The government of Texas has a disturbing obsession with Israel that doesn’t really make sense.
quickthrowman 6 hours ago [-]
Re: Texas and Israel, that old time religion is why.
> A 2017 LifeWay poll conducted in United States found that 80% of evangelical Christians believed that the creation of Israel in 1948 was a fulfillment of biblical prophecy that would bring about Christ's return and more than 50% of Evangelical Christians believed that they support Israel because it is important for fulfilling the prophecy
Also, there’s been a long search for a red cow to sacrifice to bring about ritual purity and construct the Third Temple, which from what I understand is believed by some Christians to be a prerequisite for the return of Christ. The Jewish people behind the search just want a third temple after the Romans burned temple number two a couple thousand years ago.
Seems to me that Al-Aqsa being in the way might complicate things, even with the right cow.
NuclearPM 6 hours ago [-]
Religious cult
quantified 6 hours ago [-]
Which one? There are third rails aplenty when dealing with Israel. The "secret cabal running everything" runs into how obvious the political and technical-military influences are.
fco356pal 2 hours ago [-]
I can’t believe Texans are fine with that. Won’t end well
BugsJustFindMe 2 hours ago [-]
What makes you think "Texans" as a category even know on average? Or are accurately informed enough to understand the full breadth of consequences?
bzmrgonz 4 hours ago [-]
I wonder if graphene phones are suceptible??
balozi 7 hours ago [-]
What are they scanning? Are they just trying to figure out what devices are in range?
lazylester 5 hours ago [-]
phone calls and texts. It's not just metadata. You can switch to WhatsApp and Signal, but your whole Rolodex (remember them?) needs to switch too.
6 hours ago [-]
VirusNewbie 7 hours ago [-]
Is that effective surveillance? I know SMS is plain text, but anything interesting is probably on iMessage, or RCS, or SSL web, no?
EdwardDiego 7 hours ago [-]
It's warrantless location tracking that they value more than direct interception.
cyanydeez 7 hours ago [-]
right, instead of getting the "Person of Interest" AI, we're getting the locally deployed to the worst type of people for whatever they deem "valid" until someone stops them.
Texas has a specific law against boycotting Israeli products as well.
https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/anti-israel-policies-are-ant...
The government of Texas has a disturbing obsession with Israel that doesn’t really make sense.
> A 2017 LifeWay poll conducted in United States found that 80% of evangelical Christians believed that the creation of Israel in 1948 was a fulfillment of biblical prophecy that would bring about Christ's return and more than 50% of Evangelical Christians believed that they support Israel because it is important for fulfilling the prophecy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Zionism#In_the_Unite...
Also, there’s been a long search for a red cow to sacrifice to bring about ritual purity and construct the Third Temple, which from what I understand is believed by some Christians to be a prerequisite for the return of Christ. The Jewish people behind the search just want a third temple after the Romans burned temple number two a couple thousand years ago.
https://templeinstitute.org/red-heifer-introduction/
And lastly, a Texas rancher attempting to bring about the second coming by sending red heifers to Israel.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/red-heifer-prophe...
Seems to me that Al-Aqsa being in the way might complicate things, even with the right cow.