Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Who Deserves the Holy Land?

I believe that no specific religion deserves the Holy Land. I do not believe that a piece of land should belong to only one religion especially if it means so much to multiple religions. The Jews should not deserve the Holy Land for themselves because Moses led them back to their home, Canaan, but ended up in Palestine. Therefore, the Jews/ Hebrews were not deserving of the Holy Land even though they were respected during the time. The Palestinians, who were residing there during the time were more rightfully deserving of the land. The Christians do not deserve the Holy Land for themselves because their messiah, Jesus, was born in Bethlehem which is inside the Holy Land but does not incorporate all of it. I think it would be fair to call Bethlehem a Christian capital like Mecca is to the Muslims but they should not own the whole area. The Muslims do not deserve the Holy Land for themselves because their prophet, Muhammad was born in Medina or Mecca which represents their religious capital. The only reason they are rooted to the Holy Land is because Muhammad went there to promote the Islam religious. Just because he died there does not mean they deserve the land, most importantly because it is not the root of the religion. Another reason I believe the Holy Land should be shared among everyone is because the basis of religion especially these are not based upon tangible things, its based upon belief therefore a religion should not revolve around a plot of land and therefore it should not matter who deserves the land.

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