although they do not even know it, becoz our Middle Name is Oblivious.
The fact is that Judaism was founded on being against idols and if you look around people, we are in India, which is wall to wall idols.
Not only in the old testament or whatever, what do I know, Jewish texts, they keep complaining about idols, they give them self tsuris and chastisement every time some calamity happens, or war happens, they say, aha, it is becoz we did not rid ourselves of idols enough.
Lemme tell ya, this is ridiculous, calamaties and war happen becoz of the human condition, not becoz of idols.
Christianity has plenty of idols, even those sects that do not have statues or Mother Mary, the cross itself is idolatry.
There are people who even get worked up at little scraps of Torah scripture being kept in books or in the teffillin, becoz they say it is idolatry.
Muslims are famously against idolatry and even depictions of human body, let alone their prophet, who BTW married umpteen times, including the last time to a 6 year old girl, and consummated the marriage when she was 8, and it was in this umpteenth under age marriage, that the father in law decided he was the next successor prophet and they began a fight with the descendants from the first marriage, which was Fatima and the kids. So that is how the Sunni (from the father in law from the underage girl marriage) and the Shia (from Fatima and the kids) rivalry began.
And if Farrkhan wanta talk hair raising, he could maybe have a huge exposition on that.
But never mind that, this ranting against idolatry is also a sign of Oliver Cromwell, who had a big fight over it, not comprehending that his Church the Church of England was born becoz a previous king had umpteen wives and wanted to divorce and off them, and the Popes in Rome wouldnt let them. But Oliver Cromwell was another one always ranting about idols.
And there was a big thing with a born again White Christian guy in the US Military who started bawling about Muslims that their God is an idol. This made me astonished, becoz one thing we already established is all the Abrahamic faiths have a huge issue with idols.
The idol people are us, the Asians, the Indians, Cambodians, Balinese, Buddhists etc. We are the ones with the huge idols, little idols, millions of idols in our temples, huge big idols in our caves, out of rocks, in the mountains, and little bitty idols all over our homes, to whom we talk, pray, feed, adore, play music, dress up and feed and all the rest of it.
So we would like a little respect for our love of our own idols. We do not want people dissing them, blowing them up or trying to take them away.
If you dont like idols, fine. We like our idols and we would like to keep them.
Also the Buddhas in the mountains have been there for thousands of years, long before the Muslims got there and now the Muslims tried to blow them up. Ditto in Kashmir and Bali and all over India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan and Far East, us people was there long before and this new religion shows up and thinks it is the boss.
So this is the part of the Abrahamic religions I object to and I would like some respect and tolerance for our side.
Furthermore, the Kaaba is a jewish stone and people see no problem in saying prayers to it and worship it, so you worship your stone, we will worship ours, OK, that's perfectly fair and if Reverend Wright, Farrakhan and Barry Obama are so disposed, I would like to find out their detailed views on the issue, also a variety of rabbis and padres and mullahs, that would be fine too.
Thank you.
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