Archive for the ‘Religion’ Category

Dutch right wing PVV party leader Geert Wilders wants to close the Dutch borders to refugees from all Arab countries including Libya. Wilders said that if a civil wars break out, “we must do everything to stop the refugee flow, ” says the PVV leader in an interview with the Dutch paper Spits.

The likelihood that that the refugees are Muslim, according to Wilders has nothing to do with it. “If it had been non-Muslim countries, we would not have coped with that mass either.” When Libyans cross over to Malta or Italy, they need to be collected in special camps.

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The American couple Scott and Jean Adam, who have been sailing around the world since 2002 in their sailing yach ‘The Quest’ have been killed by gunfire aboard their yacht, which had been hijacked by Somali Pirates last week.

I have noticed some weird aspects to the story. First of all, they sent four warships to surround the yacht. That seems odd since there’s no way you could stop an good sailing yacht even with 4 war ships, so if ithe number was an attempt to block the ship that would have been fruitless.

Secondly reports say that ‘before the negotiations started gunfire was heard’ and when they went on board the four Americans were found dead and some of the pirates as well.

So what exactly happened here? Did Scott and Jean Adam manage to get hold of some of the pirates weapons? Why would they do so with four war vessels surrounding them? That doesn’t make any sense.

Maybe some pirates started to panic and started shooting, but that doesn’t explain why there are dead pirates as well.

Or what about option three: a fucked up rescue operation? Or option four: a mutiny and fight amongst the pirates? Lots of options on the table here, maybe later on someone can find out what really happened aboard the Yacht the Quest.

I find it incomprehensible that the international community has not been able to come up with an answer to this sort of piracy in years. With advanced technology it must be relatively easy to detect and defuse these guys. They can see the dust in your belly button with their spy satellites so its only a question of a decent sweeping routine combined with some radar-sharks with evolved DNA that fly and bite off the heads of pirates. Its just an idea but you get my drift.

The idea that Jesus died on a cross is probably a wrong interpretation of Biblical texts. That’s what a Swedish scientist concludes after studying historic texts. Theologian Gunnar Samuelsson of the Göteborg University claims that Jesus never got crucified but instead was hanged unto a pole.

The scientist claims there is no literature that explicitly mentions the crucifiction. In the Bible they write only about the ‘staurus’ Jesus had to carry up the Golgotha mountain, a word which a lot of historians have translated as ‘cross’ but which should be much accurately translated as ‘pole’, the Swedish scientist suggests.

Roman, Greek and Hebrewe literature suggests that executions where people were nailed unto a cross have not been existant in the ancient days of the roman empire at all, says Samuelsson. Hanging prisoners unto a pole, however, was quite common in those days.

Samuelsson thinks the image of Jesus on a cross exists because of the imagination of ancient artists that were made long, long after his death.

‘There are simply no description of Jesus or anyone else in that time being crucified’ Samuelsson says, ‘the whole thing is based upon imagination and myth’.

Samuelsson vermoedt dat het beeld van Jezus aan het kruis is ontstaan door artistieke afbeeldingen die veel later zijn gemaakt.

Will Mel Gibsson remake his rather kitschy torture episode ‘Passion of the Christ’ now? Maybe a bit less dramatic, with a pole instead of a cross? Beyong doubt lack of nails and blood wouldnt fare well with hollywood audiences. And what about all these people wearing crosses around their necks, will they now be replaced with poles? Are we going to hear ‘He poled for your sins’ now when we get lectured?

These are exciting times!