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A Israeli friend of mine tells me that in modern Israel there remains tension between Ashkenazic Jews (the majority) and Sephardic Jews, and the only difference between them is one diaspora mob originates from Eastern Europe & the other from Western Europe & North Africa. Meanwhile, I am told that a current issue is there is division regarding whether South American & Asian peoples with a Jewish heritage can be admitted to Israel (Are they Jewish enough???). I only mention Israel as an example of what I perceive as a incoherent contradiction upon contradiction...
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[QUOTE=siam;428749]The ISIS rhetoric of Khaliphate, or the idea of Zionism...etc...are also a marriage between religion and "nation" identity-constructs[quote]I can't see any rational association between the Daesh & Zionism. One is looking to the creation of an apocalypse, the other aims to avoid one!
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From a NT perspective it is curious that Jesus' first mass conversion occurred amoungst a people his countrymen considered societal outcasts (the Samaratans, John 4). A greater curiosity is Jesus accusation that those of his countrymen who believed on him as their promised Messiah, were those who wanted to kill him (John 18).
Again from the NT, we have a constant teaching of the apostle that there is no longer (amoungst Christians) Jews or Greeks, we are without national, tribal or ethnic identity! Such isn't a matter of philosophy or religion but a conviction by the mindset of each individual! Possibly, an irrationality to those of "the borg" who have "a hive" mentality... In contrast, and the Greeks have a word for it = "Perichoresis", there is "The Great Dance" which requires a group of individuals to have awareness of each other & voiceless communication (there is a similar idea in some Asian martial arts but for opposite purposes).
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The reality is that you can't implement village systems in large Urban societies. For instance; today it was announced that Sydney now has in excess of 6 million people. And I can assure you a considerable portion of those people spend upto 12 hours away from the homestead, five days a week, to make a living (my dad was a night worker, a machinist in a factory, he worked six days a week, and I only saw him Sunday afternoons for most of my childhood. Me, I got up at 6am, had breakfast alone while the wife & kids slept, commuted to work and got home about 7pm. Spent an hour or so with the kids and then had dinner alone. That is just the reality of the modern world if you want your kids to have a better future than you).
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Maybe an enforcement of a constitutional declaration of "all men, women & children, irrespective of race, color or creed, are equal in the eyes of the law and social opportunity" would help. Oz's constitution plus some auxiliary laws while not perfect comes very, very close...
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