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On my way home from my academy class I was listening to a radio program (A Christian program from time to time i listen to because of their controversial topics) discussing the current crisis in the Middle east. Of course when they took calls, this being a christian radio station a lot of responses were for Israel, however the radio host (whose name is unknown to me) was discussing something quite profound.
He stated that the current crisis should not be about the argument of land or who is right but it should be about "justice." He cited a couple of Biblical verses about how the land which many Christians popularly say is the land is of Israel is not pre-ordained for just Jews only, but stated that the land is "God's."
He also went on to say that we as people should support both Palestinians and Israelies. Apart of his enlightening comments he also mentioned that there are bad seeds among the Christian faith that use "Bad Theology" to promote Christianity through condemnation if the person (receiving the Christian message) rejects it. also, he went on to note something which I have always said here and to my friends all the time on how Christians supporting the current crisis are hoping for a self-fulfilling prophecy of the return of Jesus, thus, acting like the Hand of God.
He also went on to explain the current situation with Palestinians and Israelis in the pluralisitic sense. He satted as an example: "What if America took all the African-Americans and gave them a state of their own (inside America of course) and what if, everytime they cross over into another state they have to have an Identification Card. to the rest of the world we would be seen as a racist state, and apartheid state."
From his argument he is basically discussing how the current state of Israel is and how it treats its Arab neighbor. He discussed how there is nothing mandated in the Bible that says that the land which is called Israel today is specifically for only Jews. He said that we must create a plan which involved both states within that land mass.
I for one agree with that. However Hamas doesn't......
I can empathize how hatred evolves overtime from being displaced from ones own homeland and I can say historically I can relate because something of that nature is apart of my own ancestry. What I cannot understand is the bad theology on both sides. One side which condones a biblical view (perhaps misappropriated if you would call it) as preordained and the other stemming from the hatred for the other because of being displaced.
The dark and sad part about religion is that humans have exalted themselves into beings like God, and rejecting those and prohibiting those from enjoying the same fruits of life, liberty and freedom. Many people, including some here, may not believe in the "Road Map to Peace" because its an American idea, but because ideas were destroyed in the past its important that one idea even if it is American can lay a foundation down which would allow other ideas to carry on.
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