Julia Neuberger

Julia Neuberger

Chair, Commission on the Future of Volunteering in England

Baroness Julia Neuberger is an ordained rabbi and member of Britian's House of Lords. The "On Faith" panelist also is a trustee of the British Council, Jewish Care, and the Booker Prize Foundation, as well as founding trustee of the Walter and Liesel Schwab Charitable Trust. She has served as Chairman of Camden & Islington Community Health Services NHS Trust and Chief Executive of the King's Fund—a major independent health charity. Currently she chairs the Commission on the Future of Volunteering in England . In the House of Lords, she is a Liberal Democrat member and in early 2006 she was Bloomberg Professor at Harvard University Divinity School . Neuberger writes, speaks, makes trouble, and has published several books, of which the latest is The Moral State We're In (2006). She is working on a book about old age, and thinking about a new book on death and dying, as well as one as a counterblast to Richard Dawkins on why religion is so important in the rather godless United Kingdom. Close.

Julia Neuberger

Chair, Commission on the Future of Volunteering in England

Baroness Julia Neuberger is an ordained rabbi and member of Britian's House of Lords. The "On Faith" panelist also is a trustee of the British Council, Jewish Care, and the Booker Prize Foundation, as well as founding trustee of the Walter and Liesel Schwab Charitable Trust. more »

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How Do We Keep Faith in Fellow Man?

How do the Darfuris keep faith with God after all that has happened to them at the hands of their own countrymen?

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Where is a reference to back up this lie of 1.5 million dead by the inquisition? Why would someone think they will get away with lying about God's church???
The Myth of the Spanish Inquisition," a 1994 BBC/A&E production, will re-air on the History Channel this December 3 at 10 p.m.

The Myth of the Spanish Inquisition," a 1994 BBC/A&E production, will re-air on the History Channel this December 3 at 10 p.m.

http://www.catholic.net/RCC/Periodicals/Dossier/1112-96/article4.html


As the caveman says, DO SOME RESEARCH!!

Anonymous:

JEWS ARE BEHIND THE MANIPULATION OF THE COMMON CHRISTIAN S MINDS.

NOTICE THE CHRISTIANS ARE NOT REAL CHRISTIANS...

AND THE JEwS BEHIND IT ALL ARE ACTUALLY KHAZARS.


YOU HAVE BEEN DUBBED MR> SMITH.


Holocaust was a hoax (see REdcross records), WWI was a farce (Ottoman empire was taken over from the inside by Ataturk who was a crypto Jew), the Crusades were also instigated by JEWISH MONEY.

JEWISH MONEY IS BEHIND IT ALL.

JEWS BACKED HITLER and THE WEST WITH MONEY.

THEY ARE NOT ACTUALLY JEWS, BUT ARE KHAZARS.

WAKE UP WORLD, THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN NOW CALLS ITSELF ISRAEL.

Synagogue of Satan = these so called Jews, behind every war EVER FOUGHT.

Anonymous:

ROGER SMITH


YOU ARE WRONG.


JEWS ARE BEHIND IT ALL.


YOU NEED TO WAKE UP aND smell the coffee.

ATATURK WAS A JEWISH SHILL WHO TOOK OVER THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, WWI was fought to destroy this empire so Israel could be established.

The crusades were manipulated by Jews as to attack Muslims.

WWII was also a zionist machination, YOU NEED TO READ AND QUIT BELIEVING THE HISTORIC LIES THESE NEO-SCRIBES HAVE BEEN FEEDING YOU.


JEWS ARE BEHIND IT ALL........JESUS AND JOHN ARE RIGHT..........YOU ARE WRONG.

Roger Smith:

Look at the numbers and tell me who is greater evil throught out humanity and recorded history.

1st WW : 10 million death
2nd WW : 40 millino death

Hiroshima/Nagashaki Japan Nuke : 3 million death

Iraq : 700,000 death
Afghanistan : 350,000 death
Iraq before war embargo : 500,000 death
Bosnia : 120,000 death

those are few examples of recent one that we know some are still not over.

Crusades : 2 million ++ death
Spanish Inquisition : 1.5 million ++ death

one thing is common among above those all are done by Christian leaders and those followers of the religion call LOVE your enemy.


Now war/battle by Muslim army according to documented non islamic historians:

Take control twice of Jerusalem by Omar/Saladin : less than 100 killed because the Christian army fled of the battle so the muslim army just walked in without blood.

Muslim invasion of ancient persia: less than 150 killed. Still Jews live in Iran largest in the middle east after Israel.

Muslim invasion of Rome : less than 50 in the battle and they surrendered and paid ransom not much blood was lost.

Muslim invasion of Spain / Granada : less that 500 same the Spanish army fled the war against the invading large muslim army. No force conversion and Jews lived there more in number than Jerusalem that time not a single convertion was documented. Chief of Ottoman army was a Jewish man fighting with the Muslim soldiers. It was politics of nationality not religion, today Jews still live in Turkey in large numbers.

Muslims in India : no recorded war but trade of muslim merchants and they ruled over 1200 years and still today Hindus are majority almost 90 percent no force conversion to Islam

Recent history: Sept 11, 3000 death blamed to Muslim fanatics.

Filipine : total killed by terrorism less than 100 in last 10 years against Govt. policy of oppression.

Thailand : less than 50 by bombs and others including army planned incidents.

Palestine : Hamas and other fanatics killed less than 5000 in 60 years of fighting with the state of Israel in return Israel killed over 60,000 +++ 3 million homeless.

This is it.

Add up the numbers you will learn the truth. Know the truth and truth will set you free (The Bible -John) who is greater evil?

Peace and just stop blaming Muslims, learn history and you will see the light why the living evil man Bush has said Islam is peace because this is the truth and the number tells it all. We know 700K killed in Iraq but the media will not say it because they are Muslims but if one die in Israel by a Muslim Palestinian the whole world will cry wolf. Who is the evil?

The west is imposing war to Muslim countries and the religion in general, at the name of peace. Ya we need more "FAITH" so we learn to live in Peace.

Roger Smith:

Look at the numbers and tell me who is greater evil throught out humanity and recorded history.

1st WW : 10 million death
2nd WW : 40 millino death

Hiroshima/Nagashaki Japan Nuke : 3 million death

Iraq : 700,000 death
Afghanistan : 350,000 death
Iraq before war embargo : 500,000 death
Bosnia : 120,000 death

those are few examples of recent one that we know some are still not over.

Crusades : 2 million ++ death
Spanish Inquisition : 1.5 million ++ death

one thing is common among above those all are done by Christian leaders and those followers of the religion call LOVE your enemy.


Now war/battle by Muslim army according to documented non islamic historians:

Take control twice of Jerusalem by Omar/Saladin : less than 100 killed because the Christian army fled of the battle so the muslim army just walked in without blood.

Muslim invasion of ancient persia: less than 150 killed. Still Jews live in Iran largest in the middle east after Israel.

Muslim invasion of Rome : less than 50 in the battle and they surrendered and paid ransom not much blood was lost.

Muslim invasion of Spain / Granada : less that 500 same the Spanish army fled the war against the invading large muslim army. No force conversion and Jews lived there more in number than Jerusalem that time not a single convertion was documented. Chief of Ottoman army was a Jewish man fighting with the Muslim soldiers. It was politics of nationality not religion, today Jews still live in Turkey in large numbers.

Muslims in India : no recorded war but trade of muslim merchants and they ruled over 1200 years and still today Hindus are majority almost 90 percent no force conversion to Islam

Recent history: Sept 11, 3000 death blamed to Muslim fanatics.

Filipine : total killed by terrorism less than 100 in last 10 years against Govt. policy of oppression.

Thailand : less than 50 by bombs and others including army planned incidents.

Palestine : Hamas and other fanatics killed less than 5000 in 60 years of fighting with the state of Israel in return Israel killed over 60,000 +++ 3 million homeless.

This is it.

Add up the numbers you will learn the truth. Know the truth and truth will set you free (The Bible -John) who is greater evil?

Peace and just stop blaming Muslims, learn history and you will see the light why the living evil man Bush has said Islam is peace because this is the truth and the number tells it all. We know 700K killed in Iraq but the media will not say it because they are Muslims but if one die in Israel by a Muslim Palestinian the whole world will cry wolf. Who is the evil? The west is imposing war at the name of peace, but the numbers and the history tells us otherwise. Think and may God help us all to have FAITH. Peace

yo-yo:

yo-yo:
Hi Julia...
During the second world war I was a boy living in Britain.I remember it well.
I lived in a town with a population of 120,000
and we got our fair share of bombs.
I was a choirboy in the local church,and sometimes pumped the organ.
I swear we usually had more choirboys than worshippers. It was a vast and empty church, hardly anybody ever came.
Religion was rarely mentioned at home or at school.It was a nonissue.
War and the bombing,and the shortage of food and other needed items was what people thought about and most often talked about.
Reality trumped the supernatural as I recall.
When real bombs were falling,it was only reality
that mattered.
I was never in a foxhole.But I was often in air raid shelters with bombs dropping all around.
The grown-ups would sometimes sing and we kids would join in...songs like Roll Out The Barrel,
and You are My Sunshine.
Never any hymns,never talk of god.
Looking back it seems that when reality was really terrifying,religion was revealed for what it is,
unreal and irrelevant.But mostly unreal.

Viejita del oeste:

I distrust the idea that women are inherently more peaceful than men. For one thing, it is a bit of a cop-out. In the animal kingdom it is often the females who are more aggressive in defence of their offspring. I think Cindy Sheehan is a good example of the deep passion that a woman can feel against those who threaten her children's safety.
Because women often have fewer opportunities to interact with those who are outside their family circle, they may also be more distrustful, as a group, of those with different lifestyles. The real key to harmony is for all of us to see each other as individuals, so we don't automatically distrust one person (outside our group) and accept any misbehavior or aggression from those who resemble us.

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