Sunday, November 4, 2012

Sovereignty and The Temple - To Demolish a Holy Site or Not

There is a push for Israel to demonstrate itself by bull dozing the mosque on the Temple Mount as a way to demonstrate its sovereignty. This would likely cause WWWIII. However, perhaps this is WWWIII already, starting with the Arab Spring and expanding.

If Israel demolishes this sacred mosque (where the Temple Mount is located), it would make Israel as a rapist.  Building the Temple without the blessing of Muslims would make Israel to be rapist of Hagar.  One who demonstrates power through might is a rapist.  The reason I say Hagar is that the book of Genesis says that Hagar was the wife of Abraham, the first monotheist, and parents of Ishmael.  We are able to liken the Ishmaelites to today's group, Muslims.

Sacred teaching teaches that if one loves the father, then one loves the children.  One is unable to love Abraham unless he or she loves Isaac and Ishmael both.  Thus, it is such that we should not think of Muslims as depraved people, but as our brothers.

I am fully sympathetic with wanting the Jewish Temple Built at the Temple Mount.  However, this is clearly not the time for such a thing to happen. In fact, the only way to lovingly accomplish sovereignty is to wait until Islam, the religion, is history.  Consider the follow, which are the traits of a wise man:

"There are seven things that characterize a boor, and seven things that characterize a wise man. A wise man does not speak before one who is greater than himself in wisdom or age. He does not interrupt his fellow's words. He does not hasten to answer. His questions are on the subject and his answers to the point. He responds to first things first and to latter things later. Concerning what he did not hear, he says "I did not hear." He concedes to the truth. With the boor, the reverse of all these is the case."


- Ethics of the Fathers, 5:7

Religions come and go, and so to this may happen with Islam. The hope is that the Muslim's descendants would then have a different view about the location of the sacred temple.

Power demonstrations like this one that is often suggested have little to do with love and everything to do with power, which is the way of rape. Rape is not about love it is about power.  In that way, it is the way of the boor who hastens actions.  Thus, it is such that in order to build the Temple in its sacred place it must be done with lovingkindness.

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