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    Feb 9th 2017, 11:05 PM

    A Kerry Priest Fr. Malachi Martin was involved in deciphering them.

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    Feb 10th 2017, 8:14 AM

    @Paddy Flynn: It says “don’t repeal the 8th”

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    Feb 11th 2017, 3:03 AM

    @George O Neill: After the Bible was put together, many works that the Bible left out were destroyed and lost from the old and new testaments. The problem was some were written to counteract Christianity, not all works were for Christ but also to destroy the spread of Christianity. Many works create Christian based religions that the Catholic church went around and slaughtered them for.
    I would love to know if the Vatican library have any of these books that don’t exist anyewhere else as they have translaters who translate books between 3 sects the Jusuits, trappists and the Franciscans in 3 seperate parts, so no one knows what the book is about.
    Each Apostle wrote a gospel but where are they?

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    Feb 10th 2017, 12:07 AM

    Stressed spells backwards Desserts.

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    Mute Alois Irlmaier
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    Feb 11th 2017, 3:08 AM

    @Stephen Maher: Sesrtesd slepls bwckarads Dresests, some are easier to read than others while others can surprise you?

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    Feb 10th 2017, 7:40 AM

    Why is it considered erotic to use a feather, but kinky to use the whole chicken?

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    Feb 9th 2017, 11:03 PM

    They might say “now if you believe all the junk in the last set of scrolls the you’ll believe anything”

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    Feb 9th 2017, 11:50 PM

    Do you think if the scrolls have a message something like “God said no Israel for the Jews after all” then they will start demolishing walls and settlements??

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    Feb 9th 2017, 11:23 PM

    The removal of cultural artefacts or destruction of historical or cultural sites in occupied land contravenes the Geneva Conventions. Anything derived from these sites is the property of the nation of Palestine. Those involved in this are criminals subject to international law and should end up in the Hague

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    Feb 9th 2017, 11:31 PM

    There is no nation of Palestine, never has been.

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    Mute Paul Devlin
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    Feb 9th 2017, 11:53 PM

    ‘The fellaheen (peasantry) [of Palestine] are none but those ancient Jews who were forced to convert to the religion of Arab Beduin [or the “pure Arabs” as he prefers to call them], who had conquered the land in the seventh century,” writes Ben-Gurion in his intriguing essay on The Origins of the Fellaheen. Interestingly enough, and to defend his not-so-eccentric theory, the same Ben-Gurion would go on defending Islam on strictly theological terms. For it is thanks to the relative tolerance of Islam, affirms Ben-Gurion, that those Hebrew fellaheen were eventually tempted into conversion. After countering previous claims that the fellaheen were the descendants of the ancient Canaanites (or the Romans, or the Greeks), Ben-Gurion comes to the following conclusion: The fellaheen, being the descendants of the ancient Hebrew people, were the true natives of the land, and thus represented an ideal nativist model for Jewish newcomers in Palestine. In other words, the younger Ben-Gurion was interested in a form of reverse assimilation: to become a true Jew is to become a true Palestinian’. Even the first prime minister of Israel admits that ZIionism is a racist lie. However that does not refute my basic point. These artefacts were taken from occupied land. They belong to the native people, the Palestinians. To remove them from Palestinian land and use them as propagandist fodder for the colonial Zionist regime is a crime under international law. Now do one, sunshine and I’ll see you in the Hague!

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    Feb 10th 2017, 12:12 AM

    I suppose the Poles better not dig up anything in what as German territory until 1945, , similarly the Russians in formally Finish or Japanese territory and countless other people dig /build on what as once territory occupied by someone else. Interestingly I don’t see you growing about many eastern Europeans who now occupy formally Jewish property all we hear about today is Jews building on territory which was formally “owned” by the Ottoman Turks then Jordan (who like the Germans, Finn’s, Japanese and countless others lost it it battle ) I also certain, had the Jews lost in 48,67, or 73 we wouldn’t be having this discussion as there wouldn’t be any Jews left in the Middle East (there’s is almost none anyway )

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    Feb 10th 2017, 12:36 AM

    @Paul Devlin: Didnt stpo finna fail destroying the worlds largest viking seetlement to build their offices did it?

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    Feb 10th 2017, 12:07 AM

    @George O Neill…you now officially hold the record for the longest comment ever on the Journal! Are you promoting a book or something??

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    Feb 10th 2017, 2:34 AM

    @George O Neill: does sound though that you enjoy Ancient Aliens.

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    Feb 10th 2017, 9:07 AM

    THE BIBLE! Best piece of fiction I’ve ever read

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    Feb 10th 2017, 2:28 PM

    @Adrian: You need to read more books then. Its an incredibly dull work of fiction.

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    Feb 10th 2017, 6:32 PM

    I stand corrected (excellent

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    Feb 10th 2017, 11:06 PM

    It is pants in fairness. The irony is that Bible study in school made me question God. Needs to make a more believable sequel.

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    Feb 11th 2017, 2:39 AM

    @Adrian: Many would disagree with you there…

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    Feb 11th 2017, 2:40 AM

    @Aaron Gibson: Bad teacher, many like Chuck Missler as he makes it interesting?

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    Feb 10th 2017, 9:43 PM

    Is this the Judean peoples front?

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    Feb 11th 2017, 2:38 AM

    Many were destroyed as fire kindling by the mother of the boy who discovered the cave, what a mess…

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