benny

Anarchy is what a society gets for scapegoating non-heads of state.

It is the function of the position.

Jesus was not a King either but never mind, Romans has put INRI on a cross and sacrificed him. In our modern time, real heads of state also know that they can buy time by pointing substitutes.

I have already alluded to The doorman and The Lazy servant : The Parable of the Talents. The other parables are far from valuing work: The sower is about the ease with which one is receiving the gospel. The shepard and his lost sheep is about particular attention given to the weakest of the weak. The Merchant is about selling everything that we have, to follow Jesus into the Kingdom of God (pearl). The vineyard workers are paid exactly the same whatever the amount of work done. The sharecroppers is about taking great care of the son of a rentier (both non-workers). The unworthy servants is about avoiding overabundance of pride. The fig tree is about God expecting from His people a living faith in His Son, repentance and a life according to faith. The absence of this in the masses brought down God's wrath upon them, which is expressed in the parable under the guise of the owner's decision to cut down the barren fig tree.

I think we can imagine a successful state that would not tolerate most commercial ships to pass near its coasts.

Washington has asked Germany to take in some of the 17 Muslims from China (Uighurs) held at Guantanamo.

I think that atheism is not really a (independent of theism) possibility because as soon as someone expresses her/himself, s/he is manifesting some kind of positivity (i.e. God) that makes a contradiction of all attempts to justify a non-belief in God or a belief in his non-existence.

Substitutions can include vegetables (if only these vegetables are given the shape of an animal). http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=11823920

To me, religious people are quite right to firmly warn that questioning in order to fill the gap that separates a belief from a certainty is to be avoided.

The only parable of Jesus seemingly about the virtue of labour is in reality about the virtue of using one's talents.

Of course, always with different names: Al-dabiha, Qurban,...

In the Islamic context, a lamb sacrifice referred to as al dabiha.

Jesus was a beggar more than a worker because he knew humble men makes more solid community than pompous ones.

Rare are people who knows that "sacred" and "sacrifice" share the same linguistic root.

Religious conflicts over meat are worldwide.

Nobody is a worker when talking politics.

Understanding that right-wingers from the West have had very rigid fathers too can be very helpful to cure a Muslim terrorist.

Man is not a worker, he is a genius.

He doesn't even have access to internet.

The extinction of whales and all other species of fish is the result of having tried to solve political problems by putting people to work.

And his father was in the oil business.

Khadr is not a troll.

On this thread, the world is hungry not freezing.

"Good cop/bad cop" is an efficient communication strategy; a rotation of two political parties are needed to use it in politics.

But Khadr is a human being.