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"Who is my neighbor?" Instead of giving a definition, Jesus presents a scenario, then turns the question back on the person who asked it. Then holds him accountable to his answer - "go and do as he did."

Indeed. And the foundation of Christian morality is to treat other people the way you would like to be treated yourself. So if another member of your community is in need, lending him some money (with the agreement that he'll repay you, plus a bit more back for your trouble) is acceptable...

Loan-sharks are bad people, whatever their professed religion.

Maybe it would help if we could discuss the question of why distrust of a given ethnic group can have a basis in how some members of that group behave at times towards other people, without this going to notions of collective guilt?

Say what? What kind of weak wannabee government borrows money and needs to find ways not to pay it back? Real proper stronk chad monarchies do not borrow from the Jews... they tax the Jews! And leave them alive so they can be taxed some more later on! Why would his majesty want to kill his most...

It's "anti-Semitic" now to mention that some Jews are successful businessmen who own companies with numerous employees?

Dude, find someone who's a full-on endless-gibs-from-govt advocate and ask him or her "but how is the govt going to get the funds for this?". The answer is not going to be "Easy! They will just conquer other countries and loot them!" No, it will much more likely be "Defund the...

There's nothing specially Libertarian about being opposed to those things. Someone could be a full-on socialist nanny-state advocate, for example, and regard the USA's current policy of endless wars to be lunacy.

Killing in self-defense isn't murder. But I think your plan needs to be thought out more steps ahead than that.

First time I've ever seen the Vikings or the Aztecs described as peaceful people who just wanted to be left alone... There were lots of other New World tribes who got conquered by the Spanish, you do realize that? The real point is that if you want to be left alone, you need to have a plan to...

The problem with Libertarianism. Stonetoss titled this "you and what army?"

Whether you or I or the bus driver believes that Jews are a "race", the Nazis certainly did. Their extermination plan against Juden was 100% about bloodline, as you call it, and nothing to do with any individual's beliefs. I recall reading about a Jewess who had converted to Roman Catholicism...

Still a huge pile of dead people either way. I hope we can all agree that "being born to a certain race" should not be a death-penalty offense, and if it was one that those people were actually innocent of?? No, that hardly makes it any less bad. Just saying.

Yes, what that map implies is that the most violent demographics are not new immigrant population, but non-whites who have been there for many centuries. I'll take a flying guess that in the case of the Red Indians, there would be a clear difference between the ones who are fully assimilated to...

Pick one: Hebrew Christians Messianic Jews Seriously, being born to the tribe of Judah does not give the Talmudist rabbis a claim to your soul. There are people who are Jewish by descent as much as some other people are English or Welsh by descent - but who also believe in Jesus as Lord and...

So now a Red Indian is an IFPA ?

The key point about language - don't play Humpty Dumpty about it. Don't redefine a word in your own special clever way, and expect everyone else to understand you.

Not even modern Germans are to blame for what other Germans did decades ago. Collectivist thinking like that should have no place in the civilized world.

There's a difference between the natural human trait of community, and the socialist collectivist conception of society.

Maybe Poland's historical reasons for distrusting Jews is a topic that needs its own thread?