ICJ vice-president: 'The Lord is counting on me to stand on the side of Israel'
ICJ vice-president: 'The Lord is counting on me to stand on the side of Israel'
Judge Sebutinde, your eschatology is bad. But your paterology is even worse. You might be a heretic; whoever taught you this nonsense definitely is.
someone so clearly admitting their own bias should not be allowed to serve on a court. that's like the whole point of a trial. not to mention just how horrifying the end times/rapture zionism ideology is in general
I suppose she wouldn't mind going to meet this Lord a little early then? Seriously every single person that espouses something like this, should be immediately expelled from any government position.
I am at the point where if someone is openly religious, I OPENLY avoid them. I don't want anything to do with these delusional psychopaths.
Judge Julia Sebutinde says signs of the end times 'are being shown in the Middle East'
Why tf would anyone want to fulfill the prophecy of the antichrist.
"Yeah let's accelerate this genocide so that the entire world can get screwed over"
They think this life is a transitional state and accelerating toward their mythological end times gets their sky wizard's kid/avatar to come back. This we all get to be happy, except those that aren't Christian. We're all fucked. These fuckers are insane.
What i'm not getting is why these Christians in the US want the last judgement to arrive at all.
The way they seem to treat everyone, with cruelty, a cold heart, and lots of violence, is basically a guarantee they're not gonna go to paradise. Why, then, do they wish for the last judgement?
Right, imagine standing in front of God and saying "Yeah I did all those horrible things since it was a sign of the end times".
Like why do they think that somehow qualifies them getting into heaven.
Even best case scenario, you still have to deal with essentially the apocalypse on Earth before you even reach the point of judgment.
they want to be blessed by jebus
Believers of a death cult promising salvation in the afterlife.
Sounds like a resignation speech to me.
And judges who respond to voices in their head should never be allowed to hold office.
internal screaming in Americanese intensifies
wasn't there a study done that showed that approx. 50% of adults have an inner monologue that is something like a voice in their head?
She should be fired
Immediately. Judges should be impartial.
And not insane.
They should also not be suffering from extreme mental illness, like she is.
The fact that this person is an ICJ judge shows you that we are living in a clown world. Our entire civilization has no clothes. We are talking chimps conducting a reckless, unplanned terraform of spaceship Earth. Our intelligence is no match for our hubris. If you haven't figured it out yet, we are approaching our great filter and the perpetrator is ourselves.
As she said, we are approaching the "end times", except what comes after is the eternal nothingness of the void; the only remanence being another dead rock hurtling through space.
Out of a cannon. Into the sun.
Out of judge canon, thereby causing irreparable rupture of both parties' organs.
It's certainly the last days for the muslim children getting bombed by Israel.
Reason #N+1 weird-ass cultists should be disqualified from all leadership positions.
Ass cultists lol
Source: xkcd #37 (28 Oct 2005)
Ass cultists at least make sense.
I'm not sure whether you're joking or you're serious but lots of influential organizations around the world are deeply religious. My favorite example for this is the freemasons, which have a belief in some sort of god as one of the requirements to join them.
So, in practical terms, there's a 0% chance that "religion" will disqualify people from leadership positions in today's world. Come up with demands that can be more easily met. Such as not partaking in or supporting a genocide.
I'm sick of real peoples' needs (such as not getting genocided, for example, that's a big one) being ignored because elected/appointed/whatever officials of all kinds have this insane baked-in backdoor to override their reasoning abilities. Somebody's god's rules (as filtered through however many translations and re-tellings it took to reach them) should not be a factor in public policy any more than their favorite flavor of ice cream. It's fine to like that ice cream, maybe even vote on matters related to that flavor of ice cream if they can do it without giving their personal preferences undue weight compared to those of the people they're supposed to represent.
Stuff like this end-of-days apocalypse-seeking behavior in the article makes sense if someone's in their waning years and, as in some cases, are convinced that they're The Main Character of life. The usual orange turd-faucet and his Russian puppet-master come to mind too. Clearly it has to happen within their lifetime because otherwise what's the point so onward Christian soldiers or some shit. Don't need an environment where we're going either, hallelujah.
I do think that a person who relies on religious justification for their official acts in a leadership / law-making / influential position is unfit for their job* and should resign before they damage humanity any further. That goes doubly so if they're screwing over living-for-now people in favor of a dead apocalyptic "prophet" from 2000 years ago who liked to yell at fig trees and be wrong about mustard.
*Aside from in a theocracy since that's kinda their job by definition (but shouldn't be).
What a ridiculous thing for a judge to say. It's amazing that people can seemingly rise so high up in the field of law, only to become extremely biased and do the exact opposite of what they're supposed to be doing.
Oh good, another accelerationist in power who thinks they're the catalyst for the rapture.
The thing that confounds me the most is that these people have been rejecting our experienced reality and believing in some post-apocalyptic utopia for CENTURIES. But belief upon belief, attempt after attempt, they have only shown that their belief-system has no foundation or champion whose power they can invoke. But, instead of saying "we have the resources to make utopia exist here and now," they say, "we must not have pleased our friend who hasn't shown his face in MILLENNIA. But I know for a fact that he's real, so we just gotta cause a biblical apocalypse for all the chess pieces we feed and employ."
I am religious. I find the idea of purposefully bringing on the end of times strongly contradictory to my understanding of the Abrahamic religions. It is not the place of humans to decide, when the end times come, nor do humans have the power to do so. And the idea that purposefully bringing on the end of the world would be rewarded, instead of punished, by God is incomprehensible to me.
There is a narration both in Judaism and Islam, that emphasizes this:
“If the [Day of] Resurrection were established upon one of you, and in his hand is a sapling, then he should plant it.”
عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ إِنْ قَامَتْ عَلَى أَحَدِكُمْ الْقِيَامَةُ وَفِي يَدِهِ فَسْلَةٌ فَلْيَغْرِسْهَا[1][2]
“If you are holding a sapling in your hand and someone tells you, ‘Come quickly, the Messiah is here!’, first finish planting the tree and then go to greet the Messiah.” – Rabban Yohanan ben Zakkai (30 BC – 90 CE),
If it’s not our place to bring on the end times, then it’s also not our place to stand in the way.
That’s the problem. These people are telling themselves “if this is how it happens, who am I to stand in the way?” Think about it: if you see events in motion which could be the stirrings of god bringing about the end times, how could you possibly act in a completely neutral way, neither hastening nor hindering? It’s too fine a line for an humble mortal to assume they can walk.
So while I appreciate your thought, unfortunately your thinking is far too easily flipped around. The base problem is believing any of this stuff to begin with. Once you do, that’s it.
I'm reminded of the quote by Heraclitus: "Though reason is common, most people live as though they had an understanding peculiar to themselves." Religion is not immune to this, with people often twisting it to suit their own goals.
Did he tell you so directly?
Pychotic death cult
How does one know what lord wants?
Easy. It's the same thing you want. Every time.
INCORRECT!!
Anyways I'm off to the kitchen, the lord has instructed me to have a cookie!!
Well obviously. I am the best person and made in the image of the "lord", therefore the "lord" MUST think like I do. My thoughts aren't my own, they're the "lord's". Or something to that extend.
Truth is nowhere to be found, and whoever shuns evil becomes a prey. The Lord looked and was displeased that there was no justice.
He saw that there was no one, he was appalled that there was no one to intervene;
-- The Prophet Isaiah Clearly Some Hamas Supporter /s
Yahweh is rather war-mongering.
Yahweh was a war god before a schism in the faith. "He" consolidated power and did away with the other gods.
Same thing Jesus did to Greco-Roman civilization. Tyrants.
"He" meaning the society and politics at the time which needed a war god to rally support against suppression and invasion. Before such events Yahweh still had believers (Yahwists) but they were a smaller group compared to other god worship. Until wartime, of course.
There is no yahweh and there never has been. Humans badly need to reconcile with their history of running their world by scammy skygod myths.
Reject modernity, retvrn to El
"was". He's dead, according to Dr. Nietzsche's diagnosis - and the man originally was a theologist so he knew what he was talking about.
totally normal
Deeply religious people should not be judges. Their judgement is inevitably biased. People’s lives should not depend on the religious choices and opinions of people in power.
Would you say the same about women? What about queer people? What about the social class? What about ethnicity? What about deelpy atheist people?
For any group identity you can make such claims of biases. Instead of excluding everyone from becoming judges, because everyone will have some form of bias, we should look by their qualifications and act if they show clear biases making them unfit. In this case the ICJ vice-president showed a clear bias making her unfit. However before making religious claims she already was a mouth-piece for Israel in the court and there is reason to believe her being blackmailed or bribed.
There is a reason why there is so many judges on the ICJ and why most supreme courts have a high number of judges. It is to limit biases going into the decision by having a wide range of people, whose inevitable biases are cancelled out against each other.
Being a woman, or a queer person, or ethnicity are not belief systems, they are biological traits. Even financial status is not a belief system. Religion is a belief system by definition. Like politics are. But politics can be studied historically and analised socially and economically, and can be chosen based on data and evidence. Religion is a belief system based on no evidence whatsoever. Religion is akin to superstition: a belief unsupported by evidence. There are thousands of religions in the world, each one believing different things, each one claiming to be The Ultimate Truth and - what’s worse- to be above human laws. Picking one is completely arbitrary (usually determined by upbringing). Judges working under the influence of different religions rule differently on the same topics.
I’ll prove you that qualifications alone are not enough: if I had the appropriate qualifications to become a Supreme Court judge, but I claimed that the Sacred Pink Unicorn, supreme Goddess of Truth, guides my judgment and speaks to me in my dreams and tells me what’s wrong and what’s right, would you consider my impeccable qualifications enough? The only difference between the Sacred Pink Unicorn and any other deity is the number of people believing in it.
A judge who is spiritual may still maintain objectivity, but a judge who is deeply religious cannot be trusted to be objective, in my opinion.
Do any of those groups have a shared belief dystem that is inherently unprovable? What do all women believe? What do all queers believe?
I dont want people who believe in a utopian afterlife deciding if I die or not.
Even your atheist argument sucks because their common belief is lack of belief in someone elses shite.
This is such a dumb fucking take.
I guess being a woman makes me want to punish people for not following some dumbass rule book dreamed up by some losers a long time ago.
Being gay makes me want to punish the straights and exterminate them.