I don't know why it reminded me of this, but I have a friend who has Arabians (imagine that) and she is convinced that when we get to heaven, we are going to find out that the Arabian horse originally belonged to the Isrealites ... and were stolen and claimed by the Arabs .. lol. She looks at me and says "Debbie! It just HAS to be that way .. God's perfect equine as a gift to his covenant children..."
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"She looks at me and says "Debbie! It just HAS to be that way .. God's perfect equine as a gift to his covenant children...""
You realize that if this were true and the Arabs were given the horse that you're essentially stating that Islam is the correct religion, don't you?
Newsflash for you and your fuckwitted friend, the Arabs living in the Middle East evolved from the people who once were the Israelites. The horses came along with them, if indeed they are the same breed as what was "gifted" from your god, and not engineered by the descendants of the Israelites (i.e. Arabs) into the Arabian horses we know today.
Wow, equine fundies!
I think the Arabian horse originally belonged to itself.
Weren't the Israelites of the Jewish persuasion? What does it matter if the owners where Jews or Arabs? They are both within the Abrahamic religious family.
Do horses get to heaven? Maybe only Arab horses...
Considering that Israel and Arabia are both in the same general area in the world, I wouldn't be surprised if both of them used the same kinds of horses. That said, the Arabs WERE pretty advanced up until around the Crusades. They started lagging around then. I wouldn't be surprised if they managed to selectively breed those horses you like so much to be as good as they are.
While I love Arabian horses, they're far from perfect. Yes, some are that wonderful combination of intelligence, beauty, grace and physical fitness, others can be stupid, ugly, clumsy and fat.
My newest theory: A belief system is divorced from reality in direct proportion to the number of conspiracies one must invent in order to maintain the belief system.
Besides, everyone knows that the horse was a gift from Poseidon to the Athenians.
"I have a friend who has Arabians (imagine that)"
Now there's a novelty. Some people have crabs, but there you go.
'I once shot an elephant in my pyjamas. How he got in my pyjamas, I'll never know!'
-W.C. Fields.
There's intresting Roman documents that refer to the Northerners (Germanic, ancient british islers) as those 'barbarians that rode horses'
That's the first place they saw man ON horse. Romans (and Egyptians, and beyond) had horses but as pullers of barges, skids or chariots. The arabian was developed to ride and is a later breed than heavy horses,still they are the second breeders on record and good at it.
Sorry, Isreal lovers, history shows the horse riders and iron forgers are both from the "northern Barbarians" and our agriculture and understanding of the planets and stars were way beyond the Bible writters too. Isreal even borrowed it's written words from Egypt and Babylon
Isreal has no claim to the horse, just as Britain has no claim to Camel domestication
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Technically, in this case, yes, though texasgal seems open to her friend's idea, and considering her other posts, she is definately fundy herself.
So adding a new meaning to the expression "horse shit."
P.S. I prefer thoroughbreds, and yes I know they are descended from Arabians. Sometimes, God's "design" is all the better for some human intervention.
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