{"id":252414,"date":"2024-01-22T12:00:28","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T12:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=252414"},"modified":"2024-01-17T06:34:12","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T06:34:12","slug":"he-is-a-liar-and-the-father-of-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/01\/he-is-a-liar-and-the-father-of-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"He Is a Liar and the Father of Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"

9 Jan 2024<\/em> – The Israeli Ambassador Danny Danon’s April 29, 2019 speech has recently gone viral <\/em>just in time for Israel\u2019s Final Solution<\/em> for the Palestinians; he is a perfect representative example of Jesus\u2019 words. \u2013 \u201ca liar and father of lies.\u201d To raise The Holy Bible<\/em> to assert Jewish peoples\u2019 right to Palestine is arrogantly offensive, insulting, abhorrent, and a shameless demonstration of hypocrisy, deception, and flagrant dishonesty that certainly any Christian should find abhorrent and an affront. Waving The Torah<\/em>, the five books out of sixty-six to this august, gullible, minstrel-like, body at the United Nations might have had a different effect. Israeli Jews do not accept 95% of The Bible <\/em>-The New Testament.<\/p>\n

The title is a quote from Jesus to Jewish people found in The<\/em> Bible<\/em>, John 8:44. The full verse reads: \u201cYou (Jews) are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father\u2019s desires.\u00a0 He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him.\u00a0 When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.\u201d\u00a0 Well, I don\u2019t think many Jewish people would take kindly to these comments from Jesus.<\/p>\n

Israeli Jews reject The<\/em> Bible,<\/em> as a whole; they accept only The Torah, <\/em>the first five books authored by Moses \u2013 the Egyptian, the African, now that\u2019s quite another story (See Sigmund Freud, Moses and Monotheism<\/em>); Freud\u2019s first chapter is entitled \u201cMoses an Egyptian\u201d (I don\u2019t know if Freud knew that I know that Egypt is in Africa).\u00a0 Knowledge of this fact forces another concern and observation. Moses an Egyptian-African, in the Biblical book of Exodus, did not lead European Jews (White people) out of Egypt, yet those immigrating to historic Palestine since 1915 and certainly since 1948, have been exclusively European Jews. This doesn\u2019t make sense. Well, of course the little punkish fellow with the funny mustache learned of this and it created a little pause in his plans for Aryan\u00a0 (White) so-called supremacy.<\/p>\n

Still, this Egyptian\/African Moses, is the man to whom an immaterial, invisible, spiritual being dictated or narrated – the Pentateuch, the first five books, sometimes the first six, or Hexateuch (including the Book of Joseph). In other words, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.\u00a0 The Bible<\/em> is a collection of 66 books: do the math and think about Danny Danon, obviously a Zionist who rejects 66 books of The Holy<\/em> Bible<\/em> he\u2019s holding up. \u00a0As my dear son, Shegun Toure would say, \u201cMake it make sense.\u201d<\/p>\n

Waving it as if it is proof, evidence, a deed to land, and Israeli Jews\u2019 right to all of historic Palestine. The Bible<\/em> (The first five books out of sixty-six) is now a real estate document and an invisible, spiritual being (Jahve) a real estate agent. The messenger, (UN Rep) Danny Danon, like other Jews, rejects 95% of the evidence he\u2019s holding up. \u00a0And the rest, The Torah<\/em>, fits nicely into the views of the renown Jewish scholar and thinker, Sigmund Freud: \u201cThe religions of mankind (including Jadism and Christianity and Islam) must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind.\u00a0 No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes it as such.\u201d So, according to Doctor of Philosophy and Neuroscience, Sam Harris in his book The End of Faith<\/em>: \u201cReligion, Terror, and the Future of Reason\u2019: \u201c35 percent of Americans believe that the Bible is the literal and inerrant word of the Creator of the universe.\u00a0 Another 48 percent believe that it is the \u2018inspired\u2019 word of the same\u201d (Harris, 17). And, yes, a survey of Hindus, Muslims, and Jews around the world would surely yield similar results. Too many people, globally, have been told what to think not how to think.<\/p>\n

Israeli Jews do not accept Jesus as the Messiah. In fact, they are wasting money building a monument in anticipation of \u201ctheir\u201d messiah. There\u2019s a sort of madness, a certain delusion, here. Well, I\u2019ve often thought, like Ian McKellen, that the Bible should have a disclaimer at the front saying, \u201cThis is fiction.\u201d\u00a0 Talking snakes? An Ark in the Middle East, filled with every species of animal \u2013 literally? And, where in Palestine would Noah get penguins and polar bears? And are his descendants still waiting on that very slow-moving Sloth to arrive from South America? Then there\u2019s the absurd idea of stopping the world from spinning on its axis to give the Jews more time to slaughter their \u201cenemies\u201d? A child born of a virgin \u2013 literally? \u00a0I mean, walking on water -literally<\/em>?\u00a0 A murdered \u201csavior\u201d \u2013 resurrected from the dead, literally<\/em>?<\/p>\n

Basically, I\u2019m suggesting that myths and folklore (religion), cannot be the basis of decisions made by, of all places, the United Nations, or foreign policy of any country in the modern world. Otherwise, other \u201csacred texts<\/em>\u201d are eligible as accurate and reliable historical or legal documents, all claiming to be authored by a God, or inspired by the same; for example: The Glorious Quran<\/em>, The Bhagavad-Gita<\/em>, The Upanishads<\/em>, The Lotus Sutra<\/em>, The Wisdom of Native Americans<\/em>, The Adi Granth<\/em>, The Akan Doctrine of God<\/em>, etc. Of course, there are profound, deep truths in all these texts; wonderful, exciting stories, allegories and parables with significant meaning and guides to a moral ethical life.\u00a0 But, they are just that, stories. Yet, people who take these texts literally <\/em>as opposed to metaphorically<\/em> are probably, mostly, good people, kind people, they are just foolish, they have not been seriously and honestly educated. My concern is not a condemnation but rather for an understanding of these texts, their origins in human authorship and achievement.<\/p>\n

Finally, and most importantly, we must preserve the Separation of Church and State. To introduce myth and folklore, fiction and religious text, as verifiable legal evidence, in matters as grand as determining the rightful heirs of a country, considering the Palestine\/Israeli crisis, is the height of colonial justification. \u201cGod the real estate broker gave us this land\u2019: Israel, America, Australian, New Zeeland, South Africa, India, — THE WORLD!!!\u00a0 \u201cFull spectrum dominance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chris Hedges in his book American Fascists<\/em>: \u201cThe Christian Right and the War on America\u201d illuminates and punctuates the central concerns of this article: \u201cThe movements (American Evangelicals and Christian Zionists) call to dismantle the wall between church and state and the intolerance it preaches against all who do not conform to its warped vision of a Christian America are pumped into tens millions of American homes through Christian television and radio stations, as well as reinforced through the curriculum in Christian schools.\u00a0 The movement\u2019s yearning for apocalyptic violence and its assault on dispassionate, intellectual inquiry are laying the foundations for a new, frightening America.\u201d<\/p>\n

Noam Chomsky says of this movement that \u201celements of the Christian fundamentalists right are one of the strongest components of \u2018support of Israel\u2019\u2013 support in an odd sense, because they presumably want to see it destroyed in a cosmic battle of Armageddon, after which all the proper souls will ascend to heaven.\u201d This is absolute madness and total insanity.\u00a0 And such beliefs are controlling America from top to bottom; from POTUS to SCOTUS, from university to grammar school. Americans are being told what to think, not how to think.<\/p>\n

One reason China is kicking America\u2019s butt, up and down and sideways, in practically every area of human achievement is that it doesn\u2019t have (may not even permit) this sort of religious based mythology of Armageddon or apocalyptic, global destruction to block its vision of a bright, promising, prosperous future.\u00a0 It is not in the grip of religious fanatics and zealots with an end-of-life philosophy. \u00a0It is proving that people, that nations can be good without God or religion. They don\u2019t believe absurdities like a man dead for over 2,000 years will be resurrected and return to life. This is, clearly, the height of unreason and irrationality. Even Martin Luther King understood \u201cresurrection\u201d as metaphor.<\/p>\n

And, to insert Voltaire here, \u201cPeople who believe absurdities will commit atrocities.\u201d The U.S Defense (War) Department has built \u201cDoomsday Machines\u201d to facilitate their twisted, infantile, apocalyptic, vision and worldview.<\/p>\n

I truly appreciate Lorraine Hansberry\u2019s classic play (1959) A Raisin in the Sun<\/em>. I especially love the dialogue between the mother, Lena, and her daughter, Beneatha.<\/p>\n

Beneatha: \u201cI\u2019m going to medical school.\u201d<\/em>
\nLena: \u201cYou\u2019ll be a doctor\u2026God willing.\u201d<\/em>
\nBeneatha: \u201cGod doesn\u2019t have anything to do with it\u2026You don\u2019t understand.\u00a0 It\u2019s just a matter of ideas and God is just one I don\u2019t accept\u2026 I simply get tired of Him getting credit for what human beings achieve through their own stubborn effort.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\"\"<\/a> Fritz Pointer is a retired professor of English and African American Studies.\u00a0 He is the vice president of <\/em>Democratic World Federalists<\/em><\/a> and has published numerous scholarly articles such as <\/em>African Oral Epic Poetry: Praising the Deeds of a Mythic Hero (2013).\u00a0 Being the older brother of the popularly known singing group, <\/em>The Pointer Sisters, he has co-authored <\/em>Fairytale: the Pointer Sisters\u2019 Family History.\u00a0Pointer\u2019s main interests include combating racism, advancing human rights, ending war, eliminating nuclear weapons, and nonviolent solutions to global problems.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

9 Jan 2024 – The Israeli Ambassador Danny Danon is a perfect representative example of Jesus\u2019 words. \u2013 \u201ca liar and father of lies.\u201d To raise The Holy Bible to assert Jewish peoples\u2019 right to Palestine is arrogantly offensive, insulting, abhorrent, and a shameless demonstration of hypocrisy, deception, and flagrant dishonesty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":156438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[1926,865,88,427,107],"class_list":["post-252414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-palestine-israel-gaza-genocide","tag-bible","tag-genocide","tag-israel","tag-palestine","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252415,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252414\/revisions\/252415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}