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Olde Tyme Religion
Hot Air - 'A Biblical Law That Would Change American Life'
2023-05-19
Posted by:Besoeker

#4   Feh - VIP

I haven’t paid, but can read the whole thing, KBK. Here is Dennis Prager’s opening:

One of the most remarkable laws in the Bible is in the Book of Deuteronomy: “Do not hate an Egyptian.” It is remarkable because it was given to the generation of Israelites that had just been liberated from slavery in Egypt.

Imagine.

A people who had been enslaved for hundreds of years, and for a period of time had their newborn sons drowned, was instructed — by Moses in the name of God, no less — not to hate the people who had just enslaved them.

This is one of many examples why America’s Founders regarded the Bible as the most important book ever written. According to one historian who studied the issue, the book the Founders quoted most often — more often than any Enlightenment book, more often than any Greek or Roman work — was Deuteronomy, the biblical book in which the law prohibiting hatred of Egyptians appears.

It is difficult to think of a law more relevant to today’s America.

Imagine if the country — especially, though not only, black Americans — adopted this law and substituted “white” for “Egyptian.” Imagine the effect on America if every church, every school, every editorial page and every Democrat repeatedly told Americans, “Do not hate whites.”

Almost overnight, the gratuitous hatreds wrecking our country would begin to disappear.
Posted by: trailing wife   2023-05-19 19:24  

#3  Next thing you know American Marine vets will be punished for choking out schizophrenic individuals threatening people on subway trains.
Posted by: jpal   2023-05-19 17:18  

#2  Feh - VIP
Posted by: KBK   2023-05-19 15:14  

#1  So sad that in this Brave New World of Woke America we have to have an article who's main idea is “Do not hate whites.”
Posted by: mossomo   2023-05-19 12:58  

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