kurupetos wrote:denizaksulu wrote:
Why not the churches? After all Jesus was a Jew
No, a Jew today is defined as a follower of Judaism.
Jesus was a follower of Judaism all his life and early Christianity was a Judaic sect: Jesus never set out to form a new religion but to reform the existing Jewish faith as then practiced. His ideas were entirely consistent with some then existing schools of thought including Pharisaic - Rabbinical Judaism, and Chritsinity still shares many basic tennets of the Judiac faith, including, for example, the Mosaic laws.
The biggest difference is the claim by Christians that the only way bto god is through Jesus as Christ the Messiah, something not accpeted by modern jews.
Christianity and Judaism did not begin to diverge until after Jesus' death. Firstly there was the influence of St Paul who, amongst other things, removed certain Judaic elements from the essential requirements, such as male circumcision and compliance with the Kosher Food laws, and secondly there was a decline in the number of Jewish adherents (particularly following the destruction of the temple in about 70AD) when a literal kindom of God on earth failed to materialise. Howwver for may years, possibly until as late as 325 BC many early Christians worshippped at the local Synagoge.
Joke: a good Jewish friend of mine, told me this one:
It was about the three Children, a Catholic, a Protestant and a Jew, who discussed what they did on Christmas day:
The Catholic described how they went to midnight mass then came home, and went to bed for a few hours, before going to morning Mass, then they came home, had Christmas Dinner, opened their presents, and watched the Queen's speech, before going to afternoon Mass.
The Protestant child described how they got up in the morning, opened their presents, went to morning service, came home, had a big dinner, watched the Queen's speech and fell asleep in front of the telly.
The Jewish boy said we celebrate Christmas too, but in a special way: we get up, have an ordinary breakfast, then we go to my fathers' toyshop,
look at all the empty shelves and then we sing a Chorus of "what a friend we have in Jesus".
I capped it: I told my friend - "Jesus was not a friend: he was a relative!"
Be that as it may - there is now a school of thought that considers controlled demolition as a practical application of progressive collapse and thus buildings which undergo progressive collapse in the manner of the twin towers and buildings which undergo controlled demolition will tend to show similar characteristics in how they collapse
As to conspiracy theories his site contains some useful information and challanges, sometimes with theuir own evidence, the core conpiracy theory that the world trade centre buildings were demolished by preplaced explosives:
http://www.debunking911.com/pull.htm
It is well worth reviewing in its entirety before deciding the collapse was caused by pre-placed explosives as a part of a Jewish/ US Government /little Green mane from Mars conspiracy. The only conspiracy was by the Arabs linked to Al Queada and the cause of the collpase of all of the buildings can be attributed to the act of flying planes into each of the twin towers.
In particular, in essence WT7 collapsed because it was hit from above by Debris from the twin towers: something it was never designed to withstand. Again the buidling underwnt a pancake collpase as the penthouse collapsed on nto the floor below and the lot progressively went vertically down, something predicated by its "tube in tube" structural design, with basically large areas of floor which were basically only held up by attachment to the outer columns and the inner columns forming the core, with no intermediate structural support.
