Donald Fires FBI Director who's investigating Russian Election Hacking
Trump also promised them that they would be allowed to say "Merry Christmas" again if Republicans do well in the mid-terms. I'm so relieved. I am so tired of being fined and threatened every time I speak that holiday greeting. 
Red
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I have not given it enough thought. I was raised a Roman Catholic, in a heavily Catholic state. I became intensely interested in the early Gnostic Christian movements, those Christian communities of the first 4 centuries of Christianity that were eventually eradicated by the Roman church. Eventually, I came to believe that combining religious beliefs with nationalistic fervor was not a good thing. I also left my Catholic faith when I was about 16 years old. But I look at Christ as my elder brother, due to spiritual experiences I had many years ago. I belong to no church.
I just think that as time went on, the brand of Americanized Christianity that developed here was just not a good thing. I know that does not say much, it's not an easy thing to describe in a few words. I also became somewhat fascinated with Mormonism, since it developed here, in America, and became so highly successful.
I'm rambling here, I know, but the roots of Christianity, and the roots of all the world's major religions and spirirual beliefs has always attracted me. Sometimes I think we need new revelations, new understandings of our place in nature, our spiritual nature, the meaning of our existence, something that supersedes what I feel is the empty husk that is Americanized Christianity today.
Red
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Well, I guess I can say this. All of my closest friends in high school were Jewish. I lived in a neighborhood, here in RI, that was heavily Jewish. My friends taught me Yiddish. They got a kick out of having a "mashugana goyum", a crazy gentile, as their friend. They took me to the Jewish Community Center for dances. I got to know their parents well. Their grandparents had been put to death in the camps. They were all Eastern European Jews. So, how can I not think the Jews deserve a home of their own? I can't. But neither do I like how the Palestinians have been treated. So I'm conflicted in that respect, but I'm glad I had all those Jewish friends when I was a kid...
Jazzta
Guest
Exactly, can’t have double standards there.
It is literally one of the biggest talking points in the white nationalist movements. 'Everyone has a right to ethnic self-determination, unless they're white'.
Jazzta
Guest
Right, which I don’t get reclaiming self-determination by race. By culture and traditions would make more sense to me.
He has people to do that for him.
Red
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Well, 6 million white nationalists weren't put to death because they were white nationalists seems like a difference. But, that won't cut it. Zionism did not begin as a response to the Holocaust, and I can't claim the Holocaust provided moral justification for the creation of Israel, as redress for genocide. So I'm right back where you put me. As just another hypocrite.