As you well know, there is good reason your family left a dominant Islamic society (where religious radicalism is the norm viz Islam) for the safety and "freedom" of a land where Christian (or more precisely, Judeo-Christian) values dominate.
wrong. false speech. conjecture. unlearnedness
my father's family left Lebanon just after my father's birth because other members of their family were living in Canada & Spain. my father's two brothers & sister are Canadian born. they returned to Lebanon from Spain at a time after the Spanish Civil war started. While they were in Lebanon, it was a French protectorate and was never a dominant Islamic society and, at that time, the relations between the different cultural & religious groups had no issues. even in Palestine, the Jews & locals lived in harmony.
best you educate yourself in world history rather than write such ignorant & stereotyped posts on a public forum
my father probably lived in Australia for longer than you
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Islamic dominance is a natural striving - it is part of the religion and it is a part of the politics of the state where Islam dominates - the two are inextricably intertwined.
whilst this may be true for the zealots, as it is for Christianity, it is not related to the HOMELAND matter
in other words, it provides no rationale, for the original issue, that Jews need a homeland
Sudassa? vajjam-aññesa?, attano pana duddasa?, Easy to see is another's fault, but one's own is hard to see,
Paresa? hi so vajjani opu?ati yatha bhusa?, For he sifts other peoples' faults like they were chaff,
Attano pana chadeti, kali? va kitava sa?ho. But he conceals his own, like a crafty cheat (conceals) defeat.
Paravajjanupassissa, nicca? ujjhanasaññino, He who forever looks for another's faults, who is an abject complainer,
Asava tassa va??hanti, ara so asavakkhaya. For him the pollutants increase, he is far from their destruction.
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We will monitor xddzx's confrontational approach to his fellow posters and look for less confrontation and telling people they are wrong, as this is a reflection of the self.
good try, Jessie. but you failed here, because this is a departure from the topic into a personal attack
the topic of discussion is "can jews and christians heal the breach" rather than DDZX's posting style
further, "right" and "wrong" are not related to "the self". for example, 1 + 2 = 4 is both wrong & not related to "self"
despite your excellent research & expanding your horizons, your Pali class is off-topic
however, as with most Xians here, you show are far greater faith in Buddhism than in Christianity in regards to expectations of personal behaviour
well done, get closer to the truth, that Buddhism is far SUPERIOR morally than Christianity
