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Longtrail's avatar

Julian McFarland wrote a poem dedicated to Yahya Sinwar. It began, "Jesus was a Palestinian before He was a Jew...".

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Jack Lomax's avatar

Jesus was a human before he was a Jew

Anything else doesn't really matter

As a person he was one of very few

Who stood his ground and didn't scatter

Its realy past time we stopped talking of Jews against others

And start with the fact that all are sisters and brothers

As wth Jesus so with brave and devout Sinwar

Who would be bette named Innocent Peace.

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Jack Lomax's avatar

To think that if someone is Jewish he or he will not be able to preach love and peace is getting near to being genuinely anti semitic

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Roslyn Ross's avatar

If he existed he was definitely Palestinian. Being a Jew not so sure given his teachings.

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Jennifer Akdemir's avatar

How was he not a Jew? He was certainly not a Christian - he would have been confused if you could go back in time and talk to him in Aramaic about Christianity.

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Roslyn Ross's avatar

Many different peoples lived in ancient Palestine and most of them were not Jews. There is no record of Jesus in his times from the Herodians, Romans or contemporary historians. The first mention by historians was more than half a century or more after his death, by which time everyone who was alive when he supposedly lived, was dead. Christianity was invented by Saul/Paul century and more later.

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Jack Lomax's avatar

I TOTALLY agree

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Jennifer Akdemir's avatar

No indeed, pretty much all ancient people were "pagans". Judaism was however the first of the monotheist faiths, and it is entirely conceivable to me that some of those who converted to Judaism had descendants who converted to Christianity and then to Islam.

The same people who were there all along. Yes, Jesus' existence is disputed (some say that the Biblical John the Baptist was the real figure, for example).

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Roslyn Ross's avatar

PAGAN just meant not our religion

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Roslyn Ross's avatar

there were earlier monotheistic faiths than Judaism. But off topic

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