The Untold Story Of Creation

In the beginning, before there was even a 'beginning', there was only God and his angels, one of whom considered himself equal to God, Lucifer was his name. 

On day, Lucifer, better known as Satan, challenged God, saying, "Create a world and populate it with people made in our image, that of yours, my brothers and mine, make them male and female so that they might propagate and multiply and fill the earth from pole to pole and from east to west, and let us see whom they will follow, whom they will bow down to and serve, you or me."

"Done," said the Lord, God of heaven and earth, and the earth, the moon, the stars, the planets and the other galaxies in the universe were created in the span of six days.

In time, the earth began to be populated from pole to pole and from east to west with people of all the various ethnic types according to their geographical location on the earth, but even before then, in fact, long before even then, Satan began winning the race by laps, turning and luring people away from following the blameless ways of a God-fearing people to following the godless ways of savages, people who did as they saw fit without any regard for what was right or what was wrong, whether based on religious texts or guidelines sent down to mankind by means of enlightened individuals who came to known as prophets or based on their own conscience or instincts, a trend that has endured throughout the ages in spite of the existence of the various law enforcement agencies even at international level.

But God doesn't care, it was rumored, about losing the race, losing the war Satan has waged against him, and that all he cared about was the lost sheep of Israel, whatever that was supposed to mean. 

Even if Lucifer, better known as Satan, won the challenge and gained the whole world and its entire population as his prize, all that God cared about, it was rumored, was the lost sheep of Israel, whatever that was supposed to mean.

Observations # 43

The quality of one's work is usually a good indicator of one's character. The shittier the quality of one's work, the shittier one's character.  

Observations # 42

It might be that Israel's ultimate war goal in Iran was regime change because as long as the current regime was in power Israel's security would always be threatened and at risk either by direct confrontation such as at present or through Iran's regional proxies, kinda like a head of the snake needs to be chopped off thing.

Observations # 41

Donald Trump was proof God was on Israel's side, because if God was on the side of Israel's enemies, Kamala Harris would have won the election and it would be she who was the president of the United States, wearing a kaffiyeh around her neck in solidarity with the enemies of Israel.

Corruption In High Places

Religious beliefs do not make people good and incapable of being corrupted by material wealth. It is the goodness of one's heart. It is one's morals and principles, one's character, that makes someone good and incapable of being corrupted by material wealth. 

Religious or not, people will still lie, cheat, slander and kill. Religion has no say in what one does or does not do. There is no religion that forbids wrongdoing, and even if there was such a religion, people will still engage in wrongdoing given the right reasons or circumstances, or if forced to. 

After all, every religion has its own failsafe, it's own laundry chamber where one's sins, intentionally committed or otherwise, can be washed away like soiled linen can be washed and made like new. 

Catholics have a confessional booth, Muslims have the black stone. 

Isn't God great in this respect?

The Five Steps Of Martyrdom

The first step towards martyrdom is to place one foot in the grave. The second step is to place the other foot in the grave. The third step is to lie down, close the eyes, stop breathing and die. The fourth step is to open the eyes in paradise. The fifth step is to enjoy the rewards of martyrdom in paradise. Sometimes a little outside help is needed in completing the third step, help that is not always appreciated by those who come to pay their respects at the martyr's grave, especially when too much outside help is given without consent.

Was Christianity The Key To Peace In The Middle East?

 I'm beginning to realize what it was that's central to Jewish-Arab animosity since the beginning of the first millennium onwards. 

Religion. 

The Jews have Judaism, non-negotiable, the Arabs have Islam, non-negotiable, and never shall the twain meet. 

Arab Christians and Israeli Christians, however, are bonded in love for each other just as Jesus commanded them, to 'love one another as I have loved you'.

Christianity, therefore, may be the key to peaceful co-existence between both Arabs and Jews, or Israelis, in the Middle East, not Judaism or Islam, both proven to be religions not of peace or love or tolerance but of violence, hatred and holy war in the case of one and vengeance and retribution in the case of the other.