Discussion With A Conservative Pastor: I CANT & Phat Only..for now

Its been awhile since we talked, I CANT.
Here are my questions:

Does Jesus weep over Palestine as He weeps for Jerusalem?

Is Israel behaving morally or are they reacting irrationally?

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I personally believe that God has a few more lessons for Israel and that they will reap what they sow. I personally do not blame them for reacting to the attacks of Hamas, but I do not think they will ever get rid of Hamas through force.

Hello Pastor. Im glad that you responded to me. Lets nosh. Assuming that the Bible is thought for thought literal,(as opposed to word for word literal) we have an account of how things came to be, especially human nature. AZPaul3 insists that religion is and has always been evil and harmful to the world, but I think he is focusing his disgust more on human behavior than on God and gods whom he quite obviously has never believed in. Many members here at the forum speak of a "genocidal God" and are not so much angry at a Spirit(or spirit) whom they do not believe in, but more likely angry at believers for continuing to behave badly.And they are right in that many religious people of all beliefs are willfully ignorant when they ignore the scriptures of the New Testament if it involves them and their kinfolk personally. As examples, the Catholic/Protestant violence in Northern Ireland, the Isaac Ismael thing you mentioned in the middle east, the war in China that Percy7 mentioned as horribly genocidal...I could go on.One point that is missing in many of these arguments against a genocidal god and consequently genocidal followers is the person of Jesus Christ. If Jesus is God, God can not be charged with being genocidal because Christ Himself was never genocidal.(I should say was and is. There are Christian pacifists) In closing, I will also mention my belief that God is not through with Israel. They no doubt should be in a lot of soul searching right now. They know a lot about their God, but as a nation have not yet met Him. ‘If Christ were born today, he would be born under rubble, Israeli bombing’