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Don't ask me... I leave smoking cloven footprints on hallowed ground.

But the US Christian movement has very close identification with Israel. Being people of the old and new Testaments. So lots of the Oral Roberts and Jim and Tammy Baker folks are huge fans of Israel and the Holy Land, from whence sprang Christianity.

Honestly, I don't blame them. I'm not a Red Sea Pedestrian, a Mackeral Snapper or a Holy Underware fan... but I do recognize the value of religion as a social organizing principle that does a lot of good. As long as they are not burning books or chopping off heads or being The Spanish Inquistion and shit (nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.) Religion is bad. But it creates the precepts of societal organization and in that respect is valuable.

What can I say... I am a pro-religion athiest!

So... the Israel connection in the Bible Belt is big and real and huge. Yuge!!! And it should be.

Because the shitwads and Satanists who are out there doing commie shit... are only interested in destroying the very basics that created the 'social organizing precepts of mankind' and turning us into some kind of insect-like commune that Marx envisioned as a drunk Euro-trash retard.

Just what I go by... the Constitution was inspired by some brilliant organizing principles. That's my bible!

Sirhr
Fair enough if you're a Jordan Peterson type who doesn't believe but thinks Christianity is a huge force for good in the world, but it's not because of televangelists AT ALL. The Bible is incredibly clear and prolific in it's pronouncements about both the kingdom/state of Israel and the Jewish people both before and after the New Testament; going so far as to say that those who bless Israel will be blessed and those who curse it shall be cursed. Both Old and New are full of prophesy about Israel. This is not a new heterodoxy, but established orthodoxy established with dozens of biblical statements of fact from the dawn of the Christian Church. The heterodoxy was the Spanish Inquisition and all the perversions of the dark ages when literacy was confined to the ecclesiarchy and common people could not read or understand The Bible. That's where the blood libels and anti-Jew sentiment came from in the Christian Church, that, and borrowing money the Church leaders decided not to pay back... Once the bible became translated and widespread the heresy of Jew hatred and casting aspersions on Israel became evident to all believing Christians, or "Evangelicals" in the modern parlance. Prayers for Israel are the common in the liturgy across Christian churches. This is really basic and straightforward biblical theology that is not in dispute except at the extreme edges of Christianity. That charlatans trying to fleece Christians would not be open apostates on this biblical jussive is elementary and pedestrian in it's theology.

I know of no Christian Church that does not instruct to at once pray for Jews and Israel while also trying to convert them. This is literally the stories of the apostles to which Christians are called to emulate. It's pretty intuitive as well when you consider ALL the first Christians were originally Jews, and it took Paul (a former Jew himself) to carry the message to the Gentiles. QED basic theology, no TV charlatans required.
 
That foot certainly wasn't "lucky" for the rabbit, so I don't see why it's going to be any more lucky for you. But, I, of course, know what it is. They were a quarter at the local five and dime, making them as valuable as a basket of penny candy.
It was definitely a strange custom to carry part of a dead animal in one's pocket. Yet, it isn't any stranger than some of the crap I see today.

I don't think anyone sells these anymore but would love to show one to a millennial just to see their reaction.
 
It was definitely a strange custom to carry part of a dead animal in one's pocket. Yet, it isn't any stranger than some of the crap I see today.

I don't think anyone sells these anymore but would love to show one to a millennial just to see their reaction.
I think you mean zoomer or later. Also depends on the millennial. They were still around when I was in school.

-older end of Millennial.
 
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It was definitely a strange custom to carry part of a dead animal in one's pocket. Yet, it isn't any stranger than some of the crap I see today.

I don't think anyone sells these anymore but would love to show one to a millennial just to see their reaction.
Yep, I remember seeing those as a kid and thinking, what a creepy ass thing for luck. Then again, the moonshiners used coon peckers, so what do I know.
 
Yup. Had to remove the fluid end of a Gaso quintaplex injection pump to replace a piston and crosshead in Anith, UT. Only way to remove and install the nuts was with those wrenches. Fluid end weighed over 2.5 tons and was a bitch of job in the middle of the summer working in the pump house with all the other pumps running which were powered by huge Ingersolls
 
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It was definitely a strange custom to carry part of a dead animal in one's pocket. Yet, it isn't any stranger than some of the crap I see today.

I don't think anyone sells these anymore but would love to show one to a millennial just to see their reaction.
Dead animal parts hanging on your walls still OK?