Jews, Pagans Lived And Worshipped Together

(AP)  An Israeli scientist says a Roman temple unearthed in the center of an ancient Jewish city in northern Israel shows pagans and Jews lived and worshipped together.

Hebrew University professor Zeev Weiss said Monday the 2nd century temple was found during excavations at Sepphoris, or Tzippori in Hebrew.

The city, the capital of Galilee, was a refuge for Jews who fled Jerusalem after the Romans pillaged the city and destroyed the Jewish temple in A.D. 70.

Weiss says the find sheds light on life during those times. "It shows that pagans who were a minority prayed in the center of the city and lived in harmony with the Jewish majority," he says.

He says a church was built on top of the temple in the 5th century.

[jennmarie620]

Seems like people who are "evolved" and "twenty-first century" could learn a thing or two from these Jewish and Paganistic peoples of thousands of years ago. They seemed to accept each other peacefully and without reproach.

Now why can''t you?

[octavianfdlr]

at 06:12 AM : Aug 12, 2008, BeBoldin09 said:

"You just described the belief in Darwinism to a T.

Bravo"

in response to the post by tuckerndfw at 02:32 AM : Aug 12, 2008:

"Spoken like a religious freak who relies exclusively on lies or his own unsupported opinion as evidence to support his own unsupported opinion."
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For once, these folks got it right! Darwinism is not a religion or set of beliefs that anyone practices. "Darwinism" is an accusation: a non-existent fake religion that some "religious freaks" falsely accuse others of believing or practicing, "as evidence to support [their] own unsupported opinion."

For the record, Darwin was not a prophet. Wallace was not a prophet. Moses was a prophet.

Judaism is a real religion: it has practitioners and much to say about a true God and about false gods.

Christianity is a real religion: it has practitioners and much to say about a true God and about false gods.

Islam is a real religion: it has practitioners and much to say about a true God and about false gods.

Hinduism is a real religion: it has practitioners and much to say about many gods and goddesses.

Darwinism is not a real religion: it has no practitioners and nothing to say about the existence or non-existence of any god.

(By the way, although many accept Relativity, "Einsteinism" also is not a religion. Neither are "Newtonism," "Plankism," or "Mendelism.")

[thinkharder-]

You just described the belief in Darwinism to a T.

Bravo

Posted by BeBoldin09 at 06:12 AM : Aug 12, 2008

Bold...anyone with a bit of common sense will contend that Darwinism is not something to "believe" in. It is a theory in which we put an amount of confidence in proportional to the degree of evidence available to support it. It is not something you believe in...it is an idea that is pursued and, interpreted, added to and subtracted from...it is the result of our interest...not our desire to be whole. Religion on the other hand is a result of our desire to be whole...recognized...un-alone and important. I don''t in any way think less of anyone who is particularly religious. I myself attend Sunday school every week just to gain some perspective, but unfortunately I have not been stricken with some undeniable light of truth telling me that a literalism interpretation of the bible is the way to go. I am a chemist by trade and it is my job to think critically about things. The bible offers hope...comfort...some historical perspective and humility...what I have not found in its words are anything that points to the correctness of its claims on creation and our origin. I will believe when it MAKES SENSE for me to do so...until then, all I can do is ponder.

[kaiyo4u]

Modern Christians (I am Christian) are truly ignorant of the history and only do what they''re told. A large part of this comes from the Catholic (which simply means universal) church. Only the clergy were allowed to study and disseminate their knowledge to the masses.

The two major pagan holidays today are Christmas and Easter. Both origins are from pagan worship. Christmas being moved to the time of the winter solstice and Easter being aligned with the Oster, a spring fertility festival.
Though they say they are (the Christians) following traditions and celebrating their Lord. They follow in the pagan and commercialized traditions put out by our society.

If these people actually did some historic study, they would realize that they have been following the wrong path. Modern Christians should be celebrating the seven Jewish fests each year to keep the traditions....

[rf35]

It also appears that the tolerance ended around the 5th century CE when the Christians came along and built a church on top of the Pagan temple. Again, no civilization has survived contact with Christians. What is the defect in thinking of those who follow monotheistic desert religions that produces the %u201Cjoin us or die%u201D mentality? Muslims, Christians, even Jews are all the same: believe in my god or die. Convert %u2018em or kill %u2018em. What a peaceful, happy way to live.

[rf35]

I think more than a few people misunderstood the article. CBS news'' writing is continuing its downhill trend. The point is, Jews and Pagans didn''t worship together as in using the same temple, rather they worshipped together in the sense that they both had temples in the same city. They lived as neighbors within the city and tolerated each other.

[beboldin09]

Tucker, are amazing. You are so angry that you are causing yourself reading comprehension problems.
You are attacking someone who agrees with you.


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Posted by jMcGilvray at 02:37 AM : Aug 12, 2008

That should tell you something JMCGilvray about the lies of your religion.

Athiests always tend to agree with you Muslims. I see it all over the internet.

Thats should raise a red flag in your heart, if you''re honest with yourself, that is.

But you''ve already posted lies on this forum about Christians, so that''s not possible.

[beboldin09]

Spoken like a religious freak who relies exclusively on lies or his own unsupported opinion as evidence to support his own unsupported opinion.




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Posted by tuckerndfw at 02:32 AM : Aug 12, 2008


You just described the belief in Darwinism to a T.

Bravo

[beboldin09]

BeBoldin09, I believe proven fact.

Posted by jMcGilvray

The Quran is proven lies, not fact. It mixes some truth in it and then deceives the reader with lies and contradictions. But since you''ve been brainwashed by your imam to hate people (specifically Jews and Christians) who don''t submit to islam, you''ll never see the light.

[beboldin09]

But, telling young children that the Bible or Koran is the "word of God" is child abuse.


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Posted by tuckerndfw at 01:56 AM : Aug 12, 2008


The Koran yes, the Bible no.

Telling kids that Darwin''s Origin of Species by "natural selection" is the Truth and that they came from nothing, now that takes home the cake.

It''s a close 2nd to the Quran, which of course tells Muslims to hate Jews and Christians.

Young Arab Muslim children are taught to become suicide martyrs for allah in the middle east. So the Quran and Hadith, along with Darwinism, are by far the most abusing things to teach children,unless one is simply informing children of their deceiving contents.