only there as long as God is there. and if God departs (actually the person departs) from that person---is that person still holy?

obviously not----nor is a physical place holy if God himself is not there at that moment---as with Moses.

that is a truth of the Bible...tho few truly see it.

[indianaman13]

How can they call themselves christians when they act like satanists. Would Jesus want them to kill each other and glorify the site of his death? I bet the devil would love to trick people into killing in Jesus''s name especially where he was put on a stick. It''s like they forgot what they stand for in their want to claim a piece of earth. Here''s some logic, God is perfect which means he is above favoritism and if he created the whole world, do you think he favors one mountain over another, or one ocean more than another?

[ndjam]

This is a sacred site. No one should be fighting over it. This is our site, it belongs to all of us.

[missingamerica]

Funny, how all of the religions that prohibit the worshipping of false idols all worship patches of dirt and buildings constructed by man - and spill each other''s blood on them as if to prove their devotion.

Over and over again.

For centuries - and now millenia - on end.

[eddom949]

Come to Israel, there are two guys there fighting about whether it''s open to the world or not.