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Quote from: ProDeo on April 19, 2024, 07:02:10 PM

Ps 137:9 - Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rock!

Okay to pray ?

Many Christians have this funny habit of taking a verse out of context and using it to try and prove something. Why not quote the entire Psalm?

By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept
    when we remembered Zion.
There on the poplars
    we hung our harps,
for there our captors asked us for songs,
    our tormentors demanded songs of joy;
    they said, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”

How can we sing the songs of the Lord
    while in a foreign land?
If I forget you, Jerusalem,
    may my right hand forget its skill.
May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth
    if I do not remember you,
if I do not consider Jerusalem
    my highest joy.

Remember, Lord, what the Edomites did
    on the day Jerusalem fell.
“Tear it down,” they cried,
    “tear it down to its foundations!”
Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction,
    happy is the one who repays you
    according to what you have done to us.
Happy is the one who seizes your infants
    and dashes them against the rocks.

This isn't even a cry for vengeance. It's the cry of the dispossessed, the exiled, who saw the temple destroyed and their people subject to exile and murder. Are they allowed to express sad thoughts?

Quote from: ProDeo on April 30, 2024, 05:12:09 AM

I always wondered why America despite 4 years of lies almost reelected Donald Trump, you guys are nuts 

But then the Netherlands once was a very nice country, but last year the Dutch election was won convincingly by an extreme right party whom leader is convicted by the court for racism. He is now leading the negotiations to form a government with 3 other parties and probably the unthinkable will happen that he succeeds.

So we are close to be as nuts as you (and maybe we already passed you) and from now on I can not longer blame you  , the speck has become the log.

Did you see the alternative to Trump? It feels like the scene at the end of the original Ghostbusters movie when the ghostbusters are invited to "choose the form of the destroyer".

What is pretty sad is that a country of over 300,000,000 people apparently can't find any better candidates than the two we're offered.

"4 years of lies"... please explain.

Okay. Bout time to start a thread or two, stir up some controversy or at least some jealous passions, if possible.
Working on it 

It's what I do best(?)