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Re: Take pride in your faith ....
Posted by Shushan (Guest) - Friday, September 3 2004, 10:55:51 (CEST)
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Dean

I think we have to embrace the good our ancestors did despite the bad they did, for the world is not so black and white as your old testament made it.. it was written by people who suffered at the hands of our ancestors... and I am sorry for that and would apologize to them on behalf of our ancestors since I believe it still bothers the world through the one sided villification in the OT, but no other people have had that lot in life to bear... germany had WWI and WWII hiler and jewish holocaust as far greater evils than our ancestors did, yet now they are respectable and allowed to take pride in their german heritage. japanese of centuries of oppression of their people and surrounding people, pearl harbor and other atrocities of POWs and such, and they are allowed to have pride in their rich ancestral past from history to religion. The italians had the roman empire which inflicted more cruelty and human suffering including to the jews and jesus, but they are now allowed to be a beacon of chrisianity while still being proud of the roman pagan past and the culture it brought.. i could go on... but let me tell you why we have to glorify the good our ancestors did becase the bad they did has been so vilified that some only think of the horrendous in them and not all the good in civilization, writing, language, literature, archecture, science, irrigation, religion, mythology etc. etc.. and if we do as you say and just let the bad of them be spoken as in the OT and we don't promote the good even if through flags and idols, the we will only get them villifed as this great poet did:

George Gordon Lord Byron (1788-1824)
The Destruction of Sennacherib

The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold,
And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold;
And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea,
When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.

Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green,
That host with their banners at sunset were seen:
Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown,
That host on the morrow lay withered and strown.

For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast,
And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed;
And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill,
And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still!

And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide,
But through it there rolled not the breath of his pride;
And the foam of his gasping lay white on the turf,
And cold as the spray of the rock-beating surf.

And there lay the rider distorted and pale,
With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail:
And the tents were all silent, the banners alone,
The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown.

And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail,
And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal;
And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword,
Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord!



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