--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "larry.potter" <larry.potter@> wrote: > > > > b. It's [Israel] the only place Jews can call home. > > Other than the various countries they are citizens of, you mean?
A good point. Can you point to any other religion on the planet that has a nation specifically reserved as (or even considered as) "home" to members of that religion? I somehow doubt that Muslims in other parts of the world consider Saudi Arabia "home," or that Buddhists consider Bhutan "home," even though it has a state religion of Buddhism. Fundamentalist Christians may be working to turn America into such a place, but they'll never succeed. I've been a nomad pretty much all my life, and thus don't have the same feelings about pieces of land being "home" that some people do. I carry my "home" with me, and I don't mean my household items. I go there every time I meditate, and often get to live there 24/7 in activity, *wherever* I am in the world. Where's to "go?" What's to "own?" I just don't understand obsessing on some patch of real estate as "home." The more I think about it, the more I agree with the person here (I forget who it was) who suggested that religion is a disease. It has certainly killed a shitload of humans on this planet, and continues to do so today. T'would seem, with today's News, that even those who are trying to stop the war and observe it and help the victims are considered legitimate targets. I'm sorry, but that's insanity, not faith. Home is not some patch of dirt; it's within. Those who are willing to kill to protect the patch of dirt they mistake for "home" have IMO created a set of karmas that will probably prevent them from accessing their real home for some lifetimes to come. As Bruce Cockburn says in a song on his new album: God's too big to fit in a book Nothing's too big to fit in my heart ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/zAINmC/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 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/
