• Andrew
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    483 months ago

    You can see the video that was originally quoted here: https://xcancel.com/billmaher/status/1844938477512675654#m

    Bill Maher seems aggressively unfunny to me, but the gist of the video is that it’s a open letter to Chappell Roan (who is pro-Palestine), saying that Israelis aren’t colonisers, because the Bible mentions that they built a temple in that area before others in Middle-East settled there. It seems like a questionable claim to me, and there are plenty of replies to the video disagreeing with him.

    • JackGreenEarth
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      513 months ago

      I mean, the Bible also mentions exactly how they drove out and murdered the Canaanites that were living there before them. Sounds like a coloniser to me - not that they were special for doing that, in their day.

      • @[email protected]
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        83 months ago

        And we know that that is, historically, bullshit, because Hebrews and Canaanites were related tribes and Judaism is even an outgrowth of the Canaanite pantheon.

    • @[email protected]
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      233 months ago

      The bible also says that you’re supposed to murder noncombatants during war. I think we should discount the old testament as a guide of any kind