Read the post to which I Replied. Someone was asking how they could go about making a claim on lands their forebears had inhabited many years ago.
They were asking, I assume, tongue in cheek. My answer was quite serious. Anyone who thinks that God had more to do with the initial Jewish invasion of the "Promised Land" than the better weapons and strategy employed by the Jewish people when they arrived is not thinking rationally. They invaded a land that was already occupied and quite productive and killed or enslaved pretty much everyone there. Because "God gave it" to them? Come on... Because they had the power and the will to take it away from those who were there before them. Many groups - including the Jews of Joshua's time, the Muslims of our time, and the Americans of the 1700s and 1800s - have used "God gave it to us" as an excuse for killing, raping and enslaving. It's an unfortunate part of what people do, from my point of view. --- In [email protected], wmurphy77 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "Cliff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Your claim is easy to make, and there is a very ancient tradition > > surrounding this process. Just show up with much more lethal > > weaponery than the current inhabitants have, and the land is all > > yours. > > > > Didn't you know that God traditionally grants people land in > > this manner? > > OK Cliff, since you know how *God* traditionally grants people > land...what is it??? ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> <font face=arial size=-1><a href="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12h7gq1j8/M=364397.6958316.7892810.4764722/D=groups/S=1705171145:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1123655399/A=2915264/R=0/SIG=11t7isiiv/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=34443/*http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs";>Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page</a></font> --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
