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It’s a Miracle!
How God chooses to reveal himself is quite miraculous, and the latest miracle occurred recently in Britain.
A British woman said she saw the face of Jesus while preparing breakfast for her 4-year-old son, London’s Daily Mail reports.
She saw the Jesus image while opening a jar of Marmite, a thick, brown spread.
Seriously though, why is this even news? There is nothing to it! A Christian saw a blob and thought it looked like Jesus, yipee. Why doesn’t it just look like a guy with a beard? Why Jesus? Becasue she is a Christian, and her brain is hard wired to see patterns, and because of pareidoloia, she sees Jesus.
Take a look at the same image upside down. Still see Jesus? Yep, and you won’t be able to look at it now withoutseeing Jesus, because of pareidoloia.
Holy War
Let’s be clear about it, if religion didn’t exist, then the current conflict between Hamas and Israel wouldn’t exist. It doesn’t even have to go that far; if some portions of the Torah (the Old Testament to Christians) didn’t exist then this conflict wouldn’t be happening.
Israel is anciently considered a “Holy Land”, and that it was set apart by God to be the homeland for the Hebrew person, thus when modern Israelwas created as a Jewish State in 1947 it was considered by some to be a fulfillment of Gods promise for a holy lands because of the ancient contract between God and his covenant people, the Hebrews.
When it was created as Jewish State, many of the Arabs living there were displaced.
This is a clear division of land, state and power between 2 groups of people; Jews and Arabs.
One group (Jews) feels entitled to the land they live in, partly because of the words in their holy book, the other group (Arabs) resent the Israeli occupation of what they consider to be their holy lands.
If the borders of Israel and the Gaza Strip were merged, and there was no separation of people according to religion and race, would this conflict even be happening?
This conflict, at it’s root, is about difference of beliefs about God, and isn’t that tragic? Take God out of the picture and these are just people with different ethnic backgrounds, with no pre-concieved notions about “heretics” and “gentiles”.
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