It is apparent our different beliefs make a difference in our freedoms enjoyed, as for myself I had more freedom in the east because of the hospitality native to the culture. It wasn't always that way, but the more I was shown by grace the defections of the time and separated from them the narrower the path became. see Isaiah 30:19-21 this is God's Word on it.

The speculation on historical facts were not from one source but two and one was a university history professor. FYI

What areas do they mean? Is it left up to ones imagination? Who should be concerned? Every American? Any Jewish American or Christian American that could be mistaken by dress for a Jew?
Just wondering?

I do not find this 'democracy' so in like by the masses, in the Scripture, but rather it seems the invention of man; always taking a new form to fit the need of the moment.

From what i read and watched NATO knew what to hit and when to hit it, and now they want to expedite a quick democracy with Gadaffi if necessary time and the democratization of the ME their core goal?

Do you read the Jerusalem Post? There was a recent article that I think you would find helpful in your due consideration of these things. It was related to an incident post WWII when Diaspora from the Holocost 8,500 Jews that survived the concentration camps were placed on luxury cruiser to return to Israel but they were sunk by the RAF before they reached Israel. It is classified information until 2045.

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I would have thought it was obvious that the poster below was making a specific anti-Biblical point in his/her post. Their reason to vilify the Bible whilst promoting man's abominable lust.
/QUOTE]That was obvious, and I was grateful you responded.

But there was probably a reason why they choose to also introduce both slavery as sin and their conception of gender equality as righteous.

I assumed; possibly wrongly so, that it was related to the other posts and since I was posting, I was trying to follow the flow of everything being said. That is why I asked, if you thought that 1 Tim. 2:11 was related to men and woman posting their understanding of doctrine which they apply while discussing News stories. Often it seems doctrine takes the preeminence and the story a back seat. But is that surprising in the times in which we live, since doctrine is so relative?

Do you think it sin for a woman to interact in this context then?

If God has begun an effectual work in a sinner of any heaven defying crime, the sinner is drawn to the gospel and the Lord provides a knowledge of their sin, their substitute, and changes their will to embrace Jesus Chrsit freely offered in the gospel. Otherwise it is a merchandising in men's souls.

Romans 1:17-25

1 Cor. 10:7-12
Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents. Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer. Now all these things happened unto them for examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come. Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.

It would seem the vial judgments shall be complete before the millennium and that there will be a time on earth where God's kingdom comes and his will, will be done at least more so on earth then in this apostate time and again before Satan is loosed again by Christ to deceive the nations. It is then Christ returns for the final time.

Exodus 20:1-6 And God spake all these words, saying, I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

For its not by the cleverness or skill of man that brings salvation. Lets stop apologizing and being afraid of the word of God.