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TriTorch's avatar

Cognitive Dissonance: A mental conflict that occurs when beliefs are contradicted by new information. This conflict activates parts of the brain involved in personal identity and emotional response to threats. The brain's alarms go off when a person feels threatened on a deeply personal or emotional level, causing them to shut down and disregard any rational evidence that contradicts what they personally regarded as "truth".

Hannah West's avatar

Thank you for this very helpful post! Restacking now.

PForty7's avatar

This is very good, gives me new approaches to working with people compassionately instead of through fighting.

Rose's avatar

Belgium Christian zionist fund massage units near Gaza for Israëli monsters Frankenstein crypto welfare scumbags with the help of some Belgium politicians. Aipac has entered Belgium!

Helmut Karas's avatar

Great summary, great buffet of perspectives and goals. I like the priority of what is to achieve and how it could be done. Thank you for the inspiration.

grakciel's avatar

The brain-washed, zio-epstein pedo genocidal terrorist regime has captured all (except a couple) of societies globally. To dismantle such evil, we must unite. The question is simple Are you Human or Not. It is not a matter of right left, color or religion.

Dan Bluemore's avatar

Excellent piece with some great suggestions.

We should remember that we cannot change anyone's mind, only they can do that. Thus asking questions rather than stating facts or positions is much more likely to help them do so.

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Boris Petrov's avatar

Don’t understand - US Gaza genocide doesn’t have good and bad sides and Christian Zionism is intimately involved in this horror and eternal shame for United States

FlawedHumanity's avatar

I have given up on my dad. Thank God he didn't make himself a very big part of my life, or else I would have thought like him, maybe.

Les Johnston's avatar

A critical discussion of Biblical texts is essential to draw a line through the thinking of zionists claiming to also be Christian. The words of Jesus the Christ relating to the Jews of 2000 years ago killing God's Son, Jesus the Christ follow with God turning His back on the Jews of 2000 years ago. The destruction of the temple in 70CE reflected God turning away from the Jews who were dispersed.

Jesus the Christ provides the way for all people of any race to become sons of Abraham.

The position of Israeli's becomes abundantly clear when they developed the AI "Gospel" to wipe out children. That rests on their heads and will remain so until repentance comes.

Phil Smith's avatar

It may be helpful to note that "dissonance" refers to holding two contradictory beliefs. Ultimately the process of identifying the contradiction involves introspective analysis. You can't force that upon anyone, but you can point the way.

Just Jenny's avatar

Exactly the point

Chris Vail's avatar

"Remember the Sabbath, to keep it holy."

That's from the 10 Commandments, in the Torah.

But what does that mean? 2,000 years ago Jews in Palestine had two competing calendars, one of 365 days per year, one of 364 days per year. In the 365 day year holidays would move relative to the 7 day week. In the 364 day year holidays didn't move. The 365 day year was Roman. Jesus followed the other one. Today we follow the Roman calendar, including today's Jews. The holidays move. And sometimes they land on a Sabbath.

After the Romans destroyed the Temple in Jerusalem and then put down a second rebellion, Judaism became a matter of following the Torah, of Phariseeism. Christians know what Jesus thought of the Pharisees. But the reason Jesus thought that was the Pharisees were pro-Roman. Christians know two famous Pharisees: Josephus (called Flavius because he was adopted by the Roman Emperor), and Paul (who was Roman by birth). Judah was taken over by Roman General Pompey after Queen Salome Alexandra ended her husband's persecution of the Pharisees.

In the century following the Crucifixion, a lot of people wrote a lot of different things about Jesus. And writing in those days was to make a point, not to record history. The non-Jewish Church was able to pick and choose the documents that became the Christian Scriptures. In some cases the Church composed (Luke) or heavily revised (Acts) documents. The Canon was completed by 400 CE. The Book of Enoch, mentioned by Jude, present in the Dead Sea Scrolls, got dropped (fortunately the Ethiopian Church kept it, along with the Ascents of Isaiah).

So, both Christianity and Judaism survived as Roman religions. Eventually Christianity became the state religion of the Roman Empire, and started persecuting the Jews. But nobody was keeping the Sabbath holy.

So, what is Zionism?

Francisco d’Anconia's avatar

Stabbing usually works

FlawedHumanity's avatar

Fools

David Haddad Escritor's avatar

i wrote an article on this very topic that will be published soon in the Baptist News Global. I will be sure to share it with you.